During Andrew and Ashton’s shift, we challenged the community to create poetry, prose, or drawings inspired by their favorite Desert Bus for Hope memories. Thank you to everyone that submitted something; we had nearly 100 submissions! The winner of this challenge is Lithuasil… congrats! We’ve included the winning submission, and a few other selects below.
Note: The winning submission includes political content, so we have a political content warning for this post.
During Paul’s shift, we challenged the community to create artwork of Paul’s Pathfinder character, Oknarok. Here’s the winning submission, from Xeno_Striker:
And, here’s some of our honorable mentions…
Check out the rest of the community’s submissions after the jump.
During Graham’s shift, we challenged the community to create their rendition of Baxter and Khaavren buddy movie art. Here’s the winning submission, by emberBecky:
And here’s our selection of honorable mentions…
After the jump, check out some other great submissions from the community.
During Alex’s shift, we challenged the community to come up with their rendition of a gamer robot. Here’s the winning entry, by Mike:
And here’s our honorable mentions…
We’ve included the rest of the submissions from the community after the jump.
During Liz’s shift, we challenged the community to submit photos of bad Desert Bus decisions. Here’s the winning submission, from enderforspeaker:
And here’s a couple of our honorable mentions:
You’ll find the rest of the submissions from the community after the break. A couple of our submissions come from our Desert Bus team members, who just couldn’t resist submitting their own bad decisions.
During Liz’s shift, we challenged the community to create their best version of The Kraken Dance. Here’s the winning submission, by Brian:
After the jump, we’ve included a couple of additional honorable mentions from the community:
During Cam’s shift, we challenged the community to develop their concept for an alternative history story. Here’s the winning entry, by TacitusVigil:
We imagined history as a fixed path; “what was” is what was always meant to be. How could it be otherwise? Historians used counterfactuals to examine history to an extent (at least before The Device), but such musings absent of evidence were frowned upon by academics. Alternate history novels used to dive into the most overused questions…what if the Nazis won World War II? What if the South won the American Civil War? What if the White House wasn’t destroyed during the 9/11 attacks? After the Quantum Entanglement Device (the Q.E.D., or “The Device” as it’s usually referred) was invented ten years ago, all those “What ifs” were confirmed for us. At first it was deeply profound, gazing into The Device to see the road less traveled. Of course, The Device isn’t a time machine, so we’re limited to one-way real-time images into those worlds. Historians were thrilled to study worlds that look so similar, yet are so different…
…then the politicians weaponized the Device, pointing to select dystopic timelines where their opponents are in power (that infinite realities exist meant nothing to them). And when people started seeing what it would be like if they never had kids, or they married that other person, etc, well…we look back fondly when mere reality TV could “ruin” our lives. Now we ask “why do anything if your choices mean nothing”? Our world is now obsessed with “What if” and nobody cares about what is. The old saying is true…ignorance is bliss.
During Fugi’s shift, we challenged the community to develop creative works related to Fugi’s favorite game, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. Here’s the winning entry, by Eskar:
And here’s our runner-up entries:
Check out the rest of the community’s submissions after the jump…
During Matt’s shift, we challenged the community to create comedic limericks related to the existential state of limbo. Here’s the winning entry, submitted by Jacob Currie:
Limbo’s a word from theology
To explain its name is just tautology
But sufficive to say
If you don’t behave
You might seek out its etymology
After the jump, we’ve included a selection of runner-up entries for your perusal…
During Tara’s shift, we challenged the community to submit their best baked creations with a nerdy or Desert Bus theme. Here’s the winning creation, by Betsy:
And here’s our honorable mentions…
More submissions from our community after the jump.
