Test
of laser from C-130H melts hood of car.

Why do I have this sudden urge for some Jiffy Pop popcorn?

I wasn't even looking for it. I had long ago given up on Hearts of Ice, figuring that it would remain the ultimate example of a dead and abandoned fic.
I'd taken Krista Perry's site out of my personal bookmarks and stopped checking on it about... mmm 7-8 years ago.

I was perusing TV Tropes and was following up something that lead me to the Dead Fics page - where there was an update that Hearts of Ice was done. Completed.

*THUD*

That was the sound of my jaw hitting the floor. I'm thinking - this has got to be a cruel joke. No way. They're yanking my chain.

Googled up the old site, and wow, it's still there! First thing I see is Krista's announcement that it was done.

I've now finished reading it.

Holy Crap.

HOLY CRAP.

I... just FINISHED... READING... HEARTS OF ICE.

I thought those words would NEVER be written out into a sentence!

Now I have to find the time and go back and read the whole thing again. Cause my memory of the story is pretty sketchy after all this time.

I will say this - the finale of the story -- I'm not sure it was worth waiting a DECADE for...

But it's DAMN good!! Fantastic even!

Still wandering about kinda stunned. It's kinda like... certain things you think are always going to be a constant. The Cold War... the Berlin Wall... the
Red Sox never winning the World Series... Hearts of Ice never getting finished...

Anybody check the thermostat in hell these days? I think Satan is feeling a mite drafty about now...

Riot Force Reports:
Purrfect Kick
The Chase

I'd put this in ROFL but I don't think it counts if I thought of it myself. Anyway...

Shouted in alarm upon noticing the newly awakened/upgraded Sharingan: Oh no! Sasuke, you've contracted a case of Twink-eye!

XD
--
"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows

Hmm, Ed's keeping his writing irons warm while performing Evil Old Dude duties at Spacebattles for a RR they got boiling over there.

So far there's more of this: %[link=http://aewab.wikia.com/wiki/Skippy%27s_AEWAB_List]http://aewab.wikia.com/wiki/Skippy%27s_AEWAB_List] then there is http://forums.spacebattles.com/showthread.php?t=150127]story . See if you can pick entries done by him.

--Rod.H (whom's temped to summon the Narn Bat Squad)

Just what the topic says. I was trying to remember something about VIIOR earlier this evening, and realized that -- at least as far as I was concerned -- the
thread has reached an information density where I was starting to lose track of who/what/where/when. Would a wiki to organize status and details be useful?
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

I haven't been able to reach anything I've tried -- does anyone know what's up with ff.net tonight?
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

In a weird way, I guess this counts as fan fiction: Michael Moorcock put four lines of song into one of the Elric of
Melnibone stories, and I expanded on that, doing my poor best to capture the Melnibonean spirit. (I wrote this something like twenty
or twenty-five years ago.)

Fiery forms in
the blue sky circle,

Mortals below us tremble aghast--

You and we were first to conquer,

You and we shall
be the last!

Out from our island we ride, at the break of the day;

Out to a world
unsuspecting, to conquer and slay,

And to bring all
the lesser creation under our sway,

On this the
Chaos Morn.

Dragons a-wing
to the music of humankind's screams;

Laughing we ride
to the smashing of humankind's dreams;

In Arioch's
name, the dragons' bright flame-venom streams:

Below us humans
burn.

Wild wind-horses
soar the cloud-trails,

Unholy horn doth sound its blast--

You and we were first to conquer,

You and we shall
be the last!

Unto our race strength was given to do as we will;

With it ambition
and pride, without outlet until

The gods gave us
humans to torture, enslave, and to kill:

Thus we found
joy in life!

Then dragons and
riders winged over all of the earth,

As in fire and
chaos our Bright Empire had its dark birth,

And the
deathcries of humans did service to fuel our mirth:

Thus we found
joy in strife!

Humans dread to
face the future;

Little care we 'til the future is past--

You and we were first to conquer,

You and we shall
be the last!

Onward, then, dragons, as cities we've plundered burn bright;

We've looted
throughout the day -- we shall dance through the night;

And, dying, our
victims shriek melodies for our delight,

In painful
symphony.

Who recks what
the future may hold for us, children of pride?

Though much may
be taken from us, much yet will abide:

And above all,
that we, only we, on dragons may ride.

So shall it ever
be.

So then,
whatever tomorrow may send,

Our choices are made and the dice are cast--

You and we were first to conquer,

You and we shall
be the last!
-----
Big Brother is watching you.  And damn, you are so bloody BORING.

What would mashups do to him?

(Treat it like wild magic?)
_____
DEATH is Certain. The hour, Uncertain...

Over the last few days, I've come up with what my illness-addled mind thinks is a wonderful idea for a story arc. But I'm in sufficient command of my faculties to realize my mind is illness-addled, so I've emailed the concept to Mal for sanity-checking. If Mal replies with anything along the lines of "just what kind of anti-cold medication are you on, Rob?", then I'll know it wasn't such a good idea after all and post it as an alternate-universe plotbunny instead of proposing it as a shared arc.

But that got me to thinking - should we have a "Fenspace Alternates" section in the FenWiki for the stories that, while well-written, just don't fit into the canonical Fenspace? (The Kemwer stories come to mind here as examples.) Or would that be opening up a can of worms that at this point should be left closed?
--
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