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The Internet's not going to burn down overnight, and if companies do start taking advantage of people and hurting small business, there'll be that much more fuel for the fire, I guess.

Hugs? If they come without Spikes in them? {= )

~Neshomeh

*snuggles plushie* Is best plushie.

... I'm hugging everyone else, so hugs?

~Neshomeh

I'm... squinting at you critically for not paying attention in class. Yes. That is certainly in character for me, because I definitely haven't been enabling that sort of thing at all, and I was such a model student myself. >.>

C'mere, you. You and your darn warm fuzzies. *hugs*

I was going to play Skyrim today—I started a cool Khajiit character last night (and yes he does like to sneak)—but I've been dealing with cat puke and laundry instead. Alas.

~Neshomeh

That will go very well with my klah. Thank you! I'll split it with you, too, cuz that's a lot of sugar. *hugs*

~Neshomeh

There's at least a few people in favor and no objections.

And if it's any compensation, the FCC would probably have to get past over half the states to have its way and they've still gotta defend their new rules in court. So it's not the end of the world and even though we do have a way to go before the 2015 rulings can be reinstated, I guess it's better than nothing.

What would happen if the Internet gained sentience - and took the Oath?

Discuss.

(Anyone also familiar with Robert J. Sawyer's WWW Trilogy is very much welcome to chime in~)

I'd offer you klah, but it looks like Thoth got there first. Have a plush fire-lizard instead!

Take a steaming mug of klah. It certainly can't hurt.

I can't give you anything substantive for your birthday. But I can at least say thank you. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have Permission, wouldn't be busy procrastinating from writing by playing Skyrim (I'd just be playing Skyrim instead), wouldn't have spent my last few weeks of school reading Pern novels in class, and wouldn't have met a pretty awesome person. Because you wouldn't be there.

I think most of those are good things? Hey, at least you've made a difference. :-P

Would a triple chocolate cupcake (chocolate with chocolate chips and chocolate icing) help? And maybe a hug too? I'm kinda frazzled myself...

I'm 33. Woo.

So far, I've received cat puke and the death of net neutrality. Somebody please give me some good news.

~Neshomeh

This was pretty fun to read. You had me laughing a bit, multiple times, and I noticed very few errors--the only thing I really noticed was a time or two where there should possibly have been a new paragraph, which is pretty minor. There *might* also be a run-on sentence somewhere, but I'm not sure--I'm sleepy, and mainly just saw a bunch of commas without actually reading the sentence back a time or two to check that they work. Odds are it's fine. I do love your descriptions, and the vocabulary you use--while your style is obviously different than Scapegrace's, based on the first prompt I'd say you seem to have a similar quality to make me want to read more.

I do think your first prompt is better than your second. Especially the second half of the second. It felt a bit choppier, and possibly could have used a little more description or length (or both) to make it flow. I do see what you wanted it to be, with the whiskey as a punchline, but I'm not entirely sure it works to best effect. On the other hand, I *am* sleepy. Alert!me, or a different PG, can discuss that better (or raise eyebrows at sleepy!me and tell her to go back to sleep for a bit longer). Your first prompt, though, had a lot of good things in it at first read, though bits of it were a tiny bit choppy? I think? It was a fun read, though, like I said.

Didn't open the fic link, but I do rather like the idea of getting VR training missions from that site, if you don't want to make something up! It sounds like an interesting idea. I don't know how many VR training missions people have written (I think doctorlit wrote something along those lines for a prompt once?) but it could be interesting as part of an interlude, or something.

My Hat is partly off, however, because I don't feel awake enough to judge compatibility of some of this with the PPC universe. I say this not to alarm you, but mostly to get the attention of someone (again, whether a more alert future me or a different PG) who will be able to more clearly remember past agents and so on. I *think* the characters' skills are probably fine, though it's possible the finer details of recruitment should be tweaked a tiny bit, but I'd like a second, much more alert opinion.

So, conclusions: overall, this looks pretty good and was fun to read. While I think there is probably writing advice to be dispensed, it currently seems like it'll be fairly minor; apart from that the writing is rich in detail and vocabulary, has no really glaring SPaG problems, and is frequently amusing. A second look to give that writing advice, and comment more thoroughly on the second prompt, would be good. The second look should also double-check compatibility of some elements (small things, mind you--again, please don't panic) with the PPC universe. However, my sleepy verdict is that this looks promising, and probably needs very few changes, if any.

~Z, who should really go get less sleepy now. Preferably with food.

I was in a class on corpses in theater last semester, and something we ended up talking about was the switch, in Europe, from death as a commonplace and rather public occurrence to the current Western conception of death as something private and associated with shame. I wonder if death being less a part of everyday life makes it more frightening and contributes to the trend of “evil” gods of death.

I think that images is from "The Twits" (yes, that's what it's called). Was not expecting a Roald Dahl reference though.

Waaaaay back when you posted their intro interlude . . . Wow. Long-term plans!

That page must be from The Witches? I saw the movie, but I have a copy in my house I haven't read yet. I like the message there, though.

—doctorlit, behind on Roald Dahl consumption

It does help that Ix has started getting some scar treatment for her face, but mostly... she's just finally accepting herself. It only took her twenty-some odd years to get there, but it happened.

Plus, well...

I don't remember seeing that post, so I honestly didn't know you had an issue with the site. (Nor did I know you had a bad experience with it...)

I could have said nothing, but I figured it would be better to just come out and admit it than not to say anything at all.

That being said, I really feel bad about this, as I did not realize there was a problem.

July obviously has the right to request this, as would any other current or former PPCer (though heaven help us if Jay or Acy ever try it...!).

The Wiki pages for all of July's characters that I can see (three agents, plus four kids) have been wiped back to their ledes and marked as Out-of-Continuity (someone had already done this, I'm not claiming all the credit). The level of deletion is by specific request elsewhere.

I've also removed mention of July and Library from the Coffee Lounge and Nurse Asclepius' pages; as free-to-use concepts, they remain around, but without their sources.

I won't be removing mentions from other agents' pages (they worked with Trojie and Pads, for instance), but anything that is solo July is removed.

I will be poking through the various pages linking to missions when I get a chance to try and remove them.

hS

One little character development thing I've always wanted Ripper to go through is to basically discard his original ambitions to subjugate humanity and his lack of restraint regarding his violent tendencies, since I disliked them in hindsight and found that they made his personality rather flat. His updated temperament is more realistic and interesting to me because carnivorous creatures as a general rule aren't actually aggressive unless defending kills, territory, or relations such as offspring if they have a social structure, and even then they'd rather not risk getting hurt and being unable to hunt. Herbivores don't have the same restraint and their main priority is staying alive, whatever messed with them be darned, which is why many large herbivores like hippos or even cattle and horses cause more human fatalities annually than carnivores do. It's also worth noting was that Ripper's original characterization was basically "KILL FRIGGIN' EVERYTHING" and more akin to the Chaotic Evil raptors from the earlier JP installments and the original two novels, which was justified by their lack of social structure and rectified to some extent by Jurassic World's Raptor Squad. I imagine that since Rips follows his home continuum quite closely he'd come to terms with this change in depiction and adjust his nature accordingly.

It wasn't my intention to go into too much depth regarding Palmeira's adjustment to becoming a character of her own, but the in-universe justification of her accepting that she isn't Canon!Nami after all is that she started doubting that she and said canon were the same as soon as the agents who found her and her crew pressed the charges against them. I guess the other two stubbornly choosing to fight back and getting shattered as a result probably didn't help her case, either.