Announcing our 'Punked' competition

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Thank you, Sprite. I’ll certainly check out CuriousAnnie’s stories. She’s great. 🙂X

she's actually one of my fav writers (and people) here, so yeah, do so. and i love that you bring a different flavor with YOUR stories (i have had the chance to read a couple - i think i modded one, at least? lol)

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Fuck no. Rock the boat, disturb the status quo, Rough up the mid-Atlantic consensus. Rub our noses in the non-white experience. If I can get Australians into a Noir competition, you’ll get British Indians into punk. 💖

Lol. Thank you so much for your support. I think my first comment wasn't as nuanced as it could have been, so I apologise to anyone who took it in a way it wasn't intended.

The thing with us British Indians is that we did it differently. We couldn't do night clubs, so we did daytime parties instead (I once missed school to go to one). We didn't have punk, we had Bhangra. So by having a wider title of ‘Subversion’ or ‘Iconoclasm’, the same themes could be explored more inclusively.

I so look forward to reading more of your writing. I’ll drop you a like and a comment when I do. For now though, I must get back to my time-limited latest which may not be ready for the mods in time....😘X

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she's actually one of my fav writers (and people) here, so yeah, do so. and i love that you bring a different flavor with YOUR stories (i have had the chance to read a couple - i think i modded one, at least? lol)

Yes, you did. Thank you 😘X

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Krystal-Punk: noun. A subgenre of Punk literature pontificated with overt sexuality and horny redheads, typically drawing from Dark Sci-Fi and Noir but riddled with humor.
I'm so IN!

You are definitely starting to form your own genre here on Lush! Keep it up!

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We didn't have punk, we had Bhangra. So by having a wider title of ‘Subversion’ or ‘Iconoclasm’, the same themes could be explored more inclusively.

I read the description of the competition to mean anything about subversion or rebellion, not literally "punk" as it's been known to most people, myself included. Once I started reading the linked article detailing all the various "punk" genres it became clear most of them have little to do with what I thought of as punk.

I'd love to read an entry from a British Indian perspective. I was pretty vocal during the Noir competition about preferring stories that broadened the genre away from the usual Forties and Fifties New York/Los Angeles settings, even if they were still mostly white protagonists. I would have cheered nonwhite entries on too, if not more.

I will, however, admit my protagonists are white males, because my protagonists are all me. Not sure it would even be appropriate for me to pretend to write from a nonwhite perspective, but I hope others will, and I do appreciate the world you have been building in your stories.

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I read the description of the competition to mean anything about subversion or rebellion, not literally "punk" as it's been known to most people, myself included. Once I started reading the linked article detailing all the various "punk" genres it became clear most of them have little to do with what I thought of as punk.

I'd love to read an entry from a British Indian perspective. I was pretty vocal during the Noir competition about preferring stories that broadened the genre away from the usual Forties and Fifties New York/Los Angeles settings, even if they were still mostly white protagonists. I would have cheered nonwhite entries on too, if not more.

I will, however, admit my protagonists are white males, because my protagonists are all me. Not sure it would even be appropriate for me to pretend to write from a nonwhite perspective, but I hope others will, and I do appreciate the world you have been building in your stories.

Thank you, joe71. Thank you for reading 😘X Yes, maybe it's about nomenclature as much as anything. I could certainly devise a ‘Tim Burtonesque’ story which would probably fit the genre, if I closed my eyes really tight and thought for long enough. 🤣X

can we change the word count to 7k please? I'm going to have real issues with 5k... lol

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can we change the word count to 7k please? I'm going to have real issues with 5k... lol

Come on, rise to the challenge! You can do this!

(But, yeah, sometimes editing is kind of painful, esp. if it all works and you're just trying to get the length down.😢)

I just need to smooth out the ending and I have about 1200 words left to do it. Which means I will probably overshoot by a few hundred and then get the scissors out.

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Come on, rise to the challenge! You can do this!

(But, yeah, sometimes editing is kind of painful, esp. if it all works and you're just trying to get the length down.😢)

I just need to smooth out the ending and I have about 1200 words left to do it. Which means I will probably overshoot by a few hundred and then get the scissors out.

i have 1000 left and i could easily write another 3 or 4k. at least it's a very rough draft, leaving a lot of room for trimming.

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leaving a lot of room for rimming.

I read that several times.

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I read that several times.

oh? interested, darling? ;)

Mine came in at 6k initially, got it down to 5.2k now. A few more passes....

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Mine came in at 6k initially, got it down to 5.2k now. A few more passes....

it's not easy, is it

Y'all are knocking it outta the park with your entries, so far. Some peeps with great imaginations running around here!

Keep 'em cumming and I really hope some of this tech is in our near future.

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Mine came in at 6k initially, got it down to 5.2k now. A few more passes....

I feel you. I loathe killing my darlings.

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can we change the word count to 7k please? I'm going to have real issues with 5k... lol

If you have a spare 2k words going, can I have them, please?

Not had time to even look at this yet, and I meant to be retired!

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If you have a spare 2k words going, can I have them, please?

Not had time to even look at this yet, and I meant to be retired!

ok, but they might not make sense, depending on what you're writing lol

I'm at the 4k mark so far, half of that on the sex scene, but I have so much editing to do that I might take another week to get it finished. I apologise again, but my brain instantly went down a weird, dark path and I've stuck with it.

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Mine came in at 6k initially, got it down to 5.2k now. A few more passes....

Oink! Stick your snout in the trough and slop up this mess. A loving (and fucking) tribute to what may be Hitchcock's best. Lots of sex, lots of action. Mostly cyberpunk, with a dash of solarpunk.

https://www.lushstories.com/stories/bisexual/pork-by-northwest-2

Um, went to submit my story and it shows as 5.1k words on the submission screen, but it's exactly 5000 on the story word count on the editor? Is it counting tags, headline and title?

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Um, went to submit my story and it shows as 5.1k words on the submission screen, but it's exactly 5000 on the story word count on the editor? Is it counting tags, headline and title?

we're aware that the word count doesn't always match up - we always cut a little slack on the comp stories if it goes over the max word count.

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we're aware that the word count doesn't always match up - we always cut a little slack on the comp stories if it goes over the max word count.

Thanks, Sprite

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Thanks, Sprite

by a little, btw, i don't mean like 2k words... :)

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by a little, btw, i don't mean like 2k words...

Curses, foiled again!! 🤨

(Actually, I am at 4700ish words so barring a massive change when I revisit it before publishing, not much risk of going over 😊)

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Um, went to submit my story and it shows as 5.1k words on the submission screen, but it's exactly 5000 on the story word count on the editor?

The count in the story editor is what we go by, so yeah, don't worry about the one on the submission screen. It has some kind of weird upward rounding algorithm or counts author/mod note and title and keywords or whatever. It's... somewhat wonky.

Not sure what kind of punk it really is, but my Punked story is up. Queer dystopiapunk is kind of my name for it. The world would have worked for cyberpunk but I lost the "cyber" part somewhere along the way.

https://www.lushstories.com/stories/bisexual/that-night-the-city-burned-and-so-did-we

Hello

To the powers that be, I'm close to done on my Silkpunk story and need assistance. I want to stay OUT of category. So, I need to know the following:

1. Can blood relatives be naked in bed together or see one another naked if no touching of genitals occurs? Can they embrace while naked if no genital touching is described?

2. Can one relative offer sex to another relative (relative declines), if offering relative doesn't yet know they are related?

3. Can a relative admit sexual attraction to a relative, if he/she doesn't know they are related?

Thank you! I'd like to submit a clean, rule-abiding entry to the approving mod.

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Hello

To the powers that be, I'm close to done on my Silkpunk story and need assistance. I want to stay OUT of category. So, I need to know the following:

1. Can blood relatives be naked in bed together or see one another naked if no touching of genitals occurs? Can they embrace while naked if no genital touching is described?

2. Can one relative offer sex to another relative (relative declines), if offering relative doesn't yet know they are related?

3. Can a relative admit sexual attraction to a relative, if he/she doesn't know they are related?

Thank you! I'd like to submit a clean, rule-abiding entry to the approving mod.

1. Yes, so long as they're not aroused by the fact of it being a relative. E.g picture someone having a threesome with twins, but the twins don't really interact despite being naked in bed together - that would be fine to just go in .

2. If there's no actual sex, it's fine

3. Trickier, depending on what happens post reveal, but so long as it's not the fact they're related that's attracting them, you should be fine.

Thank you, Jen! I'm submitting tonight or tmrw. I will of course tweak if needed to stay out of . I think I'm good though.

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Thank you, Jen! I'm submitting tonight or tmrw. I will of course tweak if needed to stay put of . I think I'm good though.

you are better than good. try awesome. :)