Ohhh, I do see what you mean. Seeing as I have a six year old sister, when I think "childhood authors" I tend to think of books associated with that age group (ie AA Milne, author of Winnie the Pooh, I'm sure you did read it once :P). I definitely experienced the something similar with Tamora Pierce's books - not quite so much her first few in the Song of the Lioness series, but some of her others. A strong female character isn't a bad thing by any means, but she tends to cross the borderline into boring and stereotypical, as I only realised later when I attempted to reread some of them.
I haven't read any recent McCaffrey, so I'll bear that in mind... I recall her fondly, so it's probably best that I don't taint those memories.
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Good to know by
on 2009-06-08 03:35:00 UTC
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Oops. by
on 2009-06-08 03:32:00 UTC
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Nightmare Fuel
This. Forgot that not everyone has seen TV Tropes. If you're into that kind of thing, it can turn into Eldritch Abominations, which means cute cuddly stuffed Cthulhu, among other things.
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*hugs and loves* by
on 2009-06-08 03:25:00 UTC
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Unless what? Oh dear; so much to understand, so little time online...
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Contrit good. by
on 2009-06-08 03:25:00 UTC
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Betas are more than welcome to tear my work to shreds if it deserves such treatment. Or if they find it "boring". It's better than waiting a couple of months to hear said opinion on the Board.
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Esca-pe? by
on 2009-06-08 03:23:00 UTC
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...it's funny, 'cause its spelled just like escape...
The trip was fantastic, minus the bed bugs and the skateboard floor, and oh, yeah, the leaking ceiling that no one in Maintenance cared about! Heh, but it's definitely on my "Return to this place someday" list. Just not that apartment. It was condemned right after we left. Nice...
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It's sort of like a biscuit by
on 2009-06-08 03:07:00 UTC
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Sam and Frodo eat it in Mordor!
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Found a great Corpse Bride fic recently... by
on 2009-06-08 01:56:00 UTC
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...Which is saying something, since it's not really a fandom of mine. XD
Wedding Night by PlayerPiano
It's Victor and Victoria's first night as a married couple...And they're both nervous enough to faint. Completed.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2623751/1/Wedding_Night
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I've alwayd wanted to go sailing! 8D /shot (nm) by
on 2009-06-08 01:53:00 UTC
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*noms happily* by
on 2009-06-08 01:53:00 UTC
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Very true! XD by
on 2009-06-08 01:52:00 UTC
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Oh goodness, I don't even remember the last time I popped up here...I think it was in the fall? Late winter? This year has just passed in a blur, so it's hard to keep things straight. I can't even remember what was last going on here! XD
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Hiya! ^^ (nm) by
on 2009-06-08 01:52:00 UTC
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Well, hello then by
on 2009-06-08 01:50:00 UTC
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Always nice to see new faces around the board!
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Re: Out of curiosity by
on 2009-06-08 01:44:00 UTC
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You'd have to ask Tawaki. He made the call, and it was well withing his right to do so. Makes-Things is one of those characters who seems to belong to everyone (which, or course, means we all have the right to bring him back...)
(Out of curiosity, and with no offense to Sara, doesn't a lot of the opening post seem directed at him?)
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Maybe that's why. by
on 2009-06-08 01:42:00 UTC
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When TV shows kill a popular character, the attention the show gets always shoots up. Not necessarily GOOD attention, but they say no publicity is bad publicity.
I do agree that there's gotta be a way to contact him from beyond the grave, if not bring him back. Hold a seance!
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Out of curiosity by
on 2009-06-08 01:37:00 UTC
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Whose idea WAS it to kill Makes-Things? Personally I think it was about as good an idea as installing a screen door in an airplane. I read some of the OS before joining up, and I thought M-T was an awesome character, because for some bizarre reason I thought he was very lets-give-him-a-noogy cute. So I developed a bunch of fun ideas for how to have him interact with my agents, only to look him up on the PPC Wiki and find out the guy had died almost a year before. Talk about disappointment. Personally, I'm taking a He's Just Hiding stand on the whole thing, which is why I choose not to mention him in my missions.
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Ah, that's good. by
on 2009-06-08 01:10:00 UTC
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I realise that even with my guilt complex I've said and done nothing here that can't be taken back, but I still hate thinking I've made friends unhappy for whatever reason.
Anyway, email is wordsmith101 at btopenworld dot com - punctuate appropriately, I'm trying to avoid spam.
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That could be interesting. by
on 2009-06-08 00:52:00 UTC
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Nice reversal of the usual situation, I know I've half pondered doing something similar before. It sounds like it'd be interesting, but we'll probably have to wait and see.
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You haven't, don't worry. by
on 2009-06-08 00:50:00 UTC
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I'm trying to talk to the active Permission Givers about something without cluttering up the Board.
hS
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No reason you should. We hadn't told anyone. by
on 2009-06-08 00:48:00 UTC
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He can come back after he's done the prophecy ghost thing. He died in March 2008, right? Our emergency won't be starting until the whole Macrovirus business is completely over, so we'll need the prophecy ghost around early summer. Easy.
Not to give away too many spoilers, but we were thinking the Sues do a stealth attack, take something important back to a little pocket-dimension where a small gang of them have set up, and WE invade THEM. Make sense?