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Also, obligatory cheers to you for sporking that complete disaster of a fic.

...setting up a 'mods only' channel?

Honestly, I think just PMing individually has worked fine in the past.

Props to you for having the patience to read through this fic; just the samples you put in were enough to make me cringe.

And Ilraen... poor Ilraen. I almost feel bad about introducing Farilan now, except it's too much fun watching Nume get worked up over his partner zoning out at the worst times.

I liked the montage of the agents wandering around Diagon Alley and generally getting the chance to have a breather for once in their lives. I will admit I wasn't such a fan of them getting their own wands (hit a bit too close to all the Sue montages I've seen, maybe?), but I did like Mr Ollivander having connections to Meir Brin. It made me smile.

(Also, slightly off-topic, but Ilraen saying "I'll use my own. Mouths do have some very serious disadvantages." made me think of Bleep patches, like nicotine patches but with Bleep. Carrying on...)

I don't know FMA, but the Harry Potter parts were just so full of cringe. Just... yowza. If the FMA parts were half as bad (and I get the feeling they were worse)... guh.

And poor Ilraen needs hugs, desperately. I'll admit to actually gasping out loud when he got hurt, and teared up a bit at the end there. Nume really does care about him... he's just not very good at showing it. ;)

Great mission, and definitely worth the wait.

-Ix

PS: Philosophies Stone has to be my favorite mini to date (well... after Death Easters). I might just have to adopt him.

PPS: "Nume flashed him again to be safe." Nuuuume, you tease

I'll gladly look over this soon (I expect to be available no later than this weekend)

Specifically, betas are needed for a short (three and a bit-ish pages) interlude set in Rudi's pub. We're mainly looking for the regular SPaG, story-flow and general polish stuff; knowledge of Lord of the Rings would be nice but isn't necessary, as is willingness to wrap one's head around multiversal metaphysics.
Interested parties should post their email so we will be able to share the GDoc with them.

How does that work?

Discord has the facility for group PMs. Just throwing that out there.

"I was not speaking of archery itself, but of the ability that I know some Elves possess that allows them to create bows that fire projectiles without having any at hand. I wished to know if you had this ability."

"Harry Potter and the Hogwarts Mishap"
In which mangled canon characters are not necessarily an agent's biggest problem.

Continua: Harry Potter x Fullmetal Alchemist (2003)
Rating: PG-13/T - Only low-grade swearing, but lots of shouting and some blood.

Enjoy!

This mission had a bunch of minis mentioned, and the fic probably had a bunch more that I didn't feel like noting specifically. I'm sure some of these are already spoken for and therefore not adoptable, but just in case anyone's interested, here they are.

Mini-Aragogs:
* Diagon Ally
* Mr.Olivander
* Mr. Olivander
* Mrs. Weasly
* Nyphrodora
* Olivanders
* Philosophies Stone (quotes philosophy; good luck living with this one)
* Serious

Mini-chimera:
* Ametris (looks like a silver dragon with a single horn, a mane, and a forked tail, modeled after the design on the State Alchemist watch)

If any of those aren't on the wiki, I'll add them.

~Neshomeh

What I remember is that it started as a room away from yelling, and morphed into a room for complaining about people who were perceived to yell a lot. (And that, yes, a lot of the yelling and complaining was related to what the rules were and should be.)

But . . . well, I wasn't there either. Technically.

Anyway, even with chat logs, which I suspect and hope have all long since vanished, we would all have radically different memories of What Became Of The Old IRC. I do think we all want to avoid it happening again, but honestly, it's hard to use precedent to argue that when none of us agree on what, exactly, the precedent was.

I think maybe we should stick to the Constitution, just in general principle, and avoid casting dark glances into the drama of the past. Though gods know I'm as guilty of it as anyone, it doesn't really seem to solve much.

I did in fact give (what I hoped was) helpful advice, forming the bulk of my post. My intent was to express the reason for my concern, and then offer suggestions for dealing with it. I think that's how things get improved?

I remain spectacularly unconvinced that "we made a room for people who don't like yelling" doesn't translate as "we made a room for complaining about the [people doing the] yelling", but I guess I wasn't actually there.

hS

As I recall, a part (definitely not all) of the yelling and drama was about whether or not everyone should follow all the rules all the time, and the alt chat was an escape for the rules-light set.

Of course, since the Constitution was amended to apply to all PPC spaces, that is less of a concern now. There's no reasonable argument that the basic PPC rules don't apply to any and all possible PPC chatrooms.

Long story short, it sucked, and we can all agree we'd like to avoid anything similar happening again, right?

~Neshomeh

Glad to see that you were quick to say hi and introduce yourself the moment you got spotted on Discord!
Please accept this 6 oz jar of kimchi and this crowbar!
Hope you enjoy your say!

Here's some popcorn to eat while you read all the stuff at the top of the homepage (or reread, as the case may be), a red pen (always helpful), and a pack of sticky notes shaped like your favorite animal!

So, tell us a bit about yourself. What are your fandoms? What do you like to do in your spare time? Are you involved in any cool community service projects?

From the outside, with the power dynamics suggested being reversed (the secret IRC channel last time was created by non-mods, if I recall, whereas this time it's being created by mods), it did a bit look like that.

However, I think you've more or less described the solution; as of now, all the PPC channels are public. I think a "mods discuss issues" channel is fine - but why not just make it public to the community? Those interested in the issues being discussed can chime in when they have an opinion, and otherwise it's quiet or just mods going "Hey, I did X at Y time, is everyone okay with it?"

I get the appeal of not opening it, but I think the key to good authority and good relationships with authority is not having people feel that their mods are some kind of class set apart.

I'm not going to dive too deeply into rehashing the mess that was the irc, but that is not a terribly accurate depiction of what happened. The alt channel was created by people who were tired of all the yelling and drama in the main chat, and when the people more prone to yelling discovered its existence, the yelling intensified.

This is a different idea, being implemented on a platform that has a normal interface for multiple channels- in case you haven't poked your head in recently, we currently have six for various purposes.

(Also, could you maybe think twice about how much you know about a half of the community that you've never participated in? To extend Sapir-Whorf for a second, the platform in which a community exists shapes the community and norms in a way that is not immediately apparent from the outside.)

Please have a pot of black-hole coffee.

Well, you presented yourself on Discord but, well not everyone use it, so...

How did you discover this madhouse?

Beyond Laburnum's spinoffs, what are your favorites?

And finally, what are your fandoms?

And once again, welcome.

Hi there !

Historiography essays, scholarly book reviews, and countless pages of research on gender, labor, and tribal sovereignty in the Pacific Northwest…

…and, of course, years of fiction writing, too.

I actually opened a Dropbox full of source materials a while back, but only a couple people were interested at the time. The 'verse was somewhat uncreatively dubbed "Starships & Sorcery," and the basic idea was that magic and post-light-speed tech (and highly specialized genetic modification, in some places) coexisted. Tech, in fact, was considered one of the major ways people could access high quantities of power. Essentially, the way magic worked was that all living things had some inside them, and channeling it was a skill. Some people did so through technology, but some people, of course, are not good at tinkering and engineering, so it was only a select group of people who had and actively used both skill sets, especially together.

The other sources of magic, though known to be so powerful that the risk of tapping into them was illegal in some places, and required great skill and usually very well designed machines in others, were planets and stars, which were known to have cores of immense power; stars emanate their energy, while planets have to be tapped into.

At this point, given the last little bit of trickery in the setting (and that my story has long since fizzled out), I've been thinking it would make a better tabletop setting than an actual novel. I know some folks who are extraordinarily good at those designs, so I might give that a shot in my copious free time*, one of these days.




*Ha! Just kidding.

Have you considered e-mail? It solves all those problems you mentioned: giving everyone a chance to have a say, having a complete record in one place (as long as everyone remembers to hit Reply All), including oldbies for perspective if you wish. I know it's not necessarily real time, but I tend to consider that a positive, too. Taking your time to think your responses through when discussing serious issues is a good thing. {= )

I suppose it doesn't quite answer the "secret clubhouse" issue, but it doesn't exactly have the same feeling as setting up a private chatroom, does it? I don't think anyone can seriously object to people exchanging e-mails when they don't want to drag everyone into a conversation. That's what e-mail is for, yes?

~Neshomeh