Zappin' it to ya
The pressure's everywhere
Goin' right through ya
The fever's in the air
Oh yeah, it's there!
Don't underestimate the power
Of a lifetime ahead
Electric youth
Feel the power, you see the energy
Comin' up
Coming on strong
The future only belongs
To the future itself
And the future is
Electric youth
It's true you can't fight it
Live by it
The next generation...
It's electric
We've got the most time
To make the world go round
Oh, can you spare a dime?
Place your bet on our sound
Come back to town
Don't lose sight of potential mastermind
Remember when you were young
Electric youth
Feel the power, you see the energy
Comin' up
Coming on strong
The future only belongs
In the hands of itself
And the future is
Electric youth
It's true you can't fight it
Live by it
The next generation...
It's electric
We do what comes naturally (naturally!)
You see now
Wait for the possibility
Don't you see a strong resemblance
To yourself? (oh...)
Don't you think what we say is important?
Whatever it may be...
The fun is gonna start with me
'Cause I'm bringing it back...
Electric youth
Feel the power, you see the energy
Comin' up
Coming on strong
The future only belongs
To the future itself
And the future is
Electric youth
It's true you can't fight it
Live by it
The next generation...
It's electrifying
Electric youth
Feel the power, you see the energy
Comin' up
Coming on strong
The future only belongs
In the hands of itself
And the future is
Electric youth
It's true you can't fight it
Live by it
The next generation...
It's electric, it's electric, it's electric
Electric youth
Feel the power, you see the energy
Comin' up
Coming on strong
The future only belongs
To the future itself
And the future is
Electric youth
It's true you can't fight it
Live by it
The next generation...
Inflation
Flirtation
Relaxation
Elation
Generation of
An electric youth!

-- Debbie Gibson, Electric Youth
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

If I recall correctly, there was one put forward at one time, but for the life of me I can't remember where... chalk it up to the ephemera of the web.
I do know that Israfel (the twin angel) took place in August 2015, although the calendar shown was from 1995.
Most people say that EVA starts after Shinji's 14th birthday, which was June 6, 2015.
Most of the in-series timeline winds up hinging on the date of Israfel, since the eternal summer of post-Second Impact earth plays merry havoc with normal time cues. There is however a timeline for events in general, starting in 1999 in "The Red Cross Book," one of the deluxe goodies given to the first few thousand viewers of the movie...
Also, apparently Anno had intentionally made it difficult to get all fanboy precise about the chronology of EVA, by removing most of the time markers. There was supposed to be a birthday party for Shinji during episode four that was excised for that very reason.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll

I wish I could say I have an Art, but I don't. I never trainedin any kind of combat, really, not before I joined the Warriors.I was a street fighter during the year or so when I was a memberof that Soho gang, but that was unsophisticated brawling; I wasfast, I was lucky and I had my field, and that was pretty muchall I needed, or so I thought.After I joined the Warriors, though, I discovered that I neededmuch, much more that that. Fortunately, I managed to pick it upas I went along; near-constant mortal peril is a tremendousincentive for learning. But I didn't really study any particularstyle. Instead, I had a collection of moves and tactics I'dcopied from the fighters I'd sparred with or gone up against inlive combat, strung together once again with my speed and luck.Over the years I'd more or less hammered them together into afunctional mass that didn't really have a name. If I had to callit anything, I'd call it "kludge-fu" -- just like its electronicand mechanical counterparts it was (as Jackson Granholme had putit so many years ago) "an ill-assorted collection of poorlymatching parts, forming a distressing whole."Fortunately, it was distressing far more often to my opponentsthan to me, but that didn't mean I didn't have to work on it.Years of practice -- especially the twenty-plus months I'd spenttraining under and with Alberich -- had smoothed it into acoherent whole, but there was still always room for improvement.Hence my morning workouts, where I endeavored to find more waysto fit together the various pieces stolen from all thosedifferent styles.Obviously, I didn't know the original names for most of the movesand combos, so I'd long ago begun making up my own. Which washow it came to be that I was flowing smoothly from "Rabbit FlirtsWith Hunter" through "Overhand Pie Smash" to "Yappy Dog Bounces".I was working on a transition into the more advanced "Wait ForMe, Bay-bee!" when I heard a little intake of breath behind me.I spun and dropped into a crouch ("Cossack Dancer Stumbles"),only to see nothing more than the tail end of a long lock ofblack hair whip by the door post and vanish out of sight.*Skuld? But why...* Then I shrugged to myself -- what man canunderstand the ineffable whims of the gods, right? -- and wentback to my katas. "Cossack Dancer Stumbles" to "Duck Looks ForBeak" to "I Woulda Baked A Cake" to "Ooh, Wiseguy, Eh?", and fromthere into a long-familiar series of moves that had ceased tohave individual names any more, and which set me to bouncing offthe walls. Literally."Good morning, Doug."The door was in my peripheral vision this time, so the appearanceof another female figure there wasn't a surprise. I let afollow-through carry me via a tumble into a rest position, thenbowed to her. "Good morning, Belldandy."With a smile, she returned the bow. "Breakfast will be readyshortly, if you'd like to join us."I smiled back at her as I straightened up. "Yes, thank you, Iwould."-- Bob
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Chaos isn't really chaos if it isn't Lawful part of the time.

I was browsing through the various omakes littered in the DW2 forum while listening to this when it hit me: Doug would love this...
Bananaphone
by Raffi
Length: 3:16
Ring ring ring ring ring ring ring bananaphone
Ring ring ring ring ring ring ring bananaphone
I've got this feeling, so appealing
For us to get together and sing, sing!
Ring ring ring ring ring ring ring bananaphone
Ding dong ding dong ding dong ding donanaphone
It grows in bunches
I've got my hunches
It's the best, beats the rest
Cellular, Modular, Interactive odular
Ring ring ring ring ring ring ring bananaphone
Ping pong ping pong ping pong ping pananaphone
Its no baloney
It aint a phoney
My cellular, bananular phone
Dont need quarters, dont need dimes
To call a friend of mine
Dont need computer or TV
To have a real good time
I'll call for pizza, I call my cat
I'll call the White House, have a chat
I'll place a call around the world
Operator get me Beijing jing jing jing
(Musical Break)
Ring ring ring ring ring ring ring bananaphone
Ying yang ying yang ying yang ying yananaphone
Its a real live mama and papaphone
A brother and a sister and a dogophone
A grandpa phone and a grandma phone too, oh yeah
My cellular, bananular phone
Bananaphone, ring ring ring Its a phone with a peal
Bananaphone, ring ring ring Now you can have your phone and eat it too
Bananaphone, ring ring ring this song drives me, bananas
Bananaphone, ring ring ring..
Effect: Conjures a cell phone in with the shape, coloration, and feel of a banana. Using it, Doug can call anyone he wants to within the the universe he is currently in, regardless of whether he knows the number or not. And to top it off, if he gets hungry, instant food supply!
Comments: This song has been bouncing around my head ever since I saw this. The sheer ridiculousness of the song whacked me in the head and its been stuck there ever since (I occasionally sing it out loud in school too). Listening to it while reading DW2 omakes was a deadly combination. I think I have bruises from falling out of my seat..."If you see the fork in the road, take it."
Yogi Berra

I've been trying to find the chapter where Paradox was angsting over what happens when Urd goes out on her first wish granting mission.
What happens when the guy (and it is a guy Urd meets) says politely but firmly...Thank you but no thank you!
So...now what?
I wish I could say that it's my original idea but I got it from this bit of info:
www.animenewsnetwork.com/...hp?id=1175
Oh, Sailor Spork Productions has a music video of the anime too!. Check out animesuki.
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Into terror!,  Into valour!
Charge ahead! No! Never turn
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn!
- Scarlett Pimpernell

This is a song about angels that might actually be benificial to Doug, as it implies protection, amongst other things,
Robbie Williams - Angels

I sit and wait
Does an angel
Contemplate my fate
And do they know
The places where we go
When were grey and old
Cos Ive been told
That salvation
Lets their wings unfold
So when Im lying in my bed
Thoughts running through my head
And I feel that love is dead
Im loving angels instead
And through it all she offers me protection
A lot of love and affection
Whether Im right or wrong
And down the waterfall
Wherever it will take me
I know that life wont break me
When I come to call
She wont forsake me
Im loving angels instead
When Im feeling weak
And my pain walks down
A one way street
I look above
And I know I will always be blessed with love
And as the feeling grows
She breathes flesh to my bones
And when love is dead
Im loving angels instead
And through it all she offers me protection
A lot of love and affection
Whether Im right or wrong
And down the waterfall
Wherever it will take me
I know that life wont break me
When I come to call
She wont forsake me
Im loving angels instead
And through it all she offers me protection
A lot of love and affection
Whether Im right or wrong
And down the waterfall
Wherever it will take me
I know that life wont break me
When I come to call
She wont forsake me
Im loving angels instead
Any thoughts?

Do people think we need an "about Paradox" section in the DW5 section of the FAQ?
I don't get a lot of questions about him, but I'm curious if y'all would find that useful.--
Christopher Angel, aka JPublic
The Works of Christopher Angel

Per the discussion over in General/General...

Note that as I write this, I haven't yet looked at the snippets.
I have written EVA. I have written a story that tried (and succeeded) in being as mind-bending as the original. I have written a cutesy EVA parody. And I have, in fact, written an EVA self-insertion. So I think I have some perspective.
EVA was conceived and brought to term by a man who was dangerously, even suicidally depressed. The resultant human darkness of the story creeps subtly into everything in the series and the films. Unless you are writing one of the aforementioned cutesy EVA parodies, that darkness must be present in the story.
I offer as an example my SI character. At first glimpse, he seems like a noble soul who will help the Children to overcome their problems and eventually triumph over their adversaries.
This is a false perception. While he is initially interested in Shinji, after realizing that the boy still desperately craves Gendou's approval, he loses any desire to help him. He is contemptuous of Rei, viewing her as Gendou's willing sex toy -- ironically not the case -- and yet he hypocritically looks down on others who view her with that same contempt, such as Ritsuko. He regards Asuka as an annoying brat, and the scene which finally made me give up the series was when I was writing him voyeuristically listening and ahem, engaged in self abuse, to the sounds of Asuka and Hikari's "harmless teenage experimentation".
I felt soiled afterwards, so I deleted the file containing that passage and have never spoken of it until now.
The one seemingly pure element of his character -- and he has one, just as all the others do -- is that he seems to really care about Misato. But even this is part of the story -- does he really care about her, or did he start looking after her as a way to atone for another little girl whom he willingly murdered after the Second Impact?
In Dante's vision of Hell, many of the people there, even though they are being tormented, would not change the deeds they committed in life. And that, more than the deeds themselves, is why they belong in hell. Another religious parallel that suggests itself is the concept of the Rapture -- when the deserving souls of humanity will be taken to Heaven, while the rest of us are left in a world given over to the forces of evil. (The notorious "Left Behind" multimedia phenomenon is about just this subject.) The similarities between this situation and that of EVA should be obvious -- and suggest that, ultimately, nobody in the series can be saved, not even from themselves. You cannot even hope to change them -- because ultimately, they like the way that they are.
Passage from one of my favorite novels, David Drake and Eric Flint's _An Oblique Approach_: "It is all very murky. In my vision itself, no, there was no hope of any kind. ... All was at an end, save duty, and what personal grace might be found."
This is one of the many reasons that EVA has merged so well with the Lovecraftian concepts in "Children of an Elder God"; well, that and the fact that Go Nagai's "Devilman", which was one of EVA's inspirations, shows a pretty clear Lovecraftian influence.
The plotters of SEELE think that they have found a way to escape the destruction that is to come, and emerge with their desires fulfilled. So does Ikari Gendou. So did Ikari Yui ... and of all of them, she comes closest. But they are all ultimately thwarted, because ultimately, none of them are truly as powerful as they would like to believe.
EVA is a story about hopelessness and helplessness. And if those aren't represented in any story about these characters and ideas, then you are, just like the authors themselves did in the final episodes, only offering up a parody of what's gone before.
Of course, that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.
Chris Davies

K-1 said the magic words....
No Bob, it's not "I wanna threesome". Though the way Skuld is drawn nowadays, if he wants to wait another year or two...that's definitely possible.
That's chapter 195.
Edit: Let's just say Bell's reaction (along with everone else) was strange.
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Into terror!,  Into valour!
Charge ahead! No! Never turn
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn!
- Scarlett Pimpernell