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I'd actually heard about WolfenDoom before, as Sigma64 (the guy I met on Scratch who I told you about earlier) mentioned it while he was introducing me to more of the fandom. WolfenDoom itself is a bit too dark for me, though. There's a reason why I won't play anything later than the Wolf 3D era.

'Fit makes you feel any better, I do know a little bit about Doom. I watch Aquarius199's videos about terrible Doom WADs from time to time, do you watch him? Thanks to his channel, I know what a Terry Trap is! :D

-Twistey
P.S. I have a theory that if said in a German accent, "Thoth" would sound like "sauce." Think about that the next time you think about Wolfenstein... :D

Their spine is like a piece of plastic. Either that, or what I found was actually a piece of plastic that the folks preparing the specimen stuck in there for whatever reason. I also ended up being the only person in my group project group still dissecting the thing by the end of the dissection. Everyone else was too squicked. Mwahaha >:)

Also, I applaud you for that Portal reference. *applause*.

-Twistey

...Sorry, couldn't resist.

But that was pretty informative. So what is it about squids that you find so interesting anyway?

Was the most informative piece i have ever seen on Squids. The information is detailed and astounding.
Although, as it lives in the sea, I will avoid.
One thing I know for sure, is that the ocean is very weird.

I once read this original badfic that was written with the “humans are slaves to vampires (in the future)” trope, and (I think) the main character’s name was Rogue, but it kept being spelled “rouge” and that was very uncomfortable. I think it was spelled wrong for the whole fic, for whatever reason. Also, I have no idea why I’m typing this.

...That's my job. Thanks for the heads up.

I’m not really sure, since I mostly use my iPad.

I like these threads but it's always hard to decide which ones to recommend since I have so many...

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
*The Pony POV-verse by AlexWarlorn
Links: http://alexwarlorn.deviantart.com/gallery/32745467 (read these first), http://alexwarlorn.deviantart.com/gallery/32848832
A terrific story that takes an in-depth look at the affect Discord had on the characters and what comes after. It's more of a psychological look at the effects Discording would have on a pony... and the aftermath is not always pleasant. But the story is well-written and engaging, and incorporates previous My Little Pony series in an interesting way.
* Marionettes by Kendell
Link: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11594755/1/Marionettes
The story is a delightful skewering of the "Villain of the Week" trope with plenty of twists and turns. And it does incorporate canon... up to a point, anyway.

One Piece
*Marie D. Suesse and the Mystery New Pirate Age by Phalanx
Link: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6328454/1/Marie-D-Suesse-And-The-Mystery-New-Pirate-Age
this is a fic about Mary Sues... all the while taking a deconstructive, and even deep, look into the concept. I can't recommend this one enough for people who like Mary Sue deconstructions.

Harry Potter
*Wish Carefully by Ten Toes
Link: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4356667/1/Wish-Carefully
A delightfully cathartic read that points out the folly of the Death Eaters in a very satisfying way.

Crossovers
*Satellite Eyes by Geyhi
(Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Twilight)
Link: http://twispitefic.livejournal.com/21603.html
Why I like this one is obvious- Buffy shoots down all of Edward's attempts to be romantic in a very satisfying way.
*The Wedding Crashers by dasMervin
(Supernatural and Twilight)
Link: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6721038/1/The-Wedding-Crashers
A gloriously cathartic read as the Winchester brothers (and Castiel) poke holes into the vampires' smug, self-aggrandizing ways.

And this is only a fraction of stories I like!

at least per the FFnet Twitter

Well, I'm sure something similar will crop up. Or they'll just use Imgur or something instead.

~Neshomeh

Polyvore, that site where so many Suethors liked to save outfits their characters were wearing, got shut down a few months ago and now I can't laugh at all the characters wearing crop tops in Hogwarts. >:(

Thanks for the heads up, please keep us posted on updates.

Is this a recent thing? Does it matter if you go I to your own account/settings page? Will it still happen on mobile devices?

...This kind of thing is not good for my paranoia.

If you copy the encoded story text into Notepad (or something similar) and save as a .html file, then open it in your browser, you can yoink the formatted text from there into your regular word processor. Or just leave it in Notepad and read in your browser.

If there are images you might want to comment on, either linked to or embedded, make sure to save those. They have a tendency to vanish. A broken link in place of actual description also warrants commentary in a sporking, but my slow pace of writing means I've lost way too much funny material this way.

~Neshomeh

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1361pDn6P-7bc4sUpN6RWMXc2OiKbLazZ-uhToztDflw
It’s probably not my best writing, though. And I didn’t really include the “life is a lie” bit... but here you go.

It sounds like a chore having to reformat so much, but I guess it wouldn't be so bad for stories that don't require a lot of direct quotes . . .

—doctorlit, lazy

You right click on the page you want to copy text from, and select "View Page Source". That opens up a confusing jumble of text and code; you'll probably want to Control+F to find what you're looking for. You'll have to format the text properly because copy-pasting looks like someone code-vomited on the page.

But hey presto, you're good to go.

I'm still flailing about getting the text out of the Quotev stories I have claimed.

I'm not much good with electronics, though. Am I reading this wrong, or is Notability only available on Apple products?

—doctorlit, intrigued

First off, a beautiful Johnlock figure skating AU: https://archiveofourown.org/works/14298093/chapters/32985759
It's incomplete as of now, but it's not on hiatus and the author has definite plans to finish it. It's just really, really beautiful, and also very accurate when it comes to skating (the footnotes are so helpful).

Next is a Supernatural RPF fic, so most of you probably won't be interested in reading it. For those who do like RPF, though, it's Jared/Jensen in a spy AU. And it's actually well-done and really adorable, I loved it.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/5553827

Sorry they're both on AO3. I know that's not what people tend to use around here, but I vastly prefer it to FF.net, so that's where I read fanfic.

... and in these strange eons even death may die.

I prefer octopi. They can solve Rubik's cubes and hide in coconuts, and some of them can even change color. Add in the poison that the blue ringed octopus has, you've basically got nature's own covert operative: cunning, stealthy, and extremely lethal.

We got to talking about weird and bizarre animals in the Discord and there is not enough space in the world to describe my love of squid. Both fried, and swimming around in the ocean.

Squid are so freaking awesome, yo.

Listen, when you say a squid's got tentacles, they don't. Well, they do, but what you think are tentacles are actually arms. Squid got eight arms and two tentacles and octopuses only have eight arms, so squid are automatically better by like a fifth. Or something.

You know what their head is called? A mantle. It's not just a head, it houses all their squishy important bits. At the bottom of the mantle is their big nasty beak, surrounded by their arms and two tentacles, and it's not very good for playing the clarinet.

And inside the mantle is a little tube called a siphon, and squids slurp up water and spit it out very fast through the siphon to make themselves move, with their little arms and tentacles flailing behind them. Sometimes, the smaller species can siphon-shoot so fast they can literally fly out of the water, majestically, like an eagle piloting a blimp.

The siphon is controlled by a "giant axon", and yes, that is the name they gave it because it's an axon and it's giant. And they don't really have a proper nervous system, just a giant axon system with a giant axon controlling most of it. Axons normally make up nerves, but with squids, they just skip the nerves part and just use axons. Efficient little buggers.

Squids' brains are honestly the coolest thing about them, and I'm not talking about their intelligence (though dear god are these Cthulhu-beings terrifyingly clever). No, I'm talking about the shape. Squids have brains shaped like a donut, and the best part about it is their esophagus runs right through the brain, so every time they swallow, food literally passes through their brain on the way to the stomach. Brain food!

Also if they swallow too large a bite they'll get brain damage and die. This is why your parents told you to not wolf down your food, kids.

NSFW ahead!

Did you know squid have penises? Because they do. And now you know far more about squid than you ever wanted to know, but I'm not done yet. Barnacles have the largest penis-to-body-size ratio in the entire animal kingdom, and of mobile animals, squids have the largest, putting them in second place in the animal kingdom. They put it inside the female's mantle to reproduce.

It literally just looks like two squids bumping heads together for a bit.

How lewd.

End NSFW

The smallest squid is the pygmy squid, and this cute little bugger doesn't even reach one whole gram of weight as an adult. The females are nearly twice as large as the males, reaching a length of 10.4mm/0.41in and 5.9mm/0.23in respectively. That's, like, smaller than my fingernail.

So tiny and smol. Delicate little beans.

Also, forget everything you know about giant squid, because I'm here to tell you about COLOSSAL SQUID.

WHICH IS EVEN BIGGER THAN GIANT SQUID.

AND THEY HAVE HOOKED ARMS.

These guys regularly eff up sperm whales that try to make a meal out of them, and just as often as not end up eating the whale instead. Some of the hooks on their tentacles swivel, others are three-pronged, but the short of it is, Moby-Dick's not all scarred from the harpoon assassination attempts on his life. You can bet that big white bastard had a tussle with a colossal squid or two and they did not go down without a fight.

And now, to give you a bit of perspective, the largest octopus ever recorded was a Giant Pacific Octopus that weighed 600 pounds and was thirty feet across; the species as a whole tend to hover around 110 pounds and measure 16 feet across.

The largest colossal squid (push off, giant!) ever found was a female that weighed a whopping 1,091 pounds and measured 4.2m/14ft in length. And that's honestly an underestimate for how freaking enormous this beast of a cephalopod is, because the scientists who measured her dorked it up and they think she shrunk after death.

Now take into account that we've only had a very, very tiny snapshot of the colossal squid as a species and what they found was honestly probably on the small end of the scale since it was so close to the surface. Based on that, the current speculation places this beast of the deep averaging at 14 meters—not feet like the largest species ever found, I mean meters, which is 46 feet in freedom units, and a scale-breaking 1,650 pounds.

You wanna know why they're so big? It's called abyssal gigantism, which is a totally awesome name for "things that live really deep get bigger and bigger the farther down you go". The eyeball alone of the tiny biggest recorded specimen was likely 16 inches across when the squiddle was still alive. And then the entire squid shrunk because them scientists couldn't preserve the find of the century properly. Boo. The beast honestly very likely measured closer to 6 meters/20 feet in length when it was still alive, but I guess we have no way of knowing now, do we? >:(

Colossal squid are freaking epic and that is why squids, and colossal squids in particular, are my favorite marine animal of all time.

*mic drop*