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Almost missed this one.

You are not 30, that's not allowed. As per somewhere down-thread, we are all twenty-somethings forever. {; P

Also, I will never not love the old drawings for the sheer nostalgia factor. ^_^

~Neshomeh

I had no idea there was a reference to OFUC anywhere else! Ah, the Jellice Monster. One of the more delicious beasts out there. Thanks for telling me about it, I would never have known. =)

Ah, the 2019 movie... I have plenty to say about that, but I think that Miss Minnaloushe's hands are kind of tied when it comes to having an opinion. Like it or not, it IS an official Cats movie, which means it's canon, which means Miss Minnaloushe can do nothing to the people responsible for it. Even if she'd like to. Even if she'd REALLY like to. But it's not even about it being a bad adaption really, it's about it being a bad movie with baffling choices, and nobody was asking for it to be made and then there were all these huge stars attached to the project, and it is basically a perfect storm of terrible ideas and if she is anything at all, Miss Minnaloushe is just... confused by its very existance. And I am rambling. I knew that would happen.

OFUs are tricky to complete. I wrote the last chapter of mine in advance and still have it somewhere on my computer, but I have no idea where I would even post that now. XD

I'm glad to see your name again. What with the pandemic's demographics, I had faint concerns that I didn't want to think about too hard, and am pleased I probably don't have to think about it at all now.

I suppose we can't be too surprised to hear the Archivist's Apprentice got lost in the library. ^_^ Find anything especially good in the depths?

~Neshomeh

So, thanks to you for starting this thread, and thanks to Neshomeh for prodding me.

I joined in 2013 at age 59, being not the coolest, but probably the oldest newbie ever.

For several years, whenever it came up, I had to confess that I read about zero books per year, because I was too busy reading everything PPC and commenting on the Board. Then I found out how to use a public library card to read e-books online for free, so now my excuse for not being around anymore is that I’m too busy reading about two books per week. I’m not sure whether and when I’ll get out of this frenzy again.

HG

Ah, lots of options then! I like it. I used to know plenty of HTML stuff for FF.net, but I feel that knowledge has totally atrophied. I have a (inactive) Swedish Wordpress blog so I am a little familiar with the platform. Ah, might just go for Ao3, I like having things in one place.

And I plugged myself. =D Of course I would have been fine with you doing it too, but maybe I can settle for a recommendation?

I wrote this a couple of years ago and posted it on Ao3 very recently, when I realised I could like... post things I've written instead of letting them stay on my computer forever, and it sounds like a thing that would fit this community very well! (Was I inspired by the PPC when I wrote it? ...Well, maybe a little. That and Terry Pratchett. But it is entirely its own thing, I think.)

Presenting The Usual Ten! (Hosted on Ao3)

Cassie Gherardi is just your average ballerina with everything figured out. Dance until your feet give out and then... Well, she tries not to think so much about that. But suddenly Ben appears from nowhere, and everyone in the opera house starts acting really weird... Why is everyone talking about the Opera Ghost as if that has ever been a thing? Who is giving her friend Rose song lessons? And what is that SMELL?

The arc is entirely completed and the next chapter is currently being written, but it will be another story retold. And you don't need to be super well-versed in Phantom of the Opera to get it either, you'll do just fine even if all you did was see that terrible 2004 movie version. Anyway, hope you like it!

/ Ekwy

offers a mini snek They come with hats!

Congrats on adulting! Here's your sword-cane, good for shaking at newbies.

And seriously, congrats on discovering yourself. I made the same journey the other way (I was once Techno-Dann), and I know there's a few other trans PPCers here or out in the great beyond.

In the Redwall OFU, you got an allusion in the Christmas special, when alumni of OFUC had flashbacks to the jelly monster.

Miss Minnaloushe probably wishes she could enroll the creators of the 2019 movie, am I right?

And you got further than I did in an OFU; the creative partnership on OFUMREDURE fell apart after the fourth chapter--right when Nara's character replacement for Eedrah (using the alias "Tomás Matúsalez") showed up.

For eventual posting, hS and I are hosting our stuff on Neocities these days; it's great if you love the old-school DIY-type host, and free for a very generous basic package. AO3 is also pretty nice, especially now that I've learned "skins" are for custom CSS formatting, which let me do fun things for the look of Zingenmir's and my new email-based epistolary story. ... I don't think it has a cute nickname, oddly enough.

People who don't want to mess around with code, or just want to be more private, sometimes use blogging platforms like Wordpress. If you really miss LJ but don't care for what it's become, there's Dreamwidth—Trojie and Pads put all their stuff there (and I have a couple little-remembered character journals). Gdocs also works, but it's not my favorite; no personality.

I'm very much looking forward to this. ^_^ Plus, it's motivating me to finish my current beta project for Lily!

Re. plugging, plug away! Heck, I thought about plugging for you, but didn't get around to checking if that would be okay with you. {X D

~Neshomeh

April or May 2029 will mark the 2500th anniversary of Aeschylos' Πέρσαι (Persians), the oldest surviving Greek play that can be dated securely. World travel will almost certainly not be in my budget this decade, but I'm curious. Are there plans being made by various theater groups (especially in Athens) to mark the occasion? It's probably still too early to work out more than the basic idea, but still...

Practical problem-solving with improvised solutions! It's what we need!

"If I had a problem, I'd throw a Molotov at it, and boom! I'd have a different problem!" -- the wisdom of Jiangyu.

And just over 7 600 words. Now the actual WRITING starts... XD Gdocs work for me! You'll get an email when we get there. Gdocs also seems to be a favourite for posting missions if I understand it correctly? (Because the site where I used to post mine? Absolutely not a thing nor has it been for a really long time.) And of course you post yours on Ao3 as well as your own site. It is cool that the Ao3 possibility even exists. It seems to be a very much 'anything goes' kind of site for fan-created works, especially when considering the rules of the Pit... Speaking of, has Ao3 gotten a cute nickname? Didn't spot any on the Wiki.

(And also, quick Board question, what's the stance on plugging non-PPC writing? I was considering plugging The Usual Ten, thought that could be suitable for this crowd.)

Oh, this Suethor read the books... XD There might actually be some of those lore and language details mentioned, but I managed to use LotR fan sites for some commentary when my own memory failed. We'll see though! This'll be fun. =3

Don't think we ever met before. Just wanted to mention that M'rrahr has a successor now! Fr'sst isn't quite as wizardly, or nearly as friendly, but I liked your idea of having a kitchen cat, and made a new one to harass the eating agents.

. . . And I was going to link to a story he appears in, but he really doesn't get much screen time, and it would be awkward to make you read through paragraphs of my other characters just to see him so uh . . . let's just leave it at that, I guess!

—doctorlit, cat person

I'd like that a lot. =)

I feel like I should have been able to make a 'desdenello' joke, but it's a bit too opaque. desdhello?

hS

I'll endorse your skill of Snark if you endorse mine of Setting Stuff On Fire (But Not In A Bad Way)...

hS

I don't think your maths can be right though, because that would make me [Counts on fingers] NOPE.

hS

Does this mean I no longer have to keep a couple of cushions in the attic in case you happen to pass through?

hS