Entries tagged with .announcements from the realm

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Announcements From The Realm: An Update On All Of The Things

Everyone, a few announcements on things going on for the Realm, and in general.

First of all, I apologize very much for so few sporkings as of late. I don't know if my courses are catching up or what, but I've just felt exhausted for the past while. But I promise, I'm chipping away and hope to get the stuff finished up soon.

This leads to my next announcement, which is that while I'm going to try to finish up the current sporkings I have going on right now as soon as possible, it doesn't look likely that I will begin anything new in November. That is because I'm taking part in NaNoWriMo, which will take up a good chunk of my time.

That being said, I have a lot of things lined up after life stops being so insane. I think I might have found something that outdoes Hush, Hush by means of sheer batshittery, or at least rivals it. Erm...yeah.

I recently hit my anniversary for signing on to work at LensCrafters! I've held the job for a full year! I got my free pair of glasses, and they are the most kickass Oakley sunglasses imaginable. I love those things! Now, if only the sun would come out...

Happy Halloween, everybody! Hope you all got a lot of candy and had fun!

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Announcement From The Realm: City of Bones Sporking - Replacement(s) Needed!

Greetings and salutations!

For personal reasons, carakasla has requested that her sporkings for the City of Bones project be removed.

Would there be anyone here who is interested in writing up replacements for those two chapters? One person doesn't have to take both if they don't want to. The chapters are fourteen (Hotel Dumort) and fifteen (High and Dry).

If you'd like to volunteer, please let me know!

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Announcement From The Realm: City of Bones Sporking - Final Assessment(s)

Hello, hello, hello everyone! We're nearly done with the group recapping of City of Bones. There's one matter that has come to light - the final assessment.

As you guys know, I always put a final assessment at the end of every recap for published works. I had similar plans for City of Bones, but I was wondering if you guys had things of your own that you'd like to add in. It doesn't have to be a huge thing, but if you had a few thoughts on the writing or the characters or the plot or anything like that overall, just put down a few words on whatever it is. If you don't feel there's anything you want to add that's fine. This is just if any of you have something left that you want to say, or want to tie up your thoughts or opinions.

All I ask is for two things to be taken into consideration. The first is that you try to be concise and to the point. Yes, I realize that I'm one to talk, but this is meant to tie together everyone's final thoughts and be easy for people to get what's being said.

The second thing, which I really insist on, is that you be professional and constructive in your criticism. Again, this is the part where we set down our thoughts, snarkiness aside. It's the "But seriously" tagline to our Bum Review, if you will.

An example of what we DO NOT want: "OMG this book SUCKED! Clare is a hack who published fanfiction! I wanted to kill Jack with a piano! There was more bullshit in here than in the Agean stables! What the flip?"

An example of what we DO want: "While Clare did attempt to go for the Byronic hero arc type with Jace, she went too far and made him impossible to relate to. Furthermore, while her use of prose was descriptive, her analogies were rather far-reaching".

If you have something you'd like to have put in, just PM it to me or comment it on this post. There's no set deadline, just make sure I get it before the final assessment is put up.

Happy sporking!

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Update From The Realm: Sporking Information

Hello everyone, just a few brief announcements, regarding how things will be going in the Realm.

First of all, I am going to be posting sporkings on das_sporking. I'm not sure exactly when I'll start, but I suspect that it will be at some point shortly after I finish that wretched Ghosts of the Abyss. When I begin however, I'm going to do things here a little differently. For the foreseeable future, all sporkings of fanfiction will be posted only at das_sporking. I will have links here leading to them, but the sporkings themselves will be over there. I would like to ask everyone to please be patient for this transition, as this will be the first time that I've posted in any place on LiveJournal besides the Realm. If I randomly post a fanfiction sporking here instead of at the community it's not because it's special, it's because I'm an idiot. Yeah.

At the Realm, I will continue to post my recappings of published works, as well as anything that would fall in the Other Box (memes, sporked articles, etc). The only published work I'm planning on posting to das_sporking is the City of Bones group sporking, since a lot of you guys are also members of that community and all.

Which leads nicely to our next announcement - I would like to remind everyone involved in the group sporking that if they have not handed in their sporking or given me some sort of notification regarding when the sporking will be ready, they must do so by May 25th. If I have not received anything from you - either recap or a notification of some kind - I will assume that you are no longer interested and give your chapter to someone else!!! If you sent something and you didn't get some sort of reply from me, please send it again to make sure I get it. Remember, a PM, a comment, an e-mail, any of that is fine.

Finally, I know everyone has busy lives. If you have a lot of stuff going on and you honestly don't think you can get the recap in, it's perfectly fine. Don't worry about it. Do, however, let me know, so that I'll know to pass it to someone else.

That's about it. If anyone has any questions about how many recaps have been turned in, or who is doing what chapter, or if the recapping you sent in got through alright, you can check here for that. Besides that though, have a lot of fun! Woot!

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Updates From The Realm: City Of Bones Recapping

Harken everyone, for we have a few updates on the group recapping for City of Bones!

We now have recaps for half of the chapters. Everything I got thus far has been hilarious and I for one am seriously stoked for this!

This leads to the second update - I am really hoping that this can be started at least by the start of June. I have been poking a lot of people for ideas of when their recaps will be in, and everyone has been really great about responding, for the most part. Here's the thing - if you haven't either turned in your recapping or notified me with a general idea of when it will be turned in, I really need either or by May 25th. I'm not saying that's the drop-dead time for all recaps (although if anyone does have ones that can be turned in by that time, I'll be more than happy to take them), but I at least need you to sound off with something like "I'll have it in a week" or "It should be done by such-and-such time". Even if it's a general idea, I just need some confirmation.

If you don't at least touch base with me by May 25th, I will assume you've left the group sporking and give your chapters to someone else! I really don't want to be unfair, but I do want to keep this all moving and for that to happen, I need to at least know if everyone is still on board. Again, I'm not saying I'll drop anyone if they can't get their recaps done by May 25th, I'm only asking for everyone to get in contact with me, either by PM or commenting on a post, and saying "Yeah, still in, ought to be done by roughly next week/ tomorrow/ June 1st, etc"

Third update - I've had a lot of people ask me about the maximum length for their sporkings. There really is no maximum length. Just go with what feels comfortable and gets what you want said said. Don't feel you need to cut something just because you think the sporking is too long.

Finally, on an unrelated note, I finally got around to seeing Thor. It was fantastic, well-paced, a ton of fun, and I thoroughly approve of Chris Hemsworth's shirtless scene

Just so, you know, things aren't too depressing around here.

So yeah, that's about it! Happy sporking, everyone!

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Update From The Realm: Sporking Schedule

Hello, hello, hello! The term is finally over, the papers are turned in, the textbooks are being sold back, and the Realm has got a lot more free time! As you all probably have noticed, there's a few new sporkings going up. So, let's have a list of what's going on:
Ghosts of the Abyss is still going on. I will finish it, by God, or at least get to the hentai sex scene.
Unexpected Love, a Narnia fic, has been started. While the Suethor is still updating, we're only at five chapters now so it shouldn't be too long until the sporkings catch up.
Betrayed has been started. Full steam ahead.
The City of Bones group sporking is still going on. I know I said that would be done between Marked and Betrayed, but we still need more recaps until it can be started. So we're going to do it alongside of Betrayed, instead. If you need or want to see the list of who's sporking what, you can see it here. Every sporking sent in thus far is hilarious, and I personally am stoked to do this. Let's show Cassandra Clare how we roll!
Not a sporking in the Realm, but overlordmikey has begun to spork The Door to Darkness. For those who don't know, that is a Kingdom Hearts fanfic by none other than Gethesemane Butler, which means that it's got Sues, sex, and all other things that implies.
On a late note, I hope everyone had a great Easter.

So yeah, fun to be had! Let's have at 'em, ladies and gentlemen!

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Update From The Realm: City Of Bones Group Recapping

Howdy-do, everyone! This is just a reminder that with Marked done, the group recapping for City of Bones is next in line.

If you need a reminder of who is recapping what, the list can be found here.

Remember, e-mail me the recaps and send me a PM when you do so. My e-mail address is zeldaqueen64@gmail.com. There's no hurry if you've got stuff going on, just remember that we can't start until I've got the recaps, that's all.

Also remember, if you still need a copy of City of Bones, PM me.

Aside from that, have fun! Get pumped and let's rip it a new one!

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Update From The Realm: City Of Bones: Group Recapping

So, judging by the last announcement, there is interest in a group recapping of The Mortal Instruments. So, in this post, let's figure out who gets what chapters!

There are twenty-three chapters, plus an epilogue. How many chapters everyone can have depends on how many people are interested in recapping, of course. I will put who wants what here,

Chapter 1 - erikalyndis RECAP RECEIVED
Chapter 2 - parrinoyd RECAP RECEIVED
Chapter 3 - szaleniec1000 RECAP RECEIVED
Chapter 4 - zelda_queen RECAP RECEIVED
Chapter 5 - aikaterini (will go with six, if someone wants this one) RECAP RECEIVED
Chapter 6 - aikaterini (will go with five, if someone wants this one) RECAP RECEIVED
Chapter 7 - overlordmikey RECAP RECEIVED
Chapter 8 - zelda_queen RECAP RECEIVED
Chapter 9 - erikalyndis (if no one else wants it) RECAP RECEIVED
Chapter 10 - foxypope RECAP RECEIVED
Chapter 11 - tsukasabuddha RECAP RECEIVED
Chapter 12 - tsukasabuddha RECAP RECEIVED
Chapter 13 - tsukasabuddha RECAP RECEIVED
Chapter 14 - carakasla RECAP RECEIVED
Chapter 15 - carakasla RECAP RECEIVED
Chapter 16 - nawsome RECAP RECEIVED
Chapter 17 - turtlecrackers RECAP RECEIVED
Chapter 18 - darkslover
Chapter 19 - mogselof RECAP RECEIVED
Chapter 20 - emmran RECAP RECEIVED
Chapter 21 - parrinoyd (if no one else wants it) RECAP RECEIVED
Chapter 22 - foxypope (if no one else wants it) RECAP RECEIVED
Chapter 23 - stormswift RECAP RECEIVED
Epilogue - gehayi RECAP RECEIVED

Keep in mind that this will be changed a lot, depending on who wants what.

Now, as for how this will work. Basically, everyone recaps their requested chapters, in whatever style they'd like. All I ask is that you don't actually spork the full chapters, just because this is a published work and all. Just recap, like Mervin is doing with the Twilight series.

After the recapping is done, send it to me. You can do that however you like. If you want to e-mail it to me, send it to zeldaqueen64@gmail.com, and be sure to PM me afterwards (the PM is because my e-mail is kind of weird about getting stuff in, and I don't want someone to slave away at a recap and then have it get lost in cyberspace and not know it). I will post the recappings here, in order.

As I said in the last announcement, if you are in need of a copy of the book City of Bones (or if you are interested in an online copy, for whatever reason), just let me know.

Deadlines: We're going to have a few weeks for people to lay claim to any chapters they want. I'm actually getting close to finishing Marked, and I'd like to tie that one up before posting a new book recapping. As for the deadlines of the recaps themselves...well, that's a little looser. Obviously the sooner you can send them over, the better. I just don't want to pressure folks who have stuff going on in their lives.

I think that's about everything. Just have fun, and may the spork be with you!

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Update From The Realm - Feeback Is Desired

Alrighty, those of you who perused the comments in the last recapping of Marked will recall that there was a good bit of interest in a future sporking of one very bad series, The Mortal Instruments, by Cassandra Claire. In fact, there was enough interest that a few folks expressed a desire to do a joint recapping of it.

Which brings us to the point of this announcement. If we have a group recapping of The Mortal Instruments series, would there be any more people out there who would be interested in taking a chapter or two? It would be done like the Hogwarts Exposed group sporking was, with everyone laying claim to a chapter or so, depending on how many people are interested, and everyone recapping in whatever way they'd like.

Anyway, I'm not trying to pressure anyone, this is just to see if anyone would be interested for the project. If you're interested, just drop a comment. And don't worry about whether or not you can get a copy of the books, that can be taken care of for you. *shifty eyes*

Cheers!

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Update From The Realm

ZeldaQueen: Hello everyone! Our secretary has run off on her Christmas vacation, so I'm here to give the announcements for some things to look forward to in the Realm of Literacy.

Let's see... *scans note* Okay, crush your enemies before you, hear the lamentations of their women - no, wait, wrong note.

Ah, here we go!

Some things you may have noticed already
We have a slightly different layout going on. Instead of every sporking link being crammed onto one page, we now have several different ones. The Sporking Chamber will hold all sporks done by M.A.R.Y.S.U.E. agents like before, but now all non-M.A.R.Y.S.U.E. sporkings can be located on the More Notable Sporkings page. There is the Other box like before, and now there's a page specifically for guest sporkings, both done for the Realm and by the Realm
My profile has been updated to explain things a bit better. I also added a section in which I will be listing what I am currently sporking and what I have planned for future sporks. Hopefully, I will remember to update that
I now have a Twitter, a Formspring, and a DeviantArt account
Now, we have some things to look forward to in 2011
Heart of the Sea is still going on, and I intend to continue on with Ghost of the Abyss and the one-chapter Origin
shaolina has hooked me up with a young adult series, House of Night. It's your typical dumb supernatural romance with vampires and an idiot Mary Sue named Zoey Redbird. I will start with the first in the series, Marked, but intend to go through the whole thing
I have a number of "independent" Harry Potter fics lined up. We all know what that means - Harry's an emo bastard and only Hermione understands his tormented soul. Yay
I'm also on the lookout for some Alice in Wonderland Sues, along with any from Pan's Labyrinth and some more from The Legend of Zelda. I think I might have a couple of winners, but I'm not certain
I might - and I stress the might - go through the spin-off fics that Link's Queen and Lady Azure Tamerine did. The reason I can't say for certain is that they're all so horribly whiny and angsty that I'll need some time to steel myself up
Somewhere down the line, I have a wonderfully wanky fic by the title of Faith of the Heart. It was written by a Suethor who's a huge Disney fan and who originally created the Mary Sue to be Sailor Neptune (this was back before the canon Neptune came out) and who romanced Piccolo in the DBZ universe. So yeah. Also, the plot totally rips off Kingdom Hearts, except it totally doesn't. Or something like that
I'm not sure how high up on the totem pole it is, but I really want to do Maximum Ride: The Final Warning along with the books that came after
More updates for the Sue Gallery
More Medieval-Pirate reviews, some of which will (with a bit of luck) actually include the pirate
Here's to another fantastic year of sporking and laughs! Cheers!