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Posted by: classicdrogn - 08-13-2006, 08:47 AM - Forum: Other People's Fanfiction
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there's three bits of dog doo in Father Ralph O'Rourke's Porcelain Confessional, and as you flush you think to yourself, " ...SHARINGAN!"
- CDSERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
A kung-fu nun in a leather thong was no less extreme than anything else he had seen that day. - Rev. Dark's IST: Holy Sea World
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
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Posted by: Duane Peters - 08-12-2006, 12:35 PM - Forum: Future Steps
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Ever get smacked in the head with cockeyed ideas?
The thought of "places where Doug can relax" in another thread got me to thinking...which is always bad.
The fact that Doug is unaware of "metafictionality" precludes this from being used as a Step, I think, but if Doug were loking for the *perfect* vacation spot?
How about working as an extra in the latest Damien Drake film?
That's right; Looney Toons in the "Looney Tunes: Back In Action" universe, opposing the latest nefarious plot from Acme Corp.
Does anybody else's brain hurt now?
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Posted by: Norgarth - 08-11-2006, 09:26 PM - Forum: The Game Everyone Loves To Play
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Genesis "Jesus he knows me"
You see the face on the TV screen
coming at you every Sunday
see that face on the billboard
that man is me
On the cover of the magazine
there's no question why I'm smiling
you buy a piece of paradise
you buy a piece of me
I'll get you everything you wanted
I'll get you everything you need
don't need to believe in hereafter
just believe in me
Cos Jesus he knows me
and he knows I'm right
I've been talking to Jesus all my life
oh yes he knows me
and he knows I'm right
and he's been telling me
everything is alright
I believe in the family
with my ever loving wife beside me
but she don't know about my girlfriend
or the man I met last night
Do you believe in God
cos that's what I'm selling
and if you wanna get to heaven
I'll see you right
You won't even have to leave your house
or get outta your chair
you don't even have to touch that dial
cos I'm everywhere
And Jesus he knows me
and he knows I'm right
I've been talking to Jesus all my life
oh yes he knows me
and he knows I'm right
well he's been telling me
everything's gonna be alright
Won't find me practising what I'm preaching
won't find me making no sacrifice
but I can get you a pocketful of miracles
if you promise to be good, try to be nice
God will take good care of you
just do as I say, don't do as I do
I'm counting my blessings,
I've found true happiness
cos I'm getting richer, day by day
you can find me in the phone book,
just call my toll free number
you can do it anyway you want
just do it right away
There'll be no doubt in your mind
you'll believe everything I'm saying
if you wanna get closer to him
get on your knees and start paying
Cos Jesus he knows me
and he knows I'm right
I've been talking to Jesus all my life
oh yes he knows me
and he knows I'm right
well he's been telling me
everything's gonna be alright, alright
Jesus he knows me
Jesus he knows me, you know...
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Makes people in the area of effect tend to believe Doug, and causes them to ignore actions of his that contradict his words.
It's not always effective, as strong wills and magical resistances reduce or eliminate the effect. Of course, those who are naturally gullible might be effected even after the song ends. 8)__________________
I feel like I'm diagonally parked in a parallel universe.
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"I've always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific." - George Carlin
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Posted by: Bob Schroeck - 08-10-2006, 07:11 PM - Forum: Other People's Fanfiction
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...of the first section of my fic writer's guide. I haven't really implemented everyone's suggestions yet -- mainly because I haven't actually sat down and gone through them point by point -- but I think I hit most of the important ones.
Anyway, let me know what you all think.
Thanks!
I. GENERAL GUIDELINES1. Learn, and write in, reasonably proper English. This means spelling and grammar (more about both later), and on a larger scale, writing proper sentences, paragraphs and chapters. Understand -- I'm not talking about being able to write like a professional before you start. No. Some fan writers can and have done it, but it's not something one should expect of all fan writers, and certainly not in their first works. There's no shame in not being Hemingway, or even Tom Clancy, when you start. Not even Hemingway was Hemingway, at least in terms of his writing, when he first put pen to paper. *BUT* -- if you expect someone to read what you wrote, try to have at least a high school-level grasp of the language you're writing in. Some may accuse me of snobbery when I say this, but if you want your work to be widely enjoyed, and maybe even acclaimed someday, you *have* to have a minimum profciency in using your language of choice. I've seen authors claim that they don't need even that much because they're writing "for fun". Well, bunky, let me tell you that I'm *reading* for fun, and if trying to puzzle out what you're saying is too much work, it gets deleted. Quickly. Do you want that to be the fate of your story? Look at it this way: words are your tools. You *must* learn to use them properly if you are ever going to craft something worthwhile. Imagine two furnituremakers -- who will make the better chair? The one who chips away at the wood with a dull screwdriver and bangs nails in with a pair of pliers? Or the one with a router, lathe and woodcarver's blades, and the knowledge of how to use them properly? You don't need to be Chippendale, but you do need to know how to make something that's attractive and will bear the weight put on it. Just as an example, I know that many fanfiction authors are writing in a second language when they work in English. But you know something? Unless they say so, I often can't tell. That's because they frequently write English better than native speakers do. It's a rare case that one of them makes an error. I only wish the native speakers were as well- educated. Related to this rule is the next:2. Acquire writers' references, and consult them as needed. If you're planning on doing any reasonably large amount of writing -- be it for pleasure or profit -- it's a good idea to build up a set of reference books to help you with your craft. At the very least, you should have a good thesaurus and dictionary. Fortunately you can find inexpensive paperback editions just about everywhere, and even some hardcovers aren't too exorbitant. A style guide will help you avoid some of the more common but harder-to-detect errors a writer can make. (And you *will* make them, and continue to make them, no matter how good you get.) It will also guide you in crafting sentences that mean exactly what you want them to mean, instead of just coming close (or worse, looking like they do while missing the mark entirely). You don't need to adhere slavishly to its suggestions -- in fact, you probably shouldn't -- but when you're having trouble getting something to come out just the way you want it, a style guide can be an invaluable aid. I recommend Strunk and White's "The Elements of Style", which you can get at any bookstore (and, of course, on Amazon.com). There are others, like the Associated Press stylebook, but they tend to be primarily for journalists, while Strunk and White's is focused on more general use. If you're weak on English usage and grammar, supplement these with a good guide to structure and writing. I can't recommend Karen Elizabeth Gordon's books highly enough -- get "The Deluxe Transitive Vampire" and "The New Well-Tempered Sentence" (again, available just about everywhere). Not only are they spot-on guides to grammar and punctuation, respectively, they're a whole hell of a lot of fun to read. And there's a book called "Eats Shoots and Leaves" by Lynne Truss which is also very good. If you are hesitant to shell out $30 or more for reference books just to write fanfiction, you do have alternatives. Since reference works aren't big sellers and are frequently updated, you can often find them on the "severely discounted" tables in bookstores. Used book stores are also good places to look for copies at cut-rate prices, along with public library sell-offs. Don't worry about getting older editions; while the language is always evolving, the core elements are sufficiently constant that you'd have to buy a *really* old edition -- half a century or more -- to stumble onto something that's no longer relevant in modern usage. If you're so strapped that even buying at discount is out of the question, you can check these books out from (or just *at*) your local library. Or, if you're still a student, your English teacher/professor. You can also consult the Net; there are a number of good grammar/style sites, although you need to be careful about your choice of site -- if you can, get an independent opinion on how good it is before you start to rely on it. However, if you're really *serious* about writing, fan or otherwise, there's no excuse for not (eventually) getting your hands on your own set of references. It's like trying to be a mechanic without owning a set of good tools.3. Proofread and preread. Do it yourself, or recruit a friend. If you're lucky or determined, you might assemble a small circle of prereaders. For god's sake, don't trust spellchecker programs. They are notoriously *stupid*. Unlike a human reader, they have no sense of context, and will blithely miscorrect a bad spelling into the wrong word if you carelessly tell them "fix all" or the equivalent. They also *never* have every English word in them, and lacking them, can end up flagging and "fixing" a perfectly good and proper word that they don't recognize. A case in point: the built-in spellcheckers in a number of popular word processors do not know the word "genteel" (meaning "refined, well-bred, ladylike, gentlemanly") and will insist on turning it into either "gentle" ("delicate of touch") or "gentile" ("not Jewish"). Not exactly the kind of thing which helps the meaning of a well-crafted sentence, that. Make no mistake -- most spellcheckers are designed for *business* writing, and the words they know are biased in that direction. Don't let them get their hands on your work. Similarly, grammar checkers are not the be-all and end-all. They *are* somewhat better tools for the fiction writer than the spellchecker, but again, they tend to be business-oriented. Worse, they have no real way to allow for the less-stringent structure and flow that is necessary for fiction. Use a grammar checker if you want, but be prepared to wade through more false positives than you'd like. The only real solution for both is to manually eyeball your work. This is something that's problematic for most authors, as they have a tendency to read what they know they meant, and not what they actually wrote. Other eyes without preconceived notions about the content are the best way to go about this, although if you have the luxury to let a written piece lie fallow for a few days (or weeks) until you forget its contents, you can manage by yourself.4. Pick prereaders carefully. Once you have a chapter or a story out, it's easy to get (more) prereaders. If you're any good, almost everybody who liked your work will clamor to preread simply to get an advance look at your newest stuff. Be aware that these folks do not always make the best prereaders. While this is not a hard and fast rule, self- nominated prereaders run the risk of being (or turning into) "yes men" who always respond "it's great!" to any new material. This can make it hard for an author to grow in his skills, or to evaluate his growth. No pool of prereaders should be made up entirely of self- nominees. When assembling prereaders, *always* make sure you ask some folks who have given you more than just praise. Anyone who's ever told you something was broken will make a good prereader. Likewise anyone who's spent the time to tell you how your writing made them *feel* or react -- prereaders like this can be especially invaluable. And if you can actually recruit someone who is uninterested in your subject matter, story, or fandom entirely, even better -- they won't be biased by their own enthusiasm when trying to evaluate your writing. Finally, when selecting prereaders make sure they know that you want more feedback from them than just spelling and grammar errors. Encourage them to find weaknesses in your story, like plot holes and places where your characters are acting like idiots for no good reason except that the plot demands that they do. You'll profit from it in the long run. 5. Pay attention to what your prereaders say. Especially if they say things like, "why does this happen?" or "this doesn't make sense". Ideally, your prereaders are representative of your greater audience, and if they're more frustrated or confused by a story than entertained and intrigued, that's indicative of problems with your approach. Listen to them, and fix as needed. Sometimes that fix will have to be drastic:6. Don't be wedded to your text. Nothing you've written is graven in stone. Nothing is so perfect that it can't be revised or even thrown out. Do not get so attached to a passage that you cannot ruthlessly cut it out of the story if needed. And be prepared to rip your entire story down to the foundations and start it over if that's what the prereaders suggest. It'll be painful, and you won't want to do it, but nine times out of ten, it'll be the right thing to do, and you'll end up with a much better story, one that gives *you* more satisfaction during the writing.7. But don't throw away your deletions. Nothing says you can't save those scraps and recycle them, though. For each of my writing projects, I have a "discards" file. Anything more than a sentence long that gets cut goes in that file for potential reuse elsewhere -- and I *have* found ways to reuse things. This is the best way to preserve that turn of phrase or clever scene that you're so proud of, but which just didn't work in the place where you first wrote it. Plus, if you know the material won't be lost forever, it's easier to make drastic cuts when they're needed. 8. When in doubt, look it up. In the era of the Internet, there is no reason to make a dumb mistake of fact. Between Google and Wikipedia alone, there is absolutely no excuse for errors born out of ignorance. Series canon for virtually everything is thoroughly documented online these days, unlike (for instance) the Dark Ages of anime in the middle 1990s and earlier. Web-based language dictionaries are reasonably good and mostly easy to use. It will take maybe five minutes to confirm or correct most details about which you are unsure. Take that time. Newbie readers will thank you, and old hands will respect you. And every once in a while you'll find something utterly cool that no one has ever used before. Expanding on this: 9. Know your source material This one may seem painfully obvious, but a distressingly large number of writers ignore it: If you're into a particular book, movie or TV show enough to want to write your own stories about it, then for god's sake care enough to make sure you get the established details right. And I'm not talking just about knowing that Character A's house is exactly 2.5 blocks from Character B's, and I don't mean the kind of things that change when you create an alternate universe -- I'm talking about stuff as basic as *names*. I cannot tell you how many fics I've seen over the years where a writer simply didn't care enough to make sure he had the names of a show or book's *main characters* spelled right. I can almost excuse this for anime fanfiction -- trying to work with names in one of the languages most foreign to English speakers can be daunting at first. But there is no excuse for misspelling names in *English*. I swear I will hunt down and kill the next person I find misspelling "Delores Umbridge" as "Dolorous". (Even though, to be fair, that particular misspelling does show a creative combination of scholarship and laziness...) In any case, this is a *major* red flag for me as a reader -- if I see that misspelling names is endemic, the story goes into the circular file. To a limited degree, over-Americanizing Japanese settings comes under this heading. This is sometimes unavoidable, especially with anime that has been heavily "adapted" for Western audiences. But if you have a clearly Asian setting, it behooves you as a writer to be at least passingly familiar with those Asian customs, mores and behaviors relevant to the story you want to tell. By extension, don't write fanfic about a show or setting if you've never actually seen/read it. I can't express just how bad the results will be in the eyes of people who know the source material. You may get readers and even fans among others who have no exposure to the original, but you will earn no points with those familiar with it. Just don't do it. If you like the idea of a series, movie or book enough that you want to write fic for it, you owe it to yourself to actually experience the original. Related to this is:10. Don't Arbitrarily Violate Canon For Your Convenience. Unless you have a damned good story reason for not doing so, you should adhere as close to a setting's canon as possible. "Canon" here means any and all details -- including time, place and characterization -- firmly established by the creator of a setting, either within the primary source, or by way of a secondary one (interview, commentary, etc.). Except in the case of the "Unicorn In The Garden" rule (see below), do not blatantly violate canon -- especially not just to satisfy a whim, or to save yourself effort or time in research. I can't count how many Harry Potter fics I've read with an author's note that had words to the effect of "I don't care if Rowling says the stories start in 1991 -- I'm putting it in 2006 because I want to." Or "Ranma" fics where Nabiki has internet access on her laptop. (See "The Eternal Now", below.) This is lazy, sloppy writing. It dilutes the core setting, whose unique attributes and flavor are presumably why you're chosing to write fanfic there in the first place. If the setting has that much appeal for you, why in hell would you want to make random changes to it that don't have anything to do with the needs of your story? Surely it wouldn't be a terrible chore to reread or rewatch as needed to get a key bit of information right. Related to this point and its predecessor is the next:11. Avoid fanon. Fanon, for those who are unfamiliar with the term, is the accumulated body of fan-created detail that fills holes left by the creator(s) in a series or setting. It contrasts with (but tries to complement) canon. For example, the name of the late Mrs. Tendo in "Ranma 1/2" is never given in any official source, but somewhere around 1998, many writers on the FFML gradually standardized on "Kimiko". The problem with fanon is that for a newcomer to a fandom, it can be almost impossible to distinguish from canon at first. It can take years to shake off all the accumulated "details" that fanon can saddle a newcomer with. It also saddles you as a writer with a horde of details that were created by other fan writers for *their* creations, and which may not be right for *your* story. Resist the urge to fall back on fanon, even (or especially!) when it fills a known hole in your fictional setting of choice. Fanon is never unavoidable -- and making up your own detail from scratch will sometimes lead you into profitable new areas of exploration.12. Don't disguise original fiction as fanfiction. Some observers/readers might phrase this as "don't make the characters so unlike themselves that they're different people with the same names". Either way you look at it, it's a complete puzzle to me. If you're writing fanfiction, you're celebrating the source material. Why choose to change it so radically that it's unrecognizable? Conversely, if you have a good and compelling story idea that is so radically different from the original setting, why feel constrained to turn it into fanfiction? A good example of this would be the acclaimed "Ranma 1/2" fic "Ten", by "Richard E" (ten.waxwolf.com/). This is an amazing story demonstrating outstanding literary skill ... but it has absolutely no reason to be a Ranma fic. None of the Ranma characters really act like him or herself here, their backgrounds are so radically different that it's hard to justify even as an "elseworld", and there's really nothing here that anchors the story to the "canon" Ranma world. (Just as one example: Ryoga as a lame, intellectual scientist. Huh???) If you're writing something so radically altered, you might as well take that last step, use new names, and call it original fiction.13. Write for yourself as well as your readers. Or, to put it differently, you are one of your readers -- don't forget you're writing for your own enjoyment.14. Write for your readers as well as yourself. However, don't get so wrapped up in writing for yourself that you forget you have other people in your audience. This is what causes the worst Self Insertion fics -- when the author gets so caught up in his self-indulgent ego trip that he forgets that other people are going to read this, and want to see more than chapter 135 of "L33TWr1T3R Conquerz Teh Wurld"!15. Don't blackmail your readers. Don't *demand* reviews, or C&C, or whatever your outlet of choice calls reader response, and by the gods do not threaten to stop writing if you don't get any. If you're not getting reviews, or not getting *positive* reviews, there's a *reason*, and a puerile threat to stop writing won't do much good. It might even *reward* some of the people who give you bad reviews. Just write. Yes, you want people to enjoy your work, but nothing is enjoyed by *everybody*. Besides, the work itself should be as much reward as the response. If it's not, you're doing something wrong.16. Grow a thick skin. Related to the above point is how you respond to criticism. Every writer gets bad reviews. I've had them, Stephen King gets them, Hemingway got them, hell, even Shakespeare got heckled in print and in person. There's always somebody who's going to hate your work, no matter how good it is. DON'T LET HIM CHASE YOU AWAY FROM WRITING, BECAUSE THAT WAY HE WINS. Remember that you are writing as much to please yourself as your readers, so don't let someone's abuse make you stop doing something you enjoy. The anime fanfiction community has already lost a couple fair-to-good writers (who both had the potential to be truly great) because they let negative comments get too deeply under their skins; we don't need to lose more.17. Know when to break the rules. Remember that the guidelines here and below are simply that -- *guidelines*. Sufficiently skilled writers can ignore them and make it work. But even the best violate only one or two at a time: like an unexpected dash of spice in a familiar dish, breaking a rule can add a powerful twist or impact to a story. But breaking too many is like dumping the contents of the spice cabinet into a meal in the hopes that it will improve. It won't. A skilled writer will choose his broken rules carefully and for special reasons, if he chooses to break any at all. And until you understand almost instinctively what you can achieve by ignoring these guidelines, it's better if you adhere to them closely.
-- Bob
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...The President is on the line
As ninety-nine crab rangoons go by...
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Posted by: Bob Schroeck - 08-10-2006, 02:22 PM - Forum: The Legendary
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Anyone who wants to use Evangelia or any other of my COH characterers in a COH story, consider yourselves given automatic permission. Just drop me a note and let me know, okay?
-- Bob
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...The President is on the line
As ninety-nine crab rangoons go by...
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Posted by: robkelk - 08-10-2006, 01:56 AM - Forum: The Game Everyone Loves To Play
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Just to keep things straight in my writing, I've been maintaining a list of the songs that Doug can use for powers. I started with the list that Bob posted here quite a while ago, and have added songs that have shown up in official Steps, songs that have shown up in Staggers and that Bob didn't disallow, and songs that Bob's smiled upon in The Game...
This copy of the list is in alphabetical order by song title, and was last updated on 27 July 2007.
99 Red Balloons (English re-write), Gabriela "Nena" Kerner. (Offensive)
AC/DC, from Starlight Express. (Simulacra)
Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2, Pink Floyd. (Mixed)
Another One Bites The Dust, Queen. (Offensive)
Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better, Ethel Merman. (Miscellaneous)
Aquarius, the cast of the motion picture Hair (Milos Forman, dir., 1979). (Mind and Emotion Control)
Ballad Of The Blue Cyclone, Ray Stevens. (Simulacra)
Ballroom Blitz, Sweet. (Mind and Emotion Control)
Bananaphone, Raffi. (Just Plain Weird)
Bark at the Moon, Ozzy Osbourne. (Simulacra)
Beat It, Michael Jackson. (Mind and Emotion Control)
Black Hole Sun, Soundgarden. (Defensive)
Blinded By The Light, Bruce Springsteen. (Offensive)
Blue, Eiffel 65. (Just Plain Weird)
Boom, P.O.D. (Offensive)
Break My Stride, Matthew Wilder. (Just Plain Weird)
Break On Through (To The Other Side), The Doors. (Miscellaneous)
Brilliant Road to Tomorrow, angela. (Mind and Emotion Control)
Bulletproof, Blue Rodeo. (Just Plain Weird)
Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. (Miscellaneous)
Cars, Gary Numan. (Mixed)
Celebration, Kool and the Gang. (Mind and Emotion Control)
Centerfield, John Fogerty. (Just Plain Weird)
The Chain, Fleetwood Mac. (Just Plain Weird)
Cheap Sunglasses, ZZ Top. (Healing)
Chickasaw Mountain, Leslie Fish. (Miscellaneous)
Cigareets and Whuskey and Wild, Wild Women, The Wilburn Brothers. (Mind and Emotion Control)
Come Fly With Me, Frank Sinatra. (Transportation)
Comedy Tonight, the cast of A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum. (Mind and Emotion Control)
Country Pie, Bob Dylan. (Miscellaneous)
Dead Heart In A Dead World, Nevermore. (Off-Limits)
Die Another Day, Madonna. (Healing)
Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood, The Animals. (Mind and Emotion Control)
Don't Stop Me Now, Queen. (Transportation; Called Supersonic Man in DWII and BSBW.)
Dude Looks like a Lady, Aerosmith. (Just Plain Weird)
Dust in the Wind, Kansas. (Offensive)
Electric Eye, Judas Priest. (Sensory/Communication)
Elvis Is Everywhere, Mojo Nixon. (Just Plain Weird)
Enter Sandman, Metallica. (Mind and Emotion Control)
Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic, The Police. (Simulacra)
Everybody Wants To Be A Cat, Phil Harris. (Transformations)
Everyone Has AIDS, from Team America. (Off-Limits)
Eye in the Sky, Alan Parsons Project. (Sensory/Communication)
Eye of the Tiger, Survivor. (Transformations)
Filter, Assembly of Dust. (Knowledge)
Fire, Arthur Brown. (Offensive)
Fire and Ice, Pat Benatar. (Offensive)
Firing Line, Gossamer Axe. (Mind and Emotion Control)
Flamethrower, J. Geils Band. (Simulacra)
Fly Like An Eagle, Steve Miller Band. (Transportation)
(Nothing But) Flowers, Talking Heads. (Just Plain Weird)
The Flu Pandemic, The Flying Fish Sailors. (Off-Limits)
Freewill, Rush. (Defensive)
Freeze-Frame, J. Geils Band. (Just Plain Weird)
Friends of Mr. Cairo, Jon and Vangelis. (Offensive)
Frosty The Snowman, (unknown). (Simulacra)
Get Rich Quick, Richard ("Little Richard") Penniman. (Miscellaneous)
Good Morning Good Morning, The Beatles. (Miscellaneous)
Good Morning Starshine, Donovan. (Just Plain Weird)
gravity, Maaya Sakamoto. (Gate)
Hair, the cast of the motion picture Hair (Milos Forman, dir., 1979). (Just Plain Weird)
Hakuna Matata, from the Lion King soundtrack. (Mind and Emotion Control)
Hardware Store, "Weird Al" Yankovic. (Miscellaneous)
Hazy Shade of Winter, The Bangles. (Mixed)
Hazy Shade of Winter, Simon and Garfunkel. (Just Plain Weird)
Help!, The Beatles. (Transportation)
Here Comes The Sun, The Beatles. (Offensive)
Hey Man Nice Shot, Filter. (Offensive)
Highway Star, Deep Purple. (Transportation)
Homeward Bound, Simon and Garfunkel. (Transportation)
Hoplessly Human, Kansas. (Just Plain Weird)
House at Pooh Corner, Kenny Loggins. (Gate)
I Am a Rock, Simon and Garfunkle. (Mind and Emotion Control)
I Am the One and Only, Chesney Hawks. (Miscellaneous)
I Am The Slime, Frank Zappa. (Mind and Emotion Control)
I Am The Walrus, The Beatles. (Just Plain Weird)
I Am Woman, Helen Reddy. (Transformations)
I Can See For Miles, The Who. (Sensory/Communication)
I Can't Drive 55, Sammy Hagar. (Miscellaneous)
I Live In A Split Level Head, Napoleon XIV. (Simulacra)
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, U2. (Gate)
I Think I'm A Clone Now, "Weird Al" Yankovic. (Transformations)
I Want Quiet!, Dot Warner. (Just Plain Weird)
I Will Follow Him, Peggy March. (Just Plain Weird)
I Will Survive, Gloria Gaynor. (Defensive)
I'll Play For You, Seals and Crofts. (Metasongs)
I'm A Pioneer (English re-write), Sharyn Scott. (Transportation)
I'm Alive, Electric Light Orchestra. (Healing)
I've Got You Under My Skin, Frank Sinatra. (Just Plain Weird)
In a Big Country, Big Country. (Healing)
In the Air Tonight, Phil Collins. (Knowledge)
Invisible Touch, Genesis. (Empowerment)
It's All Been Done, Barenaked Ladies. (Knowledge)
It's All Coming Back To Me Now, Pandora's Box. (Healing)
It's Raining Men, The Weather Girls. (Miscellaneous)
Jesus He Knows Me, Genesis. (Off-Limits)
Joyful, Joyful / Ode to Joy, from Beethoven's 9th Symphony. Soundtrack of Sister Act II. (Miscellaneous)
Knock on Wood, written by Eddie Floyd and Steve Cropper. (Simulacra)
Kodachrome, Paul Simon. (Just Plain Weird)
Konya wa Hurricane, Kinuko Ohmori. (Weather Control)
The Laughing Gnome, David Bowie. (Simulacra)
Let The Anvils Ring!, (unknown), from Animaniacs. (Just Plain Weird)
Light My Fire, The Doors. (Offensive)
Light My Fire, Jose Feliciano. (Empowerment)
Lightning's Hand, Kansas. (Offensive)
Little Old Lady from Pasedena, Jan and Dean. (Transportation)
Lovecats, The Cure. (Mixed)
Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds, The Beatles. (Just Plain Weird)
Made of Metal, Dream Evil. (Transformations)
Magic Bus, The Who. (Transportation)
Magic Carpet Ride, Steppenwolf. (Transportation)
Magic Man, Heart. (Simulacra)
Mandelbrot Set, Jonathan Coultan. (Miscellaneous)
Maxwell's Silver Hammer, The Beatles. (Offensive)
Men in Black, Will Smith. (Mind and Emotion Control)
Message In A Bottle, The Police. (Sensory/Communication)
Mister Sandman, The Chordettes. (Just Plain Weird)
Montage, from Team America. (Just Plain Weird)
Move Your Dead Bones, Dr. Reanimator. (Just Plain Weird)
Mr. Pinstripe Suit, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. (Simulacra)
Nahr Al-Kalb, Andrea Dale. (Simulacra)
Nowhere Man, The Beatles. (Just Plain Weird)
On The Dark Side, John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band. (Simulacra)
On the Road Again, Willie Nelson. (Gate)
Operation: Desert Storm, Tom Smith. (Miscellaneous)
One Night in Bangkok, Murray Head. (Offensive)
Ordinary World, Duran Duran. (Just Plain Weird)
Over the Top, Miki Matsubara. (Miscellaneous)
Pennies from Heaven, (unknown). (Just Plain Weird)
Piece of Crap, Neil Young. (Off-Limits)
Pinball Wizard, The Who. (Offensive)
Pioneers, Bloc Party. (Miscellaneous)
Play That Song Again, Joan Jett, Ricky Bird, & Frank Carillo. (Metasongs)
Point of Know Return, Kansas. (Gate)
Pressure, Billy Joel. (Mind and Emotion Control)
Pressure Washer, The Arrogant Worms. (Offensive)
Pulled Up, the Talking Heads. (Mind and Emotion Control)
Raining Again, Moby. (Weather Control)
Ray of Light, Madonna. (Transportation)
Respect, Aretha Franklin. (Mind & Emotion Control)
Rhiannon, Fleetwood Mac. (Simulacra)
Rubber Band Man, The Spinners. (Transformations)
Rubberband Girl, Kate Bush. (Empowerment)
Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer, (unknown). (Simulacra)
The Rye or The Kaiser (Theme From Rocky XIII), "Weird Al" Yankovic. (Just Plain Weird)
Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting), Elton John. (Offensive)
The Scientist, Coldplay. (Knowledge)
Seventy-Six Trombones, from The Music Man. (Simulacra)
Sharp Dressed Man, ZZ Top. (Simulacra)
(I'm So Hot For Her And) She's So Cold, Rolling Stones. (Empowerment)
Shout, Tears for Fears. (Offensive)
Sledgehammer, Peter Gabriel. (Transformations)
Snare and Deadfall, Michael Longcor. (Miscellaneous)
Snow for Johnny, (unknown). (Weather Control)
Song of the Jellicles, from Cats. (Simulacra)
Southern Cross, Crosby Stills Nash & Young. (Transportation)
Spaceman, Bif Naked. (Transportation)
Spirits In the Material World, The Police. (Miscellaneous)
Stalin's Organs, GWAR. (Offensive)
Start a Fire, Tiger Lillies. (Offensive)
Steam, Peter Gabriel. (Offensive)
The Streak, Ray Stevens. (Just Plain Weird)
Stickers on Fruit, Nancy White. (Mind and Emotion Control)
Sunglasses At Night, Corey Hart. (Mixed)
Super Powers, Ookla the Mok. (Empowerment)
Sweet Dreams, Eurythmics. (Sensory/Communication)
Sweet Young Thing, the Monkees. (Simulacra)
Tainted Love, Soft Cell. (Mind and Emotion Control)
Take Me Out to the Ball Game, (one of any number of cover versions). (Gate)
Take Me To The Pilot, Elton John. (Mind and Emotion Control)
Talk to the Animals, (unknown). (Miscellaneous)
Taxi, Tom Chapin. (Transportation)
That's the Girl I've Been Telling You About, Blessed Union of Souls. (Simulacra)
These Dreams, Heart. (Miscellaneous)
This Corrosion, Sisters of Mercy. (Offensive)
Thriller, Michael Jackson. (Just Plain Weird)
Those Two Dreadful Children, Cruella DeVille. (Off-Limits)
Thunder Road, Bruce Springsteen. (Transportation)
Times Of Your Life, Paul Anka. (Knowledge)
TNT, AC/DC. (Offensive)
Tom Sawyer, Rush. (Mind and Emotion Control)
Total Eclipse of the Heart, Bonnie Tyler. (Mind and Emotion Control)
The Trees, Rush. (Just Plain Weird)
Trigger Happy, "Weird Al" Yankovic. (Offensive)
Tubthumping, Chumbawumba. (Defensive)
Turn To Stone, ELO. (Transformations)
Turn It On Again, Genesis. (Knowledge)
Twist of Fate, Olivia Newton-John. (Healing)
Under My Thumb, Rolling Stones. (Mind and Emotion Control)
Venus, Shocking Blue. (Simulacra)
The Warrior, Scandal. (Transformations)
The Way, Fastball. (Gate)
We Didn't Start The Fire, Billy Joel. (Knowledge)
Weird Science, Oingo Boingo. (Just Plain Weird)
What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy), Information Society. (Sensory/Communication)
White Wedding, Billy Idol. (Offensive)
Who Made Who, AC/DC. (Knowledge)
Winter Wonderland, (unknown). (Just Plain Weird)
Witchy Woman, Eagles. (Simulacra)
With A Little Help From My Friends, Joe Cocker. (Simulacra)
Within You, Without You, The Beatles. (Knowledge)
Working My Way Back To You Babe, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. (Gate)
The World Is Stone, Cyndi Lauper. (Mind and Emotion Control)
You Got It, Roy Orbison. (Miscellaneous)
You Know My Name (Theme Song to Casino Royale), Chris Cornell. (Offensive)
-Rob Kelk
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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
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Posted by: deadpan29 - 08-09-2006, 09:32 PM - Forum: Other People's Fanfiction
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As a voracious fanfiction reader, I have noticed that it has become somewhat harder for me to sit back and enjoy some of the original works on their own merits. Top of the list here would be Harry Potter, as I have read a number of post GoF or post OotP works that I found more enjoyable than what madam Rowling produced. However, that seems to be a somewhat common complaint in that specific case.
More generally, Im a particular fan of crossover fiction and over the last year or so I have been noticing that I cant seem to read or watch things and simply lose myself in the story as it is any more. There always seems to be a part of my brain envisioning how some other character or set of characters from another setting would deal with whats going on in the story. Most recently, I bought the second season of Rurouni Kenshin on DVD, and while I love it, every time the characters on screen start talking about god-like speed or abilities, my attention becomes diverted with thoughts of these people meeting characters who can show them what that term really means.
Does anyone else here have this problem? An inability to just take in the original work as is? Should I consider it a problem?
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No, I don't believe the world has gone mad. In order for it to go mad it would need to have been sane at some point.
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Posted by: HoagieOfDoom - 08-09-2006, 08:27 PM - Forum: The Game Everyone Loves To Play
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"Made of Metal" by Dream Evil
From Evilized
3:53
Made of metal, made of metal, made of metal, made of metal
Can't bend what's made of metal
We're reinforced with steel
We never will surrender
We never kneel
It's true the sound of metal
Makes us invincible
No trends of fashions change
The way that I feel - Way that I feel
Made of metal, made of metal, made of metal
We are
Made of metal, made of metal, made of metal
We are - We all are
Sure there's been lots of poseurs
Who've tried to break the chain
The chain that makes us brothers
They've tried but in vain
This thing is my religion
My soul, my blood, my life
I am so f***ing metal and so is my wife
I am his wife - shut up
Made of metal, made of metal, made of metal
We are
Made of metal, made of metal, made of metal
We are - We all are
Made of metal, made of metal, made of metal
We are
Made of metal, made of metal, made of metal
We are
Made of metal, made of metal, made of metal
We are
Made of metal, made of metal, made of metal
We are
Turns Doug and company (as well as Maggie, wherever/whenever she is) into pure, hard metal. They can still move about normally.
I can put this song up for temporary download; just let me know.*********
Touched By His Noodly Appendage
www.venganza.org
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