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But my friend and I have been working on a Metroidvania game with a shapeshifting mechanic, hopefully it turns out well!

. . . was simultaneously exactly what I was expecting, and absolute existential horror. But I suppose both the 50s narration and the underlying grimness both work together to accomplish the goal: showing how dangerous actual lightsaber usage would be.

—doctorlit prefers to fantasize about having a keyblade, anyway

Oh, hey, it's the story where I first heard anything to do with Discworld ever. And . . . I will totally get to that series at some point, yes! I've even collected five titles from various Goodwills! Definitely going to do that, definitely not overworking to the point that it's consuming my entire being and existence, haha

Oh, and the Greenman is here! Everyone's favorite character, the Greenman. Yup. The Greenman's first ever appearance. The jolly green Greenman. There he is. In seriousness, I do like that Jay and Acacia branched out (HEH) from basing all the Flowers on real plants, and included some myths and such as well.

The mission's quite a fun one; you can tell they were looking forward to interacting with Discworld elements, but still had fun with the Tolkien stuff, with finagling Boromir on top of Acacia, and Jay starting to feel the pull of the One Ring. (Although honestly, she doesn't seem the type? But I guess that's kind of the point with the One, isn't it? What would that look like, though? A dark queen in a tower filled with polaroids, armies of orcs denuding the planet to produce more photo development solution, sourceless Rammstein music inexplicably playing over all, like background music in a video game?) I admit I . . . didn't remember Rúmil existed in canon. Like, at all. But at least the authors did, and gave him a cameo here! brb, going to make Rúmil his own wiki page now

—doctorlit looks forward to the burst of PPC activity this week, and possibly even keeping up with reviewing it

But not gotten an invite. Help?

I mean, it’s TOS, of course I did. But it was very funny.

Best line in it “IT'S UNDER AUTHORIAL INFLUENCE!”

It just...that all-caps....

Anyway, I didn’t remember the Genderbending Department/Division. Whatever happened to it, I wonder? And d’you think that that goodfic author’s stuff is still up?

—Ls

To celebrate, stories from TOS and other early spin-offs are posted on the day they were posted 20 years ago.

Uh…OK. So, I’ve been gone a while. Why are old stories being posted like they’re new?

It's been a while! Apparently nobody wrote any PPC stories during the entirety of September 2002 - I guess the start of school was still a drag back then.

We're back in now (well... yesterday) with TOS20, which oddly enough follows directly on from TOS18. There's a tiny bit of text at the end of 18 which diverts into Jay's mission with Agent Dead in TOS19, and then they pick right back up where they left off. I strongly suspect that Jay added the divert so she could post her cowrite with Miss Cam as soon as she had it done, and that the original plan was to go straight from "you need to go to lightsaber training" to "you have just done lightsaber training". But I can't prove it. ^_^ Anyway!

Protectors of the Plot Continuum: The Luggage Runs Off With the One Ring by Jay & Acacia

I love this mission, partly because of the Discworld crossover, but mostly because I watched Your Lightsaber and You many, many times back in the day. It's instantly recognisable, which shows just how good J&A were at descriptive writing.

I'll see you again, twice before the end of the week - and on Sunday we have something really special coming in...

hS

(Sorry about the delay; yesterday was kinda hectic)

So, I personally am kinda conflicted on this, since I feel that reposting content from other places kinda defeats the purpose of reviving the Library’s concept; but I’m open to the decision being made by everyone who’s expressed interest in the project.

Seeing that I haven’t received any more yays or maybe!yays; I think it’s time to start internally discussing the issue. Linstar’s email idea is probably the best one, since I don’t want to force him to have to get a Discord if he wants to communicate with the group. My plan is to use Google hangouts to communicate, so if you don’t have a Gmail account, it would probably be a good idea to invest in one. To avoid having people’s contact information plastered on this site, send me your email address via the Asylum contact form (at https://crazyminhzone.wordpress.com), and I’ll send an invite to the google hangout.

I'm in the process of cross-uploading my PPC stuff to AO3 for both archival (AO3 is quite unlikely to go down, while I had two blogging platforms go under on me and Google has made stuff disappear in the past) and convenience sake (to have everything in one place). However, since a couple were co-written with you I wanted to know if you're alright with that.

Well, not really new. Keiko's Cyber Formula shenanigans were already introduced in the story. However, I believe they work better as their own separate story, and so I spun them off.

And so, Keiko makes her official debut as a Cyber Formula driver in the Tokyo qualifier race, but of course things are not straightforward as she isn't battling just other drivers, but also her own demons of the past.

I'm posting the Cyber Circuits spinoff on AO3 only. It is neater to navigate than my blog, and I plan on moving at least some of my old stuff to AO3 anyways.

Take a multi-purposeful lucky feather to guide you on your journey. It may, possibly, grant you luck in finding interesting conversations and new interests. [accuracy not guaranteed]

hope you have fun here.

Have two cents, so you can add them to discussions

Have two cents, so you can add them to discussions

I just don’t want join, because I’m on mobile and would prefer not to download an app.

As for burner emails, wouldn’t something like “crazyminh@gmail.com” be pretty easy to remember?

Anyways, I’m open to whatever the group decides.

—Ls

But, question: Can we riff original works?

—Ls

Not much more to report, but here's the sauce.

One of these days Aegis and I'll return to writing more Zaphoriel and Faust because they're going to have a field day with the new season... and the inevitable slew of badfic.

Only need one more name, and that should give us a good starting roster. Any takers?

Good to hear, and I hope so too!

but this sounds great ☺️

...and it's perfectly OK if you feel you don't have the time, or don't feel motivated! This project is far from finished. I still need to make changes to my blog to get it ready for archiving, and I only have three interested parties right now, including yourself. So, this is looking like it's not going to be posting riffs until maybe next year. But, I'm dedicated to getting this ready to go. It's a project I'm passionate about, and if anything, my passion is legendary.