Dec 2016 Archive, part a

In fact this is the absolute latest one of my welcomes has ever been! Normally if I missed a post by two weeks I would simply move on, but this is a newbie welcome and so I cannot ignore it.

So then, welcome aBoard, hope you enjoy your time here, and thanks much for the badfic.

Oh, and take this Replica Holocron and a mini steampunk TARDIS as newbie gifts.

Here's some popcorn to eat while you read the docs at the top of the homepage, plus your very own mini-Missingno! Its name is fury swipe, it looks like the Kabutops fossil, and it enjoys practical jokes. Try not to let it near your computer too often. ;)

Welcome aBoard! Wow, I never watched Invader Zim, but that fic sure does sound bad.
Anyway, have this Poptop Plushie from Starbound!

*checks*

Oh, yep! It's one of the ones Skepkitty MSTed. Though he seems to have moved his blog to Tumblr now.

Seeing someone mission it would be pretty cool, since Skepkitty's MSTs were somewhat formative in my badfic-encountering experiences.

Anyway, welcome to the PPC! Have an invisible kitten!

Anyway, welcome to the PPC! Please accept this elegant and finely-crafted starter Pokémon:-

Iiiiiiit's Fraxure!

And your starting item is:-

Godhead(!) from The Binding Of Isaac: Afterbirth!

Godhead is a fantastic item that's basically a held version of Hone Claws, but better. It increases your Attack and Special Attack stats by 30%, and increases the accuracy of your moves by 30% too! This makes moves like Dragon Rush super viable... or it would if Fraxure knew them. Still, it's a good item for an offensively inclined Pokémon, so get an Adamant one with Mould Breaker and EV train it in Attack and Speed, then give it Swords Dance to boost your Attack even higher, Outrage for STAB, Superpower for Fighting-type coverage against big, nasty threats, and Iron Tail to deal with Fairy-types lured in by the promise of an Outrage. You might just want to wait for it to evolve before using it, though; Haxorus is a great Pokémon in its own right, and benefits hugely from the stat boosts. Most importantly, however: have fun. =]

Because, in that case, no worries, mate!
The only class distinctions we got down here are Cool and Uncool.
And the only person who is in Uncool is me. And all the dictators, like Stalin and the Freemasons, or whatever.

What I'm saying is, is that you're as much of a PPC-fellow as the rest of us. Welcome, fellow PPC-fellow!
My gift upon you is: sunglasses I've kept in my freezer. They'll keep you cool. Cool as ice. Cool as the icy mist on a pair of sunglasses picked out of a freezer.

Link away!

Like Mattman said, a link to the fic in question would be nice.

Have a plate of SPaGhetti, stay a while, tell us about yourself! How'd you find your way here?

Welcome aboard! Have a non-corporeal E-Reader.

Feel free to link us the fic, do you have any other fandoms?

"Running Laps in an Escher Room" A White card that any Drill Sergeant/Fitness Instructor (Perhaps Skarm's Whitney?) had to have utilize a some point.

Kneeing an elf in the balls.

Boiling a man alive in a comically large glass of eggnog.

The Grinch and the Krampus teaming up to burn down Whoville and piss on the ashes.

Celebrating Oktoberfest with Jolly Old Saint Nick.

Taking the entirety of a 3-foot-long novelty candy cane inside yourself.

Christmas decorations out in the middle of goddamn October.

Reindeer sex games.

Teabagging Rudolph's cold, dead corpse.

Bludgeoning someone's skull in with a small piece of fruitcake.

Lacing Santa's cookies with rat poison.

Herschel the Hanukkah Golem.

Firing a rifle willy-nilly into the air while balls-deep in a reindeer mare and rocketing above the Chicago skyline at over twice the speed limit and over three times the legal BAC aboard a stolen sleigh.

Dancing on the graves of a thousand slaughtered elf children.

Writing your name in the snow.

Candy cane-striped condoms.

The Mistletoe, head of Holiday Affairs.

Link: http://pyx-3.pretendyoure.xyz/zy/game.jsp#game=166
Password: HOLLYJOLLY

As always, CAH is NSFW.

I've thrown in the three holiday packs on Xyzzy. I have no idea what's in them. We'll see how it goes. {= )

Suggestions are still (always!) open.

~Neshomeh

Because I can't think of that many good ones.

_____ replaced baby Jesus in this years PPC nativity.
What were the gifts given by the Wise Men this year at the PPC nativity?
What inappropriate item did Luxury put on her Christingle this year?
What stopped Apollo from observing Vigil on Christmas Eve>

Storme

White Cards
Sloppy, drunken mistletoe-inspired makeouts.
The Ghost of Christmas In July.
An eggnog-and-Bleepka enema.
The annual Bad Slash Cheesecake/Beefcake Advent Calendar photo shoot.
Sexy Santa Claus cosplay.
Masturbating at the thought of going on a mission.
Tiny Tim-chan.
Using Mary Sue guts instead of tree ornaments.
Getting a blowjob when the clock strikes midnight on New Year's Eve.

Black Cards
My OTP is Santa Claus/_______.
_______ will be in the role of Ebenezer Scrooge in the PPC holiday play this year.
A _______? You'll shoot your eye out!
What's the secret ingredient in my Christmas cookies? Why, it's _______!

White cards:
- Falchion's molted down feathers being used as tinsel.
- Onscreen disembowelment.
- A paleontologically accurate Quetzalcoatlus.
- Sarah Squall getting her cape snagged on a jet turbine.
- Cupid Carmine pleasuring himself with a miniature Christmas tree.
- Backslash in an ugly holiday sweater.
- Impale a Suvian with a giant Christmas ornaments.
- Jelsa.
- Screenwriters who can't do math.
- Tickle torture.
- Violet Parr being turned into a Tyrannosaurus rex.
- Don't. Period.
- Feathered raptors with laser cannons on their heads.
- Squid Icarus.
- RELEASE THE KRAKEN!
- Lapis' poker friends.
- Suta and Tianlong having giant reptilian intercourse.
- Leaving the fountain without a relic.
- Fafnir's Winter Wonderland.
- In-game purchases.
- Being one-shot by Loki's ultimate.
- Take a Header to the crotch.
- Evangeline von Lilith.
- Dora the Explorer sprouting tentacles from every single orifice.
- Dumb Ways to Die.
- Old Man Henderson.

Black cards:
- The first trend of badfic that's such a pain to me:
- Skinny people can do this for you!
- What does the latest movie adaptation of a video game include?
- One of Falchion's previous incarnations was __.
- What did __ bring to this year's Gift Exchange? __.
- Who did Lapis bring in to save Chakkik from _? _.
- "MUCKLE DAMRED CULTI 'AIR EH NAMBLIES BE KEEPIN' ME _!?!?"
- This holiday season, join __ and ___ as they venture into the depths of the PPC HQ in search of __!
- I wish they stopped nerfing __ with every single patch update!
- What did you put at the top of this year's Christmas tree?
- Who is the newest president of the United States, as determined by this year's election results?
- __: The Obligatory Christmas Special
- If you're _, you __. It's what you do.

White:
Agent Matthew Welch dressed up as Santa Claus
Agent Ajax dressed up as a Disgruntled Elf
Agent Levy dressed up as Mrs. Claus
Agent Nickul Tiamat dressed up as Krampus
A TARDIS disguised as a Christmas Tree

Black:
_ and _ sneaking into the Nursery Christmas night and putting gifts under the Christmas Tree
_ eating all of the Nursery's Christmas Cookies

~Mattman, who is considering making a Christmas interlude with Matthew and Ajax

Black cards:
I'd love to get my partner____, but I'm flat broke.
The worst part of decorating for the holidays?
The only thing harder to get out of the carpet than glitter is _.
No, ____ does not count as spreading holiday cheer.
Who's leading this year's Yule Ball? _____ and __.
The agents were sleeping all snug in their beds, while visions of __ danced in their heads.


White cards:
Serenading the Flowers with "The Holly and The Ivy".
Shed pine needles.
Peppermint bark Bleepolate.
The PPC Holiday Songbook.
Regifting.
Characters born the day before or on Christmas.
A Christmas Miracle (TM).
Sudden convenient blizzards trapping them all inside.
Obligatory Nutcracker music.

White:
-Paying the Rudi's tab with Chanukah gelt (aka gold foil wrapped chocolate coins)
-Using Lumière as a quarter of a chanukiah
-'Borrowing' the Fisherman's TARDIS to start a victory dance with the Maccabees
-Eating WAY too many latkes (potato pancakes)
-A Sue who eats her latkes with chocolate chunks and clouds
-That one goodfic where Anthony Goldstein invites squib!Harry home for Chanukah ((note: real fic, and squib!Harry is several times more awesome than you ever imagined. And so is Anthony's squib sister Leah))
-Getting eight missions in a row because the Flowers think that counts as presents
-Trying to distract dragons with dreidels (spinning tops specific to Chanukah)

Black:
-"No, you cannot use an inflatable ____ as a chanukiah this year! It has to have candles!"
-"I told you to grate potatoes, not _!"
-"That's what I love about Chanukah: the lights, the _, the oily foods."
-What did the disentanglers get for Chanukah?
-What is the best use for a dreidel?

And that's what I've got for now. If I think of anything else, I'll add it.

Anyone celebrate Kwanzaa? I know that also happens around this time...

~DF

White:

- Decking the Flowers with boughs of holly.
- Agent Luxury in a skimpy Santa costume.
- Drunk rendition of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
- Putting presents under the Sunflower Official.

I'll probably think of more later

- Matt, using his precious 20 minutes of break to hang out with you lot.

White cards:
Pouring eggnog into the Fountain of Bleepka.

A bunch of Nursery kids on a sugar high.

Singing fandom filks of your favorite carols.

Spiking all the Christmas cookies with Bleep.

Kidnapping the Nutcracker and making him fight Cluny.

Wizard crackers with inappropriate toys.

A stampede of elves.


Black cards
'Tis the season to be _! Fa la la la la la la la la!

How the Sue stole _.

This year's PPC party is supposed to include ____.

What's that noise on the roof?

"Inappropriate use of candy canes in slashfic."

I hope you had a very happy birthday, and I hope you have a fantastically happy marriage.

A happy birthday to you and my best wishes to the two of you.

Niiiiice, mate!

I hope that all goes well, mate.

I hope everything goes well!

Also sometimes Powerwolf. =]

You might recognise it if you've ever watched - well - any comedy chase sequence ever. Of course, I suppose that might depend on which part of the world you live in. Either way, here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnHmskwqCCQ

Basically the entire contents of this page:

http://ppc.wikia.com/wiki/Fanmix

Enjoy!

~Neshomeh

My Immortal and Thirty Hs are my votes.

So here's:

Part 1: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2VVwMz7sQ35SDRFS1NUQUFXTHc

Part 2: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2VVwMz7sQ35SFpybnFVZ2RRcmM

Part 3 (the new one): https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2VVwMz7sQ35SzNncUZZQm5KWWs

These files cover the whole fic

Join us in the cardsagainsthq channel, because we're lazy and don't want to relocate. {= )

~Neshomeh

Link: https://pyx-1.pretendyoure.xyz/zy/game.jsp#game=61
Password: FALALA

~Neshomeh

Apparently Iximaz had the opportunity to go see The Book of Mormon, and I wouldn't think of proceeding without the voice of Reicheru. Hopefully she'll get back before I have to leave (in about three hours) and we can still make this happen today. {= )

~Neshomeh

The Man With No Name
By: Frostfyre7
Doctor Who/Firefly crossover
He hadn't really counted on getting into a pub brawl over the color of his coat on some speck of a planet, or signing up with a crew of petty criminals. Still, he'd always wondered what really happened to those Lost Colonists from Earth...

End Of the Line
By: shewhoguards
Harry Potter/Discworld crossover
Hell was, Snape decided, a crowded railway platform. Post Deathly Hallows. Contains spoilers.

but it seems you've beat me to the punch. Here's my contribution:

Sol Umbrae by Dream Bolt
When Twilight Sparkle and her friends are sent to go to the strange world of Mobius to defeat an ancient evil, they end up encountering a strange, spiky blue creature named Sonic. The ponies easily make friends with Sonic, but soon find that not all of the people on Mobius are friendly. Mysterious events lead to misunderstandings, while an evil villain known as Dr. Eggman is setting his eyes on Equestria as his new target.

And amidst all of this lies a great mystery, a mystery that will shed some shocking revelations on how Equestria and Mobius share a great deal of history, on the origins of the being called Solaris, and on a dark threat that both worlds know all too well.

A well-constructed Sonic/MLP crossover. Though it has its roots in Sonic '06 (gasp!), it does a good bit of worldbuilding, tying the aforementioned Sonic '06 and a lot of the main canon sources into a cohesive timeline--as well as seamlessly merging MLP (this was written after the Season 3 finale) into the universe. SPaG is not perfect, but it doesn't detract much from the story. I'd highly recommend it.

Yay, goodfic thread! I have a handful of lovely slash fics (or just fics that include slash) to offer you.

First up, from the Free! fandom, Blue Lotus, White Lotus by shionsheart. Set in the desert AU as seen in the S1 ending, this is primarily a Rei/Nagisa fic, but Makoharu also features (as does Rinsuke). I should warn you that it does include themes of slavery, forced prostitution, and war, so if you're sensitive to those, you may want to check out the next thing on my list instead...

Namely, <a href="http://archiveofourown.org/chapters/2094253?showcomments=true">Nothing Gold Can Stay by perkynurples. I'll just drop the summary here and let it speak for itself:
"Bilbo Baggins led a rather peaceful life, thank you very much, until an old acquaintance decided to turn it upside down, and he found himself agreeing to take a job that’s… let’s say not exactly up his alley, and might eventually cost him a little more than his treasured cozy lifestyle. Who would have thought tutoring a slightly menacing monarch’s more than slightly overbearing nephew could prove to be such an… adventure?"

If you want something action-based, I have The Hetalian Job by RainyMeadows (along with its sequels). This is more in the "awesome fic that includes slash" category; Death the Kid finds Italy lost and scared in the Black Forest and things spiral out of control from there. Content warnings for graphic violence (including some torture), swearing, blood, and in one case suicidal thoughts.

Last, a femslash fic: Girl She Loved by Fabulolz. Literally every other fic in the Free! fandom I've looked at/into has been either some variety of slash or a het pairing, so this jumped out at me automatically. Furthermore, it's about Gou's two friends Chigusa and Hoshiko, who don't get lots of screentime for obvious reasons. (Content warning for emotional abuse.)

Here's one: The Spirit of Redemption by Myetel. It's for Mass Effect. (Link is SFW, but the fic is not. There are plenty of explicit romance scenes, but they're decently done, can be skipped, and are clearly marked with scene breaks/author's notes so you can easily skip past those.)

I don't want to scare you away from this and its prequel, but there are several caveats to this fic. The first is that it's a Mass Effect AU, so much so that the canons are side characters to the OCs.

Drawback 2: There are more than a few changes to canon, so biotics become psychic wizards even more than in the games.

Drawback 3: Plotholes and Deus Ex Machinas. There are a lot of 'em, especially toward the end of the fic (it kind of jumps the shark for its final arc). Worst offender is a two-year time skip where a romantic pairing breaks up with no foreshadowing or explanation, and a spoileriffic thing involving Prothean nanobots.

Drawback 4: A bunch of cultural stuff is entirely made up for the fic, up to and including snippets of language. It's based on the influences the canon drew from, so I consider this a strength, but others may feel differently.

All of that said, The Spirit of Redemption is still amazing. I don't read a lot of fanfic, but this has great characterization and nearly flawless SPaG across several million(!) words. Some of it is less-than-great, but there's enough good stuff that it's more than worth the read.

It would have to be pretty freakin’ bad one if they had to put assassins and god slayers together.
Missing word "a"?

She then pointed one finger and Charlotte and leaned in.
Should be "at"?

Come on, you’ve got one part of your new self done, time to enjoy rest of your day off!
Missing word "the"?

HG

(I'm not good enough at HTML to write it directly. It's about 0.86602540378... You know what I mean.)

Gimme the big one, baby!

Gimme the big onnnnnnnne

My number is e!

Dear 2016,

You suck. I'm kicking you out so the new year can fix everything.

Hate and kickses,

hS

That is beautiful.

I had actually meant to post my partner's commentary on the Silmarillion as we read through it together, because it was so fantastic, but never got around to it.

I do remember, though, that by the end of "Beren and Luthien," she was referring to Thingol as "King D-ckbag." Now it all fits!

I'm late, as usual, but please accept this Replica Holocron and a Haunted Library card as newbie gifts. I don't know what you'd be checking out of a Haunted Library, but it's always good to have a card, right?

Hope you have fun here, and I look forward to seeing you around!

Have a Weighted Companion Cube! This Weighted Companion Cube will accompany you through the PPC. Please take care of it.
Also, my usual question, what are your pronouns?

Here's a bookmark and a tiny hot chocolate mug! The mug comes with its own stirring spoon :)

And WOW, you're almost twice as old as me! Man, life sure is full of surprises sometimes. xD

Anyway, have one of my own shed feathers and a complimentary kit of Spikes! :D

Please accept this finely-crafted starter Pokémon:-

Iiiiiiit's Golduck!

And your starting item is:-

Chakram Barrage from Ascendant!

Chakram Barrage is a bit of a weird item. It allows you to deal extra damage at the end of every turn via a multi-hit attack - it's Steel-type, Special damage category, and the base power of each hit is 18. Now, you tend to see this on Skill Link or Technician users to boost the damage output of the skill, but it can definitely work on Golduck. The standard special set applies here: grab a Modest one with Swift Swim and give it EVs in Special Attack and Speed, then kit it out with Rain Dance, Hydro Pump, Ice Beam, and Psyshock. The extra damage from it can be very beneficial; however, it comes at the cost of a more conventional damage-boosting item like Life Orb. Still, the important thing is always to have fun. =]

Please have a pot of black-hole coffee.

Weell, I got a last question to ask before welcoming you to the madhouse: Did you read any spinoff already, and if yes, wh
ich was your favorite?

Haha! Just kidding!
There's no blood here! There are no baths, either!
There are only smiles, and happiness!
And a constant, all-pervading, horrendous stench, because, as I've established: no baths. We all smell horrible.

Now, see, I've read Das Sporking. They're a bunch of legends.
What I haven't read is Literary Travesty or Skepkitty. So, cheers for the introduction!
Unless I hate them. In which case: um. Er, thanks for the introduction.
But I'm sure I'll like 'em!

My gift upon you, as is tradition, in these parts: a noseplug!
For that absolutely wretched stench. Quick, put it in, fast! Before your nose hairs begin to melt out!

Welcome to our corner of the interwebs, have a Bootstrap Paradox Pocket (If you could get that to past!me it would be greatly appreciated).

So you frequented the Library of the Damned? Herr Wozzeck got his start over here.

Might I ask your fandoms?

(Oh, and don't worry about your age, one HG has you beat. )

Hello, and welcome aBoard! For your newbie gift, take this plate of freshly-made SPaGhetti!

If you haven't yet read them, may I point you towards the Original Series and the Constitution? They're pretty much the only required reading around these parts.

And ooh, another fan of Cake Wrecks! The carrot jockeys were one of my favorites.

Glad to see you've decided to drop by and say hi! :D

Insofar as there's a firm dividing line between 'feathered avian dinosaur' and 'feathered non-avian dinosaur', the presence of a flexible bony tail is it. (That and teeth, I guess, and maybe hand-claws.) This is something the size of a small bird which could swish its tail from side to side. Awesome.

It's also one of the very few Mesozoic dinosaurs we have colour information for; this shows most of the state of the art from last year. And it's not black! It's a lovely chestnut on top and white underneath.

The feathers themselves are apparently arranged as a fan down either side of the tail, like we see on Anchiornis and Microraptor specimens and in pictures; nice little confirmation that that's not a preservation artefact. And you can see for yourself that it's superfloof. I wonder whether this was from an adult (which would I think be among the smallest Mesozoic dinosaurs attested) or a juvenile? The paper suggests juvenile, based I think solely on it being small.

The paleoart showing up attached to the story is very nice-looking, too (though it's not from the paper, and I don't think it was made for this story; not sure though).

All in all: yay!

hS

into something more English-like. I needed a username that was relatively pronounceable, and wasn't feeling too creative.

...Okay, that's maybe a bit melodramatic, but yeah.

Long story short: I had a lengthy argument with someone (probably my mom? I feel like the answer is my mom) over whether my being trans was a sin. Rather than let her get to me, I decided to own that, and thus, Lily-Sinful.

...I guess that's technically more "petty spite" than revenge, huh?

"I'm definitely a girl, and not anything else, and definitely don't even WANT to be anything else, and definitely don't ever feel like a boy or practice being a boy. Because girls are COOL. Girls can be FIGHTERS just like boys can, and sorcerers."

Favorite animal: fox.
Evidence for "girls can be cool": my three aunts, who had long-standing jokes about being witches.

First thought: kitsune. Problem, of course, was everyone was doing kitsune.
Second thought, witchfox… witchvixen…?… No, witch and vixen are too close. foxmagi… …VixenMage!

These days, since everyone assumes you're otherkin and/or trying for sexuality with a name like this, I have other monikers. But I've had it so long, I've stuck with it in the oldest communities. And, after all, I've not entirely given up on foxes or femininity.

It's just my initials. |D

Some of you may remember that in my eagerness to contribute, I posted in a thread about Fairy Tail minis before properly introducing myself. I wasn't using my dA username (which came from Liz Gilbert's memoir) for anything else, and my FF.net handle--Eneko95--sounded silly, I guess. (Eneko being the Japanese name for Skitty.)

I was looking around for a new alias to use on the interwebs this last summer, as all my existing ones really didn't fit my gender any more, and in a fit of uninspiration, I grabbed the NATO phonetics for my first and middle initials. The name has grown on me since - it's quietly transfeminine, with Δ being the usual mathematical symbol for change.

Long story short, I wanted to just use sonofheaven, but apparently that was taken, so Neopets suggested a few variants. One of them was this, and I took it.

As for the inspiration, I wanted something to reflect my Christian faith, so I eventually settled on sonofheaven.

It's the name of an old childhood cat.

I got mine from my first ever D&D character: Mikelus Tarnel. He was a bit Mary Sueish, so I was glad to move away from him, but I always loved how the name sounded, so I kept it.

Granz: Szayel Aporro Granz. Don't ask me why, but when I first watched Bleach, he made an impression, and I didn't have the whole, "He's evil, but he's technically one of the good guys," thing I had with Mayuri. Ah, simple times.

Ice Cream: Neo. Because anybody who can beat people up with an umbrella and fly like Mary Poppins is awesome, evil or no.

Monarch: Reference to the Monarch archetype in Yu-Gi-Oh, the first archetype I ever played when I started the game.

It was a name in the style of names found in the Erin Hunter's Warriors series, but I thought one t was more cool instead of two. And...that's it, really.

My old Internet handle was SoulFinder, because I thought I was insightful and I was gonna save the world one person at a time or whatever. Looking at other people's posts, this is a familiar tune by now, but basically I grew up a bit, realized my stupid teenage self was a stupid teenager, and decided I needed a change.

I was still in high school at the time, but never mind. >.>

I thought the "Soul" part was okay, because what are you on the Internet except your innermost self, without all that external "body" baggage, but I wanted something that sounded cooler than just Soul, so I went poking around other languages, and I landed on Neshomeh in an English-Yiddish dictionary my school had for some reason. It stuck, and here we are.

~Soul-in-Yiddish

Once upon a time, I was very young, and finished reading Captain Underpants, and decided: 'Hey, that was pretty funny. Those characters were pretty funny. I should be funny!'

Oh, bugger me.

I decided that I was to be the official class clown, and my comedic talents manifested in such ingenious, subversive gags as shouting 'Banana!' in the middle of class. You know, when you wouldn't expect someone to shout banana!
It plays on your expectations! It's a joke, right?!

Oh, bugger me.

So I then moved into the internet, into lord knows what bloody thing. It was probably Runescape or Club Penguin, or some bollocks. Or some DS game, I don't know.
I decided that, being the master jokester I was ('Banana! Hahahahaha!') I needed something to reflect that.
It was spelt 'laughinstok'.

Oh, bugger.

I made it my Steam name (It's still my username, technically... brrrrrr) but, in that dangerous act known as 'Growing up and getting marginally less stupid,' I realised how absolutely dumb looking that name was. (And also how dumb the class clown thing was, particularly when you're not funny.)
I jumped around a bit, trying all sorts of names (Steam has a nickname sort've feature, where your visible name is separate from your username,) none of which had that spark.
No, I decided. This cannot do. I require something... classic. Old, but new.
Yes, yes...
So, Larfen J. Stocke!
And then I added an 'Esq', when I remembered that I was the son of a knight, and/or also an American lawyer!

Back when I was a kid, I was bitten by a radioactive gorgon head on a field trip to the local art museum. . .

Honestly, there isn't much of a story behind mine.

Back when I joined, I was rather introspective, trying to decide the kind of person I wanted to be, which was something I wanted my handle to reflect.

Apart from it sounding cool, acting as a shield, a kind of protector, was something that I could try to live up to. So I went with that.

Seriously, though: I had to come up with a username for the Board before introducing myself. I figured that it would be like everywhere else on the Internet: Unique, long, etc. etc.

Welp. Turns out this is a relatively tight and active place, and people will refer to you by your handle and remember you by it. Needless to say, Good Mod Addict is a bit on the long side, so JulyFlame at one point said basically "I'm not dealing with typing that, I'll just say GMA."

But, I still haven't actually answered the question. Here's the real answer: I use over 300 mods for my Skyrim games. I probably spend more time searching for, updating, and fixing conflicts with them at this point than I do actually playing the game.

I would've used my old dA username, FawkesTheSkarmory, but I liked the alliteration better, and it seems that I made the right choice with this one. Besides, it's my Tumblr gandle as well, so there's that, too!

Nothing fancy,but led to a good result. At least I think.

Well , just two that I'll mention .

The one here is my initials , rather boring .

And my ' name ' used at WWOMB and FF.net is the same -

Grape White , which is a tribute to my mother because she liked home decor featuring grapes and it's also a reference to WWE's Sheamus , who she also adored ( * blushes * )

Sergio is my first name, and Turbo is because I am a car enthusiast. That's pretty much it.

'Matt' is short for 'Matthias', which is the closest English equivalent of my name.

'Cipher' has two origins: I do like riddles, puzzles, code-breaking, etc. The other comes from the TV show Gravity Falls and its character - Bill Cipher.

I'm a huge World of Warcraft nut, but my gateway drug into the world of MMORPGs was... Runescape.

I started playing when it was in the days of being able to either use a randomly-generated username, or you could make one up yourself. Of course, you couldn't actually use anything that sounded like a name (I guess to keep people from using their real ones?), but that seriously irritated me. And there was no way I wanted to be called "CamelotOrc3327" while on a quest to save the world.

So, being the idiot twelve year old I was, I played around with letters and sounds until I came up with "Iximaz". That totally sounded like a name, right?

Right?

Eh. :P I did end up using it as my internet handle pretty much everywhere, though, so it worked out in the end.

My friend and I were playing an imagination game and came up with two names for our cat characters: Brightshadow and Dawnfire. Funnily enough, I was originally Brightshadow and she was originally Dawnfire. I started off using Brightshadow as a screen name (notably at Deleterius) and then just moved on to DawnFire for some reason. I've actually thought of switching screennames since then (let's face it, I've been using DawnFire since I was about *fourteen years old*) but have figured it'd be pretty confusing for people. Although, seeing as a number of people have been doing it recently...I might go for it anyway. We'll see.

~DF

PS: 'Dawnfire' is apparently an incredibly common screenname, as it turns out. If you search 'Dawnfire' on FFN, for instance, a number of people who are not me come up. The capitalized Fire helps distinguish me, though I think I first used it mainly because I liked the way it looked.

I finally found the time to read this, and it’s good to see the repercussions of Agent Desdendelle’s cyberisation. I’m glad you didn’t continue sitting on this.

The usual nitpicks:

Don’t go trying to do to much at once.
This should be "too".

Des continued to sob; only after some time passed did he raise his arms and return the hug.
I think this should be "time had passed" (past perfect).

And to get into this, I reread "Grey Area" and noticed a missing word ("of") there:
That is why their console blared to life during the most critical part the operation.

I liked the mailman joke, and how you integrated the fire lizards into the story.

HG

To the tune of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer

You know Delta and Lily
And ShyIon and Kitsune,
Comet and Cipher
And July and Ixi.
But do you recall
The most unknown returnbie of all?

Maslab the Unknown Returnbie
Popped onto the Discord one day
And if you ever saw him
You may even recognize his name

All of the other Discorders
Had to deal with all his puns
They all wanted Maslab
To make a post on the board

Then one random December Day
Comet went and said
Maslab with your puns so many
Could I make a filk on this?

Then he went ahead a returned
And we shouted out with glee
Maslab the Unknown Returnbie
You'll go down in history!

You will never know how hard it was to find semi-relevant returnbies

To the tune of "Up on the Housetop" by Benjamin Hanby

Down through the roof, do raindrops fall?
We are the ones you should give a call.
Is the Four-S now in the blink?
We'll fix it; that way you can think.

We maintain PPC grounds,
Be it in HQ or the town.
And if aught breaks, we shall come quick.
And what needs fixing we shall fix.

Crisis supplies we keep maintained
And make sure that they're up-to-date.
Parks are maintained by greenspace teams.
And th'HQ pool we keep quite clean

We maintain PPC grounds,
Be they in HQ or the town.
And if aught breaks, we shall come quick.
And what needs fixing we shall fix.

We're not called when Doctor Four's not odd,
Or Pinkie Pie's written as Sweeney Todd,
Or Arwen's sister woos Boromir
And makes Gimli's wits disappear.

But if we were not around
The PPC would fall to th'ground
So, let's maintain the PPC
That Sues may not victorious be!

Are you murdering in festive black and red?
Are you dragging canons out of Santa's bed?
Are the Snowman and the Snowdog
crossed with Call of Duty Three?
Is an alien wizard doubling as your tree?

Yes, here it is, Merry Christmas
From the generator crew.
Please go kill more badfics,
We are all begging you-u-u...!

Because Conan-Doyle is spinning like a top
And Disney's endless whirling just won't stop
We've got Tolkien, we've got Lewis,
And they're dancing a gavotte;
They're all turning and creating gigawatts...!

So here it is, Merry Christmas
From the generator team.
Please cut down our workload;
We all need to let off ste-e-eam...!

So while rivetting the tinsel to your walls
(And fleeing Building Maint'nance down the halls)
Spare a thought for those who keep you
In light and heat and such,
But please don't come to visit; we are shut!

So here it is, Merry Christmas
From the generator mob.
Please don't call us 'Shrinies';
That's not really our jo-o-ob...!

Yes, one more time, Merry Christmas,
From the generator peeps.
Please make your resolution
To leave us all in pe-e-eace...!

Not about Sue-slaying: check.
Infrastructure department: check.
Holiday-themed: check.
Reference to obscure trivia: check.
Sneaky fandom ref for Neshomeh: check.

I think we're good here.

hS

With thanks to Iximaz for the song.

Because Dafydd felt like joining in.

(I have an idea for a song of my own; we'll see if I get round to it.)

hS

To the tune of "Chanukah, O Chanukah", adapted for possible PPC traditions:

Chanukah, O Chanukah, come light the menorah
Kids have a party, we'll learn what's in store-a
Gather round together, we'll give you some drinks
Dreidels to play with and no missions (we think).
And while we are singing
The candles are burning high
One for each night, they shed a sweet light,
and give us hope that canon is nigh!

*

That's all I've got for now, and it really is more of a PPC adaptation than anything else, but I'll try to think of another tune to adapt.

~DF

(Sung to "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen")

God help ye hapless PPC
Let none of you dismay
Remember him, the Skarmory
Who graced HQ that day
A crossover of mighty scale
Whose author went astray
Oh bless him of steel, Falchion
Falchion
Like the phoenix he rises again

Incredible, dependable,
A Super girl did rise
To face down a replacement
A beast the bird despised
They tricked the hateful beast into
A deadly hot surprise
Oh bless her of strength, Sarah Squall,
Sarah Squall,
When the Sues come, she fights with her all

There was a man with rainbow hair
Who spread the avian's word
For he too had escaped despair
Or so Headquarters heard
A white-furred beast had saved his hide
And she too knew this bird
Oh bless him of hope, Rayner B.
Rayner B.
And Rashida Mafdetiti

A wraith, a sword, a dinosaur
Would one day join their cause
A former Sue with hair of blue
Would even give them pause
For they all sought a time of peace
No more of badfic's flaws
Oh bless them of united strength,
United strength,
And missions of unfathomed length

And when they came to Headquarters
Where our dear Falchion rests,
His voice was one of welcoming
Despite his thorny nest
He took them in and gave them hope
That they'd complete their quest
Oh bless them of friendship and love,
Friendship and love,
Despite the demands from above

Falc, Rashida, Rayner, Eve,
Together they prevail,
Ripper, Sarah, Cupid, Lapis,
Through rain, snow, or hail,
Whitney, Backslash, are there more?
The chaos this entails,
Due to all the agents I write,
Agents I write,
I'm not getting any sleep tonight~

I like the idea of agents doing Christmas things, though I think this filk strayed a bit from that. *shrug* Ah, well.

Silent night! Holy night!
Agents make their RCs bright.
Consoles muffled in blankets deep,
Floaters catch all their needed sleep.
Sues no more shall return!
Sues no more shall return!

Silent night! Holy night!
Suvians hide away in fright.
C-CADS tucked away for now,
Agents in the Courtyard for snow.
Minis drank all the cocoa,
Minis drank all the cocoa.

Silent night! Holy night!
SIs quake at the sight.
Agents wreak vengeance for Faramir.
Thranduil's head is still not clear.
Agents get holiday pay!
Agents get holiday pay!

~~~
Obviously the last two lines are utter fantasy, but they fit the tune, so they stay. ^_^ Merry Christmas, everyone!

-Alleb

Not my best effort, I don't think, but hopefully amusing nonetheless.

"Jay and Acacia", to the tune of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" (creative title, I know)


You know Dafydd and Ilraen and Bulldog and Barid

Tawaki and Cupid and Gremlin and Makes-Things

But do you recall the most famous agents of all?

Ja-a-ay and Acacia

Killed themselves a lot of Sues

But if you ever asked them

They might say it wasn’t true

All of the nasty Flowers

Tried to take away their pay

But brave Jay and Acacia

Continued to save the day!

Then one badfic in Loh-tee-ar

Drove them quite insane

Boromir was kissing Sues

Legolas suddenly turned gay!

So then Jay and Acacia

Decided to run away

The moral of this story

Is agents should really get paid!

(somehow this song is associated with Christmas now? IDKLOL)

(Chris)
My Meganium and Volcano Burgers
Warm, fuzzy blankets and Captain Steve Rogers
Days without missions and New Leaf in spring;
These are a few of my favorite things

(Ami)
Rereading Tolkien and all four Princesses
Lettuce and Toon Link and Rarity's dresses
Orchestral music, especially strings;
These are a few of my favorite things

(Miguel)
Fanfics set during the holiday season
Traveling through time for any old reason
Every song Lin-Manuel Miranda sings;
These are a few of my favorite things!

(Violet)
When the Bleep's gone,
When Sues have wings,
When I'm feeling sad...

(All)
I simply remember my favorite things
And then I don't feel so bad!

(instrumental break)

(Violet)
Amethyst wrestling with Steven beside her
Holiday parties with free food and cider
Guys wearing black suits and little earrings;
These are a few of my favorite things!

(All)
When the Bleep's gone,
When Sues have wings,
When I'm feeling sad...
I simply remember my favorite things
And then I don't feel~
So bad!

(Thanks to Delta Juliette for the input).
My Fanfiction, shameless highjacking of My Testimony, by Shoji Meguro, Yuichiro Tanaka and Yumi Kawamura.



Sleep walk, my eyelids are lured to the darkness of fanfic,
Like glitter softly killing a canon,
I should’ve known nothing repeats.
The hands of rewrite erase me,
However, it’s strange that I’m crying from the bottom of my heart.

I can see the goodfic in everything mundane,
Even in the smoky air of the crowded OFUs.
Since I don’t want to lose the burning glimmer of everyday moments,
I start to walk.

Grayish dawn, daybreak reveals yet another fic,
Even in the warmth of the sand between my fingers.
But I’ll walk forward, won’t there be something waiting there?
This surely is my fanfiction,
I sing, with a distant story in my heart.

I can see the goodfic in the mundane tomorrows,
It’s the same voices, the same meetings; that’s all it is.
Pain grazes this life of mine,
Brightly lights it and strokes it, so now I start to walk.

‘till my soul Even if I’m transformed into a memory,
Nevertheless…

Someone’s love song resounded merrily in the desolate winter,
As if it were my own, my heart trembles.

I can see the goodfic in everything mundane,
Even in the breath of the moment when we hold hands.
Since I don’t want to lose the burning glimmer of everyday moments,
I start to walk.

This day, a year ago, he was rolling in the snow
With a younger brother
In his father's yard
Christmas break, a time for touching home,
The only world he'd known,
And leaving was so hard.

Now he's countless worlds away, hunting Sues on Christmas day,
Earning double time,
If he's ever paid at all
Well, he always said he'd make it on his own
The temporary partner's going.
First Christmas,
Away from home

She's in King's Cross train station, nicking canons' change,
Four more Galleons buys
Oblivion in her room
Well it looks like she's for Rudi's after all,
And the sighs of pity all
Will echo like a tomb

But it's warm and clean and she can think of worse places to be,
And at least it means
No beating from her Dad,
And if she cries because it's Christmas day,
She hopes that it won't show,
First Christmas,
Away from home

By the console there stands a little tree,
And it looks so small and bare,
Not how it ought to be.
Weeping Angel on the top,
It's not that same old silver star
You wanted fo your own
First Christmas,
Away from home.

In the morning there's his meds, then it's crafts with those in beds,
Then another meal,
In what they call his room.
Hoping that his friends will think to call,
If they think of him at all,
It's best they do it soon.

When his partner passed away he fell apart more every day,
Each had always kept the other,
Pretty well.
But the Flowers said that FicPsych would be best,
'Cause he couldn't live alone,
First Christmas,
Away from home.

He watches them sedate the Christmas Tree,
And he's huge and he's cold and lifeless,
Not how he ought to be,
And the lit-up flashing Santa Claus on top,
It's not that same old silver star,
You once made for your own
First Christmas,
Away from home.

Nice work on that, Nesh. *thumbs up*

I'll probably work on a filk later tonight.

Once again, I'm doing this one.

These are your bad fics
Please take our advice
You've never written the nice ones anyway
And we're in a bad mood
See I've been writing a list
The gift you're receiving from me
Will be

One ironic dispatch
And two hopes we cry ourselves to sleep
Staying up, waiting by the Console
And all we want this year is for you to dedicate your last breath to us
Before you make us go insane

Don't write fics for Christmas
You're the last thing we wanna see
On the console
Merry Christmas, we could care less

Happy New Years, badfic
You owe us
The best gift we will ever ask for
Don't call us up, when the axe comes down
Its the only thing we want this year

One ironic dispatch
And two hopes we cry ourselves to sleep
Staying up, waiting by the Console
And all we want this year is for you to dedicate your last breath to us
Before you make us go insane

Don't write fics for Christmas
You're the last thing we wanna see
On the console
Merry Christmas, we could care less

Don't write fics for Christmas
You're the last thing we wanna see
On the console (Don't write fics for Christmas)
Merry Christmas, we could care less

Don't write fics for Christmas
You're the last thing we wanna see
On the console (Don't write fics for Christmas)
Merry Christmas, we could care less

[A Badfic Author, all speshul and stuff:]
Sweet! He did that song again!
He must've spent a lot of time on this...
But this one time, this one Christmas I wrote this-
[beeps Deck the Halls]

((Also Nesh, don't worry about that snow system coming in, it was quite light around here))