FireEyes wrote:February 8th
Week 2
Welcome to week 2 of social month! Resources and Community crew will take over now with a new activity!
We will be doing a new Art Prompt. And the prompt for you is Something that Makes You Happy!
To participate, draw that little thing that puts a smile on your face, upload a picture of it to YWS and use the hashtags, #ArtPrompt and #SocialMonth .
Be sure all images follow site rules, now get to drawing!
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It's Resource / Community Week! Here's your first challenge!!
lliyah Are we allowed to challenge artists? <.<
Tagging @Dossereana @soundofmind @Quillfeather @Liminality @Seirre @Euphory @starlitmind @RandomTalks @tgirly @BluesClues @Spearmint @Lael @Mageheart @Shady @iwouldtaggembutidontknowtheircurrentusername
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Behold! Drawn by @Euphory - the legendary fire chicken!Euphory wrote:there will be no explanation there will only be
fire chicken
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Euphory <3333333 :') i should hope that the sight of the phoenix fire chicken is blessing all of our feathery friends with good health and happy days !!!
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LuxLuthor hey i know that guy!
Feb 6, 2023
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lliyah Well I love this.
Feb 6, 2023
LuxLuthor yes.
Feb 6, 2023
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This is an awesome new feature!
* Have a 38.6 chapter you're releasing and want readers to know what's happened previously? Add an author note or summary to help them out and sticky the comment!
* Have an important explanation of your moral objections to capital letters or some thoughts on the inspiration for your work that you need readers to understand before reviewing or want to make sure they know its a sonnet not an acrostic poem? Leave a little author's note to help out and sticky it!
* Have ideas for areas you'd like a reviewer to focus on? Leave a sticky comment!
On YWS part of the fun of reading I think is always the interactive aspect so I think this will help out authors in interacting with reviewers even more and hopefully also help those who review late-chapters from novels if authors are willing to write up summaries!
as reviewers don't forget to take a glance at those author notes too! Nate wrote:New feature. Authors will no longer see "Mark this as a review?". Instead, they will see "Sticky this comment?". That will pin the comment to the top. They can also sticky any other comments on their work.
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20 Chickens in the Literary Center!
I think this means @Nate has to write a chicken poem!
: #truthordare
With the help of many talented YWSers the chickens have been saved!
Here's some of the most recent publications in YWS's premier chicken-genre for your reading enjoyment:
breaded chicken by @soundofmind : a reflective and nostalgic poem
when I speak of chickens by @Snoink a chicken poem with a little horror / shock intrigue
The Comedi-hen by @KateHardy is both humorous and punny!
The First Golden Goose and The Origins of the Knights: A KotGR Tale a rare work by @KotGRCommander (with some co-writing assistance by myself) is a short story featuring the much awaited origin story of KotGR which happens to involve a goose!
POV You Are A Chicken Who Just Made It Back From Town by @Corv is an intriguing poem that touches on that age old question "why did the chicken cross the road"
The Potentiality of Infinite Chickens by @Liminality is a playful and inventive look at chickens from the eyes of a child!
you are surely not a goose or you would know exactly what i'm saying is one of my most philosophical poems yet. not for the faint of heart. very serious stuff. also featured in COOP: chickens of our poetry zine!
Chickenstein a shortstory by @Lucrezia is a fast paced parody of Frankenstein that I think you'll enjoy!
That's some good reading! For all the chicken-literature you can go to the "All Literary" tab and click that "Chicken" genre! Take a read, and maybe you'll even be inspired to join in on the fun!
(And if any of you chicken authors are looking for a spot to submit you chicken stories or poems... COOP zine is taking submissions - more info and terms on our website. Also if you're not a part of the YWS Chicken Fan Club today's the perfect day to join.)soundofmind wrote:I did my chicken duty #chickens
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soundofmind <3
Feb 5, 2023
Snoink We did it!!!
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This is actually a pretty fun discussion! Weigh in on which Disney princess you think would do the best in the hunger games. My bet is on Mulan & Pocahontas.Elinor wrote:Okay, @lliyah, bet. #truthordare #socialmonth
How would each Disney Princess fare in the Hunger Games?
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Oh my gosh this would be a travesty please help save our chickens!
Will also give 50 points to anyone who posts a chicken poem in the publishing center under chicken genre.
Please help! 🥺🥺🥺Nate wrote:Okay everyone, I'm issuing an ultimatum. If there's not more than 20 works in the Chicken Lit section by this time next week, I am striking it out!
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Your turn now!
Truth: Why chickens?
Or
Dare: Write a poem about roosters and share it on your wall!
lliyah Ah! I'll go for the truth since I've written two Squills articles on that topic!
-> My YWS Timeline of Chicken Interest
-> Why chicken poetry tho?
The other reasons being:
I've always loved birds. Used to draw different birds and then cut them out and tape them on my mom's work office door until it covered a significant chunk of the door. I also owned two zebra finches when I was in middle-school and high-school and I loved to watch them hop around. Have just always liked birds and thought they were beautiful and poetic.
And then I first started liking chickens as a small kid because the lady who watched me every day after school had a small farm and they didn't have animals anymore but they would get baby chickens every year and sometimes they'd let me hold them if I was really good as a reward- so I have these nice warm associations of "seeing a chicken" must mean I've done something really good and the world is rewarding me even now. It's just always been one of my favorite birds since then.
Weird story I don't think I've shared on YWS before - but in college for a while there was this app called "yik yak" where you could kind of post anonymous posts and then people who are in your geographic proximity can see and upvote or downvote the posts and I started this really goofy movement where I would post the chicken emoji as a comment to very serious things and after a while other people actually started doing it too - and I also printed probably 50 pictures of a chicken-emoji and posted them in really dumb random places or just left them in the school copier just to see what would happen. And yeah after two years of that I actually did see other people start utilizing the chicken emoji as a form of speech / response kind of.
Ha and then on YWS it just kind of naturally evolved through different things.
Feb 3, 2023
RandomTalks Thanks for sharing that! Its sweet that you still associate seeing a chicken with doing something good!! Also, you kind of started a movement in college with your chicken emojis - you should be proud! <33
Feb 3, 2023
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lliyah Ohoho! I absolutely love this.
Feb 3, 2023
RandomTalks Excuse the weird crooked feet - its your fault for making me draw for the first time in years...
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lliyah hello
Feb 3, 2023
tatteredbones Hi
Feb 3, 2023
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Resharing my annual Happy Groundhog Day post And wishing you all a very wonderful and magical Groundhog Day! Winter takes another breath, but Spring will surely come again."If Candlemas day be sunny and bright, Winter again will show its might. If Candlemas day be cloudy and grey, Winter soon will pass away."
"He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end." Ecclesiastes 3:11Spoiler! :
BluesClues idk if you've seen Groundhog Day: The Musical, but the opening song is vibes <3
Feb 2, 2023
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It is nice that the people tab banner had been replaced with chickens. Thank you Nate.
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