Title: Push/Pull 
Fandom: Stargate: Atlantis
Pairing: John/Rodney
Length: 66,000+
Rating: NC-17 (not work safe) 
Warnings: none

Summary: homeless!John AU

Wait, you want more? Fine. Rodney was having the worst day of his life even before he accidentally ran over a mysterious homeless man with his car. Now he finds himself without a job, with a new roomate, and with one burning question: Who is the enigmatic John Sheppard?  

( Push/Pull )

Title: The Proposition 
Fandom: Stargate: Atlantis
Pairing: John/Rodney
Length: 62,000+
Rating: NC-17 (not work safe)
Warnings: none

Summary: John wasn't sure how the head of a world-famous scientific laboratory would feel about interacting socially with his caterer, especially in the company of his peers. McKay might be annoyed or, worse, irritated by John's forwardness, and John couldn't afford to piss this man off. McKay made the decision for him, coming up with a plate full of meatballs and enthusing, "These meatballs are fantastic."

( The Proposition ) 

 I hear ya'll are looking for stories and I've got a few stories to offer, so...

Title: Unconventional Beauty
Fandom: Stargate: Atlantis
Pairing: John/Rodney
Rating: NC-17 (i.e., not work safe)
Word Count: 30,400+
Spoilers: Conversion
Warnings: none (unless you get squicked out by the storyline of Beauty and the Beast)

Summary: An SGA version of Beauty and the Beast.  

(Unconventional Beauty)

If you missed out on them, here’s the link to the Master List over at ds_harlequin. Enjoy! *g*

losyark is running a harlequin-themed challenge over at summersteam. For more info, check out the rules and FAQ. Or peruse the available prompts, which go up for grabs on May 1st.

Entries for the Romeo and Juliet (or Julian) challenge (past and present), can be found in Memories.

Our next challenge is: Mail (or Male) Order Bride.

Whether it’s the wild, wild west or a space station on the outer rim, your character’s sure to need the comfort of a good woman. Or man. Or maybe someone to watch the kids, draw their bath... Twist the challenge however you like, it’s up to you.

Responses to this challenge are not exclusive to harlequin_style so you may post your fic or graphic wherever you want, so long as you provide us with at least a link to it. Remember, if you get inspired by a previous challenge, please feel free to write it. Just mark your submission with the name of the challenge so we know where to place it in Memories.

Have fun with it!

A new challenge will be announced on July 15.

Feel free to suggest future challenges in the comments to this post.

I've finally gotten around to editing this fic. I assume that a fic based on the movie Pretty Woman is sufficiently harlequin enough to post here :) Thanks!

Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Title: King of Wishful Thinking
Author: Margie
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: John/Rodney
Spoilers: None
*Warnings*: None unless AU's or male gigolos squick you.
Word Count: 19,890

Summary: Based on the movie Pretty Woman, but with an SGA twist. The title is based, in case you didn't know, on a song from the soundtrack.

Disclaimer: I don't own anything. And I'm totally not making a profit.
Author's Note: Thanks to ladycat777 for the beta!!

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Entries for the An Apple for the Teacher (past and present), can be found in Memories.

Our next challenge is: Romeo and Juliet (or Julian).

Give us star-crossed lovers! What, or who, keeps them apart, and how do they overcome it? Or don’t they?

Responses to this challenge are not exclusive to harlequin_style so you may post your fic or graphic wherever you want, so long as you provide us with at least a link to it. Remember, if you get inspired by a previous challenge, please feel free to write it. Just mark your submission with the name of the challenge so we know where to place it in Memories.

Have fun with it!

A new challenge will be announced on April 15.

Feel free to suggest future challenges in the comments to this post.

Entries for the Torn Apart Challenge (past and present), can be found in Memories.

Our next challenge is: An Apple for the Teacher.

Your character is an instructor of some sort. Does he or she fall for a student? Another instructor? A parent? Is everything as it seems? What are the ramifications?

The challenge will run for one month. We will announce a new challenge on November 15.

Responses to this challenge are not exclusive to harlequin_style so you may post your fic or graphic wherever you want, so long as you provide us with at least a link to it. Remember, if you get inspired by a previous challenge, please feel free to write it. Just mark your submission with the name of the challenge so we know where to place it in Memories.

Have fun with it!

Feel free to suggest future challenges in the comments to this post.

Entries for the Fling...Flung Challenge (past and present), can be found in Memories.

Our next challenge is: Torn Apart.

Your characters are torn apart by lies, a misunderstanding, interfering parents, society.... Tell us how they were torn apart, and what brings them back together again...if anything.

Due to my schedule in September, this challenge will run for two months. We will announce a new challenge on October 15.

This challenge is not exclusive to harlequin_style so you may post your fic or graphic wherever you want, so long as you provide us with at least a link to it. Remember, if you get inspired by a previous challenge, please feel free to write it. Just mark your submission with the name of the challenge so we know where to place it in Memories.

Have fun with it!

Feel free to suggest future challenges in the comments to this post.

Written for harlequin_style Challenge #4: Mistaken Identity.

Title: The Accidental Guide
Author: Spikedluv
Fandom: The Sentinel
Rating: NC17/Slash
Pairing: Jim/Blair
Length: 14,624 words
Spoilers: Entire series, to be safe.
Summary: Jim wasn’t looking for a guide, but then he met Blair Sandburg.
Notes: OMG, it’s finally done! If you call it done when I’ve already got ideas for what might happen next. *head desk* AU, bonding, angst followed by schmoop. Written for harlequin_style Challenge #4: Mistaken Identity. Also written for au100 prompts #25. Strangers, #22. Enemies, and #21. Friends.

Entries for the Mistaken Identity Challenge (past and present), can be found in Memories.

Our next challenge is: Fling...Flung.

Your character decides to have a fling with a stranger they expect to never meet again. Which works out well until they just happen to run into them again. *g*

The challenge will run for one month. We will announce a new challenge on August 15.

This challenge is not exclusive to harlequin_style so you may post your fic or graphic wherever you want, so long as you provide us with at least a link to it. Remember, if you get inspired by a previous challenge, please feel free to write it. Just mark your submission with the name of the challenge so we know where to place it in Memories.

Have fun with it!

Feel free to suggest future challenges in the comments to this post.

Entries for the Wake Up Married Challenge (past and present), can be found in Memories.

Our next challenge is: Mistaken Identity.

Mistaken for a spy, a criminal, the new secretary or the stripper hired for the bachelor party? *weg* Tell us how’d it happened and what the consequences, good and bad, are. *g*

The challenge will run for one month. We will announce a new challenge on July 15.

This challenge is not exclusive to harlequin_style so you may post your fic or graphic wherever you want, so long as you provide us with at least a link to it. Remember, if you get inspired by a previous challenge, please feel free to write it. Just mark your submission with the name of the challenge so we know where to place it in Memories.

Have fun with it!

Feel free to suggest future challenges in the comments to this post.

The Amnesia Challenge has been forgotten. *g* You can find the entries (past and present), here.

Our next challenge is: Wake Up Married.

How’d it happen, and what are they going to do about it?

The challenge will run for one month. We will announce a new challenge on June 15.

This challenge is not exclusive to harlequin_style so you may post your fic or graphic wherever you want, so long as you provide us with at least a link to it. Remember, if you get inspired by a previous challenge, please feel free to write it. Just mark your submission with the name of the challenge so we know where to place it in Memories.

Have fun with it!

Feel free to suggest future challenges in the comments to this post.

The Snowed-In Challenge has melted away. *g* You can find the entries (past and present), here.

Our next challenge is: Amnesia.

Who gets it? How? What are the consequences?

The challenge will run for one month. We will announce a new challenge on May 15.

This challenge is not exclusive to harlequin_style so you may post your fic or graphic wherever you want, so long as you provide us with at least a link to it. Remember, if you get inspired by a previous challenge, please feel free to write it. Just mark your submission with the name of the challenge so we know where to place it in Memories.

Have fun with it!

Feel free to suggest future challenges in the comments to this post.

Title: The Sentinel of His Dreams
Author: Spikedluv
Fandom: The Sentinel
Rating: NC17/Slash
Pairing: Jim/Blair
Length: 8319 words
Spoilers: Switchman
Summary: Blair goes looking for a sentinel and finds love.
Notes: AU; kinda schmoopy. Written for the snowed-in challenge at harlequin_style and for au100 prompt #67: snow.

It’s still very much winter here in the Great Northeast, so in keeping with that, our first challenge is: Snowed-In.

The who, when, where, how, (and what they do while snowed in *weg*), are up to you.

The challenge will run for one month. We will announce a new challenge on April 15.

This challenge is not exclusive to harlequin_style so you may post your fic or graphic wherever you want, so long as you provide us with at least a link to it. *g*

Have fun with it!

Feel free to suggest future challenges in the comments to this post.

harlequin_sga, the folk who were smart enough to see that the Harlequin Challenge at sga_flashfic needed to be extended *g*, has graciously agreed to affiliate with us!

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Regarding the monthly challenges that I warned told you about, the first challenge will be announced today and I will announce further challenges on the 15th of each month. If a bunny strikes you after we've moved on to a new a challenge, don't let that deter you. You may still write for any of the older challenges.

When you post your fic (or a link to your fic), please indicate that it's for a challenge, and which one, so that I can Memory it properly. [Fic will be Memoried according to fandom and pairing, and if it's a challenge fic, according to the challenge, as well.]

If you don't remember what else needs to be in the subject line or header, please read the rules on the community info page.

*rubs hands together* Okay, first challenge coming right up! *g*

I'll stop spamming my flist after this, promise. And if this isn't allowed here, I apologize. I'm just not sure where to turn.

I need a beta for a long!fic I wrote a while back. Coming Together is an Angel/OFC romance and I need someone to look it over for grammar and punctuation. This baby is novel length at 295 pages and around 130,000 words. I want to post it here, but I can't do that until I know I won't embarrass myself. I know I was rather comma-tose when I wrote this. It's one of my first fics. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance,

Danielle

We’re a multi-fandom community created for the sole purpose of encouraging you to ‘harlequinize’ your fandom. Write fanfic, create cover art, make icons....

What brought this crack on, you ask? Well, first there was the Harlequin Challenge at sga_flashfic, which was the impetus for the creation of harlequin_sga as well as the theme for the second round of ts_ficathons, and which has ultimately led to the creation of this community, because we think every fandom deserves to be harlequinized. *g*

To keep things interesting, the mods will post a challenge topic once a month (eg, amnesia, left holding the baby), but non-challenge posts are not only welcome, they are encouraged.

We’re open to any and all fandoms, pairings (gen, het, slash, and femslash), ratings and genres, so long as your fic complies with the community rules and fits within the Harlequin ‘mold’, which for purposes of this community will be interpreted pretty broadly to include regency, historical romances, romantic mysteries, and even romances with fantasy or sci-fi elements. Nora Roberts, anyone?

Also, your fic doesn’t have to be completely AU to meet the ‘harlequin’ standard. It is totally possible to ‘harlequinize’ a fic based on canon. Consider The Sentinel or due South. *g*

To read the (very simple *g*) rules or to join the community, please go to the community info page.

If you have any questions or if you want to submit an idea for one of the challenges, please comment here.

Start posting and have fun!