Awesome, I'll check it out; sounds like one that I'd like!  If you start the thread, I'll totally share my favorite m/m books to the list! 

@Voleron thank you so much for the artwork on my best selling novel, it looks amazing.
and congrats to the winner!!! i wont spoil who won until everyone clicks on your big button.

it was a really fun experience conjuring up a story in my head. thanks for putting it on for us.

(Book club side-note:.. going by what you said in saint Nicks review.. have you read "Lancelot and the wolf" by Sarah Luddinton ?
that falls under the m/m romance.. an Arthurian adventure, I was hooked on it and the best part is, its completely free on amazon (kindle edition) you can download it to a amazon kindle app and read it off your tablet maybe.
we should get a list of everyones best reads on here soon for our community tastes.)

I enjoyed reading all of your #WritingContest entries so much that I wanted to take the time to tell you what I loved about each of your stories!  Thanks for sharing your talents with me and the entire Stonewall community!

• @LarsAKALordZandor: It was awesome to read something from outside of the Star Trek universe.  Although I don't know anything about Skyrim, I had all of the pictures of your toons open and each time your story referred to one, I would pull up the image so I could imagine all of the characters as you'd written them.  The screenshots added a great touch to an epic adventure story!
• @Jacien: You write with such elegance; it's like you're referencing a thesaurus for every second word... or your vocabulary is just much larger than mine, lol.  The idea of imagining a new ending (or beginning) to a story that has already been told is probably the most creative idea anyone has had...  I want to know what happens next!
• @TLara: I felt the coldness of space that you were trying to convey and it sent a chill up my spine!  I can think of no crueler fate than having to exist in the vacuum of space for what would feel like an eternity, and the descent into madness that would surely follow.  It was cool how you injected your character's backstory into one of the most memorable moments in Trek history!
• @GXV3: Your story was so tragic that it evoked real emotion in me as I read it... I totally mis-guessed your toon's relationship to the one character and you had me completely fooled until the big reveal at the end.  I've never given parenthood any thought IRL, but when I was done reading, I sat there staring at my screen, actually contemplating it.  It was such an awesome read and I think that you should really write for these contests more often!
• @Niko: I love reading tragedies... the death of M’Freya's parents was very powerful and it was neat that the tragedy became her source of strength and the catalyst to her joining Starfleet.  I'm also super intrigued by the idea of a Vulcan/Caitian coupling, lol... I'd like to be a fly on the wall during that first date.
• @NicholasJohn16: This was really the most depressing story that was submitted, lol... and I LOVED every word of it!  I'm a huge sap for gay romance stories (I may have a rather large collection of paperbacks along that theme), so I naturally enjoyed reading yours.  I'd also always just pictured everyone on-board ship doing something during a battle and I was particularly intrigued by your character literally having no purpose during that crisis.  We've all felt helpless in relateable situations like that before, so I felt that it was a great character development segment of the story!
• @Rayne: All of my toons being good little Starfleet recruits that tow the company line, it was really interesting to think about what my characters would do if they morally objected to Starfleet's course of action and had exhausted all possibility of resolving it diplomatically.  Would they have Rayne's strength to go rogue, or would they fall silent?  I thought about each of my character's likely reaction for some time after reading your story!
• @skyggen957: I absolutely loved this story and I can't put my finger on exactly why.  I think that the dichotomy that exists within Aegnor mirrors me on some level that I'm not fully conscious of and it intrigues me; I think I see a bit of my real life self in your character.  The words that you used in your writing seemed to be perfectly chosen to tell your story.  Really enjoyable!
• @Teknomancer: Now this was truly a fun read... it was interesting to follow a character who is motivated by something so different than most people's characters.  It's interesting to experience what could easily be an adventure had by any Starfleet crew, but to view it through the eyes of someone motivated solely by money.  It made for several good comedic moments that made me laugh out loud, but I was left wondering... was the Deltan in the holosuite male? :D
• @Iconoclastix: An interesting hypothetical set of circumstances that could set the stage for a good episode arc!
• @Duriansol: I can relate to this story; this is how I feel I should start dealing with most problems on my ship!

Click the button below to see an index of your entries, some artwork that I did for each of your stories and to see which entry was selected as the winner!

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At long last, the winner of the Stonewall Character #WritingContest has been chosen!  To our writers: over the last three weeks I've truly enjoyed reading all of your amazing entries multiple times over many cups of tea and many more glasses of wine.  Your submissions have really been enthralling to read, pulling me right into the story and letting me share in the emotion that you put into writing them.

Having to pick one winner out of this collection of amazing talent was really difficult for me; I first tried to score each entry in three different areas: originality, creativity and lasting impact on the reader, but when I found that four or five entries had tied in the rankings, I realized that I'd have to base my choice on feelings.  The winning entry ended up being the one that had the writing style and words that resonated with me the strongest.  I'll concede that it's a very subjective way of arriving at a winner and in future writing contests (we'll be looking to do more throughout the year), I'll bring in more judges to balance everything out!

Since I enjoyed reading your entries so much, I wanted to do something special that would attract as many readers to your stories as possible.  Click on the button below to reveal the contest winner and to be taken to the index of everyone's submissions!







The winning entry will be contacted to select their choice of prize package as listed on page one of this thread!  Everyone else who took the time to submit an entry will be awarded THREE Stonewall Credits for use in the fleet's Stonewall Credit Store!  

Thank you to everyone for your entries and I really hope to have you all participate again in the next writing contest: to be announced!

No problem, was just wondering :)
Looking forward to the reveal :D

Sorry about the delay!  All of the entries were so good that I wanted to invest some time into doing something neat for the reveal, which has taken a little longer than expected to put together.  The results will be posted tomorrow!

So, how is the reading going?
*totally not impatient and curious about the result of the competition* :p

Happy Holidays, Fleetie Darlings.

I thought I'd bump this thread so we can share some of our favorite Holiday recipes. I'm looking for a really bomb stuffing recipe, currently. Feel free to post pics of your dishes and any fancy cocktails you've mixed up with the hashtag #holidayrecipes

A big "congratz" and "thank you" to this guy, he did a great job and the events were lots of fun.

This was indeed very sad to hear. I was really looking forward to this as well. Let's hope they get another manufacturer lined up soon!

better is stretching it the oxy and pot is helping

Wow, thanks Boss! Glad to see you're really doing better.

Do you remember a few months back when STO posted a blog offering us the ability to print our very own STO ships, that we could physically fly around and play with.. and make pew pew noises from our mouths..  our own tailored ships inc colour skins actully printed etc?

I was wondering why it was taking so long to launch, and this morning, feeling intrigued I clicked on the eucl3d website.. and this came up ..

https://eucl3d.com

:( It looks like the offer is no more, they have closed up shop.
Its a massive shame as I know many of us were really excited and planning out which ship we wanted printed.
Its more so a shame for the staff that worked there.
Fingers crossed another company will offer to Print in the near future

( Original STO model offer blog can be found here )

Hello, I would like an invite to LOS, I'm currently on 12/18 until 10:00pm but will be on 12/19 from 6:00pm to 9:00pm EST, My character's name is Velioder.

Congratulations @Duriansol :)

Seemed like a lot of us kept getting the boot yesterday. It definitely made things more complicated. Lots of fun regardless, and I think my favorite was the "Red Rover" part, even though there didn't seem to be much reaction time once people got into range. Maybe we shouldn't have been right on top of the gateways, or spread out a bit more? It's a fun idea, but I think maybe the mechanics need to be tweaked a bit. :)

Well done, you did a great job :D

Dana if you have specific questions i will try to answer them the best i can for you.

Also sorry i dropped out early of the event my internet died :(

NOTICE OF CITATION
FROM: Admiral Marojin Aikune. Chief of Combat Readiness, Stonewall Fleet
TO: Fleet Admiral Nicholas John, Director of Operations, Stonewall Fleet
CC: General Membership, Stonewall Fleet
RE: Citation of Action. Fleet Captain Durian Sol, Department of Combat Readiness, Stonewall Fleet

WHEREAS an event was planned by the Departments of Morale and Combat Readiness, was to take place of the 17^th of December 2016, had to be indefinitely postponed due to a car accident that resulted in multiple injury to a primary organizer of the event. Fleet Captain Durian Sol, took it upon himself with assistance from the Chief of Fleet Morale, to organize a successful replacement event.

WHEREAS Fleet Captain Durian Sol, organized the fleet captains and ran the event throughout the day of the 17^th of December 2016 to great success.

LET IT BE KNOWN that Fleet Captain Durian Sol is hereby commended for his action and is recommended for a Citation of Merit. He did not have to take it on himself to replace the postponed event and yet he did.

BRAVO ZULY to Fleet Captain Durian Sol.

Admiral Marojin Aikune

Chief of Combat Readiness, Stonewall Fleet.