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SurreptitiousMuffin posted:If I ever win, I promise to write all my judge commentaries in blank verse (or haiku, if appropriate). Huh. SO LET IT BE WRITTEN SO LET IT BE DONE
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About to watch Mad Max again. Just thought all of you guys would like to know. Also, yeah I kinda rushed it. I had a hard time even coming up with a base idea. All the other prompts I was like, oh hell yeah! I can totally write something for this! They were just all long past. What I wrote for this prompt was just spur of the moment, Oh poo poo I have no idea what to write let me just start writing.
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Sep 17, 2012 05:52
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I've contacted the two other judges about the prompt and have the post written up and ready to post. If they don't reply in the next 15 minutes, I assume they consented. sebmojo posted:Huh.
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Sep 17, 2012 05:56
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I have only just watched Mad Max II and III the first time ever in my life yesterday. Suddenly everything is making sense.
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Sep 17, 2012 06:01
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hay hay Sebmojo. Hay Sebmojo. Sebmojo. I've got something for you.  Thunderdome VII: The goons who lose will pay the highest price. I asked last week if anyone knew the cantata I was riffing off and noone answered. Not one of you recognised Carmina Burana, one of the best-known classical (Late Romantic/German Expressionist, specifically) pieces of all time. Fortuna Imperiatrix Mundi, bitches. Well Thunderdome, it's time to complete your educations and dredge up the forgotten lore because we're getting motherfucking classical up in this piece. Remember in high school when your English teacher said you were going to learn "Iambic Pentameter" tomorrow so you decided to stay home and jack off to your dad's old playboy collection? Me neither. Point being, your challenge this week is: Write a piece of blank verse poetry about a journey. What is blank verse? This is: John Motherfucking Milton posted:O Hell! what doe mine eyes with grief behold, Well, that's a lie. If the stress on the first beat, it's called a trochee. If it's on both, it's a spondee and if it's on neither, it's pyrrhic. These are called substitutions and you are allowed no more than two per line. Get that? It's iambic pentameter, so a majority of the line must be made up of iambs. A good guide can be found here. And of course: Stuporstar posted:Executive Order: Next week your main character must wear a silly hat, toupee, or full wig, regardless of context or what the judges come up with for a prompt. I won't be judging because I'll be on vacation, but that doesn't matter. I want to see ridiculous headgear. NO FEDORAS. Because it's poetry and poetry doesn't necessarily have a main character, I'm switching this up to the following: Your poem must contain reference to a silly hat, toupee or full wig. Considering the prompt, this headgear is allowed to be metaphorical but it must be silly. Bonus points to anyone who can make Stuporstar laugh. Judges: Myself, Fanky Malloons and Bad Seafood. Word Count: 750. Poetry's strength is being able to say a lot while writing very little, so consider that an upper limit, not a goal. Deadlines: Entry before Midnight, September 19th and completed work posted by Midnight, September 21st (GMT). In addition, each judge will have two hidden hats: a surprise bonus hat and a hidden dog-poo poo bullet hat. If you write about the former, you get bonus points. If you write about the latter, you lose points. We won't be telling each other our hats, so it's entirely possible to get penalized and rewarded with the same hat. Good luck. You'll need it. p.s. while you're in a poetic state of mind, check out the Daily Poetry Thread, filled with sexy people doing awesome things. --- Entrants: sebmojo finds a way to force sci-fi into loving everything. Wrageowrapper loves the sea almost as much as me. Chairchucker wrote something actually pretty funny this week holy crap guys. Bear Sleuth has reached CHIM. Sitting Here is a poet ... with a shotgun. Jon Joe is now on the no-fly list. [LATE ENTRANT  . Saved only by the grace of Fanky.]toanoradian is ballsier than he is wise. Noah knows the ancient fish slapping art. Black Griffon writes about anime or something? I don't know. Jonked shows up in the killfeed as [lucky bastard]. Dr. Kloctopussy has yet to hear my true thu'um. Erik Shawn-Bohner stalks New Orleans with a knife. Martello turned up drunk on the New Vegas turnpike. budgeinspector has the bipartisan party plan. The Dickhead List, who came late but fought anyway: Bassetking is a drunk hipster on Wednesday afternoon. Kangaroojunk, why don't you take a seat over there? The following losers submitted nothing: Jimson - committed honourable seppuku. Zack_Gochuck Benagain Y Kant Ozma Post
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Sep 17, 2012 06:16
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SurreptitiousMuffin posted:hay hay Sebmojo. Hay Sebmojo. Sebmojo. I've got something for you. Oh, yes. This is going to be great.
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Sep 17, 2012 06:21
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This one is gonna be a hard one, I think I might want to torture myself though so count me in.
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Sep 17, 2012 06:22
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Oh gently caress. I've got to admit, actually trying to write Iambic Pentameter feels me with a deep and abiding sense of dread, and seeing that prompt really made me consider bowing out. But I'm in this to push my own limits, so gently caress it. I'm in.
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Sep 17, 2012 06:24
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breaking kayfabe: Blank Verse is actually pretty easy to write in. Try to wrap your head around the idea of an iamb and the rest will fall into place. There's a reason half of English poetic canon is written in BV. If it's too difficult for you sunshine, try a loving sestina. RX was thinking about it, I swear to God. Sestinas are to poets as the aristocrats is to comedians: we bring it out while we're drunk as poo poo to show everyone else at the party how terrible a person we are. It's poetic waterboarding.
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Sep 17, 2012 06:29
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I am in on this. Though I am a little surprised that we are not required to record our poems and post that rather than just post the words. Isn't poetry suppose to be spoken not read.
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Sep 17, 2012 06:44
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SurreptitiousMuffin posted:breaking kayfabe
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Sep 17, 2012 06:47
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Wrageowrapper posted:Though I am a little surprised that we are not required to record our poems and post that rather than just post the words. Isn't poetry suppose to be spoken not read. My apartment isn't soundproof, so if the neighbors or Jehovah's Witness knock and complain about it, consider your entry disqualified.
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Sep 17, 2012 06:54
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When I saw that SurreptitiousMuffin was one of the judges, I instantly think "Oh, poo poo, poetry is going to be in this." So I went ahead and borrowed Stephen Fry's The Ode Less Travelled and was reading it when I saw the prompt posted. For once I am not surprised. Doesn't change the fact that for me poetry is another language entirely though. This is going to be a tough week. SurreptitiousMuffin posted:I asked last week if anyone knew the cantata I was riffing off and noone answered. quote:if it's on neither, it's phyric. I think there are misspellings here.
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Sep 17, 2012 07:11
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Wrageowrapper posted:I am in on this. e: noone is a word. Prescriptivists must die.  i did get pyrrhic wrong though yeah
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Sep 17, 2012 07:11
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Well, poo poo -- half the reason I've been lax about Thunderdome for the past couple weeks has been the amount of homework and reviewing I've been doing for one poetry class in preparation for another that starts in ten days. Guess I'm in.
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Sep 17, 2012 07:26
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Oh, why not. In.
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Sep 17, 2012 07:52
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Because I'm a huge nerd, both my bonus hat and penalty hat have been chosen from this list. That page has rather a large selection of hats, many of which are exceptionally silly. Use it as you see fit. e: while Paradise Lost is considered the archetypical example of blank verse in Western canon and the example I gave is a great piece of poetry, I've just realised it plays with the rules a lot and might not be a great example for y'all. Here's something a bit neater, if it helps. Twelfth Night 1:1. Will "the ill" Shakespeare posted:If music be the food of love, play on;
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Sep 17, 2012 08:14
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Stuporstar posted:
I'm a maverick! A loose cannon! I space my paragraphs however I want! I bow to no man! Oh well, at least my disqualification somehow didn't make me the loser. I wonder what non-story related transgression I can get penalised for this week! SurreptitiousMuffin posted:
I am going to lose all my points this week, I can feel it. I'm in by the way, but drat, poetry?
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Sep 17, 2012 08:46
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I am so in. Believe.Wrageowrapper posted:I am in on this. My handsome, dashing voice will roam through the dome.
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Sep 17, 2012 09:15
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Well dang I just found this topic and was all excited to write some fiction and now you're saying we've got to write poetry? Guess it's time to learn how to write a poem. So put me in coach, I'll win one for the team! (I haven't seen Bad News Bears, the Thunderdome is the name of the little league, right?)
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Sep 17, 2012 09:24
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Black Griffon posted:My handsome, dashing voice will roam I'm not sure if that was intentional or not.
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Sep 17, 2012 09:36
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At first I wasn't sure if I could manage Iambic Pentameter but then I remembered the dude rapping Shakespeare in 10 Things I Hate About You and I'm pretty sure I'm all over it now. I just have to listen to some rap throughout the week and I'll be set.
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Sep 17, 2012 11:24
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Jonked posted:Oh, I know it's not that bad. I got my head around it easily enough in that Intro to Poetry class half a decade ago. It's just actually trying to write using rules and shits, man. I'm a rule breaker, I don't follow what The Authority tells me to do. On that note, I may allow some creative cheating to slide. But you better cheat spectacularly, or I'll
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Sep 17, 2012 12:22
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The first to enter the Thunderdome this week! The first to take a bold step! The first to throw down the gauntlet! The first to die! His Papal Majesty The pope sat, regal, in his Popemobile, He clutched his Popestaff, pulled his Popehat on. His Popechauffeur began to pull away, They drove out now to join the Popeparade. The pope’s employees knew their time was now; They must work hard, such was the pope’s decree. They scurried forth between the Popetrees tall, The Popewall gave them shade as they all toiled. Out through the gate now came the Popemobile, Down from Pope Road, turning onto Pope Lane. Pope Avenue was next, ‘round the Popepond, To where all the pope’s people stood and waved. They slowed down as they passed through the Popecrowd, His Popehand strong, he gave them a Popewave. A Popecheer went up as they went on through, Pope pope hurray, and long may he Popereign. Too soon the Popeparade drew to a close, The Popemobile rolled back from whence it came. The Pope climbed from his Popeseat, all Poped out, Into Popebed, where Popesleep would await.
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Sep 17, 2012 12:32
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I am totally tone deaf and I am totally in.
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Sep 17, 2012 13:44
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Also there was one terrible pun I missed, but I checked and someone had me covered:  Obviously, the sung version of my poem would feature in this movie.
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Sep 17, 2012 14:26
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Chairchucker posted:His Popehand strong But also -1 because seriously.
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Sep 17, 2012 14:38
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Chairchucker posted:
I'm not sure anyone can top this.
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Sep 17, 2012 15:21
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I'm in, because that pope hat thing is so annoyingly good that I must attempt to best it despite the near-certainty that I won't. Such is the glory and despair of Thunderdome.
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Sep 17, 2012 15:46
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In for atrocious poetry time.
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Sep 17, 2012 19:25
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Dr. Kloctopussy posted:In for FTFY
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Sep 17, 2012 19:30
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How do you do a poetry? Thanks in advance.
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Sep 17, 2012 19:56
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SurreptitiousMuffin posted:Oh man, this is so close to a great line of IP. Cut 'through' and it works. It wasn't, but I guess I just have a natural talent from it  Also: Space Opera poem, most def.
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Sep 17, 2012 20:06
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I'm in, I don't know what I'd do every week if I weren't panicking about an internet forums fiction submission.
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Sep 17, 2012 21:29
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Chairchucker posted:The first to enter the Thunderdome this week! The first to take a bold step! The first to throw down the gauntlet! More, more! I tire of prattle, more blood in the water!
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Sep 17, 2012 21:36
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Since SurreptitiousMuffin and Bad Seafood both claim to be in 'different' 'timezones,' I will henceforth be keeping order in here whilst they are sleeping or whatever it is they do in their moon countries. The judges have eyes on you AT ALL TIMES, BITCHES.
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Sep 17, 2012 22:42
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sebmojo posted:Stuporstar did you just... disqualify the judges? Metal as gently caress. That's right. No more slacking off for the judges. The bread and circuses must continue to sate the unruly rabble. Chairchucker posted:The first to enter the Thunderdome this week! The first to take a bold step! The first to throw down the gauntlet!  YAY! I like where this is going already.
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Sep 17, 2012 23:11
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Yes, cheer and flap your jowls in admiration. Just wait until she starts charging taxes.
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Sep 17, 2012 23:27
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Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach? I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach. I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me. I have seen them riding seaward on the waves Combing the white hair of the waves blown back When the wind blows the water white and black. We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us, and we drown. ""
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This is clearly a pro-pope audience. Perhaps I should stick to pope fiction from now on.
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