August 14, 2020, 02:42:44 AM

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Please vote

Carnonos - Nora
6 (30%)
no title - Matthew
3 (15%)
A Flower in the Chaos - Jake Baelish
1 (5%)
The Circle - Cell18
1 (5%)
GOOD, CLEAN DIRT - Jmack
5 (25%)
Cold Caller - Alex Hormann
3 (15%)
End of Kudras - Slaykomimi
1 (5%)

Total Members Voted: 11

Voting closed: July 01, 2019, 02:05:23 PM

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Re: [May 2019] - EARTH - Voting Thread
« Reply #15 on: July 01, 2019, 11:38:55 PM »
Congratulations, @Nora! I loved the world and the magic, plus the sense of specificity you brought. @Alex Hormann, the last line was so very fun. The whole thing was so very wrong it was right. You both had my votes.

@Slaykomimi, I was this close to giving you the nod.
@Matthew, you Story was really strong, too. Hard time choosing!
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Re: [May 2019] - EARTH - Voting Thread
« Reply #16 on: July 02, 2019, 05:06:04 AM »
Congrats Nora!

My votes went to Jmack and Alex. Particularly loved Alex's as it reminded me of some of the weird early Stephen King shorts I read in Night Shift  :)
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Re: [May 2019] - EARTH - Voting Thread
« Reply #17 on: July 02, 2019, 12:37:15 PM »
Wooh, thanks a lot everyone! I've been so busy this month I had forgotten about this!

Since I have won both Water and Earth, I proudly announce myself to be the official Mudcake writter!

I wanted to expand this story a lot more, cover what Mothers and initiate daughters are and all, and in the end I was too pressed for space, but I really enjoyed writing this, so i'm glad to see it was well liked!

It was a tough month for decisions. In the end my votes went to @Matthew and @Alex Hormann I liked the earth-bender ideas of one, and the creepiness of the other.
Jmack's story was very well written, but too uniformly grim for me this month, which is fucking rich coming from me, I KNOW.  ;D
But good uses of the elements all around. We should keep at it... we've done the basic ones but we could go with lightning/electricity and gravity and vacuum etc!
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Re: [May 2019] - EARTH - Voting Thread
« Reply #18 on: July 02, 2019, 12:56:06 PM »
Quote from: Nora on July 02, 2019, 12:37:15 PM
Since I have won both Water and Earth, I proudly announce myself to be the official Mudcake writter!
;D ;D
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Re: [May 2019] - EARTH - Voting Thread
« Reply #19 on: July 02, 2019, 01:07:23 PM »
Why can't I like these posts? ::)
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Re: [May 2019] - EARTH - Voting Thread
« Reply #20 on: July 02, 2019, 02:07:46 PM »
This is a separate section that needs an admin to activate the Likes, and our admins are currently absent, so we go without ;D
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Re: [May 2019] - EARTH - Voting Thread
« Reply #21 on: July 02, 2019, 08:16:47 PM »
Quote from: ScarletBea on July 02, 2019, 02:07:46 PM
This is a separate section that needs an admin to activate the Likes, and our admins are currently permanently absent, so we go without ;D
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Re: [May 2019] - EARTH - Voting Thread
« Reply #22 on: July 02, 2019, 09:48:36 PM »
I just wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt ;D
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Re: [May 2019] - EARTH - Voting Thread
« Reply #23 on: July 03, 2019, 01:25:17 AM »
Who are the admins here?
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Re: [May 2019] - EARTH - Voting Thread
« Reply #24 on: July 03, 2019, 08:15:49 AM »
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Re: [May 2019] - EARTH - Voting Thread
« Reply #25 on: July 03, 2019, 08:22:26 AM »
Quote from: ScarletBea on July 03, 2019, 08:15:49 AM
@Overlord and @Arry :)

Is @Autumn2May  an admin?

There should be a ritual where we can turn Elfy into an admin. Darewood has the book of rituals 😀
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Re: [May 2019] - EARTH - Voting Thread
« Reply #26 on: July 03, 2019, 08:29:51 AM »
Oh yes, she might be too.
I always get confused between admins and mods...
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Re: [May 2019] - EARTH - Voting Thread
« Reply #27 on: July 05, 2019, 01:03:57 AM »
My votes went to @JMack and @Nora. Really liked most of what I read though, some tough competition here.

I'd say both were tied in my eyes, Nora had some great wordsmithing and JMack is simply brutal...

I'm genuinely surprised I managed 3 votes myself. Gives me the incentive to finish the novella I continued on from the entry.
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Re: [May 2019] - EARTH - Voting Thread
« Reply #28 on: July 06, 2019, 09:41:50 PM »
Finish this story Matthew, but don't miss this month either!! I really liked your style, I'm curious to see more from you.

Now how do you guys feel about a critique thread for this month?
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Re: [May 2019] - EARTH - Voting Thread
« Reply #29 on: July 06, 2019, 10:07:39 PM »
Quote from: Nora on July 06, 2019, 09:41:50 PM
Finish this story Matthew, but don't miss this month either!! I really liked your style, I'm curious to see more from you.

Now how do you guys feel about a critique thread for this month?

I’m for it! I was kind of thinking of doing a D_Bates and putting in a mini-crit for each story. Would you want to do that too?
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