Horror Writing Competition Round 2: Voting

**Frownland** · 07-08-2017, 11:39 AM

I think it just speaks to your hatred of noise music, TH.

Oriphiel · 07-08-2017, 11:42 AM

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Use your cream.

Let's share.

*unzips pants*

I'll do you, you do me.

Trollheart · 07-08-2017, 12:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

I think it just speaks to your hatred of noise music, TH.

Not really. I just thought it was the best. Without the explained ending. Didn't even realise it had anything to do with noise music to be honest. Now that I do, I hate it.

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Originally Posted by Oriphiel

Let's share.

*unzips pants*

I'll do you, you do me.

Unzips whose pants, though?

Oriphiel · 07-08-2017, 12:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

Nothing Under the Sun:
This anti-experimental music propaganda is unacceptable and I will find and execute the author of this story.

I actually find it really interesting that you interpreted it as anti-experimental.

Ol’ Qwerty Bastard · 07-08-2017, 12:37 PM

the structure of sunshine annoyed me. there's a lot of jumping around, but not in an action packed way. more in a the author added extra characters for the sake of having more characters kinda way. it got better as it went on though.

**Frownland** · 07-08-2017, 12:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Oriphiel

I actually find it really interesting that you interpreted it as anti-experimental.

It's obviously a propagandist piece to make the public believe that experimental musicians are inherently mentally unstable and violent.

Trollheart · 07-08-2017, 12:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Oriphiel

I actually find it really interesting that you interpreted it as anti-experimental.

I didn't see it that way at all. If you saw it that way, you'd be saying ALL experimental musicians were violent psychos, not just Frownland. Sorry, Logan. Who was obviously Frownland. Although not in any legally binding way of course.

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the structure of sunshine annoyed me. there's a lot of jumping around, but not in an action packed way. more in a the author added extra characters for the sake of having more characters kinda way. it got better as it went on though.

I didn't get that impression. I liked the way extra characters were added kind of organically, also the way Riggs was identified as basically just big and fat, which played into both the banging on the door and the later discovery of what was left of him.

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It's obviously a propagandist piece to make the public believe that experimental musicians are inherently mentally unstable and violent.

How did you escape from your padded cell? If the governor finds out I'll lose me job!

Mondo Bungle · 07-08-2017, 07:02 PM

Sunshine is cool and entertaining and also had a moment that I felt myself creep out on the inside

Nothing Under the Sun tried too hard to be profane and I'm not super into it

Hourglass had me wanting to read more the most

The Last Captain is a story too

Oriphiel · 07-08-2017, 08:53 PM

I'm kinda surprised by the feedback Nothing Under The Sun has gotten. Everyone seems to think that I had something in mind when I wrote it (like I was trying to be as profane as possible, or trying to take a dig at experimental music, or trying to offer an explanation at the end, or that Logan was based off of Frownland

).

I actually based Logan more off of Chula, and a conversation that I had with him a long time ago in Plug. The dialogue was simply written the way that I heard the characters talking in my head, most of them frustrated musicians who have no need to stand on ceremony. And the ending was based off of the feeling that every prospective pioneer eventually feels, the chill and the horror in their heart when they reach the peak of a mountain and find a flag already planted there. The ending isn't supposed to be an explanation. It's meant to be a joke. Because when you eventually find yourself in that situation, laughing is all that you can do to keep from letting yourself fall from the mountain.

Oriphiel · 07-08-2017, 09:24 PM

And right now, I bet Chula's wracking his mind like "Oh god, what did I say to Ori?!"

View Poll Results: Which is your favourite?
Sunshine	2	20.00%
Nothing Under the Sun	4	40.00%
The Hourglass	2	20.00%
The Last Captain	2	20.00%
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07-08-2017, 11:39 AM	#31 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	I think it just speaks to your hatred of noise music, TH. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

07-08-2017, 08:53 PM	#39 (permalink)
Oriphiel Ask me how! Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: The States Posts: 5,354	I'm kinda surprised by the feedback Nothing Under The Sun has gotten. Everyone seems to think that I had something in mind when I wrote it (like I was trying to be as profane as possible, or trying to take a dig at experimental music, or trying to offer an explanation at the end, or that Logan was based off of Frownland ). I actually based Logan more off of Chula, and a conversation that I had with him a long time ago in Plug. The dialogue was simply written the way that I heard the characters talking in my head, most of them frustrated musicians who have no need to stand on ceremony. And the ending was based off of the feeling that every prospective pioneer eventually feels, the chill and the horror in their heart when they reach the peak of a mountain and find a flag already planted there. The ending isn't supposed to be an explanation. It's meant to be a joke. Because when you eventually find yourself in that situation, laughing is all that you can do to keep from letting yourself fall from the mountain. __________________ ---------------------- \|---Mic's Albums---\| ---------------------- ----------------------------- \|---Deafbox Industries---\| -----------------------------

07-08-2017, 09:24 PM	#40 (permalink)
Oriphiel Ask me how! Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: The States Posts: 5,354	And right now, I bet Chula's wracking his mind like "Oh god, what did I say to Ori?!" __________________ ---------------------- \|---Mic's Albums---\| ---------------------- ----------------------------- \|---Deafbox Industries---\| -----------------------------