Giraffe Call: “WTF?!?”

[aldersprig]

Short version:

The theme is “WTF??!??”.

Leave as many prompts as you want.

If you tip $3 or more, are a Patreon at the $3 or higher level, or if another prompter tells me they came here from your signal booster, I WILL write to at least 1 if your prompts.

All others will be written as mood, time, and inspiration permit.

In addition: for every $3 you tip, I will write 200-400 words continuing the prompt-call story of your choice.

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The WTF?!? Prompt Call

Here at House Thorne, we are in the middle of renovations to the second floor (“attic”) of our cape cod-style farmhouse.

We’re turning what was two knee-walled attic spaces (unfinished) and two separate “rooms” into one large room, ripping out all of the insulation, and replacing it with blown-in closed-cell foam.

Which, because our house is 150 or so years old, will require adding in framing at almost every step!

This is looking – framing, insulation, drywall, and flooring –  to be approximately a $12,000 project.

My goal is to pay for 5% of that from Patreon funds and 5% from this prompt call.

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To that end, I am asking you to leave prompts to the theme “WTF”, and, if like what you read, to leave a little money in the WTF jar.

You don’t need to tip!  All prompts are welcome.  But tipping will guarantee that I write your prompt, AND get you more words.

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In addition:. The more tips we get, the more things EVERYONE gets:

$50 – Cat Picture, probably with dirty paws.

$75 – 1/8 of the way there! – I will post a picture of the author in her first home renovation project (age 5)

$100 — and every hundred thereafter — Mr. Thorne will write a piece on some portion of the “wtf” in the house.

$150 – 1/4 there! –  I will post a photo essay of some particular “wtf” area of the home & its renovation

$225 3/8 there! – I will find one more photo of the author in her first home renovation!

$300 – halfway there!  I will pick three tipping/Patreon readers to receive one 100-300-word continuation of their choice.

more rewards to come!

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For “what is a prompt call?” or “Why Giraffe?” see here. 

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Comments

[clare_dragonfly]

Here's one I have written down from, presumably, some years ago: Aunt Beulah "vanished into the mist one late-November evening." Where did she go? Did she die, or did she just go Elsewhere?

[aldersprig]

As soon as I figure out when in the timeline Aunt Beulah was, I’ll answer this one! :-D

[sauergeek]

What's that smell? (The funk is on the loose!)

What's that shell?

Whiskey tango foxtrot?

"Warren Thomas Franklin!" "But Moooooom!"

[kelkyag]

WTF are you wearing? (Or "That is wildly inappropriate!")

Which of Genique and Marsey throws the other for a loop next? Or will it be Clyd or Irio or Darretchon boggling both of them?

You want me to use *what* as my cover story?

"And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street"

The tentacles are not the part I have a problem with!

Whitney's seen a lot in the park by now, and yet ...

Andy has a lot to learn about the city

Lam the kitten is pretty much all WTF all the time. How is Beryl and Radar's research on that going?

Also I'd like to second LilFluff's "The time the dragon found one of the local village kids trying to add their own treasures to its hoard."

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Tangetially, being somewhat frustrated with the flaky cross-poster, I set up a DW feed from your site: lynthornealder_feed
Not useful for comments/discussion, since the entries will time out after ~two weeks, but nice for not missing stuff.

[aldersprig]

oh, thank you for that! I’m sorry it was frustrating you.

[kelkyag]

It was a minor frustration, now fixed! (Well, hopefully better -- RSS is not perfect. But it's usable by anyone on dreamwidth who cares to and I will nag you less about crossposting failures. :)