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You can use the picture for whatever you want, provided you put a link back to the original/give credit. You know, basic Netiquette.

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You want one? Some people expressed interest in getting one. If you wants one, Go ahead and download the picture for your own use. All I ask is that you link back to the original.

This idea I got from a third-grade science experiment. You know, the one where you take some vinagre in a coke bottle, put baking soda in a coffee filter and wrap it up tight, put the filter in the coke bottle with the vinagre, and then put a balloon over it to watch it expand?

Well.

Replace baking soda with crushed Bleeprin. Replace vinagre with Pink Stuff (Or Purple Stuff, for that matter). Hand to Sue. Run away (or perhaps portal to a safe distance) quickly. Enjoy the show.

Mayhap I won't use that on HER if someone can come up with something better, but... You know. Some time, it has to be done.

Sp'nüff(24) is a joke with several friends of mine regarding the fact that one of them once accused me of eating the number 24. Therefore, we had to replace it with another number. So it goes 20, 21, 22, 23, Sp'nüff, 25, 26...

Basically: Campout. Three teenaged girls. The wrapper for a package of batteries mixed in with the wrappers to kit-kat bars and granola bars. A wannabe archeologist examining the sedimentary layers in our trashbag. Everything else in there had been eaten, so obviously 24 (the only thing visible on the package when she looked) had been eaten as well....

Basic strangeness, really, is all it boils down to.

Yeah, I know they were the nineties' answer to Hannah Montana, but I liked some of their music when I was a kid because it was about something other than "I Love You Babe" (as TVTropes would say) - this was before I got hooked on murder ballads - and the song's kind of appropriate.

Badfic never dies. Yay for Chick wannabes!

Me too! I just add a few curly bits to my name and call it a day. XD

Am doing, despite being woken up by a three year old at the unGlodly hour of quarter to six this morning. How do parents cope?

You're doing proper uni, dear, you'll still be in Derby. Your freshers' week starts on the twenty first.

I'll give it a tentative yes, dependent on what happens over the next month or so. If I'm going I'll be there by then, put it that way. And if I'm not, it's only a fiver on the bus. It's just that the weekend previous I'd likely be moving if the Plan works.

Fail. Oh, and the fic sounds a lot like a Chick Tract, but that might just be me.

If you come across any Tortallverse badslash, I'll volunteer to take a look. I have generally avoided Tortall fandom cos there have to be some continuua I keep unsullied in my head, but this has reminded me that I have a Duty ...

... and also I'm a bit worried that there might be Dom/Neal out there ... erk.

I can't think of any Emergencies pre-dating 2008 that would have overtly required a lockdown (though since Crashing Down is still in-progress I'm not sure about that one yet).

The 2003 Mary-Sue Invasion might have warranted something similar, but I get the sense that that was a relatively small intrusion rather than the HQ-wide invasion in 2008.

Should you encounter any Tortallverse Badfic you should wish to fling my way, I count myself as being pretty fluent in the fandom... and have a strong stomach. I just found and am killing a rather horrible Garth Nix fic which made one of my friends roll on the ground wailing....

And I'm always looking for more things to kill.

Ack! I know the thing with its and it's, really I do!

Well then. Must remember to proofread six times while awake after finishing a mission at four in the morning, not just five...

Thanks for catching that!

And yeah... Guh. (even the idea that she would answer a summons like that is... special.)

And the same thing applies to headers - if I see a fic header saying that the author really thinks this is just the bees knees and that they've totally written, like, a metaphor for the ages here, I yawn and click riiiiiight over it, unless the rest of the headers suggests it might be sporkworthy.

...when the first review on a fic is its own author praising it to the high heavens :P

But that's a good point. I would just suggest proceeding with caution, avoid making too many charges based on religion alone, and stick in a very clearly-worded author's note about how it's the fic tht offends, not the religious content.

In this case, I see enough implausible encounters and OOCness in Harry (overdefensiveness, for one) to charge even without the religious content.

The Tortall-verse is rife with such horrors, I know.

Just a minor nitpick: “Hello there,” she murmured, scratching it behind it’s ears. “What are we going to call you, hmmm?”

No apostrophe in the "its". That's a weird pronoun, but "it's" is only used for a contraction of "it" and "is." There is no apostrophe for making the pronoun possessive.

Other than that, good job. I'm not as familiar with the Provost's Dog series as any of her other Tortall works, but I do know that that version of Beka is about as OOC as it gets. Nice kill.

Hmm... I guess it would take some time for HQ to come up with an emergency lockdown system, too, if they'd never used one before. (Er, they hadn't, right?)

Oh well. I'll just have to finagle it a bit to keep things connected. This part with the power outage is mainly for giggles, anyway.

~Neshomeh

There's a whole slew of badfic to wade through in the Tortallverse. Well done with this one and good luck on further missions.