Posting this again to bring to your attention someone who may not have actually figured out my article referenced a 9,500 response study has told me to harden the fuck up. 

Cause she’d be taking naps all the time. 

I P L   F I C   F E S T   2 0 1 5

GUYS, AS YOU ALL KNOW, IPL SEASON IS UPON US, AND IT’S ONE GIANT ORGY. Everyone’s in scattered teams, forming unexpected friendships, healing old rivalries, flirting with their former opposition, having horrendous photoshoots and cute instagrams together, and generally forming this SLASH HEAVEN fuelled by dancing and money and glamour and old Indian uncles and hotels and buses and alcohol and Chris Gayle.

OBVIOUSLY, THIS IS A FIC WRITER’S PARADISE, AND THEREFORE, WE HAVE DECIDED TO COMMEMORATE THIS OCCASION WITH A T-20 IPL FIC EXCHANGE.

NOW WE KNOW YOU ARE ALL BUSY BEES WITH LIMITED TIME, so this fic exchange is going to be t-20 style: quick, fast, satisfying. THIS MEANS LIMITED TIME, SHORTER FICS (<500 WORDS) and RAPID WRITING: hit fast hit hard hit big.

HERE IS HOW IT WILL WORK:

1. WE OPEN UP A PROMPT WINDOW at the beginning of a match week. This will be very short– only about 2 days, or 48 hours probably. KEEP AN EYE OUT!

2. When the prompt window opens, FLOOD US. MULTIPLE PROMPTS, JUST SEND THEM TO OUR ASK BOXES OR FANMAIL. Here are the conditions for the prompts: YOU CAN ONLY PROMPT CURRENT IPL PLAYERS, AND THE FIC HAS TO INVOLVE THIS YEAR’S IPL IN SOME CAPACITY. Your prompts can be short or big, but this is a T-20 challenge so shorter the better. Prompt an unusual pairing; prompt a picture; prompt a fic involving an IPL team; prompt an individual player in the IPL. Prompt gen, prompt someone/Shah Rukh; please don’t prompt anyone/Srinivasan. You can prompt while signed in or as anon, if like mod1, all your pairing tastes are questionable Australian fast bowlers.

3. When the prompt window closes, we will release the list of prompts. THIS IS YOUR CUE START WRITING. Prompts will be open for writing for 5 days. Remember: T-20 Challenge, so GO GO GO GO. We’ll give you a link to the AO3 collections page, and you just click “post to collections”.

4. There’s no claims system. Anyone can write any prompts, and every prompt can have multiple fills. The only condition for prompt fills is that your fic must be 100-500 words: quick and easy. You can, of course, expand on the fic later outside the challenge.

5. We’ll close the fills after 5 days, open the prompt window, and start all over again.

"Of course Virat Kohli was not really cooking. But when we asked him to pose with his mother he gamely helped her with a few tea-spoonfuls as she made tea for us.”