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I started babysitting when I was twelve, CPR and first-aid trained. If you guys need any help keeping the little ones under control, I'd be more than happy to offer a hand.

Science museum sounds excellent, too!

Hello, and welcome aBoard! For your newbie gift, take this plate of freshly-made SPaGhetti!

Since you've already got plans to read the Original Series, all I really have left to do is point you at the Constitution. That and TOS are pretty much the only required reading around these parts. Another useful resource you might use is

I'm glad to see we share some fandoms - I'm also into Harry Potter and LOTR (yes, we accept abbreviations. I think.)

For your newbie gift, have a bunch of purple bananas. I know it's weird, but it's the first thing I thought of.

And I have no plans to murder you.

Hello, I'm Shade, and I've decided I should introduce myself before losing myself within TOS and the mission stories. I generally lurk in FanFiction.net, but have dipped myself within AO3. My fandoms are; Harry Potter, Merlin (Tv Series) LOTR (Do you accept abbreviations?) Skulduggery Pleasant, Fate/Stay Night, Percy Jackson and Avengers. I’m a student in Australia but I have American roots, which makes for a horrible accent.
I love games, and I’m currently hooked on For Honor and the Witcher 3. I got here from browsing fanfiction.net and saw a reference a ‘Tenth Walker’ and ‘Mary Sue’. One thing led to another and now I’m here.
On a side note, please don’t murder me.
(Please note Australian English is different from American and British English)

I actually had that exact thought regarding Nume being cast as the shrinking violet all the time. I didn't go that way for this fic, for various reasons.

If I still have time, I'll see what I can do about it. ^_^

(I'm not one to break a theme, after all. ^_~)

We should be able to come, but will have to bring the kids along. If the Gathering takes place at a museum-y-type-place, Kaitlyn has offered to split off with them once they get too antsy. So... how does the Science Museum sound? It's free, it's easy to access (right next to the Natural History Museum), and it's the one we were going to do last time if we had time, but didn't.

Also, y'know... science.

hS

I considered him early on (he would've been in with Architeuthis and Kyaris), but decided instead to de-adopt him; I've only used him a couple of times, and the DIA has moved on a lot since then. But, since I didn't actually edit the Wiki to reflect that, your find is valid.



Dúros Black and Irvine, DIA

(A recreation of the original Artemis Black & Irvine image, part of which is used as Black's pic on the Wiki.)

As for ignoring the explanation... which one? Dafydd thinks it's the Universal Translators, Peter says it's him, the Ghosts say they were responsible (or do they?), the Weeds say it came from outside HQ, and multiple people think it's an excess of rhum. Much like the Joker, the best backstory is one that's not fixed in stone. ^^

(I mean, my assumption is that Dafydd was right, and the Ghosts corrupted the Universal Translator software. But how does that account for Ramwe, whose speech isn't translated?

Thanks for the review! I'm glad you enjoyed it. ^^

hS

Do I count as a local now? :P

So... I was looking at going to London for MCM con as tickets are still available, however if I did that I wouldn't be able to go up to London on the 20th as well (because of family things).

But I can swap things round real easily because I haven't actually booked anything yet.

Highlights or such, ay?

It does sound an interesting book, though. That kinda stuff is always super interesting.

I'm going to be in London for the second half of next month!

As such, I hereby propose a Gathering! To be held somewhere in London, on Saturday, October 20th!

...and if a local could kindly help with planning, this poor tourist would be very appreciative.

Hoping to see a reasonable chunk of you all then!

-Delta Juliette

I just finished reading a book called Sex at Dawn by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá that takes a fresh, challenging look at what they call the "standard narrative" of human sexual evolution. It pretty thoroughly demolishes the idea that humans are and always have been all monogamy, all the time, and does it in a fun, snarky tone that I think PPCers will appreciate. For all the hilarious wordplay, though, it appears to be extensively researched, and for me it has addressed questions and doubts that have bugged me for quite some time. Turns out I'm not crazy, it's just that modern Western society makes no sense! Yay?

~Neshomeh

This was so much fun, I read the whole thing in one go yesterday morning, even though I had instead been planning to work on my scheme to save the Zombie Villagers up in the frozen north of my current Minecraft seed, and now I have to wait until next week to venture into the Nether in search of Blazes, because I'm out of town for a wedding over the weekend.

This is just so PPC. A "Talk Like a Pirate" epidemic spreading rampantly through HQ and PPC-affiliated folks is so silly and so great I think I actually prefer to ignore the explanation. Or, perhaps the Ghost(s) in the Machine were specifically manipulating people directly connected to the future they're concerned about, but much of the rest of HQ happily went along with it because of course they did, it's the PPC. What do you expect in a world where memetics and comedy are natural physical forces? ^^

I was amused that even "missing" Agent Cold got a mention. I don't think much of my chances of finding a character you didn't remember, but... Actually, just as I was about to post, I wondered, was <a href="https://ppc.wikia.com/wiki/D%C3%BArosBlack">Dúros Black in there?

~Neshomeh also has been around about 15 years and has no idea exactly when she joined, but reckons by the Glorious 25th of May and is therefore more senior than hS, so nyah!

Who am I kidding, of course you don't.

These guys were both scarred for life by "Subjugation." Shipping them together in a way that is eerily reminiscent of that monstrosity is just wrong. But you probably think "Subjugation" is the pinnacle of literature, so I might as well be talking to a brick wall. Ugh.

LordHammerfell, your lot are good with walls. Can't you do something to stop this travesty?

--Lemony

(( That shrill sound you hear is the Nume in my head trying to curse and chug Bleepka at the same time, accompanied by the Su in my head quietly sharpening his needles. {= P

(( Poor Nume, always being miscast as the shrinking violet... Just once, won't someone make him the overly macho, aggressive, dominating one? Just for variety? ^_~

~Neshomeh ))

... that despite the 'every single character' nature of Talk Like 15 Pirates, it's not written on the assumption that you'll remember who any of them are. It's perfectly fine to go into this only knowing a couple of my agents, or even none of them whatsoever.

hS

The mini pack and the povs are a favorite, as always. :)

snrf.

What's your speculation on what going to happen in Book 11? =P

Rhum actually specifically makes you talk (and act) like Captain Jack Sparrow... which frankly wouldn't be an unexpected sight at a Gathering anyway. ^_^ "But why are the Sues always gone, mate?"

I had a rush job to finish the Courtyard Life piece, because I knew I needed Big Wee Billy for this one, and didn't want to spoil the reminder that there's a Feegle clan in HQ. Actually, the same applies to the last Driftwood mission - I got it finished because I needed the povs. Sometimes deadlines actually work!

(I actually really like DD's Pluto. I know he's (probably?) not the Roman god, but he pulls off the 'dark without being evil' aspect that I always look for in Pluto/Hades. I put him right up there with the Dresden Files incarnation.)

hS