Hear ye, hear ye! The Juxtaposition Fan-Fanfiction Contest is officially closed, and the winners have been determined! It was a long, grueling decision-making process (see the AIM excerpt at the bottom of the page), but we have persevered even long after the official due date. We love you that much. :3

Please hold your applause until all names have been called.

Doodle #1 – Heart Attack:
The Games We Play by Transformergirl

Doodle #2 – Bad Idea
If You Give Sideswipe A Marker by Cdol

Doodle #3 – Squee!
Organic Reprogamming by Michael Ha

Doodle #4 – Wut
Wheeljack Is NOT A Mythbuster by Lonegamer7

Doodle #5 – Insanity
Sane Inside Insanity by KyudaimeHokage

Doodle #6 – Chomp
Interior Decorating by Crystal Shekeira

Doodle #7 – Barstool
Doodle #7 by Madlibs44

Doodle #8 – Edge
It’s All About Chance by Meallanmouse

Some winners do not match the polled winners on Metellus Cursor. As per the rules, no one was allowed to win more than one doodle, so we had to sort through, and (through use of mind-boggling algebraic equations and no small amount of calling upon the deities of math) we arrived at suitable runners-up. Think of it as a way to spread the joy. ;3

And the announcement you’ve all been waiting for, the Overall Winner (as chosen by us, Cafei and Vaeru) is...

*drumroll*

Doodle #8 – It’s All About Chance by Meallanmouse

Thank you to all who participated! We’ve all had more laughs, giggles, chortles, hee-haws, guffaws, belly-laughs, hee-hees, and tee-hees than would ever be healthy thanks to all of the awesome entries.

And on to the part you’ve really been waiting for (it’s okay, we understand)...

The eight winners of the doodles will receive one chibi drawing of their choice (transformer or human) drawn by Vaeru and colored by Cafei. If you are a winner, please contact Vaeru at sparkbearer@gmail.com and tell her what you’d like your chibi to be.

Meallanmouse, as overall winner, will also receive a cameo in the sequel fic to Dreaming of Who? by Vaeru as well as a cameo in an upcoming Juxtaposition comic by Cafei.

For everyone else, you receive our heartfelt thanks for all of your hard work. :3

And... since we know that means absolutely beans, anyone who entered a story for the fan-fanfiction contest will also all be a part of a group picture that Cafei has been working on for the past several weeks!

So far, we have descriptions for Transformergirl, KyudaimeHokage, Cdol, Mellanmouse, Jason M. Lee, Michael Ha, Madlibs44, Samantha Edis, and Crystal Shekeira. Anyone who entered a story for the contest but has not sent in a self-description to Cafei on the thread at Metellus Cursor needs to do so within a week (before January 20th) if you want to be in the picture.

Now, a glimpse into your hostesses’ thought processes (AKA Why It Took So Darn Long For Them To Get The Winners Out):

Vaeru (9:28:56 PM): Egad, we still didn't choose an overall winner. DX
Cafei (9:29:06 PM): bwah!
Cafei (9:29:25 PM): I think we were both leaning towards ---- yes?
Cafei (9:29:30 PM): or did we wobble?
Vaeru (9:30:06 PM): I did. XD
Vaeru (9:30:26 PM): Did you?
Cafei (9:30:38 PM): ...I dunno ToT
Vaeru (9:30:56 PM): We're never going to get this done.
Cafei (9:31:09 PM): ok. when we post the winner (eventually), we have to post these parts of our conversations so that everyone will know why we took so long to decide XDD
Vaeru (9:31:38 PM): XD Do you have any saved? We have a lot to choose from.
Cafei (9:32:05 PM): umm I saved the last one where we discussed the fun of bath time with Evy
Vaeru (9:34:11 PM): ... we have got to be the biggest sufferers of ADHD in the world. And I'm including that brat Jared from my kindergarten class, here.
Cafei (9:34:56 PM): I'm not going to disagree with you on that XD;
Cafei (9:35:32 PM): its the writing and the drawing. Causes people to become easily distracted. Funny, because you'd think it would have an opposite effect
Vaeru (9:36:05 PM): We have to have our heads in the clouds or else we'd never have any good ideas. :3
Cafei (9:36:50 PM): exactly
Cafei (9:37:05 PM): By the way, we're getting away from choosing a winner again XDD;
Vaeru (9:37:11 PM): BALLS!
Cafei (9:37:17 PM): lmfao
Cafei (9:37:37 PM): we are so bad at this **falls back in chair laughing**

Maaan, holidays are exhausting. -_- Run here, run there, tear out your hair over the gas used for all the running here and there, eat this, eat that, go to the gym to try desperately to counteract the carbs flooding your system...

In short, the judging for the Juxtaposition Fan-Fanfiction Contest is still in progress. We ARE working on it, though. Do not lose faith!

It's just really hard to sort through so many kickass entries. X3

Okay, I decided to try it.

Guardian draelings (i.e. tiny dragons wrapped around large marbles) are up for commission at $20 including shipping. There may be other options in the future (windchimes, ornaments, etc.) but for now I can only offer Guardians.

Quite a lot of time and effort goes into the little creatures; no molds are used. To see the sort of detail I put into them, visit [link] and [link]

There are five slots on the list, so if you would like to order one, visit [link] and send me the completed request form in a Deviantart PM. The first four will get a confirmation message from me and a reserved place on the list.

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As soon as your order is complete, I'll post a picture collage on DeviantArt so that you may see him/her before your make payment. I will ship after payment is recieved.

Please note: I can only accept payment through PayPal, and I can only ship to the continental United States. I reserve the right to post pictures of all completed draelings on my DA account. I reserve the right to choose the name/element of any draeling that does not have a name/element specified. A submitted order form is a pledge that the customer will pay the price and shipping for the draeling; should the customer forfeit, I also reserve the right to sell the draeling to another customer.

Hah! Nope, we don't have the winners yet, but we do have all the entries in. Stop by Metellus Cursor at Yahoo Groups (It should be relatively easy to find, since I'm 99% certain ours is the only one with the word Metellus anywhere in it.) to read all the incredibly awesome entries. Cafei and I have both had a ball reading them all, and there was much snot-water to go around (see [link] ).

(I believe that you'll need a Yahoo account to access the various features of the group, but since they're free and easy to set up, it shouldn't be much of a hassle to make a 'throw-away' account if you don't already have a Yahoo screenname, no? 'Free' is such an awesome word.)

I haven't gotten the polls set up just yet, so look for them sometime tonight or tomorrow. Voting will last through the end of November, then goodies will be passed out in December ('tis the season to be merry!).

Also, don't hesitate to brag on your favorites in the message section. All authors need a little lovin'.

Let the fan-fanfiction fun begin!

The Juxtaposition Fan-Fanfiction Contest!

hosted by ~Cafei and ~mythical-darkener (aka Vaeru)

Cafei has been hard at work, creative little nut that she is, cranking out doodle after doodle depicting some of Evelyn’s and LittleCafei’s many (mis)adventures aboard Metellus, and now is your chance to tell us how in the world our heroines managed to get themselves into such strange situations!

In short, choose one of the doodles below and write us a story about it!

Doodle 1 Doodle 2 Doodle 3 Doodle 4
Doodle 5 Doodle 6 Doodle 7 Doodle 8

Dates
It has been well-established that neither Vaeru nor Cafei work well with set deadlines. Therefore, the below dates may be subject to change (read: extension).

• Oct. 1 – 31: Submissions! Send them to us at sparkbearer@gmail.com


• Nov. 1 – 30: Voting! Everyone head over to MetellusCursor@yahoogroups to read all the submissions and vote for your favs!


• Winners will be announced “sometime in December.”

Rules

• All entries must meet the following criteria:
  

  • Must be a oneshot between 500-3000 words in length
  
  
  • Have a rating of T or less
  
  
  • Be in Rich Text Format (.rtf)
  
  
  • Include title, description, author name, and author’s website URL (Website is optional, but who doesn’t like free advertising?)

  
  
• Submissions are to be sent to sparkbearer@gmail.com. Please put the doodle number and author name in the header. If we don’t know which picture your submission goes with, how can we enter it?


• Readability counts! That includes spelling, grammar, punctuation, and formatting.


• No more than one (1) entry per doodle. I.e. if you feel the overwhelming urge to write a story for each of the doodles, who are we to stop you? But don’t write more than one entry for the same picture! Also be forewarned, you cannot win more than once.

How It Works

• Submissions will be gathered together by Vaeru and Cafei and kept (in secret!) until the first of November, at which time the yahoo group will be open for business. The stories will be posted in folders according to which doodle they correspond with.


• Voting will be open from November first to November thirtieth. The winners of each category will be determined through the open polls, and Vaeru and Cafei will choose the best story overall from the winners.


• Winners will be announced some time in December.

Things To Remember

• Check your spelling and grammar!


• All genres are accepted, but remember to keep things under a T rating.


• Extra points for keeping characters in-character and avoiding Three-Stooges-esque slapstick.


• Also... you will be writing in the Juxtaposition Fancomic Universe aka Evelyn’s Dream-verse. As Cafei so eloquently put it, “Continuity means nothing here!” So feel free to be creative... but we’d like our characters back in roughly the same condition they left in, please. Be gentle. ;3

Prizes
The part you’ve all been waiting for...

Winners for each doodle will receive:

• Chibi-portrait of one’s choice

In addition to that, if your fic is also chosen as Best Over-All, you’ll receive:

• Appearance in the sequel oneshot to Dreaming of Who?


• Cameo in one of Cafei’s upcoming Jux comics


• Bragging rights ;3

So, go have a look at all the doodle choices and get those creative juices flowing!