LJ Idol Presents:

 Welcome to those returning to the fray!   I did forget to mention that if you are new this round, you are coming in with 1 bye that is good between now and the Top 10.  So, just keep that in mind! 

This week is going to be different than any week in Idol. Because it's a Survivor style vote!

Which goes against every core value of actual Idol and dives right into the whole reality show aspect. 

What this means is that (1) It's a contestant only vote. You have to be signed up as a current contestant to cast a vote. 
(2) All votes are by email.. You send your vote to clauderainsrm@gmail.com 
(3) Yes, I said VOTE. This time around you are voting for 1 person. The person you want to eliminate from the competition! 

The deadline to vote is Thursday Sept 25th at 7pm ET.    Everyone's entries are at:  https://therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1201147.html  

Good luck to everyone! 

 Hope your week has been going well. 

Just a reminder the deadline is tomorrow for:

The Prompt therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1201147.html

Anyone who wants to get into the game!  therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1200777.html

and of course, submitting your accusations on the identity of a Killer! 

Last week that deadline was very dramatic. Will it be as much of a shock, or just another random week?  The only way to find out is getting to tomorrow!


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Got a free trial of HBO Max this week and was finally able to watch Superman again, this time with Cynthia and Foxy.  They both loved it, but I think it may be Foxy's new favorite movie. She was watching the screen the entire time and went crazy whenever she saw Krypto!  <3 

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What have you been up to? 

 The Wheel is all knowing and all powerful. 

All hail the mighty wheel as it spins and determines our fates! 

*spins*

Oh.  TRIPLE TWIST!!!!

So not just one thing from the wheel, 3 of them!!!

This is going to be interesting. 

Oh great wheel, tell us what is to come this week!!

- Survivor Vote.  This week contestants will be casting a vote to remove someone from the competition!  

- Immunity for the person with the fewest votes last week who was not eliminated.  Which is *looks at list* legalpad819  - congratulations.  You now have an immunity idol!

and  CASTING CALL!!!  Not only is everyone previously eliminated eligible to be back in the competition, ANYONE who wants in is invited to sign up and join in on the fun!!!    Oh this is going to be an interesting week.   I will provide a thread below for people to sign back up in the competition!  (this is an opt in as opposed to other "back in the game" where people are just automatically back in) 

A few words from clauderainsrm:

“Statistics prove that you’ve one birthday. Imagine, just one birthday every year… Ah, but there are 364 unbirthdays! Precisely why we’re gathered here to cheer!”

Happy Unbirthday to me!!! And to you as well.

But mostly to me.

You are getting a great present though - a bunch of new entries to read! So do that. Read, comment and vote for your favorites!

The poll will close Tuesday, October 1st at 8pm ET. One contestant will be eliminated, and the others will all be a part of our Sweet 16!

Good luck to everyone.

 Tom Petty said it best, the waiting is the hardest part. 

We are supposed to start feeling some hurricane/tropical storm force winds in the next hour or so.  (it depends on which source you look at, we appear to be in area where it shifts from one to the other) 

But Helene does seem to still be on track to visit the Tallahassee area before making its way inland.  Not sure yet if it will be as a 3 or a 4, either of those options isn't great. 

We've gotten a few rain bands, but nothing crazy yet.  So here's hoping it continues that trend and the power stays on. (even when you don't get a direct hit, there's still flooding, high winds and often mass power loss) 

If everything stays on track, then the poll will stay on track as well, delivering it's own hurricane force winds to the competition: therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1164341.html

(oh come on, you knew I was going there!!!) 

So make sure you get your votes in!

I just had it confirmed that my office is also closed tomorrow! So 2 days of administrative pay! So, as long as things stay relatively calm that's a great thing... and if they don't, well, let's just go with that first option and be optimistic! 

How are YOU weathering the storm of life right now? 

A few words from clauderainsrm:

It’s the first week of Idol without the safety net, and we are starting it out losing two incredible contestants who left a pretty deep mark on this mini season, and the competition itself.

Goodbye to fausts_dream and tigrkittn - thank you to both of you for coming out and sharing with all of us. I hope that we will continue to see you in the Home Game and in Green Rooms!

As for the rest of you, there are still two more contestants who will be leaving us. So it’s up to you, the voters, to decide what is going to happen next! Who will make it to the Sweet 16?
Read. Comment. Vote for your favorites! Tell the world to do the same!

The poll closes Thursday, September 26th at 8pm ET.
Good luck to everyone!

 There were some results, with a pending Sudden Death Write Off: therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1162763.html
Where pixiebelle  proved herself to be SERIOUSLY old school when she reintroduced the Idol Birthday Curse!!!  (people used to get voted out on or near their birthday all the time) 

and a new prompt: therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1163131.html

But that's not what I am here to talk to you about today.  I want to know if you've heard the Good Word.   No, not that - the Good Word About Survivor.  :) 

Not only is there a new US season starting tomorrow night (on the heels of without a doubt the best season of the new era, which followed another really good season... which might just be comparing it to how bad the last few seasons of the old era/first couple of the new era were.  :)  but 6 of the 14 member cast have been revealed for Australian Survivor: Australia vs the World!!!   insidesurvivor.com/australian-survivor-vs-the-world-first-cast-revealed-57727


Originally this was going to be Australia Vs the US season, but I'm reasonably sure with how close it is to the filming of US Season 50, they had to scrap that plan. They also stripped it down to an embarrassing 15 days. Considering that most AU seasons are 50+ days, this is just weird. Not sure what anyone is going to do in that short of a time period that is going to resemble Survivor. But it might be fun. 

Pretty sure it's going to be 7 Australians vs 7 from the rest of the world (US, New Zealand, South Africa and Norway. I've never seen a season from Norway, so I'm intrigued about that!)   The US players are all iconic, even though I'm only really a FAN of one of them.  (Cirie) The Australians are all pretty big "gets" for the franchise, although I highly suspect one of the players who hasn't been announced yet of the other 4 has *got* to be Luke Toki. If's not, what are they even doing?  ;) 

Those 3 Americans are probably all the US players, since that only leaves 4 spots and 3 other counties.  :) My guess is 1 from Norway. 1 from New Zealand and 2 from South Africa (which is a far bigger and more popular franchise than the other two. Although maybe NZ gets two given how close they are. But that would be a casting bust IMO) 

I KNOW there are a couple people excited to talk about this. But who knows - maybe some of you are too!  :)  If not, well it isn't the first time I've posted something no one felt like commenting on! :D 

The way this mini season has been bouncing has been a little all over the place. This week was no exception.

Of the two writers receiving strikes, we have one who received their second - proceedcyclone 

and one who, by a single vote, received their 3rd, which means they are eliminated - emo_snal

That one was a shocker for me, since he was the one who had the idea that sparked my thought process toward this mini season. He's also someone in the running for the first person to hit 200 weeks. of Idol That quest will have to wait.

I'll post the new topic in the morning. But for now, I'm glad that we will get to see one of them for a little bit longer and I know that Kris will be sticking around, if for no other reason, to cheer on his Mom!  Thank you though for everything that you have brought to the table this mini season and I can't wait to see what you do next!

 Just a reminder that the deadline for the prompt is TONIGHT! https://therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1119076.html





There are still quite a few people who haven't shown up yet. But we still have a few hours, so... *crosses fingers* 


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How is everyone doing? 

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Working from the office two days a week has been good for meeting with the new company and bad for everything else. REALLY bad for actually getting anything done. I feel like we are completely underwater at this point. Which - I warned them. No one can say I didn't...  and I ended up missing an important statewide-meeting because the new senior leadership wanted my input on some issues, and then of course some of the same people wanted to know why I had missed that meeting... :D 

 For those who missed it,  the_eternal_overthinker  bowed out from the competition. Which means that they were eliminated and song_of_thea moves forward. 

 There was an entry written though - so make sure to check it out https://song-of-thea.dreamwidth.org/2562.html 

Never say die indeed!