no, see, THEIR version goes "dun-dun-dun-dundunDUN-dun"... and MY version goes...

[acalculatedname]

Comments

[alycewilson]

Wow! I'm really glad I read all of last week's entries, because it helped me understand what you were doing. :)

[acalculatedname]

I thought about highlighting / coloring the pilfered elements so it was more clear, but that seemed to take some of the fun out of it. But yeah, reading probably helped! (I tried to steal memorable starts and finishes for my, uh, starts and finishes in the hopes that it would kick off the "eureka" moment for the Week 12-indoctrinated.)

[alycewilson]

For me, what really gave it away was the passage of going to sleep fully clothed, with money in his pockets.

Also, the explanatory paragraph at the end was a good idea, for those who didn't get the project.

[acalculatedname]

Oh yeah, it was... totally unavoidable. I just tortured myself re: whether to put it at the front (no fun) or at the end (fun but risky).

[favoritebean]

This (along with the entry that follows this) is really quite interesting. I'm not too familiar with crack, but I think after reading this, I might start actively seeking out crack pieces to read.

This was a lot of fun.

[acalculatedname]

[favoritebean]

But it's so sparkly!

[acalculatedname]

Well, the sparkliness all depends on the degree of purity.

[roina_arwen]

This was very interesting, but why Red Panda guts? Poor little red pandas... *has a sad*

[acalculatedname]

Best icon-comment combo since at least 2009.

[roina_arwen]

Thank you! *preens*

[acalculatedname]

Well, now, *second* best.

[lrig_rorrim]

I didn't see this coming (that's what she said?), but it's a really great take on the topic. It was surpassingly weird seeing my own bit in there...

[acalculatedname]

I picked all my snippets in advance (in most cases, largely on the basis of not containing proper nouns) and laid them out in order, writing the goof-story around them... as you lean toward the fantastic (and/or due to my poor first-stage choices?), yours ended up being one of the hardest to work in, and I had to break my predetermined "don't edit a damn thing from the stolen stuff" rule ever so slightly to get it to "work." Definitely weird in the end. :)

[cheshire23]

Well played! *tips hat*

[acalculatedname]

Hat back at you.