The stories on this wiki have tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of memorable moments, be they dialogue or narrative. But now we're about to find a favorite! Nominate a quote that meets the guidelines below, and see if it comes out on top! Vote either Support or Oppose.
Previous Winners
See: Forum:List of Featured Quotes
Rules
PLEASE READ THE RULES CAREFULLY, BECAUSE THEY ARE DIFFERENT FROM THE RULES FOR OTHER FEATURES. RULES UNIQUE TO FEATURED QUOTE ARE HIGHLIGHTED IN RED
Nominating Rules
- Featured Quote has TWO voting cycles per month, instead of one.
- Don't take the word "Quote" literally. Narrative passages can be just as quoteworthy as dialogue.
- Please identify the story that the Quote comes from.
- If there is a stated Theme (see below), then nominees must fit that theme.
- You may nominate Quotes from other people's stories without permission, unless the Theme states otherwise. Of course, you can also nominate Quotes from your own stories unless the Theme states otherwise.
- If you nominate a Quote from a story that you did not write or collaborate on, then you must identify yourself as the nominator. This is necessary because of Voting Rule #5.
- A story's author has veto power over Quotes from that story. If you object to a particular Quote that someone else has nominated from your story (e.g. because it gives away a spoiler), then you may delete that nominee for any reason or for none, with no questions asked.
- Only one Quote per story per nominator. In other words, two people could each nominate a Quote from Story X, but one person may not nominate two Quotes from it. One person could, however, nominate one Quote from Story X and one Quote from Story Y.
- Please limit nominations to 100 words or less. "Near-miss" Quotes that exceed this limit by only a few words may be allowed at the Ballot Administrator's discretion.
- Please be aware of spoiler potential when nominating a Quote from someone else's story.
- No in-jokes, please. Quotes must be understandable outside the context of the story, except as noted below.
- Quotes must appear on an actual story page. Ancillary materials from character pages, blog-based previews, etc. are ineligible.
- Quotes must be formatted exactly as they are in the story, except as noted below. The easiest way to comply with this rule is by copy-and-paste.
- If you need to add tags to identify speakers or subjects, please italicize them.
- If you need to add narrative text to make a line understandable out of context, enclose the added text in brackets [thusly]. This is standard journalistic practice for quoting things. Note that such added text should be only a few words, if that.
- If a Quote is in past tense in the story, it must be in past tense on the ballot. Ditto for other tenses.
- A Quote may be shortened to meet length limitations. If you do this, replace the removed portion with an ellipsis (...).
Voting Rules
- You must have an account and 100 total edits to vote. You must be logged in and your vote must be signed so the administrators can verify voter eligibility.
- Nominees receiving 5 or more Oppose votes may be removed from the ballot at the discretion of the administrators.
- Vote on as many Quotes as you wish, but only once on each. You may not vote for a Quote from your own story except as noted below.
- If a Quote from your story was nominated by someone else who isn't a collaborating partner on the story, then you may vote for it.
- If you nominate a Quote from a story that you did not write or collaborate on, then you may also vote for it.
- The following rules must be followed when Opposing a quote:
- You must provide a reason for your vote. "No" and "Sorry" are not reasons.
- Oppose votes that appear to be needlessly harsh or that don't observe basic rules of civility will be deleted. If it's worth saying, it can be said politely.
- Please try to provide constructive criticism. This is the whole point of the Oppose option, because Oppose votes aren't actually counted.
- "I want another quote to win" votes will be deleted. If you want another Quote to win, then cast a Support vote for the other Quote and leave it at that.
- "This isn't funny" is only a valid reason to Oppose if the Quote was meant to be funny. Votes opposing an obviously dramatic quote on the grounds that "it's not funny" will be deleted.
- Your opinion of the character(s) associated with a quote is NOT relevant to the merits of the quote itself. Featured Character is a separate ballot, so don't shoot the message.
- "There are better quotes from this story" votes will be deleted because that's irrelevant to the merits of the Quote that actually got nominated. Remember, you can nominate Quotes from other people's stories--so if you think there's a better Quote that's not on the ballot, then why not nominate it yourself?
Theme
For June 1-15, the theme is Fighting Words. You may nominate passages that involve characters insulting/dissing each other.
If you would like to suggest a theme for a future ballot, leave your suggestion on the ballot administrator's talk page. Themes that will definitely be used at some point, but who knows when, include:
- Serious Business (no funny quotes)
- Noncompetition Stories
- Tearjerkers
- Gross-out (suggested by Toad)
- Snappy answers to stupid questions (aka "Snarker's Special")
Theme ideas that may or may not be used one of these days include:
- Fourth Wall Breakers
- Narrative (i.e. no dialogue, although first-person narration might be allowed)
- Whistling Past the Graveyard (funny quotes in unfunny situations)
- First Person narration (if not included in the Narrative theme)
- Sacrifice
- Bromance (suggested by TDIwriter)
Nominations
Enter nominations below.
Ahh, Romance!
Duncan sauntered down the dock to where the other contestants stood, and sidled up to Heather. “Meet you by the campfire, gorgeous?” he suggested with a leer.
“You’re kidding, right?” Heather sniffed. “Try Weird Goth Girl, ‘cause you’re not getting any from me. Got it, Ugly Thugling?”
With a smirk and a voice dripping sarcasm, Duncan replied, “Wow, what a winning personality! Has anyone ever told you that you’re as beautiful on the inside as on the outside?”
“Get bent,” Heather snapped.
- -- from "The Legend of Total Drama Island", written by Gideon, nominated by Jay
Support
Mmmm, true love! TDZincIt doesn't concern you, since you're gonna die! 17:06, June 3, 2012 (UTC)
Oppose
Over a barrel
“I don’t have the soloist’s part for the 'Meditation',” Courtney whispered urgently, with a touch of panic in her voice.
“Of course not,” Julie replied, with the air of one stating the obvious. “Every violinist at this level knows the ‘Meditation’ by heart.” That wasn’t entirely true, but the older girl saw an unlooked-for chance to put this uppity freshman in her place, and she wasn’t about to waste the opportunity.
“Tell you what,” Julie continued in hushed tone, “I’ll play it. You can bow synch, so you’re not just standing there looking like a complete idiot.
- --from Courtney and the Violin of Despair, nominated by the author
Support
Oppose
Ex-Friend
Ryan got angry. "Who voted me out? Whoever did is gonna pay big time when I come back. And trust me, I will."
Jordan, Lynsey and Rex meekly raised their hands.
"REX!?!" Ryan screamed. "How can you do this to me? I thought we were the rulers of the game!"
"More like you were playing as a Heather. You controlled us. Besides the alliance, you played too soft! We had no choice," explained Rex. "But we're still friends. You just didn't play rough." ...
"Whatever. You will pay for your misdeeds, ex-friend! You WILL pay!" yelled Ryan.
-from Total Pojab Island by Zinc, submitted by the author