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Perhaps you could put this in a G-doc like you did with the LotR-Justice League crossover? That worked for me. I just really really really want to see it! Argh! 8D

-Twistey

I'd give you a bio of my character formerly known as Mountaineer (at least, a bio of her original incarnation, and not the about-to-be-current one as PPC agent Amber Callahan), but the URL for her page involves my school district, so I'll copy and paste it into a reply if anyone's interested.

I really like what you did with the blurb, especially since it brings more realism to the superhero genre. Bystanders get caught up in stuff all the time, it's a fact of life and of war. Great job!

-Twistey

That's absolute genius, that is! I especially liked the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise. >:)

More semi-silly news: Man buys what he thinks are two female guinea pigs, ends up with 160 babies. How on earth this happened 'accidentally', I have no idea. :l

In other serious news, I'm sure everyone's already heard about Trump's tweet declaring he was banning transgender people from serving in the military. And that's all I'm going to say on the matter lest I start violating the Constitution with many choice words.

But in more lighthearted, personal trans-related news... I finally got approved for insurance and have a surgery consultation set up for September. Name change hearing comes a few days after that, and hormone consultation is... in just a few days. Meep. ._.

that the tallest guy is standing next to the shortest guy. And it looks like Novastorme isn't even standing fully upright. Whose cruel idea was that? {X D

~Neshomeh

A bit later than normal, but here all the same... let's get Fridaying, as they say. (They do not say that.)

Please remember that, when it comes to the state of the world, not everyone will agree with you. You're free to state, discuss, and defend your viewpoint (provided it does not violate the Constitution), but please don't use that fact to attack others.

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So it was San Diego Comic-Con at the weekend. And that meant, when I got into work on Monday, I was able to send Kaitlyn not just one, but five trailers I thought were worth a look. And now, I can share them with you too! ^^

-Thor: Ragnarok, AKA 'finally they've stopped taking Thor seriously'
-Star Trek: Discovery, AKA 'BattleStar Wars: Discovery'
-Ready Player One, AKA 'why are they trying to sell this as an action movOOH DELOREAN'
-The Lego Ninjago Movie, AKA 'that sounds kind of rubbish... wow! That's really cool!'
-<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6yBZKj-eo">Justice League, AKA 'Batman is more fun when there's cheerful people around him'

(And if you haven't seen it, there's a Wrinkle in Time trailer out there somewhere...)

Silly News


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Oh, this is a good one... in an attempt to expose predatory scientific publishing journals, someone submitted a paper to nine journals. So far so boring, but the paper (credited to Dr. Lucas McGeorge and Dr. Annette Kin) is a discussion of the nature of... midichlorians. Mostly copied and Rogeted (which is a link worth reading in and of itself) from Wikipedia's article on mitochondria, it includes choice quotes like... well, I mean, look at this:

Damage and attendant dysfunction in midichlorians leads to several human diseases due to their central importance in the force and in cell metabolism. Midi-chlorians are microscopic life-forms that reside in all living cells - without the midi-chlorians, life couldn‘t exist, and we‘d have no knowledge of the force. Midichlorial disorders often erupt as brain diseases, such as autism.[8] They continually speak to us, telling us the will o‘ the force. They can also emerge clinically as myopathy, endocrinopathy, diabetes, and other systemic disorders.[12] When you learn to quiet your mind, you will hear =em speaking to you. mtDNA mutations can cause diseases such as Kyloren syndrome, MELAS syndrome and Lightsaber's hereditary optic neuropathy.[23] These diseases are usually handed down by a force-sensitive woman to her children, because the zygote‘s midichlorians and hence its mtDNA are derived from the maternal ovum.[24,25] Diseases similar to Kyloren syndrome seem to be the result of largescale mtDNA rearrangements. Point mutations in mtDNRey are responsible for other diseases such as myoclonic epilepsy with ragged red fibres, JARJAR syndrome, Lightsaber‘s hereditary optic neuropathy, and others.[23]

It also contains the entire text of Palpatine's 'Tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise'. And the references include the likes of 'Solo, H.; Bacca, C. (2015). "Endosymbiotic theories for eukaryote origin"'. The point is, it's not something even a cursory review would let through.

Of the nine journals which received it, three rejected it out of hand. One tried to charge to publish it. Two requested that it be revised and resubmitted, though for one of them the peer reviewers noted that "The authors have neglected to add the following references: Lucas et al., 1977, Palpatine et al., 1980, and Calrissian et al., 1983". And three journals actually went ahead and published it.

I've uploaded a copy of the paper here, in case they've come to their senses and taken it down. It is glorious to behold.

Serious News


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This is Teigan Scott. Until this summer, she went to school in North Ronaldsay Primary School, on the northernmost of the Orkney islands.

Now she's turned 12, and is moving up to secondary school - which means her island's school has just lost its only pupil. (Because, y'know, they only have 50 people on the whole island...)

Shut up, this is too serious news. >:(

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Behold, the height of technology. Apparently the transmitter is through that window across the way...

(PS I'm away next week.)

hS

I always knew Kaitlymir had it in for me!!1!

... of the eViL cUrSe that someone eViL put on you!!! It was probably Boromir - everyone knows she's eViL, and who else are you going to blame? The adonkable hobbits? Legolas? Don't make me laugh-like-the-babbling-of-a-brook.

Oh, or it could be Gingly or whatever the ugly short one's name is.

~JayBird, apparently

If I did, it would be long, flowing, and not at all going blonde at the edges because my stylist used a semi-permanent dye that washed out too much on the first night. >.>

It just...might happen on Sunday. I need to cook now, and Sunday is the next time I'm likely to be doing Board related things with some energy and time. I can tell you in advance that I'm interested in singing just about any part (and am happy to pull double duty and be in the agent chorus as well), can sing a sort of untrained soprano range, and know the original versions of about half the songs.

I definitely want to be involved, though! I enjoy singing a lot, and this is exciting :)

~Z

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I figure the Narrator is one of those mercenary types who keep changing their allegiance when it's convenient. On this particular outing, she's hanging with the villains.

hS

help me, playing one in Blood Raining Night affected me a little bit. Nya~

I call Legolas. Kaitlyn has already put in her claim for Boromir (being brooding, cynical, and possibly evil).

Taking bets now on who ends up as the Suvian.

(Obviously Iximaz's parents are Bills the Ponies.)

hS

And why has nobody else seen it?

o.o

-Kaitlyn, peering into the spectral realm (or just really distractable)

...the guy-to-girl ratio in the original story is fairly skewed in favor of people with higher registers. That being said, I'm pretty sure Loki could be considered a baritone- and possibly Zit too! I don't really know- it's up to you which part you feel like you could go for.

Oh sweet jesus, that's big.

From left to right:

Huinesoron, Kaitlyn, Matt Cipher, Iximaz, foofooman3, Scapegrace, Geeky Gal, CodeCom, The Irish Samurai, and Novastorme. In the background: a petrified tree that we used as our meeting point.

"Do you guys reckon there's another door we could check out on the right-hand staircase?"

"Don't worry, I have a stick," she said, patting her left glove. "Knew that'd come in handy. Hey, I don't supposed you've happened to read everyone else's--ehrm, ahem, I mean, watched what everyone else has been doing? Because I'll freely admit, I have no idea what's been happening." They were nearly to Cal's body by that point, and the Crimson Woman pulled something that looked like a metal pen out of her glove. She grabbed the end of it and pulled; the thing telescoped out, becoming a sizable metal pointer. She held it up straight in front of her, grinning. "Even has a magnetic point," she said. "Never know when you might need that."

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They've got one of those forbidden hero/villain romances going on.

hS

Put it here and I'll sing it!

Just tell me what role. If need be, I'll try and provide an audio sample.

"It looks like whatever corpse she used was already dead," they said. "Other than that, though, I can't find anything else. I think we really will have to go exploring."

Your voice is lovely btw.