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I have had permission for nearly a year and only now has it come out, and it is called FLAMING BROOMSTICKS:

The first part

The second part!

The third part?

The foooourth part

The last part

Endless bloody thanks to my betas who were all great and who all did a fantastic job translating my filthy Larfscribblings into discernible English!

HOOH.

See you lot with the next installment in about two years or so!

But this is great. Bravo!

I may have spotted a tiny error in Part One:
I think I might have accidentally on purposely sold myself to the US military...
I guess this should either read "accidentally on purpose" or "accidentally or purposely", but I’m not sure whether this is the sleep deprivation or the caffeine talking, or an actual typo.

HG

The Central City has definitely re-emerged, though it's much further to the right than it used to be. Maxewell, Granz, Hardric, World-Jumper, and Delta Juliette are all so close together that it's pointless to try and distinguish them. To be honest, if Quincy and Matt weren't so rural, they would be part of it as well.

RemnantShadow, meanwhile, has joined the colonisation of the Eastern Desert - there's five people in there, too! In fact, everyone east of Maxewell, except for Quincy and Hardric, is in a desert or worse (and the only deserts west of Maxewell are Larfen and Tomash). Given the five different forests and marshes floating around in the west, I think we can conclusively say that the ecology/production bar follows the communist/capitalist one...!

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If your Ecology score had been 41%, or your Productivism 39% - ie, anything to break the deadlock between the two - you would've been a magenta diagonal band on green.

(You could also get purple by taking your Constructivism score up two points to 40%.)

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That's ridiculous. You've been here about five minutes, or possibly forever, but definitely not four years. That's a silly number.

Of course, 'ninety missions' is also a pretty ludicrous number...!

hS

I offer my sympathies for the tantrum.I don't have memories of this, but my yougest brother could be an handful when he was at that age.

'Plus' side of being sparklepire: At least chances of durable hurting are considerably weaker? Dunno if that's enough though.

Noodle Incident sense twitching. The mystery always mean they're juicy.

Valuable brain space, uh? *Thinks about these bad cartoon and diverse tidbits refusing to just go away even after years* Lesser sort here, but oh yes, brain can be weird that way.

*Raspy Sidious-like voice* Do it, Zeb. Ask about that position. You know you absolutely do not want to.

You know, I like using disguises to catch the glitterbag unaware, but I never really thought about using it to deliver the charge list in an unsuspiscious way before. Would you mind terribly if I shamelessly steal respectfully borrow this great idea?

Oooh, Elanor is fan of Equestria Girls? Repeat after me, little girl: Sunset Shimmer is best human and best pony.

Nice mission to read. Also, do you have any preference for the cake, or will black-holechocolate and red berries will do?

So I don't have, like, an exact date on this or anything. Well, I do, but it's long after when it started probably... March the 13, 2009. That's when I made up (well, borrowed) the word that I named my dear Briza- kitten I've had for maybe a month plus. I know I was writing this thing for a while before that, but I don't quite know how long? Anyways, going by the year... it's been nine years since I've started. Nine years of working on the same darn story. Nine years I've known these characters. Nine years. I can hardly believe it.

When I first started, I never dreamed... well, maybe I did, but I never really expected it all to go this far. I thought maybe it would be fun to write, something to do when I was bored. I never thought that I wouldn't stop. But I haven't, and now... My project, OBL... it is literally what I feel like I want to do with my life. The one accomplishment that's going to really mean something to me. And I'm really emotional about this? Because... hoo boy. It's been such a big part of my life, and I want it to keep going for another nine years. Heck, let's shoot for 90 years.

Crazy thing? It's feasible that in the next couple of years, I may actually finish the first story.

I think you can chose any gifts from the list given in the initial post of the RP (or rather the second one, thanks to mispost), and it's up to you to RP the surprise of your agents... or them 'stealing' the gift of one of the participants having already one. The list also gives the order for picking gifts.

The Aviator and Zeb are sent into Twilight to deal with an obnoxious daughter of Carlisle.

So, this marks my ninetieth mission. Let the countdown to My Immortal begin.

Also, today's my fourth Boardiversary. So that's a thing, too, I guess.

And, my results:

http://politiscales.la-commune.net/en_US/results/?t1=24&t0=31&c0=38&c1=31&j1=19&j0=45&m0=55&m1=12&b1=10&b0=64&s0=62&s1=7&p0=36&p1=29&e1=40&e0=40&prag=67&femi=24

Can I just say, I have the absolute worst flag ever? Just magenta, nothing else. Not even a dot or something. I'm half tempted to try the test again to see if somehow I get a better flag.

I can't say I know a whole lot of really, really awesome people like Quincy does, but there is definitely one person that comes to mind as someone who's saved my world. He's this one guy who's the best person I know. He is 100% a hero who has helped me up more times than I can count, and I can only hope to be like him one day. He's unbelievably selfless, heart-meltingly kind, and just... so, so caring. He's never judged me about anything I've done, and I can't imagine he ever will; he's the most supportive person I've ever met. He can brighten up my day with just a few words and one of his funny and random jokes. I'm not ashamed to say that I have absolutely no idea what I'd do without him.

Thank you for saving me; I owe you everything. If you're reading this and you're the guy I'm talking about, you know who you are and you know there isn't anyone else I'd say these things about.

I thought the person who donated the gift picked by the previous person was supposed to go next.

So... now what, Skarmory?

~Neshomeh

I know a lot of really, really awesome people. Some of them are heroes who've helped me through some of the toughest times I've ever gone through. Others are diplomats who've stayed calm in the face of drama and refused to harbor bad blood. Still more are just delightful, quirky souls who bring a smile to my face every time I interact with them. I'm talking about the people who support their friends, who love their friends, who make their friends' days. I'm talking about the people we love, the people we'd fight for, the people to whom we owe more than we could ever repay. And it saddens me that often times, those heroes go unsung. Let's fix that. Let's sing praises of those people who've saved our worlds. If you've ever met someone like this, please show your admiration and your appreciation below.

It was your turn to pick a gift (with Gall Knutsson) according to the list given in the opening post, Neshomeh. I answered because the gift which had been picked up was one of hte ones I had offered, and well... I thought 'why not have my agents drop a comment about it?' to start another discussion beyond opening the gifts.

And while I'm asking, do you just pick one off the list, or is it randomly determined somehow?

~Neshomeh may have missed an obvious thing?

The 2018 PPC New Year's Gift Exchange is still ongoing. If you guys want to spectate, feel free, but this reminder goes specifically to Neshomeh, Hardric, Zingenmir, and eatpraylove, who are participating alongside me; I believe it's Nesh's turn last I checked.

The link to the masterpost on the T-Board is here!

Made by the comedy bois The Technical Difficulties, who have a youtube series of it that is very good and funny, and they are all very good and funny people.

Essentially, the host finds a Wikipedia article, introduces it and such, and asks the contestants a variety of questions about it. The contestants get points for answering them correctly and particularly good answers get MYSTERY BISCUIIIITS (oh yeaaah)
It's more an excuse for improv comedy, more than anything else, with all the rules and points and such being quite loose, and I know of multiple episodes where the host just straight up forgets who's winning.

Scape didn't, though. Scape's got a mind like a rattlesnake and I would bet on her side in a fist fight between her and Tom Scott.

I finally felt that I had the time, so for the first time in a long, long time, I'm posting on the board again.

I'm here to say that I am alive and in good spirits, but slightly disappointing at how I've just dropped off the radar here. Sorry about that.

I'll try to be more active here again this year.

General summary, I liked this movie.

One thing I quite liked was that the protagonist (Eliza) was mute, and that we got subtitled sign language.

Another was the movie did a good job of having some rather not-good 1960s bigotry woven in somewhat seamlessly (see, for example, that bit at the pie place). This also brings me to Strickland, who was a really good villain: heartless, bigoted, a ... I think "attempted rapist" works... etc. and he doesn't see a problem with any of this because he's superior to that monster and all those other not-quite-human folks (like Eliza or anyone who ain't white).

Shout-out to the fact that the amount of language passed on during the montage where that was an element was reasonable (given how short a time span it happened in).

Getting a happy ending pulled out of all the shooting near the end was nice.

One complaint is that they roughly spelled out what the ending would consist of right at the beginning took a bit of the tension out of the film.

These have been scattered, late-night thoughts.

- Tomash

Poor Charlotte just keeps finding out one thing after another that can hurt humans. Just wait until she finds out about overeating. :P

Dey engaged! It an engagement! Now watch the wedding go horribly wrong

Thanks for the correction.

I really enjoyed the tone of this. Just calm and peaceful and simple, and really no PPC weirdness or supernatural whatever drawing focus from the characters. I also like the shift from the beginning, when Ix is unsure and Charlotte is supportive, and the reversal after Charlotte gets sunburned, where she becomes panicky and needs to rely on Ix's experience to stop the hurt. It's a creative way of getting to the proposal as well, without the usual set up for that kind of scene.

One error!
Ix’s palms were slick with sweat by the time they got past the Security Dandelion guarding the exist, and when the heat of World One’s sun hit them, it only got worse.
Dandelions may guard the exist, but remember that tires don exits.

—doctorlit heavily recommends "kids" sunscreen for anyone spending time in strong sunlight. It's at least as effective as the adult stuff, but a bit less questionable-chemicals-y.

... that I'm a little disappointed I'm not the closest to the center anymore? I liked being the most moderate. Come on, let's get some more ultra-progressives to straighten that out! ^_~

~Neshomeh, Scion of Balance?

Undeterred by her initial failure positive learning experience, Neshomeh went back to the lab, certain she had worked out the kinks in her genetic matrices, and soon produced three new lines of creatures:

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(Golden shark-thing, possibly blind. Okay, sure.)



(Gall only gets her first name because it comes out way cooler this way than it does with her full name.)



(LOL, wut? {X D )

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(Pointy hedgehog-wolf-thing. Appropriate!)



(Headgear. Kinda cute. Appropriate! Also looks enough like Dafydd that I can understand people getting them mixed up. ^~ )

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(Dat jaw. Wow.)

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(Definitely not related to Jenni, despite sharing a surname. [How does this thing work, anyway?] You can't see it here, but he has a dorsal shark fin, too.)

Clearly there are still some bugs to be worked out, particularly a tendency toward wildly mismatched forelimbs, but overall, I have to say this was a vast improvement over the first experiment!

~Neshomeh couldn't be bothered to combine the images together; the background gradients make it impossible to do cleanly without way too much work.

My results

Not quite sure if this is entirely accurate since some of the statements seem to be really up to interpretation.

The PolitiScales site asks 117 questions, in order to plot your political opinions on 8 scales: Constructivist-Essentialist, Communist-Capitalist, Rehabilitative-Punitive Justice, Regulationism-Laissez-faire, Progressive-Conservative, Ecology-Production, Internationalist-Nationalist, and Revolution-Reform. It also provides you a flag and a 'motto' (generated from your results); those sets of three words most people have posted are the 'mottos'. Finally, it can give you extra stickers for things that don't quite show up on the bars - so Kaitlyn got Radical Feminist, Horvat got Monarchist, and most people who aren't me got Pragmatist.

This isn't the first time we've played at political profiling; we've actually done it three times before, 2014-16. But that was done just on two axes: Left/Right and Authoritarian/'Libertarian'. I took to plotting everyone on a graph using their results, and drawing things like maps to turn the graph into a story.

For this year, with its 8 axes, I've had to dramatically expand the scope of the map. I've added height, alignment, land type... well, lots of stuff, as I said. And I've been adding people as they come in.

I think you're still Imgur-deficient? In that case, here are the three maps: 2015, 2016, and the current 2018 one. The 'story' (such as it is) has Plortitics progressing from a medieval world (2015) to a steampunk Age of Brass (2016), to the current magical world. The Eastern Mountains are the traditional home of various evil overlords (because the first people plotted out there were Dark Brother 16 and EvilAIUberOverlord, so, y'know...), hence War-Queen Alleb.

If you would like to guesstimate your position on the 8 axes (as a percentage: so, for instance, '67% Communist'), I can add Twistey as a rumoured hidden city after the weekend; I can even generate what your flag would be if you could fill it out. But no obligation. :) (Oh, for the flag part, please also say whether you strongly support any of the following: anarchists, radical feminists [ie, the abolition of gender, according to the site], or monarchists [ie, every country should have a monarchy]. The other 'stickers' don't count for flags.)

hS