#round 22

Alright, I know that the poll hasn't ended, but there has been enough interest that we'll be starting the submissions!

Reminder of the Basics: Writers submit their characters as potential candidates and then I put them in the Brant Steele Hunger Games Simulator and share the results. In the meantime, the writers can write and share stories (from giant text posts to just a couple of sentences) about their characters being in the Games!

Note: characters’ canonical powers, strengths, abilities, disabilities, and weaknesses will not be taken into account by the simulator. Every outcome is random and everyone has an equal chance for victory or disaster.

How we’ll do things this time: each writer who wants to participate can submit up to three original characters they would like to see fight in the Arena. Please reblog this post only or else send this blog an ask/message with your characters’ information.

In your submissions, please include your characters’:

Name (what you would like to see them repeated as over and over in the simulation)

Pronouns

A little bit of background information, as this helps me write fun reactions about the characters

Since a majority voted for a standard WHG, we'll just have the simulation run its course with no theme! It will be a standard killing game, teehee.

Timeline:

Submissions begin today

Writing prompts will be posted later this week

Submissions close Sunday, January 5

Initial Reaping with list of characters is posted Monday, January 6. Please let me know if I've misspelled anything, you'd like to make adjustments, etc.

Official Reaping will be posted Friday, January 10

The Games begin the day after that, with one in-Arena day posted per real-world day

I am drawing everything out to give myself some extra time, since the mental health and physical time economy is in shambles, so I hope that's ok! Tagging whoever showed interest below the cut:

Reminder: Only the overall poll winner will be put back in the tournament.

Everything is possible when you’re young. Limitless. You take impulsive decisions that might not be that smart, and your imagination runs wild. You’re invincible. You’re immortal. You think you’ll always be young, but before you know it, you’re growing up and it’s all going too fast even if it’s too slow. You’re all too human, and you feel everything rawer and more intense than adults do. You don’t know how it’s possible to feel as much as you do, and you don’t know what to do with those feelings. You can’t imagine there being an end. But there is and some days, you’re impatient for that day to come so you can leave it all behind and other days, you want to stay like this forever.

The theme for Lights on Park Ave Round 22 is youth. Here are the prompts:

“Perfect Places” - Lorde

A piece about realizing you’ll never be this young again, but it’s the first time you’re this old by Kalyn Roseanne Livernois

A conversation between Neil and Mr. Keating about Neil feeling trapped and unable to live the life he wants because of his father from Peter Weir’s Dead Poets Society (1989) 

An excerpt about being too young to know how to love properly from Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor” - Arctic Monkeys

Elio’s father telling Elio not to try to rid himself of his sorrow and pain—and with that joy—which he feels so strongly because he’s so young from Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman

A quote about how everything feels final to young people because they’re experiencing it for the first time from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Lara Jean telling Peter that she had to make it seem like she liked him to deal with her love letter fiasco in Susan Johnson’s To All the Boys I Loved Before (2018)

Rue and Jules dancing together and partying it up in Euphoria

“Le Plongeoir” by Laurent Roch

A quote about being pushed into adulthood and not being ready from Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

A photo of a roller rink illuminated by pink and purple lights

Pastel photo series of Coney Island by Mijoo Kim and Minjin Kang

“Hips Don’t Lie” - Shakira feat. Wyclef Jean

“Young Dumb & Broke” - Khalid

Different moments accompanied by the letter to Mr. Vernon at the end of detention from John Hughes’s The Breakfast Club (1985)

Various scenes and a quote about growing up and realizing life isn’t like a fairy tale from Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)

Stills of the young lesbian couple in love from the music video of “You Know” - Jaurim

Lines by Effy about her emotional and mental struggles from Skins

Nathan chiding the group for not taking advantage of their superpowers as young offenders from Misfits

Round 22 will end on June 30, 11:59 PM ET (what time is that for me?).

Fly! Fly, my pretties!!