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When I think of the books I like to reread, I find I can usually characterise why very quickly. J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings is deep, with worlds of detail under every paragraph. Megan Whalen Turner's Queen's Thief series is incredibly clever. Rosemary Sutcliff's Eagle of the Ninth sequence is rich in history. Aaron Allston's X-Wing books are just ridiculously funny. And Diane Duane's Young Wizards series is absolutely bright with hope.

I mean that fairly literally. Unlike most fiction involving fighting an Enemy, almost all of YW takes place in the daytime, or otherwise in the light. Light, and bringing light to dark places, is a constant theme throughout the books - Nita and Kit's wands of choice are moonlight-soaked rowan and noon-forged steel, for instance, and two of the first three books include pivotal scenes where light is used to defeat the Lone Power.

This isn't to say that they're sheer fluff - Diane establishes early on that sacrifice is necessary to achieve victory - but even there, the light-bringing theme continues. I could name at least six or seven characters who give up everything to bring literal light in and against the darkness - and yes, it's heartbreaking, but it's also worthwhile.

Diane's hopeful approach to the series is also reflected in other ways. In the other four series I listed, one way or another the characters' goal is concealment. Frodo and Sam want to sneak into Mordor. Wraith Squadron want to trick the Empire. In all of those books, being spotted is a failure, and confronting the enemy directly an act of desperation.

Not so in Young Wizards. The constant message, shown through the characters' actions in every book, is that to turn back evil you have to stand up to it. Nita, Kit and their friends and family aren't trying to work around the Lone Power, to pull off their goals without drawing Its attention - they're trying to face It. Yes, they need to prepare the ground first, and yes, they may stay stealthy for a while during the preparation - but ultimately, they draw their circles, stand forward, and declare their greetings and their defiance.

It's a very different worldview to the one I usually read, so when I want to read something that puts a heartfelt smile on my face - when I want to remember that even when sacrifice is necessary, "there's always Timeheart" - when, in fact, I just want to feel better about the world - the Young Wizards series is where I turn.

hS

"He forgot the high-energy radiation again."

"He always does."

I was think about one more generally based on bad fanfiction, rather than the PPC itself.

Write a thing! Write several things! There's some guidelines after the end of the fic, but the premise is very Plortian- all us Boarders are people who visit SIF-10 and station.

That leaves a question. Where did your alias come from? ;)

Anyway, hi there! I'm Twistey, and high five, I like Star Wars too. Don't know much about those other two, though - yay, potential learning opportunity! I have a lot of fandoms, a lot of original worlds, and a lot of parodies. Basically, too many ideas and not enough time to make them all reality.

So, what do you plan to do here? Any agent ideas? I'd love to know more!

And finally, for your newbie gift, here's a piece of grey metal that fell off Das Executive Golem from Lichtspeer, as well as a piece of blue metal from over in Castle Wolfenstein. I haven't tried making these two into an alloy yet, but I have a feeling they'll end up being Licht-resistant. Do whatever you want with them!

Anyway, nice to meet you and welcome to the PPC!

-Twistey

I lost.

http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7doublesou-740181189

Haha! Met your reference with a reference! I'm proud of myself :)

Anyway, hi there Snowy! I'm Twistey, a one-year-bie who gets way too hyped over the smallest things, whether they're my own creations or other people's. I have at least one OC for every fandom I'm in... which is a lot. Oh boy.

Anyway, is your username the same on the Wiki? I'd like to look and see if any of your missions (if you wrote any) would be of interest to me. Just as a polite thing for a returnbie, y'know?

And for your returnbie gift, here's a bunch of lampwork glass beads. They're all shaped like various department logos and other PPC-related emblems, and there's one strand for each shape. Have fun with whatever you choose to do with them!

Nice to meet you and welcome back to the PPC!

-Twistey

https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/battle-gen7doublesou-740181189

I would love to be part of this. I'll have to read that fic all the way through later, as I have other Board things to do, but that looks really good!

-Twistey

That right there is every single interactive story app on the App store. Except maybe a few that I could've missed.

But nonetheless. Episode. Choices. All the chat story apps. They all do that. It's terrible, it's sneaky, it's unjust, but it's common. That's how they make money - instead of being honest and making you pay up front, they just make it free so you'll be fooled and then mooch you of your cash to make the game playable.

What a shame - Hogwarts Mystery looked so good and so restrictive of wish fulfillment (the only possible wish fulfillment being choice of house) that I originally kind of liked it.

-Twistey

I meant PM. I am only free after 6:00 (18:00) Eastern Time

Turned up this one: https://www.cardcastgame.com/browse/deck/A595V Which appears to be mostly based on "My Immortal" and "legolas by laura" with a few other references, some of which I recognize.

There are also many badfic refs in the Cards Against Headquarters decks.

~Neshomeh

We have several PPC decks, actually!

http://pyx-2.pretendyoure.xyz/zy/game.jsp#game=42

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~Neshomeh

Password is: Another!

I might be catching the East Coasters too close to dinner, but oh well. We'll see what happens.

~Neshomeh

Though that's not very noticeable for the first, oh, six or so books... :V

I should be able to carve out some free time today. Considering it's the afternoon we could do it within a couple of hours if you're free?

My username on Showdown is Ihavenoinsurance, and you'll find me in (amongst others) the Writing Channel.