Swampoleongaurdian [sic]: "lol hi guys this is a story thread that im posting in writer's lounge!"
Us: "'Kay. We're going to give you advice."
Swampoleon: "wut u gais r meen!!11eleventy"
Us: "Um... 'kay?"
Swampoleon: "heres another idea thread!!!111"
Us: "We're going to comment, assuming you're actually planning on writing this."
Swampoleon: "lol jk gais heres another thread and another thread and another thread."
Sparkling Dragon: "WTF."
The rest of us: "Word."
Swampoleon: "omg u gais r pestering me!!!1"
Everyone and their mothers: "lols heres more idea threads!!111sixtytwo"
Jax: "Uh, 'kay, so I saw all this going on in Writer's Lounge, and is anyone else getting annoyed?"
liveitout: "I think idea threads are just there because people don't actually want to write. :)"
Jax: "...Are you ****ing serious?"
Remus Lupin: "Yes. That too."
Harry Potter: "What?"
Remus Lupin: "Oops. Too much information."
The rest of the FFL: "We can't stop these people from posting threads, but it's totally a problem. Seriously."
Jax: "You know what? How about I just work on a plot bunny thread?"
Bay: "Oh, by the way, Serebii covers all kinds of topics in their WL, whereas we try to dump all these topics into the FFL. That might be the problem."
The rest of the FFL: "lulz, Serebii."
solovino: "Hey, guys. 'Sup?"
Kanto Lover: "Plz beta my fic here's the prologue?"
The rest of us: "WTF, mates?"
Astinus: "Oh, by the way, did anyone else notice how stupid some of these guides are? By the way, I'm also proposing we redo a lot of crap in this forum."
The rest of us: "...YAY REWRITES!"
Now, imagine all of that played out with sock puppets, and you've got the entire conversation about revitalizing the Writer's Lounge in a nutshell.
Hey, guys. 'Sup? :classic:
The whole thing about the Lounge is that it's so crazy and I love this place. It keeps my Mood EVs high, which is something I need these days. Besides, omg, I really like you, people. You're the most awesomest and
entertaining crew I've come upon since 2006.
About the thread split or remake thing, well, if it has to happen it has to happen, as long as the current spirit of the Lounge survives somehow, it's all well.
Valentine said:
Seriously, though, to Citrinin, yeah. Now, just imagine that kind of stuff in every fandom. I get the feeling dA consciously tries to adhere to Rule 34 because, seriously, if you can search for it, they've got smut for it. No exceptions. (And I totally did not test this, wut?)
I did What?
No, you people don't want to know.
Please...
Astinus said:
It's actually the fact that the rate of topic turnover in this thread is much too fast, and topics that could lead to discussions that could possibly go on for pages are lost in the off-topic shuffle.
So the new FFL is going to start off with a brief explanation that the simple topics go in this thread, and the "big" discussions go in their own threads.
Yeah, I had though about that, but somehow the idea became lost and I suggested two different "general discussion threads" instead, but given te kind of forum that was not the best idea (I mean, we have the
Other Writing section, yes?).
How are
we whoever are worthy qualifying "big discussions"? For one I support the idea that the "bolded questions" can be effortlessly discussed here, but when does a bolded question become a thread of its own? Maybe I missed something, you know...
And, about the "
bolded questions", as a means of contributing something to this group of people I'm thinking of
indexing the bolded topics that have been discussed so far during this year. Partly for fun (I wonder what things are going to surprise me when I start rolling back pages...), partly because... well... something. I don't know exactly what. Oh, yes, maybe because it's becoming
incredibly difficult to locate those topics. Seriously, the last 10 topics hae me rolling back and searching for the last 30 pages.
WTH, hero?
For example, guys, if anyone feels like overthinking whether the Pokémon we choose for our fics have a particular meaning, you can either try and search (go on, I'll be right behind laughing) or
go here (by Ebon Blade) and start rolling forward. Or, have you ever thought
how to name Lati@s' forelimbs? That I want you to do a search for... or not.
I'll still be laughing, anyways.
On another subject...
Astinus said:
(The whole reason why I'm pushing this change is the fact that leaving the new unposted thread open in a tab in Firefox is seriously slowing down my laptop. I will be getting a new computer once I convince my mother that I do indeed enjoy my Sims way more than being online.)
Hey, I forgot how
crippling Firefox s in low-to-medium end machines. Thanks for remembering! I should go to adverstise
Opera...
Going back to the previous subjects (seriously, people, that's like, the
first and only thing I do here :badsmile: ), answering to some of the previous questions.
[...] how far ahead do people write ahead before posting a chapter?
Depends. There's a story, I haven't published anything yet but there are already ten chapters written. Then there's my
most current work where I essentially posted everything I had, except for a couple of snippets that I have kept as plot leverage.
Yes, leverage. 2/3 of my FF fics fell in the land of zombie fic because of this.
BTW after
"all" the discussion we had on my topic (
that post, and sparse posts in the following three pages) about that, which I guess was the kind of questions that would have been better left to their own thread, it's likely I'll open a new thread to keep asking questions with regards to that perspective flip... But first I'm going to wait to see if this thread closes --
lols let's see them trying that after all they said "let's wait until the activity dies then close and fork" or something like that.
I mean, where else can we discuss the plausibility to train Chanseys in the proper (read: violent) usage of flamethrowers?
Feign said:
You guys are all crazy! *beams at everyone and sits down*
In my area of expertise and doing a lot of "unofficial" work,
I have to be... :D *
stares with wide-open eyes admiring the beautiful light before being pierced by the ominous enery and erased from exis-- *
Valentine said:
What if I said I had a murderous leprechaun that could only meow?
*
would pick and hug meowing murderous leprechaun for the lulz but can't because I no longer exists to*
