Subject: I've had a copy of Gates of Fire . . .
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Posted on: 2018-10-12 04:03:00 UTC
on my shelf for years. I'm looking forward to finding Suicide's origin point!
—It's such a shame that doctorlit has no control over what order he reads books, and that the books themselves determine that for him. Oh well!
The Ghostbusters Master System game misspelled Gozer as Gorza. Can you think of other canonical minis?
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.
-Twistey
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.
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.
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.
hS
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?
Not really sure it applies to the non-Poirot books, though. Alternatively, we could compromise by combining our ideas... Dead grey cells???
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.
hS
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.
...then again, that’s more or less what happens at every OFU.
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.
They just disappear for about ten days. =]
... 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. ^_^
hS
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
~Neshomeh
on my shelf for years. I'm looking forward to finding Suicide's origin point!
—It's such a shame that doctorlit has no control over what order he reads books, and that the books themselves determine that for him. Oh well!
Dammit, Muphry's Law got me! {X D
~Neshomeh
Snap was spying on me and he was taking a video tape of me!
The one misspelling My Immortal got right. :P
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? >:)
hS
Probably no more than the Percy Jackson demigods calling Enceladas "Enchiladas". :P
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.
hS