Another congrats to hwango, our weekly winner! See who else advances to third week of competition

week three topic - go forth into a wormhole!

editing post and volunteer edits

#TeamPhoenix tag; stay tuned for the poll to determine owner & moderator

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Come on, come all, admire the dog currently keeping my left foot warm!

His name is Hershey, and he does not belong to me, but I do like to steal him for days on end whenever I'm in the appropriate city to do so. We go for hikes together, studiously do not attack black bears in the back yard, play with his tug toy, and spend quality time together on the front porch - me reading, him chewing on a bone.

Some of you have pets! Talk about them. Some of you like to look at pictures of animals online! Share some awesome ones. Some of you have a favorite wild animal! Tell us about them. In short: ANIMAL PARTY!

Good evening! The Week 2 Voting Poll has closed.

Our winner of the week this week is hwango!! Congrats!!!

Joining Hwango in Week 3 are bluegerl, bardiphouka, and esme_amelia.

This means that niliwen is our eliminated player this time. Sorry, Niliwen, but hope to see you in JFF!

Stay tuned for the Week 3 Poll on Sunday, and the Week 4 Topic!

week three topic - only one entry is in so far! Deadline is Sunday, so you still have some time, but don't forget to write! And yes, we would always be delighted to have your JFF entries even if you haven't written anything so far this month.
week two voting poll - Come on, guys. There are five entries. Only FOUR people have voted. Seriously? It won't take long to read and vote on five entries. You guys have been very clear about wanting to keep the Flame burning - let's add some fuel to this week's voting! The poll will close Thursday - that's tomorrow! - at 10 pm EDT.
week two editing post; check below the reminders for volunteer edits
I have made a #TeamPhoenix tag for all the discussion about the future of BF, mostly to save myself twelve thousand links when doing reminders. So go forth and explore the posts at that tag for the most recent things.

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Click here to check off more edits!
Poll #1840702 Volunteer Edits, May 16-20
Open to: Friends, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 3

Volunteers?

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Let's play a game! Share some things about your computer, your desk, the things on your walls, or something else that you think describes you. See what conclusions other people draw about you from your comment. Meanwhile, go draw conclusions about other people from their comments. (And feel free to laugh when the conclusions we draw are completely off the mark.)

Status Updates:
darkspirited1, innana88, keppiehed: You are on "catching up"; please finish your edits by Wednesday, May 16, 5 pm EDT.

This week's edits will be due Sunday, May 20, 5 pm EDT.

( assignments )

Good evening, and Happy Mother's Day to all our BF moms!

This week we had 8 eligible contestants. Of that number. 5 submitted their entries by the deadline. One player will be eliminated by this week's voting.

( Word Counts, Genres, Ratings/Warnings: )


Click here to edit your vote.


Poll #1840113 Week 2 Poll
This poll is closed.
Open to: Friends, detailed results viewable to: None, participants: 8

Catchy poll name here!

Just for Fun!

This poll will close at 10 pm EDT on Thursday, May 17.

Greetings, everyone! Welcome to Week 3 of May! When submitting for the contest, link your entry in the poll below to have it incorporated into the voting poll at the end of the week. Check out the Main Contest Rules for info on how the main contest works!

Keep in mind that if you DO NOT submit an entry for week one, you will not be eligible to compete in the Main Contest, but please feel free to continue on Just For Fun if you’d like.

Please note also that for the ease of assigning editors and ROAR readers, we request that you include in your submission an approximate word count as well as a genre - just "fiction," "poetry," "non-fiction," or "screenplay" will suffice. Thank you!

For those who aren't sure how to link your entry: copy the link in your browser's address bar when viewing your entry, then paste it in the submission box below. Optionally, you can add HTML to make your link clickable by others. To do this, type the following into the submission box:
<a href="The link to your entry">The link again OR a title you would like to use</a>

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Your Week 3 topic is...

Wormhole

No shortage of things to do with a shortcut through spacetime. Travel moments, days, years, forwards or backwards, perhaps figuratively with nostalgia more than literally; or does your character find zirself somewhere far from where they started with no discernible trace of a path?

Or is your character struck by an earthworm, emerging in the spring rains from its earthy home? Is she eating an apple, is he peeling a potato, only to find the sustainance already preserving a wriggly life?

Your entries after this.

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Click here to edit your submission!
Poll #1839999 Contest Entries, May, Week 3
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 6

Link your Week 3 entries here!

Submit your JFF entries here!

Please list your ratings, genre, word counts, R-ratings, NSFW, trigger warnings, and other notes here.

Would you like content criticism on your entry this week?

Would you like feedback on your grammar, punctuation, and technical writing feedback this week?

Click here if you do NOT want feedback from our ROAR team. (If you would like a ROAR assignment, simply leave this part blank.)

Your entries are due by Sunday, May 20 at 5pm EST.

★ Congrats to keppiehed, our week 1 winner! See who else is competing in week 2.
★ Week 2 topic - why is your barn blue? And is that a euphemism for something?
★ Don't forget your edits!
★ World's most massive post about the future of BF

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Ever since Pottermore went live, I've been seeing a greatly renewed movement of people who like to sort themselves (and others) into the Hogwarts Houses. So first of all, I'm curious to see what kind of House spread we have at the Flame. But then I got to thinking about other Potter-related ways to sort people. Let's have another ridiculous poll, shall we?

Poll #1839684 Brigit's Hogwarts
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 36

My House is

My Quidditch position is

My favorite classes are

My preferred school uniform is

I prefer

Good evening! The Week 1 Voting Poll has closed.

This week's winner is the inimitable keppiehed!! Congrats, Keppie!


Joining Keppie in Week 2 are:

belluminabyssus
esme_amelia
niliwen
hwango
bardiphouka
bluegerl
tigerlilly33


Sadly, raven_tiger, subieko, and missflyer are all eliminated at this time. You're all welcome to play JFF though :-D

Stay tuned this weekend for the Week 2 Voting Poll!

It's been about a week since we've had a community post about the future of the community. In the name of keeping this conversation going, here's an update on happenings, as I see them. If you have any updates on any of this, or see something I've missed, please leave it in the comments. :-)

* Sign Up To Mod Eligibility Here. There's also a great summary by darkspirited1 pertaining to the roles and responsibilities of mods, as they've stood in recent community history. The overwhelming consensus, based on the comments, seems to be "Yes, keep the Flame running".

* Previous discussions of the Flame's Future. Lots of debates and discussions going on -- very worth browsing through.

( Lots of stuff under the cut... )

Whoops, pardon my tardiness. Sun is nice, men running marathons are sweaty, I had to go see them. And then the Avengers. Also good times.

Welcome to the Week 2 contest! If you did not submit for week 1, sadly you cannot enter the contest at this point, but do jump in for JFF!

When submitting for the contest, link your entry in the poll below to have it incorporated into the voting poll at the end of the week. Check out the Main Contest Rules for info on how the main contest works!

Keep in mind that if you DO NOT submit an entry for week one, you will not be eligible to compete in the Main Contest, but please feel free to continue on Just For Fun if you’d like.

Please note also that for the ease of assigning editors and ROAR readers, we request that you include in your submission an approximate word count as well as a genre - just "fiction," "poetry," "non-fiction," or "screenplay" will suffice. Thank you!

For those who aren't sure how to link your entry: copy the link in your browser's address bar when viewing your entry, then paste it in the submission box below. Optionally, you can add HTML to make your link clickable by others. To do this, type the following into the submission box:
<a href="The link to your entry">The link again OR a title you would like to use</a>

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Your Week 2 topic is...

Blue Barn

Huh? what? What's a blue barn? I have never heard of this monstrosity. Aren't barns supposed to be red? What makes a barn red, anyway? Is it embarrassed about something? Oh my. Too many questions. Write me a story and let's see if we can't answer some.

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Click here to edit your submission!
Poll #1838756 Contest Entries, May Week 2
This poll is closed.
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 7

Link your Week 2 entries here!

Submit your JFF entries here!

Please list your ratings, genre, word counts, R-ratings, NSFW, trigger warnings, and other notes here.

Would you like content criticism on your entry this week?

Would you like feedback on your grammar, punctuation, and technical writing feedback this week?

Click here if you do NOT want feedback from our ROAR team. (If you would like a ROAR assignment, simply leave this part blank.)

Your entries are due by Sunday, May 13th at 5pm EST.

Good evening! Welcome to the May Week 1 Poll!

Being that this is Week 1, these are the entries that qualify these writers for the month's play. If you did not submit an entry for this week, any other entries you submit for the month of May will be JFF only. We have 11 contestants this week. 3 players will be eliminated by this round of voting.

( Word Counts, Genres, Ratings/Warnings: )


Click here to edit your vote. Please be sure to check that all your votes are how you wanted them after editing.

ETA: PLEASE NOTE that bluegerl's COMPETITION entry can be found at this link. The link in the polls is broken.


Poll #1838746 Week 1 Poll
This poll is closed.
Open to: Friends, detailed results viewable to: None, participants: 7

Catchy poll name here!

Just for Fun!

This poll will close at 10 pm EDT on Thursday, May 10.

Status Updates:
blackjackcat: You are on "catching up"; please finish your edits by Wednesday, May 9, 5 pm EDT.

This week's edits will be due Sunday, May 13, 5 pm EDT. One volunteer edit under the cut!

( assignments )

Good afternoon! The Week 4 Run-off Poll has closed.

Okie dokie, folks!! Y'all have clearly indicated your feelings for this month's winner! You tied hwango and bluegerl in the original Week 4 Poll, and darned if you didn't tie them again in the Run-off!! The Flame has spoken! :-) So, by the power vested in me as the Flame's pollmeister, I declare bluegerl and hwango as tied winners for April, 2012!!!

*throws confetti over both of you*

runoff to determine April winner closes at noon EDT tomorrow!
week 1 topic
discussions of the future, most recent first: a call for potential mods; planning for the future BF; open discussion!; announcement of foreclosure
ROAR signups
editing post

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I think this is starting to be a time of year when people plan vacations, no? For some of you, at least? Tell me about your vacation plans! Or your dream vacation that you are not doing right now. I'm not picky.

Good evening! The Week 4 Voting Poll has closed!

We have a tie! So we're having a run-off!


Poll #1838233 Week 4 Run-Off Poll
This poll is closed.
Open to: Friends, detailed results viewable to: None, participants: 8

Who evolved into April's top writer?

This poll will close at 12 noon EDT on Saturday, May 5.