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I don't think it was Kit, he's fairly recognisable, and it was definitely a guy.

YAY FOR CHAPTERS!!!!!

CAn;t wait to see what occurs.

As for volunteering, nto so sure if Kit woudl do that, although he might have.

So I guess it'd depend on how hard the nerve was tugged and what damage it had sustained in getting to it (I'm presuming it was singled out). I'm not absolutely certain, though, I'm afraid.

The tendency seems to be for people who've been sporked to come yell at the sporkers directly (or yell about them on anony-memes), so I don't think it's too likely.

Chapters Two and Three of OFUTRC are up!

http://smiles-n-ninja.livejournal.com/

Applications are still being accepted, and if anyone volunteers to be the loud-mouthed young man in Chapter Two, that would be nice. :)

And many many thanks to our lovely beta, Pads!

Chapters Two and Three of OFUTRC are up!

http://smiles-n-ninja.livejournal.com/

Applications are still being accepted, and if anyone volunteers to be the loud-mouthed young man in Chapter Two, that would be nice. :)

And many many thanks to our lovely beta, Pads!

And I loved it!

More of the Moist/Adora relationship, another look into the civic institutions of A-M, And it even gave Slant and the Fools' Guild a bit of humanity.

(though if it really is an exploration of the tragic/philisophical elements of foolery or just a cynical attempt to justify the Guild's rote-learning cirriculum I don't know)

And is it just me, or did the Cabinet of Curiosity give anyone else a Michael Bay's TRANSFORMERS feel to it, ala the Allspark?

Therefore, and on the news that Moist has admitted his past malfeances and in a way set himself free, I'm going to begin planning to write his Abridged Autobiography in Fanfic form.

Title: "The Leopard Changed it's Shorts" (compaint lodged by the Ankh Morpork League of Decency for use of the word 'Shorts')

(prologue occurs after coming back from Ador's funeral where he very classily dissoved into a blubbering mess 3/4 of the way through.

Contents include:
-Early Life
-Years as con
-Getting "Bes-Palargic'ed" into the civil service
- Adora (with appropiately sappy description of the beautific look that she only had when asleep or when cradling their son when she thought he wasn't looking.)
-Going un-crooked
-The Seige of Ankh (The League petitioned to have the chapter's pages glued shut for reference to Miss Malacariat discovering Moist and his fiance engaged in... "Hanky-Panky" on the PostMaster's Desk during a city emergency)
-His wedding (with notes on annoying offical guests and knowing how to placate angry soon-to-be father's-in-law when you have the honeymoon three months early)
-Fatherhood and raising a son with two middle names.
-His Patrician-ship
-His retirement back to the post office after 20 years.
-An epilogue written in the week between his wife's death and it finally going to print at the age of 86.

He died the next evening after suffering a blowout of the aorta on his last mail-circuit and had to go back to his own bed as a temporary zombie operating on full manual. Is giving up the ghost in ones' own bed too much to ask?

I hope others like the book, and can council me on how to proceed on this fic... eventually.

No one can be blamed for the thoughts in their minds; it's actions that are important. I'm sure that, if somehow we ever did turn up in Narnia (or wherever), we'd have the self-restraint not to glomp. And if it turns out that we* are actually the perfect match for Caspian or whomever... well, Fate must want it that way, right? :P

(* er... I mean as in third person genderless singular, not actual plural, because threesomes are rather unlikely to work out in this context...)

Wish-fullfilment and escapism are always allowed; we just need to know when to keep our mouths shut - or our fingers still - about it.

I mean, I LIKE Mary Poppins, and isn't half the definition of a Sue the fact that almost everyone hates her? There are (fanfic) characters around that have almost every Sueish quality imaginable, but remain good characters because they are interesting and well-written.

And it's too easy to hurt feelings this way. (...Aside from Eragon, I think - we can all pretty much agree on THAT one.)

Cheers, Tza. Basically, a Bad Character with Bad Plot and Bad Everything Else... *gags*

I try very hard not to assume a writer is female, but it's so hard not to; it's definitely a point worth including in my (already-many-words-over-limit) essay. :)

I do want to note that, of female writers, the best ones I've known are also those that break the cliches; the Wicked fanfic I mentioned below was boring because of its cliches. I'll freely admit that I like a fuzzy, fluffy romance where it all works out Happily Ever After (and if Prince Charming is in-character for the original canon, then all the better), but cliches are dull, and really, that sort of fluff is best kept in a one-shot.

Now I'm sounding all defensive. Didn't mean to. That's my form of rambling, I guess. Cheers!

statistically speaking, but for the purposes of this essay... *shrugs* Well, I have to follow SOME of their expectations.

I had the same panic attack when the spambot struck just after I did an interview with a badfic author whom Trojie (easily connected to me via LJ) sporked.

*hugs* It'll be okay.

Bella Swann. *twitch*

Somehow, he manages to avoid being a Marty Stu. Do add Clary Fray, from CC's books. You can find others to add at the canonsues LJ (<a href="http://community.livejournal.com/canonsues">http://community.livejournal.com/canon_sues)

But they're still fun.

Not everyone agrees on who should be listed, and putting someone else's favourite canon down may cause screaming.

hS

Particularly the ones who are absolutely beautiful women but manage to dress up convincingly as boys.

But there are like three separate creation myths in that one bit of Genesis all going one into the other. It makes for a fun theological discussion, but isn't very useful.

Ah well. It's a nice name for a horse regardless of where it came from.

--Mystia

She regains her virginity by walking through a magical fire in the center of the earth. Not to mention the long paragraphs of description she gets and the fact that she causes riots with her beauty...

I dunno. Since my original fanfiction was within the Pokemon fandom, which has a surprisingly large amount of male writers, I can't really answer the question the same way.

The only thing that frequently sets me apart is the fact that people often assume I AM female, rather than male. I've only ever been amused by this, but it is a frequent question. I have noticed I do tend to have a different writing style than many females, prefering to break the cliches rather than reinforce them (No Prince Charming, sorry!). Male stories that I have read do tend to focus more on action - actual getting the story to go ahead, but all good male writers I've read do acknowledge the need for romance and emotions.

So, I suppose my point is that it is easier to notice a good male writer because they know when to use emotion, something many females tend to get wrong, unfortunately (Again, represented by the Prince Charming figure). I know I'm rambling, so I'll sum it up.

1) Only difference is people usually assume I'm female.

None of my stories really portray males and females in their traditional roles. For example, the toughest character in my first story was male, based on strength, however, he could have his ass handed to him by my female character since she had a very good knowledge of martial arts.

Ok, done rambling. Time for Artic to go to bed.

I got hit by a panic attack last night in case this idiot is one of the people we've PPCed before. I don't think it is, because the ones I've seen would have the sense to at least restrict their flaming to us and not to random twelve-year-olds, and I don't think any of the ones we've done have anything to do with 4chan.

Please reassure me? Tell me a way to counter-argue if it is and this crosses over into a real-life mess?

I was sleep-deprived when it occurred to me, but still ...

Because we all frequent a board that is by vast majority female and we all tend to think the same. But then again, I don't know of any fanfiction writers or readers that are not like me, too.

L

http://wikimaster.livejournal.com/1459.html?view=2995#t2995
I also posted it on the other board.

PS: I did ask if I could tack new elements into the PPC.