[Diablo]

Oh shit, where did this come from? Surprise BOTW contender for sure. Let’s get into these quick...


Blue Bayou: This is probably the best topical verse I’ve seen you produce so far. This is the Blue we needed to see against Uni for sure, we all know you have it in you. The text battle prowess is still there, it creeps in on the occasional line like this one:

it’s hard appreciating what’s right in front of you when you cant see inside of yourself

I fucked with the rhyme scheme as well, you adapted really nicely to this format with the internals and so forth on display. The closing line was really a clincher, I loved that, and again I call back to your text battles because I think if anyone knows how to land a line with a pay off - it will be you. This was fresh. I’m impressed and glad you did it.


Bodey: I loved this right off the bat:

I already have your coffee ordered in the cupholder
Iced caramel latte, no whipped cream—you hate whipped cream—
That's why I stick to Folgers

I think it was a deft touch, but these small details are what lift the characters from the screen and into the readers minds. Titbits you can connect with and relate to on a different level.

I enjoyed the more lighthearted and comedic lines scattered throughout like this one:

Happy one-year anniversary? Let’s see how much that’s really worth

I found it quite acerbic, but I enjoy the dark humour utilised in it to be honest and I tend to use it myself.

The Eternal Sunshine line was another dope touch too I felt, very good writers voice to keep it conversational sounding throughout, I almost felt like “one of the girls” on the other end of a FaceTime call hearing you bitch about this chick. Lol. That’s intended in the most pleasant way possible, of course. So, let’s look at what we have here; Blue had the better verse for me in terms of technical prowess, the mechanics, the rhyme scheme etc and I did especially love his closing line (among others). Bodey has a great writers voice and her characterisation was spot on here for me, I became drawn in to it, emotionally I felt invested as a reader which is difficult to pull off and she had a lot throughout that I enjoyed enough to quote - there were several spots in fact, about the same as I did on Bayou’s. I found that I enjoyed the final third of Blue’s more than I did Bodey’s, only because it seemed to come to somewhat of an abrupt end for me, kind of like the phone call ended “Okay, I gotta go now. Bye.” and left me wanting a little more in the way of resolution. I WANT THE DETAILS ON WHY SHES A TOTAL BITCH, GIRLFWIEND!!!! Nah, I’m just kidding there, but yeah this one is close as the votes suggest. I’ve held back to give it a couple of reads and digest fully first before voting, and I think in the end the fairest thing is to call this a draw. The technical skill displayed by Blue here appeals to me personally because I’ve a tendency to write with a penchant for rhyme schemes and flow, but that’s not overlooking any of the attributes Bodey brought to the table for me either - if you look at what I had quoted, she was right up there with him. Head to head, toe to toe, and awarding one of them over the other when both excelled in different areas feels wrong. That’s how close this one is, in a battle like this you can only try to poke holes in what both have done to determine who you felt did it better. I don’t think that’s fair on either of you. You both wrote out of skins this week and it deserves full credit in next weeks magazine. This was a marker put down by you both, you should be proud.


Keep those pens moving!