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...the idea is pure squick.

Also, what are the classic films alluded to in your user name?

He might be married to one Katie Bowman. ;)

Peregrin is probably still generally alive, between Medical having good life-extension tech and [the thing that's spoilers for Anathem], Tomash is working in DoSAT by now (and therefore by Catastrophe Theory), but he'd've been in DMS around 2015.

(Farah and Kk'kttak are relatively new, and therefor unavailable, unless you want them to be.)

Feel free to not take me up on this if my lack of canonical output is a problem.

- Tomash

Have a triple chocolate (as in chocolate with chocolate chips and chocolate icing) cupcake! Don't forget to blow out the candle and make a wish!

In case you're still looking through these posts, I'll reply.

The red robot nodded, and huddled close behind Chelsea. The blue one hesitated, then did the same.

"Hah," said Connor. "Looks like we've got ourselves more friends already." He thought to himself. These robots looked familiar, but he wouldn't press the issue just yet.

-Twistey

[Twisthalia has now entered roast mode.]

Ahem.

First of all, I read that to punish Leto, you prolonged her pregnancy to nine months. Reading between the lines, I'm guessing that's how the average pregnancy came to be nine months in the first place. How petty is a goddess who does something to punish one woman and ends up harming every woman in the process? Why don't you think before you revenge for once?

Second of all, speaking of Hephaestus, the poor guy! You threw him off Olympus either for his face or his limp, based on different accounts. I'm pretty sure it was his face. So hey, you're superficial, but at least you're not ableist, am I right? Either way, get with the times.

Third of all... all the things you did to Hercules and his mom. Delayed birth, the snakes, the insanity, the twelve labors. Do you deserve to be on this Board if you yourself are prone to... going to such lengths to smite your enemies? I mean, we are deities (some greater than others), but there's a right way and a wrong way to do deity stuff, and you seem like you're trying kinda hard to fulfill your wishes. Like a bad author. I guess.

-Twisthalia

(I have a bad feeling about this. -Twistey)

I don't have an exact date, but it is far enough in the future for most of the 2015 kids to become teenagers.

-Phobos

[finishes fighting the urge to plug this one indie game that's on the Switch, fighting because I'm most likely its only existing fangirl and it would seem weird and out of the blue to just plug this game to an oldbie I haven't interacted with much]

AHHHHEM HEM. HEM. Don't mind that. That's just me typing my internal dialogue as an attempt at comedy.

Your Board present from me is the proper equipment required to generate solid light, whatever it is. Now go forth and make cool glowy stuff! :D

-Twistey

How far in the future is it set?

Writing Elanor getting older has been... interesting, to say the least. Trying to balance normal baby antics with Time Tot intelligence without her coming off as an overly-creepy child is hard. I'm glad it works out well here!

Other than Chibiusa's Seventh Birthday, have there been any occurrences of this?

With all that frosting, how could it not be? {= )

One good point I noticed: I like that you tell us it's her first birthday simply by mentioning the single candle and having Elanor act like a one-year-old (albeit one that clearly comprehends exactly what the adults around her are saying because Time Tot). It's subtle, and it tells us exactly what we need to know without taking time from a very short scene to spell it out. Excellent technique!

~Neshomeh, who finally feels awake again after sleeping late this morning and taking a nap this afternoon.

Sorry, that was my first thought when I read the first line.

But then you built up a terrible tension until I realized, nearly halfway through the story, what Ce’rana was doing. Hmm, crepes.

HG

(Dang, and yet I didn't read something with a Teiko in recently, and worst, I had Keiko's name right in the same review, so how I end up doing this...)

Yeah, Stubborn Mongoose is ringing some bells... The bandana, I think (Saw him on the presentation video for now. Playing the game just joined y list of things to do...).

Didn’t the average life span result from many children dying young? Whoever had survived the first ten years could expect to live much longer than the average 30 years. Wikipedia tells me that Eleanor actually died at the age of 57 or 59, which apparently was not considered exceptionally old. I don’t know whether the false assumption that, due to the short average life span, girls must get pregnant as soon as they can to see their kids grow up was actually a thing historically.

HG

Chapter 5 was the one I had the most doubts with - it is basically Sergio's backstory narrated by him in a single sitting so I was afraid it could be too infodumpy. I'm happy this is not the case.

And yes, I believe Corolla is my best character, too.

Though I'm kinda puzzled by how you keep calling Keiko "Teiko"...

Anyways, since you seem to also like Josh as a character, I shall point you to where he's from:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/560180/

Yup, he's a canon character. With a catch: the one featured in Blank Sprite is an alternate universe version authorized (and checked before publishing) by the game's developer himself, as we've been friends for a while.

The proof? Once you reach a certain level, you're forced to use the extended roster characters instead of the main team. Scroll down to Stubborn Mongoose, I bet he'll be very familiar...

I'm glad you liked the movie, and I hope you had a happy birthday despite no presents. Have a digital present of a potted aloe.

That is, as of a few hours ago, I'm 25 years old! My birthday was largely uneventful, though I did get to see Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom and actually liked it despite, well... I'll leave that for a proper review coming up soon-ish.

No presents this year for me either, sadly, though I WOULD with family permission have gotten me a Nintendo Switch. So, uh, boo to the whims of fate, I guess? ^^;

And true, the OST is pretty ambient, but it's notably different without it. You don't get those little noises and chants and such. It's a little... emptier. Less atmosphere. Trent totally made the right call.

I'm Twistey, a (currently recovering) 1-year-bie with an interest in world-building, character-building, all things weird and crazy, and all things that light up. And also music theory. I'm the one who gets way too invested in our joke things like Badfic Games and Shipfest, even going so far as to build up an entire mythos around the joke badfics I'm going to post in years to come. Brace yourself.

So, enough about me, what about you? What fandoms are you in? What do you like to do? What do you plan to do here - agent ideas, types of badfic you're interested in sporking, types of sporking, etc. How'd you find us? I'd love to know more!

And as for your newbie gift, since I've apparently decided to start randomly giving out samples of fantasy substances I made up, here's a bottle of purple stuff that is not the purple stuff I gave a different newbie a while back. It is not a good purple stuff, or at least it wasn't when I invented it, which was years ago. Try experimenting with it, I haven't touched it yet and I want to see if the effects have changed over time.

Anyway, nice to meet you. Have a great time here and welcome to the PPC!

-Twistey

Evokes a reaction in me, definitely. Currently I'm too tired to have enough attention span to listen all the way through, but I really do like this stuff. Thanks for showing me!

-Twistey