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We were going to post this mission sooner, but Real Life (and Skarmory's artistic dedication) conspired to have its publication pushed back a couple of months. Anyway, a word of advance warning: the later parts of this mission get rather spoiler-worthy, so proceed with caution while reading!

With that, we are proud to present...

Girl's Night Out (Complete with illustrations courtesy of SkarmorySilver!)



- Participants, from left to right: Lapis Lazuli, Sarah Squall, Violet Rose Greenfield, Aiko Kimura, Ami Seeker, and Seung-Li Kim
- Continua: Steven Universe, One Piece, Fairy Tail, Naruto
- Content advisory: The badfic presented in this mission mentions implied torture and character death.

Part One

Part Two

This mission took over two months to finish, but all of us had a blast the entire time. We hope you enjoy reading it as much as we did writing it! :D

>COMMENCING OPERATION: [REDACTED] IN T-MINUS TEN MISSIONS_

*applause*

And just have the entirety of Western and Central Europe be a big ol' pile of clown puke. Dismantle the German Union. Bring back the German city-states and minor principalities. Hell, have more of them! Bung in a Netherlands split as well. Reform the Delian League. Make Pontus a thing again. You have all of history to choose from, hS; make it count. =]

And probably expand a bit

I need - and this is the first and only time you'll ever hear me say this - some ideas for filling out a map.

Gravity's Embrace is set in our own semi-near future, but things have gotten a bit... strange. Western Europe looks something like this:



Since I have no idea where the story is going, I also have no idea how much of the map I'm going to use, but that's the thing: the more map I have, the more I can be inspired by.

So I want your suggestions. As the five nations on there show, they can be anything - we've got a cultural grouping (the Celtic League), a micronation writ large (Greater Sealand), a pair of independence movements (Euskadi-Catalunya, AKA Basque Catalonia), an in-joke (Hail Liechtenstein!), and an ancient nation reborn (the New Etruscans, whose pantheon the Romans nicked). The only other point I have on the map is that the western US is dominated by Deseret, the Mormon-theocratic state they made a vague effort at in the 1850s.

Everything else is empty. And I want it to be full. So chuck everything you've got at me. I don't promise to use it all (particularly if it overlaps, or if I flat-out don't have a clue what you're on about), but I'd really like to fill out the world, so I probably will. ^_^ Simple names + areas are fine, but if you want to give a cultural summary, go nuts!

hS, Mad Geographer

It's still a draft sitting in google docs - I didn't get it to the point that I'd want to chuck at co-writers, a coherent narrative structure really wasn't appearing. So I'll backburner it for a while and think about it while I write other things.

If you have to ask whether or not it's badfic, it's probably not worth sporking. We don't go after borderline stuff, just the bottom of the sludge pit.

That said, when you start veering into greyer territory just judging whether a fic is bad or not, it becomes a bit more subjective. What you think counts as "bad" might just be "mediocre" for another.

While the three OCs are certainly annoying, I dunno if they hot all the Sue marks or not. Maybe I'm missing something? It's a Star Wars one.

https://www.quotev.com/story/7639155/Jedi-Apprentices

Oh my God I used to listen to the mini-golf one on CD ALL THE TIME. Do you remember that one?

*ahem* Welcome! That's a very interesting childhood indeed. Here's a homemade seed cake for you!

Here's a bucket of movie-theater popcorn to eat while you read the Original Series and other important stuff, a water bottle (always helpful), and two packs of bobby pins! Don't ask me where the bobby pins came from, I don't know either. Enjoy your stay!

I wasn't going to do NaNo this year... but then I had an idea for a first scene. I've no idea where it's going after that scene, but I want to find out.

I've also decided to make the whole thing public as I go along. So I'm putting it up on Livejournal! You can read along or comment as you wish (and if you're on LJ, friend me!). If people do comment, I may throw in some reader interaction - y'know, for when I run out of ideas.

Currently-untitled NaNo 2016

(I've run out of ideas now. :-/)

hS

Weren't you working on another story as well?

I look forward to reading it! Plort is the best alternate PPC, in my opinion. It can always use more stories.

I'm writing LotR fanfiction; I've had various drafts of the same story on the back burner for nearly two years now, and I want to finally get the whole thing out.

-Alleb

From what I remember of the prop design from the movie, the break in the blade was largely central from where Sauron stamped on it. It therefore makes sense to have the Mesoamericarda version to simply have the wooden core snapped to splinters, with a single piece of obsidian hacking Sauron's finger off. It also means that the design can be rebuilt by the elves - worked metal wasn't really around much back then, but intricately carved wood? I can see that. Plus it feels more like something an elf would do. =]

I am writing an account of the First Ypur War, and the surrounding First Union era of Plort. Many, many liberties are being taken with history.

I've actually never carved a pumpkin, which is probably good, because the resulting mess would be too horrifying for words. ...Except that's kind of the point of Halloween, so maybe I should start carving pumpkins. ^_^

Cool! I like that one. Let me know when/if I can read some of it!

-Alleb

Well, maybe three quarters of a plan. I'm basically the halfway point between planner and pantser, really. What's your story about?

-Alleb

(As this thread continued, I went home for a weekend and was blasted with commitments on my return. Hence the lack of response. But I got to see Delta Juliette, so that was fun!)

Two things on Rowling. One, she removed the figures she took from their context, which many Native people feels robs them of meaning. Two, she took figures from Native mythology, but few to no Native people. That's kind of a slap in the face.

Now, as to the Yrch - on the one hand, it's definitely a better idea than designating a given people as orcs. On the other hand, I think you're very much stuck with the Southwest as inspiration - those "evil goblin/bad creatures will get you" aren't really big anywhere else, and evil is a different thing there than it is in Europe. Essentially, Tolkien's Catholicism shines through every aspect of his storytelling, and it's hard to find an indigenous mythos that's analogous to that. So it would be complicated. The Southwest nations certainly have the closest parallels, though - and for that matter, you could use Naagloshi for Nazgul or Balrogs or the like. (I mean, except that everyone goes for skinwalkers, so there's that.)

One other nitpick - I'd replace Anduril with a war club. You really can't reforge obsidian, and making large blades with it is rather impractical. It's basically glass, and heat treating it just turns it into ...some other stone that I've forgotten. It's soft and opaque, though. War clubs, on the other hand, could be used repeatedly and were a very important weapon at least in the North - Iroquois and Algonquin peoples used them to great effect even in the Seven Years' War, if I recall correctly.

Hopefully you'll make friends and such here.

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