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Title: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: mare on April 01, 2012, 06:13:25 AM
Hello!

Here is your challenge for the month of April.

Create a story using one of these really 'foolish' ideas and make it into something amazing! We've all seen over the top plots and always thought "I am SO not going to read that!!" only to click on the link and find...yup, I was right that kinf of sucked! lmao

You have the opportunity to take an idea that seems so far out of the realm of possibility and twist it so it actually is believeable and works. For example: The New Kids on the Block are the most talented individuals on the planet! lmao good luck with that one!  ???

I keeed I keeed...hrmm lol

Anyway, pick from one of the bad ideas below and try to create a short story about it.

Ideas

The boys battle killer monkeys from outer space

Brian has a secret desire to eat other people's smelly shoes

The Incredible Two headed Howie

Nick turns into a porcupine

AJ is conjoined at the ass with his twin sister Alexa

Talking grapes tell the boys to kill people

Kevin rejoins the Backstreet Boys but he's invisible


Here are your rules:

~ No word limit and you can write up to three chapters if you need to.
~ All the boys need to appear in this one
~ You canNOT use the 'this was only a dream' idea
~ You may use a banner for this one (No this isn't an april fools. Some of these ideas deserve a banner lol) but...you still need to follow the rules!!


Good luck and I hope to see lots of entries! :) I know Julilly said she'd definitely do it!

Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: julilly on April 01, 2012, 09:36:10 AM
When you say "All the boys" can that exclude Kevin, or no? lol
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: mare on April 01, 2012, 10:10:13 AM
I guess since he's not a boy you don't have to include him.
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: RokofAges75 on April 01, 2012, 01:40:35 PM
LOL This one sounds fun!
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: Sakabelle on April 01, 2012, 01:54:17 PM
Brian has a secret desire to eat other people's smelly shoes

I kinda want to take this one and make it really dark and depressing lol...
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: mare on April 01, 2012, 01:58:21 PM
I kinda want to take this one and make it really dark and depressing lol...

I can't see this one being anything but dark and depressing lmao
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: Carter-Orange on April 01, 2012, 01:59:59 PM
Sounds like a fun challenge, I just hope I can think of something.
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: Alexsgirl_ritz on April 01, 2012, 02:04:17 PM
LOL I'd try the talking grapes....... but how?  :shrug:

This is gonna be fun.....  ;D
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: Sakabelle on April 01, 2012, 02:06:15 PM
I can't see this one being anything but dark and depressing lmao

I guess that's what makes it a challenge, haha! I usually go the humorous route on these :P
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: RokofAges75 on April 02, 2012, 01:19:03 PM
Just wanted to say that I'm all over the killer monkeys from outer space idea!  I have inspiration, I have time, and I have nothing else I'm itching to write, so hey, I might actually complete a challenge!  I usually have the most luck with the April Fool's challenges, so thanks for this one, Mare!
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: RokofAges75 on April 05, 2012, 12:43:58 AM
Wow, not only did I actually do a challenge, but I'm first?  Apparently this is what happens when I have no inspiration for the other stories I'm supposed to be writing right now LOL.  Also, this was a really fun idea!

I went with "The Boys battle killer monkeys from outer space," and here is the result!

Hybrid:  http://absolutechaos.net/viewstory.php?sid=10889
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: Sakabelle on April 05, 2012, 08:53:35 AM
I cannot wait for my work day to be over so I can read this! Yay for you Julie!
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: mare on April 05, 2012, 09:01:40 AM
Great job, Julie! :)

Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: Carter-Orange on April 05, 2012, 10:42:39 AM
Well done Julie, I loved it!
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: RokofAges75 on April 05, 2012, 11:09:43 AM
Thanks, guys!
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: FrickingKaos on April 05, 2012, 05:58:15 PM
Lmao I kinda want to do the talking grapes one. Just thinking of how to write it out!
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: RokofAges75 on April 05, 2012, 06:44:06 PM
That would have been my second choice.  I can't wait to read one of those!
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: mare on April 05, 2012, 09:25:48 PM
I am looking forward to reading a talking grapes one.
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: Rose on April 06, 2012, 03:25:10 PM
I'm definitely working on the Talking Grapes one. I'm hoping to have that finished today LOL.
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: mare on April 06, 2012, 03:44:05 PM
YAY! If I do one, it'll probably be that one or I might have to do the porcupine one lol
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: RokofAges75 on April 06, 2012, 04:20:17 PM
I know someone who's doing the porcupine one, so stay tuned!
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: Carter-Orange on April 06, 2012, 04:28:47 PM
Can't wait to read them!  I'm still trying to think of a way to write one
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: mare on April 06, 2012, 04:29:14 PM
Oh, Jenn's doing that one? lol Dang. Ah well
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: Rose on April 06, 2012, 04:51:18 PM
http://absolutechaos.net/viewstory.php?sid=10891

My entry "Grape Expectations". :) Enjoy! LOL
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: RokofAges75 on April 06, 2012, 04:56:14 PM
You totally delivered!  I laughed my ass off at the talking grapes egging them on!  LMFAO
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: Rose on April 06, 2012, 05:02:44 PM
Thank you, that's definitely the strangest thing I've written. And for me, that's saying something LMAO.
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: mare on April 06, 2012, 05:08:04 PM
Lol very nice!
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: FrickFrackGirl on April 06, 2012, 06:34:20 PM
Here's my submission:
http://absolutechaos.net/viewstory.php?sid=10892


Thanks again to Julie for helping me with my banner and to Julia for helping post it!  You girls rock! 
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: FrickFrackGirl on April 06, 2012, 06:36:08 PM
Oh, Jenn's doing that one? lol Dang. Ah well

Sorry!! But you can still do it!  Lots of ideas to write! 

Rose and Julie...LOVED your submissions!  OMG..I love you girls and your love of gore and guts!  Deff made my day with them!
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: mare on April 06, 2012, 07:00:42 PM
Nicely done, Jennay!!
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: FrickFrackGirl on April 06, 2012, 07:03:24 PM
Nicely done, Jennay!!

Thanks! That was a blast to write!  Thanks for the fun challenge this month! It was creative and different.
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: RokofAges75 on April 06, 2012, 07:03:44 PM
Loved yours too, Jen, and thanks!
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: FrickingKaos on April 06, 2012, 07:14:32 PM
Yours sounds awesome Rose! I'm gonna read it now, I coukd use a pick me up at the moment.
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: julilly on April 06, 2012, 07:32:52 PM
I haven't had a chance to read any of these yet but the banners alone have had me cracking up.

I'm going to make mine painfully serious to try and even things out. :P
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: RokofAges75 on April 06, 2012, 07:34:08 PM
I think the banners are my favorite part!  But the stories themselves have all been epic too.  Props to Mare for coming up with such ridiculously awesome ideas!
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: FrickFrackGirl on April 06, 2012, 07:38:34 PM
And Rose..you gave me a total flashbacks of Julie's By My Side with the “Phoenix” album and "rising from the ashes"..lol  Great, now I've got Nick in my head in a padded room with only one leg! 
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: RokofAges75 on April 06, 2012, 07:41:45 PM
And Rose..you gave me a total flashbacks of Julie's By My Side with the “Phoenix” album and "rising from the ashes"..lol  Great, now I've got Nick in my head in a padded room with only one leg! 

I KNOW!  LMAO They really need to name an album that now.  Or not, because then we'll all think of one-legged Nick rocking in a padded cell after killing Kevin with an axe because the talking grapes told him to.  We don't want life imitating art - haha!
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: FrickFrackGirl on April 06, 2012, 07:47:46 PM
I KNOW!  LMAO They really need to name an album that now.  Or not, because then we'll all think of one-legged Nick rocking in a padded cell after killing Kevin with an axe because the talking grapes told him to.  We don't want life imitating art - haha!
It scares me somethings just how many details I remember from Broken and BMS...lmao! 

And yes! They do...we would all just have to get over the giggles every time we seen the album cover :P And now I'm seeing Nick, hopping around frantically on one leg cuz they just served him a bowl of grapes with his lunch! *roll* *roll*
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: RokofAges75 on April 06, 2012, 08:12:42 PM
LMAO!  "Nooooo!  The grapes!  For the love of god, NOT THE GRAPES!!!"
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: Sakabelle on April 08, 2012, 01:08:58 AM
Loved all of yours!

Here's mine

http://absolutechaos.net/viewstory.php?sid=10893

I tried to make it serious lmao, but I could not stop laughing.
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: RokofAges75 on April 08, 2012, 08:01:48 PM
I loved yours so much, Steph!  I was already cracking up when I clicked on it just because the banner, and I kept laughing the whole way through.  The dark, angsty, "serious" way you wrote it was what made it so funny - besides the obvious visual of Brian licking Nick's shoes LMAO.

It sounds over the top, but I've watched enough episodes of My Strange Addiction that I wouldn't be at all shocked if there were really people who had this problem LOL.
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: FrickingKaos on April 09, 2012, 04:19:20 AM
Kinda a silly question, I know...but does Kevin have to be invisible to everyone or can he be visible to one person and not anyone else? Just wanted to be sure lol
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: mare on April 09, 2012, 05:52:55 AM
I would say invisible is invisible. No one should be able to see him. Remember, he's not a ghost or dead at all, just invisible lol
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: FrickingKaos on April 09, 2012, 06:08:37 AM
Ah gotcha. Thanks for clearing that up for me Mare!
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: FrickingKaos on April 09, 2012, 06:11:36 AM
Kinda thought this was a dumb question as well, but while he is invisible are people allowed to hear him (like a disembodied voice)
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: mare on April 09, 2012, 08:31:24 AM
Yes lol he can be heard, otherwise if we couldn't see him or hear him, it would make for a very short story.
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: FrickingKaos on April 09, 2012, 09:23:13 AM
You never know lol. Thanks for answering my questions!
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: julilly on April 09, 2012, 04:59:43 PM
Yes lol he can be heard, otherwise if we couldn't see him or hear him, it would make for a very short story.

It would be more true-to-life, though.
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: mare on April 09, 2012, 05:06:02 PM
Kevin remaining silent would be more true to life? lol
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: Purpura Lipstick on April 09, 2012, 05:09:57 PM
maybe it's been too long and she doesn't remember how much and long Kevin spoke... lol
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: julilly on April 09, 2012, 05:39:26 PM
maybe it's been too long and she doesn't remember how much and long Kevin spoke... lol

I skip those songs! lol
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: RokofAges75 on April 09, 2012, 06:24:40 PM
I skip those songs! lol

LOL
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: Carter-Orange on April 12, 2012, 08:22:05 AM
I'm just typing mine and it's the weirdest thing I've ever written!
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: RokofAges75 on April 12, 2012, 06:19:55 PM
LOL That's what I love about this challenge!  I'm not sure mine was the weirdest thing I've ever written, but some of these... definitely weird!! LOL  Can't wait to read yours, Steph!
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: Carter-Orange on April 16, 2012, 12:42:41 PM
Here's mine.  It didn't come out quite how I wanted, but it'll have to do :)

http://absolutechaos.net/viewstory.php?sid=10900&chapter=1
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: RokofAges75 on April 16, 2012, 05:31:57 PM
I LOVED it, Steph!  These challenge stories have all been amazingly epic!  And hilarious!  LMAO
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: mare on April 16, 2012, 06:54:19 PM
Killer monkeys, check. Talking grapes, check. Nick as a porcupine, check. Brian eating sneakers, check and now two headed Howie, check. Excellent job everyone. I am looking forward to reading yours Steph.

We still need the AJ story and invisible Kevin! Although feel free to tackle the ones that have been done already as well!
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: RokofAges75 on April 16, 2012, 07:13:05 PM
Hehe, the AJ one is a delightful twist on those old-school long lost twin sister teenybopper fanfics.  I hope someone writes it!  Tracy, are you still doing invisible Kevin?
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: FrickingKaos on April 16, 2012, 11:29:31 PM
I want to badly but I'm stuck on how he becomes invisible and what happens. I'm sorry.
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: julilly on April 17, 2012, 06:54:07 AM
I'm going to write mine this week since I don't have any more school after tomorrow!
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: mare on April 17, 2012, 07:01:02 AM
Yay!
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: Carter-Orange on April 17, 2012, 01:36:39 PM
Yay, can't wait to read!
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: RokofAges75 on April 17, 2012, 05:30:09 PM
I'll third the yay!
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: FrickingKaos on April 17, 2012, 10:22:13 PM
If someone wants to do the Kevin one go ahead....I don't think I'm gonna be able to come up with anything.
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: RokofAges75 on April 17, 2012, 10:36:17 PM
Sorry you're having a hard time, Tracy.  But you still have a couple of weeks, and don't feel like you have to do the Kevin one - it's not like anyone has a monopoly on the other ideas that have been done!  Or there's always the AJ ass-twin one LOL.
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: FrickingKaos on April 18, 2012, 04:45:40 AM
It isn't that, really. I kind of talked this over with a few people...I just have been struggling to write much of anything in the last couple of weeks or so. I don't know what brought this on...maybe I'm just burnt, I haven't been reading either. Just a lot in my life going on. Thanks though. I'm sure I will snap out of it soon. :)
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: RokofAges75 on April 18, 2012, 06:37:57 AM
It happens.  You will snap out of it eventually, but it's annoying when you're in a slump!
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: Carter-Orange on April 18, 2012, 11:04:06 AM
Hope you get your writing mojo back Tracy.

I hope someone does the AJ and Kevin ones :)
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: carterkid on April 21, 2012, 09:37:50 PM
I'm working on the Kevin one!

http://www.absolutechaos.net/browse.php?type=recent
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: mare on April 21, 2012, 09:42:41 PM
Nice! So, all we need is the AJ one!
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: julilly on April 22, 2012, 06:49:48 AM
Nice! So, all we need is the AJ one!

Sold!
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: mare on April 22, 2012, 07:55:20 AM
YAY! LOL
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: RokofAges75 on April 22, 2012, 10:31:14 AM
Ass twins for the win!
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: Carter-Orange on April 22, 2012, 11:23:29 AM
Looking forward to AJ and his ass twin, lol
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: mare on April 29, 2012, 05:40:31 AM
Sold!

You have one more day! lol

You guys have rocked this challenge! Thanks :) julilly will be back next month with a new one!!
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: Sakabelle on April 29, 2012, 09:38:33 AM
This challenge was so fun!
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: RokofAges75 on April 29, 2012, 11:16:25 AM
I agree; I always enjoy the April challenges!
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: Alexsgirl_ritz on April 30, 2012, 04:32:45 AM
It's end of the month already and I didn't have the chance to write the talking grapes.  :D

I will check your stories soooon.  ;)
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: RokofAges75 on January 17, 2018, 06:59:39 PM
Talking grapes tell the boys to kill people

Mare, I just 'membered this particular premise from this particular challenge (one of my favorites), and I realized that South Park either stole your idea, or you predicted the future again, because this reminds me so much of the "member berries" from last season of South Park: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ncps_RYHoAI  They didn't tell anyone to kill people, but they did play a role in convincing people to vote for our current president, which is just about as morally reprehensible.
Title: Re: April Fool's Challenge
Post by: mare on January 18, 2018, 06:05:02 PM
Oh my. I really do predict the future, unless trey and Matt check out this forum from time to time lol