*a lying cake

Portal 2's been on pre-order for a short while, and it's current bonus is a free copy of Portal. Therefore I've currently got a free copy to gift. So, who here still hasn't acquired a copy of Portal yet?

so antoher commison, Gir done by the very talented MachSaber.

Go here.
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Epsilon

Firefly is returning!

Apparently, some of a movie has been leaked

Not sure if want really.

While Thundercats was Saturday Morning TV for me for the longest time... there is something worrying about this version. Lion-O looks a little silly, tbh, or is that just me? At least they got the bit right where he's a boy aged up a little bit....

EDIT: It's actually part of a proposal, that appears to have been killed for very obvious reasons.
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Damn I've been feeling creative this last couple of weeks. At least 4 stories.... though one of which I still need to finish and mail off because it's a bit pushing it.

Anyway....

Quote:I opened my door one day and walked to the shops. It felt like a long journey at the time.

I stood on the surface of Earth and looked up to see the stars in the sky. All the little sparkles of life whizzing through the sky going places only they knew.

I looked around, at my home town which seemed so big to walk around. Then launched into space. It felt like a long journey at the time.

I stood in Earth’s orbit, looking down on the vast world beneath me, watching continents and oceans flash by, and I felt like a god. I felt on top of the world. My hometown was a splash of light, covered by a cloud. Everyone I grew up with, could be covered by my thumb.

Then I looked up at the moon, and the sparks of life twinkling across it’s surface. It seemed so far away. I launched towards the Moon. It felt like a long journey at the time.

I stood on the surface of the moon, the smell of burnt gunpowder tingling inside my nostrils as a few whisps of grey dust kicked up by my engines rose past me. Earth hung in the sky... a world that had once been so vast beneath me. I could cover it with my thumb.

I looked up at Mars, a red dot hanging among the stars. It didn't seem possible that such a thing could be a planet. I launched towards Mars. It felt like a long journey at the time.

I stood on the Martian surface. That dot grown into a new world as big as Earth, a cold and rusty wasteland beneath my feet and the smell of old steel around me. Earth was a blue light in the sky. That vast world, its moon, and everything on them, now just a light.

I looked up, and could see the stars beyond.

I’m a lightyear out, a quarter of the way to the nearest star, and I think to stop and look back. I see a little yellow spark, set amongst a billion other sparks all around me, seeming no different from any of it’s companions, save for a little flag on my vision that marks this one a $home. It’s been a long journey just to get here.

I raise my thumb and cover everyone I’ve ever known, every place I’ve ever been. The people I care about. The people I hate. Those in power, those without. All of humanity it seems.... is under my thumb. Hidden in the glare around that spark.

It is to my own shame that I can’t be more Carl Sagan about it.... but isolated... a single person in the vast cosmos, with nothing by silent static on my radio and no ship around me....Looking at it all with my own two eyes....

I feel....alone.

I am here. Here in the darkness between stars, I could be the only person in the universe. Just one minuscule being, one lonely spec of humanity, far away from home. I’m swimming in the middle of the ocean, rather than having the comfort of a boat. A mariner feels how small his ship is, not how big the sea it floats on, after all.

A few tears freeze on my eyes and flake off into the void. I put my helmet back on, and carry on with my journey with a humbled smile.

And I can see a billion stars in front of me, each one of them a long journey away.

We all know someone who's been like that. Some of us may have been like that ourselves. http://xkcd.com/862/]Who knew that he was like that, too?
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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

You what? I'll figure something out while I'm away on holidays.

To kick off the new thread, here is the Nobody Dies Table of Contents.
Edit:
It occurred to me that I forgot to describe what is actually in the linked table.  It's a listing of the various stories and side stories that are part of the Nobody Dies 'verse.  Most usefully, it includes when they occur in relation to the main fic's timeline.  Sorry about the oversight.
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Stand between the Silver Crystal and the Golden Sea.
"Youngsters these days just have no appreciation for the magnificence of the legendary cucumber."  --Krityan Elder, Tales of Vesperia.

Going from a news report http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/02/this- ... ternet-is/]here and the resultant inkblot they're hosting, you can get 'net access in some odd locations, but there's a lot of places where you can't - I think I can see an out line of S. Dakota - mostly where there is no one. Of cause that changes once you put the cell phone based internet layer on the map, but there's still gaps covering the remote regions: %[link=http://www.broadbandmap.gov/technology]http://www.broadbandmap.gov/technology]