Back in this thread, Valles asked

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So, folks, what do you think of the loot you netted from this?

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I assume Bob won't mind, since fanart is pretty close to fanfiction...
I've just been made aware of the existance of the work of Ajiko Sadahara. It's very good - for the longest time, I'd thought this one was by Kenichi Sonoda, for example.
Edit: And while I'd never think this one was by Naoko Takeuchi, it's darned cute...
Re-Edit: Bob, you want this picture of Lisa (and Daley). Trust me on this one.

-Rob Kelk
"Read Or Die: not so much a title as a way of life." - Justin Palmer, 6 June 2007
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

Since consensus appears to be that folks want to keep hearing about them, I'll keep posting them. (I won't bother with the 5%-off sales, though...)
They've just started a Media Blasters sale: 40% off DVDs and 33% off books, including pre-orders and their live-action and adults-only brands. The coupon code and fine print can be found at this page.
Media Blasters titles that I recommend include Figure 17 (very highly recommended if you like the old "good alien versus evil alien with an Earther caught in the middle" SF), Shinesman (highly recommended for the camp value), Magic Users Club, eX-Driver OAVs, Magic Knight Rayearth, Master of Mosquiton, and Midori Days. I'm told that Rurouni Kenshin is pretty good, too...

-Rob Kelk
"Read Or Die: not so much a title as a way of life." - Justin Palmer, 6 June 2007
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

boards.cityofheroes.com/s...ost8829813

I'm putting together a new page for the TV Tropes Wiki, to go in their new and smallish fanfiction section (it's not just TV Tropes anymore). It's going to be on descriptive tags that indicate exaggerated or out-of-character traits for individual characters, like "Angry!Uber!Harry". My extant list of examples is:
* ''Angry'': The character is more prone to anger and rage than in canon.
* ''Dark'': A heroic character is made evil for the story.
* ''Fem'': (Sometimes "Female".) A fairly rare tag, used to indicate that a character of uncertain or variable gender is female or predominantly so in the fic.
* ''OOC'': "Out Of Character". Generic warning that the character is likely to be nothing like you expect from watching the show/reading the book/seeing the movie.
* ''Psycho'': The character is insane, or acts like it. Specifically, he may behave like a psychopath or sociopath.
* ''Uber'': (Sometimes ''Super''). The character is far more personally formidable than in canon, sometimes to the point of having actual super powers.
Anyway, I was hoping people could point me at examples they've seen or used, and/or refine this existing list.
Thanks!

-- Bob
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The Internet Is For Norns.

Hey guys. Sorry I haven't been around, but "A" School can be a real bitch. If you fall behind on the "Self-paced" courses they give you Mandatory Night Study (MNS) in which you are REQUIRED to spend the only free two hours you have every night taking notes on whatever your Computer Based Training entails. Needless to say, I've been on Mando for quite a while.
Good news:
I have received my orders and I am to...
Detach from Great Lakes Naval Station in Aug '07 and report, no later than 29 Aug '07, to Naval Station San Diego for 33 days of temporary assigned duty, followed by "C" School for the Mk 45 (Mod 1&2) 5" Gun Mount. Estimated day of detachment: 22 Jan '08.
Now here's the totally bitchin' part!
Afterwards, I am to report, no later than 01 Feb '08, to DDG 63 USS Stethem, homeport: YOKOSUKA, JAPAN.
To think that I'll only be a forty minute non-stop bullet train ride from Tokyo...
You may all hate me now. ^_^

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bd1Tflywck
Words fail me.
--The Twisted One"Welcome to Fanboy Hell. You will be spending eternity here, in a small room with Jar-Jar Binks and Dobby the house-elf."
"If you
wish to converse with me, define your
terms."

--Voltaire

I was just musing over the difficulty of looking for a story in the forum this morning, and I considered the possibility of splitting Fenspace into two forums, with the new one defined as a story archive -- when a story thread is definitively closed or over, it gets moved there for ease of finding it later.
Thoughts, comments, brickbats?

-- Bob
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The Internet Is For Norns.

Douche bags from God! (Irony time occasionally being a spelling douche bag, I misspelled douche bag. Thankfully the douche bags at Microsoft had my back covered. So to speak)
Now before I begin, I feel that I owe douche bags worldwide an apology. They have a difficult job to do; and they serve a useful and practical roll in society as well as other places.
So despite the title and opening statement; I shall no longer refer to the subjects of this message as douche bags. They shall from this point on be referred to as arseholes.
Edward Uyesugi II is an arsehole. This usher at the Cherry Hill Christian Center really wanted to get his Jesus on. No, he didnt break out three nails and ask a passing Roman Centurion to put him up for the night; he decided he would cast out some evil spirits. No. He wasnt merely driving the porcelain bus and yakking up a gutful of tequila and champers. No. He wanted to cast the evil spirits of Autism out of a 14 year old boy.
Uyesugi convinced the parents of the boy to bring him back from a group home for the exorcism. They are also arseholes, but I shall deal with that shortly. Uyesugi then proceeds to unload a large load of heavenly whoop-arse on the autistic child. A prolonged beating. This wasnt a few sprays of holy water and a whole bunch of da power of god compels you. Eddie-baby put the hurt on, knocking the boy down, punching him, choking him, forcing his eyes open and jamming fingers down the boys throat, in the hopes that the Autism demons would surf out on a wave of vomit. As I previously noted. Arsehole.
Hold up. I have just been sent a memo from the Royal Order of the Puckered Starfish. These proponents of the rusty freckle itself have made it clear that Eddie is in no way associated with them, and this August body of sphincters and tea-towel holders are mortified to think that Eddie-baby is somehow counted among their numbers. Their point is well taken.
Edward Uyesugi is a fundamentalist jack-off and is currently awaiting charges of assault and forcible confinement. I do not know at this time if the parents are being charged. Autism is tragic and it is difficult to deal with, but, and this is a large, slap-it-on-the-dance-floor-to-get-your-freak-on but, to willingly subject their child to this is the work of douch arseh fundamentalist jack-offs. These FJOs stood by and watched while Eddie whipped a beating on their son, and when they had concerns about what had happened they contacted the church, not the police. The church, in a fine demonstration of separation, called the police, and quickly disavowed any and all association with Eddie-baby. (They still have an extensive section on miracles on their web-site though; take that whichever way you would like to.)
It truly boggles the mind that in this day and age that these FJOs are still obsessed with base wish-thinking. I am sure they thought their hearts were in the right place, but their brains most certainly were not or rather they were in the right place, but woefully underutilized. Stupid, ignorant and superstitious is a very, very dangerous combination to be around, as the unfortunate boy found out. There is no god (probability approaching zero to such a degree that the figure is indistinguishable from zero) and Autism is not properly treated by fundamentalist jerk-offs beating.
Here endeth the lesson,
The Reverend Shayne Dark

Red Barchetta by Rush
Inspiried by a nice morning drive, by richard s. foster
Words by neil peart, music by geddy lee and alex lifeson
My uncle has a country place, that no one knows about
He says it used to be a farm, before the motor law
And on sundays I elude the eyes and hop the turbine freight
To far outside the wire, where my white-haired uncle waits.
Jump to the ground
As the turbo slows to cross the borderline
Run like the wind,
As excitement shivers up and down my spine
Down in his barn
My uncle preserved for me, an old machine ---
For fifty-odd years
To keep it as new has been his dearest dream
I strip away the old debris, that hides a shining car
A brilliant red barchetta, from a better, vanished time
I fire up the willing engine, responding with a roar
Tires spitting gravel, I commit my weekly crime...
Wind in my hair ---
Shifting and drifting ---
Mechanical music ---
Adrenalin surge ---
Well-weathered leather
Hot metal and oil
The scented country air
Sunlight on chrome
The blur of the landscape
Every nerve aware
Suddenly, ahead of me, across the mountainside
A gleaming alloy air-car shoots towards me, two lanes wide
I spin around with shrieking tires, to run the deadly race
Go screaming through the valley as another joins the chase
Drive like the wind
Straining the limits of machine and man
Laughing out loud
With fear and hope, Ive got a desperate plan
At the one-lane bridge
I leave the giants stranded
At the riverside
Race back to the farm
To dream with my uncle
At the fireside...
THe effect is pretty straight forward: it summons a bright red Ferrari 166 MM Barchetta and puts Doug at two stars on the GTA Wanted-o-meter. Useful if Doug is in a hurry and doesn't care about the cops, and is rather long at 6:06.