I observed on facebook earlier today (well, yesterday now) that one sign of a fandom having come into its own is that every change is greeted by at least some fans proclaiming that it is RUINED FOREVER. Of course, sometimes they're right and the property has just fired the shark out of the orbital
By the power of the eternal rainbow, High Concept Challenge numbah fifty-three is declared to be: Gender Defenders! Stories that deal with some aspect of gender, whether it be the screwy gender ratios of the superhero genre, people dealing with their own gender identities, or one of those gende
And the subject of the next High Concept Challenge is... STAR WARS! What does that mean? Doing a homage to certain popular movie franchises? Having the characters participate in fandom, or just go out for a night at the movies? Physically battling a burning miasma of incandescent plasma? No
Mickey Spillane once singled out "Vengeance is Mine" as his favorite of his own novels, because of its twist ending, which really came right at the end- the last word of the last sentence- and gave a new context to everything that happened before it.* Your challenge is to write a story- of