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Huinesoron mentioned it on the Board here. Apparently my faulty memory told me that hS had answered to you when it was actually Zingenmir.

"Headquarters" is meant to be the organizational center (the main page with the sortable index). Since Los Taelis is a military establishment in-universe, I wrecked my brain for a military sounding word. In German, the obvious choice would be "Kommandantur". The only translations my dictionary suggests are "headquarters" or "commander’s office". I’m not happy with the former, but I dislike the latter more because it’s two words, I associate "office" with a room rather than a building and it implies the existence of a specific "commander" occupying that room (who would that be?).

Head Cleric? Head Clerk? Nah, too much honor. Although I’m a Baron now, I can’t tell Sir Thoth and Sir Tomash what to do (and in Real Life, I always preferred a staff position over a line position). Just being the oldest apprentice fits the hermit quite well for now.

HG

After... I think about a month wherein Aegis came over to my house nearly every day, he and my mom (with a little help from me) finally finished sewing his Tenth Doctor costume.

And, because I wanted to match, I put together a Jack Harkness costume. None of mine was homemade, sorry to say, but no Doctor is complete without a companion, am I right?

Check out the gallery from our photo shoot here! Special thanks to my mom for photographing us... and working her butt off to get that suit made.

Or the parts that wouldn't be conductive to his argument. "See? This guy getting injected with his god's essence is a good thing! There's no worry about the needles or any non-godly fire-y pain in his veins at all! 8D"

Pleh. =P

There's a good amount of Body Horror. But also a general inarticulateness to it. It's just... really hard to know what's going on.

I mean, look at when the seaman injected god fluid into him (... okay, that sounds... very wrong). You'd think the immrdiate response or sensation gets described but... nope.

... when you see it. >.>

(It's in part two of the liveblog. For some reason associating/comparing/contrasting Young Wizards with works like this makes me hyperfixate.)

Used to do it for fun. This, however, seems like something I might want to pass on. Or maybe not. I'll have a look at the thing after work tonight and see. If I'm up for its craziness I'll start working on a PDF (unless someone else finds a faster way to do it, of course).

Have a jar of fake air (nitrogen).

I've got all those errors repaired now.

I rather like Miss MacKinnon; I'm glad my agents recruited her. I need to make her a wiki page one of these days . . .

—doctorlit, going to wiki a page this weekend, maybe

Morality, people? Always follow first ideas in a RP, no matter how crazy. Other people can pick up on them and create awesome, case in point.

I've gotten through chapter 1 tonight. So far, it's mediocre, overly passive prose punctuated with moments of "wait, what?" when the author forgets to tell us something that would have helped things make sense. It's not a hillaribad laugh-riot like, say, Eye of Argon. But it IS only the first chapter. And the main character is clearly insane, and what he's experiencing might be partly or wholly the delusions of a diseased mind. So we'll see.

I have to say, I like the accompanying art, though. It's all a bit samey, but still, I like the style. Haven't tried the music, but I suppose I'll give that a shot at some point, too.

~Neshomeh, morbidly curious.

I don't have a smartphone which I'm glad about for once, so unless there's a better workaround I'll have to go without.

... And I kinda wanna know what the Other One you found reads like, now. 8'D

It's free on smartphones/tablets. The real problem is getting it on computers. If I could work out where it gets its datafiles from, I'd make a raw text version. As it stands...

...Provided you have a smartphone.

If you do, go to the book's website (yes, it has a website), and download the author's app. From there, you can download the whole book free of charge. Along with the "multimedia experience" that goes with it. For you see, the book is associated with a music album also made by the author, one song per chapter. And you can have it play the music as you read, I think.

The fact that this got this kind of treatment and Masterharper of Pern didn't is certifiable proof that there is no justice in this cruel world.

Also, having read the liveblog, I can say that the ending of this books reminds me of another, more NSFW, terrible erotically charged story involving an elder god that's ambiguously M/M but it's hard to say because elder god, and is also ambiguously anti-capitalist. Yes, I've read another one. Don't ask me how that's possible, I do not know. I think it might be better than this one. And also worse. I mean, we're really just measuring different levels of precipitously bad here. Given, the Other One is actually pornographic, so the genre standards are lower on average. But that's no excuse, and it's still really bad.

~Thoth doesn't know what he's doing.

Both on 'the Polyp' and on a live readthrough being fun.

(Though, I wouldn't stare at the cover art too long; apparently it is just as disturbing as the text.)

I could ask Bryton ("punrisenebula") where there's spares? Not sure how much mailing them would cost, though. >.>

(And just wait until you get to part 2...)

Have a line of conga rats! Hopefully they'll help make the terror less all-encompassing.

The DIC precedent is apparently mostly mine, but I'm pretty sure I was drawing on Despatch and TOS at least in part.

But it makes all kinds of sense. Not everybody can be an expert in everything, so sometimes a team of assassins may need assistance from a disentangler for a knotty crossover, or a Pyro for getting rid of troublesome non-canon locations. Sometimes the disentanglers might need an assassin or a Bad Slasher, because they're not in the DMS or DBS already for reasons. Sometimes you just need somebody who knows the canon better than you, regardless of department.

And sometimes the authors just need an excuse to put their characters together. ^_^

~Neshomeh

Here, have a triple chocolate (chocolate with chocolate chips and chocolate icing) cupcake! Don't forget to blow out the candle!

That is, if anyone here can get their hands on the original text.

I haven't read through the liveblog, but even halfway through part one, the weird names, bizarre concepts, and unfortunate word choices tell me this would be loads of fun to read out loud. I can't get over the god-thing being called "the Polyp." Seriously, Polyp? That's a thing you don't want your doctor to find in your colon because it might be cancer.

Or, to be fair, "a sedentary type of animal form characterized by a more or less fixed base, columnar body, and free end with mouth and tentacles, especially as applied to coelenterates" or "an individual zooid of a compound or colonial organism."

But STILL. That's about as far from "sexy ocean god" as you can possibly get. {X D

~Neshomeh

Though I'm also not sure if you suggested it, or if I got the idea from yours on the wiki, or what. I do know I eventually found a sort of pre-packaged SortTable Javascript out on the interwebs and incorporated it into the Songbook, which I had been wanting to do almost forever, and that's the same thing I have on TLT.

But sure, if Baron hS wants to take the credit for doing it first, that is technically correct. The very best kind of correct. ^_~

~Neshomeh

I don't have a response to this. No words can explain.