Love is in the Air. Or maybe locusts.

[Lindani]

Since the day of fluffy hearts and pointed arrows is coming up, it may be prudent to do something interactive for the sake of RP and the MUCK. So far, we have a contest for a whole RP scene wherein couples compete to be the cutest, most sanguine, lovey-dovey players ever in the eyes of the judges. And/or, to make it interesting, we have an "Odd Couple" situation, where everyone competes to be as annoying to each other as possible. If anyone has any further ideas, it'd be great to see them up here.

Here's something I just thought of: A "dating" show. Wherein the judges, or a panel of voters, or just volunteers, slap together some of the most likely/unlikely pairs imaginable, and see what happens. What's a meerkat to do if they're somehow stuck with a hyena? Or a leopard with a lion? Would a mouse and an elephant survive? With some organization, it could fly, and if it's enjoyed enough, even allowed into our individual characters' timelines.

[Chukiface]

I like the scene contest. Here are some potential categories.

Cutest
Most Soap-Opera-Esque
Cheesiest
Oddest
Shakespearian (feel free to shoot down XD)

I propose we do what our little group has done in the past for contests like this and have art prizes for each category.

I am not so keen on the dating show. I am tempted to volunteer Rafiki as host, but I do not want to do the whole "UpendiFiki" thing because I frankly despise it. That, and the whole mixed species thing... however! Current RP has been leading slowly yet surely up to the betrothal of whichever prince of the Pridelands is made Crown Prince to a MwenPlace cub (Sarabi). This "dating show" idea could be tied into that, perhaps? I mean, if you think of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Theseus and Hippolyta had a political marriage and invited the four lovers to marry alongside them. So if TLK is Hamlet, why not incorporate this other Shakespearian idea? So yeah, I like the idea. Just not the mixed species thing. You can have a crappy blind date and still be the same animal as whoever you got hooked up with.

Also, how about a dating/relationship advice day? If we make a week of this, or even the rest of the month (which I am not opposed to), I will volunteer Rafiki to sit at the PL waterhole and act as a Dear Abbey. Just don't take it as a chance to call him a "crazy monkey," or he will lob fruit at your head.

[Yaro]

Possibly Kesh/Seran thing. It kinda dissolved, but you never know..

[Lindani]

Hehe, I didn't mean to necessarily have the dating contest be romantic. Just a chance to throw together two unlikely animals and see how they react if they were to meet suddenly in some kind of RP situation.

All those categories are just fine with me.

[aziza]

Aziza can be crushing on those cute mwenyezi lions! roWr

and max represents a whole other kettle of fish.

[Zazu]

Well, Valentine's Day is gone, but the concept of a scene contest is doable. Reminds me of Step Into The Sun week on ER, and the pose contests we did. Those were fun.