[CONTEST STATUS] -ACTIVE- [CONTEST STATUS]

It's that time again.

Been awhile, huh? Well over a year since I was doing anything worthwhile. Well over a year since I've gone to the bottle for relief, now that I think about it.

Have we really done fifteen of these damn things?

Time for a reboot, I think. Shake things up.

We've been doing this a while, but the core concept of F*** THIS PROMPT (that is correct, asterisks and all) remains the same. You get a shit prompt based on the worst clichés in the fandom, and you have to write a story about it.

The catch? Same as always.

Make it good.

You can do it in any way, but parodies historically make us laugh but don't do well. Lateral thinking and damn good writing win this. The rules are simple. Breaking them explicitly will get you pushed out of the running, but you can ask and debate all you want about them with your fellows to clarify and find ways around them. Meta-play in this contest is encouraged. The judges cannot answer questions about "does X work" but other users can, and taunting, heckling and salt is traditional. We have to season your pain somehow.

Oh.

I should mention...

You have one week.

Technically less, by the time you probably read this.

The Only Rules

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- Fufill the prompt.

- Cannot be started prior to the contest announcement. Pre-existing stories are not allowed.

- Deadline is 12:00 PM Monday, February 13th, Eastern Standard Time (UTC/Zulu -5). The story must be readable on FiMFiction with a link in this thread.

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Notice Rule Number One? That's changed. Stories need to technically fulfill the prompt to the letter, but it's up to you to make it happen. The final decision as to if it fulfills the prompt will be up to the guest judge, so write appropriately.

I would also like to note that since these must be linked directly in the forums, submissions still cannot be rated [Mature]. This is hard enough on my liver already.

So we have two very important things to cover before we reveal the prompt: the judge and the prize. The first one of them can reveal himself!

Greetings on this brisk winter day, you poor, poor masochistic bastards my good ladies and gentlemen.

I am A British Gentlemen, and I will be your guest judge for the duration of this contest. It is my fond, and possibly deluded, hope that I will read many fascinating, original and entertaining fics as a consequence of this endeavor. I wish you all the best of luck. I will let Verbose have the dubious privilege of informing you of your incentives and prompt.

Thank you, and thanks for coming aboard! Though I'm sure some of you want to just get started to prove you're awesome and can do anything. For the rest of you, though, we have prizes!

You want? Come and get it.

Steam Games. $40USD worth, your choice. The runner-up gets $20 of the same, and third place gets a free sketch from me.

Prizes are negotiable if you don't use Steam, but most of you don't have lives so I assume you do!

Are we ready?

Here it comes. A throwback, all the way back to the very beginning:

A red-and-black alicorn tries to woo Fluttershy.

AHAHAHAHAHAHA~!

Here we go!

F***

THIS

PROMPT!

F*TP Judge Invitation

Hey, I need a __. You seem to be one.

I'm launching F*TP #__. You seemed like a __ to bring on board as a guest judge. You shouldn't be the only one, but your participation would be wonderful. You'd have to read through a lot of stories and provide light feedback and opinions on them the week of the 13th to the 18th for a post on the 20th.

Can I shanghai you into this?