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A Call to Pens

In days gone by, a sullen figure trudged across the field of wordcraft. Megalomania flourished. Self promotion ran rampant. Myopic fools ran this way and that, seeing only their own meager creations. A deep sadness arose within the man, gnawing away at his hope for a better world, a world of cooperative creative enterprise and mutual assistance.

Rather than skulk away in lonely defeat, he cried out to the ether of the interwebs. A challenge was issued. Tenets were espoused. A condemnation or two may have been intimated. The mantle of Grand Awesome Marshall was presumptuously assumed. Upon a mountain of bombast and indignation the banner was unfurled to flap in the breeze of imagination. Upon the standard brightly blazed the letters that would come to signify so much with so little: LoA.

Much to his general surprise, writers, valiant and true, came to the erected standard. They pledged to abide by principles of the newly born League of Awesomeness. Together they shouted, “We will look outward, see the works of others, and comment constructively upon them!” With a voice of thunder the masses intoned, “Our works and our blood shall run together, sequel upon sequel, prequel upon prequel; the lone series be damned!” In a great exhale of aspiration and audacity, the league proclaimed, “We will be awesome!”

The time has come once again, dear friends, to raise the standard. Come one and come all. Bring your awesomeness and add it to the rebirth of legend. Pledge to abide by the principles of Commentation, Cooperativity, and Awesomeness. Be one of us. Join the newly reformed, the slightly renamed (for copyright purposes), the utterly incredible, the League o’ Awesomeness. Some join overtly, by a missive to the Grand Awesome Marshall (me), or you may consider yourself a member purely by virtue of your own awesomeness. Some proclaim their membership with ‘LoA’ on name or comment, but you may just as well scream your allegiance through awesome acts.

The League o’ Awesomeness is not a label; it’s what you do. Membership is not on a roster; it’s in your heart.

36 comments Posted 2009-08-14 Author: THX 0477

Comments

  • .:Band Baby:.

    i love the LoA. it reallyy made me get my butt in gear and have something to strive for – awesomeness! I’m so glad it’s being reborn again!

  • SaveTheUnicorns

    awwww! this is so cool! thanks for posting this! i think all ficlyteers should join the LoA!!!!!!

  • Ben Paddon

    I still don’t understand what the League of Awesomeness is, what it does, or what it’s for.

  • THX 0477

    The League of Awesomeness is a whole lot of pointless silliness, honestly. I made it up as a joke. However, I keep it going now purely as a prod, something hanging out there that says you should try to get outside yourself and participate (commenting, sequeling, etc.), rather than just trundling along with your head in your hands.

  • ElshaHawk (LoA)

    Thanks THX for writing this. :D I love the risen from the bowels of confusion take, lol!

  • Mighty-Joe Young (A.K.A Strong Coffee)(LoA)

    this is awesome thx thanks

  • blusparrow (LoA)

    THIS IS AWESOME!!! I love LoA, it encouraged me to become the comment happy person I am =)

  • StudMuffin (LoA)

    This is the greatest tale ever told.
    This is destined to go down in the history books as tale of nobility and pride.

  • g²LaPianistaIrlandesa

    And so the epic officially continues recounting the history for all to see. Most epic, most dramatic, and of course most awesome.

  • Eloquent Mess {(LoA)}

    Everyone keeps saying thanks twice, I just don’t understand…

    Thanks THX!

  • weho

    I wondered what LoA meant. Now I know. Merf.

  • TOAST

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  • wytherwings

    aw the LoA! reminds me of old times…
    thanks for writing this!!!

  • Zerrakhi

    You know, the thought has crossed my mind for a challenge along the lines of: “Write a story in which it is revealed that one or more members of the LoA are, in fact, undercover agents, whose mission is to destroy the organisation from within”.

    But that would be a whole lot of pointless silliness, wouldn’t it?

  • ALRO613 (LoA)

    The entire thing was meant to be out of fun. My story did take some heat because it was kinda fluffy. But that is how it was supposed to be intended.
    The fact that it got featured proved how popular the idea is – and add to that the ANTI-LoA stuff like, the LoF and the LoME that came out of it was simple awesome… it was funny, witty and worth take a bit of criticism.

    The LoA was always about having fun within our little community. I’m glad it lives.

    Psyche – Artist formally known as ALRO613

  • The Fantastic Mister Fish

    UH PUKE

  • ALRO613 (LoA)

    Hahaha… Mr. Fish!!!

  • Lone Writer

    Long Live the League!
    LoA :)

  • DoItForScience

    I think I’m an honorary member of the League o’ Awesomeness. At least, I got my official ring of membership to the LoA out of a Crackerjack box last week. Read, reply, ficly or die!

  • StudMuffin (LoA)

    Let it be known that Ashes to Ashes (my little sister) is the youngest writer on Ficly, at age 12.
    however, our mother made her stop using FIcly because all of her stories were horribly profane.

  • THX 0477

    Because her stories were profane? And hate to break it to you, Stud, but we have a 9 year old writer on the site. His stories however are not profane, though they can be rather silly.

  • scratch'n'scrawl

    after a couple of days of wondering what LoA meant, I actually asked in a comment…ummm…about 4 minutes ago. And then I read this.

    timing was never one of my strong points.

    I’m honoured to be in it without the badge on my sleeve, because I love doing all that stuff anyway…

  • Coccinella

    @THX: How do you have any idea of the age of the writers on the site? Just wondered, ‘cause I think it’s appealing to pretty much anyone of any age, though parents might well want to limit their kids’ exposure to some of the more mature stuff (and let’s face it, that warning sign that pops up is only going to tantalise a teenager into reading on!!) Really was just idle wondering… my kid is only 1 and not that literate (yet)…

  • THX 0477

    The 9 year old is related to me, though I won’t say how. Why not? Just because I love an air of mystery.

  • Mighty-Joe Young (A.K.A Strong Coffee)(LoA)

    boy fights dinosaurs used to be on the parent site and he freakin rocked he was awesome and he was like five his mom just typed what he made up he was the shiz nigh he invented a spider monkey who spun a web
    @muffy it hurts my heart that your sister cant write on here
    As a member of the LoA you should stand up against cencorship in even its domestic family forms and fix that, she has alot of talent it would surely be a crime against humanity if she quit and writing. What if she would have been the driving force that restored literature to the highest form of art again. Who knows she might have been the Messiah that detoxed the masses off of the television and brought back the author, as the king of imagination. that is just my opinion. but then again i dont write mature fiction. I do however appreciate it.

  • Music-Hearted

    Read, reply, ficly or die! Haha. Reminds me of Ficlets.

  • Mighty-Joe Young (A.K.A Strong Coffee)(LoA)

    @coccinella because he is thx the all knowing all seeing eye of ficlets he knows names and ages like he has the shinigami eyes. it is the grand marshall we are talking about. come on

  • Mighty-Joe Young (A.K.A Strong Coffee)(LoA)

    hey you know how on riddick they had the grand marshal who was the holy half dead that has seen the underverse…that guy was such a thx rippoff

  • Wyatt Aapr LoA

    THX, man, are you getting paid by the word? Eliminate the first three paragraphs and you’ll be on the money.

  • Coccinella

    @THX: Aha!! And amen to an air of mystery. So much more interesting than some other sorts of airs!

  • Pyropunk 51 (PPP LoA)

    Great stuff, THX. Long live the LoA. Read, Reply, Ficly or die!

  • This is SPARTA (LoA)

    AWESOME,nice 1,THX love it!

  • StayGold

    I always wanted to join (ever since Ficlets), just never knew how!

  • Alexa Reed (LoA)

    I was commenting before commenting was cool.

    THX, this was fabulous, although while I read it, I kept thinking, “While that’s why he didn’t write it on his own page. Character limits.”

  • Textual Phoenix

    A great post, THX, as always. Fond memories of my brief time in the LoA on Ficlets. I haven’t renewed my membership because of lack of activity on here until recently.

    Um… Does anyone else here look at the title and have to shut there eyes for a second to mentally remove an extra ‘i’ from the last word?

    Or is that just me?

    (And now that I have the forever stuck in your head…)

  • Raegan Dauterive

    Everytime I see this, my eyes only glance at the title and for a moment I think it says “A Call to Penis” =D oops lol