This morning, before the start of work, I came across a link to an Asuka Peggy Sue fic for Evanglion.  I read it at lunch, loved the hell out of it, and now that I'm home I'm looking for the link so I can bookmark it.  But damned if I can't find it now.  Does anyone even know what I'm talking about?  If so, please point me at it.  Thanks.
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

To take advantage of Double Xp weekend I'm going to gather a group for Moonfire which is the Weekly Strike target on Saturday.
 As per preference of people I spoke to online we're going to run it in the evening and will be trying for our normal TF time of 7PM Mountain time/9PM Eastern time. If we get more than 8 interested individuals I'll be more than happy to split us up into 2 groups if we have enough, also if you cannot make it Saturday we can probably form another for Sunday. Just speak up in the thread and I'll try to make it happen.
Moonfire Sat 17th 7mnt/9Est
Level 23+
Interested parties thus far: Will Edit the list as folks speak up.
OpMegs
Ankhani
Zilem Kain
Dren
Baseload
Ran-san
Stormgear
DarkSeraph
Edit:Keep up the interest and We'll be able to make 2 teams of 6 easy.

Lots of webstrips...

http://embed.tumblr.com/embed/post//19196576643

The folks behind Darths & Droids have already sent this baka a C&D notice. I've forwarded the URL to the creators of Dresden Codak, Girl Genius, Player vs Player, User Friendly, and xkcd. I can't find creator contact information for Sluggy Freelance.

Somebody else tell the other creators, please - I have a meeting in an hour...
--
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

I just watched "The Adjustment Bureau." And there was something that kept coming to my mind throughout. We see that despite their powers, the "Adjusters" don't seem to be any stronger or tougher physically than a human. Further, we learned from Harry Mitchell (the friendly Adjuster) that their manpower and resources are spread thin. Most importantly though, was where Harry said that the Adjusters live "a lot longer" than humans, meaning that they aren't immortal; and if something can die, then it can be killed.

So, what if David, or someone like him, rather than merely resist the Adjustment Bureau, as seen in the film, but instead make war upon them, and kill Adjusters, looting their hats so as to be able to, at some point, invade their realm with others, and wreck the "offices," breaking and burning the stacks and files? Or show the Bureau why violating Evil Overlord Rule #1 is a bad idea? If one were to make a large enough dent (and from what we saw, one would have a reasonable shot at doing so), one could make them too few in number and resources to maintain "The Plan," freeing humanity from their grasp, or at least forcing "The Chairman" to reveal itself.

[In case you can't tell, I think "Rage Against the Heavens" is a seriously underused trope. For example, my favorite fantasy work is "His Dark Materials", and with regards to Bleach, I'm far more sympathetic to Sosuke Aizen than to Soul Society.]

--The Twisted One

"I've got a fever, and the only cure is more dead angels." --Bayonetta
"If you
wish to converse with me, define your
terms."

--Voltaire

I understand that no one would really want to start writing Fenspace stories about it right after it happened... But as of Sunday, March 11th, 2012 it has been one year since an earthquake over 9.0 on the Richter scale and the subsequent 130 foot tsunami devastated the north-eastern coastal areas of Honshu, Japan.
I already know that Benjamin would have been on the scene as soon as the Bullet Boy Express could have gotten him there, pulling people from their cars and out of the water, running supplies to wherever they were needed (I can imagine the USN gratefully accepting his help as there were quite a few places the BBE could get in and out of that a helicopter couldn't hope to), and even volunteering to assist at teh site of the Fukushima reactors (a duty-rated skin-suit is ideally suited, being puncture resistant and hardened against radiation, and just about every Fen has one).
A little something that might help get you motivated to writing:
http://embed.break.com/MjMwNTM0OA==/ai/ ... 1616935985[/img]
Japan One Year Later - Watch More Funny Videos

http://behindthesofa.mysh...protection-racket-update
That is a supremely large fanbase to be tangling with there.
--

"You know how parents tell you everything's going to fine, but you know they're lying to make you feel better? Everything's going to be fine." - The Doctor

I assume that, like ZK and myself, the rest of you were mapserved off of Virtue and are experiencing Server Phail at this time?

From the disconnects, to the server status to the forums, it looks like the CoX Servers are dead in the water. When they've gotten new hamsters in their wheels and get things back up, I'll add something here.
---

The Master said: "It is all in vain! I have never yet seen a man who can perceive his own faults and bring the charge home against himself."

>Analects: Book V, Chaper XXVI

{{Infobox Character
|name          = Briareos Georgiou
|birth_date    = {{Birth date|1975|04|18}}
|birth_place   = Athens, Greece
|residence     = White Tower
|nationality   = [[Fenspace Convention]
|ethnicity     = [[Cyborg]
|citizenship   =
|other_names   = Bri
|known_for     = being the first Greek Fen in space who made it upstairs on his own
|employer      = [[Space Patrol]
|education     = Engineering
|alma_mater    = University of Athens
|occupation    = Section 6 Special Operations Team Leader
|years_active  = 2013 onwards
|branch        = Space Patrol Section 6
|serviceyears  = 2013 onwards
|rank          = Lieutenant
|unit          = Section 6
|commands      = FESWAT Unit 2
|predecessor   = ''position created''
|successor     = ''incumbent''
|mission       = [[Boskone War]
|religion      = Greek Orthodox
}}
Born in Athens in 1975, Briareos Georgiou is the son of a family of public servants. Like all Greek men of 18 years he was conscripted into the Hellenic Army. After serving for 9 month he decided to remain in the Army and get a degree in engineering.
Only one year after graduation and being transfered into a position as engineer in the 24th Armored Brigade, he was involved in an accident where a Leopard 1A5 fell from a insufficiently serviced crane. He was nearly directly under the crane and only a jump managed to safe his life. However, the tank still crushed his legs and they had to be amputated.
After a year in hospital he was pushed into a desk job.
When handwavium first became available, he began to dream of being able to walk again and began building a power suit. Being an anime fan and especially a fan of Masamune Shirow, he decided to try and make the suit look like a cyborg from the manga Appleseed, who shared his name, Briareos Hecatonchires.
After nearly two years of constant work and using quite a bit of some 'misplaced' military hardware, he was ready to wave and finish the suit. While he was trying the suit on, without waving it, he was surprised by a number of military policemen, who were to arrest him for 'misplacing' military hardware. The suit was knocked over, knocked over the prepared batch of handwavium, which spilled over Briareos and the suit and the suit closed.
When he awoke, he found himself inside a cell, and fled. Over several corners he made it to Fenspace after raiding his home and grabbing the last handwavium which was used to wave an 1960 VW Beetle.
Putting some of his knowledge to work, he worked as technician in Port Phobos for a while before first getting into the Port Phobos Police, then served in the Boskone War and finally was pulled into FESWAT by Andy Cramer.
There he serves as Team Leader of FESWAT Unit 2.
==Notable Mundane Attributes==
==Handwavium Abilities==
*''Hecatonchires'': He can control multiple computer systems at the same time, provided that he can hack them.
==Mundane Quirks==
*''I'm from Athens:'' Reacts very poor to anything that reminds him of the movie of comic '300', or anything that marginalizes the Greek history. There is a good amount of pride of being Greek and especially being from Athens.
==Quirks==
*''No legs, no service:'' Now and again his legs abruptly detach themselves from his body and need a full servicing of his body to put himself together. He's really annoyed by that, but glad that it never happens during an operation.
==Stories==
==Notes==

{{Patrol}}[[Category:Characters|Georgiou, Briareos][[Category:Space Patrol|Georgiou, Briareos]

Stumbled on an interesting observation about professional writing.
Comment from Neil Gaiman
td lr version:
Met & Greets are needed if you ever want to go pro, but amazing writing will stand up for itself.