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Blood Elves are a subrace of Elves in the Warcraft Universe. They used to be known as the Highborn before their whole way of life was destroyed. They began calling themselves Sin'dorei (literally "children of blood").

They are a highly magical race. They used to draw their power from the Sunwell, and the Well of Eternity before that. Since both of the wells have been destroyed, the Blood Elves are going through a very uncomfortable period of magical withdrawal.

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now, this is actually pretty good. Proper vampire stories, in my opinion, should always treat vampires as monsters or, if they're done well, dizzt do'urden type chaotic good characters. Except there are hundred of drizzt knockoffs now. This story represents the way a person would end up if they had from childhood a desire to kill people. Also, I like the way in which she killed that peice of shit character in a cavalcade of terrible characters. Stabbing scissors through his throat, hell yes I'd love to do that, I'd watch him suffocate to death and when he started to heal I'd do it again, and again, and again, dear god I don't think I'd ever get tired I could gut every character in twilight over and over, rip them to pieces and burn them in the good old fashioned way I would ruin them all and oh let's not forget bella that vapid waste of air Bella jesus I would give her special treatment there would be no end to the pain I would inflict on her Seriously if I spent one day in the twilight universe I would find a nuke and launch it on all of forks I would end everything EVERYTHING MAYBE EVEN ALL LIFE ON THE PLANET BECAUSE THEY SHARE THE SAME AIR AS THOSE RIDICULOUS FAILURES OF CHARACTER DESIGN DO YOU HEAR ME WORLD YOU ARE NOT SAFE YOU ARE NOT SAFE FROM MEEEEEEE

But I digress. If I had to complain about one thing, it's that the character annoys me in the same way that starcraft's kerrigan annoys me, the whole "OH HAY GUYS BTW IM EVIL NOW" face heel turn. Otherwise it was okay.

I'm amazed. You have presented something that may actually redeem the twilight fandom in some small way. Kudos to you. Not to the twilight fandom, of course. They are crazy and I still don't like THEM.

Ehh... this was... okay, I guess? It wasn't a very meaty story. Maybe that's part of its charm or something? I don't know. There's quite a bit of "seventeen/eighteen" self-banter that eats up a lot of room. All in all, the message was quite good: werewolves are sick f*cks.

With giant mechs. It's the same setting as mechwarrior. It spent a while in legal limbo because apparently the makers of the anime that would get jammed together with other series to make robotech gave the makers of the games rights to use some of the models, and then the importers of robotech sued them.

Found this stub article on the Wiki:
http://ppc.wikia.com/wiki/CIC

What's the formula for creating CICs, if there is one? I was thinking we could possibly do with assembling a few more.

... with the urine-drinking? I tried to read it a couple of times, but I could never get through it. All I remember is hearing second-hand about some kind of ceremony involving urine-drinking in it.

I guess that makes sense. The format can be dispensed with when you're not doing something with some kind of global reach, though, I think; I mean, if every setting is "Some room in this house/school/castle" it's not necessary. But it battletech (cool term; widely used, or yours?), yeah, I see what you mean.

I'd be delighted! I wonder if any of ours overlap?

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4942443/1/Eighteen

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4516602/1/ThePaperDoll_Kindergarten

Both deal with a certain very controversial issue in Breaking Dawn, both are well-written, the latter gave me nightmares. Both those authors have a lot; if I've convinced you, Google "Tv Tropes Twilight Fanfic Recs" or something to that effect; the site, tvtropes.org, has a full page of various recs, a number of which are pretty subversive.

I would very much like to see these fanfics which you speak of. Having read the series (know your enemy) and plenty of fanfiction about it I am convinced that nothing good can ever come of twilight.

I skipped bits my first few times through Lord of the Rings, too. That might have something to do with the fact that I was in 5th, 6th, 7th grade at the time, but still. I at least won't hold that against you.

However, I will defend to the death every word Tolkien used, and tell you why. {= )

Regarding the foreword, just for one, Tolkien was writing before anyone had ever heard of Hobbits/Halflings/whatever ('cause, you know, he invented them). He and his editors probably felt it necessary to offer those words of explanation of their history and culture outside the actual text of the story, but in a place where it would be visible to the readers, who otherwise might have found themselves completely lost. The pipeweed (which is actually akin to tobacco, not pot) actually plays a fairly important role later in the story, it being Saruman's way of buying his way into the Shire and taking over, so knowing its role in Hobbit life does matter. Nowadays, of course, everyone has heard of Hobbits even if they haven't read the books, so the foreword may seem a bit superfluous to the modern eye. But it IS there for a reason.

That said, if you fancy something a little more condensed that stays true to canon, I highly recommend Brian Sibley's radio adaptation. Yes, it's going to sound a little corny when they put narration in the mouths of characters so the audience knows what's going on, but at least it's CANON. And the voice-acting is top notch. You'll recognize Frodo, at least. The same actor played Bilbo in the movies. {= )

~Neshomeh

So we get to our first actual instance of combat (le gasp) as traditional mary sue rapist dark link does.. well, absoluitely nothing. They attack him, apparently all he really wants to be is under the sea in an octopus' garden in the shade.

Haha, the healer gives Jenna-sue a drug which gets rid of morning sickness. We had that too, in the '60s!. IT WAS CALLED THALIDOMIDE.

But wait! Jenna develops a new plot device to save her from dark link! Now she can control the elements. Derp dee derp dee derpity doo. Upon returning to the castle zelda is all like OMG U AR SILVERLITE and apparently silverlites are the ancients of the world. DERP D... forget it.

Throughout the entire thing the only curse they use is "by the goddess!" then all of a sudden jenna says HOLY SHIT! The sex scenes are quite hilarious. They scream each other's names, REALLY LOUD if the several exclamation marks are anything to go by, and they scream over and over again like they're in the end of paranormal activity.

So another completely uninteresting plot occurs or something and they go back home, where they are attacked by a deepcrow(that's just how I see it in my head). its "soul propose" is to steal link's children! We can only assume that this is an agent that went MIA and is out of contact attempting to repair the fandom against the will of the god-mode sue.

And then it ends. and then there is almost 30 things the author has to explain, not a good sign when writing a fanfic. For the world to be repaired, several regions of land would have to be destroyes, species made extinct, flowers burned until not a trace remained. And it is not necessary to call a pegasus with a horn a "unipeg". Not that I think they even exist in canon.

Well, I need to return to my normal state of mind. This usually involves hallucinogens and H.P. Lovecraft novels.

I have one, but am also a male, so...

I went back and read through the entire thing, and it's pretty funny :P It made me laugh, which is unusaul. So well done, I like it! Is there a next chapter of the fanfic up yet?

On Wikipedia I think it was there's a bit about how for a while people called all self-insert characters "my Mary Sue" but then it became a negative term.

Welcome to the Board! Please deposit your sanity in the provided receptacle. *indicates bucket marked "Warg Fodder"* You shan't need it here. Also, here's a shiny explody thing.

Wow, you must have an amazing tolerance for badfic! All I can offer in the way is a truly awful badfic I stumbled across while looking at a prospective target (on the adult Pit, so I should have known better *reaches for Bleeprin*) - a series of delightful fics centred round a pairing of Shagrat/Faramir. *is squicked*

Have a platter of chocolate-covered profiteroles, a recruiting poster of Lord Kitchener, and a pet mongoose, available for collection from the PPC Mongoose Shelter.

A Response to Storming the Battlements and a Defence of the Sporking Culture, written by a Genuinely Empowered Female. (I'm thinking Araeph, as her response is already there). Or possibly How Mary Sues are Patriachal Icons, not Feminist ones, by a Female Writer. What do you think?

That was out of line. I just got a bit carried away there.

But we could go around asking if someone on the Board has one. You or one of those that made those lengthy responses to the essay can also make one. What are the requirements? I can't do it myself, as i'm male and the Suethor may use that as a point against us. Stupid reason, I know, but still...

It seems as though the only way someone can be this blinded to the harms of Mary Sues is if one of her or her friend's characters has been taken down. Do we know if any of her stories has been the subject of a mission? If so, was it a particularly violent assassination? That would most likely create a feeling of dislike, especially if she had connected to the Sue, though this seems like it is rather out of proportion. A Sue team, perhaps?

Oh, I am so glad that someone else hates them too! And "non sexual" - maybe for the character, but from some of the descriptions of glowing red buttocks methinks the author is getting off on it!

I think that it's a way for people with limited abilities and imagination to devise a plot for a hurt/comfort fic. Character A does something wrong. Character B (Gibbs) spanks them. Hugs all round. It's a ready made plot device: no intelligence or imagination required. I call them "Here's one I made earlier" or "Just add spanking".

Thank you, Araeph. That was a much more inspiring version to read. :)

One thing in particular:
In fact, having one’s Suefic mocked by the PPC is akin to being struck by lightning in its rarity.

*lights up*

HEY! NEAT!

*starts throwing lightning bolts, Zeus-style, and cackling madly*