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Or do technicians not get those? I don’t recall seeing any info on the relevant articles.

—Ls

Well, I’ve been lucky enough to meet lots of other homeschooled kids; via co-ops and my church.

The thing is—if you’re homeschooled, it’s all homework.

And I’d say that parents are usually the best for teaching about human biology, etc.

I recognize that homeschooling is clearly not viable for everyone, but it’s a great alternative to public school.

—Ls started this thread after seeing an anti-homeschooling article.

He has short grey (with an “e”) hair, blue eyes, a crooked-ish nose, is rather skinny, and fairly tall. He dresses somewhat formally, (No shorts. EVER.) often will wear suits, and does, in fact, wear black. As much as possible.

—Ls

The Recolor.me, that is. Generic middle-aged white guy, huh? That's... not much to work with. What's his hair style? Preferred type of clothes? Preferred colors besides PPC black?

... And I'll probably do Mina while I'm at it, so you have a set that will be the same size and all, but I can use her existing image as a reference, so that's easy.

ETA: Mina, matched as closely as possible except I gave her a nose cuz she's not Voldemort. ^_~

~Neshomeh

From what they tell me, their mom did a pretty good job at it, and was able to provide some really memorable experiences with activities and field trips. However, the trade-off is that they didn't get a lot of the social experience that you get from public school, not to mention chances to learn from people other than their parents. They feel like not sharing those public-school experiences makes them a bit of an outsider, and it didn't do any favors for their relationship with their mom. It might have been better for them to have had more time apart.

As for me, in high school I thought I wanted to be home-schooled, possibly because I thought I wouldn't have to deal with homework that way, or at least it wouldn't feel like as much of an imposition on my home life if I was home anyway. I've never been a social butterfly, either, and I probably felt I could have done without being around other students all day. Looking back on it as an adult, though, I think it would have been a terrible idea for me. Public school has its problems, but IMO the experience of being exposed to loads of people who are different from you and learning skills to deal with them is pretty much invaluable, especially to an anxious introvert like me. If I never had all that practice making friends and dealing with conflicts as a kid, when I was fortunate to have had good support from the adults in my life, I shudder to think how far behind I'd have been when I finally left the nest. Anyway, my parents divorced when I was still in elementary school. My dad was an alcoholic who barely had his s*** together at the time, and my mom had to work and couldn't afford a tutor. It wasn't really an option. Certainly not with custom creative activities and field trips.

Nothing against private school, and certainly not against people who have/had private schooling, but mostly it's not available without a certain level of wealth, so it will never be a viable option for the majority of kids, and I'm not sure it's especially beneficial except as a fallback for kids whose physical or mental health prevents them from entering public school. So, I'm all for public school for everyone who can safely have it, and I believe local and federal governments have an ethical and moral responsibility to ensure that public education is available, safe, and equal for everyone. Also, human anatomy/physiology, including sexuality of all stripes, are extremely important subjects and must be taught in age-appropriate lessons to all ages, I will fight you, come at me, bro.

...Well, you asked for opinions. {= )

~Neshomeh

Are any other PPCers who are/were homeschooled? If so, (or not) what are your opinions on the subject?

—Ls is homeschooled, and likes it

I’d totally love to run this!

There’s a lot of good ideas on the old thread; I’ll probably start the new thread in a week or so, whenever I have time.

However, I’m definitely not gonna be able to give any Real World prizes. (However, I’d love a recolor.me avatar for Carlisle, I cannot figure out how to make him.)

—Ls likes this idea!

A time so long ago I cringe to see it, I started a Read & Review challenge, but completely failed to see it through. It would be cool to see it come back in some form if someone feels up to running it. I laid a lot of groundwork—feel free to use as much or as little as you'd like! I'd suggest that it should focus on stories by active PPCers, though, since no one is getting as much feedback as they'd like these days.

I'm not going to run it, because my follow-through is still garbage, but I could commit to giving everyone who participates a little low-effort reward, like Recolor.me avatars or agent IDs for one RC. If it happens, let me know!

~Neshomeh

Are you planning on Claiming that fic?

It is, from what little I recall, too squicky for me to read. So...can’t help you with the main question.

Additionally, the term is slash-/Sue-wraith, not author-wraith. (The name was changed to avoid author bashing.)

Generally, though, character replacements have been renamed, or have had so much of their personality removed so as to be In Name Only. Or both. Additionally, he could be potentially possessed by a troll if this is a trollfic—though, beware, there’s not much canon as to how trolls manifest and/or are distinct from authors. I’m planning on clearing this up in a upcoming spinoff, however.

Why does this warrant a separate post? You’ve posted on this subject pretty recently, and you could’ve just replied to that. It’s generally considered bad form to have a bunch of separate posts on the same topic, I say this from experience.

*a link, not alink

—Ls, glad for the Bleeprin, and, to borrow from kA, Not Angry(tm)

This may be just ridiculous, but would you consider Dipper in "Dipper Goes to Taco Bell" an author-wraith, or a character replacement? Sorry, I'm just not good at figuring out these things myself. Edit: I read a bit more of it, and Mabel is DEFINITELY a character replacement. Also, who am I to give you alink to this fic without a free jumbo pack of Bleeprin? (hands you one)

and I quote, "It was Lady Galadrinas luck that Elrond just happened to be there for a visit."

… the sharks chomp a swimmer body part by body part and she dies and goes to heaven. With a cutesy dance to match.

And its dorm head is based on Maleficent (his name is Malleus) no doubt. The -somnia bit is also clearly from Latin somnus meaning sleep.

Now add width="400" after the src="[url]" bit to make the image smaller (400 pixels wide, in this example), and it should be good!

~Neshomeh