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"And that was the last time I really feel like I connected with my mother on an emotional level. You know what I'm sayin' doc?"

Nurse Mirrad let out a heavy sigh. "Mr Pool, I have no idea what you are saying. I would remind you that I am not assigned to your case, nor have I heard that you have been admitted. Now, I have already asked you to remove yourself from my lap. Please comply so that I may continue to eat my lunch."

["Hey, cool place you've got here!" Deadpool looked around at the grey walls of the Department of Fictional Psychology and grinned under his mask. "Much better than that featureless Matrix thingamabob over... well, over somewhere."

The merc twitched his shoulders, adjusting his gear on his back. "Right, and that's a really awkward way of sayin' it." Shaking his head, he turned back to Mirrad. "Anyway, I'd love to chat, but I've promised to find someone called Zing some chimichangas. At least I think that's what I said, I wasn't really paying attention. Later!"]

((This message has been subject to a horrifying abuse of Nameless Admin powers. Deadpool made me do it. ~hS))

...I don't think I'd mind pretty much any direction this goes in ('this' being Deadpool knowing about the PPC and how long/when he'd know about it *for*). What I do know is that Deadpool is hilarious and this thread is awesome :D

Personally, I think it could be very fun for him to know, even if it maybe faded when canon reasserted itself. A bit like Jack Harkness, maybe? He seems to more or less know what PPC agents are, even if he repeatedly forgets the specific instances when they appear. Seeing through perception filters helps with that, of course. At any rate: more Deadpool=good. I'm in favor. Would love to see a mission where he shows up.

~Z

I'm not feeling huge support for a review survey, but since no one's objected, either, I'll put something together as soon as I can—next weekend if I can't manage it sooner. I reckon it's just as good a thing (if not better) to do later as it would be right stat now.

And I agree that more mods sounds like a necessary and good thing. I'd invite someone else to spearhead a nomination and election process for that, possibly in its own thread.

~Neshomeh

A big clue was "thingk," which I realized was not a typo, but a very subtle hS-type reference to a debate we had some time ago. Probably. {= )

Speaking of things that definitely don't legally exist, if you happen to not-see Hal Jordan, don't-say I said hi and thanks again for the save that one time. ^_~

~Neshomeh

Not receiving further notes is not indicative of anything. Your beta reader(s) may just be distracted (or procrastinating), but still intend to come back later. If they know their job, you should either receive a final email or get a clear "go" in a final comment on the Gdoc. In case they appear to have forgotten you, but you see them on the Board, it’s okay to ask what’s going on in an off-topic response (like "OT: Are you still beta reading?"). Asking by email is also okay, regardless of whether they are or aren’t active on the Board, but may not work if lost emails are the problem.

I generally default to email, and in your case I wanted to include some advice on further procedure that appeared to be too long for a note. In hindsight, doing both (the note just saying “email sent”) might have been the best.

I feel sorry for your losses, and I apologize for not asking what was going on. This wouldn’t have been the first time that something I beta-read was never posted, and I didn’t see you anywhere on the Board, so I wondered whether you had silently changed your mind and left (I’m glad you didn’t), and I didn’t want to pester you with further questions.

HG

I'd be happy to help make sure all the jokes land etc!

...I am now getting sucked into the horrific trainwreck that is Silent Hill (and discovering quite a few cringe-worthy and sometimes NSFB shipping artworks of James and Pyramid Head besides, MY EYES, THEY BURNNNNN DX). Darn you Voyd, again! :P

And if you'll excuse the pluggage, I've even come up with two pitches for fan-made Silent Hill games of my own, at least one derived from one of Bogleech's SH fangame prompts on his Tumblr: http://bogleech.tumblr.com/post/135147981893/if-you-were-in-charge-of-a-new-silent-hill-game

Silent Hill: Deep Six
Silent Hill: Bemusement

I can help with SPaG as per the usual, but familiarity with the canon and characters concerned is always a plus. ;)

Oh right, precisions. Not so sure about genres, but I have preference for music with lyrics. I listen mainly francophones singers, Tits' Nassels, Lynda Lemay, Bénabar, Renan Luce, Bensé...

On the anglophone front, I prefer mainly Gabriel Aplin, with an eclectic selection after that (Killers, Skillet, Adele, Bonnie Tyler, Brandon Heath,...). I also listen many Nightcore songs.

Another thing I listen a lot are anime/videogames musics, with or without lyrics. And when it comes to anime songs, it's the Japanese lyrics and the englis translations of a Youtuber called LeeandLie (plus a few original songs).

The team will come later, once I understand the doubles/single differences better... And I can choose a monotype myself (Why break this poor combo, EPL?). Like hS, I'm looking for tips here, and perhaps opinions on what type choose (I'm hesitating between Psy, Ghost, Dark and Fairy).

As of last year.

hS

... do YOU like chocolate?

... actually that's not the real question. Why would I ask that? I mean, your name says you're an angel, but why would I believe that? This is the Matrix, anyone can say they're anything! ADMIT IT! You're a false angel, come to... something something, liberty and justice for all!

Yeah. That'll teach you.

>:(

Do you like chocolate?

No takey-backsies.

Now, listen, O Creator, I'm feeling the lack of amenities around here. Why don't you sit down there and write me up a nice scene to get some down-time in? I'll make it worth your while, if you know what I mean...

... honestly, I don't know what I mean, but I figured it sounded persuasive.

:D

(And it is pronounced like "void")

I totally get the thing about not existing - you'd not believe the number of things I see that don't exist, and/or legally can't be said to. It's wild.

Hang on, there's like a... whaddaya call a door when it's not really a door, but just a transition in a featureless plain? One of those. Eh... weird Star Wars wallpaper, boring emails, some kiiiinda interesting stuff going on in a couple of drafts... looks like it's another one of you people with ridiculous names. 'Huinesoron'? Sounds like something you should take to the doctor!

;o

((Touche. ~hS))

Because of the way threading works on this forum. {= D

Point is, I don't need to touch you (this ain't the Shipfest). Unless Stan Lee or whoever actually controls content at Marvel acknowledges the PPC as a thing, we don't exist and therefore you can't know about us. Canonically, anyway. Random RPs are another matter. Say, do you know who's writing you at the moment?

~Neshomeh

I'm not aside, I'm below. And if you think you can ignore me, you've got another thingk coming: I'm in the code, watching everything you do. I'm like Neo, if Neo was way cooler and also trapped in an infinite white plain.

... which, come to think of it, makes me a lot like Neo in that scene with all the guns. You know the one. Right before they go and murder everyone.

So the takeaway here is twofold: one, Neo is almost as cool as me, and two, I'm in the Matrix and you can't touch me. Your bullets will do that awesome thing where they stop like they hit a wall of Jello or something.

:D

My take on these questions of "but X character is omniscient" is always that they're only omniscient about their own canon. The PPC is not part of any canon (unless an author someday makes it so), therefore knowledge of it will vanish when the canon reasserts itself.

OTOH, Deadpool might get a pass purely because it could kinda hilarious for him to randomly pop up in HQ and/or the Board whenever he feels like it. Kinda like how Gaspode the Wonder Dog knows about the PPC, because dogs can't talk, duh, and no one would ever believe him anyway. Rule of Funny. {= )

~Neshomeh

Thanks for dumping me here, uh... 'Voyd'. How do you even pronounce that? Is it the same as Void? Or is it like 'Vo-YUD'? Can I call myself Dydpool? No, that's terrible, forget it.

Right, so I've no idea what you're talking about; I'm kinda trapped in a mostly-infinite white plain right now, and it feels like I'm... texting? Or something? OH wait, I'm on the Internet, aren't I? HI MOM!

Yeah, basically, you already brought me here, so that ship? Sailed. That horse? Bolted. That rat? ... nah, you probably wouldn't appreciate that metaphor. End result, that fourth wall? Broken. I know about the PPC now.

Whatever the PPC is.

;)

First, I appreciate you calmly and rationally explaining your side of the story. I choose to believe you're telling the truth, and I sympathize.

But I'd sympathize more if you hadn't said this:

"simply because it might possibly maybe cause someone at some point to poke fun at that person"

I happen to agree with a lot of what you said in point 4, but that right there is far too flippant. To understand the reasoning, try putting yourself in the shoes of someone who's been shamed and possibly abused for their feelings and/or identity their whole life, and imagine what they must expect to happen any time they dare to be open about them. Then imagine how it would seem for someone they don't know and don't trust to demand that they be open at a time they're not prepared for it.

There's a big difference between encouraging your girlfriend, who presumably has rational reasons to trust you that she can use to counter her fears, and badgering someone you barely know online. The stakes, even if you don't believe they're the same as violence, are still loads higher than just "poking fun." That's a completely unfair minimization of other people's experience. Please apologize.

~Neshomeh