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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #1140 on: January 09, 2023, 06:29:21 PM »
How about ingenuity?
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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #1141 on: January 10, 2023, 01:12:43 AM »
Ingenuity it is. Thanks Dmeck.
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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #1142 on: January 10, 2023, 01:50:17 AM »
I feel like ingenuity from this lot could end really, really badly.  O:-)

For the prompt - https://archiveofourown.org/works/43841781/chapters/111079276  Doesn't feature any of the cast, set in the first decade after the outbreak.
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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #1143 on: January 10, 2023, 08:07:14 AM »
I feel like ingenuity from this lot could end really, really badly.  O:-)

For the prompt - https://archiveofourown.org/works/43841781/chapters/111079276  Doesn't feature any of the cast, set in the first decade after the outbreak.

Great story but
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EWWWW
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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #1144 on: January 10, 2023, 08:36:23 AM »
I feel like ingenuity from this lot could end really, really badly.  O:-)


- Onni, look here, I’ve been contemplating my troll explosive galdrastafur and it occurs to me that minor tweaks…
- Out of the house! Now!
- What? Why? I just…
- Walk out of the door and keep going until you are outside the village!



Something like this maybe?
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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #1145 on: January 10, 2023, 09:05:12 AM »
- Onni, look here, I’ve been contemplating my troll explosive galdrastafur and it occurs to me that minor tweaks…
- Out of the house! Now!
- What? Why? I just…
- Walk out of the door and keep going until you are outside the village!



Something like this maybe?

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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #1146 on: January 10, 2023, 01:30:18 PM »

Great story but
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Oh gosh I know.

- Onni, look here, I’ve been contemplating my troll explosive galdrastafur and it occurs to me that minor tweaks…
- Out of the house! Now!
- What? Why? I just…
- Walk out of the door and keep going until you are outside the village!



Something like this maybe?

Yep. Exactly that.

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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #1147 on: January 12, 2023, 07:24:03 AM »
I feel like ingenuity from this lot could end really, really badly.  O:-)

For the prompt - https://archiveofourown.org/works/43841781/chapters/111079276  Doesn't feature any of the cast, set in the first decade after the outbreak.
Nice story! And tasty! ;) Really loved the last note. Is PhantomGrimalkin your name on AO3, dreki?

- Onni, look here, I’ve been contemplating my troll explosive galdrastafur and it occurs to me that minor tweaks…
- Out of the house! Now!
- What? Why? I just…
- Walk out of the door and keep going until you are outside the village!
And once again you show how just a few lines can make a story! :)

I have no such talent, as anyone who read my stories know... I've tried to do a short one for "Ingenuity", and it ended with almost 2700 words... :D

So here it is, a story the started by talking about "ingenuity" and somehow ended up as something else... I hope you enjoy it, or forgive me if you don't...

Reunion
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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #1148 on: January 12, 2023, 07:54:47 AM »
So, in the other thread https://ssssforum.com/index.php?topic=35.14070 JoB says “good luck with that” and Grey immediately goes ”hold my beer”. Well done, my friends!
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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #1149 on: January 12, 2023, 08:19:36 AM »
So, in the other thread https://ssssforum.com/index.php?topic=35.14070 JoB says “good luck with that” and Grey immediately goes ”hold my beer”. Well done, my friends!
Can't help, it's stronger than me!  ;D

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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #1150 on: January 12, 2023, 11:06:10 AM »
JoB says “good luck with that” and Grey immediately goes ”hold my beer”
"Encouraging" people with cattle prods is soooo yesteryear ... >:D
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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #1151 on: January 12, 2023, 11:08:01 AM »
Well, you have to admit Grey is kinda easy, isn’t he? At least to ge started, get the him to finish is another thing  :D
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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #1152 on: January 12, 2023, 11:23:25 AM »
Nice story! And tasty! ;) Really loved the last note. Is PhantomGrimalkin your name on AO3, dreki?

So delicious.  And yes- PhantomGrimalkin is me. :)  also technically on fanfiction.net if you feel like looking at decade old stuff that has nothing whatsoever to do with SSSS.


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And once again you show how just a few lines can make a story! :)

I have no such talent, as anyone who read my stories know... I've tried to do a short one for "Ingenuity", and it ended with almost 2700 words... :D

So here it is, a story the started by talking about "ingenuity" and somehow ended up as something else... I hope you enjoy it, or forgive me if you don't...

Reunion


I tried to write a fairly short mature fic and now I'm 7 chapters into what has turned into an adv 3. So. I get that.

Oof very heavy.  Love the idea of an Antarctic settlement established by the scientists stationed there. 

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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #1153 on: January 12, 2023, 02:00:38 PM »
I had a splash of inspiration for 'bureaucracy', so a bit late but I hope it's enjoyd none-the-less:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/43841781/chapters/111211505

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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #1154 on: January 12, 2023, 02:12:38 PM »
"Encouraging" people with cattle prods is soooo yesteryear ... >:D
Lucky me! :D
Well, you have to admit Grey is kinda easy, isn’t he? At least to ge started, get the him to finish is another thing  :D
Hey I'm not... OK, OK, that's true! Both parts... :)
Oof very heavy. 
Heavy indeed. And my original intention was to make it heavier, but I balked at writing the trully terrifying parts... I found myself uncomfortable with the prospect of pushing my dear readers into a nightmarish scenario. :(  Maybe I'll risk writing on that path one of these days, but right now the real world already gives us enough bleakness everyday.

Actually I was casually rereading a few short stories from Gaiman's collection "Trigger Warning" and they are part of the inspiration to write this one. And, my friends, those stories are the really heavy ones.
Love the idea of an Antarctic settlement established by the scientists stationed there. 
Me too! If I haven't created such a large "Stories to Be Finished" folder (see Jitter's comment above) I'd be tempted to dive deeper into this idea. There are so many interesting angles and challenges, and I even had done some research to familiarize myself with the situation before writing this story...
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