YoinkTober 2023 - Tenth Anniversary Edition

[wavewright62]

  The classic prompts can always be interpreted in more than one way, and I am delighted with this one (nice perspective)!

I was going to do something with the failed runes that Lalli tried out on the ghosts, including the stick figure, but ... welp. 

[Jitter]

I love Mikkel the spell-seller! Another one of his great plans! (I have something in the making on this one as well as a couple of others).

While interpretation pf prompts is open, 10 wings, 100 wings, 1000 wings is literally a list of powers of magnitude of wings The perspective is really good!

[dmeck7755]

Mikkel..Always up to something..

Mirasol, love the art!!

The seagulls remind me of the time I was at the shore in Florida.  There were signs all over the place stating the seagulls were very aggressive from humans feeding them.  They pretty much said don't and keep your food protected.  Many of the food places that had outside dining were encased in screens.

I bought something and was being careful eating it (Keeping my arm over my mouth and the food close to me.  )  This bird managed to grab it out of my hand and flew off.  The bird had to do a barrel roll maneuver to get at the food, and he did it without me feeling it.

The bird then was on a telephone pole finishing my lunch and flapping its wings laughing at me..

[Jitter]

Oh what a journey
A team full of idiots
How will they survive

Into the silence
With an old tank and some guns
They are so dead meat

Abandoned places
Testament to history
The end of mankind

So called medicin
It was never any cure
They just left us here

Darkness of the night
A monster finds its way in
We lost one of them

Here come the voices
Darkness imprisoning me
I choose cold embrace

When you stay I stay
I will not abandon you
Together we stand

Creatures full of wrath
Are you not tired? I am
Come to salvation

I have lost my way
Your heart is my escape pod
Shield me from the dark

Hello don’t go food
Food food food food food food food
Food getting away!

[wavewright62]

Gosh, are we up to the haiku already??!!  So far behind...

I see what you did there, Jitter - I can just see you counting 'how many Food did I put in?' on your screen.

BUT more importantly, the stanzas for the attack and its effects are lovely.  You managed to pack in so much of Adv. 1 here, evocatively. 



(Hmm, 'evocatively' has 5 syllables, maybe I can use that? eventually?)

[Jitter]

I totally counted them by pointing with my finger. Twice.

I always count the syllables with my fingers btw. And when I write some, I find myself counting constantly

I’m quite happy with how the whole turned out. I first had a few stray ones and a lack of inspiration but once I realized I can do it like that it was quite quick. I had of course planned to prepare them over time to have Proper Haikus, and then didn’t.

Here are a couple of actual Haikus for good measure:

A blizzard howling
Soft snow over trees and streets
Of a dead city

Shores of decaying homes
Headstones of Hotakainens
Sunshine on the lake

[dmeck7755]

Jitter,
Bravo very well done and very well written!

[wavewright62]

Real honest-to-gosh haiku are so lovely, and those two are no exception.  I appreciate them so - their artistry, the stillness I always feel even in the ones describing tempests.

That said, here are my 10 Haiku, serving double-duty for the 10 Characters prompt.  And no, not one of these is the real deal, just doggerel with some requisite number of syllables.

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Väinö Väänänen**
Power of a thousand wings
(and many umlauts)

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Kisu, Pussekatt,
soft and yet so valiant,
Kisa, Missekat

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Sigrun's up for it
hack slash stab punch, slice jab crunch
Most Best Vacation!

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Long suff'ring Mikkel
sighs that he'll never not be
a babysitter.

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Surma's name means Death
bloody claws, so fearsome, but
less in reality

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O Captain Ása!
What did you do that was so
worthy of blackmail?!

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Emil Västerström
So prideful, but no longer
demands his breakfast cake

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Kaino, left behind
We saw where the boat ended,
where did they leave you?

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Reynir's useful runes
helped shield, but - should have had some
under the Cat-Tank

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Onni's home crying
yet true grief turned to anger
and private resolve

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**Väinö may be on the cusp of having 3 syllables when pronounced properly, but for our purposes we'll call it two.

Edit: the prompt is Top 10 SSSS Characters, but we already have those polls, so I just choose 10 characters.  I certainly love Signe lots better than Surma!

[Jitter]

Väinö is definitely two syllable in Finnish, the äi is a diphthong that is pronounced as a long vowel that just happens to change on the way.

N Finnish all diphthongs are long vowels but I have just learned that in some languages including Northern Sami there are also short diphthongs. As of right now, I have no idea how such a thing would be possible to say.

Great Haikus Wave! Excellent word crafting!

As for rule-abiding Haikus, the feeling of stillness is a great way to put into words what I try to achieve! Thank you!

[wavewright62]

Yeah, I have one of those dipthongs in my own Estonian RL name, and it's almost 3 syllables, but not quite.  And, thank you!

[Jitter]

I’m going to do top 10 side characters because team would fill almost all spots. Not in an order of preference.

Ensi Hotakainen - the first and the mightiest and yet she has fallen too

Berit Eide - if it hadn’t been for her, would Dalsnes have survived? Doubtful, with the low effort hippies they were until she drove some discipline into them! Did you know she fought the Nazis?

Signe Sørensen - her no nonsense attitude was instrumental to the later success of the Madsen farm

Gunnar of Dalsnes - we never learned much about him in canon, but in my mind he’s one of those stalwarts who are the backbone of any survivor communication

Stig Västerström - the glimpses we get of him paint a picture of a thoughtful and caring man

Tapsa the Cat Man - he was the first to fall

Väinö Väänänen - the power of a thousand wings!

Jukka and Juha Hotakainen - two brothers and fathers who carried Ensi’s legacy to their sons. The caring vibe from their short appearance balances Ensi’s sterness.

Bjarni Arnason - Reynir’s partner in crime! (What crime? Certainly Reynir did no crimes? Maybe Bjarni did and put the blame on Reynir?)

Agnes the train guardian - she demonstrated for us very early on that the Silent World is not fun and games. She did so with determination and dedication, and successfully too!

This is by no means an exhaustive list of all good minor characters. Minna did very good there!

[dmeck7755]

18.  10 Jobs Held By Mikkel Madsen
1. Medic (He kept patching everyone in ADV I)
2. Advisor (His speech to Sigrun when she was giving up.
3. Cook
4. Travel agent (For their trip to Finland)
5. Rower
6. House Dad
7. Military man
8. Farmer
9. Baby Sitter
10. Big brother

[dmeck7755]

9.   10 functionalities of the Cat-Tank
1. Shelter
2. Bedroom
3. Transportation
4. Reading Room
5. Quarantine
6. Storage
7. Hang-out
8. Laundry
9. Nursery (Baby Foxes)
10. Death Trap (Tuuri got attacked)

[dmeck7755]

21.  Top 10 SSSS Characters 

NOTE:  I like Jitter's idea of the side characters.  I am going to carry that forward. (these are not in any order..)
1. The triplets
2. Trond.  (We all need a grumpy old guy)
3. Onni (In ADV I, he was a side character.  He got a promotion for the second Adventure)
4. Berit Eide She is just great
5. Ensi Hotakainen (Her impact was lasting)
6. The monsters (no story without them.  FoOd?)
7. The bear Trio
8. Tapsa the Cat Man
9. Gunnar
10. Anne

[wavewright62]

Baby foxes! Of course!