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Send in your audio and I'll compile an edit of all of us together with the best karaoke I can find!
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Twistey wants to sing a song by
on 2018-10-01 01:44:00 UTC
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Well, that failed. Never mind then. (nm) by
on 2018-10-05 23:57:00 UTC
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Sorry, I don't want other people to hear my voice... (nm) by
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Yeah, I understand. by
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This was another one of those things that I overplan and jump into without any notice beforehand. Except it's not politically incorrect this time, leading everyone to ignore it instead of freaking out.
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More about this (sorry, had to switch computer accounts) by
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Here are the lyrics: http://disc.yourwebapps.com/discussion.cgi?disc=199610
For those who are wary of clicking either link, this is "Kyrie" by Mr. Mister. It's a song from the 80s, entirely SFW. Folks who participate get virtual Lichtgoodies. :)
About submitting the audio, make sure that you record in such a way that the song isn't in the background, e.g. by listening to it with headphones plugged in while you audio record on another device. That way, the result is just us singing it, rather than alongside the original vocalists.
Also, I'm thinking of splitting up the verses into solos, based on each line. Comment if you want to be one of those, and which one.
Finally, I'd like it if a few of you tried doing the backup vocals, to balance us out as an ensemble. Thanks.
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Hi guys,
I'm taking this one off. If anyone else wants to come up with some prompts for this fortnight feel free. I'd only ask that you respect 2 things:
1) Post them in response to this post, don't make new Board posts for each time someone comes up with a prompt.
2) No more than 4 prompts max. A selection is nice, but not too many please.
I will probably return to doing prompts in two weeks, we will have to see.
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If you've got more Prompts... by
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Don't bottle 'em up, let them out. You can contact me via my email (which should be clickable) or on Discord (you'll see me on the PPC server). Let me know if you have any prompts you want to see answered by people here. I'd be more than happy to have a look at them and probably use them at some point. After all, it saves me from having to come up with my own.
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Here's one I've been sitting on. by
on 2018-10-02 00:18:00 UTC
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How did your character get that scar/tattoo/bionic/other feature they weren't born with?
I might even know how to go about filling this one, if I have time.
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Re: Here's one I've been sitting on. by
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Voila.
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It was a long day at work. Writing clickbait titles and BuzzFeed quizzes could only be so satisfying. Camille was tired, and unfulfilled. But after years of research, things would finally look up. It was astonishing how little real journalism there was on demonology.
She stopped by Whole Foods on her way back. Microwave-safe ramen (too many fires) and some fruit (notably three different types of apples), it was a short walk from her studio apartment. She opened the gate and walked up the stairs, unlocked her space and shut the door behind her. The deadbolt slid back with a firm click.
The space had been prepped in advance. Candles, chalk, a little potpourri. The whole shabang. She took out an apple out of her bag, and spoke some old Latin words. She took the blade in her left hand, and cut into the apple. A thick, deep red blood began to ooze out. She nearly dropped the knife. Nothing happened.
She waited. And waited. And waited.
"Well, sh-"
A rumble shook her room. She nearly fell.
Bigger and louder, they increased. She braced herself.
With an explosion and fire, the side of her wall burst open as if it were a portal, and twenty void black humanoid creatures rushed in, and started tearing the place apart. Twirling and swirling, inspecting every nook and cranny. Looking deeply and curiously at this new human they had been met with.
A louder explosion, and they all dropped to their knees. A young woman, oozing with power and status walked through the wall, bearing a briefcase. She opened it, and the contents were glorious. Camille reached for it, but was restrained.
A contract. A quill. A signature in blood.
Then came the burning onto Camille's back of a sigil, a black rune of power. The pain was almost unbearable, but it was worth it.
And with a bang, everything disappeared but Camille, laying on the floor. The only trace of what had happened was the destruction and the smell of burning.
It had been a long last day at work. Camille got up, renewed, and walked out the door.
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A character I've been thinking about, but haven't really used ever. Maybe I'll write more later. Hope you enjoyed.
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I think it's cheating to use my own prompt. by
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Therefore, I'd better do this one. Should probably have warnings for something, but I'm not sure exactly what.
Francis sat at the desk, reading through a copy of the latest magi-scientific journal. The paper on Elvish societies wasn’t really the sort of thing that interested him, but he made a point of reading every article. You never knew when the information might come in handy.
On the floor in front of him, Tiger and Holly were playing a board game, or trying to: each of them kept accusing the other of cheating. They were both as bad as each other, or as good as each other, depending on your point of view.
The door suddenly jerked open. Francis looked up from the journal to see Alice standing in the door, looking absolutely furious.
“Hello, dear,” he said calmly, wondering what had set off her red-hot temper this time.
“Don’t you “dear” me, you evil man!” shouted Alice.
“What makes you think I’m evil?” asked Francis, as if curiously.
“Oh, I couldn’t possibly guess. Maybe… I don’t know… hiring an assassin to eliminate your rival?”
Francis was surprised – how on earth had she known that? – but he concealed it effortlessly. “I – I don’t know what you’re talking about.” He knew it was no use trying to talk his way out of this, but he could buy himself a bit of time.
“Really?” she said. “Then what is this?”
She pulled a document out of her pocket, unfolded it, and threw it onto his desk.
Francis merely moved it aside so he could continue reading. He already knew what the document said: it was an agreement between himself and one of the best assassins in the land to, as Alice had put it, “eliminate his rival” in exchange for generous payment.
“Well?” said Alice furiously. “What have you got to say for yourself?”
“I’d appreciate it if you didn’t pry into my secret documents.”
That was enough for Alice to snap. She began yelling terrible words, spells to strike fear into even Francis’s heart.
Objects all around arose to do Alice’s bidding, and flung themselves at Francis. His drawer sprung out and the dagger in it leaped up.
He was only just able to duck in time to avoid it hitting his throat. Instead, it dug into his cheek. He pulled it out and hastily said a protective charm, blocking Alice’s magic from coming within a metre of him.
Then he felt his cheek. His hand came away covered in blood. He knew it would take all of his magic to heal a wound made with his own dagger, and that the scar would never fade. “I think you’re being a bit of a hypocrite, Alice. That was pretty evil magic you just used.
He heard a scream from outside and saw Holly running away on her tiny legs, abandoning the board. Tiger, too, retreated to a safe distance, and then asked “Mummy, why are you hurting Daddy?”
Alice ignored him and said: “Right. That’s it. I’ve had enough. I’m leaving.”
“Fine,” said Francis, reaching for a handkerchief to mop the blood off his cheek. “Goodbye.”
Alice looked startled at his rather unemotional reaction. “Come on, children,” she said, but neither Tiger nor Holly moved. -
Lorson: "Why do you keep doing this to me." by
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Because I can. Trigger warnings for allusions to rape.
“What’s your name?” 8386071 asked the sweating, trembling young man. An angry red scar was seared on his chest; he’d been recently implanted.
“Coryn,” the man said. “You?”
8386071 shrugged. “No name, just a number. They call me the Scorpion in the arena, but only because my number’s a mouthful to say. Those of us who were born here ain’t got names. Where are you from, Coryn?”
“Ord Mantell.”
8386071 frowned, trying to remember the stories he’d heard from the other slaves. “That’s… er…”
“Bright Jewel system, Mid Rim,” Coryn said. “I was a soldier in the civil war and got sold as a prisoner.”
“Civil war?” 8386071 decided not to tell Coryn he had no idea where any of those places were supposed to be.
“Gods, they really don’t tell you lot anything, do they?” Coryn drew his knees up to his chest, staring out the barred window that opened to the sandy arena outside. The sleeping quarters were vacant; everyone else was training, the dull thud-thud of the wooden practice weapons resonating as they hit their targets.
“Not really, no,” 8386071 said. “It’s… well, I’d be lying if I said it ain’t so bad, but stories I hear from the other gladiators, other places have it loads worse than we do. Just avoid Harkon and his men when they’re in a bad mood, say ‘yessir’ and ‘no sir’, and don’t ask for second helpings, and you should be alright.”
Coryn let out a barking laugh. “Oh, and that’s supposed to make me feel better about having my freedom ripped away from me?”
“Well… no,” 8386071 said slowly, “but—”
“But what? I wouldn’t expect you to understand what it was like,” Coryn said bitterly. “I’m never going to see my family again. I had a little girl, a daughter, my Yalena…” He reached up to wipe his eyes, and 8386071 hesitated before offering him a corner of his blanket. Coryn pressed it to his face, shoulders beginning to shake.
“I’ll help you,” 8386071 said quietly. “We all will.”
“What, escape?”
“Survive.”
Coryn shook his head, setting the blanket aside. “Live as a slave,” he muttered disdainfully.
Footsteps echoed in the hall outside and a strange gleam came into Coryn’s eye.
A key scraped in the lock.
“Or die free!” Coryn yelled, throwing himself at the door.
“CORYN, NO!” 8386071 bolted after him, heart pounding as Coryn plowed through Harkon and Ra’viss, knocking them over. 8386071 leapt over their prone forms. “You’re going to get yourself killed!”
Harkon climbed to his feet and pulled out his detonator.
“CORYN—!”
And then everything went white.
“He’s fading fast.”
“More blood!
“I don’t know if it’s possible to save him, the damage is too—”
“SILENCE! I won’t have my prize gladiator dead because you imbeciles can’t attach a new arm!”
Drifting. Pain. Ringing.
“Why his eye, though? They’re both undamaged.”
“Might as well upgrade him while you’re here.”
“Understood.”
Stabbing. Gouging. Tearing.
Searing. Scorching. Burning.
Nothing.
When he woke up, he was back in the sleeping quarters, and for a moment, he thought it was all a dream, until he realized that this was a different room than the one they normally stayed in, and it was crowded with twice the usual number of people.
“Hey, look, the Scorpion’s awake!” Mako called, and there was a sudden rustle as people turned to look.
8386071 blinked up at them blearily. Something about his vision was off. It was… half red. His body felt heavy. His face itched and his arm felt like it was on fire.
“Are you alright?” Dinah asked anxiously. Worry creased her face. Her voice felt off, tinny, almost, and yet more clear than he’d ever heard before. Sounds were sharper.
8386071 tried to speak, but his voice rasped.
There was a faint splashing noise, and then Jeyla was there, holding a rag to his lips and squeezing water into his mouth. He sucked it down gratefully.
He blinked again. It felt… wrong. Only one eye was blinking. But he could see out of both of them?
“What happened?” 8386071 croaked.
“You know damn well what happened!” Mako snapped. “You idiot, thought you’d chase down the newcomer and what, hold him down? Nearly got yourself killed when he detonated! If you weren’t so injured, I’d beat you myself!”
“That’s enough, Mako,” 427787 snapped.
Mako folded his arms, glaring at 8386071.
“You lost your right arm,” Jeyla said. “And your left eye. I’m not sure what else they had to repair…”
8386071 forced his head to turn. The dull grey metal of his new arm weakly reflected the sunlight and bounced back up in his face. He closed his eyes. Eye. The other one wasn’t so bothered by the glare, and he could feel its vibrations in his skull as he looked sideways with it. He could see worried and angry faces, but that wasn’t all—beating hearts, pulsing arteries, and heaving lungs were now visible, hot red in contrast to the pale redness of the room.
He looked back up at the ceiling. “How long before I’m back in the arena?” he asked. It was the only thing he could think to say in that moment. He’d process what had happened to him later.
“Don’t know, kid,” 427787 said. “You’re already back to good condition from what we heard, but the Master doesn’t want you out in the arena until you’re used to the upgrades. And because of that… well, I’ve got bad news for you.”
8386071’s mouth went dry. “No…”
“The Master’s decided to bump your breeding ahead of schedule,” Mako said. “Since you’re useless in a fight for the moment, he figured he’s going to put you to work in bed.” He laughed. “Have fun, kid. First time always is.” -
Sorry your author likes their sad backstories, Lorson by
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Writing-wise, I liked what you did with the bit in the italics. It gives off a good "being seriously injured in the ER" vibe.
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... Talk about a rough life. Sometimes trying to do something good gets you nothing but pain.
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A few ideas: by
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One of your characters receives news.
Two characters meet for the first time.
One of your characters forgets something.
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Guess who is having a birthday ~ c'est moo! by
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So yeah, today's birthday, and I am officially 29... just one year off from being 30... even though I look half that age...
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29 was a good age. :) Enjoy!
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Have a notepad with the launch codes of your choice written on it.
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Happy Birthday! by
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Have a brownie!
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Happy birthday by
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Have a cake.
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Happy Birthday! *tosses Spikes* (nm) by
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Happy birthday! (nm) by
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*cakefetti* HAP BIRF! (nm) by
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BTW title was supposed to be "c'est moi". Dang autocorrect (nm) by
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"Nine women; you shall be the Fellowship of the Ring." by
on 2018-10-02 15:58:00 UTC
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It is well known that one of the most popular activities for girls in Middle-earth is joining the Fellowship of the Ring and saving the day; I mean, given a choice between that and dying of dysentery, wouldn't you?
Most female Walkers are Suvians, of course, but a while back Kaitlyn and Selene took on a fic where Rosie, Diamond, and Estella tried to join the Ringbearer's party. That got me thinking: is there a way to get a woman into the Fellowship that works?
In fact (thought I), let's go for broke: is there a way to get nine women into the Fellowship?
The answer, it turned out, was (at least in the Movieverse) yes:
(deviantArt: The Inopportune Storm: The Fellowship of the Ring)
The full account of how this came about is up on deviantArt, but a quick summary goes like this:
While Boromir was riding to Rivendell, a storm (sent by Sauron) over Rohan broke his arm. Eowyn took up his message, going to the elves in Lothlorien, where Galadriel chose to escort her to Rivendell.
The storm headed through Mirkwood (where it made the woods dangerous enough that Legolas took Tauriel along with him to Rivendell), crossed the Misty Mountains (flooding the passes and causing Dis, sister of Thorin, to break her journey back to Erebor in Rivendell), and hit the Shire just as Frodo and Sam were leaving Bag-End.
The weather forced them to spend the night at the Green Dragon, where Sam spilled the beans to Rosie. She told her friends, Angelica Baggins (devoted but vain niece of Bilbo) and Pearl Took (Pippin's older sister, probable political assassin), and the trio decided to chase the boys down at Bree. (No Merry and Pip in this one; their chance Movieverse encounter never happens.)
At Bree, Pearl gets attacked by the Nazgul, leading Aragorn to take the five Hobbits into the Old Forest seeking help. Goldberry tends to Pearl - and when Pearl refuses to leave her friends, Goldberry comes along with them.
Aragorn leads what's now a party of seven (including himself) to Weathertop, but the size of the group + Pearl's injury means everything's a little bit slower. Long story short, Frodo dies on the banks of Bruinen, with Arwen unable to save him.
At the Council, Bilbo pulls his Bookverse trick of trying to take up the Quest... but this time it's Angelica who steps in to take the Ring instead of him. The rest of the Nine each have their own reasons for going (Rosie & Pearl to stay with Angelica, Goldberry to stay with Pearl, Arwen to spend time with Galadriel, Dis to spend time with Tauriel, and Eowyn is heading that way anyway), and the Fellowship is declared.
So far, that's where the story ends. For the Middle-earth types on the Board (whatever your degree of knowledge or lack thereof): how do you think this Fellowship's story would go? Would having all of the bearers of the Three in Rivendell help in their planning? Would Galadriel try and take them over Caradhras (and if so, would the fact that she, Arwen, and Goldberry all have a magical connection to water mean they could avert the snowstorm?)? Would Angelica, whose only canon trait is being so vain that Bilbo left her a mirror, be able to stand up to the strain of the Ring? What would happen when a trio of (essentially) water-mages ran into trouble along the Anduin? Precisely how dead would the Lord of the Nazgul be?
And, perhaps most importantly: in the inevitable, endless fanfic, who would the fans relentlessly ship together?
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Okay... by
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My Middle-earth knowledge isn't as good as it could be, and my movieverse knowledge is virtually non-existent, but I'll try anyway.
I have a feeling that they might take the Gap of Rohan to pass the mountains - after all, that is (presumably) where Eowyn's going and she could reassure the others that the Rohirrim aren't working for Sauron or Saruman.
That could lead to a different route to Amon Hen, and beyond that it depends on whether the individual members want to go to Minas Tirith or press on to Mordor... that's assuming they even get that far! -
Skipping Moria seems likely. by
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Galadriel is there to say "No, that's a terrible idea. No really, we have long suspected that some evil of the ancient world sleeps there, and it's right next door to my house. Let's not wake it up, please."
I don't know about Éowyn being able to assure them the Gap is safe, though. I'm not sure how things stand in Rohan at the time she would have left in this version, but my sense is that it was bad and getting worse for some time before the Three Hunters turned up there in canon. And even if things were okay when she left, and she fully believed they would have nothing but support, she would be wrong by the time they got there. And they would still have to deal with Saruman, either way.
And, if we go this way, do the Ents still get involved to help defeat Saruman? How?
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It's worth noting that Galadriel and Treebeard have met before, though not for a long time. From RotK:
Then Treebeard said farewell to each of them in turn, and he bowed three times slowly and with great reverence to Celeborn and Galadriel. ‘It is long, long since we met by stock or by stone, A vanimar, vanimálion nostari!’ he said. ‘It is sad that we should meet only thus at the ending. For the world is changing: I feel it in the water, I feel it in the earth, and I smell it in the air. I do not think we shall meet again.’
And Celeborn said: ‘I do not know, Eldest.’ But Galadriel said: ‘Not in Middle-earth, nor until the lands that lie under the wave are lifted up again. Then in the willow-meads of Tasarinan we may meet in the Spring. Farewell!’
Significantly, Galadriel's line here quotes Treebeard's song back in TTT, which means she's had contact with him since the First Age. Add in the fact that the forest is literally named after him, and she definitely knows he lives there.
So, knowing that Saruman has turned, would Galadriel consider taking Isengard out of the picture? With Eowyn at her side, she could definitely pull together a three-pronged attack (Rohan, Lorien, Fangorn) - and with Goldberry (and movie!Arwen) there, she might be able to count on the River Isen itself helping out.
Of course, doing that would require some assurance that Sauron wouldn't move against Lorien while the army was out - Dol Guldur is close enough to do that. And this is where EAIUO's point comes in: what about the guys?
Well, how about we send out a second Fellowship, with a different goal: to contact Mirkwood and Erebor (and the Beornings, for that matter) and get them to attack Dol Guldur. That's something Gandalf could do - he's got Gimli and Legolas to hand, remember - and it's an excellent way of drawing Sauron's eye away from the Ringbearer's party.
We know from canon that both of these attacks could work: that Erebor+Mirkwood were able to at least hold off the armies of Dol Guldur, and that Rohan+the Ents were able to defeat Isengard. So this could be an opportunity to weaken Sauron, distract him, and keep his attention away from the Ring (now hurrying through Rohan).
Slight problem, though: when Sauron gets stirred up, he's going to start moving armies out of Morgul and Mordor. That could mean Gondor gets hit, unsupported in this timeline. It could also mean that the full strength of Mordor moves north, waging a war of annihilation on the Lonely Mountain and the Woodland Realm. At minimum, it means the Mountains of Shadow are going to be crawling with Orcs, leaving the Fellowship without an obvious way in.
Hmm... one possibility is, rather than crossing Rohan, the Fellowship could keep going south. The bulk of Gondor isn't under much threat (at least while Minas Tirith stands), and if they cross Anduin and head up the Poros, it looks like the mountains might be low enough to let them cross into Nurn. That would let them sneak into Mordor 'the back way', while Sauron's armies were all heading out the front.
Of course, this is now becoming a longer and longer journey. I estimate it as at least 1500 miles. The canon trip from Rivendell is around 1000 miles, and took 3 months; this would take nearly 5. They might succeed, but I'm not at all sure there would be a Middle-earth left to save.
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Hm, speaking of Dol Guldur and Sauron getting riled... by
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EAIUO said something about the Three Rings being in the party, and that got me thinking, even if it's just Galadriel with Nenya, would Sauron notice if it leaves Lothlórien? The Elven-rings are hidden from him, but Nenya's power is part of what makes Lórien the refuge it is, right? If the ring isn't there, suddenly it's more exposed, more vulnerable.
Gandalf potentially giving Narya to Éowyn is an interesting idea, because its power to inspire and put heart in people is very useful when you need people to keep fighting against overwhelmingly bad odds. On the other hand, if it stays with the Other Fellowship and joins the fight of Mirkwood and Erebor against Dol Guldur, does it help them win that fight more decisively? Could those factions then proceed south to come to Rohan's and Gondor's aid?
Meanwhile, what does Nenya's influence mean for the main Fellowship? Does it let them move with greater secrecy, perhaps? Can they slip through the Gap of Rohan unnoticed by Saruman and reach Meduseld in good time to bring Théoden around and get the Rohirrim into the fight? Or, if not Théoden, since Gandalf (with Narya) isn't there to stir his heart, perhaps they just get Éomer on board and stage a bit of a rebellion?
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Obligatory sheet-anchor: this all goes back to the powers of the Three, about which we have few firm statements. So I'm going to have to speculate quite a bit here. We do know that all three could ward off the decays of time and postpone the weariness of the world ('Of the Rings of Power').
Nenya is the Ring of Adamant, and is also connected to water (hence its name). We know, or think, that it directly protected Lothlorien, as well as altering the flow of time there.
We know that Sauron and Galadriel directly contended (Galadriel mentions it at the Mirror), but I don't know that he can have the same sort of interaction with Lorien as a whole. Certainly if Dol Guldur came out to attack the Golden Wood, they'd notice a difference, but I don't think it's necessarily true to say Sauron could perceive it from a distance.
Narya is the Ring of Fire, and Cirdan helpfully tells us (well, Gandalf) exactly what it does:
...but in all it will support thee and defend thee from weariness. For this is the Ring of Fire, and herewith, maybe, thou shalt rekindle hearts to the valour of old in a world that grows chill. ('Of the Rings of Power')
So you're exactly right that Narya could help in the battles of the North. Would that help save Gondor? I feel like the time-lag might mean they only get there to interrupt the Orcs' victory feast - though if the Lord of the Nazgul was elsewhere, Minas Tirith could probably stand a long siege, so that's a possible.
Whether Gandalf would surrender Nenya to Eowyn is an interesting question, but on balance I think not. Galadriel said:
Did not Gandalf tell you that the rings give power according to the measure of each possessor? Before you could use that power you would need to become far stronger, and to train your will to the domination of others. (FotR)
While Gandalf might like to send Narya with the Fellowship, none of the members of the party would be able to wield it effectively. (The same, sadly, goes for giving Vilya to Arwen.)
But Nenya is definitely there, and Galadriel does imply that its powers include hiding. It's also thematically appropriate for water to be a concealment - this goes back to Tuor, who was given a cloak of invisibility by Ulmo. So yes, they probably could get through the Gap unseen.
Without Gandalf, I think you're right that Theoden would be too 'help help, I'm old and feeble' to do much good - but without a month's stay in Lorien, the Fellowship would reach Rohan long before the Battle of the Fords of Isen. Saruman wouldn't yet have openly declared his army of Uruks - and Theodred, Theoden's son, would still be alive.
It is noteworthy that at this time, there was no First Marshal of the Mark - the position of 'supreme commander' of Rohan lay fallow (because of Theoden's weakness and Grima's influence). But the Second and Third Marshals, Theodred and Eomer, showed that they were definitely willing to take the fight to Isengard.
The image I'm getting here is of a War of the Ring made up not of brief, heroic battles, but of a string of sieges. The North lays siege to Dol Guldur. Rohan lays siege to Isengard. Sauron, alerted by Saruman, sends out his own armies and besieges Minas Tirith. And all of this takes place in January (yikes!). The armies of southern Gondor have not yet been mustered - but nor have Sauron's Southrons and Easterlings (and Corsairs) arrived. They'll be trickling in over the next couple of months, and who arrives where and when is likely to be critical.
One thing I'm even surer of now is that the Fellowship has to go through South Gondor. Ithilien is going to fall quickly, and everything east of Anduin and north of Minas Tirith is going to be stuffed with Orcs. The only hope of maintaining secrecy is to get down to what Sauron thinks of as the back-lines, and hope to avoid all the troops coming up from the south.
(Which may not be as hard as I'd supposed; I forgot the month in Lorien when I worked out the timings before. I think, if all goes well, they'll still hit Mordor sometime in March.)
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on 2018-10-03 02:51:00 UTC
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I think Gandalf would still insist on accompanying the fellowship as Sauron was his Enemy. But another thing that might have changed is, there may have been two of Elven Rings of Power in this new fellowship.
Galadriel has Nenya
But it is possible that both Vilya and Narya may have changed hands. If Gandalf could not accompany the fellowship, given that Cirdan gave Narya to Gandalf because he knew who he was and what his goal was and that it was given to him to help defeat Sauron, he may have passed it to another possible wielder, possibly Goldberry.
It might also not be to far to believe that Elrond may have transferred Vilya to Arwen, though perhaps not. Having all three Elven Rings in one party might be a risky idea.
I do think that if they still had to go through Moria, I think that the encounter with Durin's Bane would be different. Galadriel could solo it like Gandalf, but given the way Goldberry/Tom Bombadil are portrayed they appear to be somewhat close to the Maia, so Goldberry would probably be able to help. Also the Elves are strong enough that alone Arwen (without Vilya) would probably not be able to, but with Tauriel the two Elves may be able to assist. Alternatively if Arwen was granted either Vilya or Narya she might be able to help as well. But short version Durin's Bane would be facing between 2 and 4 opponents, quite possibly keeping all 9 members together for Amon Hen.
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I dunno about you, but I'm already shipping Eowyn and Arwen. Sorry, Aragorn!
Also, your depiction of Angelica is absolutely precious and I want to protect her.
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Fandom Tea! by
on 2018-10-02 23:18:00 UTC
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So, I was looking through old bookmarks today - mostly because I was trying to find a thing - and I ran across a link in my Merch folder to Adagio Teas.
I clicked in, remembering very vaguely what it was, and discovered a website full to overflowing with tea blends based off of fandoms. You name it and it's probably there.
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Free Gift Certificates! by
on 2018-10-11 19:35:00 UTC
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Hey there, all;
if any of you are looking at this and considering buying anything, please send me a message including your name and e-mail address so I can give you a free $5 gift certificate! If you're not on the Discord, my preferred e-mail address is animechanlives@gmail.com.
(And, to be totally honest, this isn't all because I love you guys and want to save you money on delicious teas. Each certificate redeemed gives me reward points. So if someone else were to make an account, I would be happy to just swap gift certificates back and forth, if the site allows that.) -
I'm game! by
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For some reason we made an account in Phobos' name, though, so I'll have to confer with him about it.
Or maybe just make my own, because seriously.
~Neshomeh is probably going to be told she needs to drink the tea she has first, but is man enough for ALL this f***ing tea, so there. -
Ooh, Adagio! by
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Yes yes, I like them very much.
I would particularly recommend the blends of Cara McGee. Her Tea for Travellers set is very good, and Phobos especially likes Moriartea from the Sherlock set, IIRC. Also, I met Cara at a con once. She's a nice person, and her artwork is very cute. ^_^
~Neshomeh
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Beta for Permission request by
on 2018-10-03 15:58:00 UTC
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I'm working on a Permission request and I was wondering if anyone could have a quick look before I post it, particularly with regards to the agent bios (they're not my strong suit in terms of writing).
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I'm up for it. by
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You can share a link to it with me here if it's in Google Docs, otherwise my email is writermcwriterlyface@gmail.com. I'm best for SpaG mistakes, but I can also help you with PPC canon and general flow.
Feel free to hit me up, and I look forward to reading your thing! -
Thanks! Will email doc later today. (nm) by
on 2018-10-05 07:18:00 UTC
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First Mission is Finally Done! by
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Oh, gods, this has been a Project. But it's worth it.
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*Blink. Blink.* by
on 2018-10-18 11:38:00 UTC
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"Wait! How did she manage to fall off the tree and off Alex at the same time? Or was that consecutive? She fell off the tree on Alex’s head, and then fell off him?"
"Actually, there is a note in the comments, saying that actually Ce’rana is meant to fall off the tree and Alex is meant to fall in the dirt, both apparently caused by the rocking world."
"Why isn’t this in the text, then? If somebody wants to use their words economically, shouldn’t they try to avoid having to add explanations after the fact?"
Agent Hieronymus, you are daydreaming again. PPCing the PPC is not your job.
Yeah, sorry about that (and for being late). Using some more words, like "... promptly fell off the tree while Alex fell to the dirt ..." might work better there.
Also, I feel like there is a word missing in Ce’rana stared after him for a moment, then the tool in her hands .... ("at the tool"? Certainly not "after the tool", which might be implied by leaving it out.)
Aira pulled back from Herobrine, then punched him in the stomach.
Is that a mini-Sue?
Herobrine Melody, you here hereby charged with being a demigod within a system having no mechanics to facilitate such a thing,
Should be "are".
I don’t know anything about Minecraft, or The Belgariad, or the Fate series (titles should be italicized, BTW, or de-italicized in an italicized disclaimer), so I don’t really have anything to say other than: I could mostly follow the events in this mission, and I may like to see how these agents develop further.
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Re: mission (spoilers) by
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Minecraft isn't really a property I'm familiar with at all, so while I can't say for sure, I at least feel like you've done a good job of analyzing this story in terms of what is and isn't correct for Minecraft.
I'm having difficulty putting my thoughts about the agents into words. On the one hand, neither one feels like they dominate the narrative or the relationship all the way through, which is good. They both take turns being the leader from scene to scene, and keeping the other's worse impulses in check. On the other hand . . . again, I feel like I'm not phrasing my feelings properly, but it doesn't feel to me like they're quite a team? I get the impression they're working together in order to get the job done, rather than because working together is what they do? But this is all ultimately a first impression, I realize both agents need more appearances to really reveal themselves to us readers. So don't take this is a criticism so much as an observation.
One thing in your analysis I'm not really agreeing with is Herobrine and Aria being related. Unless the fic calls Herobrine and Steve brothers frequently in parts of the story you didn't quote, I really feel like that line from the beginning, when Herobrine calls Steve his "twin" was metaphorical. I think it's pointing out how Steve and Herobrine are sort of two sides of the same coin, with Steve being a creative force and Herobrine a destructive one, and with both overlaying the same character model. That said, our missions do have a long history of interpreting things literally, so I think the mission still stands fine with that detail included.
A couple of small details I really liked were:
1. The book ends of the castle being built and then destroyed in Alex's game.
2. That the removal of Herobrine's mansion is done through means available to regular Minecraft players: a combination of deconstructing parts and using explosives. Very appropriate!
Welcome to doctorlit's list of typos:
"And what is it that you have been working on?" she countered seamlessly as she stepped closer . . .
A minor quibble, but I wouldn't personally use "countered" here, since the agents aren't arguing, just catching either up on their activities.
“Beeper. Stop,” she muttered tiredly, focusing on the immediately-fixable problem.
Since "immediately" ends in "-ly" it doesn't need a hyphen connecting it to the word it's describing. "immediately fixable" is correct here.
Ce’rana, who had somehow managed to get herself a few blocks off the ground, promptly fell off the tree and Alex to the dirt beneath his feet when the world began rocking back and forth . . .
I feel like some words got cut from this sentence, because it's not quite reading clearly to me. Was it meant to be "fell off the tree and bounced off Alex to the dirt beneath his feet"?
. . . when he became loud enough to potentially attract the attention of the nearby potential canon replacements.
Paging the RDR, paging the RDR . . .
He guided her until he was sitting down, then crouched next to her.
I think that's meant to be "she" for Ce'rana?
Ce’nedra turned her face from the thick, green-glowing semi-liquid.
Where did Ce'rana go? (I'm guessing this is the name of a canon Dryad from The Belgariad? The name sounds familiar.)
“I suppose it would depend on your difference of ‘much’,” she conceded.
"Definition."
Ce’rana snorted derisively, closing her eyes and leaned back against a tree of her own . . .
"Leaned" should be "leaning" to match the verb tense of "closing." Another option would be adding a comma after "eyes" which would allow all the verbs to stay as they are now, though I think it reads just a little awkwardly that way.
When he looked down, she flattened her fingers and jabbed them straight into his side.
Aren't they in Minecraft-style disguises right now? Does Ce'rana actually have fingers? Sorry if this one is too silly to have broguht up . . .
The pair listened quietly as Aria recounted her saving of Mille . . .
I think you wanted "Millie" here, since you treated "Mille" as a mini earlier in the story. Especially since it's Aria talking about the character; a Mary Sue wouldn't have been aware of a mini within their narrative.
The Dryad smiled faintly and stuck her arm through, passing though in full when she realized he had done the portal thing right this time, probably.
That should be "through," although I just noticed that also makes "through" appear twice in three words. Maybe the first "through" could be changed to "in"?
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Thank you for the review! by
on 2018-10-09 00:56:00 UTC
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To go in order of the points you've made, Alex and Ce'rana don't really feel like a team at this point in time because both of them have the tendency to mentally go "Alright, budge over, if I let you do this it'll take forever and be wrong anyways" - you know, that feeling I'm sure all of us got during every group project ever? If you think of missions like that, both of them are accustomed to being the one who carries the group, and since there's almost always only one carrier in a given group, they're not very used to letting anyone else do anything ever.
I hadn't thought of the possible other meaning of the twin thing, and that could genuinely be interesting if portrayed properly! But here... yeah, it's the Word World, it takes everything literally.
I'm glad you noticed those little details! Both were Mikel's idea, and I stand by my personal writing creed on "details make the dream" when other people do it at least as much as when I do. It was wonderful.
The typos have been fixed, though there are a few that weren't typos at all - specifically, the first three and the fingers thing. And to explain the third, Ce'rana fell from the tree; Alex fell to the dirt beneath his feet.
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Love it, and I Iook forward to reading more from you two :D (nm) by
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A solid first mission. by
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I could tell you guys were having fun with the Words literally interpreting the various typos.
Personally, I’m a fan of the TNT everywhere ending. Imagining that explosion gave me joy.
I do feel like pointing out—Ce’rana and Alex... have me a bit concerned with how their partnership will end, because of their willingness to threaten (and use) violence against each other. Ce’rana especially, with how she “seriously considered stabbing her partner” several times—there’s a certain point where physical violence crosses from being funny to being concerning, and right now I’ve come out of this wondering if Alex is going to wake up one day with a pencil in his heart.
(This is the same issue I had with one Sue who thought beating someone over the head with a frying pan made for good slapstick. In a cartoon, yes, but not so much in Middle-earth.)
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Believe it or not... by
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...that was exactly what we were going for. At least in Ce'rana's case.
It's something of a character point. Something that will have to be worked on and, one day, overcome. There are behind-the-scenes reasons why Alex tolerates her stabby ways instead of telling her to knock it off and doesn't she know that hurts people?, but not everyone has those reasons. Someday - probably someday rather soon, in-universe - someone else will be around and see this, and they will have Something To Say about it.
But on the other points:
We were having so much fun with those. I'm honestly especially proud of the catchup; we like to copy badfics into GDocs and annotate them, which usually ends up with us reading it many, many, many times - which is the only reason we found the incest - but I didn't notice that until we got to that scene while writing. And it just sort of hit as an amazing thing to throw in. You'll have to ask Mikel for his favorite, though.
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Suffice it to say, I'm very excited to see more of Ce'rana and Alex.
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Betas requested for Permission attempt by
on 2018-10-04 23:04:00 UTC
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Cal and Mikel's recent (and totally great) mission inspired me to finish my own request, and I just did that, so all I need now are some betas. Anyone who wants to help out gets my undying appreciation and some e-cookies! :D
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Mind if I jump on board? (nm) by
on 2018-10-05 20:38:00 UTC
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Yes, I'd love that! Thank you! (nm) by
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Thirteenth Doctor: "The Woman Who Fell to Earth" reaction! by
on 2018-10-07 23:50:00 UTC
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"The Ghost Monument" reaction (spoilers) by
on 2018-10-15 09:04:00 UTC
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I liked this one! As I said last week, the pacing still feels excellent - once again, it let them delve a little deeper into the emotions of the week's cast than we might have otherwise.
I am also super in favour of All Northern, All The Time Doctor Who. As we know, Lots Of Planets Have A North, so why shouldn't every alien have a northern accent of some description?
Like with the Sontaran bait-and-switch last week, this episode also contained shadows of previous stories. A toxic planet filled with murderbots resonates with Skaro, and this is hardly the first time there's been a literal space race on the show. (Also, if the subtitles were right the Doctor is a Grand Master Pacifist at Venusian Aikido, which is a glorious title.)
We're not sure what we think of the new TARDIS design. I've dubbed it Crystal Industrial, and am generally in favour (the console looks suitably clunky, and it give me high hopes for Mad Science Doctoring), but agree with Kaitlyn that it was way too dark. Even after they turned the lights on, I couldn't see anything beyond the pillars, which is fine if you've only got one companion, but is going to strain things a little with three.
I am totally in favour, however, of the Doctor whispering toSexyher TARDIS and it opening the door for her. Amazing.
Final note, still from the TARDIS scene: when the Doctor was telling the trio about it, her expression was a perfect 'I really hope you like it'. Normally we get that expressed through dialogue, so having it so clearly written on her face was a good thing to see.
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Spoilery thoughts: by
on 2018-10-08 09:19:00 UTC
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Non-spoilery opener: loved it. We managed to get the kids to sit through almost all of it (one never looked away, the other had to climb up next to me 15 minutes in), which bodes very well.
More spoilery thoughts:
-Mad inventor Doctor! I am so on board for mad inventor Doctor. In fact... come to think of it, my own female incarnation, the Fifth Alchemist, was the mad scientist one. Is there something about Time Ladies that predisposes them to mad science?
-No TARDIS! I've been muttering since midway through Ten's run that we need a new version of the UNIT years - the Doctor stranded on Earth without her TARDIS - and this episode validates my opinion. ^^ This blends really well with the mad inventor aspect; come on, wouldn't you love to watch Thirteen roaming around Britain in semi-official capacity, commandeering workshops wherever she goes?
-I loved the Sontaran-Rutan bait-and-switch, because yes, 'armoured angry alien versus glowing amorphous ball thing' is not a new concept in Doctor Who. The fact that they highlighted that, and then discarded it as an incorrect conclusion, was excellent.
-I feel like they paced it really well, with the new format. What I said to Kaitlyn was that it felt like they'd written a 50-minute episode, then gone back and allowed themselves to linger on the emotional, not-plot-relevant moments in a way that worked really well. Hopefully they can keep that up; my worry is that writers who previously worked on the 40 minute format might end up stretching their scripts to fit.
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And now, a quick game of Let's Be Offended, the game where you find reasons to take offence that look reasonable at a glance, but are actually ludicrous:
-Too much Northern representation. How am I supposed to empathise with the characters if none of them are from London?!
-Far too many Baby Boomers; pandering much, Auntie Beeb? I counted four oldies with speaking parts, and two of the most emotional deaths were given to them. Simply not on!
-Does the Beeb have a vendetta against nurses? First they killed Rita back in <a href="https://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/TheGodComplex">The God Complex, now Grace in this story, not to mention an entire hospital full of them on the Moon back in the alternate timeline of <a href="https://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/TurnLeft(TVstory)">Turn Left. Note that when Ten ran into Doctor Martha Jones, she was allowed to stick around for a full season.
-Finally, who are we to judge Tim Shaw's society like that? Okay, yes, he was breaking the rules - but his hunt isn't supposed to kill anyone. In fact, it keeps the human participants alive much longer than their natural lifespans! What's with all the condemnation of something that could really be considered an act of kindness?
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Last I checked, I wasn't ever a mad scientist... by
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(Zeb: "Didn't you once jury-rig the Pirates cannon with—?"
"That doesn't count.")
First of all, your kids sound adorable. Glad yours were able to sit through the episode, though Elanor falling asleep within the first half an hour was preferable to screaming through it.
As for this so-called vendetta against nurses, I present to you Rory the Roman, who... actually got killed off quite a bit. You might have a point, now that I think about it.
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Kid, you're in the PPC. We're all mad here. ;) (nm) by
on 2018-10-10 09:45:00 UTC
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Kid? Excuse me, we're the same age. by
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Actually, I'm fifty years older than you.
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That depends entirely on how you count it. by
on 2018-10-10 11:32:00 UTC
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Given how perfectly possible it is for us to 'age' hundreds of years while stuck in one place - I think the Fisherman put on a couple of centuries in a badly-handled time-jump a couple of years back - I've always preferred to count by Gallifreyan timeline. I know you're a bit of a special case (aren't we all?), but unless you're claiming to have been around for the Sontaran invasion, I claim the right to condescend anyway.
(To be honest I've kind of lost track anyway; my last regeneration was pretty bad at keeping her diary. I feel 400, and that's what counts.)
Anyway. I'm pretty sure the Time Lady who managed to temporarily de-age the entire Continuity Council - somehow, I'm still trying to get to the bottom of that, if only to put a stop to Grey's badgering - doesn't get to deny being a mad scientist. -
...Oh, god, I'd been trying to forget about that. by
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Um... confession time? That was a potion I'd nicked out of a mission. I was supposed to take it to the DMSE&R when Grey ambushed me and dragged me to the Council.
So that one wasn't even my doing.
As for the Sontaran Invasion: Alright, no, I wasn't around for that, but neither were a lot of us. I still served three centuries in the Time War and lost one in that loop. So, technically, you do have me by a century. Still doesn't make me a child, though, thank you very much. -
No, Moon Moon, that would be your attitude. (nm) by
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Oh, come on, Grey. by
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It's not even that I disagree with you about certain people acting young (though not so young as Fish, thank Omega), but do you deliberately sit down and think up the most provocative way to say things? Honestly, between you and Green-
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You say that like you're ever not in need of a drink. by
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In answer to your question, though, I... do that. A lot. I am reliably informed it is a defence mechanism, designed to prevent unwarranted -- unwanted intimacy on the part of my peers whom otherwise might engender vulnerability in me, which is something I have trained myself to view as abhorrent and unnatural behaviour. It is reflexive, and I am only now learning to reject that reflex, and it is far harder than I am willing to admit.
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Heads up, gang! The Notary's been replaced by a pod person! by
on 2018-10-10 22:14:00 UTC
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Maybe some sort of shape-shifter? Or a Raxicoricofalapatorian criminal, they like that sort of thing.
{Oh, come on, Adil, you can see she's trying.}
Hey, I never said I was complaining. I'm all for the pod person; can think of a few other people I'd like to see get the same treatment.
{Has it occured to you that bugging her like this is just going to make her STOP trying to be... well, I'm not sure if 'nice' is the word...}
Good point! Counterpoint: it's pretty funny when she drives Orange and White up the wall, so what's my motivation for encouraging her to change?
{Maybe you're just a good person?}
... I don't think that sounds like me.
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It's spelled Raxacoricofallapatorian, jsyk =]
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((The Agent knows;)) by
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((he just doesn't like them, so refuses to spell it right. ^_^ Or maybe it was a typo. ~hS))
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Obviously I am Jennifer Lawrence caked in blue sludge. (nm) by
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And then I reworked all of this into a ConCoun scene. by
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[We open on the Really Very Tiny Auditorium, currently serving as the meeting-room of the Continuity Council of Gallifrey-in-Exile. The room centres on a large circular table, on one side of which is a not-terribly-large television. Crammed in along the other side are most of the current membership of the Council: Tigereye Castellan Morgan, Citrine Theorist Reader, Sapphire Watcher Disentangler, Amethyst Keeper Agent, Spinel Promotor Notary, and Moonstone Sentry Aviator.]
[The last few notes of the Doctor Who closing theme ring out, and then the Disentangler points a remote at the screen and flicks the TV off.]
Disentangler: Well. What do we think?
Reader: I quite liked it.
Morgan: Do you think we could get our hands on a couple of Gathering Coils? You know, for monitoring purposes. We could probably engineer out their less savoury features…
Agent: That’s you and the Doctor going all crazy-inventor on us; come to think of it, Lachesis tends that way too. Is there something about Time Ladies that predisposes them to mad science?
Aviator: [Raises her hand] Last I checked, I wasn’t ever a mad scientist.
Morgan: [Snorts] Kid, you’re in the PPC. We’re all mad here.
Aviator: ‘Kid’? Excuse me, we’re the same age – or no, I’m fifty years older than you. Just because you met me when I was still a child…
Morgan: That depends entirely on how you count it.
Disentangler: [To the Agent] Oh Rassilon, here we go.
Morgan: [Lecturing tone] Given how perfectly possible it is for us to 'age' hundreds of years while stuck in one place – didn’t the Fisherman put in a couple of decades last year in a badly-handled timeslip? - I've always preferred to count by Gallifreyan timeline. I know you're a bit of a special case-
Reader: Aren’t we all?
Morgan: -but unless you're claiming to have been around for the Sontaran invasion, I claim the right to call you ‘kid’ anyway.
Disentangler: So does that mean I get to be condescending to you, Orange?
Morgan: No.
Agent: No, she’s right; that logically follows from-
Morgan: [Hurriedly] But to be honest I've kind of lost track anyway; my last regeneration was pretty bad at keeping her diary. I feel 400, and that's what counts.
Notary: [To the ceiling] I could kill her now. No record-keeper in history would convict me.
[Morgan shoots a look at the Notary]
Morgan: Anyway. I'm pretty sure the Time Lady who managed to temporarily de-age the entire Continuity Council - somehow, I'm still trying to get to the bottom of that, if only to put a stop to Grey's badgering - doesn't get to deny being a mad scientist.
Aviator: [Cringes] Oh, god, I’d been trying to forget about that. Um… confession time? That was a potion I'd nicked out of a mission. I was supposed to take it to the DMSE&R when Grey ambushed me and dragged me to the Council. So that one wasn't even my doing.
Reader: And no-one blames you for it – do they, Morgan?
Morgan: I mean, it’s still- all right, all right, no.
Reader: See, Aviator? It’s fine.
Aviator: I guess… as for the Sontaran Invasion: alright, no, I wasn't around for that, but neither were a lot of us.
Agent: [Raises hand] I was.
Disentangler: Shh, she’s having a moment.
[The Aviator shoots them a look]
Aviator: [Firmly] I still served three centuries in the Time War and lost one in that loop. So, technically, Morgan, you do have me by a century. Still doesn't make me a child, though, thank you very much.
Notary: [Sniffs] No, Moon Moon, that would be your attitude.
Morgan: [Turning to the Notary] Oh, come on, Grey. It's not even that I disagree with you about certain people acting young (though not so young as Fish, thank Omega), but do you deliberately sit down and think up the most provocative way to say things? Honestly, between you and Green-
[She stops dead. The Aviator winces. The Reader closes her eyes and lowers her head. The Disentangler bites her lip as if to keep from saying something ascerbic.]
Morgan: Oh. Yeah. Between you and... you... I don't know, I've lost track of my sentence. [She sighs] I think I need a drink.
Notary: You say that like you’re ever not in need of a drink.
[The Notary shakes her head slowly]
Notary: In answer to your question, though, I... do that. A lot. I am reliably informed it is a defence mechanism, designed to prevent unwarranted- [She jerks her head to the side] unwanted intimacy on the part of my peers whom otherwise might engender vulnerability in me, which is something I have trained myself to view as abhorrent and unnatural behaviour. It is reflexive, and I am only now learning to reject that reflex, and it is far harder than I am willing to admit. [Thin smile] Can you tell I've been seeing a therapist?
[A brief silence ensues, broken by:]
Agent: Watch out, gang! The Notary's been replaced by a pod person! I’m guessing some sort of shape-shifter? Or a Raxacoricofallapatorian criminal, they like that sort of thing.
Disentangler: [Long-suffering sigh] Oh, come on, Adil, you can see she's trying.
Agent: Hey, I never said I was complaining. I'm all for the pod person; can think of a few other people I'd like to see get the same treatment.
Disentangler: Has it occured to you that bugging her like this is just going to make her stop trying to be... well, I'm not sure if 'nice' is the word...
Agent: Good point! Counterpoint: it's pretty funny when she drives Orange and White up the wall, so what's my motivation for encouraging her to change?
Disentangler: Maybe you're just a good person?
Agent: ... I don't think that sounds like me.
Disentangler: No, forget I said anything.
Notary: [Exaggerated sigh] Yes, obviously I am Jennifer Lawrence caked in blue sludge. Are we actually intending to open this meeting at any point?
Disentangler: I already did that, back before we screened the new Doctor Who. Remember?
Notary: ‘Hey, check this out’ is not an appropriate way to commence a meeting.
Reader: Shouldn’t we wait for Fish to get back, anyway?
Morgan: Yes, where did he run off to, anyway?
Aviator: He said that since he’d already watched the episode, he was going to look for someone… I don’t think he said who.
Notary: Well, if he wanted to be counted present, he should have made sure he was back on time. I move that we-
[A clattering of running feet, and the Fisherman bursts through the door.]
Agent: [To the Disentangler] Do you think she knew that was going to happen?
Disentangler: [To the Agent] Nah, you’re giving her too much credit; it’s just Narrative Comedy again.
Fisherman: [Breathless] I found her! I found her at last! It took forever, but I’ve finally found her!
Morgan: Slow down, Red… found who?
Fisherman: Green! I found Green.
[Once again, the reactions around the table range from the shocked to the resigned to the mildly amused. Morgan glanced round and then leans towards the Fisherman.]
Morgan: Fisherman, Green’s gone; none of us like that, but we have to accept it. There’s no call to go pulling future incarnations of him – or her – out of the timestream; in fact I’m pretty sure it’s directly against the purpose of this Council.
Reader: [Quietly] Yes, but that was the Jade Warden’s responsibility to monitor.
Morgan: So why don’t you take her back, slot her back into her timeline, and we’ll say no more about it?
[The Fisherman looks from Morgan to the Reader in increasing bewilderment]
Fisherman: What in Rassilon’s name are you on about?
[He pulls the door open, and a tall redhead in a Star Trek uniform edges through.]
Fisherman: I found Green. Natalie Green. The missing DORKS Time Lady. Remember?
[Natalie looks over the bewildered Continuity Council and gives a small wave.]
Natalie: Yo. What’s up?
Because these things are crazy fun, and the conversation so far was pretty easy to work into a scene. I've tweaked my claim that Fish lost 200 years - it seemed excessive - but mostly I've let things stand.
'Green' (in most instances) is the Librarian, who retired nearly a year ago. Natalie Green was turned into a Time Lady back in '09 (I think she's actually the very first DORKS Time Lady); she's snarky. The other Time Lords still in HQ that I know of are the Guardsman and the Detective (who are both well-known to the Council, and I think have both turned down offers to join), and Ellie (who is nearly two, but would probably make an adorable Councillor).
I have no idea what happens next, but I'm hoping someone has some good ideas. ^_^
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We need to write more ConCou stuff, I'd forgotten how much fun they were. The Guardsman definitely doesn't want anything to do with the Council's squabbling, but I don't think the Detective ever said anything about it... I could ask Aegis
if only to see if we could make things even more awkward between our characters.
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Well, you know what they say: by
on 2018-10-11 14:52:00 UTC
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"It'd be awesome if you/Scape/Aegis/Zing/any other Time Lord owners wrote the next part of this scene, so we can find out where it goes!"
Actually I'm pretty sure it's just me who says that.
(And I'm not sure the Council can be disrupted too much... ;))
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Actually. . . by
on 2018-10-11 16:35:00 UTC
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I could see the Detective getting pulled into the situation surprisingly easily.
He'd be disgruntled and snarky about all the"Time Lord bureaucracy"and whatnot, obviously, since he's probably violently allergic to paperwork and procedure (Which mean scenes between the Detective and the Notary ought to be especially interesting :P).
But he would most definitely be interested in figuring out why she went missing. He doesn't call himself the Detective for nothing, after all.
I could also see him being very attracted to the Council afterwards, given that strange and mysterious things for him to puzzle out have a tendency to happen with a healthy regularity when it comes to their meetings.
The Detective runs pell-mell into the room.
"So sorry I'm late. Saw someone running dramatically down a corridor. I usually like things that make people run dramatically down corridors. Thought I'd turn up and make a day of it. What seems to be the drama?"
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Y'all need to see this by
on 2018-10-08 00:46:00 UTC
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPkz_ippXfw
SFW, and entirely wholesome. This is a real drummer from a real J-Pop (I think) band, and I'll leave the rest a surprise. 1:00 onwards is the best part, but seriously, watch the whole thing.
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What did I just watch? (nm) by
on 2018-10-08 01:12:00 UTC
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A person being forced to play the drums in a mascot costume. by
on 2018-10-15 01:11:00 UTC
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(And the mascot costume has a derpy face, which makes it even better.)
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That's what I thought. by
on 2018-10-22 21:13:00 UTC
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Confirmation is a mixed bag here...
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Another thing y'all need to see by
on 2018-10-08 00:53:00 UTC
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This one is less comedy and more good original work. Currently following this animated series on Newgrounds, about a starship pilot who has no idea what he's doing but makes up for it with overconfidence, a robot who serves as his entire crew and the sane one, and a girl who's stuck in a large spaceship alone with an AI that wants to keep her by herself. There's not much so far, but it's pretty great and I think you guys would like it.
https://starshipgoldfish.newgrounds.com/movies
(Warning: There is some cussing, both from the account and in the series.)
-Twistey
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Legendary Badfics? by
on 2018-10-08 19:57:00 UTC
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http://www.academia.edu/940625/Three_Rings_for_Hollywood_Scripts_for_The_Lord_of_the_Rings_by_Zimmerman_Boorman_and_Beagle
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*eyebrow* Interesting. by
on 2018-10-16 22:25:00 UTC
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I don't believe they qualify as legendary badfics since a) they're far less well-known than the Jackson films and b) they were never released to the general public anyway, but this is a neat little bit of film history either way.
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Ahhh, the Boorman script. by
on 2018-10-09 10:19:00 UTC
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I've spent a fair amount of effort collating all the known information on it, which I've put together here (now including a few notes from this article). It's worth a read!
Visually, it actually sounds like a really interesting script. Scenes like Gimli marring the Black Gate with his axe, or the Kabuki Circus of Elrond, could be very strong visually. They're just... not at all Tolkien.
Zimmerman, by contrast, I know less about; internet searches are too swamped by Tolkien's letter on the subject. But the idea that Sam would abandon Frodo and take the Ring to Mount Doom by himself kind of tells you all you need to know.
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I don't think Jay and Acacia dealt with anything THIS crazy. by
on 2018-10-11 13:50:00 UTC
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Hobbits who need their brains running at maximum efficiency to avoid becoming wretched wraiths, eating HALLUCINOGENIC mushrooms!? Artanis/Frodo and Aragorn/Éowyn shipping!? Éomer a continuation of the Second Line!? Bag End ISN'T a smial!? Gimli abuse!?
And it seems that Boorman knew very little about horses. One human and four hobbits on one of them? The Hominidae aren't exactly lightweight species by primate standards. Also, even Evelyn from "Your Unhappy Elladan" had enough sense not to make Shadowfax a PLOWHORSE!
However, at least Boorman din't have the Eagles of Manwë every-[Westron expletive]-where*, or SAM REFUSING TO STICK A PIN IN SHELOB!
And then there's the talking Balrog. As Tolkien put it, "Z[immerman] may think he knows more about Balrogs than I do, but he can hardly expect me to agree with him."
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Technically it's still canon. by
on 2018-10-09 04:03:00 UTC
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Even if it's absolutely terrible in every way.
I mean if we could just dismiss every bad adaptation as legendary badfic there would be a lot of movies on the pile. Eragon, the Percy Jackson films, the Hobbit films (in my opinion), the Dungeons & Dragons films... the list goes on.
There was some talk at one point of missioning Fifty Shades of Grey, since it's technically fanfiction. But it got properly published so we have to regard it as its own canon. (Not that anyone is going to mission any badfic of it... although one could derive some humor from accidentally charging for problems that exist in the canon itself.) -
If they never got published, do they still count? (nm) by
on 2018-10-16 22:23:00 UTC
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Don't quote me on this... by
on 2018-10-16 23:22:00 UTC
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But I think the Boorman script was actually a licensed adaptation for a little bit. So even though plans fell through (thank Eru) it still holds a position somewhere more canonical than fanfic but less canonical than other adaptations. The mission for it addresses its sort of pseudo-canonical state.
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There's D&D films?! by
on 2018-10-15 01:16:00 UTC
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Now I want to see that. Especially since you said they were bad. I absolutely love poorly made/cheesy things. Can you give me the rundown on what all you found notable about them?
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Ah, the D&D films... by
on 2018-10-15 07:29:00 UTC
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I'm going to preface this with a disclaimer: I've never played D&D. But I think I can still recognize an awful movie when I see one. And spoilers, I guess?
Alright, so there are three of them: Dungeons and Dragons, Dungeons and Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God, and Dungeons and Dragons: The Book of Vile Darkness. Dungeons and Dragons, amusingly enough, was produced by New Line Cinema and released only one year before The Fellowship of the Ring, one of the best movies and movie adaptations I've ever seen. I guess they were saving all the good stuff for that. So it follows the adventures of Ridley, your typical white boy fantasy hero except worse, Snails, your typical black fantasy sidekick except worse (this character was handled in a pretty racist way), your typical fantasy female love interest whose name I can't remember (but she was an idiot), and a bunch of other people who were super unremarkable so I don't even remember them. I think Halle Berry might have been there? Don't quote me on that, though.
I could go on at length about what makes this movie bad in all the most hilarious ways, but I'll just link you to the Nostalgia Critic review of it. I think he hits most of the main points. The only one I think he doesn't hit is that Ridley and the love interest do the do inside a map. Yup, you read that right. They go inside a map, and then they do the do, and then it's never spoken of again. The whole thing is pretty funny. I'd highly recommend it.
The second movie is kind of boring, honestly. It was made for TV and managed to be good enough that I found myself feeling the most apathetic stirrings of an emotion that just might have been interest in seeing the heroes succeed. The special effects are pretty terrible, though. If you're looking for hilariously bad this might not be the one for you because if nothing else you can tell they were trying. Its biggest failing is that they kept on trying to link it back to the first one.
So the third film completely ignored the existence of the first two. Good move, right? Jury's still out. See, the third film was by far the worst of the three. It starts with an opening narration that goes on for long enough that you start to wonder if the whole movie is going to be like this and it isn't some kind of poorly illustrated audiobook. It isn't, (un)fortunately. Eventually it ends and the characters show up on the screen. What then follows is roughly an hour and fifteen minutes of absolutely nothing being explained ever. It's trying to deal with issues of grey morality but instead of doing that it just kind of never addresses morality at all until something depends on someone's morality, and then it aligns them either good or evil as needed to move the shambling wight that passes for a plot along. Phrases like "purest knight" are thrown about liberally, and the writing is so lazy that the macguffin actually morphs into a different object about two thirds of the way through.
And then the rest of it is torture porn.
It's not horribly graphic torture or anything. It's like weird agony ray stuff. Personally I'm less uncomfortable with the torture itself than I am with the... ah... evident interest in the torture that the movie has. If you do want to skip that part it should be easy. You'll know where it starts. Just stop watching the movie at that point because I wasn't even joking when I said the rest of it is torture porn. There is literally less than two minutes of movie left after the torture stops.
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There's Noodle Incident potential there. by
on 2018-10-11 16:57:00 UTC
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"I knew Fifty Shades was horrid, but I still thought THAT was a charge!"
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Yeah, definitely. by
on 2018-10-11 23:37:00 UTC
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"... and for having him track your phone without your knowledge or consent and portraying it as romantic. For these crimes you are sentenced to --"
"You can't charge for that," Sophie said, lowering the gun she had trained on the 'Sue slightly.
Theo lowered the notebook he'd been reading from. "Excuse me?" he said.
"That's not a charge," Sophie said.
"What do you mean it's not a charge?" Theo asked. "It is disgusting."
"Yeah, well, no arguments there," Sophie said. "It's one of the few things he did that was actually in character, though. And we don't really charge for, y'know, capturing the spirit of the original."
Theo closed the notebook slowly. "What are you saying?" he asked.
"That was very similar to something that happened in canon..." Sophie trailed off. You're not thinking what I think you're thinking, are you?"
"In all likelihood, yes," Theo said.
***
And you're certain you don't know why your partner shot Christian Grey eight times in the leg? the Sunflower Official said, looking for all the world like it was steepling its fronds.
Sophie kept her eyes very wide and tried to project innocence. "I have no idea what got into him," she said, her voice coming out roughly an octave above its usual pitch.
There was a pause.
"FicPsych said there was nothing wrong with him," she finally said.
Naturally, the Flower almost cut her off. Get out of my office, Agent List.
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Didn't we already do Boorman? by
on 2018-10-08 22:25:00 UTC
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Here's the department of WhatThe mission in question:
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Yes, I did. :) by
on 2018-10-09 09:49:00 UTC
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It's worth highlighting that not only did I do a mission into Boorman canon, I found an actual badfic of Boorman canon. (I mean, 'badfic' in that it's a hilarious parody of what the Boorman script could be like.) Show me that for another unpublished work.
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Mini appearances in canon by
on 2018-10-09 14:22:00 UTC
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The Ghostbusters Master System game misspelled Gozer as Gorza. Can you think of other canonical minis?
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I can't really think of any, but thanks for making my day! by
on 2018-10-15 01:22:00 UTC
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Hehe, I was into Ghostbusters for a while (the original, though the reboot wasn't yet a thing when I started), and my favorite character was Gozer, because up until recently I've always gravitated towards the villain of any medium. This thread brought back a couple memories of that.
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Re: Mini appearances in canon by
on 2018-10-12 16:37:00 UTC
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In a journal in Riven, Gehn misspelled "wahrk" as "whark".
Don't know what an Agatha Christie mini would be, but a copy of Death Comes as the End spelled "Imhotep" (the father's name) as "Imhtep" once. -
I think they should be mini-corpses. (nm) by
on 2018-10-13 13:45:00 UTC
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o.O Because that's not disturbing at all. (nm) by
on 2018-10-13 21:53:00 UTC
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I suppose it is, but... by
on 2018-10-14 08:01:00 UTC
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That’s about the only thing I could think of that connects almost all of the books. There aren’t any monsters or anything, so I don’t know what else it would be.
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A mini-Grey Cell? by
on 2018-10-14 14:37:00 UTC
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Only more of a really big Grey Cell. You can buy some really adorable plushie cells, I'm sure there's a cute neuron out there.
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That made me grin. by
on 2018-10-14 14:59:00 UTC
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I suppose it makes sense for a mini of something that’s already little to be big. Maybe Average-Sized Grey Cells? Or would that mean average by grey cell standards - still little?
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I think it does, actually. by
on 2018-10-14 22:54:00 UTC
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Inarguably, all of Christie's heroes make extensive use of their brains. Arguably, ze little grey cells are also the prime antagonist: specifically, when they're /not/ doing their job and putting the pieces together.
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I almost pity the fangirls... by
on 2018-10-15 16:49:00 UTC
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at the Agatha Christie OFU. Their schemes will never last ten seconds without the grey cells figuring them out and thwarting them in the most ironic way possible.
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Re: I almost pity the fangirls... by
on 2018-10-16 12:47:00 UTC
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And the most cunning of her detectives and the most cunning of her criminals would put their heads together to find novel ways of thwarting them. Of course, most of the incidents would have to be of the noodle variety.
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The fangirls don't die, though... by
on 2018-10-16 21:30:00 UTC
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They just disappear for about ten days. =]
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I am soooooo fed up... by
on 2018-10-15 16:53:00 UTC
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... of people giving me amazing ideas for OFUs that I know full well I would never, ever be able to write.
So you can have this one. ^_^
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I couldnÂ’t write it either. by
on 2018-10-16 08:05:00 UTC
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My canonical knowledge is nowhere near good enough: I haven’t read all the books and those that I have I got from the library.
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Glory to the Marines Errantor! by
on 2018-10-12 01:56:00 UTC
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This obscure chapter of Space Marines appeared in the Warhammer 40,000 supplement "Chapter Approved 2001." They are probably a typo of "Marines Errant," a chapter mentioned elsewhere in the same publication.
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No, no, no... by
on 2018-10-12 11:26:00 UTC
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... they're obviously a typo for the Marines Errator, which consists of the survivors of every Space Marine Chapter which has ever been misspelled. ^_^
(Though actually Errantor is apparently a valid Latin word: Wiktionary calls it the third-person plural future passive imperative of errō, which means 'I wander'. So... what is that, 'let it be that they will wander'? Or 'let them wander!'. Is that the same linguistic formulation as 'let them eat cake'?)
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Sometime I should make a kill-team of Marines Errantor... (nm) by
on 2018-10-13 01:36:00 UTC
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Not exactly canon but... by
on 2018-10-11 08:07:00 UTC
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I had a junior high unit study of The Lord of the Rings that tried to refer to Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli as "The Threee Hunters". For some reason it stuck with me all this time.
My copy of The Lord of the Rings also misspells the name of some elf or other at one point, but I don't remember where or who, unfortunately. I missed it on my last rereading. -
By the way... by
on 2018-10-12 07:33:00 UTC
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Have you had time to look at my Permission doc yet? I emailed it last week. Sorry if I’m being too impatient: I’m new to being beta-read so I don’t know how long it usually takes.
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I've been keeping a running list! by
on 2018-10-10 13:45:00 UTC
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typo (correct spelling), source
Laner (Lanier), from Greg Bear's Eon
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A bunch of mini-Hunters out of the Halo universe:
Librae 23 (23 Librae), from Tobias Buckell's The Cole Protocol
Adrienne (Adriana), from The Cole Protocol
Jagger (Jaggers), from Eric Nylund's The Fall of Reach
USNC (UNSC), appearing eleven times so far that I've encountered, including on a box in Halo 3. Not going to list all the novels and short stories.
Kilo (Kiko), from Tobias Buckell's "Dirt"
Cuidad de Arias (Ciudad de Arias), from Fred Van Lente's "Blunt Instruments"
McCraw (MacCraw), from Jeff VanderMeer and Tessa Kum's "The Mona Lisa"
MAB5 (MA5B), from Eric Nylund's Ghosts of Onyx
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Rassselas (Rasselas), from Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre
Iluvatar (Ilúvatar), from Tolkien's The Silmarillion
Ocs (Orcs), from The Silm again
Montage (Montag), from Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
Cheno (Chen), from Douglas Preston's Blasphemy
Kublia Khan (Kublai Khan), from James Rollins's The Judas Strain
Asaph Saywer (Asaph Sawyer), from Lovecraft's "Into the Vault"
Ourkranos (Oukranos), from Lovecraft's The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
Adbul Alhazred (Abdul Alhazred), from Lovecraft's The Thing on the Doorstep (Like, they got the hard part of his name right?!)
Gengis Khan (Genghis Khan), from Chris Stewart's The Fourth War (Those poor Khans!)
Thundercap Station (Thunderclap Station), from Stephen King's The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower
Jello-O (Jell-O), from Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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How about a mess of mini-Atogs out of Magic: the Gathering?
Mach (Macha), from Mark Shepherd's "Gathering the Taradomnu"
For's River (Fors River), from the above
horned octipus (horned octopus), from Billie Sue Mosiman's "The Theft of Bayende, Heart and Soul"
Teriel (Telier), from Morgan Llywelyn's "Dryad's Kiss"
Vashino (Viashino), from Mark Sumner's The Prodigal Sorcerer
Aligaurius (Aligarius), from same as above
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Iliipoi (Iliiopoi), from Jack London's "The Bones of Kahekili"
Hams (Hans), from Jules Verne's A Journey to the Center of the Earth
Luisades (Lusiades), from Verne's In Search of the Castaways
Captain's King's (Captain King's), from Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
Nkosi Sikelel' i Africa (Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrica), from Bryce Courtenay's The Power of One
All Quite on the Western Front (All Quiet on the Western Front) I BET YOU WILL NEVER GUESS WHERE THIS WAS FROM
And finally, the kamikaze memorial inside the U.S.S. Missouri misspelled real person Petty Officer Second Class Setsuo Ishino's first name as "Setuo."
For the record, I do have notations for all of these; I just didn't have time to type it all out.
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And don't forget... by
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Suicides (Suicide\Suicide's), from Tungsten Monk's copy of Stephen Pressfield's Gates of Fire. That's the dubious and probably-not-a-good-idea-to-repeat way in which we got Agent Suicide. {= ) Sadly, I have no idea what printing or what page.
I'm sure I've seen characters' names (and other words) misspelled in the Horus Heresy books, too, but I haven't bothered to keep track so far. I reckon mass-produced franchise books are ripe for this sort of thing.
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I've had a copy of Gates of Fire . . . by
on 2018-10-12 04:03:00 UTC
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on my shelf for years. I'm looking forward to finding Suicide's origin point!
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*Steven by
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Dammit, Muphry's Law got me! {X D
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My personal favorite from Harry Potter: by
on 2018-10-09 16:50:00 UTC
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Snap was spying on me and he was taking a video tape of me!
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I can! by
on 2018-10-09 14:55:00 UTC
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The (in)famous Bakshi LotR movie referred to Saruman as Aruman about half the time. Apparently they were concerned people would confuse the two S-villains... but that doesn't explain why they only bothered to change half of the instances.
Also, to anyone who watched Doctor Who night before last: does 'Tim Shaw' count as a canon mini? >:)
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Re your question... by
on 2018-10-09 16:51:00 UTC
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Probably no more than the Percy Jackson demigods calling Enceladas "Enchiladas". :P
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Well, does that count? by
on 2018-10-09 16:58:00 UTC
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A deliberate nickname is one thing - I don't think we have a mini-Balrog named Leggy, for instance. But getting the name wrong because you misheard or misread it is a classic way to create a mini. Heck, my own Thanduril came into being because I wrote his name from memory and got it wrong.
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