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Happy March, everyone! This day means a few things to me, but the only one presently relevant (subject to change) is that this marks me being able to make this.

Shipfest Sign-Ups!

For anyone who wasn't here last year, this is the thread where you opt-in for being shipped (and if you do not want to be shipped and are worried about it happening anyways, you'll be happy to know about that) and post your desired ships, the ones that do not include yourself unless you've talked it over with the other member/members of said ship - otherwise, it could be Pretty Creepy(tm) - and definitely any limits you have on being shipped, such as "not with men/women" or "not this particular thing" or "use THESE pronouns". You're also welcome to add suggestions, like saying you get stressed a lot so there's plenty of potential for Hurt/Comfort.
It would also be really, really handy to provide an actual description of yourself.

Cheers, all!

I forgot to post on my actual Boardiversary, February 1st, and only remembered yesterday. But, anyway, I've been here for a year! Which is... just crazy. I still feel like a newbie.

Thanks for doing so much for me, PPC, even though I haven't really done much in return as far as community goes. I've learned quite a few life lessons, made some very dear friends, and this place has helped me through some hard times. I do hope I've matured since my introduction post, though (seriously, it was really embarrassing and I blush just thinking about it).

Also, I'm changing my name to AC. Everyone calls me that on the Discord already, and... well, my original one is pretty dumb and narcissistic.

Ah, this one got me good. I only saw the first Kingsman movie soundless over someone's shoulder on an airplane, so I didn't recognize what was going on at all as this story opened. I was thinking it was an original story, until the disguise change and charge list moment. Looking back, I probably should have picked up on the Sueish traits in the Stormy character, especially some of his descriptions, but again, I didn't know the canon, so I didn't know what was "acceptable." All in all, a very excellent bait-and-switch.

I was also quite amused by the conversation between Cassie and Em while Stormy is breaking down the door. Em just going on and on with her "compliments" obliviously. Hee. And it leads into a nice, sweet ending.

Just want to point out, in this one line:
"'. . . you are charged with bending the Kingsman canon into an n-dimensional pretzel . . .'"
Kingsman should be italicized since it's being used as the title of the universe, rather being used in-universe as the organization.

—doctorlit currently views Kingsman as a silent film, but talkies are overrated, eh?

I don't know God!Thoth's origin either (and don't really feel like looking it up, if it's NSFW), but it's still kind of a cute scene, even if there is an element of pranking on Tom's end of it.

That said, I don't understand why Thoth feels that Tom's newest question is "approaching tiresome" when Tom has literally only asked a one-sentence question at that point. Especially since he ends up getting interested in the conversation a couple of paragraphs later.

Some typos:
"' . . . it is better to appear pretentious then to show a lack of confidence.'"

"'The fact that you continue attempt to jab at me is . . .'"

—doctorlit

Wow, that was an age ago, it was fun! Came back, got a MSc, now back on the job hunt market....

Is it acceptable to decorate the feather with wire, beads and gems?

The spikes go to the minis, they will know what to do with them.

Writing adult!Neville was the most stressful part of this, since I'm always worried about getting it wrong. Glad to know I hit the right notes. :)

If you were going to remove Ix from Hogwarts, she never would have ended up in the PPC (and meet Charlotte). So while it was pretty awful, it worked out in the end.

I don't know if I'd call it a hard work ethic here and more just desperation. There's more to the situation detailed in her home fic, but I might expand on that in a later prompt.

Ah you see, the mini-balrogs find that hilarious.

But just so you know, the minis actually like me. With that behaviour, they will not show you the good stuff....

Fun little character piece for Peregrin. There's a lot of stereotypical "old wizard" to him here, but I like that we get a glimpse of his experiments and thought process involving PPC tech and physics.

I also like that, in his dialogue where he tries to retrace his steps, you can see the point where he left the CAD at DoSAT, and he even knows that he took the CAD out at that location, but he just can't recall where it is.

—doctorlit has an idiot habit of leaving his cell phone protection case next to his other go-in-pockets-on-work-shift things, rather than next to the phone on his night stand, where it belongs

No worries. I know it isn’t. Also got as you are happy.

The other that I know that caught a case is a much more pleasant lady to be friends with.

Is that something I even want to touch?

What personality do I have in the fics now? Nice? Grumpy?

The store does now shopping carts in all sizes so that baskets do not get overfilled. The small ones are repourposed children’s carts.

And where are my twin mini-balrogs? They are supposed to stop loitering in the aisles. They can also be bribed by either party to either stop or allow agents to get certain items.

They also know where all the best stuff is......

Oh, I really like your adult!Longbottom here. He's very kind and considerate, and noticeably more confident and mature than when we saw him in his teenage years. But he also still has that little familiar note of hesitation, and not wanting to insert himself too forcefully into another person's business.

Poor Ix. I keep trying to think of a way to get them safely out of the clutches of the bullies, but . . . it's never that simple, is it? But I like that we also clearly see their hard work ethic, even when it's piled up in much greater amounts than Ix can reasonably handle. The detail that the dorm stairs sometimes deny Ix access based on their fluidity is fun, too.

—doctorlit, thinking Neville would make an excellently patient teacher

Why must cool stuff happen all the time to a game I can't play!?

Also: thank GOD, her armor actually looks somewhat practical.

As many people have been speculating in the leadup to her announcement, Blizzard revealed that it is indeed Brigitte Lindholm, Törbjorn's daughter and Reinhardt's squire who has taken up arms to join the fight!



She's a support/tank hybrid who wields a chainwhip mace and energy shield, and her armor looks totally awesome.





Her melee attack heals nearby allies, and she can also throw health packs onto allies (and overhealing gives them added armor). She has a shield bash that can be used to stun and knock back enemies, and basically, I think I'm in love already.

I have no idea how I overlooked Agent May. Dumb, dumb, dumb.

Forgot about the librarian, too. And, let's see. I think season one, maybe two, of Agents had that episode with the fire-powered Japanese guy, but he got killed off. And Daredevil had some villains, Lady Gao (though I'm not clear yet whether she's really human or not), and the entire Hand, plus the Black Sky child. I believe that plotline gets picked up in Iron Fist from what my brother has said, but I haven't gotten there yet. As for the Mandarin, I'm not sure what that character was supposed to be, even in-universe. I think the actor was going for "generically scary foreigner." Not sure why they didn't cast Killian as Asian, if they were going to give him that big "I AM THE MANDARIN" line at the end, anyway. Whiplash was Russian, though. Oh, and one of Thor's warrior friends in from that Japan-inspired realm, but again, that's the "Asian character" vs. "alien character that looks like and is portrayed by an Asian actor" weirdness.

I don't really know the comics that well. If they ever adapt Morbius's side of the Spider-Man canon, they could make him Romanian/Transylvanian like he was in the very excellent 90s Spider-Man cartoon, which is sort of arguable west-Asian, but I suspect they'll stick with the comics canon of making him Greek. I also randomly know of this Fin Fang Foom, an eastern-inspired dragon who would almost certainly be CGI, but ought to at least have an Asian voice actor. One should hope. And I've just come across mention of this Shang-Chi, which sounds like it could be a legitimately Asian culture-focused movie in the same way BP was for Africa.

—doctorlit really wants that Morbius-and-Blade movie, now that he's thought of the idea

However, the entire Hand clan is east Asian, so that's... something? Maybe? Probably not.

(I need to answer quicker.) Still, please accept a bag of black-hole chocolates as a welcome gift.

...You should see SeaTurtle. Alistair and Corellieth are adorable. :-)

And yeah, the human aspects of Space Marines, which the games do their best to claim don't exist, and the novels explore far better (yet another reason to prefer novel canon to 'dex canon, if you're counting), are what make them interesting characters. They're not brainless, they're not inhuman. They're stoic supersoldiers, but they have thoights and feelings of their own.

...And balancing that rigid training and actual emotion is something I worry about, because it's a bit tricky. But I do my best.

Even though I'm pretty sure I joined long after you did lol. Anyway, have one of my own shed feathers and a complimentary kit of Spikes!

All typos fixed in both versions.

I hadn't thought about the contrast with our guys and Androch, but the importance of those bonds between battle-brothers is one of the things that makes the Horus Heresy novels really appealing to me, which does make Androch's selfishness even more irritating. It's not all big boys with big weapons destroying stuff because they can, like I thought it would be—there's a lot of real human emotion there, too. I mean, I'm pretty sure soldiers everywhere really only fight for the people beside them when it comes down to it, and your average Space Marine is no exception. Which makes the whole thing extremely tragic, because nobody can ever have nice things, ever.

And one of the great things about the PPC is the opportunities it affords to throw people together who could never meet any other way and see what happens. And I think it's fair to say both Thoth and I are suckers for things turning out nice. {= )

~Neshomeh

Hi, Leto! Long time, no see! Last I heard, I think you were teaching English in Japan? How was that? How's things?

As hS says, we do indeed still use the General Store! As mentioned at the end of that story, my DMS team go there for Dragon Chow—and don't worry, they definitely pay properly. {= )

Have some welcome-back Canon Cookies!

~Neshomeh