Showdown!

Aug. 4th, 2019 03:55 pm
rheasilvia: (Write more porn)
Poll #22464 Showdown!
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When you realize your showdown will be about as long as the entire rest of the story, the best response is to:

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shrug! Wordcount is meaningless, like smoke in the wind.
22 (73.3%)

giggle madly!
17 (56.7%)

find ways to shorten the showdown.
1 (3.3%)

write more of the non-showdown part of the story.
10 (33.3%)

eat cake.
15 (50.0%)

insert sex scenes into the rest of the story.
6 (20.0%)

insert sex scenes into the showdown.
5 (16.7%)

decide only the last bit of the showdown actually counts as a showdown.
10 (33.3%)



Just kidding, I won't be inserting random sex scenes. Although I have to say that is IS weird that none of my stories appear to include actual sex scenes anymore. Am I turning decent in my old age? Perish the thought!

No Sunday Six as of now, as I am actually working. You can tell by the fact I am posting polls on DW. ;-) But I did look at my showdown notes again, so that counts, right?
rheasilvia: (Gears)
Dear friendslist, we have an important issue to resolve! It is high time for computers to receive a fitting group noun of their own. In a language that features a pandemonium of parrots, a glaring of cats, an ambush of tigers and a turmoil of porpoises, can humankind's omnipresent electronic companion be ignored?

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What is the proper group noun for computers?

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A whirring
4 (20.0%)

A calculation
3 (15.0%)

A processing
2 (10.0%)

A sequencing
0 (0.0%)

A node
4 (20.0%)

A binary
0 (0.0%)

A coding
0 (0.0%)

An entropy
2 (10.0%)

An algorithm
1 (5.0%)

A frustration
13 (65.0%)

Something else entirely, namely:

Reading!

Mar. 31st, 2019 05:38 pm
rheasilvia: (Guardian - Shen Wei bookish)
Instead of writing, I thought I’d ask you all a few things about your reading preferences. Procrastination for the win! :-)

So tell me! How do you like your fanfic?

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Serve my fic in:

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Present tense
13 (25.5%)

Past tense
27 (52.9%)

Both are cool / awful
22 (43.1%)

Sparkles
15 (29.4%)

Stories posted in installments, Y/N?

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Y! I enjoy the WIP experience.
8 (15.7%)

Y! It makes stories last longer.
6 (11.8%)

Y…? If I am sure the entire story will be posted.
21 (41.2%)

Y… If installments are posted regularly.
11 (21.6%)

N! What if they don’t get finished?
10 (19.6%)

N! I like to read the entire story in one go.
25 (49.0%)

Y/N Ticky box.
6 (11.8%)

I like to read:

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Gen: no romance, no sex - or at least no sex
35 (68.6%)

G: sweet romance, sexual tension and kissing, references to more
37 (72.5%)

R: some explicit sexual content (as part of the plot)
45 (88.2%)

NC-17: detailed and explicit sex scenes (as part of the plot)
43 (84.3%)

PWPs: all sex, no/hardly any plot
31 (60.8%)

The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth
22 (43.1%)

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