Crimson, The Wordsmith

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7/8/2013

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9/16/2025 7:38 PM

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Recent Posts

Abusing my psychology degree on 9/16/2025 7:33:13 PM

You're replying to the wrong person. Here's a little tip: in the top-right corner of the thread, you'll see 'threaded view.' If you click that, it will rearrange the format so you can see who's responding to who. Probably responding to the wrong person anyways. Lol


I Would Like Some Would You Rather Suggestions on 9/15/2025 5:34:25 AM

Here's a few off the top of the dome:

1) would you rather lose your sense of taste or your sense of pain?

2) Would you rather have any random Pokémon or have the ability to turn into any animal? 
 
3) would you rather have the ability to save just one person very close to you or save 1000 random people? 

4) would you rather live in any anime of your choosing or any tv show of your choosing? 
 
5) would you rather never listen to music again or never use social media again? 

6) would you rather your child be kind but dumb or smart but sociopathic? 

7) would you rather be in a zombie apocalypse or in the fallout universe? 


Another 15 Year Old Dies to Mod Violence on 9/14/2025 5:42:14 PM

I mean, his points are so ridiculous they're honestly not even worth arguing about. Imagine arguing that getting rid of poverty would "destroy innovation" as well, as if the people fighting for bread and shelter are the ones advancing science. Arguing that people need war to "blow off steam" is like saying thrill-seekers wouldn't have fun anymore without car crashes. Lol.

 

Atleast its comedic. 


Help, please on 9/14/2025 11:52:56 AM

I gave your story a bit of a read! To be honest, I definitely agree with you that it's much better than your other story so far. The world you've invented reminds me a bit of a cross between Chucky and Resident Evil.

I do think, at times, you have a tendency to be over-explanatory, which can feel disjointed. For instance, when you tell us that the dolls are a United States government project, you could have explained it through the letter itself, as if we were reading it, as opposed to blurting it out in brackets as though it's a third-party interjection to the reader. Some sentences could also do with a bit more proofreading.

Overall, though, I do love the story so far; the direction you're going is very cool. A few things I think need a bit more fleshing out, though:

You mention that the dolls have wiped out half of America. You need to explain how or why with a bit more depth, along with more reaction from the cast. You just kind of drop it and move on, assuming the reader will fill in the gaps. A big and complex plot device like that needs more guidance from the writer. There also needs to be more explanation as to why ALL the dolls seem to be murderous except for the one we meet in the story. The fact that they are death row inmates isn't justification enough. The spell must do something, and for whatever reason, our doll is immune. For the dolls to be a legit military force and to be taken serious in taking over half of America they need more power than just being 'souls in dolls'.

The mystery of us being in the magic circle is super cool, too, especially the mystery of how we got there. You can do a lot with that. Maybe tease some thoughts about our life before this event occurred to anchor the reader in the protagonist's identity.

With all that being said, I'm definitely enjoying it so far, and if you maintain this quality to completion, I'd definitely rate it rather highly. Good job! :)


Another 15 Year Old Dies to Mod Violence on 9/14/2025 5:11:07 AM

Damn bro has that super villain philosophy. Sounding like the final antagonist of the story.


Thunderdome 23: Clayfinger vs Liminal on 9/10/2025 4:21:30 PM

Honestly, I'm just going to be honest and say that I was having a major struggle following what was actually happening in both stories. Maybe it's confirmed, maybe I'm retarded. With that being said, here are my rushed thoughts on both stories:

From what I could comprehend, I didn't like the ending to Story A. It was too pessimistic for my tastes. The investigator should have won, or it should have been a bit more ambiguous to its ending, IMO. It felt rushed and a little sudden.

I found Story B even harder to follow. Again, that might be me being majorly retarded though, not sure. From what I could gather, our Dad was trying to replace us? But he's a pedo, or do we think he's a pedo? I don't know. He gets tricked by this demon Ose into being a pedo? The random attacking he did confused the heck out of me.

Both seemed well written and it's hard for me to pick a winner, but I think I found Story B a little bit more memorable and for that, I'll have to give it to Story B.


Speech on 9/9/2025 5:18:15 PM

Your speech would be much better if it actually presented solutions to the issues. MLK's argument is purely an argument from morality, which just requires a change in people's behaviour. Maybe I'm just being a pessimist and not seeing it, though.

I would change the subject and talk about something else. The topics don't cross over well, as economic issues are way more complex than just telling 'the mean corpo guys to stop'.  My advice would probably be to switch over to talking about other heuristic biases humans have based on physical qualities. That would align more with MLK's own speech better. Maybe instead of race talk about how differently people are treated for other intrinsic qualities, like being a man or a woman, or discuss issues on oversexualisation or something. That would align better with the spirit of the original. 


Abusing my psychology degree on 9/4/2025 1:30:33 AM

Image 1: 

I see a vague silhouette of a woman with horns. She's sitting on the floor with wings on her back, or wing thingy's anyways.

Image 2: 

I see a face with some leather contraption over the mouth. 

Image 3:

I see animals holding hands in a circle around something that looks like a kebab in the middle? The pink ones on the side look like small, mammalian creatures. Potentially worship of the greatness of the Shish kebab?

Image 4:

Image four looks a lot like a lizard's skull to me. 

Image 5: 

I see some weird looking, stubby panda creature thing. 

Image 6:

I see two weird, upright, hooved, alien-esque creatures facing off ready to fight. Dicks rubbing as can be seen at the bottom.

Image 7:

I see some sort of sea creature from the depths of the Mariana Trench. It looks like it'd make for a good skateboard, too.

 

Am i cooked?


The Lamest Vampire Ever on 9/3/2025 1:46:52 AM

Sounds like one of those stories which is so silly at times it's low-key good. My kinda jam.


Poor Mizal on 8/21/2025 12:08:50 PM

Why don't you just like, decide to stop acting retarded and be a normal human?