Borio Singaldi

Another Borio Storio incoming! Introducing... Borio Singaldi and the Date That Goes West!!

@Rebecca Seeing you include one for KotC in the 17th Shard one just warms my heart.

I don't remember this. I guess I've done it so much I don't even remember the particulars anymore. *shrug*

Which was only fire because a thermonuke hit it.

As am I. I can barely get on here anymore. I'm only here for a bit because of work WiFi. But thank you for the kind words nevertheless.

@Zath Dear me, that was absolutely wonderful. I laughed out loud when the gravity of the situation kicked in. This was beautifully written and I need to give more than one upvote for it. I love it, love it, love it!

It had tainted the appearances of some, and completely replaced the appearances of others. But everyone who was touched by the Greenness had their mental health gradually improved in all aspects, so it was all good.

I do indeed get your vague reference, luckily. I'm flattered. If you're willing to do that and include it in your signature, I am perfectly fine with that. In fact, I encourage it for all of us anthology writers, if you are so willing.

Well, party pooper, thanks for spoiling the surprise! I was planning on saving those for when this gained more traction and became more established. I just hope this actually gains traction. It's important to me that it does. I want this to be a thing. But no real hard feelings. Now you've just gotten the less knowledgeable audiences more hyped! Hopefully.

Some of you may know of this character, but now I wish to publicize him. Borio Singaldi is a character I randomly made up one day in school when the name popped into my head out of nowhere. I was just minding my own business when the name "Borio Singaldi and the Death of a Prospect" came out of the blue. I was so intrigued by this ridiculous thought that I had to write it down. Once I did, I shared this idea with my fellow Knights of the Cosmere and decided to do something about it. So we started a mini writing group about the character of Borio Singaldi, our stories about him often based on a variation of the title "Death of a Prospect" (such as Death of a Perspective, Death of a Prospector, Prospect of Death, Perspective of Death, Prospector of Death, etc). But they don't need to be limited to that. The story can be about anything, so long as one sticks to the character. So I guess you should all get a full description of the guy from which to base your thoughts on him. Character description: He is a large and portly man, overweight but not quite obese. He is often fashionably dressed in a sort of foppish way. He has brown eyes, black hair, and light tan skin. I'd almost say he's entirely white, but he has a bit of Greco-Italian blood in him. His strongest defining characteristics are his mustache and his cane. He has a long, elegent, twirling mustache that often seems to move on its own. It is very important to him that he maintain its appearance. His cane is made of a fancy and valuable type of wood (that I haven't fully decided yet) and has a diamond tip. It is extremely valuable to him and he never goes anywhere without it. As for his personality, he is not the brightest bulb in the box, but he's prone to bouts of cleverness and spontaneity sometimes (due to the writers having fun with him ). He is very blunt, not very witty, quite often annoying, and has a very domineering presence. He is never intentionally mean and he has a good heart to him, but he's just not good at understanding other people and their feelings, so he's insensitive but not rude. For some, he's extremely annoying, for others he's simply charming and maybe even amusing. What does he do with his life? Well, that's up to the people who write him. It's also been made canon that he lives in a fancy mansion in Des Moines, Iowa, with his butler Earnestwise Tomatopatch and maid Clemendine Tomatopatch (a running joke is that he's never been able to figure out how they are related; he thinks they are either siblings or spouses, but has never really known). He has a strange relationship with the supernatural entity that is Death, and he has gone on many fantastical misadventures. I usually come up with a story and then have to make characters for it, but this is a reversal in which I have made the character and try to write stories about him. Because of this, they are obviously very character-driven. My mentality with writing him calls to mind Chef Gustaeu's line from the Pixar movie Ratatouille: "Anyone can cook." Or in this case, "Anyone can write a Borio Storio." It can be about literally anything you want, so long as you stay true to the character. I now invite my fellow writers who have already contributed to the creation of these Storios in our private PM to now share them here. Or if you want, I can share them for you. Whichever you prefer. @AonEne@BitBitio@Sami@phoenix2563@Ink@Kidpen@Sherlock Holmes@Wyndlerunner@Stormblessed Dolphin Yes. We had a PM of our own prior to this in which we shared them. I want to share this character and his stories with the rest of the Shard, and eventually the rest of the world. But baby steps, Fire. Baby steps. I now invite you all to join in me in continuing to build a universe of ridiculous stories about this guy. They can be any genre and can be any length. Genres we've done so far include realistic fiction, light fantasy, and science fiction, all in a comedic aspect. The longest one so far has been maybe two pages long and the shortest one so far was just a couple paragraphs. Keep in mind that while all of the stories we've done so far are intentionally comedic (and laugh out loud hilarious if I do say so myself), you are NOT REQUIRED to do comedy when writing him. Comedic stories are generally expected and quite welcome, but I'd like to maybe see a serious or dramatic rendition of the character. But again: you can write the story about ANYTHING. Of course, I ask that you keep them clean and don't have inappropriate content (no foul language, no overt or discreet sexual content, violence is allowed to a degree). But please, my fellow Sharders... the most important thing I ask of you when writing these Storios is... HAVE FUN. Please have fun writing this, it's meant to bring out the weird and playful writing side of you. I started this Borio Writing Anthology so we could have fun. And now, I will share a few that I have written with all of you as examples of what they are typically like. Hopefully my current fellow writer will share theirs too. Borio Singaldi and the Borio Singaldi and the Death Borio Singaldi and the Death of a Prospector Borio Singaldi and the Seventeenth Shard Borio Singaldi and a Kind Act Borio Singaldi and Procrastination And here is a Borio Singaldi Mad Lib I made: http://www.projectlabyrinth.com/MadLibs/MadLib.php?mid=1794003279834 Enjoy, fellow writers.

That lament picture nearly killed me. I can't believe that's a real song. *sob quietly* When doing a test review in a guitar class, our teacher was handing out colored paper clips shaped like treble clefs or guitars to students who answered a question correctly. One student was trying to get a clef clip, but it was stuck to another one. As she tried to untangle them, I asked her, "Are you having treble with that?" Here's one I found on the internet: A 'C', an E-flat, and a 'G' go into a bar. The bartender says: "Sorry, but we don't serve minors." So, the E-flat leaves, and the C and the G have an open fifth between them. After a few drinks, the fifth is diminished: the G is out flat. An F comes in and tries to augment the situation, but is not sharp enough. A D comes into the bar and heads straight for the bathroom saying, "Excuse me. I'll just be a second." An A comes into the bar, but the bartender is not convinced that this relative of C is not a minor. Then the bartender notices a B-flat hiding at the end of the bar and exclaims: "Get out now! You're the seventh minor I've found in this bar tonight." The E-flat, not easily deflated, comes back to the bar the next night in a 3-piece suit with nicely shined shoes. The bartender says: "You're looking sharp tonight, come on in! This could be a major development." This proves to be the case, as the E-flat takes off the suit, and everything else, and stands there au natural. Eventually, the C sobers up, and realizes in horror that he's under a rest. The C is brought to trial, is found guilty of contributing to the diminution of a minor, and is sentenced to 10 years of DS without Coda at an upscale correctional facility. On appeal, however, the C is found innocent of any wrongdoing, even accidental, and that all accusations to the contrary are bassless. I'd tell a joke about a fermata, but it would be too long. And here's this little gem I just found: A symphony orchestra was performing “Beethoven’s Ninth”. In the piece, there’s a long passage, (about 20 minutes) during which the bass violinists have nothing to do. Rather than sitting around- looking stupid, a few bassists decided to sneak-off to the tavern next door for a couple beers. After slamming several beers in quick succession, one of them looked at his watch and said, “Hey! We gotta GO!” “No rush, really,” said another, “I tied the last few pages of the conductor’s score together with string, just in case we needed more time. It’ll take him a few minutes to get it untangled.” After slamming another beer, they staggered back to the concert hall and quietly took their seats. About this time, an audience member nudged her husband, noting that the conductor seemed a bit on-edge. “Of course he’s stressed, don’t you see… It’s the bottom of the Ninth, The score is tied, AND the bassists are loaded.”

Yo, Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze. I mean, it's my little sister's game, but I took an interest in it and have been helping her with the hard parts. And Smash Bros Ultimate. I finished story mode 100% recently. And that's about it. Hehe, years ago I was way too much of a gamer. I was totally addicted to Legend of Zelda. Now I don't play so often anymore.

Narrator Firerust was further disappointed that no one had gotten the Megamind reference or indicated that they had. Meanwhile, Narrator Rirefust, was in a furious kickboxing match with the mimes that guarded the 25th wall.

Because the bread in the oven was rising.

Narrator Firerust was disappointed at how slowly this thread had been going, fearing the TLPW would surpass it at some point.

Once there was a waffle That didn't like to be bread So it decided a ghanderflaffle Would be better to be instead And that's how they were invented.

They placed the book on the Bean memorial in order to keep him in everyone's minds and hearts. I didn't know him that well, but he was a funny guy. I'll miss him.

It's a basic fact, yet it was always unsettling to hear, because you remember how you didn't know what the epidermis was at some point and you were very uncomfortable when someone told you that, so now it's unsettling. ... Dang it. I explained it. So it was an explicably unsettling comment.

That word is inexplicably unsettling. Your epidermis is showing.

Because there was a spider on her face.

It doesn't always work. It's more due to laziness that I do it. I don't want to bother finding a bookmark. I don't remember the page number so much as I remember what was going on in the book. So I do a bit of flipping around until I get to the familiar part.

Hehehe...

Hey, I just said it to be unsettling. In reality, I do neither. No folding, no bookmarks. I trust my memory. *Ahem* You know I had to dab it to em.