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I do cuss in RL, but generally not in front of people. Online, though, I have no trouble using strong language (not the C-word, though, for some reason - in one of my missions the victim character started to say it and got cut off, but I've never actually typed it out). I think it's probably the anonymity factor in my case - people online mostly don't know who I am in real life and don't judge me if I swear. Plus most of the places I hang out online are unlikely to have unsupervised children reading so I'm okay with it. Then again, Cassie and I did end up laughing about the Dube Lube page in public at the last Gathering ... on reflection I think it's more likely to be the comfort level. I don't know many people in real life I'm comfortable swearing around.

That and the characters I write have excuses for swearing like sailors, so I can blame my muse ;)

Normally I'd run these by Neshomeh and Sedri first, but I've a notion neither of them will have much first hand experience of it, so I'm asking the rest of you too.

I've recently noticed that I don't usually swear strongly online. Bugger and sod and bloody - the words my mother thought it appropriate to use in front of seven year old me - I use all the time online, but stronger ones that would be censored if I type them here, very rarely. Contrast to offline, where I'm hard pushed to get through a sentence without effing and blinding.

Also, my grammar's a lot closer to standard English online. If this were true only when speaking to people I don't know well, I'd say fair enough, it's just an issue of register and formality. But it's even the case with people I know well in RL, with family members, and with my brain-twin Trojie.

Anyone else notice a similar disparity, or the opposite, in their language on and offline? And anyone (Neshomeh, Sedri, this is where I'm looking at you two) have any thoughts on why this happens?

It's pretty tame for mature content.

Again, sorry everybody!

It's labeled as 'mature', so you have to prove your age by joining.

Sorry guys...I thought devART was open-view.

The world in which the Stu lives in is an original one, but he takes plot elements, characters, and places from the following universes:

Trigun, Dragonball Z, Bionicle, Sonic The Hedgehog, Dawn Of War, Final Fantasy Unlimited, Inu Yasha, Starcraft, Kingdom Hearts, Outlaw Star, The Matrix, Doom, Inu Yasha again, Halo, Wolfs Rain, Mega Man X, Final Fantasy X, Prince Of Persia (Sands of Time, I think), Hellsing, and last and least Street Sharks.

Yes, I copied this out of the Tv.tropes page, leaving out the elaborations. It was already a perfect fit, and it would have been harder (and unesscessary) to do otherwise. Have I done wrong?

I don't recognize it. I would laugh at it if I hadn't read the tvtropes page first.

a site to be able to view the material.

http://chr.nerdramblingz.com/?pageid=8

This is a link to Christian Humber Reloaded, one of the worst badfics in recent history (on par with My Immortal and Light and Dark: The Adventures of Dark Yagami). With a Gary Stu who's overpowered to the point that he could take on the Eye of Terror (twice), side characters who are no more than expendable cannon fooder for both sides; and absolutely no concern for canon at all, this is a monument to badfic history. Read it, if only for the unintended hilarity.

<a href="http://chr.nerdramblingz.com/?pageid=11">http://chr.nerdramblingz.com/?page_id=11

This 'autopsy' of said fic, created to salve the headaches of those who read it, should also help. And before I forget, there's also a webcomic, which I am linking here:

http://chr.nerdramblingz.com/?p=19

Enjoy! Or not, depending on your perferences.

A couple of funny satirical pieces about fanfiction that I found on deviantART:

http://madhatter91.deviantart.com/art/Fanfiction-Necessities-143943660

http://madhatter91.deviantart.com/art/The-10-Commandments-of-Fanfics-144556714

Yeah, rather late here. I'd been away from the boards when this was first posted due to certain difficulties that have left me with an extensive degree of paranoia, although I've gotten back in the habit of trusting my anti-virus systems to not be lying to me.

Have a dose of paranoia: there is currently a virus that will close open instances of task manager and the command prompt that can apparently delete the registry entry for safe mode.

Welcome back! ...Think I remember you, in a vague sort of way. Probably.

...bad with names. That's my excuse.

Anyway, have a towel and some bleepka! (The good stuff, made from gen-yoo-wine bleeprin and... well, it's best not to contemplate what else went into it, honestly.)

I don't think it's possible for me to have seen you on the boards- I started lurking only this summer, and made meself known only recently- but, hey, is that a reason not to chuck a present at you?

*chucks*

That would be a softnose laser, perfect for getting bit character Sues in the heart. Or gut. Or any other organ, for that matter. Hehehe. ;)

Hello, I don't believe we've met!

Ah, we have a way around the problem of deletion half-way through a mission too. Quite a lot of us these days embrace the holy might of google documents; one can simply copy and paste the whole fic into a document, and delete it as it gets turned into mission. If memory serves, Trojie and I started doing this after claiming a fic which was deleted before we got chance to work on it. But it was an utterly horrible Teatime/Susan travesty, and not even our usual badslash, so that's probably a good thing.

Incidentally, I'm having fun going through the Claimed Badfic list. Apparently we claimed a Tales of Symphonia fic with Lee Trynace. I... don't even know what that is. Remind me to interrogate Trojie about that when she gets back from Oamaru.

Reading the DCUP annals won't take you long. I was even better at procrastinating on my writing back then than I am now. XD

*waves enthusiastically* Merry meet and all that Tolkienesque stuff.

Good idea with the googling, although I just tried it and it failed me in this case. I remember the fics in question getting deleted from fanfiction.net, so maybe that was the only place they were hosted.

(It wouldn't be the only time I lost fics, either. I started PPCing a really dire Harry Potter fic one time, and I was but a chapter or so in when the author got called out on plagiarism and vamoosed along with the story. XD)

(That was some seriously clumsy plagiarism, too. She'd basically copy-pasted huge chunks of a James/Lily fic and changed their names to that of Harry and her 'Sue, but in some places she'd forgotten even to do that. And the chapters which were actually her own work stood out like a sore thumb. "Hey Harry, we haven't talked about my necromancer powers and mystical destiny for a couple of chapters! Let's do that now.")

Thank you kindly! :D

...or, more likely, I'm going a bit senile in my old age. XD

(You're a showman with a flare? Oh my craps, that mental image is just awesome.)

Heck, that's the most popular part. When we were making the posters we even promoted it from the small print to the banner heading.

Fortunately, a lot of ship names get re-used over the years (See, for example, USS Washington), so pulling names of modern ships (either with notable names or a distinguished career) would be perfectly valid.