The Wheelhouse - Week 5 - Day 1

Jul. 23rd, 2025 11:29 pm
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 There's a lot going on, so let's put all the links in one handy place for you. 

The elimination: therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1191381.html

The twist that keeps not being a twist and the puzzling development:   therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1191429.html

The new prompt: therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1191745.html


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This would also be a good spot for people to discuss the new prompt.  Who was Googled it already?  :)  Who already knew it?  Has it sparked anything?

Well, either way, good luck with that!  ;) 

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How has your week been going? 

Prompt - Week 5

Jul. 23rd, 2025 11:26 pm
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  Now of course it's time for this week's prompt.

I summon the great wheel of prompts to dispense it's justice!!

May it's will be done. 

*spins* 


This week's prompt is... 

Toi toi toi

The deadline to link your entry back to this thread is Sunday, July 27th at 7pm ET. 

Have fun! 

Week 5 - Twist Reveal

Jul. 23rd, 2025 10:09 pm
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 Last week I talked about removing one of the "No Twist" options. 

But like all things, I couldn't do that on my own.  I went to a random generated coin flip.  Heads I removed a "no twist". Tails it stayed the way it was. 

It came up tails.  So the "No Twist" stayed on the board. This week.  I'll ask again before the next time. 

Then I asked the Wheel if there would be a twist... and of course it said NO.  

(I then asked the Wheel, if there WAS a twist what it would be, and man that would have been a fun reveal!!! But I guess we will have that next time.) 

So, no twist this week. 

The antidote is once again in the hands of [personal profile] xeena to determine what will happen with it. 

and the castle was eerie and silent all night long, with no signs of any foul play.  What are the Killer(s) up to???  Is it possible their ranks are growing?  

Results - Week 4

Jul. 23rd, 2025 09:26 pm
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The poll is closed, the votes are in, and this week we are unfortunately saying another sad goodbye.

Hopefully not for long, but at least for now.

Goodbye to... *checks poll* *checks email* *looks at poll again*

[personal profile] murielle 
  
who sacrificed this week by throwing herself off the turret.   It made quite a mess and the grounds crew is going to be quite busy for the next *looks at the mess* few days probably. 

Thank you for coming out and I hope you will be able to resurrect sooner rather than later whenever things get less crazy in your life. 





Vote - Week 4

Jul. 20th, 2025 10:01 pm
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A few words from [personal profile] clauderainsrm:


The Killer(s) have claimed their first victim! https://therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1190785.html

But we must still go forward with a vote to determine who else will be leaving us this week!

It’s not going to be easy given how good the entries are this time around.

Now it’s all up to you - the voters! Read. Comment. Vote for your favorites!! You are the only ones who can save them! You can also determine who will receive the antidote that may stop the evil schemes of the Killer(s)!

That’s a lot of power, and also great responsibility. Use it well.

There will be (spins wheel) 1 person leaving us this week.

The poll closes Wednesday July 23rd at 8pm ET.

Good luck to everyone!


Poll #33383 ’WheelofChaos-Week4’
This poll is closed.
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 45

Vote For Your Favorites!

adore's BYE WEEK - Votes Do Not Count
2 (4.4%)

alycewilson's entry
15 (33.3%)

autumn_wind's entry
16 (35.6%)

bleodswean's BYE WEEK - Votes Do Not Count
4 (8.9%)

drippedonpaper's entry
17 (37.8%)

eeyore_grrl's entry
16 (35.6%)

flipflop_diva's BYE WEEK - Votes Do Not Count
4 (8.9%)

garnigal's entry
5 (11.1%)

gunwithoutmusic's BYE WEEK - Votes Do Not Count
3 (6.7%)

hafnia's entry
12 (26.7%)

halfshellvenus's entry
19 (42.2%)

inkstainedfingertips's entry
23 (51.1%)

krispykritter's BYE WEEK - Votes Do Not Count
4 (8.9%)

legalpad819's entry
8 (17.8%)

marjorica's entry
11 (24.4%)

muchtooarrogant's entry
15 (33.3%)

murielle's BYE WEEK - Votes Do Not Count
2 (4.4%)

rayaso's entry
17 (37.8%)

roina_arwen's entry
12 (26.7%)

serpentinejacaranda's entry
10 (22.2%)

simplyn2deep's entry
10 (22.2%)

static_abyss's BYE WEEK - Votes Do Not Count
2 (4.4%)

swirlsofpurple's entry
12 (26.7%)

talonkarrde's entry
16 (35.6%)

tonithegreat's entry
10 (22.2%)

wolfden's entry
6 (13.3%)

xeena's entry
30 (66.7%)


Week 4 - The Accusation

Jul. 20th, 2025 07:34 pm
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 I'm glad that everyone could make it to this meeting.  Before this poll is posted, we have some solemn business to attend to - there is a/are Killer(s) lose in this castle!!  You are the only ones who are able to identify them and bring them to justice!!! 

You have sent in your votes, and this time there were 9 different suspects.  But the majority landed on a Killer being none other than [personal profile] flipflop_diva 

*cue dramatic music*  


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Now that is out of the way, we can get back to the business at han... wait, hey, are you OK?  *someone falls to the ground with a thud*   *screaming, lots and lots of screaming* 

SOMEONE CALL A DOCTOR!!! SOMEONE CALL... oh, it's too late... 
[personal profile] fausts_dream  is dead. The Killer(s) have murdered him.  The last Nullifier, the power to chance results and take out twists, is gone with him. 

He did leave this final message though, a last entry in his Idol journal. Maybe there's a clue, or at least some solace for those he has left behind. fausts-dream.dreamwidth.org/7521.html

Title: it's always darkest

Jul. 20th, 2025 08:50 pm
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unsleeping, eryse stares at the sky, the sun is about to rise and the twilight shifts to pitch blackness. she sighs. another failure. she’s been here for forever. she just wants to go home. she’s never going to get control over her powers. she’s going to be here forever. a freak. giant thumbs erupt out of the land in front of her. red and peeling, like sunburnt cactuses.

the weight of failure sits heavy in her lungs, like marble. pain devours her lungs as her powers try to shift them to stone, her immune system fights and her lungs stay as they are.

she needs a distraction. she calls home.

“it’s eryse! eryse is calling!” the screen quickly fills with her guardians. “how’s it going?”

she turns the screen towards the monolithic digits. “see for yourself.”

“oh sweetie, you’re doing amazing.”

she turns the screen back to herself, incredulous. “can you not see the thumbs?!”

“i see them. i also don’t see much else, which means you’re not manifesting most of your thoughts; you’re controlling your powers most of the time.”    

“most of the time is useless. it’s not going to get me home. i’m going to end up on clyreex with all the other people who never learn to control their powers.”

“you need to be patient. you’re a lot better than you were three months ago. in another three you probably won’t be manifesting any of your thoughts accidentally.”

eryse hates the pressure of that timeline. it feels insurmountable. and she wants to go home now. she misses her family. she misses her friends. she thinks about one girl she knows who took two whole years to learn. everyone will have forgotten she exists.

“doubtful. and even if i do manage it, then i’ll have to learn how to use my powers deliberately, which will take even longer.”

“maybe you should think yourself up a nice house, living in that cave can’t be good for your mood.”

“i like this cave.” she’d accidentally vanished the house her first week here and had been too scared to create another one. this conversation isn’t helping like she hoped. “i’m tired, i’m going to go now.” she hangs up before anyone can respond.      

despair sits in her like rot. she’s not good at this. she can’t do this.

she gets a call from an unknown number. it will be one of those weirdo radicals, they’re always trying to recruit kids like her. she never answers, she knows better. but now, she thinks, why not? it will kill some time in the endless forever.

“how are you faring?”

 she shrugs.

“i know, no fun, i bet you want to be home?”

“i do.”

“you know, in the old days, we never had to leave children on other planets when they came into their powers.”

“i know, in the ordered thought times.”

“yes, we just want to return to those times.”

“well, this is all i’ve ever known, and no offense, but having to control what i think sounds really horrible, definitely worse than just controlling my powers.”

“we didn’t control what we thought, we just thought a different way.”

“yeah, but that’s gone now, we think differently now, if we tried to go back we would have to control thoughts to do it.”

“maybe. but don’t you want to go home. don’t you think it’s unfair that kids are left alone like this.”

“there isn’t a choice, we would wreck the world, and there are a lot of very smart people working on other solutions so this won’t happen forever.”

“things didn’t used to be this way. you don’t have to listen to the people telling you this horrible thing is necessary.”

she shrugs. it does feel horrible and she does want to go home. “what’s the other option though?”

“we teach only ordered thought, like it was, purge chaos thought from the world.”

“that sounds crazy.”

“i know it does, chaos thought sounds normal because it’s all you’ve known, but before we met the humans, we had ordered thought only and things were good. chaos thought has brought only bad things. you know, in those early days, ‘step on a crack, break your mother’s back’ swept through the world like a plague. and then there was, ‘where there’s smoke, there’s fire’, the devastation was profound.”

she did know, of course, she’s never heard these arguments, only the opposing ones, and they suddenly sound fresh and tantalising. it is ridiculous that kids are abandoned on other planets. after a lifetime surrounded by reasons why chaos thought is good, she can’t think of a single one of them. she wonders what her guardians would say if she ran off to join a cult.  

“i need to think.”

“of course you do. i’ll call again tomorrow.”

it only takes a few moments to come back to her senses. after all, running away would only leave her further from home. and millennia of ordered thought couldn’t do anywhere near the level of healing ‘kiss it better’ could. she can’t really comprehend the world before ‘when you wish upon a star’, a world of poverty and disease and pain.  

she stares at the wine-dark sky, trying to twist despair into determination, a whisper sits in her soul, “is it worth it?”

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Going With The Flow
Idol Wheel Of Chaos | Week 4 | 1112 words
Figure of Speech

x-x-x-x-x

They called her a figure of speech, and let me tell you–what a figure she had! Yowza.

Ida and I met at a bus stop in Queens, both of us waiting for the number 54. As soon as I got a look at those baby blues and that long blond hair, I was smitten.

We sat together on the bus, watching the world go by. "It's raining cats and dogs!" she said. And you know what? It was. I was glad to be inside with her, instead of out there in the thick of it.

"Where are you headed?" I asked.

"Where the sun don't shine!" she answered.

It turned out she meant the post office, but she had a cute way of putting it.

Read more... )

If you enjoyed this story, please vote for it along with any of your other favorites here.

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Jul. 20th, 2025 10:36 am
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The story is posted! 

Tell Your Park Fire Story



I have to take an unwanted BYE in Idol this week as the story and work has kept me too busy to pen anything fictional and fun. Next prompt. 
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 The deadline for this week's prompt is tomorrow. Which is why there are still so many of them missing!  ;)  Slackers!!!

therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1189997.html

For those of you who like to read ahead though, there are some really good ones already up there.  No pressure to the slackers!  ;) 

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How has your weekend been going? 

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For those still in the game - Make sure to send me your accusation!!


The Wheelhouse - Week 4

Jul. 18th, 2025 07:26 am
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So much to talk about.  Therapy has been going OK.  

What I HAVEN’T told her, yet, is where to find the new prompt https://therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1189997.html

I also haven’t told her that Xeena has let me know who will be receiving the antidote.   Did she save a life? Was it wasted?   That’s not got me up tell. 

I’m definitely not sure what my therapist would think of Killer(s) running around in my castle   Or about the fact that I have a castle   Or that in this friendly writing community, murder is afoot!!! 


What would YOUR therapist (real or imagined) be shocked by? 

[personal profile] eeyore_grrl
 
                  FIGURE OF SPEECH

it is a myth that the dead always leave a note
a lie that you tell yourself about the suicidal
one that we let you believe
             because we have to make you feel safer
                            (somehow)
 
the suicide note is a figure of speech
it is not always written in ink or callouses
my suicide notes were written on my body
each scar etched into my skin
        covering once internal blood
        was a love note to myself

perhaps i can sustain just a little bit longer

each tattoo a story of my journey
        what got me this far
                                (this far)
         that i could hold onto
        ( just a little bit longer)
i never penned this mythological note
         this goodbye detailing my whys

you
already
know
them

the suicide note on tv is just a figure of speech
a dream
a wish
an explanation for something you
         (hopefully)
         cannot understand

but to those of us who know
         who live it day to day
         our suicide notes don't have to be        ink
        they are flesh and bone
        they are blood and meat and neurons firing wrong
each day we live
      a testament to the note
         you expect we write in our heads 	in drafts and corrections
each day we wander this earth a note to the fuckers
         who never thought we would survive their words and their actions
         their impasse into our psyche
today i LIVE
        a fuck you to those who brought me to pieces
        a fuck you to those who told me to die
        a fuck you to the asshole in my head

today i live because i promised my mother i would not try again 
		the day we watched cancer take my brother and she broke a little inside
today i live because my son walks these halls
       his bedroom floor creaking, a safe life
		and i cannot  be the one to ruin that
		        i cannot break the sweetness that is his soul
today i live in spite of the fact
         that i will never write a note
         it's already been written

and i  don't  intend to die



Prompt - Week 4

Jul. 15th, 2025 11:32 pm
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 This week's prompt is again from the list of unused prompts buried deep in the Idol vaults.  The wheel spins and the result is: 

Figure of speech

The deadline to link your entries back to this thread is

Sunday July 20th at 7pm ET.

Have fun!

Twist Reveal - Week 4

Jul. 15th, 2025 10:25 pm
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 The wheel has landed on NO TWIST

There are 2 "no twist" spots. I may have to remove one.  ;)   If nothing else, this should increase the odds of week after week of brutal twists coming!!   Or, at least I can hope. 


The Wheel may be on your side, at the moment, but the Killer(s) certainly is/are not!!!  So make sure you send me your accusation before the next deadline!

Results - Week 3

Jul. 15th, 2025 08:48 pm
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 Another contestant has been poisoned. Fortunately, with [personal profile] xeena has been given the antidote and will be able to administer that crucial life-saving elixir to someone.  (she has until the new prompt deadline to send me her decision about who will be receiving it!) 

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The remaining contestants also have until then to send me their accusation on who they believe is a Killer/one of the Killers. Identifying them is the only way to stop their murder spree!  So far, no one has dropped dead.  But, if someone was completely healthy in Week 1, with no byes used, this would be the first week that someone could die. So I guess we will start seeing signs of their nefarious deeds. 

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Now comes the sad part, where we say goodbye to someone. 

The good news is, as you know, that wheel keeps on spinning, so who knows where it is going to land and give people the chance to come back. 

But for now, goodbye to [personal profile] oxymoron67  thank you so much for coming out for this, and hope you will stick around, Home Game, and see what the wheel has it store next!
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Greetings from Ohio. I came up for two different family reunions. Well, one "Cousin's Day" and the other is a cookout because they were looking for an excuse to have one, and since I was coming up and no one has seen me in years, a lot of different subgroups of the family are coming together (so in other words, a "family reunion" but only one of them was planned years in advance!

Don't forget to read, comment and vote for your favorites?  therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1188979.html

The trip so far has been nice at points, but emotionally rough. Definitely some difficult insights into family dynamics. 

Such as, it turns out that yes, my Dad IS just weirdly distant from the kids, family and pretty much everyone.  But he *specifically* doesn't like me and doesn't want to talk to me because he "can't understand a word (I) say" and is embarrassed by me. (Due to my stutter) Found that out from my siblings after they were drinking a lot and speaking candidly about the issues in the family. One of them had the courage to say it out loud (after I said that I was positive my Dad didn't like me) and no one contradicted him. Maybe I can finally stop trying to gain his approval!  It's just one more reason to be glad that I started therapy and have a session that afternoon I get back (Tuesday) 

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How has YOUR week/weekend been going?  Hopefully all of you are positive that I want to kick you!!! Because I do. 


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