RIIIISE FROM YOUR GRAAAAVES! · 6:34am Jun 7th, 2015
Though, instead of his daughter, he's commanding me - and a few others - to carry on with that one true, great, ancient art.
Riffing!
That's right, ladies and gents, I'm chucking my hat back into the ring after such a long bloody hiatus, I'm pretty sure I'm a dusty relic hiding behind your bookshelf somewhere. But that's come to an end, and so, I announce that anyone, anyone at all who wishes to answer the call for riffing alongside me, Ringmaster, Fallen Prime, Twow443 and numerous others, direct yourselves to this here thread and post in it!
I ask each and every one of you to hop on board and participate in this most glorious of activities, to have a laugh with people that you've only just met or have known for years, or anywhere in between! Let the inner comedian shine through, and get your brains in gear!
Sign on, it's a simple process, and you'll be one of many to fly face first into this! So c'mon, everybody, and let's have a good time! Satire, comedy, and hundreds of jokes await!
It's a riff, and it's fun for the whole family!
An explanation as to how this will all work, provided by my good friend and fellow riffer, Fallen Prime.
For those of you who don't remember (there are probably a fair number by now), the way F/F/T3K works is pretty similar to the way my own riffs worked. Hell, the F/F/T3K format was what I based my own on, as well as RatherHomely's now tragically unpublished fic. Basically, the text of the story is laid out in the doc, unedited from its source, and the riffer goes in and inserts their own snarky commentary on the events happening in the story. The standardized format for it is such:
Story text story text story text...
Username: Witty remark that may or may not get a laugh from the audience!
More story text.
The commentary tends to range from jabs at the botched meanings of ill-constructed sentences to mocking the actions and mannerisms of the characters to lampshading the ludicrous nature of the narrative. It's all good-natured and lighthearted, and even GOOD stories are able to be riffed by one who can extract enough material from them, but let's face it, worse stories just provide more to comment on and lambast. You can look at any of the riffs linked on my userpage if you need examples, though those are almost exclusively "bad" stories.
Damn. Really says something about my lack of productivity that I feel like I need to re-explain riffing to a bunch of followers who are probably here because of it.If you want to join in the fun on this new project, F/F/T3K (or, as Ring likes calling it now, F/F/T3K15) is provided off-site via Google Drive as per site rules against publishing riffs and other MST3K-esque works as stories, and this bit of freedom means we can leave the docs open for others to leave comments right on the text even if they're not on our list of people with editing access. You can insert your own quips and jabs alongside ours by putting the doc into suggestion mode (unless Ring can default it to that, in which case that's less work on your part) and typing in your line in the "Name: Comment!" format detailed above. If we like the joke, there's a good chance it'll find its way into the text of the document. So yay, you're a helper!
I already mentioned it in Fallen's post, but what the hell, I should definitely return to this.
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