Subject: To all the oldbies..
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Posted on: 2015-05-27 23:16:00 UTC
I've heard that you all have a lot of great stories to tell. So.. Anyone feel like telling some stories? *plops down cross legged, eagerly perching chin on fists*
The PPC Snowfight (2005) has obviously been up on my website for a long time. What you may not be aware of is that the dialogue is taken word-for-word from the RP in question. So are the actions, though the roleplaying style of the time was to describe them, not put them in narrative. Eg:
[Wanders across the Board; hears a whistling sound; ducks and covers] Ayt! [Runs from incoming snowballs] To me, o my kinsfolk!
[Hides behind a snowdrift; grabs a shovel and starts digging Snow!Nargothrond]
And this time, we're not going to be tricked into building a stupid bridge.
(That's reconstructed, obviously - the original posts are loooong gone!)
So if you want to see how ordinary PPCers acted back in the heady days of '05... look no further.
hS
(PS: I still find the idea of taking a titles-only thread from the Board Archives and trying to roleplay-reconstruct the contents hilarious.)
That's beautiful. With every day, I think the PPC just gets better and better XD
I might have stories to tell, but most of them are basically IDF silliness stories which aren't as funny without context. I don't have any special PPC stuff to say...
-Rubs his neck-
... of the Battle of Goldberg.
This happened in 2004, when the PPC had been around for a long time... well, it felt like a long time back then! An author of sorts named Lee Goldberg (he wrote episodes of Monk, I think, and some not-terribly-good books) decided that fanfiction writers were the devil, and posted about it on his blog. Want to guess how that ended?
Well, you don't have to! Many years ago, I wrote up the tale in epic format:
The Battle of Goldberg
And if you want to read them: the original posts are still there!
The Spark
The Flame
The Embers
(Interestingly, as of last year, he's still posting about fanfic. Fortunately, this time I agree with him. ^_^)
hS
I don't think I even knew what the internet was, 11 years ago. O.o
*cheers for Morgul*
Man, I wonder what would have happened if the Fangirls had shown..
(I agree with most of the most recent post he made. The rest of his blog, on looking, is still horrifying. ~hS)
Back when I was a new newbie, as in, just-introduced-myself-new, I saw the Permission Givers as these sort of mythical beings who came down from the clouds every so often to impart their wisdom and sprinkle rainbows and sunshine everywhere upon the lesser beings.
So I was quite stunned and amazed when the Great Neshomeh and Huinesoron (praise be unto them) turned out to be totally normal, very nice, friendly people. Though that didn't stop me from nearly fainting from shock when they first directly responded to my posts. Can you tell I was the overly-excitable type? XD
It's a crying shame I don't really have any other stories to tell. Hopefully, with time, I'll have accumulated some interesting ones. :)
You know, looking back at my first post- asking about how to write a good Tenth Walker -I can see my nervousness bleeding through in the form of run-on sentences and lack of commas. XD When Huinesoron commented on it, I'm pretty sure my eyes, in proportion to the rest of my face, were about like this: O_O
... two of the most nerve-inducing moments of my life (and the most nerve-inducing moments of my internet life) were emailling Miss Cam to ask for a mini-Balrog, and having Jay - yep, the Jay - IM me to say that she found The Daughter of Jay and Acacia funny and approved it.
hS
And wow- Jay! Whew, that must have been awesome! And nerve-wracking, but awesome!
I was mostly nervous because I had seen your name so much on the wiki- I think in my mind I had sort of fashioned you into the "president of the PPC" or something like that- very much the Dude In Charge. Now I know that the PPC really doesn't run like that, and everything is much more relaxed.
I've got bigger plans in store for my agents. Rose Potter was just a speed bump in the overall scheme. Let's leave that behind us already, yeah?
Because saying that you've got bigger fish to fry after sporking a Legendary is either very brave, very stupid or both.
Except that one Worm badfic, which I apologise unreservedly for showing you without including the proper trigger warnings in my summation.
...there was that one time when I was a pathetic Newbie with no spelling and grammar and I failed in a variety of creative and horrible ways. But I don't talk about that any more. So I want some stories. From someone else.