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Here's my submission for category 3. Poetry by Puffy The nudibranch shall rise And snails will meet their demise Enchiladas are tasty Yet the sponge was too hasty Gary sent me fleeing in shame But I shall have my vengeance and fame Someday…

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Today...or actually yesterday was the day of my 15th year of being on SBC, which is quite a lot of time I've been on for a community that I never thought I'd be so attached to, I never left by this point. That's why I felt that I'd actually do a very special commemoration, and it's something that's been on my mind for some odd years. So, i am holding my first (and only) writing competition. From today, until my current set deadline, all willing participants will be able to send me their own drabbles based on all the categories I've come up with. There will be four - yes, four different categories to submit to: CATEGORY 1: The Simple Short Story Category Requirements: Write a short story Minimum word count required: 200 Sounds very self-explanatory, does it? This is a category where everyone is free to write whatever kind of short story as they please, but of course, do mind the word count requirements. CATEGORY 2: The Most Committed Writer Category Requirements: Write a long-form story Minimum word count required: 1,500 Yes, I know the above word count requirement sounds really scary to some, but with all fairness, this is a category for those who are really looking to challenge themselves. The main idea behind this one is to write a decently fleshed-out story. You can make it as short enough for the minimum as you'd like, or make it as long as you'd like. CATEGORY 3: And Now, Poetry - by Gary... Requirements: Write a poem Minimum word count required: 30 This is definitely the most relaxed and easy of the four categories, and all you have to for this one is write poetry. Whether it's traditional poetry, haikus, a story-driven poem, or a simple collection of them, this is where everyone is encouraged to show their poetic side. CATEGORY 4: The Steel's Biggest Fan Category Requirements: Write a story based on one of my own spin-off/fanfic creations Minimum word count required: 400 The concept for this last one may sound like obnoxious ego stroking, I know, but I think some folks might have some fun with this in particular, and brings out the whole 'Steel Sponge' theme of this contest. For this category, participants will write a story based on one of my own stories, may it be the setting, the characters, or both. For a reference guide or ref material on what you'll have to work with, there is a list below with a respective link to my writing. The list: With that taken care of, let's go over the basics and the rules of the submission process: -The deadline for this contest as a whole will be on March 15th. I figured I'd give everyone a long enough window to participate that would be considered fair. Up until that date, submissions will be closed. -Everyone can submit for all four categories, but only once for each. Of course, and as I should very much address, you don't have to submit for all four categories, and if you wish to submit only for one, that is completely fine. -If one particular category has only one submission, the participant will win it by default. -No joke nor troll entries, and no entries that would be deemed inappropriate by the site's standards. -All submissions will and must be curated in a separate thread that will be posted shortly afterwards. -I will be the sole judge for each submitted piece. But of course, I can't sell this for anyone without the prizes/rewards for each winning entry. I may not have staff powers, but here's a few things you may receive: WINNERS WILL RECEIVE...: -A specially made pic/icon for the winning author + story -A free commissioned art piece of your own choice, as drawn by me -Previews and perhaps also plot reveals for upcoming releases for my own work -An elephant (actually, scratch that. This is supposed to be a gag prize, so I don't actually have an elephant) Anyways, there's nothing else left for me to all those who wish participate than with this: take your time, and of course, go out and have fun with your own writing,

Day 1: Total Drama Treasure Tour Day 2: SBC What If's Day 3: Starting Over Day 4: SpongeBob SquarePants: Lost in Translation finale Day 5: Trinity Leaf Pegasus(?) Day 6: Chemist Bob's Catastrophic Creations Cinema Day 7: A Member-Hosted Story Contest And now...here's the big one - I'm going to host my very own writing contest. Unlike the usual SBC event months, this will be its own separate thing, planned specially for my 15 year milestone. The last story contest on SBC that took place was merely last month during Snowcember, so the details won't be made known until January 24th, one day shy of my anniversary day, but still a reasonable time and day to start it while I making this known now.

Day 1: Total Drama Treasure Tour Day 2: SBC What If's Day 3: Starting Over Day 4: SpongeBob SquarePants: Lost in Translation finale Day 5: Trinity Leaf Pegasus(?) Day 6: Chemist Bob's Catastrophic Creations Cinema Day 7: ??? The one-off special for CBC3, which will feature the Nostalgia Critic, will be posted later this month. I should say in advance though that this will be a rather different approach compared to the Critic Chronicles, which I will clarify within the special itself.

Day 1: Total Drama Treasure Tour Day 2: SBC What If's Day 3: Starting Over Day 4: SpongeBob SquarePants: Lost in Translation finale Day 5: Trinity Leaf Pegasus(?) Day 6: ??? Day 7: ??? But um...while I'm still on the topic of neglected stories... Apologies that this isn't an actual update, but who knows? Maybe it will be TLP's year this time. But in the meantime, I hope you all appreciate the humor towards the Duke Nukem Forever of my writing catalog (or at this rate, may I call it my Winds of Winter?).

Day 1: Total Drama Treasure Tour Day 2: SBC What If's Day 3: Starting Over Day 4: SpongeBob SquarePants: Lost in Translation finale Day 5: ??? Day 6: ??? Day 7: ??? I have a new planned release date for the final episode for this month as part of my SBC 15th anniversary milestone (there's one other major thing I have planned for that milestone, but more on that later...), because after delaying this up to three years now, I definitely have no excuses for not getting it done.

Day 1: Total Drama Treasure Tour Day 2: SBC What If's Day 3: Starting Over Day 4: ??? Day 5: ??? Day 6: ??? Day 7: ??? Starting Over, my aptly-titled 101 Dalmatian Street fanfic, is still in the works with a new chapter on the way. The next chapter, titled "Turnabout Siblings" will be posted to AO3 sometime in January, and will be posted to SBC later afterwards. The story will be nearing completion by 2025 as there are six more planned chapters that will be written up.

Day 1: Total Drama Treasure Tour Day 2: SBC What If's Day 3: ??? Day 4: ??? Day 5: ??? Day 6: ??? Day 7: ??? SBC What If's is, of course, the multi-collaborative writing project that I'm part of, so I may as well share at least one piece of news for it. I am going to continue writing for this series and I have one story on the way that will be titled as "What If...the fake Wikipedia SpongeBob episodes actually existed?"

It's time for the newest edition of 'Steel Presents.' Starting today and until the end of this week, I will announce one piece news regarding the state of my ongoing stories for 2025, and with today being the first day of these announcements, I better get that ball rolling. I have something very special planned to be announced on the last day, so do stick around for that. Even though 2024 is nearly ending, I do, however, have one exception to make for just one last-minute new release before the end of the year, and I decided that it will be for a series that I've neglected for some time, due to it, admittedly, not being one of my biggest priorities: Day 1: Total Drama Treasure Tour Day 2: ??? Day 3: ??? Day 4: ??? Day 5: ??? Day 6: ??? Day 7: ??? Total Drama Treasure Tour will return with a new episode on the 30th or the 31st...or later into the month, depending on how things pan out. There's also some plans to launch a week of five new premieres, but of course, I can't guarantee a date for that yet, or if I will go that route.

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Week 1: SpongeBob SquarePants: Lost in Translation: The Finale ("War of the Words") Week 2: Chemist Bob's Catastrophic Creations Cinema Week 3: Total Drama Treasure Tour Week 4: Staring Over Week 5: One-Shots: New one-shot stories are expected to be released on Oh Yeah! Collections later in January, starting with one that will be inspired by my own "Dannon! at the Disco" meme. The possible return for my original one-shot projects will also be on the table, with the story titled "Anchor" being next in line. (Oh yeah, and since Claps has announced a sudden return with a new spin-off/lit project, expect me to pitch in as one of the guest writers for it)

Week 1: SpongeBob SquarePants: Lost in Translation: The Finale ("War of the Words") Week 2: Chemist Bob's Catastrophic Creations Cinema Week 3: Total Drama Treasure Tour Week 4: Staring Over: Starting Over, the 101 Dalmatian Street fanfic that I've been writing "incognito" on AO3, will start being cross-posted to SBC in February next year, along with the prologue preview, that in which will be posted in early January. Week 5: ???

Week 1: SpongeBob SquarePants: Lost in Translation: The Finale ("War of the Words") (will be out next week this time, i swear) Week 2: Chemist Bob's Catastrophic Creations Cinema Week 3: Total Drama Treasure Tour: This series will return from its sudden hiatus with a new episode, projected for next Friday on the 22nd. Week 4: ??? Week 5: ???

Week 1: SpongeBob SquarePants: Lost in Translation: The Finale Week 2: Chemist Bob's Catastrophic Creations Cinema - The riffs for the season 1 finale for Guru Gakuto will be posted on Friday, December 15th. I can't guarantee that it will come out later this month, but there will also be a one-off special on the way too. Week 3: ??? Week 4: ??? Week 5: ???

STEEL SPONGE PRESENTS - DECEMBER 2023 As a compromise for my lack of spin-off news/updates over the course of 2023, (which I will explain at a later time), I'll be spending the rest of the month releasing new spin-off/lit material before the end of the year as a Christmas present of sorts. Each week every Friday, including today, will be a short announcement regarding a new arrival, and so for this week, I present to you... Week 1: SpongeBob SquarePants: Lost in Translation: The Finale - The long-delayed conclusion to this series will be out by Saturday, December 9th [when it's done, lol]. This special episode will be original to this series, in contrast to all the previous ones being translated versions of pre-existing episodes, while also being a two-parter, with the other half being a Google Translated-redux of the first half. Week 2: ??? Week 3: ??? Week 4: ??? Week 5: ??? That wraps up the brief news update for this week. Be sure to check in for the next four weeks to see else I'll have to announce.

To be announced.

Considering that this is another late announcements thread for my written works, the news that I have to share for the last quarter of the year is going to be more unorthodox. Once again, I have no major updates to share, but I do have some important things to say regarding where I'll be with the general progression of releasing new content. I do have a couple works I intend to finish at least before the end of the year, so while I'm not taking a hiatus per-say, there will be a few certain factors that will effect my writing productivity from this month forward: -Pokemon Scarlet and Violet (Other than that, I had also intended to start a Nuzlocke for a separate game that I haven't gotten around to yet. I may not be able to start that until December.) -Me actually trying to get started working on my art portfolio for an animation school/job training program that I'm trying to get admitted to for next year, which I can't disclosure any further beyond that. So, with all that in mind, I will at the very least list a few things that I plan on getting written up before the end of 2022: -The long-delayed Lost in Translation finale. -The VERY long-delayed official first episode of Trinity Leaf Pegasus -The last three episodes of TikI Land along with its and Rebirth of a Storm's epilogue -At least one episode of Total Drama Treasure Tour -Something else, which I can't disclose. This already wraps up the last of my quarterly spin-off announcements, even though it didn't go out with a bang as much as I'd preferred. This doesn't mean that this will be the last of my spin-off announcements, as I will have one planned for next year. That time, however, I will post my next major announcements when the time is right, with my current guarantee being somewhere between January and March 2023.

Hey all, I'm back with a rather unconventional spin-off updates thread. Of course, I did say that I intended to provide an update last month. As you may already consider, the reason for the delay is simply because I've had very little updates to share, but I still decided to do this regardless since I do have some news... Red Flag Savior: Rebirth of a Storm & Tiki Land: While I'm still taking my time in completing these two, I can now assuredly say that I will be ending these sooner than later. If I can manage it, they will both be completed before the end of August. I just have one more episode and an epilogue for the Z-Storm revival, while three episodes and an epilogue remain for Tiki Land. (I did intend to finish it earlier in June during the last SOF but of course, I hit a wall whilst I had always planned to finish RoaS first). I will repost the recent two episodes at some later point on the Reruns thread as a bit of a compromise. SpongeBob SquarePants: Lost in Translation: While I intend to end the two spin-offs above by this month, I plan to have the long-awaited finale to this Google Translate-based series out in September, as a way of celebrating my own 15th tv.com anniversary (Yeah, it's been that long, huh?). It will be nearly a 11 months long wait since the last ep by then, but I'm hoping that the surprise I've planned for this finale will be worth that wait. Chemist Bob's Catastrophic Creations Cinema: This just came back earlier this month with a new batch of riffs and will continue with a couple more episodes before the end of the month to coincide with the anniversary of Guru Gakuto. The riffs for Season 2 should start by the very next month, but it could fall into October. Total Drama Treasure Tour: Still on hiatus, but I intend to get back on this one right after RoA and Tiki Land are finished. I did also say that I intended to release a new episode during the 15th anniversary celebration for this series, but since I ended up skipping out on that, that's still being delayed a bit. Trinity Leaf Pegasus: And once again, I have news for what is still my very own Duke Nukem Forever. I still intend to release a preview of the first episode before I officially announce the release (Of course, given the rate that this project is still in, don't be surprised if I end up officially releasing this fashionably late. I will elaborate more on that soon). This would be the point where I also let everyone know that I'm still trying to make my own spin-off store active again, but this time, I can't make that promise.... Steel's Spin-Off store: After not really being able to commit to this, I've ultimately decided to pull the plug on this...kinda. It won't be closed forever, as I still have at least a few things to put up for this, but for now, most spin-off episodes I will post, whenever I intend to do so, will be viewable for everyone, including the long-delayed preview for Trinity Leaf Pegasus, as I'm sure it's only fair and much less of a hassle this way. AO3: In a rather surprisingly bit of news, for those who haven't seen me post this on Discord, I now have an AO3 account, and like I've addressed before, none of my core spin-offs will be cross-posted there. If there's anything that I will cross-post on the site though, it will be some of the one-shots I had written the past year (and of course, the nine one-shots project is still currently on a halt, but I do have one story planned to be written up later this year). Not only that, there are a few story ideas I've had a hankering for writing up that I will sneak right in there (yeah I know, how typical of me to consider more new story ideas when I'm trying to retire from writing fanfics as soon as possible, but don't worry, I will make some sense out of this once I acknowledge it another time). I should still apologize that these aren't so much updates. It won't be long before I have reduced the number of projects to finish up now though before I can officially focus on 'the big one.' My last quarterly update for the year will come later this October, which I should add may also be my last quarterly spin-off update thread as a whole, but like I would tend to say, that depends on how much I move things forward.