Fanfiction Update


February 18, 2013, at 12:00 AM

There'll be a new comic page on Wednesday. For today I bring you the next ten stories in the fanfiction contest! Congratulations to MH and Grace for getting the most votes last round. Go read the new stories and pick your favourite!

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  1. mae illuda!
    Dracin on
  2. How come we're getting ten entries this round? Is it just that they're shorter (haven't read them yet)? I feel obligated to point out that the voting page still says "Our eight round three contestants", though. And that the list of entries under "Round One" are actually the entries from round two and vice versa (though the result links correspond correctly to the titles).
    antialiasis on
  3. Next ten? I thought there would be eight? Or is there no next round? Is this the last one? Oh there´s my story, yay~ <3
    James Rye on
  4. It's ten fics but still eight contestants - two of the people submitted two stories each. The other thing is just a mistake, sorry...
    Ashley on
  5. Doesn´t that mean though those two people got twice the chance to get through? Aww, man. Smiling Sky won. I disliked how it kept using "horses" as word for the dog mounts. :/ Oh well, the Duane´s/Sette`s lie part was good though.
    James Rye on
  6. I didn’t even notice the use of “horses“. But what irked me was that Duane was portrayed as Twins-worshipper. But then again I’m not sure if his believe in SSael was ever explicitly brought up. He burns the Baelar-doll and says something in Tainish, but for the translation you would have to read the wiki. Later in the fight with Quigley he was talking about god in singular, so I remember asking Ashley why. But that’s formspring knowledge. So I kinda feel bad, for being that nitpicky. Seeing that most voted for that story, others don’t seem to mind.
    jardindelanuit on
  7. >Duane was portrayed as Twins-worshipper <-whut? Lol! XDDD
    James Rye on
  8. Well, he was thinking "not before the gods" (plural) and stuff like "Twins forbid". It's only a minor detail, but given that he's such a devout SSaelit, it just didn't feel right to me.
    jardindelanuit on
  9. I'm a bit worried about the numbers: Unsounded had 1275 backers, the Fanfiction contest got 31 submissions, which is great so far, but only 71/75 votes per round. This means that practically half of the voters are contestants.
    "Sette's inner angst" seems to be a popular theme. Are all those YA novels in the wake of Buffy catering to the current zeitgeist, or have they deeply affected it? >;-)
    Marshal Kilgore on
  10. Personally, I adored The Smiling Sky and voted for it because I felt it captured the characters' voices fantastically and that the theme of lying tied it well together, rendering it a more interesting overall character study than Da's Girl, which also had a great voice for Sette and dealt well with her issues but didn't have the same thematic appeal (still quite liked it, though). I confess I didn't actually notice the horses/Gefendur-Duane bits, since I was reading all those stories in an evening, but even though they're clumsy mistakes, they're so small I don't think they seriously detract from it as a story (I mean, it's not like Duane was being shown actually worshipping the wrong gods, just using figures of speech he shouldn't be). But that's just my opinion and I'm not looking to start an argument; whether you're put off by stuff like that is mostly a matter of taste.
    antialiasis on
  11. @Marshal
    Most people aren't interested in fanfiction. They're too lazy to read ;) If this was a fanart contest I guarantee the numbers would be huge.
    Ashley on
  12. Well, in my case, it's a matter of not having enough time to read the stories in the available short time. I wasn't even half through the first round when the second started. Love to read though.
    Minky on
  13. Hehe, awesome artwork! But where did Rahm's legs go?
    clayres on
  14. I also didn't have enough time to carefully read through the entries in the voting window. Sometimes work get in the way. *sigh*
    Brandi on
  15. These are some pretty long stories (not that I'm one to talk with my 9000-word piece), and for those of us with full-time jobs and irregular access to the internet it's a bit of a tall order to digest eight-ten stories in two/three days. I'm setting time aside to browse all the entries, but I think the contest would net a wider response if there was a week between rounds rather than 48 hours. I imagine we're all rather scrabbling to get our votes in on time.
    Rasputin on
  16. 2 days aren´t much to read 8-10 fics ranging from 1-22 pages. Also alot people think that fics with three pages are huge, do you think those people will spend the time to get through another 3 stories and each got way more than that amount? It´s no surprise that we got less than 100 voters on each round. Maybe the final one can be around a week long? Cause i think some of the 1000something describers can only get to Unsounded once or twice per week.
    James Rye on
  17. Aww, I'm sorry you guys had trouble finding time to read the stories. Everyone I asked said it would be better to give each only a few days at a time or else everyone would get sick of the whole thing. Either way, the voting results have been pretty stark, so adding more votes likely wouldn't have changed anything. And all the stories will remain available to read afterwards unless the author prefers their work be taken down.
    Ashley on
  18. Dragging this out over a month would probably bog it down somewhat, so perhaps it is better to speed through the entries as fast as possible. I guess the sheer volume of the entries and the tight schedule made this feel unpleasantly like marking homework for dedicated nerds like us. Considering we're already most of the way through the contest, I think giving a week for the final entries only would be a better compromise, since then the pieces that make it though the early-round mincer would be exposed to a wider readership, a consolation for the final round losing entries. Think of it as the qualifying tournaments before the Champions League...or, in your strange American parlance, the "primaries" before the "general".
    Rasputin on
  19. Good idea, Rasputin. The final eight fics will get a solid week of reading and voting time. So it is decreed!
    Ashley on
  20. Well, James's idea too, but it makes sense in my head. Right now is the "culling" phase when the weaker entries are picked off by scorpions in a massive churning scrum. Or something. Then the final showdown would be a balletic duel of the titans between Russell Crowe and Joaquin Phoenix. If that makes even the slightest bit of damned sense.
    Rasputin on
  21. I can read all dem apples, i mean fics, in ten seconds flat, Ashley.^^ (Okay i still need 2 hours but ya know, the memes XD) But i know plently people who see anything that has no pictures and more than ten pages text a huge bother to read. If you do the final 8 (?) fics being a whole week long i´m pretty sure that there will be more than 100 voters espically since there will be three times where you remind the Unsounded readers of it being in its final round. :) I cross my fingers to hopefully make it into them given that half the places (?) are already set. Maybe i cross my toes too. >.<
    James Rye on
  22. Also damn Rasputin for giving me weird images popping up in my mind seeing fics devour each other, ripping the weaker ones into shreds while a crowd of anons are cheering on their cruel battle of survival. XDDD
    James Rye on
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