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I'm already over ten years out of high school myself (man—and I joined the Board as a wee teen!) so I can only imagine how much of a "where has time gone??" it is for you!

Have some birthday SPaGhetti. Tastes just like Mom used to make. :)

With an obligatory ha-ha-you're-old. There's not many people I get to do that to, so I always appreciate the chance. ^_^

We've been here a long time, haven't we?

hS

It's good to hear from you again!

Although, seeing how long you've been around has made me realise that I've been around for just over half that time (and I still thought of you as an oldbie when I joined, sorry).

Nova

P.S. Yes, I am still alive too.

I debated saying anything, but what the heck. My birthday also happens to roughly coincide with my Boardiversary. I joined the PPC at the tail end of or fresh out of high school, about 22 years ago this month. If that number staggers you anywhere near as much as it does me, you understand why I hesitated. No point in pretending I'm not old in Internet years! I wish I had a bit more to show for it writing-wise, but oh well. I aten't dead, and where there's life, there's hope.

That said, I suppose I might as well make it official that I consider myself semi-retired at this point. This isn't a change, but a reflection of my level of engagement these days. I still say you'll never entirely get rid of me. ^_~

If anyone is moved to honor the occasion, resist fascism however you can and maybe leave kudos on my fanfic, too. {= P

~Neshomeh

Since it's June, which means it's almost Kaguya and Urato's birthday (June 21), here comes a food-focused interlude set in 2023. Now here's the RP prompt: simply imagining your agent(s) in that café Kaguya and Momoka are visiting and/or at Urato's Courtyard cookout.

-Yuki, letting her aestheticist flag fly again

In fact, I have a prepared list of recs for exactly these situations. {= D I should probably consider updating it at some point, but it'll do for now.

Normally I'd argue that baking isn't scary, since all you have to do is follow the rules, but in the PPC rules have a tendency to get bent for the sake of humor, sooo... ^_~

~Neshomeh

My friend Em Kay, who's part of the Asylum, has started a story on her own blog, and she's happy to accept criticism. Very interesting, worth following: https://necessityisamom.wordpress.com/category/writing/thread-charm-and-smoke/

--Ls

Thoughts are being tricky, but I figured i should at least flag that you've got readers

It's not a standard mission-heavy spinoff, but it captured the setting's tone and spirit perfectly through the lens of an overworked band of misfit janitors. I'll go ahead and pop the links to what I could find of them here for easy access.

Flaming Broomsticks, a five-part sequence

Mound Duty

The Angsty Story

It's a shame it's one of the few (relatively) recent spinoffs with zero Wiki organization. Might get around to that at some point.

As usual, thanks for the in-depth feedback!

The fascistic overtones of the shock collar were sort of unintentional, especially since I was just trying to base it off of Sue-Tracker depictions in other spinoffs. If it helps, I meant to imply that Ocotillo's situation wasn't standard DIA procedure, just a suggestion from someone else entirely (I do wonder if I could’ve made it clearer that this was just the Lily taking the chance to give it a one-off try). This was my attempt to write a low point, so on the other hand some concern is intentional, even if admittedly it might’ve been a bit much in hindsight with the mental bits.

The ‘in debt to the PPC’ thing was meant to be a joke about wages being so low that a cut would mean the workers were paying Upstairs, though with what surrounds it I can see it not helping tone that much.

I do think it’s important to mention here that the original story planned for this was basically split in two. It didn’t originally end here, but it was getting so lengthy and taking so long to write (real life and lowered motivation) that I ended up cutting the second half to move it to a different doc for continuation later. If it seems a bit unsatisfactory in the end it’s probably because it was basically a part one. I will say, this encouraged me to plan on getting back to the second half. Hopefully it should be done… well, before the end of 2026, if all goes well.

And as always, thanks for catching the typos! Sorry that this one wasn’t as enjoyable.

Very “fever dream” vibes, which makes sense when following a sleep-deprived character. It also goes a long way towards making HQ feel like the not-fully-physical space it’s meant to be; Ocotillo could be wandering through a dream this whole time, considering how much of her travels are digging through artificial snow, and meeting such odd characters.

I’m glad to hear Ocotillo is getting some treatment from FicPsych, and I’m glad she got to meet Tess and the Curator in this story, as she deserved to get some support . . . But otherwise, the negative tone in this one really put me off. The shock collar, and the idea of being in debt to the PPC, just feel really excessive and fascist, quite frankly. And I can tell from the conversation with the Curator that that’s your point, that you’re pointing out the difference in humor in older spin-offs, but that doesn’t make this any more pleasant to read. I’m starting to read Ocotillo’s second voice as an actual separate individual, because a few of the lines “it” spoke in this story felt like it had knowledge that Ocotillo doesn’t. But whether that’s someone else in her head or just regular negative thoughts, it’s just a constant deluge of Ocotillo getting bullied by it, and I just hate reading it after a while. I’m sorry, OrangeFox, but I don’t think I’m going to enjoy Ocotillo stories much if there’s no better outlook for her around the horizon. I don’t like leaving such a negative review, but I’m just so bummed out reading this. I’m hoping her very public collapse at the end spurs the Tiger Lily to finally relent a bit and let Ocotillo rest.

Some typos:
. . . and the problems stuck in a world too small for dragons . . .
I feel like some words are missing here? Maybe I’m reading it wrong, but it feels like you were aiming for something like, “the problems of being stuck in”

She wings slowly folded back to her sides
“Her”

And lastly, the paragraph indent is missing between the lines “Oh, uh, I did, sir! Um… it was…” and That was not a question.

—doctorlit just wants the dragon to get better

Might I suggest my MSTing community, the Asylum Riffs? It's a lot of fun, and we've had contributions from a fair number of PPCers.

As far as spin-offs go... OrangeFox has some good stuff. And I'd recommend anything by Huinesoron, too (though that's quite a lot).

--Ls

Oh yay prompts! My mind always gets stuck on what I should share about myself (icebreakers are actually my favorite, that's my unpopular opinion). First off, I use she/her pronouns and if ShootForTheMoon is too long, abbreviations or other shortenings are perfectly fine with me. I haven't published my writing anywhere online in a while--I think most of it got spat into the void when the sites/communities I wrote on were deleted or otherwise went down (a tragedy). Mostly I like sci-fi and fantasy fandoms, which is how I started following sporking/MSTing communities on LJ (back in the day) and DW. Nostalgia for all of that brought me here through the power of the various links on the internet, I read the originals, loved 'em, and here I am! If you have recs for spin-offs/agents I'm happy to hear them LOL there's a lot to look into.

Cookies are good! Baking is scary o.O

Charlie drinks milk, because they are very much a feline stereotype in that regard. Any potential health concerns that might come from milk in the sun are completely unknown to them. Cold or hot stops mattering after a while as long as there’s someone to share the moment with.

Jiwon eats and drinks the same things he does most days, because 1. He rarely goes outside so the ‘hot’ part of the equation would never really register for him, and 2. His diet is usually the same few foods unless he feels like changing it up (so, rarely). So mostly water and sushi/liver for him.

Summer weather for Ocotillo wouldn’t be much different than the desert climate she’s (theoretically) used to, and as a person/dragon she feels obligated to enjoy what foods her culture implants say she should be familiar with. As such, she’d go for date cakes.

Sam developed his tastes in the heart of Seattle, so absolutely ice cream. He was always choosy about which stores, but there’s slightly less (re: two[?]) distributors in HQ. He decided that Rudi’s was a slightly less problematic institution than the Cafeteria, and as such goes for ice cream from there. As for flavors I'm not quite sure, and honestly this could change by the time I write him again, but I think he'd like butter pecan.

Molly, meanwhile, goes for pretty much anything conventional. Chances are she’d be fine with whatever Sam gets, which means ice cream as well. She feels like a strawberry flavor kind of girl. Or maybe vanilla.

edit: whoops didn't mean to press enter so soon lol

Nice to see a new name around here! Hope you enjoy your time here, we don't bite haha

In the time between my last writing drop and now, I've had a few more (very) rough drafts added to the backlog and ready for another set of eyes.

The first is the second mission into Molly and Sam's little escapades, a 24k work featuring with basically zero canon knowledge necessary besides maybe a quick Google search or two. Just a fair warning that the missioned fic is NSFW.

The second is a light Interlude also involving Sam and an in-universe organization he helps run. This one's only 6k words, and ties somewhat into other stories Ive written (and perhaps another spinoff too)

The third and final piece is a silly Cafeteria piece involving mistaken deliveries. No canon knowledge is strictly needed, though it'd be nice to have help from someone familiar with the PAL sporkings on the Discord.

And as always, feel free to contact me through the Discord. Email also works, but admittedly I don't check it as often.

After almost two years, I finally pushed through and finished a third entry in this silly little DIA series. Didn't mean for there to be so long between writing entries, but finals really put a damper on writing motivation, haha. Here's hoping I can finish a few more pieces before summer ends

So without further ado, here's Regular Shift.

Read any cool stuff here so far?

Nume is a guy with fairly classic American taste in food, so probably a root beer float, or a hot-fudge sundae (vanilla ice cream, cherry on top, no sprinkles, can take or leave whipped cream).

Ilraen is an Andalite. If we let him talk about food, we'll be here all week.

Gall and Derik are both still a little impressed with the concept of ice that someone didn't have to go carve off a frozen river or a glacier and isn't being used to keep real food from spoiling. Berk is in a cold climate, so I don't know that anyone there would often want such a thing. Frozen desserts aren't unheard-of on Pern, but they're reserved for special occasions. Cooled drinks are more common, especially in the tropical latitudes such as where Derik grew up, and there are plenty of fruits (and alcoholic beverages) one might use to make them. Anyway, the clearest idea I have about their preferences is that, given the choice between the ice cream flavors chocolate raspberry, strawberry peanut butter, and sticky toffee pudding, Derik preferred the first, and Gall preferred the last. I think they'd both like fruit sorbets and shaved ices, though. Put a dash of bitters on top, and so much the better!

And everyone likes chocolate. Derik will tell you klah is better, but as long as it's quality chocolate and not too sweet, you won't catch him complaining about it.

No points awarded for guessing that Jenni drinks iced tea. {; P For more of a treat, bubble tea!

~Neshomeh

Always nice to meet someone who thinks our stuff is cool. ^_^ Feel free to share your writing, favorite fandoms, how you found out about us, favorite spin-off(s)/agent(s), what pronouns we should use for you, and anything else that would help us get to know you (without doxxing yourself, of course!).

Also, have some fresh Canon Cookies. These are classic chocolate chip.

~Neshomeh (she/her)

Name's Linstar, welcome to the fold. Have a turnip. It's probably not that inedible.

--Ls