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999_whats_your_emergency9-9-9?
- 999 is the UK (and other countries') Emergency Phone Number. It also indicates the schedule of this exchange:
- 9 Days simultaenous Nominations & Sign-Ups (7th-15th April, British Summer Time).
- 9 Days writing time (16th-25th April) after which the collection will be revealed anonymously.
- 9 Days until Authors Revealed (during which time we may still be working on emergency canons, treats, and PHs!)
What counts as on theme?
At sign-up you will be able to pick from the following emergency scenarios:
- Ambulances/EMTs/Paramedics
- Coastguard
- Dispatch and Call Handlers
- Fire and Rescue (including Mountain Rescue)
- Hospital Emergency Department
- Police/Security Response Officers
- Other Emergency Service
Examples of canons could be: ER, Happy Valley, Rescue Me, Casualty, The Guardian, Life on Mars, 9-1-1 & Lone Star, London's Burning, New Amsterdam, Water Rats, 21 Jump Street, H, Backdraft...
Despite the “999” part of the theme, the canon can take place in any real-world country, (with any emergency phone number!)
What's not on theme?
- Generic Hospital, Investigation, Police & Detective canons without a significant amount of the plot taking place in emergency scenarios (whether internal like a hospital or external such as a crime scene or scene of an accident.)
- Fics focused purely on the administration, social/romantic lives or day-to-day cases of the Emergency Services.
- Case and Investigation Fic.
- Any content more explicit than would be typical for that canon when aired on network TV.
What about Alternate Universes?
The only AUs permitted would be those that keep the core theme in the end result: for example, you could do a Future or Past AU, or a canon-divergence AU resulting in events that are incompatible with canon but still focused on the “Emergency” theme, or a Mundane AU of a Supernatural canon.
“Coffee Shop” or “High School” would not be appropriate.
What is an "Emergency Canon"?
An Emergency canon is a canon that can be consumed in less than 99.9 (i.e. 100) minutes.
These could be a canon in their own right (such as a film under 100 minutes) or an Episode of a TV Show or similar that can be largely understood from the one episode alone.
- 999 is the UK (and other countries') Emergency Phone Number. It also indicates the schedule of this exchange:
- 9 Days simultaenous Nominations & Sign-Ups (7th-15th April, British Summer Time).
- 9 Days writing time (16th-25th April) after which the collection will be revealed anonymously.
- 9 Days until Authors Revealed (during which time we may still be working on emergency canons, treats, and PHs!)
What counts as on theme?
At sign-up you will be able to pick from the following emergency scenarios:
- Ambulances/EMTs/Paramedics
- Coastguard
- Dispatch and Call Handlers
- Fire and Rescue (including Mountain Rescue)
- Hospital Emergency Department
- Police/Security Response Officers
- Other Emergency Service
Examples of canons could be: ER, Happy Valley, Rescue Me, Casualty, The Guardian, Life on Mars, 9-1-1 & Lone Star, London's Burning, New Amsterdam, Water Rats, 21 Jump Street, H, Backdraft...
Despite the “999” part of the theme, the canon can take place in any real-world country, (with any emergency phone number!)
What's not on theme?
- Generic Hospital, Investigation, Police & Detective canons without a significant amount of the plot taking place in emergency scenarios (whether internal like a hospital or external such as a crime scene or scene of an accident.)
- Fics focused purely on the administration, social/romantic lives or day-to-day cases of the Emergency Services.
- Case and Investigation Fic.
- Any content more explicit than would be typical for that canon when aired on network TV.
What about Alternate Universes?
The only AUs permitted would be those that keep the core theme in the end result: for example, you could do a Future or Past AU, or a canon-divergence AU resulting in events that are incompatible with canon but still focused on the “Emergency” theme, or a Mundane AU of a Supernatural canon.
“Coffee Shop” or “High School” would not be appropriate.
What is an "Emergency Canon"?
An Emergency canon is a canon that can be consumed in less than 99.9 (i.e. 100) minutes.
These could be a canon in their own right (such as a film under 100 minutes) or an Episode of a TV Show or similar that can be largely understood from the one episode alone.