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Without wizardry, even!

Over on the Other Board, provided you have Javascript running, you will see a very strange top thread. If you scroll alllllll the way down to the bottom, you will find a button marked 'Transcribe Speech'. Lo and behold...

This is obviously just a quick kludge; it's probably not possible to link visibility to login with the access we have, but it should definitely be possible to use a cookie to maintain visibility. (It works because the Board is aggressively unfiltered: we have 16,000 characters of space in the Prologue and can run inline Javascript on it.) As a nice bonus, the script takes a while to run, so it's all visible... and then it vanishes. :D

(Not currently enabled for first posts, which are formatted differently to replies; I'm not positive it's possible to vanish an entire thread based specifically on the subject of the first post, but with enough work it should be.)

I have no plans to bring this to the Board, obviously, but I figured it was a fun idea to play with.

hS

I look forward to this greatly. :>

Looks like a pretty typical antihero heist film set in the Star Wars 'verse, but I'm gonna see it anyway, too. Here's hoping it'll be better than I think it will.

Also, PUPPER.

Any missions you've had your eye on, lately?

Less than a month to go until Solo comes out! I've not paid too much attention to the marketing (I'm going to see it anyway, so what's the point); how do people think it looks?

hS

May I, like, save this to a flash drive or something...?

(Also, I'm Autistic_Ace over there. Want to add me?)

In my defence, I spent way too much time around the Avon Rift, so I've sort of stumbled into rather too much expertise in timeslides. (Which admittedly paid off at the '17 Gathering... sorry, sorry, I'm doing it again! But I'm pretty sure that's why Scape's numbers are off...)

I think we can all take comfort in the knowledge that the Powers That Be are good at their jobs. ^_^ Sometimes things don't work out how They intend - entropy is running, after all! - but usually it all comes to the good regardless.

hS, On Errantry 14/18 years

But it mostly just looks cute. :V So, success?

You can't just post from the future like that!

... Wait, can you just post from the future like that? I suspect I'm having an attack of the muggle sensibilities. Again.

Another entry, if you want it: Summer, 2001, Delta Juliette picks up her Manual for the first time... And then puts it back down, Oath not yet sworn.

I've tracked the history of my Manual, at least from there- library sale, private owner in Burien, loaned-and-never-returned, boxed for a move, and finally given, still in the box, to the bookstore where I found it again. Same copy! I'm not sure who is responsible for throwing Manuals at people, but they have really good aim.

... I don't know how well it works.

hS

Also just... thanks, guys. Aside from those SPaG corrections, there have been a shocking number of people who liked this piece. Which is great.

Thank you, good Boarder, for filling a void.

Thanks, hS. :)

Formerly known as DawnFire, until January 2017 when I decided it was time to switch things up. I joined in January 2013 and, as I wrote below, I'd been reading PPC stories for at least 4-6 years before that. Funnily enough, I wasn't planning to become a Boarder (just wanted to ask about using agents in an outtake for a Mary-Sue parody fic I was writing); instead, I got tempted into writing characters, and, in March, used a chapter of the same M-S parody fic as my Permission piece. In a nice bit of symmetry, I ended up changing my screenname in the same month I joined and becoming a Permission Giver in the same month I got Permission, four years apart. Things can change so much.

I...admittedly don't know exactly what to say here, so I'll just go with random facts that might be interesting. 'Zingenmir' is Yiddish (which I've been studying for...wow, five years now, if you don't count an after school club in elementary school). It means 'we sing', or 'we are singing', and should technically be written with a space as it's two words. 'DawnFire', meanwhile, came from a time when my friend and I thought up some names for cats from the Warriors book series for a game we were playing; funnily enough, she was Dawnfire and I was Brightshadow. I actually used the latter name as a screen name for a bit--made maybe two comments in the Deleterius LJ community back when it was around--but ended up switching to DawnFire (and adding the extra capital letter for aesthetics) for...reasons I couldn't tell you by now.

Speaking of Deleterius: don't know how many of you remember it. It was a sporking community (there's an article on it on the wiki). I've actually been very slowly reposting material from there that people happened to save, at deleterius.dreamwidth.org. I, er, need to continue with that at some point. In the meantime, there is some stuff already posted, and I have a lot more to add.

Like (I think?) a fair number of Boarders, I'm currently a university student. I've finally almost finished my first degree. I also really, really like language: I've put a fair bit of effort into learning them, and can currently speak, in varying (descending, in fact) levels of fluency, English, Hebrew, French, Yiddish, and German. I've wanted to be a fiction writer since I was very small; my parents are also involved in it (my mom writes fiction, my dad writes poetry), and my grandmother wrote various children's books. It rather runs in the family. I've so far been published a tiny bit--a short story in a magazine, and a creative essay (on that same grandmother, actually) in a book. Someday I would love to publish more.

What else can I say? Well, obviously, I like to talk :) I used to write a ton of Harry Potter fanfiction, most of which didn't get posted anywhere; going through that gave me a potential drinking game (for other people, I guess, since I don't really drink much). I have it written out in a document on my laptop. It includes 'time travel' (forwards and backwards), 'conversation happening in public that really should have waited to happen in private,' and 'AU.' I really liked my time travel. In fact, I still do. That and AUs: if you ever want to make me write something, tempting me with an AU idea when I have even a tiny bit of free time and energy will often work. It's probably part of the reason I love both RPs and things like the Badfic Games and writing things for April Fool's Day (which I unfortunately missed this year. The Purim RP may still happen at some point, though, albeit very belatedly).

What else? Well, I've got a ton of stories in the process, I adore animals (one of my roommates this year has a dog and it is happy-making), I enjoy crafts like beading and crocheting, and I've gotten really into baking (and cooking) this year. (Probably partly just because I'm now responsible for making all my own food and I...really enjoy getting a bit creative). The number of cooking and cooking show videos I watch has similarly gone pretty far up. I've somehow only just discovered Julia Child, though I'd heard of her years earlier; apart from her, one of the more interesting cooking channels I've found on YouTube is called Townsend & Son (or Sons? Not sure). It's basically seventeenth century cooking, mostly American and British, done (in costume and with replica instruments and, where possible and applicable, ingredients) by reenactors for reenactors and casual viewers who'd like to try this stuff at home. It's fascinating.

And I believe this is where I cut myself off. Have questions? Ask away! I probably won't talk your ear off quite as much as I have here :)

~Z

PS: Want my stories of 'aaaaah an oldbie is talking to me'? I don't remember too many details off the top of my head, but there were definitely some points at the beginning where I was pretty much skipping along grinning and going 'wheee I can't believe this.' Admittedly, a small part of that was because I'd thought there would be maybe three people still using the Board now and again, but a definite part of it was 'I grew up reading stories by these people and they shaped my fanfic and writing ideas and and and they're talking to me! How is this a thing?' Still happens a little sometimes, mostly with the people I haven't talked to as much. So that's cool.

(A similar thing also happened at some point with Scapegrace, and I think also briefly with Iximaz, despite the fact that both joined after I did. But that's another story. Er, two stories. And I'm going to actually post this now, before I end up checking the length and finding out I've written three pages...)

Aaaaa!

Aaaaa!

I love it I love it I love it! Thank you!

It looks like a little round TARDIS! With Gallifreyan writing inside it!

*runs off squeeing*

Me, March this year, speaking of the Hobbit films:

"Also there's all the money they must have made from the theme park... what? Whaddaya mean there wasn't one? But... the barrel ride! The thing with the molten gold! DoS was blatantly an advert for their big rollercoasters!"

TheOneRing.net, April this year:

"And finally, the rumor that has slowly been building up steam online, and now appears to be something to be taken seriously, a Middle-earth theme park. Universal Studios in Florida is looking to build its 4th park and fleshing out which themed lands will occupy the space. Nintendo, Ministry of Magic from Harry Potter, Jurassic World and Middle-earth are all rumored possibilities. Universal already has land purchased in the area near the other parks in Orlando, and two of the mentioned possible lands already exist in their other parks..... The DisneyandMore blog that posted this story is well regarded in knowing what is going on with amusement parks, and Universal began toying with the idea of a Middle-earth land as far back as 2010. ... If this deal is real, expect it to be confirmed soon, part of the deal involves having the park built within 5 years. Fasten your seat belts, keep your hands and arms inside the vehicle and hold onto your hats, it’s going to be a wild ride."

So there you go! My wildest theory that came (potentially) true.

hS