August 2012
277 posts
So there's only one channel in this motel,
This morning while I was getting ready I was watching Sesame Street.
They were doing this bit where some clown was trying to wash his hands but kept washing his feet or his elbows and Elmo would go, “no mister noodle, your HANDS!” and all the tv kids would laugh.
Around the fourth or fifth time he couldn’t find his hands, I heard a grown man yell from somewhere else in the motel, “GODDAMMIT, MR. NOODLE.”
people over analyse the wrong things in animated movies
i mean i just saw someone claim that it’s weird how pascal got to rapunzel because he’s a tropical animal and doesn’t live where the story happens
so that bothers you
but the fact that rapunzel had 70 foot long glowing hair thanks to a sun flower that literally came from the sun is completely legitimate right
Or the fact that a man and a horse can tumble down a cliff and survive without a scratch, yet a woman falls basically two stories onto soft ground and dies.
The CyberBarony of San Sebastian - Now that I'm on vacation--CHALLENGE! →
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That’s right, The Fandom Bulwer-Lytton Challenge, but this time in a special MarvelEdition!
What’s Bulwer-Lytton you ask?
This festival is inspired by the Bulwer-Lytton Contest (http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/) an event that honors horribly written sentences, and encourages people to write them. It’s fun, and I’ve found that in the process of deliberately trying to be bad, I’m more aware of what it takes to be a GOOD writer.
A word about bad sentences:
In this challenge, bad sentences don’t mean misspellings or poor grammar per se. The sentences here are generally well-written on a technical basis, and have all the things we expect in a sentence, like subject/verb agreement and proper tenses.
What we mean by bad sentences are ones that made a terrible joke, or put forth an image that’s so funny and /or awful at the same time that you can’t help but laugh.
For example, (and I’m paraphrasing a sentence from the Bulwer-Lytton contest here):
Avengers
Natasha had the kind of body that made men want to have sex with her.
In reading that you snicker, because it’s so … “Duh!” in terms of summing up what’s clear about Black Widow. Yes, it’s obvious, but it’s also funny and bad because it’s so obvious.
Or, another example:
Avengers
Phil Coulson was a pit bull when it came to idiots; the quiet kind who looked all sweet and mellow, tongue hanging out, just standing there, waiting for you to pet them, but who was inwardly planning on several fingers and maybe a thumb too, for lunch.
See? That sort of twisted imagery is just the sort of thing that makes the perfect sentence for a festival like this.
There are other examples here:http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/ and over at CSI_BL. Feel free to look at some wonderfully hideous past offerings and see what we mean by ‘bad’ in all its glory!
For those of you willing to give it a try—-(Copied and modified from the original Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest rules.)
The rules for Fandom_BL Marvel Edition:
DEADLINE IS AUGUST 17TH
Each entry must consist of a single sentence but you may submit as many entries as you wish.
Sentences may be of any length BUT WE STRONGLY RECOMMEND THAT ENTRIES NOT GO BEYOND 50 OR 60 WORDS, and entries must be “original” (as it were) and previously unpublished.
Entries will be organized by Marvel Movie (Iron Man 1&2, Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Avengers) and should fit into the categories of:
General
Angst/Character Death
Smut/Romance
Bad Pun
Submit your entries in an Email to: Cincoflex@aol.com in the following format: Fandom name/category/sentence. Please include your online name, so we can give you the credit.
Think of ALL the things you could write about Loki, or Nick Fury, or Darcy or JARVIS! You folks out there are some of the most creative and enthusiastic writers in fandom, so come on, go for it—one sentence at the very least, yeah?
I want to have some fun. The majority of you out there have seen at least one Marvel movie, and it dawned on me that it might be a blast to offer up:
That’s right, The Fandom Bulwer-Lytton Challenge, but this time in a special MarvelEdition!
What’s Bulwer-Lytton you ask?
This festival is inspired by the Bulwer-Lytton Contest (http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/) an event that honors horribly written sentences, and encourages people to write them. It’s fun, and I’ve found that in the process of deliberately trying to be bad, I’m more aware of what it takes to be a GOOD writer.
A word about bad sentences:
In this challenge, bad sentences don’t mean misspellings or poor grammar per se. The sentences here are generally well-written on a technical basis, and have all the things we expect in a sentence, like subject/verb agreement and proper tenses.
What we mean by bad sentences are ones that made a terrible joke, or put forth an image that’s so funny and /or awful at the same time that you can’t help but laugh.
For example, (and I’m paraphrasing a sentence from the Bulwer-Lytton contest here):
Avengers
Natasha had the kind of body that made men want to have sex with her.
In reading that you snicker, because it’s so … “Duh!” in terms of summing up what’s clear about Black Widow. Yes, it’s obvious, but it’s also funny and bad because it’s so obvious.
Or, another example:
Avengers
Phil Coulson was a pit bull when it came to idiots; the quiet kind who looked all sweet and mellow, tongue hanging out, just standing there, waiting for you to pet them, but who was inwardly planning on several fingers and maybe a thumb too, for lunch.
See? That sort of twisted imagery is just the sort of thing that makes the perfect sentence for a festival like this.
There are other examples here:http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/ and over at CSI_BL. Feel free to look at some wonderfully hideous past offerings and see what we mean by ‘bad’ in all its glory!
For those of you willing to give it a try—-(Copied and modified from the original Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest rules.)
The rules for Fandom_BL Marvel Edition:
DEADLINE IS AUGUST 17TH
Each entry must consist of a single sentence but you may submit as many entries as you wish.
Sentences may be of any length BUT WE STRONGLY RECOMMEND THAT ENTRIES NOT GO BEYOND 50 OR 60 WORDS, and entries must be “original” (as it were) and previously unpublished.
Entries will be organized by Marvel Movie (Iron Man 1&2, Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Avengers) and should fit into the categories of:
General
Angst/Character Death
Smut/Romance
Bad Pun
Submit your entries in an Email to: Cincoflex@aol.com in the following format: Fandom name/category/sentence. Please include your online name, so we can give you the credit.
Think of ALL the things you could write about Loki, or Nick Fury, or Darcy or JARVIS! You folks out there are some of the most creative and enthusiastic writers in fandom, so come on, go for it—one sentence at the very least, yeah?
July 2012
100 posts
Tom Baker Returning For Doctor Who 50th Anniversary? | The Mary Sue →
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The universe may explode.
My OTP: Barack Obama and the Oval Office.
the only ship where the fans get to choose whether or not it becomes canon!
Exactly—and all you have to do is vote.
Diane Duane: "So You Want to Be a Wizard" New Millennium Edition: win a free copy! →
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This message will tell you how to win an ebook copy* of the New Millennium Edition of So You Want to Be a Wizard... and also let you see the new cover.
…Gradually.
Here’s how this will work.
You see the jigsaw puzzle above? Four times a day or so, a new version of the image with a piece…
I like how it’s “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” and “Thor: The Dark World” and then Iron Man is just like, fuck the bullshit, we’re just callin’ this thing “Iron Man 3”.
Because a secondary title would imply it’s also about something other than Iron Man. And we all know how well that would work out.
“Iron Man 3: Tony Stark”
Iron Man 3: The Tony Starkening.
Iron Man 3: He’s Really Nude This Time
