AppleDash Contest #3 - Competition! · 12:06am Aug 1st, 2014
Hey guys!
You know that contest theme Tcher was trying to figure out? Do ya?
Well, he found one!
And it's great! It-
Pinkie! We agreed to share the announcement, remember!
Awww, but I wanted to say it!
That isn't fair to the others!
Fine...
Thank you.
Thhbhhbhtht!
Is it finally my turn?
Yes! Go ahead!
Thank you, dear.
The theme of this contest is another subversion!
All about... competition!
How often have you seen people who don't like AppleDash say they can't work out because they 'constantly compete'?
Which is a silly notion, truly.
Your job is to show how it can bring out the best in them!
Your turn, Fluttershy!
Oh! Um.
Well, the rules of the contest are the same as past ones, which you'll find below and in the thread.
We also have prizes!
First place will get one 3d printed figurine of their choosing, up to 65$ worth, from http://www.superfanart.com/! (like that Applejack, Rarity, Dash)
Second and third place will get a drawing from Rangelost!
Thanks, girls!
If you're not sure what is meant by the theme, or think it's simply too close to Fall Weather Friends, the awesome bookplayer gave these following examples to explain.
They're free to use, but if you do choose one, please tell us!
The idea of the prompt being "competition" is that it's a prompt. It's something that would come up a lot in their relationship in various ways, and could bring out the best OR worst in them as a couple. What exactly it does if for the writer to decide. For example, any of these could be stories that would fit the prompt:
AJ has started assigning Dash and other ponies "scores" for things, seemingly at random. Dash seems to be winning, but starts going crazy trying to figure out what she's winning, until AJ reveals that she's rating Dash's marefriend potential and would like to go out with her.
Dash and AJ are dating, and play some kind of "Newly-Wed Game" style thing at a festival (where they have to answer questions about each other). They both miss a bunch of questions, and spend the rest of the day fighting over who lost it. Eventually it becomes obvious that even if they don't remember trivia, they know exactly how the other will react and what's important to each other.
Another already together story-- AJ goes back to the Canterlot rodeo, and does much better this time. Dash is there, and thinks that AJ should focus less on the farm because it's obvious that AJ could be a world champion rodeo pony if she focused on it. The conflict comes from the differences in how they see competition and how important it is to them.
AJ and Dash are playing "The Quiet Game," and Dash writes AJ a note asking her out or otherwise coming on to her as a trick to get AJ to talk. AJ agrees by note, Dash is shocked and writes a note back asking if she's serious, and they admit their feelings and make plans for a first date through notes while sitting right next to each other because neither of them is willing to lose the game.
None of those sounds anything like Fall Weather Friends to me!
That's all, folks! The contest will start on the first of august, and will laust until the first of October. Since that is a long time, we won't have extensions this time! Two months and that's it!
RD?
AJ?
This is gonna be great!
I know!
Rules and information:
Write a fic, minimum 5k words, about the theme of 'competition'. The two can compete against each other, or against somepony else, or may compete for some 'thing'. The aim is to subvert the idea that AJ and Dash are bad for each other, because they 'constantly compete'. Flip that idea on its head!
No clop, no humanized, no humans in Equestria, or anthro. Other tags are fair game.
All valid entries will be listed in blog posts by myself at the time the winners are announced.
Entries can be made by PMing me or other judges, or posting the link in this thread with the text “contest entry” somewhere around it.
The deadline is October 8th, 2014. This time, we won't have any extensions! You get your two months and that's it :P
If you have questions about the "originality" of your idea, and would like to check before writing, you can PM Tchernobog, KrazyTheFox, Autumn Rush, or Timaeus.
Also, the main socializing thread in the AppleDash group is home to lots of brainstorming, including some by the judges. Everyone is welcome to read and respond there.
The Harvesting of Ponyville
Slice of Life, Gore
For years all across Equestria Applejack and Rainbow Dash have tried to out do the other in finding creative new ways to slay the undead. Finally with the horde dwindling in numbers they both set their sights on a goal once thought impossible, purifying their old hometown of Ponyville. When they meet up in town and the blood begins to fly will they wind up destroying each other in the heat of the moment?
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I question the 'destroying each other' part, but that sounds kinda interesting!
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I choked on my leftover Chinese food.
Let the games begin, everyone!
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er, woops. Fixin' >.>
I want to call dibs on that last idea, because it's kawaii as fuck, but I'm too wrapped up trying to dig out the impetus and inclination to write Princess Twi to really take on another fic.
Maybe a break to write something else might help me? Hmm...
b-but now i want all four of those stories...
also, the second sequence of the combinatorics project.
best competitive AppleDash ever.
Good luck at the participants. Not me. I'm not ready and don't have time for a lot of reasons. Neither enough inspiration
Marefriend contest! Which of them is better at romance? Country picnic with sparkling cider, or Wonderbolts show and dinner in Cloudsdale? They're going to figure out, once and for all, which of them is the better lover!
The winner, of course, earns the right to woo Rarity.
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And you were doing so well!
Then you had to add that last sentence.
So this is the prompt that won.
Aw...and here I was all ready to write a breakup fic.
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Maybe next time! It is a good prompt, but this was suggested, and it's better! What better than to subvert another sadly too common idea from the appledash detractors? ;)
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Hey, you wanted a subversion
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Probably the least inspired "competition" idea ever buuuut let's throw my idea out there for my story anyway.
Darez!
Rainbow Dash invites her friends to play her favorite game.
Darez!
Way cooler than truth or dare (because it has a Z at the end) and no "truth" to weasel your way out of, it sounds like the most radical way to spend a Saturday... until she and Applejack spend over a week trying to beat each other.
Oh gosh, I just had the craziest idea...
And I don't know if you're going to love me or hate me for it.
I was thinking I wouldn't be participating, until suddenly I had this idea, and now I MUST write it.
Welp, here goes.
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