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I'm glad to hear that you liked it - and thank you for the help!

(WARNING: Link NSFW/NSFB. It's a bleepfic - that should say enough.) It's also on the Claimed Badfic list.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8440604/1/A-New-Shade-of-Green

If you use Safari on a mobile device, then up on the search bar, left to the website’s name (or maybe it says “reader view available”, depends), there should be four lines that you can click for the reader view.

(Only read this if you want to know how I'm planning on bringing Sean back, I suppose)

My explanation is basically that he got lost in a plothole on a mission. I did have a more complicated storyline in mind, but so far it's only an idea, and I probably won't work too much on it until I'm more experienced with PPC writing. But I'm not planning any major alterations to his character, only to have him around again.

If, for instance, Sean was reintroduced as part of a DIA story, with him going crazy and having to be locked up, there could easily be flashback. Or if he was introduced with the explanation that Lux had kept him locked up all these years.

Etc etc.

hS

Seems weird for Lux to be available but not Sean. Also, I wanna know what he's up to these days. {= )

~Neshomeh

People who don't appreciate Sean’s continued existence can just continue to ignore him; there doesn’t need to be any reaction.

So, should we add Sean to Category:Free-to-Use and/or Available NPCs, or should we remove Sean from Both Lux and Sean were created by Jay and Acacia, but they seem to have become part of the general canon and thus may be used by anybody.

HG

The invocation/response structure really makes it sound like she's almost praying to him (probably helped by the fact that in some churches, 'Father' or 'Heavenly Father' is used in actual prayers). The repeat of 'father' at the end of the verse also evokes a young child - they quite often repeat the name/title of whoever they're addressing if they're anxious.

And in specific imagery, I love the lantern eyes, which seem to go from an abstract metaphor ('the lantern-eyed giant in the mist') to a concrete reality ('I will break his lantern eyes').

hS

I don't remember how it looked before, but it looks really good now. ^_^

In this particular context, I'm not sure we really needed both versions of the patch (and I'd be happy to have mine dropped), but as a general principle, the infogallery is a fantastic discovery!

hS

And sorry, I didn't know about the cameos. Anyway, I already have an alternate solution to him returning in case people don't like what I'm doing with his character - but I would like to bring him back if possible, please. Right now, all I have planned for him is a supporting role in my agents' first mission, and I thought of having him along because the fic I picked is one heck of a bleepfic, and I thought an extra agent might come in handy.

[Checks]

... huh.

So I have actually cameo'd Sean, but that scene is set prior to their breakup. He also has a passing mention in a Despatch mission, which MAY be his latest confirmed appearance.

Wait, hang on! I haven't checked the Histories... nope, once again his cameo is set early (1999, I think). His appearances in Lux's backstory would also be early.

Um... I would say that you could bring him back, but you'd want to think carefully about how you did it. Ten years ago, someone killed off Makes-Things, which was generally disliked and ultimately kinda retconned. Writing something about a TOS character that people don't appreciate seems likely to get a similar reaction.

hS

I've had an idea to feature a Bad Slasher in my first mission, since it's mostly badsex, and Luxury's Wiki page says that both her and Agent Sean are available for borrowing. However, Sean hasn't been seen at all since he broke up with Lux in the Original Series, and he's not listed as a free-to-use character. I had an idea to bring him back from MIA status, but I wanted to ask if it's okay or if I should choose a different character.

And thank you, hS, for the perfect place to put this thing I was debating about posting. ^^

So, first, I was taken by the whim to do an external links search for all Freewebs URLs and change them to either working Webs URLs or archival links. That's done.

In the process, I noticed just how awful the <a href="https://ppc.wikia.com/wiki/LegalDepartment">Legal Department page was, so I rewrote it. (This is a return to my project of standardizing and improving all the department pages, which I haven't worked on in quite a long time.) I pretty much only used the information in the links that were already there, though, so if anybody knows something I missed, please tell me! Legal is kind of important, and also complex and mysterious. Like, even the metahistory of the department head and flash patch is kinda freaky. Check it out, and let me know what you think happened in-universe. I've got my own theory. {= )

While you're there, you may also notice that I finally discovered an easy way to get multiple images in the infoboxes (just use a gallery!), so I've done that for all the department pages with multiple versions of their flash patch available. Now I can merrily add the ones I've made to give them a more consistent style while not bumping the older designs into oblivion! ^_^ Also, this can be done with ANY infobox, so if you have multiple images of your agents, minis, Flowers, or whatever, feel free to add them to their infobox!

This has had the pleasant side-effects of reminding my brain how to focus on things and giving me some ideas, so more writing is also in the works. If anybody remembers the interlude I started quite a while back with Nume getting stuck babysitting Henry, I've finally figured out where that's going. It should be fun for us and Fun for Nume. *g*

~Neshomeh

A while ago, I shared The Digital Antiquarian, a website about the history of digital culture and interactive entertainment that I profoundly enjoyed.

Now, the creator of that website has made a companion site, called The Analog Antiquarian, described as "chronicles of worldly wonders," the new site has articles about mankind's most amazing achievements over all of history. It's starting with the Pyramids of Giza, and by all appearances seems to be about as good as its rather excellent predecessor. So I'm enjoying that.

We can be adult cats together, then. =D

(Okay, so I'm 21, but it still works, dammit!)

I shared that with my guildmates and people lost their minds. He'll be a great addition to the game. :D

I didn't change that much though, just incorporated the father/daughter structure into the first two verses, and scrapped the not-really rhyme scheme. I think it looks a little better now.

Have a suit of Imperial Guard issue carapace armor. It's heavy, but it'll keep you safe.

... is how much structure a poem needs to be, y'know, a poem.

At one end, you have the Shakespearean, totally formalised version, with so many beats to a line, a precise and unbreakable rhyme scheme, a set number of lines, the whole deal.

At the other end, you have that weird little plums poem that routinely does the rounds on social media, which is just two sentences broken up weirdly. But it's still a poem, I guess?

The key, to my mind, is intent:

The stair creaked
The door squeaked
Soft swished the sea on the shore

I've mixed rhyme and alliteration with wild abandon here, but that's because they're doing different things: the rhyme tells you that the stair and door should be considered together, while the sea line is designed to evoke the sound of waves, and to take you to a slightly different location. I needn't have a rhyme across the entire thing, nor make the whole poem alliterate - but I probably would need to use those things to mark similar moments when they occurred.

Which goes back to your father/daughter language. It's good structure, and with a little refining, it could run through the entire story. I have a poem bobbing around somewhere that ends each verse with a variation on 'the snow falls [white/deep/cold]', solely so that I could add an extra line after it at the end, 'but I am warm'.

hS

Commit, or don't do it at all. Anything else sounds bad.