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You add more HTML tags around the Image URL. In this case, you'll want (Image tags)



For instance, to get that, it's

You use the HTML <IMG> tag, like this:

<IMG SRC="http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs36/f/2008/266/7/8/TemujinbyLycaenionScribbles.jpg">

Which gives:

<img src="http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs36/f/2008/266/7/8/TemujinbyLycaenionScribbles.jpg">

Obviously, replace the URL of the picture I borrowed for whatever image you want to post. (My thanks to Lycaenion for the ypur pic - it's rather nifty.)

I need to ask, how did you post a pic on the board?

Well, Rose/Ross are at least passable in Hary potter, and while they might not really know anything about NIN's music, I can see that as being the basis for a lot of amusement, actually. Along the lines of "Wait, I was selected for this mission based on one album that my ex loaded onto my computer years ago and I listened to enough to decide it wasn't worth my time?" quickly followed by "Wait, this doesn't even sound like the same band! Can't believe I never listened to any of their earlier stuff..."

So yeah, if you don't find anyone else, I'll do it.

So. I know a fair number of us draw, and I know for a fact that most of us write or at least like good writing.

I have a challenge.

While looking through the DeviantArt gallery of one of my favorite artists that I hadn't looked at in a while, I noticed that she had stopped drawing the usual, stick-skinny, "Pretty" in the conventional sense girls that used to dominate her gallery, and, among other things, was posting drawings of her own outfits, which, given that she's on the large side, were all large, and drawn to actually look how they look on her. For instance:



This got me thinking. Why don't more writers/artists represent those of us who are not, in fact, a size two? I find myself guilty of this, as well.

So here's my challenge:

Find a character who is (actually) average to overweight. Draw them how they normally/actually look. Don't make them look disgusting just because they're fat.

Said character can be your own, or someone else's. They can be for published or unpublished work. Just go forth and find a character who isn't tiny.

Draw them how they normally look. Normal clothes, normal hair, normal facial expression and stance. Or draw them looking fancy, doing something special. You pick.

Finally: Post a link here.

So. Who will take up my challenge? *scuttles away*

Damien/Damian is from Greek Δαμιανός, and there are at least three famous ancient Greeks and an early Christian martyr with the name.

Also, as far as Zeus never giving his mortal descendants immortality, there are conflicting accounts, but at least one version of the story of Helen of Troy, daughter of Zeus and the mortal Leda, has her being brought to Mount Olympus after returning from Troy with Menelaus.

My e-mail address is just this username at gmail.com. Whatever you've got, send it there-- as an MS Word attachment would be best.

Amazing world but a lousy script. Casting I didn't have many gripes with, though if you beg to differ, proffer up.

*Brings back Cat to her customary habitat*

But I'm keeping my supply of explosives handy just in case...

Have a sonic screwdriver and a bag of jelly babies. Please use responsibly.

shouted Kyoki as she chased fleeing spambots while riding a ypur. "Eat explosives spambot!" Moments later, there was a shower of spam metal and the air reverberated with the sound of detonating high explosives.

Search for absolutely any pairing you can think of on livejournal or ff.net. 90% of the results will be grim McShep whumpage. You will want to gouge your eyes out with a very spiky spoon. (Particularly if, like me, you've been a McBeck shipper since day one.)

Sadly, no - if it were just Harry Potter, my Agent Sedri could help, but she's Freelance DMS and about to be thrown into the DIC, and she can't stomach bad slash. I also don't know a thing about Nine Inch Nails. Sorry.

But I love that mini's name - Bradyduck? Seriously? :D

Also, I'd like to thank you for making such a detailed header. :D

(...Sadly, though, I don't know Mass Effect at all. I'll give it a go, but I may not be able to comment on anything. :( )

The movie was okay. Either way, that fic sounds awful. Someone kill it dead, please.

Also, though you have read the rules, have you seen The Links?

Nice to meet you.

Last things first; does anyone willing to co-write a mission have any Bad Slashers or Floaters who work the Harry Potter continuum and are likely to know anything about the music of Nine Inch Nails? I ask because a fic I've bagged for sporking is a NIN songfic which utterly mutilates the lyrics of one of my favourite songs (the song being "Suck", in case you're wondering). The Bad Slashers I use are probably not the type to listen to NIN's music even when it's not being mangled horribly, and I'm kind of hoping to have them do some things without Laburnum and Foxglove hanging off them.

I'd also like to report the appearance of three Mini-Balrogs I haven't seen around before: Bradybuck, Brandyduck, and Bradyduck. (Quack.)

As for the sporkables, they're all Harry Potter fics found via TVTropes:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanFic/ASadStory
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanFic/Deserving
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanFic/DarkSecrets
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanFic/PassionNight

Speaking of TVTropes, I set up a BagEnders page: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanFic/BagEnders Anyone want to fill in some tropes there?

Elemarth shouted, forgetting about 'sanity' -- which was overrated, anyway. "I'm going to ride and ypur and blow up spambots!"

put it up on the Unclaimed. That's just...

*sigh*

To whomsoever kills this: Gods' speed.

This fic is just creepy. Babyverse-and-beyond creepy. Beware.

Just around when the spambots come. I wasn't here when they came last time, so I'm not sure though." Niely said.

"Anyway, lets go blow some bots up!" Niely said enthusiastically, grabbing her gun and pulling out another can of hairspray.

All fans of Prince of Persia, brace yourselves and look at this.

The God of Time

There are so many things wrong with this fic, I don't really know where to start, but I'll try anyway.

It's set directly after the events of 'Warrior Within'. Two characters, referred to as the Prince and Kaileena, are on a boat, traveling away from the Island of Time. This may seem like an awkward way of phrasing it, but these two are not, repeat, NOT the Prince and Kaileena as we know them.

The Prince has fallen victim to Character Rupture on a grandiose scale. The big tough badass from 'Warrior Within' has been turned into a sickening blend of lecher, therapy counsellor, crybaby and prudish priest. Obviously, his speech and behavioral patterns have been wrenched beyond recognition.
Example: the Prince would never, EVER stand for another man pinching him in the butt.

Kaileena is, well, not Kaileena at all anymore. I strongly suspect full-scale Character Replacement. Maybe it's just me, but somehow I can't picture her as the
"my-daddy-started-raping-me-on-a-regular-basis-when-I-was-fourteen-and-even-though-I-hated-it-with-every-fiber-of-my-being-I-sorta-kinda-ended-up-liking-it"-type.

Yes, you read that right: the authoress says that she (replacement!Kaileena) ended up ENJOYING getting raped by her own father!

Need I say more? Okey-dokey.

1. Replacement!Kaileena's two (OC) sisters also got raped by daddy and enjoyed it (plus we get a hint of twincest), one of her (OC) brothers was reviled by daddy for being a homosexual, and the other brother is a complete (albeit heavily clichéd) psycho.

2.The authoress' grasp of the English language is nothing short of terrible: her punctuation stinks, she constantly uses words that she doesn't even understand correctly ("Her spine crackled."), the Pronoun Problem shows itself now and then, words that should be there are dropped, words that should not be there are squeezed in anyway, sentence fragments are all over the place, and the sentences themselves are often just plain stupid. Example: "Kaileena's stomach bubbled with indecision." What on earth does that mean? That she's hungry and doesn't know what she wants to eat?
Spelling? Ooooh boy. Grammar? Don't go there.

3. The authoress contradicts herself. A lot. As in, one hundred times per chapter.

4. Calling the Department of Redundancy Department! And how. Sometimes (well, all the time actually) we get ten sentences for the price of one.

5. The dialogue is so painfully stilted it's almost hilarious. No-one on earth talks like this. You get more natural conversations in grammar guides. Also, way too much unnecessary exposition.

6. Anachronisms. There simply were no glasses in ancient Persia.

7. There's some mangled Olde English in there too.

8. The OC sisters can malletspace! Their clothing consists solely of two or three strips of transparent fabric, but they pull out tridents anyway!

9. The big fight scenes are bizarre and, towards the end, just plain sick, and the conversations between the opponents read like the minutes of a support group meeting.

10. The authoress' view of the 'Eye of the Storm'-power (NOT called 'Slow Time') is, in my opinion, totally unrealistic. If it causes everything except the wielder of said power to slow down, enemies should not have trouble breathing or anything, since all their vital functions have slowed down as well.

10. The Prince, by all accounts, is in his twenties, not middle-aged, and certainly not withered.

11. I retract my previous statement. The entire fic reads like the minutes of a support group meeting. Attended by dimwits.

12. Now I'm reminded of that scene with the fairy godmothers and the newborn princess. Brilliant.

13. The prince can configure himself to withstand attacks. Le gasp! He is Borg!

13. Stop. Talking.

14. The final chapter is cataclysmically stupid, and oh yeah, the whole thing ends with healing secks.

There's a whole lot more to say, but I will only add this. In later chapters, the writing reaches a level of badness that's actually surreal. You're horrified, but you can't stop giggling. It's THAT bad.

I apologize for the length of this post. It's just that this fic... is... nrk...

GAH!

Should I put this up on Unclaimed? (Like I even need to ask.)

I think that the introduction showed more insight than the original introduction; but, you can always stuff more into all 200 pages of a very good book than you can a very good movie. The bit about Susan was good, in my humble opinion. Although, I'm not sure if Avatar was a very good movie.

Judging by some of Aristotle's Elements of Drama:
PLOT: Well, I could compare it to Pocahontas extensively, but I'll just be lazy and post this: http://www.whatsgoodblog.com/2010/02/disneys-pocahontas-james-camerons-avatar/

CHARACTER: Rather stereotypical

SPECTACLE: Simply amazing. The 3d and realistic computer effects blow my (easily impressed) mind and the wonderfully created creatures, plants, and geography is astounding.