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Chairchucker: Nov 14, 2006; to ride eternal, shiny and chrome

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2022

twinkle cave posted:

THUNDER DOME WEEK XXIV - TWINKLE CRIT
(lol... literally deus ex machina)

'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.

# ? Jan 22, 2013 06:37

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# ? Oct 13, 2024 02:16

Greatbacon: Apr 9, 2012; by Pragmatica

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.

# ? Jan 22, 2013 07:17

Capntastic: Jan 13, 2005; A dog begins eating a dusty old coil of rope but there's a nail in it.

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.

# ? Jan 22, 2013 07:29

Fanky Malloons: Aug 21, 2010; Is your social worker inside that horse?

In!

# ? Jan 22, 2013 07:30

Erik Shawn-Bohner: Mar 21, 2010; by XyloJW

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.

# ? Jan 22, 2013 07:31

SC Bracer: Aug 7, 2012; DEMAGLIO!

...In.

Goddamit I will write something decent one day or die trying.

# ? Jan 22, 2013 07:40

STONE OF MADNESS: Dec 28, 2012; PVTREFACTIO

In.

# ? Jan 22, 2013 07:49

MatchaZed: Feb 14, 2010; We Can Do It!

In.

Will likely be writing through a hangover on Sunday, this should be good.

# ? Jan 22, 2013 07:53

Greatbacon: Apr 9, 2012; by Pragmatica

If it wasn't obvious before, I am In.

# ? Jan 22, 2013 08:17

Chairchucker: Nov 14, 2006; to ride eternal, shiny and chrome

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2022

In.

# ? Jan 22, 2013 08:48

Bad Seafood: Dec 10, 2010; If you must blink, do it now.

So hey I'm back. That happened. And Capntastic won. That was a thing. Congratulations.

And I am totally in by the way.

# ? Jan 22, 2013 09:22

sebmojo: Oct 23, 2010; Legit Cyberpunk

dome me

# ? Jan 22, 2013 11:39

JonasSalk: May 27, 2012; THUNDERDOME LOSER

I am in.

# ? Jan 22, 2013 12:52

monkeyboydc: Dec 3, 2007; Unfortunately, we had to kut the English budget at the Ivalice Magick Ackcademy.

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 23:11 on Jan 22, 2013

# ? Jan 22, 2013 16:28

Benagain: Oct 10, 2007; Can you see that I am serious?; Fun Shoe

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.

# ? Jan 22, 2013 16:43

neonnoodle: Mar 20, 2008; by exmarx

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 :10bux:

because I'm not going to run around with a bunch of foil-stamped limited edition cover variants.

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.

# ? Jan 22, 2013 16:44

Sitting Here: Dec 31, 2007

I am In for this week.

budgieinspector posted:

Sitting Here -- "Mother's Day"

Another near-nod. NOTE TO NEWBS: Notice how the people who took every last second to submit turned in more solid results, on the whole? Whether it's because they took the extra time to polish their stories, or lingered over first-draft ideas, or scrapped everything and rewrote, or even if they didn't get around to it until the eleventh hour, but are just that badass--it's not a coincidence. Take as much goddamn time as you can get away with.

This story begs for third-person. The end reveal? Yeah, third-person. Rewrite and shop it.

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 :ohdear:

# ? Jan 22, 2013 17:16

Canadian Surf Club: Feb 15, 2008; Word.

Throwing in

# ? Jan 22, 2013 18:25

Martello: Apr 29, 2012; by XyloJW

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. :pervert:

# ? Jan 22, 2013 18:35

The Saddest Rhino: Apr 29, 2009; Put it all together.
Solve the world.
One conversation at a time.

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 :neckbeard:

E: oh gosh , thanks anonymous avatar purchaser, I really do appreciate it.

# ? Jan 22, 2013 18:55

Bad Seafood: Dec 10, 2010; If you must blink, do it now.

What's it, sixty bucks now?

Good gravy.

# ? Jan 22, 2013 19:35

BlackFrost: Feb 6, 2008; Have you figured it out yet?

In for this one!

# ? Jan 22, 2013 20:20

SurreptitiousMuffin: Mar 21, 2010

neonnoodle posted:

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 because I'm not going to run around with a bunch of foil-stamped limited edition cover variants.

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.

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.

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?

# ? Jan 22, 2013 21:45

Noah: May 31, 2011; Come at me baby bitch

In again.

# ? Jan 22, 2013 23:47

V for Vegas: Sep 1, 2004; THUNDERDOME LOSER

Let's do this.

# ? Jan 22, 2013 23:56

Zack_Gochuck: Jan 4, 2007; Stupid Wrestling People

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'?

# ? Jan 23, 2013 00:02

Noah: May 31, 2011; Come at me baby bitch

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.

# ? Jan 23, 2013 00:17

Martello: Apr 29, 2012; by XyloJW

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.

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?

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.

# ? Jan 23, 2013 00:33

SurreptitiousMuffin: Mar 21, 2010

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.

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.

Didn't actually know that. I assumed Ultraloser = someone who has lost more than once and I asked neonoodle to throw Zack_Gochuck one. My bad. Sorry about that NN.