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Revenge of the Return of the Children of FICLY and other flash fiction

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    YaYaYaYa Decent. Registered User regular
    edited July 2010
    Sarksus that is a good idea

    I really should get back into this but I'm not quite feeling any ideas

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    LarlarLarlar consecutive normal brunches Moderator, ClubPA mod
    edited July 2010
    Quoth wrote: »
    Larlar wrote: »
    Quoth wrote: »
    Larlar I am punching you with my mind, can you feel it

    got yer fire flower right heah

    is it a warming punch of love or a blazing punch of disdain

    it is both of them at the same time

    like a child who has done something very naughty but also clever

    so you punish him and send him to his room but then laugh in private and tell all your friends

    I can live with that

    in fact, that's how I live most days

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    bsjezzbsjezz Registered User regular
    edited July 2010
    locked in your room?

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    LarlarLarlar consecutive normal brunches Moderator, ClubPA mod
    edited July 2010
    damn right

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    bsjezzbsjezz Registered User regular
    edited July 2010
    what do you guys think of the phrase 'elephantine pythons'

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    YaYaYaYa Decent. Registered User regular
    edited July 2010
    are you talking about snakes or your sick biceps

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    bsjezzbsjezz Registered User regular
    edited July 2010
    in the context i'd like to think it's ambiguous

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    Lost SalientLost Salient blink twice if you'd like me to mercy kill youRegistered User regular
    edited July 2010
    I am not sure I like it, since it is using a word referencing one animal to describe another animal.

    Unless the pythons are actually elephant-python hybrids in which case you have my endorsement.

    Opinions! As always... I got 'em.

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    bsjezzbsjezz Registered User regular
    edited July 2010
    see, maybe it does work

    ah, fuck it! you only live once!

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    MaceraMacera UGH GODDAMMIT STOP ENJOYING THINGSRegistered User regular
    edited July 2010
    I guess I'll join this

    Also t bsjezz: I would shy away from that phrase, since 'elephantine' implies a sort of lumbering bulk which snakes don't really have.

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    bsjezzbsjezz Registered User regular
    edited July 2010
    you ever see a reticulated python

    not exactly spry and dainty

    edit: i've realized this is way too context dependent, so without wanting to give anything away - you'll have to wait for sunday!

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    MaceraMacera UGH GODDAMMIT STOP ENJOYING THINGSRegistered User regular
    edited July 2010
    Have I seen a reticulated python

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    EdcrabEdcrab Actually a hack Registered User regular
    edited July 2010
    The thing with elephantine is it makes me think "pertaining to elephants" rather than merely meaning big so in that sense the description throws me off

    Like, elephantine feet? Sure I can imagine big stompy flat feet, but an elephantine snake less so

    A bit like people using "cyclopean" to mean huge when I've always used it to mean one-eyed, because that's what it means dammit

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    bsjezzbsjezz Registered User regular
    edited July 2010
    the other option is to use Elephantine (proper noun) to not only imply a certain monstrousness, but also that it's some specific species lost to modern knowledge

    i'm spending a lot of time thinking about these two words. do i regret it?

    hell no

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    Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    edited July 2010
    you know what's a good word? "Brobdingnagian".

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    QuothQuoth the Raven Miami, FL FOR REALRegistered User regular
    edited July 2010
    yes that is a good word

    CD gets the good word award for this page

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    SarksusSarksus ATTACK AND DETHRONE GODRegistered User regular
    edited July 2010
    Elephantine pythons have saved the thread!

    Edit: I didn't write anything yesterday. Well I did but I didn't publish it because I wasn't satisfied with it. Someone rated my stuff highly but said my endings were terrible and now I'm obsessing over endings!

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    Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    edited July 2010
    yaaay

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    QuothQuoth the Raven Miami, FL FOR REALRegistered User regular
    edited July 2010
    i have been working on a story that was supposed to go on ficly and then got longer and i still haven't finished it and ugh what the hell

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    bsjezzbsjezz Registered User regular
    edited July 2010
    yo does anyone know the specific word (if there is one) for the guy who narrates / introduces a stage play?

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    Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    edited July 2010
    orator comes to mind but that's public speakin'

    shit

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    M.D.M.D. and then what happens? Registered User regular
    edited July 2010
    I would just use narrator

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    Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    edited July 2010
    Perhaps "emcee"?

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    bsjezzbsjezz Registered User regular
    edited July 2010
    in the context i went for 'announcer'

    also bam chapter II is done

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    KusuguttaiKusuguttai __BANNED USERS regular
    edited July 2010
    in the tradition of stone rockwell, i present part six of my epic based on sisyphus

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    KusuguttaiKusuguttai __BANNED USERS regular
    edited July 2010
    something along those same veins, yet less ridiculous

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    EdcrabEdcrab Actually a hack Registered User regular
    edited July 2010
    Those are pretty good!

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    KusuguttaiKusuguttai __BANNED USERS regular
    edited July 2010
    well for the limitations presented to me by 'x word' challenges i choose to make the titles as long and/or informative as possible and then work with that

    is it cheating? who knows.

    yes, probably.

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    LarlarLarlar consecutive normal brunches Moderator, ClubPA mod
    edited July 2010
    I gave up on my current story to try this. Now I have something at 14 words and I can't figure out a way to make it sound as good with 2 fewer.

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    LarlarLarlar consecutive normal brunches Moderator, ClubPA mod
    edited July 2010
    Okay, two more are up for challenges' sakes (though one is dumb and doesn't really count). I'm really happy with the way my suicide-challenge entry came out.

    The next one I do is going to be happy and silly, because this growing pattern is decidedly morbid.

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    bsjezzbsjezz Registered User regular
    edited July 2010
    i need ideas for chapter III

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    LarlarLarlar consecutive normal brunches Moderator, ClubPA mod
    edited July 2010
    Introduce a talking dog named Poochy.

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    KusuguttaiKusuguttai __BANNED USERS regular
    edited July 2010
    how about a gangster octopus

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    LarlarLarlar consecutive normal brunches Moderator, ClubPA mod
    edited July 2010
    named Poochy

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    bsjezzbsjezz Registered User regular
    edited July 2010
    Kusuguttai wrote: »
    how about a gangster octopus

    this could happen

    let me stew on it

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    LarlarLarlar consecutive normal brunches Moderator, ClubPA mod
    edited July 2010
    jezz, where are your chapters

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    KusuguttaiKusuguttai __BANNED USERS regular
    edited July 2010
    maybe you could rastify him by 20%

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    bsjezzbsjezz Registered User regular
    edited July 2010
    well they sure aren't on ficly

    weirdos

    p.s. they are in my sig and also here

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    LarlarLarlar consecutive normal brunches Moderator, ClubPA mod
    edited July 2010
    but ficly lets me be lazy and feel productive at the same time

    we can't all have fancy expensive pdf writing software

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    QuothQuoth the Raven Miami, FL FOR REALRegistered User regular
    edited July 2010
    here is a new story

    http://ficly.com/stories/19226

    it is also on my blog

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