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. . . so when I'm playing a game, I tend to subconsciously memorize the background music. It definitely makes the music a big part of the play experience for me!

—doctorlit

"Anomalies: Short Stories" by Scapegrace.

Because I just spent half an hour trying to search this post up before resorting to literally trawling the Board page by page.

(This post made 2022/06/21 but timestamp tweaked; happy solstice!)

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Have a laspistol and a half-kilo of lembas bread.

That one has It's A Small World hidden in it. I can particularly note how towards the end of the loop, the evil-sounding stuff (key: A minor) that's layered under the sweet innocent bits (key: A Major) switches to A Major as well, kinda suggesting something heroic or hopeful amidst that corruption. I don't know what happens before and after that fight, but if I were to be given context, I'd probably be able to analyze it further.

Epic Mickey seems like a pretty cool game.

-Twistey

FREAKIN' BUY SOME AND REPAINT THEM! I WANT TO SEE IT! DO IT! YES!

Hehe, anyway... I love the villain designs. I actually like all the designs, but obviously a Mary Sue can be a Mary Sue and still have a good design. But I still love the designs. (I do character design stuff a lot, so that's usually what I notice first.)

I dunno, but I have a particular sweet spot for Ragana because I've seen her before in a LEGO catalog and I at the time had a villain role for myself in one story where the outfit I had had was very similar to hers, even the same black-and-green color scheme and with my old Scratch avatar's orange (which is close to pink) hair. So yeah, when you posted this, I still had a little lingering feeling of "mine" over her.

Cronan is cool, typical warlord fare with an interesting... eye motif? That's not a path most would take, so props to Lego. Noctura is great with... is one sleeve longer or are her arms being consumed by darkness? I hope it's the latter because that's cool. I love her haircut and expression and tiara and oh my God everything is so pretty. Looking at the pages, I don't know about all the CAFs and minor critters, they're just kinda cookie cutter, but the designs of the Elves are rather aesthetically pleasing. Except Skyra... I can't tell what she is, but if she were drawn for me and explained, that might satisfy me. Oh that's a cape thingy, okay. Now I like the design.

Now the real exception is the two humans. They're also very cookie cutter, which I guess combined with Emily's description means they Could Be Anyone. They could be you. They could be me. Most importantly, they could be the viewers. So yeah, typical audience insert protagonists.

TL:DR: Love the Elf designs. Everything else is pretty cookie cutter, but the Elf designs blow me away. Also, Ragana is sooooooorta mine-ish. Sorta.

-Twistey

It's why there's devices like the Fictionary, in-universe; even when a fic is the right division for an agent pair, that doesn't mean they have the canon knowledge! Or need to have it, as long as the mission writer is willing to do the research.

I've seen people do post-mission A/N summaries of what's wrong about a given fic's plot-points, as well (an example off the top of my head would be SkarmorySilver, as well as Herr Wozzek's missions).

Would it help if one of the agents was slightly less familiar with the canon so the other might have to explain more obscure details? Or another solution would be to create a sort of appendix providing a short 2 sentence summary for specific terms that people may not be familiar with. It usually doesn't detract from the mission reading experience if I'm not a fan of the canon so long as I get informed in some way of why it is a charge.

Have one of my own shed feathers and a complimentary kit of Spikes!

I found it on the Internet.
I haven't read the original series yet, but I'd like to.
I enjoy Star Trek, Star Wars, The Addams Family, Happy Days, Mork and Mindy, Laverne and Shirley and many Disney, Pixar and Dreamworks movies. I also enjoy a great many kids' shows like Rugrats, Arthur, Martha Speaks, Sesame Street etc.
I also like the Harry Potter books and there's this one kid series I like, which is about a cat called Mog.

Nice to meet you - have a large bar of chocolate.

Always room for one more. Have a chocolate chip cookie and a potted aloe.

What sort of things are you into?

I fully intend to write both sooner or later, but we'll see if it works out.

That sounds pretty fun. And hey, aliens that aren't basically humans with wacky hair and/or squiggly lines on their faces! That's always a plus.

I really liked Cowboys and Aliens. I honestly can't figure out why it wasn't more popular. It was a really fun movie.

I'm glad you like The Adventures of Laura Davidson. It's something of a recent idea, so it's not properly formed yet, so I'm glad it's coming out coherent now.

As for sci-fi and fantasy, I've seen good sci-fi with fantastic elements (Homestuck is a good example), and once or twice I've run across a reasonably seamless meshing of the two. (The title escapes me but I read a book as a child about an interplanetary coalition that developed supernatural powers and used them to keep planets on a natural developmental path.) What I have never seen, however, is a solid fantasy base with sci-fi applied well to it. So naturally I set out to fill in the perceived gap in the fictional library.

What I'm trying to say is I don't know if it can be done. I hope it can, but we'll just have to wait and see. In any event, I totally understand your reservation.

Unfortunately I wasn't around when you posted the survey, but I'm glad I got to read this all the same. It actually helped me make sense of some things I've been wondering about in fandom culture. As someone who entered fandom in 2009, before most of this new wave had set in, but was too young (in actual years and fandom terms) to really get it, it offered some sense to a confusing and at times contradictory perspective.

So, as I said before, a very interesting read! Thanks for sharing!

Your findings absolutely reflect my subjective experience as an older/longer-term participant in fandom.

I find it very interesting that you seem to say that while discussions on newer platforms like Tumblr occur "at a more rapid pace with less control over the thread of conversation" and are more easily radicalized, they're being treated with "a more academic, professional lexicon" that "lends gravitas and credence to the arguments being expounded."

This puts a finger squarely on what bugs me about this shift. The conversation about fandom has become shorter, faster, less thought-through and lovingly (if self-aggrandizingly) developed, and yet treated more seriously? That seems backwards! Co-opting these serious academic terms in this way at once over-inflates the importance of one's opinions of fanstuff and dilutes their usefulness for people who do want to have a thoughtful discourse or need to express that they have a psychological trigger.

Too much like srs bsns.

~Neshomeh has to leave now, might have more to say later.