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JuniperCake posted:Welp, not gonna be able to submit for the loser brawl so I will take my well deserved loss. Good show Broenheim. If you are 'not able' due to genuine extenuating circumstances I am capable of giving extensions. Will you be able to submit in 3-4 days?
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Anomalous Blowout posted:If you are 'not able' due to genuine extenuating circumstances I am capable of giving extensions. Yeah I could. The past week has been rough but didn't want to be all excuses cause it's the dome and all. But if you're offering I'd take the extension so I could hopefully actually submit something half decent.
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 INTERPROMPTAn acquaintance of mine was in El Salvador for two weeks and now they have a stomach bug. They can't eat anything. So to make them feel better your prompt is " FOOD GONE WRONG! " 150 words.
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7 billion chefs --- swam through the cosmic silt and approached the egg his mother had lain untold era ago. It hadn't hatched, and why let a good thing go to waste? He drew close and sank his enormous jaws through its crust until something on its surface caught his eye. "Oh gross. Ants," he thought, and spat the blue-green planet into the darkest depths of space.
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Sep 29, 2014 18:32
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True Story (71 words) Back in high school I had a frozen Fettuccine Alfredo that was topped with a giant tomato slice. It looked like an odd culinary choice to me, but I was no chef. I popped the whole slice into my mouth at once only to discover that the tomato was actually ham. Ham is delicious, but not when you're expecting a tomato. I never did manage to shake the nickname.
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Fruit Gone Bad Strawberry and Blueberry sat on the couch at their mother’s behest. “Your father and I are concerned. Broccoli, the cleaning lady, was in the family room, and she found a bag of pot.” “She didn't smoke it, did she?” asked Strawberry “No, she didn't smoke it!” said mother Cucumber. Their father, Cantaloupe, smiled. “Now, we're not here to ‘come down on you.’ I mean, that's not what we're about, okay? I mean we're your parents! Who wants to hear this stuff from their parents, huh?” “Your father and I came up with a brilliant idea to give you kids some direction - a motivational speaker.” “Watermelon, we're ready for you!” said Cantaloupe. Watermelon bounded up the stairs and burst into the room with the energy of a protein-infused smoothie. “Alright, how's everybody? Good! Good! Now, let's get started by me giving you a little bit of a scenario of what my life is all about! First off, I am 35 years old, I am divorced, and I live in a van down by the river! Now, young Blueberry, what do you want to do with your life?” Blueberry stuttered. “I… actually, Watermelon... I kinda wanna be a writer.” Watermelon jumped in his face. “We-e-e-elll.. la-de-freakin'-da! We've got ourselves a writer here!.” He jumped across the room. “Hey, Dad, I can't see real good, is that Bill Picklespeare over there?” “Well, actually, Watermelon.. Cucumber and I have encouraged Blueberry in his writing.” “Dad, I wish you could just shut your big yapper! Now, I wonder, Blueberry, from what I've heard, you're using your paper, not for writing, but for rolling doobies! You're gonna be doing a lot of doobie-rolling when you're living in a van down by the river!”
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SurreptitiousMuffin posted:(Botellophobia- Fear of sausage. & opt. Carnophobia- Fear of meat.)  
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crabrock posted:[close to 300 words] Pear it down a little.
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Thunderdome Week 112 - Results Hi! Thanks for playing. I'm glad to announce that we had not *lifts carpet* a single *pushes Skwid under carpet with foot* failure this week. Unfortunately a lot of your stories were bad. This week's loser is satsui no thankyou. I don't have any words for this. The following people get Dishonorable Mentions: Jitzu_the_Monk for a really dumb and bad anti-vac murder fantasy (welcome to Thunderdome) God Over Djinn for repeatedly hitting me over the head with her thesaurus, despite knowing better Phobia for what the gently caress is going on in your story CommissarMega for what the gently caress is going on in your story Ironic Twist for what the gently caress is going on in your story Quidnose for a story about two people sitting, and then one of them gets coffee An Honorable Mention goes to Sitting Here for a straight story told well. This week's winner is SurreptitiousMuffin whose entry was an island of relief in a sea of bullshit. May God have mercy on your soul. You can do better Thunderdome. I believe in you. Good night. Entenzahn fucked around with this message at 20:34 on Sep 29, 2014 |
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With a lowercase 'a' (100 words) With a lowercase 'a' on the side effects list you get dull phlegmy hardness and each thing you taste tastes like garlic or copper You won't drum your hipbones or demonize chocolate or make youself vomit but the drugs make the easiest pleasures a problem gently caress dinner suggestions when every comestible sounds like it's rotting and much as you're starving you can't seem to want it And that's what you pay when you nourish pale faith in the virtues of medicine and weigh anorexia (lowercase a) and you don't find it wanting compared to the other things wrong with you.
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here are some very short crits in case yall wanna know how i felt (you probably don't, I'm an idiot): Stories are judged based on my new FEAR OF READING THUNDERDOME ENTRIES or Bibliockphobia. Jitzu_the_Musk Boring opening. I hate your characters (good and bad thing). What the gently caress ending. Needs more story and less telling. You have a fear of MARK TWAIN Quidnowayjose Nothing happens. The circular nature was interesting. Needed less words to tell the same thing. I was confused for most of this. You have a fear of WOOD POLISH Satsui no thankyou, god, please, no thank you *slams door* Literally nothing happened. I laughed twice, this is your only salvation. You have a fear of LARRY THE CABLE GUY FairFushia I love your idiot kid and hate your idiot ending. You have a fear of POKEMON CommisarMegalodon Your story reads like your protagonist: robotic. This felt all over the place and then fizzled. Introduction felt silly, didn't tie into theme well. You have a fear of THE WIRE SurpriseMuffintin Boring character but good story overall. Fascinating to read and possibly hunger inducing (I am hungering for better stories this week). You have a fear of TRIMMING FAT God over djinnininin This was fun to read and went exactly no where. Good words wasted. Tell a story. I was fighting for a not DM for you and would have put you at the high end of good because of my personal taste tho. You have a fear of CARL SATAN Seated there Straightforward story that pulls zero punches, unfortunately you don't hit like Mike Tyson. Good use of prompt, solid. Needs less cliche. You have a fear of SUNNY DELIGHT Twisted Syster transistor Solid story, I was confused as to how your robot person worked, physically, but uh, otherwise well told. Average story that almost made the HM cut. You have a fear of WIKIPEDIA.ORG Fumblemouse I had fun reading your story and while I would have liked to know how this person ended in an infinite loop, it was alright. Could tone down a little of the excess prose. You have a fear of A COPY OF INDIANA JONES STUCK ON REPEAT Some Guy TT Second person gimmick actually pulled off successfully. Boring and cliche otherwise. I did not enjoy reading about your characters. You have a fear of FRATERNITIES My Sledgehammer Your main character is a redditor and chess metaphors. Cliche as poo poo but not poorly written enough to justify a DM. You have a fear of JOCKS Crackrob This was a well told story I didn't hate, and was funny, also slightly charming. Your opening was a little on the gross side but you know whatever. You have a fear of GREASY FACES frizzled matriarch Competent and boring. I am offended by how bland this is. One thing happened and your protagonist was useless. You have a fear of WHITE CASTLE Anonymous blowhole Stuck close to the theme, and you know what they say about getting too close to the fire! Ha ha ha! You have a fear of SALSA DANCING Phobia (no joke needed) Your character is Mitt Romney and I think I'm supposed to envy him, maybe not. Mediocre prose. If he took the easy way in life, why is he so successful? Perhaps a better story about robots than OMAR. You have a fear of TRUST FUNDS Tyrannosaucy Decent story in a bad week. Unfortunately your tone went from Fun Idiot Adventure to Jesus That's Grim and it didn't transition well at all. Almost HM. You have a fear of KEANU REAVES A Not Very Ironic Or Interesting Twist What the gently caress just happened. This was like a decent idea for a creepy horror story but that was very jarring and I don't know what happened at the end. You have a fear of SELF REFLECTION sebmojojojo You said nothing very sweetly. Kind of infodumpy and really nothing happened. I liked your characters though. You have a fear of GREGOR CLEGANE Baux it's aight This was cool until the ending, then what in the christ just happened. That made no sense. Goddamn. This started off alright though. Needs a directors cut. You have a fear of THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT
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JuniperCake posted:Yeah I could. The past week has been rough but didn't want to be all excuses cause it's the dome and all. But if you're offering I'd take the extension so I could hopefully actually submit something half decent. Deadline extended, have your piece in by midnight PST on Thursday the 2nd. I'm offering it because the point of loserbrawls is to try to improve as writers, so I'd rather not see someone win by default.
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Quidnose posted:what is a chunderhead someone whose head is throwup like muffin
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THUNDERDOME CXIII - OK YOU ASKED FOR IT SUCKERS  Science Fiction and Fantasy have this weird position they sit in, where they have the ability to explore big themes in powerful ways by changing the lens through which we look at them, and yet everybody writing them is doing garbage where a man in a tophat stabs another man and then a beautiful quirky girl arrives and they have the perfect zeppelin sex party the author never had. So, get your steam-powered condoms ready because your prompt is: Write a story in the genre of science fiction or fantasy. However, when you sign up you will be given a virtue, which could be a single world or could be a phrase, which your story has to explore somehow. I don't want to see a man with a big axe killing another man with a big axe in a dramatic way: I want to see some goddam profound thematic resonance you dogs. If you want an extra-difficult virtue, let me know but don't complain that it's too hard later. Finally, we're going to have a shifting word count. The base word count is 1250, but, there will be word bonuses or penalties depending on how late you are. WORD BONUSES Between now and signup deadline: +750 words Saturday UTC: +0 words Sunday UTC: -250 words Signsups: Friday October 3rd, 11:59pm UTC Submission Deadline: Sunday October 5th, 11:59pm UTC JUDGES: SUSPICIOUSSTUFFING SHITTINGWHERE? INSCHIDEYOURHOME STARONAUTS: Jitzu_the_Monk: being humble Quidnose: generousity Anomalous Blowout: the need to always know more Djeser: hope LOU BEGAS MOUSTACHE: strength through adversity Fumblemouse: you will find Him in the smallest places God Over Djinn: the definition of courage is being the only one who knows you're afraid Anathema Device: persistence.  Tyrannosaurus: greed that consumes all December Octopodes: perspicacity Malloreon: trust Bauxite: decisiveness Your Sledgehammer: strength Phobia: attention to detail Systran:finding solace in one's weakness Fuschia Tude: an appreciation of beauty Benny the Snake: never-say-die Grizzled Patriarch: wisdom earned hard Docbeard: using fear to one's advantage Some Guy TT: hypocrisy Jagermonster: a jovial and easygoing affect Cache Cab: critical thinking, ALSO your story must involve a disease that was thought to be wiped out, but has now returned due to idiocy. satsui no thankyou: defending the weak curlingiron: inability to admit mistakes Entenzahn: body-shaming theblunderbuss:bringing out the best in others Meeple: love of nature Pootie Tang: absolute faith Helsing: a startling lack of foresight Noah: That which is Below corresponds to that which is Above, and that which is Above corresponds to that which is Below, to accomplish the miracle of the One Thing. Crabrock: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-M4o-5IYwo Paladinus: Though you may never forget, you must always forgive. Obliterati: magnificence leekster: you are unable to see life as anything but a game Zekky: camaraderie ZeBourgeoisie:all things in moderation HammerBro: wherein somewhere He sleeps, His bones grow cold with the passing of time, and an empty hearth Walamor: howling from street corners, He is as the fisher king as He too grows strong so does His dominion Barracuda Bang!: a green thumb starr:rigidity kurona_bright: compassion Kaishai: resistance magnificent7: a studious mind open to new possibilities. SurreptitiousMuffin fucked around with this message at 23:26 on Oct 5, 2014 |
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Sep 30, 2014 00:15
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Hit me with a virtue and I'm in!
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In! Gimmie dat virtue~
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To infinity and beyond.
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I have no longer misdemeaned so I'm in.
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Jitzu_the_Monk posted:Hit me with a virtue and I'm in! Quidnose posted:In! Gimmie dat virtue~ Anomalous Blowout posted:To infinity and beyond. Djeser posted:I have no longer misdemeaned so I'm in. Strength through adversity.
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I hath lost an eighth. Please hit me with an EXTRA CRISPY virtue to fatten me up.
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Fumblemouse posted:I hath lost an eighth. Please hit me with an EXTRA CRISPY virtue to fatten me up.
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Sep 30, 2014 00:48
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Persistence. I'm going AFK for the next 6 hours, then I'll be back with an armful of virtues for the rest of you.
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Sweet, a prompt that tells me to do the same thing I'm always demanding others do in my reviews. I'm in.
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Sep 30, 2014 01:08
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I have been absent from the Dome for too long. Or not long enough. One of those. I'm in.
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Sep 30, 2014 01:14
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In.
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Let's rock
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I'm in.
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Sep 30, 2014 02:18
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I'd like to think I'm a virtuous man- count me in.
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Oh man this doesn't look good for me. In, though. In.
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I'm definitely in. I'll take on all of you clowns.
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