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

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

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

Edward asked “So how do we decide who gets to listen to music today?”
Edward and Kat were always arguing over which music to listen to. They both liked musicals, but that was about as far as any similarities went: Edward preferred more classical ones, his favourite being The Sound of Music, and Kat loved anything Disney, particularly Aladdin.
“A race?” suggested Kat. “First one back to the RC wins?”
The agents had just left the SO’s office after having introduced their recruited badfic characters. There had been four or five of them, the Suethor of that badfic having clearly enjoyed creating OCs.
Edward nodded and said, “Okay. See you there!”
But Kat had already taken off.
There was no time to lose, so Edward hurried after her, wishing there was some water around. As he ran, he was pleased to note that he was focussed enough on running to not think about directions and so find the RC.
Kat, however, was a long way ahead and, although he was faster than she was, if he got close to her she’d just turn into a bird and outfly him.
As he followed the corridor through Headquarters, the gap gradually began to close until he was neck and neck with her. He also recognised where they were: nearly at the RC. Third door on the left, one more corridor and they were there.
Edward pushed open the door and Kat became a golden eagle. Edward’s advantage was that Kat had lost all her momentum in the transformation and he now had a slight lead over her. The RC door was in sight and Kat was closing rapidly.
But there were only three more strides until he was there…
He slammed his palm against the door triumphantly and said “I win!”
Kat was still a bird and waiting for him to open the door. He realised her clothes had been left behind in the transformation and decided seeing his twin sister naked was not an appealing prospect.
He opened the door and turned on the CD player. Kat flew to the bathroom where she always kept some clean clothes in case of a short-notice transformation.
Edward put his feet up, but of course, the Ironic Overpower being what it was…
[BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!]



Note: Edward and Kat are from the Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children continuum. Edward can control water and Kat is an ymbryne (pronounced imm-brinn) and can turn into a bird and manipulate time.

The wings on the engineer’s back indicated that that he had avian genetics.

Besides "I liked it" I have nothing to say that Larfen didn’t already say in more eloquent words than I could find.

HG

(I seem to be saying that a lot.)

The main thing running through my mind is: what does the Lone One want? This can't all be just to muck about with a fledgeling wizard; Ordeals are more about wizards stumbling into Its plans, not the other way round (though as always, Cousin, there are no accidents...). So what sort of plan would include the step 'entice a bunch of wizards to leave a pub'...

... I can't wait to find out. ;)

hS

(Timesliding us back to the present - not that 2014 isn't a fun place to visit, but I've got a later point on the graph. :))

I decided it would be fun to put together a timeline of... well... us. ^_^ I've not put in too many details (and most of the ones I have included are about me), but I figure it gives a decent sketch of what's been doing on in our world.

1999 - Summer - Neshomeh's Ordeal
2000 - Summer - Huinesoron's Ordeal
2000 - Summer - Kaitlyn's Ordeal
2000 - Summer - The Lone Power regains access to Great Britain.
2000 - Autumn - The 2000 Invitational. With over 200,000 wizards in their first six months of the Art, hS and Kaitlyn definitely don't make the 300 participants.
2002 - Spring - Jay and Acacia found the PPC
2002 - Autumn - The PPC Board is founded, including (Errantry) tags and a spell to camoflague them.
2004 - Summer - Huinesoron moves to Bath and takes up watching the temporal anomaly in the Avon Valley.
2007 - Summer - S.M.F.'s Ordeal
2008 - Spring - The sun goes out for a brief period during an Ordeal in New York.
2009 - Summer - Huinesoron moves back to Essex to take on an Advisory role.
2010 - Spring - The Pullulus War. Adult wizards progressively lose access to wizardry, forcing younger wizards to take on senior roles.
2010 - Summer - First Jupiter impact event of the year. Multiple Senior wizards are pulled off-planet to deal with the cause. Huinesoron is 'frocked' to Senior.
2010 - Summer - Mars is very nearly repopulated by its archived local species.
2010 - Summer - Scapegrace's Ordeal
2010 - Summer - Second Jupiter impact event of the year. The Seniors of Earth return, allowing Huinesoron to drop back to Advisory status.
2011 - Winter - The majority of Earth's wizards are pulled off-planet to assist in the evacuation of Tevaral.
2011 - Spring - The 2011 Invitational.
2014 - Winter - Delta Juliette's Ordeal
2017 - Spring - London 2017 PPC Gathering brings together at least 4 PPC wizards (albeit Kaitlyn in eidolon form only).

Ix, I forget your date of Ordeal; sometime 2008-2010, wasn't it? And Tomash... I don't think you ever said, I think you just sort of showed up. (Or maybe that's just my bad memory?)

hS

I love those; never quite got my hand in, though. I always figured you needed bark and roots to shape the characters right, but you've just proved that wrong.

My version's going to look a bit shoddy by comparison, but never let it be said I'm one to go back on an offer of a gift...



hS