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. . . I would love if you guys swung back here as you publish future novels, so that I can pay you money! And also read them!

—doctorlit of the one-track tunnel vision mind

my GOSH look at everyone!!! ....ok my brain is a fried egg and I haven't actually read all the threads but oh my gosh it's so good to see so many familiar faces usernames and uh have the option to go back and read everything. I had no idea this was still running! I took a look at the Philly get together and I can't believe how baby we were.

EDIT: oh I should do some reminisching or remembering huh Uh I joined back in....high school times? 2001, 2002, I only really remember participating on the boards in two specific computer labs at school. Yeah I'm 33 now and my pronouns include she/he/ey. I don't remember my Agents ;; teenager years are a blur, yo.

I’d like to be acknowledged.

HG

Brain bleach?

I'll be ashamed of our fandom sins for the both of us so you can skip along light and free.

How are you? It's so nice to see so many familiar names.

eeeeeey what up? God it's been ages. How are you?

I wound up going to college and grad school for writing. I used to be a pharmacy tech but now my day job has to do with accounting.

I've been writing on the side and have a horror novella finished and just in need of edits and a few rewrites and am a few chapters into writing a novel about a supervillain school with my other bestie.

Fic-wised Juliet (Andy's new handle) and I wrote another fanfic series that got a fairly big reception for Rise of the Guardians fandom, called the Guardian of Screwing Up, but we haven't really been super active in the fic sphere in years because we've been trying to get original writing off the ground.

Juliet actually has a few first draft novels ready to go that just need some edits and rewrites so she's farther along.

I'm still so glad people liked it. I miss the way it let me interact with lots of cool people.

I wound up going to college and grad school for writing, so while I'm nostalgic about it, stylistically it's very much a curl up and die scenario for me, though Juliet has no shame lmfao.

It's very rough compared to things we've written recently, including other fanfic. We have this whole epic trilogy of Rise of the Guardian fanfics we're really proud of it, and still proud of years after writing them.

I'm still fond of that time in my life though.

I forgot I wanted to tell people but

The original Suedom idea is going to be a story about two women who used to be close and bonded over a Lotr style fantasy novel as teens and wrote a fanfic together about being pulled into the fantasy world and saving it from Mary Sues. Their families moved apart and they lost touch, only to reunite later as slightly disenfranchised adults whose lives haven't really gone the way they hoped.

One of them binds the old fanfic in an actual book as a cute gift for the other, styling the cover like something from the fantasu world, but their fond reminiscing is interrupted by the story's equivalent of the Nazgul chasing them in the real world and one of the lead characters of the fantasy novel dragging them through a portal telling the they're needed to save the story's world again. They realize the fanfic's adventure was real, their memories of the adventure were magically removed when they were sent back home as teens, and they wrote the fanfic as a subconscious reflection of what happened to them.

They have to use the book with the fic as a guide to what they did on the old adventure but it's hilariously terrible, full of lol random humor, and occasionally dead wrong. Over time they gradually remember what actually happened.

So the book has four elements interwoven: snippets and quotes they say from the Lotr style book that they loved as teens (which has to sound epic enough to inspire a fandom as big as Lotr's), the present adventure they're undertaking, the real memories of the past adventure they gradually get back, and the occasional pieces of their old, fairly terrible fanfic they're using to retrace their steps and figure out why they didn't successfully beat the bad guy last time.

It is A Lot so we're not even trying to tackle it yet before putting out other books first to get better as authors. Aside from Suedom, it's heavily inspired by a comic series, The Unwritten.

I'm glad people look back on it with fondness. It definitely was like this positive experience because it let us interact with lots of cool people. I still remember that part of it fondly.

It's just slow going. Juliet and I kind of have a sense of when that needs to be written and I definitely don't think it'll be our first cowritten thing. We have other stuff planned.

But we do have plans.

Right now I'm focusing most on a book I'm cowriting with my other bestie about a group of kids in the remedial class of a supervillain school, who all suck at supervillainy, having to become reluctant heroes to save the world from a massive apocalyptic threat.

The school is all about that Megamind style of villainy. "You're a villain alright but not a super one." "What's the difference?" "[flares cape] PRESENTATION!"

The PPC Wiki includes a lot of very helpful information about beta readers which I would recommend you read. This one includes general information and this one is a list of all the people who typically are willing to beta on a regular basis, the fandoms they will beta for, and their emails. Keep in mind though that the list is four years old, so some of the information may be outdated. I hope this helped!

~ clairvoyant

This was never beta'd, being a Christmas present originally, so I'm not surprised typos are plentiful. =D Thank you so much! All your corrections are now in the story, and it is better for it. I am not a native speaker either, but I checked. You're right, 'impopular' is not a word in English as far as I could tell. It is however the word used in Swedish, so my brain went with it. XD And 'lay' is forever the bane of my existance...

Glad you enjoyed the story even though it's not a fandom you're part of! Would you mind if I mentioned you in the notes as "Catcher of Typos"?

/Ekwy

i'll add that to the absurd amount of pets hawky lets me fill the house with

i heard scuttlebutt that we've all agreed time has no meaning yay is back in effect.

genderswap

ill see myself out

<333 hi nesh! you'll always have my deviantart, I am pretty sure I lost the password years ago...

You didn't think you were the only one who was studying the ancient Way of the Plover, did you?

But suddenly everyone, Gabe included, acted as if Ben has been there for years
Should be "had" (past perfect).

"It is starting again!" hissed a Sasha.
Are there more than one?

… but the coffee shop across the street were used to dancers
I’m not sure about this. The plural may be justified (or even required?) in referring to the shop’s staff and patrons rather than the shop itself.

… refusing to say what the hell’s she so scared of
Shouldn’t this be "what the hell she’s so scared of"?

An ice-cold hand punched Cassie it the gut.
Should be "in the gut".

A little dancer will come rushing in an explain it in detail.
Should be "and".

… but her disappearance’d had some unforeseen consequences.
Is this meant to be a contracted "disappearance had had"? If so, it’s technically correct, but still looks weird to me.

Essentially, she was making herself extremely impopular with everyone.
Is "impopular" a valid synonym of "unpopular"? I don’t know, I’m not a native speaker; but MS Word spell check says it isn’t.

The Opera Ghost got to him.
Although "had got" or "had gotten" doesn’t flow as nicely, in the context this should be past perfect.

His story couldn’tend here.
Missing space.

… and the Ghost would have no reason to elliminate him.
Should be "eliminate".

She left Blue’s dressing room to change
Who is Blue? From context, this might be Henry Callot’s dressing room?

… lying on its own at a velvet pillow
I guess you actually mean "on (top of) a velvet pillow", not "at (the side of) a velvet pillow".

… covered most of in in fact
Should be "it".

Cassie searched around it to find what she just assumed ould have to be there.
Do you mean "would have to be there"?

She rejoined them half an hour later, just as the door spung open.
Do you mean "sprung"?

On a dusty throne laid the cape of the Phantom
Should be "lay"; the tenses of "to lay" (active) and "to lie" (passive) are confusing.

"But I was was hoping... "
Cassie may be stuttering here, but I don’t think this is intentional.

Despite not being a Phantom of the Opera fan, I enjoyed the read, and writing up what caught my eye didn’t feel like work.

HG

This was very helpful. I usually write stuff that is pretty short, and if it has chapters, they are usually about 3-5 pages per chapter. Short stories are my thing, for some reason.