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From the depths, it rises!

...or, you know. From out of my suddenly very busy life (school. Just...school) comes an interlude I wrote back in March and rediscovered recently. It's since been betaed and given a summary, so now here is...

"Darkest Fears"

What haunts the immortal? Bad dreams send Jacques Bonnefoy running to his family.

(Spoilers for the ending of Torchwood season three)

Rating...barely T? There's, well, a minor bit of nightmare fuel. If you've seen Torchwood, I doubt it'll bother you much; if you've seen Doctor Who, same note.

Enjoy!

~Z

Hehe, "light reading". More like "how to make a zombie reading." Anyway.

Interesting note about Warhammer 40k being really fanfic-friendly. (Yeah, I looked it up to make sure that that was what you were talking about - I've heard of the game before via its section on fantasynamegenerators.com.) That's kind of sad that your fandom doesn't get much recognition even from its own wiki. Maybe you should bring someone's attention to the fanfic, like someone who can bring further attention to it. *Almost says something speculative about the amount of badfic in 40k, but decides against it because the optimistic statement would give the Ironic Overpower something to do.*

About your agent ideas, maybe you should put one of each into one of your teams, so that the clash of one really uber-serious person and one person of debatable sanity will result in an endless fountain of comedy. The team from two different canons thing also sounds like a good idea, given how characters from different canons would be used to different things. The best agent teams are agents who work well together, but still manage to generate comedy through their differences. That's part of why PPC fic is fun to read. :)

-Twistey

Or are we replicating it via the Board, or something else? I'd be interested if this became a Board thing, and I might want to do it if it's online and there's a way to play as a guest, but I probably won't be creating any accounts for something I'm not likely to use for purposes other than the PPC.

-Twistey

Michael Sheen is a superb actor, and I think he'll do well with the part. However, Peter Serafinowicz's day job is an impressionist; not only do I think he can do Crowley better than David Tennant, I'm pretty certain he could do David Tennant's Crowley better than David Tennant. =]

Did you remember that Amazon is doing a six-part/six-hour miniseries of Good Omens, with scripts written by Neil Gaiman? No? Well, they are and you should. And apparently, the series is being co-produced by both the BBC (who already did a brilliant Radio adaptation which I can't possibly recommend you find on DailyMotion), and Narrativia, Rhianna Pratchett's production company. This is pretty much the perfect storm of 'involvement by the right people', and if it goes wrong I will be very frownyface.

The first casting news has been announced, and we have our two angelic beings: Michael Sheen is playing Aziraphale, with - wait for it - David Tennant as Crowley.

Naturally, at this point, there was only one place my mind went. ...no, not there. ...no, not there either. ... come on, are you even trying? Ahem:


Angel-off!

(For the Imgur-deficient: Image of Peter 'Radio Crowley' Serafinowicz, David Tennant, Mark 'Radio Aziraphale' Heap, and Michael Sheen.)

So who do you think will make the better Crowley - Peter or David? And which of the Aziraphales do you prefer - Mark or Michael?

hS

I'm not going to repeat all of the information from last time, so if you have no idea what this is/need a refresher, I invite you to check out this thread from last month, and then the information document.

I'm closing the auditions decisively a week from now (that's the 22nd of August) but there's still time. More specifically, about three parts of this thing remain unfilled at the moment and I'm still open to shuffling around the casting decisions I've already made. And if I can't get anybody for Ekwy, I'm gonna have to fill her myself, which.... is something nobody wants to hear. So! Please audition- no matter how awful you think your voice is.

(Although I do reserve the right to say that you're not going to be a part of it, if your microphone quality is bad enough. But I'll feel really bad about it if that happens, you have no idea.)

Peace,

Kitty

Sounds neat. I assume you're talking about Toon. Unless there's another one I should know about...

I found an RPG where you play as a cartoon character....and everything that that entails! You can't ever die, and you can play any species you like from any time period, so you can pretty much go crazy and have a really great, funny time! Rules-light and very entertaining. Anyone interested?

Name: Serena

Age: 18

Description: A hot light pink female Twi'lek.

Lust Object (if applicable): Han Solo

Light Side/Dark Side: Dark Side, even though I'm not a Jedi! Cos Dark Side is macho!

Notes: I'm a smuggler, admired by Han Solo himself, and an ex-girlfriend of his. Second best smuggler in the galaxy right here!

Thanks for the journals. I could use some light reading for when I get back to more scholarly content. SICP is hard on a man :-).

For agents? Nothing concrete. We've considered putting a pre-existing OC into the role (we have many of them)[1], but most of them are Space Marines, which hard: Marines tend to be pretty serious (even when I'm writing them, and I can't keep a straight tone for 5 minutes), and are kinda tricky to write. I mostly play/write Thousand Sons (with a name like this you could have guessed), so I can get away with more than some - seeing as how any of them may be half-mad already - but it's still tricky.

My writing partner (who you'll likely meet soon enough) suggested the possibility having a team from two different canons, so I'm not even locked to 40k: I have additional considerations to make here. Before coming up with a solid pitch, we'll probably have to talk more.

[1]You want to talk about friendly to fanfiction? 40k practically generates OCs and fic: I was honestly a little shocked that the 40k wiki entry said we don't write fanfic: We do. But then I realized that most of it is a) AARs, and thus debatably fanfic, b) 90% of the stuff gets publication outside the usual avenues, ending up on spacebattles, dakkadakka, bolter and chainsword, or the mighty /tg/ and its corresponding wiki (1d4chan), and c) even then we don't write as much as some other fandoms.

Here, since the original Thoth is the god of knowledge and other very scholarly things, have a few journals that totally aren't Dr. Schabbs's records of his experiments with making zombies! (I've been looking for a place to put these. They were too cool to destroy like I was ordered to.)

Anyway, hi! I'm Twistey, an uberchaotic neutral lightly-used-bie. I am in tons of fandoms, my main one being Wolfenstein 3D or just iD Software in general. I am obsessed with OC creation and other aspects of fandoms that deal with how friendly the canon is to the fans. This may have something to do with the fact that I also write tons and tons of original fiction along with the fanfic. (No, not fafnic or fnafic. Jeez, I can't type today.) A lot of my non-PPC fanfiction may end up being crack fic or other stuff that's not meant to be taken seriously, but I'll have to see how it ends up.

What are the ideas you've had for agents? I'd like to get a general idea of what you want to do once you're ready to write them. (You can write them doing non-mission things as pre-agents, from what I've seen. I think.) As I said, I love character creation, so I might offer a few pointers with regards to your characters. Nice to meet you!

-Twistey
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"Wait, who's Dr. Schabbs?" Glad you asked!
http://wolfenstein.wikia.com/wiki/Dr._Schabbs

And by "newbie", I mean "returning oldbie". Whoops. We really need an edit option...

I'm not too sure which "type" of Spanish I am most interested in learning, but so far I've learned kind of a mishmash, since the various tutors I've had have been teaching me different things. I may just end up asking a lot about whatever kind of Spanish my teacher will be teaching when I'm back in school. (Which will be Wednesday. Woo.)

Yeah! The characters themselves are what cause me to really like the fandom, although I still make OCs of fandoms that have good world-building but turn me off character wise (which for me would be Homestuck, Steven Universe, and other stuff like that.) Of course, I also make "walking MST" OCs for fandoms that I consider all-around absurd. (WinX Club.) I just really like making characters, for some reason.

Interesting idea with the being dragged into the PPC thing, although it does seem kind of legally iffy in the sense that the character agreed to something without completely understanding what they were getting into. (Gah, I've been spending too much time on Springhole.net, I'm starting to sound like a law student. Which does not mean that Springhole.net is a bad site, by the way.) Although I'm not sure that PPC stuff has to be completely legal, given that sometimes the Laws of Narrative Comedy and other "laws" preside over actual laws in PPC stories, or get mixed up with actual laws (maybe that's more on the Board... but enough about my personal grievances.)

As for potential agents of mine, I have four (not counting the two other strange "hired mercenary" characters who do a PPC-like job but work independently.) The group consists of three siblings and their close friend, and the two older siblings and the friend all have some sort of superpowers, which leads the youngest sibling to channel his efforts into science-type things. They will always be found together (minus whoever has to go do something at the moment), and the middle sibling and the friend are (going to be) partners in DOGA, so those missions will be done by both of them. The friend is the girly-girl, the middle sibling is the tomboy, the youngest sibling is the guy who's quiet until the subject turns to something he's interested in in which case he will never stop talking, and the oldest sibling is pretty much GLaDOS (except less sadistic), which is why I'm putting her into DOA. The youngest sibling is in one of those science departments (I don't remember what it's called, but it has something to do with researching and experimenting on Mary Sues. Oh wait, that's pretty much what the name is.)

My brain is kind of shorting out right now, so that description may be a bit confusing. Let me know if you want clarifications!

-Twistey

I haven't done this in a while, but here, have some chocolate!

Name: Leo "Ironsides"

Age: 18

Race: Human (Mandalorian)

Description: A grey Jedi dual-wielding a silver lightsaber and a darksaber. And a rotary blaster. Also he has a jetpack. And he wears the cloak of a Sith Inquisitor as a trophy, because he's killed so many of them.

Lust Object: None, unless canon introduces a katana-wielding Mandalorian soldier who is also a ninja.

Light/Dark: Grey! He helps the rebels, and is prone to beserker rages. Edgy!

Notes: Leo primarily writes action fics. He knows canon like the back of his hand (which is to say, approximately, and in broad strokes), but can't spell any of it. There is no evidence that Toey is involved. Lots of godmode sues, and "deep" characters.

He tends to write with his sister, who isn't here because she knows what she's doing.

Wants his nickname to be "Ironsides." This will never happen.

Thanks!

I have noticed the smaller pool of 40k fans around here. But I've got my Discworld set close at hand, so I'll be fine.

Here, take some Klatchian Coffee. Don't worry if you don't like it: you can probably trade it off to the Astartes for *something* decent: they love the stuff.

I'd recommend the Blood Ravens if you want to try that. Some of the chapters might get... finicky about that sort of thing.

Please have this pot of black-hole coffee.

Have this replica of Midorima Shintarou's lucky pencil. Throw it if you need to answer an ABCD question and all the options look the same as the other. Good luck, nanodayo.

Welcome to the board! Have a replica of Excalibur, hopefully the replica is not as annoying as the original.

Ask whatever! (Is that correct?) I'd love to help, although if you are curious about a paricular expression it may vary a lot between countries; is there a specific "type" (from Spain, Latinamerica, or a particular country) of spanish you are learning/interested in?

Same here on being dragged to fandoms easily. It's not really that hard to catch my interest, but I think the characters make the story, so the ones that I stick to are those with well-written characters. Good world-building is a plus (and it makes my attempts at fanarts somewhat easier).

About the agents, uh, not right now. I don't think most of my OC's are agent material. I played with the idea of someone unwillingly getting dragged by a friend or someone to the PPC and being "forced" to join (more like confused to the point of accepting without really understanding what they were getting into) due to the lack of personal, and therefore very reluctantly taking on missions, mainly obliged to by their partner, but I don't know how that situation would play in the PPC or if it could happen, and I'm not thinking very seriously about it. For now, at least; I have no rush. Do you have any potential agents? Who are they? I'd love to know.

Nice to meet you too!
Diana.

We have assorted 40k fans hereabouts - I'm not the biggest fan, but I do have a trio of Imperial Navy cruisers proudly displayed on my bookshelf.

*gives Thoth an Imperial Navy officer's hat*

Welcome!

I just like to give people SPaGhetti as a newbie gift.

Also, we have a Discord you can join if you're so interested—just look up the Lounge on the Wiki.

The SPaGhetti is appreciated. And yes, I did read the Constitution.

I wasn't in need of extra SPaG, was I? I did proofread, but at present I'm a Dreaded Phoneposter(TM). So there's always that risk...