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WOW OKAY READING ALL OF THAT WAS SO SILLY I LOVED IT, YAY TO SOAP CLUB, GLAD I MADE A BIG SPLASH WHEN I CANNONBALLED INTO THE SERVER YAY YIPPEE I'M GONNA DO IT AGAIN IT WAS SO FUN
August LU Write-a-Thon Round Up: 276,182 Words in One Day!
On August 1, we hosted our third monthly LU Write-a-thon! The purpose of this event was to write as many productive words—words that furthered yourself, the LU writing community at large, or your own stories—within 24 hours as humanly possible. We had 85 participants this round, and though we didn’t quite beat our word count high score from last month (over 300,000), we got very close, and had a lot of fun along the way! You guys did great!
Until next month, here’s the statistics of the event (made by lovely mod @zarvacase, everyone give her a HUGE round of applause), followed by the awards and titles earned by each participant, as voted upon by the Discord server through an anonymous survey, and the clubs (either self-joined or were assigned to). Enjoy, and thanks for coming!
Winner’s Circle (Top 6 Most Wordiest)
At 16,312 words, “Writer of all Time” goes to @hotcheetohatredwastaken. (Cheeto here. Guys don’t be like me. So many birthday fics that have to be rewritten). Additionally earned “Victim of the Cheese Cult” because said cult figured out they could ping her by just saying the word “cheese.”
At 13,638 words, @nyastri comes in second with “Wordsmith.” Amazing job!
At 12,482 words, “Meemaw” (@not-freyja) comes in third! Wrangling the kids and most likely currently debating to invest in more child-leashes :D
At 10,807 words, @needfantasticstories comes in fourth with “Beta Fish!” To quote: “Skip betas so many things, and she does a fantastic job.” and further, “Skip is always reading my fics and leaving nice comments on them so tysm skip I really appreciate it <33” the votes are in, Skip, and they’re unanimous—we all love you!
At 10,292 words, @sketchy-potato is “Serial Killer” for spending most of the marathon on a fic that killed both Malon and Time. How dare you do this to us. Please continue.
And sharing sixth place with a four-word gap at 10,063 and 10,059 is @irenkaferalkitty and @gerudoevernight. Amazing job you two!
Clubs
This month, we also got clubs off the ground! Stay tuned for what we’ll be implementing when it comes to club membership and participation in the coming months, I (Cheeto here) think that you guys will really enjoy it. But this month, the process for clubs was the same as the last month—you could either self-assign to a club, or your fellow participants nominated you! (Note: some of you were in multiple clubs. Mods probably assigned you to one or two in order to keep the post running smoothly. If you would like to change your primary club or you got left out of a club you'd like to be included in, let us know.)
Soap Club
For those of you that, for one reason or another, decided that soap was tasty. (Hi guys, Cheeto here. Warning you guys now: if a single one of you @’s me about actually eating soap, I will shut this club down. You cannot have your soap club and eat it too, and I will not be held responsible for tide pod challenge 2.0. Love you guys so much and I’m delighted that you’re having fun, great power, great… you know the line.)
“Get Hugged” goes to @polynomialpandemic, also “saw and gasped aloud in delight.”
“Phil-anthropist” for @thatbluepencilcrayon, for unintentionally creating and then wholeheartedly embracing Phil, the spirit of the master sword.
“Cult Leader” and “Most Nominated” for @shadedheart138 (AKA Resident Soap Drinker). You caused quite a stir in the chats, and were quite famous by the end of this event. Can’t wait to see you next month!
“Is Totally Famous Even Though Ve Doesn’t Think Ve Is” for @imperialkatwala. To quote another submission: “Ve really doesn't think ve's famous. Gotta prove vir wrong!” and we agree.
“Co-conspirator of Phil, the flannel wearing and lizard loving sword spirit” goes to @starlight-eclipsed. You guys kept the whole chat laughing.
“Could Can and will decimate a god in a verbal showdown” for @vivalaplutothedachshund. No notes here. Agree. “Soup” for @marsnoodlesoup, because “please it would be so funny to give mars soup again.” An honorary member of the soap club for being a letter off.
Also: @sketchy-potato (from winner’s circle), @hyrulescarlet, @bluepencilcrayon, @vivalaplutothedachshund, @anime-obsessed, @shadedheart138
Cartridge Lickers
For those of you that read online that switch cartridges were designed to taste bad and went “okay, but how bad?”
“Author of Monstrosities” for @gia-d. Fishbun. (Freyja here: Why. WHY?! *insert Legend emoji of distress*)
“Most ‘Normal’ About Spirit” for @a-manicured-lawn. Additionally, to quote: “it's really weird and encouraging to have someone tell me they can't wait to see how this chapter will hurt me, but I'm the one reading whump willingly so it's fair XD”
“Totally Samwise Gamgee” and "Lawn's Partner in Crime" for @tashacee. No elaboration needed.
“Horse emoji” @anime-obsessed. Again, no elaboration was given, nor was it needed.
Additionally: @not-freyja (winner’s circle), @sketchy-potato, @shadedheart138
Aimed for the Funny Numbers Club
For those of you that wrote, and wrote with a specific purpose in mind.
“Pantser” for @harmonysixx for pantsing through the WIP! Good job!
“Summoner of Funny Numbers” for @hyrulescarlet, for starting a sprint with 666 words and then continuing to hit funny numbers. Nice.
“Mother Duck” for @winterfen. Aimed for the funny numbers, but made sure that everyone was properly hydrated and rested while doing so.
“Wind 1” for @savimatteo2810. To quote someone’s idea: “There can be two Winds. They can wear get-along shirts. One of them can be Wind 1, The other can be Wind A.”
Additionally: @marsnoodlesoup, @lunaopus, @lennsart, @bluepencilcrayon, @anime-obsessed, @sketchy-potato
All-Nighter Club
For those of you that decided that sleep was optional (please sleep. please).
“Wind A” for @bluury2. And here is the other Wind. Good job on sharing, you two!
“Artist Turned Writer” goes to @nancyheart11! Also “literally a cinnamon roll.”
“Permanently Exhausted Pigeon” @labyrinthdancer & @ra-archives. It fits the theme of the club. Good job you two. Please get some rest.
@across-violet-skies, in this club for going to sleep at 7 am. Also “AN AMAZING PERSON” who wrote “more than 4 words.”
Additionally: not-freyja (:P), needfantasticstories (winner’s circle), @awildsilver, @a-manicured-lawn, @vivalaplutothedachshund
Cheese Club
For those of you that at least decided to make a food obsession around something actually edible. Mods do endorse eating cheese.
“Died to the moon” goes to @aurora-boreas-borealis. Also, to quote: “the most likely to make me question if I've actually seen a beloved childhood media.” “Mac and Cheese Cultist” for @bittirsweeteer. Known for writing costco mac and cheese into their fic. Bonus points for making it feel organic. Unlike the costco mac and cheese.
“Least respectable (from Luna)” for @cinis0. Additionally, “Snuck into the Cheese Cult.”
“First time fic publisher” for @four-eyed-nerd. To quote: “A banger artist, can’t wait to see if their words are just as banger.”
“Schrodinger’s Cat,” to @gerudo-evernight (Also in the winner's circle). Keep being inexplicable. We love you.
“Cheese minions cheese minions cheese minions” to @lemoncatssss. Congrats on being a cheese minion. No notes, keep it up.
“Friend shaped” goes to @lennsart since they are, quote: “most likely to have become a regular in my tumblr notifs since last month <3” (Freyaj here: agree. Hard agree. Lenn is so friend-shaped.)
“Funniest Mother-trucker in this joint” goes to @life-in-winter, for rolling up, being funnier than anyone else in the server, and then vanishing for another three hours. Repeat ad nauseam.
“British Cheese Boy (Gender Neutral)” goes to @lunaopus for his enthusiasm for cheese, American not included!
“The Multitasker of All Time” goes to @musical-chan. The fandom elder with all the advice and life lessons. To quote: “Even when incredibly busy, Music managed to write well over 4000 words and that is honestly amazing in itself. She’s a fantastic writer and truly talented.”
“Vidow Messiah” is the dear @passerinesoncaffeine, and if you don’t know why… you don’t want to know. You have also been called “The Beta Reader of All Time.” High praise.
“The Hydrator™” and “Unwilling Cheese Cultist” for @peepthatbish. To quote: "mx peeps kept reminding us to drink our water!!! thanks to them i didn't forget!"
“Skord Lord” goes to @somanyfanficssolittletime. I have questions. Can I have answers?
“CHEESE CULT.” for @cat-at-a-writing-desk (in all caps with the full stop. Very specific.)
“Angst Lord” and “Mother Duck” both go to @seaotter-17, for “making me go to bed after finding out how long i'd been awake” and “making me cry with her fics.”
Additionally: @hotcheetohatredwastaken (from Winner’s circle) (unwillingly) (this is said with so much affection)
Everyone else
“Lanayru’s Biggest Fangirl” for @baileyboo2016. Feedback was unanimous. You have this crown by public consensus.
“The Silent One” for @aeghina You came, you wrote, you did not elaborate. Good job.
“most likely to get me invested in an OC” for @echoing-stars. The OC in question is Warrior's baker boyfriend Rowan and “he is an absolute sweetie.”
“Artist turned more artist” for @la-sera. You are a treasure, and you have inspired so many of us writers to write even more with your amazing art. (Freyja here: I hate you too. 💜)
“Bizarre... bees are... bees are queer!” was a rather urgent-sounding message for @nebulapaws. This seems to be an inside joke. Hope you guys enjoy it.
“Honorary Sad Wet Cat” and “best tech support ever 💞” goes to @noorahqar. They are both undoubtedly deserved. Quote: “You know how to make the computer go, and how to explain it to meemaw, which is even harder to accomplish.” (Freyja here: Cheeto, I think ‘meemaw’ has breached containment.)
“Stephen King’s Heir” was bestowed upon @lattewritesthings, to quote: “Good at horror and things along that direction. Shared a good horror fic.”
“Studious Student Who Studied, busy bee” for @rebornofstars. “She came, she wrote 2 words, she studied her butt off, absolute madlad.” Good job!
“The Lurker” this month is @somer-writes, who is, quote: “also most likely to call me by name in the comments - got jump scared by opening a response to a comment and seeing my name.”
“The Clueless One” is affectionately given to @the-au-collector. They forgot the event was even going on, still they got 1,000 words! Congrats!
“Hurt/Comfort enthusiast” goes to @toyouhellowhowareyou. It comes with the note that: “I want everyone to know Serbii was so lovely and nice!”
“Dusk to Dusk (EST)” for @turdofanerd. Also Partner In Crime to Nene.
“Sleepy,” “Four Enjoyer,” and “Turned up ten hours late with Starbucks, except no Starbucks only Vibes” all go to the lovely @undertheopensky who was also jumpscaring people with their very presence. You are loved. Get cherished.
“Yahaha, you found me!” and “Audiophile” were both given to @unexpectedstormy, who is an actual real-life korok it seems. The community loves you, Stormy.
“Twilight Whump Enjoyer,” goes to @wanderlustmagician, and honestly? Who can blame them?
“The Linguist and Architect” is without a doubt @weavingstarlight who “spends more time analyzing maps, weather patterns, and deciphering the various Hylian alphabets then it does actually writing, but the fic quality is so worth it.”
“Beach Day Spirit Bestie” and “The Keeper of Lists” goes @whatvioletdoes-blog. (Cheeto here. I appreciate you so much).
“Of The Life Saving Spreadsheet and Prompt Generator” was bestowed upon @zarvasace and oh, is that deserved. Your prompt generator is beloved by the public. Your spreadsheets are cherished by the team. Mina, your brain is so beautiful. No wonder your fics are so good.
Thank all of you for participating, we appreciate each and every one of you so so so much! If you find any typos or mistakes in this post—please feel free to contact @hotcheetohatredwastaken or @not-freyja with your concerns here on Tumblr or on Discord!
Again, a big thank you to everyone for coming to the event from all of us on the mod team! Can’t wait to see you guys next month! Next event will be run on September 1st in Eastern Australian time. Stay tuned—there will be more posts with additional information (on this shiny new blog!) about the next event within a couple of weeks!
Last but certainly not least, a huge shout out to the entire event running and moderation team for making this even possible. In no particular order give a big round of applause to: @hotcheetohatredwastaken @not-freyja @a-manicured-lawn @winterfen @rebornofstars @unexpectedstormy @gia-d @weavingstarlight @noorahqar @tashacee @wanderlustmagician @zarvasace
Have a lovely August, and we will see you all in September!
Discord server: https://discord.gg/FVu9mSVs
Hi babe! Look how good the invite you made for me looks, lol.
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I'm so fucking excited for this, I even managed to get extra time off work to participate 🤣
IT WAS ONLY 3K WORDS, C'MON GUYS!
Honestly as a non writer trying to learn, this was such a fun and welcoming event and I'm so glad I participated. It was absolutely wild hanging out and writing alongside some of my all time favourite authours.
HUGE shoutout to @hotcheetohatredwastaken @not-freyja 💜 @noorahqar @winterfen @a-manicured-lawn for being such amazing first time mods, you handled the crowds like absolute champs!
Really looking forward to the next one in August! Maybe I'll actually write the damn fic this time!
July LU Write-a-Thon: 351,092 Words in One Day!
On July 1, we hosted our second monthly LU Write-a-thon (organized by @not-freyja and @hotcheetohatredwastaken and joined by their new mods @noorahqar, @a-manicured-lawn, and @winterfen). The purpose of this event was to write as many productive words—words that furthered yourself, the LU writing community at large, or your own stories—within 24 hours as humanly possible.
We had a whopping 90+ participants as opposed to our previous 16 - none of us expected such a large turnout, and were suitably unprepared 😅 We’ll definitely be making a lot of changes to accommodate that many people during the next Write-a-Thon, occurring August 1st. Thank you all for your patience!
But, until next month, here’s the awards and titles earned by each participant, as voted upon by the Discord server through an anonymous survey. The mods read through all your hundreds of submissions (thank you guys so much!) and picked either the highest voted title or the funniest custom submission for each person, as we found appropriate. First up is the winner’s circle, then the clubs, and then everybody else in alphabetical order right below this readmore!
The Winner’s Circle (5 Most Wordiest)
20,037 “Writer of All Time” and “Most Likely to Make 1K become 100K” (As can be seen in all its glory in your Aspects AU) @tashacee: You took advantage of Freyja and Cheeto’s beefing about who would be first and snapped up the win right from under their noses. Well played!
20,011 “Writer of Some of the Time” and “Pen and Paper (Scritch... Scratchy?)” @hotcheetohatredwastaken: Missed the mark by juuust a bit, for the second time in a row. Cheeto, you suck. (:3 –Cheeto) (Qar wrote this, for reference!). Also wrote for most of the marathon on pen and paper!
17,491 “Writer of Last Time” (for winning last month and then failing to defend their title) and “The FourShadow-er of all Time” (for the unholy amount of Chekov’s Guns they leave lying around loaded in their docs) @not-freyja: you are the most autistic about Legend. Nerd.
13,203 “Will Make You Cry” and “Captain of the Twilight Angst Tag on Ao3” @somer-writes: Boosting the Twilight economy, and we’re all happy about it. Also the second-funniest person in the server, with the second-most stars!
13,000 “AU Collector” and “Four Enjoyer” @zarvasace: Whether they're heroes with disabilities, space rangers, or vampires, if Mina wrote it, the boys will be written well.
Clubs
Now while everyone’s accomplishments as individuals were nothing to sneeze at, teamwork does in fact make the dream work. A few lovely people made a couple of equally lovely groups, either by their own choice or as assigned by peer review.
Aimed for the Funny Numbers Club
“Literally Satan” @allwayswildchild: with exactly 6666 words, you deserve every bit of this cursed title.
“Lawn Blart Mall Cop” and “Qar's Mom in a Moment of Weakness Apparently (And Then Qar’s Sister in a Moment of Un-Weakness)” @a-manicured-lawn: The latter explains itself. Apparently, the vision of Lawn segwaying around is amusing. [Some people just can’t appreciate the beauty of a white shirt, tie, and glorious moped… ~Lawn]
“The Reincarnated” @defenestration13: Hadn't written in six months but then reappeared to write multiple thousand words. Good job.
“Multimedia Powerhouse” @passerinesoncaffeine: The art, the writing, Raven's got it all! Painting, analyzing music, commenting, whatever you touch it turns to gold.
“Dark Miette” goes to @rebornofstars: An inside joke that I don’t understand. Also thought you should know that you got [insert bee pun].
“The Memer” and “Literally Wind” @savimatteo2810: These are related.
“The Quoter” @whatvioletdoes-blog: For spending the event harvesting quotable quotes for their chat-fic.
(freyja overshot all potential funny numbers, but is a member at heart)
Most Likely to Get Fangirled (Gender Neutral) Over Club
“Literally Hyrule” @across-violet-skies: Also called the Spunky Sidekick and a calming jasmine tea type person. Hopefully your ghost pepper recovery goes well.
“The Snippeter” @imperialkatwala: For sharing so many snippets to us hungry folk. Thank you kindly.
“Friend Shaped” @polynomialpandemic: A friend to all. Also a “Snippeter” - thank you for feeding the masses!
“Four Tormentor” @undertheopensky: For really obvious reasons. Also managed to make Freyja scream for 10 minutes with your mere presence alone!
Other Friend Groups
“Sad Wet Cat Club” @cinis0 and @lunaopus, you two seem to have nominated one another, so you get this club all to yourselves! However, I would love to know what the talk of forgetting that the Queen died was about…. (Qar has requested to be an honorary member of this club)
@awildsilver and @four-eyed-nerd, you two get to come together as “Four-Eyed-Nerd’s Rat” and “AWildSilver’s Cat,” which is I think our favorite group of all in this month’s running. I do have some additional questions for you two, however, about a mention of the bee movie as an original work (allowed as long as it’s not copy pasted and also hilarious) for you Wild and the title “Honey I shrunk the Links” for you, Four.
The Community Support Team
“The Commentator of All Time” @1-renegade: To directly quote, “Ain't NOBODY give better feedback and comments than lawlessland.”
“Will Make You Cry” @artsyanonymity: Anonymity is the sweetest and kindest commenter in existence! SHE. WILL. MAKE. YOU. CRy. Writes the nicest comments and they make me (and apparently several others) cry
“The Encouragement Itself” @cat-at-a-writing-desk: For encouraging others to reach their goals. We appreciate you!
“Drill Sergeant” @gintrinsic-writing: Made Qar get 5k and scared everyone else into writing. (You did it! I got 5k! The fear (with funny intonation) dragged me over the finish line -Qar)
“Drawer of A Thousand Words” @la-sera: Ruler of the Legend and Hyrule brotherhood, inspirer of writers, and the spreader of so much love with your art this Fan Joy July with the art you spent the marathon working on. Can’t wait to see it all as the month goes on.
“The Reader of all Time” @life-in-winter: Or as you all probably know her, passerine44, the writer of the best ao3 comments of all time. Thea, you walk into a digital room and every writer there makes heart eyes at you. Cannot wait to read the writing you’ve been working on (and leave a comment) to return the favor.
“The Respondent of All Time” @silvrash-797: Silvrash had over four months of unanswered ao3 comments that she caught up with, congrats!
“Lives up to the Screen Name” @sunny-porridge: To quote: “Sunny is 100% a ray of sunshine and anyone who says otherwise can FIGHT ME” and I think we all agree.
“100% Bunny Accurate.” @toyouhellohowareyou: Who is The Bunny Lord [Beloved Pet and Bunny Boy (Legend) Himself].
“The Wildest Supporter.” @twilightangel83: Supported people and sent a lot of Wild emojis, so much so that we started picturing you as Wild!
“Poet” and “Master of the Shrimp Check” @winterfen: Writes good poetry, and also made sure that everyone was appropriately fed, hydrated, and rested for this event.
Transfer Students
“I don’t work here, Lady” goes to bArk who neither has a tumblr nor writes for this fandom, but showed up and had fun anyways. Thanks for joining us!
“He Who Finished His Book” goes to jr_for_potus44 (not on Tumblr). Congrats!
“Split Screen” goes to @straight-outta-hobbiton for writing two fics on two screens at the same time, neither of which were LU. Frightening.
The Silent Ones
@pelicanpig, @mmelete, @wayfayrr, @raeofsky, @summaryscar @sunkissedkales: You guys came, you wrote, you did not elaborate. How mysterious your aura is (positive, deeply positive.)
"The Almost Silent One" @the-au-collector: Talked before and after, but not during the event. Probably too busy writing, or busy in general - good job either way!
Everybody else!
“Frequent Flier (WPM)” @anime-obsessed: For participating in so many sprints. Also earned “vocaloid enjoyer.”
“Keyboard Warrior” @august-the-friend: You fought autocorrect and lost 3-0, but it was a valiant fight nonetheless. You did great.
“Artist turned Writer” @aurora-boreas-borealis: Took a break from streaming to write—a huge shout out for all your hard work and your help with colors! (~the actual pigments, not the Links ~Lawn)
“Literally Sun” @beesandhoney1219: Warmer than sunlight, sweeter than sugar, and absolutely obsessed with Sky’s girlfriend.
“Most Likely to Include Raccoons in their Fic” @bittirsweeteer: They Who Has Given Legend Espresso (thank you for your service).
“Last Minute Vidow” @deleetrix: Something that should always be encouraged. Thank you for feeding us.
“Stargiver” @emberlylion: For starring in a lot of posts, especially cat pics. Thank you for your service.
Move over Time, @estelian-01 “Will Fight Majora and Win” and then go back to studying.
“Studious Student Who (has not) Studied” @gerudoevernight: Self nominated for “Studious Student who Studied” for hitting their goal while in school. The mod team disagreed with the accuracy of that title and affectionately chose this one instead. Good job hitting your goal!
“The Outliner” @gia-d: Accidentally wrote a first draft. Also think it should be noted that everyone is convinced you either could kill a god or that you carry one around in your pocket.
“Onomatopoeia Outrage” @halo-burns: Who debated the word “ow” so hard they inflicted it on the people around them.
“The Scholar” @irenkaferalkitty: For her extensive collection of well-researched data, presented in charts, documents and yes, excel sheets. We appreciate you.
“Most Improved” @labyrinthdancer: Their writing has improved a lot since they started posting! also they write really dark twilight & the chain fics. Being a new writer is scary, but they kept at it and are doing so well!
“Writer of Most Cursed Victorian Child” aka their take on Ravio, is @lele5429 with their first ever fic, which is as gorgeous in words as your art is in ink.
“The Hype Man (gender neutral)/Moral Support” @lemoncatssss: For all the encouragement that you gave others. Also the cat photos. Especially the cat photos.
“The accidental friend acquirer” @lennsart: For somehow befriending literally every single person you talk to.
“Severe Case of Clacking” @lerikwrites: You know why. Pennies in a washing machine my friend.
“Hyrule Hurter” goes to @linkiscool33: We all have the blorbo we love to put in the blender, but no one blends Rulie like you do.
“Marcus Actually Writes!?” @marcusdoodlesalot: For a second month in a row, some of us are still befuddled that Marcus is actually a writer, and not just an artist. Hard to believe that someone can have that much talent in both fields.
“Soup Soup Soup Soup Soup (Soup Soup Soup Soup Soup)” @marsnoodlesoup: I... do not know what this means. Congrats, it seems you’re soup.
“The Veteran” @musical-chan: For sharing stories of the early days of fandom. Back in my day but the most positive way possible
“Artist Turned Writer” @mysticstars105: Came out and wrote a whopping 400 words, which is so many words especially when you’re new. Gold Star!
“Art Fight Pre-Gaming” @nebulapaws: For their talk of Art Fight. Hope you have fun participating this month!
“Resident Audiophile” @needfantasticstories: Not just for writing with speech-to-text all day, but for your constant enthusiastic screaming about Epic the musical.
“Most likely to fight God and Win” and “The Modderrrrrr” @noorahqar: Who is actually Sky. Not with the sleepy part though. She actually wrote so much about Sky that he stole all her sleepy. Number one on the starboard, with the proud title of MVM (Most Valuable Mod) for sticking the landing as midnight hit. Also the one with “The Most Sigmas to Grindset” whatever… whatever that means. (Please help what does that mean?)
“Picture Perfect Exhaustion” @nyastri: Their PFP (Four Doubled Over, hands on knees) combined with the announcement they'd reached their writing goal at the end of the marathon really just sold the picture for me. Well done.
“The Sleepy One” @ocha-blue: who justifiably went to bed as soon as they finished. (Hope you're recovered by now.)
“First Time Fic Writer” @peepthatbish: for breaking into the fic scene and boosting morale for our mod team, especially Lawn. We appreciate you!
“Slow And Steady (WPM)” @pokegeek151: Who was chugging away all day long.
“Doomed by the Narrative” @ra-archives: Google docs acting up, cat sitting on lap, and yet you persisted. Good job.
“My Little Friend Who I Love (This Is Qar Btw) (This Is Part Of The Title)” and “Wordsmith” @rosehipandroots: This is a direct copy paste from your submissions, Rose. Hope you enjoy it. But your amazing descriptions really make you a wordsmith. “The SkyBoy Enjoyer of All Time” @sapphicseasapphire: for your lovely art and writing of the boy!
“Task Succeeded Successfully” @screaming-but-i-have-four-swords: was an artist turned writer that tried to write words, and did! Good job.
“Artist Turned… More Artist” @seaotter-17: We were told you write descriptions like a poet, but in this event, you were most recognizable by your drawings of Nina the cat. Thank you for sharing.
The “Person with a Passion for Pudding” (which is definitely an inside joke I do not understand, so I hope it makes you laugh) @somanyfanficssolittletime: Thanks for participating!
“The Fic Reccer of all Time” @staring-at-a-blank-page: For recommending so many fics, their own and others, up to read. Thank you!
“The Drabbler” @tenderleavesbob: For their lovely drabbles, of which they wrote around 10k of. The title is appropriate - it seems your drabbles have taken Tumblr (and the participants in this survey) by storm!
“100% Bunny Accurate Fiction” @toyouhellohowareyou: writer of the most rabbit-fact-checked fics of all time by our own Bunny Lord [Beloved Pet and Bunny Boy (Legend) Himself]
“The Podficcer of All Time” @unexpectedstormy: For podfic making, promoting, and educating. And if that wasn’t enough fae is also our very own “Dragon Tamer” who spent the event working on their HTTYD WIP!
“The Dashshunder” @vivalaplutothedachshund: For sharing your lovely menace of a dog Pluto with us all. We also appreciate you both in the chats and in our rampage to give PolynomialPandemic 109 hugs.
“Mod Emotional Support. We love you” @wanderlustmagician: You know what you did, and Cheeto’s firstborn deservedly belongs to you.
“Word Weaver” and “Fanfiction Foul---was writing at work instead of working” @weavingstarlight: Your words sparkle as bright as you do, glitter jar.
“Literally First (also shared cat pics)” @witchdoctor39: Even Hylia can’t hold a candle to how much you love that poor poor man!
Thank all of you for participating, we appreciate each and every one of you so so so much! Please note that we had 90+ participants, and as such, there is probably guaranteed to be some mistakes on the list above. If you find any typos or pronoun goofs or anyone that was put on the list twice or missing or under the wrong name or put under the wrong name or any error that comes with having different discord and tumblr names or if you were left off the list in error or if you want to request a different name than the one you received or you want to be put into or removed from one club or another or anything else that could have gone wrong—please feel free to contact @HotCheetoHatredWasTaken or @not-freyja with your concerns here on tumblr!
Again, a big thank you to everyone for coming to the event from all of us on the mod team! Can’t wait to see you guys next month! And stay tuned---there will be another post with more information about the next event within the next couple of weeks!
Most fun writing sessions I've had in a loooooooooong time. Thank you so much for hosting, it was so amazing!!!
July LU Write-a-Thon: 351,092 Words in One Day!
On July 1, we hosted our second monthly LU Write-a-thon (organized by @not-freyja and @hotcheetohatredwastaken and joined by their new mods @noorahqar, @a-manicured-lawn, and @winterfen). The purpose of this event was to write as many productive words—words that furthered yourself, the LU writing community at large, or your own stories—within 24 hours as humanly possible.
We had a whopping 90+ participants as opposed to our previous 16 - none of us expected such a large turnout, and were suitably unprepared 😅 We’ll definitely be making a lot of changes to accommodate that many people during the next Write-a-Thon, occurring August 1st. Thank you all for your patience!
But, until next month, here’s the awards and titles earned by each participant, as voted upon by the Discord server through an anonymous survey. The mods read through all your hundreds of submissions (thank you guys so much!) and picked either the highest voted title or the funniest custom submission for each person, as we found appropriate. First up is the winner’s circle, then the clubs, and then everybody else in alphabetical order right below this readmore!
The Winner’s Circle (5 Most Wordiest)
20,037 “Writer of All Time” and “Most Likely to Make 1K become 100K” (As can be seen in all its glory in your Aspects AU) @tashacee: You took advantage of Freyja and Cheeto’s beefing about who would be first and snapped up the win right from under their noses. Well played!
20,011 “Writer of Some of the Time” and “Pen and Paper (Scritch... Scratchy?)” @hotcheetohatredwastaken: Missed the mark by juuust a bit, for the second time in a row. Cheeto, you suck. (:3 –Cheeto) (Qar wrote this, for reference!). Also wrote for most of the marathon on pen and paper!
17,491 “Writer of Last Time” (for winning last month and then failing to defend their title) and “The FourShadow-er of all Time” (for the unholy amount of Chekov’s Guns they leave lying around loaded in their docs) @not-freyja: you are the most autistic about Legend. Nerd.
13,203 “Will Make You Cry” and “Captain of the Twilight Angst Tag on Ao3” @somer-writes: Boosting the Twilight economy, and we’re all happy about it. Also the second-funniest person in the server, with the second-most stars!
13,000 “AU Collector” and “Four Enjoyer” @zarvasace: Whether they're heroes with disabilities, space rangers, or vampires, if Mina wrote it, the boys will be written well.
Clubs
Now while everyone’s accomplishments as individuals were nothing to sneeze at, teamwork does in fact make the dream work. A few lovely people made a couple of equally lovely groups, either by their own choice or as assigned by peer review.
Aimed for the Funny Numbers Club
“Literally Satan” @allwayswildchild: with exactly 6666 words, you deserve every bit of this cursed title.
“Lawn Blart Mall Cop” and “Qar's Mom in a Moment of Weakness Apparently (And Then Qar’s Sister in a Moment of Un-Weakness)” @a-manicured-lawn: The latter explains itself. Apparently, the vision of Lawn segwaying around is amusing. [Some people just can’t appreciate the beauty of a white shirt, tie, and glorious moped… ~Lawn]
“The Reincarnated” @defenestration13: Hadn't written in six months but then reappeared to write multiple thousand words. Good job.
“Multimedia Powerhouse” @passerinesoncaffeine: The art, the writing, Raven's got it all! Painting, analyzing music, commenting, whatever you touch it turns to gold.
“Dark Miette” goes to @rebornofstars: An inside joke that I don’t understand. Also thought you should know that you got [insert bee pun].
“The Memer” and “Literally Wind” @SaviMatteo2810: These are related.
“The Quoter” @whatvioletdoes-blog: For spending the event harvesting quotable quotes for their chat-fic.
(freyja overshot all potential funny numbers, but is a member at heart)
Most Likely to Get Fangirled (Gender Neutral) Over Club
“Literally Hyrule” @across-violet-skies: Also called the Spunky Sidekick and a calming jasmine tea type person. Hopefully your ghost pepper recovery goes well.
“The Snippeter” @ImperialKatwala: For sharing so many snippets to us hungry folk. Thank you kindly.
“Friend Shaped” @polynomialpandemic: A friend to all. Also a “Snippeter” - thank you for feeding the masses!
“Four Tormentor” @undertheopensky: For really obvious reasons. Also managed to make Freyja scream for 10 minutes with your mere presence alone!
Other Friend Groups
“Sad Wet Cat Club” @cinis0 and @lunaopus, you two seem to have nominated one another, so you get this club all to yourselves! However, I would love to know what the talk of forgetting that the Queen died was about…. (Qar has requested to be an honorary member of this club)
@awildsilver and @four-eyed-nerd, you two get to come together as “Four-Eyed-Nerd’s Rat” and “AWildSilver’s Cat,” which is I think our favorite group of all in this month’s running. I do have some additional questions for you two, however, about a mention of the bee movie as an original work (allowed as long as it’s not copy pasted and also hilarious) for you Wild and the title “Honey I shrunk the Links” for you, Four.
The Support Team
“The Commentator of All Time” @1-renegade: To directly quote, “Ain't NOBODY give better feedback and comments than lawlessland.”
“Will Make You Cry” @artsy-anonymity: Anonymity is the sweetest and kindest commenter in existence! SHE. WILL. MAKE. YOU. CRy. Writes the nicest comments and they make me (and apparently several others) cry
“The Encouragement Itself” @cat-at-a-writing-desk: For encouraging others to reach their goals. We appreciate you!
“Drill Sergeant” @gintrinsic-writing: Made Qar get 5k and scared everyone else into writing. (You did it! I got 5k! The fear (with funny intonation) dragged me over the finish line -Qar)
“Drawer of A Thousand Words” @la-sera: Ruler of the Legend and Hyrule brotherhood, inspirer of writers, and the spreader of so much love with your art this Fan Joy July with the art you spent the marathon working on. Can’t wait to see it all as the month goes on.
“The Reader of all Time” @life-in-winter: Or as you all probably know her, passerine44, the writer of the best ao3 comments of all time. Thea, you walk into a digital room and every writer there makes heart eyes at you. Cannot wait to read the writing you’ve been working on (and leave a comment) to return the favor.
“The Respondent of All Time” @silvrash-797: Silvrash had over four months of unanswered ao3 comments that she caught up with, congrats!
“Lives up to the Screen Name” @sunny-porridge: To quote: “Sunny is 100% a ray of sunshine and anyone who says otherwise can FIGHT ME” and I think we all agree.
“100% Bunny Accurate.” @toyouhellohowareyou: Who is The Bunny Lord [Beloved Pet and Bunny Boy (Legend) Himself].
“The Wildest Supporter.” @Twilight-Angel83: Supported people and sent a lot of Wild emojis, so much so that we started picturing you as Wild!
“Poet” and “Master of the Shrimp Check” @winterfen: Writes good poetry, and also made sure that everyone was appropriately fed, hydrated, and rested for this event.
Transfer Students
“I don’t work here, Lady” goes to bArk who neither has a tumblr nor writes for this fandom, but showed up and had fun anyways. Thanks for joining us!
“He Who Finished His Book” goes to jr_for_potus44 (not on Tumblr). Congrats!
“Split Screen” goes to @straight-outta-hobbiton for writing two fics on two screens at the same time, neither of which were LU. Frightening.
The Silent Ones
@pelicanpig, @mmelete, @wayfayrr, @raeofsky, @summaryscar @sunkissedkales: You guys came, you wrote, you did not elaborate. How mysterious your aura is (positive, deeply positive.)
"The Almost Silent One" @the-au-collector: Talked before and after, but not during the event. Probably too busy writing, or busy in general - good job either way!
Everybody else!
“Frequent Flier (WPM)” @anime-obsessed: For participating in so many sprints. Also earned “vocaloid enjoyer.”
“Keyboard Warrior” @august-the-friend: You fought autocorrect and lost 3-0, but it was a valiant fight nonetheless. You did great.
“Artist turned Writer” @aurora-boreas-borealis: Took a break from streaming to write—a huge shout out for all your hard work and your help with colors! (~the actual pigments, not the Links ~Lawn)
“Literally Sun” @beesandhoney1219: Warmer than sunlight, sweeter than sugar, and absolutely obsessed with Sky’s girlfriend.
“Most Likely to Include Raccoons in their Fic” @bittirsweeteer: They Who Has Given Legend Espresso (thank you for your service).
“Last Minute Vidow” @deleetrix: Something that should always be encouraged. Thank you for feeding us.
“Stargiver” @emberlylion: For starring in a lot of posts, especially cat pics. Thank you for your service.
Move over Time, @estelian-01 “Will Fight Majora and Win” and then go back to studying.
“Studious Student Who (has not) Studied” @gerudoevernight: Self nominated for “Studious Student who Studied” for hitting their goal while in school. The mod team disagreed with the accuracy of that title and affectionately chose this one instead. Good job hitting your goal!
“The Outliner” @gia-d: Accidentally wrote a first draft. Also think it should be noted that everyone is convinced you either could kill a god or that you carry one around in your pocket.
“Onomatopoeia Outrage” @halo-burns: Who debated the word “ow” so hard they inflicted it on the people around them.
“The Scholar” @irenkaferalkitty: For her extensive collection of well-researched data, presented in charts, documents and yes, excel sheets. We appreciate you.
“Most Improved” @labyrinthdancer: Their writing has improved a lot since they started posting! also they write really dark twilight & the chain fics. Being a new writer is scary, but they kept at it and are doing so well!
“Writer of Most Cursed Victorian Child” aka their take on Ravio, is @lele5429 with their first ever fic, which is as gorgeous in words as your art is in ink.
“The Hype Man (gender neutral)/Moral Support” @lemoncatssss: For all the encouragement that you gave others. Also the cat photos. Especially the cat photos.
“The accidental friend acquirer” @lennsart: For somehow befriending literally every single person you talk to.
“Severe Case of Clacking” @lerikwrites: You know why. Pennies in a washing machine my friend.
“Hyrule Hurter” goes to @linkiscool33: We all have the blorbo we love to put in the blender, but no one blends Rulie like you do.
“Marcus Actually Writes!?” @marcusdoodlesalot: For a second month in a row, some of us are still befuddled that Marcus is actually a writer, and not just an artist. Hard to believe that someone can have that much talent in both fields.
“Soup Soup Soup Soup Soup (Soup Soup Soup Soup Soup)” @marsnoodlesoup: I... do not know what this means. Congrats, it seems you’re soup.
“The Veteran” @musical-chan: For sharing stories of the early days of fandom. Back in my day but the most positive way possible
“Artist Turned Writer” @mysticstars105: Came out and wrote a whopping 400 words, which is so many words especially when you’re new. Gold Star!
“Art Fight Pre-Gaming” @nebulapaws: For their talk of Art Fight. Hope you have fun participating this month!
“Resident Audiophile” @needfantasticstories: Not just for writing with speech-to-text all day, but for your constant enthusiastic screaming about Epic the musical.
“Most likely to fight God and Win” and “The Modderrrrrr” @noorahqar: Who is actually Sky. Not with the sleepy part though. She actually wrote so much about Sky that he stole all her sleepy. Number one on the starboard, with the proud title of MVM (Most Valuable Mod) for sticking the landing as midnight hit. Also the one with “The Most Sigmas to Grindset” whatever… whatever that means. (Please help what does that mean?)
“Picture Perfect Exhaustion” @nyastri: Their PFP (Four Doubled Over, hands on knees) combined with the announcement they'd reached their writing goal at the end of the marathon really just sold the picture for me. Well done.
“The Sleepy One” @ocha-blue: who justifiably went to bed as soon as they finished. (Hope you're recovered by now.)
“First Time Fic Writer” @peepthatbish: for breaking into the fic scene and boosting morale for our mod team, especially Lawn. We appreciate you!
“Slow And Steady (WPM)” @Pokegeek151: Who was chugging away all day long.
“Doomed by the Narrative” @ra-archives: Google docs acting up, cat sitting on lap, and yet you persisted. Good job.
“My Little Friend Who I Love (This Is Qar Btw) (This Is Part Of The Title)” and “Wordsmith” @rosehipandroots: This is a direct copy paste from your submissions, Rose. Hope you enjoy it. But your amazing descriptions really make you a wordsmith. “The SkyBoy Enjoyer of All Time” @sapphicseasapphire: for your lovely art and writing of the boy!
“Task Succeeded Successfully” @screaming-but-i-have-four-swords: was an artist turned writer that tried to write words, and did! Good job.
“Artist Turned… More Artist” @seaotter-01: We were told you write descriptions like a poet, but in this event, you were most recognizable by your drawings of Nina the cat. Thank you for sharing.
The “Person with a Passion for Pudding” (which is definitely an inside joke I do not understand, so I hope it makes you laugh) @somanyfanficssolittletime: Thanks for participating!
“The Fic Reccer of all Time” @staring-at-a-blank-page: For recommending so many fics, their own and others, up to read. Thank you!
“The Drabbler” @tenderleavesbob: For their lovely drabbles, of which they wrote around 10k of. The title is appropriate - it seems your drabbles have taken Tumblr (and the participants in this survey) by storm!
“100% Bunny Accurate Fiction” @toyouhellohowareyou: writer of the most rabbit-fact-checked fics of all time by our own Bunny Lord [Beloved Pet and Bunny Boy (Legend) Himself]
“The Podficcer of All Time” @unexpectedstormy: For podfic making, promoting, and educating. And if that wasn’t enough fae is also our very own “Dragon Tamer” who spent the event working on their HTTYD WIP!
“The Dashshunder” @vivalaplutothedachshund: For sharing your lovely menace of a dog Pluto with us all. We also appreciate you both in the chats and in our rampage to give PolynomialPandemic 109 hugs.
“Mod Emotional Support. We love you” @wanderlustmagician: You know what you did, and Cheeto’s firstborn deservedly belongs to you.
“Word Weaver” and “Fanfiction Foul---was writing at work instead of working” @weavingstarlight: Your words sparkle as bright as you do, glitter jar.
“Literally First (also shared cat pics)” @witchdoctor39: Even Hylia can’t hold a candle to how much you love that poor poor man!
Thank all of you for participating, we appreciate each and every one of you so so so much! Please note that we had 90+ participants, and as such, there is probably guaranteed to be some mistakes on the list above. If you find any typos or pronoun goofs or anyone that was put on the list twice or missing or under the wrong name or put under the wrong name or any error that comes with having different discord and tumblr names or if you were left off the list in error or if you want to request a different name than the one you received—please feel free to contact @HotCheetoHatredWasTaken or @not-freyja with your concerns here on tumblr!
Again, a big thank you to everyone for coming to the event from all of us on the mod team! Can’t wait to see you guys next month! And stay tuned---there will be another post with more information about the next event within the next couple of weeks!
Discord server: https://discord.gg/FVu9mSVs
Thank you! I don't really feel qualified lol but I'm excited! I'll try to write the most I can
I was not expecting to be mentioned! Thank you so much for the superlative, it's very accurate lol. Great job to everyone who participated!
July LU Write-a-Thon: 351,092 Words in One Day!
On July 1, we hosted our second monthly LU Write-a-thon (organized by @not-freyja and @hotcheetohatredwastaken and joined by their new mods @noorahqar, @a-manicured-lawn, and @winterfen). The purpose of this event was to write as many productive words—words that furthered yourself, the LU writing community at large, or your own stories—within 24 hours as humanly possible.
We had a whopping 90+ participants as opposed to our previous 16 - none of us expected such a large turnout, and were suitably unprepared 😅 We’ll definitely be making a lot of changes to accommodate that many people during the next Write-a-Thon, occurring August 1st. Thank you all for your patience!
But, until next month, here’s the awards and titles earned by each participant, as voted upon by the Discord server through an anonymous survey. The mods read through all your hundreds of submissions (thank you guys so much!) and picked either the highest voted title or the funniest custom submission for each person, as we found appropriate. First up is the winner’s circle, then the clubs, and then everybody else in alphabetical order right below this readmore!
The Winner’s Circle (5 Most Wordiest)
20,037 “Writer of All Time” and “Most Likely to Make 1K become 100K” (As can be seen in all its glory in your Aspects AU) @tashacee: You took advantage of Freyja and Cheeto’s beefing about who would be first and snapped up the win right from under their noses. Well played!
20,011 “Writer of Some of the Time” and “Pen and Paper (Scritch... Scratchy?)” @hotcheetohatredwastaken: Missed the mark by juuust a bit, for the second time in a row. Cheeto, you suck. (:3 –Cheeto) (Qar wrote this, for reference!). Also wrote for most of the marathon on pen and paper!
17,491 “Writer of Last Time” (for winning last month and then failing to defend their title) and “The FourShadow-er of all Time” (for the unholy amount of Chekov’s Guns they leave lying around loaded in their docs) @not-freyja: you are the most autistic about Legend. Nerd.
13,203 “Will Make You Cry” and “Captain of the Twilight Angst Tag on Ao3” @somer-writes: Boosting the Twilight economy, and we’re all happy about it. Also the second-funniest person in the server, with the second-most stars!
13,000 “AU Collector” and “Four Enjoyer” @zarvasace: Whether they're heroes with disabilities, space rangers, or vampires, if Mina wrote it, the boys will be written well.
Clubs
Now while everyone’s accomplishments as individuals were nothing to sneeze at, teamwork does in fact make the dream work. A few lovely people made a couple of equally lovely groups, either by their own choice or as assigned by peer review.
Aimed for the Funny Numbers Club
“Literally Satan” @allwayswildchild: with exactly 6666 words, you deserve every bit of this cursed title.
“Lawn Blart Mall Cop” and “Qar's Mom in a Moment of Weakness Apparently (And Then Qar’s Sister in a Moment of Un-Weakness)” @a-manicured-lawn: The latter explains itself. Apparently, the vision of Lawn segwaying around is amusing. [Some people just can’t appreciate the beauty of a white shirt, tie, and glorious moped… ~Lawn]
“The Reincarnated” @defenestration13: Hadn't written in six months but then reappeared to write multiple thousand words. Good job.
“Multimedia Powerhouse” @passerinesoncaffeine: The art, the writing, Raven's got it all! Painting, analyzing music, commenting, whatever you touch it turns to gold.
“Dark Miette” goes to @rebornofstars: An inside joke that I don’t understand. Also thought you should know that you got [insert bee pun].
“The Memer” and “Literally Wind” @savimatteo2810: These are related.
“The Quoter” @whatvioletdoes-blog: For spending the event harvesting quotable quotes for their chat-fic.
(freyja overshot all potential funny numbers, but is a member at heart)
Most Likely to Get Fangirled (Gender Neutral) Over Club
“Literally Hyrule” @across-violet-skies: Also called the Spunky Sidekick and a calming jasmine tea type person. Hopefully your ghost pepper recovery goes well.
“The Snippeter” @imperialkatwala: For sharing so many snippets to us hungry folk. Thank you kindly.
“Friend Shaped” @polynomialpandemic: A friend to all. Also a “Snippeter” - thank you for feeding the masses!
“Four Tormentor” @undertheopensky: For really obvious reasons. Also managed to make Freyja scream for 10 minutes with your mere presence alone!
Other Friend Groups
“Sad Wet Cat Club” @cinis0 and @lunaopus, you two seem to have nominated one another, so you get this club all to yourselves! However, I would love to know what the talk of forgetting that the Queen died was about…. (Qar has requested to be an honorary member of this club)
@awildsilver and @four-eyed-nerd, you two get to come together as “Four-Eyed-Nerd’s Rat” and “AWildSilver’s Cat,” which is I think our favorite group of all in this month’s running. I do have some additional questions for you two, however, about a mention of the bee movie as an original work (allowed as long as it’s not copy pasted and also hilarious) for you Wild and the title “Honey I shrunk the Links” for you, Four.
The Community Support Team
“The Commentator of All Time” @1-renegade: To directly quote, “Ain't NOBODY give better feedback and comments than lawlessland.”
“Will Make You Cry” @artsyanonymity: Anonymity is the sweetest and kindest commenter in existence! SHE. WILL. MAKE. YOU. CRy. Writes the nicest comments and they make me (and apparently several others) cry
“The Encouragement Itself” @cat-at-a-writing-desk: For encouraging others to reach their goals. We appreciate you!
“Drill Sergeant” @gintrinsic-writing: Made Qar get 5k and scared everyone else into writing. (You did it! I got 5k! The fear (with funny intonation) dragged me over the finish line -Qar)
“Drawer of A Thousand Words” @la-sera: Ruler of the Legend and Hyrule brotherhood, inspirer of writers, and the spreader of so much love with your art this Fan Joy July with the art you spent the marathon working on. Can’t wait to see it all as the month goes on.
“The Reader of all Time” @life-in-winter: Or as you all probably know her, passerine44, the writer of the best ao3 comments of all time. Thea, you walk into a digital room and every writer there makes heart eyes at you. Cannot wait to read the writing you’ve been working on (and leave a comment) to return the favor.
“The Respondent of All Time” @silvrash-797: Silvrash had over four months of unanswered ao3 comments that she caught up with, congrats!
“Lives up to the Screen Name” @sunny-porridge: To quote: “Sunny is 100% a ray of sunshine and anyone who says otherwise can FIGHT ME” and I think we all agree.
“100% Bunny Accurate.” @toyouhellohowareyou: Who is The Bunny Lord [Beloved Pet and Bunny Boy (Legend) Himself].
“The Wildest Supporter.” @twilightangel83: Supported people and sent a lot of Wild emojis, so much so that we started picturing you as Wild!
“Poet” and “Master of the Shrimp Check” @winterfen: Writes good poetry, and also made sure that everyone was appropriately fed, hydrated, and rested for this event.
Transfer Students
“I don’t work here, Lady” goes to bArk who neither has a tumblr nor writes for this fandom, but showed up and had fun anyways. Thanks for joining us!
“He Who Finished His Book” goes to jr_for_potus44 (not on Tumblr). Congrats!
“Split Screen” goes to @straight-outta-hobbiton for writing two fics on two screens at the same time, neither of which were LU. Frightening.
The Silent Ones
@pelicanpig, @mmelete, @wayfayrr, @raeofsky, @summaryscar @sunkissedkales: You guys came, you wrote, you did not elaborate. How mysterious your aura is (positive, deeply positive.)
"The Almost Silent One" @the-au-collector: Talked before and after, but not during the event. Probably too busy writing, or busy in general - good job either way!
Everybody else!
“Frequent Flier (WPM)” @anime-obsessed: For participating in so many sprints. Also earned “vocaloid enjoyer.”
“Keyboard Warrior” @august-the-friend: You fought autocorrect and lost 3-0, but it was a valiant fight nonetheless. You did great.
“Artist turned Writer” @aurora-boreas-borealis: Took a break from streaming to write—a huge shout out for all your hard work and your help with colors! (~the actual pigments, not the Links ~Lawn)
“Literally Sun” @beesandhoney1219: Warmer than sunlight, sweeter than sugar, and absolutely obsessed with Sky’s girlfriend.
“Most Likely to Include Raccoons in their Fic” @bittirsweeteer: They Who Has Given Legend Espresso (thank you for your service).
“Last Minute Vidow” @deleetrix: Something that should always be encouraged. Thank you for feeding us.
“Stargiver” @emberlylion: For starring in a lot of posts, especially cat pics. Thank you for your service.
Move over Time, @estelian-01 “Will Fight Majora and Win” and then go back to studying.
“Studious Student Who (has not) Studied” @gerudoevernight: Self nominated for “Studious Student who Studied” for hitting their goal while in school. The mod team disagreed with the accuracy of that title and affectionately chose this one instead. Good job hitting your goal!
“The Outliner” @gia-d: Accidentally wrote a first draft. Also think it should be noted that everyone is convinced you either could kill a god or that you carry one around in your pocket.
“Onomatopoeia Outrage” @halo-burns: Who debated the word “ow” so hard they inflicted it on the people around them.
“The Scholar” @irenkaferalkitty: For her extensive collection of well-researched data, presented in charts, documents and yes, excel sheets. We appreciate you.
“Most Improved” @labyrinthdancer: Their writing has improved a lot since they started posting! also they write really dark twilight & the chain fics. Being a new writer is scary, but they kept at it and are doing so well!
“Writer of Most Cursed Victorian Child” aka their take on Ravio, is @lele5429 with their first ever fic, which is as gorgeous in words as your art is in ink.
“The Hype Man (gender neutral)/Moral Support” @lemoncatssss: For all the encouragement that you gave others. Also the cat photos. Especially the cat photos.
“The accidental friend acquirer” @lennsart: For somehow befriending literally every single person you talk to.
“Severe Case of Clacking” @lerikwrites: You know why. Pennies in a washing machine my friend.
“Hyrule Hurter” goes to @linkiscool33: We all have the blorbo we love to put in the blender, but no one blends Rulie like you do.
“Marcus Actually Writes!?” @marcusdoodlesalot: For a second month in a row, some of us are still befuddled that Marcus is actually a writer, and not just an artist. Hard to believe that someone can have that much talent in both fields.
“Soup Soup Soup Soup Soup (Soup Soup Soup Soup Soup)” @marsnoodlesoup: I... do not know what this means. Congrats, it seems you’re soup.
“The Veteran” @musical-chan: For sharing stories of the early days of fandom. Back in my day but the most positive way possible
“Artist Turned Writer” @mysticstars105: Came out and wrote a whopping 400 words, which is so many words especially when you’re new. Gold Star!
“Art Fight Pre-Gaming” @nebulapaws: For their talk of Art Fight. Hope you have fun participating this month!
“Resident Audiophile” @needfantasticstories: Not just for writing with speech-to-text all day, but for your constant enthusiastic screaming about Epic the musical.
“Most likely to fight God and Win” and “The Modderrrrrr” @noorahqar: Who is actually Sky. Not with the sleepy part though. She actually wrote so much about Sky that he stole all her sleepy. Number one on the starboard, with the proud title of MVM (Most Valuable Mod) for sticking the landing as midnight hit. Also the one with “The Most Sigmas to Grindset” whatever… whatever that means. (Please help what does that mean?)
“Picture Perfect Exhaustion” @nyastri: Their PFP (Four Doubled Over, hands on knees) combined with the announcement they'd reached their writing goal at the end of the marathon really just sold the picture for me. Well done.
“The Sleepy One” @ocha-blue: who justifiably went to bed as soon as they finished. (Hope you're recovered by now.)
“First Time Fic Writer” @peepthatbish: for breaking into the fic scene and boosting morale for our mod team, especially Lawn. We appreciate you!
“Slow And Steady (WPM)” @pokegeek151: Who was chugging away all day long.
“Doomed by the Narrative” @ra-archives: Google docs acting up, cat sitting on lap, and yet you persisted. Good job.
“My Little Friend Who I Love (This Is Qar Btw) (This Is Part Of The Title)” and “Wordsmith” @rosehipandroots: This is a direct copy paste from your submissions, Rose. Hope you enjoy it. But your amazing descriptions really make you a wordsmith. “The SkyBoy Enjoyer of All Time” @sapphicseasapphire: for your lovely art and writing of the boy!
“Task Succeeded Successfully” @screaming-but-i-have-four-swords: was an artist turned writer that tried to write words, and did! Good job.
“Artist Turned… More Artist” @seaotter-17: We were told you write descriptions like a poet, but in this event, you were most recognizable by your drawings of Nina the cat. Thank you for sharing.
The “Person with a Passion for Pudding” (which is definitely an inside joke I do not understand, so I hope it makes you laugh) @somanyfanficssolittletime: Thanks for participating!
“The Fic Reccer of all Time” @staring-at-a-blank-page: For recommending so many fics, their own and others, up to read. Thank you!
“The Drabbler” @tenderleavesbob: For their lovely drabbles, of which they wrote around 10k of. The title is appropriate - it seems your drabbles have taken Tumblr (and the participants in this survey) by storm!
“100% Bunny Accurate Fiction” @toyouhellohowareyou: writer of the most rabbit-fact-checked fics of all time by our own Bunny Lord [Beloved Pet and Bunny Boy (Legend) Himself]
“The Podficcer of All Time” @unexpectedstormy: For podfic making, promoting, and educating. And if that wasn’t enough fae is also our very own “Dragon Tamer” who spent the event working on their HTTYD WIP!
“The Dashshunder” @vivalaplutothedachshund: For sharing your lovely menace of a dog Pluto with us all. We also appreciate you both in the chats and in our rampage to give PolynomialPandemic 109 hugs.
“Mod Emotional Support. We love you” @wanderlustmagician: You know what you did, and Cheeto’s firstborn deservedly belongs to you.
“Word Weaver” and “Fanfiction Foul---was writing at work instead of working” @weavingstarlight: Your words sparkle as bright as you do, glitter jar.
“Literally First (also shared cat pics)” @witchdoctor39: Even Hylia can’t hold a candle to how much you love that poor poor man!
Thank all of you for participating, we appreciate each and every one of you so so so much! Please note that we had 90+ participants, and as such, there is probably guaranteed to be some mistakes on the list above. If you find any typos or pronoun goofs or anyone that was put on the list twice or missing or under the wrong name or put under the wrong name or any error that comes with having different discord and tumblr names or if you were left off the list in error or if you want to request a different name than the one you received or you want to be put into or removed from one club or another or anything else that could have gone wrong—please feel free to contact @HotCheetoHatredWasTaken or @not-freyja with your concerns here on tumblr!
Again, a big thank you to everyone for coming to the event from all of us on the mod team! Can’t wait to see you guys next month! And stay tuned---there will be another post with more information about the next event within the next couple of weeks!
Something I whipped up during the LU write-a-thon. And shockingly, it’s not soul-crushing angst!
Chapters: 1/3 Fandom: Linked Universe - Fandom, The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Legend (Linked Universe) & Everyone, Hyrule & Legend (Linked Universe), Legend & Wind (Linked Universe), Legend & Warriors (Linked Universe) Additional Tags: Fluff and Angst, Light Angst, Legend (Linked Universe) Has Feelings, Legend (Linked Universe) Has Issues, Linked Universe Links As Family (Legend of Zelda) Summary:
"How old are you?" Wild asked. "And what's your hero title?" Wind added. "I just turned twelve," the newest Link replied, "And I don't have a hero name yet."
The Hero of Legend didn't always have that title. He had to earn it, fighting for it through the span of five quests and eight years. But at least he had the chain to help him along the way.
Written during the LU Write-a-thon! I had a strong urge to write angst so here’s one of the fics I came up with
Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Linked Universe Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Legend (Linked Universe) & Ralph (Legend of Zelda), Legend (Linked Universe) & Link's Uncle (Legend of Zelda), Legend (Linked Universe)/Marin (Legend of Zelda), Fable & Legend (Linked Universe), Legend (Linked Universe) & Everyone Additional Tags: Angst, Gore, Temporary Character Death, Hallucinations, Angst with a Happy Ending, rating this M just to be safe, Legend (Linked Universe) has a bad time Summary:
Legend thought there was nothing worse than watching his loved ones die and almost die. But he was wrong. What's worse is having to watch it all over again, all while they tell him his worst fear was real. That their deaths were his fault.
Also written during the LU write-a-thon. I’m very used to writing angst, so writing this fluffy thing was a new experience for me. This is probably as soft as I get, so enjoy it while it lasts.
Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Linked Universe - Fandom Rating: General Audiences Relationships: Hyrule & Legend (Linked Universe) Additional Tags: Fluff, Tooth-Rotting Fluff, That's it that's the fic it's just cuteness Summary:
Anthophilia [noun]: The love of flowers
Hyrule loves to talk about flowers, and Legend loves to see his brother happy.
August LU Write-a-Thon Round Up: 276,182 Words in One Day!
On August 1, we hosted our third monthly LU Write-a-thon! The purpose of this event was to write as many productive words—words that furthered yourself, the LU writing community at large, or your own stories—within 24 hours as humanly possible. We had 85 participants this round, and though we didn’t quite beat our word count high score from last month (over 300,000), we got very close, and had a lot of fun along the way! You guys did great!
Until next month, here’s the statistics of the event (made by lovely mod @zarvacase, everyone give her a HUGE round of applause), followed by the awards and titles earned by each participant, as voted upon by the Discord server through an anonymous survey, and the clubs (either self-joined or were assigned to). Enjoy, and thanks for coming!
Winner’s Circle (Top 6 Most Wordiest)
At 16,312 words, “Writer of all Time” goes to @hotcheetohatredwastaken. (Cheeto here. Guys don’t be like me. So many birthday fics that have to be rewritten). Additionally earned “Victim of the Cheese Cult” because said cult figured out they could ping her by just saying the word “cheese.”
At 13,638 words, @nyastri comes in second with “Wordsmith.” Amazing job!
At 12,482 words, “Meemaw” (@not-freyja) comes in third! Wrangling the kids and most likely currently debating to invest in more child-leashes :D
At 10,807 words, @needfantasticstories comes in fourth with “Beta Fish!” To quote: “Skip betas so many things, and she does a fantastic job.” and further, “Skip is always reading my fics and leaving nice comments on them so tysm skip I really appreciate it <33” the votes are in, Skip, and they’re unanimous—we all love you!
At 10,292 words, @sketchy-potato is “Serial Killer” for spending most of the marathon on a fic that killed both Malon and Time. How dare you do this to us. Please continue.
And sharing sixth place with a four-word gap at 10,063 and 10,059 is @irenkaferalkitty and @gerudoevernight. Amazing job you two!
Clubs
This month, we also got clubs off the ground! Stay tuned for what we’ll be implementing when it comes to club membership and participation in the coming months, I (Cheeto here) think that you guys will really enjoy it. But this month, the process for clubs was the same as the last month—you could either self-assign to a club, or your fellow participants nominated you! (Note: some of you were in multiple clubs. Mods probably assigned you to one or two in order to keep the post running smoothly. If you would like to change your primary club or you got left out of a club you'd like to be included in, let us know.)
Soap Club
For those of you that, for one reason or another, decided that soap was tasty. (Hi guys, Cheeto here. Warning you guys now: if a single one of you @’s me about actually eating soap, I will shut this club down. You cannot have your soap club and eat it too, and I will not be held responsible for tide pod challenge 2.0. Love you guys so much and I’m delighted that you’re having fun, great power, great… you know the line.)
“Get Hugged” goes to @polynomialpandemic, also “saw and gasped aloud in delight.”
“Phil-anthropist” for @thatbluepencilcrayon, for unintentionally creating and then wholeheartedly embracing Phil, the spirit of the master sword.
“Cult Leader” and “Most Nominated” for @shadedheart138 (AKA Resident Soap Drinker). You caused quite a stir in the chats, and were quite famous by the end of this event. Can’t wait to see you next month!
“Is Totally Famous Even Though Ve Doesn’t Think Ve Is” for @imperialkatwala. To quote another submission: “Ve really doesn't think ve's famous. Gotta prove vir wrong!” and we agree.
“Co-conspirator of Phil, the flannel wearing and lizard loving sword spirit” goes to @starlight-eclipsed. You guys kept the whole chat laughing.
“Could Can and will decimate a god in a verbal showdown” for @vivalaplutothedachshund. No notes here. Agree. “Soup” for @marsnoodlesoup, because “please it would be so funny to give mars soup again.” An honorary member of the soap club for being a letter off.
Also: @sketchy-potato (from winner’s circle), @hyrulescarlet, @bluepencilcrayon, @vivalaplutothedachshund, @anime-obsessed, @shadedheart138
Cartridge Lickers
For those of you that read online that switch cartridges were designed to taste bad and went “okay, but how bad?”
“Author of Monstrosities” for @gia-d. Fishbun. (Freyja here: Why. WHY?! *insert Legend emoji of distress*)
“Most ‘Normal’ About Spirit” for @a-manicured-lawn. Additionally, to quote: “it's really weird and encouraging to have someone tell me they can't wait to see how this chapter will hurt me, but I'm the one reading whump willingly so it's fair XD”
“Totally Samwise Gamgee” and "Lawn's Partner in Crime" for @tashacee. No elaboration needed.
“Horse emoji” @anime-obsessed. Again, no elaboration was given, nor was it needed.
Additionally: @not-freyja (winner’s circle), @sketchy-potato, @shadedheart138
Aimed for the Funny Numbers Club
For those of you that wrote, and wrote with a specific purpose in mind.
“Pantser” for @harmonysixx for pantsing through the WIP! Good job!
“Summoner of Funny Numbers” for @hyrulescarlet, for starting a sprint with 666 words and then continuing to hit funny numbers. Nice.
“Mother Duck” for @winterfen. Aimed for the funny numbers, but made sure that everyone was properly hydrated and rested while doing so.
“Wind 1” for @savimatteo2810. To quote someone’s idea: “There can be two Winds. They can wear get-along shirts. One of them can be Wind 1, The other can be Wind A.”
Additionally: @marsnoodlesoup, @lunaopus, @lennsart, @bluepencilcrayon, @anime-obsessed, @sketchy-potato
All-Nighter Club
For those of you that decided that sleep was optional (please sleep. please).
“Wind A” for @bluury2. And here is the other Wind. Good job on sharing, you two!
“Artist Turned Writer” goes to @nancyheart11! Also “literally a cinnamon roll.”
“Permanently Exhausted Pigeon” @labyrinthdancer & @ra-archives. It fits the theme of the club. Good job you two. Please get some rest.
@across-violet-skies, in this club for going to sleep at 7 am. Also “AN AMAZING PERSON” who wrote “more than 4 words.”
Additionally: not-freyja (:P), needfantasticstories (winner’s circle), @awildsilver, @a-manicured-lawn, @vivalaplutothedachshund
Cheese Club
For those of you that at least decided to make a food obsession around something actually edible. Mods do endorse eating cheese.
“Died to the moon” goes to @aurora-boreas-borealis. Also, to quote: “the most likely to make me question if I've actually seen a beloved childhood media.” “Mac and Cheese Cultist” for @bittirsweeteer. Known for writing costco mac and cheese into their fic. Bonus points for making it feel organic. Unlike the costco mac and cheese.
“Least respectable (from Luna)” for @cinis0. Additionally, “Snuck into the Cheese Cult.”
“First time fic publisher” for @four-eyed-nerd. To quote: “A banger artist, can’t wait to see if their words are just as banger.”
“Schrodinger’s Cat,” to @gerudo-evernight (Also in the winner's circle). Keep being inexplicable. We love you.
“Cheese minions cheese minions cheese minions” to @lemoncatssss. Congrats on being a cheese minion. No notes, keep it up.
“Friend shaped” goes to @lennsart since they are, quote: “most likely to have become a regular in my tumblr notifs since last month <3” (Freyaj here: agree. Hard agree. Lenn is so friend-shaped.)
“Funniest Mother-trucker in this joint” goes to @life-in-winter, for rolling up, being funnier than anyone else in the server, and then vanishing for another three hours. Repeat ad nauseam.
“British Cheese Boy (Gender Neutral)” goes to @lunaopus for his enthusiasm for cheese, American not included!
“The Multitasker of All Time” goes to @musical-chan. The fandom elder with all the advice and life lessons. To quote: “Even when incredibly busy, Music managed to write well over 4000 words and that is honestly amazing in itself. She’s a fantastic writer and truly talented.”
“Vidow Messiah” is the dear @passerinesoncaffeine, and if you don’t know why… you don’t want to know. You have also been called “The Beta Reader of All Time.” High praise.
“The Hydrator™” and “Unwilling Cheese Cultist” for @peepthatbish. To quote: "mx peeps kept reminding us to drink our water!!! thanks to them i didn't forget!"
“Skord Lord” goes to @somanyfanficssolittletime. I have questions. Can I have answers?
“CHEESE CULT.” for @cat-at-a-writing-desk (in all caps with the full stop. Very specific.)
“Angst Lord” and “Mother Duck” both go to @seaotter-17, for “making me go to bed after finding out how long i'd been awake” and “making me cry with her fics.”
Additionally: @hotcheetohatredwastaken (from Winner’s circle) (unwillingly) (this is said with so much affection)
Everyone else
“Lanayru’s Biggest Fangirl” for @baileyboo2016. Feedback was unanimous. You have this crown by public consensus.
“The Silent One” for @aeghina You came, you wrote, you did not elaborate. Good job.
“most likely to get me invested in an OC” for @echoing-stars. The OC in question is Warrior's baker boyfriend Rowan and “he is an absolute sweetie.”
“Artist turned more artist” for @la-sera. You are a treasure, and you have inspired so many of us writers to write even more with your amazing art. (Freyja here: I hate you too. 💜)
“Bizarre... bees are... bees are queer!” was a rather urgent-sounding message for @nebulapaws. This seems to be an inside joke. Hope you guys enjoy it.
“Honorary Sad Wet Cat” and “best tech support ever 💞” goes to @noorahqar. They are both undoubtedly deserved. Quote: “You know how to make the computer go, and how to explain it to meemaw, which is even harder to accomplish.” (Freyja here: Cheeto, I think ‘meemaw’ has breached containment.)
“Stephen King’s Heir” was bestowed upon @lattewritesthings, to quote: “Good at horror and things along that direction. Shared a good horror fic.”
“Studious Student Who Studied, busy bee” for @rebornofstars. “She came, she wrote 2 words, she studied her butt off, absolute madlad.” Good job!
“The Lurker” this month is @somer-writes, who is, quote: “also most likely to call me by name in the comments - got jump scared by opening a response to a comment and seeing my name.”
“The Clueless One” is affectionately given to @the-au-collector. They forgot the event was even going on, still they got 1,000 words! Congrats!
“Hurt/Comfort enthusiast” goes to @toyouhellowhowareyou. It comes with the note that: “I want everyone to know Serbii was so lovely and nice!”
“Dusk to Dusk (EST)” for @turdofanerd. Also Partner In Crime, but we're not sure who with, so…go find them in the wild I guess.
“Sleepy,” “Four Enjoyer,” and “Turned up ten hours late with Starbucks, except no Starbucks only Vibes” all go to the lovely @undertheopensky who was also jumpscaring people with their very presence. You are loved. Get cherished.
“Yahaha, you found me!” and “Audiophile” were both given to @unexpectedstormy, who is an actual real-life korok it seems. The community loves you, Stormy.
“Twilight Whump Enjoyer,” goes to @wanderlustmagician, and honestly? Who can blame them?
“The Linguist and Architect” is without a doubt @weavingstarlight who “spends more time analyzing maps, weather patterns, and deciphering the various Hylian alphabets then it does actually writing, but the fic quality is so worth it.”
“Beach Day Spirit Bestie” and “The Keeper of Lists” goes @whatvioletdoes-blog. (Cheeto here. I appreciate you so much).
“Of The Life Saving Spreadsheet and Prompt Generator” was bestowed upon @zarvasace and oh, is that deserved. Your prompt generator is beloved by the public. Your spreadsheets are cherished by the team. Mina, your brain is so beautiful. No wonder your fics are so good.
Thank all of you for participating, we appreciate each and every one of you so so so much! If you find any typos or mistakes in this post—please feel free to contact @hotcheetohatredwastaken or @not-freyja with your concerns here on Tumblr or on Discord!
Again, a big thank you to everyone for coming to the event from all of us on the mod team! Can’t wait to see you guys next month! Next event will be run on September 1st in Eastern Australian time. Stay tuned—there will be more posts with additional information (on this shiny new blog!) about the next event within a couple of weeks!
Last but certainly not least, a huge shout out to the entire event running and moderation team for making this even possible. In no particular order give a big round of applause to: @hotcheetohatredwastaken @not-freyja @a-manicured-lawn @winterfen @rebornofstars @unexpectedstormy @gia-d @weavingstarlight @noorahqar @tashacee @wanderlustmagician @zarvasace
Have a lovely August, and we will see you all in September!
Writer Ask Game: LU Write-a-Thon Edition
Reblog this if you want your followers and mutuals to ask you about any of the questions below about your writing and/or writing process! Most questions and answers are not Linked Universe specific, though they can be --- we love hyping all fellow creators up about their own work, regardless of fandom!
What WIP are focusing on right now?
What is your favorite WIP (published or not)?
What is your most popular WIP?
What is an unsung WIP of yours you'd like to promote?
What do you like most about your own writing?
What is something you admire in others' writing?
Who is your favorite character to write, and what do you like about how you portray them?
What creator does your favorite portrayal of your favorite character? How do they do that?
Are you a pantser, a plotter, or something in between? What does that process look like for you?
Do you plan to write anything during the LU Write-a-thon next month? If so, what are you planning?
Rules of the ask game: if you want to ask a creator that has reblogged this post a question, copy and paste your question into their ask box. If you reblog it yourself, be sure to hit the person you reblogged it from with a question as well!
Idk if anyone already asked these but
7. Who is your favorite character to write, and what do you like about how you portray them?
4. What is your favorite WIP (published or not)?
Actually you're the first lol. Thanks for the asks, I like these questions
Favorite character is Legend, he has a big role in like 95% of my fics. I like that I portray him as an adventurer who has many friends. Even in the angstier fics, I like to mention he does actually enjoy quests, he just has a hard time coping with their many many negative affects.
It's not a WIP anymore so idk if it counts, but my favorite thing I've written is Closure (and lack thereof). Wrote the whole story in about an hour, so far it's the most fun I've had while writing something.
4. What is an unsung WIP of yours you'd like to promote?
10. Do you plan to write anything during the LU Write-a-thon next month? If so, what are you planning?
Thanks for the asks
I have no idea when I'll finish it, but I'll promote my wip Familiar Stranger. Hyrule doesn't remember who the chain is and acts differently than they're used to. This ends up being painful for everyone, Hyrule included :)
Yes! I'm going to be busy the first few hours of the event, but I'm going to work on A Legend in the Making if it isn't finished by then. If it is, I'll work on some Sicktember prompts.
September LU Community Write-a-Thon Round Up: 405,699 Words in One Day!
Welcome back to another roundup! In this fourth monthly Write-a-thon, held September 1st from 12 am to 12 am, we had 73 writers join us in our game to write as many productive words as humanly possible. And these amazing writers put their heads down, picked their pencils up (or keyboards, as appropriate), and slammed out over 400,000 words! This is an amazing accomplishment, thank you all so much for coming — this month was a blast!
Directly below are the general statistics for this month (so much credit to the lovely @zarvasace) followed by the Winner’s Circle, Clubs and the Superlatives sorted in alphabetical order. This month, the statistics and clubs were self-reported through submission sheets — superlatives, as every month, were assigned by other members of the event. Thanks again to @zarvasace for putting together all of our lovely spreadsheets, to the mods for helping us run this event, and to all of you for coming!
Winner’s Circle (Top 5 Most Wordiest)
At 25,354 words, “Writer of all Time” goes to @haloburns! This new moderator has managed to blow everyone out of the water with an absolutely STAGGERING count! Amazing job, can’t wait to work with them next month!
At 21,318 words, “The Documentation” goes to @irenkaferalkitty, for managing to break 20,000 words and amazing everyone with the detailed spreadsheets and documents!
At 20,602 words, “Long Hauler” goes to @hytiaa in honor of their third-place victory and the sheer amount of words they managed over only 24 hours!
At 20,588 words, “So Incredibly Fast” goes to @glowingmin! Are you sure you had a pen in your hand instead of a bolt of lightning?!
At 18,650 words, “The Studious” goes to @nebulapaws. You’ve channeled all your energy into writing this month, and you’ve got a veritable novel of words to show for it!
Clubs
This month was our second month of clubs! In these, participants were allowed to come together and find common ground around a chosen topic or theme. These clubs were completely public, so anyone could join the fun and combine their word counts for some friendly competition. Thank you all for playing, check out your stats below!
🧀 Cheese Cult 🧀
Easy, peasy, and cheesy!
“Pathetic Wet Cat” goes to @cinis0 as sincerely nominated by themselves.
“Skip’s Suitor A” goes to @hotcheetohatredwastaken, who also earned “Doing Gouda.” Seems the cheese cult managed to drag the cheese into it! Currently fighting Freyja for Skip’s hand.
“The Evil Mastermind” goes to @imperialkatwala for your wonderfully painful Fierce Deity Malon snippets!
“Star of the Show” goes to @lunaopus for getting over 1000 stars, more than double the second place most starred person, and breaking our out-of-context channel!
“Model Citizen” goes to @maddrumsticks who would, quote: “never think of taking a bribe to stay in the Cheese cult with cheese sculptures of Ravio and the very accusation is slander.”
Additionally: @life-in-winter, @lennsart, @labyrinthdancer.
🕶️ New Blood 🕶️
All first-time participants in the Write-A-Thon, but what a word count!
“Whump Enjoyer” goes to @twists-and-turns, I’m sure they know what they did.
Additionally: @glowingmin and @hytiaa both in the Winner’s circle!
👣 Stardust Crusaders 👣
“For the love god… DROP THE MEAT” (This is an inside joke that’s incomprehensible to the mods)
“Time Traveler” goes to @marsnoodlesoup whose last message before chats closed was a Happy New Year one! Anything you want to warn us about?
“Honorary Insomniac” goes to @sodapop-glitch, who went to sleep late enough to deserve an honorary place in the all-nighter club!
Additionally:
@nebulapaws from the winner's circle!
🐰Ravio Fan club!!🐰
For those of you that love bunnies, purple, and most importantly, money.
The organizer of this club, @baileyboo2016, earned “Cult Leader.” and “I thought you were Ravio, turns out you’re just Shadow” because the Build-a-Four needed a Shadow and you were the funniest option!
“Skip’s Suitor 1” and “Stressed Out Parent” go to @not-freyja, who was mostly just already stressed about NaNoWriMo. Also fighting Cheeto for Skip’s hand.
“Idolatry’s Spokesperson” goes to @tashacee, in honor of her gleeful taunting of the already agonized readers after the last chapter.
“Is this a Robbery, a Ravio Impersonation, or Just Capitalism?” goes to @winterfen for changing their screen name to “Hand your rupees over right now.”
🌘All Nighters🌘
For those of you that, despite multiple requests to take a break, buckled down to get that word count. Sleep is for the weak.
“Cheerleader” goes to @nancyheart11 for her constant encouragement and support of her fellow writers!
“Crack Extraordinaire” and “The Memer” go to @whatvioletdoes-blog who made enough memes during the event to break a personal record (13 in a day)!
“Spreadsheet Artiste” goes to @zarvasace for the gorgeous spreadsheets everyone loved!
🧼Soap Club🧼
The organizers still do not endorse eating inedible things.
“Word Goal Sharpshooter” goes to @hyrulescarlet who aimed for the same word count as last month and finished with the exact number!
“Silent Leader” goes to @shadedheart138 who came in, started a soap club, and said nothing else.
Additionally: @anime-obsessed, @bluury2, @druidbottles and @starlight-eclipsed.
Fierce Deity Fanclub
They’re all masked up and ready to go!
“Fierce Deity Dance Crew” goes to @musical-chan for their dancing FD gifs, and they also earned “Time Traveler” for their references to last year’s Write-A-Thon (we are… three months in…) and warnings that February's Write-a-thon will end in disaster.
Additionally: @artsyanonymity and @cat-at-a-writing-desk.
🍞Bread Club🍞
Everyone gets a Brog! (A.K.A. Bread 👍)
“Permanently Exhausted Pigeon” goes to @nyastri, who despite not being in the all-nighter club, only slept 4 hours in the entire event.
“The Words of Wisdom” goes to @wildlysilver for giving some really good advice during the event! It was very appreciated.
Additionally: @toyouhellohowareyou.
🐭The Cheesus Church🐭
“Cheesus is the Way, The Truth and the Light.”
“Reat Jesus” and “Angst Lord” go to @sketchy-potato who spent the last two events killing off every character they could get their hands on.
Additionally: @lemoncatssss.
👻Spooky Club🎃
Embrace the Spooky: Set your Skeleton free today! (The moderators do not support freeing the skeleton, though, it’s better off imprisoned)
“Aimed for Funny Number” goes to @harmonysixx, who went for exactly 666 words. Spooky!
“Leader of Spooky Club” goes to @somanyfanficssolittletime, and all of that time is spooky time!
“Club Collector” and “Extracurricular Extraordinaire” go to @vivalaplutothedachshund, who was also the second in command of the soap club, loves cheese and slept so little they could have been in the all-nighter club.
🐦Skyloft Knight Academy🐦
Write Like the Wind, Crimson!
“Four When Not Split” goes to @four-eyed-nerd, who is apparently just regular Four.
“The Silent One” and “Stressed Out Parent” go to @silvrash-797, who still managed to write a bunch around… 2.9 kids?
Additionally: @artemistorm and @emberlylion.
Everyone else
She may have only been “There in Spirit”, but this month @a-manicured-lawn got the best award of all: “Touching Grass.” Good job.
“Cheese Sculptor” goes to @aurora-boreas-borealis for bribing someone with… a cheese sculpture of Ravio, to not jump ship on the Cheese Cult for the Ravio Club. I am still waiting on those pictures.
“Keyboardist” goes to @bittirsweeteer for their amazing self-made setup. It has Ravio in it. Guys Ravio is in their keyboard. He dances and everything.
“Tried Something New” is a shiny badge of honor for @bluevaractyl because quote, “They came in during the last 8 hours and still wrote words!!! go Blue <3”
“Schrodinger’s Cat” is apparently @gerudoevernight and the only explanation given there was “Because I can :)” …or can you? Have to check.
“Bookbinder of the Year” goes to @gia-d for her gorgeous work on making fics into physical books people can hold in their hands. Also “Americanismized” for struggling through writing a fic with an American co-author… and an Australian spell check.
“Slow and Steady (WPM)” goes to @hyrulescarlet for taking breaks to take care of themself! Exercise! Stretch! Good job!
“Deus Ex Machina Herself” goes to @needfantasticstories since this whole operation is actually her fault. Good job Skip. And with how many people you have fighting for your hand, you are also voted this month’s “Prom Queen.”
“Lost in the Sauce” goes to @passerinesoncaffeine who rolled into the event late… because they were reading fic. Well done. You got the spirit.
“Assigned Beer by Starwolfie” goes to @rebornofstars, who is apparently not a bee anymore!
“Aimed for the Funny Number” also goes to @savimatteo2810, who went for exactly 69 words (nice!).
“Silent, Happy in her Lane” and “Focused” go to @sunny-porridge, who was largely silent but consistently joined sprints.
“Silent One” goes to @sydneymaxstripe, who didn’t talk but still did a great job!
“Aimed for Funny Number” goes to @the-au-collector, who aimed for and reached 666 words!
“Rhythm Writer” goes to @weavingstarlight, whose prose, quote: reads like it has been set to music and is truly gorgeous.”
“Plotter” goes to @woahtherebuckerino, who plotted out an entire new multi-chapter fic instead of working on their many WIPs.
Ending Notes
Thank you all for coming this month! If you find any typos or mistakes in this post—please feel free to contact @hotcheetohatredwastaken with your concerns here on tumblr or on discord!
We’d like to give a BIG thanks to the mod team: @not-freyja, @hotcheetohatredwastaken, @a-manicured-lawn, @tashacee, @winter-fen, @gia-d, @haloburns, @whatvioletdoes-blog, @weavingstarlight, @rebornofstars, @zarvasace, @artemistorm! Go give them all your love! We’ll have some announcements soon about next month, be sure to keep an eye out! We can’t wait to see you all next month!
October LU Write-a-Thon Round Up: 325,329 Words in One Day!
Welcome back to another Write-a-thon roundup! This October 1, @not-freyja and I (@hotcheetohatredwastaken) got together with 70 other writers to once again write as many productive words as possible within 24 hours! And we’re here, once again, to celebrate all of you that participated below! Thank you for coming!
(Credit to @zarvasace for the creation and organization of the round-up sheet (see the link to the full thing at the end of this post), and to @whatvioletdoes-blog for putting together this month’s superlatives. Superlatives were anonymously assigned by other participants, and clubs were self-assigned. Coming up is the Winner’s Circle, Clubs, and everyone else in alphabetical order)
Winner’s Circle (Top 5 Most Wordiest)
At 28,943 words, “Writer of all Time” goes to @glowingmin. Congratulations on reaching your 25k-30k goal!
At 27,002 words, “Budding Shit-Talker” goes to @bluury2, good luck beating glowingmin next time! You did amazing still.
At 20,441 words, “Ravio Cult Partner in Crime” goes to @twink-between-worlds, I wonder who might have helped start that club this time…
At 20,013 words, “The Lurker” goes to @somer-writes, you did great! And are suspected of killing some characters while we weren’t looking…
At 17,547 words, “Tech Curse Breaker” goes to @labyrinthdancer, who finally got through a write-a-thon without technical difficulties! Also was the only member of our Sprint Enthusiast Club!
Clubs
This month, the clubs were self-assigned using Mina’s lovely sheet (or occasionally by other participants)! Check them out below!
🌧️?Ploo Club🗺️
No one knows what this means. Pretty sure that includes the club members themselves.
“Slapchop Ravio Creator” goes to @bittirsweeteer because, quote ‘Live, laugh, love Ravio.’
“Tactician Cheerleader” goes to @hytiaa for cheering on while people were punching poor Spirit.
“Silent Caffeine Enthusiast” goes to @passerinesoncaffeine!
“Cursed Knowledge Bringer” goes to @starlight-eclipsed, I think several people were happier not knowing what Darias were!
Additionally: @glowingmin from the winner’s circle, who was their cult—I mean club leader.
🔪The Adjunation Club🕰️
A club based around appreciation of not-Freyja’s Adjuration
“Ruler of Spirit Whump” goes to @a-manicured-lawn for hurting him and enabling the hurting so much!
“Chavio Enthusiast” goes to @anime-obsessed!
“Sims Pyromaniac” goes to @awildsilver for going off to see how long Hyrule’s Sim would take to set something on fire while making cake!
“Everybody’s ex Husband” goes to @cinis0 for getting divorced twice in the span of 4 hours, somehow!
“Pokémon Trainer” goes to @four-eyed-nerd, who apparently knows what they did XD
“Divorce Declarer” goes to @lennsart, thank you for your contribution to the several divorce arcs, I guess!
“Serial Killer” goes to @life-in-winter, writers were dropping dead from your nice comments!
“Highly Likely to Get a Divorce” and “Celebrity Fallen From Grace” both go to @lunaopus, who got divorced for the 5th time in chaos chat after their popularity (read: getting starred every other message) last month!
“Stressed-out meemaw” goes to @not-freyja for dealing with the chaos! (Freyja here: *legend emoji, head in hands*)
“Honorary Mom Friend” goes to @toyouhellohowareyou who wanted to be one but has no kid!
“Tactician Team” goes to @weavingstarlight who helped hurt poor Spirit!
“Daydreamer” goes to @winterfen, ‘no words only idea’ is a mood!
Additionally: @bluury2 from the winner’s circle.
🐰Ravio Fan Club🐰
Ravio club going strong for multiple months in a row! They love that purple bunny man
The organizer of this club, @baileyboo2016, earned “Ravio Slapchop Enthusiast”, so much so that they made it their profile picture!
“Spooky Orchestra” goes to @maddrumsticks2, for their conversations about music and spookiness this month!
“Superlative Lord” and “The Memer” go to @whatvioletdoes-blog, who might not have beat the record, but still got a few memes in!
Additionally: @twink-between-worlds from the winner’s circle!
💼Busy People Club📝
They were busy. But they still stopped by to write.
“Writer Turned… More Mysterious Writer” and “Emerged From the Grave” go to @aeghina who managed to write 10k words by plotting during the event!
“Pirate Insults Enthusiast” goes to @harmonysixx for some creative ones they suggested Wind might use!
“The Scholar” and “Studious Student who Studied” go to @hyrulescarlet for getting a lot of words in schoolwork!
“The Commentor of All Time” goes to @nancyheart11, because “their comments are so fun!”
“Good Silent Times” goes to @ra-archives, came in, said a few “good timezone”s, wrote a lot!
“Hit the Funny Numbers” and “Ghost Listener” go to @tashacee, who can sometimes still hear Lawn after we kicked her out of chat for a bit!
“Tactician Team” goes to @twists-and-turns for helping hurt poor Spirit!
😵Shovel h.Ds Club🕳️
They have their shovels. Why? No idea.
“Hugo’s #1 Hater” goes to @ayzrules!
“Serial Killer” goes to @demonine for hurting the blorbos!
“Emerged From the Grave” goes to @perry, I feel like there’s a joke to be made about the shovel club here…
“Writer Turned… More Mysterious Writer” goes to @satanfish!
“Excalibur’s Buffing Oil” goes to Ven (no tumblr)!
“Spreadsheet Goddess” goes to @zarvasace I think we all know why!
🌕Fierce Dadity FanClub🌕
Nothing more to explain here, just look at the name.
The organizer of this club, @musical-chan earned “Bringer of Fierce Deity Ass”, for the images they shared of a FD figurine in the chats!
“July’s Mandela Effect” goes to @astryanonymity who I think last month’s time-travelers gave some doubts on just when the event started XD
“Wrath of God is Just a Bug” goes to @imperialkatwala for some funny WIP names when lined up together!
🧼Spooky Soap Club🎃
The Soap Club got festive this month for Halloween!
“Like Time but better smelling, a very aromatic herb” goes to @aurora-boreas-borealis because Thyme smells good, probably better than Time!
“Ads non-Enthusiast” goes to @lemoncatssss for their conversations about annoying ads while trying to watch shows!
“Nail Cursed” goes to @sketchy-potato who kept coming into the chats at the worst possible time!
“The Gifmaster” and “Nail Curser” go to @thatbluepencilcrayon for all the silly memes and tormenting everyone with lawn nails Spirit edits!
“Best Big Brother to Ever Brother” goes to @vivalaplutothedachshund because they joke adopted a younger sibling during the event!
💍Running Steel Balls Club💍
The adventure is bizarre, but they’re running with it… and the steel balls.
“Check, check, checkity check!” goes to @marsnoodlesoup for checking off every goal in their checklist!
“The KING of Five Nights at Whumptober” goes to @nebulapaws for working on their whumptober fics!
“Sky COTL Enjoyer” goes to @sodapop-glitch!
🗡️Whumptober Time Club🗡️
For those that started off Whumptober well!
“Lord of Babyrule” goes to @polynomialpandemic for their wonderful work on babyrule fics!
“Kirby Enjoyer” goes to @staring-at-a-blank-pagee!
🐟Quiet Ones Club🐟
They came, they wrote, and they did not elaborate
“Fluff Enjoyer” goes to @druidbottles!
“No plan all words” goes to @pelicanpig!
“Girl Month Enthusiast” goes to @woahtherebuckerino for their Sepfember work, even if it got posted a little late!
⚔️Link Twink Murder Society Club⚔️
A club half of these people ought to be in, let's be honest.
“Sleep Is For The Weak” goes to @nyastri, who we hope got some sleep after the event!
Everyone else
“Whumptober Crammer” goes to @across-violet-skies for getting through as much of whumptober as they could in a day!
“The Silent One” and “The Lurker” go to @bluevaractyl! Who also managed to forget the event was happening, this is a trend now XD
“Wait I Have To Tell You-” goes to @cat-at-a-writing-desk whose last words for this month’s event will go forever unfinished!
“Tactician Team” goes to @clariburnclarent for helping hurt poor Spirit!
“HS Enthusiast” goes to @enigmaticworm!
“Started, But Did They Finish?” goes to @estelian-01 who started writing… at some point, and probably finished writing too!
“From Homework Doer to Digimon Fic Writer: Any Way to the Word Count Goal” goes to @gerudo-evernight!
“Cheesy Queen” goes to @hotcheetohatredwastaken alongside every cheese-related word ever pretty much! Congratulations, you’ve been assigned Cheese at Write-A-Thon once again.
“Whump Enjoyer” goes to @1-renegade!
“One Time Is Too Many” goes to @life-in-winter, and given it was about hallucinating from no sleep they might be right!
“Skip skip skip skip skip skip…” goes to @needfantasticstories and you all know why.
“Hit the Funny Numbers” goes to @noorahqar
“Storyboarder” goes to @rebornofstars whose outlines make some people question if she’s okay.
“Boys Hurter” goes to @sapphicseasapphire for doing exactly that after they got their art requests done!
“Hit the Funny Numbers” goes to @savimatteo2810!
“Soup Master” goes to @seaotter-17, assigned Soup at Write-A-Thon chats!
“Cheerleader” goes to @starwolfie for being very encouraging and sweet!
“Star Giver” goes to @the-au-collector who starred everything they saw worthy!
Ending Notes
Thank you to everyone that participated! If you find any typos or mistakes in this post—please feel free to contact @hotcheetohatredwastaken with your concerns here on tumblr or on discord!
I’d like to give a special thanks to the mod team (in no particular order), @not-freyja, @hotcheetohatredwastaken, @a-manicured-lawn, @tashacee, @weavingstarlight @haloburns @violetdoes-blog @zarvacase @unexpectedstormy @winterfen @gia-d and @rebornofstars! Announcements about next month will be coming soon — be sure to keep an eye on the discord and the tumblr blog for updates! And check out this month’s full Write a Thon sheet (which includes credits to all of our lovely artists), below!
⚡—WRITEATHON OCT24 - Google Sheets
A Wild (And Rulie) Goose Chase
We take a break from our regularly scheduled ArtFight Attacks to bring you....
Linked Universe Fanfiction!
I've participated in the Linked Universe Write-A-Thon both in July and Today and this time I was able to write and finish a fanfic!
Legend was slightly freaking out at this point. He had taken his eyes off Wild and Hyrule for two minutes at most while dancing and speaking with Princess Styla. As they finished, he’d looked through the crowds, cataloging where each of his brothers were, and saw one, two, three... five, seven…. Wait, where were eight and nine? He looked again, even more meticulous in his search, and once again he couldn’t see them. or Legend might be a little too quick to worry, and drags Twilight (willingly) along for the ride.
Hope you enjoy, and I'd love to see what you think!!
This is the fic that I fully finished during the LU September 2024 write-a-thon! And it was all based on a silly joke made it the server. I usually write heavy angst, so it was fun that the first thing I've written in a while was super wholesome.
Rating: G
Summary: The chain has a cheese sculpting contest.
No warnings!
Don't expect wholesome things like this from me regularly. I like angst. I write angst most of the time.
It doesn't help that the next fic I wrote is extreme whump and angst lol
I JUST posted about the wholesome fic I wrote for the LU write-a-thon, so how about the NOT wholesome one. This one is sad!! And angsty!! Please keep that in mind!
Rating: Mature (to be safe)
Warnings: MCD, Suicide, blood, heavy angst, tragedy
Summary: "The battle has already gone on for a long, long time, Twilight’s muscles were aching from the amount that he was swinging his sword. Everyone was frantically trying to get the monsters back. Nothing was going very well." Twilight and Time end up in a cave. And there very well may be nobody left to save them.
September LU Community Write-a-Thon Round Up: 405,699 Words in One Day!
Welcome back to another roundup! In this fourth monthly Write-a-thon, held September 1st from 12 am to 12 am, we had 73 writers join us in our game to write as many productive words as humanly possible. And these amazing writers put their heads down, picked their pencils up (or keyboards, as appropriate), and slammed out over 400,000 words! This is an amazing accomplishment, thank you all so much for coming — this month was a blast!
Directly below are the general statistics for this month (so much credit to the lovely @zarvasace) followed by the Winner’s Circle, Clubs and the Superlatives sorted in alphabetical order. This month, the statistics and clubs were self-reported through submission sheets — superlatives, as every month, were assigned by other members of the event. Thanks again to @zarvasace for putting together all of our lovely spreadsheets, to the mods for helping us run this event, and to all of you for coming!
Winner’s Circle (Top 5 Most Wordiest)
At 25,354 words, “Writer of all Time” goes to @haloburns! This new moderator has managed to blow everyone out of the water with an absolutely STAGGERING count! Amazing job, can’t wait to work with them next month!
At 21,318 words, “The Documentation” goes to @irenkaferalkitty, for managing to break 20,000 words and amazing everyone with the detailed spreadsheets and documents!
At 20,602 words, “Long Hauler” goes to @hytiaa in honor of their third-place victory and the sheer amount of words they managed over only 24 hours!
At 20,588 words, “So Incredibly Fast” goes to @glowingmin! Are you sure you had a pen in your hand instead of a bolt of lightning?!
At 18,650 words, “The Studious” goes to @nebulapaws. You’ve channeled all your energy into writing this month, and you’ve got a veritable novel of words to show for it!
Clubs
This month was our second month of clubs! In these, participants were allowed to come together and find common ground around a chosen topic or theme. These clubs were completely public, so anyone could join the fun and combine their word counts for some friendly competition. Thank you all for playing, check out your stats below!
🧀 Cheese Cult 🧀
Easy, peasy, and cheesy!
“Pathetic Wet Cat” goes to @cinis0 as sincerely nominated by themselves.
“Skip’s Suitor A” goes to @hotcheetohatredwastaken, who also earned “Doing Gouda.” Seems the cheese cult managed to drag the cheese into it! Currently fighting Freyja for Skip’s hand.
“The Evil Mastermind” goes to @imperialkatwala for your wonderfully painful Fierce Deity Malon snippets!
“Star of the Show” goes to @lunaopus for getting over 1000 stars, more than double the second place most starred person, and breaking our out-of-context channel!
“Model Citizen” goes to @maddrumsticks who would, quote: “never think of taking a bribe to stay in the Cheese cult with cheese sculptures of Ravio and the very accusation is slander.”
Additionally: @life-in-winter, @lennsart, @labyrinthdancer.
🕶️ New Blood 🕶️
All first-time participants in the Write-A-Thon, but what a word count!
“Whump Enjoyer” goes to @twists-and-turns, I’m sure they know what they did.
Additionally: @glowingmin and @hytiaa both in the Winner’s circle!
👣 Stardust Crusaders 👣
“For the love god… DROP THE MEAT” (This is an inside joke that’s incomprehensible to the mods)
“Time Traveler” goes to @marsnoodlesoup whose last message before chats closed was a Happy New Year one! Anything you want to warn us about?
“Honorary Insomniac” goes to @sodapop-glitch, who went to sleep late enough to deserve an honorary place in the all-nighter club!
Additionally:
@nebulapaws from the winner's circle!
🐰Ravio Fan club!!🐰
For those of you that love bunnies, purple, and most importantly, money.
The organizer of this club, @baileyboo2016, earned “Cult Leader.” and “I thought you were Ravio, turns out you’re just Shadow” because the Build-a-Four needed a Shadow and you were the funniest option!
“Skip’s Suitor 1” and “Stressed Out Parent” go to @not-freyja, who was mostly just already stressed about NaNoWriMo. Also fighting Cheeto for Skip’s hand.
“Idolatry’s Spokesperson” goes to @tashacee, in honor of her gleeful taunting of the already agonized readers after the last chapter.
“Is this a Robbery, a Ravio Impersonation, or Just Capitalism?” goes to @winterfen for changing their screen name to “Hand your rupees over right now.”
🌘All Nighters🌘
For those of you that, despite multiple requests to take a break, buckled down to get that word count. Sleep is for the weak.
“Cheerleader” goes to @nancyheart11 for her constant encouragement and support of her fellow writers!
“Crack Extraordinaire” and “The Memer” go to @whatvioletdoes-blog who made enough memes during the event to break a personal record (13 in a day)!
“Spreadsheet Artiste” goes to @zarvasace for the gorgeous spreadsheets everyone loved!
🧼Soap Club🧼
The organizers still do not endorse eating inedible things.
“Word Goal Sharpshooter” goes to @hyrulescarlet who aimed for the same word count as last month and finished with the exact number!
“Silent Leader” goes to @shadedheart138 who came in, started a soap club, and said nothing else.
Additionally: @anime-obsessed, @bluury2, @druidbottles and @starlight-eclipsed.
Fierce Deity Fanclub
They’re all masked up and ready to go!
“Fierce Deity Dance Crew” goes to @musical-chan for their dancing FD gifs, and they also earned “Time Traveler” for their references to last year’s Write-A-Thon (we are… three months in…) and warnings that February's Write-a-thon will end in disaster.
Additionally: @artsyanonymity and @cat-at-a-writing-desk.
🍞Bread Club🍞
Everyone gets a Brog! (A.K.A. Bread 👍)
“Permanently Exhausted Pigeon” goes to @nyastri, who despite not being in the all-nighter club, only slept 4 hours in the entire event.
“The Words of Wisdom” goes to @wildlysilver for giving some really good advice during the event! It was very appreciated.
Additionally: @toyouhellohowareyou.
🐭The Cheesus Church🐭
“Cheesus is the Way, The Truth and the Light.”
“Reat Jesus” and “Angst Lord” go to @sketchy-potato who spent the last two events killing off every character they could get their hands on.
Additionally: @lemoncatssss.
👻Spooky Club🎃
Embrace the Spooky: Set your Skeleton free today! (The moderators do not support freeing the skeleton, though, it’s better off imprisoned)
“Aimed for Funny Number” goes to @harmonysixx, who went for exactly 666 words. Spooky!
“Leader of Spooky Club” goes to @somanyfanficssolittletime, and all of that time is spooky time!
“Club Collector” and “Extracurricular Extraordinaire” go to @vivalaplutothedachshund, who was also the second in command of the soap club, loves cheese and slept so little they could have been in the all-nighter club.
🐦Skyloft Knight Academy🐦
Write Like the Wind, Crimson!
“Four When Not Split” goes to @four-eyed-nerd, who is apparently just regular Four.
“The Silent One” and “Stressed Out Parent” go to @silvrash-797, who still managed to write a bunch around… 2.9 kids?
Additionally: @artemistorm and @emberlylion.
Everyone else
She may have only been “There in Spirit”, but this month @a-manicured-lawn got the best award of all: “Touching Grass.” Good job.
“Cheese Sculptor” goes to @aurora-boreas-borealis for bribing someone with… a cheese sculpture of Ravio, to not jump ship on the Cheese Cult for the Ravio Club. I am still waiting on those pictures.
“Keyboardist” goes to @bittirsweeteer for their amazing self-made setup. It has Ravio in it. Guys Ravio is in their keyboard. He dances and everything.
“Tried Something New” is a shiny badge of honor for @bluevaractyl because quote, “They came in during the last 8 hours and still wrote words!!! go Blue <3”
“Schrodinger’s Cat” is apparently @gerudoevernight and the only explanation given there was “Because I can :)” …or can you? Have to check.
“Bookbinder of the Year” goes to @gia-d for her gorgeous work on making fics into physical books people can hold in their hands. Also “Americanismized” for struggling through writing a fic with an American co-author… and an Australian spell check.
“Slow and Steady (WPM)” goes to @hyrulescarlet for taking breaks to take care of themself! Exercise! Stretch! Good job!
“Deus Ex Machina Herself” goes to @needfantasticstories since this whole operation is actually her fault. Good job Skip. And with how many people you have fighting for your hand, you are also voted this month’s “Prom Queen.”
“Lost in the Sauce” goes to @passerinesoncaffeine who rolled into the event late… because they were reading fic. Well done. You got the spirit.
“Assigned Beer by Starwolfie” goes to @rebornofstars, who is apparently not a bee anymore!
“Aimed for the Funny Number” also goes to @savimatteo2810, who went for exactly 69 words (nice!).
“Silent, Happy in her Lane” and “Focused” go to @sunny-porridge, who was largely silent but consistently joined sprints.
“Silent One” goes to @sydneymaxstripe, who didn’t talk but still did a great job!
“Aimed for Funny Number” goes to @the-au-collector, who aimed for and reached 666 words!
“Rhythm Writer” goes to @weavingstarlight, whose prose, quote: reads like it has been set to music and is truly gorgeous.”
“Plotter” goes to @woahtherebuckerino, who plotted out an entire new multi-chapter fic instead of working on their many WIPs.
Ending Notes
Thank you all for coming this month! If you find any typos or mistakes in this post—please feel free to contact @hotcheetohatredwastaken with your concerns here on tumblr or on discord!
We’d like to give a BIG thanks to the mod team: @not-freyja, @hotcheetohatredwastaken, @a-manicured-lawn, @tashacee, @winter-fen, @gia-d, @haloburns, @whatvioletdoes-blog, @weavingstarlight, @rebornofstars, @zarvasace, @artemistorm! Go give them all your love! We’ll have some announcements soon about next month, be sure to keep an eye out! We can’t wait to see you all next month!
October LU Write-a-Thon Round Up: 325,329 Words in One Day!
Welcome back to another Write-a-thon roundup! This October 1, @not-freyja and I (@hotcheetohatredwastaken) got together with 70 other writers to once again write as many productive words as possible within 24 hours! And we’re here, once again, to celebrate all of you that participated below! Thank you for coming!
(Credit to @zarvasace for the creation and organization of the round-up sheet (see the link to the full thing at the end of this post), and to @whatvioletdoes-blog for putting together this month’s superlatives. Superlatives were anonymously assigned by other participants, and clubs were self-assigned. Coming up is the Winner’s Circle, Clubs, and everyone else in alphabetical order)
Winner’s Circle (Top 5 Most Wordiest)
At 28,943 words, “Writer of all Time” goes to @glowingmin. Congratulations on reaching your 25k-30k goal!
At 27,002 words, “Budding Shit-Talker” goes to @bluury2, good luck beating glowingmin next time! You did amazing still.
At 20,441 words, “Ravio Cult Partner in Crime” goes to @twink-between-worlds, I wonder who might have helped start that club this time…
At 20,013 words, “The Lurker” goes to @somer-writes, you did great! And are suspected of killing some characters while we weren’t looking…
At 17,547 words, “Tech Curse Breaker” goes to @labyrinthdancer, who finally got through a write-a-thon without technical difficulties! Also was the only member of our Sprint Enthusiast Club!
Clubs
This month, the clubs were self-assigned using Mina’s lovely sheet (or occasionally by other participants)! Check them out below!
🌧️?Ploo Club🗺️
No one knows what this means. Pretty sure that includes the club members themselves.
“Slapchop Ravio Creator” goes to @bittirsweeteer because, quote ‘Live, laugh, love Ravio.’
“Tactician Cheerleader” goes to @hytiaa for cheering on while people were punching poor Spirit.
“Silent Caffeine Enthusiast” goes to @passerinesoncaffeine!
“Cursed Knowledge Bringer” goes to @starlight-eclipsed, I think several people were happier not knowing what Darias were!
Additionally: @glowingmin from the winner’s circle, who was their cult—I mean club leader.
🔪The Adjunation Club🕰️
A club based around appreciation of not-Freyja’s Adjuration
“Ruler of Spirit Whump” goes to @a-manicured-lawn for hurting him and enabling the hurting so much!
“Chavio Enthusiast” goes to @anime-obsessed!
“Sims Pyromaniac” goes to @awildsilver for going off to see how long Hyrule’s Sim would take to set something on fire while making cake!
“Everybody’s ex Husband” goes to @cinis0 for getting divorced twice in the span of 4 hours, somehow!
“Pokémon Trainer” goes to @four-eyed-nerd, who apparently knows what they did XD
“Divorce Declarer” goes to @lennsart, thank you for your contribution to the several divorce arcs, I guess!
“Serial Killer” goes to @life-in-winter, writers were dropping dead from your nice comments!
“Highly Likely to Get a Divorce” and “Celebrity Fallen From Grace” both go to @lunaopus, who got divorced for the 5th time in chaos chat after their popularity (read: getting starred every other message) last month!
“Stressed-out meemaw” goes to @not-freyja for dealing with the chaos! (Freyja here: *legend emoji, head in hands*)
“Honorary Mom Friend” goes to @toyouhellohowareyou who wanted to be one but has no kid!
“Tactician Team” goes to @weavingstarlight who helped hurt poor Spirit!
“Daydreamer” goes to @winterfen, ‘no words only idea’ is a mood!
Additionally: @bluury2 from the winner’s circle.
🐰Ravio Fan Club🐰
Ravio club going strong for multiple months in a row! They love that purple bunny man
The organizer of this club, @baileyboo2016, earned “Ravio Slapchop Enthusiast”, so much so that they made it their profile picture!
“Spooky Orchestra” goes to @maddrumsticks2, for their conversations about music and spookiness this month!
“Superlative Lord” and “The Memer” go to @whatvioletdoes-blog, who might not have beat the record, but still got a few memes in!
Additionally: @twink-between-worlds from the winner’s circle!
💼Busy People Club📝
They were busy. But they still stopped by to write.
“Writer Turned… More Mysterious Writer” and “Emerged From the Grave” go to @aeghina who managed to write 10k words by plotting during the event!
“Pirate Insults Enthusiast” goes to @harmonysixx for some creative ones they suggested Wind might use!
“The Scholar” and “Studious Student who Studied” go to @hyrulescarlet for getting a lot of words in schoolwork!
“The Commentor of All Time” goes to @nancyheart11, because “their comments are so fun!”
“Good Silent Times” goes to @ra-archives, came in, said a few “good timezone”s, wrote a lot!
“Hit the Funny Numbers” and “Ghost Listener” go to @tashacee, who can sometimes still hear Lawn after we kicked her out of chat for a bit!
“Tactician Team” goes to @twists-and-turns for helping hurt poor Spirit!
😵Shovel h.Ds Club🕳️
They have their shovels. Why? No idea.
“Hugo’s #1 Hater” goes to @ayzrules!
“Serial Killer” goes to @demonine for hurting the blorbos!
“Emerged From the Grave” goes to @perry, I feel like there’s a joke to be made about the shovel club here…
“Writer Turned… More Mysterious Writer” goes to @satanfish!
“Excalibur’s Buffing Oil” goes to Ven (no tumblr)!
“Spreadsheet Goddess” goes to @zarvasace I think we all know why!
🌕Fierce Dadity FanClub🌕
Nothing more to explain here, just look at the name.
The organizer of this club, @musical-chan earned “Bringer of Fierce Deity Ass”, for the images they shared of a FD figurine in the chats!
“July’s Mandela Effect” goes to @astryanonymity who I think last month’s time-travelers gave some doubts on just when the event started XD
“Wrath of God is Just a Bug” goes to @imperialkatwala for some funny WIP names when lined up together!
🧼Spooky Soap Club🎃
The Soap Club got festive this month for Halloween!
“Like Time but better smelling, a very aromatic herb” goes to @aurora-boreas-borealis because Thyme smells good, probably better than Time!
“Ads non-Enthusiast” goes to @lemoncatssss for their conversations about annoying ads while trying to watch shows!
“Nail Cursed” goes to @sketchy-potato who kept coming into the chats at the worst possible time!
“The Gifmaster” and “Nail Curser” go to @thatbluepencilcrayon for all the silly memes and tormenting everyone with lawn nails Spirit edits!
“Best Big Brother to Ever Brother” goes to @vivalaplutothedachshund because they joke adopted a younger sibling during the event!
💍Running Steel Balls Club💍
The adventure is bizarre, but they’re running with it… and the steel balls.
“Check, check, checkity check!” goes to @marsnoodlesoup for checking off every goal in their checklist!
“The KING of Five Nights at Whumptober” goes to @nebulapaws for working on their whumptober fics!
“Sky COTL Enjoyer” goes to @sodapop-glitch!
🗡️Whumptober Time Club🗡️
For those that started off Whumptober well!
“Lord of Babyrule” goes to @polynomialpandemic for their wonderful work on babyrule fics!
“Kirby Enjoyer” goes to @staring-at-a-blank-pagee!
🐟Quiet Ones Club🐟
They came, they wrote, and they did not elaborate
“Fluff Enjoyer” goes to @druidbottles!
“No plan all words” goes to @pelicanpig!
“Girl Month Enthusiast” goes to @woahtherebuckerino for their Sepfember work, even if it got posted a little late!
⚔️Link Twink Murder Society Club⚔️
A club half of these people ought to be in, let's be honest.
“Sleep Is For The Weak” goes to @nyastri, who we hope got some sleep after the event!
Everyone else
“Whumptober Crammer” goes to @across-violet-skies for getting through as much of whumptober as they could in a day!
“The Silent One” and “The Lurker” go to @bluevaractyl! Who also managed to forget the event was happening, this is a trend now XD
“Wait I Have To Tell You-” goes to @cat-at-a-writing-desk whose last words for this month’s event will go forever unfinished!
“Tactician Team” goes to @clariburnclarent for helping hurt poor Spirit!
“HS Enthusiast” goes to @enigmaticworm!
“Started, But Did They Finish?” goes to @estelian-01 who started writing… at some point, and probably finished writing too!
“From Homework Doer to Digimon Fic Writer: Any Way to the Word Count Goal” goes to @gerudo-evernight!
“Cheesy Queen” goes to @hotcheetohatredwastaken alongside every cheese-related word ever pretty much! Congratulations, you’ve been assigned Cheese at Write-A-Thon once again.
“Whump Enjoyer” goes to @1-renegade!
“One Time Is Too Many” goes to @life-in-winter, and given it was about hallucinating from no sleep they might be right!
“Skip skip skip skip skip skip…” goes to @needfantasticstories and you all know why.
“Hit the Funny Numbers” goes to @noorahqar
“Storyboarder” goes to @rebornofstars whose outlines make some people question if she’s okay.
“Boys Hurter” goes to @sapphicseasapphire for doing exactly that after they got their art requests done!
“Hit the Funny Numbers” goes to @savimatteo2810!
“Soup Master” goes to @seaotter-17, assigned Soup at Write-A-Thon chats!
“Cheerleader” goes to @starwolfie for being very encouraging and sweet!
“Star Giver” goes to @the-au-collector who starred everything they saw worthy!
Ending Notes
Thank you to everyone that participated! If you find any typos or mistakes in this post—please feel free to contact @hotcheetohatredwastaken with your concerns here on tumblr or on discord!
I’d like to give a special thanks to the mod team (in no particular order), @not-freyja, @hotcheetohatredwastaken, @a-manicured-lawn, @tashacee, @weavingstarlight @haloburns @violetdoes-blog @zarvacase @unexpectedstormy @winterfen @gia-d and @rebornofstars! Announcements about next month will be coming soon — be sure to keep an eye on the discord and the tumblr blog for updates! And check out this month’s full Write a Thon sheet (which includes credits to all of our lovely artists), below!
⚡—WRITEATHON OCT24 - Google Sheets