We've all met them. But how would you describe him?


1: If he thought hard enough and really applied himself, he might actually be useful as a hundred watt space heater


2: He's firing on all cylinders, but they're all firing after top dead centre.


3: His power factor is basically zero. There's a lot of back and forth, but very little actually gets done.

Marking the Web’s 35th Birthday: An Open Letter, by Tim Berners-Lee

Yes, it's a year old. It's still worth a read.

I'm banned user HLIAA14YOG from AllTheTropes. I'm just here to try to make an appeal for my ban since the discussion for my ban was done here when I had no account; in fact, I did not even know the site existed until I read my ban message where there was a link to this site.

The reason I'm using a different username is because honestly I'm embarassed by the one I use in ATT but too lazy to get a name change. I was in what people call these days an "edgy phase" back when I chose my username. 

I do write fanfics and original fiction on AO3 under a username called (sigh) InsideA14YearOldGirl. My honest opinion is that they're horrible and I'm ashamed of how my most notable work there is a pornographic incest story, though it was written by request of another user. I keep writing there because I barely have any hobbies and at least it keeps my mind out of doing dangerous things to myself (like taking drugs or drinking alcohol like my father).

I do have a problem with being rude, in real life and outside of it (though people only see to talk behind my back and never tell me I'm being rude unless they're my college psychologist; I often only discover how much people hate me months later when a third-party tells me what they talked about me); and for trying to seek information about the most obscure things if at least I think there is some quality on them; that is why I watch and read so many japanese things, because Japan is as far away from my native country of Brazil as it can gets.

Hi all! Been a hot minute since I crawled out of my Zoomer Discord hole to engage with the gang over here. There's a bunch of things I want to talk about / shill, but for now I just want to focus on one pressing issue: what the heck happened to Raven's Garage, the mightiest Bubblegum Crisis fansite of them all?

I ask because back in January Skuse was announcing the site's 30th anniversary, remarking that he was now a 60-year-old man, and that he still wanted things to talk about, so email him etc etc etc. I did actually try to do this and the email didn't go through, I don't know what happened. And now the site appears to be... down? Like there's a page but it's not a real page, it's this weird 'index of' thing and then dumps anyone who clicks on the sole link buried in it to a 403 error.

So it's not that Skuse gave up on the site, I presume, unless his entire take on Raven's Garage switched between January and now and he now wishes for his work to be consigned to the void eternal. Does anyone know what happened? Am I missing something? I know plenty of people on the BGC Discord would like to see the site either revived or archived.

I just discovered that someone using BlackAeronaut's account on the Fenspace Wiki has posted a page containing 300K of what looks like link spam, including some very suspicious-looking links at the back end.  It definitely doesn't belong on the site, and I have concerns that his account may be compromised.

Since I have the privileges to do so, I'm going to temporarily block BA's account; I will also delete the page in a few hours -- it's been there since 3/11, it's not going to hurt to leave it up long enough for someone else to look at it and tell me that I'm off base about it (as unlikely as I suspect that to be).

I wasn't sure if there was a thread for people's writings that were KanriKyara related, so now I made this. Speaking of which, here's something I wrote (My self insert. take it or leave it, Bob ) 

Raven stepped off the plane, stretching his hands behind him.
“It’s nice to be back in SoCal… ok I barely remember living here, but it’s still nice…” he said, quietly groaning in pleasure as his muscles stretched out. His bones creaked. It hadn’t been a particularly long flight, but it was still enough to make his legs fall asleep.
“I wonder what shenanigans I’m going to get up to while I’m here…” he thought as he walked into the airport proper. He picked up his bags, then set out for Rutgers University.
The ride down to the dormitories in the Uber was quiet. Lines of trees blurred past him, and it put a smile on his face. He had always liked the natural world. Besides, seeing so much green was really nice when he compared it to Arizona, with its rocky greys and browns, and small, compact trees struggling to survive. Here, though, trees grew tall and proud, a stark difference to what he was used to. It was a nice difference though, and he appreciated it. It was a good change.
The car stopped about 20 minutes later. Raven ducked his head out of the car and took his bag from the trunk. He thanked the driver, and tipped him too. Then he ran a hand through his hair as he looked up at the building in front of him. A gust of wind swirled around his body, lightly chilling him. Douglas Garden, a place that had recently had a large uptick in tenants for no apparent reason. A sly grin creeped up his face. This was going to be fun.
Raven stretched after knocking on the door. A man, maybe late thirties, early forties, opened the door. Raven plastered on his “I love people” smile and stuck his thumbs in his pockets.
“Hello! My name is Raven, it’s a pleasure to meet you! Well, it’s not my given name, but here…” he said while he pulled some papers from his bag and handed them to the older man.
“Well, it’s nice to meet you Raven, we’re glad to have you here. Welcome to Douglas Garden, my name is Bob Shroeck, but you can just call me Bob, I suppose,” Bob said in response as he took the papers. Raven stood expectantly. Bob raised an eyebrow looking at the papers. An awkward silence ensued.
“Errrm… can I live here?” Raven asked in an attempt to break the silence. Bob jumped slightly, but smiled.
“Yes, you may. Come in, come in, we’ll just get the tenant contract ready and you’ll be good to go,” he said, waving Raven in. Raven let out a sigh of relief.
‘Well, I’m certainly glad that’s over..’ he thought before following his new landlord into the main office.
The contract signing was anticlimactic. Just a couple of scribbles later, plus a handshake, and he was officially a tenant of Douglas Garden.

Looney Toons gets caught in an arcade game, in Dig Doug.

(I never said it was a good title...)