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Last night’s D&D was— a lot. 

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I did that Mermaid Thing that’s been taking over tumblr, and I think the takeaway here is that I have no idea what I look like.

Now I require everyone else to do this. courageforourfriends, kemendraugh, eatyourbooks, bahnree, gingernifty​, you’re all on notice.

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Friendship

me: So excited to see you. :D

Bahnree: RIGHT

Bahnree: i want to squeeze your little face

Me: nooooooooo I have so many pimples it is sad

Bahnree: haha!

Bahnree: Ask me if I care

Me: dooo you care?

Bahnree: NOPE

Bahnree: NOPE NOPE NOPE

Bahnree: *puts on nope-cap, climbs onto nope-carriage and whips nope-horses into action*

Bahnree : *carriage rattles off down the nope-road out of nope-town*

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Horrible Histories A-Book (by gazza6359)

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I'm procrastinating. Offer me a drink.

If you would be so kind as to pick a drink and put it in my ask, I will write you a long and hopefully interesting response. Only one drink at a time, please!

Chocolate Milk -- What is your favourite place that you have lived (or stayed at for over two weeks)?

Black Tea -- What is the first fandom you ever followed?

Chai Latte -- If prerequisites were no obstacle, and you could do the work, what are three majors you'd be drawn towards a degree in?

Tea with Milk and Sugar -- What is the first fandom you ever participated in?

Medium Double Double -- What would be your dream school? (Other than hogwarts, otherwise this question isn't interesting.)

Espresso Shots -- What are two objects that are precious to you, and why?

Ice Water -- What is an object that you just find interesting? And why?

Bottle of Soda -- If you didn't live in this world, our earth, what alternate world would you want to live in? 

Whiskey and a Cigar -- What piece of art would you want to have created?

IPA -- What scientific discovery would you wish to have made?

Iced Coffee -- What do you find attractive in a significant other? 

Martini -- Who are your best friends, and why are they important to you?

Hot Cocoa -- What fictional piece of magic or technology do you wish was real?

Strawberry Smoothie -- If money was no object, what would your favourite vacation be? Where would you go, and who would be with you?

Lemonade with a little Extra -- What languages would you love to speak and understand? And why those?

Can of Soft Drink -- What do you love doing? Do you do it often?

Mint Tisane -- Who do you love?

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kemendraugh answered your question: kemendraugh reblogged your post: Just out of...

Ehhhhh only slightly :D I was with the Stetson-wearing Eleventh Doctor, dressed as Donna Noble. But I’m not ginger. Next year I’ll do more :D

OOh Donna! Such a great companion, definitely one of my favs ... Any plans for costumes (I know it's a year away and whatnot xD )?

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kemendraugh reblogged your post: Just out of curiosity, who went to Comic Con today?

Ack! You were BOTH Idris and Lady Loki? You were TWO of my favourite costumes? I had no idea :D :D You both looked...

Yep! ^___^ thanks, it really made my day to hear this! Were you in costume?

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FLASH FICTION CHALLENGES

Most reality competitions start with a low-stakes mini-challenge that jolts the episode with a bit of action (like the Quickfire in Top Chef). In the case of my proposed writing competition, these mini-challenges would be more of a concession to the fact that it’s a TV show than a real test of a person’s ability, but here are some fun ideas:

Agent pitches: I love the “go-see” episodes of ANTM, and the publishing equivalent would be agent pitches. Toward the end of the season, the final contestants will have to run around New York City pitching their book to major literary agents, and whoever makes the best impression on the agents wins. Nothing like this really happens in the publishing world for an unproven author, but this is fantasy-meets-reality.

Ghost-writing: A celebrity visits the show and commissions an uber-short story based on an incident from his/her life. The celebrity chooses the winner. (This challenge would make a lot of writers want to kill themselves, but come on … it’d be funny to watch a serious Iowa grad try to create art out of Kim Kardashian’s latest crisis.)

Book tour: Each contestant has to give an author reading at a packed bookstore.

Group-story: The contestants divide into teams of three. The team members can’t talk to each other, and they take turns writing one sentence at a time. Stories must have a beginning, middle, and end — best team wins.

Day jobs: Struggling writers often have to take crappy temp jobs in order to eat, and some of them might even sneak some writing while they should be answering phones. In this challenge, each contestant has to spend a day working at a job that’s especially busy and especially crappy and still find time to write a good short piece of fiction about the workplace by the time they clock out — and getting fired is an immediate DQ. Examples of jobs: Being the secretary to a horrible boss; nanny-ing evil children; working at an indie coffee house where the customers have really particular demands; pouring drinks at a bar full of NYU kids who need their IDs checked. Of course the producers would make sure the bosses are totally unreasonable and crazy.

Inspiration: Most of these challenges will involve writing flash fiction based on some form of inspiration: food, paintings, songs, etc.

Imitation: Each contestant picks a famous dead writer’s name out of a hat. The contestants have an hour to research the dead writer’s works. Then they have to write a 500-word story in the dead writer’s voice about some really contemporary topic, like modern love in the digital age.

“Hills Like White Elephants”: This is really MFA-nerdy of me, but contestants must write a short story consisting entirely of dialogue between one male and one female character. Two famous Broadway actors will perform each story; the guest judge will pick the winner.

The tear-jerker: After months of being cloistered during a show’s filming, reality contestants get starved for outside interaction — there’s always that weepy Survivor episode when loved ones from back home visit the island. What if the writers’ loved ones visit, and the writers have to read the one passage from their manuscript that they’re most uncomfortable about sharingto their loved ones? Especially intense since many writers are driven by unresolved family trauma.

Mini-prizes for the mini-challenge winners: Cash, one-on-one time with famous authors, notes by an experienced editor for the current week’s submission prior to The Workshop, publication in literary magazines, the opportunity to sell a winning short piece as a Kindle Single, etc.

I would watch this SO HARD.