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toschestationserver · 1 year

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FAQ

This FAQ is designed to answer some burning questions about the upcoming fic exchange.

What is the Tosche Station server?

It's a discord server created by the admin @mythicluke. It was created because he wanted to bring his friends together to have fun Star Wars conversations. Originally, it was made to champion Luke Skywalker analysis in a casual and fun environment, but it has since expanded to become a fully-fledged community in its own right.

Can I join the server?

The server works on an invite-only basis, and the admin only tends to invite those whom he knows well. However, this could change in the future, so keep your eyes peeled!

What is the Fic Exchange?

It's sort of like a Secret Santa. It's a way for Star Wars writers and artists to challenge themselves and allow for a casual but fun way to improve their craft.

How does it work?

On August 1st at 10:30am BST, prompting will begin and people can submit prompts in a Google Form and up to 2 prompts can be submitted.

On August 21st, claiming will open, where prospective writers and artists can claim a prompt. There will be one slot for writers and one for artists.

Writers and Artists will have 5 months to complete their work and regular check-ins will be carried out by the fic exchange team to make sure that people are on track for the deadline.

What is the theme?

The theme is New Beginnings.

Why have a theme?

Having a theme means that we can create a uniform collection of work all around a similar topic, and although the theme can be widely interpreted, it will allow the project to feel more coherent.

Where do I post my work?

Work should be posted on the New Beginnings Collection on AO3 after the Admin has given you a date to post them. Please don’t post them until you’ve been given a date to do so. There will be a 'big reveal' at a later point. Please do not self-promote until it is time to reveal your story. All works will be anonymous to start with. Thank you!

What happens if I'm not able to meet the deadline?

Please email [email protected] with your AO3 username, any other usernames we can use to get in touch with you, and the prompt you are working on. We will be able to work something out on a case-by-case basis.

Does it have to be my best work?

It doesn't! See the fic exchange as a way to grow and develop your skills, rather than a way to prove yourself to the community. You're more than welcome to submit your best work, but you're also welcome to push yourself or submit a first draft so long as the story is completed and doesn't already exist, or is not part of a work in progress (WIP).

All work should be a minimum of 3,000 words unless you are a pinch-hitter (this is where you pick up a prompt that was claimed by someone who dropped out). Pinch-hitter work should be at least 1,500 words. There is no maximum. Pinch-hitters can also claim the prompts that were left unclaimed after we have given them time to claim prompts.

How many prompts can I have?

You can submit a maximum of 2 prompts per person.

Can I do multiple prompts?

You must have finished your first piece of art or story. You can claim another prompt if you have done so.

What if I change my mind about my prompt?

You have until August 9th to submit a prompt. Please try not to have cold feet about the prompts you have chosen.

Do I need an AO3 account?

You do need an AO3 account to both post and receive work.

I'm currently on the waiting list for an AO3 account. What do I do?

Please fill out the below form and send it to [email protected]:

Username + associated social media platform(s):

Prompt you have submitted or claimed:

Estimated date for your AO3 invite:

Username (if not known, please email us as soon as you have your username):

Link to your AO3 profile (once created):

Does it have to be about Star Wars?

It does have to be about Star Wars. However, crossovers and AUs are perfectly fine.

What if I write or draw NSFW work?

You are welcome to participate! But please note that no person under the age of 18 can either request NSFW work or create NSFW work for this fic exchange. All NSFW work must be appropriately categorised and tagged on AO3.

All people on the fic exchange team are over the age of 18.

How long will we have to write?

You will have from August 2023 to the start of January 2024 to write. All work should be completed and posted anonymously on AO3 by January 3rd 2024. Please wait for your date before revealing your work. We aim to spotlight one work per day.

What are the general guidelines for someone who hasn’t done a fic exchange before?

Guidelines and rules will be available in the Google form that will be circulated for prompting on August 1st at 10:30am BST. They will also be laid out on a separate Tumblr post.

What if I decide I don't want to participate anymore?

Please email [email protected] or get in touch with the team member that is doing check-ins for you. You do not have to give a reason, just let us know that you no longer want to join in.

We will try and get someone to complete the prompt in your place, but we are not liable for those who decided to abandon their work.

Do you have any tips on coming up with prompts?

Try to think of a story you would love to read about the theme.

Could it be the first few weeks of marriage for your favourite ship? Or your favourite character becoming a parent for the first time. What about the first few days after Din Djarin became Grogu's father figure or Han Solo's first few days at the rebellion?

Don't worry about covering any of those prompts or interpreting the theme in a different way. I just made them up now so they're all up for grabs. The idea is that someone writes a story for you so try and pick something you're interested in and would love to read.

Try and keep the prompt small and around similar ideas rather than something huge, elaborate, and specific. You can have a look at how prompts have worked on Tumblr for fic writers over the years. Have a think about ideas you like, enjoy, or want to see put together.

In the prompting form, what are 'deal-breakers' and what do you mean by 'things I particularly enjoy'?

'Deal-breakers' are things that you cannot stand in fanfiction. For instance, if you can't stand angst, if you hate it when people characterise a character in a certain way, or if there are tropes that automatically turn you off fan art or fanfiction. For instance, first-person work, or Y/N stories.

'Things I particularly enjoy' is the opposite of a 'deal-breaker' and things that you would really like the writer or artist to work into their piece if possible.

Please note that there is already a designated question to understand if you are comfortable with NSFW themes.

I want to include something but I'm not sure if the prompter will like it. What do I do?

Please get in touch with the [email protected] and we can message the prompter on your behalf.

Do I need to submit a prompt to participate?

You don't have to submit a prompt. You can simply select another person's prompt and create art or a story for that prompt. You can also choose to only submit a prompt.

How do I claim a prompt?

Email [email protected] or message the admin @mythicluke. You can also reach the Admin on Twitter at @toscheserver or their personal Twitter account @farmboyluke.

Please note you must be a mutual follower to message the admin on their personal Twitter. Feel free to follow the admin, @ and say you'd like to request a prompt and they will follow you back and sort it out for you.

Prompts are claimed on a first-come, first-serve basis and there will be a tumblr post laying out the prompts available with a note as to whether or not they have been claimed.

There is one artist slot and one writer slot per prompt. The tumblr post will be updated to reflect this.

How can I get in touch?

Tumblr | Twitter | Email: [email protected]

#FAQ #tosche station: new beginnings #fic exchange

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dctvgen · 5 years

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Today’s unclaimed prompt is for The Flash - Julian & Barry: Their changing relationship in S3 (and beyond?), going from antagonism to friends eventually.

If you’d like to claim the prompt to create a fanwork for it, it is row 32 on the spreadsheet here. For more details on the prompathon check out the post here.

#The Flash #the flash prompts #julian albert #Barry Allen #arrowverse #DCTVGenPromptathon #promoting unclaimed prompts #arrowverse prompts

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worldburnrp · 2 years

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SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK PRESENTS RICHARD III

PART 4 : AND, SCENE

A veil of darkness washes over Central Park, and it soon becomes empty. Characters have come and at their best they have conquered; while their less lucky counter-parts met an unfaithful end.

Outside of the play and the park, life goes on: the golden and darkened extremes of New York City both facing their own realities. Some might claim it was inherited, and others, deserved.

Of destiny and meant-to-bes, Shakespeare says this:

“What fates impose, that men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide.”

THE CARTEL BOSS is murdered by THE SYNDICATE, under contract of THE BROTHERHOOD.

In payment, THE BROTHERHOOD gives THE SYNDICATE the unclaimed Diavoli territory in exchange for their services. Quid pro quo, complete.

CARTEL MEMBERS find out about the death and notify all other gang members. On stage and off, a king is slain.

THE KING IS DEAD. LONG LIVE THE QUEEN.

OOC INFO

Part Four out of Four. The event is now over.

You are not required to drop threads from the event — however, to keep the dash up to date & plots moving, we highly recommend that you work on developing these threads and bringing them to a natural closer as soon as you can, especially any plot-heavy ones.

More information about how the point system will work post-event will be shared on Discord in the coming days.

All types of interactions are open once again!

REWARDS

With the aid of our points system, rewards offered in Part 2 have been claimed.

KILL THE CARTEL: Jack Malkovich kills the Cartel leader. Silje Erykssen and Mathias Cain provide assistance in making sure the operation runs smoothly.

PROMOTION: After the event, Julian Berkeley officially becomes a Presidential Candidate.

FIND THE BODY: Piper Holbrook finds the Cartel leader’s body.

THANK YOU

An immense thank you to everyone who participated in this event — from taking us up on challenges and prompts, to becoming so engaged with the plot & points system. We <3 you!

#oc rp #crime rp #gang rp #mafia rp #mature rp #appless rp #semi appless rp #wb.event

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spn-trope-round-robin · 4 years

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SPN Trope Round Robin Rules

In order to participate in the current round, select the “Join” button on the challenge dashboard on AO3.

Once a round has begun, you may claim 1 unclaimed trope from the available list. Fills will be on a first-come, first-served basis.

Unclaimed tropes will remain claimable for the duration of the round. You can join at any time, even after the round has ended (we just won't promote your work on Tumblr once the round is over).

Combine your trope with the prompt in any way you see fit! Write fic or poetry or create other fanworks (including art and vids)! Follow your bliss! There is no minimum word count!

A round lasts for roughly two months and closes on the Sunday before the next round begins. You may submit your work at any time before the round ends to be promoted on our Tumblr page.

Please Tag your work with ‘SPN Trope Round Robin’ in the ‘Additional Tags’ section on AO3.

If you would like us to share your work on our Tumblr, post your creation on your blog with whatever conventions you like – just please tag us @spn-trope-round-robin and mention the round it was created for! We will gladly reblog! Also it would be awesome if you’d include ‘SPN Trope Round Robin’ in your tags!

This is a ship-positive challenge. All SPN ships are welcome and celebrated here. Please be cool, babies.

It should go without saying, but don’t be hateful towards or harass anyone for any reason, period.

Just, like, have fun my dudes.

#SPN Trope Round Robin #spn #supernatural #spn fic challenge #spn fic #rules

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bottomlouisficfest · 3 years

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are you guys ever worried about someone taking a prompt from the prompt list and writing the fic without participating in the fest?

Not really. It would be disrespectful of someone to try to take someone’s idea that they submitted to a particular fest/challenge unless that prompt had been left unclaimed at the end of the fest. It would also reflect poorly on them and their fic because if a BLFF writer then wrote a fic for that same prompt for the fest, everyone would be made aware that they were the one fulfilling what the person who came up with the idea intended when they submitted it to this fest for use by BLFF writers. Fics written for the fest are also the only ones whose fics are fully promoted by the fest, BLP, and the thousands of people who follow the fest both here and on Twitter. 😊

#asks 2021

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hpfluff-fest · 4 years

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Hi hi, I was wondering if the unclaimed prompts would be used next year as well, if this fest happens again? Thanks!

Hey Anon! That’s a great question. We are definitely planning on running Fluff Fest again in 2021, but the details haven’t been finalized yet. We’re still in our inaugural season and will wait until this year’s stage is complete, before we retool for next year. Once everything has been set in stone, we will begin promotion on this blog so keep following us for up to date information. Thank you!

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kanski03 · 4 years

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THE FRUITS OF HER LABOURS.

Leaving behind no known family, survived only by her paternal grandmother, Lady Margot Peletier (once the matriarch of the Croft family) until she died in 1957, Lara Croft’s legacy beyond the mystery of her disappearance is not immediately apparent, and yet she contributed much to the society and culture of not just Britain, but the vast breadth of her reach around the globe.

Besides inspiring a still on-going novel series, what is perhaps lesser-known are; her charity work; her contributions to the protection of cultural artefacts during the Second World War; her trailblazing exploratory expeditions, as well as the research and manufacturing grants she provided, so as to fund the advancement of mountaineering technology and equipment that would ensure the safety of future mountaineers and explorers.

THE A.F.A.

Upon receiving her inheritance after the death of her father in 1937, Lady Croft founded her charity, Alms For Ayah (The A.F.A), so as to offer aid and reparations for the many Ayahs (these were predominantly Indian women, employed to work as the full-time caregivers of British children) left abandoned and living in diaspora as a result of their employment with British families — a problem Lord Henshingly R. Croft, her own father and a former-Viceroy of India, contributed towards.

Though the A.F.A was not the only foundation of its type, the other being ‘Ayah’s Home’, it was the only one of its kind whose operations were not led by missionaries, whose charity was only given under the proviso that those who wanted their aid were open to converting to Christianity. Instead, in spite of its name and its formation being an act of Tzedakah on Lady Croft’s part, the A.F.A stressed freedom of religious choice as a necessity. Initially operating in The Croft Mews of South Kensington in London, demand would soon dictate the necessity for a larger hub to comfortably accommodate the A.F.A’s residents, which expanded with the inclusion of the country’s other displaced Asian nurse-maids of China, Indonesia, and Malaysia.

Thus, only two years later in 1939, Lady Croft purchased a new property in Saint Pancras, London, which she named ‘Alms House’. Selected thanks to its close proximity to King’s Cross and London St. Pancras Train Stations, both finding and travelling to-and-from Alms House proved far more convenient for its residents than it had been at its former headquarters. This was done in good time, too, for the Second World War would make international travel for civilians almost impossible, as well as prompting well-to-do households to cut their living costs, even if only for the sake of appearances.

Eventually, Alms House would become defunct as a hostel when its last temporary residents either returned to their original homeland or acquired assuredly protected work in Britain. Those who didn’t, be it due to age or other circumstances (particularly given to the considerable civil unrest in the recently partitioned India and Pakistan), were encouraged to stay at Alms House for as long as needed. Lady Croft promoted the use of the building as both a permanent home and the headquarters of a Worker’s Union.

In 1990, Alms House opened as a museum, though maintained private ownership. Alms House does not receive government funding, nor has it ever done so.

A WARTIME CONSERVATIONIST.

Details pertaining to Lady Croft’s work during the Second World War were eventually released by MI5 in 2013, where it was revealed she regularly journeyed to Axis territories, locating the hidden locations of a great many treasures plundered by the Nazis for Hitler’s Führermuseum. Bringing them back to Britain so they might be protected for the duration of the war, along with pieces evacuated from various museums, they were kept in The Undercroft of Croft Manor.

Once peace in Europe was announced, she was tasked with detecting the rightful proprietors of such pieces, whilst continuing to searching for the countless treasures still lost. Works and artefacts that remained unclaimed were thus put on loan to various European museums, under the proviso that should they be claimed by an individual proven to be the rightful owner, they were to unquestionably be returned.

A PEACETIME FUTURIST.

Whilst being an prolific explorer and mountaineer still presents itself as naturally hazardous, Lady Croft took on such endeavours at a time when the equipment and hardware that we now take for granted simply didn’t exist; even during the 1953 ascent of Mount Everest, the ice axes were very similar to those used in the 1920s, tents were still based on pre-war designs, and clothing was still made of natural fibres.

Understanding the dangers mountaineering posed all too well, Lady Croft kept a watchful eye on the development of even the most seemingly simple pieces of equipment.

She invested in fibre research and development, along with its eventual mass production, notably being responsible for the expansion of Nylon ropes that, prior to her intervention, were only being produced in America until 1949. She also funded the research that led to Edelrid’s Kernmantle rope design, having invested in the company when it was still in its infancy. Kernmantle ropes would finally be implemented first in 1953, the year of Lady Croft’s disappearance. Since then, Kernmantle has become an industry standard.

Additionally, she made monetary contributions to the expansion of Black Diamond Equipment, Lt., an American company established by John Salathé that specialised in the development of extremely strong and reusable pitons, manufactured from high-carbon chrome-vanadium steel.

Lady Croft considered investing in these companies and ideas as being of the utmost importance, aware that innovations relevant to the field would save countless lives.

#DO NOT REBLOG #hc #𝟎𝟎𝟐 : 𝐇𝐂. \ ❛ i can't wait to be forgotten . ❜

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themagicianshea · 5 years

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The Magicians Happy Ever After Participation Rules

The Magicians Happy Ever After is open to participants of all experience levels. There are no prerequisites in order to sign up. Whether this is your first challenge or your twentieth, we’re happy to have you!

If you are under 18 years old, you may participate in the MHEA as a minor; however, underage artists may not claim fics containing explicit content, and underage writers must keep their ratings at PG-13 or lower. You must be at least 16 years old to participate in the MHEA.

Expectations for All Participants

You must be registered for this challenge in order to claim a prompt, submit drafts and post as part of the MHEA.

You are expected to read, understand, and adhere to the challenge rules. If you do not understand something, please ask the mods for clarification.

Although you will receive periodic reminder emails, it is your responsibility to be familiar with the challenge schedule and manage your time.

You will meet all check-in points and submit drafts at the time they are requested.

You will communicate with your partner(s) and the moderators in a timely and professional manner.

You must have reliable internet and email access.

You must have the knowledge and equipment/materials to make your fic or art, and backup plans in place in the case of equipment or software failure.

Commercial activity is not permitted. Promo posts, masterposts, and fic and art posts linked from the MHEA tumblr may not contain links to Patreon, Kofi, or similar services. You can link to those on your personal Tumblr.

No participant may offer services in exchange for payment or solicit donations/tips from other participants for any work they do as part of the MHEA.

No participant may commission something to be used in this challenge.

You will be paired with a partner through Art Claims and may not form your own teams. As is the spirit of challenges, you never know who you will be paired with. We ask that you be open and communicative with each other, and work together to make your posting date requests to avoid any conflict. At no point may you drop your team member and choose a new one on your own. If you are having trouble with your partner, please contact the mods for a solution.

Teams are required to do an initial check-in with their partner during the first 48 hours of being assigned to each other. There will be several mandatory check-in points throughout the challenge.

If you flake out on the project at the last minute you will not be able to participate in the next round. This doesn’t apply to people who drop out because we understand life can get in the way but rather to people who with no warning ghost their artist/author and the mods.

Author’s Rules

Your fic must be a minimum of 15,000 words to qualify for this challenge. There are 3 tiers available depending on your minimum estimated wordcount. You may go over this amount, there is no word limit for any of the tiers. We will pair you up with an artist according to your selected tier.

Tier 1: Authors must submit a fic of minimum 15,000 words to qualify. Artist must submit at least one (1) art piece (traditional media or digital) OR three (3) graphics (aesthetics, photo manipulation, etc). Tier 2: Authors must submit a fic of minimum 25,000 words to qualify. Artist must submit at least two (2) art pieces (traditional media or digital) OR five (5) graphics (aesthetics, photo manipulation, etc). Tier 3: Authors must submit a fic of minimum 50,000 words to qualify. Artist must submit at least three (3) art pieces (traditional media or digital) OR eight (8) graphics (aesthetics, photo manipulation, etc).

Authors may write one fic for the challenge.

Authors may also register as an artist, but you may not make art for your own fic.

All fics should be reviewed by a beta reader before posting. You may work with any beta reader of your choice. If you don’t have a beta reader, we can provide you with a list of contact information, but we’re not an author/beta matching service.

Fics should be standalone. No cliffhangers. No sequels. No crossovers.

All ratings and pairings are permitted.

While all genres are allowed, this is a Happy Ever After event and happy endings are a must. (Like you can have an angsty fic as long as it ends happily.)

Extensions are always available as long as you ask for them. The mods aren’t mind readers so if you need an extension at any point please reach out.

A general feel-good tone overall, hit upon three major plot points from the film, and follow the general outline of the film (the full film itself, not just the prompt description) in such a way that someone familiar with the film would recognize it from your fic. We elaborate on this here.

Promo on social media (including sneak peeks) is permitted, as long as you do not reveal the movie/prompt you were assigned. Please be careful about maintaining the anonymity of your prompt until your masterpost is published to the official Tumblr.

Finished fics should be posted to Archive of Our Own and remain publicly available for at least one year.

Your fic must be posted in its entirety on your posting date.

There will be an official AO3 collection for this round and all fics are expected to be added.

You must tag for any of AO3’s major archive warnings, including major character death, non-con, underage, and graphic violence. This is a happiness based fest though, so we highly discourage you to include any of these in your story. Remember: happy endings are a must.

Authors may not commission art for a fic written for the MHEA due to the team nature of the challenge, since this would be unfair to your artist. This includes asking artist friends to create illustrations or photo manipulations as a favor. Even if your team artist agrees.

Artist Rules

Artists will create a minimum amount of art pieces according to their selected tier. There are 3 tiers available. You are free to create more than the minimum number of required pieces at your discretion. We will pair you up with an author according to your selected tier.

Tier 1: Authors must submit a fic of minimum 15,000 words to qualify. Artist must submit at least one (1) illustration OR three (3) graphics. Tier 2: Authors must submit a fic of minimum 25,000 words to qualify. Artist must submit at least two (2) illustrations OR five (5) graphics. Tier 3: Authors must submit a fic of minimum 50,000 words to qualify. Artist must submit at least three (3) illustrations OR eight (8) graphics.

Art may be an original illustration (whether traditional or digital) or a graphic (aesthetics, photo manipulation, etc). All materials and styles of art are welcome.

Artists are welcome to make a promotional banner for your team's masterpost and separators/icons for your author to use, but they won’t count toward the minimum of art pieces required.

Art should be a minimum of 540px wide if it will be posted to tumblr, but the final size and orientation are up to the artist.

Art can be embedded in the fic (if the author permits it), posted to the artist’s website of choice, or both. Where art is hosted is at the artist’s discretion.

Drafts of your artwork should not be made public or promoted on social media until your team posts on the official tumblr.

You may register as both an author and artist, but you may not make art for your own fic.

Artist Claims

Artist claims are anonymous. Artists will select what fic they will illustrate based on a summary, but they won't know who wrote the fic they've chosen until after claims. It's important artists go into this process impartial, so authors may not discuss their fics in public or with any artists prior to art claims. You may not form your own team.

To qualify for artist claims, your must submit a rough outline of your fic during the first mandatory check-in.

Claims open 12pm EST on the scheduled date. Artists will be emailed a link to the claims form the night before.

Registered artists will have a 24-hour priority claims window. If there are unclaimed fics remaining after the first 24 hours, claims will open to the public. Registered artists are welcome to claim a second fic at that time. Claims will remain open until all fics are claimed. There will be a maximum of one artist per fic.

Authors who are also registered as artists will be able to claim one fic after the initial 24-hour priority claim window for registered artists.

Dropping from the Challenge

If you have already gone through claim and need to drop, please contact the mods immediately so we can arrange for pinch-hitters. You must contact your author or artist directly to let them know you’re dropping out.

In the event that an artist drops out of the challenge before posting occurs, the mod team will work to find a pinch hitter artist for their author. If an author drops, artists will be offered the opportunity to post their art on their original posting date.

Please do not use social media to announce drops, since we don’t want your artist or author finding out that way.

In the event of an emergency, get in touch with us as soon as it is reasonably possible and safe for you to do so. We will work with you in any way we can.

Credit and massive thanks to jojodacrow and museaway for the rules base.

#rules #mhea

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sayusaybinficfest · 6 years

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Say U Say Bin - ROUND 1 PROMPT ADOPTION

Hello everyone~ The susb team hopes that everyone has been having a great year so far full of lovely moments and a lot of inspiration and motivation for writing and keeping the vixx ficdom alive <3. After such a long time and pondering, we are happy to welcome you back and introduce an idea we hoped you will all find interest in : Prompt adoption!

What does Prompt Adoption consist of?

With the help of many people who were eager to have Say U Say Bin be a success and for writers to find ideas that could ignite their creativity, in the first round we were able to gather a total of 53 prompts from which 9 of them have been used by our writers to create beautiful worlds and story lines.

Yet there are so many left unwritten and we thought- Why waste ideas with so much potential? This is the main reason we decided to introduce Prompt adoption! This is a chance for all those fragmented ideas would have a chance to become so much more.

Who can adopt ?

Maybe a prompt caught your attention but you weren't able to take part of the ficfest? or perhaps you only found about it now- well, all that matters is that now it's your chance to help all these ideas bloom and give them a home in the form of a lovely story <3

-SUSB participants that wanted a go at another prompt but didn't get to write due to time constraints.

-SUSB participants who had to sadly drop out of the fest but still had a lot of progress on their prompts. [please if you fall into this category DM us immediately because all prompts have been put up back again for grabbing]

-People who just found out regarding the fic fest just now or who always wanted to join but couldn’t because of missing the claiming period.

-VIXX writers in general.

-Anyone who is serious enough to not neglect the prompt is more than welcome to adopt :3.

Rules and Guidelines

If you are interested in adopting then please follow these simple rules before you decide to claim a prompt from our archive ^^

-Saw a prompt that you liked and want to know if it’s available? The legend still remains the same, meaning that all prompts in white are unclaimed but there has been a minor change:

-Prompts in lavender are claimed during adoption process

-Prompts in dark fuchsia have already been posted

-You checked through the Google Sheets file and now are sure that you want one of the prompts? Send us an email or tell us through DMs on twitter and we will link you to a form you need to fill in with the necessary requirements.

-Once you have adopted a prompt you now have to write it! Should be easy :3 you don’t need to check in with us BUT you have to let us know when you are done with your work so that you can add it to the SUSB adoption round collection ^^

-You don’t have to stay anonymous and you don’t have to worry about reveals or the like, post your work the moment you are entirely done and we will promote it for you in the fic fest’s account.

-Mods are open to questions, helping you out if you feel like you have hit a wall and can’t move on and whatnot--we really love these prompts and we want to do our best to help see them become beautiful stories.

ANYTHING ELSE YOU NEED TO KNOW?

Yes

The prompt archive will be open ONLY for the next 3 months [that is, until round 2 officially starts at some moment in July :3 if all goes according as planned] time in which you have to finish and post your work. If not, we'll assume the prompt was dropped and it'll then be part of the second round.

REGARDING THE PROMPTS

-The fic fest’s rules still apply [no non-con/dub-con, underage, extreme gore and all other prohibitions we specified when we started this round]

-Please don’t forget to keep in mind the prompters likes/dislikes specifications so read through the prompts carefully before claiming.

THE PROMPT ARCHIVE

.Email us at: [email protected]

Twitter: @SayUSayBinfest

Think you can make these prompts come to life? Then do join the SUSB family with this :3! We hope you are interested in this adoption post. Thanks a ton for being with us~

#vixx #vixx hongbin #lee hongbin #hongbin #fic fest #kpop fic fest #vixx fic fest #vixx fanfic #vixx fic #vixx fic rec #kpop fanfic #kpop fic #vixx fanfiction

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dctvgen · 5 years

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Today’s unclaimed prompt is for Arrow - Missing scene from Lian Yu within the fuselage. Some Slade and Oli downtime/bonding moment. .

If you’d like to claim the prompt to create a fanwork for it, it is row 11 on the spreadsheet here. For more details on the prompathon check out the post here.

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suncountryairlinescustomerservic · 3 years

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Sun Country Airlines Customer Service Number

GET HELP

1. OFFER THE LOWEST AVAILABLE FARE

Our lowest fares are available on our website, FlyFrontier.com. Certain fares such as internet promotions, may not be available to our reservations agents and are only available at FlyFrontier.com.

2. COMMUNICATE DELAYS AND FLIGHT DISRUPTIONS

We know it’s important to keep customers informed and we’ll make every reasonable effort to ensure we provide accurate, up-to-date flight information. We will update customers about delays, cancellations, and diversions.

We recommend you add your email address and phone number to your reservation, either when you book at FlyFrontier.com or afterward by updating your Manage my Booking page through logging My Trips.

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When you arrive at your destination, we always try to ensure your checked baggage is there too. If your baggage does not arrive on your flight, please go to our Baggage Service Office, located in the baggage claim area, or to our ticket counter, to report your delayed bag. If your bag does not arrive, we require that you report this to us within 4 hours of your arrival. The customer service agent will create a tracing file and will provide an update regarding the status of your baggage.

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RECOMMENDATION: Items of necessity such as medication, keys, passports, and anything of significant value (such as electronic devices, computers, cameras, and jewelry) should be packed in your carry-on baggage.

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Frontier does not allow reservations to be held without payment.

Refunds are provided for reservations made seven days (168 hours) or more prior to your scheduled departure, provided the refund is requested within 24 hours of your initial reservation.

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Once the proper documentation is provided, we will process refunds for eligible domestic and international tickets within seven (7) business days of receiving the completed refund request. Due to billing cycles, a credit card statement may not reflect a refund immediately.

If you purchased the WORKS℠, you may cancel your ticket on your Manage my Booking page by logging into My Trips. After canceling, you may complete and submit the Online Refund Form if you would like a refund to your original form of payment.

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We are dedicated to meeting the travel needs of each of our customers, including those with disabilities and other special needs. We’ll provide a point of contact information for travelers with special needs at our ticket counters, gates when calling our Reservations Department at 1-855-653-0624, or by filling out an Online Form.

Find detailed information to help passengers with special needs plans for their travel on our Special Service page.

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Sometimes a flight may be delayed on the ground before receiving takeoff clearance from Air Traffic Control, after landing at your destination, or during a diversion to another airport. These delays, known as “tarmac delays,” are rarely of extended duration. If, however, your flight experiences an extended tarmac delay after you have boarded or after the plane has landed, we commit to providing timely information on the situation. We will also provide for your essential needs including, as safety and security conditions allow, food, water, operable restroom facilities, and, access to medical treatment. Please see our Extended Tarmac Delay Contingency Plan for more details.

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In the event that a flight is overbooked, we will solicit volunteers to give up their seats. As thanks to the cooperation of these volunteers, we provide alternative travel accommodations and an electronic voucher usable toward future transportation on a Frontier flight. It is our goal to find enough volunteers so that no customers are denied boarding involuntarily.

If there are not enough volunteers, other passengers who check-in after all seats have been assigned may be denied boarding involuntarily. If you are involuntarily denied boarding, we will give you a written statement that describes your rights and explains how we determine boarding priority for an oversold flight. If there are fewer seats available than people who have checked in, generally, the last customer to check-in would be subject to removal.

In order to minimize the likelihood of getting denied boarding involuntarily, it is important that you check in as early as possible. You can Check-In up to 24 hours in advance of your scheduled flight at FlyFrontier.com.

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hawaiianairlinescustomerservic · 3 years

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Hawaiian Airlines customer service number +1-855-653-0624

GET HELP

1. OFFER THE LOWEST AVAILABLE FARE

Our lowest fares are available on our website, FlyFrontier.com. Certain fares such as internet promotions, may not be available to our reservations agents and are only available at FlyFrontier.com.

2. COMMUNICATE DELAYS AND FLIGHT DISRUPTIONS

We recommend you add your email address and phone number to your reservation, either when you book at FlyFrontier.com or afterward by updating your Manage my Booking page through logging My Trips.

3. DELIVER BAGS ON-TIME

4. ALLOW RESERVATIONS TO BE HELD OR CANCELLED WITHOUT PAYMENT

Frontier does not allow reservations to be held without payment.

Refunds are provided for reservations made seven days (168 hours) or more prior to your scheduled departure, provided the refund is requested within 24 hours of your initial reservation.

5. PROVIDE PROMPT TICKET REFUNDS

6. PROPERLY ACCOMMODATE CUSTOMERS WITH DISABILITIES AND OTHER SPECIAL NEEDS

Find detailed information to help passengers with special needs plans for their travel on our Special Service page.

7. MEET CUSTOMERS’ ESSENTIAL NEEDS DURING LENGTHY ON-BOARD DELAYS

8. TREAT CUSTOMERS ON “OVERBOOKED” FLIGHTS FAIRLY

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recentanimenews · 4 years

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CRUNCHYROLL RIMURU JUMP SWEEPSTAKES

Official Rules

NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN.

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DESCRIPTION: The “Crunchyroll Rimuru Jump Sweepstakes” (the “Sweepstakes") is a sweepstakes in which entrants in will follow @Crunchyroll on Twitter and Tweet a screenshot of their Rimuru Jump game score from the game’s website at https://sp.ten-sura.com/jump/, with the hashtag #RimuruJump in the caption as further detailed below. Internet connection and social media accounts are required.

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Sponsor will select one (1) winner per day during the course of the Entry Periods. All Entrants must complete the Entry requirements each day by 11:59 PM PST, until the last Entry Period on March 2, 2021. Entrants who provide Entries which violate any of these requirements may be deemed ineligible to participate in the Sweepstakes or receive the prize and their Entry or Entries may be void at the Sponsor’s sole discretion. Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify, in their sole and absolute discretion, any Entries deemed inappropriate or that do not comply with the Sweepstakes Official Rules. Entrants may submit more than one Entry each day during the Entry Period and may also submit an Entry on multiple days during the Entry Period. Each Entry must include a different screen shot from a new game score. ELIGIBLE ENTRANTS MUST SUBMIT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THESE OFFICIAL RULES. NO OTHER METHOD OF ENTRY WILL BE ACCEPTED.

4. WINNER(S) SELECTION: All valid entries submitted on or before 11:59 PM PST on each day of the Entry Period, up to and including 11:59 PM PST on March 2, 2021 (the “Cutoff Date”) will be eligible for the daily drawings. Entries will be deemed “submitted” when an Entrant completes all steps in Section 3. Any Entry submitted after the end of the Entry Period will not be eligible. The prizes will be awarded to the Entrant selected by the random drawing held each day of the Entry Period by the Sponsor picking the winners from the Entries submitted that day. Sponsor will select a total of seven (7) winners. Odds of winning will be determined by the number of valid entries received and the quality of such Entries. Sponsor cannot accurately predict the number of Entrants who will participate in the Sweepstakes nor the odds of winning. The winners will be notified by direct message on Twitter or using the email address the Entrant used to register.

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A US$100.00 voucher for use in the Crunchyroll store at https://store.crunchyroll.com/; and

A one year subscription to Crunchyroll – approximate retail value (“ARV”): US$95.00

All prize details are at the sole discretion of the Sponsor. Cash alternative is allowed only at the sole discretion of Sponsor. If a prize cannot be awarded due to circumstances beyond the control of Sponsor, a substitute prize may be awarded. If a winner cannot accept a prize, or any portion thereof, as stated, the prize may be forfeited or offered to another entrant at the sole discretion of Sponsor. The value of the prize represents Sponsor’s good faith determination of the maximum retail value thereof. No refunds or credit for changes are allowed. Winners will be solely responsible for all federal, state and/or local taxes, as applicable, and for any other fees or costs associated with the prize they receive. The stated ARV of the prize(s) is based on available information provided to Sponsor and the actual value of the prize awarded will be reported for tax purposes as required by law. If requested, Winners must provide Sponsor with a valid social security number and fill out either a W9 or the appropriate W8 before the prize will be awarded for tax reporting purposes. An IRS Form 1099 will be issued in the name(s) of the Winners for the actual value of the prize received. Other restrictions may apply. If a prize is awarded but goes unclaimed or is forfeited by recipient, the prize may not be re-awarded, in Sponsor’s sole discretion.

6. POTENTIAL WINNER(S) NOTIFICATION: One potential winner will be contacted daily by direct message on Twitter between February 24, 2021 and March 3, 2021, then via the email address furnished by the Winners. Each potential winner will be required to respond as directed to the notification WITHIN 48 HOURS or the Entrant may be disqualified, and a new potential winner will be selected according to the Official Rules, who will be subject to disqualification in the same manner. Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify anyone not fully complying with the Official Rules. The Potential winners will be required to verify address and complete, sign, and return within seventy-two (72) hours an affidavit of eligibility or declaration of eligibility/compliance (as applicable), a liability release, and, unless prohibited by law, a publicity release and other legal documents as may be required by Sponsor in its sole discretion (collectively, the "Prize Claim Documents") covering eligibility, liability, advertising, publicity and media appearance issues. Failure to respond to an email notification concerning the prize or to return the Prize Claim Documents within the specified time period may result in forfeiture of the prize, and, at the sole discretion of Sponsor, the selection of another winner as a new potential winner (and who will be subject to disqualification in the same manner).

7. DATES & DEADLINES/ANTICIPATED NUMBER OF ENTRANTS: Because of the unique nature and scope of the Sweepstakes, Sponsor reserves the right, in addition to those other rights reserved herein, to modify any date(s) or deadline(s) set forth in these Official Rules or otherwise governing the Sweepstakes. Sponsor cannot accurately predict the number of Entrants who will participate in the Sweepstakes nor the odds of winning.

8. MATERIALS/RIGHTS IN ENTRIES: In consideration of the Entry being reviewed and evaluated for this Sweepstakes, each Entrant irrevocably grants a royalty-free, unlimited license to Sponsor, their successors and assigns, and in and to the Entry and/or any portion thereof for use and exploitation in any form, format or order alone or in conjunction with any other material for broadcast, duplication, and advertising, by means of any and all media and devices whether now known or hereafter developed or devised worldwide and in perpetuity, including to the extent applicable (a) any information, biographical data, and material (e.g., the “creative” file or Entry) submitted by Entrant in connection with the Sweepstakes; and (b) all graphics, statements, and quotations of or by Entrant and furnished by Entrant as part of this Sweepstakes (the “Material”). Each Entrant understands that his/her/their name and the Material may be posted on the Sweepstakes Website, on social media sites or elsewhere in connection with Sweepstakes and other marketing and promotions of the Sponsor. Entrant agrees that the Sponsor have no obligation to use an Entry or any Material. Sponsor shall have the right, in its sole discretion, to edit, composite, morph, scan, duplicate, or alter any part of the Material for any purpose which Sponsor deems necessary or desirable, and each Entrant irrevocably waives any and all so-called moral rights they may have therein. Each Entrant agrees and acknowledges that participation in the Sweepstakes, including, without limitation, the Entrant’s decision to provide the Entry to Sponsor for purposes of the Sweepstakes, shall not give rise to any confidential, fiduciary, implied-in-fact, implied-in-law, or other special relationship between Sponsor and Entrant, does not place Sponsor in a position that is any different from the position held by members of the general public with regard to elements of the Entrant’s Entry, and that the only contracts, express or implied, between the Sponsor and Entrant is as set forth in these Official Rules and any release forms signed by the Entrant. In addition, by participating in the Sweepstakes and providing an Entry, each Entrant hereby grants permission (except where prohibited by law) for Sponsor to use Entrant’s Entry, name, likeness, voice, quotes, comments, biographical information, photograph and/or image for the purpose of advertising, trade, or promotion without further notice, compensation or consideration in any and all media now known or hereafter developed throughout the universe.

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James Randi, Magician Who Debunked Paranormal Claims, Dies at 92

Known professionally as the Amazing Randi, he dedicated his life to exposing seers who did not see, healers who did not heal and many others.

By Margalit Fox

Oct. 21, 2020

James Randi, a MacArthur award-winning magician who turned his formidable savvy to investigating claims of spoon bending, mind reading, fortunetelling, ghost whispering, water dowsing, faith healing, U.F.O. spotting and sundry varieties of bamboozlement, bunco, chicanery, flimflam, flummery, humbuggery, mountebankery, pettifoggery and out-and-out quacksalvery, as he quite often saw fit to call them, died on Tuesday at his home in Plantation, Fla. He was 92.

His death was announced by the James Randi Educational Foundation.

At once elfin and Mephistophelian, with a bushy white beard and piercing eyes, Mr. Randi — known professionally as the Amazing Randi — was a father of the modern skeptical movement. Much as the biologist and author Thomas Henry Huxley had done in the late 19th century (though with markedly more pizazz), he made it his mission to bring the world of scientific rationalism to laypeople.

What roiled his blood, and was the driving impetus of his existence, Mr. Randi often said, was pseudoscience, in all its immoral irrationality.

“People who are stealing money from the public, cheating them and misinforming them — that’s the kind of thing that I’ve been fighting all my life,” he said in the 2014 documentary “An Honest Liar,” directed by Tyler Measom and Justin Weinstein. “Magicians are the most honest people in the world: They tell you they’re going to fool you, and then they do it.”

Mr. Randi began his career in the late 1940s as an illusionist and escape artist. On one occasion he extricated himself from a straitjacket while dangling upside down over Niagara Falls; on another, after almost an hour, from within a vast block of ice (“a cinch,” he later said); and on a third from still another straitjacket, this one suspended over Broadway, where he hung, as The New York Herald Tribune reported, like “a great dead tuna.”

“I wanted to break his records,” Mr. Randi said in the film, invoking the master, Houdini. “I wanted to stay in a sealed metal coffin longer than he did, get out of a straitjacket faster than he did, under chains, out of leg irons, out of handcuffs.”

But in later years, Mr. Randi was not so much an illusionist as a disillusionist. Using a singular combination of reason, showmanship, constitutional cantankerousness and a profound knowledge of the weapons in the modern magician’s arsenal, he traveled the country exposing seers who did not see, healers who did not heal and many others.

Their methods, he often said, were available to any halfway adept student of conjuring — and ought to have been transparent to earlier investigators, who were sometimes taken in.

“These things used to be on the back of cornflakes boxes,” Mr. Randi, his voice italic with derision, once told the television interviewer Larry King. “But apparently some scientists either don’t eat cornflakes, or they don’t read the back of the box.”

The recipient of a MacArthur “genius” grant in 1986, Mr. Randi lectured worldwide and appeared often on television; he was a particular favorite of Johnny Carson and, more recently, Penn and Teller.

He wrote many books, among them “Flim Flam! The Truth About Unicorns, Parapsychology, and Other Delusions” (1980); “The Faith Healers” (1987); and “An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural” (1995).

In 1976, with the astronomer Carl Sagan, the writer Isaac Asimov and others, Mr. Randi founded what is now the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. Based in Amherst, N.Y., the organization promotes the scientific investigation of claims of the paranormal and publishes the magazine Skeptical Inquirer.

Though he was often called a debunker, Mr. Randi preferred the terms “skeptic” or “investigator.”

“I never want to be referred to as a debunker,” he told The Orlando Sentinel in 1991, “because that implies someone who says, ‘This isn’t so, and I’m going to prove it.’ I don’t go in with that attitude. I’m an investigator. I only expect to show that something is not likely.”

In the course of his career, he investigated more than 100 people, including, memorably, Peter Popoff, a well-heeled self-described faith healer whom he exposed on “The Tonight Show.” Mr. Randi was also known for his decades-long sparring match with Uri Geller, the professed mentalist known for his serial abuse of flatware.

Through the James Randi Educational Foundation, Mr. Randi sponsored the Million Dollar Challenge, a contest offering $1 million to the person who, following rigorous scientific protocols, could demonstrate evidence of a paranormal, supernatural or occult phenomenon. Though the challenge attracted more than a thousand aspirants, the prize remained unclaimed on Mr. Randi’s retirement from the foundation in 2015.

Mr. Randi was all but born skeptical. He entered an irrational world, in Toronto, as Randall James Zwinge on Aug. 7, 1928, one of three children of Marie (Paradis) and George Zwinge.

Attending Sunday school as a boy, he was moved often to inquiry.

“They started to read to me from the Bible,” Mr. Randi recalled in 2016. “And I interrupted and said: ‘Excuse me, how do you know that’s true? It sounds strange.’”

In his regular classes, he proved such a gifted student that the local school system soon threw up its hands and let him attend only to take exams. He had the run of the city, and by the time he was 12, after seeing a performance there by the great American stage magician Harry Blackstone Sr., he had found his calling.

At 15, young Randall got his first taste of debunking and its discontents. Hearing of a local preacher who professed to read minds, he attended a service. He saw immediately that the preacher was using a time-honored mentalists’ trick, called the “one ahead,” in which a performer appears to divine the contents of sealed envelopes that he has previously opened and read.

When Randall stood up and exposed the fraud, congregants called the police; he spent several hours in jail before his father came to collect him. It would be the last time a jail cell could hold him, and the first time he became attuned to people’s astonishing willingness to be deceived.

At 17, bored, he dropped out of school altogether. He joined a traveling carnival as a mentalist but soon became an escape artist. After he sprang himself from a Quebec jail cell, a local newspaper christened him “L’Étonnant Randi” — the Amazing Randi. The name stuck.

For a time in the early 1970s, Mr. Randi toured with the rock star Alice Cooper, decapitating him nightly with a trick guillotine.

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He continued his escape acts until he was well into his 50s. But one day, as he rehearsed a television show for which he had been sealed and shackled in an outsize milk can, something went awry.

The lid of the can jammed, trapping Mr. Randi inside. There was little air. Shifting within his scant confines, he heard two of his vertebrae snap.

“I was in deep trouble,” he recalled in the documentary. “I knew that if I panicked, I would be dead — that’s all there is to it.”

At long last, he heard the locks on the can being undone and the lid pried open. He decided it was time to forsake escapism.

“There comes a point,” Mr. Randi said, “where you just don’t want to see a little old guy getting out of a can.”

At 60, he retired from stage magic entirely. By then he had built a parallel career investigating claims of the paranormal, much as Houdini had done.

One of Mr. Randi’s most celebrated investigations was that of Mr. Popoff. A California preacher who professed to heal the sick, Mr. Popoff had a wide following on television and radio. He drew large crowds at revival meetings around the country, at which he called upon audience members by name and correctly identified their afflictions. In 1986, The Los Angeles Times reported, his average gross income was $550,000 a month.

That year, Mr. Randi planted an accomplice with a radio scanner and a tape recorder at one of Mr. Popoff’s public meetings. The scanner picked up Mr. Popoff’s wife relaying information previously gleaned about audience members into a small receiver hidden in his ear.

“Popoff says God tells him these things,” Mr. Randi told U.S. News & World Report in 2002. “Maybe he does. But I didn’t realize God used a frequency of 39.17 megahertz and had a voice exactly like Elizabeth Popoff’s.”

Footage of Mr. Popoff’s service, with the audio of Ms. Popoff’s voice superimposed, was broadcast on “The Tonight Show.” Mr. Popoff ceased operations in 1987, though he later resumed them.

Though his pursuit of Mr. Popoff was a consuming passion, Mr. Randi’s white whale was indisputably Mr. Geller, who had been famed since the 1970s for feats like bending keys and spoons, which he said he accomplished by telepathy.

Not so, said Mr. Randi, who explained that these were ordinary amusements, done by covertly bending the objects in advance.

In 1973, Mr. Geller made a disastrous appearance on “The Tonight Show” in which he was unable to summon his accustomed powers: On Mr. Randi’s advice, the show’s producers had supplied their own props and made sure Mr. Geller had no access to them beforehand.

Mr. Geller’s popularity continued undimmed, however, prompting Mr. Randi to write an exposé, “The Magic of Uri Geller” (1975), republished in 1982 as “The Truth About Uri Geller.”

“Randi is my best unpaid publicist,” Mr. Geller told New Times Broward-Palm Beach, an alternative weekly newspaper, in 2009.

Over the years, Mr. Randi managed to antagonize many, and not merely the targets of his investigations. He cast a wide condemnatory net, speaking out against alternative medicine, chiropractic and religion itself, which he called “the biggest scam of them all.”

His investigative methods were sometimes called deceptive. In one highly publicized stunt intended to show the gullibility of the news media, he had a young associate — his life partner, then known as José Alvarez — pose as a spirit medium named Carlos.

On a tour of Australia in 1988, “Carlos” drew hordes of worshipful followers, and the uncritical attention of many journalists, as he pretended to channel long-dead spirits. When Mr. Randi revealed the ruse, it drew those journalists’ ire.

Mr. Alvarez made headlines again in 2011 when he was arrested by federal authorities at the couple’s home in Plantation and charged with passport fraud and identity theft. Mr. Alvarez, an artist whose original name was Deyvi Orangel Peña Arteaga, said that he had fled his native Venezuela as a young man to escape antigay death threats.

He had reached the United States on a student visa. After it expired, Mr. Peña assumed the identity of a Puerto Rican man whom he erroneously believed to be dead.

For observers of Mr. Randi’s career, the inevitable question was whether the great deflator of deception had himself been deceived.

“I know who he is, and I know what he is as well,” Mr. Randi said in the 2014 documentary. “He’s my partner, and he’s very, very important to me.”

Mr. Peña, who spent six weeks in jail and faced deportation, later pleaded guilty to a single count of passport fraud.

Over the years, Mr. Randi was the subject of a string of defamation suits, including several by Mr. Geller. Though a Japanese court once ordered him to pay Mr. Geller about $2,000, Mr. Randi said he had never paid a cent to anyone who sued him.

In scientific circles, he remained a revered figure to the end. Among his many honors, he had a minor planet named for him, Asteroid 3163 Randi, discovered in 1981.

Mr. Randi resided for many years in Rumson, N.J., in a house equipped with secret staircases, a talking door knocker and clocks that ran backward. He had lived in Florida since the 1980s.

His survivors include Mr. Peña, whom he married in 2013, as well as a sister, Angela Easton, and a brother, Paul Zwinge, Mr. Peña said.

Though he remained a dyed-in-the-wool rationalist to the last, Mr. Randi did have a contingency plan for the hereafter, as he told New Times in 2009. “I want to be cremated,” he said. “And I want my ashes blown in Uri Geller’s eyes.”

Michael Levenson contributed reporting.

Margalit Fox is a former senior writer on the obituaries desk at The Times. She was previously an editor at the Book Review. She has written the send-offs of some of the best-known cultural figures of our era, including Betty Friedan, Maya Angelou and Seamus Heaney.

A version of this article appears in print on Oct. 23, 2020, Section B, Page 12 of the New York edition with the headline: James Randi, Magician Who Debunked Paranormal Claims, Dies at 92.

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