Subject: Oh, and yarn, for the likes. Can't forget it. (nm)
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Posted on: 2010-07-24 21:32:00 UTC
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Inspired by the post below by
on 2010-07-22 12:54:00 UTC
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A lot of PPCers are here because they love the community that the PPC provides. But it's hard to keep track of who's who sometimes, especially when there are floods of newbies. On the other hand, there are Oldbies who are so respected that it feels like it is assumed that everything about them is Common Knowledge and so no one bothers or dares to ask questions about them.
So here's your chance to put some information about yourself out there. Fandoms, hobbies, likes and dislikes, etc. Gender, too, because the fandom assumption that everyone is female can easily be wrong.
Name: Ansela, Ansela Jonla
Gender: Female
Nationality: British
Fandoms: Bleach (currently active), Harry Potter (inactive), Stargate SG-1/Atlantis (inactive), Doctor Who/Torchwood, Sharpe (*drools*), Naruto (inactive), LotR, FMA, Ouran, Code Geass, Gundam Wing/00, Kyou Kara Maou, Narnia, Star Trek XI.
Hobbies: Runescape, jigsaws, reading, Halo (damnit, when is 3 coming out on PC?!), Heroes of Might and Magic, fanfic (reading and writing), chatting to friends
Likes: good slash, IC non/dub-con fics, good writing, plot, friendly people, chocolate, bacon, listening to music
Dislikes: bad writing, OOCness, coffee and tea, overly decaffeinated 'energy drinks', my idiotic younger brother, filling in forms, having to get my parents to fill in forms, chatspeak, people who think spelling and grammar is optional on the internet
Other: My LJ username is ansela_jonla. My RS name is AnselaJonla. I hope more of you do this. Copying my format is not compulsory. Do it however you like. -
Might as well by
on 2010-07-24 22:45:00 UTC
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Name: Kaiko Aozora/Eclectus (I go by both)
Gender: Female
Nationality: (Regretfully) American
Fandoms: Hikaru no Go, Death Note, Miyazaki, Valdemar, HP, LotR, Angelic Layer, Fullmetal Alchemist, D.Gray-Man, Narnia,
Hobbies: Drawing, writing (fanfic and original--I've been shifting towards original lately); disgusting everyone who follows female gender stereotypes (EW, she touched a BUG!); webcomics, commiserating with like-minded people, animanga
Likes: Well-done mild romance (although unfortunately, yaoi has put me off MxM); animals, concrit, manga, reading, webcomics, fantasy, sci-fi, STEAMPUNK Dislikes: M-fic (Slash or het), prejudice, 'phobes, willful ignorance (especially of the political and scientific variety), stupid people, people who enjoy klling (one meme that does not deserve to survive), badly done romance, disturbing pairings, bad writing (especially SPAG-deficient writing); "It's fanfic, I don't need to use logic!" (Yes, someone actually gave me this argument)
Other: Kaiko Aozora's my nick in the Pit.
Just a note--since I don't have permission yet, "Fandoms" is just fandoms I read. The animanga ones are surprisingly limited, since I'm keeping myself to ones I've finished. ^.^; -
Delayed reaction: by
on 2010-07-27 23:38:00 UTC
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My first reaction when I see the word "aozora":
*bursts into song*
Ima kimi no me ni ippai no mirai
Subete o kagayakasu
Yowaki na hito wa kirai
Aozora uragiranai...
*runs off to look for Nadia fanfic in the Pit*
Only ten stories? I am disappoint.
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Also stealing the format by
on 2010-07-24 21:25:00 UTC
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Name: Anity or Leo
Gender: Genderqueer
Nationality: American
Fandoms: Buffy, Firefly, Harry Potter, mostly inactive Den of Shadows/Keisha'ra, used to be in Dragonriders of Pern and Star Wars
Hobbies: Belly dance, horses, reading, writing, roleplaying
Likes: Horses, music, sarcasm, femslash, fanfiction, good porn, candles, black tea
Dislikes: Med side effects, spelling and grammatical errors, herbal "tea", needing parental permission
Other: My lj username is slashmarks. I write Agents Nadine and Jodi, Department of Floaters, and their (two) missions can be found at nadineandjodi.webs.com. -
Oh, and yarn, for the likes. Can't forget it. (nm) by
on 2010-07-24 21:32:00 UTC
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This bandwagon's getting mighty full by
on 2010-07-24 11:36:00 UTC
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Also shamelessly-stealing Ansela's template-thingy.
Name: Elcalion, Cam
Gender: Male
Age: 24
Nationality: Australian
Fandoms: LoTR, Star Wars, Discworld, Star Trek reboot, Supernatural, X-Men, Harry Potter, Narnia,
Hobbies: Playing music (Violin, viola, mandolin, clarinet), reading (many, many books), Sims 2, Oblivion, almost any Star Wars game, cooking, brewing beer, volleyball, rugby, cycling, languages (to varying degrees, French, German, Czech, Latin, Sindarin, Quenya, Adunaic)
Likes: Historical fics (e.g. plausible fill-in-the-gaps-of-history such as Second Age LoTR fics), well-written AUs, tea (iced and otherwise), Pilsener beer, correcting others' spelling and grammar, irony, tango
Dislikes: Celery, liquorice, capsicum (bell peppers to you Yankees), slash in basically all its forms, the word "misspell" which I always worry about getting wrong,
Other: elcalion on LJ, also strangler-fig (PPC only stuff) -
Meh. Why not? by
on 2010-07-24 06:48:00 UTC
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Lesse here...
Name: Data Junkie, or Nifar. First name Raven. Yes, I know it's Sue-ish, hush. My parents are hippie gamers. >>
Gender: What, I can't make the "yes please" joke? Fine. Male.
Nationality: American. I'm a citizen of the city-state of Seattle at heart, though. Then again, I also live in the year 2073 at heart. >>
Fandoms: Whoverse, Shadowrun, D&D, L5R, the Drageara books, Transformers, Discworld, anything by Neil Gaiman, Whedonverse, True Blood (books and TV series), and a metric shit-ton of other stuff.
Hobbies: Reading the whole internet (or at least most of it), playing video games, board games, and RPGs, reading, watching TV, going to clubs and conventions.
Likes: Shadowrun, so-bad-it's-good fic, good writing and plot, friendly people, chocolate, bacon, listening to music, steampunkery, writing.
Dislikes: Bad writing that's not so-bad-it's-good, OOCness, non/dub-con, canon-rape, tweenage romance stories, chatspeak, people who think spelling and grammar is optional on the internet ignorance, bigotry and people who think having a learning disability means that you're sub-human.
Other: I can be found via LJ at DataPanda, or via email at pandagamerx@yahoo.com -
a subsidiary question for all by
on 2010-07-24 03:17:00 UTC
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We all seem to be saying we like reading. So let's talk about that.
My In Progress books at the moment are:
The Two Towers - I galloped through FotR in January, and put TTT in my bag so it'd be to hand, and then somehow never sort of got on with it. Just got to the crossroads.
A Fortress of Grey Ice, by J V Jones - someone on my flist recced it because, and I quote, "dude, I think my elf analogues are gay". Loving the series so far.
Peter F Hamilton's The Dreaming Void. Started it on a train. Liked, didn't quite continue, read seventeen other books instead.
Figments of Reality by Jack Stewart and Ian Cohen. These guys are my glods. I always have one of theirs on the go. -
Books by
on 2010-07-25 05:22:00 UTC
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I'm currently in the middle of Robertson Davies's collection of short stories (wonderful parody ghost stories set at Massey College), High Spirits. I am otherwise between books, but next on my list is Unexpected Magic, a Diana Wynne Jones short story collection. I've been kind of on a short stories spree this year. I also have Anathem, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, and The Hunger Games sitting around; I may go for Anathem next, if I feel up to it. My mom's been telling me The Hunger Games is really good, but I can't quite convince myself of this, and until I do I probably won't pick it up.
Also on a Charles de Lint spree — the last few books I've read (all in the last week) included his Dingo, Forests of the Heart, and Little (grrl) Lost, Neil Gaiman's Smoke and Mirrors collection, and Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union.
But. Let me take a minute to talk about how amazing Charles de Lint is. Question: how amazing is Charles de Lint? Answer: super-amazing. Think Neil Gaiman, but slightly more optimistic, and with a huge and varied knowledge of mythology. If you have not heard of him, definitely check him out. -
Re: Books by
on 2010-07-27 18:24:00 UTC
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I wish Charles de Lint were writing my life. Think how awesomely magical it would be. Besides, every time I read his stuff he makes me believe absolutely in the stories. My favorites are Jack of Kinrowan and Drink down the Moon.
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Agreed by
on 2010-07-27 23:32:00 UTC
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About the "I wish he were writing my life bit" — I can't speak to those particular books, yet. But I want that kind of magic in my life.
That is the biggest difference between him and Neil Gaiman, for me: they are superficially similar, and I like Neil Gaiman's writing, but I would hate to be stuck in one of his stories, for the most part, with a few exceptions. -
Let's see... by
on 2010-07-25 02:47:00 UTC
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Mostly Agatha Christie right now. The books are quick and interesting and that's really all I have time for what with work and all. I would really like to finish For Whom the Bell Tolls and How Green was my Valley by the end of the summer, but who knows whether that will happen.
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I wish I had more time for reading... by
on 2010-07-24 18:48:00 UTC
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I'm currently reading the Green Rider series (yes, yes- say what you want XD). I'm on the second book.
I've got loads of books that haven't been read yet. *flails about lack of time* >_
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Re: a subsidiary question for all by
on 2010-07-24 17:57:00 UTC
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I am currently working my way through all of the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes. I've finished A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of Four, and I've started The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Before this I read the Ukiah Oregon series by Wen Spencer. These books are completely awesome! Alien Taste, Tainted Trail, Bitter Waters, and Dog Warrior.
I've been on a series kick this year. I read the entire Warrior cats series by Erin Hunter this last winter, which amounted to about thirty books. I started the Percy Jackson series, but I haven't been able to finish due to a slight monetary disagreement with the library (read I owe them high fines for late books and one damaged baby book).
I have started several books this year without finishing them, which is odd for me. I've started The Silmarillion, and a re-read of The Three Musketeers. I've also listened to several chapters of various Mark Twain novels: Roughing It, The Innocents Abroad, and Life on the Mississippi. My husband is on a quest to listen (he prefers audiobooks) to every Mark Twain book ever written. These are available with a very good reader from Librivox -
Reading by
on 2010-07-24 16:34:00 UTC
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I decided that I wanted to reread the Wheel of Time series. I am currently on book three; The Dragon Reborn. I am almost finished with that and will be moving on to The Shadow Rising fairly soon.
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Reading by
on 2010-07-24 16:33:00 UTC
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I don't read quite as voraciously now as I did when I was younger, but I've always got something going on. Currently I've found myself out of my usual comfort zone of fantasy and sci-fi, but it's been nice here, too.
I've just started The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, which, as you may know, has recently been turned into a movie. I haven't gotten far enough to say much about it, but I can tell you the titular girl looks to be a really awesome character. She's got the whole fascinatingly rough and antisocial exterior covering something awful that happened to her, but she doesn't have the angst that so often goes with that. Nothing about her says "poor me;" mainly it says "bugger off, I'm working here." Total competence at what she does, though not always in ways her boss approves of (or wants to know about, in fact).
And then of course there's the mystery, which has only begun to be introduced. All the main players have yet to hook up, so I'm sure when that happens it'll really take off.
The last thing I read is The Source by James Michener. I recommend this if you want a really, really long, dense read that will keep you engaged every step of the way. The initial setting is an archaeological dig at the fictional Tell Makor in Israel, where we're introduced to the characters that provide a framing story to everything else that goes on. After the key finds of the dig are uncovered, the author takes us back in time to the protohumans that first lived on the Tell, and gradually brings us back up to the present (well, the `40s or `50s), visiting various points in history along the way. It's a lot about the development of Judaism and some about the other religions that sprang from the same area, Christianity and Islam, but with a historical focus. Very interesting if you're curious about religion or history at all, academically or otherwise.
Before that, I read the Death Gate Cycle by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. If you liked the Dragonlance series at all, you'll love this. I am not Dragonlance's biggest fan, but I had such a good time with this series that I almost started over from the beginning when I was done. I still plan on reading it again. Between four (well, five) separate worlds, where the usual fantasy races have each developed in a distinct manner, you've got enough intrigue, magic, action, and drama to power a large city. ... Or seven really good books, as it happens. And as your tour guide, you have Haplo and his dog with guest appearances by Alfred, the most hapless individual you will ever meet. And I'm going to stop talking now, because there's just so much I could go on about, and we'd be here all day. Long story short: great fantasy; not a Tolkien knock-off; you'll enjoy it. Go read!
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I was thinking about seeing the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by
on 2010-07-24 21:27:00 UTC
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But not with much expectation of enjoying it. Maybe I'l read the book. How's the action? The wikipedia plot synopsis makes it sound kind of slow.
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Hard to say. by
on 2010-07-25 23:59:00 UTC
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Again, I'm only a few chapters in. It looks to be more based on intrigue than action so far, though--the two main protagonists are a journalist and a PI, so it makes sense. And I am intrigued.
~Neshomeh -
Currently... by
on 2010-07-24 12:39:00 UTC
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I'm not actually in the middle of reading anything, but I'm determined to make my way through my PTerry *holy horns* collection again in my upcoming hiatus from the internet (starting tomorrow through to Thursday).
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Re: Books by
on 2010-07-24 07:16:00 UTC
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I'm currently reading the Dresden Files(well, rereading them) and am about to pick up Son of a Witch.
I just finished Halo: First Strike, Fool Moon, the Peshawar Lancers and Superior Saturday.
Peshawar Lancers - I'm a big S.M. Sterling fan, and a big steampunk fan, so when I found out that Sterling had written an alternate history story about a world that was stuck in the steam age due to a huge meteor storm in the 1800s, I was hooked. As with most of Sterling's books that I've read, it starts kind of slow, but it's well worth it if you stick with it.
The Dresden Files - Jim Butcher's Dresden files are really fun to read. A bit reminiscent of Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe stories, with magic and other fantasy elements thrown in. While I'll admit that there is the occasional plothole, however the writing is good enough and the stories are so fun that it's easy to over look some of those.
Halo: First Strike - Man, the Halo books do a much better job of explaining what's going on than the games do. First Strike is a nice one that bridges the gap between the first and second games and goes a ways in explaining why the Master Chief acts as distant as he does, and why Sgt. Johnson survived the Flood. It also gives some insight into the way the Covenant works, and where the Brutes were during the first game.
Superior Saturday - The sixth, and second-to-last book in the Keys to the Kingdom series by Garth Nix. It's a good story. Unfortunately, I don't remember much of the first five books, so I'll have to go back and reread those. -
I quite like the Dresden Files. by
on 2010-07-24 21:28:00 UTC
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I'm only on my first way through the series, though -- I just finished Summer Knight and am being distracted by the Anita Blake series.
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Summer Knight's a good one by
on 2010-07-25 07:35:00 UTC
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My favorite so far is White Night, however. I haven't read the two latest, though.
Also,I can only express my condolences regarding the Anita Blake series. My only advice is to get out while you still can. Depending on where you are in the series, you've only got a few books left until it just turns into supernatural porn. -
Chapter sampler for an original fiction Suefic. by
on 2010-07-24 04:06:00 UTC
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Seriously...it was in the local ice cream shop, so I picked it up. It's called "Oracles of Delphi Keep," and you are hereby forewarned. The first chapter is about a baby girl named Theodosia (Theo for short), who was abandoned by her mother and left with a mysterious letter and a mysterious crystal pendant on a gold chain. A man left baby!Sue at an orphanage on a dark and stormy night, and a five-year old name Ian has an instant puppy love connection to her. (He names her; no one knows her real name.) She's blond and light-eyed, with an oval face, round cheeks, a "perfect little nub" of a nose, and did I mention she has a birthmark on her right shoulder in the shape of an eye?
Yes, that's all in the first chapter.
So, as you can imagine, once I'd read through it, I quickly put it down and read the latest issue of National Geographic instead. Before that, I read Tennyson's Idylls of the King (Arthurian legend in glorious blank verse), and before that, some prophecies from the Bible. -
Sounds a bit like the book I'm reading by
on 2010-07-24 09:09:00 UTC
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It's an Italian "jumped on the Harry Potter bandwagon" about a boy who has lost both his parents to the big evil and is the key in fighting that evil. There's explicitly no magic in the book; apparently there are other ways to bend the laws of nature out of shape.
I'm reading it because a friend of mine is translating it and I'm helping her smooth out the translation. What I really want to do is go to Italy, find a hardcopy version of the original and wack the author over the head with it. At least my friend is getting paid for her efforts.
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I like this idea. by
on 2010-07-24 00:03:00 UTC
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Plus more information helps differentiate between people with similar names and maybe will help newbies be less confused?
*shamelessly ganking Ansela's format because it is nice and makes for less thinking* :P
Name: Makari Crow or Makari Tengu, depending on the situation.
Gender: Female (oddly, I often get mistaken for male. I'd thought Makari sounded feminine but... no?)
Nationality: American, though I attend university in Canada.
Fandoms: Tales of Symphonia, Tales of the Abyss, FFVII-FFXII, Katekyo Hitman Reborn!, Old Kingdom etc., Kingdom Hearts, theoretically xxxHolic and Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle -- these are the high points. I like and am familiar with a lot more, but... yeah.
Hobbies: writing (original and fan), reading (again, original and fan), occasional drawing, most JRPGs, dance, sewing, singing, knitting, breaking various brains, and tempting fate.
Likes: All of the above. Also dogs, vibrant and eye-searing colors, good and well-thought-out AUs of the non-high school variety, this place, hand-knit socks and hats, the theatre, friends, friendly acquaintances, people who put up with me talking too much, and much much more.
Dislikes: Simple misspellings that could be caught by anyone with half a brain and an elementary grasp of phonics (alternately, a spellchecker), contrived plot, blatant misuse of the English language ('voice' in prose is one thing. Rampant unintelligibility is another.), pressure, those songs that get played literally every opportunity possible on the radio, and bad movie adaptations. And so on.
Other: I have two settings so far as socializing: almost completely mute or talking ears off. :D -
Yes! Really! by
on 2010-07-24 05:42:00 UTC
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Why are there so many highschool AUs? I wrote stories partly to get out of that mental location! I really don't understand why people keep trying to go back to it.
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Perhaps it's a desire to make someone else suffer through it (nm by
on 2010-07-24 21:31:00 UTC
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Araeph, Department of Technical Errors. by
on 2010-07-23 23:42:00 UTC
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Name: Araeph
Gender: Female
Nationality: American
Fandoms: Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean, Star Trek
Hobbies: Reading, writing, drawing, playing the violin, and mocking bad fanfiction.
Likes: Mexican hot chocolate, great writing, proofreading (my day job), winter weather, the Spanish language, mythology
Dislikes: Mary Sues, bashing of strong female canon characters, and OOCness. I don't dislike technical errors...I love them. They're usually the highlight of my day. :D
Other: My agents are Mara and Isaiah. I've been with the PPC since 2003. -
Okeydey, then. by
on 2010-07-23 21:15:00 UTC
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Name: Huinesoron, hS, or David.
Gender: Male
Nationality: British
Fandoms: Well, I don't spend much time in fandom any more, but I'm still essentially Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Doctor Who (old and new), Discworld. I dabble in many others, though.
Hobbies: Reading, writing, Minecraft. I play various other computer games, but none consistantly. I pretend to learn various coding languages and methods occasionally. Mostly I read.
Likes: My wife, Heather Dale's music, books I haven't read before by authors I like, fanfics I have read before and like (which makes me rubbish at reading newer PPC missions, I'm afraid).
Dislikes: Authors who take ages to write their next book, having to go to bed at a reasonable time, work, work, work, not being able to finish writing things I start.
Other: My wife is Kaitlyn, who was once active on the Board, but isn't really any more. I don't write PPC missions very often nowadays, but tend to do stuff about hypothetical histories and futures of the PPC, when I do anything at all.
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Might as well . . . by
on 2010-07-23 21:01:00 UTC
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Name: Tungsten_Monk (Tungsten, TM, TWM)
Gender: Female
Nationality: American
Fandoms: GI Joe, Harry Potter, DC Comics (mostly Batman), Watchmen, Discworld, Lord of the Rings, Team Fortress 2, Artemis Fowl, Harry Dresden, too many others to name
Hobbies: Reading, writing original fiction, costume-making, fanfiction (oh God, so much fanfiction!), drawing comics, goofing around with my brothers
Likes: Classic folktales and myths with all the original gory bits left in, bogeyman stories, a sense of humor even in drama, putting story over message, historical accuracy, respecting villains as characters even if they're going to be defeated, psychotic protagonists (Rorschach, etc)
Dislikes: Dim fangirls who think that psychosis is sexy (again, Rorschach--he's a great character, but you would NOT want to meet him), bad grammar and spelling, OOC pairings (be it slash, het, incest, whatever), Mary Sues, the presumption that good equals sexy, and Twilight.
Other names used: You'll find me lurking on ff.net as Totenkinder Madchen, and I used to be on some fanfic sites as Bronze Clockwork.
Trivia: The W in TWM comes from Wolfram, the original name of the element of tungsten. It was sort of bestowed on me by the boarders here, so now it's considered my middle name. :D
I spent one year writing "Thief of Midnight" and three years getting it published. Publishing Time is not the same as our Earth Time.
I have a strong affection for henchmen, secondary villains, and the other little nobodies who make fictional universes run so well. My current big fanfiction project is a story about life in GI Joe, told from the POV of a base cook--somebody who would never be mentioned in canon, but who must exist in order for the unit to function. -
*noob hits bandwagon rather painfully* by
on 2010-07-23 16:55:00 UTC
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... ow. *rubs nose.
Name: Aster Corbett
Gender: Female
Nationality: American.
Fandoms: Legend of Zelda, Metroid, Assassin's Creed, Star Wars, Fire Emblem, various Anime.
Hobbies: fanfic, chatting with pals, playing video games, reading Scifi and Fantasy, trolling the trolls, using Photoshop/ The Gimp, equestrian activities, knitting, LARPing, Web Design.
Likes: The internet, acknowlegement of Canon, lots of music no one has ever heard of, hot black tea, interesting pairings, really good food, helping people, Ganondorf.
Dislikes: juvenile concepts, Sarcasm Failure, people who refuse to think deeply, OOCness where Rule of Funny fails, Yaoi/Yuri (sorry, 90 percent of is is 14 year olds wanting to see two of the same sets of plumbing get it on), being misunderstood on the internet.
Other: I have no LJ, but I do have a Deviantart. -
Re: *noob hits bandwagon rather painfully* by
on 2010-07-24 03:28:00 UTC
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sorry, 90 percent of is is 14 year olds wanting to see two of the same sets of plumbing get it on
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being misunderstood on the internet
You already are being.
(If that was a joke, kudos. If it wasn't, then your estimate needs revising. A good sixty per cent of the readable stuff is by women in their twenties who are more into angst and dynamics than actual bits.) -
Depends where. by
on 2010-07-24 21:51:00 UTC
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Sorry, the last time I bothered with Yaoi was in the Yu-Gi-Oh section.
The tweens. Oh god the tweens.
I do recognize that there is plenty of good yaoi. Unfortunately, never in the sections I read/like... The Legend of Zelda section. Oh man. -
Re: Depends where. by
on 2010-07-26 11:36:00 UTC
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You could always expand your fandoms to include stuff with good yaoi? Reminds me of Ansela - she's forever hurtling downstairs shrieking like a banshee over some atrocity she's found in a manga slash fic, and when I ask "So why did you go looking in that section of the Pit?" there's never an answer.
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I suppose I coudn't avoid this forever... by
on 2010-07-23 16:27:00 UTC
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Name: WikiMaster.
Gender: Male.
Age: 17
Nationality: Filipino.
Fandoms: Artemis Fowl, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Code Geass, Gunnerkrigg Court, Keychain of Creation (although I'm unable to buy Exalted), Lord of the Rings, Order of the Stick, Medieval II Total War, Warcraft (though not World of Warcaft as I'm unable to buy it too) etc.. etc...
Hobbies: Reading, Surfing the Internet.
Likes: Goodfic.
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Uh, stuff about me? by
on 2010-07-23 06:31:00 UTC
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tl;dr - am standard human female with mind as impressionable as dollop of warm wax.
Name: Trojie
Gender: Female
Nationality: British (living in NZ)
Fandoms: Narnia, Merlin, Harry Potter, Star Trek, Tamora Pierce, Lord of the Rings, Discworld, Good Omens, American Gods, probably more that I'll remember as soon as I hit 'post'.
Hobbies: Writing, singing, playing the guitar and the bagpipes, fanfic, fanvids,
Likes: slash, angst, interestingly warped power dynamics, comedy, eating high-sugar foods, fruit juice, cowriting things with Pads, feedback on my writing.
Dislikes: Bad biology, shouting, awkward situations, stressful situations.
Other: I hate chat programs but you can catch me on LJ at agenttrojie. -
you forgot the most important bit by
on 2010-07-24 02:12:00 UTC
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You like SCIENCE.
Your hobbies include SCIENCE.
Your dislikes include people who rape SCIENCE.
Let us not forget the almighty power of SCIENCE.
(By the way, my sister's dead chuffed that you like the femininine girl clothes taste she instilled in me. How does one stop spelling femininininininity?) -
Re: Inspired by the post below by
on 2010-07-23 06:11:00 UTC
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Name: PoorCynic, aka Brendan
Gender: Male
Nationality: American
Fandoms: Avatar The Last Airbender (the cartoon, not the movie), the DC animated universe, Mass Effect, Left 4 Dead, Discworld, Doctor Who, Firefly, MST3K, Red vs Blue, Sherlock Holmes (movie and books)
Hobbies: Video production, reading, video games (mostly strategy and western RPG), writing film reviews
Likes: History, popcorn, diet soda, The Daily Show, anything with Stephen Fry, crossword puzzles, anything by Bill Bryson or Dave Barry, well supported and plausible slash
Dislikes: Political punditry, people who spout opinions without first doing any research, people who yell or sing into their headphones while playing online video games, stupid comparisions to Hitler or the Nazis, tomatoes
Other: My missions are posted on LJ under the name vgdivision. My name on the Paranoia Live bboard is Elm-R-FUD. -
This is a nice idea... by
on 2010-07-23 03:02:00 UTC
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Name: Helen
Gender: female
Nationality: American (specifically the Northwest)
Fandoms: LOtR, anything Neil Gaiman, Susan Cooper, Sherlock Holmes (the books, not the movie), Battlestar Galactica, anything Joss Whedon, V, Starsky and Hutch, Princess Bride (book and movie), and if I list everything we'll be here all night
Hobbies: archaeology (my dad was an archaeologist), researching things, mythology (Arthurian, Greek/Roman, Celtic, etc), traveling
Likes: reading, tea, my cats, reading, watching reruns of Star Trek: TNG
Dislikes: taking Latin, actually having to work, people who are too lazy to be intelligent, people who are incompetent
Extra: writing is my life, I do very little else and I'm normally not all that talkative, hence my lurker status.
I guess that's it. huh, that was kind of fun.
Helen of Pylos (the face that launched half a dozen ships, 'cause everything's smaller in Pylos) -
Aye-aye, captain! by
on 2010-07-23 00:30:00 UTC
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(Pen)Name: Sedri
Gender: Female
Nationality: British/Aussie/Kiwi-ish
Fandoms: Star Trek (all series except the original 60s), Wicked, Stardust, Narnia, Harry Potter (mostly inactive), Lord of the Rings(mostly inactive), Pirates of the Caribbean (mostly inactive), Enchanted(mostly inactive), and quite a few more that I dip my toes into from time to time. (Also, to the shock and horror of some around here, I have actually read all the Twilight books, and I did not hate them. I didn't like the gushy "oh-he's-so-gorgeous" prose, the two main characters, or the love story (therefore, 80% of the text), but I rather liked the rest.)
Hobbies: reading and writing (or is that too obvious to mention?), singing, and... more reading.
Likes: Good AUs (particularly the fix-it kinds), character explorations, logical extrapolations and plot extentions, fluffy romance (sometimes), and non-dirty humour, particularly when it's family-oriented.
Dislikes: cliches, cheap humour, implausible plots, forced romances, and sneaky OOCness that is hard to spot and therefore seeps into my brain while reading fanfic making it very difficult for me to keep a grip on canon characterisations when I write - this is why I try not to read any fanfic in the relevant continuum when I'm working on a story. And chatspeak, spelling errors, and bad grammar. I work as a proofreader, and I have a knife. You have been warned.
Other: On both Livejournal and FanFiction.Net I am "Sedri". -
Re: Aye-aye, captain! by
on 2010-07-23 07:30:00 UTC
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I am neither shocked nor horrified that you have read the Twilight books. To be honest, I have seen the first two movies and I will agree that the bits that are not Bella and Edward centric are rather interesting. There is a cool world there. . . hidden behind a cardboard cutout and a lump of glitter.
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Precisely! by
on 2010-07-24 00:39:00 UTC
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The attributes given to vampires are biologically ridiculous, but if you take it as a fantasy world and discard the angst-ridden love story that covers 85% of the text, it's interesting. I like the other characters - Alice, Jasper, Carlisle. Just not the main ones.
To be honest, I knew I could never really hate it when I saw the first movie and watched seven vampires playing baseball. I'm not a sports fan, but that scene was great. -
Ansela? Shouldn't we put this on the wiki? by
on 2010-07-23 00:42:00 UTC
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As you say, it's hard to keep track of such things, and this thread will eventually be shoved off into oblivion. Putting these details on our user pages on the wiki would make it easy to access for any new newbies that come along.
(Not that I'm suggesting we do so arbitrarily, though; everyone should update their wiki pages themselves, so as to only put up the details they feel free sharing.) -
Sure, why not? by
on 2010-07-22 23:55:00 UTC
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Well, there probably are reasons, but I don't care. And I'll copy your format out of
lazinessunoriginality.
Name: Vixenmage, VM, other assorted aliases, including Pax and others
Gender: Female
Nationality: American
Fandoms: Lord of the Rings (including all related works), House MD, Harry Potter, Tortall, Circle of Magic, Sandman, American Gods, Discworld, Dresden Files, Codex Alera,Runescape,Oblivion, mythologies, and other assorted tomfoolery.
Hobbies: Walking, singing, writing (obviously), playing guitar/French Horn/trumpet/harmonica-badly, whistling, climbing things, drawing, biking, playing Oblivion, roleplaying in general (but especially chat-based), making things up.
Likes: writing, English, language in general, music in almost every form, stories, characters, roleplaying, Outdoors, trees, The Ocean, mountains, tiny moments that make life a little more beautiful, interesting conversations, making something out of nothing, mythology of all kinds, artists, art, craziness, vegetarian sushi (avocadoes ftw!), birds, feathers, the taste of oil pastel (don't ask), chocolate, tea, coffee, loose and well-graffiti'd T-shirts, clothes that are about comfort instead of lust, metaphysics, conversations about metaphysics, people who can talk about theology without profanity, interesting and poignant and artistic graffiti... (I'll leave it; pages of everything that make life awesome are unnecessary, y'all can fill in the blanks)
Dislikes: chatspeak, leetspeak, netspeak, replacing letters with numbers, replacing words with numbers, (A/N: LOLZ! These stupid fracking things!!!1), idiots, the willfully ignorant, mindless vandalism, discussions that turn into angry arguments, poor characterisation, prejudice of any kind, stigmatizing against mental illness, classes where you don't learn anything, clutter (hypocritically so), cockroaches, people who kill spiders/bugs outside, litter, antagonism.
Other: I think we should share more non-PPC-centric ideas here. I miss the abundance of OT threads we used to have, though I think a lot of that gets siphoned off to the IRC, which is alright. It'd just be fun to see more craziness. -
Re: Inspired by the post below by
on 2010-07-22 21:48:00 UTC
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Oh heck, I'll jump on the bandwagon. I love the community too.
Name: PitViperOfDoom
Gender: Female
Nationality: American, half-Chinese on my mother's side
Fandoms: Redwall, Happy Tree Friends, Avatar the Last Airbender, sometimes Harry Potter, and I'm starting to look more into the L4D fandom.
Hobbies: Reading, writing, and drawing. I also love the outdoors, thanks to my mother's tendency to drag the family on crazy backcountry adventures.
Likes: Constructive criticism, cats, Chinese takeout, music in general, ferrets, and hiking/camping/miscellaneous outdoor activities.
Dislikes: Trolls, paperwork, homework, bad OOCness, stubborn writers who assume all negative reviews are flames, and fundamentalists. I really, really don't like fundamentalists.
Fun facts: I'm obsessed with a bunch of video games that I've never actually played before. I am completely indifferent to Twilight; there are some things I like about it and a lot of things I don't. I am very liberal. I often find myself enjoying movies that critics/everybody say are absolutely horrible. There are exactly three movies I have seen that I have not enjoyed: Dragon War: D-War, The Golden Compass (only temporarily, though), and Where the Wild Things Are. -
And silly hats! I also love silly hats! (nm) by
on 2010-07-22 21:51:00 UTC
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Reprise: Introductions Introductions by
on 2010-07-22 21:24:00 UTC
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My original introduction thread was not long ago, but I'll hop on the bandwagon, because why not?
Name: Nat, Lleu (Llaw Gyffes is optional)
Gender: male
Nationality: American, but I have always felt that I was meant to be Canadian
Fandoms: I am taking this with an implied "...that I would work in", as "things I like" proved to be too broad an interpretation. In no particular order, Animorphs, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, The Dark is Rising, Young Wizards, Diana Wynne Jones, Tamora Pierce (I tend to prefer the Circle books), Star Wars, Star Trek (particularly ENT and TNG), Pern, and there are probably a bunch of others that I'm forgetting. There are also things I like that I don't know that I'd want to work with.
Hobbies: role-playing games (I haven't had the chance to RP online in a very long time...actually, ditto for tabletop, unfortunately), writing, reading, various computer games (particularly Civ3 and KotOR), conlanging, languages, making RPG characters I will never use
Likes: good slash, listening to music, French, good books, D&D, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Italian food, poutine
Dislikes: coffee and tea, fruit, my mind is failing to bring up other things I dislike, so eh
Other: I'm on tumblr as fralusans-ana-marein (or, if you're interested in my conlang stuff, the not-updated-in-forever constructed-adventures); I am also known on the internet variously as Pahh(ur/wenaz), Arunaza, and Sectori.
As someone else, MAXinsanity, I think, said, I hold that fictional characters are real, in the sense that they have existence in the mind. Conceptual existence and physical existence are distinct characteristics which sometimes exist and sometimes do not. -
Yes! Another Enterprise fan! by
on 2010-07-24 00:37:00 UTC
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I'm surprised by how many people around here are Trek fans (though I suppose I shouldn't be), but Enterprise seems to get the short stick. Glad to know I'm not alone :)
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Huzzah! by
on 2010-07-25 15:48:00 UTC
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Agreed! I don't know that many Star Trej fans in person, but TNG seems to dominate everyone's likes. Not that TNG is bad; quite the reverse. But I will always have a soft spot for Enterprise because it's the only one I watched as it came out. Except I missed season two. Granted, Archer can be annoying sometimes, but otherwise, what's not to love?
I like what I've seen of Voyager, too, but that's not a lot. And I like the characters of DS9, but not so much the plot. -
Correction by
on 2010-07-22 22:31:00 UTC
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By "sometimes exist and sometimes do not", I meant to say, "sometimes coexist and sometimes do not".
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Jumping on the Bandwagon by
on 2010-07-22 20:29:00 UTC
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Well, here's me. I guess this'll help for the Seattle Gathering...
Name: Pretzel or Christy
Gender: Female
Nationality: Native of Mukilteo, Washington (American)
Fandoms: Oh, geez. Um, let's see... Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, Discworld, Narnia, Eureka, Firefly/Serenity, Warehouse 13, CSI, CSI: NY, NCIS, NCIS: LA, Star Wars, ST:TNG, ST:Voy, Are You Being Served?, Monty Python, Nero Wolfe, Sherlock Holmes, Leverage, Lie To Me, Rocky Horror, Riese the Series, Sanctuary, Harper's Island
The list goes on and is continually changing...
Hobbies: Writing (both fanfic and original fiction), reading, hanging out with my friends & family
Likes: the cheesy made-for-tv movies on the SyFy channel, books, the Nostalgia Critic/ Nostalgia Chick movie/tv reviews, The "Minds" machinima series (save for Felix's Mind), chocolate, good books/fic, steampunk
Dislikes: Not much, save for retch-worthy physics in a movie, bad writing, OOCness, people who use chatspeak in their everyday speech, people who are intolerant of other peoples' views, the vocal minority who give religions and other social groups a bad name
Other: I'm a closet (no pun intended) slash fan, mainly for Stargate Atlantis, even though I don't write it myself. I tend to latch onto side characters, and often it'll be those that people aren't particularly fond of, like Doctor Kavanagh from Stargate Atlantis. I proudly claim the title of geek girl, and don't care what people think about that. I'm a fraternal twin (though people rarely believe it when they see my twin; we're both girls, but she's 5'9" and a redhead, and I'm 5'2" and a brunette), have at least three "adopted" brothers, and tend to laugh at vaguely inappropriate moments during movies. I have an odd sense of humor, and am rather snarky when the mood takes me. I have been part of two ARGs (Alternate Reality Games), including one that's currently ongoing. -
Re: Inspired by the post below by
on 2010-07-22 19:39:00 UTC
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Name: Miah
Gender: Female
Nationality: American (Don't call me a Yankee, I'm Southern!)
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes, NCIS, Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, Monty Python, Anne McCaffrey, Star Trek (except Voyager and Enterprise), Star Wars (Episodes 4,5,6 and some of the extended verse, especially the X-Wing series), LotR, Mark Twain
Hobbies: Writing original and PPC fics, Reading original fiction and fanfics, research, making overly detailed plans that I know are not likely to amount to anything, being overly optimistic, making pictures of characters.
Likes: Goodfic, reviews, chocolate, brownies, iced tea, Chinese food, reviews, chatting, Cajun food, learning new things, documentaries, reading out loud to my kids, cuddling with my husband, reviews, movies based on comic book characters. IC fics of any sort, but I am particularly fond of non-sex hurt/comfort. (Whump: all about torturing the character and then putting them back together again without the sex that is common in standard hurt/comfort.)
Dislikes: Cleaning house, bugs, pollen, mold, heat (basically the outdoors 9-10 months of the year), sudden changes, face-to-face interactions in groups of less than about five, stupid rules, OOCness, canon breakage, cinnamon flavored candies, mornings, glitchy or slow computers and programs.
Other: I am pretty much Miah everywhere I go. Occasionally I am Miah79 (like on the wiki) or Miah.Arthur (like my gmail) or MiahArthur (like my LJ), but Miah is always in there somewhere. I write Agents Miah Arthur and Cali Still in DMS Freelance; RC 4096 (The Lair). I also write Agents (David) Kelok and Unger recently transferred to the All-Purpose Department, Sherlock Holmes Division; RC 1729 (The Fire Pit).
I am working on understanding and writing humor, and improving my use of dialogue. I have a real problem with grammar, like a grammar phobia. It doesn't make sense. It has variable applications. Nothing can be said, "Always do this with this thing". Anyway, I do try, and I always request a beta that can check grammar before I publish a mission or interlude. That doesn't stop me from making errors in Board posts, chats, and emails, though. -
I forgot by
on 2010-07-22 19:48:00 UTC
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I really like music as well. I have eclectic tastes. Many types of rock--oldies, classic rock, older heavy metal, and 90's punk. Electric blues, Irish pub songs (especially The Dubliners!), bluegrass, and big band. Some of my favorite groups are: The Dubliners, Ozzy, Rob Zombie, Drowning Pool, Blink 182 (before they grew up), The Offspring, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Queen, Pat Benetar, The Blues Brothers, Johnny Lang, Allison Krauss
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Well... by
on 2010-07-22 19:06:00 UTC
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Here, have some facts on me:
1. My name is... I'm not telling. Privacy is an extremely important thing to me, though I will say I have an identical twin, and that I'm male (As is my twin). I'm not exactly a very confident person when it comes to... well... anything, really. What I have been told, however, is that I'm an amazing writer and roleplayer by people on the internet.
2. I first started writing stories as a way to vent my anger and other emotions, as well as to escape from my loneliness and general other negative crap. I've kinda grown out of that now, and have changed from minor wish fulfillment crap to exploring the concept of fiction itself and generally making the fourth wall less than non-existent (As seen in my entry for Fanfic Land, "Things Unsaid").
3. I have a bit of an odd belief that fiction is "real" in a very odd, vague sense. After all, we end up creating such incredibly detailed worlds and people... Nothing too crazy, though. My tendency to overdevelop my characters' personalities and create them first and foremost as people as opposed to just characters for a story probably stems from this.
4. I have very slight feelings for Alice Alexandria, my Breloom pokemorph character... Let's just leave it at that... Doesn't help that she's one of the most developed characters I have, personality-wise...
5.I'm interested in quite a few video games, including Pokemon, NiGHTS Journey of Dreams, Monster Hunter, Left 4 Dead, and more recently the Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. You can blame my friends for that one. I don't watch much TV, finding the internet a far more reliable source of entertainment.
6. I LOVE MUSIC. Music is one of those things I wouldn't be able to live without! Except country, I hate country.
7. You probably know this, but I lack a sense of humor. Hardly anything is funny to me, and I can't write humor for my life.
...And yeah. That's all I'm gonna disclose. -
The idea that fiction is "real" (for some value of real) by
on 2010-07-22 21:41:00 UTC
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I think there are probably people in philosophy or literature exploring that idea. It reminds me a little of the way Plato talked about essential concepts being more real than the things that took the shape of those essential concepts; or the way sociologists and psychologists talk about archetypes or about the way ideas spread and take on a life of their own.
Ideas are powerful and very, very real. And fiction is a kind of idea. So in a way, fiction *is* real; it's just not material. -
Re: The idea that fiction is "real" (for some value of real) by
on 2010-07-24 03:33:00 UTC
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In one sense, a literary character is as real as the second cousin you always hear about but have never met. A literary character will often be more real to you than that second cousin. And these characters are real enough and internally consistent enough; we might as well view them as actually real, except for one thing: they don't actually exist anywhere in the world that's physically accessible to us.
Our fictional characters are as real as anything else, philosophically speaking, they just happen to not physically exist... -
Seconding that. by
on 2010-07-23 09:00:00 UTC
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My characters, in particular, tend to take on lives of their own in my head; sometimes I find questionnaires or interview-style things online, or friends send them to me, that are designed to expand your OCs' details a bit more, so you know more about their motivations etc. and aren't writing someone one-dimensional. And most of the characters I run through them just overflow with details as soon as they get the opportunity. I sort of have difficulty with the idea of considering them just words on a page/screen when they've got full lives, backstories and families developed in my head.
And they tend to pop up in some of my IM chats to comment on a subject they find particularly interesting. -
I am... by
on 2010-07-22 18:56:00 UTC
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Name: Elemarth, occasionally Helyna
Gender: Female
Nationality: American, dual citizenship with Britain
Fandoms: Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Young Wizards, Harry Potter, Old Kingdom (Abhorsen)
Likes: fanfic: OCs, stories that mesh with canon; general: avoidance of cliches, three-dimensional characters and shades of gray
Dislikes: bad grammar, lack of responses to the readers (for stuff posted online), people who jump to fight someone without making sure they know what was said, people who think the world is about sex, people who use words incorrectly (like saying a shy person is "antisocial"), anyone trying to convert me to a religion, people who value making money now above saving resources/the environment so we can make money later
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Re: Inspired by the post below by
on 2010-07-22 18:44:00 UTC
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Name: Gen (also LotRGenius, which is so terrible that I don't really go by it anymore --)
Gender: Female
Nationality: American (along with a terrible accent- this is why border states are bad! XD)
Fandoms: Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Doctor Who, Star Trek (TNG, TOS, VOY), Mercedes Lackey, Tamora Pierce, Green Rider, Discworld, Chronicles of Narnia, Sherlock Holmes
Hobbies: Reading, writing, drawing (oh my!), listening to music (I listen to music from the twenties to the seventies like no one's business XD), chemistry (I play with lasers, what?)
Likes: Humor, music, theatre, books (the real kind, none of that audiobook business), the internets, fanfiction, Star Trek (I'm currently on a binge), Matt Smith
>.>
Dislikes: Drama (you know what kind), bad writing, insects (OH GOD)
Other: I'm lotrgeniusgen on lj (please, feel welcome to laugh at the stupidity that is my username). I'm the one who gives away a panda that eats, shoots, and leaves. -
Interesting idea by
on 2010-07-22 18:30:00 UTC
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Name: Barid, though I have been known to answer to a variety of other names including: Pendos, Darmok, Aran, Griff, and Derrick
Gender: Male
Nationality: American
Fandoms
Games: World of Warcraft, Mario, Metroid, Legend of Zelda, Resident Evil, Team Fortress 2, Portal, more Legend of Zelda
Books: The Wheel of Time, The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever (1st, 2nd and final), Stephen King, Dragonlance, Discworld
TV: Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica (2003), Yu-Gi-Oh, Family Guy, the Simpsons, Star Trek TNG & Voyager
Movies: Moulin Rouge, Silence of the Lambs series, Chronicles of Riddick series, The Godfather
Hobbies
Videogames, Anime, Theatre, Music, Roleplay (mostly tabletop), Reading, Crossword Puzzles
Likes
Neshomeh, bacon, back massages, cooking shows, being Evil, talking a lot, creating characters, good het (and good slash to a lesser extent)
Dislikes
Work, people who always have to be right, anti-climactic endings, "lol", stupid people
Other
You will only find me as Barid in the PPC. On various other websites (DeviantArt being one example) I am diceanddagger (a reference to the Wheel of Time series). My PPC LJ is RC1986. -
Oh, fun. ^_^ by
on 2010-07-22 17:33:00 UTC
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Well, I'm going to take your format and modify it slightly, 'cause it works and it's easy. {= )
Name: Neshomeh
Gender: Female
Age: 25
Nationality: American
Fandoms (copied from my wiki page): Animorphs, Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica (2003), Discworld, Dragonriders of Pern, Farscape, Firefly/Serenity, Fullmetal Alchemist, Harry Potter, Heroes, House, M.D., Jekyll & Hyde (book and musical), Lord of the Rings, Phantom of the Opera (Leroux, Kay, and Webber), Young Wizards, etc. I'll also add Sharpe, because while it's not a major fandom of mine, it IS an awesome one. ^^ I should add How to Train Your Dragon, too, 'cause that movie is made of win and one of the PPCs I'm working on is set there.
Hobbies: St. Dymphna's Academy tops the list right now. It's awesome and anyone who likes role-playing who isn't already there should join up when the next game-year starts. Shockingly, my hobbies include role-playing (online and tabletop). They also include writing, reading, drawing, drinking tea, and listening to music. I sing, but I haven't been able to join a group since I moved, which is really sad.
Likes: Barid, tea of almost any kind, cats, chocolate,long walks on the beachhumor, things making sense, making things make sense, music, learning about new things.
Dislikes: The corporate system, bad writing, bad science, people who don't think before speaking/hitting "send", people who whine about being inferior, especially while exhibiting no signs of willingness to improve; sudden loud noises.
Other: I go by Neshomeh pretty much everywhere--deviantART, ff.net, Fiction Press, Photobucket, probably others. There are a few exceptions, though: on Gaia Online I'm Neshomehsoul because someone was actually using Neshomeh when I got there; on Neopets (where I don't really go anymore) I'm Neshomeh_soul because my original account got deleted for a stupid reason; and on YouTube, it's not me. I don't have a YouTube account. My contact information, should you want it, is on my wiki page. A lot of the information in this post is on my wiki page, too, in case you want to look it up in the future. It would be nice if everyone's information were on their wiki pages in case people wanted to look them up in the future. *hint hint*
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Also, emoticon trivia. {= ) by
on 2010-07-22 19:38:00 UTC
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Every once in a while, I get asked why my emoticons have hats, and I'm sure the number of people confused by this far outnumbers the number who actually ask. So, here's why:
Mainly, this guy, the Pilot of Moya, from Farscape. You see, lo these many years ago, before I'd even heard of the PPC, I was a member of a message board rather like this one in terms of friendliness and free-for-all geekdom, only it was centered around Pilot. We were, in fact, the Friends and Defenders of Pilot, or FaDoP, which when pronounced is a play on the word for how we felt about Pilot's general neglect and occasional outright mistreatment by the rest of the crew. To show our love for our gentle navigator, we did various things, such as write fic, or role-play, or use fancy emoticons with a curly bracket to represent Pilot's carapace. After Farscape was canceled, the forum slowly disbanded, but the carapaced emoticon lives on with me. Basically because I got into the habit and never bothered to break it.
So, there you have it. {= D
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I only just realized that was a hat... by
on 2010-07-23 03:07:00 UTC
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I thought it had eyebrows
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Well, it isn't really either of those. by
on 2010-07-23 04:37:00 UTC
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It's really a carapace. But most people assume a hat when they ask me about it, though eyebrows would make as much sense. {= )
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Heh. Same here. (nm) by
on 2010-07-23 03:39:00 UTC
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Jumping on the bandwagon (and dancing madly). by
on 2010-07-22 17:15:00 UTC
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Name: Cassie Cameron-Young (yes, that's my RL name as well, I never thought up a better username when I joined the Board and now I'm stuck with it XD)
Gender: Female
Nationality: British (English if you want to get specific)
Fandoms: LOTR, Discworld, Harry Potter, Pirates of the Caribbean, Redwall, the Belgariad/Malloreon/Elenium/Tamuli series, Earth's Children, Chobits
Hobbies: Writing (especially character exploration pieces and interviews), reading, listening to music, chatting to my friends, occasionally playing Runescape or trying my hand at drawing
Likes: good fanfic, IM RPs, chocolate, putting on music and pretending to be a rock star, swimming, musicals
Dislikes: Noisy neighbours, tea, mushrooms, my sister in Twifan mode, glaringly easy-to-correct mistakes in writing, spiders
Other: My main LJ is cassie5squared and my PPC LJ is c5sppcagents. Friend me if you like. :) -
Re: Inspired by the post below by
on 2010-07-22 16:23:00 UTC
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Name: doctorlit (Doug)
Gender: male
Nationality: American...IN AMERICA
Reads: classic literature, Stephen King, Kingdom Keepers, Left Behind, anything Sci-Fi/Horror really
Plays: Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts, Pokémon, Halo, Assassin's Creed, the Lego movie games, Singstar, a little bit of Fire Emblem
Watches: nothing anymore, since Lost ended and Heroes got canceled; would watch SNL, but it's on too late.
Listens to: game soundtracks, musical soundtracks, Paramore, Disneymania
Webcomics: Order of the Stick, Candi, Brawl in the Family, What Birds Know, Jack, A Girl and Her Fed, Head Trip; also Red vs Blue
Other websites: active on deviantART, YouTube, Bulbapedia, FF.net, all under doctorlit
Contact: email (keyoflit@yahoo.com) and AIM (which is either doctorlit or my email again, I forget how that works) -
you know this anyway... by
on 2010-07-22 15:55:00 UTC
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...cos I live with you, but here we go anyway.
Name: Bridget
Gender: Female
Nationality: Yorkshire all the way, or English if I must
Fandoms: Narnia and ST:XI at the moment. Various others in the past
Hobbies: RuneScape, reading, rum, and crochet
Likes: Tea, people making me tea, cheesy bacon beans, Sims 2, Civ 4, books, slash
Dislikes: Going outside, a great variety of -isms, arrogance, het, abuse of English, overpriced beer
Other: I'm Brid Stokes on RuneScape, and I never deliberately try to offend people - take note in the Lounge as I am often drunk in there. -
re:Inspired by the post below by
on 2010-07-22 15:38:00 UTC
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Looks fun, I'll give it a shot, and it'll give you folks a chance to know me:
Name: Opinioned Angel
Gender: Female
Nationality: American
Fandoms: MANY, like Digimon, Tales of Symphonia, Kingdom Hearts, Wicked, The Simpsons, Pirates of the Caribbean, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Danny Phantom, Redwall, Generator Rex, Ben 10, Red VS Blue, Power Rangers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Super Robot Monkey Team Hyper Force Go…
Likes/Hobbies: Good fanfiction, doing my own thing, chocolate, anything Japanese related, anime/cartoons, manga/comic books, pretty much anything fantasy/sci-fi/supernatural-based, websurfing, reading, writing, drawing, watching TV, sleeping, listening to music, daydreaming.
Dislikes: Fan Dumb, Twilight, crazy fans, Mary Sues, unfair character bashing(especially when it's done just for a preferred pairing), child/animal abuse, tweenies, bad guys who get off without being punished, misogynists/sexists, injustice, the way kid TV stations are being run nowadays... basically, a lot of things tick me off, and I have a VERY short fuse. -
Oh yeah... by
on 2010-07-22 15:45:00 UTC
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And while I don't like giving out my real name, I'll just tell you my first name is Julia and leave it at that.
Also, you can find me all around the web under various handles- on Fanfiction.net, I'm Gijinka Renamon, at DeviantArt, you can find me under the name PsychoDemonFox, on the Escapist I'm known as CrazyGirl17, and on TVTropes, I go by the handle TheOtakuNinja.
...Don't ask why I have different handles, I don't know myself. -
This idea is a good one! by
on 2010-07-22 14:05:00 UTC
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I'm gonna copy your format, though. Because of the unimaginative.
Name: Silikat, or Laura if you want the real one.
Gender: Female
Nationality: Very English
Fandoms: Doctor Who, Torchwood, Cats, Harry Potter, Wicked, Les Miserables, Mario games, and various Disney things I can neither keep track of or give up on.
Hobbies: Reading and writing (obviously), gaming, watching DVDs so many times I can recite them, occasionaly RuneScaping, TvTropes lurking and watching YouTube videos.
Likes: Bacon, cheese, my iPod, musicals, reading, quoting Harry Potter/Doctor Who/the Simpsons on random occasions, eating.
Dislikes: Hyperactive fangirls, looking fat, anything OOC without a good reason, TvTropes ruining my life, being younger than almost everyone I know.
Other: Online, I'm either Silikat or haynesy2008 (except on RuneScape, where I'm Witchi L) My LJ is silikat_lj, if anyone cares. If any Cats, Doctor WHo or Torchwood fans want to check out my FF.net account, that's Silikat too. -
Damn, I left things out. by
on 2010-07-22 14:07:00 UTC
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I also play Sims 2 and am addicted to Modthesims. Please ignore my awful typing in the last sentence.
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Re: Damn, I left things out. by
on 2010-07-22 16:53:00 UTC
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Any good with problems with Modthesims? Just been poking around there, found stuff I want to download, but Firefox isn't having it. Works fine on IE though. I'm confused...
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No idea. by
on 2010-07-22 17:58:00 UTC
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Might just be a Firefox thing. I've only got IE, so I have no idea.
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Good by
on 2010-07-22 14:23:00 UTC
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The Sims 2 without Modthesims would be very boring... They make lives (simlives, at least) better...
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Oh, I know. by
on 2010-07-22 17:59:00 UTC
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My Sims 2 crashed not too long ago, and I had a heart attack thinking I might have to reinstall it with no downloads! Luckily, I managed to save them.
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Re: Inspired by the post below by
on 2010-07-22 13:56:00 UTC
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Name: raffitz (My real name is Rafael)
Gender: Male
Nationality: Portuguese
Fandoms: Doctor Who, Stargate (All of them), Harry Potter, Bleach, Artemis Fowl, Chronicles of the Emerged World, Inheritance cycle, Star Trek (from The Motion Picture to XI, and from TNG to DS9), ...
Hobbies: Reading (both original and fan fiction), writing fanfics, watching TV series, playing The Sims 2, The Sims 3, Garry's Mod, watching vlogs on Youtube.
Likes: Chocolate, chips, sarcasm, Vlogbrothers, nerimon, italktosnakes.
Dislikes: bad sarcasm, fish, peas.
Other: My twitter username is raffitz, my Youtube username is raffitz and my Dailybooth username is raffitz (Yay for variety).