Random Brainstorm Question
I've designed a crossword with no clues - only a picture. It needs a name.
All the good, snappy names are taken such as "crosswordle" "pictoword" etc
My current contenders are
imagicross
descripticross
pictoworm*
cluezzle
*= Since it'll appear on the backup site, "worm" makes sense in this context
Dear creative brains! Throw me some other outlandish suggestions
Out of morbid curiosity, was that Gemini? Mine usually gives more light-hearted answers which sound like a TV commercial instead of scholarly
Here's a different angle on it. Please forgive it's a tongue-in-cheek variation of Abraham/Isaac:
Example:
Man: Please God, my wife and I are trapped on my roof, and the flood waters are rising. Please rescue us.
Voice from Heaven: I hear you, faithful servant. If you will prove your faith by sacrificing your wife, I will grant you both eternal life.
(Scream)
Man: I've done it. You'll resurrect her and grant us both eternal life?
Voice from Heaven: I just did! But to an alternate you in a different dimension. Bye, now. Have fun with the flood
What's happened in this example is the speaker is able to enter direct negotiation/discourse with God, unlike us trying to interpret scriptures. Eg: if the scripture says "Nation X will be fruitful and multiply" we implicitly understand not every individual will be fruitful and/or multiply. As the scripture doesn't (well, can't) single out Bob-From-New-York, then should Bob get into a fatal accident before Rapture, he couldn't claim essential facts were omitted.
Satan doesn't have this limitation if he can by-pass the scripture and have a direct-line. He's entering a negotiation where vital facts are being withheld with intent to trick him into losing.
was writing a prophecy during the Middle Ages and was trying to keep from being burned at the stake for heresy for suggesting
Or... an alternative view is: One expects the author of the verse to die for the truth, not fib a little to escape his doom
"He'll come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven," and he returns as a boy (like my first draft)?
This seems fair. He ultimately came back and didn't come back to some other "me". The state he left in changed from man to boy but "same" is ambiguous wrt which verb is modifies
author of your verse was writing a prophecy during the Middle Ages and was trying to keep from being burned at the stake for heresy for suggesting that he will return but not in this dimension? It would still be factual to write he will return.
This seems like a falsehood. Granted, one brought about by extenuating circumstances. We might say well this is clerical error and not God's being non-factual, which dodges the culpability. A bargain between God & Satan where Satan does not know all the rules cannot be accounted for by misinterpretation or by human fallacy
Revelation, itself, is drowning in figurative language that will never be understood with 100% certainty. Are those falsehoods?
Yes if they are written intentionally to be misunderstood.
For example, it the verse says "Christ will return" but the true meaning is "He will return but not in this dimension" I'd call that being lied to
God tells him when Satan issued the challenge that he will in fact be given a kingdom of his own, whose size will be smaller than the smallest grain of sand in the universe. This is true since God is referring to the black hole. Satan interprets this potential outcome as
Due to omniscience, and knowing Satan misunderstood... does that mean God allowed a falsehood to be understood from his statement?
God will leave Creation behind anyway, moving with those who are saved to Eden in a different dimension. Although the Earth will be renewed
Which is to say God can simply replicate the creation, except without Satan in it?
Four days later, zero logouts. Normally it's 2-3/day
Cancel that! The dreaded logout arrived
huh... well it's a little early to tell based on only seven days, but I get to be a free-member probably until the end of the month thanks to Canada Post.
I haven't seen a single logout on all my devices during this time.
Openly wondering if Sol doesn't see the logouts because he's not a paying member
Hey!
Has anyone been logged out in the last seven days?
Odd Q, I know...
Also note: I've learned to keep my posts in the clipboard before pressing submit
Funny... I googled one of my older stories to see which cover would pop up first (Bad news, it was the older version) and Google AI was like "Hey, I know this story. Go ahead and ask me anything about it."
I played along, picked an MC, and asked the AI for her boyfriend's name. Surprisingly, it came up with "K a i" which was horribly false, but surprisingly similar to another MC (who shall remain nameless lol) who shares a lot of page space with her.
Note to Sol: I was logged out of the site while typing this post
I double-checked on my desktop which has more clicky things and can state that the image int the forums is a different URL and probably gets updated by some other task that runs at infrequent or unpredictable times
Gotta clear your browser cache so it grabs the new image. Since the filnames didn't change, your browser is probably waiting for the TTL to expire before refreshing
Played with the prompt a little to suit that AI
Teenage boy, sandy-blonde wavy hair. Bright blue eyes glowing with divine energy. White shirt. Halo framing his face.
For funsies, I fed it in to OpenAI.art:
You have to upload the artwork for your paperback and go through the various wizards to prep it and make it available for sale. Amazon won't do this for you, but it's relatively painless.
That said, I've sold zero paperbacks on Amazon despite thousands of digital copies, so I don't suggest paying DTB too much attention
about Harley Quinn murdering innocent children with explosive video games. This did not sit right with me and many others.
I'm reminded of a scene in Miller's Dark Knight Returns where Joker released his laughing gas into a stadium and kills like then thousand people. I don't recall if the artist depicted children in the crowd, but presumably they were present and also innocent. I don't recall any backlash for it though 
Welcome aboard!
I wish there was a way to give away points to needy, homeless, and hungry writers...
Would be nice, but gifting points doesn't work, sadly.
I'm watching it on [redacted] and you see writers gifting reviewers for reviews the writer likes. This builds an echo chamber... voices daring to dissent from the lauding masses don't get gifts, so they go review other content that gives them gifts instead.
The greatest thing this site gets right is allowing objective reviews
There should be a bonus for reading new stuff, not new authors
This will only encourage me to name every post "chapter one". You mean I'm posting chapter ten, but I get an advantage for calling it chapter one? Sold! Edit: Well, I concede this is technically incorrect, but I meant it's adding one more way to game the system rather than balance the system
It doesn't work the other way unfortunately. If you post 1000 words, then edits bring it down to 100 words, the story only pays for 100 words, not the original 1k
Kdot wrote:Dog
In English? Pffft!
Canis!
I raise you an "Anubis"
Dog
