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haveyoureadthispoll · 4 months

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This winner of the Newbery Medal and the National Book Award features Stanley Yelnats, a kid who is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnats. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys' detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the warden makes the boys "build character" by spending all day, every day, digging holes five feet wide and five feet deep. It doesn't take long for Stanley to realize there's more than character improvement going on at Camp Green Lake: the warden is looking for something. Stanley tries to dig up the truth in this inventive and darkly humorous tale of crime, punishment, and redemption.

#polls #book: holes #author: louis sachar #genre: middle grade #genre: adventure #year: 1990s

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inklings-challenge · 7 months

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Genre Thoughts: Adventure

Chesterton famously said, "An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered," which suggests that adventure as a genre is less about the story elements and more about the attitude one takes toward them. Lots of genres can incorporate adventure, because adventure is largely defined by the tone. An adventure puts the characters in danger, but it gives the characters a chance to go exciting places and do exciting things, and generally takes an optimistic tone--this adventure is a good, exciting thing, and the characters are privileged to experience it.

Not that every adventure has enthusiastic and optimistic characters. Reluctant heroes are a staple of the adventure genre--someone who is pulled out of their comfortable life and into a realm of intrigue and danger. But the audience knows that the adventure, as inconvenient as it is, is a welcome escape from the safe routine of daily life, and will give the main character a chance to prove their mettle and become a hero.

Which makes adventure an ideal genre for promoting courage. Adventure lets the audience see that staying in their safe routine isn't always the best way to find happiness, that the problems in life can be opportunities, rather than inconveniences, if we take the right view of them, and have courage in facing them. As Christians, our life is an adventure that offers a lot of dangers and pitfalls, but also lots of opportunities for heroism.

As I said, almost any genre can incorporate adventure, but for Inklings Challenge purposes, we need to incorporate some type of fantasy or science fiction element. To differentiate it from the adventures that could be written by other teams--with their alternate universes or other planets--it could be best to try to keep the action largely focused on past, present, future, or an alternate Earth. Which still offers lots of opportunities for imagination. This is where writers can play with alternate history, steampunk, cyberpunk, dieselpunk (all sorts of -punks), fascinating future Earths, or even just someone in our ordinary world getting caught up, say, in a mad scientist's plot or involved in the political intrigues of elves. Your characters can go on Indiana-Jones-style quests, or Jules-Verne travel adventures, or anything else your imagination can think of!

Some types of adventure stories:

Mysteries

Spy stories

Thrillers

Quests

Treasure hunts

Superhero stories

Alternate history

Steampunk, cyberpunk, other "-punk" type universes

Dystopian/post-apocalyptic fiction

Writing Prompts

A person living in an underwater colony on a future Earth goes on a quest to find lost technology that could save their home from destruction.

Someone gets a package with a invisibility cloak and uses it to go on the run from nefarious criminals who'd do anything to get their hands on it.

On a post-apocalyptic Earth, the leader of a peaceful settlement must decide whether to trust the stranger and accompany him on a quest to find a food cache that could get the village through the winter.

In a steampunk world, a dead inventor's notebook leads his son on a quest to find a rare element that could revolutionize airship technology.

A woman is mistaken for a lost elven princess and must evade those who would assassinate her.

#inklings challenge #team chesterton #genre: adventure #writing help

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doyouknowthismcyt · 4 months

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#mcyt #mcytblr #tumblr poll #language: english #country: america #genre: adventure

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blackinmotionpictures · 4 months

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The Kitchen (2024) dir, Daniel Kaluuya, Kibwe Tavares

In a near dystopian future, Izi's is close to escaping The Kitchen, where the poor of London live. Suddenly, 12-year-old Benji enters his life and Izi is faced with some hard decisions about fatherhood and community.

The Kitchen hits Netflix on January 19, 2024.

#uk cinema #film: the kitchen #director: daniel kaluuya #director: kibwe tavare #genre: adventure #genre: drama #genre: sci fi #genre: thriller #2020s #trailer #Youtube

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dapperdelphina · 2 years

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The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (2015) | dir. Guy Ritchie

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allisonreader · 7 months

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The Mysterious Mansion

I promise that this is my last story I’m posting. It’s only the third one and the first one that I started…

@inklings-challenge

In the middle of the old city, there lies a mysterious plot of land that few dare to try to tread. Nary a more ominous place have you or I have ever seen, dear reader.

The plot is surrounded by high red brick walls, topped with gleaming rod iron spikes covered with gold leaf or something similar, that are as sharp as butcher's knife, and look to be as shiny as if polished every night. There are stories of people trying to climb the wall only to be stopped by being cut by the spikes.

Otherwise there is only one entrance. A gate that appears to be an impassable pile of rubble, which is deceptive. The gate gives the best glimpse of what is within the walled plot. Thick forest surrounding a long, surprisingly clear gravel driveway, leading to a grim looking three story tall, red brick mansion with a large dry stone fountain in front. With boarded up windows on the lower level, white columns on either side of the front entrance, holding up an overhang.

You would think such a place like that would be ripe with people wanting to explore it, film their explorations of it, and pretend to be ghost hunters in such a place. You wouldn’t be wrong to think so; if it weren’t for the pesky little fact that no one who has been known to enter the property has ever returned.

It’s become a well known fact that those who dare try their hand at exploring the place, have a nasty habit of disappearing. As do any search parties.

No one knows what happens to those who enter. There are many speculations as to what happens, from the mundane to the supernatural.

Those who do not believe in the supernatural tend to lean to the idea that people get lost in the forest and can’t find their way back out. Others claim that a mass murderer lives in the mansion and kills anyone who enters the grounds à la H. H. Holmes and his murder hotel.

Those who lean more towards the supernatural- like to claim aliens, vampires, werewolves or other such creatures are the culprits of stealing, killing, and keeping those who enter. Others yet claim a portal to another world lies within.

All of the different theories have combined into a plethora of urban legends about the plot of land and the mansion within. But the most outrageous conspiracy might be the theory that no one actually goes missing. That once people go in and see that there’s nothing special about the overgrown, run down plot; they leave and claim that they either never went or make themselves scarce to keep the mystique of the place.

I don’t believe that last one; due to my own experiences. Let me set the scene for you. My partner and I were given the task to go into the mansion and learn as much as possible about the place. Mostly so the place could be torn down and in filled with stores and houses.

We questioned our superior if he knew what he was asking us. If he understood the implications of sending us somewhere where it wasn’t known what happened to people who entered.

He did, but said it needed to be done anyway. The place was becoming an eyesore, and the land could be used for those other purposes. There had to be some way to learn about what the truth of the place was.

So my partner, and I said goodbye to our families and met up at the front gate.

We both stood there and just stared at the mess of the gate. We were going to have to try and figure out a way through. Did we dare try climbing over the tangled mess?

I’m not sure which of us noticed it at first; the poem on the bronze plaque. On the pillar beside the gate.

You’ll have to forgive me; I don’t quite remember how it went anymore, but it was something like this.

To enter by my gate, and to change the fate of those who wait. Come close and state; Silver gate, Silver gate, open wide to let us enter and choose our fate, for those who wait, but don’t be late to find the right state because if you don’t the make that state before it’s too late, the gate will close and you remain.

An ominous warning without much guidance to explain what that meant. Or what we were intended to do.

My partner, and I shrugged it off at the time and decided to see what would happen if we recited the poem.

We were both shocked to watch the mess of the metal sort of glow silvery as it formed a proper gate. Ornate and seemingly locked; at least, until my partner walked forward, and put her hand on the gate; which one open slowly at her touch.

She looked at me in shock before we both entered together.

Nothing seem too otherworldly along the gravel driveway. It just seemed like an overgrown plot of land. The brush and trees were thick, though we could see the mansion covered in ivy at the end of the driveway.

The walk to the front door felt longer than it likely was. Both of us were silent on the way. I was wondering if we would have to recite another poem to get into the mansion. And if we did, if this one would give us more information.

Once we got to the door, it open for us, like it had been expecting us. Which was hardly comforting.

The inside was surprising. The inside of the mansion, in that space was a bright white room with tall, white marble pillars. Columns might be more accurate description. There were at least four of them along the outside wall with the door we enter through. Between each pillar on the same wall were peachy, coral coloured velveteen curtains, which match the veining in the marble columns. There being no clear sign of where the light might be coming from to make the room so bright.

#the mysterious mansion #team chesterton #theme: visit the imprisoned #genre: intrusive fantasy #genre: adventure #story: unfinished #this has not been deeply edited

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mogai-impossible · 1 year

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archivingcatgirls · 2 years

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The catgirl of this Feline Friday is Lieutenant M'Ress from Star Trek: The Animated Series!

Lieutenant M'Ress was a Caitian Starfleet officer who served aboard the USS Enterprise under Captain James T. Kirk during the final two years of their five-year mission. She primarily worked as the secondary communications officer under Lieutenant Uhura and showed interest in anthropology, archaeology, poetry, and performing.

Media: TV Show

Genre: science-fiction, adventure

Year: 1973-1974

#star trek #star trek the animated series #caitian #m'ress #star trek tos #enterprise #catgirl #cat girl #neko girl #nekomimi #media: tv show #genre: science fiction #genre: adventure #decade: 1970s

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aiseaisebb · 2 years

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Trigaea by RynGM

Could you survive an alien world? Change your genetics and wander the wasteland for answers, all the while aided by your AI companion.

Trigaea is an epic 200,000-word piece of interactive fiction. It's a combination of a sci-fi novel and an RPG adventure game, where you are in control of the story.

PLAY THE GAME ON ITCH.IO

#Trigaea #interactive fiction #text based game #twine game #status: complete #genre: adventure #genre: scifi #genre: mystery #char: ai #char: aliens #rel: coworkers #rel: enemies #get ready for a mindfuck #queued post #rated 13+#my favorite ifs #free game #aiseaisebb

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regulusficrecs · 1 year

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Power the Dark Lord Knows Not by Fantismal, Jormandugr

Words: 328,310

Pairing: Wolfstar, but regarding Regulus, it's purely gen!

Author's Summary:

"“Regulus,” Sirius finally said, once he trusted he had his own voice under control, “has never once let me help him, even before I was a filthy blood-traitor. Why the fuck do you think I’d be able to save him now?” Tomorrow night. Kreacher’s words throbbed inside his head. Regulus will die tomorrow night. Sirius definitely wasn’t going to be getting any sleep at all this week. "Sirius thought he had cut all ties with his family, but when Kreacher shows up in his bedroom with a dire warning, he's hardly able to let his idiot little brother die. And when he learns about the Horcrux his brother was chasing, he's hardly about to let him take on Voldemort alone. But getting tangled up in the House of Black again is not the best way to prove his innocence among an already-suspicious Order. Sirius has to walk a fine line if he wants to keep everyone he loves alive. (This series is in chronological order but does not need to be read in that order. NO other stories in this series are required reading, but all are suggested to flesh out the backstory.)"

Why I like it:

Horcrux hunting! Well, it certainly is important. But also the story makes Regulus' character believable, and is not Blacks Bashing, although it does contain more Black Family than just the brothers and Walburga. It's a Regulus Lives AU, but it keeps the war real and visible. There's a lot of Regulus-Kreacher relationship, too. Even though you might not enjoy them in a classical sense, Peter-centric chapters and his backstory are some of the best I have read.

Oh, and yes, "Power the Dark Lord Knows Not" is novel-length. Enjoy (and read the rest of the stories right after this one; I truly love the Black Family dynamics, check it out).

#post: fic rec #genre: angst #genre: adventure #relationship: gen #relationship: wolfstar #verse: regulus black lives #theme: horcrux hunting #theme: black family #length: novel length

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haveyoureadthispoll · 2 months

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So Melville wrote of his masterpiece, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history. In part, Moby-Dick is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. But more than just a novel of adventure, more than an encyclopaedia of whaling lore and legend, the book can be seen as part of its author's lifelong meditation on America. Written with wonderfully redemptive humour, Moby-Dick is also a profound inquiry into character, faith, and the nature of perception.

#book: moby-dick or the whale #book: moby dick #author: herman melville #genre: classics #genre: adventure #genre: historical fictional #year: 1800s

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thepjofanficarchive · 1 year

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Fanfic No. 4: Percy Jackson and the HalfBloody War

Type of Fic: Canon divergence, .8k words and 2 chapters, incomplete, took less than a month to write, rated K+.

“Percy and Thalia are leading two armies to Sedona, AZ to ensure the safety of Camp HalfBlood. First chapter is a little short and slow, but I promise it will pick up. Please R&R”

February 23, 2007

Length: The length was a bit awkward. Albeit the first chapter is a prologue so it’s allowed to be limited but the pacing in both chapters was strange.

Formatting and Content: The plot was incredibly limited. Again, the first chapter is a prologue so there is leeway to be short, but the second chapter felt like a scene pulled out of the middle of the story. Multiple grammatical errors.

Characterization: The story was very plot driven and short so there was not much characterization to go off of. The dialogue was very formal and input or reflection from characters was limited.

Reception: There are 12 reviews that are mixed. There is some hate but most reviews are praise and constructive criticism. There are also 3 favorites and 3 follows.

Author: Author Seaweed-Brain seems to be a male author, which is not only the first time we have seen that (confirmed at least), but also male writers are a lot less common in fanfiction for some reason, which makes the author a bit more interesting. Author loves Percy Jackson and has an affinity for waffles as seen on the account and in ANs. In ANs author primarily asks for reviews and apologizes for the length and the asynchronous update schedule. The account went inactive in 2007 and this is his only fic, so we can only wish him the best.

Impact: I don’t have much feeling attached to this fic because it was just so short. If it had been continued and developed we might have seen where it would have gone I would have more of an opinion.

Confused? Read our fanfiction rules and criteria here!

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cinema-hallucinations · 6 days

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Prompt: Generate a movie concept based on the idea that the Dr. Brian Fisher referred to by the image's text is in fact the snail. (Source)

Title: Adventures of Dr. Brian Fisher

Logline: Dr. Brian Fisher, a brilliant but reclusive scientist, isn't who he seems. He's actually a sentient giant snail wearing a human disguise, on a secret mission to save his fellow mollusks from an impending ecological disaster.

Tagline: All he needed was to get out of his shell

Characters:

Dr. Brian Fisher (Shelly): A brilliant but clumsy giant snail with an impressive intellect. He wears a high-tech exoskeleton that allows him to mimic human appearance and movement. (voiced by a distinguished British actor)

Agent Kelli "K" Jones: A skeptical government agent tasked with keeping tabs on Dr. Fisher due to his unusual research. She gradually becomes his unlikely ally. (voiced by a sarcastic but determined actress)

Professor Vanessa "Van" Exley: Dr. Fisher's eccentric and enthusiastic research assistant, blissfully unaware of his true identity. (voiced by a quirky and energetic actress)

The Exterminators: A shadowy organization determined to eradicate all mollusks, believing them to be a threat to humanity. (voiced by various menacing actors)

Plot:

Dr. Brian Fisher is a rising star in the field of marine biology, renowned for his groundbreaking research on mollusks. However, his true form is a massive, sentient snail named Shelly. Wearing a technologically advanced exoskeleton that allows him to appear human, Shelly uses his scientific expertise as a cover for a more critical mission: saving his fellow mollusks from an impending ecological threat.

The Threat:

Shelly discovers a sinister plot by The Exterminators, a radical group obsessed with erasing all mollusks from the planet. They believe mollusks are a growing menace, silently taking over the world. Shelly must use his intellect, his disguise, and some surprising gadgets hidden within his shell to stop them.

Keeping Up Appearances:

Shelly's biggest challenge is maintaining his human facade. He navigates the social awkwardness of human interaction, the perils of wearing an itchy exoskeleton, and the constant fear of his true form being exposed. Agent Kelli Jones, assigned to keep tabs on the suspicious Dr. Fisher, becomes increasingly suspicious of his unusual behavior and fascination with snails.

Comedy and Teamwork:

The film blends action, adventure, and humor. Shelly's attempts to act human lead to hilarious situations, while his scientific knowledge and resourcefulness prove invaluable. Agent Kelli, initially skeptical, is eventually won over by Shelly's genuine desire to protect the environment and his surprisingly endearing personality. Professor Van, oblivious to Shelly's secret, provides enthusiastic but often misguided assistance.

Climax and Resolution:

In a thrilling climax, Shelly and Kelli confront The Exterminators, using his scientific knowledge to expose their flawed logic and unveil their true agenda - a desire to monopolize valuable resources currently harvested from mollusks. With Kelli's help and some surprising allies from the animal kingdom (including a particularly intelligent octopus), Shelly foils their plot and exposes them to the public.

Themes:

Environmentalism and the importance of protecting all living things, regardless of size or appearance.

The power of knowledge and the value of looking beyond appearances.

The importance of teamwork and unexpected friendships.

Ending:

The film ends with Shelly, still disguised as Dr. Fisher, receiving an award for his environmental work. He shares a knowing glance with Kelli, a silent promise to continue his secret mission, forever the giant snail in a human world.

#ai generated #stupid ideas #shitpost #imaginary movie #google gemini #snails #mollusc #genre: disaster #genre: animal/furry #genre: comedy #genre: adventure #academia #movie poster #poster #transformation

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doyouknowthismcyt · 4 months

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#mcyt #mcytblr #tumblr poll #language: german #country: germany #genre: adventure

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blackinmotionpictures · 8 months

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The Kitchen (2023) dir. Daniel Kaluuya, Kibwe Tavares

London, 2040 - rising house prices, computerized labour and eradication of the Welfare State has turned the city into a billionaire's playground, pushing the lower classes to provincial empty slum-like high rises like The Kitchen. Ex-Smash-and-Grabber Izi is desperate to go straight but when his young son contracts a devastating illness, he is forced to take part in a heist that will change the lives of everyone in The Kitchen forever.

#uk cinema #film: the kitchen #director: daniel kaluuya #director: kibwe tavares #genre: adventure #genre: drama #genre: sci fi #genre: thriller #2020s

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dapperdelphina · 2 years

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Swiss Army Man (2016) | dir. Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert

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