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twinkle cave posted:THUNDER DOME WEEK XXIV - TWINKLE CRIT 'Fun' fact: early drafts (me arranging the story in my head while at work, in the car, playing Borderlands 2, whatever) had an even more literal Ex Machina, using a jukebox with the soothing sounds of either of these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwbGjzF3mB0 or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cEdqWZi13I; but I couldn't figure out a way to work it into the narrative. And the wine/brewed thing was me knowing nothing about alcohol and not having wikipedia available at the time.
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For those of you looking for another outlet to hone your l33t skillz, there has been an impromtu flash fiction festival in the Glenbeckistan thread. Sure, it's pretty much all genre fiction, but hey, words is words. Also post next week's prompt so I can sign up and lose.
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The altar has been lit. PROMPT: I want stories of someone who tells the truth or doesn't tell the truth and gets What They Deserve. 500 to 1,500 words. You have a lot of room to work with this, so I want you to make it solid and strong. No finicky, watery bullshit. I want something you can read proudly without sounding like an rear end in a top hat. SIGN UP BY: Saturday, Midnight, PST. SUBMIT BY: Sunday, Midnight, PST. YOUR JUDGES THIS WEEK: Myself, who will verbally castigate weakness, ESB, who will browbeat you for idiocy, and SurreptitiousMuffin, who will cut you with his tongue for any gently caress ups that fall between weakness and idiocy.
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In!
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Capntastic posted:I want something you can read proudly without sounding like an rear end in a top hat. Please, for once in your life.
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...In. Goddamit I will write something decent one day or die trying.
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In.
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In. Will likely be writing through a hangover on Sunday, this should be good.
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If it wasn't obvious before, I am In.
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In.
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So hey I'm back. That happened. And Capntastic won. That was a thing. Congratulations. And I am totally in by the way.
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dome me
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I am in.
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I'm in. EDIT: Also, thanks twinkle cave and budgieinspector for the critiques. You guys have both got crits coming your way whether you want them or not! I'd agree with both of your main criticisms, that my story reads like it's missing a page. I'm gonna put it through the ringer a few times and throw myself at some of those horror publications Budgie listed. monkeyboydc fucked around with this message at 22:11 on Jan 22, 2013 |
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In, and I actually mean it this time instead of "In but I will drink for three nights straight instead of working." Edit: good now I also have an av to work off.
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Hello writers, I'm the new CC mod and I'd like to talk about Thunderdome-related issues. The custom winner/loser titles are getting out of hand. You guys can have ONE style of winner avatar and ONE style of loser avatar. If you want to crown your own superwinners or ultralosers, pony up the ![]() NEXT: I WILL BE JUDGING YOU GUYS NEXT WEEK. Things are going to be done a little differently there, too. Please stay tuned for details.
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I am In for this week. budgieinspector posted:Sitting Here -- "Mother's Day" Yeah this is of the "spend all week lovingly crafting a pile of poo poo then scrap the whole thing at 8PM Saturday night" variety. Sometimes you just have to delete days of work, get drunk, kick your significant other out of the room for a while, and blindly mash the keyboard in panic. I am a strong believer in writing The Bad Version, and as budgieinspector says, you need time. Time to write the bad version, time to see that it IS the bad version, and then (a small amount of) time to write the hopefully-somewhat-decent version. Congrats Capntastic! The best thing about Thunderdome is the people who fight their way up in the ranks and then earn victory. I agree that you wrote a worthy story, and am pleased to announce that the bar for getting any approval from your comrades is now higher! Also to our newly appointed glorious beloved despot neonnoodle, be gentle with the Thunderdome ![]()
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Throwing in
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Sitting Here posted:Also to our newly appointed glorious beloved despot neonnoodle, be gentle with the Thunderdome neon, don't listen to this woman. Thunderdome likes it rough. ![]()
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In again and will def get a submission out. (I'm halfway rewriting my original small town horror thing for last week and will put it up on the fiction farm) Also congrats to Captntastic! Always great to see a happy outcome in Thunderdome ![]() E: oh gosh , thanks anonymous avatar purchaser, I really do appreciate it.
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What's it, sixty bucks now? Good gravy.
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In for this one!
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neonnoodle posted:Hello writers, I'm the new CC mod and I'd like to talk about Thunderdome-related issues. Ultraloser is a different kettle of fish though: there's only going to be more and more as time goes on. Should we scrap it and leave Chairchucker alone with the av?
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In again.
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Let's do this.
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I have to buy Capn' an avatar of his choice this time around. I toxxed it. I gotta man up and do it. If he wants to post the avatar, I'll buy it for him. *Edit* poo poo, someone already got him one? You want Archives or something, Capn'?
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I was doofing around in excel, and while I missed some weeks because I didn't feel like spending a lot of time formatting dumb lists. But anyway, there have been well over 300 stories written and posted since Thunderdome started. And I think (since I missed about 4 weeks, maybe more of stories) over 100 unique writers. Pretty dang solid.
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SurreptitiousMuffin posted:I was chatting with ESB about this and we decided that since the RESURGENT thing is going to be pretty rare, we were going to take the cost ourselves. Chairchucker is MY bottom bitch, please stop slobbering over his sweet Aussie rear end with your filthy Kiwi jowels. I bought him the Ultraloser avatar and there won't be any other ultralosers unless I say there will. For the record, there have been no free unique avatars handed out here since I think Week 2 if even. The unique avs have all been bought by somebody.
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Martello posted:Chairchucker is MY bottom bitch, please stop slobbering over his sweet Aussie rear end with your filthy Kiwi jowels. I bought him the Ultraloser avatar and there won't be any other ultralosers unless I say there will. ![]() Who got Capn's new one?
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I'm in.
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I'm in. Ready to lawyer.
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aquavelva posted:I'm in. Ready to lawyer. loving same-day reg stupid newbie idiot bitch fucker. ![]()
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aquavelva posted:I'm in. Ready to lawyer. There are no laws in the Thunderdome. What are you going to yer? Also, V for Vegas, that crit is coming soon. I apologize.
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SurreptitiousMuffin posted:Who got Capn's new one? Neonnoodle did, as a gracious act of "get off my back you fuckers." Thanks Neonnoodle! Zack_Gochuck posted:*Edit* poo poo, someone already got him one? You want Archives or something, Capn'? If future avatars are gonna come out of our pockets, hold onto it until someone deserves one.
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Nice frog.
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aquavelva posted:Nice frog. You should be writing.
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aquavelva posted:I'm in. Ready to lawyer. I'm a legal professional irl and would be happy to help ![]()
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The Saddest Rhino posted:I'm a baby bitch irl and would be happy to help ftfy lol
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SurreptitiousMuffin posted:Didn't actually know that. I assumed Ultraloser = someone who has lost more than once I 'earned' this avatar specifically for the previous horror prompt.
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I am in! No backing out, no surrender.
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