The ghost of valentine's day - Winner of the RavishU Memorial Contest

[Nickamano]

Apologies for the rating blunder. Thought I'd done it.

[Claire]

Congratulations on winning the RavishU Memorial Contest! A well deserved victory! Be proud. You will forever be the winner of the first Ravishment Academy contest. I'm so glad to have you as a part of the team!

[Shocker]

@LaLia congratulation to your very deserved win, I hope there will be many more to come.

[LaLia]

Congratulations on winning the RavishU Memorial Contest! A well deserved victory! Be proud. You will forever be the winner of the first Ravishment Academy contest. I'm so glad to have you as a part of the team!

Yeah, thank you

The success tastes sweet and makes me really happy, especially since I was able to prevail against two such strong competitors. I also think it's cool that a fantasy/horror story can win. I thought Vela and I would have some kind of disadvantage with our themes.

What do I actually get now? Have you already thought about how we want to honor/recognize contest winners in the future?

@LaLia congratulation to your very deserved win, I hope there will be many more to come.

You and Vela would have deserved it, too. As I said, strong competition, and I'm already looking forward to the next challenge.

[Vela Nanashi]

Congratulations LaLia on a well deserved win

[Claire]

What do I actually get now? Have you already thought about how we want to honor/recognize contest winners in the future?

As I originally said in the thread, I want to reward people with extra exposure for their story by pinning it to the top of the Public Stories board for a week and of course mentioning you as the winner in the board announcement is also a part of that.

I would have also liked to give the winner a special title that designates them as the winner of the contest. Or if the winner had a specific wish for their title, I would have done that too. The problem in your case is: You are a moderator which makes your special title "Moderator". I could change that, but I think the members of the team should stay recognizable as Admins and Moderators at first glance to other members. So this a downside to you being a part of the team, I'm sorry.

I will also create a thread that will list all past contests and their winners, so you will also be mentioned there.

If you have any clever idea of what we can do to honor the victor of a contest, I'm all ears. I think there might be extensions that allow us to add badges and things like that to user profiles, but I'd have to look that up. But we would need someone who creates something like a gold medal or trophy badge with the name of the contest that could then be added to a user's profile. Sadly, I'm not the person capable of doing something like that. Anyway, I would love to do things like this.

[Nickamano]

Congratulations on the deserved win.

Though any of the entries could have won - often subjective tastes in subject matter or style, or even the mood of the reader at the time of reading could potentially have an effect on decision making, which doesn't reflect on the writing quality and talent of the other entry winners... which sounds very much like I'm trying to take away the accolade of winning from LaLia... hmmm... damn...

[LaLia]

I have two ideas off the top of my head:

1. A banner that you put in your signature, so I think that would be similar to your idea with the trophy.

2. Another type of reward would, of course, be reputation points. If you can change them manually, you could use that. Then you could also reward the 2nd and 3rd place winners in a contest with enough participants.

[Vile8r]

Excellent story LaLia! I really liked the way you established the eerie atmosphere of the forest.
"The minutes passed, and as Jan continued to work on the old VW bus, the darkness seemed to grow even thicker. Every quiet drop that fell from the branches of the forest, every distant rustle of the leaves made their hearts beat faster. In this misty night, in the midst of the eerie silence of the Scottish national park, every moment was permeated by an almost tangible tension - as if the forest itself was holding its breath and listening to the quiet workings of two souls."

I think we've all been in one of those moments, out in the woods, where we are sure we're being watched, or it just seems like the place has a life of its own. Dark forests just have that thing about them.

I, too, like long backstories, and I like how you used yours to set up the story. I'm also a fan of tentacle and vine rape, it's a little fetish of mine, and I feel it ratchets up the 'horror' aspect of the rape. A woman being assaulted by things that are not 'human' seems so much more horrific.
I hope to read more of your stories. You have a style of writing that I enjoy.

[LaLia]

Excellent story LaLia! I really liked the way you established the eerie atmosphere of the forest.
"The minutes passed, and as Jan continued to work on the old VW bus, the darkness seemed to grow even thicker. Every quiet drop that fell from the branches of the forest, every distant rustle of the leaves made their hearts beat faster. In this misty night, in the midst of the eerie silence of the Scottish national park, every moment was permeated by an almost tangible tension - as if the forest itself was holding its breath and listening to the quiet workings of two souls."

I think we've all been in one of those moments, out in the woods, where we are sure we're being watched, or it just seems like the place has a life of its own. Dark forests just have that thing about them.

I, too, like long backstories, and I like how you used yours to set up the story. I'm also a fan of tentacle and vine rape, it's a little fetish of mine, and I feel it ratchets up the 'horror' aspect of the rape. A woman being assaulted by things that are not 'human' seems so much more horrific.
I hope to read more of your stories. You have a style of writing that I enjoy.

Thank you

Yes, the non-human theme fits really well. I also really like themes like tentacles, monsters, zombies, etc. It's also somehow more "humiliating." If it were allowed, I'd definitely include animals somewhere, because that goes in the same direction.

And thanks again for my style I mostly write in German, though, because I feel more comfortable that way. Claire is currently trying to add a translation extension. Maybe that's a good idea: RavishU had a pretty good German community, which is a bit harder to get started here. But I think Claire, Shocker, Blue, and I also write exciting German stories that would certainly be interesting for you who don't otherwise speak the language. Translators are pretty good these days, though. I often read English translated stories because I prefer speaking English to writing/reading.