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I gotta ask Phobia, were your parents killed by a roving gang of copy editors behind the opera? Because your very first sentence had a full-stop right smack-bang in the middle of it. Some Guy TT aaaaalmost lost, but your total inability to check your own work for errors was the dogshit bullet that finished you off.
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# ? Feb 11, 2025 02:28 |
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i have stumbled back into my throne of mediocrity, hooray
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Tyrannosaurus posted:Goddamnit Phobia you idiot SurreptitiousMuffin posted:Your very first sentence had a full-stop right smack-bang in the middle of it . . . your total inability to check your own work for errors was the dogshit bullet that finished you off. (Thanks for the candor though. That isn't sarcasm, I'm being sincere.) SurreptitiousMuffin posted:Some Guy TT aaaaalmost lost #kyrena posted:08:21 Phobia yo I'm not going to be a little bitch about this but Some Guy better be grateful I took a bullet for him. ![]()
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stop posting please, thanks in advance
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sebmojo posted:
AW drat, it feels good to be a gangster. Prompt is incoming once I get access to a real computer later this morning, not that it matters, since most of you yahoos are probably still sleeping off your nightly Cheeto comas anyway.
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LOU BEGAS MUSTACHE posted:i have stumbled back into my throne of mediocrity, hooray it's such an inviting position, i can't help but spend most of my time there as well.
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![]() ![]() Greetings, Domers, it's been a while. You may or may not know that I, Fanky C. Malloons esq. have a huge lady-boner for myth, legend, and folklore. You probably definitely know that I also have a massive hate-boner for judging because while I enjoy THE POWER, you are all terrible and it makes me furious and sad. So, it is with great trepidation that I present to you this week's theme: World Folklore. I have at my disposal a gigantic reference volume of folk tales from around the world, which I will use to assign an inspirational folk tale to everyone who signs up. Because my internet at home is broken, and I am mad about it, you are not allowed to do any research on your folk tale. You must take the tale that I give to you at face value, and use to inspire your entry. Having said that, your entry does not have to be a straight re-telling of the folk tale that you are assigned, you can do whatever you want with it, as long as it is clear that your story is in some way influenced or inspired by it. Because my Book O' Lore is so vast, I can't assign you stories 100% randomly, therefore your sign up posts must include a number between 1 and 4 followed by a number between 1 and 12. Or, if you're too wishy washy to choose your own numbers, anyone with a set of dice (which is probably everyone ITT, let's be real) can choose your numbers for you if I don't do it first. Word count: 1000 Entries close: 9pm PST on Friday, Sept 19th Submissions close: 7am PST on Monday Sept 22nd (because I'm not staying up until midnight to post that submissions are closed, so if you want to work on it all night, feel free) ESTEEMED JUDGES: HRH Fanky G. Malloons Crown Prince Fartello Grand Duchess Anomalous Blowout ENTRANTS: Meinberg - THE SEVEN WISE MEN OF BUNEYR LOU BEGAS MOUSTACHE - RABBIT KILLS BIG MAN-EATER Broenheim - THE STORY OF MR. FOX ![]() Entenzahn - MANDRA-MANKANA, ALSO CALLED BAKUTA-TERKANA-TARANA OR KANTAYULKANA Grizzled Patriarch - THE QUEEN WITH A HUNDRED LOVERS Pootie Tang - GIFTS FOR MY SON MOHAMMED Phobia - AKI GAHUK, THE FATHER OF THE CROCODILES Guiness13 - THE RAT PRINCESS AND THE GREEDY MAN Amused Frog - THE TIGER AND THE FROG God Over Djinn - ORIGIN OF THE JA-LUO starr - MITI’ AND MAGPIE MAN satsui no thankyou - HOW RABBI JOSHUA WENT TO PARADISE ALIVE Anathema Device - THE RED CALF newtestleper - THE BEGINNING curlingiron - THE MAN IN THE MOON ![]() Your Sledgehammer - DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND Fumblemouse - MOUNTAIN OF THE BELL Tyrannosaurus - IN THE BEGINNING Djeser - UNDER THE GREEN OLD OAK TREE Noah - LATA AND SINOTA Ironic Twist - AN EXILE'S REVENGE Blade_of_tyshalle - MOTHER HOLLE ![]() ![]() systran - MY SON ALI Saint Drogo - THE GHOST PENITENTE Surreptitious Muffin - WITCH FLIGHTS Benny the Snake - THE TIGER CHANGED INTO A WOMAN Morning Bell - JUAN THE FOOL Juniper Cake - GINAS AND THE RAJAH ![]() Some Guy TT - HOW TURTLE’S GREED BROUGHT HIM TO A SAD END The Sean - THE BABRACOTE AND THE CAMUDI crabrock - something else about babies, idk Paladinus - THE STORY OF JUAN AND THE MONKEY A FINAL NOTE: If Sitting Here doesn't finish the week 100 crits before submissions close, she Fanky Malloons fucked around with this message at 03:52 on Sep 20, 2014 |
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i am offended you think i own dice, but i am in
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Fanky Malloons posted:Because my internet at home is broken, and I am mad about it her cat broke it btw solution: murder cat
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also I will be assigning flash rules AT RANDOM So be ready
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Martello posted:her cat broke it btw This is true. If a more evil beast exists in this dimension, I'm not aware of it. LOU BEGAS MUSTACHE posted:i am offended you think i own dice, but i am in WHERE ARE YOUR NUMBERS YOU GODDAMN SHITLORD
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No research you say? I might be able to handle that. In with 2 and 8.
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in with 13
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Entenzahn posted:in with 13 you stupid gently caress that will net you a horrible flash rule but I'm waiting until you get assigned a story
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Fanky Malloons posted:This is true. If a more evil beast exists in this dimension, I'm not aware of it. 4 and 1 im not sure i appreciate this attitude towards my aversion to dice, and number generation. my dad was a mathematician and well, i dont have fond memories of him.
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i don't care what you assign me because i'm writing about this and you can't stop me http://io9.com/we-wear-babies-on-ou...dium=socialflow in
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It's been a while since I domed, so I'm in with a ![]() 6 and 9, obviously.
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Let's keep this train rollin'. In with 4 and 4.
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Martello posted:you stupid gently caress its a 1 and a 3 chief
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IN with snake eyes (1 and 1)
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Broenheim posted:
nice try, loser Fanky Malloons posted:a number between 1 and 4 followed by a number between 1 and 12.
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Entenzahn posted:its a 1 and a 3 chief good recovery attempt but that'd be a TEN and a three, Pythagoras. let's leave the math to those other nerd subforums and stick to storytellin
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Fanky Malloons posted:nice try, loser God damnit, I'm an idiot 3 and 9
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okay well I'm in. 2 and 12, that sounds just fine.
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In with dueces, 2 and 2
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In with 2 and 12. Had to have a showdown with the winner, didn't I?
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Fanky Malloons posted:
Using DMs for anything other than indicating the quality of someone's writing is petty and shameful, and not a practice I want to see come to the dome.
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In with 1 and 1, snake eyes.
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I'm in with 2 and 5.
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God Over Djinn posted:In with 1 and 1, snake eyes. Plagiarism! I'm honour-bound to challenge you to a brawl, to the DEATH! ...Or 'to the deadline' but that doesn't sound as dramatic.
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Sitting Here posted:Using DMs for anything other than indicating the quality of someone's writing is petty and shameful, and not a practice I want to see come to the dome. kaishai won't count anything that's not in the official results post, and since you wrote the official results post for that week, i don't see you getting a DM for that, unless somebody else starts up their own archive. be my guest!
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PootieTang posted:Plagiarism! I see you're a gamblin' man. Fine. Somebody give me some gnarly flash rules so this isn't too embarrassing. ![]()
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hey i'd like to give this a go. 4 and 7
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SurreptitiousMuffin posted:I gotta ask Phobia, were your parents killed by a roving gang of copy editors behind the opera? Because your very first sentence had a full-stop right smack-bang in the middle of it. Some Guy TT aaaaalmost lost, but your total inability to check your own work for errors was the dogshit bullet that finished you off. were your parents killed by someone who submitted a brawl on time? ![]()
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Meinberg posted:In with 2 and 8. THE SEVEN WISE MEN OF BUNEYR National Origin: Pakistan The actual tale was really long, so you get the cliff-notes sidebar version + the first paragraph. Sorry not sorry. quote:There is heavy irony in the title “The Seven Wise Men of Buneyr,” because this is a classic numskull tale concerning a group of men who behave in an absurdly foolish fashion. The basic plot of the tale is provided by “Numskulls Unable to Count Their Own Number”, while other incidents compound the foolishness until the shepherd to whom they become indebted begs for mercy: LOU BEGAS MUSTACHE posted:4 and 1 RABBIT KILLS BIG MAN-EATER National Origin: Native American (Alabama) quote:Big Man-eater lived with his wife at a certain place and wanted to kill human beings. People heard of it and said, “They want to kill us,” and all were afraid. --- Broenheim posted:God damnit, I'm an idiot THE STORY OF MR. FOX National Origin: England quote:Once upon a time there was a young lady called Lady Mary, who had two brothers. One summer they all three went to a country seat of theirs, which they had not before visited. Among the other gentry in the neighborhood who came to see them was a Mr. Fox, a bachelor, with whom they, particularly the young lady, were much pleased. He used often to dine with them, and frequently invited Lady Mary to come and see his house. One day that her brothers were absent elsewhere, and she had nothing better to do, she determined to go thither, and accordingly set out unattended. When she arrived at the house and knocked at the door, no one answered. Entenzahn posted:its a 1 and a 3 chief National Origin: Aboriginal Australian quote:Mandra-mankana once came to the neighborhood of Pando. Two girls who saw him jeered at him, because his back was just the same as his front. He told their mother, who was his noa (that is, they were from a kin group with which marriage would be culturally acceptable) to send her two daughters to his camp the following night. Fanky Malloons fucked around with this message at 18:43 on Sep 16, 2014 |
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In with 3 and 9.
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in with 2 and 6
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Sitting Here posted:Using DMs for anything other than indicating the quality of someone's writing is petty and shameful, and not a practice I want to see come to the dome. Fine. You (and by association, me [and also Seadoof]) will simply have to continue to live with our shameful shame of posting (or not) those crits in an extremely non-timely manner.
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