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Laburnum, what time's your train due? Since I'll be coming by car, might as well try to time things so the earliest person to get there coincides with me.

There is only so much stabbing the Holy and Most Beloved Canon can take before you need a break!
Sorry I can't help with a fic, whenever I've had enough sci-fi sporking I go and stab Harry Potter fics.

Amen!

J.K. Rowling: Awesome.
J.R.R. Tolkien: Awesome.
Stephenie Meyer: Bollocks.
William Shakespeare: Awesome.

Sadly I can't come. Things have happened and plans have had to be changed.

(I'm gonna post it for download after the Gathering anyway, I just thought it'd be nice to bring CD copies for the people who come along.)

Apparently it IS out, and you can order it online. This is the webpage: http://www.opland-freeman.com/menolly.htm

Excuse me while I go squee and find someone with a credit card. ^_^

~Neshomeh

I'd already written the scene, though.

~Neshomeh

I can't find it anywhere - not even a link on Amazon.com - and it's practically impossible to get hold of. I had to beg the mp3s of the last one from a friend whom I've now lost touch with.

That he'd got his sledgehammer from a Sue who entered the Reality Room?

When you put it like that, I'm glad you didn't do it. I can still enjoy my mental images, though. :)

There must be some unrationalisable situations...

Ironic Over-Power willing!

I've read all four, and they all have their merits, some of which are long-lasting, some of which are very brief. I don't really like Shakespeare despite all the praise he gets - it's more that his stories are now culturally ingrained and you can't really avoid them. I don't dislike them, either, but I'm not interested.

Harry Potter, I think, is the same - only in this case I like it ;) That story has been so big over the last ten years that it's ingrained part of itself in daily life; you can mention Harry, or Shakespeare, in random conversation and be reasonably sure the other person will have at least some idea of what you're talking about.

Tolkien, it seems to me, was like that five years ago, but now it's fading along with the movie hype. I like Tolkien, and always will, but not with the obsessive nature that seems to be characteristic of...

Twilight. It's a fashion - a rather big fashion - and hey, I'd rather see teenage girls squeal over books than whinging about whatever miseries are in their angsty lives. I don't dislike Twilight, either, and I read all four books, but it doesn't... it's not the same.

I've rambled a lot, sorry, but that's my point: These stories are so different that they can't be compared. They're written at different times by different people for different audiences and in different ways. The only method of comparison is sheer popularity, and that's ever-changing.

Gives publishers something to talk about, though. *shrug*

I'm glad you approve. And yeah, he'll recover just fine, and he'll have a cool scar to show off. ^_~

~Neshomeh

Of course, I had a teensy sneak-peek, hahaha. I found the second part as a whole particularly interesting, especially the process of Derik going through the reality room. I really like how it rationalised his scars and such.

Anyway, I'm glad I have a character squirrelled away in FicPsych. I think, like I said when I had a look, that you did him perfect justice and took good care of him. No *permament* damage was done anyway ;).

BUT YEAH. It was a really interesting take on things, and it was nice to see kind of alternative war stories to the 'main' events of each crisis. Shows that even though the invasion and epidemic have been and gone, there's still room for more writing to be done about them.

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Great job!

I'm going to have to go over that bit to figure out what I did right. ^^; I like getting inside people's heads, but I'm guessing that's not what makes it work. I did know it was going to happen from the beginning, and what it was going to do to him. I couldn't leave him 'Sued. {= P

As for putting other agents in there, I agree it's probably not the best idea, but many of them would probably escape relatively unscathed. It's the ones from defined canons who would have to worry the most.

Sues, of course, are in danger of their very lives in that room because of bad description. *g* Incidentally, I knew that Derik was going to end up with a sledgehammer by the end of the story, but I didn't know about the Sue turning into one until I got there.

So glad you liked. ^^

~Neshomeh

Or Mary-Sues, as the case may be.

I can't wait to get my hands on the next CD. ^_^

~Neshomeh

I thought about having Legolas join Luke, but I decided Legolas was more likely to be cautious, especially since he had no way to really understand what Luke was about to do. I had said he was mostly in-character, after all. {= )

I'm glad you enjoyed it. ^_^

~Neshomeh

Saving worlds: just one more thing the PPC has in common with the dragonriders. {= ) I'm glad you like Derik. You'll definitely be seeing more of him (and Earwig).

I like exploring the things that happen in the PPC as things that would have real effects on real people. With people as strange as the ones inhabiting HQ, it can be entertaining as well as dramatic. At least, that's the idea.

~Neshomeh

the League and the EPC were collaborating the whole time. *shrug* Whichever, the upshot is the same.

~Neshomeh

there you go.

Link, please.

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