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[tries to shut that down]

[succeeds, mostly]

(it's still hurling snow, but less often and less enthusiastically)

The dart flies overhead. The SGs on board dump a bunch of snow on me. I'm kinda covered in snow, and will probably need a moment to figure out how to get out of this.

The dart heads off into the distance, dipping somewhat lower and .. crashes into the ground?

- Tomash

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Maybe you'd take some interest in the IBM System/360, in that case?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BundesarchivB145Bild-F038812-0014,Wolfsburg,VWAutowerk.jpg

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Nice and properly console-ey.

[[Tom: But it needs a mouse! I can't play games on this...]]

...But Tom, there aren't any games on the console.

[[Tom: That is a lie and you know it.]]

In the last weeks of the year, it's finally time again for the annual PPC Census. Credit goes to July Flame for the original questionnaire, and to Novastorme for serving as a Beta for this version.
Link to the Census

Awesome song!

This is beautiful and I love it

The PPC Jingle, aka "Iximaz breathes heavily into the microphone".

It’s wintertime, time for holidays
But the end of the year doesn’t come with a raise
And the Flowers really don’t like to heap on the praise
But I keep chugging on

It doesn’t really matter that I can’t leave
My friends are all here, decorated RCs
And my next mission should be a breeze
I’m ready with the Bleepnog

In the courtyard, the snow’s falling fast
The warmth of the holidays cannot last
So we gather ‘round, reminisce ‘bout the past
Hope the console doesn’t beep

So we all come together on this holiday
Not a care in the world, not a Sue left to slay
The parties are bright, though the corridors are grey
Come along, join us now

I got my partner beside me, what more could I need?
Relaxing together by the Christmas tree
It’ll be so long before canon is free
But I do my part in the PPC

Rudolph the engineer
Had a knack for making stuff
Despite his big ideas
Rudolph kinda had it rough

All of the other reindeer
Treated him with great distrust
Just because his inventions
Turned that one elf into dust...

Then one foggy Christmas Eve,
Santa came and said
"Rudolph with your mind so bright
Won't you fix my sleigh tonight?"

That's how the North Pole Air Force
Solar bombers came to be,
And Air Chief Marshal Rudolph
Will go down in history
Will go down in hiiiii-stooooooor-reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

A little at Dijon, more in Champagne-Ardennes (forgotten backwater). Nothing now, but the week-end ended up quite white. A bit weird we're seeing more snow than my brother doing his studies at ontreal this year.

Have a black-hole chocolate cake wth red berries coating... And my thanks for helping poor very soon 24 years old me not feeling that old around here! ;)

Called it Ring Consoles.

Dashing through the glitter,
in a one-Ypur open sleigh.
O’er the halls we go,
laughing all the way.
Bells on bobtails ring,
making spirits bright.
What fun it is to ride and sing
a sleighing song tonight.

Oh! Ring Consoles, ring Consoles,
ring all the way.
Oh what fun it is to ride
in a one-Ypurr open sleigh.

Hey! Ring Consoles, ring Consoles,
ring all the way.
Oh what fun it is to ride
in a one-Ypur open sleigh.

A day or two ago
I thought I'd take a ride
And soon, Sunflower Official
Was seated by my side,
The Ypur was lean and lank
Misfortune seemed his lot
He got into drifted papers
And then we got upsot.

Oh! Ring Consoles, ring Consoles,
ring all the way.
Oh what fun it is to ride
in a one-Ypur open sleigh.

Hey! Ring Consoles, ring Consoles,
ring all the way.
Oh what fun it is to ride
in a one-Ypur open sleigh.

A day or two ago,
The story I must tell
I went out on the glitter,
And on my back I fell;
An Agent was riding by
In a one-Ypur open sleigh,
He laughed as there I sprawling lie,
But quickly drove away.

Oh! Ring Consoles, ring Consoles,
ring all the way.
Oh what fun it is to ride
in a one-Ypur open sleigh.

Hey! Ring Consoles, ring Consoles,
ring all the way.
Oh what fun it is to ride
in a one-Ypur open sleigh.

Now the ground is glittery
Go it while you're sane,
Take the partners tonight
And sing this sleighing song;
Just get a bobtailed Ypur
Two-forty as his speed
Hitch him to an open sleigh
And crack! You'll take the lead.

Oh! Ring Consoles, ring Consoles,
ring all the way.
Oh what fun it is to ride
in a one-Ypur open sleigh.

Hey! Ring Consoles, ring Consoles,
ring all the way.
Oh what fun it is to ride
in a one-Ypur open sleigh.

[Chucks a snowball in World-Jumper's face] There you go! You're welcome. :D

hS

[Snow-Giver GreyLadyBast looks around curiously. Spotting the snowball incoming, it tries to dodge - but the snowball inexplicably curves in midair and strikes its target. The hat of GreyLadyBast flies spinning up into the air - then comes down squarely on the still-glowing snowball]

[The snowball stops in midair as the Snow-Giver crumbles. It bobs for a second. Then a glowing psychic field spreads around it, gathering up snowballs and flinging them at both Tomash and Huinesoron]

[Blinks; blinkblinks] I... sentient psychic snowball, huh? Did not call that one, gotta admit.

[Scrambles out of the wreck of the Habukkuk (yeah, it took me a minute to realise Nova had bombed it into oblivion, but I got there eventually) and looks around] Snow-Giver Nenya! Give me a count!

o-o-Snow-Giver status: 14/19 operational (Bast lost to the snowball, 2 more in the overkill-ridden RAF attack on the Habukkuk). 5 groundside, 4 with the prototypes, 5 in the wreckage of the Habukkuk.-o-o

... we can work with that. Snow-Givers - to the planes!

[At the research site, SG Sedri turns in alarm]

o-o-The planes are not yet ready to--o-o

I don't care! We need to keep Nova from getting away - we need to deal with Tomash - and we need to put an end to that psychic snowball!

[Three snow/ice planes, each loaded with two Snow-Givers, lift clumsily from the ground. One is a paper dart writ large; it takes aim at Tomash. One is a high-tech solar-powered extravaganza; it targets the zipping, glowing snowball. The last consists of two SGs standing in a tray and waving big wings up and down; it lumbers off towards Nova's plane.]

Excellent. Soon, victory will be-

[Is hit in the face by a snowball from the Psy-ball]

Ow.

hS

What would you consider the best fanfic released this year. For me, it would be Syngenesophobia (Loud House).

[ducks down, still getting hit by snowballs]

[gathers up some snow]

[stands up, throws a snowball at one of the SG's hats, glowing slightly]

[gets hit by a whole mass of return fire]

[is rather wet and covered in snow]

Oof.

(( due to Shenanagins, that snowball should hit the hat (absent special circumstances). Whether that does anything is up to you ))

- Tomash

*watches as some RAF planes fly by.*

So you had an aircraft carrier huh?

*watches a commercial plane land nearby*

And that's my ride. Bye!

Nova

[Half a dozen behatted snowfolk surround Tomash and sustain a furious volley of snowballs, buffetting him around the field.]

Snow-Giver status update: 17/19 operational. 6 groundside; 7 idle aboard pykrete aircraft carrier Habukkuk; 4 designing frozen aeroplanes.

Boarder status: Huinesoron elven speedster; Tomash psyker; Scapegrace Admiral of the Fleet; Zingenmir Kryptonian speedster. All others per baseline.

hS

I really like the flare effect on his magic eye; it's nicely done.

I think the cloak would probably cast shadows on his skin? It looks like you might have a bit on the collar, but adult!Captain's left-hand side (over his sword) could probably do with some darker shading, to capture just how shadowed it is.

I like the fact that you've managed to keep his hair the same at the front, while still differentiating it at the back.

Oh... but I'm adding this to the list of Drawcember Men Don't Have Nipples images. ^^ (I, obviously, have neatly avoided this issue by only drawing women - and women with their tops on, at that! That means I get to poke at it each time it comes up. ^^)

hS