Ok, I am a day late posting this, but I am going ahead anyways. So, December has begun and I am here to here to announce the beginning of another monthly challenge called Character Drawcember. Yes, this is an art challenge not writing challenge; and PPC is a writing community. However, I think writers benefit from this particular challenge as well, especially in terms of characterization. I'm probably going to do this over two months because exams.
The rules are pretty simple, there are basically no rules. You can use whatever medium, whatever style, whatever characters you want (you could use your agents or even the results from that superhero round robin we did).
Here is the link for the prompts:
http://laurenwallaceart.tumblr.com/post/103949352875/introducing-character-drawcember-this-is-a
I highly encourage you guys to try this out, especially if you are in the middle of creating some characters. You don't have to be a good artist to do this; art is art regardless of technical skill, I'm not a good artist myself. You don't even have to finish it on time, I'm probably going to do this over two months.
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Art Challenge by
on 2017-12-03 00:10:00 UTC
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A bit out of order by
on 2017-12-05 02:08:00 UTC
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I did the third prompt first, because... well, I felt like it. Anyways, here is my redesigned character. He isn't old per se, in fact, he is actually pretty new; he did go through a lot of changes though, which is why i chose him.
Ah, my little brother, where to begin. He's pretty smart, and strong too, I can always rely on him to back me up. He can be a bit demanding at times, but I allow him his bratty moments.
-Shinonome Azusa
Kaede is great, I really admire him. He is really smart, and could always think of something to get us out of a bad situation. Although, there was that one time we were hopelessly outclassed. I just wish he would be less hard on Azusa for making rash decisions.
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Prompt 5 by
on 2017-12-12 03:17:00 UTC
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I sort of copped out on the senior part by using an immortal character, but 90 percent of the characters I am working on are immortal anyways so yeah. (I'm just making excuses here)
Awwwww! Captain, you were so cuuuuuute!
-Yin, upon seeing a photo of him as a child
Omigosh! I can't believe we got selected for his squad, I can totally see why they call him *insert cool epithet here that I have not thought of yet*. He's so cool, I still can't believe he beat all five of us during training.
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What to say? by
on 2017-12-12 15:39:00 UTC
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I really like the flare effect on his magic eye; it's nicely done.
I think the cloak would probably cast shadows on his skin? It looks like you might have a bit on the collar, but adult!Captain's left-hand side (over his sword) could probably do with some darker shading, to capture just how shadowed it is.
I like the fact that you've managed to keep his hair the same at the front, while still differentiating it at the back.
Oh... but I'm adding this to the list of Drawcember Men Don't Have Nipples images. ^^ (I, obviously, have neatly avoided this issue by only drawing women - and women with their tops on, at that! That means I get to poke at it each time it comes up. ^^)
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Prompt 4 by
on 2017-12-09 05:05:00 UTC
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Okay, here it is, the inside of the Shinonomes' room. I'm still not quite sure if this is going to be a student dorm or some kind of military barrack. (Damn, I really have to finish my worldbuilding.)
Can you tell which bed belongs to whom?(including the third bed with a teddy bear behind the camera)
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What - a bookshelf with space? by
on 2017-12-09 17:29:00 UTC
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What mad alternate universe is this?
(As you will see when I get my #4 up in a few minutes, this is rampant hypocrisy.)
I think the differentiation of the beds is a nice marker of personality, but... where's all their stuff? Having nothing makes it look like you forgot it exists, whereas having only a few things - a lamp, a mug, essentials of that kind - looks like a deliberate choice. You could also use that to distinguish the two bed-sides a little more - you just know that the one on the left has glasses of water from the last three nights left on the table in various states of fullness.
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True enough by
on 2017-12-10 00:34:00 UTC
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I really need to work on my background skills. Usually if I really need a background, two characters are interacting so I never really drew a big background like this.
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That's a tall room. by
on 2017-12-09 05:32:00 UTC
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Other than that, it looks pretty good as far as lines and angles go. I can tell you didn't use a straightedge the whole time, but it's only really obvious on the left-hand table and the books.
With all that wall space, though, it's very apparent that there's nothing on any of them. I guess there wouldn't be if it's a barrack, but there would if it's a dorm. Posters, weapon displays, mirrors, lights, sheets, whatever else people hang on their walls... anything to show the personalities of the people who live there. And your characters clearly have personality to display. {= )
(I'm dreading this prompt. So many details go into a well lived-in room, and it all has to line up with the vanishing point, and scale properly, and ugh.)
When this thread drops off the front page, we can start a new one.
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A protagonist (a bit NSFW) by
on 2017-12-07 07:48:00 UTC
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Here is my protagonist. I know she is not wearing very much, there is a reason for it other than "it's sexy" and has to do with how a certain type of magic works in universe. I'll be happy to explain if anyone asks (long story). Coincidentally, it is the same reason as to why Kaede and Yue aren't wearing much either.
She's strong, crazy strong. There is no one else I would rather fight beside. Unfortunately, she's impulsive; if there is something no one is stupid enough to do, Azusa is going to do it.
-Shinonome Kaede
She is always so cheerful and energetic, even on bad days. It seems like life is just one big party when she is around, if there is something interesting happening near by, she is definitely going to charge head first into whatever is going on. Maybe she should try and be more careful so she doesn't get in trouble as often as she does.
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Ooh, I like her. by
on 2017-12-07 15:48:00 UTC
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Is that the English bowmen "come and get 'em" gesture she's making, or something else?
I think her chest came out really well. It looks three-dimensional and well proportioned to her torso, and the top looks like something that would actually stay on. ^_^
Her shoulders could use a bit more development, especially if she's meant to be a strong character. The raised arm in particular, with the small, round joint, looks a bit doll-like.
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Prompt 2: An antagonist by
on 2017-12-06 00:11:00 UTC
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Well, here is my antagonist, with the loosest definition of antagonist being applied here.
Yue may be a criminal, but he isn't a bad person. He would never hurt someone defenseless and is the most loyal person ever. I know he would never betray me. It broke his heart to have had to fight the Shinonome trio, we used to be so close.
-Xing
He caught me off guard last time, I never thought he would get so powerful so quickly. He almost killed Azusa, I'm gonna get him for that. Yue, Xing... when did it go so wrong?
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First reaction: by
on 2017-12-06 08:47:00 UTC
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He's, um... he's missing something... ^_~
Once again, I have to complement the facial expression here. Yue looks super excited to be in this fight; I'd imagine it's a training bout, possibly from before he turned against the Shinonomes. And the way his eyes stand out from the rest of his face really draws attention to them.
I think there's something subtly off about his proportions, though: it looks like his head is to scale with his arms, but his body and legs are a bit too large for them. Might be worth taking a look at.
I really have to comment on those trousers, though - the rumpling is very nicely done. Not overdone, but clearly and cleanly evoking exactly what you wanted. Nice.
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On hands. by
on 2017-12-06 15:12:00 UTC
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A good rule of thumb (lol, shush) is that the hand should be about the same length as the face from chin to hairline.
The body has lots of convenient lengths like this, such as the foot being about the same length as the forearm and an average person being about seven and a half heads tall. Here is a tutorial by my favorite drawing resource artist with some of these proportions included.
Everything gets exaggerated a bit when you're doing anime characters, but it's good to have an understanding of real anatomy anyway. {= )
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I try to improve by
on 2017-12-06 20:49:00 UTC
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I do agree it is necessary to know anatomy. As for hands, those are a b*tch to draw, but I will practice more, I really want to improve.
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Looks good. by
on 2017-12-05 23:11:00 UTC
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You need more hand practice, but the rest is solid.
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Are we doing art concrit? by
on 2017-12-05 09:21:00 UTC
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[Checks] Well, it still says PPC Board, so I assume yes... :D
I'm going to start by saying I really like the expression on Kaede's (I assume his full name is Shinonome Kaede, but 'little brother' could be an idiom I guess) face; I know it's pretty simple, but he really looks like he's intensely focussed. The whole image looks like he's doing something like telekinetically lifting a heavy object - it's hard, but he's not letting it beat him.
The eye is most definitely drawn to his face and hand, but I feel like his hands are slightly out of proportion. I think the thumbs are too short? I'm personally appalling at hands, but that doesn't mean I can't comment on them. ^_^
I'm also going to highlight your shading here; as another thing I'm trying to learn, I'm impressed in particular by the legs. Nicely done.
(Also, I don't think the prompts are 'in order' - you do those 3+1 images in each week, in whatever order you choose.)
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Y'know what? Okay. by
on 2017-12-04 13:54:00 UTC
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I'll never make it, but I've been blocked for so long, I'd like to try and shake out of it. I'm in.
Now, who the heck counts as an antagonist...?
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1 and 3, sorta cheating. by
on 2017-12-08 16:24:00 UTC
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Here's a protagonist (Derik) and an unused character, redesigned (his dragon). Except the dragon was never really mine, and is more, er, deceased than unused. So, cheating. But I've wanted to draw this image forever, so close enough. {= )
It's obviously in a rather early stage, seeing as I haven't figured out what I'm doing with Derik's right hand or Skepnadth's whole body yet. Nor do I know what Derik is sitting on. Maybe a rock or a log or something, I dunno. I think he's gonna stay topless, though, because a) it's fun, and b) his revised backstory has him serving somewhere in the Southern Continent, maybe Eastern Weyr, so it's hot.
Despite using Gerard Butler as a reference, there is still some ephemeral Gerard Butler-ness I seem unable to capture. Argh. Also, I may have gone too far with the near shoulder, but he is supposed to be kinda huge in the shoulders, so I dunno. What do you think?
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Doesn't embed, but the link works. by
on 2017-12-09 17:38:00 UTC
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I'm gonna start by saying that I love the detail on the heads - all three of them, counting that beautiful harp [/Dafydd]. Skepnadth looks completely relaxed, just gazing at Derik, while Derik looks both focussed and faintly amused. And harp!dragon is just super proud to be here, guys - it's her big break, so she's giving it all she's got! [/Dafydd... again]
I don't think Derik's shoulder flags up as wrong (though I note that he, too, is missing something ^_~), but I can't follow the line of Skepnadth's neck for love nor Marks. I think he's got a 90-degree bend in it? There's definitely something weird going on with him spine.
(I'm also being thrown off by the lack of him body. It ought to be curving waaaaay up as it heads to the right, but as it is that sweeping curve looks like a back leg, making him the most truncated dragon ever.)
(Also, confession: at this point I realised I had consistently referred to Skepnadth as 'she'. :O I apologise profusely, and have no idea why that happened.)
I like this picture. I hope you get it finished, because I think it'll be really good. And I really do like that harp. [/Dafydd... nah, it's just me, really]
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I thought you'd like the harp. ^_^ by
on 2017-12-09 22:28:00 UTC
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(No, Dafydd can't have it; he's got one of his own. And Derik doesn't have this one anymore, anyway, though he is due to come into possession of an Elvish one in an unwritten mission...)
I think Skepnadth's neck is going to have to decline away from the POV, and then his body will incline back towards us, so his back end will be more forward. Something like that.
And I will make sure there is a bulge. Just for you. ^_~
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O.o That is /not/ what I meant. by
on 2017-12-09 22:39:00 UTC
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Though probably also true. I wasn't looking.
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That's what you get for being vague. {; P by
on 2017-12-09 23:31:00 UTC
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So... nipples, then?
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Yah-huh. by
on 2017-12-10 09:05:00 UTC
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Good grief, this is supposed to be a family-friendly establishment, there's no call to go evoking images of David Bowie's tights... >;D
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Prompt 2: An Antagonist by
on 2017-12-05 17:08:00 UTC
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This is what I did in a couple hours this morning. Gall, being a brat with a mace, just prior to having it taken away from her and broken in two.
If other people are going to give concrit, I won't do it for them. I will just say, though, that foreshortening is a b*tch and I know I'm bad at it. ^_^
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Final product! by
on 2017-12-10 23:24:00 UTC
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Here it is all colorified:
It may have come out a little over-saturated? I used saturated colors on the costume on purpose, because it's a superhero costume, bu then I tweaked the value and color levels a bit in the GIMP to whiten up the background. I dunno. But I'm very pleased with it in person. ^_^
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That is very good. by
on 2017-12-11 07:31:00 UTC
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Kaitlyn's comment: 'That person looks way too happy for someone who wants to kill me,' which I think speaks to Gall's character. :D
You're right that the pose fixes itself when coloured, and I have to highlight both the hair (look, I'm an elf, it's our Thing) and rhe muscles as well-done.
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Thank you! (nm) by
on 2017-12-11 13:42:00 UTC
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Revised version. by
on 2017-12-07 15:35:00 UTC
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Because who needs three sketches when you can obsess over one! {= D
While this is definitely more readable, I feel like the first one had more energy somehow? Eh, oh well. I like being able to show off her musculature in this costume, anyway. Gall is buff.
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I agree about the energy. by
on 2017-12-07 21:50:00 UTC
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I think, unfortunately, it's because of the pose - the way her arms are now, she looks more like she's going 'ta-da!', or possibly dancing. That mace is heavy - it should be drawing her arm after it as it swings.
Moving onto the rest: that hair! O.O I love it. I can see exactly what you're visualising, and it works really well.
You've fixed the armour problem, and I think you've conveyed the muscles really well; that single line on her shoulder (plus the shape of the shoulder) works excellently. (Though... she is pulling a Female Comic Character pose, with that near-ninety-degree twist of her hips...)
With that said, I have to wonder what's going on with her forearms. I assume it's meant to be armour, but - particularly on the one holding the mace - it's pretty much a cylinder. I think you've got the 3-Ding of the rear hand off, too - the armour is tilted away, so we shouldn't see it coming up around her wrist like that.
All in all, a big improvement from where I'm sitting. I do miss the skirt, though... (and Derik grabbing the 'neck' of her armour has just gotten, uh... exceptionally suggestive. ^_~)
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Sigh. But also yay. by
on 2017-12-08 16:40:00 UTC
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Maybe I'll make the mace-head smaller, and tighten her grip a bit. That might help fix the problem without me having to redo the whole arm again.
I disagree about the Female Comic Character Pose. I see why it looks wrong, but I'm pretty sure it'll make sense once it's all colored. She's small-chested, like most really buff women, the breastplate curves around to the side a fair bit, and there's really only a little side-butt showing. Most of what you see there is leg, rotated forward. Maybe there's not quite enough hip on the far side, though?
Glad you like the hair, and the muscles! But yeah, serious facepalm on Derik grabbing the front of the breatplate. My brain filled in a silly costume design with something that made more sense, what can I say? ^_^;
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Well, I admit... by
on 2017-12-09 17:15:00 UTC
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... I don't spend that much time looking at women in scanty body-armour, so my reading is entirely possible to be off. ;) As usual with my comments, don't read my confident tone as indicating that I actually know what I'm talking about!
I think part of the issue with the mace is that it seems to be coming off at an (upwards) angle to her arm; I feel like the only way that could happen is if she's deliberately holding it that way. A swing would tend to draw the mace straight, even if the arm was bent.
... ow. So, having just tried swinging a poker around with it raised above the angle of my arm, I can confirm that doing that actually hurts. It pulled wrong on a muscle somewhere near my elbow. (Don't worry - I'm fine!)
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Ugh, isn't it, though? by
on 2017-12-06 08:23:00 UTC
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I think the key is not lining things up directly in front of each other - you lose the depth. If Gall had her arm slightly bent, or her arm at a slight up/down angle (which people generally do - holding your arm straight out horizontally feels very unnatural, though I guess less so when you're swinging a heavy object), you'd be able to see part of it and avoid the 'maceborg' look. (The way the shading on the side of the mace joins with the armour to look like scar tissue doesn't help... ;))
Apart from that, I was immediately drawn to the hair and the (visible) hand. I know the hair is only roughly sketched in - you can see the shape of her skull under it - but if you ignore that construction line, I think it looks very good. It speaks to her character, and actually looks curly. (Is that a braid behind her ear? It kind of looks like one; I might need to crib that sometime.)
As to her hand, it's good! I think the shading might be slightly off - it looks like she's got a substantial pad on the non-thumb side, which I don't think is right? - but that's nitpicky; just looking at it, it'd good.
I feel like there's something going on with her armour, which I think comes from treating it like cloth. You've got it near enough in the plane of the page at the shoulders, but skewed round with her hips further down; a solid plate (metal or leather) wouldn't do that. It would... I guess it would ride up on the back shoulder? Not sure.
In contrast, the skirt works very well, and (though they're only loosely sketched) her legs also worked out. They look leg-shaped, and capture the dynamism of her movement.
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Yee. by
on 2017-12-06 13:47:00 UTC
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Yeah, I'm gonna have to do something about the leading arm. I think it might be better if there were any way to know how big the mace-head is supposed to be, but there isn't. For all anyone looking knows, it really is the size of her actual head.
I'm probably gonna change the armor completely. I just threw on a Generic Breastplate to have something there and a leather skirt so it didn't look like there was nothing between the breastplate and her legs. >.> She has thigh plates, too (which I'm sure have an actual name I'm not recalling right now), but you can't really tell anymore. Anyway, in the RP where this actually happened, she's dressed up as Hawkgirl a la Justice League, and I think I'm gonna use that. Though I was surprised to be reminded how little that breastplate actually covers. Derik grabbed the edge of the plate at the neck at one point, but there is no neck. Just cleavage. *facepalm*
The hair is supposed to be braided, yes! I've yet to decide exactly how, but it's good to know the back part works for that. ^_^
Thanks!
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Shrug by
on 2017-12-05 23:09:00 UTC
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It looks correct except that you chose a pose that doesn't give an interesting silhouette. At first glance, her mace head seems to be coming straight out of her shoulder.
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So I go to open my sketchbook... by
on 2017-12-04 15:42:00 UTC
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... And I find an old series of mugshots I started back around when I was doing the ID cards, and a reasonably decent sketch of Ilraen, too! These don't count for the challenge, of course, but I thought I'd share anyway.
These are... okay. Not great. Details in the dA notes.
I like this! Except for the hair; curly hair is really annoying and hard to get right. I might finish this at some point, though.
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Hee, nice. by
on 2017-12-05 09:29:00 UTC
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Henry's hair is so scruffy, I just want to ruffle it. ^_^
I'm actually having difficulty offering concrit here, because you've already done it all yourself! I think Castor is a pretty good stab at androgynous, but would probably peg them as female if pushed (or young teenage male, I guess). And I absolutely agree with you about curly hair.
One thing I will note is Henry's pose (he's the only one with arms, so...). There's a definite air of 'hiiiiii, there's nothing wrong here, don't, um, don't look in the kitchen' about him, both in his face and in the positioning of his arms. I don't know if you were aiming that way, but if so - it worked.
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I'll take that challenge. by
on 2017-12-03 14:15:00 UTC
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1: A Protagonist
This is Connie Sims, leader of the Interspecific Animosity Intervention Agency (IAIA, pronounced "Ia! Ia!", as in "Cthulhu fhtagn"). She and her team are officially licensed by the British government and the Sidhe Queen to mediate between humanity and the mythic races.
This is her "Trace, can't this wait until after coffee?" face.
I've accidentally-on-purpose given myself the additional challenge of making all my pictures of characters based on my wife ^_^. Sorry, Kaitlyn, you're just going to have to get used to it...
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#6: An AU character. by
on 2017-12-14 09:44:00 UTC
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This is kind of cheating, because she's a pre-existing AU character in her own right, but...
Connie of Wessex, battlefield medic with the Transfictional Canonical Defence Authority. And yes, she really does dress like that. (It's Steampunk, what can I say?)
I've tried out multiple 'new' things with this image. It's drawn about twice as large as my normal scale, to hopefully work more details in. It was also drawn from a photo which includes none of the details - the costume design was done freehand, including the hair (and in fact her face - I realised with this image just how different mine and Kaitlyn's face shapes are).
This is a picture I've wanted to draw for a long time. If I can figure out where the shading goes (and fix that crossbow!), I probably will colour it - her outfit is entirely white, so it's just her face and arms. (She's wearing white silk stockings, because style is one thing, and cold legs are quite another thank you very much.)
I think this is the official halfway point, or near enough. Never thought I'd get this far.
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Concrit by
on 2017-12-15 03:26:00 UTC
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The pose looks well done, and the crossbow is actually pretty decent, if a bit plain. Remember, all you really have to do is suggest to the viewer and not include every single detail, and you have certainly suggested the orientation of the crossbow decently. However, on closer inspection it looks like her crossbow is aimed straight back and out of angle with her arm.
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#1, redrawn and coloured. by
on 2017-12-13 10:00:00 UTC
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I feel like I lost some of the emotion in her face with this redrawing, and also a lot of the curviness of it. Now she looks angry instead of exhausted.
Beyond that... colouring. This is the first time I've tried to colour+shade, so I'm interested in comments. I did it by literally colouring over the shading; is that the best way? (I also alternated between light and heavy colouring, to add highlights to what is otherwise a fairly lightly-shaded image.)
While I'm asking for advice... my home scanner absolutely refuses to pick up the skin-tone colour, and taking a photograph doesn't work; I had to borrow the scanner at work to get this picture. How do other people get scans that preserve the colour - or are you colouring digitally? (I used coloured pencils, which is probably fairly clear from the image.)
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Color, eh? Brave new world! by
on 2017-12-13 15:04:00 UTC
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I don't know what to tell you about the scanner, unfortunately. It should just, y'know, do its job. Check your settings, I guess? Make sure you're scanning a photo/image, not a document or something? And closing the lid is important, I think?
As for coloring plus shading, that's gonna be a no. Adding color over graphite is just going to give you greyed-out colors, especially on lighter tones like skin.
When you get into colors, shadows often tend to actually be slightly blue or purple (though it depends on the color of the light source and blah blah, not really important right now). You can also tone down or deepen any color you're using by adding something from the other side of the color wheel. For instance, I used Tuscan red for the darkest shadows on Gall's leggings (dark green brightened with grass green, white highlights). I used the same combination to create the near-black portions of her cuirass and gauntlets, plus indigo where I wanted it darkest. On her skin, the darker shades are henna and a slightly greenish sandbar brown. Again, I used indigo for the very deepest shadows. Only a very little black to bring out the outlines that were muted.
Using opposite colors like this is a thing I've only just started doing (this was an early experiment in using blue shadows to make the light seem more yellow), but I have to say it works!
... And I realize it's all more or less Greek to you. But you did ask.
For reference, I'm using Prismacolor pencils; the names may or may not translate to other brands.
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Thank you! A new version: by
on 2017-12-14 09:38:00 UTC
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Including a somewhat different facial expression that I like rather better.
I think this one has gone better, but I'm still not that happy with it. I think I'll probably stop trying to use colour until I can figure it out - it's a lot of effort for results that aren't working. Connie here has a combination of greens and probably-blues in her shadows, while her dressing gown is mostly greens.
One of the problems is that I don't have any truly dark colours in my pencil set. Heck, I had to use graphite for the hair, because my 'black' is a mid-dark grey! If I ever get the hang of this, I may need to buy something different.
But it's been a learning experience, which is what counts. :) Thank you for your advice.
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I do like that face better. by
on 2017-12-14 15:00:00 UTC
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Definitely reflects the caption. {= )
On the shadows, acknowledging that this might be due to a bad scan, it looks like you went too far on the face and not far enough on the robe. Partly because the the shadow across her nose and cheek has a mottled texture, it kinda looks like a bruise. I think the others would work if I weren't distracted by that one, though. It would also help if the skin tone were more saturated to begin with. I tend to use at least three tones for skin: First, a base layer, usually light peach for a fair complexion or beige for a sallow one. Everything gets layered over and blended back into it. Second, a pink or near-red for areas of high vascularity, like the cheeks; and third, a browner shade for less vascular areas. Plus whatever looks right for lip color, pockets under the eyes, etc. For Gall, the base tone was Deco peach, the pink was blush pink (this is very aptly named and I use it a lot), and her "brown" was light peach, because she is very fair. Plus the henna, sandbar brown, and teensiest bit of indigo for shadows, and white for highlights.
Skin is complicated. Hair is, too, and I use more or less the same process to do that: soft base coat of the lightest highlight color, mid-tone, dark tone. (Except for black hair. I'm working on how to make black hair less flat.) Definitely get good pencils if you want to keep going with this.
A good point: her right sleeve looks pretty good! The shape of the shadow brings out the roundness of the cuff, and it all looks cohesive.
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This is really good advice. by
on 2017-12-14 15:45:00 UTC
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I now feel like I understand how to colour skin. I'm not saying I can successfully do it, but I feel like I understand how. You have explained very clearly. :) Thank you.
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#5: Young, middle, old. by
on 2017-12-12 13:56:00 UTC
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Firethorn is a native of Summerhithe who emigrated to the neighbouring (and moderately hostile) nation of Wintertide. All this is detailed in my gloriously-titled NaNo The Kraken-Knights of Wintertide from a few years back.
I looked on this prompt not only as a chance to play around with shading a bit more, but as an opportunity to explore the differences in faces between ages. All three are based on photos (the first two of Kaitlyn, the third of her mother), with clothes/hair modified to fit the story.
'Wilderness' sadly got a bit over-blended - it was late, I was tired - and the other two could probably do with a bit more. Other than that... what do you think?
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#4: A character's room. by
on 2017-12-09 17:45:00 UTC
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Or rather, two characters... welcome to the house of Constance and Dafydd Illian.
To be perfectly frank, I had way more fun than I should have with this, because it's absolutely stuffed with Easter eggs. Some of them are impossible for anyone other than me (and maybe Kaitlyn) to get; others are more generally PPC or Dafydd-related. A few of things I will highlight:
-That's Hera chilling on the window seat. Ilwion is probably off playing with the kids.
-Both pictures are direct copies of Lily Winterwood's Dafydd/Constance fanart, because it's my favourite piece of fanart I've ever had. ^_^
-The viewpoint is deliberately low and off-centre, both because it's more interesting and to tell a story - this is clearly one of the kids sneaking in.
-The Quenya scroll above the bookshelf reads 'Essenen Eruo, a auta' - 'In the name of God, go!'. This is the contract with Mandos that renders Constance functionally immortal in Middle-earth. The precise text is an Easter egg in its own right, too...
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How? Just how? by
on 2017-12-09 22:54:00 UTC
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How do you have time to draw a room this awesome? You're making me want to go back and pretty up my room during the 3 day catch up period. I really don't see anything that really needs improving. It's really good.
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Time. by
on 2017-12-10 09:04:00 UTC
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I think it took a good 3 hours scattered throughout the day, perhaps more. As to how I /found/ the time... luckily the children were happy to entertain themselves a fair bit (with the careful addition of a few new toys).
I started with the furniture, constructing all the lines in light pencil before going over them im dark. Then it was just a matter of looking at the spaces and deciding what should go in there. (The last thing I did was adjust the bedcovers to try and get them to look better. The second to last was removing high-level shelves above the ones I left, so as not to have to put anything on them... :D)
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This is awesome. I hate you. ^.~ by
on 2017-12-09 20:17:00 UTC
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Such a pretty space... and the view out the windows! I loooove iiiit.
Ahem. *wipes drool off chin* So. Concrit. The only thing I find off is the window seat. It seems way too deep, and I'm afraid I had no idea that was a fire-lizard until you told me. She is very tiny—not out of scale, probably, just tiny.
Aside from that, though, this is a very hard act to follow. I might skip this prompt and save myself the embarrassment. >.>
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Yeah, Hera needs a finer pencil. by
on 2017-12-12 14:16:00 UTC
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She's gotten all smudged, I think. She'd probably work better in colour.
I can see what you mean about the window seat, and the bay window as a whole. Do you have any advice on drawing non-right-angled objects in a single-point perspective drawing? I had absolutely no idea how to line up the angles on the bay.
I put a lot of work into this one, so I'm pleased you like it. ^_^ It is mostly just geometry, though, and I actually learnt to draw by way of the 'break it up into shapes' method, so that's right up my alley. Shading, posed people, and - the Valar forbid - colouring are still a nightmare for me, though, so I think you still have the edge.
But don't skip it! At some point I'm going to redraw and colour the Connie Sims 'coffee, stat!' image; if I can bring myself to show people that, you can do a room full of Interesting Stuff to ogle.
(Though by all means do Henry first. T'ain't nowt to say you have to do them strictly in numerical order.)
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Yeah, geometry is not my thing. ^_^; by
on 2017-12-13 15:13:00 UTC
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I like it better than algebra, and I kinda get it, and I'm finding the "start with basic shapes" technique more and more helpful, but... all the details will just take so much time, and I don't have it to spare, especially after losing some to the stress of the above mini-drama. Hence, giving the room a miss for now.
For the window seat, the angles of the sides of the seat to the walls are too shallow, I think. They should be deeper, and we should see much less of the top of the seat and the ceiling above it. Foreshortening again.
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#3: A disused character by
on 2017-12-06 19:14:00 UTC
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Andromeda ("Anda") Ethrax has the distinction of never being written in her original incarnation - she was supposed to be a descendent of the protagonists from The FutureTM, but I never wrote that story.
She then had a revival for some stories with a bunch of my characters meeting up, which is when I modelled her on Kaitlyn. At that point she ended up in a sort of '50s retrofuture style, with an honest-to-Asimov silver bodysuit (which deploys from her bracelet, because scifi).
Given how simple that description is, I decided to use this picture to try out some of Neshomeh's shading advice. Reversing which pencils I was using for which really helped! I also got to try out highlights, since the bodysuit has a base of light grey which could be left out for that. How well it worked... well, I'll leave that for you to judge!
(I'd also appreciate some comments on her hands; I had to sketch them both freehand, as the picture I was working from featured a pair of small children...)
I also now need to think about how to redesign Anda. Since she's both a resident of the far future and a powerful psychic, I feel like I should be able to do something exciting, but... I'm still not sure what.
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#3A: Said character redesigned. by
on 2017-12-07 21:56:00 UTC
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Also serving as a redo of the original image, to see how good I am at taking advice. ^_^
Anda is a powerful psychic - I think the term, cribbed from or inspired by Anne McCaffrey, was Prime. She's a telekine and telepath, shown here using her wrist-mounted flechette-drones. I dunno what they do, but they look cool.
I think this is a big improvement over the last one (and not just because I took Nesh's advice about the blending, though that helped!). There's some problem points in the shading - mostly the shape of the highlights - but the hands are much better (I hope!), and I think the shading on her face has improved too. But I'm always looking for more advice/concrit, so go nuts. :)
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Eyes by
on 2017-12-08 16:54:00 UTC
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First: Yay blending. ^_^ Don't be afraid to go for really dark darks, though. (I say this as someone who has struggled with this fear for years.)
Next: I think these are some of the best eyes you've done so far, which is because you're getting away from the flat footballish shape that pretty much everyone starts off doing. Eyeballs are spheres set inside holes in the head. Eyelids curve around those spheres with the corners set more deeply in the face than the fronts, and the degree of visible curve varies with how open the eye is, the tilt of the head, heaviness of the lids and surrounding tissue, and all sorts of stuff. Eyes are complex little things!
Same goes for the mouth, kinda. The right (her left) corner of the mouth looks pretty good here, because the shading on that side of the face shows the depth where the corner sinks back into the cheek. The other corner looks more flat by contrast.
... I didn't know I was all full of advice like this. >.>
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Thank you! by
on 2017-12-09 17:23:00 UTC
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Dark darks: you're right that I could probably afford to pull out the 6B pencil (this is HB and 2B on the shading, 4B for the lines); that said, Anda's bodysuit is shiny silver, so I think it's catching a lot of light.
Eyes are a nightmare; I think thinking about them as 3D objects will help me, as you suggest (that, or drive me mad...!). It either does or doesn't help that Kaitlyn wears glasses - we'll see as the month goes on.
Looking at it again, I'm actually really pleased with the right side of her face. Okay, so it's a really tiny area, but... baby steps!
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Yay shading! by
on 2017-12-07 16:01:00 UTC
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Definitely an improvement. There's a dark dot on her stomach that keeps distracting me by looking like a very misplaced belly-button, but I don't think that was intentional?
Next step: invest in a blending stump or two. These are basically tightly rolled sticks of paper that let you smear the graphite into smooth gradients. In the meantime, though, a bit of tissue on the end of your finger works, too. {= )
I think Remnant covered the hands well enough, so I'll mention that the jaw looks a bit misaligned. It might be the way the neck connects with a straight line to the hinge just at the junction of the ear on the left. It shouldn't quite do that; there's a muscle that runs from the pit of the collarbones up behind the ear (the sternocleidomastoid) that should carry that neck line back a little. You kinda have that shaded in at the throat, but it looks like it goes straight up to her chin rather than back.
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The hands by
on 2017-12-06 21:35:00 UTC
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The hands actually look decent enough. However, on closer inspection, it does look like the fingers are directly connected to the wrist. Also the fingers look like there are no bones. A good way to fix this is to draw the structure of the hand before actually drawing the hand. This applies for the body as well if you draw it free hand. Everything can be broken down into component shapes, so you first construct the hands from their components, which are the palm, the fingers, and the thumb. The fingers and thumb can be further broken down into a series of cylinders, and the palm can be represented as a trapezoid or pentagon. To construct the hand simply place the components in the correct orientation and position, foreshorten if necessary. Then outline. I just realized I sound like Lego instructions.
The body looks well shaded and the shadows are correctly oriented for the most part. Everything else seems fine, though the lineart can use some cleaning up. The facial expression looks pretty good.
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Concrit, then! by
on 2017-12-05 17:15:00 UTC
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I actually have very little for this. The expression is great, absolutely evocative of that first thing in the morning groan. I love the shading under the chin and jaw, that's perfect.
The one thing I'd definitely change is to erase the line across the end of the nose. Not the nare, that's good, but the line connecting the nare to the tip. If you colored this, you'd use light and shadow to show where that curve happens.
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Thanks! by
on 2017-12-06 08:29:00 UTC
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Yeah, I have trouble with noses when they're tipped up. I also have trouble with shading in general, which... hey, you seem to know about this sort of thing, can you help?
My problem is that I can't get properly 'light' shading to work. You can see I've tried to get the shadows running down the front of Connie's cheeks here, but every time I try, they end up looking like old-person wrinkles. Same for the shadow under her lower lip (though in this case I think it kind of works, because of how weird her mouth is being).
I actually have a set of pencils of different hardness, and my assumption has been that softer pencils are intended for shading, but they seem to lay down darker lines the softer they are. Should I be using one of them for the main lines, and the harder pencils for shading? (Or, I guess, should I be using soft pencils for shading and then inking the hard lines to darken them?)
I'm not even going to get started on colour, though I probably will be redoing and colouring this one unless Prompt #3 turns out really well.
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Shading by
on 2017-12-06 14:57:00 UTC
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I'm no expert, but...
First, "hardness" refers to the actual consistency of the lead, so the softer the lead, the more easily you can transfer lots of graphite onto the page. Softer pencils are for darker lines, harder for lighter lines. You want to use a somewhat hard pencil for light sketching/shading, then the rest for varying depth of shadow.
(Personally, I just use a regular old .5 mm HB mechanical pencil for everything, but I have drawing pencils...)
As for shading—again, not an expert, so take this with a grain of salt—but shadows are basically for one of two things: 1) where the light is blocked, and 2) where the contours of the shape recede from the light source and/or the eye of the viewer. Highlights are the opposite.
If you're going to finish a drawing in graphite, you'll want to pick your white point and your black point. The white point is the brightest/nearest thing, the black point is the darkest/furthest thing. On a face, the shine of the eye is likely to be the brightest spot, and the pupils and nostrils are probably going to be the darkest. Note these points are not necessarily literally white and black. They're just the brightest and the darkest shade you intend to use. Everything else is somewhere in between. It's all relative, depending on the brightness and directness of your hypothetical light source as much as the actual lightness values of the subject.
Also bear in mind that the human brain is phenomenal at filling in details it expects to be there. You don't have to show every line on the face unless you're going for super-detailed true-to-life portraiture. Art relies on memes and signifiers the same way writing does, and lines on a face signify age. You do have the faintest shadow of that nose-mouth line there, and I think that's fine for the amount of detail you've got.
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Prompt #2: An Antagonist by
on 2017-12-04 14:41:00 UTC
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I had a fair amount of trouble thinking of an antagonist I'd based on Kaitlyn - for obvious reasons, she doesn't tend to be a villain in my stories! In the end I went for this deity, who starts off her story by floating around in the sea until a poor Saxon boy comes by for her to abduct. Goddesses, eh?
This is sketched fairly directly for a photo of a woman doing the same thing; I tweaked the clothing, and a few details to try and make her look more like Kaitlyn. I don't think it was very successful, but the overall image isn't bad (I hope...!). The part I'm least satisfied with is the water, to be honest - except for the submerged parts, she looks like she's lying on a duvet!
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I think it looks great (nm) by
on 2017-12-05 03:15:00 UTC
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It's the most filkingest time of the year! by
on 2017-12-03 14:15:00 UTC
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Iximaz was kind enough to remind me that yes, it is in fact December already, and that means it's time for the PPC Holiday Filk Game!
As usual, the following guidelines apply:
1. Pick a seasonal tune that strikes your fancy—anything you like, even if it's been used for this before.
2. Write new words for it with a PPC theme.
2a. I encourage you to seek for a topic that does not involve Sue-slaying, because we have lots of filks about that. If that's what the muse dictates, though, go for it.
2b. What I'd really like to see are more tunes about actual holiday stuff in Headquarters. There are lots of holiday filks about PPC stuff, but not too many holiday filks about PPC holiday stuff. Odd, ne?
3. Post your filk here in this thread for us to enjoy and comment on.
4. If so inclined, share a recording of yourself singing a filk or two.
5. When all's said, sung, and done, I'll add this year's entries to the PPC Holiday Songbook unless you specify otherwise.
As usual, I have yet to add last year's entries, but I shall do so forthwith. Meanwhile, have fun!
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Not a filk, but... have an original? by
on 2017-12-12 19:14:00 UTC
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The PPC Jingle, aka "Iximaz breathes heavily into the microphone".
It’s wintertime, time for holidays
But the end of the year doesn’t come with a raise
And the Flowers really don’t like to heap on the praise
But I keep chugging on
It doesn’t really matter that I can’t leave
My friends are all here, decorated RCs
And my next mission should be a breeze
I’m ready with the Bleepnog
In the courtyard, the snow’s falling fast
The warmth of the holidays cannot last
So we gather ‘round, reminisce ‘bout the past
Hope the console doesn’t beep
So we all come together on this holiday
Not a care in the world, not a Sue left to slay
The parties are bright, though the corridors are grey
Come along, join us now
I got my partner beside me, what more could I need?
Relaxing together by the Christmas tree
It’ll be so long before canon is free
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What do you mean there's no raise? by
on 2017-12-12 19:31:00 UTC
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Awesome song!
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I LOVE IT by
on 2017-12-12 19:23:00 UTC
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This is beautiful and I love it
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Th-thank you! *turns red and hides* (nm) by
on 2017-12-12 19:29:00 UTC
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One special version of Jingle Bells, one! by
on 2017-12-12 17:07:00 UTC
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Called it Ring Consoles.
Dashing through the glitter,
in a one-Ypur open sleigh.
O’er the halls we go,
laughing all the way.
Bells on bobtails ring,
making spirits bright.
What fun it is to ride and sing
a sleighing song tonight.
Oh! Ring Consoles, ring Consoles,
ring all the way.
Oh what fun it is to ride
in a one-Ypurr open sleigh.
Hey! Ring Consoles, ring Consoles,
ring all the way.
Oh what fun it is to ride
in a one-Ypur open sleigh.
A day or two ago
I thought I'd take a ride
And soon, Sunflower Official
Was seated by my side,
The Ypur was lean and lank
Misfortune seemed his lot
He got into drifted papers
And then we got upsot.
Oh! Ring Consoles, ring Consoles,
ring all the way.
Oh what fun it is to ride
in a one-Ypur open sleigh.
Hey! Ring Consoles, ring Consoles,
ring all the way.
Oh what fun it is to ride
in a one-Ypur open sleigh.
A day or two ago,
The story I must tell
I went out on the glitter,
And on my back I fell;
An Agent was riding by
In a one-Ypur open sleigh,
He laughed as there I sprawling lie,
But quickly drove away.
Oh! Ring Consoles, ring Consoles,
ring all the way.
Oh what fun it is to ride
in a one-Ypur open sleigh.
Hey! Ring Consoles, ring Consoles,
ring all the way.
Oh what fun it is to ride
in a one-Ypur open sleigh.
Now the ground is glittery
Go it while you're sane,
Take the partners tonight
And sing this sleighing song;
Just get a bobtailed Ypur
Two-forty as his speed
Hitch him to an open sleigh
And crack! You'll take the lead.
Oh! Ring Consoles, ring Consoles,
ring all the way.
Oh what fun it is to ride
in a one-Ypur open sleigh.
Hey! Ring Consoles, ring Consoles,
ring all the way.
Oh what fun it is to ride
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Jay and Acacia by
on 2017-12-10 23:40:00 UTC
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To the tune of "Frosty the Snowman," and with apologies to Iximaz.
Jay and Acacia
Were two fangirls from World One!
They had pointy things, a Polaroid, and
Their official word was "Fun"!
Jay and Acacia
Started a revolution;
They set their sights on the Pit, bastion
Of bad Tolkien fanfiction~
The Sues had swords and unicorns
And sooper speshul rings
But when the agents got to them
None of that meant anything!
Oh, Jay and Acacia
Wrote two dozen lovely tales
And to honor them, we pick up our pen
And soldier through epic fails!
Jay and Acacia
Left a mighty legacy
Of plant aliens and shrieking consoles
That we call the PPC
Jay and Acacia
Couldn't end what they'd begun
Though their job was hell, they both knew damn well
The work would never be done
Although they've left the Internet
And who knows where they are,
We all still use the Original
Series as our North Star!
Oh, Jay and Acacia,
And the other oldbies, too;
We have so much fun killing fanfiction,
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Holiday stuff in HQ? by
on 2017-12-10 21:36:00 UTC
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I've got a filk for you!
I call it...Eight Nights in the PPC (Chanukah, Chanukah). There's probably a better title out there, but that's what I've got.
I really like this one. I even made a recording! (It includes the original, one-verse song at the end, because why not?) (Also: this was so much fun to record, and I love how it came out. Yes there's a sort of semi-key change at the end. Yes, it's more or less on purpose. Yes, it could have been done a little better. No, I don't care; it was fun)
Lyrics:
Come one, come all, PPC, it's time for Chanukah
First we'll bless, then we'll light, then we'll eat latkas
Oh no, there goes the console, oy, vey is mir, why, why
Curse th'SO, fine, we'll go off to see canons cry!
Second night, this one's right, joy is everywhere
Bless, now light, get it right, two candles for the prayer
Dreidels first, then the food, but there goes that BEEEP!
How's this right?! Oh, well, we'll fight--we'll be here all week!
Third night's here, full of cheer, light those candles quick
If you still light olive oil, don't forget the wick
No you can't make it from Sue's hair what is wrong with you
Burns too fast, this should last, and leave no glitter too
Fourth night comes, halfway done, missions won't you stop
This has to be against some rule--come on, it's a chag!!
This holiday is meant to be the festival of lights:
DOGA jobs don't count for that! Don't we have some rights?
Tonight's the fifth, we won't quit, we talked to Upstairs
That frustrated us so we nearly pulled out hairs
It's a shame we can't sue, but is it much to ask?
Give us a modern miracle--an evening with no tasks!
Sixth night comes, we'll have some fun, just--no one sit down
Comfort makes the console beep, and we're tired of running 'round
Chanukah, here we go, chocolate coins galore
Gifts for kids--oh no, don't sit--we can't take any more!
Seventh night shines so bright. What did we do this year?
Barely months since Yom Kippur, how is this happening?
Yes, we know, the rhyme is gone, but we are falling over
Between missions and holiday things--at least it's almost done!
[Pause/musical interlude]
...Eighth night. We can't believe our eyes--finally...it's calm
So much love, all this light, sufgan'yot almost gone
Gather 'round, sing those songs, hug your family
Give out gifts, dance a bit and retell that story!
[go off dancing to the singing of "Chanukah, Chanukah":
Chanukah, Chanukah, chag yafe kol kach
Or chaviv misaviv, gil le'yeled rach
Chanukah, Chanukah, sevivon sov sov
Sov na sov, sov na sov, ma na'im va'tov!
(Translation, from aish.com:
Chanukah is a great holiday.
Surrounded with lovely light.
Fun for little children.
Dreidel, spin, spin, spin.
How wonderful!]
Some Hebrew (mostly) translations:
latkas: potato pancakes. Delicious.
oy, vey is mir: Yiddish for 'oh woe is me'. Much more common than 'woe is me' these days, though. Very often shortened to just 'oy' or 'oy vey'
dreidel: a spinning top unique to Chanukah
chag: holiday
Yom Kippur: Day of Atonement, where the sins of the previous year are forgiven. Happens around October, hence the lament of 'what could we have already done to deserve this?!'
sufganiot: jelly donuts. Delicious. Not always jelly these days, which is an amazing development
Another fun thing: each verse more or less corresponds to a different PPC department! It's not perfect, since it wasn't really done on purpose (shh), but for your potential amusement, here:
Verse 1: Department of Angst
Verse 2: DMS/ESAS
Verse 3: ...DoSAT?
Verse 4: DOGA, obviously
Verse 5: Building Maintenance? Yes, I'm stretching
Verse 6: Any field agents
Verse 7: Also field agents. Oh well
Verse 8: Everyone
I have one more idea so far for a filk, but it hasn't happened yet. We'll see if it does. This one made for a fun morning bus ride, anyway!
Also, uh...Chanukah starts Tuesday night. What.
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That time of year already? by
on 2017-12-10 21:21:00 UTC
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Well, even though this song's only technically about winter, I'll parody it anyway. Enjoy!
"HQ Party"
(to the tune of Winter Wrap-Up)
Violet: The holidays are coming, and I just want a break!
Chris: I hope they let us stay inside for our sanity's sake.
Miguel: Even though we're far away from home, we can still celebrate
Ami: We have each other's backs and, honestly, that's pretty great~
Miguel: It's Christmas time in Headquarters, according to my phone
I feel sorry for the agents celebrating it alone,
But there's an easy way to help. Hopefully you'll all agree
To start it off with just four letters: that's RSVP~!
All: HQ party, HQ party!
Ami: Let's spread some holiday cheer!
All: HQ party, HQ party~
Chris: Mew knows we could use it here
Chris and Miguel: Mew knows we could use it here!
Violet: I don't understand why I'm stuck wrangling the minis
While you guys get to write the cards and decorate cookies
We have those plotholes for a reason, you know
Help me out so I can sing a proper solo!
All: HQ party, HQ party!
Ami: Let's spread some holiday cheer!
All: HQ party, HQ party~
Violet: Gods know I could use it here
All: HQ party, HQ party~
Chris: Mew knows we could use it here
Chris and Miguel: Mew knows we could use it here!
Chris: Got the decorations on sale at the General Store~
Hey, where'd you get that Christmas tree? It wasn't here before
I don't know how you did it, but it's the perfect size!
Put on Radio Nutmeg and let's decorate our prize~!
All: HQ party, HQ party!
Violet: I hope everybody can come
All: HQ party, HQ party~
Chris: These light strings are so friggin' dumb!
All: HQ party, HQ party~
Miguel: My cookies are almost done
Didn't burn a single one!
Ami: Cleaning up goes so much faster with a good soundtrack~
Oh, look, Falchion and his friends just wrote me back!
He and Sarah can both come; Lapis and Cupid too...?
What in Celestia's name (joined by Violet) did we just get into?
All: HQ party, HQ party!
Violet: Let's spread some holiday cheer!
All: HQ party, HQ party~
Ami: Can we do this every year?
All: HQ party, HQ party~
Miguel: Mew knows we could use it here
Miguel and Chris: Mew knows we could use it here!
Chris: The RC looks like a home now; beautiful, calm, and bright
I wouldn't be surprised if Santa Claus came by tonight~
Violet: I retract all of my complaining from earlier today
I wouldn't want my life to be any other way!
Any other waaaaay~
All: HQ party, HQ party!
Ami: Our first guests are almost here!
All: HQ party, HQ party~
Miguel: Good thing we've got extra cheer!
All: HQ party, HQ party~
Girls: We're so doing this next year!
Boys: I might shed a manly tear~
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Well that went spectacularly wrong.... by
on 2017-12-04 22:29:00 UTC
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I tried rewriting a song by Nat King Cole, didn't event get anything down before it started forming into a prose observation about how many RC's don't decorate their doors because both agents are from worlds that don't celebrate Kwan/Mas/Nuka or their just too busy or thinking it's October or March instead of December.
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AU (with apologies to Joni Mitchell) by
on 2017-12-03 17:02:00 UTC
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This is the song River, as filtered through the lens of Jennotari shipping. Yes, it counts. =]
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It's coming on Christmas
And the Christmas Tree's
Been putting up reindeer and
Singing songs of joy and peace
I wish there was an AU
I could run away to
But it don't snow here
It's just Generic Grey
In corridors that go on
So long you can't run away
I wish I had an AU
I could run away to
I wish I had an AU so wrong
That I could teach my feet to fly
Oh, I wish I had an AU
I could run away to
I made Nurse Jenni cry
She tried hard to help me,
You know, put me at ease
And she laughed and joked and it
Made me weak in the knees
I wish I had an AU
I could run away to
But I'm so hard to handle
I'm selfish and I'm sad
Now I've gone and lost the only
Love in this place I've had
I wish I had an AU
I could run away to
I wish I had an AU so wrong
That I could teach my feet to fly
I wish I had an AU
I could run away to
I made Nurse Jenni say goodbye
It's coming on Christmas
And the Christmas Tree's
Been putting up reindeer and
Singing songs of joy and peace
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The Saint Stephen's Day Murders by
on 2017-12-10 00:20:00 UTC
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This is an adaptation of The Saint Stephen's Day Murders, with apologies to Irish folk band The Chieftains and Elvis Costello, of all people.
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I knew of two FicPsych doctors name of Christmas,
Called Dawnie and Eve, of course, and they were assigned to the Tree
For whom we all know it is always the season
Of goodwill that lasts 'till the feast of Saint Stephen.
For that's when FicPsych can eat, drink, and be merry
Until all the Bleepka down gullets has flowed
And the whole Doctor stock you neglected to bury
Is stuffing their faces until they explode
There'll be laughter and tears and mixed Tia Marias,
Suebuprofen, and drinks made from girders
'Cause it's all we've got left as they draw their last breath
Ah, it's nice for the kids, since you've finally got rid of them!
In the Saint Stephen's Day murders!
Fitzsimmons gargles some heartbreaking air
As the babe in his arms pulls out more and more of his hair
No-one's drunk enough yet to dare criticize
The spinning bow tie he's about to baptize
His gin-flavoured whispers and kisses of sherry,
His best Crimbo shirt slung all over the shop,
As the Christmas Tree's singing voice blows up the telly
He skids out the door on a hidden pork chop
And the Dish Of The Day, or what's left anyway,
May still be found haunting the kitchen
And there's life in it yet Dawn and Eve might regret
When the colleagues they poisoned stop twitchin'
And there's laughter and tears and mixed Tia Marias,
Suebuprofen, and drinks made from girders
'Cause it's all we've got left as they draw their last breath
Ah, it's nice for the kids, since we've finally got rid of them!
RID OF THEM!
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A couple of filks here! by
on 2017-12-03 16:13:00 UTC
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I'll put out a few more this month, but for now, have these two.
"I Saw Dafydd Kissing the SO", to the tune of "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus"
I saw Dafydd kissing the SO
Underneath the mistletoe last night
They didn't see me creep
Down the hall to have a peep
They thought that I was tucked up
In my RC, fast asleep
Then I saw Dafydd tickle the SO
Underneath his fronds so fresh and green
Oh, what a laugh it would have been
If Constance had only seen
Dafydd kissing the SO last night
...Wow, I could have sworn that one was longer than it is, but it just keeps repeating. Hrm.
Fromthe Aviator'san estranged ex-partner's point of view, to the tune of "Same Auld Lang Syne". I kept a bit too much of the original for it to really count as a filk, I think, but I like it all the same.
Met my old partner in the courtyard
The snow was falling Christmas Eve
I stole behind her in the grassy fields
And I touched her on the sleeve
She didn't recognize the face at first
But then her eyes flew open wide
She went to hug me and she fell on me
And we laughed until we cried
We stood there, awkward in the moment now
The silence longer as we stared
We stood there lost in our embarrassment
As the conversation slowed
Went to have ourselves a drink or two
Sat ourselves down at Rudi's pub
We bought a pair of beers made a toast
For the days we both had lost
We drank a toast to innocence
We drank a toast to now
And tried to reach beyond the emptiness
But neither one knew how
I said I'd had myself a daughter
She said she had herself a girlfriend
We both wished things had turned out different
But it worked out in the end
She said the years had been long without me
And that she missed me every day
I said I missed her, too, so very much
But didn't want to intrude
She said she saw me in the tabloids now
And that I must be doing well
I said insanity wasn't too bad
But the infamy was hell
We drank a toast to innocence
We drank a toast to now
And tried to reach beyond the emptiness
But neither one knew how
We drank a toast to innocence
We drank a toast to time
Reliving in our eloquence
Another 'auld lang syne'
The beer was empty and our tongues were tired
And running out of things to say
She gave a hug to me as we both left
And I watched her walk away
Just for a moment I was back at school
And felt that old familiar pain
And as I turned to make my way back home
The snow turned into rain
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Does anyone remember Anne McCaffrey's rules? by
on 2017-12-03 14:39:00 UTC
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I heard that Anne McCaffrey had special rules about writing fanfiction in her worlds, but the link seems to be dead. All I could find were advertising rules that should be universal for all fanfiction.
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Ah, so it's Pern specific by
on 2017-12-03 15:30:00 UTC
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I was going to do a crossover between Supernatural and "Horse from a Different Sea." I like Mpreg if it makes sense, but Alpha/Omega is just so character-breaking it might as well not be fanfiction.
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Oh, wait, I misread you. by
on 2017-12-03 15:57:00 UTC
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I gave you the old RP rules. Here are the latest rules for fanfiction and other fanworks that I'm aware of: http://pernhome.com/aim/anne-mccaffrey/fans/fan-fiction-rules/
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There are rules? Actual, codified rules? by
on 2017-12-03 16:38:00 UTC
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Liebe Arceus, that has to be the most smug, presumptuous, petty-minded thing I've ever heard. And I live with me. On a 24/7 basis. =]
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There used to be just one: "Don't." by
on 2017-12-03 17:07:00 UTC
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Authors do have a right to control their intellectual property to some extent.
Anyway, if you think that's bad, you clearly haven't read George R.R. Martin's views on fanfiction. At least McCaffrey lightened up eventually.
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I do know about GRRM's views on fanfic. by
on 2017-12-03 17:19:00 UTC
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Which I find hypocritical, given that he wrote Dark!Edgy!AU fanfic of Tolkien (to the point of nicking his R.R.) and medieval history, and that his personal style makes him look like the child of an Mpreg fic shipping Walt Whitman and Captain Haddock from Tintin. Let us also not forget Anne Rice, who has herself written what amounts to pornographic BDSM fanfiction of Beauty and the Beast under the name A.N. Roquelaire and published it. The missus has them. =]
I also don't agree that a given author can dictate the content of their fans' works, only that they do not monetize them. As an author, ngl, you should not be reading your fans' fic anyway because that way lies madness and potential lawsuits. Since you're not involved with it, and since you're not reading it, what harm does it do you that people make your characters do the horizontal lambada with aplomb and a worrying amount of latex hosiery?
It all brings to mind a quote about Ray Bradbury. In an interview, he was asked what he felt about Hollywood always adapting his books into absolutely atrocious movies and thus ruining them. Bradbury got up, walked over to a shelf full of his novels, and spread his arms wide.
"Look at them," he said. "They're all here. They're fine." -
Some agreement, some disagreement. by
on 2017-12-03 22:10:00 UTC
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I think trying to forbid fanworks altogether is an exercise in futility, even when it's not an outright insult to one's fanbase. I'm also on the fence about how I feel about how much time it takes for things to pass into public domain. On the one hand, I'm okay with it still being illegal for anyone to do whatever they want with Middle-earth, because I, as a fan, am already fed up with the legal stuff. On the other hand, dead authors can't collect royalties, and I think art should belong to the people.
That said, looking at it on a smaller scale, if I, a living PPC author, were to say "Hey, I know you guys really like my agents, and I'm cool with people using them in the Badfic Game, but please don't write them in non-con scenarios, it's not what I or my work stand for," would that be petty of me? I don't think so. I wouldn't read the stuff if people wrote it anyway, but I think it would be fair to ask people who purport to be fans of me and my work to respect my wishes regarding said work, and fair to be upset if they didn't.
It's not about somehow damaging the original IP, legally (though that can be a real concern) or otherwise. It's about respecting the IP's creator. That's why we don't do missions in canons whose authors don't want fanfic of their works, even if we disagree with their reasons.
(And yeah, GRRM is absolutely a Tolkien fanboy, which is really weird. I don't think ASoIaF is derivative enough to qualify as a Middle-earth AU, though. As hS points out in his hS way, all stories are built on other stories. Homage is allowed.)
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Copyright thread? Copyright thread. by
on 2017-12-04 11:03:00 UTC
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My (current) thoughts on the appropriate length of the copyright term are "14 years and 14 more if you ask"1. Term starts at some sort of publication in this scheme.
The main reason for this is that, from what I can tell, 25-28ish (some subtleties of when you start counting from might eat a few years of the term for films and the like) years from when you've published something either:
a) It's sufficiently popular/enduring/... so as to have become part of the culture (LotR very much falls here) and therefore it should be available to the whole culture to interact with free of fear of lawsuit
b) It's effectively run its course as a thing you can sell, is probably out of print or equivalent), and the only people who still are interested are archivists and the twenty remaining fans (this is somewhat exaggerated but you get the point). In this case, the remaining audience should have the right to preserve and propagate the thing since it's (near-)abandoned by the copyright holder.
c) Sleeping hits, where no one cared initially but then decades later everyone wants to buy the thing. That is, cases where almost all of the royalties would be acquired after the 28 year mark if the copyright term were longer.
I claim that case c) is extremely unlikely, and that the law should not be optimized for it. In both a) and b), the publisher/author/... have gotten their well-deserved $, and it has become time for the public's interest in having artistic works available to override the creator's interest in getting paid.
Furthermore, a shorter copyright term is an incentive for people to make more stuff because they can't just sit on their one success forever.
However, we might want to allow a non-corporate creator control over their universe and the right to live off their one big hit, so a "life of the author OR 14 + 14, whichever's longer" term could be good. Than one bit's a complicated issue.
[1]: It should be noted that I want with 14 as opposed to some other small two-digit number like 15 because that's what it used to be ages back.
- Tomash -
:-/ 'in his hS way' by
on 2017-12-03 23:21:00 UTC
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Have I caused offence? That sounds like the sort of sentence that might mean I've offended someone. :-/
hS -
Not to me. by
on 2017-12-04 00:00:00 UTC
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I think what I mean is "irreverent and cheeky." Possibly impish or puckish... or elfish, even. {= ) It has been known to bug other people, but that's one of those YMMV tone things.
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Tolkien AU? by
on 2017-12-03 17:45:00 UTC
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...So ASoIaF is a Tolkien AU fic.
I'm sorry, Scape, but... what? I'm trying to think of how that makes sense. And I don't think it does.
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Perhaps it's very AU? by
on 2017-12-03 17:52:00 UTC
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Everything is fanfic of everything else if you AU hard enough... :)
hS -
Have you read them? by
on 2017-12-03 17:06:00 UTC
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Because a) the alternative was 'no fanfic at all', b) the only thing she forbids content-wise is pornographic sites (not even material - just entire sites devoted to it), and c) don't call the Dragonlady petty. [Frownyface]
hS
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Regarding the PPC Census by
on 2017-12-04 18:34:00 UTC
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I've noticed that the last census was in September 2016. Since July, who apparently did it originally, has left the PPC community since, the position has been vacant ever since.
Now on to my actual point; does anyone object to me copying last year's questions and answer possibilities for this year's census?
Secondly, if the above is not the case, are ther any questions you'd like to see included this year?
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Go ahead. (nm) by
on 2017-12-05 13:21:00 UTC
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Sure, it's always interesting. (nm) by
on 2017-12-04 20:50:00 UTC
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Sounds goo to me. (nm) by
on 2017-12-04 20:18:00 UTC
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No objections here. (nm) by
on 2017-12-04 19:42:00 UTC
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It's muh birthday! by
on 2017-12-05 09:27:00 UTC
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This post is just for formalities.
I can't thanks you guys (and gals, I'm no sexist) enough for the nice messages you've sent!
And that thingy Ix is planning, that sounds awesome!
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*hugs back because HUGS!* Happy birthday! (nm) by
on 2017-12-06 00:49:00 UTC
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Happy Birthday (nm) by
on 2017-12-06 00:20:00 UTC
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Happen Birthday! by
on 2017-12-05 18:27:00 UTC
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Have a triple chocolate cupcake (chocolate with chocolate chips and chocolate icing) with a cherry on top!
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Hap Birth! =D (nm) by
on 2017-12-05 15:56:00 UTC
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*cakefetti* by
on 2017-12-05 15:24:00 UTC
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HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU
MAY ALL YOUR WISHES COME TRUE
HOPE NOBODY MAKES YOU BLUE
AND YOUR CAKE DOESN'T EXPLODE IN GOO!
*blows noisemakers*
Cards Against HQ party will be sometime in the early afternoon of this Friday, EST. -
Happy Birthday (nm) by
on 2017-12-05 14:16:00 UTC
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Happy Birthday! :D *tosses Spikes* (nm) by
on 2017-12-05 14:15:00 UTC
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Pluggage: Harry Potter fanfic. by
on 2017-12-05 15:30:00 UTC
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I challenged myself to do one every year. Of course, an average of less than 2000 words per story is far from NaNoWriMo levels.
As usual, the title image was provided by my daughter. Making this my birthday present has become a tradition.
So, here is The Sign of the Serpent. As always, concrit is welcome.
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I really liked this. by
on 2017-12-06 10:46:00 UTC
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I've dropped a review over on FFn, because I know how it feels not to get any, but I also wanted to talk a bit more generally.
I liked this; when I picked Kaitlyn up after her shift yesterday, I told her about it. I also fed into telling her about your Mayhem in the DOM story, which still sticks with me nearly two years later. In fact, I've just gone back and reread it; it is still an incredible piece, and I still love the slow build in tension. Also the sheer frustration evidenced in 'Something was banished, something was summoned, and something was split'.
hS
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Anyone else having Wikia problems...? by
on 2017-12-06 01:00:00 UTC
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Recently I tried to visit the Wiki and, although I managed to get there, within seconds the screen was replaced with the following message:
"Something interfered with this website loading
This could be a temporary problem with your network, or due to your adblocker
Try:
Check your internet connection and reload the page
If you are using an adblocker disable it by clicking on the adblock icon in your browser toolbar
If the problem persists, consider leaving a message on the adblock user forums"
I tried other branches of Wikia, and got the same message. I have adblock on as a default with pretty much no exceptions, and upon Google searching, I saw reports of Wikia banning adblock across the entire site in past times, so I'd like to ask: Is anyone else having this problem (just to determine that it's an adblock ban and not something on my machine) and if it is a ban, what should we do about it?
Thanks!
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I've just tried it. by
on 2017-12-06 08:52:00 UTC
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I can get into the Wiki, the Cyclopaedia, and Wookiepedia, but I'm seeing very long load times - about a minute. I have no adblocks or anything that could interfere with it, so I think they're just having a slow day. (On the plus side, once I'm in, I can navigate at normal speeds.)
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Depends on your adblocker, I think by
on 2017-12-06 05:56:00 UTC
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I use uBlock, which actually blocks ads better than Adblocker and I haven't had any issues with Wikia.
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Re: Anyone else having Wikia problems...? by
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I can reach it.
I don't have Adblock, but I do usually block Javascript, which usually keeps the amount of ads I see to a minimum as a side bonus. Wikia seems to live quite happily without Javascript, so that's something to consider if you're forced to let all of Wikia's traffic through.
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Hmm. Will consider. by
on 2017-12-08 00:17:00 UTC
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I'm still having the same problems I did yesterday, so I have a feeling it's the ad blocker I'm using (a triple-threat combo of Flashblock, BetterPrivacy and Leechblock.) I'll look into that soon.
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I switched to Chrome and it works now. (nm) by
on 2017-12-10 16:58:00 UTC
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Heya! by
on 2017-12-06 13:14:00 UTC
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Hi! I'm new here, and the wiki said that I should introduce myself here! Anyway, I'm Smiley! Nice to meet ya'll!
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Eyyyy newbie! by
on 2017-12-09 22:09:00 UTC
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Hey there, Smiley! I'm Twistey, a new-ish but pretty active Boarder who gets too many ideas. My fandoms are numerous, my fandom OCs even numerous-er (just kidding, more numerous), and my original story characters... Ooooooh jeez.
Anyway, enough about me, how about you? What are your fandoms? Do you have any notable works of writing or any agent ideas? What do you plan to do here (what types of fics do you want to cover and in what manner)? I'd love to know! :)
As for your newbie gift, here's a Cuphead hat. Not like a hat hat, more like a "stick it on your head for a Cuphead cosplay" thing. Cuphead's head that's wearable. I don't know. Give it to your agents if you don't want it; there's probably a lot of badfic in that one already and you never know when it might be useful.
Anyway, nice to meet you! I hope you have a great time here and welcome to the PPC!
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Belated welcome! by
on 2017-12-07 14:31:00 UTC
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Have some popcorn to eat while you read the important stuff on the homepage, and a pack of cat-shaped sticky notes because why not. Hope you enjoy your stay!
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Hello Newbie! by
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Welcome aboard! Here, have some chocolate and enjoy your stay!
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Re: Hello Newbie! by
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I just heard about you guys and wanted to be a part of it! I do riffs and MSTs, so this'll be something new.
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Hello by
on 2017-12-06 15:35:00 UTC
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Have a bumper sticker! What does it say?
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Re: Hello by
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"Sometimes I wrestle with my demons. Sometimes we just snuggle."
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Hi there! by
on 2017-12-06 14:53:00 UTC
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Welcome to the PPC, Smiley!
What're your fardoms?
Have two cents, so you can put them into a discussion later.
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Re: Hi there! by
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I don't have any "fardoms" lol, but I am a fan of anime, particularly Madoka Magica & Kuroshisuji, as well as certain video games, like Yandere Simulator, Five Nights at Freddy's, Undertale, and recently, Overwatch.
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Undertale! *high-fives* (nm) by
on 2017-12-07 14:32:00 UTC
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Hiya! by
on 2017-12-06 14:23:00 UTC
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Welcome to the board! Have an extendable sword, the weight will change along with the size.
Out of curiosity, what fandoms are you part of?
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OT: Cute fox (aka cute stuff thread) by
on 2017-12-06 14:52:00 UTC
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Given that this got posted in chat twice, it seemed worthwhile to link here.
So having done that, this is now a thread for random cute stuff, because that seemed like a good idea for some reason.
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Cute stuff! by
on 2017-12-06 23:39:00 UTC
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You want cute stuff? I got a whole collection of cute pictures off the internet! Question is, are we doing one per post?
In the meantime, have a bunch of baby bats!
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Cute per post is up to you (nm) by
on 2017-12-06 23:42:00 UTC
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I must now share... by
on 2017-12-06 23:04:00 UTC
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THE BABIES.
(That is, cats.) - Am I doing this right? by on 2017-12-06 22:40:00 UTC Link to this
- Smol Cute Snow Fox by on 2017-12-06 22:22:00 UTC Link to this
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It won't show the image :(. Use the link (nm) by
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Help with some character problems, please. by
on 2017-12-06 15:57:00 UTC
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I'm having trouble getting a handle on my one character. She's a World of Warcraft gnome warrior. I kinda want her to be meta enough to know about corpse-runs and gearscore and being aware that she turned in VanCleef's head but can go back to the instance and kill him again.
My inspirations
http://www.darklegacycomics.com/165
http://goblinscomic.com/comic/07102005
A bit of Wreck-It Ralph.
I can't figure out the philosophy behind disconnecting and going AFK. How much of her personality is her, and how much is the player. Why would she go running down a road past mobs that she can't see the level of to get to a flight point when she shouldn't know that there is a FP there...
One of her hobbies is getting into the "behind" places. In Vanilla, there are a lot of places where the textures and terrain were just not polished because you're not supposed to be there. I want her to get to PPC headquarters by falling through the unfinished tunnel near the Ironforge airport.
I have figured out that she's not too keen on trusting technology. On the server I play on, there was a bug where her mechnostrider would constantly malfunction. I also want to have a story about the time she fell off the deeprun tram and had to run down the tunnel. -
Apologies, but I am having prompts troubles. by
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I got "one partner gives up something important for the other" or something like that.
I'm thinking that Tocly gives up her "Ring of the Tortoise" by passing it off as a Suevian important jewelery.
I'm having trouble figuring out what Maddie would want from the general store that would be that valuable... she can get media from the library, Tocly has enough weapons to loan her a good one, it would take a lot of junk food to be worth trying to trade a heavy ring for...
I guess it doesn't fufill the prompt because it's not important to Tocly. She was just holding onto it because she wasn't sure about the armor/ defense tradeoff.
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Apologies and a little bit of Permission Discussion by
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I just read the talk page on Permission.
I apologize for asking for public feedback on my character concept. I didn't realize that was wrong.
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It seems like people were talking about making the page easier to read by making it more concise? Right now, there seems to be a lot of information and I can see someone missing something important because it's buried. Or just forgetting something because there's so much to absorb even if they do read every word.
Someone also mentioned that it was confusing? I can see them getting caught up on whether or not you need to use the prompts because the FAQ seems to indicate that it's okay not to use them but people would rather that you did use them. Is it leftover from an old version of the process? (I think I once read a complaint that all the requests started sounding the same because of the prompts.)
I don't have any examples handy, but it the past I've had an idea for something to happen, and the story turns away from that moment for something completely different but good. Well, my Supernatural fic was going to end one way, but that changed when I haven't even gotten to that scene, and it will probably change again. One story that I didn't write down was about something in the middle of the ocean that caused all sea life to leave and a ship going to investigate. All I could come up with was a story about two sailors watching dolphins and talking about their families with no mention about the phenomenon they were going to go study.
The first prompt I rolled had me a bit worried because I really couldn't figure out how my characters were going to do one and the other one is possible but I have reasons to reject it. I found another prompt set where I feel I could try both of them. (I won't go into more detail unless you agree to ignore the cheating.) -
Can I use Barid the troll for my permission attempt? (nm) by
on 2017-12-08 23:02:00 UTC
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How about you stick to free to use characters? by
on 2017-12-09 01:44:00 UTC
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Co-writes are great in the future, but we're not interested in seeing PGs' characters in your Permission attempt, because this is about how well you can write, not how well they can write.
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Borrowing a character isn't necessarily a co-write. by
on 2017-12-09 04:13:00 UTC
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It could be something like, say, Rina happening to run into Ilraen that one time: incidental, yet serving to provide characterization by the main character(s)' reaction. That wouldn't be a bad thing, and Phobos would barely even have to look at it.
Makkara, what exactly did you have in mind?
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What I had in mind... (spoilers) by
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Well, first off, this might end up just in private scraps if I don't like how it turns out.
I was looking through agents that were native to World of Warcraft and Barid is about the worst person for her to run into first. She's killed a lot more trolls than blood elves, after all.
There is Kur'nak if he's suddenly wandering around without Durotar... I can't picture how meeting Durotar would work.
Voltarmi might be interesting. Everyone else is Alliance side.
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All right, here's the deal... by
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I will allow for the use of Barid in your permission request. The caveat to that is that I don't want to remove myself from the potential PG pool (in case we need a WoW expert), so I won't be your beta.
Good luck, and know that I won't judge too harshly if you get his accent wrong.
-Phobos, available for questions at baridthetroll(at)gmail(dot)com -
Thanks, and I'll definitely get his accent wrong. by
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I don't like heavy dialects. I don't have a problem with peppering in phonetic words for flavor, but mostly it will be properly spelled.
https://www.helpingwritersbecomeauthors.com/most-common-mistakes-dos-and-donts-of/ This covers my readability quibbles.
The other part is kinda... well I wish I could dig up a good article on it. Mangling the spelling to express their accent can convey them as "less than" someone who speaks something similar enough to the queen's English to have it expressed with proper spelling.
"Trolling for a cause" doesn't seem to be linked from Barid's character page. Are there any other stories about him that are floating around?
I also apologize if I don't get his characterization close enough.
I'm kinda picturing his "mountain climbing, swimming, and going places where he really has no business being" as a more realistic interpretation of Teacup's tendency to get into the behind places where the texture seams are noticeable. -
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I realized that most of the overpowered meta characters are the ones that can actually manipulate the world outside the game, and that where you're going is a good direction to go with it. However, characters can also be Mary Sue or just really annoying when they only are aware of everything else, so you have to set a good limit for how much your character knows (or has a gut feeling to do, guessing by your word choice) that the player knows. For instance, if the player uses online guides, from my perspective, she should know some of the strategies the player picks up, but nothing about whatever NPCs there are that she didn't learn from in-universe experiences (motives, etc.) I remember being part of a collaborative work back on Scratch where I (deciding to function as a villain) stated my in-universe motives in the comments of a project and another guy (functioning as a prominent protagonist) made his in-universe self know them a couple remixes later, even though I hadn't said anything in-universe about them. It wiped out all the drama and conflict of the side plot that I wanted to create in the span of one line of dialogue, and it was just frustrating. So yeah. Don't make your character know any NPC's motivations, that's Sue territory.
The whole thing about saves and reloads is tricky territory to navigate. I suggest you analyze some Undertale characters, canon and original, to get a feel of where that works and where it doesn't.
I do like where you're going with the gut-instinct thing (and if that's not what you were going for, then consider that my suggestion!) This seems like an interesting idea for a character, and I have a feeling that since we all care about how well we write, this will come out well (even if you must make a few errors to get there.)
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I'm probably going to write the meta as "there are leveling guides that they can get in-game" and acknowledge that she's not using a full one. Some people use a book called "Atlas Loot" to talk about what what different bosses drop.
In Dark Legacy, there was actually a character that was named WoWhead. http://www.darklegacycomics.com/105 In Flintlocke's Guide to Azeroth, one character yelled for a laptop so she could look up the quest.
Someone could have talked to her about where good leveling zones were and how to find the flightpoints, with some inaccurate information if I remembered something wrong. This also covers anything I learned on an alt, though realistically it could have been things directly told to her by a guildie. (Guild chat and general chat, meta information is that she has a miniature buzzbox.)
My druid did once get an in-game mail from a trainer that said "talk to me when you've reached the 16th level."
I'm not going to have her remember anything about switching to an alt when guildies were calling for dungeon runs. When she mails things to alts, it's the same as sending stuff to a guildie that could use it.
That actually reminds me of something I did in-game that fits with her story. My guildie was requesting bear flesh to level up her cooking. I remembered that I got through those levels by fishing in Feralas. When I mailed her the fish, I included information on where to find the recipes in the mail.
I noticed that WoW bags still seem to work within PPC. I assume they are physically small and can hold an entire set of armor without being heavy. Maybe they work more like bags of holding? In-universe, I think Trojie might have had a Bag that was made in DoSAT.
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Part of it depends on how meta you want her to be and how YOU want to write it, what you feel comfortable with and such. It would be tricky to be in a situation that you can't describe very well in words, despite it working out in your head.
On one side of the scale is strange compulsions and urges. She might say something like, "The other day, I had this strange urge to dash through a dangerous part of the world. Most of the monsters there would have killed me, but I just did it. I don't know why. I stumbled upon a flight point, which was convenient, but I couldn't think of anything else to do so I went home."
Then in the middle is the Dark Legacy stuff. She would know stuff respawning, debuffs, and corpse running, but not that she's part of a game. It would just be everyday to her. In the real world, she might say something like "Wow, everything's open-world! There aren't any instance portals or loading time!" She'd sort of blank out and forget what she was talking about and say she went AFK, or she might get drunk and pass out, then say that she disconnected.
On the other side, there's full awareness. Maybe she knows that she's being controlled and just assumes that this is life, or she resents her player. When the servers go offline, she complains with other characters about level grinding and how she really wants a new transmog.
Or maybe she's the only one who knows she's a game character. She would walk up to a random guy and say, "Hey, your gearscore is awful" and he would just walk away and say she was crazy. She would be one of those people who goes to bars and says to random people, "Do you ever wonder if you're a character in a game, and your choices are being made by someone else?" before being kicked out after the seventeenth time. Basically the resident crazy person/conspiracy theorist. -
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*nod* Thanks. I'm still kinda iffy on how she is.
I tried writing out her life as if she had a backstory before becoming an adventurer and then suddenly there was another presence in her head influencing her... I didn't like it. The backstory I wanted conflicted with lore anyway, according to some RP guides I read.
I'm kinda feeling that who she is was unstable when she hit the PPC... Kinda the threads of a person, who I imagine her to be when playing without really getting a coherent person formed. Basically make her be a collection of random traits before she fell through the plothole and then only "wake up" afterwards. Maybe there would be some scraps of her player leftover, but she doesn't know what a TV is.
It's like when writing a character. I can say "this person did this" for chapters, then suddenly they start talking to me and telling me who they are after I've been working with them. The surprises can be disconcerting.
When I was playing WoW commercial years ago, my previous Gnome warrior was very angry and stubborn. She actually whined at me about not wanting to participate in Hodir's Daily Euphemisms just to get a gem recipe. My other characters were more laid-back. My paladin was a complete stoner who would just sorta zone-out and not pay attention to anything while swinging his mace. -
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Maybe her waking up somewhere strange is the side effect of being a deleted character. Maybe her player was hacked and she was deleted, sending her through the plothole. If she ever met her player again, she'd be surprised to learn just how much they know about her, like "Wait, how do you know I like to jump over the cracks in the tiles."
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Re: Probably something less so, then? by
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One thing that I don't want to do is have her meet her player, or for her player to really be able to recognize her. I think I'm going to go with how she didn't have much of a personality when she came to the PPC, and FicPsych actually renamed her when she was there because her old name was offensive.
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PSA: FicPsych cannot give your character a personality. by
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I know it's my own fault that people keep doing this, but see Memory Implant Device for what FicPsych can actually do to aid a severely underdeveloped character.
They'd be happy to help with the name, though. {= )
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Well... by
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She'd probably wind up in HQ presenting as someone who's straight from the memory-whatsit. She has memories, at least.
My dad had an audiobook called "TimeQuake" that I kept half-hearing while doing other things. It talked about how when the repeat ended, people couldn't adjust to suddenly having free will again. Many people ended up falling over at the bottom of escalators, while the other hemisphere had less injuries because everyone was in bed.
She's not going to freeze up when she hits HQ. I'm thinking that while the "reality" of the PPC is more forgiving than a Reality Room, it's still going to start tweaking her fundamental nature. She's going to lose some abilities and have to re-learn others, though she still will have the muscle-memory for her simpler attacks. -
Beta request by
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It's for Supernatural. I don't have a strict time when it happens, but it's before they meet Castiel.
I'm basing the story off of https://www.e-reading.club/chapter.php/80526/12/McCaffrey_-_Get_off_the_Unicorn.html
It's not done, but I have a feeling that what I have is garbage and needs serious re-working before I continue.
Also, the research I'm doing kinda makes me thing that Anne didn't spend much time researching that short story. I'm hoping no one notices the mistakes. -
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I can't offer much advice on the PPC itself since I'm very new here, but I could look over your stuff for general readability, formatting, and style, and maybe help clean that up if you're interested. I also like Supernatural's earlier seasons. I haven't seen all of it yet, and unfortunately I'm pretty new to the PPC itself, so that's about all I can offer at this point, but it might give you something to work from.
I'm available via Matrix, XMPP, Ricochet, and PGP, and I have Etherpad installed on Matrix. I wouldn't mind trying my hand at beta reading. Let me know and I can link you to my website that has my contact information. (I didn't think it would be polite of me to send unsolicited links).
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Re: Beta request by
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Hmmm, my email is arbitrary.blogs at gmail.
"Matrix, XMPP, Ricochet, and PGP, and I have Etherpad installed on Matrix."
I have no idea what those are so you're going to have to give me instructions and possibly wait for my admin if I need new software.
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Sent. (nm) by
on 2017-12-08 23:27:00 UTC
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Thanks (nm) by
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Beta Request by
on 2017-12-07 22:56:00 UTC
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I think my Permission paper is finished, but I'm not feeling too confident about it. Is there anyone who can take a look at this?
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I... don't know how to send the thing. by
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Do I just... throw it here?
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Yeah, you could have emailed me the link. by
on 2017-12-10 11:10:00 UTC
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So now I got it and I'll give it a shot.
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Email, usually. (nm) by
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I'd be happy to give it a look over for readability and to give you a second set of eyes on it (or at the very least, some friendly encouragement), but you've probably seen I'm still pretty in the dark about how the way things are run here.
If you're okay with that and interested, let me know and I can link you to my contact information.
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Sorta by
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I've been lurking at the wiki for a while, but I don't know what the PG's are looking for. My check would probably be more "obvious things you miss because you've read it too many times."
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What the PGs are looking for. by
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-Good writing.
... what you wanted more? ^_^
-Good SPaG.
-An understanding of both the setting and spirit of the PPC.
-Characters who come across as three-dimensional and interesting to read about, and fit in with their supposed backgrounds.
-A story that reads like a story, not half a scene cribbed from a larger work.
-Reasonable reactions to events around them (ie, character-driven rather than plot-driven).
-Other stuff like that.
Oh, and:
-400-800 words per prompt.
-A BRIEF bio for each character that tells us the relevant things we CAN'T get from the prompts.
-BribesGifts for the PG. :D :D :D (No, not really.)
hS
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Cards Against HQ party, 2:00 pm EST! by
on 2017-12-08 14:57:00 UTC
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In honor of Mr. Sprinkles' birthday, we're having a CAHQ party!
If you can't make it today, we'll be having a second game tomorrow at the same time.
There'll likely be a round of dramatic readings after CAHQ as well, so if NSFW card games aren't your thing, join us for some badfic!
I'll post a link to the game when the time comes. Hope to see you there! - Round two of CAHQ! by on 2017-12-09 19:24:00 UTC Link to this
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Alright, here we go. by
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Apologies for the delay, parents dragged me out shopping.
Password is Happy Birthday! Exclamation point included. -
poke poke poke (nm) by
on 2017-12-08 19:13:00 UTC
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Ix is running a bit late, should be up in 5 or so minutes (nm) by
on 2017-12-08 19:15:00 UTC
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Don't quote me on exact times (nm) by
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Ooh, fun! by
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I can't make CAHQ today, since I'll be at work, but maybe tomorrow! Let me know if you guys have any ideas to add to any of my decks, though, and I'll put them in tonight.
~Neshomeh
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Discord chat questions by
on 2017-12-08 22:43:00 UTC
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So I just joined up with the Discord app for another chat group, and thought I'd ask about this one. Clicking the lounge link sent me to Google play. Should I just send my username and ID for someone to connect me to the chat?
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Update by
on 2017-12-09 05:32:00 UTC
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So I've decided to just put out my name and number and ask for someone to invite me that way. Will that work?
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Nevermind got it taken care of (nm) by
on 2017-12-09 05:56:00 UTC
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Re: Try This? by
on 2017-12-09 00:49:00 UTC
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I tried, but I just got sent to the Google Play page. I downloaded the app. To connect to the other group I'm part of, I sent one of them my username and number and they sending an invite to me that way.
Sorry for sounding impatient, I've been having some tech issues lately, especially with Google docs...
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Hello by
on 2017-12-09 08:22:00 UTC
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I'm new here, so here's my introduction post. Pleased to meet you all!
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Belated welcome aBoard! by
on 2017-12-12 14:23:00 UTC
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Have one of my own shed feathers and a complimentary kit of Spikes!
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Welcome! Have some popcorn! :) (nm) by
on 2017-12-09 20:59:00 UTC
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Eyyyyyyy newbie! by
on 2017-12-09 19:25:00 UTC
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Hey there! I'm Twistey, an amateur game dev/writer/etc and lightly-used-bie. I have lots of fandoms, OCs, and original worlds. I tend to focus on gauging the Sueness of characters and the levels of social responsibility in stories (ignoring stuff that's the fun kind of incorrect, like Wolfenstein 3D.) I am really active on the Board on the weekends and other days when I'm not busy all day.
But enough about me, how about you? What are your fandoms? Do you have any prominent pieces of writing? Any agent ideas? What do you plan to do here? I'd love to know more! :D
Finally, for your newbie gift, here's a replica of the Spear of Destiny from the Wolfenstein 3D sequel (ish) of the same name. Give it to your virtual self or your agents and it'll look impressive anywhere! (Sadly, you can't summon demons with it. Giving a newbie the real Spear of something that actually functions akin to the real Spear would be bad.)
Nice to meet you! I hope you have a great time here and welcome to the PPC!
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Hiya! by
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Hi! Welcome to the board! I'm - well, you know who I am, it's right there above the subject. In any case, I read a lot of fanfic, mainly bad ones because they make me laugh. I am currently working on an original world that I discovered hidden in my google drive. So, for your newbie gift, have a piece of eden from Assassins Creed, It could be whichever one you want. If you don't know Assassins Creed lore, it defaults to the Apple of Eden.
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Welcome aboard! by
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Hello newbie! Here, have some chocolate and enjoy your stay!
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Thanks for the chocolate!
I learned of the PPC through TvTropes, got directed to the wiki, and I started reading. Now I'm joining because it seems like fun. -
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Horay and welcome! I assume you're big on Warhammer 40,000?
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*FOOF* by
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Greetings, Newbie! I trust you've made yourself comfortable. I'm Thoth, man with an unnecessarily pretentious username.
Take some Fenrisian ale (and grab some Klatchian coffee while you're at it: they seem to neutralize one another), and your choice of book from the libraries of Prospero (slightly singed).
Anyways, fandoms? I already know you're 40k, but anything else? Also, anything beyond fandoms you want to tell us about yourself? -
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Hey Thoth, every time I see the term "FOOF" I can't help but think "Dioxygen Difluoride" and chuckle a little bit.
(Oh yeah. I got Neocities up and running, finally)
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Nice! (nm) by
on 2017-12-11 14:07:00 UTC
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(fellow) NEEERRD! (nm) by
on 2017-12-09 19:26:00 UTC
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Would F0 0F C7 C8 (lock cmpxchg8b eax) be nerdy? (nm) by
on 2017-12-09 22:10:00 UTC
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You have out-nerded me! Explain what that is? by
on 2017-12-10 17:07:00 UTC
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(Also, in case anyone's confused, I don't mean "nerd" in a derogatory manner, it's just meant as a joke, kinda poking fun at those who do use it as an insult.)
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Nice one, Leaf! by
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See, I was going for ADVENT (xyzzy), so you've out-nerded me here...
Twistey, Leaf is referencing the Pentium F00F Bug, aka F00FC7C8, akalock cmpxchg8b eax, aka the Pentium Hang Bug. It's famous bug in the P5 architecture that allows any program on the system to halt the CPU, causing the system to hang until it's restarted. -
Fandoms by
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You're right about 40k, I also used to be really into Star Wars, though that's lessened a lot now. Other than that I just jump around to whatever happens to catch my interest.
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Out of curiosity, do you do Dark Heresy/Rogue Trader/DeathWatch? Dark Heresy occupies a special spot in my heart, since even though I'm not as big on 40k as I used to be, Dark Heresy was the way I got into it in the first place.
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No, unfortunately not. I just don't know anyone in my area who's interested in them. Otherwhise I'd be all over it.
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Hello by
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Have a bumper sticker. What does it say?
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Bumper sticker by
on 2017-12-09 11:52:00 UTC
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"If you can read this, how did you not get incinerated by the jet engine?"
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Editing messages by
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Apparently I can't edit messages. Now I know
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Bumper sticker by
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If you can read this, how did you not get incinerated by the jet engine?
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Hey, Scapegrace... by
on 2017-12-10 10:36:00 UTC
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... is it snowing where you are? Because this is really weird.
Also goes for anyone else. Do we... /have/ any other UK Boarders left? Of course I assume the entirety of North America is buried under a lovely soft blanket (except California, which is just on fire).
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Just for the record: by
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Alaska is melting. We still have snow on the ground, mind you, but I have no idea why. It should have long melted away, what with it being, like, over 40 degrees Fahrenheit for the past three days. And extreme wind gusts blowing through Anchorage. Look at you guys, having freak snowfalls. Please give us our snow back. We miss it. :(
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[Chucks a snowball in World-Jumper's face] There you go! You're welcome. :D
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We had some snow here in France. by
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A little at Dijon, more in Champagne-Ardennes (forgotten backwater). Nothing now, but the week-end ended up quite white. A bit weird we're seeing more snow than my brother doing his studies at ontreal this year.
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Whoops, slight mispost. (nm) by
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I shall fight you all to the death! by
on 2017-12-11 14:01:00 UTC
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Just... give me five minutes first.
[Runs off at super-speed and builds an army of snowmen; runs back] Ha!
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... why aren't they moving?
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... oh.
Wait, what's that song the children keep singing?
#There must have been some magic
In that old silk hat they found
For when they placed it on his head
He began to dance around..#
... I can work with this.
[Digs out EVERY SINGLE PERMISSION GIVER HAT that has ever been abandoned; places them firmly on the heads of the snowmen... who promptly start gathering up snowballs]
I call them... Snow-Givers.
Come on, if you think you're 'ard enough!
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I'm making holiday pics out of this. Who wants to be in it? by
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Ah yes! Once again I've had the urge to make more Board memes/art! (I say "art" because it doesn't really have much of a punch line and it won't be made in Walfas.)
So far I have hS and myself, as these are the only two I know the appearance of for 100%. If you are part of the snow fight and wish to be included in the pictures, reply with something of what you look like (doesn't have to be a photo, color drawing will also do) so that I can add y'all to the pictures.
-Twistey -
I brought a friend! by
on 2017-12-11 21:25:00 UTC
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Her name's Habakkuk.
Methinks th'art slightly outmassed. =] -
Friggin' HTML... by
on 2017-12-11 21:25:00 UTC
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Here's a link to Habakkuk's website. >=]
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Pykrete! by
on 2017-12-11 22:09:00 UTC
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Pykrete is the best fact I ever learnt from a Horrible Histories book.
[Stares up at the Warship Habakkuk in something close to awe]
Hey, Scape... there's only one of you, and I've got 18 Snow-Givers left. But if we joined forces, we could absolutely destroy the rest of the Board (with snowballs, obvs).
Whaddayasay?
hS -
A fine idea. by
on 2017-12-11 23:29:00 UTC
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Perhaps we should engineer some bombers for them - how does a payload of blue ice sound to you? >=]
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It hardly seems sporting. by
on 2017-12-11 23:46:00 UTC
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I mean, except for Zing, they're all ground-bound... also, on a more practical note, I feel snow may be unsuited for constructing engines. Though perhaps giant snow-formed paper aeroplanes...? [Sets a handful of SGs to work on a prototype]
The blue ice, however, would be rather /too/ cruel. Best stick to snowballs.
hS -
Who said anything about engines? by
on 2017-12-12 06:00:00 UTC
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Combine high-efficiency solar panels, pykrete construction for the bodywork, and silver wiring along the wing and tail vanes for heat dissipation, and you can definitely have a low-heat flight solution similar to that Project Helios thing that was wandering around recently. Indeed, it'd be able to transfer a lot of heat away from everything - one feels that the array of propellors would also be useful in this regard, as heat from the motors could be transferred out through the whole mass structure and radiated out through dedicated points that aided its profile.
If this seems elaborate, well, you're the one who made magic hats into heavily armed snowbeings. You started it. =] -
This alliance is seeming more fragile by the second. by
on 2017-12-12 09:38:00 UTC
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I didn't do the magic hat thing; that's straight from Frosty the Snowman. You can't blame me for classic christmas songs.
Now, if there was a song that went:
Then one foggy Christmas Eve
Santa came to say:
"Rudolph with your nose so bright
Won't you design me a solar-powered pykrete bomber with dedicated heat redistribution systems to prevent it melting while in flight?"
... you might have a point!
[Picks up a snowball and tosses it casually from one hand to the other]
hS -
*cracks knuckles* by
on 2017-12-12 17:21:00 UTC
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Rudolph the engineer
Had a knack for making stuff
Despite his big ideas
Rudolph kinda had it rough
All of the other reindeer
Treated him with great distrust
Just because his inventions
Turned that one elf into dust...
Then one foggy Christmas Eve,
Santa came and said
"Rudolph with your mind so bright
Won't you fix my sleigh tonight?"
That's how the North Pole Air Force
Solar bombers came to be,
And Air Chief Marshal Rudolph
Will go down in history
Will go down in hiiiii-stooooooor-reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! -
[Actual LOL] (nm) by
on 2017-12-12 19:45:00 UTC
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[attempts to hijack the Snow Givers] by
on 2017-12-11 20:46:00 UTC
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Hey, why don't you throw some of those snowballs at hS, guys?
- TOmash -
o-o-Hey, that's a good idea.-o-o by
on 2017-12-11 20:57:00 UTC
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o-o-Why don't I throw some snowballs at hS, guys?-o-o
[SG Leto begins pelting Huinesoron with snowballs - until SG Nenya cannons into it, breaking it into pieces]
o-o-Owwwwwww...-o-o
[SG Leto is out of commission. Current Snow-Giver status: 18/19 operational.]
[hS, still covered in snow, races around at super-speed and resculpts the SGs to be unhackable.]
((Oh, look - we have a points system.))
((Also: there are 22 departed PGs by my count; however, Jay and Acacia never needed hats, and Desdendelle's hat went to Zing. So, 19.))
((Also, SGs have nothing in common with the PGs whose hats they are wearing. Names are used for convenience only, and reflect nothing of the people who used to be on the Board.))
((hS)) -
[reaches into the Dark Heresy campaign] by
on 2017-12-12 15:39:00 UTC
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[borrows Animus's force staff]
[baps a nearby SG on the back of the head, probably breaking them to bits]
[gives Animus his staff back]
(( said force staff more or less one-shot a Rubric Marine with a whack to the back of the head at one point. It technically requires a psyker, so ... let's assume I am one temporarily. ))
(( Animus is Granz's character ))
- Tomash -
:O All ground Snow-Givers, converge on Tomash! by
on 2017-12-12 15:44:00 UTC
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[Half a dozen behatted snowfolk surround Tomash and sustain a furious volley of snowballs, buffetting him around the field.]
Snow-Giver status update: 17/19 operational. 6 groundside; 7 idle aboard pykrete aircraft carrier Habukkuk; 4 designing frozen aeroplanes.
Boarder status: Huinesoron elven speedster; Tomash psyker; Scapegrace Admiral of the Fleet; Zingenmir Kryptonian speedster. All others per baseline.
hS -
Let me call in some friends... by
on 2017-12-12 15:55:00 UTC
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*watches as some RAF planes fly by.*
So you had an aircraft carrier huh?
*watches a commercial plane land nearby*
And that's my ride. Bye!
Nova -
Oof .. ow ... stupid ... by
on 2017-12-12 16:04:00 UTC
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[ducks down, still getting hit by snowballs]
[gathers up some snow]
[stands up, throws a snowball at one of the SG's hats, glowing slightly]
[gets hit by a whole mass of return fire]
[is rather wet and covered in snow]
Oof.
(( due to Shenanagins, that snowball should hit the hat (absent special circumstances). Whether that does anything is up to you ))
- Tomash -
Oh no! SG Bast, duck! by
on 2017-12-12 16:38:00 UTC
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[Snow-Giver GreyLadyBast looks around curiously. Spotting the snowball incoming, it tries to dodge - but the snowball inexplicably curves in midair and strikes its target. The hat of GreyLadyBast flies spinning up into the air - then comes down squarely on the still-glowing snowball]
[The snowball stops in midair as the Snow-Giver crumbles. It bobs for a second. Then a glowing psychic field spreads around it, gathering up snowballs and flinging them at both Tomash and Huinesoron]
[Blinks; blinkblinks] I... sentient psychic snowball, huh? Did not call that one, gotta admit.
[Scrambles out of the wreck of the Habukkuk (yeah, it took me a minute to realise Nova had bombed it into oblivion, but I got there eventually) and looks around] Snow-Giver Nenya! Give me a count!
o-o-Snow-Giver status: 14/19 operational (Bast lost to the snowball, 2 more in the overkill-ridden RAF attack on the Habukkuk). 5 groundside, 4 with the prototypes, 5 in the wreckage of the Habukkuk.-o-o
... we can work with that. Snow-Givers - to the planes!
[At the research site, SG Sedri turns in alarm]
o-o-The planes are not yet ready to--o-o
I don't care! We need to keep Nova from getting away - we need to deal with Tomash - and we need to put an end to that psychic snowball!
[Three snow/ice planes, each loaded with two Snow-Givers, lift clumsily from the ground. One is a paper dart writ large; it takes aim at Tomash. One is a high-tech solar-powered extravaganza; it targets the zipping, glowing snowball. The last consists of two SGs standing in a tray and waving big wings up and down; it lumbers off towards Nova's plane.]
Excellent. Soon, victory will be-
[Is hit in the face by a snowball from the Psy-ball]
Ow.
hS -
[heads for Psy-ball] by
on 2017-12-12 23:38:00 UTC
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[tries to shut that down]
[succeeds, mostly]
(it's still hurling snow, but less often and less enthusiastically)
The dart flies overhead. The SGs on board dump a bunch of snow on me. I'm kinda covered in snow, and will probably need a moment to figure out how to get out of this.
The dart heads off into the distance, dipping somewhat lower and ..crashes into the ground?
- Tomash -
And crashes into the ground. by
on 2017-12-13 00:18:00 UTC
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Snow-Giver status: 13/19 operational. But for temporarily immobilising Tomash, a worthy sacrifice.
[The 5 groundside SGs converge on Tomash, bombarding him to keep him off-balance and preventing him from recovering]
[The North Pole Air Force solar bomber swoops overhead and snatches up the Psy-ball; being weakened by Tomash's attack, it is relatively easy to capture. The plane banks in midair and heads back to the wreck of the Habukkuk with its captive.]
Yes, yes... bring it to me, my loyal ones!
hS -
[tries to get the snow off] by
on 2017-12-13 11:10:00 UTC
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[nearly clears of an arm]
[gets pelted with a pile of snowballs, undoing most of the work]
Hey, folks, a little - yow - help here?
- Tomash -
Chyeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarge! by
on 2017-12-16 20:53:00 UTC
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(I love sparring with hS. It's fun.)
*dons BJ Blazkowicz cosplay and grabs a Nerf gun* Haha! Let's go!
*...has second thoughts*
*dons decoy cosplay (except a couple risky accessories, of course) and grabs a flamethrower* Haha! This'll be amazing against snow!
*runs off to fight*
-Twistey -
Dangit, caught out of position! by
on 2017-12-17 21:30:00 UTC
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[One of the Snow-Givers surrounding Tomash is instantly immolated by Twistey's flamethrower] Retreat! Retreat!
[The SGs fall back; waves at the planes still overhead] Concentrate all fire on the flamethrower!
[The Solar Bomber starts dropping snowballs on Twistey; this includes the Psy-Ball, which immediately starts throwing snow anywhere and everywhere; hS watches grimly]
What've I got? Uh... SG DML, update me.
o-o-Snow-Giver status: 12/19 operational. 4 retreating from Tomash, 2 on the Bomber, 2 on the Flappy Plane, 4 in the Habukkuk.-o-o
Okay. We need... I think we need a wall. Build me a wall. And... and send someone to get the Flappy Plane back in the air, it's embarassing.
[Two SGs start building a wall from the remains of the Habukkuk; the other two head off towards the Flappy Plane, which is lying on the ground flapping pathetically]
hS -
Ahahahahaha! by
on 2017-12-18 20:40:00 UTC
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*starts defending myself with the flamethrower, slowly advancing towards the Solar Bomber.*
*heavy breath* Take out his biggest weapon... that way it'll stop attacking everyone.
*yelling at hS to test his patience* Hey, Mr. Build A Wall! I thought you didn't like our President! Hahaaaaa!
*makes a dash for the Solar Bomber* For Wolfenstein!
-Twistey -
For a second I thought this was... by
on 2017-12-11 17:06:00 UTC
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...going to turn into another round of PPC Hunger Games.
Say, can't that random generator also be tweaked so its events are custom-made? -
Yeah, it can. by
on 2017-12-11 18:17:00 UTC
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I think I did a PPC HQ arena once, completely changing everything in there? And-
Wait. This was just a ploy to get me talking, wasn't it? Everyone knows nerd-sniping is my only weakness! [Flings snowballs at Ix and looks around frantically for a Snow-Giver]
hS -
Reminds me of an episode of XXXholic (nm) by
on 2017-12-11 14:04:00 UTC
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You will not ambush me again! by
on 2017-12-11 14:08:00 UTC
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[Tasks two Snow-Givers with peppering Makkara with snowballs; works frenetically to build an ammunition stockpile]
hS -
Eeep! (turns into a turtle) by
on 2017-12-11 14:48:00 UTC
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Not literally, but back when I had troubles with public transportation in winter, my dad bought me this coat.
It was some sort of down ski-jacket that was waterproof, and it was so big that I could squat on a bench and get my knees to my chest inside it, so personal tent. -
[Sneaks up under the cover of Snow-Giver bombardment] by
on 2017-12-11 14:56:00 UTC
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[Grabs a shovel and starts burying Makkara's personal tenturtle in a mound of snow] Muahaha.
hS -
Stays buried until she gets hungry. by
on 2017-12-11 15:02:00 UTC
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Then again, own personal ice cave, I'll probably suffocate after falling asleep from boredom.
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One down! (For now, at least.) Excellent work, SGs! by
on 2017-12-11 15:08:00 UTC
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Now to plan our defence against the next attackers...
[Sets to work trying to build a wall, but the Snow-Givers keep blundering into it and knocking it back down]
... -_-
hS -
I emerge! by
on 2017-12-11 19:27:00 UTC
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Makkura suddenly flies up from the snowpile, shedding her coat, and pelts the entire battlefield with golf-ball sized hail.
See, she died from the cold and did a Jack Frost from Rise of the Guardians.
Then someone from DMS promptly slew her in a shower of glitter. -
*ambushes hS with Chicago snow!* by
on 2017-12-11 13:45:00 UTC
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Okay, that's everything I could scrape together from what's left outside my building. We got a bit of a flurry a couple days ago, that's it. {= )
~Neshomeh -
Oh, now that's just the last straw! by
on 2017-12-11 14:02:00 UTC
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I'm supposed to do the ambushing, not you! [Hits Nesh with a retaliatory snowball then flees behind the Snow-Givers]
(We've been beset by constant rain since the snow ended, so it's all pretty much gone here. Not that I'm going to let that stop me...)
hS -
No snow in Arkansas (nm) by
on 2017-12-11 06:27:00 UTC
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[Flings a bucket of snow over Miah] There is now! (nm) by
on 2017-12-11 10:03:00 UTC
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Yay, snow! by
on 2017-12-11 18:05:00 UTC
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*Makes tiny snowman as the snow melts* Ends up looking like one of Calvin's snow creatures as it meets its demise.
It was below 0 C here at night for a couple of days, but the precipitation went south of us. -
Bit late, but... by
on 2017-12-11 03:17:00 UTC
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Snow in Connecticut!
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Snooow! by
on 2017-12-11 10:03:00 UTC
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[Grabs a snowball; looks up at Thoth... and up... and up] Huh. Space Marines are kind of big, aren't they?
...
Oh, well, the bigger they are, the harder they fall! [Snowballs Thoth inna face]
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*Takes the snowball with grace* by
on 2017-12-11 13:54:00 UTC
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Up here on USEast? I'm used to it. :-D.
It's a bloody winter wonderland up here. Speaking of which...
*Chucks snowball at hS when his back is turned.* -
In answer to your question: ... Nope. by
on 2017-12-11 00:59:00 UTC
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I live literally 100 yards from the sea. There is simply too much salt in the air for snow to form unless conditions are exactly right, at which point the entire county grinds to a halt and everyone has a massive panic. =]
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Have you not seen the headlines? by
on 2017-12-11 10:02:00 UTC
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'Help help snow' managed to beat out 'world entirely on fire' on the Beeb for the first time in a week or so. Panic is ongoing everywhere except your neck of the woods (and Storme's, I would never forget him... :( )
Look, so you know what's coming next, right? I mean... right? It's obvious.
...
...
...
[Stuffs a handful of slush down the back of Scape's coat]
You can't say I didn't warn you.
hS -
Snow? by
on 2017-12-10 23:55:00 UTC
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Snow?
Snow?
Hmmmm.
Snoooow?
Never heard the word, no, never. Is that like that stuff they put in ice cream? Is there a factory for it or something?
Maybe we should get in on that. -
Oh, yeah, it's lovely stuff. by
on 2017-12-11 10:00:00 UTC
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Here, let me show you! [Chucks a snowball in Larfen's face] See? Lovely!
hS -
aaaaAAAARGH by
on 2017-12-14 01:41:00 UTC
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I THINK IT'S BITING ME
GET IT OFFF
WHAT IS THIS SENSATION? IT'S A BIT LIKE WHEN I DRINK COKE OR A COLD DRINK, BUT MORE
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It snowed a little yesterday for me. by
on 2017-12-10 21:22:00 UTC
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North Carolina winters mostly consist of ice from freezing rain, though. :/
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A little snow is enough snow! by
on 2017-12-11 09:59:00 UTC
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[Picks up a snowball; hesitates] Y'know, I'm kind of overstretched here, with Zing and Tomash/Makkara clobbering me. I could probably stop snowballing everyone who comes along...
...
...
... nah. [Lobs a snowball at epl and flees]
hS -
No snow or fire here in Northern California by
on 2017-12-10 20:27:00 UTC
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The fires are currently limited to Southern California (and way out of season), although just two months ago I needed a gas mask to walk outside. We probably won't see another fire here until next year, because everything flammable has already burned.
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Well, you know, in case you do... by
on 2017-12-10 20:42:00 UTC
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... I'm willing to provide emergency extinguishing material at bargain prices. Delivery will be by long-range catapult, and...
Nah, that's way too complicated, you'll never go for that. [Gives up and just chucks a snowball at leafeyes' back]
hS -
We have snow in Aachen by
on 2017-12-10 19:53:00 UTC
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I don't actually know how much, since I haven't gone out to look, but there's a clearly visible layer.
And Austin (where I normally study) had a bit of snow on Friday, which resulted in any class before 10 AM getting canceled.
- Somash -
Haven't been out yet, eh? by
on 2017-12-10 20:17:00 UTC
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[Lurks near the door with a giant snowball to ambush Tomash when he emerges]
...
...
This is going to get very cold very fast, isn't it?
hS -
Nah, shouldn't be too bad. by
on 2017-12-10 20:19:00 UTC
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It's above freezing tonight.
- Tomash -
Yes, but I have my arms full of snow. by
on 2017-12-10 20:39:00 UTC
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But /I shall not give in/!!!
For some reason.
hS -
Dumps more snow on top of HS because of full arms (nm) by
on 2017-12-10 22:36:00 UTC
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Gah! Ambush! by
on 2017-12-11 09:47:00 UTC
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They're ganging up on me!
[Pelts Makkara with a flurry of snowballs; runs off and hastily builds a snowman replica of himself; hides behind snow!Huinesoron] It's genius, they'll never figure it out.
hS -
[walks past snow!hS] by
on 2017-12-11 09:57:00 UTC
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[gets hit my snow from somewhere]
[grabs some of snow!hS and looks for someone to retaliate against]
Also, I hope you brought an umbrella. It's been raining all morning at least.
- Tomash -
Oy! That's my shoulder! by
on 2017-12-11 10:07:00 UTC
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[Pelts Tomash with snowballs from close range] Freedo- wait, wrong battle cry. Uh... shoulderrrrrrr!
(We also have horrible horrible rain. But snow is more fun. ^_^)
hS -
[fails at dodging] by
on 2017-12-11 11:24:00 UTC
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Hey, that was my arm!
[forms more of the snow replica into snowballs, throws at hS. Inevitably, half of them miss hilariously despite the close range.]
Aaaaaaarm!
- Tomash -
Aaaaaaarm! by
on 2017-12-11 12:18:00 UTC
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Aaaaaaaaaahhh! [Runs away]
I need a plan, I need a plan, I need a--
[Is pelted in the back of the head by multiple snowballs, and also possibly by a bucket of water and a super-speed whirlwind]
This is not a plan! [Starts flinging snowballs indiscriminately]
hS -
[gets face clipped by a snowball] by
on 2017-12-11 12:58:00 UTC
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Curse you Eagleshadow! I'll have my revenge for this!
... One moment, please.
[puts down gathered snow]
[takes off glasses]
[tries to clean them]
[tries again]
[puts glasses back on]
Ok, there we go. Revenge!
[gathers up snow]
[throws several snowballs at hS]
- Tomash -
Well this is less than good! by
on 2017-12-11 13:56:00 UTC
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[Dodges about half of the snowballs; gets spattered by the rest]
This calls for a... a tactical retreat. Yeah. I need to consolidate my forces.
...
I don't have any forces.
...
I can fix that.
[Runs off up-thread]
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Snow in Pennsylvania by
on 2017-12-10 17:32:00 UTC
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It snowed quite a bit yesterday, but now it's about three inches left. It hasn't snowed hard here for years...
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[Ambles over to take a look] by
on 2017-12-10 17:48:00 UTC
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Yeah, I think you've still got more than us; ours is turning to slush now.
[Scoops up a handful of snow and lobs it at OpinionedAngel's head; runs off back to Britain]
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Wait, you ran from Pennsylvania to Britain? by
on 2017-12-10 17:50:00 UTC
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A rare, never-before-seen picture of Huinesoron.
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Looks about right. ^_~ by
on 2017-12-10 20:19:00 UTC
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[Builds a quick snow-lizard] Look! A self portrait!
[Waits for Ix to come over and then flings it]
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I don't know about the lizard thing... by
on 2017-12-10 20:29:00 UTC
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...my mind pretty much just went, "You're the Flash now?"
Then again, if it's cold enough, it slows speedsters down, so...maybe there's something to the lizard idea. Maybe.
~Z
PS: No snow here, of course. We haven't even hit below zero (Celsius) temperatures yet. Canada got some snow last month, though, which was cool to see pictures of...
/very generously does not gather up sand to throw at people. That would be cruel. And really dangerous. Also, it doesn't exactly stay in balls all that well...and it sticks to your hands.../ -
And it's coarse and irritating and gets /everywhere/! by
on 2017-12-10 20:38:00 UTC
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[Sneaks off to Hoth and steals a snowdrift to drop on Zingenmir's head] You're welcome! ^_^
hS, the fastest hS alive -
Arrrgh. by
on 2017-12-10 20:42:00 UTC
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What d'you mean, 'you're welcome', now the room's even colderrrrr--
/becomes the Flash as well purely so as to be able to vibrate in place and thus warm up/
Right, then. This is definitely my supervillain origin story: time to figure out how to make some snow out of the ocean water and drop it on your head!
~Z -
:O Speed Force duel! by
on 2017-12-10 20:44:00 UTC
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[Spins round really fast to create a vortex, draw down high-altitude air to the ground, and spontaneously crystallize the atmospheric moisture into more snow] Ha!
hS, overcomplicating since '03 -
/adopts Kara Danvers-with-ice-cream voice/ YES! by
on 2017-12-10 20:55:00 UTC
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/creates a HURRICANE by adding whirlwinds and...stuff...which works to make a hurricane because...look, technobabble!/
Yeah, I'm not the type of speedster who can do the comic book technobabble all the time, but when it comes down to it? I can run.
~Z, skating over technobabble since...uh...2008? 2009? Don't think I was really all that into technobabble-using things before that -
Uh-o[Is covered in snow] by
on 2017-12-10 21:00:00 UTC
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[Muffled voice from the depths] Maybe I should switch heroes. I wonder if Aquaman's powers work on snow...?
Wait. Hang on. [Facepalms] Elf. [Climbs on top of the snow and runs across it] As Legolas showed, snow is a /mortal/ problem. [Scoops up snowballs and flings them at Zing on the fly]
hS, fastest elf alive -
You know what-- by
on 2017-12-10 21:07:00 UTC
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/rises into the air because I can fly now because if you're a speedster Elf then I'm now a speedster Kryptonian. Ha./ /melts some snowballs with laser vision and dodges others in mid-air/
...oh, wait. Freeze breath, or whatever the official term is. /starts using it to encourage more snow to fall/
(over-powered? Over-powered. Also redundant in terms of speed now. But fun.)
~Z, of the house of...Zing-Mir? This could use some work. And a check for Glitter. But the dog isn't starting to act like a CAF, so I'm probably fine -
zingenmir op nerf naow by
on 2017-12-11 09:57:00 UTC
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[Runs around the extra snowfall and whirlwinds it back at Zing; hurriedly grabs some snowballs and uses Noldorin skill to carve them at super-speed into marvellous crystalline sculptures; starts throwing them] Look, I've not got a lot going for me, I might as well make it look pretty.
hS -
Louisville checking in. by
on 2017-12-10 16:36:00 UTC
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We got a bit of snow yesterday, but it was all just flurries and none of it stuck.
The lake in my neighborhood did freeze over, though! But other than that, it looks like it ought to be T-shirts and shorts weather. We even still have geese around here—normally they've left for warmer climates by now.
I miss getting three feet of snow in December. :( -
That's terrible! by
on 2017-12-10 16:46:00 UTC
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This is actually the first time we've had decent snow in a good five years, so I am sharing the love! [Assembles a seriously oversized trebuchet and starts flinging snow in Ix's direction]
... hang on, was that Louis/iana/ or Louis/ville/?
Eh. I'll do both. Sorry, wrong one!
[Continues firing]
hS -
*falls over* by
on 2017-12-10 17:14:00 UTC
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*pops up, sputtering*
Ohhh, you asked for it.
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Oh, you think? by
on 2017-12-10 17:23:00 UTC
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[Builds an igloo to shelter in; sits smugly in igloo] Hah!
[Igloo promptly collapses around him; scrabbles to the surface] Aw, come /on/!
[Peppers Iximaz with snowball]
(For a brief, glorious moment there you were the PPC's newest holiday: Iximas.)
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Arizona hasn't seen snow yet, I don't think . . . by
on 2017-12-10 11:51:00 UTC
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Of course, it's only the very far northern, elevated parts of Arizona that ever do.
In my area, we did go from night temperatures in the fifties down to the thirties in a single day. Which also means I went from a zero coats day to a two coats day in a single work week. Very embarrassing. The best part, though, is that this should hopefully drive the last straggling bark scorpions underground until spring now. Although I did see one crushed to death in the squirrel monkey door just yesterday . . .
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That is horribly unfair for you. by
on 2017-12-10 16:43:00 UTC
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What good is cold weather without snow? Let me get that for you.
[Cobbles together a steam-powered rocket to deliver a cubic meter of snow right on top of doc's head]
... wait. Americans.
[Hastily redesigns rocket to carry 27 cubic feet of snow instead]
Much better.
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Re: Hey, Scapegrace... by
on 2017-12-10 11:26:00 UTC
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I don't know about the UK, but the Netherlands are covered in snow. And if I look out the window, it's still snowing. It's also quite foggy.
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European, eh? by
on 2017-12-10 16:40:00 UTC
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In light of the fact that my country has for some stupid reason chosen to cut ties with yours, it is my solemn duty to do this:
[Lobs a rather misshapen snowball across the Channel at GT]
Take that!
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Snowball fight! by
on 2017-12-10 17:48:00 UTC
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[Throws snowball in the general direction of the UK, hoping to hit something]
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[Watches snowball thump into a nearby tree] Ha! by
on 2017-12-10 20:15:00 UTC
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Serves you right - I bet it was /foreign/ food, wasn't it? From... Hollfranmany, or whatever that European country is call-
[Any further comments are cut off by a sudden fall of snow from the tree, dislodged by the snowball]
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Thanks for forgetting me :( by
on 2017-12-10 11:00:00 UTC
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And no, I do not have snow. We have plenty of rain though if you want it.
Nova
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To make up for my mistake. .. by
on 2017-12-10 16:48:00 UTC
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... I will /not/ include you in the general snowballing I am currently carryi g out.
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Ah, who am I kidding? [Flings a snowball at Storme's head and runs away cackling]
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*Fills up bucket of cold water* by
on 2017-12-11 11:33:00 UTC
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*Charges after hS*
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... I am consumed by guilt. :( by
on 2017-12-10 11:07:00 UTC
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Seriously, sorry. (Though in fairness, you haven't been around much this month.) It's been sort of alternating snow and rain here, so the ground is just a muck of slush.
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It's fine. by
on 2017-12-11 11:35:00 UTC
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I haven't really been on the board for the last few months.
It's still raining here.
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Passed through once, passing through again... by
on 2017-12-10 23:23:00 UTC
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Hey y'all
I posted here a handful of times like two years ago. Never actually got around to writing a story, though I am flirting with that idea again.
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Eyyyyyy returnbie! by
on 2017-12-16 20:32:00 UTC
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I'm Twistey and I'm new in relation to you, so can you introduce yourself further to me? I'd love to know more about you!
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Hello returnbie! by
on 2017-12-11 14:08:00 UTC
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Welcome back.
Have two more cents, so you can put them into even more discussions.
Could you remind us what your fandoms are?
- Tomash -
Re: Hello returnbie! by
on 2017-12-11 15:00:00 UTC
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Yugioh, Jojo, Doctor Who, Gundam, Pokemon, MTG.
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Hello by
on 2017-12-11 12:11:00 UTC
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Have a bumper sticker. What does it say?
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Re: Hello by
on 2017-12-16 23:36:00 UTC
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It says "how is my robot driving?"
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Hi! by
on 2017-12-11 02:35:00 UTC
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Glad to meet you. If you want, there's a discord server where you can talk to a bunch of the PPC in realtime. If you have the time and energy, go for writing a story! What genres are you interested in, and what would you like to write?