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Other than Chibiusa's Seventh Birthday, have there been any occurrences of this?

With all that frosting, how could it not be? {= )

One good point I noticed: I like that you tell us it's her first birthday simply by mentioning the single candle and having Elanor act like a one-year-old (albeit one that clearly comprehends exactly what the adults around her are saying because Time Tot). It's subtle, and it tells us exactly what we need to know without taking time from a very short scene to spell it out. Excellent technique!

~Neshomeh, who finally feels awake again after sleeping late this morning and taking a nap this afternoon.

Sorry, that was my first thought when I read the first line.

But then you built up a terrible tension until I realized, nearly halfway through the story, what Ce’rana was doing. Hmm, crepes.

HG

(Dang, and yet I didn't read something with a Teiko in recently, and worst, I had Keiko's name right in the same review, so how I end up doing this...)

Yeah, Stubborn Mongoose is ringing some bells... The bandana, I think (Saw him on the presentation video for now. Playing the game just joined y list of things to do...).

Didn’t the average life span result from many children dying young? Whoever had survived the first ten years could expect to live much longer than the average 30 years. Wikipedia tells me that Eleanor actually died at the age of 57 or 59, which apparently was not considered exceptionally old. I don’t know whether the false assumption that, due to the short average life span, girls must get pregnant as soon as they can to see their kids grow up was actually a thing historically.

HG

Chapter 5 was the one I had the most doubts with - it is basically Sergio's backstory narrated by him in a single sitting so I was afraid it could be too infodumpy. I'm happy this is not the case.

And yes, I believe Corolla is my best character, too.

Though I'm kinda puzzled by how you keep calling Keiko "Teiko"...

Anyways, since you seem to also like Josh as a character, I shall point you to where he's from:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/560180/

Yup, he's a canon character. With a catch: the one featured in Blank Sprite is an alternate universe version authorized (and checked before publishing) by the game's developer himself, as we've been friends for a while.

The proof? Once you reach a certain level, you're forced to use the extended roster characters instead of the main team. Scroll down to Stubborn Mongoose, I bet he'll be very familiar...

I'm glad you liked the movie, and I hope you had a happy birthday despite no presents. Have a digital present of a potted aloe.

That is, as of a few hours ago, I'm 25 years old! My birthday was largely uneventful, though I did get to see Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom and actually liked it despite, well... I'll leave that for a proper review coming up soon-ish.

No presents this year for me either, sadly, though I WOULD with family permission have gotten me a Nintendo Switch. So, uh, boo to the whims of fate, I guess? ^^;

And true, the OST is pretty ambient, but it's notably different without it. You don't get those little noises and chants and such. It's a little... emptier. Less atmosphere. Trent totally made the right call.

I'm Twistey, a (currently recovering) 1-year-bie with an interest in world-building, character-building, all things weird and crazy, and all things that light up. And also music theory. I'm the one who gets way too invested in our joke things like Badfic Games and Shipfest, even going so far as to build up an entire mythos around the joke badfics I'm going to post in years to come. Brace yourself.

So, enough about me, what about you? What fandoms are you in? What do you like to do? What do you plan to do here - agent ideas, types of badfic you're interested in sporking, types of sporking, etc. How'd you find us? I'd love to know more!

And as for your newbie gift, since I've apparently decided to start randomly giving out samples of fantasy substances I made up, here's a bottle of purple stuff that is not the purple stuff I gave a different newbie a while back. It is not a good purple stuff, or at least it wasn't when I invented it, which was years ago. Try experimenting with it, I haven't touched it yet and I want to see if the effects have changed over time.

Anyway, nice to meet you. Have a great time here and welcome to the PPC!

-Twistey

Evokes a reaction in me, definitely. Currently I'm too tired to have enough attention span to listen all the way through, but I really do like this stuff. Thanks for showing me!

-Twistey

Sorry, too tired to analyze, but I do like this.

-Twistey

There are very few types of games that can get away with having no soundtrack, not even ambience or event-related music. I can't think of any, but I know they're out there, so...

-Twistey

Honestly, I'm too tired to analyze, but I do notice that it sounds very hip-hop style, which sounds about right given the game's name is Knuckle Sandwich. I do like that human voice sampling.

-Twistey

In addition to Doc and Vania, you also have access to my entire Nursery cadre. Let me know if you need more info about any of them; I have an Excel spreadsheet.

And also, that thing we discussed over email years ago is still on the table. (If this story even touches on that.)

—doctorlit, discussing that thing we discussed

If you don't mind the fact Richard only joined in December 2015, and Marina January 2016... Whoops, I just told it. :p

Do use all of Shift Twentieth - Finch, Bingle, Ninetwo, Anne, Anne's Cat - if you need them.

I can only request that you make it some form of darkly humorous irony, whatever terrible things you do.

I’m glad I could elucidate what you’ve also observed about fandom’s culture shift! It really is interesting (and a bit perplexing) that fandom’s emergence as a mainstream aspect of media consumption comes at the price of what amounts to “bite size media” being radicalised and taken too seriously, but such is the nature of microblogging sites like Tumblr, Twitter, and other content-prioritised social media becoming the hub of fandom.

I don’t know if the Board knows but there is a beta platform called Pillowfort seeking to integrate Tumblr and LJ’s strong points. And another friend of mine is working on a similar project. So we may be looking at another user base shift soon!

Transformative works is more of an umbrella/legalese term covering fanfic, fanart, fanvids, and other variants of fan-created media. The thing that distinguishes it from ye olde Anne Rice’s accusations of copyright infringement is the transformative factor because the addition of a fan interpretation ‘transforms’ the work away from its original. Like how a PPC mission is transformative of the baddie, or how badfic effect on its origin canon transforms it in the PPC universe.

And it’s specifically “Discourse” that has replaced wank, not discussion. Discourse actually started from a Tumblr meme (look up Discourse Chef) but has been used to describe wank since its memetic origins.

Nevertheless, there are definitely segments of fandom that take themselves too seriously nowadays, but hasn’t that always been the case? Srsbsns has always been a part of fandom life; most of that was relegated to closed communities, or communities dedicated to wank. People on fandom_wank knew everything there would be taken lightly; this is no longer the case on Tumblr, where joke posts can get misinterpreted all the time.

With "transformative works" replacing "fanfic," and "discussion" replacing "wank," have fanfic writers started to take themselves more seriously?