Unconventional Courtship 2022 Sign Up Post

[liadt]

'Welcome to 'Unconventional Courtship 2022'!




'Unconventional Courtship' is a panfandom fic fest where you write and post a 1000w+ fic or a complete nice sketch on unlined paper based on a M&B/Harlequin plot. Fics and art will be posted to this community, staggered through June 2022.

This year's mod is liadt.

How to play:

It's as simple as:

1. Sign up! Sign ups close on June 14 and all you need to do is comment on this post with the day you want to post your fic or art. You can tell us which summary/pairing you're going with, but you don't have to. You can also ask us to assign you a summary, if you want. (You don't need a Dreamwidth to play - just comment with OpenID, although you will need to ask us to post your fic on the com. If you are on DW, please follow the community!)

2. Choose a M&B/Harlequin summary (or two etc) - we have hundreds of suggestions here, but there are literally thousands. Our prompt generator may also help (thank you john_amend_all) which has new summaries added to it recently. You can do more than one fic or piece of art, if you want. You can also combine prompts, if you like.

3. Replace the names (and pronouns if necessary) with the names (and pronouns) of the pairing of your choice. Any any all fandoms and pairings are welcome in this fest.

You can also replace place names and jobs as long as you keep to the spirit of the prompt. So, if you want to write Kirk/Spock, but you don't want to write a modern day AU, you could replace 'the Sahara desert' with 'a desert planet' and Kirk wouldn't need to be the boss at a law firm, he could be the boss... in the sense that he's the captain.

4. Complete a fic or artwork based on your altered summary. You can take the prompt seriously or use it as an improbable basis for lols.

4.5. Pimp the fest far and wide. I'm hardly going to do this at all, so it's up to you - the players! I've re-uploaded the make-your-own banners and of course you can use ready made ones found over here and here.

Please do pimp where ever you think would be appropriate.

5. Post to this community on your assigned day. If you unable to post on your day there is a amnesty week for those that sign up from July 1 - 7.

You can also post to our AO3 collection if you want!

You can see some examples of Unconventional Courtship fic by looking through the collection, or earlier in the comm.

6. Profit! Fics and art for all! I'll post a masterlist once all the entries are in. Crossposting is encouraged.

Any questions? Leave a comment or PM me. If your question is urgent it's better to PM or leave a comment.


Rules:

1. All fics must be over 1,000 words long. All art must be a nice finished sketch at least 500x500 pixels wide.

2. You must use a modified Mills & Boon and/or Harlequin summary.

3. You don't have to use a beta, but it is strongly advised.

4. Please use the following header (or similar - the AO3 share function is fine) when you post to the community:

<b>Title:</b> <b>Author:</b> <b>Fandom:</b> <b>Pairing/Characters:</b> <b>Rating:</b> <b>Medium:</b> <b>Length/Size:</b> <b>Summary:</b> <b>Notes:</b> <b>Link:</b>

5. Please post on your assigned day. If you can't for whatever reason, please let me know either by PM or comment on this post.

6. You can use this fic/art for another challenge i.e. trope_bingo

7. You can sign up for any day you like, but if it is possible for you to sign up for a day that nobody else is interested in then that'd be best of all.


1 Jun: singloom
lah_mrh
2 Jun: merryghoul
3 Jun:
4 Jun: starandrea
5 Jun: sunfright
6 Jun:
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10 Jun: colisahotnorthernmess
11 Jun: goddess47
12 Jun: chelseagirl
13 Jun:
14 Jun: cornerofmadness
15 Jun: lurking_latinist
16 Jun: silverink
17 Jun:
18 Jun:
19 Jun:
20 Jun: lamiacalls
21 Jun: aflaminghalo
22 Jun: crescenttwins
23 Jun: aspiringtoeloquence
24 Jun: thisissirius
25 Jun: melagan
fleetsparrow
26 Jun: paranoidangel
hyperfocused
anyfuckingbody
27 Jun: stonepicnicking_okapi
whimsicalmeerkat
28 Jun: brokenhighways
29 Jun: tamaraaeknight
a_belladonna
30 Jun: brumeier
idoltina16

Amnesty zone:
ladybrooke
scioscribe
liadt
trillingstar
paynesgrey
keeperofthecottage


If you have questions, feel free to ask! And/or consult the FAQs.

Comments

[crescenttwins]

It'd be lovely if I could grab June 22nd! <3

[ladybrooke]

Hi! I’d like to sign up, but I have a question - rules for this year say M&B/Harlequin, FAQ says “Summaries from anything that is obviously a romance book are OK by me.”. If any is okay, I’d like to write Silmarillion Elenwë/Turgon fic using a modified version of To Marry and to Meddle by Martha Waters:

Elenwë has been of age for years now and should have long settled into a suitable marriage. However, due to her father’s large debts, her only suitor is the persistent and odious owner of her father’s favorite gambling house. Meanwhile, Prince Turgon, the second son of High Prince Fingolfin, has scandalized society as an actor and owner of a theater. When their lives intersect at a house party, Prince Turgon hatches a plan to benefit them both.

With a marriage of convenience, Elenwë will use her society connections to promote the theater to a more respectable clientele and Turgon will take her out from under the shadows of her father’s unsavory associates. But they soon realize they have very different plans for their marriage—Turgon wants Elenwë to remain a society wife, while Elenwë discovers an interest in the theater. But when a fleeing actress, murderous kitten, and meddlesome friends enter the fray, Elenwë and Turgon will have to confront the fact that their marriage of convenience comes with rather inconvenient feelings.

If not, I’ll find a different summary! And picking a date nobody else has chosen, I’ll take June 17th if that’s okay?

[colisahotnorthernmess]

Hello dear!

I would like to sign up for this year's UC and I will take June 10th please! :-D

[anyfuckingbody]

Hi, I've finally decided I think I have enough fic that I can commit to getting this done! I know some people already have 6/26, but is it possible for me to get that, too?

I'm planning to write a Naruto fic, Gaara/Rock Lee, based on 223) In Room 732: Bridesmaid with Benefits - Amy Andrews

[idoltina16]

Am I able to take the 30th? I'd try to fill one of the empty days, but we're in the middle of moving into our first house and I want to give myself enough time to actually do this and not drop out because I can't make a deadline.

Fandom: Days of Our Lives
Pairing: Roman/Kate

I'm using the summary from Jamie Denton's "Hard to Handle" as inspiration:

When three women go to a “lock and key” party to meet sexy singles, they never expect to find their perfect matches…in love and in bed!

Successful lawyer Michaela “Mikki” Correlli has worked hard to achieve the perfect life. There isn’t much else she could possibly want. When she attends a “lock and key” party, she hopes to have some hot fun, no strings attached. She certainly didn’t plan to hook up with her ex-husband.

Nolan Baylor will be the first to admit he and Mikki are like oil and water. All that energy and fire, though, made for the best sex he’s ever had! She’s a strong woman and hard to handle, but Nolan has a second chance now and this time he’s not letting her go…

[cornerofmadness]

I'd like to sign up for June 14th and using this prompt Title:
166) Flirting with the Forbidden by Joss Wood
He can look…but he's not supposed to touch!

Bodyguard Noah Fraser hasn't seen diamond heiress Morgan Moreau for eight years—but the image of her naked body has been imprinted on his mind ever since! The sexy socialite was totally off-limits and it took every ounce of Noah's iron control to walk away….

Now he's been hired to protect her again, so picking up where they left off definitely isn't an option. But Noah's body doesn't seem to have got the memo—keeping his hands off Morgan is a 24/7 battle! And how can he resist the forbidden when giving in is so irresistbly tempting…?

[goddess47]

If I pick a date, that will make me finish this story!

May I have June 11?

A twist on the 'must travel together for X reasons and fall in love' where, at best, they fall in 'like' and then one finds their soul mate as a relative of the other.

Thanks!

[a_belladonna]

I hope I can make a last minute sign-up! May I be added to June 29th, please?

It's Cycling RPF, Domenico Pozzovivo/Vincenzo Nibali.

I'm going with the following summary (with some slight changes in the final fic):

584) Goddess of Fate by Alexandra Sokoloff
Fated to Fall in Love…
Vincenzo Nibali doesn’t believe in fate. Especially when ‘Fate’ is supposedly a gorgeous god named Domenico Pozzovivo who claims to be his guardian, assigned from birth to watch over him.
Domenico is meant to protect his mortal charges… not fall in love with them. But when Vincenzo is shot dead, his protective instincts are matched by a deeper need. To save his life, Domenico must convince Vincenzo to believe who he is and trust him to help him.
But with just one day to do so, time is running out for Domenico to prove that love really can alter fate…