It's been about a week, and the soft judges' busy hands have finally selected the winners of the Soft Hands Inaugural Fanfiction Contest! Each story was graded on a ten-point scale, with 5 points awarded for story and 5 for prompt usage. Judges could also award a single extra point to any stories they wished. Thus, each story had a maximum total score of 33 points. Ranking by score determined the winners!

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Judging for the Soft Hands Inaugural Fanfiction Writing Contest is still underway, but as I spent all day reading entries, I'm free to put up my reviews, as promised to all the entrants! (Except myself, of course.)

A few disclaimers:

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I've always wanted to hold a writing contest. Dear god, why is this the first one?

What is "Soft Hands"?

Soft hands is an inside joke from the Seattle's Angels chat that I am led to believe is my fault. I blame Syeekoh anyway. But there's a group now, and to mark its opening, we are holding a contest, open to anyone on the site! The rules are as follows.

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Some thoughts and ideas just won’t go away.

“What would I title a sequel to The Best of Tensions?” is one of those thoughts. Things got weird from there, as they often tend to:

The Worst of Mentions

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