Selection
I have completed the grading, from all entrants who have provided me with submissions for all seven challenges. While I would love to receive entries from those of you only missing one or two, I’m afraid I simply don’t have the time before my impending appointment. And thus I have selected our winner: the player known as Astartus. I will be in contact with him before I leave, so that I may arrange to have his prize sent to him. I thank you all for playing. Now, if you will excuse me, I go to the TREE.
All the best,
Civil
Submission 1.7 - Mikel
I remember stating before that my hatred doesn’t ever project toward an individual person, but rather people in general. So, if I may, through your tumblr and this challenge, address the human race in general, and tell you all why people just really bug me.
I have learned not to trust most people because I have been hurt by them so much in the past. I don’t understand why people are mean to each other without provocation. People have so much potential to make this world better for everyone in it, but because of greed and ego or maybe just plain laziness, they choose to ignore that potential. We as an entire human race are so destructive to everything around us. Caught up in an illusion of stuff, we tend to forget more important things daily, teaching our children that the illusion is more important than reality. Maybe it isn’t that I hate people, I just hate the constant destructive actions and attitudes that they display.
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Creativity: 9/10
Completion: 5/5
Total: 14/15
Running Total: 89/100
-Civil
Round 1 Challenge 7
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Creativity: 9/10
Completion: 5/5
Total: 14/15
Running Total: 90/100
-Civil
Here is Tiro’s Challenge 7. I hope you enjoy Crux.
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Creativity: 8/10
Completion: 5/5
Total: 13/15
Running Total: 92/100
Round one, challenge seven
I know this is against someone you like. This may not be a good way to get me into the next round. Regardless, I did it. Because I truly don’t like this person. As I said, I know this is someone you like. We can agree to disagree. I hope you see past this.
I did challenge seven to Izzie. I kind of did it subliminally, hoping someone would catch on. Luckily, Sam did. Here is what I said:
http://near-the-end.tumblr.com/page/2#12859216013
Mean? Yes. I do admit, it was. As I said in response to Sam, I was venting. I honestly was. I was venting and doing a challenge at the same time. Seemed to be a win-win situation in my favor. After Sam reblogged it, she saw it and responded with this(Sam’s response is also there.):
http://bitch-theory.tumblr.com/post/12861612188/fuck
At the end, I dropped it. I said what I wanted to. From now on, I’ve decided that I am just going to ignore her. If she talks to me directly, I will ignore her. No matter what she says, she will have no response from me whatsoever. I feel it is the only way we can get continue peacefully. Like I said, I know this is against someone you like, but she isn’t my favorite person in the entire world. You said to do this to someone that rubbed me the wrong way, and that’s exactly what I did.
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Creativity: 7/10
Completion: 5/5
Total: 12/15
Running Total: 91/100
-Civil
Challenge 1-7
I hate doing this. I hate it when it comes to a point where I need to tell someone straight what’s wrong with them. I prefer to work from the more positive side, to give the other person the benefit of the doubt. I can be a tough cookie to get along with, after all. I’m eccentric. Well, I don’t have the benefit of being wealthy to be eccentric. I’m just plain crazy. More often than not, in my life it’s been miscommunication rather than anything malicious that creates problems. And when miscommunication happens, that’s not when you go and tell someone everything you hate about them. Chances are good, you’ve got the situation wrong, and it’s so much more productive to stop and ask what’s up.
So it’s just been a stretch, trying to figure out who to tell why I hate. Finally, I figured it out, though.
Alaura. I’m calling you out, here and now. I know that you can see this. Yes. You. Alaura, of all the characters in my Hero’s Green Room, I hate you the most. It’s because of you that I nearly lost NaNoWriMo 2007. By the time I figured out what an unreliable narrator you were, it was nearly too late.
It isn’t for anything particularly evil that you’ve done within your story. In fact, I would for the most part like you for who you are, if you would be honest to me. You constantly refuse to tell me the truth. You don’t talk to me. You don’t let me know if I’m on track or not. Frankly, I don’t think you care if your story is told or not.
You blatantly lied to me about Mirror-Side. You tried to sell that it wasn’t like Wonderland in the least, and you certainly weren’t an Alice lost in it. If I’d known sooner what a liar you were, I could have embraced the truth of Mirror-Side to its fullest and worked it in around your blindness, your refusal to see the world for what it is.
You’re self-centered. And, I’ve liked characters who have self-centered streaks plenty. But your self-centeredness meant that you did no work whatsoever. You sat there, as if there was nothing better to do than file your nails idly while I toiled away all that month, grasping at straws to try to get your story straight. When another character tried to pop up to help me, you batted them down, insisted it was your story and yours alone, and then continued to sit there and not even give the story a lick of the attention it deserved.
You expect someone else to do the work, and you get all the credit? Is that what it is? I’m sorry, dear, but that’s not how it works in this world.
So, here’s where we stand, you and I. Unless somehow you ever magically decide to be less self-centered and actually tell me your story, it’s never going to happen. You, of all my characters, can go and rot in the abysmal depths of the story graveyard. You can become a zombie of yourself, hungering for the words that I will never feed you because you, of all my characters, put yourself in that most important seat and refused to claim the responsibility.
Change your tune. Shape up. Maybe then some day I’ll get to you. Maybe.
(Alaura’s response was to look up from filing her nails, shrug, and then resume attending to her nails. See picture evidence. Seriously, Alaura? Yeah. That’s exactly why I hate her.)
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Creativity: 9/10
Completion: 2/5
Total: 11/15
Running Total: 92
-Civil
Part 1 of Challenge 7….
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Creativity: 7/10
Completion: 5/5
Total: 12/15
Running Total: 82/100
-Civil
Astartus’ Challenge Seven
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Creativity: 10/10
Completion: 5/5
Total: 15/15
Running Total: 95/100
-Civil
Round one, challenge six
The girl in the dress in the picture below is a girl named Tatam. She had a couple of classes with me and always seemed really quiet. I didn’t think she had any friends here, seeing as though she was new. I decided to talk to her one day. This is what I learned:
1. In her old school, she played softball and volleyball.
2. She had a softball accident that dislocated her elbow.
3. She is a photographer.
4. She has a younger brother and sister (Seen in the pictures)
5. She has her own photography company.
6. She is allergic to cinnamon
7. The school she came from was smaller than our middle school (which is pretty small) and held all grades Pre-K through the 12th grade.
8. During last year’s rainy season, her house flooded, which is why she moved here.
9. Her arms are awkwardly long. They go past her knees.
10. Her favorite animal is a buffalo.
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Creativity: 5/5
Completion: 5/5
Total: 10/10
Running Total: 79/85
-Civil
submission 1.6 - Mikel - Make a new friend
This actually happened a day or two before the challenge was issued, I planned on doing this differently, but since our time is running pretty short I’d like to use this one if I may.
My new friend Emma-
This is the first chance I had to get to know this brilliant little girl, and we became insta-buddies. She even insisted on sitting on my lap through dinner.
10 things about Emma:
1. She has a red colored hamster named “fluffy”who really likes to run in her wheel
2. She prefers butterflies to dragonflies
3. She really likes unicorns
4. She is four years old
5. She has an upcoming role as flower girl in a cousin’s wedding
6. She got to be Hello Kitty for Halloween
7. She recently earned the “Super Star Student” title at school
8. She likes to eat potato chips with brownie batter
9. She enjoys playing video games
10. She absolutely adores her 2 big brothers
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Creativity: 5/5
Completion: 5/5
Total: 10/10
Running Total: 75/85
-Civil
