http://agent-chliever.livejournal.com/2985.html
Get it while it's hot! Nice, steamy mission! Last mission was basically all plot; this one's the reverse, just classic mission, complete with gratuitous violence, cannibalism, things behaving strangely due to writing errors, and malfunctioning CADs, the first time I've written them!
There's also a bit of character development in here, explaining the various things that make Chliever tick (in some cases quite literally) and what happens when he loses control of himself. You'll also notice Winston start to come into his own a bit, including making his own calls when to charge. I tried to take some of Sara's advice in her "how to write better" thread to heart, but I've been planning on doing this for a while, so, nobody think they forced me, okay?
Also, they bring back much unacanonical tech that I'm sure DoSAT could have a field day with, including a lightsaber that turns into a bazooka!
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Mission PLLLLUUUGAGAGAGAGAGAAAAG! by
on 2009-06-11 01:21:00 UTC
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Very nice. by
on 2009-06-12 00:03:00 UTC
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How do they come up with this stuff?
I'm not sure Winston would get off so lightly if attacked by a Greater Daemon, regardless of type. Isn't the usual effect clothing and armour corroding, flesh rotting away, painful death etc...? -
Note that Chliever wasn't trying to kill him by
on 2009-06-12 00:54:00 UTC
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He was trying to corrupt him. Had he succeeded, Winston probably would have come out as something similar to a Chaos Space Marine
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Or just a bog-standard Nurgalite? by
on 2009-06-12 16:53:00 UTC
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I see. Exactly how did Winston subdue him? A simple punch surely wouldn't be enough...
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Maybe I didn't explain that well enough by
on 2009-06-12 17:43:00 UTC
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Punching Chliever in the face when he's like that restarts his inhibitor. I mentioned that in his bio and on the wiki, but it wasn't terribly clear here.
Does it make sense? No. This is the PPC, of course it doesn't!
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Does the View Askewniverse have a set Mini yet? by
on 2009-06-12 00:45:00 UTC
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If not, I suggest Mini-Golgothans. I've already found some; Meditron, Bartelby, and Donte (if they apply to Clerks as well as Dogma). Anyone's agents want to adopt a foot-tall sewage muppet?
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Re: Does the View Askewniverse have a set Mini yet? by
on 2009-06-12 10:02:00 UTC
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If Trojie even thinks of saying yes, I may have to kill her.
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And if that doesn't work for "Clerks" ... Mini-Customers? by
on 2009-06-16 02:43:00 UTC
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Which can speak perfectly grammatical English, but only in the form of repetitive and irritating questions ...
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Aw, who wouldn't want a walking pile of manure? ^_^ (nm) by
on 2009-06-12 13:22:00 UTC
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So... uh... yeah. by
on 2009-06-12 21:06:00 UTC
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http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3246830/1/I_Hate_You
I found this today. My inner Zuko fangirl screams for bloody vengeance.
Zuko is Azula's sex slave.
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Zuko can breathe fire.
He can BREATHE FIRE.
FIRE.
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Re: So... uh... yeah. by
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And throat, among other things. Really, perfect opportunity to kill her and melt the chains, since she didn't have the foresight to make them short.
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I like the way you think. Fire pretty... *_* (nm) by
on 2009-06-15 22:52:00 UTC
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what? by
on 2009-06-15 01:11:00 UTC
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Wait, what>
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*facepalm* by
on 2009-06-13 15:41:00 UTC
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Agreed with WikiMaster - Incest between close relatives is bad, because of the pregnancy risk. Don't know too much about Avatar, but I'm sure Zuko's OOC to its logical extremes, and I'm fairly sure Azula is too. If I hadn't resolved to not feel squick at anything short of Agony in Pink-level extra-graphic torture, tentacle pr0n art, or more than ten minutes on /b/, I would be squicked. As it is, I just want to kill it with... something that isn't fire, actually.
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Based on the profile, she also ships pretty much every stereotypical "obnoxious fangirl" pairing there is.
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Especially in HP. by
on 2009-06-13 19:15:00 UTC
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Oh god, the sheer uncanon of it all. She denounces all the canon 'ships right then and there. And then there's the Ron/Ginny. She really seems to love incestual shippings.
Apparently, some research shows that keeping it to cousins is usually not as risky, but this author does not grasp that sibling incest+offspring=higher chance of genetic malformation=bad. I'm hoping she never writes a pregnancy fic. -
Re: Especially in HP. by
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Chiming in with the Word of Science here:
One of Darwin's many points of pondering was the possibility of cousin-marriages seriously screwing things up - they were rife in his family, and he married his own cousin, and of his kids that survived most had genetic defects of varying severity. a one-off with a cousin is probably fine, unless you've something nasty lurking in your genes, but prolonged inter-cousin marrying in a family = Very Bad News.
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Exactly. by
on 2009-06-14 16:25:00 UTC
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Should have clarified that I knew this in my post. I meant to say that - once is generally not a problem, but if you keep doing it, your bloodline is going to have some serious problems.
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Ugh! by
on 2009-06-13 15:08:00 UTC
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What if Azula (or Zuko, If the author isn't above MPreg) gets pregnant? Inbreeding is bad for kids, you know. Also, Squick!
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*vomits* by
on 2009-06-13 04:06:00 UTC
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Eeew! Ew, ew, ew! What do they find good about this pairing? My mental CAD vaporized about four paragraphs through. The reviewers think this is good writing? Gross.
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Re: So... uh... yeah. by
on 2009-06-12 23:10:00 UTC
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The day I find good torture porn is the day I stand upside-down with my head in a bucket of piranha fish.
Also, more canon violations than I care to count. I doubt Zuko hates Azula, and he certainly wouldn't RAPE her, even if she did like it. Which she wouldn't, because she always tries to control HIM.
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Re: So... uh... yeah. by
on 2009-06-13 21:12:00 UTC
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Not all torture porn is bad. There's a pretty good Gundam 00 AU that spawned off a prompt on the fandom's kinkmeme where one of the pairings is extremely sadomasochistic. The most recent installment of the series had the masochistic partner kidnapped and tortured and it was good.
It was also left on an Everest-sized cliffhanger so in my opinion the next part can't come soon enough. With my luck though the next part to be posted won't be the conclusion. -
Re: So... uh... yeah. by
on 2009-06-15 07:37:00 UTC
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I'm going to have disagree with that one. Torture porn doesn't work but it doesn't work that way in real life. As someone who's been on a very thorough tour of Tuol Sleng/S-21, I can tell you that real torture techniques would make even the most die-hard S&M fan recoil. Actual torture is not about arousal-it's about breaking people. As a result, it depends on raw physical pain, and more importantly, fear. For example, waterboarding depends entirely on primal fear. Sure, it's also painful, but the main point is to overload your mind with the fear of drowning. All this stuff with nipple clamps and whatnot is just pointless, really.
The reason that it worked in, to use Trojie's example, "War Stories", was that it was actually a fairly realistic depiction of torture.
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Ditto - there's no such thing as a bad genre by
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I've seen it done well in the BBC Merlin fandom as well.
Apart from anything else, torture!fic, if handled delicately and done well, can, like any other kind of fic, show up aspects of character we wouldn't ordinarily see.
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Re: So... uh... yeah. by
on 2009-06-13 00:06:00 UTC
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What pisses ME off is that every other word is the F-bomb.
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Lullabies in the PPC by
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What might some of them be?
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Got some (language warning on some of them) by
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Well, the crazy!evil side of self and of Agent!Ril, Darth Ember, tends to come up with some doozies. I share most of them just for lol.
Mary was a little Sue,
little Sue, little Sue,
Mary was a little Sue,
Always just the same.
We cut her up and buried her,
buried her, buried her,
we cut her up and buried her,
a mass grave with just one naaaame...
Sing a song of Suethors, a pocket full of knives,
Four and twenty fanbrats baked in a pie.
When the pie was opened the girls began to scream,
Really such a pity they weren't dead as they seemed
The Sues were in the fanfics, being dumb as hell,
The slash was in full swing, and pretty crap as well,
The fanbrats wanted praise for all this stupid shit,
When along came Ember and hacked them to bits!
Sane side offshunting, Ember's gone a-hunting,
To tear away some dumb Sue's skin, To wrap her shiny weapons in.
What shall we do with the stupid Suethor, what shall we do with the stupid Suethor, what shall we do with the stupid Suethor, ear-ly in the moooorning?
Stick her in an oven till she's roasted, stick her in an oven till she's roasted, stick her in an oven till she's roasted, ear-ly in the mooorning!
I had a little mission,
Against a Mary Sue
I kept my options open,
Then turned her into stew.
I fed her to her Suethor,
She had no idea
That her own creation
Was so very near.
I told her what was in it,
Laughed in her face,
Then scared the little nuisance
Until she knew her place.
As I was sharpening my knives,
I met a Sue of many lies.
A princess where she shouldn't be,
puts Jedi down on bended knee,
and makes it hard Canon to see.
With special skills and nice sharp knives,
How long can I keep her alive?
Okay, that's all for now, but if people like, I'll post some of the stuff that's completely invented, not just my filks. -
Okay, not so much language as I thought before. ^^; (nm) by
on 2009-06-21 05:12:00 UTC
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A variant of "Lullabye for a Stormy Night" by Vienna Teng? by
on 2009-06-14 05:54:00 UTC
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It could go like this:
Little child, be not afraid
The PPC will kill the Sue
Keep you as yourself
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Was thinking the same thing. :-D (nm) by
on 2009-06-14 23:58:00 UTC
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Re: Lullabies in the PPC by
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Two words, Tawaki: MLF Lullaby.
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on 2009-06-14 01:01:00 UTC
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I've clearly been in the DBS too long. My brain keeps inserting an I into that MLF. The mental images are... disturbing.
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*offers Bleepka* (nm) by
on 2009-06-15 01:40:00 UTC
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Dunno, but ... by
on 2009-06-13 23:48:00 UTC
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... I was thinking of writing a Mossflower vermin lullaby to use in my next fic with Molly. I've been reading Ursula Vernon's "Little Creature" and I have a yearning for more of the Grotesque Cute.
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Oh, and ... by
on 2009-06-14 00:16:00 UTC
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... I have an idea for a scene involving Stormsong singing Moses to sleep with the Decemberists' "You'll Not Feel The Drowning" ("Go to sleep now, little ugly/ Go to sleep now, you little fool/ Forty-winking in the belfry/ You'll not feel the drowning"), getting yelled at, and claiming that it doesn't matter because the baby's too young to know what he's singing.
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Question by
on 2009-06-14 17:55:00 UTC
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This has been puzzling me for a while, so I thought I'd throw it out to the community as a whole in the hopes of getting an answer.
Neuralysers work through eye contact, correct? If you're not looking at it or have your eyes covered then you're safe from its effects.
The problem is with two characters in my main fandom. One has been blind since birth and wears a protective visor over his eyes. The other is capable of seeing, but he keeps his eyes so slitted they may as well be closed.Strangely this doesn't affect his ability to fight or perform day to day tasks.The two instances of him opening his eyes fully in canon suggest that he only does so during battle. Attempting to force this would be suicide for my Agents, given their strength in relation to him.
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Hmmmmm.... by
on 2009-06-15 05:37:00 UTC
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Do you think it would be possible to modify a Neuralyser to work sonically, rather than visually? But then that would require a trip to DoSAT, wouldn't it? Meh. I've got nothing other than that...
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I've got a fic like that. by
on 2009-06-15 01:40:00 UTC
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The character who's being sought after by the Sue, whose name I will not mention because it makes me ANGRY, may or may not have eyes in this version of canon, and also wears a mask. Removing it is not an option. How?
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on 2009-06-14 23:05:00 UTC
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for Daleks. Any ideas?
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Well, either the Dalek has killed the Sue by
on 2009-06-15 09:05:00 UTC
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already itself. Or the Sue has turned the Dalek so it doesn't want to kill anymore.
It could be dangerous for Agents to try and put a Dalek back to his own self (nevermind how they'd do it). The moment it got fixed, it'd start to yell "exterminate!" and fire at the agents.
I'd say: let canon sort this Dalek out. If this Dalek doesn't want to kill anymore, I'm sure there are enough Daleks left that can sort him out on that one. -
The Daleks, in this case,... by
on 2009-06-16 14:15:00 UTC
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are the Cult of Skaro. She made them more or less human in behavior but they do exactly the same evil things they do in canon. (eg. kidnapping, making Pig Slaves, new Dalek race...)
Problem is, there are only four Daleks left in this timeframe, and all of them are OOC... -
I usually work with the premise by
on 2009-06-17 15:17:00 UTC
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that as soon as the Sue is dead the canon snaps back to its own self.
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Sounds like a case for intravenous Bleeprin in Medical. (nm) by
on 2009-06-14 20:16:00 UTC
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Re: Sounds like a case for intravenous Bleeprin in Medical. by
on 2009-06-14 22:33:00 UTC
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How to get them there though, and subdue them long enough to get an IV in them? Either character is a one man army by himself, and neither of my Agents is strong enough to even think they can win any kind of struggle against them.
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You know... by
on 2009-06-15 02:06:00 UTC
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The Aura of Smooth tends to weaken canons. Do you think the fic's bad enough that either character has become weaker than your Agents?
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Ooh, ooh, idea: Bleeprin gas bomb! by
on 2009-06-14 23:09:00 UTC
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Would solve a lot of mass-neuralysation problems as well.
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Agents would need to be very sure their gas masks don't slip by
on 2009-06-15 00:59:00 UTC
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But I'm not entirely sure that would work; doesn't Bleeprin fade out the memories that are hurting you? I thought it behaved rather differently to neuralysation.
That said if neuralysers work by shooting 'erasing rays' (for lack of better term) into someone's eye, the effect still has to reach the brain somehow. It's not the eyes, after all, which remember. Maybe you could find another 'way in'? -
Very STRONG Bleeprin gas bomb? I think ... by
on 2009-06-15 01:47:00 UTC
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... in one of the Original Series they used Bleeprin as an added safety measure to erase Elrond's memories of molesting toddler-Arwen. I'm guessing the character's brain would figure ALL memories of the fic were hurting them and let the Bleeprin erase any memories of anything in the fic happening ...
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What? by
on 2009-06-15 10:48:00 UTC
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... Elrond... and toddler Arwen? Which... which fic is that? I couldn't find it in a brief flick through.
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Yeesh... by
on 2009-06-15 13:23:00 UTC
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I don't suppose anyone knows where the original is?
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That makes sense. :) (nm) by
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Re: Question by
on 2009-06-14 18:32:00 UTC
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Well, it looks like you're describing Geordi and Worf from TNG...
Geordi sees any electromagnetic wavelength, so I think it can work. Worf can see, so if he looks at you it's ok.
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I was thinking Gin and Tousen myself (nm) by
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Yup (nm) by
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Re: Question by
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No, it's not TNG. I lean more towards anime than live action most of the time.
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First Contact by
on 2009-06-15 11:28:00 UTC
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SETI has a multi-billon dollar thing set up to search for alien life. They've now admitted that, if they find it, they'd have no clue what to say, so they've asked the public for help. Any ideas on what first words we should say to extraterrestrials if and when we ever encounter them?
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assuming they even understand us...
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What are those... by
on 2009-06-18 10:33:00 UTC
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little thingies underneath the first line?
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'Hyperspatial express routes not welcome in this vicinity'? by
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...Sorry, couldn't resist :P
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Good one! (nm) by
on 2009-06-16 13:20:00 UTC
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"Hello. We like to think we're very open-minded... by
on 2009-06-16 00:46:00 UTC
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... but frankly, we're ruled by governments that are so terrified of EACH OTHER that chaces are, they'll be throwing nuclear missles at you the moment they get jumpy. Sorry. But the rest of us are usually pretty good!"
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What's that film like? by
on 2009-06-16 10:29:00 UTC
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I've heard of it, but not what it's about.
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In (very) short: by
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Aliens decide that Earth is too valuable as a life-supporting planet to die due to human behaviour, and after Keeanu Reeves' character (an alien in human form) is thoroughly discouraged by the hyper-paranoid American government and has had a chance to show off his Amazing Mind Control Of Electricity And Machines Power, decides that, yes, all humans have to die. Lead Female Character tries to change his mind. Big chase. American Defense People are paranoid and shoot, shoot, shoot. Lots of proof that alien technology is WAY superior to ours (except our CGI workshop) despite being hypocritical considering that they're Uber Environmentalists.
Reeves' character eventually gets all sentimental and agrees that, yes "we" (humans) do show their best qualities when on the edge of death (this is, by the way, after Lead Female Character has cried and insisted that "We can change!" many times over), and goes out and nearly (or perhaps actually) gets himself killed stopping his own machines, which then fly away, but have already destroyed most of New York (of course. Why is it never Perth or Anchorage or Bristol?), and have ruined all electrical power so humans will have to Go Back To Nature.
Very moralistic.
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Sometimes... by
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it's San Fransico. And Fantastic Four damaged London. As did 28 Weeks Later (which firebombed it). :D
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Typo: "chances" (nm) by
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... have SETI not considered the bit... by
on 2009-06-16 00:45:00 UTC
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... where they don't speak English?
Popular sci-fi ideas for what to 'say' to aliens if we meet them include exchange of mathematical and chemistry/physics concepts, because those are seen as being more universal than language.
However the fact that we'll have to come up with some kind of pidgin way of translating this tends to put a dampener on it.
I'd suggest pictures, but then who knows what kind of vision system they'll have, if any. They might not see with the same light spectrum as us, for a start.
What if they see in UV? Or infra-red? Or microwaves, for heaven's sake?
Hell, IF there are aliens and IF they contact us, I'l be mightily surprised if they even breathe oxygen. And if they can break our atmosphere in their oogly boogly spaceships, I'll eat my steel-capped boots :D
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*folds Trojie a tinfoil hat* (nm) by
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*jams it tightly onto her head* by
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This means they can't get at my brain, rigbt?
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what you really want are ear muffs and a hard hat so they can't suck your brain out through alien space straws. *hands you said items*
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*wraps the hard hat in tinfoil just in case* by
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Actually it's now university policy that I have to own my own hard hat, so I might do that when I go and buy it ...
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Umm... why? by
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That's an odd policy.
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Because it's a bad look for them ... by
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... if I get brained on fieldwork.
And the section I was working on last Friday did randomly disgorge lumps of rock every so often. Although it's considered bad form to actually let yourself get hit. That's what *undergrads* do ...
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Better than the internet... by
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where men are men, women are men and cute thirteen-year-olds are FBI agents.
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True! by
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And everyone is called Kevin or Steve and lives in their parents' basement.
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*chooses new name* by
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Hmm... okay, I'll swap from David to Kevin. Sure I can't be Kyle? The basement thing... that's a problem. I'll have to dig a basement first. Bungalows don't tend to ever come with them and most British houses don't have them anyway.
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Don't worry, I don't have a basement either by
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And I promise I'm a woman, but then so do all the men :P
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I don't... by
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I'm a man... I think. Will it help if I promise I'm either a man or a woman?
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If you can punctuate a sentence then ... by
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... I don't care if you're man, woman, hermaphrodite or neuter. Skill before sexual organs!
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Personally, I think Theoden in Return of the King had the worst (in the film anyway. I think it was Eomer in the books). "Ride to ruin and the world's ending!"
Alternatively, that guy in Braveheart... I think. I can't actually remember what it is.
But I like yours. It gives support to those who say that size doesn't matter. Which is true. If you're hung like a horse, you're not going to get many girls then either. -
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However I agree with your last statement.
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but you should know how often things are twisted totally out of context.
I presume the last statement was the "hung like a horse" comment?
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Yep, that statement.
It's not from a film, it's from Terry Pratchett's 'Jingo', wherein Captain Carrot's battlecry 'Remember, if we succeed, no-one will remember, and if we fail, no-one will forget!' (or words to that effect, it's been a few years since I read it) is considered to be almost as bad as 'Let's all get our throats cut, boys!' -
Oh... by
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I've never got around to reading Pratchett. *is shamed*
But it always amazes me that writers, both in fanfiction and published writers think that bigger is better. If a man was hung like a horse, I think the woman would feel more pain than pleasure.
There's a joke, but I can't remember it in it's entirety. An Australian man is in Amsterdam, trying to find a prostitute, but every one runs away when he pulls it out, afraid it'll hurt them. Eventually, he finds a brothel owner who swears that one of her girls will be big enough for him and she asks how big it is.
Man: "Seven inches."
Brothel Owner: "Seven inches? Whatever is the fuss about then?"
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Careful with the NSFW jokes, dude :) by
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people read this thing at home and school - warnings are good. Also, y'know, we've got very young teens here.
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hadn't occurred to me.
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I've met people ... by
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... around the age of twelve on this Board. I dunno how young the youngest who posts here is, but I really wouldn't be surprised if there were lurkers of that kind of age kicking around. Fandom's getting younger and younger people floating around.
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I'm actually only almost 14. by
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And already completely desensitized to any badfic less disgusting than Agony in Pink/Red, and mostly desensitized to badfic of that caliber and above. I don't go on AFF, though - not into random pornfic.
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There's an Agony in Red? by
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Link please? I've been meaning to read Pink and the Wiki page mentions a sequel.
As for desensitising, the only badfic I haven't been able to handle has been Draco's Christmas Cuppa. One day, and one day soon, I'll be attempting to reread it. I just have to shut off my brain first (I visualise fics as movies. This is very useful when writing and even badfics are usually okay, but DCC just broke the screen). -
Re: There's an Agony in Red? by
on 2009-06-21 13:48:00 UTC
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Really? I didn't have a problem with DCC. It just made me raise an eyebrow.
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I think it was a bad day... by
on 2009-06-23 16:43:00 UTC
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maybe I was already feeling unwell and that pushed me over the edge.
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It was all the way back in my intro post... by
on 2009-06-17 12:51:00 UTC
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I remember I was linked to it because I felt like reading an absolute shedload of badfic and coming out mostly unscathed. I succeeded, for the most part - I had to skim Subjugation and Agony in Red/Pink though, ten percent because they're disturbing and ninety percent because they're long and repetitive. I think it was mostly the repeated thoughts of 'Didn't I just see this scene a few pages ago?' that made me skip half.
Took a one-sitting readthrough of That Series and the other Legendary Badfic by the same author to start the 'nausea' part most people experience at the first page or so. -
And your intro post is where? (nm) by
on 2009-06-17 12:54:00 UTC
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on 2009-06-17 17:37:00 UTC
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Been here for about 3/4 of a year. I actually meant that I didn't really want to search for Agony in Red - I'll just Google it up now.
...Oh, what the hell is this. There's another one. I'll just toss you all three of these, I guess.
http://godawful-fanfiction-wiki.pbworks.com/Agony-In-Pink
http://godawful-fanfiction-wiki.pbworks.com/Agony-In-Yellow
http://godawful-fanfiction-wiki.pbworks.com/Agony-In-Red
That's probably all of it. Red was by someone else - the guy was trying to write something worse than the original. He may have succeeded. -
Thanks for the links again... by
on 2009-06-18 14:01:00 UTC
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I'll probably grab them later today. The only one I can't would be Red, because that's on 17chan and, though I've never heard of it 4chan etc are blocked, so 17chan probably will be too.
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Okay... by
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I just realised that the titles are based on the colours. So... Kimberly was the Pink Ranger... who were Red and Yellow?
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Re: Okay... by
on 2009-06-17 23:00:00 UTC
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Jason and Trini. Or Rocky and Aisha. Depending on when it's set.
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I think it was by
on 2009-06-18 10:32:00 UTC
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set in the original series rather than the dinosaurs and ultimate ninja gibberish.
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Re: I'm actually only almost 14. by
on 2009-06-17 03:27:00 UTC
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Oh, stop it, you're making me feel ancient. :P
So far as I can see aff's sole purpose is to provide one with an easy route to bad smutfic to spork. If there's reading for fun to be had there, I can't see where it hides. -
I've encountered it... by
on 2009-06-17 10:37:00 UTC
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It's extremely rare, but I've encountered two parodies in the Star Wars section. Parodies of the crap on the rest of the site. :D
There's also a decently written torture story (I think. It's been a while since I read it) which, as far as I can remember, had no issues but the usual AFF format screwups (where words merge etc) and the sexual element and a bit of fandom-breaking stuff (it was Jaina Solo being tortured to death by a sentient ship that Anakin Skywalker had pissed off and being raped by her lightsabre).
There was also a Tomb Raider fic which was decently written. It was a "Lara dies every single chapter because that's what happens in-game" fic. It was very amusing to read the comments whining about the lack of sexual content. As one comment said in response, while AFF is usually used for porn, there's no rule saying there has to be porn. -
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on 2009-06-16 17:48:00 UTC
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Wandering into random pornfics, usually those of the yaoi variety, on AFF has caused me much pain. One day I may learn to stick with the stuff posted to the LJ comms/authors I know are good.
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Don't you have to be thirteen or above... by
on 2009-06-16 12:29:00 UTC
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to post on most fanfiction sites though?
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Technically yes by
on 2009-06-16 21:21:00 UTC
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But that doesn't stop people. You also have to be eighteen and over to look at some things ... however all you have to do is click a button that says 'I am 18+' - it doesn't have a lie detector built in :)
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on 2009-06-16 13:03:00 UTC
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What makes you think that'd stop them?
You have to be eighteen or above to access aff. I've been hanging around there since I was about fourteen*. It doesn't seem to have scarred me, although if I'd seen some of the current fics back then, or even known how m/m sex was supposed to work, it might have done.
*Not that I'm encouraging anyone who is underaged to follow my example and visit there. -
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on 2009-06-16 13:09:00 UTC
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True. I encountered AFF when I was 16. It's been blocked on every PC I can find, unfortuately.
... I don't suppose you could tell me if there's a Left 4 Dead section in the Games category? -
Odd. by
on 2009-06-16 13:45:00 UTC
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I didn't expect people to be that young. I'm 15, by the way.
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Except... by
on 2009-06-16 14:18:00 UTC
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in underage rape fics...
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Word! by
on 2009-06-16 17:36:00 UTC
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Paedophilia/lolicon/shotacon is one of the few things I know I personally could never write about.
And no, I can't seem to spot a Left 4 Dead category in the Games section. -
Re: Word! by
on 2009-06-17 10:27:00 UTC
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Thank god for L4D. The Resident Evil section is filled with goreophilia. Badly written goreophilia at that.
I have two rapes in my combined stories (that I can remember right now anyway). One victim is a seventeen-year-old woman, the other a fourteen-year-old girl. I'm going to be trying to handle it as realistically as possible and therefore, those fics are high on the "I'm going to make this perfect before I even consider uploading" list. So therefore, no comfort sex (or even thoughts of it) and no "oh, I liked that, do it again!" bull et cetera. -
Me too, except in the context of sporking it. (nm) by
on 2009-06-17 02:02:00 UTC
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erm... Yes. Of course. *backs away slowly* (nm) by
on 2009-06-16 04:51:00 UTC
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How about... by
on 2009-06-15 18:19:00 UTC
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"Hi! My name's (name here)! What's your name? Let's be friends! Can I hug you?"
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What if they're Denebian Slime Devils? (nm) by
on 2009-06-16 10:26:00 UTC
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Re: What if they're Denebian Slime Devils? by
on 2009-06-17 00:43:00 UTC
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In that case, the answer to the later queries will be 'no'. Then... well, my advice would be useless, since I have no idea what Denebian Slime Devils are.
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I don't think anyone does... by
on 2009-06-17 10:42:00 UTC
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It's a Trek reference (a Klingon called Kirk a Denebian Slime Devil). I got the impression it was slimy.
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As for what I'd say... by
on 2009-06-15 15:07:00 UTC
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"Hello. We are from a faraway place. We would like to cooperate with you to form a better life for both of our species. However, we must warn you that if you should in any way attempt to harm us, we have access to weapons that could very easily shatter your homeworld. We would say you'd all just become ash, but the fact is it'd be more likely for those who took the brunt of the blasts to be vaporized. The few of you who survive will likely succumb to the fallout and die shortly."
It occurs to me that I'm a somewhat aggressive individual. Oh well, never hurts to be safe when potentially hostile extraterrestrial beings are involved. -
That was roughly my speech by
on 2009-06-15 15:09:00 UTC
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but I was going to emphasise the fact that we'd want peace to be preferable.
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Well. by
on 2009-06-15 15:20:00 UTC
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I suppose that could be the rest of it. I'm afraid I get wrapped up in my descriptions of horrifying doom. Fun stuff, that.
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Horrifying doom is always fun. (nm) by
on 2009-06-15 15:21:00 UTC
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I do believe we shall get along quite well. by
on 2009-06-15 15:34:00 UTC
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Yes, yes indeed.
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Thank you. I like to get along well with fellow people. by
on 2009-06-16 10:32:00 UTC
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Unless they're morons. But that's not the case on this site, so woo!
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"Please don't eat us"? (nm) by
on 2009-06-15 14:27:00 UTC
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I like. (nm) by
on 2009-06-15 14:37:00 UTC
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Assuming we are capable of communication... by
on 2009-06-15 14:19:00 UTC
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Which is unlikely, unless they're far more advanced than we and have universal translators. But, assuming...
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That's no fun... by
on 2009-06-15 14:23:00 UTC
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Say we create a real life version of the Federation or Republic. I imagine that the words said at first contact would be repeated. "Hello" just wouldn't do.
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What about "HOW ARE YOU GENTLEMEN!!"? (nm) by
on 2009-06-15 12:39:00 UTC
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What if they're like the asari? (nm) by
on 2009-06-15 13:13:00 UTC
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Possibly stupid question: What're Asari? (nm) by
on 2009-06-16 01:48:00 UTC
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It's simply asari... by
on 2009-06-16 10:35:00 UTC
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Mass Effect doesn't like to capitalise race names (finally, a sci-fi that does that). Basically, they're a race of monogendered blue "alien space babes."
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Ah. Thank you. by
on 2009-06-17 01:39:00 UTC
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If they are like the asari, then we shall sing "roll-a bowl-a ball a penny a pitch".
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Umm... why? by
on 2009-06-17 10:41:00 UTC
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Sorry. If it's a reference, I didn't get it.
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What... the hell.. is that? (nm) by
on 2009-06-20 11:10:00 UTC
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I don't know. What if they're like the asari? (nm) by
on 2009-06-16 00:33:00 UTC
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Re: First Contact by
on 2009-06-15 12:07:00 UTC
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If I weren't about ninety per cent asleep, I'd have a lengthy answer for this. But my brain is unconscious, so I'll limit myself to saying the odds of them understanding anything we say aren't all that high. And I'll let Trojie explain exactly why.
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That was my view as well by
on 2009-06-15 12:34:00 UTC
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but we can still say something epic and they can translate it later.
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Erm, hello! by
on 2009-06-15 15:00:00 UTC
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I noticed these stories through TVtropes yesterday, and now that I'm on a computer (as opposed to my phone) I just popped in to say hi.
I'd love to make one of these myself, really... unfortunately, I'm not all that well-versed in Tolkien. Or can it extend to other fandoms? Forgive me, I haven't had the time to go through all the stories yet. -
well, hello. by
on 2009-06-17 16:38:00 UTC
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have some C4. it is perfectly harmless. right now. no guarantees about later, though. and welcome...
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We are the Plorg. by
on 2009-06-16 14:23:00 UTC
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We will add your writing and story-telling distinctiveness to our own. Resistance is futile.
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Welcome! Have a Capillary Towel! by
on 2009-06-16 00:44:00 UTC
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Good for cleaning up after killing Mary Sues. *not-so-subtlely shoves a DMS flag into your hands*
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Welcome! *proffers a plate of lembas* (nm) by
on 2009-06-16 00:38:00 UTC
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*pokes a Trojie onto gtalk* (nm) by
on 2009-06-16 00:43:00 UTC
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herro! by
on 2009-06-16 00:33:00 UTC
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Welcome to the PPC Board! Please deposit your sanity in the provided receptacle. *provides bucket labeled "Big Nasty Thing Fodder"* You probably won't need it here. I've never met you, but I'm going to hug you anyway, and also have the Philosopher's Scone. It is scone-y.
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Hello! by
on 2009-06-15 22:47:00 UTC
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Welcome! Have a winged kitten, and watch out for giant glass jars.
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MAGIC. by
on 2009-06-16 02:07:00 UTC
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Not really. I press alt+13! ♪
alt+3 is a heart, too, by the way. ♥
And while we're answering questions, do I make a new thread to introduce my agents when I'm done with laying out my designs? -
Yes, you do. by
on 2009-06-16 21:20:00 UTC
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And... you lied! Or we just have different types of computers. Take your pick.
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METHINKS DIFFERENT TYPES by
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or you could try alt+enter
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actually by
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i used microsoft word
symbols are fun!
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Hi! by
on 2009-06-15 22:30:00 UTC
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Welcome! Here's a special helm from the Raven Armory! Yes, there are more fandoms than Tolkien. I'm in three, and none of them are LotR. It's nice to meet you.
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Welcome! by
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We are protectors of all plot continuums, so don't worry about not being very well-versed in Tolkien.
As for my gift to you...it's an egg whisk! It's shiny, gold-plated, and whisks not only eggs but author wraiths and spambots, too! Use it for good and notmuchevil.
Welcome to the insanity! Enjoy the ride. ;-) -
First poptart! by
on 2009-06-15 19:20:00 UTC
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Welcome! I'm impressed you managed to leave TV Tropes; Eru knows it's more than I can usually do.
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Bit of a late welcome, it seems. by
on 2009-06-15 18:20:00 UTC
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But... welcome! Have a free walnut and a weighted companion cube! (it will never threaten to stab you!)
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Re: Bit of a late welcome, it seems. by
on 2009-06-15 20:13:00 UTC
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Really? I've missed my old one since the euthanasia.
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Hello there! by
on 2009-06-15 17:58:00 UTC
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Have a shapeshifting plushie.
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Plushie?! by
on 2009-06-16 01:22:00 UTC
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C-can it become a bunny...?
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Yes, yes it can. by
on 2009-06-16 14:47:00 UTC
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Any bunnies - angora, regular, or otherwise.
If you're into Nightmare Fuel, it can turn into Cthulhu (Always popular) and a bunch of other things as well. -
First plover! by
on 2009-06-15 17:21:00 UTC
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Would you prefer a TARDIS or a response center for any Agents you devise?
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How will I choose?! by
on 2009-06-15 17:36:00 UTC
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A TARDIS or a response center... oh, God, it's so difficult to decide... I think a response center would be best, though, since it's more easily furnished.
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Have an Anti-Lustin blade! by
on 2009-06-15 16:55:00 UTC
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The last one seemed to like it.
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Re: Have an Anti-Lustin blade! by
on 2009-06-15 17:51:00 UTC
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I really ought to know what that is, I suppose, but I'll ask anyway: What is an Anti-Lustin blade, and does it make things scream and/or explode?
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An Anti-Lustin blade is... by
on 2009-06-15 20:06:00 UTC
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Just like a venom blade, only it dampens felings of lust in the people you cut with it, instead of poisoning them. As for Anti-Lustin, It is a substance that stops people from going head over heels in lust whenever they meet a hot canon character (it doesn't work on Sues, however). The sword produces its own.
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Re: An Anti-Lustin blade is... by
on 2009-06-15 20:12:00 UTC
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Oh, sweet cherry pie, yes. But wouldn't a dagger work a little better than a sword, given that the purpose doesn't seem to be wounding the target but bringing them from out of a daze? A dagger would be considerably more precise. Plus if it were a nice throwing knife, you could just flick your wrist, yank it out, and stride away.
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True... by
on 2009-06-15 22:57:00 UTC
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What about Anti-Lustin Shurikens? I have some.
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Sure! by
on 2009-06-15 23:02:00 UTC
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Oh f*ck yes. And I'm gon' enjoy this.
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Heya~ by
on 2009-06-15 16:41:00 UTC
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I comes bearing links. *drags out Big Bag O' Links and digs through it*
First off is the link to the Wiki, a veritable fount of information for a newbie to read through. Especially helpful for you if you want to write missions would be the page on Permission (note the capital P).
I would advise against reading any Legendary Badfic, unless you are of strong mind and stomach. Even the summaries have been known to give those of weaker constitution nightmares.
For your reading pleasure, not knowing what you have already managed to find, I have several links for you. The Original Series (not to be confused with Star Trek) is a good place to start, as the PPC did many aeons ago.What do you mean I'm exaggerating?The Department of Geographical Aberrations is another interesting place to visit, if you have the time and inclination. Also by hS is the Tangled Webs site, which contains backstory for the PPC as an organisation. If you would rather visit the Floaters, then July's site is the place you need to be. And last, but most definitely not least, Response Centre 45 is where Trojie and Pads' missions are archived.
Hope you enjoy your stay here. Please deposit your sanity into the container offered to you by another Boarder; you won't be needing it here. -
Re: Heya~ by
on 2009-06-15 17:47:00 UTC
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My dear, I've read through the entirety of My Immortal. My system has been sufficiently strengthened, I should think, against terrible literature of all shapes and sizes. I did start with the original series, (I fell asleep about halfway through. Not out of boredom - they were a great read - but because I started at about 12:30 in the morning.)
I did not know there was a wiki, so thanks for that, truly!
THe Department of Geographical Aberrations... hm... I'll look into that sometime! ♥ All this other stuff is nice as well. Odd that I've missed the movement for so long.
And the response center! LOVELY!
In any case, don't worry, my sanity was shattered into convenient bite-sized chunks for use when needed long ago. (My character's germaphobia? Only slightly exxagerated from my own.) -
Same with the craziness of some of my Agents. by
on 2009-06-15 17:53:00 UTC
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Well, of all of them actually.
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Welcome. Here's a tall ship. (nm) by
on 2009-06-15 16:36:00 UTC
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*waves happily* Why, hello! by
on 2009-06-15 16:01:00 UTC
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(Warning: randomness ahead!)
It's lovely to have you here! Here, have a present of a bag of pebbles and a Random Shiny Object. We're all a bit crazy here, and keeping your sanity (preferably in a box) is pretty much optional.
That said, here's some helpful information; no, you don't have to be a Tolkien nut to join here. We cover every fandom that anybody wants to cover, from Tolkien to Star Wars to Redwall and all kinds of others.
The best thing to do would be to check out the Original Series (those written by Jay and Acacia) and the PPC Wiki, not to mention The Reorganisation and Crashing Down. Other people's recommendations, and links, will probably be presented to you very soon. I personally recommend the above, and also to read the PPC Constitution for the basic rules of behaviour we're expected to follow.
If you want to join and write your own stuff, the basic guidelines are as follows;
1. Thou shalt hang around the Board for a month or so, so we can get to know thee.
2. Thou shalt then post asking for Permission, including in the post thine Agent profiles, a sample of thy writing, and maybe the fic thou intendest to kill.
3. The Permission Givers shall then gaze upon it and, if it be to their liking, grant thee Permission. And therefore, verily, thou mayst go forth and PPC to thine heart's content.
Basically, not too much is required of you except for the above requirements, and when you join you can work in any fandom you feel confident enough in.
Once again, lovely to have you here. I hope you have fun. -
Re: *waves happily* Why, hello! by
on 2009-06-15 16:57:00 UTC
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Why, I'm absolutely delighted to be welcomed so warmly.
And extensively. *reads everything*
Well, I'll be happy to comply! ♪
I probably won't be presenting the character until I get a half-decent picture of him. (I'm a [crappy] CG artist and I generally try to draw my characters before using them in any medium to get a better idea of them myself.)
Though what I've got so far is he's a half-insane germaphobe. (To the point of not being all that afraid of being sick, but just afraid of the concept of germs.) And he hates anomalies... -
What will be your fandoms of interest? by
on 2009-06-15 17:50:00 UTC
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Mine are several SF TV series and films, fantasy books, RPF about my favorite band, and I think I'll add RPF about F1 (I was a fan in my early teenage years and I just came across slash about the drivers back then and also with the current ones, whom I don't know very much)
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I'm a big gamer, so my fandoms of choice are Kingdom Hearts and The World Ends With You. The former... oh, dear God, it'll be a warzone. At least the TWEWY writers seem to be more competent, but still.
...There was one who had Sora as a goth... with... *shudder* fishnet stockings. Now, I'm a gay guy, and I like slash as much as the next person, but... Sora? He's the most happy-go-lucky character in the whole goddamned series.
MOVING RIGHT ALONG, I also love books, primarily fantasy, though Terry Pratchett is my current favorite fantasy author. And I've seen some truly shitty I say this in lieu of favorite author because there are also Celia Rivenbark and Jill Conner Browne, whose books you simply must read, by the way, if you have anything resembling a sense of humor. But then, knowing me, I may just disregard what I've said and go for something entirely different! ♪ -
Glee! PTerry! by
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PTerry is worshipped by many PPCers.
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Re: Glee! PTerry! by
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R.A. Salvatore and the woman who wrote the Enchanted Forest Chronicles. (I've forgotten her name, but those are a must-read. Seriously.)
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Patricia C. Wrede by
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I agree, she's awesome. Bit later with my welcome, sorry. But welcome to PPC. We're all very crazy, but generally quite nice. Have some cyber chocolate.
Helen -
Re: What will be your fandoms of interest? by
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Wow, okay, sorry, I was doing office work (I'm standing in for my mother's receptionist) and I made a lot of mistakes. Instead of "though" before Terry Pratchett, "and", after "shitty", "fanfics", and "in lieu of" and beyond after "author". Jesus, who knew putting envelopes through a machine and answering a phone could make me so scatterbrained?
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Star Wars question by
on 2009-06-16 04:22:00 UTC
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If an Agent brought an ysalamir nutrient frame into a room with two sleeping Force users (one a Mary Sue and one a canon characer), would they notice on some level and wake up? Or would they not notice until they were awake?
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I doubt they'd notice. by
on 2009-06-16 04:52:00 UTC
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As I recall, in the AU books no one noticed until their acctive attempts to use the Force failed. I think. I haven't read them in a long, long time.
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That is what I remember by
on 2009-06-16 04:59:00 UTC
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But that serise has so many authors, it is hard to keep strait at the best of times.
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True... by
on 2009-06-16 08:28:00 UTC
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But I believe the ysalamiri were first created by Timothy Zahn in his Thrawn books, and those were the ones I read. *shrug* The must be a Star Wars wiki somewhere with all the data.
*cough*Typo*cough*"straight"*cough*.
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Arrrgggg by
on 2009-06-16 15:34:00 UTC
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I haven`t made that mistake in a while *hangs head in shame*
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*hugs* It's okay. by
on 2009-06-16 23:07:00 UTC
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Pads catches me on the most embarrassing mistakes sometimes. I keep writing "explaination" and "experimant". *hides*
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Wookiepedia (nm) by
on 2009-06-16 10:34:00 UTC
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Just out of curiosity... by
on 2009-06-16 07:07:00 UTC
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If any of you have read Wicked (by Gregory Maguire), what's your opinion on that book? I'm not sure I like it.
I saw the musical recently, and I quite enjoyed it, until my friend compared it to the book. Of course, the musical cut out a lot, and I for one am rather glad it did. Because even though Wicked is a published work, it is still technically a fanfiction. In my honest opinion, it kinda ruined the Ozverse. But what do you guys think? -
Re: technically a fanfiction by
on 2009-06-16 13:36:00 UTC
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There have been other books like that. Susan Kay's Phantom springs to mind.
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I love that book. (nm) by
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W00t for you. (nm) by
on 2009-06-19 00:27:00 UTC
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Also, if you think about it... by
on 2009-06-16 23:05:00 UTC
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Every movie adaptation is a fanfiction to some degree - it just happens to be in a different medium. I can't think of any film-of-a-book that is exactly the same.
Nor, for that matter, can I think of any novelisation of a film that doesn't expand on it the way a fanfic would. (Or not, thinking of one HORRIBLE movie-tie-in in particular... *wanders off grumbling*) -
The Heresy Of Ralph Bakshi? (nm) by
on 2009-06-17 01:36:00 UTC
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That would qualify. *wince* (nm) by
on 2009-06-17 07:00:00 UTC
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*stomps on Bakshi movie* by
on 2009-06-19 00:29:00 UTC
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...but is also singing "Where There's A Whip, There's A Way". Because it's a very silly song.
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Ah, Oz. by
on 2009-06-16 07:57:00 UTC
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I agree with Trojie. Personally, the Oz I see in my head is a combination of musicalverse and the original Oz written by Baum. Am not a huge fan of the book Wicked.
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Weeell, Oz is a tricky subject... by
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When something is published, it becomes a Word World. And therefore the Oz of Wicked is canon. Its own canon, though, rather than being considered the same canon as the original novel/s by Baum, or the film.
I believe however that the Wicked book and musical are considered different 'verses of the same canon, from what I've gleaned.
Sedri would be your expert here. But my feeling is that it's not fanfiction, it's a Word World of its own by virtue of being published and by having so much independant canon and backstory that the original novel or the film.
I'm halfway through it now, actually, and I have to say I enjoy it, but that's probably got a lot to do with the fact that Maguire has done (a LOT better) for the Ozverse something similar to what a lot of my fic does to the Narniaverse - try to shoehorn adult considerations and politics into a canon written for children :) -
*dons her 'Expert' hat* by
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From a fanfic and PPC standpoint, it's definitely a Word World of its own: Baum's work was out of copyright when Maguire wrote it, and it's published - thus, it is fully-fledged canon. There is a clear differentiation between the musicalverse and the bookverse for fanfic writers, however, those are considerd Wicked fanfiction, not Oz fanfiction.
However, from a story-reader's viewpoint, it can be either. Generally I find that those who didn't like Wicked in one way or another consider it Published Fanfiction and therefore ignorable, which is perfectly valid. I was never a big fan of Oz before Wicked, and so I consider Baum's work to be more of a background from which details can be drawn to give substance to the Wickedverse, but which is not strict law, meaning I can ignore the 'childish' and ridiculous aspects of the original Oz books that I don't like. So it works both ways.
Also bear in mind that there is quite a difference between Baum's Oz books and the 1939 film with Judy Garland which most people know - in the book, the ruby slippers were silver, Glinda was Witch of the South, and the Witch of the West was a one-eyed coward with perfectly normal skin. Maguire's Wicked is a combination of the two which leans more heavily towards Baum's book, while the musical is extrapolated almost exclusively from the '39 movie. So you basically have two parallel works of Published Fanfiction - one in books, one acted on film or in theatre - and four different potential 'verses, of which fans can theoretically pick any.
To answer your first question: I personally don't like Maguire's novel very much, for almost the same reason that Trojie seems to like it: Maguire seems to be trying way, way too hard to make an adult world - there's way too much unecessary sex and violence in the Wicked book for my taste. Butt the musical definitely isn't written for children - there's torture, several main characters die, and the love song verges on explicit - and I like that. I like the adult-but-still-soft version in which Elphaba was someone I could like. Of course, the fact that I saw the musical first will have a great deal to do with it. :) -
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on 2009-06-16 16:34:00 UTC
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…for Lost in Austen? If so, glaurung it all!
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I hate to say it, but I think the answer is 'yes' by
on 2009-06-16 21:24:00 UTC
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However we can solve that problem by no-one watching enough of it to become an expert and therefore it's unlikely anyone will be assigned a mission there, right? :)
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Oh, let us hope. by
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I made my way through the first episode in a determined attempt to be fair. I believe that you, Trojie, were the unfortunate person who heard my screaming rant afterwards. :P
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I remember *shudder* by
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Poor Sedri. I'm not even going to try,
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Re: I hate to say it, but I think the answer is 'yes' by
on 2009-06-16 23:06:00 UTC
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On you don't know the Flowers... >:D
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well I'm stilll waiting for people to have to do by
on 2009-06-16 23:07:00 UTC
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Eragon missions :P
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Oh, and also... by
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The four 'verses' interact a lot, obviously; sometimes people write in their author's notes that their fanfic is book/musical based, except for this detail or that - like Elphaba's allergy, Fiyero's tattoos, et cetera. They're not exactly crossovers, but they're not really the same world, either. It's hazy.
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Really odd Robin Hood BBC fic... by
on 2009-06-16 13:20:00 UTC
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...in which everyone but Marian is a vampire:
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4402826/1/When_the_sun_setsthe_hunt_begins
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I love how Marian is being followed home by not one but two vampires. XD *insert bad pun about overkill*
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Well... by
on 2009-06-17 10:47:00 UTC
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they're all screwed when it comes to the archery contest...
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Age? by
on 2009-06-17 07:19:00 UTC
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I know it's been asked before, and the recent Board Survey asked in terms of range, but a recent conversation with Sara and that thread about posting below has made me wonder.
So, if you guys don't mind, care to tell me how old you are? I know, as a point of fact, that most people here are in their teens, but I tend to forget, sometimes, and I'm curious.
I'm twenty-two, if anyone cares to know. *waves her Old Lady Walking Stick* -
I'm 21... by
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And I started posting here when I was 14. Yikes.
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26 by
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But I keep forgetting!
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20, as of a monh ago. (nm) by
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Twenty-one here. by
on 2009-06-20 19:51:00 UTC
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...in years, anyway. In cynicism, about two hundred. ;)
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I'll be 23 in two weeks. (nm) by
on 2009-06-19 19:03:00 UTC
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I'm 17 come October. by
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Not too old, not too young. Just right.
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Re: Age? by
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- I'm a bit surprised at all the people in my age group. I always thought the demographics for the PPC swung a bit younger.
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Fourteen. by
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I'll leave it to you to decide whether that's centuries or life-ages of the universe.
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20 by
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But with a bad habit of answering 16. It probably doesn't help that I look around 14, but isn't a useful habit when you're being ID'd (even when it's for child tickets on the train).
But considering I also have an OAP bus pass in my wallet... (the disabled one is the same as the OAP one, so I have to endure). -
Fifteen, my dear. by
on 2009-06-18 02:33:00 UTC
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Hee. Hee hee.
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25 as of the end of March. (nm) by
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A week off of 22 (nm) by
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a bit over fifteen. (nm) by
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Just under three months shy of 15. (nm) by
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Eh... by
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Sorry, I don't give out my age, if possible. (It's a privacy habit I uphold.) But I am within the age range of 1-100. More specifically, the age range of 10-20. *shrugs*
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Twenty. by
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*Az sticks out her tongue in an ever-so-mature fashion*
And I've only got till October till I'll be twenty-one.
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I'll be 27 in August. (nm) by
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I'll be 19 in a month. by
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July 12, that is. I guess I'm about average.
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...Wow. by
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I turn sixteen in August. Suddenly I feel very young. *staring around at all twenty-year-olds*
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Nineteen... by
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And a half (almost).
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Going on Nineteen. by
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My birthday's in about a month.
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Still 16! (nm) by
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just bumping up the average by
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32
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I'm 22 (nm) by
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18! by
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Nineteen in... about three months.
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14 at the end of the month. (nm) by
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I turn twenty this autumn. Scary thought. (nm) by
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21, as of April 13th (nm) by
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We have the same birthday! by
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I turned 21 on April 13th! :D
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I's two-enty. by
on 2009-06-17 12:22:00 UTC
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Hitting 21 in a couple of months, actually. Fun.
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25, that old quarter century mark by
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As of April 30th.
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27 by
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Who's old now? :P
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And one of my Agents turned 72 today. by
on 2009-06-17 10:51:00 UTC
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Party's on the other board. Happy birthday Krisprolls!
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I'm 18. by
on 2009-06-17 10:44:00 UTC
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January 4th, 1991.
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Twenty-three and nineteen respectively. (nm) by
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23! Although sometimes I forget by
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I have been known to tell people I'm anything from 21-24 and then scratch my head, think, try to remember which year I was born in, and then on occasion have to ask what year it *is*...
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Don't worry, Trojie by
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I forget too. It tends to take me up to six months to remember that we've changed year if I'm writing down a date. This year was odd though. I memorised it in two days. Crazy.
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What happened was ... by
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... I'd just spent five hours in the lab drawing specimens, and I came back up to my office, and someone, randomly, asked me how old I was, and I said '22. No, wait, I might be 23 ...' and my friend helpfully said 'Well, what year were you born?'
ME:'...'
FRIEND: '1985? 86? 87?'
ME: '... what year is it?'
FRIEND: '...'
ME: '... *little voice* I could draw you a diagram of the bivalve heterodont hinge if you like?...'
I think there's only a finite amount of space in any one brain, that's my theory. And that just happened to be the bit that got pushed out that day. -
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on 2009-06-18 05:50:00 UTC
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I be twenty... er... four? by
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I have a horrible tendency to have a similar conversation on those rare occasions when I get IDed. My automatic response tends to be "Dunno, what year is it?"
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Doesn't help when I have a tendency to .. by
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... tell myself we're in the Century of the Anchovy.
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I keep thinking we're still in the Century of the Fruitbat.
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Nono, that's the one we've just left by
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We're in the Anchovy now.
... on a slightly more serious note, what century ARE we in? As in, what Earth century, not what Disc century? -
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It's one of those ones that starts with a two. I think. Holocene, isn't it?
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It's the twenty-first century, according to... by
on 2009-06-17 12:29:00 UTC
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the Common Era calendar (aka the calendar based on when that Jesus bloke was around, but more politically correct).
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Re: It's the twenty-first century, according to... by
on 2009-06-17 12:46:00 UTC
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It is? Since when? Where the hell did the twentieth bugger off to? I'd swear it was here just a moment ago...
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BC/AD FTW. (nm) by
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The Holocene is the last ten thousand years (nm) by
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*chuckles* by
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I feel sorry for you. I have that trouble too, but I've never forgotten my age or the year (once memorised). Maybe you should carry your birth certificate/passport everywhere with you?
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I might have to start writing memos to myself, yeah by
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If I'm honest, I just have issues with periods of time shorter than ten thousand years.
Uncyclopaedia tells the truth when it says 'One of the main difficulties in communicating with geologists is their belief that a million years is a short amount of time and their heads are harder than rocks. Consequently, such abstract concepts as "Tuesday Morning" and Lunchtime are completely beyond their comprehension. (This difficulty generates problems particularly when dealing with the girlfriend/boyfriend/spouse and attempting to explain why you were "gone for so long" or why something is taking "so long to occur.")' -
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Yeah, you've infected me with that, you know. A book I was reading the other day, probably Mutants, mentioned a thousand million years ago. Think they were talking about Hox genes. And I thought "a thousand million? That's... not all that long, is it?"
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Not overly, no. by
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Not when you consider the Earth itself is 4.6 billion years old ... :D
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Re: Not overly, no. by
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It wasn't until I remembered how long ago the... Cambrian explosion, is it? was, that I realised, yeah, a thousand million years is actually quite a long time.
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Cambrian Explosion = 545Ma ish by
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Life hasn't been around all that long in the scheme of things :D
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Cambrian Explosion? (nm) by
on 2009-06-17 12:32:00 UTC
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The 'sudden' appearance of multicellular life ... by
on 2009-06-17 21:23:00 UTC
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... in the fossil record.
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I'm a patient guy... by
on 2009-06-18 10:31:00 UTC
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as long as I can play Left 4 Dead while you're talking. I'm also a fairly decent multitasker. Woo!
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Long explanation is long by
on 2009-06-20 22:59:00 UTC
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Okay, right. Where to start. I'm simplifying this, uh, a bit.
The record of life through time is the fossil record. The fossil record is things that are preserved in rock. Rock gets laid down in a number of ways and at varying speeds. Sometimes you'll get three inches depth of sediment over a million years. Sometimes you'll get thirty feet. Sometimes you'll get three hundred feet.
Rock also gets destroyed in a number of ways. The longer a given body of rock has been around, the more likely it is to get destroyed soon. There are very few places on the Earth where unaltered rock from, say, the Archaean, are preserved.
The period of time of interest to us is the base of the Cambrian, 542 million years ago (Ma). This is, I'm sure you can appreciate, quite some time ago, even to those of us who work with deep time (for reference, the dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago, human ancestors arose around about 4-3 million years ago ish (this is another one of those 'controversial' issues), etc etc).
Unaltered Cambrian rock (by 'unaltered' I mean not squeezed to hellandgone by more rock on top, not baked by heat and depth, and outcropping at the surface - i.e., rock we can get at) is not actually that common. Most of it has been metamorphosed, subducted or eroded by now. So, baseline for understanding here is that the history of life through time is a book, and the closer to the beginning of the book we get, the more pages are missing.
Now, let's get back to that thing about sediment getting deposited over time.
Evolution happens over time. How much time is debatable (see 'Dawkins vs Gould' by Kim Sterelny for a good synopsis of the two sides of the debate on this one), but for the purposes of right now, we'll just accept 'a long time' and move on. So any given population of animals or plants changes by very small increments (okay, okay, there are exceptions, I'm not going into them here, just work with me).
Not all animals are preserved in the fossil record. Off the top of my head, I think the preservation rate is somewhere between one and ten percent of any given species may enjoy the luxury of fossilisation. It's all dependant on the environment they die in and a few other things. The great majority of fossils that are found are of marine organisms, because the environment is better for preservation under the sea.
So, we have basically a roulette here. Not many specimens are preserved. The rock they're preserved in is becoming increasingly rare. The ones that are preserved are not necessarily the ones that show any kind of easy-to-see change.
And there's one more thing. Generally, the only bits of an animal that fossilise are the hard parts - shells, teeth, bones. But I bet you can think of a dozen things alive today that don't have any of those.
This is where the term 'Cambrian Explosion' comes in. At about 542Ma, suddenly in the rock record we find multicellular organisms with shells. It's literally, bang, there in the rock. Like an invisible line - below it, only microfossils, if that. Above it, shellfish (not quite molluscs, but basically shellfish).
So, the reason I say 'sudden', is because in all likelihood it was nothing like sudden. It's just that it appears sudden because the rock is not preserving all the evidence - it's like a strobe light. You put on a strobe light, and dance. Watch your friends dancing. You only see flashes of what they're doing, not all the bits in between. If one flash of the light they were not wearing a hat, and the next one they were, it'd look to you like the hat just magically appeared. Of course it didn't - they had to pick it up and put it on, but you didn't see that bit.
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Short version! Short version! :P
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... anything under a full day's lecture is the short version :P
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I bet Q could do it. :P (nm) by
on 2009-06-24 12:40:00 UTC
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Re: Cambrian Explosion? by
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not a figurative one.
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Uncyclopaedia... by
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far better than Encyclopaedia Dramatica.
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I never know what day it is by
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I roll out of bed, I go to uni, I look at rocks, I come home, I cook curry, I go to bed, I roll out of bed, I go to uni, I look at rocks ...
Sometimes to liven things up I roll out of bed earlier, I put on my most disgusting clothes, I go to a cliff in the middle of nowhere, I look at rocks, I coat myself liberally in mud by accident, I come home, I cook curry, I go to bed ... :P
Geology is a fine profession for people who can only remember esoteric data, who like heavy lifting, mud, long walks, mud, situations with a high likelihood of personal injury, mud, complicated machinery and mud, and who don't mind things like sleeping for a week on a foam mattress in a half-rotten shack with mouse droppings on every surface :D
... I wish I was exaggerating about the shack with the mousedroppings, but I'm really not. -
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on 2009-06-17 15:27:00 UTC
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like you're doing a PhD.
My days were almost all the same. Only way I noticed it was Friday was because most of the senior staff was absent (most of them worked only four days a week). -
That would be because I am :D by
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And yeah, same here. If I can find any of my supervisors/helpful people, it must be Friday ...
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*facepalm* I meant 'can't' there ... (nm) by
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Sounds like the best job in the world? by
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And I presume you shower at some point between rolling in and out of bed? Or is the mud bath enough?
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It is! by
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Yeah I shower when I'm at home. Not when I'm staying in a shack, cos they don't usually have them.
I took my sister to one of our field stations once. She called it a 'shit little hut'. I was shocked, because after all, this was our swankiest field station; it had both showers AND toilets! -
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they'd be half rotten and covered with mouse droppings?
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Well, she likes to be clean by
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That's probably not 'high maintenance' except by the standards of geologists. But let's face it, when you're surrounded by awesome rocks, who has the time or interest to do something as boring as washing?
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And you have to be careful not to get the rocks wet... by
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or they'll erode.
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Depends on what you want to do with the rocks by
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Also the best place to see stratigraphy is in streambeds :D Where the rocks are wet. And where you get wet also.
Thank Glod for waterproof notebooks, is all I can say! -
Stratigraphy? by
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The science of strations?
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The study of strata, actually by
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Strata being rock layers :)
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Oh, but I was... by
on 2009-06-17 11:31:00 UTC
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so far off?
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Something like that :P (nm) by
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Well, I think I'll be happier being... by
on 2009-06-17 11:36:00 UTC
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a proofreader. Being a geologist might require interacting. With people. *shudders*
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*waves proofreader flag* by
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That's my desired career, too!
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*waves bigger flag* That IS my career! by
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Not that I can depend on its income, right now, but I am making money. :)
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*attaches sparkly glitter to flag* by
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I was inspired when I stopped being crap at beta reading. I only have a C in English GCSE, but that's because of the freaking Literature side of it. What a load of crap. If they'd split Lit and Lang back up, I'd have aced Lang and happily failed Lit.
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*sympathy* by
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I only got Cs in both. But the places around where I live all demand an A-level in English, so now I'm looking at applying to colleges so I can get that. And I'm not doing any freakin' Literature unless I bloody well have to, I hated it.
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Join the club. by
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I'm sick of literature courses. I'm delighted to say I never have to do them again. :)
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Exactly... by
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Seriously, who cares or knows what Shakespeare was thinking when he wrote Random Obscure Line #367982? Unless English teachers have time machines? And if they do, they should put them to better use. Chances are, he thought "hey, this'll be cool."
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Only other geologists ... by
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.. but you do interact with them a LOT. To the exclusion of almost all other people.
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That last part... by
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is a massive understatement. I can't get comfortable with anyone in real life. Pop goes my chance at having children?
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Despite the wonders of modern technology by
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Yes, it still requires two people to make a child. While they don't have to be in the same room at the same time to make one, personally I'd say it's probably a bit more entertaining for them if they are ...
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I've always been comfortable with children. Never people of my own age or older. And of people my own age, I've always been more comfortable with women. I never had a "ew, girls are disgusting" stage. I *coughs* vaguely remember even skipping with the girls in lower school (though, in Year Four, I was the only boy in that year, so that may have been simply having nothing better to do).
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It is my official opinion ... by
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... as a qualified biologist, that if you get on okay with women and children, that is all the requisite things for breeding. Y'know, women. Getting on with them helps if you wish one to bear your offspring.
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I get on with some... by
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and never truly comfortably. My best real life female friend in the last three years was a lesbian. Oh, yeah. I'm good with women.
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*pats* You'll work it out (nm) by
on 2009-06-17 11:58:00 UTC
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Highly unlikely... by
on 2009-06-17 12:15:00 UTC
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Well, I'm doomed to spend a loveless existence. Yay?
And please, don't mention the 'w' word. Urgh. Just got asked about a job as an administrator for "Pinnacle Staffing." Meep. Don't want. Don't want! My computer skills tend to revolve around reading the manual and then fixing mistakes by people who didn't. It'll involve people. I'm still waiting for work experience. I just don't want to look ungrateful. Meep! -
*pats* Sorry! (nm) by
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Thanks... by
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I hate life. Life sucks. No children in the future, offered jobs which I'm scared of and worse. And yeah, it involved phone contact (which I'm terrified of. I'm no good talking face-to-face, let alone on the phone). Fortunately, I came up with a perfect solution to turn it down. My mum's heavily, heavily disabled and a 9 to 5 job from Mondays to Fridays would stop her ever leaving the house to go to my grandparent's as I'm the only one capable of helping her (i.e. lifting her and her wheelchair up large steps).
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I also just had my birthday. by
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Approximately a month ago, on May 6. I'm nineteen now.
...It really doesn't feel that different from eighteen, to be honest. -
I just had my birthday, actually. by
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It was June 11. I'm 24 now. I'm really old. {; )
~Neshomeh, who would have mentioned the birthday, but she was busy playing D&D and spending time with her fiance.
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Oops... Halo/Star Wars Badfic sort of by me... by
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I've... umm... I've been encouraging one of my friends to try to write fanfiction for a while. I just succeeded. This... umm... this is what he came up with. I'm really not sure what to say. He has a lot of severe learning disabilities and I can vouch for this, so forgive the atrocious spelling. However, the learning disabilities have also made me confused as to whether or not he's aware that this is badfic approaching My Immortal... help?
Chapter 1
Halo
The year is 2553 the unknown weapon halo has been destroyed by humans. Halo a weapon in the shape of a ring, Captain Keyes has died but his daughter carries on the search to wipe out all covenant scum from the face of the earth. In a distant galaxy far far away a new species is forming which are known as Jedi and sith. They must join Keyes’s daughter in the fight against the covenant on earth. One person has come back to help them win the fight against the covenant and that the covenant are scared of the one person they now to well he is known as the MasterChief.
The MasterChief tells Keyes were the covenant are hiding. He says to Keyes’s daughter “the covenant are hiding somewhere on earth”. The covenant is hiding in LA. He tells her to go to another galaxy far away out of reach of the covenant and to get help from the others that are going to help them wipe out the covenant on earth. The MasterChief tells her to go to the planets of Naboo, Mustarfar and Tatooine and Hoth to collect the last remaining Jedi and Sith to join them in the battle against the covenant on earth. MasterChief says to Keyes “there is more covenant on earth than humans.” He tells her to head for their home planet Earth.
Chapter 2
The covenant on earth
Once the MasterChief and Keyes had collected all the remaining Jedi and Sith from their home worlds. They lade in a new course for Earth. They had to go into hyperspace to go to their home planet of Earth. It was a race against time. The covenant were sending their drop ships into the Earths Atmosphere. Keyes say to Cortana “they are already landing their troops on the earth’s surface”. Cortana says to the MasterChief “you know what to do.” Keyes says to chief “I will drop you somewhere else quite near covenant landing zone”. “All right lets move out Jedi’s and Sith” says Johnson. Johnson what is it chief “I need a weapon” says MasterChief. “Let’s go kick some covenant ass” says Johnson. The covenant are almost insight said Samikoto one of the Jedi.
MasterChief and the others went see if the covenant were ready for a fight for the planet and to see if they can get earth back to its original state of beauty and to get the people back to living a normal life. Cortana says “covenant drop ship inbound.”
Chapter 3
The covenant start the fight
The covenant saw the pelican take off and leave. One of the grunts says that he has a bad feeling about this to the other lot of grunts. MasterChief “you go that way” says Johnson, the MasterChief
Followed the orders he was given. By Johnson. Johnson said the MasterChief “shall I make the covenant scared or make them jump.” And Johnson says you go make the covenant scum scared Chief said Johnson. As soon as he got near the grunt that saw the pelican take off. He shouted boo to the grunt and the grunt turned around and looks up and screams and shouts run away he’s back he’s back ah. He going to kill us all no. Then MasterChief throws a plasma grenade at the grunt and the grunt shouts get it off of me. He then gives the sign to move in to Johnson. Johnson then tells the Jedi to go to the left and the sith to go to the right and the marines to follow him and the MasterChief.
Cortana orders a mongoose, a scorpion tank, warthog to be drop near the sith and Jedi and the marines. The covenant were starting a fight with the sith and Jedi. The covenant had lost a great number of troops. More troops were getting dropped from other ships that were landing. The arbiter was helping the humans and the MasterChief.
Chapter 4
The fight continues
The covenant were winning the fight. Most of the marines were lost because of the grunts lobbing plasma grenades. The Jedi and sith were doing much better at getting rid of the covenant by using there knowledge of the force and the MasterChief was get the same amount of kills as Johnson but they were getting wiped out.
The MasterChief got into the scorpion tank and started to shout all the remaining covenant scum into a oblivion from the face of the earth and the earth was not safe yet as they started to celebrate a home coming victory they saw that the sky was turning dark and they all looked up and saw covenant drop ships transport elites, jackals and grunts down to the surface.
The fights were almost over the Jedi and sith were loosing numbers fast and the marines were winning the fight against the last of the covenant and they were culling them all. Then the MasterChief was near the control room to halo. The Jedi’s and sith helped with the door to the control room.
Chapter 5
The assault on the control room
The Jedi and sith were the first to enter the door to the control room and then MasterChief was the next to enter the control room. Once they all had entered the control room they headed towards the main heart of the control room. They saw that the weapon halo hadn’t been finished. They had to shoot through tons of flood which were easy to kill and once they had defeated the flood they moved onto the heart of Halo. Once they were in they had to deactivate the rings controls to halo so no one could use it to destroy humanity.
Once they had done that they had to get out before more covenant reinforcements could arrive to active halo again. The MasterChief had done it again. The peace on earth was restored once again and the Jedi and sith well had been dropped back to were they came from.
Chapter 6
The Peace on Earth
Once the MasterChief and the marines had been pick up life on earth
Had been restored to the way they were living before. The covenant had been destroyed by MasterChief and the marines. The earth was safe from the covenant once again. What about halo well its safe now because they had completed their final mission to wipe all covenant scum from the face of earth. And stop the final halo from being activated and to bring peace and humanity back to earth for the final time. The arbiter had been left on earth to protect the humans and children from another covenant invasion. The arbiter says fare well to the MasterChief and the other humans who helped bring peace and humanity to earth. He says under his breath see you Old friend.
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Say that... by
on 2009-06-17 21:15:00 UTC
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it's a good first try, but there are some issues with spelling and grammar. If he changes those, mention the plot, canon issues, and presentation...
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It is? by
on 2009-06-18 10:30:00 UTC
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I personally thought it was ridiculous.
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Of course it is. by
on 2009-06-18 13:12:00 UTC
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But you want him to listen to your advice and continue to write fanfic, right? You can say that, then go through it and point out everything that's wrong with it.
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Sorry, I misread... by
on 2009-06-18 13:23:00 UTC
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I read your comment as your personal opinion, not simply as what I should say. Thanks.
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My fault- it wasn't clear. (nm) by
on 2009-06-18 15:43:00 UTC
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Nope, it was mine by
on 2009-06-18 15:53:00 UTC
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for being an idiot and forgetting that was what I asked for. :P
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is ridiculous, that is. (nm) by
on 2009-06-18 13:19:00 UTC
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Self-pluggage: fanarts! by
on 2009-06-17 13:58:00 UTC
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Wacky crossover: http://chelonianmobile.deviantart.com/art/quot-That-s-Super-APE-To-You-quot-126235016
And, if anyone who would want to see it hasn't seen it yet, a fanmix: http://chelonianmobile.deviantart.com/art/Misfit-123424678
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A matter of supreme importance. by
on 2009-06-18 02:36:00 UTC
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I... I must know. It is truly a pressing question. My dears, I require knowledge of...
...Your preference of tea...
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Milk Tea, when I could get it. (nm) by
on 2009-06-20 17:45:00 UTC
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I drink black tea, by
on 2009-06-20 01:11:00 UTC
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With none of those silly sweetenings like mild, honey, sugar, etc. *grins*
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Re: A matter of supreme importance. by
on 2009-06-19 03:52:00 UTC
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Russian Caravan-black and smoky. Best stuff there is.
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CHAI. (nm) by
on 2009-06-19 00:24:00 UTC
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Normally plain black tea for me. by
on 2009-06-19 00:23:00 UTC
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I will drink an herbal tea when I am not feeling good or a mint tea when I need to clear my sinuses. I like a fruity tea when I am in the mood for it.
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Chinese Restaurant tea. by
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I like to fill my teacup with rice and tea and then eat it.
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What can't you find, pray?
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The tea. Sorry about the confusion. (nm) by
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Re: Chinese Restaurant tea. by
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Also, that's a really interesting way to have tea.
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Black Tea, mostly by
on 2009-06-18 18:23:00 UTC
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But I like ginger tea as well. And chai, can't forget the chair. We make the best chai where and I work and I always end up drinking gallons and gallons of it. It helps me not want to strangle my boss.
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Re: A matter of supreme importance. by
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I like my tea to be proper tea. Camomile, cinnamon and mint do not count as tea. They are herbal infusions, and thus weird flavoured water.
I have been known to have the odd cup of white tea with strawberry, or green tea with blueberry, pomegranate and red grape, but this is because my friend Becky doesn't drink normal tea and so only has crappy red label in the house, which tends to taste of dishwater.
For preference I take my tea in a pint and a half mug. Which is never cleaned inside - I've been working on its innards since Christmas, and have got it to a lovely state of black-and-flaky (although my housemate has a tendency to stir it too vigorously and knock off flakes, and has even on one memorable occasion attempted to wash my mug).
A pint and a half mug takes a long time to brew, so I've got lazy of late. Teabag goes in first, then water, then a quick stir and then milk, and the bag's left in to brew. Takes about half an hour, by which time the tea is just cool enough to drink. Which also takes half an hour, by which point it's time to empty the bladder. Which involves passing the kettle, and getting another brew on the go.
Yes, I take my tea seriously. I'm a Yorkshirewoman, what do you expect?
In other people's houses it's a pint mug, brewed for the length of time it takes to smoke a cigarette. No sugar. Biscuits may be the ginger nut or the chocolate suggestive, though cake is an acceptable alternative. Ideal biscuit accompaniment is the fruit shortcake. Tailors are required for special occasions, but for day-to-day consumption, a hand-made cigarette is necessary with every cuppa.
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Although, I can understand why you're so awesomely gung-ho:
I'm Cuban.
I make Cuban coffee.
I make it well.
And from my perspective, Cuban coffee made from a machine is soulless drivel with no chance to be done properly - sometimes the makers don't even whip up the espuma - can you believe that?
The proper way is to make sure the water in the bottom part of the pot is at the half-way point of the bolt PRECISELY - otherwise it's too strong or too weak - then packing down the grounds flat so that you can get more flavor in. Finally, screwing down the entire thing as tight as you can unless you like boiling water flying at your eyeballs.
THEN, once that's done, you put three spoonfuls (three and a half for me) of sugar into the metal cup, and when the coffee is up, just put the slightest bit in. Then, whip it up so until it's at the approximate consistency of a milkshake. After that is done, pour the coffee in to get the espuma.
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If I ever utterly lose my mind and decide to take up coffee, I shall remember this. Ta.
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Re: A matter of supreme importance. by
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Although the machine thing is more because they don't whip up the espuma. Because they have no time.
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All tea is weird flavored water.
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It's not like said dedication was a conscious decision. We just take our tea very seriously round here, plus English, plus my dad drinks gallons of tea daily. I never really stood a chance.
I'm also not looking forward to tea over the next two weeks - I'm off to my sister's, and their water's really soft and the milk's soya. It's just Not Right. -
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No encouraging dangerous and addictive habits to minors. {= P
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They'd none of 'em go for it anyway - herbal dishwater just doesn't work the same, so there'd be no point.
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There is nothing more important. by
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Earl Grey is my preferred black tea, although I am a heretic who takes it with milk rather than lemon. (I can't stand lemon in tea.) English Breakfast is also good.
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I'm a traitor to my country - I'm English, and I HATE tea. by
on 2009-06-18 12:57:00 UTC
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Always meant to try a few different kinds, though, just to see if I'm missing out.
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I'm an expat Brit, I'm sposed to be flying the flag .. by
on 2009-06-20 11:52:00 UTC
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... but I just can't bring myself to drink tea. Any kind - black, green, white, herbal, fruit, whatever. No thanks.
Or coffee. Makes my consciousness-rollercoaster even worse. And I only have hot chocolate at night, because if I was to drink it during the day I'd never stop and I should really ease up my sugar consumption.
What this means is that I drink water, fruit juice, and vast, VAST quantities of instant soup. I mean, vast. I have three boxes of it sitting beside me right now that my sister purchased for me to take to university next week, and I guarantee you they'll all be gone by Wednesday.
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There's all sorts. I'm sure you'll be able to find something you like.
Where in America are you visiting?
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Santa Barbara, California by
on 2009-06-20 21:31:00 UTC
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For a sort of university short course thing :)
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Aww. by
on 2009-06-21 02:27:00 UTC
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I'm not quite as far as you can get from California, but there are mountains and deserts and big lakes and a lot of miles in the way. {= P
Enjoy your sunny, baking hot weather and whatever else they have out there. {= )
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Damn. Ah well by
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I'm sure it will be nice - I'm told it's sunny there right now, so I've packed a lot of skirts :D It'll be nice to escape from our miserable, straight-from-Antarctica winter :D
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*joins Laburnum* by
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I've had tea before and didn't like it. May try it again one day, just to see if my dislike is purely pushy-doesn't-understand-the-meaning-of-no-I-don't-want-that-it's-too-hot-family-member related.
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*joins Ansela and Laburnum* by
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I just don't particularly like hot drinks very much. I'll make an exception for a deliciously chocolately hot chocolate now and again, and if circumstances really require it I'll take a coffee loaded with sugar, but tea... just no. I don't even really like the smell of it.
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Also not a tea drinker by
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Of course, this now begs the equally pressing question...what are the preferences among the non tea-drinkers? ;)
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It depends. by
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If I'm in a coffee shop with my mum and brother I'll usually have a hot chocolate with all the trimmings, except for one place I go to that does gorgeous white/milk/dark chocolate with strawberry/banana/orange milkshakes. I like going there because you get a free chocolate with every drink, and because my mum doesn't eat chocolate I get hers as well since my brother is a grumpy, lazy git who finds a table as soon as and sits down so doesn't get a say in things. I'll sometimes have a milkshake at the Thornton's Cafe as well, since theirs are made with ice cream.
There are several places here that do wonderful milkshakes, the sort where you pick a sweet or chocolate bar and it gets blended into your drink. Bounties and Daims are my usual choice there, although I did have a Crunchie one from the Italian ice cream place today.
At home I drink lemonade, and very rarely anything else. I keep a two litre bottle next to my keyboard at all times. For variety I tend to have at least one can of Ting fizzy grapefruit juice hidden somewhere, and a few bottles of Oasis, water and Sprite of varying levels of fullness. There is alcohol hidden somewhere, but I only touch that very rarely.
When eating out, usually in the food court, it depends on which vendor I've ended up at. Apple juice, J2O and water are my usual choices. If we've just gotten a drink from the shop then I'll have water, Sprite or Oasis, which is how they end up in my room half-drunk and destined to be forgotten about. When at Costco, where the choice is free coffee or free orange juice, I'll always pick the orange juice.
I haven't had a hot blackcurrant drink in ages. I might have to see if there's any squash in the house so I can make some tonight.
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Nothing wrong with an essay :D by
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I've never encountered a place that does chocolate bars blended into drinks... I think I'm slightly envious now ;) It sounds heavenly.
I'm mostly a water drinker - I only drink soft drinks or hot chocolate when I'm eating out. Occasionally orange juice, but it's usually that really cheap stuff that you make up from the powder, that doesn't really taste like proper orange juice at all. Other than that, I could not live without my hot blackcurrant *coughs* Sad, I know. -
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Honestly, and you call yourselves English! It's no wonder the Empire went down the toilet.
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HEY! by
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You can't blame me for something that happened before I was born. *shoves TARDIS in corner sheepishly*
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So no fish and chips, no egg butties, and no tea?
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I've never even tried other varieties. I do however like to think that I'd love "tea, Earl Grey, hot."
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She would put so much sugar into her tea that it seemed to be more sugar than tea.
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I'm getting better though... by
on 2009-06-19 13:18:00 UTC
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Down to two, remember?
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Do you mean with milk?
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Re: By "white..." by
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I expect he means with milk. You can get white tea though - like the stuff with strawberry I mentioned in a higher post. So far as I can work out they pick the tea rather earlier on, before it's turned into proper black tea.
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Over on this side of the Big Pond, white tea means tea picked when the leaves are brand-new. It's supposed to be sort of a delicacy-type thing, but I find it pretty boring for the most part. On the other hand, if the idea is to make it taste like other things, then it works pretty well.
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Honestly, I can't stand the taste of white tea; I've tried different fruit blends with the stuff, but anything that starts with white tea just doesn't do it for me.
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Yeah, I wouldn't fancy it by itself. With strawberry it's alright though. And handy for when we run out of milk, because I won't drink black tea (as in milkless). I've seen what it does to my cup, I don't want to think how fast it'd make my teeth brown.
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Mmm... Tea. by
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Builder's tea. :D Sainsbury's own brand stewed and forgotten for half an hour, blitzed in the microwave, with a splash of milk, and if it's a really bad day, as much sugar as the cup will hold.
Unless I'm at uni, when I don't buy dairy stuff (I'm a cheapskate), when it's Sainsbury's own brand strawberry [and two other yummy red berry] tea, or whatever other fruit tea is on offer and looks tasty.
And always copious amounts of Jasmine tea.
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Ooh, jasmine. How could I forget jasmine! (nm) by
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Eee, tea. by
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Well...my personal preference is green tea, though I like earl gray with breakfast. And lemon tea for singing. Makes you salivate and keeps your throat from drying out, doncha know? ;-)
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Yeah, I'm with you there. I much prefer herbal.
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Eep. by
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Forgot chai. How could I forget chai? I live on chai. Could not survive school without chai. *clutches mug of chai*
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Chai, eh? by
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Everyone's tried chai but me, it seems. >.>
I wonder how this almighty tea tastes?
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On chai. by
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Each one is a little different, but the basic idea is spiced black tea with milk and sugar. You can drink it straight, but it's just not the done thing in this case. The sugar brings out the flavor of the spices, so that's important.
Most chais include some combination of cinnamon, clove, ginger, nutmeg, allspice, cardamom, and/or anise. Some are more complex, some more simple. I prefer the ones without anise, but if you like that sort of thing, it's up to you. {= ) They come in teabags, as a powder, or as a concentrate. I like all kinds of leaf chai, but I prefer Oregon Chai as a powder and Tazo Chai as a concentrate. If you get concentrated Tazo, though, I warn you that they take the "spice" part seriously. You really, really want to make sure you get the balance of milk right so as not to hurt your throat. Believe me, I've done it. Their ginger is really potent.
I hope you try some chai soon, and enjoy it. {= )
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Personally, I prefer the concentrate of Oregon Chai's vanilla chai. If you want to add a little bit more...well, flavour, I guess, I also suggest trying it with soy milk. It takes some getting used to, but after a while you get kinda hooked. ^_^
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I like it with soy milk, too. by
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It adds a nice sort of nuttiness to it, and it feels thicker than with just milk.
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Definitely supremely improtant! by
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It depends, of course, upon the time of day, the amount of sleep I have had, the mood I am in, and what it is I am trying to achieve by drinking tea.
As a general rule, Chai is my favorite, with good cream (none of this 2% milk stuff) and lots of sugar. It is good on just about any occasion, particularly when I can get ahold of really good Chai. After one particularly horrendous night of finishing my portfolio for this passed quarter, my study partner introduced me to what is called a 'Dirty Chai', which is good Chai tea with a shot of espresso in it.
For other things, I am very much partial to mint as a rule, particularly chilled peppermint tea. Also, Yogi has a beautiful tea that is Egyptian Licorice and Peppermint, which is something akin to heaven for me. Instant calm and goodbye to any headaches.
Russian Caravan is one of my favorites when it comes to black tea. It's this lovely strong black tea with a very smoky flavor to it, and always makes me think of the description of Trader Tea out of Tamora Pierce's Circle of Magic books, if any here know of them. It's wonderful when trying to stay awake for homework/being awake for class the next morning after a homework spree. I bought a pound of it this past year, and it served me well. I was brewing it by the gallon in strength so as to be nearly black. My friends called it Crack Tea....
A nice subtle Ocha (green tea- the kind you get in a sushi restaurant) is nice for being calm and writing surrealist stuff. It also wakes me up, but doesn't give me the Burst-o'-Caffeine that Caravan does. I used to get a cup of Ocha every morning while waiting for the bus when I had Karate at nine in the morning.
As an afternoon pick-me-up/cool-me-down, or as a nice comfort when sick, either Tazo Passion or Celestial Seasonings Cranberry-Apple Zinger are WONDERFUL. The first is Passion-fruit flavored, the second, well, that's rather obvious, isn't it?
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I don't think I've said Hi to you yet... by
on 2009-06-18 05:42:00 UTC
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So, hello! :)
And I don't drink tea. Sorry if that scandalises anyone. -
Hmm, yes. Very important. by
on 2009-06-18 05:38:00 UTC
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Hi and welcome, by the way. I don't think we've talked yet. {= )
Anyway, my preference depends on the day, the time, where I am, who I'm with, and a host of other things. There are a few teas that I will hardly ever refuse, though. One is chai. I'm a bit of a chai connoisseur in that I've had many kinds, and I can almost tell you what spices are in a particular one. The ones I know by taste or smell, anyway. Usually I like chai as a breakfast or after-dinner tea.
Another tea I will almost always drink is Earl Grey any way you care to make it. I like it straight black, and I like it with milk and a little sugar. It's good for waking up in the morning, with food, with dessert, and when I just need to smell bergamot to feel better about life.
Green tea is good with just about everything if I can't think of anything better.
As for black teas, I admit I don't really know the difference between most of the varieties, but I believe I like English Breakfast and Darjeeling.
I also like Oolong tea.
... I just plain like tea. I wrote an article about tea for a little publication at my college which I'd be happy to share, if people are interested.
~Neshomeh -
I'd love to read it! (nm) by
on 2009-06-19 02:21:00 UTC
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Here it is! by
on 2009-06-20 00:27:00 UTC
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http://www.fictionpress.com/s/2687303/1/In_Defense_of_Tea
Enjoy. {= )
~Neshomeh -
Hmmm. by
on 2009-06-21 01:57:00 UTC
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I keep getting a "403 Denied" window. Is there some kind of problem with the site?
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Shouldn't be. by
on 2009-06-21 02:29:00 UTC
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I assume you've tried refreshing the page, but I'm going to say it anyway. Failing that, I guess try navigating to my main page and going that way.
~Neshomeh -
Hmmm. by
on 2009-06-18 05:07:00 UTC
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That depends on mood, atmosphere, surrounding edibles, and weather.
For cold nights, you can't beat a hot mug of chai. For mildly chilly afternoons, green sweet tea is the best.
Or mint, for everything else. (Tazo has a blend called Zen which is most excellent.) -
Zen, huh? by
on 2009-06-18 14:19:00 UTC
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Next time I shop for mint (this weekend - I'm out) I'll look for that. Hm... nummy.
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Mint! by
on 2009-06-18 03:04:00 UTC
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Or green at a pinch.
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Well... by
on 2009-06-18 03:01:00 UTC
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I'm not much of a tea person, but... I will drink that Lipton Green Tea citrus stuff.
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My Introduction? by
on 2009-06-18 06:49:00 UTC
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I believe that this is where I say hello to everyone...I think...I was a mite confused about the process of signing up.
But even if I did it wrong, I shall charge forward.
Hello! I'm Maya. My sister shamelessly plugged this site until I joined, lamenting the wonderful doings of the members. And I decided that it sounded enticing... I do enjoy seeing astray fanfics (and/or Mary sues) burned at the stake. or just corrected. -
Welcome! *proffers lembas* (nm) by
on 2009-06-20 11:47:00 UTC
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Hello! by
on 2009-06-19 03:05:00 UTC
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Welcome to the PPC! Here's a special shield from the Raven Armory.
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Hello, small mammal. by
on 2009-06-19 00:23:00 UTC
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Welcome to the Board. Please deposit your sanity in the provided receptacle. *provides bucket marked "Warg Fodder"* You shan't be needing it here. Also, have some hugs and The Sword Of Beheading People Just Like In That Movie. Use them wellish.
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Greetings, new person! by
on 2009-06-18 20:45:00 UTC
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Have a winged kitten, and watch out for giant glass jars.
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Welcome. Here's a tall ship. (nm) by
on 2009-06-18 17:51:00 UTC
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greetings by
on 2009-06-18 17:04:00 UTC
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Have a cup of tea and a flatcap. Handy for, er, disgusing yourself as a grumpy old Yorkshireman. Guaranteed to confuse Sues.
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First poke! by
on 2009-06-18 16:36:00 UTC
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*poke*
Welcome to the Board. The only required reading is the Original Series and the Board Constitution. Everything else is just details.
Entertaining and often useful details, yes, but still just details.
Enjoy. {= )
~Neshomeh -
Hello! by
on 2009-06-18 16:32:00 UTC
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Have a shapeshifting plushie. It can turn into anything, depending on what you want. It can become a flying monkey, and I've seen one turn into a baozi fairy before. And Cthulhu sometimes appears, for those into Nightmare Fuel or cute stuffed eldritch abominations.
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First plover! by
on 2009-06-18 15:43:00 UTC
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BTW, will your Agents be based in a TARDIS or a response center?
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Hello, my dear. by
on 2009-06-18 14:21:00 UTC
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Have some tea leaves and a chainsaw.
The tea leaves are for combat and the chainsaw is for the kitchen.
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Re: Hello, my dear. by
on 2009-06-18 18:50:00 UTC
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(No, actually, knowing my little sister, you just got that spot on...)
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*waves happily* Why hello thar. by
on 2009-06-18 11:56:00 UTC
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Have a bag of pebbles and a Random Shiny Object. Lovely to meet you.
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Some Anti-Lustin for the fair lady? (nm) by
on 2009-06-18 10:17:00 UTC
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Welcome! Have a Capillary Towel and some Convenient Cake! by
on 2009-06-18 09:48:00 UTC
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The second is delicious no matter what flavours you like, and the former will clean up most liquid messes, though we haven't tested it on every substance yet. I don't recommend trying.
That said, welcome! KILL THE SUES. *smiles and hands you a little DMS flag* -
Welcome! by
on 2009-06-18 08:20:00 UTC
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Yay for siblings! Here, have an egg whisk. It's shiny, gold-plated, and whisks not only eggs, but spambots and those pesky author wraiths, too. Use it for good and not
muchevil.
Welcome to the insanity! Enjoy the ride. -
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on 2009-06-18 08:23:00 UTC
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I get an egg whisk too? O.O I get a whole spiffy gift basket just for walking in the "door". And since I am VERY much accustomed to insainity, I think I shall enjoy this ride. Thank you =]
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Oh, you don't know the half of it. by
on 2009-06-18 08:26:00 UTC
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*cackles and waits for flying horde of
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Re: Oh, you don't know the half of it. by
on 2009-06-18 08:28:00 UTC
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You know, ever since I was a little girl, I have held a special place in my heart for flying monkeys....-waits and watches the sky with anticipation-
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Maya OMG Squee! by
on 2009-06-18 07:24:00 UTC
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*glompattacks the Maya*
Hi dear. Muahahahahaha... what havoc we shall wreak together, eh? Don't forget to check out the other things that others have written... And I'll let someone more senior than I am pull out the Bag O' Links and give you all the necessary information.
For now, I hereby hand you the Poking Stick of Freedom...
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Re: Maya OMG Squee! by
on 2009-06-18 07:40:00 UTC
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-huggleglomps Azrael back- I went to FanFiction to survey the damage....it's not pretty. I wanted to cry reading some of the blood and chocolate ones....don't get me started on the Anne rice books.
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Re: Maya OMG Squee! by
on 2009-06-18 07:42:00 UTC
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My advice? Go look at the Nix ones... *sobs* And some of the Pierce ones are... Absolutely terrible. Just... Just... *cries*
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Re: Maya OMG Squee! by
on 2009-06-18 08:01:00 UTC
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I don't know if I could handle it. what i saw was so ugly....I went back and dared a glance at the Harry potter realm....it will take me years to forget that mess.
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Re: Maya OMG Squee! by
on 2009-06-18 08:29:00 UTC
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*hands over some of her precious supply of Bleeprin to the cause of helping to heal her sis's brain* Here. Take two. It's brain bleach plus aspirin. You need it. *huggles* Or would you prefer Bleepka? It's Brain Bleach plus vodka! *brandishes her own egg whisk* We shall slay many author wraiths of Bad Slash this way, yes we shall, Precious!
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Re: Maya OMG Squee! by
on 2009-06-18 08:34:00 UTC
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Uugh....Can I have both? I may need it. You work on bad slash? I'm on the wiki site looking up all the terms and categories now. The Lubes were....hilarious. But the Yiff made me a tad queasy...Littlefoot and Cera? really?
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Yes. Really. by
on 2009-06-18 21:12:00 UTC
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Unfortunately for my opinion of the intelligence of the human race.
The missions can be found at http://agenttrojie.livejournal.com/65922.html#cutid10, which is Trojie and Pads's RC. Good reading if you can handle references to extreme squick. -
*hands over both* by
on 2009-06-18 08:46:00 UTC
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Department of Floaters, babe. Anything, any time, any where. And yeah. The LxC is... Just... Yeah. No words. No words AT ALL.
*huggles*
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It's better than what by
on 2009-06-18 10:39:00 UTC
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Spike and Ducky would be like. O.o
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Re: It's better than what by
on 2009-06-18 22:14:00 UTC
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O.o
*downs half a keg of Bleepka to erase that image*
*Casts a Salt Circle to fend it off*
*shudders*
Make it go awaaaaay....
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AAAAAAARGH! DO NOT WANT! by
on 2009-06-18 16:15:00 UTC
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Dear Eru, I need a Bleeprin scrubbing brush to erase that image from my brain.
And you have just cursed that fic into existence. As if trojie and Pads didn't have enough to do with the threat of more LxC, you just gave those two poor, brave women (well, technically both women) the threat of SxD. Ew ew ew.
Ew.
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*cackles* by
on 2009-06-19 13:15:00 UTC
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Don't worry. If I'm in the DBS by the time it comes along, I'll volunteer to send my agents in. I'm protective of LBT.
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Ditto by
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Fortunately, though, LittlefootxCera hasn't updated in MONTHS.
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If I was an estabished DBS member... by
on 2009-06-20 10:30:00 UTC
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and a new chapter came along, would you be okay to have help?
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I'd have to run it by Pads ... by
on 2009-06-20 10:31:00 UTC
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... but theoretically I see no problem - we do a lot of cowrites with third authors and enjoy it :D
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I doubt I'll be on for a while though... by
on 2009-06-20 10:39:00 UTC
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hit a writer's block for my writing sample, though Pads said my agents are okay.
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No hurry :) by
on 2009-06-20 10:40:00 UTC
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Writer's block always loosens after a while. My advice would be to try writing something else instead :) (which would be why I have about twenty unfinished docs in my googledocs that I cycle through...)
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The issue is... by
on 2009-06-20 10:42:00 UTC
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I have writer's block for basically everything now... except one thing which I may need your help with. Are you familiar with something called Vrolik's syndrome/brittle bone disease/glass-bone syndrome (take your pick of the names)?
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I know of it by
on 2009-06-20 10:43:00 UTC
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And could bring myself up to speed with little trouble. Why?
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Just a few questions really... by
on 2009-06-20 10:44:00 UTC
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The main thing being, is it hereditary after it appears? Will any children (if they can even have children) have it?
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According to wiki, it's autosomal dominant by
on 2009-06-20 10:49:00 UTC
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Which if I remember my genetics correctly suggests to me that heterozygotes (people with one copy of the gene) will display the syndrome.
Which means that if one parent is a heterozygote and one parent is a non-sufferer, their children have a fifty fifty chance of having it. If one parent is a homozygote (has two copies of the gene) then all their children will have it.
Wiki seems to have a very comprehensive article on the subject here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteogenesis_imperfecta which should probably all be taken with a pinch of salt, but if you want any biological terms explicated and wiki doesn't have a nice link to a page for them, feel free to PM me on LJ. You have my LJ, right? -
Think so... by
on 2009-06-20 10:53:00 UTC
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agenttrojie.livejournal.com?
And yeah, I just found that article. Here's the character I'm writing about: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_characters_in_Mass_Effect#Jeff_.22Joker.22_Moreau
He's only got Vrolik's syndrome in his legs (and I have no idea if he's hetero or homozygote). In the ME universe, it's possible to treat, but not cure Vrolik's. -
Yep that's me :D by
on 2009-06-20 10:55:00 UTC
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Well in that case you've got the luxury of deciding whether it would be better for the plot of your story for him to be a hetero- or homozygote :D
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Well, given that I'm plotting... by
on 2009-06-20 10:57:00 UTC
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a completely wacko romance story between him and his commanding officer, I'm thinking hetero so that there's a "will any children have it or not" aspect. 'cause angst, why not?
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You are talking to the angst *queen* by
on 2009-06-20 10:57:00 UTC
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So I say go the angst!
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Yes, Your Majesty... by
on 2009-06-20 10:59:00 UTC
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All of my stories barring my Night of the Living Bread parody series have an angst aspect in them at some point. It's kinda annoying sometimes.
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:P by
on 2009-06-20 11:00:00 UTC
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It just creeps in, doesn't it.
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*nods* by
on 2009-06-20 11:05:00 UTC
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Though if it 'creeps' to soap opera levels, I smack it back down with a vengeance. In fact, given that my Pokémon series is growing rapidly darker, I've decided that, to counteract it, every fifty or so chapters, I'll have a completely off the wall chapter. The first one will have far, far, far too many egg jokes because of this guy: http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Exeggcute
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Ah, crack, the antidote to angst :D (nm) by
on 2009-06-20 11:06:00 UTC
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Unless it's angst-causing crack... by
on 2009-06-20 11:09:00 UTC
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I'm not sure which is the worst. The egg puns I'm writing for Chapter Fifty, the Night of the Living Bread parody, that tentacle sex you said I should attempt to write, or my Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Teletubbies crossover.
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Can't be any worse than Kirk/Spock research!crack .. (nm) by
on 2009-06-20 11:10:00 UTC
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Research!crack? (nm) by
on 2009-06-20 11:12:00 UTC
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Well ... by
on 2009-06-20 11:13:00 UTC
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... Spock has to do things, uh, methodically ...
Look, it's not my fault, I'm a Kirk/Bones girl all the way, but Pads wanted a Kirk/Spock story, and I took it so far and then she took over and it's turned into another one of our cowrites of Doom ... -
Am I the only one who thinks... by
on 2009-06-20 11:17:00 UTC
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that Kirk should have been castrated for galactic security?
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Ha! First welcome by
on 2009-06-18 07:19:00 UTC
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Hello, hello! Welcome!
http://ppc.wikia.com/wiki/PPC_Wiki will tell you all there is to know about the PPC, and the original series can be found here: http://www.misssandman.com/PPC/story.html
I gift you with a weighted companion cube and a key lime pie. -
Re: Ha! First welcome by
on 2009-06-18 07:35:00 UTC
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I get a poking stick, a pie....(god I love pie) and a weighted cube. This is awesome....I'm going to like it here. And Thank you.
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Bicycles? by
on 2009-06-18 08:59:00 UTC
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So, in honor of my exceedingly stupid decision today to take on a 17 mile bikeride after having only biked 9 miles TOTAL in the last month, who here is a fan of the Two Wheeled Horse?
I myself am a rather avid cyclist when I get the chance (See above. A good eight miles of it was into the wind, no less, and with a semi-broken gearshift), but occasionally forget that I own a bike for long periods of time. Of course, then it comes back to me, and I do things that will leave me hurting for days, often feeling like I've been on the receiving end of some very bad slash due to the fact of living several miles away from the nearest paved road, but that's okay. It's worth the pain...
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I, er, can't ride a bicycle by
on 2009-06-20 23:21:00 UTC
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The last time I was on a bike I was twelve. My mother decided that she should finally get round to teaching me.
It, um, sort of backfired. I was terrified. I could just about ride the thing for about five metres before I had to stop and do special breathing to stop hyperventilating with terror.
Mum persevered for about six months, but it was the time I got stuck on the beach heading out into the waves with jammed handlebars, crying and flailing and eventually falling off that convinced her that maybe I should just walk while the rest of my family cycled. -
Never learned either. by
on 2009-06-23 15:00:00 UTC
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I... uhh... couldn't get past the training wheels bit. Never bothered learning past that.
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Don't worry, I just learned this year. by
on 2009-06-22 20:08:00 UTC
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And half of the time, I'm *still* terrified. I'll stick to my horses, which can stand up on their own and generally don't wander off cliffs (well, not unless they're the *special* kind.
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Aww. by
on 2009-06-21 01:20:00 UTC
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Oddly, you're the second person I know who can't ride a bike. Hmm.
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*hugs back* by
on 2009-06-21 01:38:00 UTC
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Re: I, er, can't ride a bicycle by
on 2009-06-21 00:30:00 UTC
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O.o....
That reminds me of the (first) time my dad attempted to teach me to ride.
We live at the top of a very steep hill.
He gave little, eight year old me a bike made for a grown-up, strapped me all up with helmet, knee- and elbow-pads, and pushed me down the hill.
My bike and myself ended up in a ditch filled with rose bushes at the bottom of the hill. He then got angry because I hadn't stayed out of the ditch. My bike ended up being left in the ditch until I went back and got it three days later.
Four years later I taught myself to ride, rather than letting him teach me....
My mother still to this day refuses to ride a bike, due to an almost exact occurrence in her childhood. The only advice her father gave her was to "keep pedaling!" straight into the rose hedge at the bottom of their drive... -
Oh the Memories.... by
on 2009-06-19 05:09:00 UTC
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I used to love my bike....
who could forget the time I decided to go down a steep hill as fast as I could, without using the brakes at all, only to run straight into the back of a 4x4 truck? Another superb example of my amazing IQ.
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Re: Oh the Memories.... by
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Brim is still alive and kicking, though out to pasture. I have a new Noble Steed now.
Oh, and on the subject of memories...
Arctic Penguin, ASCENT!
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Mine's named Starspawn. by
on 2009-06-19 00:21:00 UTC
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She's got a luggage rack and I'm planning to put thingies on to make her more steampunkier. I've already got a squirrel skull.
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Re: Mine's named Starspawn. by
on 2009-06-20 07:05:00 UTC
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Hrm....
Exactly what are you looking at to make her more Steampunkier? I've got a couple of ideas for mine (she's already perfect for it) but I'd like a few more... Mostly mine involve copper wire and a set of leather and cedar saddlepacks which I plan on making, but... yes. -
Gears, little blinky lights... by
on 2009-06-21 01:15:00 UTC
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Saddlepacks are a good idea. And of course, I need to make me some goggles to wear while riding her... and at all other times... wheee!
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Two Accidents and One Near Mishap by
on 2009-06-19 00:20:00 UTC
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1st Accident
I was just learning how to ride a bike and we figured it was safe to do in the backyard. At the time we were constructing a shed, so both parents and an uncle were in the yard to keep an eye on me. Our backyard is situated on a hill, a perfect way to learn to control your bike as your gaining speed. Well, I went down the hill and fell straight into a horseshow spike. I fell onto it and bruised the inside of my thigh and got my ankle caught in the bike chain.
2nd Accident
This was several years later. I was out riding with one of my sisters around the block in our neighborhood. We had to go in since I was going to a sleepover with a friend that night. We figured one more time around the block wouldn't hurt, but we agreed to turn it into a race. The way it would work was that we would start in the same spot but we would go in different directions. We made it to the far corner at the same time and were trying to turn the corner at the same time. Unfortunately, we both decided to go the same way when we turned. My front wheel met her back wheel and while she went down, I went over the handlebars. I scrapped up both my knees and elbows. The only thing she got was a small bump on the head, despite wearing a helmet.
1 Near Mishap
You always hear about people who run over animals in their car. Well, I had the distinct pleasure of almost running over an animal while on my bike. I saw it just in enough time to stop before I hit the chipmunk. When I looked down, there was probably a few centimeters between my front tire and the chipmunk.
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"I can ride my bike with no handlebars, no handlbars..." by
on 2009-06-18 23:11:00 UTC
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Actually, I can't, but I love my bike anyway. It is blue.
Hm...favorite bike story? When I was first learning to ride, I had training wheels and no matter how much my parents tried to convince me, I refused to take 'em off. So one day my mom "accidentally" ran over them in her van, and with no help whatsoever I took 'em off, hopped on, and started pedaling around.
And then there's the time I almost fell off a cliff my first time riding my current bike...went over a rock weird, got thrown, and was semi-dangling and flipping out a bit until my brother came to pull me up. This is why we bike in pairs, yes. -
I can. by
on 2009-06-23 19:47:00 UTC
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It's not actually that hard. You shift your centre of balance to steer, though you can't do tight turns.
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I love my bike! by
on 2009-06-18 18:19:00 UTC
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I named her Alpina (no idea why). She's purple and amazing. However, I manage, with alarming frequency, to run into parked cars and always when there are a bunch of people around to gawk at me.
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Re: I love my bike! by
on 2009-06-18 20:49:00 UTC
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My bike is called alternately Skysong, Kitten, or 'Bleddy fecking gorram heavy why the 'ell have the gears busted and feck it the breaks are wearing down mumble grumble mumble...'
She's blue and pretty and occasionally more trouble than she's worth.
I've only had one accident on Kitten, which resulted in me in the hospital with a gash in my patellar tendon, and the foam covering on Kitten's handlebars being rather torn up. But it's all patched up now and that is in the past, SO!
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Ah, bikes. by
on 2009-06-18 17:01:00 UTC
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I'm lucky enough to live near a regional park and a sizeable creek, so now that it's summer, my mom's taking me out more often to ride around. I think we actually did a nine or ten miler the other day, and so far I've almost run over a dead skunk and a live ground squirrel. The skunk was not pleasant.
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Re: Bicycles? by
on 2009-06-18 15:48:00 UTC
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I love cycling, but am far too good at getting bikes nicked, so haven't had one in years. Longest journey by bike was to the seaside - the railway line from here to the various towns on the east coast was taken out decades ago, and is now a cycle track. Thirteen miles to Hornsea. My arse didn't half hurt afterwards, and it was a hot and sweaty day so we were all covered in thunderbugs (what they're really called, I don't know). And then there was ice cream. Fun times.
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I used to ride... by
on 2009-06-18 10:40:00 UTC
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but every bike I have breaks on me. Mainly the gears. In the end, I gave up.
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Ideas for PPC fanmix? by
on 2009-06-18 21:50:00 UTC
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I'm hoping to assemble a PPC fanmix, burn a few CDs and bring them to the next Gathering - speaking of which, is the first week in September good for everyone?
Anyway, need help assembling the music. I figure the Men in Black theme tune would work. The Decemberists' "The Tain" would work as the PPC Emergencies theme song - it's eighteen minutes of pure unadulterated awesome, including the wonderful threat to "bleed your heart through a samovar soon" (a samovar being a type of Russian kettle, as far as I can tell). Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb" would be a good Bleeproducts advertising tune. Any more? -
Re: Ideas for PPC fanmix? by
on 2009-06-23 14:18:00 UTC
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Erm... I'm more into classical, so this probably won't work, but... how about The Witches' Ball? Found at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1QPo6AEHzc&feature=channel_page
I just think it's so intense and lovely, and shows also the elegance of the assassin... ♪
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I think I talked about this a few months back... by
on 2009-06-22 09:19:00 UTC
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But I always associate "The Greatest Show Unearthed" by Creature Feature with the PPC. Whenever I hear it, I envision a group of Agents putting on a grotesque carnival of sorts about what they do. We certainly have access to enough Cursed Fairgrounds.
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I was thinking "Aim For The Head" might work better. by
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Thoughts?
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Well... by
on 2009-06-24 20:12:00 UTC
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My only problem with "Aim For The Head" is that it's quite explicitly a zombie song. "Greatest Show" can be reinterpreted for most any kind of horror. Your call, though.
Hadn't heard of "Pull Out The Pin" before, but after looking it up I think it'd be just fine.
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Maybe "The Meek Shall Inherit The Earth"? by
on 2009-06-25 02:21:00 UTC
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"Odalisque" works, though I tend to think of it as explicitly a Molly song, mostly because of the rape bit. Poor little girl, she's been through a lot ... But yeah, now you mention it, it works on a more general-PPC level as well, especially the first verse.
Ooh, for DOGA: how about the Bloodhound Gang's "Fire Water Burn"? ("The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire/ We don't need no water, let the motherf--ker burn ...") -
I like the way you think. (nm) by
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Also tempted to include Daphne&Celeste's "Spy Girl". by
on 2009-06-25 20:07:00 UTC
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Yeah, I know they were the nineties' answer to Hannah Montana, but I liked some of their music when I was a kid because it was about something other than "I Love You Babe" (as TVTropes would say) - this was before I got hooked on murder ballads - and the song's kind of appropriate.
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How about Slipknot's "Pulse of the Maggots"? by
on 2009-06-25 02:48:00 UTC
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Good shouty battle-cry song.
I'm also trying to assemble a Moses mix to match the Molly one, but assembling a mix for a character who's so far done nothing but sleep, cry, and vomit on people is tricky. -
I was trying to make one a while back. by
on 2009-06-20 02:34:00 UTC
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The idea was a soundtrack for a PPC mission using (almost) all-soundtrack music, especially from popular continua. I only have ten so far:
1. Prologue - John Williams - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone [Welcome to HQ]
2. Concerning Hobbits - Howard Shore - LotR:FotR [Meet the Agents]
3. The World - See-Saw - .hack//Sign Original Soundtrack [The World - things aren't well with it]
4. The Knight Bus - John Williams - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [The console goes off! It's a mission!]
5. To Lands Unknown - Sleepy Emp - Chrono Symphonic [Off into the Word World]
6. Go on Through - Afro-Celt Sound System - Further in Time [Enduring the badfic]
7. Rock Anthem for Saving the World - Martin O'Donnel, Michael Salvatori - Halo Original Soundtrack [Moving in for the kill]
8. Listen Here - Eddie Harris - House M.D. Non-Album Tracks Vol. 2 [Reading the charge list]
9. Robinton's Whistle Tune II - Mike Freeman & Tania Opland - Masterharper of Pern [Triumph! Celebrate!]
10. "Aslan's Theme" - from WonderWorks' Chronicles of Narnia made-for-TV series [A sense of satisfaction and that all is well. Coda to track 4. Repeat.]
I think the only one not affiliated with a canon is the Afro-Celt Sound System one. The title and lyrics are appropriate, though.
What I feel this mix lacks right now is something to accompany the kill itself. It should be percussive and upbeat without being too loud, fairly short, and I've preferred mostly instrumental works with a few exceptions. Any suggestions?
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No ideas, sorry ... will look around. by
on 2009-06-20 02:49:00 UTC
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Wanna burn copies of your mix for the Gathering, and I'll do copies of mine?
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My mix. by
on 2009-06-21 02:21:00 UTC
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This may or may not actually work, but if I understand it right, anybody can now go here and download the mix I put together. It comes with a CD cover in case anyone wants to burn a disc.
Let me know if it works.
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Burning by
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I don't know about that. I can probably send you the tracks as e-mail attachments, if that works for you. Or get July to tell me how she did her mix, which I was able to download complete with an album cover picture.
Also, due to the Laws of Irony, I just thought of something:
Vitamin C - The Seatbelts - Cowboy Bebop: No Disc
It's six seconds long. *g*
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"Tank!", definitely. And/or the Ghostbusters theme. by
on 2009-06-20 02:06:00 UTC
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I mean, I might be a shameless Cowboy Bebop fan, but either of them would fit for our main theme pretty much perfectly. We could even slightly PPC-ify the latter's lyrics. "I ain't 'fraid of no Sue..." For Emergencies, March of Cambreadth would work for the Agents' mindsets. "Guard your women and children well, send these bastards back to hell! We'll teach them the ways of war, they won't come here any more! Close your mind to stress and pain, fight till you're no longer sane... let not one damn cur pass by! HOW MANY OF THEM CAN WE MAKE DIE?!"
Not sure exactly where we'd fit it, but I'd be fond of using The Battle Cry of Freedom if we could find a spot for it. For some reason, I can see "Don't you forget about me" as the song for retiring/recently deceased Agents. Maybe I'm just in a weird mood. New recruit theme could be the main Morrowind theme, it's always given me the feeling of discovering a new 'verse, with all sorts of unexpected challenges and experiences ahead of you. And another weird one from me- the Yarrow's plans to infect the PPC with Macroviruses set to "Be Prepared".
That's all I can think about music-wise for now, but I'll post here with other ideas as I think of them. With the September thing, I'll see if it's possible. Not entirely sure. -
I actually used Tank! for the PPC mix I did awhile back by
on 2009-06-20 06:46:00 UTC
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I could drag it up and for downloading again if people wanted.
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That would be nifty. by
on 2009-06-20 10:38:00 UTC
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I forgot to grab it when it went up last time.
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Sorry, I didn't know. I just thought I'd suggest it. (nm) by
on 2009-06-20 08:55:00 UTC
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Hey, don't apologise, it's a good thing! Means it works! (nm) by
on 2009-06-20 13:41:00 UTC
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I mixed up the Cambreadth lyrics. by
on 2009-06-20 02:23:00 UTC
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From "they won't come here any more" it's actually "Use your shield and use your head, fight till every one is dead! Raise the flag up to the sky, how many of them can we make die?!" But still, you get the idea. It still fits.
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Yeah, I know that one ... by
on 2009-06-20 02:27:00 UTC
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How about ...
-Slipknot's "Pulse of the Maggots".
-Nine Inch Nails' "My Violent Heart".
-Creature Feature's "Aim For The Head".
-Decemberists' "Culling of the Fold" - I'm slightly dubious on that one because killing Sues generally doesn't "break your heart to break her bones", but the rest of the song is pretty good. "He's a wicked disgrace/ and he said it to your face/ you gotta cut him up, boy ..."
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Temporary disappearance by
on 2009-06-20 00:08:00 UTC
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Alas, alackaday, woe and calamity! For you shall all be forced to get by without your resident tactless alcoholic for the next fortnight. I be off to Cornwall to visit my sister and my new niece (Mina, born on Wednesday. 7lbs 13, and very ginger, for those that care). Betaing and drunken rambling services are thus hereby on hold.
Have fun, all, and don't trash the place while I'm gone. -
See you when you return (nm) by
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Waaaaaah~ by
on 2009-06-20 12:39:00 UTC
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*sniffle*
Well, have fun. -
Re: Waaaaaah~ by
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Am doing, despite being woken up by a three year old at the unGlodly hour of quarter to six this morning. How do parents cope?
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Congratulations, and good luck! :) by
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I know we've been odds ever since we've started speaking, but I wish the best, and not just because I'm hoping to mend that. Hope it all goes well, promise everything will be (mostly, some people keep chewing the furniture) intact when you get back. :P Have fun!
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D'awww. Have fun with the sproglet! ^_^ (nm) by
on 2009-06-20 02:16:00 UTC
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....No Pads at ALL? by
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But this is my mid-semester break! I was going to have a chance to grab you for a proper syntax chat!
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Re: ....No Pads at ALL? by
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Terribly sorry dear, but needs must. And nowhere believes my sister's house exists 'cause it's a new build. Got three minutes left on the library computer. Which thinks lj is goat porn, unfortunately...
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Aww. Bye! Have fun! (nm) by
on 2009-06-20 00:42:00 UTC
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Re: Aww. Bye! Have fun! by
on 2009-06-20 00:48:00 UTC
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Getting horribly sunburnt and chasing a three year old around for a fortnight? It'll be a blast. :D
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OT self-pluggery. by
on 2009-06-20 00:42:00 UTC
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Down in the tea thread, I mentioned an essay I wrote on the subject. That thread's been pushed a way down the page, and I'm a shameless junkie for attention to my writing, so I'm putting the link up here as well as down there, lest anyone interested should miss it.
http://www.fictionpress.com/s/2687303/1/In_Defense_of_Tea
It was intended for people who are new to tea, I hope some of you who fall into that category find it helpful. {= )
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Hm. by
on 2009-06-23 14:11:00 UTC
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That does seem useful.
Though I giggled at black tea being "strong".
Sorry, it's just that I grew up in Miami. So I'm kinda conditionioned.
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I shall have to refer to this guide for anyone wishing to get into tea.
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Excellent! by
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*grin* Great essay, Neshomeh. There's a lot of cool stuff in there. Mind if I save it and re-use? Credited always, of course.
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Thanks. {= ) by
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You can save and/or print a copy to show around if you want to. I'd prefer if it wasn't posted or printed anywhere else, though. Thanks. {= )
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Alrighty then. (nm) by
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Re: OT self-pluggery. by
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Oooh, I like. I'll have to use this on a few friends. Thankfully most of my Uni friends are (almost) as great of Tea Fiends as I am, so the call of "Who want's to go to Az's place and have tea?" in a crowded room almost always elicits at gathering in my home and at least one strange combination. I think the most interesting thusfar has been Russian Caravan tea (really strong smoky black tea) and Anise Extract. It actually turned out quite good....
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Well done! by
on 2009-06-20 02:15:00 UTC
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You clear up some misconceptions about tea quite nicely.
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Thank you. ^.^ (nm) by
on 2009-06-20 02:35:00 UTC
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Re: OT self-pluggery. by
on 2009-06-20 00:58:00 UTC
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I protest!
For one, it's misled, not mislead.
For a second, there is NO SUCH THING as overly brewed tea. Up to an hour in a builder's boot is best. And what you call steeping is what we call stewing. Often to the point where you could stand a spoon up in it, in my case.
Your up to five minutes is wrong too. Ideal brewing time is seven minutes, as timed by the smoking of a hand-rolled cigarette. And green and white teas need the teabag leaving in throughout the drinking process.
Oh, and there is totally a right way to drink tea. :P
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Yes, well. by
on 2009-06-20 02:06:00 UTC
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Everyone is entitled to their own
wrongopinion. {; )
My goal with this essay is to hook people whose palates are not asculturedrefineddeveloped as yours--people who are likely to start with Lipton or some such thing, which has its good points but really gets nasty after too long. Also, I don't want to scare them. Target audience, my friend. Target audience.
Some day, I will go back to England, hunt you down, and force you to make tea for me. Then we'll see what's what.
Oh, thanks for the spelling catch, too. Don't know what possessed me.
~Neshomeh
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Choose Your Own Adventure by
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I tried to leave the PPC board, but was irresistibly drawn back to it for some reason. This doesn't mean I'll stay around though, just that I'll visit once in a while.
Do you know what an Addventure is? I'd like to try one.
Usually I'm not a big fan of the tree-like layout of this message board, but it's perfect for what I have in mind now. I'll begin, and it's up to all of us to continue the tree in different directions.
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Things are rather quiet today at the PPC headquarters, and you stroll casually towards your response center with the coffee you just picked up at the cafeteria.
BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!
The strident sound, coming from response center 392, makes you spill your hot coffee all over yourself in surprise. Swearing softly, you try to wipe the stain on your shirt without much success, then continue on your way.
BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!
RC 392 again. Apparently, whoever works there has not acknowledged the alert. You peek into the response center. No one is there. Strange: agents usually work in pairs or trios, and a team is not supposed to leave their center unattended except during missions. And according to the console of RC 392, the agents are not on a mission.
What do you do?
- Go back to your RC. This is none of your business.
- Acknowledge the mission.
- Call a Flower. Why would a team be missing? -
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You push a button to stop the beeping, then look at the screen of the console. Your eyes widen in horror.
Someone has actually written badfic about the PPC. It slashes Jay and Acacia and features a Mary Sue named... Jaycacia Thornbyrd? You've heard that name before. This unspeakable abomination has supposedly been killed in canon (which, in your case, means reality), but it apparently still exists in one of the many alternate universes of fanfic.
What do you do?
- Go into the badfic alone.
- Look for a partner for this mission. -
Look for a partner for this mission. by
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You suffer a temporary bout of sanity and levelheadedness, and realize that such a fic is too much for you alone to handle. Even with heavy flamethrowers. But who to choose, and where to go?
What do you do?
-Go to Badslash for help.
-Go to DMS for help.
-Grab a random person from the cafeteria and force them to help.
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Grab a random person from the cafeteria. by
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You set off down the corridor, sufficiently preoccupied by the weird stuff happening to you, and in no time you find yourself in the cafeteria. You walk up to the first occupied table and try to explain your predicament, but the person at the table interrupts.
She introduces herself as Agent Cameo, which strikes you as oddly appropriate to the situation. However, you're a bit put off by the insane smile, the bright orange sunglasses hiding her eyes, and the way she's handling that neuralyzer.
What do you do?
- Try to enlist Cameo anyway
- Try the DBS
- Try the DMS
- Maybe you can go it alone after all. -
Maybe you can go it alone after all. by
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Since there was no one sufficiently safe-looking around, you decide to take the mission by yourself after all. You start walking, and by an amazing feat of lack of concentration (read: borderline concussion from banging your head on the wall) actually make it back to Response Centre 392. You go inside.
Rather disturbingly, the first thing you see on entering is an open portal. The second thing is a small black box on the floor next to the portal.
-Go through the portal.
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"Call a Flower. Why would a team be missing?" by
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Something's definitely not right here. You haven't been an Agent too long, and even you are getting very Bad vibes. You step cautiously into the RC, looking around for any disturbances and ignoring the beeps.
Nothing. Not one thing out of place or even slightly awry. No signs of struggle, or anything at all. Giving the Console a sharp whack to shut it up, you dial in a number and press a button. After several seconds, the face of the Sunflower Official appears on the screen.
Yes? What is it... he seems to realise something, doing a Plant equivalent of a double take and changing his train of questioning. Agent, that's not your RC, what are you doing there?
What do you do?
-Tell the SO the truth, reporting what you noticed.
-Chicken out and terminate the call, taking the risk of making him suspicious.
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Tell the truth by
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"Agents are missing," you tell the Sunflower. "Who is supposed to work in this response center?"
The Flower somehow managed to frown. A frowning flower is quite a weird sight.
Let me see... Um... Three agents of the Department of Floaters. They have no names, they're only red shirts. I'll take care of finding them. As for you, answer this call while they're gone.
Without leaving you the time to argue, the Sunflower shuts off all communications.
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- Acknowledge the mission.
- Go back to your RC. -
Option One. by
on 2009-06-20 05:35:00 UTC
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Bugger it. It's really none of your business if they have a mission, and you're not sure what the RC's Agents are going to think if they find you here. You get up and leave, closing the door behind you.
You walk into your Response Centre. The first thing you notice is that your partner isn't here either. Strange.
You look around. Nope. They're certainly not here. What exactly is going on, anyway?
What do you do?
-Sit down and wait for something to happen.
-Check to see if anyone's in the RC next door.
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Option Two: Check the RC next door. by
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You decide to check RC next door. You knock, but no one answers. You open the door to find that the room is empty, aside from its Console and a small slip of paper lying on the ground.
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-Go back to your RC.
-Pick up the piece of paper.
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It's written: Look behind you.
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Look behind you. by
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You stand up slowly, still clutching the note, and reach for a convenient piece of lead pipe lying nearby. Whipping around with it raised, you shriek out your war cry-
There's nothing there.
You look down. There's another note.
What do you do?
-This is too weird. You ignore the second note and get out of there.
-You pick up the second note.
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Option one: stay and wait by
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Well, maybe there's a party going on down at the cafeteria, or something. Anyway, it's a good chance to get some peace and quiet for a change. You settle down with a good book, and get reading.
Several minutes later, the silence is broken by a piercing, terror-filled scream echoing down the corridor. You jump to your feet - what was that?
What do you do?
-Leave your RC and run towards the scream to find out who made it, and why.
-Close the door and hide. Everybody knows what happens to people who go and investigate strange noises.
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Option one:Go back to your RC. This is none of your business by
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You immeadiatly walk on ahead, ignoring the sound of the consol. You decide that you want to get back to your own RC. You are busy enough to not have to worry about other peoples jobs aswell.
Paying absolutely no attention to anything, you walk around HQ. You manage to make it two hallways before you find yourself in a blocked off passage.
What do you do?
- Look for another door.
- Sit down and play a game on your CAD.
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Go back to the empty RC by
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You turn back, looking for the empty RC where you heard the BEEP. Since you are still relatively new at the PPC, you make the mistake of trying to retrace the way you took.
This, of course, takes you back to your own RC.
How convenient.
But wait... it's empty too! Where's your partner? What is going on here?
What do you do?
-Sit down and wait for something to happen.
-Check to see if anyone's in the RC next door.
- Call a Flower. Something's wrong. -
Sit down and wait for something to happen by
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The console beeps louder. You check the fic -- a Doctor Who fic slashing Susan Foreman with Jenny.
Wait for your partner to return.
Go in now to get the fic over with.
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Option Two: gaming on the CAD by
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You sit down on the floor and pull out your CAD. Ignoring the usual half-dozen error messages (Universe file corrupted, opto-anarchic gate cables fraying, blah, blah, blah), you fire up the bootleg Mario rom that shady guy in the cafeteria gave you.
Instead of starting the game, the CAD's screen goes blank. A message prints out...
[Look behind you...]
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- ignore the message, and reboot the CAD
- look behind you
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Start running by
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There's nowhere to run! Remember, the corridor is a dead-end.
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You continue gaming. by
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Having misplaced your sanity and common sense, you decide to sit on the Generic Surface floor and resume playing the game. Never mind the ominous silence, never mind the missing Agents, never mind the mystery. You want to play games and you want to play them now.
You start the game and play it with your back to the corridor, completely absorbed by the plumber and his antics. You almost notice the Necron Flayed One before it well...flays you and leaves you to die in a pool of your own blood.
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Ignore the message and reboot the CAD. by
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Stupid machine. Of all the times for it to malfunction and spew out nonsense...
You fiddle with the CAD and reboot it. There's another message on the screen when it reopens.
[LOOK BEHIND YOU, YOU IDIOT!]
-The CAD is obviously broken. Maybe you can fix it and play Mario?
-Look behind you.
-Sit where you are and do absolutely nothing. -
Look behind you. by
on 2009-06-22 19:17:00 UTC
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Filled with trepidation, you turn around slowly. There's nothing there.
No, really. Nothing. A big hole of nothingness. It's making a "gloop gloop" noise.
-Turn around again and try to ignore it.
-Attempt to squeeze past it and leave.
-Poke it with your CAD. -
Maybe you can fix it and play Mario? by
on 2009-06-20 22:02:00 UTC
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Turns out that, no, you can't fix it. The reason for this is simple : this adventure would never go anywhere if you just sat there playing video games. So make another choice.
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Do absolutely nothing. by
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You stay there like an idiot, staring ahead blankly, until something hard smashes your skull like a nut and kills you instantly. Some people have no patience.
Fun fact : There is no afterlife.
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I remember July doing something like this. Still, seems fun. by
on 2009-06-20 03:33:00 UTC
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Personally, I vote for the third option; seems the logical thing to do.
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Um by
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You misunderstand the principle. We use the tree-like structure of the forum to expand each option. So if you like the third option, you could write a post in which you describe what happens if you call a Flower. Then you add your own options for what to do next.
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Oh, my mistake. Terribly sorry. by
on 2009-06-20 04:29:00 UTC
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Shows what I get for being tired and scatterbrained. I completely misunderstood. I'll get a post written up then.
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Out of curiosity... by
on 2009-06-20 21:37:00 UTC
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does anyone know examples of 40k badfic? (Other than "Squad Broken", that is)
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Found and reserved. More WTF than Squad Broken, by
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If that is even possible.
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Re: Found and reserved. More WTF than Squad Broken, by
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Did... they just kill Nurgle? In the SECOND CHAPTER?
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Nurgle?! by
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As in the Chaos GOD?!?!?!
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Holy WTF. by
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It got a PPCer to use six punctuation marks. *takes a look*
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Well.. by
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have you tried the Black Library forum? Some of the stuff on there used to be dubious.
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I've looked around, but there's not too much. by
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Managed to find a few that might raise some red flags, but I've wanted to run them by someone who knows the canon better, first. Warhammer's section on the Pit is pretty disappointing, actually.
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I'd like to know this as well by
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Specifically, if there are any with the forces of Nurgle as antagonists.
Chliever's from a 40K badfic, I never really intended there to be a concrete one he was from, but if you could find one, that'd be great. I'd write a mission for it, explaining our favorite Daemon's recruitment.