1 Vote per person!!
Read and vote.
Share your comments.
1 Vote per person!!
Read and vote.
Share your comments.
voted
when the union's inspiration through the worker's blood shall run,
there can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun,
yet what force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one?
but the union makes us strong.
Voted. Tough choice between two of them, though all are quite good.
Alea Iacta Est (The Die is Cast) - Gaius Julius Caesar
An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep - Alexander the Great
We will either find a way, or make one - Hannibal Barca
Tis Tuesday...early yet..... each writer has garnered a vote....Perhaps the submissions & writers are getting better at their trade....Actually I'm told the pic this week is solid stuff. Those that had submissions waited til late. I'm puzzeled as to why we wer'nt swamped with stories this week. Why did everyone hesitate with their entries??????
I've heard cuz of the TATW theme....but perception has NEVER hindered you'all before....Why was this pic harder to dive into?????
Last edited by Mega Tortas de Bodemloze; December 30, 2009 at 04:13 AM.
A Lion serves in Winter, then perhaps a Unicorn for the Spring.
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If you cannot stand behind what you say.... then do not speak. If your words are taken out of context,
then the weight of the evidence will still fall in your favor and carry the day
The Casual Tortoise: Mega's Guide to Fast Turtling
Tis the Christmas season dear friend, people are spending more time away from TWC than ever before I fear, hence the site publications being slightly delayed for this month. The last thing on people's minds at this time is coming to an internet forum to write a story I think, don't worry it will pick up again, like all things.
"Muscovy", as its rulers have previously called it, is a sleeping giant, with age-old traditions and ways of doing things. Here, the feudal way of life has become so entrenched that the serfs are as tied to the land as cattle, and with almost as few rights. It is a vast, deeply conservative and religious country: Mother Russia and the Orthodox Church are the two pillars of national belief. The Tsar may be the father of his people, but by tradition and practice he is a stern parent. Ivan the Terrible was well named, and he has not been the only ruler with an iron will. Russia is the "Third Rome". The last bastion of Orthodox Christianity.
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My view on the "Friend Zone"
Good things come to those who wait... But better things come to those who never hesitate.
** cough...Grammer Naaaazi, cough**That's on the asumption I'm going strictly by lore.... {maybe Molls will fix it..}
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Happy New year Tales of the Week and to our glorious/frenetic caretakers Molls/Hesus..and PowerWizard {Pw}/Torque
my divne and Beloved Prince {MP}
Last edited by Mega Tortas de Bodemloze; January 01, 2010 at 01:51 PM. Reason: Edit & Grammar
A Lion serves in Winter, then perhaps a Unicorn for the Spring.
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If you cannot stand behind what you say.... then do not speak. If your words are taken out of context,
then the weight of the evidence will still fall in your favor and carry the day
The Casual Tortoise: Mega's Guide to Fast Turtling
Transmitted direct From the Study of Jean=A=Luc- on the USS Enterprize....
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
This week's TotW is loosely based on J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth, more specifically the Third Age and Gondor's defensive war against the forces of Mordor. However the epic deeds, valiant heroes and shining glory that we might expect from such a story basis are mostly absent from this week's five submissions. Instead we are treated to themes of failure, aloneness, tension, foolishness and despondency with a few sprinkles of hope and camaraderie on the surface of this dark chocolate story cake.Can't believe this. Finally I decide to write it and TWC crashes for an entire afternoon and the better part of evening. Don't know if this is what you had in mind but by banging my finger tips against the keyboard I have managed to produce a body of text that closely resembles a review of the last TotW's submissions.
I'm open to both praise and criticism. So without further ado:
The first two submissions by Mega Tortas and Ariovistus Maximus are simialar as both deal with present or foreboding failure. The unrealized ambitions of late adulthood versus the foolishness and naivette of youth. In their own way each protagonist is doomed. While Mega's story is more visceral, more explicit in its portrayal of physical and emotional pain, Ariovistus uses a subtler approach with an almost child-like character "playing" out in the woods but whose impending fate, signaled by the intensifying rain fall, and the realizations that will come with it are no less tragic. Both stories seem out of place in Middle-Earth, uncharacteristic of such a high fantasy setting but therein lies the appeal.
The middle tale, as I shall call it, by Nazgul Killer is an E.A. Poe-esque poetic prose featuring such gothic elements as cold ominous weather, anxiety, loud foreboding heartbeats, monstrous visages, confusion of the senses and a (para)normal deus ex machina, all contributing to a sense of surrealness whether it's realistically justified or not. Due to its composition and style the middle tale more resembles a story that men of Gondor might tell their children or each other, around a campfire at night than a realistic recounting of an event giving it that "a play within the play" or rather fiction within fiction effect even though there is no "play" within which this one is actually set.
Leaving the middle tale and coming up on the other side we reach the final pair by Saint Nicholas and Astaroth old bean. These two works are very similar in their title and basic premise yet stand in contrast to one another. Saint Nicholas shows us that valiant men may still die inglorious deaths, that not every last stand is a heroic one and that true heroes are indeed mortal people unprotected by such things as "plot armour" or divine intervention. The hope of men may yet be swept away by tragedy. Astaroth old bean provides us with an optimistic mirror image of strengthened resolve and rising hope in face of deadly danger. The proud spirit of man that overcomes any hardship just as David slays Goliath. This last entry is closest to Middle Earth's typical epic theme and it ends this week's submissions on a positive note. Whatever our personal reality may be these two stories remind us that the proverbial coin of life indeed has two sides.
Last edited by Mega Tortas de Bodemloze; January 02, 2010 at 11:52 PM. Reason: Edit & Grammar
A Lion serves in Winter, then perhaps a Unicorn for the Spring.
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If you cannot stand behind what you say.... then do not speak. If your words are taken out of context,
then the weight of the evidence will still fall in your favor and carry the day
The Casual Tortoise: Mega's Guide to Fast Turtling
Well, this should be interesting.
I'm SO tempted to vote for myself and make a 4-way tie.
Land of the Free! Home of the
Hmmmm....{I really really like the story I wrote.} Fingers nervously tap on the table as he passes the ballot box. {a soft audible thunk is heard}. "sigh"....scoffles off, down to the corner pub, to wash away the pain of his own self betrayal. {Pride, Gluttony, Envy}
Last edited by Mega Tortas de Bodemloze; January 04, 2010 at 03:35 AM. Reason: grammar
A Lion serves in Winter, then perhaps a Unicorn for the Spring.
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If you cannot stand behind what you say.... then do not speak. If your words are taken out of context,
then the weight of the evidence will still fall in your favor and carry the day
The Casual Tortoise: Mega's Guide to Fast Turtling
Voted.
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