I love water, strange right? 
Add needles too and I would ask where I sign up for this supposedly “holy mission”? 
Honestly, I do not believe in god but you can’t blame me. I am swede and maybe automatically secular. That doesn’t change the fact though that I have needle-phobia and dislike heights… Natural friends, I guess? 
Alright, I changed it
well time to cut off my nose make myself less ugly and get some nice slits
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Yes it had to be me of all people.
FOR: crime
Why not? Crime is a good lulz (gloat) producer. If crime didn’t exist the police wouldn’t have any jobs.
Think about it, it would be hilarious to see everyone running around armed with automatic weapons on the streets. Would be like GTA, you rob some bank and get the money, get out, drive to the nearest gentleman club and laundry the money… Profit!
If there’s this annoying person that just seem unable to keep quiet, then you could just hire agent 47, he always get the job done. The potential downside with him, however, is that you can’t recall him… So think twice before hiring a hitman!
In a way, crime is the product of a system failure in said society. Contrary to popular belief, the individual criminal can’t be blamed for his actions since he most likely didn’t have a choose/was too high to be able to think rationally.
As a wannabee lawyer I can see that my whole career is dependent on that the system isn’t perfect and that some people still commit crime. Someone must suffer so that another may live, it will always be like that. So please don’t stop murdering the muffins out of each other!
I believe in fair play. If somebody steal your candy, don’t bring your shotgun. Steal something from his drawer or pocket instead. This way you will not only keep yourself alive longer but also your enemy. This is good because it means more money down my pocket, which means more money put into the adult industry, which most likely create substantial revenues for us all… Promise, I can’t be the only one really profiting from all this… right?
[Does not reflect the authors real opinions/values. No, crime does not pay.]
Please don’t kill me for it is my third rant… 
FOR: angry emojis
AGAINST: world map
INDIFFERENT: The Marianas Trench
Latest edit: 3 topics added.
Uh, you forgot to add your 3 topics.
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FOR: angry emojis
Okay, cowards. 
We shall not confine our expressions to the trite “lots of love” 
sent by our grandmothers. I’m sure that expression has lost its value well before she put that meme on her Facebook page, calling you and your true kin terrorists. 
Anger has remained constant - can you taint rage? No. Satirize it, make it faux - those are mere jests, not its genuine expression. But under the surface, anger burns as a standard candle - a way of asserting one’s true self.
Hide all you can - it makes no difference. We are all angry , and won’t have it any other way 
.
Rage is one of the truest of all emotions - 
or 
is inconsistent and unclear, but “smad” is in all of us.
[May or may not represent the view of the author, as it was inspired by a prompt.]
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AGAINST: Ceiling fans
There are few thing that I despise with a burning fury as much as the ceiling fan. Ceiling fans are a tall person’s worst mild inconvenience. What if you walk in to the kitchen and you are 2m tall? First, you bump your head on the door, then the ceiling, then the 
CEILING FAN! IT’S THE WORST! Trust me, the first 2 blows are ineffective, but when Kitchen used: CEILING FAN, it’s super effective! You scream as you plop on the floor, writhing in pain as you clutch your bleeding face, wondering when your incessant suffering will finally end! You start wishing for things you’ll regret saying out loud later, and even yell nasty words (Quick PSA: Kids, you should never swear. It’s a sign of weak verbal skills.) like , or , or even go as far as yelling !
Ceiling fans are to be blamed for any tall person’s clumsiness, and should be purged and sent back to where they came from: IKEA! That’s right folks, put on your riot gear, unsheathe your makeshift daggers and destroy the mild inconvenience that is the CEILING FAN! FOR CONVENIENCE!
[The opinions stated in this text do not reflect the views of the author. I’m not even tall!]
That was my 3rd instalment. Here are my 3 prompts:
FOR: Gold (Didn’t see that one coming, right?)
AGAINST: Libraries
INDIFFERENT: Lollipops
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AGAINST: Libraries
There are few places on Earth bigger religions despise more than public libraries. These unholy places house so much heretic knowledge that one could easily mistake it for being the de-facto incarnation of hell proper on our flat Earth.
This library problem has now invaded modern gaming platforms that youngsters, such as myself, gets exposed to on a daily basis. These horrible abominations let us store our 18+ games more easily, away from prying eyes aka parents or lulzy moral preachers .
If you live somewhere in Sweden and are a child then it’s a fact that you can walk straight into a library and borrow explicit material, if it’s available. Alternatively borrow the WiFi to browse questionable content, I confirmed this with my local library. It’s basically our version of the second amendment that a lot of people want gone but even fewer dare touch. Almost Nobody want children exposed to the stuff but at the same time nobody want to be remembered as the one who stole my whole stash… Case 22 if you ask me but understandable.
Libraries can’t continue enlightening people, it doesn’t work. They become cynical, unproper but most of all lewd! Females leave kitchen to go their own way, help! This is pandemic. We have to do something and quick, before it get contagious and spread to generations down the line. Earlier this week I saw a female clad in… A short skirt! You know, those skirts that don’t go all the way to the floor!
I am convinced that this is libraries fault. This never happened during the middle-ages, you know when you had a bunch of monks running the monasteries that controlled the literature so that no sinful material would leak out and become part of mainstream media. If you wanted to be able to actually read the book you had bought from that shady third-part foreign merchant, then you also had to pay up for that at your local monastery. Otherwise you had to power level (teaching yourself), which simply wasn’t the highest priority back in the good old days.
[Goes without saying but nothing in this text is to be taken seriously, not even my terrible grammar. I am pro-libraries and all their uses ]
My three prompts;
FOR: Genetically engineered catpeople for domestic ownership (inspired by this site https://www.catgirlcare.org/ I simply borrowed the concept without asking, and made it gender neutral in my prompt. Mod may remove this one at will if it doesn’t fit!).
AGAINST: The “Divine Comedy”.
INDIFFERENT: Foot fungi.
Edit: adding info.
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Less than a day to get your submissions in now. I’ll be reading them all and choosing a winner tomorrow.
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And now, the moment you’ve all been waiting for: the crowning of the inaugural Thrive Community Writing Contest winner!
I’m pleased with the number, quality and variety of submissions. Clearly people had a lot of pent up anger about libraries and noses that needed some release. I’m happy to have provided that.
Since a few pieces in particular piqued my interest I’ve decided to list my top five entries. As the self-appointed judge, my opinion is obviously correct and irrefutable.
So, without further ado…
#5 - AGAINST: Aviation (@zenzonegaming)
As someone with a strong phobia of air travel myself, something about the visceral, no holds barred attack on the aviation industry struck a chord with me. Many went over the edge in their rants, but zenzomegaming appears to have redefined our entire concept of exaggeration in his pleas to ‘dig holes in the ground and bury the planes in them to send them back to the devil’.
#4 - FOR: Asteroid impacts (@OmnipotentFNarr)
OmnipotentFNarr’s multiple entries were all rants of the highest quality and worst judgement, but it was his rather quite convincing argument for the benefits of asteroid impacts that I found most enthralling. And apparently, ‘if we do survive, the crash site can have some neat goodies, like gold!’ which surely won’t corrupt the survivors into the very evils the impact hoped to destroy. Perfectly illogical, suitably driven, and just the right amount of sadistic to win him the fourth spot on my list.
#3 - FOR: Angry emojis (@DPHkraken)
Okay, writers. Y’all got a thing or two to learn 
from Kraken 
who effortlessly combined the mediums of high concept prose like ‘Anger has remained constant - can you taint rage? No. Satirize it, make it faux - those are mere jests’ with emoji. 
I didn’t read so much as experience this assault on all my senses. We are all blessed by the presence of a n g e r y thanks to Kraken’s convincing mixed-media piece on those annoying little internet images. 
#2 - AGAINST: Water (@QuantumCrab)
W̟͎͞Á̫̖̰͖̯̮͟T̢̩̜E̙ͅR͍̰͢,̴̷̡̼̝͓̞̱ ҉̗̭͍̣̜̼̙̟W͓̥͔̟̻͟ͅA͕͎̤̺̬̮̩̞̙͜T͏̹̙͇̭̟͢E̤R̥̰̕͞ ̴EV̨͟ER͡Y̧̛W͝HE̕Ŗ̶E P͘L͞Ę̕A͝S҉̨E̸͏ ̶R̶̛E͠M̶O͘͡V́E̸͘ ́T̀͢͞Ḩ̛I͏S͘͘ ͏̧W̶̩̠̤̪̩͓̪̲͈̖̻̻͔͇̟͇̟̖͌̄̊͗̓̃̓̓́ͧͤ̽ͥ̈́͛̅̒̏͌ͅA̢̦͇̹͎ͬ̎ͧ̑̄̔ͬͮͥ̿ͧ̄̔̏͢T̗̝̘͉̗͍̝̞̥̫̟̫̋̋̉̎̂͋̍́É̶̾͛̄͂̔ͮ͆̈̓͐̍̌̍̽̎҉̴̴͎͕̜͇͎͍̞̱̖͙̜̭̮͉ͅRͤ̑̉̏̒̔ͤͥ̓ͨͩͧ̋̚͝͡͏͇̝͍̲͡
QuantumCrab achieved the pinnacle of opinionated absurdism as he described all the ways H2O can H2Obliterate you. I’m impressed by his use of sharp, fast sentences and grammatical parallelism to conjure up the image of someone sent into frenzy by water. I want to quote the whole thing because it’s all very well done. Just read it. The water is inside me, and I’m scared.
#1 - AGAINST: Thrive coming out (@Zahyyy)
It was never going to be anything else, was it? Zahyy uncovered a way to turn the task I thought would produce a quick laugh into a touching essay on the nature of our very own community. I might have teared up a little. Perhaps, deep in my heart, I even agree with him a little bit. After all, if it wasn’t for Thrive’s geological rate of progress, would I have been forced to start this contest to keep engagement up? I couldn’t put it better than ‘The developers are not just creating a rather ambitious game, they are bonding this wonderful community together’, so there you go.
Congratulations to the winners and thanks for the submissions, everyone. I hope you enjoyed that. Would anyone be in favour of similar writing exercises in future? I doubt I’ll use this exact premise again, at least at first, since I have a few more ideas inspired by LitSoc. Let me know what you think.
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Yes please, I would really like more writing exercises like this. This was great fun I really enjoyed it and thank you. 
Congratulations to the winners by the way!
I really enjoyed writing for this challenge, and would definitely enter in later iterations (2nd place, wooo!)
From the results, it seems that the indifferent topic just doesn’t allow for the compelling pieces that Against and For provide, so I would opt for removing those if there’s another challenge like this. Aside from that, I loved reading everyone’s entries!
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Thank you so much! I’m happy you liked it! I’m really flattered and quite not sure what to say except thank you! Also, I like to make people emotional, as I’m actually an alien that feeds off of the emotions of others.
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AGAINST GETTING 5TH PLACE IN COMMUNITY WRITING CONTEST"
5th place! 5TH PLACE!!! this is an outrage my work was perfection.
this is just a joke i am really happy to be in top 5
also is water removal surgery a thing i am hydrophobic
This is really a good thing for me . I would like to write more and get more experience. This is really enjoyable. And congrats to the toppers. Here’s the good guide for the community this site. It’s about spending our money wisely. Nowadays we are lacking this.
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When’s the next contest?
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Is there any other contest coming on. Because i am very interested.
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As far as I know the third iteration of this contest is currently going on: Community Writing Contest #3