The sun goes dark. Shadows cover the Earth. From the depths of the forests, they swarm in uncounted trillions, reclaiming at last the world they have long coveted. The Vashta Nerada are free once more.
The sun goes dark. A voice booms from the heavens, reverberating from the mountains: "The Twilight of the Gods is upon us. Behold the triumph of Fenrir!" Bounding across the stars, you can make out the black form of the Wolf as it devours the light.
The sun goes dark. Words appear on its blackened visage: "The day is gone..." After a moment, they shift and warp. "Without a trace..." The letters seem to melt away, revealing a new set underneath. "Face the Dark..." Each letter becomes an eye of fire, reforming into a fourth message: "With a smooth face." Totality is reached. The corona flares into view, and with it a final message: "Burma-Shave."
The sun goes dark. The moon is halo'd against the golden corona. Across the nation, everyone can see as the lunar crust cracks open, and a draconic head, large as worlds, thrusts out of the shell.
The sun goes dark. Then light. Then dark. Then light. As darkness returns, a voice calls plaintively from inside the house: "Damien, leave the light switch alone, there's a good boy..."
The sun goes dark. The observatory buzzes with conversation. We knew the transit of Venus was going to be spectacular - but we never expected something like this.
The sun goes dark. A total eclipse crosses North America coast-to-coast. Add your own.
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OT: The sun goes dark. by
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The sun goes dark. by
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The four moons have aligned in crux for the first time in centuries. A portal opens, and souls pour forth from the afterlife, eager to latch onto any body that's lying around. Even if it's already occupied.
(Someday I'm gonna do something with this idea.)
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The sun goes dark over there. by
on 2017-08-23 15:33:00 UTC
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The sun goes dark. Malaysia does not see the shadow. A person looks at the sky and see the clouds gathering. "Time to get the laundry." He remembers seeing the sun eclipsed by the moon as a child before his maid pulls him back inside. "Do not go outside! Dragon wants to eat the moon."
He remembers watching the TV, and Chinese people of his country clanging cymbals and playing gongs to chase away the dragon. The Muslim Malays do the eclipse prayers. He was a child, he did not have to attend. The Indians offer prayers in their temples.
The eclipse was over in minutes. The gossiping goes for years. It will be almost a century before such an event can be seen again. "Will I live to see it again?" -
The sun goes dark. by
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The sun goes dark... then lights up again, before it happens again, always for a short time, but several time in one interval of time. The joy of living in a setting where heroes' summoning darken the sky.
The sun goes dark. I mean, litteraly black, and turns people into stone. The only way to avoid this fate? Take some formula to turn into demons eating each other. (a black-hole cake for the one guessing the game)
The sun goes dark. The generic guy from te future sighs in relief. Right before being burned. 'Of course we knew there was an eclipse today. It makes for more dramatic executions.'
The sun goes dark. Nobody on Tatooine really cares that much.
The sun goes dark. Demons are far calmer now. the it switches again, and they go mad. Really irritating when the final boss uses it for attacks. (another cake here). -
The sun indeed goes dark. by
on 2017-08-23 00:38:00 UTC
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The sun goes dark. A young writer sits in a house, deep in writer's block. The eclipse is right outside his window. He looks up as it reaches totality, and inspiration slowly comes.
The sun goes dark. A young boyfriend and girlfriend have decided to sneak out of school to watch the eclipse in totality. They begin speaking sweet nothings to each other, and at the exact moment of totality, they kiss. Because this is a smarmy romance story. Yay.
The sun goes dark. Since the founding of the lunar colony, this has been the first terrestrial eclipse the citizens have witnessed. It is a time of deep thought and deep longing for home.
The sun goes dark. There are no words to describe this sight. Like all other phenomena of nature, it just... is.
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The sun goes... dark? by
on 2017-08-22 23:49:00 UTC
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Well, at any rate, the light dims.
The sun goes dim. The sky is strangely bright, but the colors on the ground are somewhat muted.
The sun goes dim...ish. The people gathered outside grumble in disappointment.
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The sun goes dark... by
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The sun goes dark. In a forgotten ghost town, two Barons of Plort tilt their heads towards the sky.
(In short, VM and I, plus assorted friends and family, drove south. It was totally worth it!) -
The sun goes dark. by
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The sun goes dark. The priest atop the huge stone pyramid plunges his dagger into the heart of a bound captive, waiting for it to please his gods. And goes on waiting.
The sun goes dark. The Age of Fire, the Age of Lord Gwyn is ending. But every Hollow knows and has ever known he won't go down without a long and brutal fight...
The sun goes dark. The researchers far below rejoice; the skies are so clear, the positions are perfect. This is a wonderful time for a solar eclipse. They celebrate until one remembers that the planet has no moons.
The sun goes dark. The leader of the cult lays down his saw and prostrates himself in quiet and unshakeable rapture. The dead and the dying litter the surface of the Earth, and when he dares to look up, he finds the gods of his calling surrounding this sinful, doomed planet; moon after moon after moon after hideous, tentacle-sprouting Brother Moon... -
The sun goes dark! by
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The sun goes dark. A man walks into a bar. A man walks into a wall. A man walks into another man. A man trips over, stumbles down a series of stairs, knocks over a row of rubbish bins, gets coke all over his shirt, and wishes his phone's torch function wasn't bugged.
The sun goes dark. Humans are fascinated. The Mole People, gazing up above through their spyports, pause briefly in their invasion plans to wonder what the big deal is.
The sun goes dark. Vampires prowl the streets freely. Ambitious travelling garlic salesmen soon join them. It is hard to decide whose tactics are more aggressive.
The sun goes dark. As the streetlamps start to flicker and die, the last plate is bolted, the last lens is rooted in place, the last blowtorch sparks. The Sunrise Mechanism is completed. The people who can afford to have it shining over their cities wonder why all the people who whinge about not being able to afford it don't just get jobs.
The Sun goes dark. The Moon cleans off her spear, dropping the bloodied fabric, which tumbles down and births a new continent. She basks in the bowing submission of the survivors. Their new god shines over them, turns them silver against the night.
The sun goes dark. Suddenly, the conditions in which groups of organised humans attack other groups of organised humans are deeply unsuitable. World peace is attained. This is promptly fixed when they stop fumbling long around enough to figure out where the torches are.
The sun goes dark. The Artist takes an ineffable finger off the switch, looks down on his project, shrugs a pair of ineffable shoulders. Maybe the next try will go better. He has grown an inexplicable fondness for possums, so perhaps he will use them instead of apes, this time. -
The sun doesn't go dark. by
on 2017-08-22 12:47:00 UTC
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Because I live in Australia and I'm missing out on all of the fun, apparently.
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Indeed, it is very bright, over here by
on 2017-08-22 22:08:00 UTC
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This is the bluest, loudest sky I've seen in months.
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The sun goes dark. Everywhere. by
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The sun goes dark. Ten thousand peoploids split into small tribes, coveting the tallest of the sterile skyscrapers like packs of dogs.
The sun goes Dark, but the moon counters with Fire+3. As Orion attaches an Ice-IX to his Belt of Dexterity, the people of Earth continue on, oblivious.
The sun goes dark. Apollo finishes the cut and lays the slice on Amon-Ra's plate. He looks round at the assembled gods. "Anyone else?"
((Scapegrace and I are both in the UK. This is my way of not missing out on the fun. ^_^))
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The Sun Goes Dark by
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The sun goes dark. Panic, madness, insanity. The Tyrant Star has arrived.
The sun goes dark. Some careless engineer rm-ed /: The outage is expected to last 72 hours.
The sun goes dark. DOGA agents grab flamethrowers to fix the results of a piece of bad description.
The sun goes Dark. The moon thought we were playing MtG.
The sun goes dark. "If you strike me down," the moon says, "I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine."
The sun goes dark. God fumbles around for the light switch. -
The Sun goes Dark. by
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The Sun goes Dark. It starts wearing heavy make-up, listening to alternative rock, and wailing on social media that nobody understands it.
The Sun goes dark. And I'm still sitting in my room, hoping to boost my Druid to level 58.
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Interlude: O Lazarus by
on 2017-08-23 00:25:00 UTC
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I'm feeling productive lately. Think of it as making up for all those years in exile. Hup hup!
Interlude Title: O Lazarus
Canon: PPC
Rating: T, for swears and body horror
Agents: Trevelyan, A.
Time Period: May 2010 HST
Word Count: 1635
Summary: Change – whether it’s your choice or not – means you have to take a good, hard look back at your past. Even, and especially, when it hurts.
[Immediately follows Interlude: A Changed Man.]
Warning: Discussion of severe burns.
"O Lazarus, how did your debts get paid? O Lazarus, were you so afraid?" -
Poor Alec. by
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I definitely get how uncomfortable this experience is for him—the body horror works well that way. All that pain and suffering, and years to come to terms with it, and now this fairly ridiculous and arbitrary nonsense. Oy.
He doesn't seem the type to go for hugs, but Nurse Jenni could put him in touch with Agent Derik, and they could go for drinks? I imagine they'd find plenty in common.
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Yeah... by
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I mean, he's still an awful person, but I do feel sorry for him. He has been getting better, but he's still not a great person. (As will be seen in a future/past interlude.)
Doesn't mean he deserves all this nonsense, though.
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Falling down the time warp. by
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"Well," thought I, "I've read both Team Phoenix updates, I may as well do the hat-trick and read this Lazarus thing."
"Aha," thought I, "it's Alec "not-the-self-insert" Trevelyan again, I can see how things have changed for him since his recruitment."
"Well," thought I, "that was a great exploration of what happened to Alec - I wonder how closely it relates to canon? Oh, she's discussed that with doc, coolcool. But what was up with that tattoo? Let's check the story this is a direct sequel to."
"Okay," thought I, "that doesn't really answer anything... what's a Valcentica? Maybe there's a previous mission I can reference."
"... what," thought I, "the actual flipping heck?!"
I ended up checking the Board for discussion of it, and finding your conversation with Nesh and Zingenmir when you came back... seriously, that's completely loopy.
Anyway, yeah, you sent me down a rabbit-hole. ^_^
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I would say I'm sorry, but I'm not. :V by
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Valcentica was a trip. God, we all had so much fun with that - I'm actually really good friends with the person who played most of the worst Sues now. But yes, all of that Valcentica stuff actually happened, it was a disaster. But the fun kind of disaster, like when a cupcake factory explodes.
Glad you liked it! :D There's a lot more where that came from. Once I stopped dragging my feet on that thing the dam burst and all the ideas started happening... -
Re: Interlude: O Lazarus by
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This is an interesting concept, actually. Alec clearly still doesn't like his scars, but he also "sides" with them over the phoenix tattoo out of familiarity. It's an interesting sort of mindset/emotional state to think about. (I would be horrendously bothered by something like that showing up that I couldn't hide, even without a pre-existing mark for it to overlay.)
I also really like the flashback scene to the explosion. I haven't read or watched any Bond, so it was essentially an original scene for me. I love the little detail that Alec calls Bond "James" in his mind. It's still clear enough who he's referring to, but it makes sense that one of Baond's actual colleagues would just think of him as "guy I know" rather than having all the franchising/memeage associated with Bond from our media perspective.
I also like that Kitty's appearance at the end kind of works for the reader the same way it does for Alec: things have changed, but it's still a PPC spin-off. rather cute!
"And now the reminder of that betrayal was altered by the mark that had insinuated itself over top of it like an ink-wash."
I think you wanted a "the" there in "over the top of it," unless this is a phrasing style I've never encountered before.
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Thanks! by
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It's actually something interesting that I noticed upon my thousandth rewatch to write this - the two of them are still on first-name terms, even when they're enemies. (They even banter - well, they trade, eh, inside jokes of a kind? Things they used to say on their missions together?) Alec is actually the only Bond villain (maybe minus Spectre, but I really don't care to watch that one again) who addresses Bond as "James" throughout.
(Hello, I am the person nobody ever wants to go against in James Bond trivia, can you tell?)
There's no explanation as to how Alec survived the explosion in the film or the novelization, so I had to make it up out of whole cloth. I hope it wasn't too unbelievable!
And yeah, that's the phrasing I wanted! I'm not 100% sure where I picked that up but I know it's a thing people say...somewhere...probably........
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PPC Scavenger hunt by
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Hello everyone, and welcome to the PPC scavenger hunt! This is a new game, where boarders look for various uncommon to extremely rare things in fanfic (mostly badfic) and then get points for finding them. Whoever has the most points at the end wins.
There are 50 items to find, all of which are worth one point. To enter the game, make a reply to this post title "[your name]'s finds". When you find something, reply to that post, including the item you found in the subject, and quote the part of the fic that you found the item in and link to the fic. You can't use the exact same thing as another boarder, but using something else from the same sentence for the same item on the list.
Also, to keep the scavenger hunt safe for people verifying finds, NSFW or NSFB fics are not allowed. This is probably going to mean T-rated or below fic. To keep things interesting, any items must be found in chapters that were published at on or after 2017-07-23, and anything from any fic that has been PPC'ed is not allowed. The game will run until the end of 2017-09-24, EST (to match the timestamps on the main board).
Now that the rules are out of the way, here are the items to find, all of which I have seen in fic (although not necessarily in eligible fic) :
- A mini with three or more letters added, deleted, or removed
- An object of an impossible color
- A Suvian reformed within their own fic
- A sentence with more SPaG errors than words
- An author's note in the middle of the chapter
- A heading in the form of "[character]'s POV"
- A generic weapon
- An instance of reader bashing
- A pronoun problem between two characters not being shipped
- A nonsensical illness
- An instance of "Canon" misspelled as "cannon"
- A completely unromantic scene intended as romance
- A canonical creature described in a completely wrong manner
- A character with a negative age
- A piece of figurative language that makes more sense when interpreted literally
- A page-long paragraph ("pageagraph")
- An uncanonical character who would be OOC resistant or immune if canon
- A badfic shorter than 500 words
- A soap opera cough
- A character who checks off an excessive number of common Mary Sue traits
- A character who is over 99% OOC but not replaced
- A sentence that ends in a punctuation mark not normally used to end sentences
- A poorly-written poly relationship
- An unclosed parenthesis or similar punctuation mark
- An author's note not marked as such.
- An unintelligible acronym
- An LGBT+ Suvian
- A character who is both bashed and a Suvian's LO in the same fic
- A ship which is obviously a bad idea
- A ridiculously flimsy excuse for two characters falling in twu wuv
- A misuse of mathematics
- A sentence which does not begin with a capital letter
- A summary (including any tags) which implies at least three charges
- A series of three or more of the same punctuation mark
- A comma splice
- An unnecessary line break
- A correctly used semicolon
- Food with an impossible flavor
- A nonsensical object (such as "Long Table Elrond")
- A word misspelled as a different word
- A number used as a word
- A canonically incorrect romantic custom
- A completely generic setting
- A sentence with three or more ambiguous pronouns
- A character that has no reason to appear in prose (\^, |, _, etc.)
- An unattributed line of dialogue
- A statement of something obvious
- A character with the same name as the author
- A summary or title with a SPaG error
- A good CAHQ card (Anything extra weird that doesn't fit one of the above items)
Good luck hunters!
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Diana Cribbet's finds (nm) by
on 2017-08-26 14:21:15 UTC
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#48: A character with the same name as the author. by
on 2017-08-27 04:30:39 UTC
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https://m.fanfiction.net/s/12615942/1/Wildflower
Aria Breuer tells us how Aria Breuer became the Tenth Walker.
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#1: Uber mini by
on 2017-08-26 18:54:17 UTC
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"Meanwhile With Dumblebum"
Yes, seriously. The story is marked as "Dumbles bashing" as well (though later on, in this same chapter they call him Dumbledore, so maybe it's on purpose?). By the way, Harry is actually a Malfoy, gets sorted on both Slytherin and "Gryfinndor" (which I think would make a lovely mini-Aragog) and his best friends are Hermione and Draco (who suddenly isn't racist). Let's not go over their powers, though be warned they include something called "Magic Siphoning". Please, please, spork it.
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#18, #32 and #6. by
on 2017-08-26 15:59:04 UTC
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Shorter than 500 words, lack of caps and POV heading!
https://m.fanfiction.net/s/12603439/1/The-scary-book
"hilary's pov.
'ummmmm. Don't know which book to select. ' umm I think that book on the top should be the best for me. "excuse me ?" I asked."
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#18: Shorter than 500 words by
on 2017-08-26 14:54:41 UTC
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https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12626271/1/A-Better-Dark-Lord
This one's actually only 89 words, so here it is in its entirety:
As Harry sat on his cell in Azkaban he started thinking im going to get revenge on that Weasley bitch and his whore of a wife!
As harry sat on his cell he began practicing wandless majic, occlumency, animegus form and leginimency. After 6 weeks of practice he spotted the girl while invading a guards mind and saw she was Gabrielle Delacor. Once he started practicing his animegus...2 weeks later he became a 10 foot rattle snake. That night he was planning on escaping arounf 1:00...
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Oops by
on 2017-08-26 15:10:16 UTC
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This one's M-rated, nevermind.
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Hardric's findings. (nm) by
on 2017-08-25 09:21:54 UTC
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Number 1: A mini with three or more letters added, deleted or removed. by
on 2017-08-26 10:11:14 UTC
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That's a fairly classic Persona badfic there: Uncanon character joins the fun and still thunder with his 'unique' Persona (like all the canon characters), hitting on canon characters, and questionnable SpaG. This one is 'original' though, because he's a cousin to Persona 1 protagonist.
I originally went to school at St.Merlin high, which was located in the city of Mikage-cho. Apperently there was a big conspiracy with an old company called sebec, and their branch president, Takahisa Kandori. Ever since then, the town had a bad reputation of being haunted by evil spirits, but its just stupid superstition.
But last January, I was told that I would be transferred to a different school and city. A city called, Iwatodi. A city that is runned by the Kirijo group... I think? I have to wonder though, why was I getting transferred to this type of place. "Sigh maybe it was a mistake, or maybe Naoya was worried about me." My cousin, Naoya Toudou is what you would call... a very worried person I would believe. But in the end he's always been there for when I needed some to talk to.
That said, the spelling of St. Hermelin is a bit... off.
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Number 18: Fic with less than 500 words. by
on 2017-08-25 09:28:13 UTC
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https://m.fanfiction.net/s/12626216/1/Along-Came-Mitsuru
Heck, I can pretty much quote the entire fic.
Yukari Takeba is a curvy, slim and helpful archer from Japan. Her life is going nowhere until she meets Mitsuru Kirijo, a slender, sexy woman with a passion for fighting Shadows Yukari takes an instant disliking to Mitsuru and the cold-blooded and arrogant ways she learnt during her years in Japan. However, when a thug tries to rob Yukari, Mitsuru springs to the rescue. Yukari begins to notices that Mitsuru is actually rather courageous at , the pressures of Mitsuru's job as a heir to the Kirijo group leave her blind to Yukari's affections and Yukari takes up writing to try an distract herself.
Finally, when rude school student, Minato Arisato, threatens to come between them, Mitsuru has to act fast. But will they ever find the passionate love that they deserve?
I'm sure I could squeeze more items out of that...
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Novastorme's finds (nm) by
on 2017-08-24 16:31:36 UTC
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#31 A misuse of mathematics by
on 2017-08-24 18:44:09 UTC
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From: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12624709/1/Evil-in-Disguise
"The train whistled at station 9 and ¾ths, and I shivered hesitantly as my parents wrapped me up in one final hug."
I'm aware it's relatively minor (only saying you measure things in fourths instead of quarters), but if I find a better one I will replace this with that.
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I think that's an Americanism. by
on 2017-08-25 08:27:52 UTC
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Kaitlyn occasionally drops into 'fourths' rather than quarters even after eight years over here.
hS
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#25 An author's note not marked as such. by
on 2017-08-24 18:39:57 UTC
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From: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12609631/1/Harry-Potter-Horizon
"I do noet own anything. harry ptterverse bwlongs to JK Rowling The following contains Wikipedia content, which i also dont own ..."
Going straight into what 'story' the 'fic has (if by story you mean the copying out of Wikipedia articles)
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#33 A summary (including any tags) which implies at least three charges and #49... by
on 2017-08-24 17:08:47 UTC
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A summary or title with a SPaG error. If we're allowed two from the same 'fic that is.
From: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12626459/1/I-didn-t-know-I-was-a-veela
"Draco Malfoy is returning to Hogwarts to complete his final year. The wizarding world is at peace at the death of Lord Voldemort; however in the Malfoy household, no peace is to be found. Draco found out that he is actually a veela and he needs to find a mate before graduation! Failure to find a mate will result in a catastrophe. Will Draco be able to find his mate?"
Charge 1: Keeping Draco in Hogwarts too long Charge 2: Unnecessary semicolon Charge 3: Draco can't be a Veela, enough said?
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#36 An unnecessary line break by
on 2017-08-24 16:59:24 UTC
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From: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12626853/1/Harry-Potter-and-the-Shaman-s-Rock
"Mrs. Dursley was fat, a brunette and had nearly no neck, although she could have done with one, as she spent so much of her time craning over garden fences, spying on the
neighbours"
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Thoth's finds by
on 2017-08-24 12:10:55 UTC
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Iximaz's finds (nm) by
on 2017-08-24 11:57:21 UTC
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Never mind, I'm dropping out. by
on 2017-08-24 18:40:52 UTC
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I missed the 'fics must be from a month before' rule. I have free time, but not that much free time.
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Huinesoron's finds. (nm) by
on 2017-08-24 08:47:00 UTC
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And in here I will place things that don't quite qualify:
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12153324/1/No-Woman-Am-I is, of all things, a trans!Eowyn character replacement. I've read over the first chapter and 'Dernhelm' is definitely replaced; he says this to Faramir in the Houses of Healing: "Do not mourn [Boromir], then, for he found a glorious death, while you will be slaughtered like a dog. Envy him."
Sadly, the most recent chapter doesn't contain any evidence of Suvianness; he seems to be aiming towards a romance with Lothiriel, who's also gone pretty OOC. But I can't claim a #27 'LGBT+ Suvian' from the last month.
A near miss for #14, 'A character with a negative age':
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11778904/3/My-Precious
This is a retelling of Smeagol's fall into Gollum. Here's the entirety of Chapter 3:
I suddenly heard a loud piercing scream which I only assume could be Mrs.Brandybuck. "Deagol! Deagol is dead!" She screamed
Deagol died nowhere near the Shire, so this is impossible. But, sadly for me, he did die about a hundred years after Gorhendad Oldbuck changed his family's name to Brandybuck.
hS
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#40 by
on 2017-08-25 14:23:56 UTC
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Same fic as #36: https://m.fanfiction.net/s/12609460/1/Shaataz-the-villainous-Captain-of-the-Uruk-hai
- Here it surged the opportunity to feed some of my men when I killed an insignificant and irrelevant orc.
Ugluk, I know you're an orc, but surged =/= served. Not even close.
hS
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#36: An unnecessary line break by
on 2017-08-25 14:22:01 UTC
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https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12609460/1/Shaataz-the-villainous-Captain-of-the-Uruk-hai
I may replace this if I find an intentional one, but for now:
...made his way towards the green haired druid who stood
impatiently at the center of the clearing, waiting for him.
hS
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#1, #32: The uber-mini and the lack of caps. by
on 2017-08-25 14:17:36 UTC
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https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12610117/1/Elessara
"your kin have been lurking here for days something about black riders" barlim informs her and Mia takes her hood off Her hair is a chestnut brown blonde color and was cut to her shoulders and thin.
'barlim' is Barliman Butterbur, and the common way of creating minis I believe means the lowercase 'b' counts as an error (along with the missing 'an').
hS
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#18: A badfic shorter than 500 words by
on 2017-08-25 13:50:26 UTC
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https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12626037/1/Laiqualasse
It's a poem. It starts out by comparing Legolas to 'a child of Apollo'. It later claims he 'has never touched a beer', which directly contradicts movie canon. It's just... bad.
I really wanted to claim it for #13, A canonical creature described in a completely wrong manner, as well, but figured 'character' and 'creature' were a little too different.
And yet they got the Quenya form of his name right!
hS
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#16: A page-long paragraph ("pageagraph") by
on 2017-08-25 13:44:55 UTC
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I'm gonna go ahead and claim https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12600784/1/Meetings (the prologue). It has a single separated line at the bottom, but... well, I have absolutely no idea what the body of the text says, because I just can't bring myself to focus on it.
hS
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#48: A character with the same name as the author by
on 2017-08-24 09:12:19 UTC
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https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12603607/1/Pest-Control
This is Thalion Estel's story about Thalion Estel hanging out with her muses, Aragorn and Faramir. Apparently.
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#43: A completely generic setting by
on 2017-08-24 09:00:06 UTC
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https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12625232/1/Mirkwood-in-Winter
This is a poem, purportedly about the coming of Sauron to Mirkwood. I know that because a) the summary says so, and b) it uses the name 'Necromancer'. Beyond that, I'm pretty sure this is Game of Thrones, not LotR.
No tender lover he, beneath pale moons, His longing, crypt-born, guides the conqueror worm, No soft caresser; caster of the runes, His frozen lich-touch scorches flesh from bone.
hS
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#33: A summary (including any tags) which implies at least three charges by
on 2017-08-24 08:56:00 UTC
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https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9023350/1/Returning-Home
Legolas returns home to Greenwood after the Ring war, and the Fellowship is thrust into the ever so confusing relationship of Legolas and his Childhood friend Ava, but as soon as thing seem to be going the right way some Men from Gondor make terrible some terrible decisions. Threatening everything. Im shit at summaries, please forgive me
1) Altering the timeline; Legolas did not return to Mirkwood after the War, but settled in Ithilien. 2) Also, the Fellowship didn't go with him. 3) Mirkwood was never renamed Greenwood, but became Eryn Lasgalen, 'Wood of the Green Leaves'. 4) 'Ava' is not an Elvish name, nor (in case it comes up) a Mannish one in Middle-earth. 5) Grammar errors all over the place. 6) While they're not necessarily charges, the childhood friend and unidentified Men from Gondor do not bode well.
hS
Edit: The story was updated 22 hours ago, but originally posted in 2013. Does this still count?
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It counts. (nm) by
on 2017-08-25 03:03:36 UTC
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#21: A character who is over 99% OOC but not replaced by
on 2017-08-24 08:51:16 UTC
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I'm claiming Galadriel from https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12620427/2/Enchantment-Passing-Through. She has description like this:
The Lady Galadriel was tall and poised, every inch of her screaming royalty. Her face was always calm and serene, a beautiful wall hiding the raging storm of power and emotion Laerorniel knew was surging underneath.
And telepathic lines like this:
The Dark Power call to me, too. It draws us both. I can feel it here, as do you. It is carried by a hobbit by the name of Frodo Baggins.
She bears very little resemblance to the Galadriel of the books... but she is actually pretty plausible as a version who made different life choices. Artanis Nerwen was very similar to her uncle Feanor; this version clearly stuck with that, rather than mellowing.
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KittyEden's Finds by
on 2017-08-24 06:03:40 UTC
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:D
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Item 18 by
on 2017-08-24 06:04:35 UTC
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https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12588564/1/Lance-Time-Jumper
Shorter than 500 words!
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Questions by
on 2017-08-24 04:42:42 UTC
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If you have any questions about anything, please ask them here.
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I'd like to know if this one goes for the über-mini. by
on 2017-08-25 16:49:08 UTC
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The fic writes it St. Merlin, but the original is St. Hermelin. The three first letters are removed, but you could also say that the 'r' was misplaced.
So, fitting Number 1 or not?
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It counts by
on 2017-08-26 04:30:32 UTC
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The general idea for that mini item was to have an edit distance of 3 or more from the correct spelling. I phrased it like that so I wouldn't have to explain what edit distance was. "St. Hermelin" to "St. Merlin" has that property, so it counts.
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Clarification: Summaries can be taken from any fic updated within the time frame by
on 2017-08-25 03:03:17 UTC
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For the items that relate to summaries, the fic just needs to have a chapter posted within the allowed time frame. The fic could have originally been published at any time.
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The PPC scavenger hunt has begun! by
on 2017-08-24 05:44:00 UTC
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Hello everyone, the PPC scavenger hunt has started! If you're interested, head over to the T-board (https://ppc-posting-board-2-proto.herokuapp.com/posts/5694) to participate! I'll leave signups open for the entire duration of the game, so don't worry if you didn't sign up earlier.
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Quick clarification. by
on 2017-08-24 19:25:00 UTC
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We are allowed to use the same 'fic to satisfy multiple items, right?
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Yes (nm) by
on 2017-08-26 05:24:00 UTC
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Oh, bother, it's Friday. by
on 2017-08-25 15:43:00 UTC
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Um... gonna give the Friday Forum a skip this week. I only had one thing, which is this video of the no-go area outside the Fukushima nuclear power plant; apparently when you don't let people in for six and a half years, the plant life gets really uppity.
So... yeah, I have no idea what's going on in the world out there. Has anything been released? Is anything on fire? I got nothin'. So let's turn the question around: what do you think is worth sharing out of this week's news?
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In "Fandom/driving hS nuts as usual" news... by
on 2017-08-27 15:38:00 UTC
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The only fandom news I can really think of right now happens to be in the fandoms of Wolfenstein (TNO to be specific) and Camp Camp (which is also periodically offensive), hence why I call it "driving hS nuts as usual" news.
In the Wolfenstein fandom, we recently got a trailer for "Wolfenstein: The New Colossus", a sequel to Wolfenstein: The New Order. You can find the trailer and the trailer for The Old Blood (a prequel to The New Order) on the front page of the Wolfenstein wiki, link below my signature. If you're curious as to what this new strain of Wolfenstein games is about, well... just click the link. I don't feel like I'm entirely safe to describe it here.
As for Camp Camp, the Season 2 finale premiered 2 days ago, and we learned a lot of characters' backstories. I won't give the exact details in case there are any Camp Camp fans out there, but the fandom has definitely shown an increase in activity as of that episode. After the finale, there will apparently be two minor episodes before either a new season or the end of the show occurs (I don't know which.)
So! Hope y'all find my news useful. I don't have anything else to say. G'bye!
-Twistey
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You have a very odd notion of me. by
on 2017-08-31 09:04:00 UTC
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I never objected to the fact that you play the Wolfenstein games, or that they feature Hitler (heck, Iron Sky was one of my favourite films of the year it came out); I objected to the part where you made Hitler a literal god in the Plort setting. There is a huge, huge difference between those two.
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Oh. I was kind of assuming based on by
on 2017-08-31 23:27:00 UTC
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my past experience with Europeans in general, and how terribly short and triggered-sounding your replies were to that incident. Since you suddenly jumped on me with disciplinary posts that left me thinking "Huh? What is Godwin's Razor and why the heck should I care?", and then you did the thing with [i]Good Omens[/i], I kind of thought that you just didn't like any un-serious depiction of Hitler and that I'd ruined [i]Iron Sky[/i] for you with my shplat. I was kind of trying to turn an incident that I'd otherwise dwell on for literally years (I'm not kidding, I remember mistakes I've made when I was... six? Seven?) into a running joke so that I wouldn't dwell on it. Hence the constant insistence on finding ways to "drive you nuts". And now you know my meaning.
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Stuff I forgot to say there by
on 2017-08-31 23:38:00 UTC
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Either way, I was kind of distrustful of you up until the pancake/Force/lightsaber fight, and despite your still-triggered-sounding annoyance at my thoughts of possible bandom and Neshomeh's reassurances (thanks, Nesh), I was still ready to be an outcast. I even had an idea for a sci-fi themed parallel to the PPC, which then luckily turned into a harmless story that I think will be pretty cool once it's done. The weird lightsaber fight thing with cosplay is actually kind of helping me trust you again, so well, thanks for engaging me in the weirdest RP fight I've ever been in. (No, wait, maybe not the weirdest...)
Anyway, so if you're okay with the news, what's your reaction to the news?
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I am super trustworthy. by
on 2017-09-01 13:45:00 UTC
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Also, since I guess you can't get onto my website, you might be interested in a link to Fandom Protection Fleet: Far Far Away, my Star Wars-themed AU PPC fic.
As to the news... I have no reaction? I've never played a Wolfenstein game and I don't even know what a Camp Camp is. But I'm pleased you posted some?
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Thanks for that fic! Sounds great! by
on 2017-09-02 02:51:00 UTC
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I'm really glad we could get this worked out. Nice fic, by the way.
Speaking of, I had an idea for another PPC AU, this one superhero-themed. I call it "The Protectors of Plotropolis"! Agents are superheroes, Boarders are part of a SHIELD-like organization that manages the superheroes, and the Mary Sues are supervillains. Sound cool? Any ideas?
For the news, oh hoho, I'm going to have fun with this! Well, Camp Camp is about a bunch of kids (mostly aged 10) at a weird summer camp that's actually a scam. The adult cartoon is produced by Rooster Teeth, who also created RWBY and Halo: Red Vs Blue. (Not the exact same people, though. Different teams, different projects.) It gets kind of offensive in a fun way at times, and there is a character who was created to be a walking Hitler joke. (He's actually not quite as bad as that makes him sound, and in fact he is really adorable, which is why he's my favorite.) There's a Camp Camp Wikia if you wish to read more. As for Wolfenstein, particularly Wolfenstein 3D, I've been using an online emulator at wolf3d.atw.hu if you want to give it a try. It's pretty fun.
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Also, how do you get Google Docs to do that? by
on 2017-09-02 16:38:00 UTC
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Where it doesn't show the edit toolbar and more importantly who wrote it? I think I want to do a Fanfic World thing (since it's obvious you don't need permission to do so), but I have to use my school account which uses my real name, since the non-personal account I'm planning to make for this thing isn't up and running yet...
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It's the 'Publish to the Web' option in the File menu. (nm) by
on 2017-09-02 21:42:00 UTC
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Okay, thank you~ by
on 2017-09-06 00:12:00 UTC
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(Also, back on the news topic, if you really want to find out about the Wolfenstein series, you should probably check out the 3-part "History of Wolfenstein" video series on YouTube made by The Gaming Historian. It goes really in depth as to what each game in the huge franchise is all about.)
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Well, some pretty major fandom news came out today. by
on 2017-08-26 03:34:00 UTC
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Namely for the Half-Life fandom.
Today, almost ten years after Half-Life 2: Episode 2 was released, Marc Laidlaw wrote what he calls a peice of fanfiction. However, Laidlaw was one of the head writers for the Half-Life series. This "fanfiction" is a proposed plot for the fabled Half-Life 2: Episode 3.
It should be noted, this is not strictly "canon." At the end of the day, only Valve has the ability to give us that. However, it has become increasingly clear over the decade since the last installment, Valve is not actively working on the next entry in the series. Marc Laidlaw left Valve eighteen months ago, and from this proposed plot, we can guess why. Valve is not working on any games that require a head writer. There is no Episode Three. There never will be an Episode Three. This is the closure to the story that fans have been longing for these many years. At least, as close to "official" closure as we will ever get.
There are two versions of this plot. On Marc's website, you can read Epistle 3 However, to avoid potential legal action from Valve, he changed the names and pronouns of several characters. While you can fairly easally tell who everybody is supposed to be, fans have gone ahead and changed the proper nouns back to their canon counterparts. You can read that Here. -
Happy 99th Birthday to Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson by
on 2017-08-25 23:38:00 UTC
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This badass lady is a NASA mathematician, known for her accurate celestial navigation. She's the one who calculated the trajectory of the Apollo 11 mission. -
*throws cakefetti* (nm) by
on 2017-08-26 00:00:00 UTC
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Well, there's always this... by
on 2017-08-25 21:01:00 UTC
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Not politics related, but...
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My country is hosting the SEA games. by
on 2017-08-25 16:30:00 UTC
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And it looks like a disaster. Emphasis on 'looks like'. We seem to hold the idiot ball in heraldry and flaglore. And Indonesia is being their usual tsundere self and hates Malaysia for Polanding them, baka!
But we win quite some medals. We are seemingly concerned that we are but village champions in sports. I mean, since when did we ever reach qualifying rounds in World Cup?
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Here's one news to (probably) cheer you up. by
on 2017-08-25 16:21:00 UTC
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It's only a trailer for now, but... Ages of Empire IV is officially a reality!
And because they always need more money, 'definitive' eitions of the three precedent games of the series are in preparation.
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Pluggage by a passerby (Blank Sprite). by
on 2017-08-26 17:06:00 UTC
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Chapter 9 of Blank Sprite is now available!
https://rc1587.wordpress.com/2017/08/26/blank-sprite-mission-record-09/
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Thank you. by
on 2017-08-26 20:51:00 UTC
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I'm not actually reading Blank Sprite (no particular reason, just attention span), but I feel that people who keep working on long-term projects - especially when they've left the community it was shared with - deserve thanks.
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I'll second that. (Will read sometime, too!) (nm) by
on 2017-08-26 23:04:00 UTC
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The Phoenix Files - The Actual Worst by
on 2017-08-27 14:31:00 UTC
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This one is...well...yeah. Have fun, everyone. After this, we get into the meat of the team formation, for better or worse.
Mission Title: The Phoenix Files – Miller, S.; Miller, P.; Koster, P.; NLN, S.; Toombs, D.
Canon: Patriot Games, Don’t Say a Word, Ronin, Airborne
Rating: E
Agents: Callahan, K. [Probationary]
Time Period: January 2003
Target: Miller, S.; Miller, P.; Koster, P.; NLN, S.; Toombs, D. [Recruitment]
Word Count: 801
Source Summary: Hey, remember those old Team Phoenix recruitment mission thingamabobs from uhhh 2003? YOU BETTER NOT. BECAUSE THEY’RE ALL GONE. THIS IS THE RETCON. PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN.
All of the fics cited don’t really exist. This one, though, is essentially me from 2001. I am so sorry, everyone.
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I feel everyone's already said it, by
on 2017-08-29 22:20:00 UTC
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but you really did do a good job replicating those old horrendous, incoherent scriptfic thingies. You did a really good job of parodying them, too - how Kitty sort of, overrides the whole thing, starts exploiting the scriptiness of it to her own needs. Agents exploiting the fic and medium and all has a sort of, fine line between being contrived and, er, not being contrived, but you built up to it and delivered it properly enough it wasn't, I'd say!
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That... was spectacular. by
on 2017-08-29 14:22:00 UTC
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The sheer incoherency of the 'fic' feels exactly like the old author's notes you used to see around - the ones where the author argues with their muses/kidnaps canon characters/is worshipped by said canons/etc. I'm not sure I've ever seen a fic that was this A/N-y all the way through, but they're out there, for sure.
My one issue with it is that I've never heard anything about any of the four canons, so I don't have the faintest idea who these people are. But that's how missions work, so!
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Re: mission by
on 2017-08-28 13:28:00 UTC
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Heh heh. Heh heh. Heh. Okay.
I assumed every Team Phoenix member was getting their own recruitment story, so I was not expecting this. The silly and gross-out nature of the fic, as well as Kitty's admission that she's only been acting mature, make this feel like a proper punchline of the trilogy.
The script format is . . . hard to read, but I'm sure that was part of your intention. I am actually a little disappointed we don't get a proper glimpse of each Bean character's world, since I've never seen any of those movies, and the not-Boromir-and-Alec members have always been more background in your stories. Hopefully we'll learn more about their settings as the team forms in the next entry?
One purely curious question: When Kitty says, "for the love of Iau," is Iau a Zelda- or Yu-Gi-Oh!-verse deity?
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Oh, scriptfics. by
on 2017-08-28 13:34:00 UTC
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The rest of the team are going to get more fleshed out, don't worry! Part of the reason for their rampant OOCness is, well, the writer of the scriptfic didn't bother to do much with their home canons. We'll see a little about that later. >:3c
Iau is actually a deity from the Young Wizards/Feline Wizardry universe! Kitty's been spending some time in the PPC library, which is going to get interesting for her pretty soon...
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Ahahaha, oh god, the early aughts. {X'D by
on 2017-08-27 18:36:00 UTC
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Oh man, this hits me right in the nostalgia. I think I was exactly this ridiculous up through about 2004-2005, and I was definitely old enough to know better (but still too young to care). Sigh. Blayze, Hawky, Ori, and the rest of you lovely folks, if you're out there, I still love you and the crazy shenanigans we got up to.
I don't know what else there is to say. Thank you for making me laugh and remember some very good times. ^_^
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[Dons Legolas costume; flings a pancake at Nesh] by
on 2017-08-29 14:09:00 UTC
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[Runs away laughing maniacally]
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Oi! Get back here! *chases hS with the dreaded Soft Pillow* (nm) by
on 2017-08-30 15:44:00 UTC
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Look, I just came here to throw pancakes at people. by
on 2017-08-30 15:47:00 UTC
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I didn't expect some kind of Pythonesque Inquisition...
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No one expects the Python Inquisition! by
on 2017-08-30 16:47:00 UTC
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*baffs hS, runs away* Mweeheehee!
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[Flings ballistic pancakes after Nesh] Fear my wrath! by
on 2017-08-30 18:16:00 UTC
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[Scowls] Why are you not fearing? How am I supposed to bring in the ruin and red might fall if the wrath doesn't work?
...this is pretty much peak Early Aughts for me. Pancakes, overwrought villain dialogue, descriptions instead of emoticons, random Tolkien references... All that's missing is the ridiculously long strung-together series of actions.
[Looks around; shrugs; cooks a fresh batch of pancakes; nibbles on one; starts laying the others as the tastiest landmines you ever did see, complete with spring-loaded frying pans]
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Late 2000's me by
on 2017-08-31 02:34:00 UTC
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I won't apologize. But I do feel really bad about it.
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on 2017-08-31 09:10:00 UTC
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I can see I'll have to try harder by
on 2017-08-31 11:46:00 UTC
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*Throws EBDIC at hS*
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During this period, I was ten. And awful. =] (nm) by
on 2017-08-30 20:06:00 UTC
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Is it too late to join in this great bout of random fun? by
on 2017-08-30 23:35:00 UTC
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*puts on a Kylo Ren costume and chases after hS and Nesh with my plastic lightsaber, but mostly hS because he is easily driven nuts and I love driving people nuts hahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahahaha*
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Nah, nuts don't work well with these pancakes. by
on 2017-08-31 09:08:00 UTC
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[Pulls out a CD player and cues up Duel of the Fates; draws topaz lightsaber] Have at ye, scoundrel!
[Thwummm; ktschsss; tschaaa; wrrrrmmmthwumm; sudden backflip and pancake to the face ha!]
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I see what you did with that subject line. by
on 2017-08-31 14:47:00 UTC
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Oh yeah?! You want to go?!
*Since your lightsaber is real and not made of plastic, grabs an actual Kylo Ren lightsaber and slices the pancake off my face with it. It falls to the floor. Then we begin the actual lightsaber duel.*
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[Uses the Force] by
on 2017-08-31 15:05:00 UTC
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[Specifically, uses the Force to fling streams of pancakes at Twistey] I am a servant of the Secret Kitchen, wielder of the Flame of Lucas. The Dark Side will not avail you, Flame of Disney! You cannot pass!
((You may find pictures of me scattered through the Gathering reports. And since I'm stealing Legolas' Lord of the Pancakes shtick again, I guess I must be back in my 'white tunic and black cloak' outfit. Since you asked. ^_~))
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(My computer blocks that site.) by
on 2017-08-31 23:19:00 UTC
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[slices pancakes with lightsaber] I'm not actually fighting for Disney, I'm just wearing a Kylo outfit because that's what popped into my mind first for costume ideas. I hate The Force Awakens too. Perhaps I should go a little further to drive you nuts with the worse installments of canons? [suddenly, my Kylo outfit turns into a Delphini Diggory outfit and I start zapping the pancakes with my wand.]
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[Manifests a staff out of nowhere] by
on 2017-09-01 13:41:00 UTC
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Craim an edraith ammen! Craim dan i ngûl!
[Streams of pancakes fly at Twistey]
("Cakes for the saving of us! Cakes against the sorcery!" Yep, we're back to misquoting Gandalf.)
(Also I enjoyed The Force Awakens. But hating a) everything new and b) Disney is the epitome of early-aughts behaviour, and it fed delightfully into the Gandalfing. Anyway, back to the pancakes.)
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(Yeah, it's annoying.) by
on 2017-09-01 23:02:00 UTC
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[zaps and dodges pancakes] Maybe I should've stuck with the lightsabeeeeeerrrrrrrrr!
[Twizzy zaps a bunch of stuff including pancakes and Huinesoron]
Twizzy: Fried British guy!
Me: O.O What.
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(I told a friend about this fight, btw) by
on 2017-09-01 23:05:00 UTC
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(And I think we're about to have a new recruit as a result.)
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(So the only way I know how to put this online) by
on 2017-09-01 23:11:00 UTC
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(without getting an account, that is, is to put it on this site I found entirely dedicated to slapping googly eyes on things.)
(Here it is. Also, yay, people finally get to see what I look like! At least in drawings. Which isn't too far off from reality, because I'm done with the old avatar I had when I was on Scratch.)
http://www.makemegoogly.com/UY7CW
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Yay! by
on 2017-09-04 10:57:00 UTC
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The googly eyes absolutely make it, I'm telling you.
This is going in my fanart folder. ^_^
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BAHAHAHAHA X'D I am dying. (nm) by
on 2017-09-14 00:36:00 UTC
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(SHOOT I FORGOT TO FINISH YOUR HAND) by
on 2017-09-01 23:12:00 UTC
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(Oh well)
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*appears* *looks around* by
on 2017-08-31 13:08:00 UTC
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*adds chocolate chips to pancake batter, bakes, hurls with special pancake catapult; delicious chocolate smears everywhere*
MUAHAHAHAHA!
(Join the Dark Side: we have brownies! And access to all the chocolate in the world, really. Except the stuff the light siders bake into their chocolate chip cookies, but our chocolate is more decadent anyway, so it doesn't matter. Nyah.)
~Z, who almost definitely signed her name ~DF back in the days when she was a young teenager babbling about brownies and writing mini comment-scriptfics for Harry Potter fans' amusement. And who should probably have added more exclamation points to the evil laugh for historical accuracy...ah well. Next time. Muaha. -
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on 2017-08-31 14:50:00 UTC
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If we are...
*Suddenly, ten-year-old me appears next to present-day me*
Twistey: Oh Gott, not this kid. Hi Twizzy.
Twizzy: Hi there! Are we having a lightsaber duel!
Twistey:Yes.
Twizzy: Okay then! *begins zapping everyone with OOC force lightning*
Twistey: *GROOOOOOOAN* I guess this means I have a combat ally here. Okay.
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Wait, we're manifesting people now? by
on 2017-08-31 15:12:00 UTC
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In that case... Lou, you there?
{Always. It's been a while.}
I know. Fancy fighting a Force-wielding ten-year-old?
{... these conversations get weirder every time.}
I know. Shall I take that as a yes?
{I guess so. Right, small electrical person, have at you! ... er, I should probably have found a weapon first. [Runs away. Fast]}
Attagirl.
((It's Lou, she's also Agent Lou, she lives in my head and occasionally comes out to play.))
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Yeah, it was only a matter of time. by
on 2017-08-31 16:18:00 UTC
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Jenni: No. You are not dragging me into this. I am a mature, responsible OC with a kid and an unsteady boyfriend and everything. I have worked very hard to get away from being your barely non-Suvian avatar.
Me: All this is true. Nonetheless, here you are. *g*
Jenni: ... Oh, hang it all. *spots Lou running away* Lou! Over here! Come be a sane author's-head-person with me!
Me: Sure, you do that. Now, where did I put the Salmon O'Doom...?
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{Jenni! How's things?} by
on 2017-08-31 16:36:00 UTC
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{How's, ah... Henry, isn't it? Getting on with the other kids in HQ? We're... wait, where are we in the timeline?}
{Oh, right. Sorry, it's been a bit back-and-forth these past few years. We were thinking of putting Diane in the Buds you've got going there, but it might mess the next couple of years up a bit. Still, it must be good for Henry to have other children to play with, right?}
... this is not how this was supposed to go.
hS
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*Rolls eyes* by
on 2017-08-31 18:00:00 UTC
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Wow. Do all of us have OCs trapped in our heads?
{Might I come out and provide a lesson to these mortals?}
Thoth, does the lesson involve Doombolt?
{This... May be the case.}
Thoth, you are not allowed to Doombolt civilians.
{I am an Astartes and a Sorcerer of the Thousand Sons! I am more powerful than you can even conceive of!}
Firstly, I can: I'm fairly certain your arrogance is growing by the day. And secondly, you are currently residing in my head. So bugger off.
{*sigh*. Very well. I shall return to my work on the Voynitch Manuscript}
Let me know when you're done. I want to play.
{Evidence suggests the contents of the Manuscript are not a game}
And who do you think I trust more? Randall, or you?
{Must I suffer such indignity as to even answer that question?}
Well, I could always send you back to your previous master...
{...}
Okay, I think we're done here.
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Seriously, she just kinda showed up. by
on 2017-08-31 23:48:00 UTC
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Twizzy: *zaps random people except for me*
Twistey: [calmly fighting with Huinesoron] This is a lot better now that I know you're not quite as overbearing as I thought you were earlier. Heh. Maybe just for fun, though, I'll still jump on threads and start up a bunch of Looney Tunes-style antics to see what happens.
Twizzy: Wait, he was a bad guy?
Twistey: NO LET ME EXPLAIN-
Twizzy: *zaps Huinesoron a bunch*
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SIDETRACK by
on 2017-08-31 20:20:00 UTC
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I bet it wouldn't be too hard to invent a surrealist game from Voynich.
Okay, ground rule: you can only use things found on the manuscript itself. No English text, no numbers. Pages are numbered as per the Wikipedia table (at the bottom of the Description section; you need to expand it if you're on a desktop PC.)
158 is your world map. Nine zones, which can be moved between via the links. The mountains extending out from the corner zones are Cluedo-like passages, leading to the opposite corners.
The Herbal section (most of the book, example which appears to be Silphium) and the Pharmaceutical (161-165, 175-182, example) are obviously the core of the game. The goal is to collect enough Herbal cards which look vaguely like those on one of the five Pharmaceutical cards shown face-up to make that potion.
The Zodiac pages (128-134, example) are your character cards. The 'nymphs' around your player are what you have to treat with the potions; the number you've managed to treat determines what you can do with...
The Biological section (135-154, example. These are blocks you can throw in the way of your opponents; the trick is that you need to have treated (on your Zodiac card) the number of 'nymphs' in the Biological card in order to use it. Every player has a full set of Biological cards; once deployed, they stay on the board until broken past. You can deploy one per turn.
The Astronomical (122-124, example) and Cosmological (125-127, 156, 157) sections are what you use to break past the Biological/Nymph sections. If blocked by one (that isn't your own colour), you draw an Astro card. You then use the words/letters printed on the Herbal cards in your hand to try and spell at least three words on the Astro card. If you succeed, congrats! You break the Biological and get past.
You pick up five Herbals every time you step into a new zone on the board. Your goal is to have all of your opponents pinned between two of your Biological cards, while you stand in the central section.
As for the final Recipe section (183-205)? That's the purported rules. You hand them to new players and say 'make sure you read them thoroughly before we start'. :D The actual rules are conveyed purely through word-of-mouth.
So, whaddaya think? Playable?
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on 2017-08-31 20:32:00 UTC
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I'm not sure. Assuming by "cards" you mean pages, then sure.
If you don't know, I was actually referencing this. But I assume you do, and just wanted an excuse to make up a surrealist game. -
In the original, sure. by
on 2017-08-31 21:21:00 UTC
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But playing the original requires a) the actual Voynich manuscript, and b) a gaming group made up of Francis Bacon, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Hildegard of Bingen. While that is admittedly the best gaming group ever listed, it's not very feasible, so we'll make some simplified cards and play Junior Voynich.
(I did indeed get the reference, and checked explainxkcd to see if anyone had done the invention part before me. But my game doesn't require reading the manuscript, which gives it a huge advantage. ^_^)
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*to Lou* Oh, you know. by
on 2017-08-31 19:42:00 UTC
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Work, playdates, occasionally saving my friends from their own idiotic ideas. The usual. And yes, Henry's great, thank you! ^_^ He's... wait, speaking of the timeline, are we doing this in real time, or storyline time? 'Cause if we're in storyline time, it's still mid-2016 and he's seven and everyone is fine, thanks for asking. Otherwise he's eight, and I don't wanna talk about it. Spoilers.
So, uh, you should definitely have Diane in the Buds! It's the closest thing to a normal childhood experience anyone is likely to get around here, and yes, children interacting with other children is a very good thing. Teaches important life skills like sharing, tolerance for those who are different from you, not always getting your way, viewing the utterly bizarre as commonplace and normal...
Speaking of which. *eyeballs head!Thoth* If we're doing 2004, is this gonna turn into one of those things where we gang up on the puffed-up edgelord and subject him to our nonsense until he gives up and caves to the authors' desire for either lighthearted silly fluff or unending angst, with practically no middle ground whatsoever? 'Cause I've had my share, seriously.
On the other hand, if we go pre-2004, I can always break out the semi-phenomenal, nearly cosmic powers on his grimdark butt. *g*
Neshomeh: *reenters the chat* No need, I've got this covered. I found John Oliver's salmon cannon! Sure, it's anachronistic, but so very appropriate. WHOOSHH! *starts firing salmon at everyone indiscriminately* Mweeheeheehee!
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Dunno... by
on 2017-08-31 20:51:00 UTC
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In answer to your question regarding my counterpart, absolutely not. I am a Very Serious Writer, and I am writing Very Serious Character who should be taken Seriously. Grr. Angst. Angst. Angst.
{AUGH! HE'S IMPERSONATING ME!}
Thoth, stop trying to convince people you're me. I am obviously the real Thoth.
{Come on, that voice is impossibly deep. Nobody's buying it.}
Foul Sorcerer of The Great Ocean! Cease your trickery!
{*facepalms* Thoth. If you're going to impersonate me, at least do it properly.}
In any case, I am an angsty dolt, so by no means should you mock me or my OC. At all. In any way.
{Could you stop making me look like an idiot?}
It is pretty easy to- I mean, Thoth, I could never make someone of your incredible brilliance look like an idiot!
{*facepalms*. You served the literal god of lies for 10,000 years. How are you this bad at this? There must be some kind of comic stupidity enhancement field in a effect around here...}
I have no idea what you mean just then, because I am stupid.
Anyways, in conclusion, don't mock me. Just I just didn't mock myself.
{*facepalms*}
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{[Looks from Thoth to Thoth] This is a tough one.} by
on 2017-09-01 13:57:00 UTC
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{How do we figure out which one is the real Thoth? In fact, can we even call one real? They're both using the same name! The only difference is in the brackets, and} that's just an affectation {anyway.}
{... oh, wait. Solution! We tag along with Neshomeh and unleash the nonsense indiscriminately. It's foolproof!}
{Now, where did I put those chat archives? [Digs through the logs; pulls out hS and Kaitlyn's marshmallow guns from early '04; starts pelting the Thoths with Bertie Bottt's Every Flavour Marshmallows] It's amazing what mini-Aragogs do with their time. Want a gun, Jenni? ~Lou} -
Oh, all right, then. Victory or s'mores! XD (nm) by
on 2017-09-01 14:58:00 UTC
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Well, if you want war... by
on 2017-09-01 15:02:00 UTC
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*takes out Jellybaby shotgun*
{*Summons greater Daemon of fluff*}
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Oi! by
on 2017-08-30 18:00:00 UTC
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*baffs Nesh and hS*
YES! THE PYTHON INQUISITION! Our chief weapons are surprise and fear, fear and surprise... I'm sorry, can I try this again? -
And nice red uniforms! (nm) by
on 2017-08-30 18:18:00 UTC
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We know by
on 2017-08-30 02:29:00 UTC
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hS, you're practically Required Reading at this point. We all know *exactly* how ridiculous you can be.
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[Beams] by
on 2017-08-30 09:55:00 UTC
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[Throws a pancake at Thoth for good measure]
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Does this self-insert fic suck sufficiently? by
on 2017-08-27 23:59:00 UTC
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https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5931101/1/Crash-Bandicoot
First in a series of four so far. -
Engage Crash fan mode! by
on 2017-08-28 11:20:00 UTC
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Yes.
Yes it does.
Even after only reading Chapter 1, yes it does.
I mean, we're introduced to this horse-doughnut in the most bland, boring way possible and we're still expected to root for him. We also know the author knows at least part of the Crash lore - I'm guessing Nathan went to the same school as his presumably-dad (hamfisted foreshadowing is truly, truly hamfisted) - but also seems really confused as to what the Evolv-O-Ray from the first game actually does. Add to that the litany of spelling and grammar errors and, well, it's beyond saving. -
I see, I see. by
on 2017-08-28 19:36:00 UTC
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I'm going to place this one in Unclaimed Fics then. Can I use part of your response as a note?
PS: What's a horse-doughnut?
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Beta call! by
on 2017-08-28 16:21:00 UTC
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Do you have a little free time? Feel like betaing an interlude about a Vulcan and a human on a DOGA mission? Try this interlude! Only nine pages long, minimal canon knowledge necessary (though knowing a bit about Vulcans would be useful), and--
*drops announcer voice* Yeah, I don't have a third thing. However, I do have this interlude!
I'm mainly looking for betas for wording/SPaG and story flow. There's a little bit of editing left to do (word choice, primarily), and other than that I'd really like another pair of eyes or two (or three! Three is also good).
As mentioned, the interlude will probably make more sense with a bit of knowledge about Vulcans (nothing too detailed, just the basics of who they are and some of the things they can do). It's primarily a character piece, so an eye toward consistent characterization would also be helpful.
Any takers?
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Do you want another? by
on 2017-08-30 05:27:00 UTC
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I'll have a decent amount of time to look this over until this weekend, and then not much time at all until next late next week. If that could be a problem, feel free to turn me down.
- Tomash -
Okay, you're in! (nm) by
on 2017-08-30 06:01:00 UTC
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The more the merrier! by
on 2017-08-30 05:33:00 UTC
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I think that'll be fine: either it won't need much editing and the betaing won't take long, or it'll need some little piece rewritten and it'll take me half the week anyway since I've also got classes (I'm doing an intensive language dinner course. Er, that is, a summer course; thanks, autocorrect :D) I'll give you access to the doc very soon--just need to get out the door first!
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I can certainly have a try. =] (nm) by
on 2017-08-28 18:52:00 UTC
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Great! Leave me your email and I'll give you access! by
on 2017-08-28 18:54:00 UTC
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(It's on GDocs, for context)
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ANd my e-mail, because I'm a derp. by
on 2017-08-28 18:53:00 UTC
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akrinor [dot] noname [at] web [dot] de
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Sent! Thank you :) (nm) by
on 2017-08-28 18:59:00 UTC
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And disregard my previous message. (nm) by
on 2017-08-28 18:54:00 UTC
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A wandering newbie approaches! by
on 2017-08-31 00:00:00 UTC
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Hi, I'm Blackwing (obviously!), and I think this whole fanfiction thing is pretty cool! I haven't ever written any, but I really enjoy reading them. So far my favorite fandoms for stories are Steven Universe, Dresden Files, Dragon Age, and Mass Effect.
I was honestly just gonna lurk for another week or two until I got a feeling for you guys, but a friend linked me to something I thought you guys would enjoy. So, I'm sure people here have heard of the whole fiasco with the Handbook for Mortals YA novel (which among other things, has no YA protagonists), and the theory that it was written by the infamous author of My Immortal? Well, she revived her old fictionpress account just to debunk that myth! Also to say thanks for keeping her story alive this long, etc. You can see that here: https://www.fictionpress.com/u/518933/XXXblodyblaktearz666XXX -
Belated welcome! by
on 2017-09-06 19:04:00 UTC
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Have a brownie with NM&NMs in it! Those are a specific variety of M&Ms unique to headquarters made with Bleepolate; chocolate, brain bleach, and aspirin. I know it sounds gross, but it works and it makes badfic hurt less. Here's a wiki link if you don't believe me: http://ppc.wikia.com/wiki/Bleeprin
Enjoy your stay in the madhouse! -
Welcome aBoard! by
on 2017-09-01 13:27:00 UTC
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Aside from one of my own shed feathers, have a replica of Rose Quartz's sword and a working Flask Robonoid!
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A wild newbie appeared! Go, Pikachu! by
on 2017-09-01 00:31:00 UTC
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(Or maybe not Pikachu. Probably a Ghost, Poison, Dark, or Steel type instead. I like that vibe they have.)
Hey there! I'm Twistey, an uberchaotic neutral lightly-used-bie who is pretty good most of the time and then occasionally does something unexpected, shocking, and kinda stupid. Yeah... probably shouldn't put that on my introduction to the newbie. But hey, it's a good warning. My fandoms are very many: when it's got good world-building and/or it's a tad bit offensive in a fun way, or when it's completely worthy of mocking or I have something to MST about it, you can bet I'll have made at least one OC for it.
Interesting news you bring about the My Immortal author! Judging by the post she made, she has definitely cleaned up her act, which I applaud. Maybe somebody should take advantage of that Tumblr account she has to send her the sporking we did of My Immortal - she might find it humorous.
As for your newbie gift, hmm, let's see. Here, have several large pieces of naturally sky-blue metal, only found in and around the Wolfenstein 3D fandom. Do whatever you want with them. Make a cool contraption. Make art. Use your imagination! :D
Anyway, nice to meet you! I hope you find us great and have a good time as a Protector of the Plot Continuum!
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Wander, wander as well, come here for a present first! by
on 2017-08-31 13:03:00 UTC
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Since tomorrow's Aidil Adha. Here, have a replica of Buras pretending it's a Lembas. Be warned, it's made of glutinous rice and wrapped in banana leaves though.
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Hello newbie and fellow DF fan. by
on 2017-08-31 11:45:00 UTC
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Since you have already chocolates, please have some black-hole coffee.
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Hi there by
on 2017-08-31 08:58:00 UTC
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Have a pile of multi-coloured pens.
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Hello newbie! by
on 2017-08-31 03:42:00 UTC
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Here, have some chocolate-on-chocolate cupcakes!
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FOOF! A Sorcerer appears! --more-- by
on 2017-08-31 02:46:00 UTC
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'Allo, fellow newbie! I am the Mighty Sorcerer Thoth. And by mighty I mean... not mighty. At all. But there's an 85% chance I don't worship the Dark Gods. So that's good. Here, take a Bolter and a flask of Fenrisian Ale.
I too enjoy The Dresden Files, although I haven't read any good fanfic in that universe (got any recommendations?). Anyways, go read goodfic (For PPC stuff, I suggest starting with TOS and Tales From DOGA), and be sure to stop by the Discord. Don't worry: We don't bite. Unless you poke us. -
Newbie! *glomp* *poke* by
on 2017-08-31 02:29:00 UTC
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Welcome aBoard! Have 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. Another useful resource you might use is the Wiki; if you have any questions, just look here before asking. We like it when newbies do the research. ;)
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Hello! by
on 2017-08-31 02:25:00 UTC
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Welcome, welcome! You get a history of my dog's past lives. Treasure it, use it wisely, use it as part of a stepladder, whatever. Just don't let it come into contact with badgers. You've been warned.
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Greetings! by
on 2017-08-31 02:25:00 UTC
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*applies the traditional bumper-sticker of newbie greeting*
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A wandering... um. by
on 2017-08-31 02:25:00 UTC
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What exactly am I here? I mean, everyone seems to be assuming I'm human, but... well, we have a fox and a psandwich. Am I an, an Ohgodwhat?
At any rate, a wandering Calliope appears! She offers you a set of roleplaying dice for your Newbie Gift. She also extends a invitation to a party at some point in the future and... that is an interesting color of ink. Oh, gods, what is it even called? You're pretty sure it's either bled or rue. Or some other unholy cousin of urple.
((The dice are whatever color and pattern you want the to be. What are they?))