I've ended up signing up. I've never done one of these BINGO cards before, but I've always been more-or-less interested when flisters bring them up, and winter is coming and all of that so... time to find things to do.
H/C seems up my ally, since it seems to be most of what I write, though several people in the comments here are very down on it as a genre and leave me wondering if what I define as H/C actually is H/C, though, I will say, this: It just looks much weirder when it's a prompt. "Ooh, let's write a nice torture fic, why not?" made me laugh right out loud. Because it seems like something I might do, though it is dependant on characters and fandom and whether said characters would act interestingly in said situation or whether it would be just... skiffy. Because it does irk me when the H in that equation goes on and on and on for no purpose, and I've definitely abandoned otherwise well written fics that have been guilty of that
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It looks pretty flexible and I'm not sure they even have any penalties for non-completion, so good luck - I'll look forward to seeing your card!
On a different (same) subject. That Apocalypse bingo thing... I saw you coming up with prompts in another comment, but could I be so bold as to add:Oh, of course! Why not? I think some of those I have in different phrasing (but then I don't like all my phrasing) - meteor strike, at least, but time loops is a good one, and Endless Winter. I had natural disasters and stuff that would cause nuclear winter, but endless winter can be fantasy or nuclear winter, so that's probably a much better way to put it. What's EMP
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When you mention the end of Foundation, do you mean Assimilated By Alien Group-Mind from Foundation and Earth, or something else?
Yes. I haven't read it since I was a teenager, but it was so self-evidently a stupid thing for the human race to attempt that I was completely disgusted with the entire series and have never forgotten it. Call it Group-Mind Torn Apart. Or tranquilised and absorbed into alien being if it does work out.
On my last couple of rereads, I confined myself to the original trilogy. Which seems to be quite a common reaction, judging by TVTropes' Discontinuity page.
I had wondered, in retrospect, whether it was supposed to be a dystopia and I just hadn't picked that up, but, yeah, I gather I am Not Alone.
Of course, that doesn't stop people from reading it as a dystopia brought about by robots who think they know what's good for the human race and really, really don't. Just like I can think ST's Federation must be sinister because they tranquilise everyone at least a bit.
H/C seems up my ally, since it seems to be most of what I write, though several people in the comments here are very down on it as a genre and leave me wondering if what I define as H/C actually is H/C, though, I will say, this: It just looks much weirder when it's a prompt. "Ooh, let's write a nice torture fic, why not?" made me laugh right out loud. Because it seems like something I might do, though it is dependant on characters and fandom and whether said characters would act interestingly in said situation or whether it would be just... skiffy. Because it does irk me when the H in that equation goes on and on and on for no purpose, and I've definitely abandoned otherwise well written fics that have been guilty of that ( ... )
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It looks pretty flexible and I'm not sure they even have any penalties for non-completion, so good luck - I'll look forward to seeing your card!
On a different (same) subject. That Apocalypse bingo thing... I saw you coming up with prompts in another comment, but could I be so bold as to add:Oh, of course! Why not? I think some of those I have in different phrasing (but then I don't like all my phrasing) - meteor strike, at least, but time loops is a good one, and Endless Winter. I had natural disasters and stuff that would cause nuclear winter, but endless winter can be fantasy or nuclear winter, so that's probably a much better way to put it. What's EMP ( ... )
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What's EMP?
Ace: An electro-magnetic pulse effect.
Doctor: Caused by?
Ace: A nuclear explosion, usually.
Doctor: Very good.
When you mention the end of Foundation, do you mean Assimilated By Alien Group-Mind from Foundation and Earth, or something else?
(And I think, in tribute to Douglas Adams, if this were to become a ficathon or standalone comm, it would have to be called the_ends_of_the_earth).
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Yes. I haven't read it since I was a teenager, but it was so self-evidently a stupid thing for the human race to attempt that I was completely disgusted with the entire series and have never forgotten it. Call it Group-Mind Torn Apart. Or tranquilised and absorbed into alien being if it does work out.
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Of course, that doesn't stop people from reading it as a dystopia brought about by robots who think they know what's good for the human race and really, really don't. Just like I can think ST's Federation must be sinister because they tranquilise everyone at least a bit.
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Did we include, "Computer program developed that writes the true name of God"?
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:lol: I had various computers/AI get too uppity, and some god-related ones, but not quite that...
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