Hello all, performers and audience alike! Thank you for your warm regards towards Circus of Words. It has been about two months into the submission period of our contest. I hope the writers are enjoying their time crafting their perfect performance number, and I hope you'll all be there to witness their greatness come show night, October 31st.

I am so glad that we now have 3 entries in the mix. Sadly, we have an influx of Jeongcheol stories, so I will be removing them from the list of pairings you can cast in your stories. The purpose of Headliner, and even Intermission (since the rule applies that only newly written stories will be accepted), is so that I can read new, other things, that aren't already popular or available here on AFF. I do admit that Jeongcheol is one of the more popular SVT ships, but that is exactly the point why I'm taking them off the list. The purpose is to be creative and think of new stories with new people to be followed along. I especially would prefer seeing even non-existent ships (DK x Dino, Jun x Seungcheol,  etc), just to make the challenges even more challenging. I am not a shipper at all so I don't mind the OOC aspect of it. In fact, since I am not a shipper, I do find it less enjoyable reading about ships anyway. Though reading ships doesn't necessarily take away from my personal reading enjoyment overall, I do find it uninviting and tiresome if I have to read the same ship