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clauderainsrm

All things come to an end, and LJ Idol Mini is no exception.

But before we go, there's a matter of the official results:

In 3rd place -

inkstainedfingertips

In 2nd place -

xeena

In 1st place -

chasing_silverCongratulations to all 3 of our finalists and welcome to the winner's circle Liz AKA "Mini". Yes, that's your name now! ;)

Thank you to everyone for coming out this mini season! I'll have a post-game thread up in the next 24 hours or so with various information about future seasons. But for now, enjoy this moment.

clauderainsrm

The best thing about 2024 has been Idol, and even that had its own failures.

What hasn't disappointed though is actual writing that has happened - make sure to check out the finalists and vote. https://therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1181037.html

I really can't wait for this year to be over. But I don't have a lot of faith in 2025 to do anything for my mental health. :)

Hopefully I am wrong. Yeah I know, dark post. :) It's OK though, Just wanted to check in and say hello.

And of course to thank all of you for being that bright spot on a horrible year.

I hope you are doing something fun tonight.

clauderainsrm

The finale is happening right now!!therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1181037.html

It ends on the first day of the New Year! Maybe I should have ended it on New Years Eve, so that we'd end the year with some fireworks. But I figured I would let you go out and enjoy yourselves that night instead of spending it refreshing a poll. Not that you are going to actually go out and do anything. *looks around the room* Probably going to be binge watching something on Netflix. ;)

How are you finishing out YOUR year?

clauderainsrm

A few words from

clauderainsrm:

Here we are, at the Finale. When we started this at the end of June I just needed to do *something* to get me out of the funk. In a lot of ways, that was a success, it was a success. Of course, starting the mini season meant that I would be getting a new job and starting just as we were getting our legs under us here! :) Because there is nothing that attracts big life changes more than already having taken on a new time commitment! I should have started Idol months before, then I could have had a new job sooner too!

It’s been 6 months, which honestly, yeah for Idol that’s still a mini season! Those of you who came in more recent years never had to survive ones that lasted over a year!

Anyway, we’ve been doing this for 6 months and we have our final three, making their cases for why they should win, and doing the same for their opponents. It’s the Idol standard, supporting each other to the very last vote!

It’s now out of their hands, and in YOURS. The voters are going to decide who gets to wear the metaphorical crown. 3 remarkable writers are asking for your support! So read, comment and vote for your favorites!

The poll closes in the new year - Wednesday Jan 1st at 8pm ET.

Good luck to everyone!

Poll #32440 ’LJIdolMini-Week18’

This poll is closed.
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 88

Vote For Your Favorites!

chasing_silver's entry
48 (54.5%)

inkstainedfingertips's entry
19 (21.6%)

xeena's entry
40 (45.5%)

clauderainsrm

It's the final prompt of LJ Idol Mini.

We are going with a classic that is always a nice way to finish our time together - and fun to see how people handle it.

It's the two step (because you should be doing both of these):

"Why I should win LJ Idol/Why my opponents should win"

Make your case! Make their case!

Make sure you link your entry back here by Saturday December 28th at 5pm ET. (giving you extra time because all the holidays in the next week)

Have fun!

clauderainsrm

Yes, you read that correctly.

Here is your Final 3!!! I will be adding the prompt shortly, But congratulations to:

chasing_silver

inkstainedfingertips

xeena

clauderainsrm

I can't say "This is a huge surprise" after last week's results, when a series of ties ended up with the two writers that the bottom with Black Marks. At this point that meant that the only way that we weren't going to say goodbye to both of them this week was if they managed to be one of the top two vote getters. Which, given this mini season, is entirely possible. Certainly not the craziest thing that ever happened.

What ended up happening instead was that both of them were again at the bottom. And by "at the bottom" I mean they finished in 4th and 5th place! Which is still pretty damn incredible.

In 5th place is the writer that I said I wasn't sure how they were floating under people's radar, and if they got to the finale, people were in for a LOT of trouble. (I don't have it in front of me, so that's extremely paraphrased.) People this season knew her as

littlebitofearth but I will forever know her as the LEGENDARY IDOL FIGURE monkeysugarmama!! (also known as messygorgeous later in her LJ days. All of this was mentioned in that introduction post. I can only assume that people somehow either tuned that out, or didn't know what it meant. Either way, absolute legend.

In 4th place is the always amazing

flipflop_diva who was the writer that I said something about how she had benefited from having a smaller group and spotlight in a previous season and finally got the attention, and respect, that her writing deserved.All it really takes is that one shot, and she continues to prove why she's so damn good at telling a story (real life and fictional)

Both of these are absolute huge losses, but we've been experiencing huge losses for quite some time now. It's pretty much what to expect the closer you get to the end of any Idol season, mini or not.

Thank you to both of you for coming out this mini season - and for some absolutely amazing entries over the last few months!

clauderainsrm

Good morning from the bus!

How is your week going so far? The Governor gave us off from Monday until Christmas next week. Which some people are seeing as generous and others are wondering just what anyone is going to get accomplished on Thursday and Friday. :D

***
To answer some questions/comments from the last Green Room:

- Yes. It’s true that there was a mini season where there were two winners. If you recall though the THEME of that mini season centered around “intersections” where people would partner up. So that result got the theme AND they went quite a few rounds of tie breakers that went nowhere. In other words, very specific situation that, to me, does not fit into this mini season theme or foreseen circumstances. I mean never say never. But it’s not something I’d count on either as we approach the finale.

- There’s a theme to this mini season? Yes. I never said it outloud but it’s “back to basics”/old school. The few twists there have been are all things that appeared in the first 3 seasons. (Or are slight variations on them )

- Woukd I move the competition to Facebook? I allowed writers to compete FROM their Facebook before. Back when “Notes” was a thing. LJ allowed people to vote FROM their Facebook and other social media which boosted our visibility and IMO was a very good thing to get that exposure. But as others have stated, FB doesn’t have the basic capacity to function the way Idol would need it to function. Groups have polls, but as someone who runs other groups on FB, they don’t allow for links in the poll which is very important. So - would I consider FB as an alternative’s answer is “Yes” IF it was something completely different than it actually is. 😝. (In other words, no. It’s not viable even before you get to the privacy issues.)

***
Here’s a poll. Make with the clicks! https://www.dreamwidth.org/poll/?id=32372

clauderainsrm

A few words from

clauderainsrm:

We still have 5 writers left in the competition, due to another tie in the Sudden Death Write Off this week. But if either of those two is in the bottom 3, then they will join the writer with the fewest votes in being eliminated.

Which means - who knows!! Maybe this week will leave us with 4 contestants, but maybe it will leave us with 3!!! That seems fitting for this mini season, where people talk about needing a coin toss to decide on who they will be voting for to advance, because it’s too difficult to pick!

The poll closes Thursday, December 19th at 8pm ET.

Good luck to everyone!

Poll #32372 ’LJIdolMini-Week18’

This poll is closed.
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 67

Vote For Your Favorites!

chasing_silver's entry
25 (37.3%)

flipflop_diva's entry
15 (22.4%)

inkstainedfingertips's entry
19 (28.4%)

littlebitofearth's entry
11 (16.4%)

xeena's entry
28 (41.8%)

clauderainsrm

The deadline for this week is today at 7pm. So please make sure you are paying attention to that day and time! therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1177901.html

***

I'm feeling much better now. Thanks for asking!

I also finally received my unemployment money. So for those keeping track of such things, I was fired in April and just got my money in December! One more advantage to the privatization of government functions in Florida. They keep making it better and better!!! :)

In case you missed it, the results from the Write Off were posted: therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1179053.html

***

Right now I have no idea what the future holds for Idol. I have the two ideas, one mini season and one big anniversary celebration. Hopefully people will be interested in at least one of those things. I just wish that we *could* go back to Live journal. Because DW is quite dead. But from what I've heard not only is LJ dead, that if you don't have a paid account it's just one big Russian pop up. And if you DO have a paid account, you're just funneling money to the Kremlin. So - not very good choices there...

clauderainsrm

I wasn't expecting to have another tie. But then, maybe I should be expecting all ties, every single round. :)

That's what you keep giving me after all!

The deadline to the new prompt is tomorrow https://therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1177901.html, which means there isn't time for another round of Write Offs.

So

flipflop_diva and

littlebitofearth will both receive the Black Mark. If either of them are bottom three, they will be eliminated (in addition to the writer with the fewest votes). If more than one of them are in that three, the one with the fewest votes will be eliminated. )

Let me know if you have questions, let me know!

clauderainsrm

A few words from

clauderainsrm:

The comments lately have been a ghost town, and I won’t lie, I get sad about that. But then I read the entries like these, and all of the other entries from the last few weeks and I have that moment where I’m still feeling good about what is happening here - there is still a vast amount of talent on display, people just aren’t commenting on the community itself. Which, that happens. Would I even mention this if I wasn’t on cold medicine? Probably not. :D But whooo hooo that I am… and “not whoo hoo” that I am…

These entries though, I can’t say enough good things about them, so I’m going to leave that to YOU, the voters. Read the entries. Comment on them. Vote for your favorite(s) - then tell people about it! Let them know what you have read, and what you love about it!!

One of these two is coming to the end of their road, just a couple steps from the finish line. Which is tragic that one of them won’t get into the Final 4. But it would also be tragic if one of the others weren’t in it, so that’s just the nature of numbers I guess! You can’t have 5 people in 4 spots!

Blame numbers.

This poll will be closing Saturday, December 14th at 8pm ET. The writer with the fewest votes will be eliminated.

Good luck to both of you!

Poll #32358 ’LJIdolMini-Week17SuddenDeathWriteOff’

This poll is closed.
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 21

Vote For Your Favorites!

flipflop_diva's entry
12 (57.1%)

littlebitofearth's entry
12 (57.1%)

clauderainsrm

I keep forgetting to post this - just wanted to give a special shout out to my friend Luigi who has been working hard filling in for me over the past several weeks. He’s been working nonstop from my home office and hasn’t really had time to leave the house.

I really appreciate you Luigi!

clauderainsrm

The results are in from last week, and shocker, it's another Write Off!! therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1177850.html

The new topic is also up therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1177901.html

***

My Aunt died on Saturday. I found out this morning. We WERE NOT close. There is no "loss" here, except the potential for what could have been.
She was a spiteful person who alienated her entire extended family (all but her son and one of the granddaughters, and even she didn't like her very much most of the time)

My Mom is her youngest sister (the baby of the family) and didn't find out until last night when she was reading Facebook. (the granddaughter posted about it)

But it got me thinking - at one point she and my Mom WERE close. Which is the true tragedy. Because that was the sister that my Mom traveled with on her first Florida trip. That was the trip they first went to Disney, which would lead ME to go to Disney a few years later, and fall in love with it.
It would eventually lead my Mom to move to Florida. Without my Aunt, who no one particularly liked for the second half of her life, I wouldn't be where I am. I probably would not be WHO I am. (so if you want to blame someone for it, blame her! :D) It's interesting how those forces work behind the scenes, those little moments that lead up to creating a whole new person...

clauderainsrm

I'm not sure where this one came from. I just googled it, and it came up as a "French proverb", but only when I put the quotes around it.

It's a cliche, but aren't most things? ;)

It's definitely true for this competition though. There is only one path forward - and this is it:

Only those who do nothing never fail

The deadline to link your entries back to this thread is Sunday, December 15th at 7pm ET.

Have fun!

clauderainsrm

The results were set. Until they weren't. The person who was behind caught up in the last hour, and then went ahead by one vote with about a minute left. Shocking ending!!!

By the time I hit "close poll", one more vote had appeared, to tie it back up again.

Which just goes to show, our audience loves the drama. :D

Or likes torturing you (maybe me too) and wants you to write more!

Because for two of you, that is what is about to happen!

We have another Open Topic for the Sudden Death Write Off, this time between

flipflop_diva
and

littlebitofearth

You have until Thursday, December 12th at 9pm ET to link your entries back to this thread. (in the indicated space below)

Have fun!!

clauderainsrm

A few words from

clauderainsrm:

5 writers are left. All extremely talented and deserving of making it to the end. But that isn’t going to happen. (Sorry, but that’s not how this works)

So YOU, the voters, have the decision of who isn’t going to get to 4.

Read the entries. Comment on them. Let them hear what you have to say about their work. Who doesn’t love feedback?!? Vote for your favorites! It’s pretty straightforward. Then - let other people know about what is happening here and what you’re reading and enjoying! That’s how new people find us after all, you tell them about it!

The poll closes Tuesday, December 10th at 8pm ET. The writer with the fewest votes will be eliminated.

Good luck to everyone!

Poll #32336 ’LJIdolMini-Week17’

This poll is closed.
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 51

Vote For Your Favorites!

chasing_silver's entry
24 (47.1%)

flipflop_diva's entry
12 (23.5%)

inkstainedfingertips's entry
15 (29.4%)

littlebitofearth's entry
12 (23.5%)

xeena's entry
22 (43.1%)

clauderainsrm

The results are in from the Write Off, which means we now have our TOP 5!!

Congratulations to

chasing_silver

flipflop_diva

inkstainedfingertips

littlebitofearth

xeena

Just a short sprint from here to the finish line. Who has what it takes to make it there?

***
I did see the question asking if we had this topic before. No, but there was a term that is closely related to it, Kintsugi, which was used in the 3 Strikes mini season.

There are differences between the two, but I can see why someone might think "this sounds familiar"... (I have a master list of topics that I crosscheck to avoid the same one coming up, unless I specifically do it deliberately.)

Reminder: The deadline is tomorrow!! therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1176122.html

***

Sorry that I'm not posting more. Honestly it's part "seasonal depression" and part reflecting on where I was last year around this time, mental health wise. I hope YOU are doing well. I'm thankful for everyone who has taken the time to participate in this little thing we call LJ Idol.

clauderainsrm

I’ve closed the poll early because

erulissedances opted to sacrifice. There is. No telling where what would have happened if that hadn’t occurred considering that when I closed it, this Write Off was down to a single vote difference!!!

If it wasn’t clear, she was the one that I was talking about when I said how delighted I was to see that people were enjoying this mini season. It was an exciting surprise to see her knocking on the door of the Top 5! With a smaller field there are more chances for people to get noticed. It was an incredible run and I’m so happy that you came out for this mini season!!! I hope you enjoyed yourself. (I know your schedule might make it difficult to home game, but there aren’t very many weeks to to that anyway!)

clauderainsrm

A few words from

clauderainsrm:

The “UFO Battle in the Skies” you’ve been waiting for is happening RIGHT HERE!!!

Sure, the prediction got the “skies” part wrong - and both of these writers are very much identified objects. But it’s still a battle!!!

https://www.newsweek.com/futurist-aliens-prediction-december-3-war-1994853

Two very different writers, who have taken very different approaches to this Open Topic prompt. It will be interesting to see who people decide to send forward into the Top 5.

So read, comment and vote for your favorite(s) to advance! The one with the fewest votes will be eliminated.

The poll will close Thursday, December 5th at 9pm ET.

Good luck to you both!

Poll #32317 ’LJIdolMini-Week16SuddenDeathWriteOff’

This poll is closed.
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 22

Vote For Your Favorites!

erulissedances's entry
11 (50.0%)

littlebitofearth's entry
12 (54.5%)

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