Vote - Week 5

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

A few words from clauderainsrm:

The Summer continues to take it’s toll, like a long walk through the Red Waste. The topics took their own toll, with some rising to the challenge while driving others insane. Well, more insane than they already were... which many doubted was possible!

Somehow though, most people did make it across to the Promised Land of the poll. “Most”, but not all. bringing_words, emileonus and myrna_bird notified me that real life was taking them out.

While the elements got to annaonthemoon, barrelofrain, bewize, cacophonesque, i_id, jennickels and sweeny_todd

forcing them to collapse in a heap within sight of their goal.

They will most definitely be missed, and I hope whenever the heat stroke wears off, that they will be able to continue to Home Game, as well as supporting their favorites in the entries, and hanging out in the Green Room!

As for those who got here - first off, congratulations. Second off, welcome to your new tribes!

How were they decided? You did it yourselves, when I told you to declare your topics last week. The tribes have been broken down by what you posted on Week 4. The only exception to that was the two people who decided to write *all* of the topics, and I’ll admit, I was tempted to put them in a tribe by themselves to watch them fight it out. But instead, I put them on the two tribes with the fewest amount of members, to help balance things out a little. Of course, that was *before* the drops... so it didn’t work out quite as well as I’d hoped. Apparently choosing certain topics in Week 4 made one more likely to drop in Week 5!

We will be losing one from each tribe. So, on top of those who “self-eliminated”, we will be losing four more contestants. That should satisfy some of the more bloodthristy members of your ranks! ;) At least for a moment or two!


The polls will close Thursday, June 20th at 9pm EDT

Good luck to everyone!

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Comments

[alycewilson.livejournal.com]

Frist?

[xo-kizzy-xo.livejournal.com]

FRIST!!!

[alycewilson.livejournal.com]

Badness, stop happening to people!

[xo-kizzy-xo.livejournal.com]

And here most of us were, thinking we'd be divided into tribes based on this week's choices...

Interesting :strokes fake beard:

Also BOO to those no longer with us :(

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

Never hit people where they are expecting the blow to land. :)

[kathrynrose.livejournal.com]

Well, this sucks from several directions simultaneously.

[mac-arthur-park.livejournal.com]

Well put.

[fourzoas.livejournal.com]

YAY FOR TRIBES!

NOT-YAY for massive casualties this week--favorites have dropped away and will be missed!

[porn-this-way.livejournal.com]

OF COURSE, the infected tribe is short and withered! *raids the drug store for some antibiotics* Eep! Or better yet, let us become superbugs and survive this round to infect the masses!

[xo-kizzy-xo.livejournal.com]

I shall join you in this Infection Of The Masses! Together we shall create Mega Superbug!

[kandigurl.livejournal.com]

TRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIBES.

[roina-arwen.livejournal.com]

Knew it was coming, just didn't expect these divisions!!

[halfshellvenus.livejournal.com]

Aw, so many writers I like are going out early. :(

[bewize.livejournal.com]

So close, but it was not to be. The weather is not cooperating with Idolers this year...

[kathrynrose.livejournal.com]

This makes me sad.

[kathrynrose.livejournal.com]

Ok, funny story to lighten the doom.

I have a FB friend who posts about a half-dozen of those inspirational messages every day. You know, the ones with the pretty picture and some profound thought to help you find your balance or whatevr. (I mostly love them, it's just there are so many.)

So tonight I'm reading and he posted this quote that says: "Every student needs someone who says simply, 'You mean something. You count.'"

Except, I misread it.

I missed the "o" in the last word. I haven't laughed that hard in ages. A. Gez.

And I told him (he's an old friend from college) and he came back with, "OK, I had to pick myself up off the floor."

OMG. My brain. She is a warped and scary place.

[kajel.livejournal.com]

Ned had to push pause on his movie to lean over my shoulder and see why I was laughing so much.

[joyfulfeather.livejournal.com]

Gary, you're so devious! I love it.

So sad to see so many people go, though! :( Especially bringing_words, my awesome intersection partner from week 3. Woe!

[bringing-words.livejournal.com]

<3 I just got so busy, I had to let one of the balls drop!

Loved working with you too :)

[dreamsreflected.livejournal.com]

Man it seems to me we're losing people at an alarming rate, seems much faster than Exhibit A... has someone done the math?

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

I haven't done a formal numbers - but the combination of a shorter Second Chance and the start of summer has had the results that I had expected (and yet hoped wouldn't happen).

If I'm right about the cause, think this should level back out in the next couple of weeks.

[bringing-words.livejournal.com]

Everything's fine, I just got really, really busy. Hope to be back for Season 9! I had a great time this season, and managed to do both the things I wanted, which was 1) do fiction, and branch out into different genres, and 2) mention red lips in every entry ;P (except last week, because I forgot about it since I was doing it at the last minute).

Thanks for everything, and I'll see you guys in the Green Room!

Now, it's off to the dentist. Yippee.

[meepalicious.livejournal.com]

You, my friend, are an evil genius.

[jem0000000.livejournal.com]

Funny how they look so much easier to read now.... Or maybe it's all the people we're losing.

[lapis-lazuli615.livejournal.com]

wow. surprised by some of the names that life has taken out of the way... :(

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

It would have been funny if he just went ahead and put us (who submitted every topic) in every tribe, and said something devilish like we'd be eliminated if we were last in any tribe or more than half the tribes or something. I don't know why I'm giving him evil ideas though ;)

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough, I was thinking about how funny that would be last night as I was putting together the poll. ;)

Except that it was "if you were last in ANY poll"!

[agirlnamedluna.livejournal.com]

Some of my favourites gone there and a plot twist I expected but not based on last week's topic... What a start of the week!

[jem0000000.livejournal.com]

There are journals with styles that apparently don't give you a comment link. If anyone needs one, appending ?mode=reply to the end of an entry's link gets you a comment box. :)

[n3m3sis43.livejournal.com]

Whoa, there are?!

[poppetawoppet.livejournal.com]

That's a lot of people who know what lurks in men's minds

[xo-kizzy-xo.livejournal.com]

It comes with practice ;)

[annaonthemoon.livejournal.com]

Ugh, I'm so gutted that I missed the deadline. I was busy all weekend and I had a meeting last night and I said that I was going to finish up writing after I got home from my meeting....walked in the door at 10PM (BST) and giggled for about an hour with my husband (we needed it!) and then went to bed.....remembered when I woke up this morning :(

But I PROMISE there will be more to my story, since so many of you like it. Feel free to add me on LJ so you don't miss the updates since Im' not sure when I will have time to write this Summer.

[anyonesghost.livejournal.com]

Go tell the Spartans, avatar passing by, that here, having missed the Idol deadlines, we ... are just sort of glad no one submitted a topic based on Tennyson's "Charge of the Light Brigade." Because, damn, that's already a lot of talented people strewn about the proverbial field of battle.

(Yeah, that may have gotten away from me a bit.)

[jem0000000.livejournal.com]

Ooooo, I love Tennyson! Why didn't I think to send in a poem?!

[theun4givables.livejournal.com]

Nevermind, Gary. I'm having a bad day, lol.

[jem0000000.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

[jem0000000.livejournal.com]

Hey Everyone, make sure you're re-checking if you go back and change things! Someone just lost a vote. :(

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

O: it just happened to me! I had eight votes last time I checked and now I have seven! Such sauce!

[jem0000000.livejournal.com]

You've got nine now! *confettis*

The contestant I was looking at still hasn't gotten their point back. :(