The Spin-Off Contest - March

[RapeU]

Ever read a story and think "hmm, I think that can be expanded further" or, "hmm, this deserves a spinoff." Here's your chance to do it! The challenge for March's Season Pass is to write a spin-off to a highly rated story (rating 15 or higher) of another author featuring a character of the original story as the protagonist.

The Spin-Off Contest

• Theme: Again?
• Language: English
• Length: Short (1,000 to 5,000 words)
• Required Tags: Eng, Finished, Short, Con/Noncon, SpinOff Contest (the tag will be available when the contest starts)
• Deadline: March 15, 00:00 CEST
• Voting Window: One week.
  
  Rewards
  • The winner will receive a special title of their choice (unless they are part of the moderation team).
  • The top story will be pinned for a week to the public stories forum.
  • Authors of the top 5 stories will receive the relevant season pass score: 1 - 25, 2 - 15, 3 - 10, 4 - 5, 5 - 5
  • 25 reputation points for the winner, 10 for the runner-up.
  If you want to enter your story, please post it in the public stories board and reply to this thread with a link to your story. Also, the subject line of your story should reference the contest in the following way:
  
  • Title of your story - Spin-Off Contest
  You may remove that reference once the contest is over. Also, please include a link to the contest thread before the beginning of your story and tell your readers that the story participates in the contest. You do not have to wait until March to post your story, but the story must be posted before the deadline in order to count. A reminder countdown timer will be announced starting one week before the deadline.

Entries

• A Benevolent Rapist by @RapeU
• Eugene the Hero by @Vela Nanashi
• Speed Dating by @Shocker

[LtBroccoli]

Does it have to be a spin-off of a story already on the board? What about a classic one that gets reposted?

Also, what counts as a spin-off? I have one from the RU days where I wrote 8 chapters to "The Rape and Brutalization of Diana" to complete that story but set up some off-shoots. But that might be more of a continuation than a spin-off in the sense of like Mork and Mindy being a spin-off of Happy Days.

[Claire]

@LtBroccoli Yes, as it says: It needs to be a spin-off to a story on the forum with a rating of 15 or higher from another author. So that includes all Popular Stories and Community Favorites + the first two pages of the Public Stories board if you sort it by rating:

/viewforum.php?f=4&sk=rep

So there are plenty great stories to choose from. It's a trivial requirement for anyone with even the faintest interest in the community, it shows some support for another recently active author on the forum, and the 15+ rating requirement makes sure that there is a decent chance that some readers might be familiar with the story you're referencing. That is the entire point of the contest.

[Shocker]

Let's see how Speed Dating will do. Thank you to @RapeU for letting me play with his toys.

[LtBroccoli]

Department of Temporal Investigations is based off of a story from about a year ago called "The Most Delectable Game."

I wanted to explore that universe and time travel as a whole. I want to do a deep dive into the world, already got some crazy ideas for the future. I've spent the last few days plotting out several chapters and major events, crimes they'd have to investigate and the like. Time traveling human trafficking is just the tip of the iceberg.

[Claire]

@LtBroccoli From what I can see, the story doesn't qualify for the contest for two reasons.

The challenge for March's Season Pass is to write a spin-off to a highly rated story (rating 15 or higher) of another author featuring a character of the original story as the protagonist.

In the story you posted, I think the protagonist is Marcus Kovacs, or maybe Megan Thorn? Neither off them seems to be taken from @ShibbolethParty's original story. Also, the contest requires the handed in work to be a finished short story:

Required Tags: Eng, Finished, Short, Con/Noncon, SpinOff Contest (the tag will be available when the contest starts)

Your post seems to be the opening chapter to a longer story and doesn't feel like a self-contained story in isolation.

[LtBroccoli]

@LtBroccoli From what I can see, the story doesn't qualify for the contest for two reasons.

The challenge for March's Season Pass is to write a spin-off to a highly rated story (rating 15 or higher) of another author featuring a character of the original story as the protagonist.

In the story you posted, I think the protagonist is Marcus Kovacs, or maybe Megan Thorn? Neither off them seems to be taken from @ShibbolethParty's original story. Also, the contest requires the handed in work to be a finished short story:

Required Tags: Eng, Finished, Short, Con/Noncon, SpinOff Contest (the tag will be available when the contest starts)

Your post seems to be the opening chapter to a longer story and doesn't feel like a self-contained story in isolation.

If the setting doesn't count for a spin off, then don't include it. By that logic, none of the Star Trek shows are spin offs since they weren't about characters but settings and themes. If being a standalone is a big deal, I could make a thread as a stand alone.

Include it or don't. I'm done busting my ass for contests around here. If I feel like joining one in the future if the mood hits, maybe, but this is the last time I'm writing FOR a contest. From now on it's either I already have it or I really wanted to.

[Claire]

@LtBroccoli I will not engage in a discussion with you about what the term spin-off means in general. The contest thread clearly defines the requirement for participation in the third sentence of the opening paragraph with zero ambiguity. If you didn't read that or forgot about it, that's not on me.

That being said, I'm not the one deciding whether the story should be accepted or not. That is ultimately up to @RapeU as the organizer of the contest. I'm just pointing out the obvious here that lifting certain requirements of the contest for one participant while others adhered to them is not a fair competition. And bending those rules for an admin in particular is even more dubious. That undermines the integrity of the contests here as a whole. We have admins and mods regularly participating in our contests and we rely on the good will of the other participants and readers that we don't give ourselves preferential treatment.

[Shocker]

@LtBroccoli I will not engage in a discussion with you about what the term spin-off means in general. The contest thread clearly defines the requirement for participation in the third sentence of the opening paragraph with zero ambiguity. If you didn't read that or forgot about it, that's not on me.

That being said, I'm not the one deciding whether the story should be accepted or not. That is ultimately up to @RapeU as the organizer of the contest. I'm just pointing out the obvious here that lifting certain requirements of the contest for one participant while others adhered to them is not a fair competition. And bending those rules for an admin in particular is even more dubious. That undermines the integrity of the contests here as a whole. We have admins and mods regularly participating in our contests and we rely on the good will of the other participants and readers that we don't give ourselves preferential treatment.

@RapeU as Clair said this is your call, in case you come to the conclusion this does not qualify, please remove my entry as well. As we had already determined that I did not met the protagonist requirement either.

[RapeU]

I have decided to do the same thing I did in Kristen’s Board contest.

The theme was consensual. We had a mind control story and it’s typical for mind control to not be consensual. However, it’s not explicitly stated in the story that the protagonist used his power on the woman. The woman even mentioned she didn’t want a Vietnamese man. In this case I included the story in the contest because with some editing the case could be made that the story is consensual. I let the community decide in this instance.

Additionally if I remember right there was a German contest where someone didn’t include the theme and it was still included to let the community decide.

@Shocker used a clear character from The Blowout but accidentally didn’t make her the protagonist. The story could be edited to fit this situation without anything really changing. I will include it and the community can decide on the outcome.

There was another story in the KB contest that I did not take. One where the whole thing was about a murder. Murder is clearly not consensual. The story was humorous, and I think would have been better received had it not been framed as a KB contest entry.

In this case I won’t take @LtBroccoli’s story. The POV appears to be omniscient while also jumping from one person to the next. That wouldn’t be a problem if you clearly used a character from The Most Delectable Game. Reading your story and I do not see a character from there. What this appears to be is a completely separate story based on my comment that this could be expanded similar to how the MCU handles timelines. And the MCU even used an established character from prior movies to do it! Loki! I don’t see an established character from the prior story here. It’s possible I missed it, but in all other entries the authors clearly stated what character was used either before or after the story. You didn’t.

@LtBroccoli i will send you an additional pm at some point today when time allows.