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ANNOUNCEMENTS
Six months ago, @Beth Pavell literarily launched us on a vocabulary venture of preposterous proportions with the Word of the Week! This Friday we'll be getting a round-up of every single one! Keep an eye out...

In case you missed it, The Review League was updated with a brand new monthly challenge: review fics that were in the Summer Awards! That's... quite a lot of fics, so go see if you can nab some extra points this month.

The cunning, clever @kintsugi has created a thread carefully crafted to combine creativity and competition! Check out word wars to push yourself in your reviewing and maybe win something in return!

NEW STORIES

NEW UPDATES

WORD OF THE WEEK
Once more, @Beth Pavell brings us another word of the week! And once again, he reminds us that he's a filth bag under that demure exterior.

Is’t possible? Today marks six months of Word of the Week, and to mark the occasion, I couldn’t help but select a slightly naughty word.

natiform (adj.): resembling or having the form of buttocks. [Wiktionary]

The natiform island rose coyly from a calm sea.

It’s an obscure word, apparently only ever used in a medical context and never in regard to the actual butt itself (Which is a shame). These days it’s pretty much obsolete, but much like callipygian, natiform is ripe for unsophisticated sophistication. So much for the dignity of Latin, natiform coming from natis (Rump or buttock). Which leaves only one question … which is more literary: natiform or ass-shaped?
 
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Announcements
With the buzz of the awards winding down, we've opened the discussion typically held among the judges to the public. Didn't judge this time but still feel like you have some feedback? Let us hear it! Any feedback on any aspect of the awards is welcome; we want to make sure this event is structured in the best interests of the community.

New Releases
@PetitEevee has started (and finished?) Creation of Kindness, a short work about the origins of Espeon.
@Rockium has started The Ties That Bind, a crossover between Pokemon and Pac-Man & The Ghostly Adventures.
@SeanWheeler has started Pokemon the Series: Plus and Minus, an anime-inspired counterpart to his Plus and Minus game fic!

New Chapters
Quite a bit this week! Let's look at what we have.

Completed stories!
@Jared DiCarlo has posted two new chapters (7 and 8) completed Fusion! A round of applause, if you'd please!

Word of the Week
As is tradition, @Beth Pavell brings us yet another word of the week: panjandrum! I'm sure we've all met someone like this at some point in our lives... I know I've met many like this and it's always amusing to watch them try to control my lifestyle and life in general.

panjandrum (n.): a person who has or claims to have a great deal of authority or influence [Oxford English Dictionary]

Mr Pinn was a panjandrum of the theatre.

Panjandrum sounds like one of those words imported into English from India, but panjandrum was actually coined in 1775 as a nonsense word in The Great Panjandrum Himself, by Samuel Foote. For some reason this word among many nonsense words stuck, especially when describing self-important or pretentious people. It also lent its name to an experimental rocket-propelled cart, designed by the British military for the assault on the Atlantic Wall.

That's it for this week!
I'd just like to thank everyone for their continued interaction with the community. Activity is through the roof and we're still going strong! Let's keep it up!
 
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Good morning (or evening), writers of Bulbagarden! Here's what's happening around the workshop!

Announcements and Teasers
Nothing's coming up at the moment, actually.

New releases
Pletora's Story, by @canisaries
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Delta Dossiers, by @Cresselia92
Pokémon Red and Blue: Chris's Adventure, by @Greninjaman

New chapters
Chapter xviii of some rise by sin by @kintsugi
Chapter 31 of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Guiding Light, by @Ambyssin
Chapter Four, Part 2 of guidance, by @Persephone
letter fourteen of Flying in the Dark, by @diamondpearl876
Chapter 8 and Chapter 9 of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Hands of Creation, by @namohysip
A new entry of the Alola Pokédex, by Persephone
Episode 2 of Anime Remix Special: The Remix of Darkrai, by LightningTopaz
A new chapter of The Legend of Ampharos, by @Patrick Haines

Word of the Week

widdershins (or withershins) (adv.): in a direction contrary to the sun’s course, considered as unlucky; anticlockwise. [Oxford English Dictionary]

At first, widdershins just sounds like a funny way of saying anticlockwise. But the word appears to float like an iceberg hiding a mass of folk belief underneath. The word derives from the German widersinnes, wider, “against”, and sin,“direction”. Widdershins is to run in the opposite direction to the sun, an unnatural and unlucky direction to some early religions. Remnants of that belief can be found in the many ways anticlockwise is associated with the Devil in Christian folklore.
 
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IT'S OCTOBER, THE MONTH OF SPOOPYNESS​

A N N O U N C E M E N T S

The post-awards discussion is open until Friday, October 5. Please post by then if you have ideas for future seasons or want to leave feedback on how this season went!

We also have a "GAME" prefix in The Written Word for users who want to host community games!

N E W S T O R I E S

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Guiding Light Vol. 2 by @Ambyssin, following up from the events at the conclusion of Vol. 1 here!
Vision of Spark by @BlindmanV2

N E W C H A P T E R S

Chapter 94 of How to Conquer Kanto in Eight Easy Steps by @AceTrainer14
Chapters 10 and 11 of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Hands of Creation by @namohysip
Chapters 1 and 2 of Pokémon Red and Blue: Chris's Adventure by @Greninjaman
Episode 3 of Anime Remix Special: The Remix of Darkrai by @LightningTopaz
A Blissey entry in The Alola Pokédex by @Persephone
Week 377 of Live from the Fireside by LightningTopaz
Two chapters of The Legend of Ampharos by @Patrick Haines

W O R D O F T H E W E E K

deosil (adv.): clockwise [Wiktionary]

Unlike widdershins, deosil doesn’t have its roots in German, but Scottish Gaelic deiseil, which can also mean “southward”, “sunward”, “lucky” or “prepared”. In that way you can see the link with widdershins, or anticlockwise, as an unlucky direction. Supposedly these associations go back to Druidic culture, but deosil is probably best known to Wiccans, who give the spelling deosil instead of deasil.
 
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New releases
@Blaze-Wartortle brings us Liberation of Pokemon!
@UselessBytes with an original story Snowfall

New chapters
Chapter 4, Part 3 of guidance by @Persephone
A002-File 1 of PMD: Delta Dossiers by @Cresselia92
Chapter 2 of PMD: Guiding Light Volume 2 by @Ambyssin
Special Episode 1 and Chapter 12 of PMD: Hands of Creation by @namohysip
Chapter 19 of some rise by sin by @kintsugi
Session 2 of Dungeons & Dragonite by @kintsugi
Two new instalments of The Legend of Ampharos by @Patrick Haines
Chapter 11 of The Worldslayers by @Sike Saner
Week 378a of Live from the Fireside by @LightningTopaz
Episode 4 of The Remix of Darkrai by @LightningTopaz

Completed stories!
@JFrombaugh returns to finish off both the Games and Anime versions of the Paxton & Joseph Show! Well done!
@BulbaKip starts and finishes The Adventures of Michael and Charizard!

Word of the Week
October is the month of Hallowe’en merchandise, and in time-honoured fashion, we’re riding the coat-tails of the season:

antic (adj.): grotesque or bizarre [Oxford English Dictionary]

Fetch me my rapier, boy. What dares the slave
Come hither, cover’d with an antic face

Antic is a favourite word of that strange and troubled man, H.P. Lovecraft, though he most often uses it in a more recognisable form, ‘antique’. Antic derives from the Italian antico, ancient, though in a 16th century context it was used to mean ‘grotesque’ for some reason. Lovecraft loved to use obsolete or archaic words, and indeed it appears in Shakespeare more than once.
 
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Announcements
None to make this week!

New Releases
@Cutiefly has started A Journey of Different Heroes, a journey through Johto with a super hero twist.

New Chapters
Quite a bit this week! Let's look at what we have.

Completed stories!
@Juliko has posted a oneshot, You Brighten Up My Life, an Amourshipping piece!

Word of the Week
As is tradition, @Beth Pavell brings us yet another word of the week: flittermouse! This one sounds like a dumb modern name rather than an archaic term (think "danger noodle" for snake and "trash panda" for raccoon). I hope this one doesn't catch on again.

flittermouse (n.): old-fashioned term for a bat [Oxford English Dictionary]

It’s a charming little name, and one that describes the animals we know as bats very well. Anyone who has ever seen pipistrelle bats flying at dusk will know where the ‘flitter’ comes from, because their flickering, slightly frantic flight is quite unlike a bird’s. Flittermouse is now relegated to the realms of dialect words, though similar forms still exist in the Dutch vledermuys and German fledermaus.

That's it for this week!
I'd just like to thank everyone for their continued interaction with the community. Activity is through the roof and we're still going strong! Let's keep it up!
 
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The hat's gone back, everyone! Here's what's happening around the Workshop!

Announcements and Teasers
If you haven't seen, we've got a new directory! The new directory splits each category into their own posts for ease of browsing, as well as separates based on rating (making ratings compliance even more important!). A new feature of this directory is the related works section, which allows authors to link their works to each other. An example of this already on display is Ambyssin's Guiding Light, where Vol. 2's entry includes a link to Vol. 1!

New releases
@lucarioknight56 continues the epic tale of Arthus and Matheus in his newest story, PMD: Twilit Destinies!

New chapters
Chapters 14, 15 of 16 PMD: Hands of Creation by @namohysip TEEN: - Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Hands of Creation
Episodes 2 and 3 of Ash's Grand World Adventure: Kanto Saga by @Greninjaman MATURE: - Ash's Grand World Adventure: Kanto Saga
Chapter 34 of Land of the Roses by @Misfit Angel TEEN: - Land of the Roses
Chapter 7 of United We Stand by @AceTrainer14 EVERYONE: - United We Stand (Non-Poke / TTTE)
A new installment of Dreams That You Dreamed by @AceTrainer14 TEEN: - Dreams That You Dreamed (Ch. 6)
Chapter 49 of Pokemon: A Marvelous Journey by @Juliko TEEN: - Pokemon: A Marvelous Journey
Week 378c of Live from the Fireside by @LightningTopaz EVERYONE: - Live from the Fireside, Season 15 (Week 378c: The Cursed Necklace, part 3)
A new installment of The Legend of Ampharos by @Patrick Haines EVERYONE: - The Legend of Ampharos (Patience)
Chapter 2 of A Journey Of Different Heroes by @Cutiefly TEEN: - A Journey Of Different Heroes
Chapter 6 of Liberation of Pokemon by @Blaze-Wartortle EVERYONE: - Liberation of Pokemon

Completed stories!
Nothing finished this week.

Word of the Week
Once more, @Beth Pavell brings us another word of the week! This one is everyone's favorite part about October!

Hallowe’en (n.): the night of 31st October, the eve of All Saints’ Day, often celebrated by children dressing up in frightening masks and costumes. Hallowe’en is thought to be associated with the Celtic festival Samhain, when ghosts and spirits were believed to be abroad. [Oxford English Dictionary]

The OED neatly summarises the history of Hallowe’en. Sometime during the Middle Ages in the British Isles, the old seasonal festival of Samhain became tangled up with All Saints’ Day, and the following All Souls’ Day on 2nd November. These Christian holidays were concerned with celebrating, and praying for, the dead – which explains why Hallowe’en is now the spookiest time of year.
 
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Announcements
With a heavy heart, I regret to inform you that this most sacred (and spooky) month of October is coming to a close. Tragic, I know. But that means November is around the corner, and with November comes another month of Workshop changes! In November, we've got two minor changes:
  • Review League: Offer 100+ words of feedback on how 2+ characters in an author's fic interact with each other and claim 2 extra bonus points.
  • Author of the Month: @Juliko will be featured as November's author of the month!

New Releases
@p-bugle has started PMD: Pathways of Aspiration, and is already up to chapter 6!
@0bs1d1an_kn1ght has started (I think restarted? I remember this title from awhile back) Explorers of Destruction, a PMD story!
@Greninjaman has started Five Nights At Freddy's - Season 1: The Pizzeria! I don't know a lot about FNAF but I approve of the timing of this release, with Halloween right around the corner!
@Jared DiCarlo has started Activists, a light hearted comedy

New Chapters
Plenty of treats this week!

Completed stories!
None this week.

Word of the Week
This year’s Hallowe’en theme is the VillainGarden, so there can only be one word for Hallowe’en week:

villain (n.): 1. (in a film, novel, or play) a character whose evil actions or motives are important to the plot.
2. Brit. informal: a criminal: the person or thing responsible for specified problems, harm, or damage. [Oxford English Dictionary]

I have played more good guys than villains.

Some people have been tricked by villains with false identity cards.

Villain started life as a classist slur. A villain, or villein, was a class of peasant, someone not of knightly status: literally unchivalrous. It was this that led villain to be associated with wrongdoing, criminality, and petty evil. To call someone a villain would have been a real insult, but the cartoon villain of more recent times has softened the meaning to something amusing, and faintly incompetent.

That's it for this week!
I'd just like to thank everyone for their continued interaction with the community. Activity is through the roof and we're still going strong! Let's keep it up!
 
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BUT WHERE'S THE TURKEY???
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A N N O U N C E M E N T S

It's November, the month of gratitude and giving. When you remember how daylight hours shorten considerably and how the cold starts steadily seeping in this time of year, I suppose this kind of month couldn't be better placed on the calendar - so we can remember not everything is doom and gloom. Let's keep on being an awesome community that helps each other out and offer amazing feedback on each other's work. <3

Speaking of reviews, the Review League scoreboard is still looking pretty awesome. There's quite a few reviewers with over 500 points, and a couple that are nearing the 1000 milestone... Keep it up! Something just might happen for the first person to reach it. ;)

November's also famous for its NaNoWriMo event (National Novel Writing Month), and I know there's a few of you - some on Discord, some on the forums - participating. Best of luck to all of you!

N E W R E L E A S E S

@Misfit Angel sets sail with The Endless Seas, a naval story told through the eyes of a young recruit!

N E W C H A P T E R S

Chapter 7 of PMD: Pathways of Aspiration by @p-bugle, featuring the continuing adventures of Bagon, Raichu, Chimera, and Argon
Bonus Halloween Special of PMD: Guiding Light by @Ambyssin, in which the origin of Team Specter shows that sometimes, tricks can do more good than harm
Chapters 18 and 19 of PMD: Hands of Creation by @namohysip, in which Owen the Charmander/Charmeleon/Charizard(?!) faces the truth of past actions he has no recollection of
The short and sweet Chapters 11 through 14 of The Adventures of Michael and Charizard by @BulbaKip
Chapter 2 of In the Streets of Lago by @Flaze, featuring a rising tension between two main characters, Keita and Miguel
Episode 7 of Anime Remix Special: The Remix of Darkrai by @LightningTopaz EVERYONE: - Anime Remix Special: The Remix of Darkrai
Week 378e of Live from the Fireside by @LightningTopaz, in which Ash and co. continue to unravel the mystery behind Darkrai and Palkia's actions
Entry 4 of Creations by @Derpghost, a short horror fic featuring a unique instant messaging format
Chapters 2, 3 and 4 of Activists by @Jared DiCarlo, featuring the introduction of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Pokémon and Team Rocket
Two new installments of The Legend of Ampharos by @Patrick Haines, one featuring Amazing Grace and one featuring the introduction of Alola
Interlude of Multiple Dimensionality Redux by @Ereshkigal, which offers some character information
Chapter 8 of Liberation of Pokemon by @Blaze-Wartortle, in which Ash discovers he's the chosen one
Chapter 95 of How to Conquer Kanto in Eight Easy Steps by @AceTrainer14

W O R D O F T H E W E E K
Once more, @Beth Pavell brings us another word of the week! Remember, remember, the fifth of November...

It’s the fifth of November, so as some of the world half-remembers a traitor executed in 1606, this week’s word is:

treason (n.): the crime of betraying one’s country, especially by attempting to overthrow the sovereign or government. [Oxford English Dictionary]

Treason is a very old word, originating ultimately from the Latin tradere (To give up or surrender). The concept of treason is pretty much universal, though what it means in law has varied greatly across history and culture: who can commit treason, and what counts as treason? In the United Kingdom the old Treason Act 1351 is still in effect – so don’t try to kill the Queen or Prince Charles – but the last person to be executed for treason was a Nazi propagandist in 1946.
 
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Let's take a lesson from this fellow here, shall we? In the middle of NaNoWriMo, exams, and whatever else is stressing you, yawn, smell the flowers ... and fry something with a Solar Beam.

New Chapters
Chapters 20 and 21 of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Hands of Creation, by @namohysip
Chapter 5 of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Guiding Light, by @Ambyssin
Week 379 of Live by the Fireside, by @LightningTopaz
Three new chapters of Activists, by @Jared DiCarlo
Chapter Nine of Liberation of Pokémon, by @Blaze-Wartortle
Interlude and Chapter Four of Multiple Dimensionality Redux, by @Ereshkigal

Completed Stories
And @Patrick Haines has managed to finish The Legend of Ampharos!

Word of the Week
Once more, @Beth Pavell brings us another word of the week! Sums up @Misfit Angel's writing succinctly No it bloody doesn't

Diving back into technical English this week, with a possibly Greek-derived word:

amphigory (n.): A nonsense verse; a rigmarole, with apparent meaning, which on further attention proves to be meaningless [Wiktionary]

His inspirational talk was an hour-long amphigory.

A classic amphigory would be Lewis Carrol’s The Jabberwocky, quite possibly a work of deliberate parody. Terry Pratchett alludes to the idea when he commented on his invented saying ‘The big sea does not care which way the little fishes swim’ - to quote “It sounds wise, in a slightly stupid kind of way. That’s the essence of the amphigory. It sounds clever, until you stop to think about it.
 
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Announcements and Teasers
This month Persephone is re-running her fanfiction survey, looking at what the most common pokémon in fanfiction are. If you want to participate you can find the survey thread here.

New Chapters
Chapter 8 of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Pathways of Aspiration, by @p-bugle
Chapter 15 of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Azure Rescuers, by @Gengarzilla
A bonus chapter of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Guiding Light, by @Ambyssin
Chapters 22 and 23 of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Hands of Creation, by @namohysip
Week 380 of Live from the Fireside, by @LightningTopaz
Chapter 35 of Land of the Roses, by @Misfit Angel
An interlude from Multiple Dimensionality, by @Ereshkigal
Another entry of The Alola Pokédex, by @Persephone
Chapter 3 of A Journey of Different Heroes, by @Cutiefly

Completed Stories
How about that, LightningTopaz has finished Anime Remix Special: The Remix of Darkrai

Word of the Week

delectation (n.): pleasure and delight [Oxford English Dictionary]

Now how’s that for a link to this week’s word? Delectation is usually a word used in a humorous sense, in parody or a deliberately grandiloquent way. It’s a word that connotes food, something exquisite to be savoured. And indeed delectation is related to delight – both words come to us through Old French from a usual offender, Latin. The Latin delectate gives us both words. In Old French it became both délectation and delit.
 
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Good morning (or evening), people of Bulbagarden--here's what's happening around the Workshop!

Announcements and Teasers
Keep an eye out! An event taking place in December will be announced soon!

New releases
@mesmarrow put together a short story for last week's writing prompt!

New chapters
Chapter 8 of Activists by @Jared DiCarlo TEEN: - Activists
Part 3 of Pletora's Story by @canisaries TEEN: - Pletora's Story
Chapter 7 of Dreams That You Dreamed by @AceTrainer14 TEEN: - Dreams That You Dreamed (Ch. 7)
Chapter 96 of How to Conquer Kanto in Eight Easy Steps by @AceTrainer14 MATURE: - How to Conquer Kanto in Eight Easy Steps - Chapter 95
Chapter 24 of PMD: Hands of Creation by @namohysip TEEN: - Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Hands of Creation
Chapter 9 of PMD: Pathways of Aspiration by @p-bugle TEEN: - Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Pathways of Aspiration

Completed stories!
None this week!

Review Game
Going forward, we're going to add weekly reminders about the Review Game into these newsletters. @AceTrainer14 is currently up for a review and has requested a review of one of the following:

Remember, reviews done as part of the Review Game are worth an extra +2 points in the Review League!

Word of the Week
inshallah (exclamation): If Allah wills it. [Oxford English Dictionary]

Inshallah (From the Arabic in šā Allāh) expresses the devout idea that nothing happens unless God wishes it to. “I will sign the contract tomorrow, inshallah.” - you may intend to sign the contract tomorrow, but if God does not will it, then there’s nothing that can be done. But inshallah can be used in an ironic, or sarcastic sense – as in, ‘the contract will only be signed if a miracle happens’, or ‘only God will make me sign this contract’.
 
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Announcements
A couple things this week! First is that the sign ups for Bulbagarden Reviewing Secret Santa 2018 are rapidly coming to a close! You have until Wednesday this week (December 5th) to sign up!

What else is there? The Review League has a new monthly bonus challenge! Any review made in December that offers 100+ words of feedback on a story's plot can claim +2 extra bonus points!

New Releases

New Chapters

Completed stories!
Two of the new releases listed above, Open Book and Burnout, have already been completed!

Review Game
AceTrainer14 is currently up for a review and has requested a review of one of the following:

Word of the Week
December is more usually a month of rain, cold, and general dampness here in Blighty, so we’re bowing to that with:

dreich (adj): (especially of weather) dreary; bleak. [Oxford English Dictionary]

It looked a dreich, cold place as you rode by at night

Dreich is best known among Scots, as a word almost onomatopoeic in its description of dismal weather. The OED gives its origin in Middle English, from the Old Norse drjúgr - ‘enduring’, or ‘lasting’. And this gives a clue to the subtler connotations of the word. Dreich is not merely bad weather. It's the kind of dismal, dreary, bleak that look set to go on. And on. And on …
 
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It's been a quiet week around the Workshop, but something's cooking for the end of the month:

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Announcements
The Writers Workshop (Reviewing) Secret Santa is now officially underway - so thank you to everyone who signed up for the event! The mods are excited to see how this one turns out.

Remember, the Review Game is still open for the next player. +2 Review League points are available for the user who moves the game on.

New Chapters
Two new chapters of Multiple Dimensionality Redux, by @Ereshkigal
Chapter 26 of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Hands of Creation, by @namohysip
Chapter 11 of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Pathways of Aspiration, by @p-bugle
Chapter 6 of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Guiding Light Vol. 2, by @Ambyssin
Many new chapters of The Archsage War, by @Patrick Haines
Week 382 of Live from the Fireside, by @LightningTopaz
Chapter 97 of How to Conquer Kanto in Eight Easy Steps, by @AceTrainer14
Chapter 11 of Project Toaster: Decolonised, by @jasonwolf
Chapter 36 of Land of the Roses, by @Misfit Angel
Chapter 2 of Intervention, by @Antoshi

Completed Stories
@Jared DiCarlo has finished Activists
@canisaries has finished yet another story, Pletora's Story

Word of the Week

andrapodismos (n.): brutal, systematic murder with no pretence otherwise.

Whatever else the Ancient Greeks were, they weren’t shy about the horrors of ancient warfare. Might makes right, woe unto the vanquished; these were the typical Greek attitudes towards how the defeated side ought to be treated. And for those city-states unlucky enough, they might be visited with andrapodismos – the systematic murder of all the adult men, the women and children sold into slavery. What makes this word stand out is how unashamed it is. There is neither pretence nor euphemism in andrapodismos, a word as brutal and shameless as the act itself.
 
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Announcements
Secret Santa reviews should start coming in on December 21st. Remember to get them posted before January 1st for double Review League points and triple holiday cheer!

New releases
@Jared DiCarlo has started Robo-Boss and is already up to chapter 4!
@PeaceSign has started kid a!

New chapters
Chapter 37 of Land of the Roses by @Misfit Angel TEEN: - Land of the Roses
Chapter 3 of Intervention by @Antoshi TEEN: - Intervention
Chapters 15, 16, and 17 of The Archsage War by @Patrick Haines EVERYONE: - The Archsage War (Non-Pokémon)
Chapter 27 of PMD: Hands of Creation by @namohysip TEEN: - Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Hands of Creation
Chapter 11 of Seiren by @canisaries TEEN: - Seiren

Review Game
AceTrainer14 is currently up for a review and has requested a review of one of the following:
Remember, reviews done as part of the Review Game are worth an extra +2 points in the Review League!

Word of the Week
‘Tis the season to be grumpy, or indeed to be an:

iconoclast (n.): 1. a person who attacks of criticises cherished beliefs or institutions.
2. a destroyer of images used in religious worship, in particular.

Beth Pavell was a known Scrooge and iconoclast: she liked to destroy Santas.

Iconoclast is born out of strife in the Eastern Orthodox Church – led by Emperor Leo III, the government of the day led the systematic destruction of religious images, or icons (From eikōn, ‘likeness’). Icons were and are a fundamental symbol of the Orthodox Church, so now iconoclast figuratively means a person who controversially attacks the social orthodoxy.
 
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Merry Christmas, Bulbagarden!​

Here's what's happening around the Workshop this holiday season!

Announcements and Teasers
Two things: The Bulbagarden Secret Santa is in full flow, and reviews can be posted from now until January 1st to be eligible for the double review league points! Secondly, we also have a new academy article ready, one that focuses on building holidays and festivals for your world.

New releases
@Jared DiCarlo has started Robo-Boss and is already up to chapter 4!
@PeaceSign has started kid a!

New chapters
Chapter 50 of Pokemon: A Marvelous Journey by @Juliko TEEN: - Pokemon: A Marvelous Journey
Chapter 4 of Intervention by @Antoshi TEEN: - Intervention (12/19: Chapter 4)
Chapters 17 through 20 of The Archsage War by @Patrick Haines EVERYONE: - The Archsage War (Non-Pokémon)
Chapter 5 and an interlude of Multiple Dimensionality Redux by @Ereshkigal MATURE: - Multiple Dimensionality Redux
Episodes 48 and 49 of Pokemon Shine Diamond by @LightningTopaz EVERYONE: - Pokemon Shine Diamond
Chapter 7 of PMD: Guiding Light Vol. 2 by @Ambyssin TEEN: - Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Guiding Light (Vol. 2)
Chapter 28 of PMD: Hands of Creation by @namohysip TEEN: - Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Hands of Creation
Chapters 5, 6, 7 and... 7 again? of Robo-Boss by @Jared DiCarlo TEEN: - Robo-Boss

Completed stories!
None this week!

Review Game
AceTrainer14 is currently up for a review and has requested a review of one of the following:

Remember, reviews done as part of the Review Game are worth an extra +2 points in the Review League!

Word of the Week
Giving in a little to the season, this week’s word is a concept familiar to most of us as kids:

iktsuarpok (n.): the feeling of anticipation while waiting for someone to arrive, often leading to intermittently going outside to check for them [Wiktionary]

The growing iktsuarpok in my limbs was driving me crazy.

Iktsuarpok is a loanword from the Inuit language Inuktitut, spoken in northern Canada. Rather wonderfully, it’s a concept that, once briefly explained, need no further elaboration. Perhaps it can also be applied to other forms of irrational impatience: to quote Tiffany Watt Smith “Might the restless checking of our phones, waiting for an expected response to a text or comment on a status update, be a type of iktsuarpok?”
 
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Announcements
Happy New Year! With a new month comes a new Review League monthly challenge! Those who offer 100+ words of feedback on a story's dialogue during the month of January are eligible for 2 extra bonus points on their review.

New Releases

New Chapters - If I missed anyone this week, my apologies! It's been a busy and active one with all of the Secret Santa reviews rolling in.

Completed stories!
In addition to the two one shots noted above (Seasoned and Lunar), we have two stories that were finished this past week, congratulations are in order!

@Jared DiCarlo has finished Robo-Boss!
@Antoshi has finished Intervention!

Review Game
Patrick Haines has pushed the Review Game forward and is up for a review himself! The following has been requested, and remember, you only have to review one to participate!
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  • A more in depth review of the first three chapters of The Legend of Ampharos

Word of the Week
What better way to start the month of January than a brief look at the word itself!

January (n.): the first month of the year, in the northern hemisphere usually considered the second month of winter.

January is the Anglicised version of the Latin ianuarius, ‘the month of Janus’. Janus was the two-faced god associated with beginnings, endings, and doorways. When January is placed at the beginning of the year the month takes on an indecisive quality – literally the new year, a new beginning, but coming right on the heels of reflecting on the past year.
 
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Announcements
Well, the results are in, and December's Reviewing Secret Santa event was a great success! For that we have to thank all of you who participated - because we Workshop moderators know very well that this section is nothing without everyone who writes, reads, and keeps it alive. Keep your eyes peeled for future events!

New Releases
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Veil of Temporal Darkness, by @Greninjaman

New Chapters
Chapter Two of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Twilit Destinies, by @lucarioknight56
Chapter 51 of Pokémon: A Marvelous Journey, by @Juliko
Chapter 30 of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Hands of Creation, by @namohysip
Chapter 9 of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Guiding Light, by @Ambyssin
Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 of PokéPark Panic, by @Jared DiCarlo
Week 383 of Live From the Fireside, by @LightningTopaz
Interlude: Psychic Power and Psychics of Multiple Dimensionality Redux, by @Ereshkigal

Review Game
Patrick Haines is still up for a review. The following has been requested, and remember, you only have to review one to participate!
OR
  • A more in depth review of the first three chapters of The Legend of Ampharos
Word of the Week

chatoyant (adj.): of iridescent, shimmering lustre, like a cat’s eye in the dark [Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase & Fable]

The candlelight shone through the half-empty bottles like the chatoyant gleam of a predator.

Chatoyant is borrowed directly from French, chat of course meaning ‘cat’. The luminous, sometimes unnerving glow of a cat’s eye at night is caused by light bouncing off a reflective membrane at the back of the eye, called the tapetum lucidium. In gemology, chatoyancy is an optical effect that causes a reflective, almost luminous sheen – very much like the eye of a cat.
 
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Nothing fancy going on this week. Hope everyone's doing well and reading and writing lots!

New chapters
Chapters 4 through 7 of PokePark Panic by @Jared DiCarlo EVERYONE: - PokéPark Panic
Chapter 10 of PMD: Guiding Light Vol. 2 by @Ambyssin TEEN: - Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Guiding Light (Vol. 2)
Chapter 31 of PMD: Hands of Creation by @namohysip TEEN: - Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Hands of Creation
Chapter 14 of PMD: Pathways of Aspiration by @p-bugle TEEN: - Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Pathways of Aspiration
A new entry (Slowpoke) of The Alola Pokedex by @Persephone EVERYONE: - The Alola Pokedex
Week 384 of Live from the Fireside by @LightningTopaz EVERYONE: - Live from the Fireside, Season 15 (Week 384: The Brave Fiddler)

Review Game
Patrick Haines is still up for a review. The following has been requested, and remember, you only have to review one to participate!
OR
  • A more in depth review of the first three chapters of The Legend of Ampharos

Remember, reviews done as part of the Review Game are worth an extra +2 points in the Review League!

Word of the Week
grammaticaster (n.): a piddling grammarian. [Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase & Fable]

His reviews showed him to be little more than a grammaticaster.

The closest modern term would probably be ‘grammar-nazi’. And as synonyms go, it’s not bad. But while some people may call themselves grammar-nazis with pride, grammaticaster is inherently perjorative. The word comes from adding the Latin suffix aster (‘Little’, or ‘petty’) to grammatic/grammar. So grammaticaster is less ‘grammar-nazi’, more ‘Petty little grammar pedant’.
 
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- Game travelogs, Nuzlocke fics, Let's Plays, and other niche types of fanwork are allowed as long as the majority of its contents are in a creative writing format (ie., no video-based Let's Plays or one-sentence screenshot captions).​
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What do you mean by creative writing format? I want to do Let's Plays. I figured I'd do them here instead of Youtube. Would be less of a hassle to work with. All I would need is the game in question and the proper system.
 
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