be back tomorrow night.. 

Rad/Rad tank, I'd love to have a Rad/Rad scrap and a Rad blaster..  EVERYONE gets contaminated!

Just spent a little over an hour stuck in an elevator.

Amazing how peaceful it was to just do nothing... except when building security kept asking whether I was okay. (I would have played music, but I forgot to recharge my phone. Hence, do nothing.)

I'll be talking with my contact in building security tomorrow about it. For now, it's just nice to be able to sit down.

I know this is a loose fic for "other people's _Fan_fiction", but I've been digging on a couple of web serials that are really doing good by me

The first is Overgeared - the beginning is _hard_, Grid is an absolute shit of a person.  But once he gets his feet under him, he starts to really improve as a person.  Korean, _very_ Korean, VRMMO based light novel. Ongoing.

https://www.wuxiaworld.com/novel/overgeared


The second is..  an odd duck. And NSFW!




https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/8894/e...rge-chests


The MC is..  a complicated topic.  The LitRPG elements are strong, and over time, the author has really improved.  However, I found the story compelling from the get-go, and with the recent spoilery significant changes to the status of the MC, even more so.  The sexual content is thick on the ground, but it's _on the ground_.  The MC is completely asexual.  Which doesn't help his poor extreme masochist succubus minion at all.  Or his masochistic battle demon minion. 

The spinoff, 'Small Chests are Fine Too' is a good read as well.  Worth spacing it, starting it when Fizzy leaves the group and then switching back to the main book once finished.

For my sins, I inherited my father's 21' Hewescraft Sea Runner.. 

Got the first level inside cleaning done, going to try and get the second level cleaning (vacuum out and spray off the dirt from the boxes) and rebuild the fuel system this weekend.

"BOAT" stands for "Bring Out Another Thousand", I'm here to tell ya.. 

Anyone else do boating, or spend time on the water?

The following is a bit of development for a character I'll probably never use, but who sticks in my mind and dribbles scene fragments every now and then. His name is Wallace "Woolie" Wolsley, pronounced like "mostly" with a few bits turned around or corners knocked off. Yes, he does normally wear a knit cap and often a pullover sweater as well, he's not as young as he used to be and gets a chill all too easily. He's a retired officer of the British Army who's now a more or less successful private detective, depending on whether you look at his case record or bank balance, and a divination-specialized mage or psychic, depending on the setting. Sadly, psychic readings are not admissible evidence or he'd probably be a much better paid investigator. He's your wizard if you want to find out what your cat does during the day though, or your spouse last night. This is the part of his introduction that always comes right after his talents come up:

"And before you ask, you die. Sooner or later everyone does, that's the thing about the future. Fortunately, I only see a few seconds ahead at best, and have never sought for more as that's just enough to know when to duck without sucking all the joy out of life. No, seeing the past, seeing the present, those are far more useful overall. Know those and anyone with half a brain can predict the future at least as well as some riddle-spouting, crystal-gazing twaddle merchant, and more importantly plan for more than a single possibility that likely as not will change by the time you get there."

If he or someone vaguely similar or just the name seems like he'd be useful for something you're writing, go ahead and adopt him. I can consult further if you'd like, but really anything you come up with will probably be just as good and more likely to fit into your own story.

Another Green breakthrough leaves the party wondering what might have been

What's important here is the breakthrough: a legislature that has been two-party for over a century - pretty much its entire existence - just became three-party, with the new party holding the balance of power.

(There's also the bit about a Conservative government needing consensus from the Green Party to get anything done. This is going to be fun to watch.)

Way back in the first planning thread, we talked about adding Callahan's to the Metacontinuity. Here's a first draft of the wiki page... which I did completely from memory, so please point out any errors I made.

Just got back on the forums, might as well get back on the fic..  


Sylia's really worked up about Rule 11..  poor thing, realizing that people are people and you need them!  Very pleased with her characterization.

Lisa's about to bite off more Doug than she can chew..


More as I find 'em!

Edit: Lisa. Derp.

A Soviet camera lens
A Bottle of Guinness from 2003. (Still drinkable? My arse will tell in the morning)
A spare magazine for the Beretta gas gun
A figurine of Doug Sangnoir I made 8 years ago
A bottle of Bulleit. Half finished. I don't remember buying it. (Still drinkable)
A collection of US Quarters - a quarter of all States
A souvenir bag from my holiday in 2016 - unopened
A half-finished Misty May model
A half-finished Space Battleship Yamato
A Falco 45rpm single - Amadeus
A CD of The Wall, with Wish You were Here and Animals stuffed in the case.
Fifteen Euro in Change
2750 Yen
A half-finished Nakoruru Resin kit - that'd be worth about 200 euro or more if I hadn't started it since the resin version is so rare.
A set of microscrewdrivers
A Bottle of Teeling 23yo.
A paperweight with Lincolnm's emancipation declaration on it
A Tachikoma
A Tachikoma kit.
A Broken Dell Model-M clone
A con-bag from Eirtakon 2008, with conbook, and con-loot including the first five volumes on Seraphic Feather, a Dirty Pair novel, some Evangelion artwork.
A copy of the Illuminatus Trilogy
A receipt from the Soviet Union, unfilled out, for sale of a Soviet Lens.

....and it doesn't look any tidier.

I was sorting examples on some trope pages on ATT, and stumbled across Prom Is for Straight Kids.

Is this still a thing?

Yes, it's a serious question. As I added to the page when I sorted the examples, same-sex marriage has been legal since 2003 here. Nobody makes a fuss on Degrassi about someone bringing a same-sex date to the prom because, as far as most of us in the big cities are concerned, there's nothing to make a fuss over. I seek to understand whether this is still an issue elsewhere in the English-speaking world.