Subject: Happy Birthday, Thoth!
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Posted on: 2018-01-27 13:52:00 UTC
Have an ENIAC!
I do hope you have somewhere to put it.
- Tomash
Subject: Happy Birthday, Thoth!
Author:
Posted on: 2018-01-27 13:52:00 UTC
Have an ENIAC!
I do hope you have somewhere to put it.
- Tomash
I am now 17 years old! Which is cool, I guess.
And in that time... Jeez. I've been in the PPC for about half a year. And if you had told me in Augest, when I posted that hesitant introduction on the board, where I'd be now? That I would be in the middle of a co-write that was also my first PPC mission? That I would meet people who would become my close friends? That I'd have opened up to myself and my family about my sexuality? That I would be a happier, healthier, more confident person? And that it would be thanks to you guys?
I'd have thought you were mad.
Thank you, everyone. You, all of you, this place, changed my life. And it changed it for the better.
A bit late, of course, but to be perfectly frank I'm not sure I've ever wished someone a happy birthday on the Board without being at least a little late.
Anyway, have a commissar cap and laspistol engraved with your personal heraldry.
Oh, and some birthday pizza. Family tradition, you see. Topping selection operates via voice command, courtesy of magic.
Also, happy birthday! *Pfeep*
-Twistey
That would be bad if I forgot, since everyone else is giving you birthday presents. I've got two for you. One virtual, and one real, since while I haven't interacted with you really all that much (my favorite instance being in the Badfic Games), you're one of the Boarders that I remember relatively well when I'm not on the Board.
Virtual present: Here is a two-handed sword that has been enhanced with a fantasy substance I'm studying. Don't grab the sword, the blade's very sharp and you don't want to scratch up things. This cushion to hold it is also for you. Hold out your forearms and hold it like a tray of food. Ah. There you go. [You examine the sword. It has a long, straight blade made of gleaming iron, with fantastic designs depicting suns, angels and more, inlaid with a rose-gold-ish material. The hilt is made of stone, under a thin layer of similar rose-gold stuff, with a section of it wrapped in black leather as a hand grip.] That peachy colored stuff is the fantasy substance. It's not as dangerous when it's refined as when it's in raw form, hence why it will only cause your enemies to feel an intense burning sensation where they've been cut and experience hallucinations, instead of undergoing a full-on transformation like they would if this were a sword made of the raw stuff. The people who created this sword, who I stole it from, like to pretend that only the "right" user can wield it to its full potential, but that's absolute baloney. That's why I gave it to you, because you are nowhere near their definition of the "right" user, so you can make them really mad by being living evidence that they're very wrong about one of their most prized weapons. I'll tell you more if you stick around long enough.
Real present: I've gotten very into Overwatch recently and today I had an idea to draw some of us Boarders as Overwatch characters that fit our personalities. I was having trouble coming up with a sixth Boarder and their character for the "here's the team that won" drawing (or a fifth Boarder, if the dude I'm trying to recruit doesn't show up). I looked through the characters and how the fandom tends to depict them, comparing them with your "How to Be Thoth" post, and I'm thinking I'll put you as Genji. Congrats, you're now part of one of my Board memes, and with the character you have, you don't even have to send a doodle of yourself. Just tell me your favorite color for me to use instead of the green details on the design so that people who look at it can recognize that it's not just Genji. Or if your favorite color is green (me too), lemme know what I could do to tweak it and make it recognizable as being "Thoth in cosplay."
Have an awesome birthday.
-Twistey
And if you want to make it clear it's me, you can hide a 40k symbol on it somewhere. Like a Mark of Tzeentch. Or something.
I don't know, I guess I just got a weird idea of Genji from a couple "Overwatch Voice RP" videos I saw on the Internet. I feel like crap (OF course) for not thinking this through properly, so if you have any other ideas, I'll consider them.
(Also on "How to Be More Thoth", you mentioned "Why do work when you can... not?" Genji was a slacker in his backstory before he got cybernetics and training from Zenyatta and whatnot.)
-Twistey
Nah, sounds fine to me. I was just curious.
...can I ask your opinions on my other ideas?
hS as S76 or Bastion?
Nesh as Mercy or Mei?
Ix as Widowmaker?
Myself and an online friend (once recruited, I'm still in the process of doing so) as Junkrat and Roadhog. I think it fits, considering I'm the more "chaotic" one of the two of us and tend to get way too carried away with having fun a lot.
And then you. Le Genji.
-Twistey
I'm pretty sure Bastion's a disguised dwarf.
(Backstory: Alleb at one point translated the names of the entire Overwatch roster into Tolkienian Quenya. I then couldn't shake the question of who would have those names, and ended up drawing out the first ten. As luck would have it, both Ohtar Otso Enquë and Métimanta made it into that set.)
(Hmm... I should probably finish those at some point.)
(Anyway, random reference to thing from a year ago: go!)
hS
(BTW, it's official, my parents blocked the Board on my computer. I don't know whether it's about the distraction or whether it's about "negative influences" and "criticizing things" and "people who dedicate all their time to fanfic need to get a life" and all that stuff my dad keeps saying. Either way, I'll be on the Board less from now on.)
-Twistey
I give unto you a Campbell-pattern medium laspistol. Luke Campbell is an artist and frequent contributor to the website Atomic Rockets. His designs for realistic laser weapons are excellent.
Glad to hear this place has done so much for you. Have some sticky notes shaped like cats!
I'm glad you were able to have a good experience here!
Anyway, have a triple chocolate (as in chocolate with chocolate chips and chocolate icing) cupcake, and don't forget to blow out the candle and make a wish!
Have an ENIAC!
I do hope you have somewhere to put it.
- Tomash