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Because as everybody knows, telling teenagers to stop doing something ALWAYS works, and definitely NEVER backfires.
/end sarcasm

And seriously, doesn't Beaker suffer enough in his own universe?

*glomps you* Yay! It worked it worked it worked I found the shiny it worked it worked!!!

1. Cruel Trick of Fate » by TDWidow reviews
   During the Clone Wars, ObiWan Kenobi crashes his fighter and is stranded on an unknown Outer Rim planet called Arda. There he finds the one thing Jedi are forbidden to have: love. LotR crossover, ObiWanAragorn, SLASH, MPREG. 1st in my Arda trilogy.
   Crossover - Star Wars & Lord of the Rings - Rated: T - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 16 - Words: 22,818 - Reviews: 60 - Updated: 10-13-08 - Published: 9-5-07 - Obi-Wan K. & Aragorn - Complete
   
   My comment: KILL IT WITH FIRE!
   
   2. Becoming A Legend by Professor Authordude reviews
   After Obi Wan's death, Qui Gon becomes a leading member of the League of Shadows known as Henri Ducard. But what if it was all a lie? Star Wars X Batman Begins crossover, complete.
   Rated: T - English - Drama/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,638 - Reviews: 7 - Published: 3-18-06 - Obi-Wan K. - Complete
   
   My comment: Words fail me.

Meep? Meep? A school banned the word "meep"? I got my seventh-grade Social Studies class officially renamed "MEEP", for crying out loud!

http://plotprotectors.tripod.com/JAAKSONS.html

What can students saying "meep" possibly do? Meep-meep-meep-meep-meep! Ha!

The OT4 is also Jonathan, Thayet, Alanna, and George for the non-cracky SotL fics. It just depends on which pairings you like.

But I've seen it with the original color too.

I read about the book on Wikipedia, and I understand what you mean. In fact, I do agree with you. But in the fics, it was implied it was something else. But maybe it was me. Love perfectly descibes U2, right, but when the word is written in a fic, it's meant as slashfest.
Bono a Lewis fan? Doesn't surprise me. They're both Irish, and both strong believers. It was logical.

This reminds me somewhat of the law severely fining a financially floundering teenaged girl for sharing a whopping ELEVEN SONGS with her friends on the internet. So that the millionaire artists don't miss out on a few extra bucks.

...Does this mean they've banned old Looney Tunes Roadrunner cartoons?

Right to free speech, and all that.

(P.S.: Meep!)

Yeah... I dunno. Don't get me wrong, I have no problem with slash. It can be well done, and I enjoy reading a well-written slashfic every bit as much as a hetero fic or whatever. Hell, even noncanon slash -can- be written plausibly. But slashing real people (who are straight)... Eh. I dunno.

Love is the word you are looking for, I think. Platonic love. Love is definitely the word to describe U2. But... platonic love is not eros. It's not lust. Hell, eros can't even be equated with lust, though they overlap. Do you see what I'm saying? Love is there, yes. But there is more than one kind of love. (I can't recommend The Four Loves strongly enough on that topic. Nobody says it like CS Lewis. ...would it sway your opinion if I told you Bono is a Lewis fan? Hell, he based parts of MacPhisto on Screwtape.)

http://community.livejournal.com/mockthestupid/3223937.html

"Danvers High School is banning students from uttering the word “meep,” a trademark of Beaker from “The Muppet Show.”

The Salem News reported Principal Thomas Murray banned the word after school officials got wind of a student plan brewing on Facebook to stage a major disruption on school grounds using the “meep.”

WBZ-TV reported Murray informed students in an e-mail and phone message that police are monitoring the situation.

A call to police and a message and e-mail sent to Murray were not immediately returned.

The Urban Dictionary defines meep as another way to say “ouch,”or “uh-oh.” It can also be a substitute for a swear word."

The comments on the Boston Herald news article provided the principal's public email address. Several people have already sent him emails reading only "meep". Apparently he forwarded the emails to the police. I cannot for a minute imagine the police will do anything, so I'm very, very, very tempted to join in.

For instance, in the old DnD forums the post for the most optimized character pair contest that was disqualified for trying too hard is still around, but none of the others in the thread seem to be.

http://plotprotectors.tripod.com/home.html

... Yeah.

~Neshomeh

Curses...*stalks off*

I've already honed in on at least three. DMS, obviously. Two are from the Final Fantasy Tactics/Ivalice continuum, and the other one's Hot Fuzz.

I too tend to avoid U2 fic. In fact, I only look for sites mocking it. But I haven't been lucky so far (a dead LJ comm).
There are a lot of h/c fics, like everywhere (and they finish the same way... sorry for your mind). Some people can't help seeing homo subtext in the U2 members' body language, and can't help writing it as text. At 'best', it's only implied or treated as 'secret love' because the guys feel bad about cheating on their wives with each other... FECK.
That's why I don't like reading U2 fic. One time or another, I come across a sentence along the line of 'Dude A's love towards Dude B' or something. In an otherwise totally gen context. I don't think friends, even as strong as U2 are, would 'love' each other. I don't know of a good word, because 'like' is too weak in this context, and 'love' has romantic connotations... but wtf.
BTW the animal was a skunk, I think.

I haven't read the book, but I think it could be useful, yes.
I second everything you say. Yes, it seems that most people think every non-family bond is a romantic one (and there are some twisted people out there who think that even some family bonds can turn into romance), and showing affection towards a fellow human being is only a way to ask for sexual favors, or something, rather than the expression of anything else than romantic love. This mistake has led some people to think showing affection to your child is paedophilia... so why not thinking showing affection to your fellow U2 member is homosexuality? (not being a homophobe here, some people still get that mixed up)
Oh, and I think the U2 members think of themselves as brothers or something. Which would make them a family of almost 20 people (wives and children included). This in fact inspired me for my original fiction: some of my aliens live with their best friends and their respective families, and friendship bonds are as important there as love is on Earth.

That's what I meant. Not much point to a communal website if I'm the only one taking care of it.

And, sure, e-mail is fine. {= )

~Neshomeh

My PPC folder is currently on a backup disc awaiting my new operating system, so I don't have it available right now. I'll get to it soon as I can. Shall I send you emails instead of discuss it here?

I can tell you what I currently have, but I have no idea how much stuff was actually on Geocities, or elsewhere.

But, yeah... if you have stuff that I don't, go ahead and send it to me. Unless you want to put it up yourself/be on the archive site team, in which case let me know so I can give you the password when I make the site.

Anyway, what I have right now is:

The Handbook (HTML)
JAAKSONS (HTML)
SIELU (HTML)
Architeuthis (.doc)
Aerilyn and Zera (.doc)
Amy and Brent (.doc)
Kazra and Rich (.doc)
Kwennyfer and Jane (.doc)
Suicide, Diocletian, Ithalond (.doc)

~Neshomeh, hoping she's not doing this by herself.

I think you have to be ignoring a lot of subtext to actually believe that any of them are RL slash, though. (For one, they're all very clearly hetero.) Especially anything with MacPhisto-- half his act was draping himself across the rest of the band. But if you hear them talk... there's something very emotional, very strong, very loving there, but it's definitely platonic. If it's anything more than that, it's just a stronger-than-usual platonic relationship, taken to another level by the way they connect through music. I figure, no one could hang around the same three guys for thirty years without some kind of bond forming there-- that doesn't mean it's a romantic bond. Geez, some of these people need to read The Four Loves or something.

I know it's out there, I guess. I just don't think about it. Some things... U2 is sacred to me. That's not the right word, but it's the closest I can come. It would -almost- (ALMOST, I said) be like looking at Bible based badfic. I don't WANT to know. I'm better off without the mind pollution.

And yes, I know Bono thinks his mullet was stupid/crazy. I believe his exact words were to the effect that it looked like a small animal perched on his head? But I still say he pulled it off better than most people.