Challenge Dates: posting date June 25th; publication June 26th

Open to: Fan Fiction, Fan Art, Graphics

THE PROMPT:

"The minutes that we missed,
The idle lips that should have kissed,
Are now gently together,
The first kiss lasts forever."
- She Loves Me, Stephen Duffy.

Most of us became Caryl shippers because of the many scenes Daryl and Carol have shared over the past 6 seasons. All of those scenes spoke to us, and showed us some kind of potential that things between these two people could turn romantic.

This challenge takes that idea a little further and says imagine any of the Caryl scenes we've already witnessed could have taken a little turn and been THE scene that gave us our first Caryl kiss!

Your challenge is to take an existing Caryl scene and show how it could have easily turned into the moment their lips first met, with just a twist of the writer's pen.

THE DEADLINE: Submissions must be turned in by midnight Pacific Time on June 25.

THE RULES:

For FANFICTION:

• Send a PM to Fairies Masquerade, Ikkleosu or subversivegrrl that you want to enter the challenge. Even if you're not sure you'll have anything ready in time - let us know you're planning on it.
• Write! Stories must be at least 100 words
• Multiple entries are allowed!
• No McReedus this time (given the theme, we assume you already knew that.)
• Do not upload it yet! Wait until June 25 to upload your fic – just like in challenges past, we will be suspending automatic validation for that day for all authors who enter the challenge.
• Submission Day is June 25 – post your fic. It will not appear on the archive, but will enter our validation queue. Make sure you submit it under the Nine Lives Challenge category!
• Posting Day is June 26 – We will post the master list and all of the challenges entries so everything shows up at once. That way, we’re all surprised by what we get to read!
• Any challenge fics posted before June 25 will be deleted.

For FAN ART/GRAPHICS

• Send a PM to Fairies Masquerade, Ikkleosu or subversivegrrl that you want to enter the challenge --OR--
• Send an ask to the Nine Lives tumblr account
• Anonymous submissions are not allowed!
• Create!
• Submit your challenge piece via one of the following channels:
  
  Nine Lives tumblr submissions box
  Email your submission to challenges@ninelivesarchive.com
  
  Email title: First Kiss Challenge Submission
  Emails must include your tumblr OR Nine Lives Archive username along with any other information you wanted posted with your artwork
  
  
• Submission Day is June 25- We need to have your artwork submitted to our Tumblr or email by 12:00 midnight Pacific time on 6/25.
• Posting Day is June 26 - We will post all artwork via the Nine Lives tumblr account and add them to the master list of challenge entries on the Nine Lives Archive.

For FAN VIDEOS: 

• Send a PM to Fairies Masquerade, Ikkleosu or subversivegrrl that you want to enter the challenge.
• Upload your video to YouTube - ensuring you select "UNLISTED" as the privacy setting. You will have a URL for your video.
• Send a PM to Fairies Masquerade, Ikkleosu or subversivegrrl with the URL for your video, along with a title and the name you use on YouTube (if it is different to your Nine Lives name).
• Submission Day is June 25- We need to have your artwork submitted to our inbox by 12:00 midnight Pacific time on 6/25.
• Posting Day is June 26 - We will post all artwork via the Nine Lives tumblr account and add them to the master list of challenge entries on the Nine Lives Archive.
• You can change you video's privacy setting to PUBLIC once it has been listed on Nine Lives.

Any questions? please PM an admin.

Now let the lips do the talking!