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But if you want to combine two or more prompts into one bit of writing go ahead.

If you want to do fifty you might have to wait a while given I'm only going to be doing three a month...

...that sounded weird, but seriously, I think you captured very well what goes through a racist person's mind, and how natural it seems to them that their own race be superior to others. While most real-life racists nowadays aren't as open about it now that society's finally realized that all skin colors are equal, the racists of the past certainly were, and your agent's situation is more analogous to the latter than the former. Can't wait to see more of Andronikos!

How many prompts should I use? One? Two? Fifty?

... which Prompt 1 has given me a new angle on. We'll see whether it works out; I'm hopeful.

hS

I think it counts. At first I was thought that this was a fic that I hadn't heard of, but then I looked it up and it turns out I had. So, yeah. Given the reputation that My Inner Life has, I definitely think it deserves a spot as a Legendary.

Also, I'm pretty sure that My Inner Life wouldn't be the first Legendary fic to be killed before being designated as one/without the knowledge of it being a Legendary, though I might be wrong.

Thanks for the prompt, it's always fun when ideas just appear inside your head. Steven and Wallis have a karaoke night here

here.

Oh, and if you're wondering that is a genuine fic they vacationed to. It ends with Kylo Ren and Rey performing "Grease"

So one of the things I'm challenging myself to do this time around is to come up with at least one prompt early in the month and have written a response to it by the time I put the Prompts onto the Board. And so, here is not only my response to Prompt 1) but also an introduction to a new character and Agent I have been working on.

Prompt 1

Nova

Editing because I forgot to do the link properly facepalm

So, I've mentioned them on both the Board and on the Discord and got a decent response on both, so I'm bringing them back. Way it works is this, each month on the last Friday of the month I'm going to put up a post on the Board with three prompts. Yeah, that's basically it. If you want to reply to the Prompts, go for it. It doesn't have to be beta'd, you don't need Permission, heck if you want to write about OC's with no relation to the PPC go for it too. And don't worry about a time limit, mostly because there isn't one.

Anyway, the three Prompts for this month are:

1) A Character does something they haven't done in a while

2) "What do you mean I haven't been paid?"

3) "There's a reason why the two of us don't do Karaoke."

Nova

I'm pretty sure I missed it at the time, but I've seen it now.

I love it.

It's particularly hilarious to me, because one of the very first hS/Kaitlyn shipfics features the Dark Lord Huinesoron and his captive Kaitlyn. How times change... ^_^

hS

When you say "the m/Majority", do you mean "the members of a majority demographic group" (eg, Protestant Christians in the United States), or do you mean "the majority of members of a demographic group" (eg, 12,000 of the 15,000 Zoroastrians in the United States)? I feel like your comment can be read either way, with different implications to each.

hS

As a frequent joker about christianity, I adhere to the same general rule as "the straights are at it again" jokes: there is a difference between the majority, who are just trying to live their lives, and The Majority(tm), who are nffholes about it. Said distinction is implicit in jokes at the expense of The Majority(tm), and no offense to the majority is intended. (I hope that makes some kind of sense, I just woke up.)

If I was ever unclear about this I really do apologize.

... that I actually did this. The haiku mission. Back in 2015:

"You overreact." Harry Potter yelled: "It's SPRIIIIIIIING!!!" "... never mind. Charge now."

There's nothing new under the sun... o.O

hS

We've had some discussions on the Discord about religion and the types of comments made about it. The issue at hand is mostly when, if at all, joking about religion is okay.

On one hand, making people feel unwelcome is never something we want to do. It's really easy to make people feel insulted with topics like religion, and insulting entire groups of people is obviously unacceptable.

On the other hand, discussion of serious topics is allowed. People on the server have both criticisms of Christianity and jokes they want to make. We've made jokes about politics and other serious topics before, so it is ok to do the same with religion? Part of the argument I've seen made and have made myself is that jokes about religious topics can be pretty cathartic if the person in question has had bad experiences with it.

So my main goal with this thread is to ask: is it possible to be non-alienating and sufficiently respectful while making jokes about something? How can a topic like this be discussed/joked about without making people uncomfortable?

I am somewhat out of my depth here. Thus, the thread. Apologies for the brevity of my summary.

After we went back to one of the fics to roast some people's eyebleedingly bad outfits, we noticed a couple more "references" to throw into the giant PAL cooking pot.

You may think you have bested me in a battle of words, but that is simply because I was tired yesterday! The next time we meet, I assure you it will be unanimously agreed upon that I am the sole winner!

Until next time, Huinesoron!

Thank you for the feedback, I'll be sure to deal with those typos tonight.

Glad you liked the HQ action, I've often thought that we have such a great universe it's almost a shame we spend most of the time out of it. My next mission I'm planning on doing something similar, and once I get back to the training stories I'm seriously considering using them to explore HQ a little more.

As for Shawn the Science Lad I'm also planning on exploring his lack of aging at some point, so I'm kinda glad you picked up on that.

Simpsons minis? Well, I suppose they would have ti be three eyed fish. If you're after one you're more than welcome. Lisa simpin, marj and Ned Fnalders are all available and yours for the taking - although having said that if anyone else requests you may have to share between you.

Meta, you're the first discoverer of Simpsons minis! That means you get to decide what they are.

So get on it, because I need to adopt one for a very stupid mini-based side series I've been slowly writing.

—doctorlit gets very stupid writing ideas sometimes

Okay, finally time for review! Also, I read in the backwards order, because the short one fit into my lunch break better, soooooooo

“What’s Behind the Projector?”

This was just a fun story, overall! There are so many interesting story ideas that can be explored outside of missions, and I really enjoyed this one. Using Swamp Thing’s swamp as the outside HQ location is especially fun, since it’s not a popular location. It also makes me intrigued about the Creature’s identity. Is she an escaped DC native from the same swamp . . . but then how did she know what RAs do . . . I can’t wait to see more of her!

So Shawn was created from the words “science lad” . . . is he actually stuck as a lad forever? I’m torn between feeling bad that he’ll never look like an adult . . . and furiously jealous that he gets to not age. That’s the dream. #goals

The scene that caught my mind the most was when Sasha was talking to Lindsey immediately after Steven and Wallis left. The world view of a child who grew up in HQ is something to ponder. It makes sense that she would have difficulty grasping the effects of the Ironic Overpower, since it’s such an abstract concept. She might need to experience it messing with her directly as she grows older to start to understand. Her viewpoint on Suvians is interesting too. We recognize Suvians as being Wrong from the things they do to canon worlds. But Sasha only knows the term from her parents talking about them; to her, Suvians are just another knd of people who exist. She won’t recognize the reality-bending danger they pose without, again, seeing some concrete evidence of how they can affect things.

“How Will I Clean My Fur?”

First, I want to say that you used the title cleverly, getting some of Wallis’s inner thoughts to us in a way that can’t be done through his dialogue, heh.

Euarghuh, I don’t want to say much about the actual badfic. I think you handled it about as well as can be expected, telling us just enough to understand the beast without letting it take over the story. I . . . could have done without the white liquid, but I understand it was a bit too important to ignore, story-wise. Thank you for establishing that it isn’t what it . . . should be? Let’s just move on.

I loved the gags where Nurse Joy mistook Wallis for a Pokémon, and Flanders being inside a plothole inside a Poké Ball. Perfect! And I also love that when everyone returns home, the married couple are too worried about the mess each has caused themself to notice the other mess in the room.

And now . . . I’m sure you’ve missed doctorlit’s patented lists of typos that he sticks in his reviews . . . well wait no longer, because here we go!

First, here are some that appear in both stories:

“A ball of fur burst from it's nest beneath the sofa . . .”
That’s a possessive, not “it is,” so it would be written “its.”

“Wallis moaned, stalking across to the console against the rooms far wall.”
This one is possessive, so “room’s.”

“’ I'll give Lindsey 'the talk' you get that sorted . . .”
These phrases run together. I would put a comma right after “talk,” so we readers break them up in our minds.

“Both Sasha and Steven locked eyes and in unisom they said ‘I can explain.’”
A comma goes after “said” before the dialogue. Also, “unison.”

Next, the ones from “What’s Behind the Projector?”

In the author’s note: “I just have the honor to play in it’s Sandbox”
Another non-possessive “its.”

“’ . . . one I’ll have to ask the flowers one day.’”
“’ Why do we always have to do everything the flowers tell us to?’”
Missed the capital “F” on “Flowers” here.

“. . . turning out every draw and table top . . .”
“Drawer”

“Finally they arrived at a nondescript door identically to all the others . . .”
Since “door” is a noun, it gets the adjective “identical” rather than the adverb.

“. . . the automatic lightning flickering for a moment before finally coming on.”
“lighting”

And finally, the set from “How Will I Clean My Fur?”

“. . . Ned walked up to the wall, and ‘accidentally’ brushed his gentialita against it.”
I’m not typing the word out.

“. . . depositing them unceremoniously on the floor of the Simpson’s house.”
Since the house is occupied by all the Simpsons, it gets written “the Simpsons’ house” or “the Simpsons’s house.”

“It didn’t take long to Neurolise Nurse Joy . . .”
“. . . but after the flash of the Neuroliser he headed back in . . .”
“neuralyze,” “neuralyzer”

“Vines and weeds laying across every available surface.”
This isn’t a complete sentence as-is, but you can change “laying” to “lay” to make it one.

—doctorlit is very excited to get more Meta stories!

I've been looking for a trek fic for a while... I'll risk taking a look.

...is Baron hS being mostly just offended that Ozerbord has pretty much slipped through his fingers for some reason. Maybe it broke up into smaller pieces (towns, farms cities? Not completely sure what category Ozerbord as a whole falls under, and I'm on mobile, so I'm not going to look it up right now, especially as it's not vital to my point) and then just kind of fell apart/the people moved away?

I don't know. Hopefully that helps spark something, or is at least briefly amusing :)

...come to think of it:

-Borrd is falling apart for some reason. Conquering? Moving? Polytheistic style war amongst the gods? -Baron hS steps in to come to the rescue with Ozerbord somehow. -It turns out that, actually, Ozerbord is very quickly leaving the picture. Baron hS is Not Pleased. -A new plan is made and put into effect. Sir Thoth sits in the meetings making funny comments? -Baron Na'Shirah tries to stay as far away from it all as she can, and mostly just makes some preparations on her own lands and maybe gives an opinion here and there--IRL I remember mostly just speaking up when we were deciding the URL name, and making some plans for new posts or something. Also checking the Old Board a lot and somewhat excitedly figuring out what was different about the New Board and generally liking it. It has posts from more than a couple years ago. That's still pretty cool.

~Z

I've now read and reviewed Chapter 5 and am moving onto Chapter 6. ^_^ Corolla is still a star, folks, and now there are graphs!

hS

In which we finally discover the face of the danger looming in the horizon, but also some hope for the future.

As usual, it is available in two different flavors: Wordpress and Tumblr so as to widen your choice in case you have an accunt lying around. I prefer comments to be made in either of the sites rather than here, and for Wordpress you don't actually need an account to do so.

By the way... Huinesoron, I'm mightly disappointed by not seeing any comment by you in the previous chapter! I deliberately baited you with a Corolla illustration to get your usual fanboyish reaction, sheesh!