Uff. I was not planning to spend all day rehosting the 2008 Mary Sue Invasion RP, but guess what? That's what happened! {= D

I'mma go do normal people things like food now.

~Neshomeh

Since I wasn't able to get to my sketchbook this week, instead of an art update, y'all who are interested get a bit of trivia!

All the Knights' names are intentionally selected so that they match names I liked at the time they each represent. This means that all but one are borrowed from persona-type OCs I created during those times.

- Cass Kingside is my planned Newgrounds pseudonym.

- Update, I'm changing Myla's name to Luna, because I'd been thinking of naming her that originally, but at the time, the OC "Luna" was still active, and I don't like having multiple characters with the same name. I threw away the story recently, and so the option to do this was opened.
- (Who was Luna? Luna was me, Sue-ified. You'll learn more about her in another post.)
- (And as for the name "Myla", it's an alternate spelling of a shortened version of "Ludmila", the female lead in a very odd opera I learned to love at the time.)

- Sakura was a character I made for a role-playing group I briefly had with my school friends. She went by the nickname Mountaineer because of her earth powers, but her real name was Sakura, because I overused Japanese names a lot. She later became the basis for one of my agents-to-be, Amber Callahan.

- Jacqueline was one of my first OCs, and definitely a Mary Sue. She was a Viking from Berk and fought alongside Samurai Jack. *Snrk*

- Elinya was one of the many characters I briefly invented for a single session of dress-up. Her name was "Elina" (the character Barbie plays in "Barbie: Fairytopia") plus a y.

- The name "Aldegund" was never actually used for any characters I had, as it sounded a bit unwieldy, but I know I eyed it. It's an ancient Germanic name meaning "old war".

- Scarlet was my character in a recurring RP I did with Moon Moon, called "Path Wars". Because it was Pathfinder (the D&D offshoot), plus Star Wars... plus Minecraft? With our hypothetical mods? Anyway, she was definitely a servant of the Emperor, and used Nether Star amulets (my creation) to augment her power.

- Teyori was a medieval-ized name for me, Twistey. The name was used in a fanfic I planned to write involving a friend and I being stuck in Stephen King's book The Eyes of the Dragon and having to find the portal out of the continuum. Interestingly enough, that fanfic yielded a concept I created for a multiverse like the PPC's... except worse. Yeah.

Alright, that's it for Knights trivia!

-Twistey

As of... Monday, I think it was, we have officially moved to https://ppc.fandom.com. Please update your links accordingly (she said hypocritically, having not yet done so herself).

Also, I have now updated a whole bunch of hS-related links that have moved from Webs to Neocities or Gdocs. I'm happy to do the rest of them as soon as they're moved, too, especially since it looks like ppchistory is down at the moment. Bloody Webs.

~Neshomeh

Amazon have started a Twitter account for their Middle-earth series.

Wroop, wroop, this is not a drill.

The first tweet is an unlabelled map of Middle-earth. Mostly so far so canon, but - paging DOGA - it features what looks like a sunken island in the Sea of Rhun (that might be pilfered from the old RP game), as well as a brand new eastern forest and mountain range.

hS

Okay, they got hitched in 2018, but they're still cute. {= )

Other contenders may include Derik and Gall, but that's just terrifying.

... Ix, we should figure out if Ilraen and Farilan are still a thing. Like, I assume yes? Probably?

And let's not even get into the fluffy love polygons of HQ's resident polyamorous pansexuals...

~Neshomeh