This is the thread for all the ideas that might make a good story or part of a story, but the person who came up with them can't figure out where to use them.

If you post an idea here, the (other) writers will assume that you're giving permission for them to use it.

The pre-retcon version of this thread can be found here.

This thread is for discussion of the My Apartment Manager is not an Isekai Character setting as a whole, and how individual story ideas might fit into the setting.

See the sticky thread Possibly-useful threads, down the line for the previous pre-retcon and mid-retcon planning threads.

This thread is for discussion of the wiki. This is also where you ask for an account if you want to become a prereader or a writer.

• Pre-retcon thread #1 is here.
  
• Pre-retcon and mid-retcon thread #2 is here.
  

Welcome to the board for "My Apartment Manager is not an Isekai Character" a shared-world megacrossover collaborative writing project.

Thanks to a multi-cause multiversal snafu, people from various works of fiction are being deposited into what would otherwise be a universe indistinguishable from real life beginning in late-2016. Trustworthy natives (including the self-insert characters of the writing circle who are outnumbered by original characters) are originally tasked with making sure these "displacees" have a place to live, but will end up taking on additional responsibilities ... especially when some displacees decide they don't like the arrangements in their new universe. Some will jump at the call to defend their new homes. Others will refuse it. Many will not be called at all. And they all have places in this world.

Long-time readers have probably noticed that almost everything that was here in November 2022 is now... not here. What happened to it?

And if you're new here, you're probably wondering where all the good stuff is.

The old posts have been moved to The Attic. Yes, all of them, with the exception of the "Acknowledgements" and "Possibly-useful threads, down the line" threads. We're making a clean start with the reboot, including renaming the forum and the wiki, but there's still some value to those pre-retcon threads so we didn't simply throw them away. However, you now have to specifically go looking for them.

The new and retconned stories are being posted to Stories. Our plan here is that stories are posted in complete form to the Stories subforum, and that they have names that begin with the date they begin in-universe. This lets you sort the subforum by post name and read the stories in reading order. And, since the plan is to have each story be complete in the first post of its thread, commentary can be posted in the same thread, right after the story.

Everything else - the working and planning notes, the plotbunnies and wishlists, the just-for-fun stuff and image threads, the chatter, whatever isn't a story - gets posted here.

Welp, my laptop died last night (Saturday) and by died I mean first either it wouldn’t boot or the display wasn’t working, I’m not sure which, and then it powered up, chugged for a little bit and spontaneously powered down, after which it refused to power up at all. Note that the battery should have had plenty of juice. I tried unplugging it and plugging it in a different outlet whereupon the plug threw sparks and the laptop still refuses to power up. Examining the back/bottom of the computer reveals a distinct lack of options for removing the battery without unscrewing the entire back/bottom panel. I don’t think the thing is designed to let the customer replace the battery.   

There’s an Apple store within a five minute walk from my mom’s place and I needed a new iPad anyway since my old one is running out of storage (also I left it at home when I came up to visit my mom), so I headed over there for a looksy. Honestly, I was considering getting a MacBook until I saw the price for one with the size of SSD I wanted. I’ll get a notebook PC when I get home. I did end up getting a Ninth Gen iPad and a keyboard because I refuse to deal with the pain in the butt value of using an on-screen keyboard even for a week and a half. *sigh* I’d hoped to be able to take my time with getting a new iPad and maybe even get a refurb, but noooo, I have to get a brand new one right NOW. Fortunately, the store did have last year’s model in stock, so I didn’t have to get the latest version.

Assuming Doug sticks around Minato long enough to make a "first shrine visit of the new year", he's probably going to visit the Hikawa shrine. Unless he goes out of his way to find the local version of Tarikihonganji, of course.

And what does one do during the first shrine visit of the new year? Besides "make an offering, clap your hands, add more cow shrine bell, and make a wish", that is. Why, one gets one's new year's fortune, of course.

But Doug doesn't get one of the usual fortunes.

Quoting from Wikipedia's page on these fortunes:

Quote:Other [good-to-bad fortune] sequences may include additional degrees such as "middle blessing" (中吉, chū-kichi), "great misfortune" (大凶, dai-kyō), or "blessing [and] misfortune still undetermined" (吉凶未分, kikkyō imada wakarazu, i.e. one's fortune could end up being either good or bad depending on one's actions).

Barely as dribble of data getting through, and lots of authentication problems... Doesn't seem to be anything between my chair and the street, at least as far as I can test, but once it becomes Verizon's problem I can't tell...

I'm starting dialysis tomorrow morning, first thing. As it's being handled on an emergency basis to start, I"m going to get the line in the artery for the short term. Once the fistula operation's healed, the line comes out and I switch to standard hemodialysis.

I'm really looking forward to doing this at this point. There's this constant feeling of "heaviness" in my limbs these days, I'm frequently nauseous, and have to fight to keep food down. Hopefully these things will start to become history as they put me through dialysis regularly.

Once I'm stable and on regular dialysis, I'll be on the list for transplant. As I've got the universal recipient blood type, I'm in a good position to get a kidney. Time will tell how long that takes. For now, I'm just going to focus on the next month or so.

In case no one else has noticed it, at some point in the last few days, the wiki's Recent Changes page has started throwing errors instead of displaying changes. I've submitted a Phabricator ticket for it, and if the one thing posted in it so far is any indication, it seems to be a side effect, somehow, of the page deletion problem from earlier in the week.