Mod Post:: Decemeber Theme/Meme poll

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Greetings oh best beloveds,

With December arriving and the year coming to a close, your ever lovable Mod Squad thought it might be nice to have a theme for next month and we thought it might be apt to give the entire community a chance for some input.


So from now until the end of Sunday 2nd December, you can vote (By replying) on the following suggestions;

Poll #12192 December Theme Meme

This poll is anonymous.
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 54

What theme would you like to see on Scans_Daily for Decemeber

Stories set in winter, or relating to snow
20 (37.0%)

Stories involving parties or celebrations
8 (14.8%)

Beginnings and Endings
15 (27.8%)

Family moments (for good or ill)
21 (38.9%)

Stories that make you go "Awwwww!"
30 (55.6%)

Favourite stories of the past 12 months/ Review of the Year
14 (25.9%)

Now, you can, if you wish submit your own ideas too, but that won't be voted on, because that's just too confusing to track.

However, at Mod discretion, whilst we will go if we can for the popular vote, should someone produce a suggestion so awe-inspiring that women will swoon and men will weep spontaneously upon merely reading it, then we reserve the right to go for that one instead.

So think over the stories you could contribute, and/or would like to see, and vote away!

Comments

[cleome45]

I went with "Awwww!" There can never be too much for my taste. :)

(Secretly, I was hoping that "The End of the World" would be an option, since the world is supposed to end in December, isn't it?)

[salinea]

covered under "endings & beginnings" (yes i did think about it when we brainstormed themes suggestions:p)

[cleome45]

Problem solved then. :D

[darkknightjrk]

the world is supposed to end in December, isn't it?



I'm sure you were being cheeky, but that doomsday prophesy's been one of my pet peeves for a while now.

[icon_uk]

Well, there's nothing to say the world WON'T end in Decemeber, but if it does, it won't be because of that particular prophecy.

[darkknightjrk]

Knowing our luck, if it does happen, it's probably going to be because some chucklehead with access to the nukes believes it.

[deleonjh]

There's also the switch from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar which flat out erased 10 days from history.

[cleome45]

Wait! So you're saying I do have to pay all my December-due bills after all?!

THAT IS SO UNFAIR!!

[stamps foot]

[flounces]

[donnblake]

I'm a little confused here, or at least, I think the would-be bubble burster is. It seems to be suggesting that the Mayans literally said, "The world will end in December of 2012," and explaining why that would be wrong. Which is... an odd approach, to say the least. Warning, Mayan dating system infodump below.

The Mayan calendar wasn't just our modern day calendar without leap years. Actually, there wasn't just one calendar, there were three. One measured solar cycle, and one lunar cycle. Then there was the Calendar Round, which gave a date based on both the lunar and solar calendars, which had the benefit of producing 52 years worth of distinct dates. None of these matter as far as the 2012 Doomsday scenario, except in helping explain why the Long Count existed. In order to give a date more than 52 years in the future, the Mayans had another calendar known as the Long Count.

The Long Count counts days (specifically the number of days from what the Mayan's figured to be the date of creation), and wasn't particularly tied to any lunar or solar cycle. It was however, divided into units. The largest one that's come up so far is the baktun (or b'ak'tun). We're currently in the thirteenth baktun, which will end on December 21, 2012. This much is not really up for argument, it's how the Mayan's reckoned time.

All that being said, no, the world's not ending, at least not according the the Mayans. It'd just be time to flip over a page in the metaphorical calendar, moving into the fourteenth baktun. It might also be cause for a big blow-out New Year's party. Predictions of the end of the world are based on very questionable interpretation of Mayan myths concerning previous world ages or possibly previous worlds.

[ardat_lili]

Yeah, I was going to suggest "a character's happiest moment," but "awwwwwww" will cover a lot of that.

[azure_flame_god003]

I couldn't decide so I just went with Review of the Year.

[icon_uk]

Nothing wrong with that (though you are under no obligation to tell us how you voted)

[wake_the_dragon]

I chose family moments, because I'd love to see more BatFamily moments.

[bewareofgeek]

That counts as stories that make you go Aww... I think.

[icon_uk]

Depends on the family moment I suppose. Bits of Bruce Wayne: Murderer/Fugutive would count as family moments (Such as Batman denying the need for Bruce Wayne and the resulting fight with Nightwing), but I wouldn't really make me go "Awwwww!"

[salinea]

Yeah, most of my favourite Family Moments (Batfam or otherwise) are less in the in the "Awww!" category than in the "Oww, Baby, no" category.

[bewareofgeek]

In recent years, BATMAN AND ROBIN #20 is one of mine....