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It was more than a decade ago, but I can't think of any other way I might have found it.

I was just looking for some mega-crossover settings, and that led to Sue hunters, and that led to the PPC.

Fantastic! :D

And no, absolutely no objections! Go right ahead :) I definitely won't get to trying anytime soon, if ever, and I'd love to hear a spliced version, for sure!

And: of course! Go right ahead. If I take some time to answer, I apologize in advance (and feel free to prod me about it if it's been more than a couple days or so).

~Z

That is so utterly spot-on perfect aaaaaaaaa. The creepy 'just a little off' feel from Legolas is /perfect/.

I /may/ play around and try to splice them if you don't object; the PPC was the reason I downloaded Audacity in the first place (Radio Plays!), so it seems appropriate.

Also: can I email you on a not-entirely-related topic?

hS

but I don't quite recall. it's been over a decade ...

Possibly shades of Something Rotten, too? There's a segment where Shakespeare and Bottom are tapping the beat for their lines (in "Bottom's Gonna Be On Top").

~Z

Someone knocked on Granz's door. After he'd calmed his dogs down, he called out "Who is it?"

"It's Thoth," Thoth shouted through the door. "I've got something for you!"

Granz rushed up to the door but didn't open it, balancing his excitement for the surprise with his multi-kilometer-long paranoid streak. "Is it a video game?" he asked. "One with lots of complex bits I can get lost in?"

"No," Thoth replied. "Not this time. How's TIS-100, by the way?"

Granz blushed. "Well, uh, I'm still going and I stayed up really late playing it last night ..."

"Yeah, that's what I thought. It's why I'm not bringing more games."

"So is it tabletop rulebooks?!"

"It's not those either," Thoth said. "You've got plenty, last I checked."

"But I can never have enough rulebooks!"

Thoth chuckled.

"Ok, so, uh ..." Granz tried to think of what else the surprise could be. "Pictures of cute guys?"

"You're getting closer..." Thoth said, stretching out the last word flirtatiously.

Granz was quiet for a minute, trying to come up with a guess. "I give up," he finally admitted, "what is it?"

"It's me!" Thoth said. "I came all the way over here to smooch you and hug you and, well, maybe later we can play Magic ... oryoucanravishme."

Granz threw the door open. "Did you say Magic?!"

"Well - maybe - but I want to kiss you first."

"Sure thing. You've come all this way, we might as well ... enjoy each other."

And so, Thoth threw himself around Granz in a passionate embrace that featured much smooching. Soon, they migrated to Granz's bedroom, where [details of what Granz can do with a control deck removed because no one needs to see that level of trouncing in this good Christian shipfest].

I mean, it was right there! So I did it. Please excuse the improvisational quality of Jay's segment. It was, funnily enough, made up on the spot rather than having been playing in my head as I wrote like Legolas' was.

"Dream of the Archer" - Legolas

"Fix It" - Jay Thorntree

Enjoy, hopefully! I recommend following along with the written version, since I just kind of sang (and spoke) my way through both parts without leaving great big pauses for the parts I wasn't singing.

(Artist's nitpicking: May (?) redo both at some point, to get something a bit more cohesive/polished (ish) for Jay and to stick closer to Legolas' singing speed at the very end (accidentally sped up a tiny bit where I shouldn't have) and make it that extra bit smoother that comes with having sung it several times through. Still, that probably won't happen for a while, if it happens at all, so in the meantime...demos! /tosses them in the air and retreats/)

~Z, apparently doing music this year?? What would probably be cool is if I finished the related projects of doing 'podfic' versions of a handful of interludes, one of which I actually recorded last year as a lockdown amusement thing and then...never did anything with? Apart from possibly going in and beginning to take out recording mistakes...? I should look into that if I can find a bit of spare time somewhere.

Just the text for the moment, because it'll take a little longer to get the recordings uploaded.

“Cutie in the Water” sounds like “Blood in the Water” to me (from Legally Blonde: the Musical, which honestly isn’t all that off thematically given the Watcher is, in fact, pretty dangerous despite Jay’s baby talk), so (to the chorus)…

Jay: Cutie in the water

Jay: Yup!

--

Dream of the Archer/Fix It (aka, whoops, I think I wrote a page and a half there? And have a tune in mind for Legolas, at least? Recorded it; tried out something for Jay, too, though it was much sketchier to start with and might not mesh too well for all I know):

Legolas: /singing dazedly, slowly. It could almost be a love song, that flush of new attraction and dreaminess, but for the occasional unsettling tone in the music and the fact that he sounds rather…drugged/ Beautiful Laurel…

L: Dream of the archer…sweet, gentle archer…beautiful archer, your beautiful voice…Yes, Laurel, oh, Laurel—be mine! /musical finish; Legolas spreads his arms like he’s ending a sweeping romantic ballad. Jay backs away into the scenery, visibly unhappy and uneasy/

--

As mentioned, there are recordings! I unfortunately don't have the time to let myself try to splice them together (and I'm not entirely sure I could switch back and forth smoothly without a lot more practice), but there's a Legolas recording and a Jay recording (demos? Sure! Demos :) ) and I'll probably try to get them up tonight? We'll see. It's mostly just a matter of uploading to gdrive (and retitling) and then linking and all that, which isn't too bad, except that there are other things I need to do as well, so.

Anyway! Behold, the text! Hopefully it lives up to any expectations that existed :D

~Z

I misspelled an LOTR character in a fanfic, and someone told me about mini-Balrog... this was back in the day when Miss Cam's site was still around, and I guess linked from her profile?

Fast-forward a few months, and I've adopted the mini, read the entire PPC multiple times, written a story with fairly strong similarities, and been invited to the Board on the back of it.

And I've never left since. :)

hS

(But also, I wasn't around for the old Lounge, so I have no idea how it was.)

It's kind of you to claim the old man voice is exaggerated... today's iteration was "These McDonald's transparent lids are new... I don't like them". I did grin out loud at the MSN mention.

And... yeah. It amp't the old PPC around here, but you kids aren't doing too badly. But don't tell anyone I said that, or I'll be forced to complain about something trivial at length.

(And as someone who remembers /hearing/ about the Original Lounge... yikes, fic!Nesh, were those indeed the days? ^_~)

(Also, for Reasons, I am very glad to have been in another shipfic...)

hS

I know, I know, hS/musicals... not even tryin'a hide it at this point...

hS

I stumbled across Laburnum’s MST of Martin’s First Time when I was in seventh grade and freaked out because I was on a school iPad. Then I found the wiki last year after I read OFUR and have been lurking around ever since.

Huinesoron, Neshomeh, and Delta gathered around a table at their favorite brunch spot, as they had almost every Sunday for the last several years. They'd used to meet up in Rudi's, but they moved to a quieter part of the multiverse due to "those darn Time Gentry and their bloody drama".

"Did you know it's Shipfest time already?" Nesh asked, hoping to kick the conversation off. "It really snuck up on me."

"Yeah," hS replied. "Kaitlyn already got out the corsets last week."

"I'm glad I got in on that trend," Delta said, her eyes brightening. "They're surprisingly comfy!"

"I know, right?" hS. "And then, once I've put it on, Kaitlyn ..., well I'll leave that to your imaginations."

"Please do," Delta said. "I get enough of that from the badfic channel."

hS chuckled. "You kids and your chat rooms. I remember when all we had was a Board and email."

"Hey," Nesh objected. "I'm not that young! I remember the original Lounge. Now, those were the days, let me tell you."

"The IRC, though, that was the best," Delta said. "Busy, but not too busy, and you could go wandering around the place in kitty mode."

"Bah humbug," hS said, putting on an exaggerated old man voice for comedic effect. "You two have no respect for MSN Messenger."

"Things really are different these days, though," Delta said. "Not bad—the kids are doing a pretty good job keeping the place going, but it sure isn't like it was back in the day."

"Sure isn't," Nesh said, taking a sip of water.

"They do need to get off my lawn, though," hS added. "Don't want them trampling the Sunflower Official."

The oldbie brunch nodded. Nesh's folowup comment, however, was interrupted by the arrival of the appetizers.

By which I mean, I wrote a snippet for one song after thinking, oh, hey, that reminds me of an existing song! ("Cutie in the Water" -> "Blood in the Water".) And then.

And then.

Yeah, I kind of wrote the entirety of "Dream of the Archer/Fix It" yesterday, complete with minimal stage directions, and recorded both parts as well, since Legolas' had a pretty clear tune in my head as I wrote and I figured I could at least try to get something for Jay. Don't know how well they mesh, but they both exist. Can I blame you for this?

Also, the only thing keeping me from doing a bit of track 13 is that I don't feel like trying to filk a charge list, especially Hamilton style.

~Z, who owes a bunch of Board responses and will get to them. Really. In preview, though--glad the story amused you (:D), and whoops, right, of course "Huinesoron" is Quenya--it uses -soron rather than -thoron. It's just been a while.

I wish I had the slightest bit of brainpower to devote to expanding on this, but it's been kind of a stressful week and I'm not even getting my usual break on Sunday, so that's not happening at the moment. Sigh. Maybe sometime later, though!

(Also, did you guys know I harbor a pipe-dream about adapting TOS as a radio drama? It would work so well... Just saying, if we're thinking in terms of scripts anyway...)

~Neshomeh

I'm slowly migrating my better writings from my writing Tumblr to my new FictionPress account, and I've just rediscovered my favorite short story I've ever written. I never received any feedback on it, so if anyone reads it I'd much appreciate a few words about it. Warnings: nothing from the blacklist, but death, grief and general sadness.

Here goes. Merry reading!

I found this terrific MST of a badfic on Wattpad. I'm not in this fandom, but the bad SPaG, bad plotting and bad characterization (in the fic, not the MST) are still on another level. Of note is the consistent spelling of damn as "damh".

Very much appreciated :). I’ve had a rough week and am sore in muscles I wasn’t aware existed until now after my workout yesterday (which probably wouldn’t have happened if I was in shape, but ya know how it is).

Over in the Discord, that wretched hive of scum and memery, we like to take a break now and again from chatting and posting cursed foodstuffs to play a game called Citation Needed. Those of you familiar with Tom Scott's channel will know it, of course; it's a panel game about strange Wikipedia articles, wherein the points theoretically matter but definitely play second fiddle to the panelists having a laugh. Recently, we recorded two more episodes, which I shall post here for your listening pleasure. If you'd like to listen to the other episodes, they're available here - just follow the links.

It's worth mentioning that there is Strong Language Throughout and NSFW Themes feature heavily.

Do give them a listen! We here at Scapegrace's Stupid Projects Towers work hard to make things for people to enjoy, so please leave a comment - even if it's just "Why are those sheep glowing in the dark?" or "How did it feel to get worse marks in your degree than a dog?" or "Are you sure the British rail transport network doesn't secretly plan to conquer space?". On a more serious note, myself and the people on the panels put a lot of work into these, so it'd be nice to see what you all think of them. =]

Episode 8: Charles Osmond Frederick and Thomas The Nuclear Power Plant (starring Thoth, Mattman The Comet, and Granz)

Episode 9: Dwile Flonking and Medieval Red Solo Cups (starring Good Mod Addict, Horvat, and Tomash)

Egyptian Rat-Screw quickly becomes a favorite, thanks to the driving beat. Subsequent runs of the show occasionally integrate tap, when they have a cast that can do so, making their footsteps part of the beat as well.

It is my duty to inform you... is in 8, of course, and a proper tongue-twister when performed at its intended pace. With apologies to Gilbert, Sullivan, and Lin-Manuel...

It... is.. my... / duty to inform you that the / crimes you have committed to the / works of author Tolkien and the / world that we stand in have been / tested and found manifold and / utterly and horribally / BAD.