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I'm an intern-slash-pack mule at a video/photography studio, so the festival's going to be me shooting B-roll footage for a local news station. I'm mostly looking forward to my boss buying me dinner after work. :P

It probably will be pretty memorable nonetheless, though!

Battle of the sniveling cowards? Should be interesting... *grin*

~Neshomeh

A.K.A. Peter Pettigrew, post-Goblet of Fire.

How about Geordi La Forge from TNG?

Oh, and if Vriska can come, then G'Kar from Babylon 5 can, too, yes? (See here if you're unfamiliar, first paragraph of that section.)

Seamus from Family Guy should totally be allowed, I think.

Have I given it away yet? {= )

~Neshomeh

CURSE MY SCATTERBRAINED HEAD!

Have one of my own shed feathers and a complimentary kit of Spikes!

"When I was your age, I went to a music festival in the middle of a thunderstorm! Etc..." The thought makes me chuckle. Are you in agreement with me that the Beatles music festival is probably going to be one of the more memorable days of your life? (I mean, the rain is probably going to cause crazy/funny stuff to happen, given that it makes things wet and slippery, and the thunder only adds to the chaos.)

In shorter words, have fun!

-Twistey

The Official Fanfiction Univeristy of Middle-earth. Welcome to Learning Through Pain. {= D

~Neshomeh

Re. this post and Tomash's post here.

I'm afraid I don't have a lot of time, but in brief:

No, neither of your names have come up specifically. I haven't heard any other specific names.

I think the "social dynamics" issue here is that some people feel that Ix's friends constitute a clique, and that this clique is dominating the PPC scene in a way that puts off people who aren't "in." To be clear, I don't think this is Iximaz's fault. We like her, we like her contributions, that's fine. I also think this is a situation that can be alleviated by more words from more different people, when it comes to writing and to community stuff. Folks, you're free to do your own thing regardless of what anybody else is doing. It's a free Board.

However, do be aware of the nature of cliques, and their pitfalls for those who are "in" as well as those who are "out." Zing, for instance, I'd caution you that, if you don't feel you can disagree with Ix without risking serious consequences to your friendship, that's not good. Maybe I'm reading something into your words that's not there, in which case do please correct me, but still, that's an example of the sort of thing to watch out for: feeling pressure to go along with Ix, or the rest of the group, in spite of your own feelings. Especially when it comes to how welcome other people are made to feel in/around the group.

Again, just to be clear, I don't say any of this is Iximaz's fault, because that would imply deliberate emotional manipulation on her part, which I do not believe is happening. I think it's basically a side effect of having a magnetic personality.

Just, y'know, be aware of how other people feel, and how you feel, too. Maybe make an effort to review stuff by "outsiders" as much as you review "insiders." Stuff like that.

~Neshomeh

But it's always a good idea to do some googling to be sure.

Oh look! Another newbie! (Or, well, I still kinda feel like a lightly-used-bie at the most. Joined on April 4th.)

I'm Twistey, an about-to-become Newgrounds game dev who has a crud ton of fandom OCs. I found the PPC through the wiki and got hooked on the idea because of how original it is. I write both original stuff and (more recently) fanfic, and I also like reviewing/beta-ing/MSTing work as well.

So, enough about me, can you tell me some stuff about yourself? How'd you find us? What made you decide to join? What are your interests, fandoms, hobbies, etc? I'd love to know :D

-Twistey

Literally. Yesterday. I was so tired by evening, but at least the flight (a long one, over ten hours) was a relatively nice one.

As for school, my classes ended more or less with March, and I wrote my exams not long after that. I've mainly been busy with applications since then.

~Zing

*reminds self to quit procrastinating and read a mission*

I was kind of surprised that Phasma did so little in TFA, after having been hyped up so much. I am glad she is back, because it means they can fix that.

Also, Gwendoline Christi, who plays Phasma, is no stranger to armor. She also plays Brienne of Tarth in HBO's Game of Thrones.


-Phobos

Specifically, post-Empire Strikes Back?

(I think I know what's going on here.)

~Neshomeh

For me, the thing that stands out the most in this story is the sense of time it gets across in very subtle ways. The change in the world's attitude towards powered people is communicated not just through Ward telling us of the "hunter" groups from his college days, but also, in retrospect, from the fact that he's being interviewed about his heroism in a newspaper, with his team's real names revealed. Another example is the cynicism of Ward's present attitude when compared to the event he recalls, when his group didn't even think about killing their captives, and instead got them arrested for indecency instead. The one weakness to it is that there isn't really a "pay-off" to Ward's cynicism, as it felt at the start that there would be sort of a worldview-changing moment for him—but you did say this is only "part 1," so maybe that's coming up further along in the story.

All in all, a different and interesting way to set up your setting's world-building early on.

Typos and stuff:
"How many times must someone break out of prison and threaten others lives before you realise that you should put them down for good?"
"Others" needs an apostrophe.

"So I’m not sure if you remember, but right when this was all happening there were quite a few groups worldwide who were ‘discreetly’ getting rid of those humans with powers whilst paying, or sometimes even getting paid, as the government's looked the other way."
Ah, the apostrophe escaped and hid inside of "governments."

"Now it was about 4am when the rest of the group came back . . ."/"We woke up about 1pm the next day . . ."
The time . . . descriptors? . . . should have periods after each letter, as they're abbreviations of Latin words. ("a.m." and "p.m.")

"Because 'Sorry I missed the lecture because I was asleep after a hard night of fighting crime,' wasn’t going to cut it we figured."
Since "we figured" is the actual subject and main verb of this sentence, it reads really awkwardly for them to be tacked on to the end of it. I would move them right to the front as, "Because we figured,' . . .'" There should also be a comma after "figured" since it's leading in to dialogue. (Even if you don't want to move "we figured," there should still be a comma after "because," and also after "cut it": " . . . wasn't going to cut it, we figured."

"It was Cassie, the girl we’d rescued, who came up with an answer and so skipping the rest of Monday and spending it relaxing we headed out Monday night with the unconscious members of the group and managed to set it up so that they were all arrested for public indecency the next morning."
This sentence is two independent clauses with the dependent clause, "and so skipping the rest of Monday and spending it relaxing" in between. As written, you need commas splitting those parts up: " . . . who came up with an answer, and so, skipping the rest of Monday and spending it relaxing, we headed out Monday night . . ." However, it feels like a bit of an overly large sentence to me, and it can easily be split apart. I think I would personally say, "It was Cassie, the girl we’d rescued, who came up with an answer. So, skipping the rest of Monday and spending it relaxing, we headed out Monday night with the unconscious members of the group and managed to set it up so that they were all arrested for public indecency the next morning." There are probably other ways to do it, though.

"To read the first part of this exclusive interview turn to page 23 and make sure to get your newspapers for the rest of the week as Ward talks his way through the entire history of The Protectors."
I like this last line's inclusion, since it reinforces the newspaper interview aspect. It needs commas, though! It's also another sentence that doesn't need to be as long as it, especially since it's intended as a blurb at the end of an article/bottom of a page. My take would be, "To read the first part of this exclusive interview, turn to page 23. And make sure to get your newspapers for the rest of the week, as Ward talks his way through the entire history of The Protectors." Some exclamation points might not hurt, either.

I agree that I am stretching on article 2. There wasn't textbook definition flaming. However, we didn't figure that anyone would level repeated false accusations of harassment at the community. It didn't need to be said because it was understood to be bad. If we had said it, it most definitely fits under the spirit of article 2.

Delta Juliet disagrees with me on article 14 because it was made for situations where someone is sock puppeting. The letter of the law is to prevent things like anonymously trolling the Board to make yourself look the victim. It doesn't cover someone using a new persona to, by their own admission, avoid punishment that they think is coming. We never thought it would come up. It was known to be bad. But that situation does fit under the spirit of article 14.

The point I am trying to make is that zdimensia/Bramandin does a lot of things that are known to be bad behavior but aren't explicitly mentioned in the constitution because we didn't think it needed to be said.

-Phobos

One of the victims of the Manchester attack went to my uni. Is very sad

Weirdly, the thing that caught my attention the most in your Star Wars post (at 3 A.M, in my defense) is that Captain Phasma is actually coming back. I rather figured she was just going to be in The Force Awakens, and disappear. Then again, I seem to have it in my mind that her actor is a fairly big name? But I'm not aware enough of Earth happenings to know who that is, or even if I'm correct in thinking that—but if I am right, it makes sense they would want her to continue appearing.

I wonder if she'll be a minor role again, or if she's going to become a personal nemesis for Poe—a Boba Fett to his Solo, as it were?

I would love muchly for that old style of phone to come back in style. I hate having a fragile mini-laptop in my pocket all day at work, having to keep it from bending or getting wet every moment. My older phone was much more durable. Then again, I do need the weather app to know the day's high temperature, so I know which animals need their misters turned on on a given work day. '~' Guess I can't always get what I want, but if I try sometimes, I just might find I've got what the animals need.

—doctorlit still thinks cell phone developers need to prioritize high durability over low weight and small size.