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I did discover that the earliest Shipfest Corset might well have been Neshomeh's back in 2012, but that was part of the Boy-Band series (as seen in 2008 and 2013), so it doesn't count.

In fact there have been 26 shipfics mentioning corsets. For my own entertainment, they have officially been worn by:

• Iximaz: 7
• Kaitlyn: 5
• Neshomeh: 1
• Clara Oswald: 1
• desdendelle: 1
• Granz: 1
• Aegis: 1
• Larfen: nearly 1
• JF: 1
• Four Moons Watching: 1
• Silv: 1
• Bronwyn: 1

Scapegrace has probably been in more corset stories than anyone besides Ixilyn (she's written at least two poems about them!), but somehow has never officially worn one.

These numbers are only gonna go up... ^_~

hS

Here’s some virtual chocolate and a copy of the Downward Spiral.

I presently have two corsets, one of which I made myself.

Maybe there's more credence to this ship than previously established??

Because a) I always recommend writing (especially when a good writer is involved), and b) it's what I did for my fifteenth.

Ah, the Blackout... that one really took off, it was great fun. I, um, don't think we do have a picture, actually - if we do, it's not anywhere obvious. Are you able to stick it somewhere accessible?

hS

PS: I... have... no idea what you're talking about, but it sounds fascinating. The E-word always does. ^_~

I, um.

Well, then.

I, uh, I guess next year's Boardiversary post will have some extra meaning, then!

(This is very odd, I'll have you know. As is the thought that next year will mark nine years of Boarder...ing...?)

Right. Well. Enough weirdness for one day, I think!

Oh, actually, something vaguely connected: I was going through PPC pictures recently (for purposes of Elves) and spotted what I assume is a screenshot labeled something along the lines of "the Board on April Fool's Day 2013" (aka "that thing that spawned all the Blackout ficlets"). I think we have a picture up on the wiki, honestly, but I don't remember how much it shows? Anyway, I have one too!

~Z

PS: Elves. Unfortunately, the thing I was using to make the images runs on Flash Player, and is insistent that I don't have the most recent version...and Flash Player has been discontinued. So much for further remakes of the ones I did in 2015!

Sadly, it's hard to fit words like "dysphoria" and "presentation" and "spironolactone" into the meter of Sk8er Boy. I tried.

However, yes, I think I'm crewing the corset ship, at this point- I have more than one, including one with actual boning. Corsets are surprisingly comfy!

In fact, how about an entire channel of chocolate recipes? _{the channel isn't mine, obviously.}

For context, my mom likes to tell the story of my first day of preschool. She stuck around for a while to make sure I was okay, as good parents will do. My response was to ask her, confused, "Don't you have somewhere to be?" So she figured I was fine and left me to it. {= )

And for the most part, I'd say I was fine playing with friends or entertaining myself as I chose until it was time to go home. That doesn't mean I didn't look forward to it, too—and it was definitely important to know that I would go home, because my parent(s) would come to get me. I remember a few times I was one of the last kids at after-school daycare, sun going down and supervisors getting increasingly anxious, which was never fun; and there was one occasion when my dad was so late picking me up from after-school choir practice that I up and walked to my mom's house (it was closer) by myself. I wasn't super-young at the time, something like 10 to 12 (old enough that I could manage it, young enough that the adults were properly terrified while no one knew where I was), so it wasn't traumatizing, but it was deeply unpleasant.

Basically, I was fine as long as I knew the plan and that's what happened. I was even pretty okay if the plan got thrown off a bit. But that's because I had the security of knowing that I had somewhere good to go and people who cared that I got there. It would be a totally different story without that baseline stability.

And, returning to the less-heavy point I meant to make: I still looked forward to going home even when I was happy at school or daycare. It's where my bed and my pets and most of my stuff was. {= )

~Neshomeh

Eleven years ago this month is when I first joined the PPC and one year ago this month is when I returned to the PPC.

Also because I class Larf and Scape together as geniuses in the delightfully absurdist style of comedy I couldn't replicate if my life depended on it... which is why I won't be writing this ship. ^_^

~Neshomeh

They bond over tearing into Problematic Media, share a wonderful meal cooked by Scape, but then accidentally insult themselves and each other so creatively and thoroughly that they pass out before the ship can go any further.

Nice to meet ya!

and the pigtails look like a... well... aviator hat :D

have you SEEN some of those one-eyed mountains of meat. Awoooo ;P

The Board was founded on November 3rd 2002, which is exactly 18 1/3 years ago. You first posted in January 2013, which is... 8 1/6 years ago. In one more year, you'll have been here half the life of the Board.

Which is a bit crazy. o.O

hS

Her name looks French, you want to be French... c'est parfait(e).

hS

Something something enemies to lovers something something

Yay! I'm glad you liked it. It's great to know that Jacques comes across as a good parent (and with a good father-son relationship here)--he definitely tries, and it's what I was aiming for. He's not flawless, but he definitely tries, and I'm aiming for it mostly working out well.

Well, everyone comes from somewhere, no? Between Jacques and I think a few other characters as well (Agen____t, for example), I've done a certain amount of thinking about how a former badfic character might relate to it all and try to understand things. My own thinking on it has shifted over the years--Jacques now has a journey of thinking about who he is vs who Jack Harkness is, and it rather mirrors my own shifts in thinking. At this point, the perspective is more "I am my own person who was once more or less Jack and shares some history and memories with him", but initially it was much closer to "I must take care to separate myself from Jack, to figure out very clearly where he ends and I begin, because I have a bunch of his memories but am clearly someone else, because I was obviously different enough to replace him and six agents and a CAD said so too." (It doesn't help that on the surface they visibly share a good few traits--poor guy. The main things that made him Not Jack are the sort of core differences that he wouldn't be comfortable talking about casually. He also started off far closer to Jack when it comes to speech patterns and so on--writing him in 2013, in his first year of recruitment, is a bit strange and takes more effort for that reason. He's developed since then, both in and out of universe.)

Anyway. Setting all that aside (and trust me, I can talk about this type of characterization for ages), kids like to know where they come from, in my experience. It's good to know where you come from. Having roots is important. You can make of them what you will, to a certain point, but it's good and important to know what you're starting with. IRL, people who feel disconnected from their roots might go searching for them--there's a fascinating book by Paul Cowan on the topic (memoir style), the title of which currently escapes me. Anyway. A kid like Cai being curious about, essentially, his birth family (even though he himself was uncanonical and they were OOC in the rest of the fic) makes a lot of sense to me. His parents, at least, are canonically together; you also get kids like the Satos, or the Robinsons, whose birth parents usually aren't together (...and might even hate each other for most of canon, like Henry Robinson's). Even there, though, you can at least look at each individual parent and at the canon. There's still something. Even Agen____t, who showed up as basically a blank slate SHIELD agent, has had that much to draw on--the training and atmosphere and the knowledge of what zir home canon's Earth is like. It's important.

I mean, yeah, self-sufficient is one thing, but...I don't know. I mostly meant it as a sort of "I'm having fun doing my thing, but would be excited if this happened"? And, in Cai's case, hopeful since he has a question? I don't know. I didn't mean it to be particularly sad! I'm sure the agents come by as often as they can, and the Nursery staff likely fill some of the gaps. If memory serves, I was also pretty good at finding ways to occupy myself, especially after I learned to read quickly, but I still really wanted my parents around. But then, I was also an only child with a good relationship with my parents, so...context. But based on what I've read and seen and so on, a child's baseline is often wanting to have that safety and security of a parent around, even though that can be damaged? I've also read some things (mostly around the internet, probably some in articles or books) by people who grew up with bad or incredibly bad parents, and very often (almost universally) they seem to have wanted (and often still want as adults) that--the good, kind, safe and supportive parents they should have had. I don't know. I feel strongly about this. But my main point is probably something along the lines of that as far as I know, the kid "baseline" is to want to have their parental figures around sometimes (or frequently), even if they're also plenty capable of entertaining themselves for hours on end.

~Z, apparently taking a turn for the serious somewhere? It's also just incredible to me that there are people who can trace their family tree back centuries. The whole concept of this sort of roots and how people might take very differently to them fascinates me. But now it's been almost an hour on the Board, and this really isn't the moment to go off on that tangent, and I'd better stop writing and post this. Anyway. Thanks for reading and reviewing, doc. I'm glad you enjoyed it, and that it made you think a little.

Sorry to hear you weren't feeling well! I hope you're doing better by now. And I'm very glad this could provide a distraction :)

New Calzonea is fantastic :D I was trying to name the pizza place, and had come up with the Cagou Pizza Cafe (look, you cannot call it Cagou Pizza! It sounds like you're literally (animal as food, can't remember which blacklist number off the top of my head)) and then Nesh said she'd taken it to the Discord and Scape had proposed New Cal(e)zonea (the E got dropped in a typo, but turned out easier to say), and, essentially, my immediate response was "YES" :D It's such a pleasant pun!

~Z, who should maybe finally get around to making some actual pizza sometime (as opposed to occasional approximations on bread slices and crackers, and a very good garlic bread disk thing made on dough that could have been used for pizza), since she does in fact know how and have a good recipe and, most importantly, somehow hasn't had it in almost a full year now due to no longer buying recently prepared food and not having been in the mood to both make and eat it in all that time?? This should really be rectified. Sometime. Maybe before marking the full year since the first lockdown >.>

...and contacted them, and got a response to that effect ("change the URLS thus, and it should be fine!") but wasn't quite sure how to proceed from there. On the plus side, not only did you turn out to know, you've also done the referencing better than I think I was going to--I think I've used that function all of once before, and never when adding to a big list like that, so I kind of just copied and adapted source code from the others. Which normally works out fine, but something was going a bit weird (I had a feeling I might just need to save the first edit and then come back to add in the second reference, but of course it wouldn't save!) and compared to what you did, it's different. Your code has some sort of shortcut in it? Something to take a second look at and ask you about properly, maybe; I'm curious, especially since I'll likely want to know how to do it at some point.

Anyway. Long story short, I'm glad we can edit the New Cal page again, and thank you for that!

~Z

20, He/Him, fairly bear-like. I am straight but when has that stopped shippers.