Challenge Fun #33 - Win 3 month PM or Points!


Mrs-Durden's avatar
This week's challenge is as follows:

You have suddenly been transformed into a prominent historical figure from the past of your choice. (i.e Mozart, Newton, Socrates, Louis XIV, etc. You may choose whoever you want). Write a small paragraph from the perspective of the figure you have chosen, about their opinion on today's society. It can be funny, or serious, anything goes!

Word limit: 500. Minimum: 250.

Deadline: Next Monday (Monday 22nd)

The winner will receive a 3 month PM or 636 points!
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nosugarjustanger's avatar
Oscar Wilde.

"What, I spent years in prison and now homosexuality is fine? This is so unfair. I was fabulous and they put me in the same category as murderers and thieves!"

:o
Kamal-Q's avatar
Socrates: There are people who spend hours in cave-like dark rooms looking at the changing shapes of shadows made of light. They are chained to their cubes by thin ropes. Not one of them realizes there is a world beyond their walls.
Mrs-Durden's avatar
Nice! It doesn't fit the word limit though :/
ARTificialphanTOM's avatar
Gaius Caesar Germanicus (Caligula)

Yes, yes, this is what I envisioned. Pointless killing in the streets, pornography in every household, massive deficit spending, rampant corruption, proliferation of drugs and gluttonous consumerism. I am proud of you my children. I raise my glass of wine to you to toast your debauchery.
Mrs-Durden's avatar
:lol: Love it! But it's not 250 words long :B
ARTificialphanTOM's avatar
Oh, I misread that. Oh well, Caligula probably would have just filled in the remaining 200ish words with profanity anyways.
gdpr-29948763's avatar
George Washington

George Washington Bean by RodneyPike:iconsaysplz: It is impossible to rightly govern dA forums without 3wyl. Every thread is honorable in which she vacuums all the trollbaits and those egotistical threads whose discussions are imprisoned. It is the duty of all newbies to acknowledge the forum rules, to obey its will, to be grateful for its benefits and humbly lurk for your own protection. All of tartlets shall stop making lame threads, it is better to post no thread than a bad one.




250 are a lot of words :stare:

  
Mrs-Durden's avatar
250 words are a lot indeed! I felt that since the topic is fairly easy, I needed to make it more challenging :B
gdpr-29948763's avatar
It's very challenging indeed. :paranoid:
haavs's avatar
I suppose it would be in bad taste for me to deny the power of manipulation. I, of all people, should know that as long as you use the right words they'll eat from the palm of your hand without even checking for poison. It's flattering to see my techniques still in use, convincing the people to follow. The Third Reich, scaled down in order to plague the vulnerable and gullible.

They call it feminism, but a rose by any other name still has its thorns.

Feminism attaches itself to those desperate to find an identity, desperate to find validation. It clings to their bones and makes them fight an imagined battle. It sparks a blaze of passion deep inside them, burning with indignation and resentment. It crushes their very spirit under thoughts of an ever-present enemy in man - and yet, they're still the lucky ones. The enlightened women, those who know of the enemy and have been provided the tools to fight it.

The women who have not chosen to fight are not so lucky. They are considered weak and uneducated by the very people who claim to be in support of showcasing female strength and intelligence. The modern-day prisoners, condemned to the life which feminism has decided for them. A life in which they are supposed to suffer fear, anger, abuse, and emotional torture that they did not suffer. A life in which refusing to fall victim to intimidation from men makes them weak.

But, after all, who cares about experiences? Once somebody has chosen to sentence you to the life they've chosen, you become just another number. A person whose values, opinions and morals cannot outweigh those which have been attributed to you.
You know you aren't so different, that you could fight alongside the feminist movement and become allies, but they won't allow it. They have created the criteria for purity within their movement, and they will enforce it to the death. The impure will be punished, humiliated and dehumanised at their hands, for the sake of furthering their agenda.

I'm so proud.


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And that, my friends, is Adolf Hitler on feminism. 344 words. Not exactly a small paragraph but hopefully it still counts! No I don't think feminists are literal Nazis.
The-Zombie-Hunter's avatar
Here you go.


This is based on what Albert Einstein may have thought of today's world. From his point of view. Its 255 words, already counted. Enjoy!

 As I walk into "Walmart" I look at the ceiling, I can see a great multitude of lights but none of them are on, and yet, its becoming nightfall.
I walk over to the help desk and I ask why the lights are all off, and the lady says "They should be on any second." I walk to the middle of the store and I wait for the lights. All of the sudden, the lights blare on. They are so bright that I can't look directly at them. But wait, there is one by the wall that is not on.
I see a worker going over to it to try and fix it, but I stop him and ask him to allow me to do it. He asks if I know anything about lights so I tell him that I invented them. He laughs uncontrollably at me but I ignore him and I climb the ladder to the light.
When I get to the top I take the light off, take a new light out of my pocket, and I put it in. The light comes on and I climb down the ladder. The guy is still laughing at me as he was paying no attention.
I tap his shoulder and points up and he looks at the light and passes out from amazement. I just walk away and then I see another light thats out, then another, then another...and I can tell its going to be a long night, a very long night.
Timothi-Ellim's avatar
Interesting challenge. I'm game. I'll get a piece done by the 21st then. :]
Mrs-Durden's avatar
Could you include it in a comment here please? :)
Timothi-Ellim's avatar
No problem, here it is: 

Paper Plans and Future Planes

To circle the world was a challenge, and perhaps, it was my dream but that all faded when the signals became jaded and lost. I disappeared, along with Fred Noonan and the Lockheed Model 10 Electra. According to books and the 'internet', my loss sparked numerous searches that ultimately ended with nothing much in particular. There exist theories which say that perhaps my plane crashed in the raging sea or perhaps that we survived and returned under different aliases, but what really did happen to me?

My plane was lost amidst grey clouds and growling winds, and yet we still carried on into the unknown. The radio had failed, of course it did but now I know that the distortions of time could have hindered such communication. Oh the wonders of modern science. We had entered a ripple in time, or so I theorize, and we did not even know till our plane cruised out of the cloud and over a land we did not recognize. Here, in this foreign world that was the same Earth, we landed into the future, and found it to be both unnerving and glorious. 

Stuck in this time, we exited our plane and stared at booming giants with jet-engines and the wonders of technology come true. To us, ours dreams were the future, and here, it had all came true. That day, we made a decision to stay, in our new present and live a new life, free from the past. With money procured by selling our plane to an interested buyer who believed the plane to be a perfect recreation, we moved on to find new horizons. 

Here in this new world, we looked to the skies and found eternal joy at the achievements of humanity. With rockets, we surged to the skies and we smiled, knowing that humanity had reached the stars. On the ground, we marveled at all the progress we made as one but yet, we found sadness in the cycle of war and death, a sad constant. In all, we still believed in the future, and in the fragile plans that turn dreams into planes. No matter what, we must always look to sky and believe that one day, we will fly. 

With a smirk, I turn the model plane in my hand and stare at the first un-manned rocket to be launched into space. Our dreams will never die. 
rockstar1009's avatar
Oh, if Hitler could only see the global success of Jews today. :giggle:

Is this a one entry sort of affair? I'm having multiple ideas I need to pare down... Oscar Wilde on the gay rights movement, MLK on the advancement of minorities (or disparaging over them still being in poverty; Simón Bolívar on this issue as well). Maybe even Edison looking at an iPod and scheming of ways to steal the patent and take the credit as his own.
Mrs-Durden's avatar
One entry is indeed all that is allowed here, so hopefully you can decide on one of the many ideas :D They all sound potentially awesome :P
II-edison-II's avatar
Historical figures?
Yep that's my sort of thing.
But I have no clue what to write so... good luck to all :dummy:
Oh and :iconravenviolet777: you might enjoy this challenge :la:
ravenviolet777's avatar
Oooooh!! :la: Thanks for tagging me here :XD: Probably gonna be Ada... Or HOWARD!! Or Tesla, I shall see how it goes :giggle: