[The Void Project] BACK FROM THE DARKNESS
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Maybe I can try to enter a few more times? The rules don't clarify if entering more than once is allowed or not but if we need more entries to establish canon stuff I could probably put something together if I find the time tomorrow.
Jesusfreakette
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Grah, sorry guys, I know I've been absent! I am not really available much right now, for May. Everything went a little crazy on me. You guys should definitely keep posting! Come June, my life will be a little more normal and I can finish Timbra's story, and maybe a few more I've got in mind!
Thanks to everyone who's still posting and keeping this alive
If you want to participate, go ahead and do something! Write, draw, come up with ideas. Work together to make a vision. Strike out on your own and build your own story. Or, just tell something random about how you miss your villagers in the Void, or anything, really. Collectives are built as a team I'll do what I can to still be here, but I'm having surgery tomorrow, so The Void Project might rest on the backs of you beautiful people for a while!
Here's a quick something I wrote about Delete and how people are together in the Void...
Thanks to everyone who's still posting and keeping this alive
If you want to participate, go ahead and do something! Write, draw, come up with ideas. Work together to make a vision. Strike out on your own and build your own story. Or, just tell something random about how you miss your villagers in the Void, or anything, really. Collectives are built as a team I'll do what I can to still be here, but I'm having surgery tomorrow, so The Void Project might rest on the backs of you beautiful people for a while! Here's a quick something I wrote about Delete and how people are together in the Void...
In a dark land, across the black oceans, beyond the blank hills, in forests that once existed, beneath rain that devours, hidden in poisonous fog... I live.
I hunt and I run and I fall and I survive, but only just.
I eat and I scavenge and I stumble in desperation at a small creek and I wonder and I become lost.
I fight wild bears and awake to morning jays and cower beneath dragon wings.
I cry out to the darkness, and it never answers.
I still I live, but only just.
Every day, I find something else destroying me. I race to find a cure, a shield, a piece of bread. Every day I'm dying. Every day I live, but only just.
I fall and am nurtured by a lonely cub, or wander and am chased by a bull gone mad, or scream into a black canyon and am answered by another cry on the other side.
I don't know why I'm being slowly deleted. I wish it would stop, or give me a break, or treat me gently.
The Darkness never stops its blows in mercy.
But I do.
When I see the savage wolf, waiting for me in hunger, I see a fear as heavy as my own. When I see the bear cub, weeping into its frail arms, tired at the burdens too big for it to carry, I see a soul as weary as my own. When I see the dragon, roaring into the black abyss with courage and daring and power, I see a beauty as wild as my own.
I am nearly destroyed every day. The Darkness tries to find a new way to break me, keep me crushed, break my soul. The fear, the weariness, the wildness nearly kill me every day.
But when I see he wolf, the cub, the dragon, they whisper to my soul...
"You are not alone."
And so I live on, barely just, fighting with the wolf, crying with the cub, roaring with the dragon. The Darkness tries every day to squash us, and every day, there is something in us that survives.
No matter how small the candle, the black night can never snuff it out.
I don't know what it is inside us that the Darkness finds so despicable, or worth destruction, or a light which must be turned off forever. I don't know why it has grown so huge, and I am so small that I must barely survive it. I don't know why I have to be here.
I don't know how I'll make it through the day. I have survived every other, and yet still I am afraid. The world has not given up, and still I am dying.
This dark world offers me no comfort, no mercy, no compassion.
And yet even in a blackened land, I find comfort...
...when I see the power in the dragon's flame...
... the reflection in the cubs tears...
...the glint in the wolf's eyes...
...and I know that I am not alone.
I hunt and I run and I fall and I survive, but only just.
I eat and I scavenge and I stumble in desperation at a small creek and I wonder and I become lost.
I fight wild bears and awake to morning jays and cower beneath dragon wings.
I cry out to the darkness, and it never answers.
I still I live, but only just.
Every day, I find something else destroying me. I race to find a cure, a shield, a piece of bread. Every day I'm dying. Every day I live, but only just.
I fall and am nurtured by a lonely cub, or wander and am chased by a bull gone mad, or scream into a black canyon and am answered by another cry on the other side.
I don't know why I'm being slowly deleted. I wish it would stop, or give me a break, or treat me gently.
The Darkness never stops its blows in mercy.
But I do.
When I see the savage wolf, waiting for me in hunger, I see a fear as heavy as my own. When I see the bear cub, weeping into its frail arms, tired at the burdens too big for it to carry, I see a soul as weary as my own. When I see the dragon, roaring into the black abyss with courage and daring and power, I see a beauty as wild as my own.
I am nearly destroyed every day. The Darkness tries to find a new way to break me, keep me crushed, break my soul. The fear, the weariness, the wildness nearly kill me every day.
But when I see he wolf, the cub, the dragon, they whisper to my soul...
"You are not alone."
And so I live on, barely just, fighting with the wolf, crying with the cub, roaring with the dragon. The Darkness tries every day to squash us, and every day, there is something in us that survives.
No matter how small the candle, the black night can never snuff it out.
I don't know what it is inside us that the Darkness finds so despicable, or worth destruction, or a light which must be turned off forever. I don't know why it has grown so huge, and I am so small that I must barely survive it. I don't know why I have to be here.
I don't know how I'll make it through the day. I have survived every other, and yet still I am afraid. The world has not given up, and still I am dying.
This dark world offers me no comfort, no mercy, no compassion.
And yet even in a blackened land, I find comfort...
...when I see the power in the dragon's flame...
... the reflection in the cubs tears...
...the glint in the wolf's eyes...
...and I know that I am not alone.
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I had a dream last week where I was playing animal crossing, and my HOUSE had fallen into the void. The edge of the small clearing of a town was not a cliff, but an impassable wall of darkness... And what was weird as well was that it was not only populated with current villagers, but old villagers from Population: Growing! I saw Cupcake and Tad, two of my faves, and another frog... I also saw other villagers (don't remember who they were) kicking back and forth one of the basket/soccer balls that appeared in the GCN game! Finally, in the back, I saw the GCN graveyard. Except it was gigantic, filled with the crumbling homes of removed villagers of the GCN days...
It was cool, but a little sad/scary.
It was cool, but a little sad/scary.
Jesusfreakette
Senior Member
WOAH.
That is pretty epic!! I started this whole thing because I kept wondering what happened to my old GC town... I hope it's not in a graveyard at the bottom of a cliff...
I want to have dreams about Animal Crossing!
CookieInSpace
Senior Member
Hi! I really like this thread so I decided I would try to write something. Sorry for my bad English ;-;
Sprinkle POV.
It has been a few days since I decided to move. I didn't get a chance to tell the mayor, sadly. 'Goodbye Sprinkle.', she whispered while she gave me my last hug. I waited a few days, wondering if someone would come to pick me up. I was very sad when nobody did. I had everything packed up and I was waiting for the train to arrive. It was delayed. It was 5:55 am when the train finally arrived, five minutes late.
I get on the train and take a seat. 'Where am I going?', I ask Rover. 'Let me see..', he takes what appears to be a list out of his pocket. 'You're going to The Void.', he says. The Void? I never heard of that town. 'Well it looks like we're arriving.', says Rover. 'Good luck.' I wave him goodbye and get off the train.
Mayor POV.
It's been a few days since I last played. The usual chat between me and Isabelle plays on when my town is finally all set up. I look at my map. Something's wrong. There's a house missing. SPRINKLE! No. No no no no. Now I have to cycle out 16 villagers before I can get her back. That's gonna take forever! 'But it's gonna be worth it.', I whisper to myself.
Sprinkle POV.
I look up at the town flag. It's a black flag with a dead tree on it. Weird. 'Hey, you must be Sprinkle.', I hear. I turn around to see Porter smiling at me. His eyes are red. Weirder. He hands me a map. 'Thanks.', I say. I look at the map to see it's empty. Weirdest. I decide to just walk out of the trainstation. I look around my new town. All I see are dead trees and a dark blue sky. It should be around 6:30 am right now. Why is it so dark. I walk around my new town. There's nothing here, not even a river or a waterfall. I see a house in the middle of the town. It's my house. I looks really bad. It has holes everywhere. I open the door and see nothing but darkness. My flippers search for the lightswitch but I can't find it. 'Maybe it's in the back', I think to myself. I decide to walk in and search for the lightswitch, but once I take one step I start to fall. I panick and swing my flippers around in hope to find something to grab and pull myself up with, but there's nothing there. I blink one last time before I pass out.
Mayor POV.
It's been three months since Sprinkles moved out. I finally cycled out the last person I need to cycle out before I can get Sprinkle back. Mayor Wendy is here to pick up Peanut. 'Done.', I hear her say. 'Goodbye than, take care!', I say and wave her goodbye. Now I have to find someone who is willing to give me Sprinkle. I search everywhere for someone, and finally after a week, I'm getting her back. I stepped on the train and went to a town called: "The Void." When I finally arrived and left the trainstation I saw nothing but dead trees and a dark sky. I walked around town for a bit. I saw only one house. 'It must be Sprinkle's.', I say to noone. I open the door to see Sprinkle sobbing on the floor. 'Sprinkle?', I say. I stroke her back when she doesn't respond. 'No! Leave me alone!', She says and she finally opens her eyes. 'Oh, it's you.', she says when she sees me. 'I've stopped falling.', She looks around. 'Falling?', I asked. She nodded. 'After I arrived here I walked into my house and started to fall, until now.', she says. 'The Void is a dark place.', she says and I see she's about to cry. 'It's all okay now, Sprinkle. You're save now, we're going home. She nods and we leave this horrible place, together, and we're NEVER going back.
It has been a few days since I decided to move. I didn't get a chance to tell the mayor, sadly. 'Goodbye Sprinkle.', she whispered while she gave me my last hug. I waited a few days, wondering if someone would come to pick me up. I was very sad when nobody did. I had everything packed up and I was waiting for the train to arrive. It was delayed. It was 5:55 am when the train finally arrived, five minutes late.
I get on the train and take a seat. 'Where am I going?', I ask Rover. 'Let me see..', he takes what appears to be a list out of his pocket. 'You're going to The Void.', he says. The Void? I never heard of that town. 'Well it looks like we're arriving.', says Rover. 'Good luck.' I wave him goodbye and get off the train.
Mayor POV.
It's been a few days since I last played. The usual chat between me and Isabelle plays on when my town is finally all set up. I look at my map. Something's wrong. There's a house missing. SPRINKLE! No. No no no no. Now I have to cycle out 16 villagers before I can get her back. That's gonna take forever! 'But it's gonna be worth it.', I whisper to myself.
Sprinkle POV.
I look up at the town flag. It's a black flag with a dead tree on it. Weird. 'Hey, you must be Sprinkle.', I hear. I turn around to see Porter smiling at me. His eyes are red. Weirder. He hands me a map. 'Thanks.', I say. I look at the map to see it's empty. Weirdest. I decide to just walk out of the trainstation. I look around my new town. All I see are dead trees and a dark blue sky. It should be around 6:30 am right now. Why is it so dark. I walk around my new town. There's nothing here, not even a river or a waterfall. I see a house in the middle of the town. It's my house. I looks really bad. It has holes everywhere. I open the door and see nothing but darkness. My flippers search for the lightswitch but I can't find it. 'Maybe it's in the back', I think to myself. I decide to walk in and search for the lightswitch, but once I take one step I start to fall. I panick and swing my flippers around in hope to find something to grab and pull myself up with, but there's nothing there. I blink one last time before I pass out.
Mayor POV.
It's been three months since Sprinkles moved out. I finally cycled out the last person I need to cycle out before I can get Sprinkle back. Mayor Wendy is here to pick up Peanut. 'Done.', I hear her say. 'Goodbye than, take care!', I say and wave her goodbye. Now I have to find someone who is willing to give me Sprinkle. I search everywhere for someone, and finally after a week, I'm getting her back. I stepped on the train and went to a town called: "The Void." When I finally arrived and left the trainstation I saw nothing but dead trees and a dark sky. I walked around town for a bit. I saw only one house. 'It must be Sprinkle's.', I say to noone. I open the door to see Sprinkle sobbing on the floor. 'Sprinkle?', I say. I stroke her back when she doesn't respond. 'No! Leave me alone!', She says and she finally opens her eyes. 'Oh, it's you.', she says when she sees me. 'I've stopped falling.', She looks around. 'Falling?', I asked. She nodded. 'After I arrived here I walked into my house and started to fall, until now.', she says. 'The Void is a dark place.', she says and I see she's about to cry. 'It's all okay now, Sprinkle. You're save now, we're going home. She nods and we leave this horrible place, together, and we're NEVER going back.
Hey, I just wanted to make another thing for the canon contest (still don't know if entering more than once is allowed but whatever). It's just a picture I made in my paint program to showcase the differences between the "normal" animal crossing world and the void.
(Don't know if you can tell but the top of the flagpost is supposed to look like a skull)
(Don't know if you can tell but the top of the flagpost is supposed to look like a skull)
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roseiscrossing
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ogmogm this is so fun i was actually going to post a story but i restored my auto-saved content and i wasn't very happy with it. soo here's my story~
ugh its pretty lame but this void project is really cool. this story is pretty much based on a TT accident where Lolly was voided when i was supposed to trade her aghh
I hear the voices all around me, whispering into my ear in a soft and hush voice. I may live on the other side of town, but I hear the noises. I'm going to be sent away.
The mayor was in her beautiful garden, it looked stunning thanks to the Beautiful Town ordinance. The mayor's eyes sparkled like the freshly watered blue roses and her hair were as white as the carnations she had also watered.
"Mayor.. I'm thinking of leaving town! I-if that's okay with you, of course.." I was worried and shaking. I was just asking a simple question that nobody really enjoyed hearing deep on the inside, even other mayors get sad over this question with a villager they wanted to leave badly.
"Okay. Have a fun trip, my dearest Lolly." The mayor replies. She cracked a grin and whispered into my ear, "good luck." as she walked away, skipping to the gold roses nearby. Startled I looked around at the clouds thinking, "what's wrong with me? why do I feel as if the mayor doesn't want me?" but I began to feel raindrops down my paws. Was I crying or was it raining?
Rain. It rained for the past 5 days. Drip, droop, drop. Rain splattered on my window as the mayor and Colton splashed in puddles laughing. Today was the day I left the beautiful town where the mayor talked to everyone, where the beach was always full of items to explore and where the voices around you made you feel... lost.
The Void
Rain fell fast and hard across the beautiful land, drowning flowers and sinking dreams as everyone ran to their homes right away. The roof of my house began to leak and my boxes began to become wet. Hahahahah, have a fun trip, my dearest Lolly! Have a great, great time.. begins to repeat over and over again as it cycles around my house. The voices of everyone in town circled and the town tune began to turn into screams. SCCCCCCCCCREEEEECH. I felt like my ears were bleeding and my head was aching so much, which left me on my knees and my hands covering my ears and face planting into the ground. The laughs, the screams, the rain pouring, the boxes rattling, the screech in my head all went to a stop and silence. Drip, droop, drop. The black hole appeared before my very eyes under the floor. Screaming, I tried to get away but once I fell in, I felt like Alice in Wonderland. Right before my eyes were all the shattered memories of beloved members of the void being rejected by mayors and sent into the void. The void is a dark hole you cannot escape, unless you are brave. I'm brave, aren't I? The void doesn't scare me at all.
The mayor was in her beautiful garden, it looked stunning thanks to the Beautiful Town ordinance. The mayor's eyes sparkled like the freshly watered blue roses and her hair were as white as the carnations she had also watered.
"Mayor.. I'm thinking of leaving town! I-if that's okay with you, of course.." I was worried and shaking. I was just asking a simple question that nobody really enjoyed hearing deep on the inside, even other mayors get sad over this question with a villager they wanted to leave badly.
"Okay. Have a fun trip, my dearest Lolly." The mayor replies. She cracked a grin and whispered into my ear, "good luck." as she walked away, skipping to the gold roses nearby. Startled I looked around at the clouds thinking, "what's wrong with me? why do I feel as if the mayor doesn't want me?" but I began to feel raindrops down my paws. Was I crying or was it raining?
Rain. It rained for the past 5 days. Drip, droop, drop. Rain splattered on my window as the mayor and Colton splashed in puddles laughing. Today was the day I left the beautiful town where the mayor talked to everyone, where the beach was always full of items to explore and where the voices around you made you feel... lost.
The Void
Rain fell fast and hard across the beautiful land, drowning flowers and sinking dreams as everyone ran to their homes right away. The roof of my house began to leak and my boxes began to become wet. Hahahahah, have a fun trip, my dearest Lolly! Have a great, great time.. begins to repeat over and over again as it cycles around my house. The voices of everyone in town circled and the town tune began to turn into screams. SCCCCCCCCCREEEEECH. I felt like my ears were bleeding and my head was aching so much, which left me on my knees and my hands covering my ears and face planting into the ground. The laughs, the screams, the rain pouring, the boxes rattling, the screech in my head all went to a stop and silence. Drip, droop, drop. The black hole appeared before my very eyes under the floor. Screaming, I tried to get away but once I fell in, I felt like Alice in Wonderland. Right before my eyes were all the shattered memories of beloved members of the void being rejected by mayors and sent into the void. The void is a dark hole you cannot escape, unless you are brave. I'm brave, aren't I? The void doesn't scare me at all.
ugh its pretty lame but this void project is really cool. this story is pretty much based on a TT accident where Lolly was voided when i was supposed to trade her aghh
Hey, I thought I'd contribute more Curlos related nonsense because why not? By the way in this short story I'm assuming that the trashcan public works project acts as a portal to the void since it's used to delete unwanted items and the void is a place full of deleted stuff, that's why the picture I made on my last post has some trash items like a tire and a tin can. Anyway there is mild swearing, nothing too bad but I wanted to quote Planet of the Apes for no particular reason so if you are super sensitive about any cursing whatsoever you may not want to read.
Aidan opens a letter from that odd seagull he helped a few days earlier to find his reward, a statue of liberty that seems way too big to fit in an envelope. "Another one? Come on Gulliver why can't you send anything good?" Aidan bemoaned, and he threw it away in the nearby trashcan he had commissioned.
In the void, a black portal opens in the grey sky, and the statue tumbled out and smashes into the ground, breaking into pieces as it does. A nearby sheep approaches and falls to his knees before the now broken statue. "You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!" At this random shouting, a blueish-grey deer decides to approach as well, rolling his eyes in at the display. "I am so sick of your nonsense Curlos." Bruce says in an exasperated tone. "You and everyone else, why do you think I keep winding up here?" Curlos replied, chuckling dryly.
In the void, a black portal opens in the grey sky, and the statue tumbled out and smashes into the ground, breaking into pieces as it does. A nearby sheep approaches and falls to his knees before the now broken statue. "You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!" At this random shouting, a blueish-grey deer decides to approach as well, rolling his eyes in at the display. "I am so sick of your nonsense Curlos." Bruce says in an exasperated tone. "You and everyone else, why do you think I keep winding up here?" Curlos replied, chuckling dryly.
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Pokemonprime
Senior Member
I'm glad everything doesn't have to fit into canon. Because if it did we'd have problems. For example in my story O'hare lives in a never ending forest quoting The Twilight Zone, but in CainWolf's story he runs after Curlos and gets annoyed by said sheep's shenanigans.
staticistic1114
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ok so freakette aint here, so I'm gonna have to look these over..
gimme a sec guys
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omg ok maybe there are a few grammatical errors, but that thing is just so.. *tear taer* I love it!!♥♥
I really like how you conveyed each character's point of view, great job!!
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wow its very expressive and I love the idea of the comparision
very well displayed!!
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such an amazing piece!! your constant use of imagery makes me feel like I'm there!!
you should be proud of yur work, this is gold!!♥
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thank you for being a loyal member, yur contributions are always welcome♥
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omg ok maybe there are a few grammatical errors, but that thing is just so.. *tear taer* I love it!!♥♥
I really like how you conveyed each character's point of view, great job!!
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wow its very expressive and I love the idea of the comparision
very well displayed!!
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such an amazing piece!! your constant use of imagery makes me feel like I'm there!!
you should be proud of yur work, this is gold!!♥
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thank you for being a loyal member, yur contributions are always welcome♥
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Huh, maybe smug villagers just really like to quote old movies and shows. If you want to avoid having our stories clash I can change O'Hare to someone else, I just needed some random guy to be annoyed at Curlos and O'Hare is one of the voided villagers on the list that came from my town.
Pokemonprime
Senior Member
It would be nice if you could change it, but its not required. Also, O'hare quoting an old show comes from his picture quote "Its not old, its vintage" .
Oh yeah, why no mention of my story update?
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It would be nice if you could change it, but its not required. Also, O'hare quoting an old show comes from his picture quote "Its not old, its vintage" .
Oh yeah, why no mention of my story update?
I know I don't have to but I'm really fine with changing it, in fact a cranky villager would be better suited for this anyway and my Bruce just went to the void so he's going to be the straight man to Curlos's... Whatever the counterpart to a straight man is...
On a related note someone add Bruce the deer to the void list. I was too busy to try and sell/give him away yesterday because of my sister's birthday so he is voided. Between his name, cranky personality, blueish-grey color, and deep voice, I have always seen him as the Batman of animal crossing and I replaced most of his furniture with high-tech looking stuff so that's something to consider if anyone wants to use him in a story.
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So... I made myself a Curlos avatar, it's funny how I like him more as a void character to use in short stories and art than a villager. Curlos makes an excellent... Antagonist? Protagonist? I honestly have no idea what I'm going for with him but that's half the fun isn't it? Does anyone else have a voided character that they've grown to like more after being voided? Either as a character to write about or just because absence makes the heart grow fonder? Come on people I can't just talk to myself once every two days to keep this thread going, you need at least two people to hold a conversation.
Not if you're a crazy person who talks to themselves a lot...
Shut up Curlos... Comic Sans is stupid, the internet says so.
You leave my Comic Sans out of it! I'm just saying you could totally hold a conversation with one person.
Not if you're a crazy person who talks to themselves a lot...
Shut up Curlos... Comic Sans is stupid, the internet says so.
You leave my Comic Sans out of it! I'm just saying you could totally hold a conversation with one person.
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Say, I'd like to write something and I need an antagonist, does anyone have a jerk of a void villager I can use? I'm not looking for normal evil, oh no... I'm looking for Club Tortimer Troll evil... Just kind of a generic jerk is what I'm looking for, obnoxious for the sake of being obnoxious. Ok this is the last time I post until someone, anyone else posts.
One last thing, if hipsters call normal people "Sheeple" then what would a hipster sheep call them? Personally I think sheeple is a stupid word but my Curlos is supposed to be a bit annoying so I'd like for him to have his own variation of sheeple.
One last thing, if hipsters call normal people "Sheeple" then what would a hipster sheep call them? Personally I think sheeple is a stupid word but my Curlos is supposed to be a bit annoying so I'd like for him to have his own variation of sheeple.
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Tumblr Update:
Since I have received no entries on here, I will be keeping the information on the main post, but as a general offering until when I can figure the best time to start up the contest again, or to host it in a different thread.
If you have any ideas, please let us know!
Since I have received no entries on here, I will be keeping the information on the main post, but as a general offering until when I can figure the best time to start up the contest again, or to host it in a different thread.
If you have any ideas, please let us know!
roseiscrossing
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wow thank you very much! this feedback is very much appreciated. i'm glad you enjoyed my story and pointed out my strengths!! c:
I made a new signature for myself that links to the void forum, I'm hoping it will help get us bit more activity on here. I know it's a pointless thing to announce, I'm mainly saying because it's void related and because you can only say bump so many times until you have to admit a forum is dying and I refuse to let such an awesome concept die as long as there is at least one other person to talk to on here... Ok that may be a little over dramatic but it's just been quiet around here lately, my last three posts were uninterrupted over the course of four days before anyone else posted.
it doesn't seem that dramatic to me, this thread really is kind of. dead. people look at other signatures all the time so advertising it there might help, at least a little
i'm in love with this idea/concept/thing really, but i'm not a writer, not that creative and draw really slowly, so i haven't been able to contribute. i love everyone's ideas though! i gotta do something for this already.
i don't know if it's what you're looking for, but what do you think of peanut? i voided her in my first town, she went to my sister's, i reset while she got her out and she voided her and peanut ended in my town again. i think that's pretty jerk-ish, staying when she was clearly unwanted haha.
or were you thinking of an evil-looking animal?
