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Alright, I am fine with my pages being deleted. Thank you for noting me about that, Gideon! I'll not repeat the mistake again! :)  ♠ Hashtag~Meme  ♠   | The Charler  06:30, February 8, 2015 (UTC)

I just got a message from the wiki saying that SpaceWeather deleted my Teens 2 page without my consent. It had alot of material on it and I am still working very heavily on it. I am shocked and offended. Please help me get it back and all the stuff that was on it. Also I highly suggest SpaceWeather get revoked of his adminstrative position. The least that could have been done was to warn me about this. K I N G O F A N Y T H I N G (talk) 20:14, February 19, 2015 (UTC)

Total Drama Gone Wild - Voice Acting!
Hey, Gideon! I've heard and seen that you're interested in my animated series "Total Drama Gone Wild!", and I just came to say the voice acting auditions are here! Basically, you can sumbit an aplication to audition to one of the 2o charatcers the cast has and soon after can be auditioning to Total Drama Gone Wild! All the info is in this blog: http://totaldramaislandfanfiction.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Bonkilemonster/Ever_dreamed_of_being_a_voice_actor%3F_(Voice_auditions_to_TDGW)

Even if you're not interested, please tell your friends! If you want to learn, If you want to talk ,  Or if you want to read my latest progress blog post (:  21:12, April 3, 2015 (UTC)

Hi can you delete these two pages:

Total_Drama_Island_(my_cast,_my_version)

Total_Drama_Action_(my_cast,_my_version)

Tdwtwinz (talk) 10:24, April 11, 2015 (UTC)tdwtwinz

can you tell me who is the admin?Tdwtwinz (talk) 18:27, April 11, 2015 (UTC)tdwtwinz

Whoa nice
whoa Gideon jesus I just caught up to LTDI after having been ignoring it since about the Phobia Factor rewrite, and I've got to say it's really good. The whole magic subplot is actually super interesting, and I'm not even a huge fan of fantasy at all but idk I liked the way you connected Dawn's sorcery stuff to old british literature. Made me think of Macbeth, sort of, which I just read. I generally skip past the poems and stuff but that whole part was super interesting, with Dawn and Izzy and Katie and Gwen. I totally thought Zeke died but I'm really glad he didn't--we didn't need two lovable nerds dead. Katie's memory loss breaks my heart but I'm glad it's not addressed too much. It's cool to see her become a central figure. I didn't really like the way you wrote Noah so I'm not terribly sad to see him gone, but given the little fanfare over his essential mauling by bees and his elimination when he had been a central figure, I feel like there might be more in store for him. I like pretty much every character left I think although I'm quite sad Eva's gone--I liked her as the leading force against Duncan's uncomfortable sex jokes. I can't decide if you're trying to be Ben Vereen or Randy Newman. 02:01, April 19, 2015 (UTC)

Hey Gid, thanks for handling those two users who voted on featured story at under a hundred edits. I saw them yesterday, but was a bit too busy to take care of it myself. Space was here  some time ago   and he wrote stuff.  16:12, April 30, 2015 (UTC)

Oooohh hahaha! Thanks for letting me know! XD ♫♪ I'll do my best not to die cause now I have to say goodbye. ♫♪  19:27, April 30, 2015 (UTC)

Well it had 3 supporting votes, and I'm just generally allowing this one very slight bending of the rules in order to try and get featured's rolling again. If the users see that featured's are actually being crowned again then perhaps they'll start participating in a large way once more. That's just generally why I allowed it to win even with it being one vote shy. Space was here  some time ago   and he wrote stuff.  15:27, May 2, 2015 (UTC)

Sorry if I'm in breach of the rules, but my old account's password is scrambled so I can no longer access it. Majority of the people on here know who I am anyway but I'll try and get to the minimum edit count within the next week or two; which is inevitable. Icicle Illusionist  18:53, May 5, 2015 (UTC)

Oh okay lol. And yeah I'll do that when I vote to avoid the possible confusion like you've suggested. Icicle Illusionist  19:38, May 5, 2015 (UTC)

I Don't Know a Title
So I told myself today that I would begin to read your fanfic, The Legend of Total Drama Island and became intrigued in the way you have the game played for drama and not comedy. As I was reading the Tropes page, I came across the statement and I wanted to do a story that's similar. I didn't want to steal your idea without your permission, so is it alright is I do a story where the contestants play for drama and not comedy? My newest fanfic, Total Drama: Island of Secrets, will dig into this, but will still have comedy in it. My new story will have a little bit of comedy but in the style of dark humor and will be a competition story as well. So that's my question and I hope that you can reply as soon as possible.

Oops forgot my signature. :) The wasted years, the wasted youth. The pretty lies, the ugly truth.  21:42, May 9, 2015 (UTC)

My story that will be similar to yours hasn't been posted on the wiki yet. It will have the 22 original characters and a few original characters (OCS) to help with the plots and such. The only plotline similar to yours might be the magic one since I am including Leonard and have a few tricks up my sleeve for him. I will be sure that if I copy any storylines to acknowledge you for allowing me to use them and to avoid any "copy" and "plagiarism" statements from users. I look forward to reading all nineteen chapters of your story and it will take a long while for me to review since tomorrow is Mother's Day and I have tests on Monday and Tuesday only a week shy of the end of the school year. Thanks again for responding. :) The wasted years, the wasted youth. The pretty lies, the ugly truth.  01:37, May 10, 2015 (UTC)

Oh I forgot about the prologue. Just started the story today and I can say it's really interesting. Still on the First Night though. The wasted years, the wasted youth. The pretty lies, the ugly truth.  00:55, May 11, 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing that edit discretion out to me Gid, I originally saw that the user had over a hundred edits and thought nothing of it tbh. But then I looked and saw that huge chunk on their profile page and it was pretty obvious. Also, being completely honest, I had no idea we had to delete talk pages as well. I always assumed they just got deleted along with the pages. Is there anyway to track down those rogue talk pages as I didn't follow the deleted pages, perhaps a record of deletion somewhere? Space was here  some time ago   and he wrote stuff.  23:14, May 12, 2015 (UTC)

Whoops. Sorry. I fixed it. 🎠 Run Like The Wind 🎠 Life is limited,  so if you're given a ticket,  board the train  12:42, May 26, 2015 (UTC)

Delete something please?
I vaguely remember now as well. Thanks. I'll talk to fanny soon about giving credit. --  Oh  , we don't own our   Heavens   now, we only own our   Hell  ...  22:32, July 25, 2015 (UTC)

Also, should we allow Fanny to use the exact same names? Many of the character's names have been lifted from Zobe as well. --  Oh  , we don't own our <font color="#96C">  Heavens   now, we <font color="#000">only own our   Hell  ...  22:44, July 25, 2015 (UTC)

Hi Gideon! It's been quite a while since I've had any contact with anyone on the wiki, so I was surprised when I got the message on tumblr. It's kind of ironic that you message me now considering I was actually just on the wiki a few days ago contemplating FYE's fate (as dramatic as that may sound).

I feel like FYE is a huge part of my life and has shaped my writing a lot. I mean, I've literally been working on it off and on for what I think must be five years, so the characters and the storylines they go through mean a lot to me. It's something I'm really proud of and really would be even better if I could just finish it and show just how every storyline is meant to be wrapped up. The thing is, because I've put so much work into it and feel like it's so important to me, it feels kind of wrong to keep posting it on what really is a long-dying fanfiction wiki community. I've always loved Total Drama, but honestly the reason I became involved in the community was because I knew I could use the reality show structure to my advantage. I have a tendency to not finish things, so the reality show elimination set up creates a natural story structure that I would actually want to finish. Total Drama used to be a big deal for me because it was right up my alley in humor and it was a way that I could connect with my brother, as we watched every season together, and when I joined the community over on FF.net I was able to make friends with people with a common interest, which I had difficulty with in real life.

It would be easy for me to detach FYE from Total Drama completely (with the exception of the singing contest episode, which would have to be rewritten to be parody songs rather than World Tour songs) and maybe try to rewrite it as its own original, stand-alone reality show contest. I really doubt I would ever have the motivation to actually write that, though, as I don't think anything would really come of it. The characters have become some of my oldest and favorite creations, and I would really love to finish their arcs sometime, and after some thinking it really doesn't feel all that great for me to have some of the writing I'm the most proud of be a fanfiction for a cartoon that isn't really that important to me anymore. I think the most likely situation is that I'll reuse adaptations of these characters and their relationships in my other writing. Who knows, maybe some of the people who remember reading about them on the wiki will run into some version of them some day?

Sorry if I kind of ranted on your talk page, but long story short my plan right now is to type up a detailed description of where the story was supposed to go and post it in a blog post. That includes the elimination order, every challenge, the outcome of the relationships and friendships, and, of course, the eventual winner. At least then the story will have some kind of conclusion for the people who've been reading it along since the beginning, even if it will never be finished. I'll be copying what is currently posted of FYE and keep it for myself both on my computer and probably somewhere else on the Internet. It took a long time of thinking, but putting so much effort into a story that will end up being a part of a small community that I feel I'm not really a part of anymore is just not something I'm cut out to do. I'll try to get this all done before the 1 year without updates is up. This was the best course of action in my opinon, unless anybody else can think of something better.  There's angels in the airwaves tonight,   and I need you to stay.  05:16, July 27, 2015 (UTC)

Probably finished with Total Drama America
I was considering deleting both my stories on this wiki; that is to say Total Drama America and Let's Not Talk About This. But before that, I need an opinion from you.

To start with, let's start with some background information. I have been writing my own stories since 2002, experimenting between standard prose and graphic novel/comic book format. I've even tried to seriously write a novel back in 2005 intended for release by 2009, but the project itself became unwieldy at 200 chapters, and with more ideas for new stories it grew to over 350. I never made it past Chapter 5. Later on, I looked back at the stories I wrote/tried to write, and found out they were terrible. They had implausible plots and storylines and I was always the main character. By now I have no records of those stories.

Around 2011 (when I was starting to get used to the Internet after only having it (and at one time drowing my parents in bills because of it) for a few months), I experimented with writing fanfiction based on the mechanics of the Hunger Games. The unwieldyness took over again, and I ended up with nearly 400 contestants and way too much I had to write, so over time, I gave up on the project. In 2014, I tried rewriting the story with the same premise (Panem future infiltrates our present and tries to prevent what went wrong) but with 48 original contestants, but never made it farther than the introduction.

I found this wiki in summer 2012 and decided to write fanfiction based off the Total Drama premise. Total Drama America featured 24 original characters, and over time I found a lot of things I could use for the story. I didn't have the problem with unwieldyness due to the preselected episode format, AND it's the farthest I ever got into writing something (I'm on Episode 10), but there were some issues, one of those being I wouldn't know what to write, which ended in me writing implausible scenarios for the contestants, some of which (like Episode 6 and Episode 9) had to be remade on re-edits.

And then there was Let's Not Talk About This. I created the story for Competitive Edge back in 2014, but CE never took off, so it began collecting dust for about a year. When Reality Realized was created this summer, I submitted LNTAT (It didn't always have this name), and my first chapter for it ended up with the first reviews. They were not pleasant. (5/10). What became even more baffling was that everyone else wrote their stories better than mine (ranging from 8-10/10, with the lowest I found so far being a 7/10), and the advice I received didn't help me write my stories any better.

That had me worried about Total Drama America. If LNTAT was bad and it was written later than Total Drama America, and considering that TDAmerica had a tough life so far, I asked some people about how well TDAmerica fared. Usually, Rhonda was my go-to girl for this, as she was the only person who left regular reviews on my stories for me. But sadly, she's gone and doesn't want to communicate with us anymore. (It's a shame. I figured out a story idea revolving around her. It was going to be exciting.) Eventually it was Zac who opened up about the story. He took a look at the first chapter and the elimination order and wasn't pleased by the characters and the amount of plot twists. I tried to ask about what I could do to fix it, but I received nothing of use. On my third anniversary blog post, I even asked everyone to tell me exactly what was wrong or I would delete the stories.

The most interesting part of all this was this: I finished taking a creative writing class earlier this summer. I found out the hard way I was a terrible writer until just recently when the teacher and the other students were finally pleased with my work. The only problem was, I didn't know what I did right. All the help I received was lost on me. I even saw some professional help with sorting out my life, but I gave up after the second session because none of the lessons stuck. (What a waste of $250.) None of my family members could help, nor do I know any friends who live close enough to help me. None of my online friends wish to help either, nor do I know of any Internet sources that could help, and I am deathly scared of visiting places like reddit and tumblr.

Now it has come down to this: I want to reboot Total Drama America as a story with no direct connection to TD canon, and I have a few ideas of doing so, but in order to do that, I need some help. I know very well you were interested in my story from the get-go, and I really wanted to follow a professional writing style rivaling yours in depth. I want to know what the story was, is, and can be, as well as what you see in the story and what and how things can be changed. If possible, I'd also like to know who exactly to consult about some ideas for fully original novels I have written down so I can properly flesh them out. And I'd like to hear from you soon. Preferably in 24 hours. I need to know what I am doing if I want to do the reboot and I'd like to share some ideas with you so you can help me. I was so blind. I never wanted change in the first place. I wanted mindless violence. (Talk | Blogs | Contributions) 05:19, July 30, 2015 (UTC)

I thought I would add it since i'm starting it tommorow. &#34;Jessie, It&#39;s In My Bed!&#34; - BigBrudda (talk) 00:02, September 21, 2015 (UTC)

can you please deleat this page http://totaldramaislandfanfiction.wikia.com/wiki/Total_Drama:_Final_Countdown ? and the "picture" page to -ohmyoskarr ♡, xoxo ♥♥♥ (talk) 15:26, October 7, 2015 (UTC)

Sorry about that. But I can't delete the page so you can and I don't know how to not leave a redirect so there might be one. Sorry about that. &#34;Jessie, It&#39;s In My Bed!&#34; - BigBrudda (talk) 23:05, October 7, 2015 (UTC)

Gideon! First so sorry I haven't been on for so long and so sorry I haven't commented on LTDI, I will fix that right away! I hope you're doing fine and hope to talk to you soon!  But let me ask you this? If you ain't not a super villain, than why would you need a bulletproof face?  02:25, October 18, 2015 (UTC)

I've got up on the 18th night and started 19th, so I hope/plan to be on the 21st night by Friday or Saturday. Especially since it sounds like my shipping radar may break <3 (if Ella's singing can make Leshawna and Heather friendly...we might be hearing about Brett's 'origins' sooner than I thought). I haven't been on Tropes a lot :( (which is kind of strange miracle). I'm excited to see more LTDI tropes (and maybe see if I can add my own). I plan on making a tropes page for Total Drama Genesis too, though after I have some chapters down.  But let me ask you this? If you ain't not a super villain, than why would you need a bulletproof face?  03:34, October 20, 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up Gideon. I've noticed you've been going through them (thanks for the comments!) and I always appreciate the grammar help! I've fixed some of the mistakes I had (I changed Xidorn's label to 'The Straight Shooter' to fit his forward way of thinking and Bethany is in high school, so I made it regionals and the shut put division on the track and field team). Hopefully, the story itself will have less grammatical errors (though like Fourth Wall Breaking, it's probably a given).  What could possibly go wrong?  00:02, October 26, 2015 (UTC)

(Yikes. It turns out I was messaging the wrong guy. Sorry.) "Let's try it again and say goodbye, goodbye to yesterday." (Talk | Blogs | Contributions) 03:17, November 2, 2015 (UTC)

Thanks Gideon, I've been noticing and am really excited to (finally) be hitting 4,000! I don't know if I'll do anything to celebrate. And don't worry, I know you plan on getting to it (you did comment on the character pages after all) but you always have a lot to do so I know you'll get to it. I'm excited to see your repsonses to the 18/19th night comments as well, I really enjoyed those chapters so glad to hear yout thought process on it. I don't think I've gotten a test message, was it through the Wiki? Or on Tropes?  What could possibly go wrong?  23:35, November 8, 2015 (UTC)

I have to thank you for putting the Total Pokemon Island pages up for deletion, since I have decided I will try the series again another time with a different cast and teams, which makes those pages useless to everyone, so again thank you. :D

I saw your repsonses, I'm not sure if I have a reply yet to them but I might. They did inspire me of a new WMG entry for the Tropes page I will try and put up this week though! I checked out Ella's new entry and I particularly like how it describes Ella's powers in comparision to Dawn. I was trying to think of more to add for Chef. Maybe Reasonable Authority Figure?  What could possibly go wrong?  02:38, November 24, 2015 (UTC)

Oops, thanks for the heads up Gideon!  What could possibly go wrong?  03:17, December 7, 2015 (UTC)

Haha, it sounds like life might have been why it took longer than you planned to get it up. I understand that though, its why I've been slow the past couple a weeks (with the Xmas break I plan to catch up on everything, including being caught up with LTDI). And wow, that's a lot of tropes, I'll check them out (and naturally spend hours on tropes) when I'm offically caught up with LTDI (to avoid any spoilers) and post that WMG entry I mentioned earlier too.  What could possibly go wrong?  03:45, December 16, 2015 (UTC)

Hey Gideon, will you ever consider coming onto the wiki chat again? I enjoy talking to you and would be eager to share my latest story ideas.

I'm licensed to chill 23:02, December 16, 2015 (UTC)

In that case, I'm willing to connect with you via Fanfiction.net. I'm assuming you have a relatively similar, if not outright the same username. Tell me yours so I can message you there. I'm incredibly eager to collaborate with the genuinely brilliant mind you are.

I'm licensed to chill 04:01, December 17, 2015 (UTC)

Hello! I made an elimination table on my page, Total Drama: Reality is Mortality, and it's been cut off the page. It doesn't have one of those little slider thingies where you move the slider and you can see the rest of the table. If you can, please help. SaintsBoi (talk) 18:42, February 7, 2016 (UTC)

Ok, thanks. Owenandheatherfan already helped me with the elimination table problem, and the second elimination table isn't mine. I think somebody copied and pasted someone else's elimination table, because it is 100 percent not mine. I'll remember to post at the bottom of your page next time i ask for help. Thanks! SaintsBoi (talk) 19:51, February 7, 2016 (UTC)

Hi Gideon! I was wondering how to create a custom signature, if you could help that would be fantastic. Thanks! SaintsBoi (talk) 17:25, February 10, 2016 (UTC)

Sorry! I already figured out how to do it. Please ignore the message above. Thanks!

Hey Gideon! Yeah it's been awhile unfortunately, and I'm not why it took so long for me to be back on (other than college applying struggles). I understand completely Gideon, it's taken me two months to finish the new Genesis chapter completely overhauling and rewriting it. And I also understand about lack of motivation. I understand why you haven't read Genesis and I'm sorry I'm still not fully caught up on LTDI. I'm hoping with at least some TDG update I can catch upon on LTDI and other stories! But don't feel bad because I've been behind and real life gets in the way. Haha, hopefully we'll both be able to buckle down now.  What could possibly go wrong?  01:02, February 29, 2016 (UTC)