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Agent Sam and Sidhe say hello (Well, Sidhe says Aneth ara).
Welcome to the Board, have lots of fun (oh, and have a bucket for your sanity. Don't worry, we won't let the Mabari have *all* of it...).
If you'd like a mini for yourself, I've got a ton left over from that last horror on the Pit. Great Hades, what a nightmare.
Like I said have fun here--we're all a little nuts, and we don't bite...unless we're really, really hungry.
Honu_Wahine(I'm probably the craziest person you'll meet here)

Wrong. This site is perfect for anybody wanting to have an instant slash story generated for them, or a crack!fic written in the LotR 'verse.... or just anything related to everything we hate about suethors.
http://elffetish.com/foolery.html
It's also got a lego version of the Last Alliance--and it's just so....wrong; so very, very wrong. But still worth it for the laughs. You know, you could use this site to spam all the suethor's on the Pit...
Hmmmm. This has applications...
Honu_Wahine

Have a venomous arthropod!

Welcome to the PPC! Here's a set of archery equipment from the Raven Armory and a bottle of bleeprin. (Unfortunately, I'm not all that much of a role model here, as I have no plans at the moment to PPC anything. The Pit of Voles has stolen my sanity at last.)

In Irish Gaelic, the word "Craic", (pronounced "Crack") means "Generally good time". It's not uncommon for someone to say that "The Craic was Mighty" after a party or an Oiche Arnaigh ("Fun Night")...

Funny how I'm connecting things in my Cultural/Language/Music/History class with things in 'Real Life'...

*pokes*

Anyway, welcome to the Board! Shortly, someone will come up to you with a bucket labelled 'Warg Fodder and ask you to deposit your sanity inside. Do so. It is the best place for it during your stay here.

Also, take a softnose laser.

So, what are your fandoms?

Yeah. About that.

SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

They put the hydra in the movie. In Nashville. Where Nashville came from, I have no clue. And, somehow, it's disguised as a bunch of janitors. When you find out what they did to the Mist, let me know.

The movie itself is pretty good, just... It's up there with Ella Enchanted as far as the transition from book to movie is concern.

Hi there! I am a frequent on the Pit of Voles and I have enjoyed several PPCs to the maximum! I respect everything you do, and one day I will become one of you all. :D

If tampons were a luxury, I'd have to go on a killing spree.
If tampons were a Luxury, I'd have to go on a killing spree and then file about fifteen sexual assault lawsuits.

I'll look just like a Christmas package, all wrapped up in my new strait-jackidge, hooray, hooray, I'm going away with the men in the little white coats!

No, really. Sounds like a good novel. You'll have to tell me when it gets published.

I don't actually know; I've not been to the movie yet. I'm almost dreading it at this point. Apparently, though, large chunks have been whacked out, rearranged, and otherwise mutilated.
I'm not one hundred percent certain on the hydra front, either. There's a mention of a head in the oracle's room, I know for sure, but as for actual living hydra? I'm pretty sure there's not one in the first book, at least.

(And it may say something about my state of awareness or intellect that it took me about thirty seconds to figure out where that pun was. x_x)

Though I'd disagree with it being nice to be informed. It sucks to be informed, because then you have to actually make the decision. Ignorance is bliss. I just generally assume people on this site don't want to remain in ignorance.

It just makes me angry.

Because it's not just appalling work conditions. It's slavery. Like, as in, thirteen year old boys kidnapped and sold to a plantation where they are beaten and worked to death without pay and chained up at night to keep them from escaping. That's not just appalling conditions, that's slavery, a practice outlawed in most of the Western world (all, actually, to my admittedly little knowledge).

I don't blame people for the condition of Africa, nor Asia, nor the workers who make them up. I blame the corrupt governments of those countries, and I blame the corporations propping them up because cheap labor makes the economy go 'round. But honestly, I don't understand how buying something you don't need (yes, I know, some people do, endomorphins, etc, but the fact is the more expensive stuff is a higher percent cocoa most of the time, which means it's actually -better- for those scientific purposes than the cheap stuff, which is usually less than fifty percent cocoa and thus virtually useless where antioxidants and endomorphins are concerned), fully knowing that the product was made with unwilling slave labor, is... I don't know. There are a lot of words I want to put there, none that won't offend you (and several other people). I know I was harsher in that post than I needed to be; I should've glanced over it before putting it up here, as it was cross-posted from another forum (where, by the way, it was utterly ignored. so you're not alone in being irritated with my constant activist shite). Anyway. Yes, I meant there to be a guilt issue. There should be. On that, I won't back down. But you're right in that it shouldn't have been that aggressive.

As for your second problem? Yeah, like I said, if it's a medical issue the fair-trade organic stuff is better for any purpose. Hershey's and their ilk are generally a very tiny percent cocoa-- if you look at the ingredients, it usually goes "sugar, milk, etc," and then chocolate'll be somewhere near the end. For dietary purposes alone you're better off buying the good stuff. Chocolate's not medically necessary for me, though, so maybe I don't know what I'm talking about.

But I do take offense (kind of-- I am bearing in mind that you're drunk, and trying not to take it personally) to you implying that I can afford to buy luxury chocolate all the time, or whatever. I currently work two jobs, don't get enough hours at either, can't afford to drive or go to college or do much more than eat (most of the time) and pay a few of my dad's bills. And this is going to sound self-righteous, but if it's a choice between fair-trade and nothing, I just don't buy it. To me, it's not worth the guilt trip. Because even though I complain about my life all the time, the chocolate isn't worth making someone else's life that much worse.

And actually I don't wear tampons either. Though that's actually just because they bug me.

When did these schmucks ever read Gilgamesh?

And I thought the random fire-breathing hydra out of nowhere in the trailers was bad enough... unless that was supposed to be the chimera? I haven't actually seen the movie yet, just read the books. Come to think of it, I don't think we ever actually ran into a hydra in the books...

There's children of the Big Three, naturally; those were unavoidable from the start. *sigh* I wonder, how does one miss the fact that the oath-breaking is a supremely bad plan?
But, beside the expected, there's also: children of Kronos, children who are 2/3 god, children of random other gods, probably both real and invented, Egyptian gods... oh, and several people who don't seem to be able to count, but that's nothing new.
It makes me sad. The books are excellent, IMO. Why must their subject matter be butchered?
...never mind. I remember. Because it's there, and there's a movie of it. Though, from the looks of things, the fandom was in a bad way even before the movie hit.

Isn't Alpha Centauri considered to be what happens after the spaceship ending of a Civ game, since it's a Sid Meier game as well?

In case you're wondering, 4X means, "Like civilization"

Basically, the best and brightest people flee earth to a planet in orbit around Alpha Centauri prime shortly before a massive nuclear war. After some misadventures involving a terrorist organization, an assassin, a damaged fusion reactor, and some other stuff, they split into seven factions and start cities on the planetary surface, at which point they come under attack by indigenous mindworms and fast growing xenofungus. It turns out the fungus is sentient and controls the mindworms and their naval, aerial, and, in the expansion, artillery and submarine variants.

Since it's a civilization style 4X game, the exact ending is up to the player, though the consequences of the conquest, diplomatic, and economic victories are somewhat unclear. Basically, the humans merge with the planetmind, get eaten by mindworms, or burn, poison, and nuke the fungus back. Alternately, in the expansion one of the alien factions calls in home fleet.

You know, somehow I'm not surprised that the fic for PJatO is lousy. It's a YA series - so it's aimed at basically prime fanbrat age - and the characters are canonically demigods. Let me guess, there's a lot of Big Three kids running around suddenly?

So, yesterday I go to see the new Percy Jackson movie. I come home, check the Pit, and realize that the badfic is bad.

What to do? First off, take care of the shapeless minis.

They are called Mini-Harpies, and are pretty much exclusivly female.

A current list can be found on my LiveJournal: http://a-la-piph.livejournal.com/940.html#cutid1

Adoption policy is at the top.

Human interest (which is not a synonym for romance) is not lame, especially when it comes to war movies. Most of them aren't just about fighting; most of them are at least in part meant to show how demanding, how awful war is for the people doing the fighting, which is something very important to remember. If they add in a few romantic liaisons, that's just part of the whole cloth because it's one of the few ways those guys have to relax and NOT go completely nuts. Though some of them will anyway, unfortunately.

I do agree with you about the latter, though. I know a few women who could do with realizing that equality means we have to do half the work, not just reap the benefits.

~Neshomeh