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Lune-ssa would mean "their (sg.) blue". My guess is that it's supposed to be "from the blue" or "from the darkness", which would be Lunessë and Lunassë respectively, and people do like to slap an A onto words to turn them feminine...

But that's Quenya, and Elrond's family use Sindarin. Also, um, what's a witch? That's not a species in any bestiary of Arda I've ever read...

Actually she looks kind of refreshing: a proper traditional Legoluster Suvian! She even calls him "Legolas Greenleaf" as if it was his surname! It's just a shame it's a) so long and b) descends into smut (at least per the tags), otherwise I might be tempted to do something with it.

hS

But it can't be that bad. I've seen wackier Sue offsprings, usually on fics in the early 2000s.

I'm not completely sure, and it could just be an author taking liberties for a story (in which case ignore this), but yeah

https://archiveofourown.org/works/27180052?viewfullwork=true

Our protagonist (suspected Mary Sue, no flaws evident) is Lunessa, a half-witch half-elf... child of a made up witch and Elrond. It's not awful, but we still get our fair share of whackiness. So yep.

(also I'm back, sup. been awhile, don't expect y'all to remember me but hi :))

(also also,"it's blade" and "shined" making an appearance)

“Sure thing. Betcha Doom would have hated that anyway.” She wiggled her fingers, looking over the pile. “Hmmmm, what about you?” The present she picked was blue with an obnoxiously sparkly red ribbon. Thalia eagerly opened it and grinned evilly. “Punses, we like punses, precioussss.”

She held up one of the shirts. “Bit big, but it’ll be really comfy! Thanks, puddin’!”

Have two cents, for adding to discussions!

There's nothing important here, just a note a few changes the T-Board team's made lately

• There's now a "Games" tag. Thanks to Neshomeh for the suggestion!
• The Latest Posts page now shows the contents of the posts, hopefully making it more useful for anyone who wants to catch up on the Board without scrolling all the way down
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• Tomash

There were some flirty undertones at first, but the newbies got asked to tone it down. After that I didn't pick up anything remotely sexual. A couple gags about characters forgetting their clothes somehow, but that seems more like the kind of thing you'd find in a funny animal-themed kids show rather than anything untoward. It was mostly just chaotic lolrandom humor.

The implications make me wish Bleeprin was real.

Would this be a DBS mission or a DMS mission? Doesn't the DBS have a division that deals with bad Het?

Have a knitted washcloth in a color/colors of your choice!

Also, hi! I'm Claire. I joined the Board in May 2021, when I was messing around on the internet. I somehow found the wiki, thought it was interesting, and decided to check things out. It was exactly the kind of nerdy silliness that I like, so I've been hanging around ever since. I have yet to get Permission, but I have my second permission request in the works. When I'm not messing around online, I knit, read books, play violin, and spend time with my family and cats.

-Claire

Have this gift $?? gift card!

Have a mini snek with a party hat.

Here, have a glitter-proof vest!

And here I am spending it at work. Oh well. I got some tasty-looking gingerbread in the mail yesterday, and mom ordered me some new pants. Will probably post pictures of future presents over on the Discord.

I have work today, so limited time, but I've read everything in this thread, and I'm taking it on board. Thank you all for your help.

Meanwhile: another Discord server I'm in has the equivalent of our Blacklist, but they call it a Trigger List, and it has a sub-channel to itself so it's plainly visible in the sidebar. I propose that renaming the list to "Trigger List" would help prevent confusion about what it is and whether the listed topics are completely banned or not, since "blacklisting" something does usually mean that it's forbidden.

I don't know if giving it its own sub-channel is necessary, since I don't think it's much of a stretch to go look in Rules, but then again, why not?

~Neshomeh

ETA: Visibility. Don't all comment at once now...

...in the rest, it should be fine. Thank you for asking.

-kA

I uh. Haven't even gone by Larfen in a while. Good grief it's been a minute. I've sort of drifted out of PPC (I'm sure youse've noticed) for a variety of reasons, foremost of which being that I haven't actually had any interest in writing in the setting for a while and have just kinda. Generally drifted off, as it were. It happens! I've been hoping to still stick casually around the Discord server a little but, ah, we'll see.

Alright, so, I am very sorry for the confusion I've caused in regards to that Harry Potter crap. I really regret bringing it up in the first place! I hate Harry Potter very very much. It represents hate to me, and also infuriating apathy. It's upsetting to me that there are people out there who sincerely prioritise their nostalgia for a piece of media (important to them as it may be) over the safety of real trans women who are being really, in real life, affected by JKR's money and influence. I see people debating this stuff all the time and the entire thing just suggests to me a certain lack of importance attributed to the safety and rights of trans women in like, wider culture. Like it isn't being taken as seriously as I wish it was.

And this is not to say its friggin, 'problematic' to read Harry Potter or to remain fond of it, or that by abstaining from it you are somehow physically making the world safer for trans women, but it's just... representative of a disturbing trend? That it's such a big deal is signifier of something deeper and more concerning? Something like that. I feel I must emphasise that I don't think you're like a bad person if you still like Harry Potter and still read it or whatever. It's all just, in a holistic sense, sort of disturbing, if you know what I mean?

I don't intend for this to come off as like, accusatory or anything by the way; this community has always been a genuinely trans-friendly space, no bullcrap, no posturing, so on. It's just, that's what seeing it reminds me of, you know? It isn't a good vibe, it doesn't make me feel good, and I really don't want to end up, like, being rude to someone just because they posted some Harry Potter meme they found.

It's obviously not practical to blacklist something like Harry Potter at all and that, of course, I can't expect everyone to stop talking about it just because I hate it real bad. It's plain not something the blacklist is designed for. I wasn't thinking straight when I requested it and I hadn't really come to terms with my drifting away from the community at the time. Just a case of me simply not matching with the community culture, and not really something that's fair of me to expect out of the community. My apologies for that, I really didn't think it'd be, like, a whole thing! Apologies, also, for the lack of communication on my part as a whole.

but if this particular god shows up in a mission, even if it's a side mention about fishing them out of a plothole or somesuch, would you want to avoid the entire mission or just the side mention scene? I think I mention them in a mission in beta right now, so I might as well ask for whenever it gets posted.

I think she would just be a living butter sculpture of a cat, thanks to how the Word World works. Also, "Everyone startwf crapping!" would have extra squicky results in the WW too.

Yep, unless the writer is seriously thinking through the implications, this sounds like a badfic. The Witch-King is almost certainly infertile. Remember that in Middle-earth, only Illuvatar creates life (well, the Dwarves are an exception, but not a very big exception); so the Ring, and its subordinate Rings, can only stretch the one lifespan you have into infinity--to the point that you are essentially undead, because there is so little life left in you. Being able to make a baby in that condition really stretches credulity, even if he were to somehow work around being a wraith. And as you said, the Black Breath would be a huge threat to any partner, let alone the pregnancy itself.

And yes. The Witch-king acting like a loving father is a character replacement. It's anathema to everything he is. Maybe it wouldn't have been, when he was human, but by the time he's engaging in hobbit-stabbing antics, he's incapable of anything like love.

Edgy terrible smut is... obviously scarring, which is probably why.

Legendary badness usually means either legendarily scarring or legendarily funny. The latter is... usually trollfic? See: anything squirrelking ever wrote back in the day.

As I said before, I will continue to follow the blacklist regardless of my personal opinions.

I will do that because, as a long-time community member who has seen many, many people come and go, I consider my duty to the group first, the individuals second. I've seen wonderful people with legitimate trauma who I'm happy to support, but I've also seen narcissistic emotional vampires who would have sucked the life out of us as long as we put up with it, and they're rarely obvious at first glance. As in real life, there must be a balance between responsibility to the individual and responsibility to the group.

I'm challenging BL2 to verify that it is adequately protecting an individual while not causing significant avoidable confusion and frustration to the group.

The thing is, interacting on the level of a club is not the same as interacting on the level of your close, personal friends. Not everyone in a group like this can be close, personal friends with everyone else or give the top level of priority to every possible issue. In my view, helping us keep track of what issues to give priority is what the blacklist is for, and those of us participating in good faith will do our best, but there are limits.

Furthermore, relating to the discussion of Harry Potter and that one Marvel character with the fancy hat: if (and I do mean "if"; I'm questioning, not stating) this fanfic group's ability to have on-topic conversations about big fandoms is significantly hampered by fear we'll say something wrong without knowing it, I think that's a sign we're out of balance and need to stop and assess ourselves. But determining if (again, really "if") that's the case would require feedback from lots of people. So I guess we'll see whether and what more feedback turns up.

~Neshomeh

> it's not actually on the blacklist but people are asking others to almost treat it as if it was.

...which occurs in at least one other situation, with me specifically, regarding a norse god (a rather popular one, typically the bad guy). I gave the reason why his name should be spoilered is because he's bad luck for my religion, being too... ashamed? I guess? to truely say that his name is a trigger for me due to my mother's horror stories about saying his name and me assocating myself with him at particular moments in my life that I'd rather not talk about. It gives me flashback, similar to bl9 for me.

The reason why I bring this up is because I just wanted to mention that there is at least one other thing soft-listed with a semi-active member who wants to be a part of the PPC, so this isn't necessarily a one-time thing. It's happened at least one other time.

-kA

Edit: The reasons why I didn't have it added to the blacklist is because I am one person who has this trigger and he is a canon character from a really popular canon. I didn't want to block people from sporking it in #badfic.

is either a flat-out PTSD/lived trauma trigger, or a major source of anxiety. And thanks to the difference in brain chemistry between individual people, those of us who don't suffer from a given trigger shouldn't assume that anyone who does is necessarily able to learn coping strategies to overcome that trigger, though that's certainly something to hope for. All we can do is support our friends and keep them from having bad flashbacks as best as possible.

To move away from this community for a moment, I have one real life friend, a long-time school friend, who I still see at least monthly, and is in his thirties, like me. For this man, the topics of heart attacks/surgery, suicide, and bank robberies are off the table, and he also has to avoid cigarette smoke because of a particular bad event in which that smell recurred. Will he ever get over these triggers? I don't know, and I love him either way. I'll happily dodge those topics for the rest of our lives, if need be. I care more about not hurting him than I do about my freedom of topic discussion.

—doctorlit

So thank you, you've done wonderfully. In truth, I think as people it's hard to ever be 100% sure you're not going to accidentally hurt anyone, you know? Misunderstandings happen, communication is hard, especially over text. As long as you're kind, as long as we keep talking to each other, we can work things out, at least. Goodness, sorry for being all pretentious. My point is, I guess, you're doing great.