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Hey, so, if you're not aware, I've been trying to kickstart a career as a indie author online. I've been writing stories over at ScribbleHub, and have currently got two original stories and one fanfic. I've had a pretty good run so far, so I've decided to start up a dedicated discord server for my writing, and also try and supplement my finances with Patreon income.

Minimum tier is $1 a month, and max is $10. Only big difference between the tiers is that the $1/month will get you two days of early access to new chapters, the $5/month will get you a week, and the $10/month will get you two weeks. This will apply after I take a break for five months to work on my final year of uni, but I will be starting work on the first four chapters of my current stories after I get back.

Patreon

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Any support, whether it be by joining my community or contributing financially, would be very much appreciated.

See you all out there on the web!

Crazy Minh.

I'm not entirely sure whether the fic was supposed to be a bunch of oneshots or not, it mainly focuses on the same pairing but is so utterly incoherent it very well could be a badly butchered singular plotline. Frankly, I'm not sure how one would clearly distinguish either way.

Thanks for at least helping clarify some of that Gem weirdness! I guess that weird bit with the random bird kidnapping wasn't from Steven Universe?

Not sure why Bill is a Diamond either. Was "sentient triangle demon" not weird enough? :)

Anyway, thanks for reading another of my MSTs!

--Ls

Looks to me like the fic is a series of one-shots with a unifying theme of Valentine's Day, but otherwise no connection. The author's native language probably doesn't use articles (a, an, the), hence the lack of them.

The third chapter does look like a Steven Universe crossover to me, too. Fusions are a thing Gems and part-Gems (i.e. Steven) can do, including with humans (though it takes a lot of practice); the resulting being takes a new name and is something greater than the sum of its parts, at least in a stable fusion. Unstable ones split apart again pretty quickly. Permanent fusions are frowned upon in Gem society, but one of the main characters in the show is one; they sometimes act as a metaphor for a stable, loving partnership and/or for healthy mental balance.

The core of each Gem's being is a literal gemstone that appears somewhere on their body. The "triangle for an eye" thing seems to be a reference to that, except the gemstones don't fuse, they just migrate to their usual location on the new being, so IDK.

The four Diamonds are top-tier Gems who rule their society, and we know who all of them are by the end of the show, so casting Bill as one of them is a bit rich. There is canonical precedent for the "former Diamond" thing, but it's a major spoiler and wouldn't help the chapter make any more sense, so I won't get into it.

I don't know if those bits of explanation help at all, anyway. {X D

~Neshomeh

I LOVE TCGs, i’ll take a look into it :]

-HC

Hello!

Discord link will be valid for about 12 hours as of posting: https://discord.gg/TcGYU3C

As in, Aelit, who cowrote parts of Blank Sprite and The World Without Authors with me, is in Frame Games, the team behind Astralia Chronicles, an anime-styled trading card game that is being launched right now on Kickstarter.

It is a game in the style of Magic: The Gathering and Yu-Gi-Oh, but its lore is something dear to us: you're literally summoning fictional characters from stories existing in the world of Astralia. Don't worry, as a Machinist you're exempt from Trans-Dimensional Snatching charges!

I haven't been able to take part in playtesting, but as a former Magic player I can say this definitely works. They even took care in making sure the text of the cards is dyslexic-friendly!

Check it out here on Kickstarter, and if it interests you please support them!

Can’t believe I forgot to ask for one on my actual account until now, but… yeah.

You can change your name from there.

--Ls

Now it went through all the trouble of signing up and finding the confirmation email after I unknowingly put it in the trashcan. i’m just hoping I can change my username so I won’t have to change it manually every time I post.

If anyone knows anything about Steven Universe, please do help me understand this mess. I seriously do not understand what's going on.

--Ls

Of course, as long as you clearly identify yourself as Bognil, I suppose it doesn't really matter what your root account is.

--Ls

And the “here” means on the board

you should be able to sign in to the same account on multiple devices. I know I use more than one device with this account.

Also, that applies to FANDOM too. Unless you lose your password or something, you should only need one account.

--Ls

Edit: What is "Here" about? Why did you say that?

Here

Assuming you meant the former, which is my guess, welcome! I do hope you can choose a name less confusing than "Me" for the Board. Given that your email appears to be of one "Em McLaughlin", perhaps that?

Anyway, the Board is our main community space and interaction here is the main thing we do around here. You don't need to have an account to edit the wiki, but you do need to have a good reason for your edits. If you want to familiarize yourself with the basics, check out the Original Series and be sure to read the Constitution. Please do make it clear who you are cross-platform, however!

I hope this clarifies things,

--Ls

Edit: If you're Bognil, then please just say so. You don't need another account.

And I really just wanted to know how everyone reacted to alternate accounts

I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "being an alt," but one of our rules is to stick to one username across PPC spaces as much as possible. That's so we know who we're talking to, and "Me" does not help. Please abide by our rules. Thank you.

~Neshomeh

I'm an alt and I still don't know what to put on here

Madam Umbridge gains additional powers to 'bring Hogwarts back in line'. Harry and friends make plans to counter that.

Warning for mentions of Umbridge's preferred method of detention.

Yes, I also thought it would be funny to have Draco try to get Harry's wand -cough- at the start of their duel. It was just trying to get the two to argue rather than fire spells at each other. The whole thing was pretty chaotic, with Neville distracting everyone else and the two of them ignoring it to have their own little fight...

The unicorn horn ring is actually from a Purityworld fic where fem!Harry gets tricked into getting engaged to Zacharias Smith because of his family's slut-shaming virgin-detecting unicorn horn bracelet. Skeevy stuff. Perfect for a purity ring.

And yes, it really is sad that they only really had one year of being properly friends! Such is the tumultuousness of trying to befriend people whose families are also trying to pull them back over the ideological lines. And Draco is still in the process of deconstructing his culture, so we'll see how far he goes in "realizing the harm inherent in maintaining the status quo"!

Umbridge. Yes. She's horrible. She thinks she's providing a "balanced" view of things but when one side wants rights and the other side wants witches to be subservient and Muggleborns to assimilate or be ostracised, well... it's not really that balanced in the end, is it?

It is not Grubbly-Plank/Trelawney! It is a different teacher who teaches in a tower ;)

I'm glad you liked the song!

Especially since the text includes snark and/or complaints in quite a few missions already. Sounds fun with an origin story to match.

Though I feel sorry for the poor thing already. If we were to consider it personnel, it may very well become the most exploded employee in the whole PPC simply by being dragged through portals.

The intrigue ramps up...

Like, a Portal Generator has absolutely no way to go into missions. With, say, a Remote Activator, or a neuralyser, or a CAD, you could work that. ...Especially a CAD, given that they generate (often personalized) text, there would be a clear way for one to communicate.

Looking at the category on the wiki, I can definitely say that a sentient CAD would be the best candidate for this idea, in my opinion.

I'll also second what Nesh said, especially regarding interacting with others. It's fun!

--Ls