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Umm... Hello?

I've, uh, decided to finish HFA. And write fic again. I have an offering and a request, and I thought this might be the good place to look.

Offering:
New HFA chapter: The Last Canon Shift. Please don't kill me?

Request:
I need a beta-reader for a FullMetal Alchemist fanfic. It's complete, but I've never written in that fandom before and I'd like some eyes on it before I post. It's Roy/Riza, manga-based, probably PG-13. Anyone up for that?

-MB

Happy belated birthday!
Anyway, I just suck at writing lyrics, and I say that without any regret. Every so often I go back and read what I wrote for my Redwall fanfic, and every time I do it makes me wince something terrible.

... I've only been a non-teen for a fortnight or so (I turned twenty on the 17th), so close enough, and I was a teen while I was reading them for the first time ^_^ I just got the seventh book out of the eight in the series ("Son of Spellsinger") with my birthday money. Yay!

Y'know, it's fun to see if one can come up with songs which would be suitable for casting certain spells. I gotta admit I'm not good at that because most of my favourite songs are by the Decemberists, who mostly do songs about gory deaths or the hard lives of the poor or tragic love or similar fun topics, all set to inappropriately happy tunes. (For example, "The Chimbley Sweep" has the catchiest tune ever but the lyrics are really depressing - I'm still wondering whether it's actually supposed to be about an underage male prostitute, because the last verse sure sounds like it, but they're still depressing even if it isn't.) Most of them wouldn't be much use for spell casting. I'd particularly struggle at the points in the later books when Jon-Tom tries to conjure up a boat, because all the songs I know about boats and ships involve them sinking ...

*raised eyebrow* Everything a growing teen needs (no, I don't know how old you are, so forgive me if you're not a teen).
Well, I ordered the first book from paperbackswap, so I should be getting it and reading it in a week or so, I hope.

Awesome! Someone who'll actually get it when I start having problems with Sangheili naming conventions!

Well... time is relative. In a Sue world I guess that would actually be plausible. Especially considering time passes slower for Spartans due to their incredibly heightened reflexes.
Of course, I'd still rather have an anti-matter rifle.

*suddenly remembers semi-bad physics grade* Maybe because it's a Sue weapon and likes slow motion sequences? Right, right, that's a stupid answer. I don't know. You win. I guess it has no boundaries.

I meant there, not their

A birthday! Will their be cake?

Yo! Welcome to insanity! I'm a fan of Halo too.

I understand why there woudn't be any, but I just want to make certain...

... because Spellsinger has a lot more sex, drugs and rock'n'roll. Imagine Narnia with all the Christian symbolism replaced with seventies rock music.

Whatever Chaser Wolf thought, Mudge never did screw the unicorn, in case you're wondering. Shame, but there you go. I doubt he'd want to be related to a Skipper of Otters either, Mossflower's otters are too darn goody-goody. Reminds me, I was thinking when my exorcists kill that fic (gotta do it sometime) they portal back into the Spellsinger universe to check that everything's normal there, and Stormsong accidentally discovers he can spellsing. It'll only work in the Spellsingerverse, because otherwise A) he'd suddenly be ridiculously overpowerful and B) causing magical effects whenever one sings would actually be horrifically inconvenient, but if there's a suitably big canon break while he's at work it may start working again because of the damage to the fabric of reality. Or something. I thought it'd be funny, anyway.

Ooh, amazing.
*offers to be tabbycat's slave for more*

Nice to meet you *waves enthusiastically*
Here, have some chocolate-flavoured chocolate :D (it's like normal chocolate, only more so).

Oops, looks like I'm a little bit tardy. Hope you had a nice day, though!

Why would they slow down in zero gravity? That would actually be easier to aim, as there's no atmosphere to affect your aim and no gravity to arc the arrow. And it's frictionless once it leaves the bow, there'd be absolutely no change until it hit something.

They're weapons, um, "borrowed" from a Sue. They've been modified so that they can fight against Sues. Go figure. (In other words, yes. However, pretty much the only limit on it is that the archery weaponry won't work in zero gravity because the arrows will just slow down and miss.) :)

Because I'm a small mammal (newb) and you're a bird of prey (non-newb), and I am at your mercy.

Why am I an eagle? I was quoting one of the Stupid Rat Creatures...

Why thank you! It's even better as we have chickens out back.
*goes to check for eggs*

...but I bear an otter plushie! He's soft and squishy and adorabibble.

Happy birthday!

Let's see...*rummages through bag*...aha! Here! Have an egg whisk! It's shiny, gold-plated, and whisks not only eggs, but author wraiths and those pesky spambots. Use it for good and not much evil.

Welcome to the insanity! Enjoy your stay.

It's just that in some parts of the united states, 16 is when you can get your drivers license. So in the event that the parents have more money than sense, they may give a car on the 16th birthday.

Awesome. Can the arrows pierce powered assault armor that come equipped with shields?
If they can't then I may just have to come up with something else :)

Welcome to the PPC! Here's a set of archery equipment from the Raven Armory! It's especially useful for killing Sues! (I did, technically, filch them off a Sue after all.)