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[mark_asphodel]

Huh.

Damn.

There goes my strategy for responding to hypothetical prompts for Challenge 009.  Yeah, I could PICK a prompt that suits "Teardrop on the Fire," but where's the fun in that?

:(

Seriously, I've been gleefully anticipating the results to this one 'cause I figured it was a wide-open field and that someone new like kittykatloren might win and throw us all a curveball the way nagasasu  did with the "rainbow sky" challenge.  And "Teardrop" would either work, or it totally wouldn't and I'd be back to square one, brainstorming during my commute for an answer, pawing through the WIP list for candidates, et cetera.  Because being caught off-guard is, after all, a huge part of the fun here.  Rarely has a prompt been as confounding as "flying through the rainbow sky"-- heck, until now I figured it was an implicit rule that prompts were one word only-- and rarely has coming up with a response been such... fun?  Yeah, pure fun.

Though I do find it amusing that, even though the prompt seemed to call out for the Dionysian-- sex, drugs, and crazy-- two of the three winners were far, far more to the Apollonian side of the spectrum.  Albeit in totally different ways.    

[Oh, yes.  I am glad all y'all liked it that much.  I don't write for FE8 often, so when I do I'm never sure how it'll be received.  I'm just a little bemused right now.]

Comments

[samuraiter.livejournal.com]

(Apollonian versus Dionysian? Bonus points for a Nietzsche reference. :-) )

Hitting second place made my day, honestly.

[hooves.livejournal.com]

Hehe, well, if you'd rather not pick the prompt, you can offer the honor to samuraiter, since he took 2nd place. :) I never thought to put that in the rules, but I don't see why it wouldn't be fine to do. ♥

Congratulations, by the way. :D

[myaru.livejournal.com]

I have to admit I'm missing the reference. *hangs head*

Why not choose your prompt that way? Honestly, the few times I've had to do this for contests like ours, I felt totally lost as to what makes a useful theme to begin with. The process gave me new sympathy for the maintainers who take that responsibility onto their own shoulders.

[shining-valor.livejournal.com]

Though I never expect to actually win a challenge (with so many talented authors to contend with, what are the odds?) I do have this weird compulsion to collect words that might make good themes. Of course, now that a sentence(?) has been mentioned, I might start a collection of those too. If for no other reason than the amusement factor. :P

Congrats on your win, BTW. :D

[penandpaper71.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on your win. ^_^