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Currently working on the fifth chapter now. This is where things really kick into gear a bit, and the nature of Siobhan's Ordeal becomes clear.

Speaking of which: are you going to finish yours? You can't just leave Siobhan stuck in Norwich forever; surely you can't be that cruel! (Also Jacob the Senior will be sad if one of 'his' probationary wizards just goes missing like that... ^_~)

hS

I joined in January of 2010 and got Permission before the prompt system came into effect, so it's been a while, I guess. I am pretty busy most of the time, but have been trying to check the Board semi-regularly lately.

I have three kids. The oldest is probably older than a lot of people here, which is kind of freaky. He's graduating high school in about three weeks, and his Quizbowl team just won their third straight state championship. He gets to go to Nationals again at the end of the month.

My little Doomsprout will be ten in June. (I know some of you remember when he was just a little Sprout.) He's into musical theater (children's program) now, and just finished Treasure Island. I homeschool him and ferry him to various appointments.

I spend most of my online time on AO3. I've got some Haven fanfic on there. Heed the warnings if you decide to look me up. I play a lot of video games including Fallout New Vegas, 3, and 4. Dragon Age Origins, and just picked up the Deus Ex: Mankind Divided earlier this year. Skyrim in the past, but let the Eldest have it for now. I watch Warcabbage play things like Far Cry and Resident Evil. I like reading Origins fanfic, and might eventually get around to posting the fic I wrote for it. Maybe.

I'm a big Marvel fan, MCU and as much as I can get caught up on of the comics. I like NCIS, Stargate, Criminal Minds, and DCTV shows (I'm only about halfway caught up on them, though). Trollhunters, How to Train Your Dragon, Futurama, My concentration is bad (autoimmune disease) so I don't watch plot heavy things as often anymore.

It's really cutting into my reading, too. I have read multiple Hank the Cowdog books this year. The Sprout requires a chapter read to him as part of his bedtime routine. I talked him into Treasure Island in honor of his play, so a real book, yay!

Other stuff about me: I make hats on round knitting looms, paint little wooden toys, and complete shoddy carpentry projects (when my joints cooperate). I made a Hoppit Hole for the rabbit the Sprout wants to get. It's actually not bad for me. I like Pinterest and planning elaborate birthday parties for my kids until they get too big to want them. Futurama for the Sprout this year. The kid has literally watched the entire show (even the movie season) 14 times and is on his 15th round now.


QUESTION: For those who are fresher on Redwall. What do you think of it for a kid? All I think of when I think of Redwall these days is Stormsong's origin fic, and I can't remember how dark the real books get. (I know not THAT dark, but he is young socially speaking.)


Any questions for me?

I mainly use the email that's clickable for PPC things now. I should be free today at 8:30pm my time, however in your email you say BST is 3 hours ahead of you, but BST is 5 hours ahead of EST. (I'm still free at 10:30pm my time as well so it doesn't really make a difference).

Novastorme

Hi! Nice to see you!

This is going to be fun. :)

This show has changed so much since its first season - it went from a wacky comedy of bizarre filler episodes with a few hints at deeper intruigue mixed in to a plot-heavy drama about the conflicts of different forces in this magical world, centered around themes like coming of age, navigating responsibility and attempting to come to terms with the injustices of the past and the deep-seated prejudices of the present.

How do you generally keep track of the temperature? Do you use a thermometer, or do you just have a good feel for when the water is about right?

Be sure you are using the correct temperature for whatever tea you are brewing. If it is a fruit tea you have to take note of what tea makes up the base. If the temperature is too low, flavor isn't well developed, and if it's too hot, the leaves get damaged. A good guideline is 70 to 80 C for green tea; 80 to 90 C for Oolong if you brew the western way (rolls eyes), about 85 to 95 the Chinese (real) way; and 100 C for red tea. Some sources online may cite slightly different values but this is just a general rule of thumb. Each tea is different.

P.S. I'm joking about the real/fake thing.

Here, have a return cupcake. It's chocolate with chocolate chips and chocolate icing!

"A Mighty Demon Slayer Grooms Some Ponies" was a good one. I say was because the author dropped the ball at the end and had to delete the chapter. What's still there is worth a look.

Then there's the "Pony POV Series" which has the previous generations in the backstory... but it might take a while to get to. The story is also worth a read, even if it's also quite long.

Let me know what you think and I can point you in the right direction.

Here ya go, there's my thing. I probably took way too long and this thread'll probably be swept away into nothingness soon enough but HERE SHE IS KIDS.

Another Boarder I will be able to roast for being a pom! Brilliant!

Ix is moving up in the world. Good bloody on ya, mate! And good luck with all that study stuff!

I give unto you a Neon Genesis Evangelion reference:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyFQVZ2h0V8

I'm guessing this is a link hub to the completed stories? In which case, gorgeous! If not... still gorgeous. =]

Prompts are noncanon, unless the author states otherwise. So you can write without permission.

It is not always the best-written of series, having its share of ridiculous plot points, inconsistencies, and uninspiring prose (especially in the latter half of the series, which is mostly ghostwritten), and there were definitely points in my reading journey where I questioned why I was even bothering.

I think its biggest flaw for me is that it suffers from a tendency to bring up interesting things - pieces of worldbuilding, perhaps, or overarching ideas about morality - and then fail to make full use of them or explore them further in any depth. On the other hand, this means that there are some interesting ideas explored, and I found the series overall engaging.

In the end, despite many flaws which are much more evident to me now than they were the first time I encountered the books, I personally am happy with my decision to revisit them.

...I'm currently in the process of cross-posting all of my PPC missions and interludes to AO3 now, since I don't want to see them accidentally deleted due to some freak accident or something. Once I've put up all my past writings there, I'll post new missions both here and on my AO3 account concurrently from that point forward. Some of my past missions have even been updated and improved a little during the cross-posting process, so if you want to read the newest, bestest versions of them, my AO3 page is where it's at! :D

https://archiveofourown.org/users/SkarmorySilver/works

I've been around since July of 2014, I believe, and may have been reading PPC works for longer than that - I don't know when I started but I apparently won't stop anytime soon. My personal definition is that the attendance range for newbies is about one to two years, middlebies would've been here from three or so years to around six or seven, and anybody who's been around longer is an oldbie. I guess the definition is highly subjective, though, so if you guys feel I'm an oldbie by chronological association (I joined not long after Iximaz posted their first mission, and they've been given the oldbie hat IIRC), then I suppose I can roll with it.

At any rate, I've been online since 2007, which was way back during my early days in college, so at the time I was just an innocent little... well... one of how many non-canon Skarmory pre-evolutions the Internet has produced. I say this because the first fandom I ever produced artwork for was Pokémon (which still is my biggest fandom today), and fanmade Pokémon specifically where why I joined DeviantArt in the first place - I'd seen some very good "fakemon" artists on dA and thought I'd give it a try. I think I've explained my online history since then a few times before, but I gradually expanded to other fandoms including various movies, books, TV shows, manga and anime, and even certain kinks!

Looking back, getting sucked into fandom at such a young age was both a blessing and a curse, since it allowed me to find friends and common interests at a much faster pace than college life ever could, but at the same time my skin hadn't yet turned to steel, so to speak. That left me woefully unprepared for the harsh lessons of social interactions online - and believe me, I did get in trouble multiple times both online and off for being a selfish egotistic little bugger, and I have no excuse for those actions. If there's one good thing that's come out of it, though, it's the personality equivalent of Skarmory's Silver Pokedex entry: "After nesting in bramble bushes, the wings of its chicks grow hard from scratches by thorns." In other words, the drama I'd accidentally caused and the humiliation I was rightly subjected to in retaliation caused me to wise up and begin to make honest efforts to become a better person. I think my family recognized this as well and the various social events and interactions they chucked me into during my graduate period helped me grow up just as much as my online interactions did. Of course, I do still make slip-ups every now and then, but at the end of the day I also have a better idea of working with how people think and feel.

Be that as it may, though, it should be obvious why I comprehensively disemboweled the one and only badfic I ever managed to complete for my first mission - it had always been my intent to spork it for my first outing even before I joined the PPC, let alone getting Permission. I understand that it was probably not the smartest move in hindsight and that there were plenty of safer alternatives to use as a jumping off point, but there was a lot of emotional baggage associated with that fic, so from my standpoint, I guess missioning it and exploring the legacy of said mission was the only possible way I could cope. It's kinda sad that I haven't been able to pick up that level of investment for any mission I've written since then, but I've already made it this far with my characters and I've got quite a few plans as to where they'll go in the future. I just need to find the motivation as well as the time away from Real Life things (and many, many other personal projects!) to return to PPC stuff, and hopefully interacting with you guys should help restore that motivation.

If you want to get to know me in other places aside from the PPC and the Discord, my DeviantArt and Tumblr handle are both SkarmorySilver. I had a Twitter for a short while but it's DOA, and while I do have both a Spotify, YouTube, and SoundCloud, those are largely for faving and consuming media content rather than producing them, so dA and Tumblr are your best bets. I've also shared my Gmail around here before (once again, it's the same handle as my PPC account) if you want to check me out on Hangouts, and though I don't use that as often as Discord nowadays, I may drop in every so often to check how some of my chatroom buddies are doing.

Tl;dr, I talk way too much, have feathers made of knives, and am far too busy with Real Life right now to do much else. Yeah, that's me. Ask me stuff! :D

*ba-dum tish*