Hello!

[robkelk]

There's Nothing Better is looking for a few good self-inserts.  Head over to our subforum to check it out.

The TL;DR summary is that Washuu and the (Ah My) Goddesses managed to break the multiverse, and characters from all sorts of different continuities got dumped into the Metacontinuity.  They need local guides to run apartment houses for these displacees, which is where our noble SIs come in.  My own character runs a house for characters from Aria in Venice Beach, Rob hosts the Sailor Senshi in Ottawa, and Tenchi and Nanoha live with Ben in San Antonio.  And Dartz has a few sexaroids in Dublin, but that one's more special.  Writers get to pick the canons they want to include, and we're still in early days of figuring out the major plotlines.

I'm... skeptical I could be of any value for this sort of project. I'm not really an SI-writing kind of guy, even though I like them. I prefer what Bob did with Doug, writing a character close to oneself, someone who it isn't too hard to get inside the head of but is obviously much cooler than IRL me. That all being the case, if I wrote an SI they'd be not very close to real me, be some sort of older-wiser-more-badass version of me. I dunno, I guess I could write a slice-of-life sitcom sort of thing there? I'm not sure I would do that very well even with, say, the Sabers.

Honestly, we're starting to become an echo chamber - giving each other similar suggestions and similar viewpoints on the characterizations. We could use an outside viewpoint or two... or two dozen. What are we doing right, what are we doing wrong, what are we not doing that we should be doing?

Kibitzing and pre-reading are both valuable.

Okay. I think I can help a little? I haven’t actually watched too much of Sailor Moon, and Tenchi even less. So I have only the vaguest sense of the characters - ah but I’m just making excuses. Sure, I’ll see what I can do. What thread / sequence of threads would I be most useful on? Point me.

Oh, there's a lot more than just Sailor Moon and Tenchi Muyo. The Sailor Senshi share a building with many of the girls from A Certain Scientific Railgun and have met some characters from a really obscure 1980s-era set of stories, for example.

As for what to read...

In Which Black Aeronaut Lays It All Out... (NEW PEOPLE - READ THIS FIRST!) is a good place to start, in that it gives the original concept for the shared-world. Things might or might not have changed since then.

After that, the first story thread - There's Nothing Better! - has most of the introduction stories.

Then I'd go with our longest story so far: Halloween in Another World. It isn't our best writing, but it is the one story that everybody contributed to.

Once you've waded through that... well, any thread marked with a star is a story. The various "Planning for Arc #" threads are the big collections of publicly-readable working notes. Other threads are deep background or silliness (or both).

And then there's the wiki, where the prereading takes place - but you have to have an account to read the wiki. If you decide you want to dive in that far, PM me and I'll help you set up an account.