Labster and I talked last night/this morning.

I've come to the decision that I'm not mentally healthy enough for something like this.  I seem to have control issues that center around how I've had so much taken away from me by other people all throughout my life.

Yes, I'm admitting it.  I'm a fucking control freak.

But I'm not saying that to ask forgiveness or anything as such, because I know that's not how real life works.  Real life doesn't want forgiveness.  It wants penance.  So instead, I'm only saying this so you understand why I've come to this decision.

I'll be leaving the project.  You guys get to own it now and do as you please.

But I don't want my character involved, even in a past-tense.  None of the stories I wrote will exist anymore.  The San Antonio residence can still exist.  But it will be a different person there, with different stories, and maybe even different residents because I know some people wanted to call dibs on others.

That's my condition.  You will have to come up with another character, maybe even more than one, to take Benjamin's place, and then retcon everything else.  No, not even filing the serial numbers off will suffice.  It has to be someone else entirely who behaves entirely different from me.

I don't even want any writing credit.  I don't want any association with this anymore because it's caused me to hurt that much.

I know you think I'm being immature, but consider this: I haven't been able to do the setting much justice with my character because I've been making him a Mary Sue.  So it's better that you have a character that is "perfectly imperfect" in his place instead.  Even if my writing has a certain style and energy that others seem to appreciate, it doesn't make up for the fact that I wrote Benjamin like that.  And apparently I'm incapable of separating myself from the SI.

Personally, I thought that was part of what made it so good.  I'm eccentric in that I like to believe that in all reality, somewhere out there is this other version of me.  And part of why I was able to hit everyone so hard in the feels is because I was able to associate that closely with my self-insert and convey the things I feel through him.

But I guess that's only good enough if most of all the other characters hate you.  Which really hurts when you associate that closely with your SI and you don't know any other way of doing it.

Please don't make this any harder on me than it is.  This is going to be like killing part of myself, and not in a healthy way.  And as things are right now?  I have too much to do, and not enough time.  And I'd rather get this done as quickly as possible.

Somebody on /r/WritingPrompt fed me a straight line...  For those that don't know, this is a part of reddit where a poster presents a prompt and responders write a short story answering the prompt. The prompt in question was "
[WP] You are a superhero whose powers are based on the music you are listening to. Rock can make you stronger, classical makes you smarter, etc. One day, you're fighting your toughest villain yet, and you are forced to use your "forbidden" playlist." (link:
https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/...e_based_on)

I could not resist leaving a pointer to the Drunkard's Walk page ?

Since I was the one who suggested in the first place that they be added to the Metacontinuity, and since I was the only one who had posted to the wiki anything about them, and since I was the one who came up with how to integrate them into the storyline and had my basic story outline approved without dissent at the weekly writers' chat on May 11, I thought I didn't need to actually come out and say this.

But it looks like I do.


As per the rules of this writing collective, I call "dibs" on the Social Welfare Agency from Gunslinger Girl.


Hands off until I've completed their already-approved plotline, please.

Full report at americandragnet.org. Summary story on The Register.

From the Executive Summary of the report:

• ICE has scanned the driver’s license photos of 1 in 3 adults.
  
• ICE has access to the driver’s license data of 3 in 4 adults.
  
• ICE tracks the movements of drivers in cities home to 3 in 4 adults.
  
• ICE could locate 3 in 4 adults through their utility records.
  

So obvious that it's probably been used and I just forgot, TBH. If not, where might it be from and/or to? Dukes of Hazard would be a humorously literal interpretation of wheels in the sky, but really doesn't match in any other way.

My Winter Coat is pretty relaxed.  It's a song about a winter coat, and it seems like a joke song, except it just keeps going on and on, and eventually you admit that the musician must really love her coat.

As a power song, it's eight and a half minutes, which is long enough to do something useful.  Protection from cold is obvious, but I was thinking it might be protection from the elements more generally.  "It's like walking around in your bed all day," after all.  Plus I can just see Doug ready to head across the Sahara, and summoning up a parka.  "Now I'm ready!"  I assume that he could give the conjured coat to others too... it is a coat.

EDIT: The posts that preceded this post have been moved because they reference a plot that we have been asked to not use.

Radio Times has the announcement.

So... Two TV series and a movie at the same time? I hope you're up for that much work...

Usagi Tsukino is canonically 4'11".

Queen Victoria was 4'11".

Coincidence?  I think not!

Another Yuku-era user, Vulpis, has reappeared from the outer darkness! 

Welcome back, Vulpis (like it says in the thread subject).  I've reassigned all your old posts to your new account and reset your registration date to the day you originally registered on the old boards.

I hope we'll be seeing more of you now that you're back!