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I’ll second Welcome to Night Vale!

I’ve also enjoyed The Penumbra. It’s a coule different speculative fiction audio dramas under one podcast. They have two ongoing storylines at the moment, and occasionally produce single shorter stories. There’s ostensibly a framing device (that’s changed from visiting rooms in a hotel and hearing people’s stories to... stops on a train?) but it doesn’t really have ant impact on the stories themselves. I personally prefer the Juno Steele storyline, which I’d describe as sci-fi film noir, and some of the one-off stories.

I’ve introduced the eight year old to The Hobbit and he’s been hanging onto every word, though sometimes he asks me a lot of questions that make me wish hS was there. (Can I do that, have a pocket hS to consult for LotR questions?)

The six year old’s class has actually been reading the first Harry Potter book with her class. She was so cute, coming home every day to tell me how certain she was that Snape was trying to kill Harry. Her face when they finished the book was priceless.

I remember I read the last book when it came out, and I was ten at the time. I think that’s plenty old to be exposed to some of the darker stuff;m, though admittedly I didn’t understand how dark it got until I was older.

I’ve been reading the two of them a lot of Roald Dahl as bedtime stories, too. Matilda is the six year old’s favorite, they both love The BFG and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and we’re currently reading The Twits.

I’d love to get the six year old into the Princess School series, where Cinderella (“Ella”), Snow White, Rapunzel, and Briar Rose become friends while attending school to learn all the skills a princess needs to know like embroidery and hairstyling, while at the same time becoming damsels out of distress. It was a favorite series of mine when I was little, and even going back to them when I was older, it holds up, even if it’s a bit too simple to properly hold my interest now.

For the eight year old, I’d like to introduce him to the Divide trilogy. It’s about a boy with a heart defect who falls through the titular Divide and ends up in a fantasy world where gryphons and elves and the like are real, bur humans and lions and dogs and the like are fictional. It’s a more obscure series, but another favorite of mine growing up that tackles hard themes about friendships, growing up, and chronic illnesses in a child-friendly way.

(And if I may cheat a bit, their mum and I are planning on introducing them both to Doctor Who soon, since neither of them scare easy and the eight year old especially loves aliens and outer space.)

I'm pretty sure everyone here has favourite books, and wants to pass the love on, but unlike films, books have a frustrating lack of age recommendations. I thought it might be interesting to hear what age people think is appropriate to share their own favourites at - whether it's with your own children, children of friends or relatives, or any kids you come into contact with through work.

-I can confirm that The Hobbit is great to read aloud around age 6. Not sure they'd be able to get through it themselves, though.

-Harry Potter works from about 8, though the series does tend to age up; we hit a stumbling block a few chapters into Azkaban.

-Percy Jackson, again, is good for 8 and up; I don't know yet where we'll stall out.

-We haven't yet tried LotR, Discworld, or Young Wizards; I feel like the Discworld 'children's' books will be suitable pretty soon, but don't want to push it too hard.

-And of course, Roald Dahl is great as soon as they can read. >:D Seriously, we got a 6/7-year-old blazing through Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and several others. (Not BFG or Witches, though; too traumatic for me to pass on. :D)

hS

It's been a cool, wet, very British spring here in Chicago. The plants are loving it, and that includes lilacs! I took this yesterday:



Yay!

hS, great work on the picture! I love how dynamic it is, between her pose and the angles of the ground and the weirdly curvy monoliths. Go, Esk!

~Neshomeh

She's got the looks about her of someone who can poke an Eldritch Abomination in the eye without losing any sleep for it.

Merry 25th of May! (Or should that be May-ry?)

The problem is - in terms of making a mission out of it - there's only so much humor Agents could come up with in response.

The safest option would be to consider the whole continuum replaced. On the plus side, Stu!Ash wouldn't even notice Agents due to being so self-absorbed, so they wouldn't have to worry about stealth for long.

Definitely going to keep reading the snarking myself, meanwhile.

WITH SOLDIERS!

Do you wear the lilac? Were you there? (And do you know where your towel is?)

In honour of the day, I've just completed a Discworld image:



Eskarina Smith, witch wizard, in the Dungeon Dimensions. I'm sure she'll be fine. :)

hS

We are now reverting to the terms agreed by the PPC Community as a whole. To whit: you, under any name, are banned and blocked, and not permitted to post any more.

hS

OK...this one? It's...it's pretty damm bad.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12209804/1/Pokemon-The-Kanto-Harem-Chronicles

So basically, this is a Pokemon fanfic where a Sue-replacement for Ash Ketchum goes around catching all the...*shudder*...anthro...Pokemon. Almost every chapter is a really badly done sex scene; and there's even...*eye begins to twitch*...maternal incest.

Considering that-canonically- Ash is a frakking 10 year old; the fact that he spends the entire fic to date performing vile acts with every single one of his Pokemon is canon-breaking. The fact that Gary is also his BFF is definitely Out-Of-Canon...

...I honestly can't describe how messed up this fic is. I WOULD nominate this as a legendary badfic...but I'm pretty sure that this isn't all that well-known. It is pretty messed up; and includes trivialisation of suicide...which irks me a lot because of some things that happened when I was in High School.

If anyone's interested, Herr Wozzeck is doing a riff on Library of the Damned right now, which is where I found out about this mess. Here's the link:

https://literarytravesty.wordpress.com/category/pokemon/the-kanto-harem-chronicles/page/1/

Since nothing I post doesn't get twisted around to be malicious, I have the right to keep posting until you understand what I'm trying to say.

I did say tonight; my apologies for not remembering that.

Since you have chosen to make the bulk of your reply posts already, I believe the only one you have left to respond to is SilverStorm0. As stated, any other posts - by anyone - will be deleted as soon as I get the chance.

hS

As far as guesses go, "second" would have been better.

I actually rank your reply to my concrit on a story as more important. I'm sorry that I missed the story where Ilrean became a hairless Andelite, I didn't even get to the part about the glasses before I figured out it was Nume, and you need to read more shifting-perspective fiction. I recommend Star Mother.

Heck, I've been ruminating about your "personalities don't change" thing, but I wouldn't expect you to know that.

Instead of quibbling about what obscure definition of "like" you were using, how about that you acknowledge that you should have been clearer about what you meant?

That is the issue. You can't own up to how you were expecting me to read your mind, if that is even the real problem.

You should give clemency to someone who can view the situation from the outside and suggest a decent solution.

I do think that should be an allowed thing in all conflicts, letting someone speak up without fearing that it will damage their reputation.

This does not invite a back-and-forth to clarify what I mean. You are rolling things back to a one-and-done that can be twisted and doesn't put forward how badly I was treated. I can see now that I should insist on a ban hearing for anyone still here that was involved.

If something comes up that I neglected to apologize for or was unaware of, I'll take what responsibility that I should. However, at this point I'm owed a lot of apologies for things that were ignored or where other people lied about me.

I think that you shouldn't be allowed to forget me because it allows others to be bullied without realizing how bad some people here are. Even if people involved get banned, it still doesn't address the root problems that caused the mess up.

Since you haven't shared my email, Bramandintook at gmail still works.

No, you said that there was a time limit. But I will let it go since you're pretending that you didn't.

And I will not let you roll things back to me just posting and letting it be misinterpreted. Back and forth until I'm satisfied that you understand where I am coming from even if you don't hold the same beliefs.

And I do expect a discussion on the original ban and whether or not you really think it was justified.

There was no time limit - just a limit on what posts will be allowed.

And you are already banned. Allowing you to post in violation of that ban is the opposite of silencing you.

Given that you chose not to actually reply to the substance of my post, yes, you may post another, actual reply to it, tomorrow or whenever.

And if you want to write a hundred thousand words calling me a liar and decrying the injustice of your ban, feel free. As described earlier, send it to me when you're done and I will put it on the Wiki for you for everyone to read.

hS

I will not be held to a deadline on time, or simply one reply per post. As it is, I want to be able to process things tonight, respond in a back-and-forth manner tomorrow morning and as long as it takes, and make sure you understand what I'm telling you. You are bringing your mod powers into play by threatening to silence me again.

There are a lot of points that you've completely ignored. At least explain how it's fair that you get what you want and leave me with a pittance.

You've also lied about me. Myriad does not mean once, unless you're counting the times when people said 'I'm not going to comment' as if I was supposed to understand that they were offended. You also said that I was a nazi sympathizer when I wasn't. I'm sure you're the one who called me unapologetic when I have apologized for things I didn't even do and was offering to fill in the gaps. As far as not changing, I have offered to do what I can within the limits of being too autistic to have a innate understanding of what you're thinking. I have also changed in that I'm not so defensive about reasonable mistakes.

We haven't even addressed how my initial ban was completely out-of-line.

I expect to be able to reply to this one again, and all the rest, at my leisure tomorrow morning.

...I told Thoth the same thing almost verbatim.

As I pointed out in what you unkindly call a screed after giving that as the way to resolve things, I also pointed out that someone commented that other people also make that mistake.

Are you even trying to listen to what I'm trying to get across, or just picking out the parts that confirm your bias? (Before you blast that back at me, you're welcome to try to explain things to try and change my mind.)

Since you don't even know my point, how about asking a specific question instead of acting like what I'm saying is too unimportant to bother with?

I have thought about where I went wrong in asking for permission, and have tried to fix the instructions to prevent someone else from having the same problems. I'm pretty sure I've volunteered to help fix the remaining problems and the offer is still open.

There weren't instructions either way at the time of what to do when you need feedback. I was working off of 'you're not likely to get permission the first time' and not taking it seriously. I really wish I hadn't posted that fake request because it resulted in bad instructions that I bent over backward to try and follow.

As stated here, Zdimensia gets one 'last word' post reply to each open post (including this one if she really wants). Any posts other than those, by anyone, will be removed.

hS

-You create a Google Doc with your account of all the things that you think need to be heard. Do it however you want.

-You email me the link, and tell me whether you would prefer me to use your instance of the doc or create an identical copy of it.

-The Doc is posted to your Wiki User page, prominently positioned in the header, and repeated at the end of the page.

-The rest of the page will remain as-is, a list of links to posts made by or about you. It will be updated to include both this thread and a direct link to the transcript of our previous discussion, and then not changed again (except once).

-When it is posted, I will post here on the Board informing people in neutral language that your full account has been posted, and that they can read it if they want to know your view of what happened.

-If anyone has anything positive they wish to say to you (including both apologies and compliments), I will ask that they do so publically on that thread. If they have anything they wish to discuss with you, I will ask that they email you at an email address you provide. The thread will be actively moderated; any non-positive comments made about you on it will be removed. The thread will be linked from your User Page so everyone can see anything positive said to you.

-Any changes to the PPC will happen according to our normal procedures; people will be free to suggest whatever they choose.

-If asked about you after that point, we will not offer any commentary, but simply state that you are a banned user and direct people to the Wiki userpage.

-At no point following your agreement to this deal will you post on any PPC community space, except if we fail to hold up our end of the deal. (This is just a restatement of the ban you're already under; it's not a new condition.)

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What does this get you? It gets you as much closure as you will ever receive. You get to say whatever you like, and have it publically displayed forever. If you maintain control over the Doc, you can edit it if you think of a way to say things better, or if people tell you something is unclear. Anyone who's willing to read it, and comes away feeling they need to apologise, will do so, and do so publically.

It also removes the purported threat of authority as far as we're able. You get to use your own words, and the only things people will see being said about you are positive ones. Anyone who wants to talk to you directly will be able to do so, and no-one will know whether they've done so unless either they choose to say as much on the Board, or you choose to update the Doc to say so.

It also contains an assurance that no 'lies' will be said about you. We won't talk about you, and if you come up (eg if a new member asks about you), your account will be the first thing they see when they're directed to look you up.

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Please take this offer. It is absolutely the best you're going to get.

Please also understand that whether or not you take it, I'm going to resume blocking you tonight. You get one reply to each post in this thread that you haven't yet done so - that's this post, this, this, and this - and then no-one, whether you or anyone else, will be permitted to post on it again. (One exception: I will post confirming the deal, if you have agreed to it, and making it clear the thread is locked.)

Everyone else: please stop replying now. I'm sure Zdimensia can provide her email if you have something you want to say to her.

hS