unless you're a worm. then i'd imagine it might be a rather pleasant thought.

The worm has turned.

Okay.  You take a pen, I'll take a sword, we'll see who gets their knuckles bruised first.

Here's a momentary serious note from the Pet Bureau:

My sea monkeys are not thriving.  Numbers in the main tank have dipped alarmingly, although the two subsidiary tanks seem much as normal.

On the plus side, though, Magenta the ant (our other invertebrate pet) is doing very well.

Sea Monkeys always crack me up with giggles and smiles. Another thing, do we know any more on the contest-thing-amajig.

repeatedly lian wrote:

*blinks*

What are... sea monkeys?

Here in the States, for years there were advertizements in magazines that showed illustrations which looked like tiny Mer-people, with their own tiny sea-civilizations. Needless to say, it was blatant false advertizing...

They really look like
this. They're really tiny floating shrimp-like animals.

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My father and brother are very envious because I managed to keep alive a sort of waterplant that has long been extinct in their own, (comparatively huge) fish tanks. Hehe.

So much for water memorabilia.

That sounds really cute and adorable. You must really have a green (er, blue?) thumb! :)

I have an idea - who can come up with a new name after the next book is published.

Smarchers is a good name.

Splayers -- to reuse a pun - splay it isn't so.

So, will contributors to this site still be called "Smarchers" or will the name change?

wow. 5 years. this place helped me grow up, some. thanks for existing shadowmarch, and thanks tad, for being who you are. see you around, guys.

*passes out on the couch*

I agree. Smarch is here to stay, I'm afraid. Other names are amusing, but Smarch just rolls so trippingly off the tongue, as they say.

That's a really weird phrase, now that I look at it.

Firsmarch of Smarchester wrote:

Since the book has all sorts of Tad's writing in it, from several different genres and worlds, maybe Tad could come up with some diabolical quiz, related to each of his works. He could post the quiz here, and each Smarcher would have to PM him the reults. The best answers (or the right ones, whatever) would win!

The questions could be like, "What was the name of that random background character in that one scene of "The Happiest Dead Boy", etc.

That's of course assuming Tad has time to devise a Diabolical Quiz®.

This is an interesting idea but my original "riddle-contest" proposal was the other way:
I thought that each smarcher could suggest openly at least ONE RIDDLE AND ITS ANSWER.

Another little "fun idea" (nothing to do with the contest):

I thought that this sentence could make a cool badge with "www.shadowmarch.com" under it:
"I enjoy Spring in the shadow of a book."

Explanation: March is the month of Spring.

Option: add a reference to the official site of NEIL GAIMAN, because evercoming Spring is one of his characters.

Contest -

How about the best or funniest edit of a picture of Tad?

It could be RITE themed as a rule.  *nod*

:)