<![CDATA[Drunkard's Walk Forums - My Apartment Manager is not an Isekai Character]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/ Sun, 10 May 2026 19:56:06 +0000 MyBB <![CDATA[Fanfic^2]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=15010 Tue, 05 May 2026 07:21:55 -0500 robkelk]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=15010
Closing the Circle (an unauthorized KanriKyara story), the first story posted to AO3 by ASWCanuck.

I can't speak for the other writers, but as far as I'm concerned, this is canon for KanriKyara.

As for the joke...
[+]Spoiler
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Closing the Circle (an unauthorized KanriKyara story), the first story posted to AO3 by ASWCanuck.

I can't speak for the other writers, but as far as I'm concerned, this is canon for KanriKyara.

As for the joke...
[+]Spoiler
]]> <![CDATA[Who is fictional?]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=15000 Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:11:53 -0500 Labster]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=15000
Who in our own world is likely to be the subject of a fictional story in another universe?  I'd love the forum goers to shout out some names.

I suspect there are three kinds of them.  First, the people who are somewhat obviously ta'veren (i.e. protagonists), like George Washington, who led a very unlikely life.  He may or may not have fired the first shot in the Seven Years War, but he certainly ordered it.  Oh, and he became the first leader of the world's most powerful empire. It's like a heroic myth that just happens to be true; I could see someone "inventing him" as a national myth if he wasn't true.

The next kind is the sort of person who finds themselves in a situation where one might make a movie about them, someone who found themselves at a crossroads of fate and seized the day.  People like Stanislav Petrov, without whom you and I would not be alive today, nor anyone we know.  Being the man who made the decision not to launch sounds like a great social commentary on the risk of nuclear war, very dramatic, and he also exists.  Or perhaps someone made a survival film about going to the Antarctic, and how to get out alive, and named his blorbo Ernest Shackleton.

The third type is going to be people mostly unknown to history.  Someone had a brilliant love affair, someone else pulled off the perfect murder.  The kind of stuff that shows up in lit fic, just ordinary life that's a little bit extraordinary.  I don't expect to find any of those, but Andy Weir in our setting is kind of close.

Any other ideas of who's real life might as well be a story?]]>
Who in our own world is likely to be the subject of a fictional story in another universe?  I'd love the forum goers to shout out some names.

I suspect there are three kinds of them.  First, the people who are somewhat obviously ta'veren (i.e. protagonists), like George Washington, who led a very unlikely life.  He may or may not have fired the first shot in the Seven Years War, but he certainly ordered it.  Oh, and he became the first leader of the world's most powerful empire. It's like a heroic myth that just happens to be true; I could see someone "inventing him" as a national myth if he wasn't true.

The next kind is the sort of person who finds themselves in a situation where one might make a movie about them, someone who found themselves at a crossroads of fate and seized the day.  People like Stanislav Petrov, without whom you and I would not be alive today, nor anyone we know.  Being the man who made the decision not to launch sounds like a great social commentary on the risk of nuclear war, very dramatic, and he also exists.  Or perhaps someone made a survival film about going to the Antarctic, and how to get out alive, and named his blorbo Ernest Shackleton.

The third type is going to be people mostly unknown to history.  Someone had a brilliant love affair, someone else pulled off the perfect murder.  The kind of stuff that shows up in lit fic, just ordinary life that's a little bit extraordinary.  I don't expect to find any of those, but Andy Weir in our setting is kind of close.

Any other ideas of who's real life might as well be a story?]]> <![CDATA[I stumped Perplexity. Can anyone else help?]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=14994 Wed, 18 Mar 2026 15:55:24 -0500 robkelk]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=14994
Quote:I can’t determine an exact clock time or Earth date for that specific sunrise with the information and capabilities I have.

To answer precisely, one would need:
  • A detailed ephemeris for the Moon’s rotation and orbit.
  • The selenographic coordinates and local topography of Tycho Crater.
  • Software that can propagate the lunar geometry from 13 September 2018 onward and solve for when the Sun’s elevation at that location next crossed from below 0° to above 0°.

In principle, you could get this by:
  • Using a professional ephemeris package (e.g., JPL Horizons via suitable software) to compute the Sun’s apparent position as seen from Tycho’s coordinates as a function of time.
  • Including local horizon/topography (Tycho’s rim and central peak) to refine when direct sunlight first reaches the crater floor or central peak.
  • Numerically finding the first time after 2018‑09‑13 when the solar altitude becomes positive at the chosen point inside Tycho.

Without access to those tools and data right now, I can’t give a reliable numeric answer; only this procedure to obtain it.

As one might guess from this being posted to the My Apartment Manager is not an Isekai Character forum, the exact location in Tycho Crater is TMA-1. (What, you thought that only HAL-9000 was displaced from 2001?)

Does anyone here have any of what's needed to answer my question, or know where to find it online?]]>
Quote:I can’t determine an exact clock time or Earth date for that specific sunrise with the information and capabilities I have.

To answer precisely, one would need:
  • A detailed ephemeris for the Moon’s rotation and orbit.
  • The selenographic coordinates and local topography of Tycho Crater.
  • Software that can propagate the lunar geometry from 13 September 2018 onward and solve for when the Sun’s elevation at that location next crossed from below 0° to above 0°.

In principle, you could get this by:
  • Using a professional ephemeris package (e.g., JPL Horizons via suitable software) to compute the Sun’s apparent position as seen from Tycho’s coordinates as a function of time.
  • Including local horizon/topography (Tycho’s rim and central peak) to refine when direct sunlight first reaches the crater floor or central peak.
  • Numerically finding the first time after 2018‑09‑13 when the solar altitude becomes positive at the chosen point inside Tycho.

Without access to those tools and data right now, I can’t give a reliable numeric answer; only this procedure to obtain it.

As one might guess from this being posted to the My Apartment Manager is not an Isekai Character forum, the exact location in Tycho Crater is TMA-1. (What, you thought that only HAL-9000 was displaced from 2001?)

Does anyone here have any of what's needed to answer my question, or know where to find it online?]]> <![CDATA[Not sure if this is doable, but...]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=14976 Wed, 14 Jan 2026 10:47:31 -0500 Annie-nee]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=14976 Haibane Renmei  Angel (my favorite show) as the characters in need of lodging.

For those not in the know, Haibane Renmei is Yoshitoshi ABe (of "Niea Under Seven" fame, and the character designer of Texnohlyze and Serial Experiments Lain)'s emotional rollercoaster of a non-JudeoChristian[1] sin/redemption story, set in a town with walls no one can see beyond, with two races -- the humans, and the Haibane (halos and itty-bitty wings because that looks cute (paraphrasing the creator)), are hatched from a cocoon without any memories about who they are, and are named after the dream they had in the cocoon, they must work (librarian, clockmaker, baker, teacher's aide, temple assistant), they cannot directly handle money to pay for things for themselves (but can work a cash register), and can only own used goods (food, fuel, and Reki's cigarettes notwithstanding).

The Haibane each, individually, eventually undertake a "Day of Flight" and lose their wings and halo and ascend past the walls, once they've accomplished whatever it is they were supposed to accomplish.  No one knows where they go after their Flight.

The idea being that the remaining 5 Haibane (Rakka, Reki, Nemu, Hikari, Kana) -- after Kuu took hers early on in the series -- have each undergone their Flight, only to all all show up in Manhattan at the same time, same place, broke, in need of a place to stay, and thoroughly confused as to why there's no walls on Wall St.

It'd be a slice-of-life addition to KanriKyara, with five young women (I believe Rakka is 15(?) with Nemu at 21(?) and Reki (20?) -- those two are old enough to buy liquor, at least), with their halos and itty-bitty wings back on, adjusting to the mundane aspects of 2016 (or is it 2026 by now?), and trying to figure out why they've got the wings and halos back.

Not sure, though, if this would fit in given the rest of the characters listed on the Wiki.

[1]:  Cannot emphasize this enough!!![2]
[2]:  See Endnote [3]
[3]:  I mean it!   Big Grin]]> Haibane Renmei  Angel (my favorite show) as the characters in need of lodging.

For those not in the know, Haibane Renmei is Yoshitoshi ABe (of "Niea Under Seven" fame, and the character designer of Texnohlyze and Serial Experiments Lain)'s emotional rollercoaster of a non-JudeoChristian[1] sin/redemption story, set in a town with walls no one can see beyond, with two races -- the humans, and the Haibane (halos and itty-bitty wings because that looks cute (paraphrasing the creator)), are hatched from a cocoon without any memories about who they are, and are named after the dream they had in the cocoon, they must work (librarian, clockmaker, baker, teacher's aide, temple assistant), they cannot directly handle money to pay for things for themselves (but can work a cash register), and can only own used goods (food, fuel, and Reki's cigarettes notwithstanding).

The Haibane each, individually, eventually undertake a "Day of Flight" and lose their wings and halo and ascend past the walls, once they've accomplished whatever it is they were supposed to accomplish.  No one knows where they go after their Flight.

The idea being that the remaining 5 Haibane (Rakka, Reki, Nemu, Hikari, Kana) -- after Kuu took hers early on in the series -- have each undergone their Flight, only to all all show up in Manhattan at the same time, same place, broke, in need of a place to stay, and thoroughly confused as to why there's no walls on Wall St.

It'd be a slice-of-life addition to KanriKyara, with five young women (I believe Rakka is 15(?) with Nemu at 21(?) and Reki (20?) -- those two are old enough to buy liquor, at least), with their halos and itty-bitty wings back on, adjusting to the mundane aspects of 2016 (or is it 2026 by now?), and trying to figure out why they've got the wings and halos back.

Not sure, though, if this would fit in given the rest of the characters listed on the Wiki.

[1]:  Cannot emphasize this enough!!![2]
[2]:  See Endnote [3]
[3]:  I mean it!   Big Grin]]> <![CDATA[Princess Principal: does it blend?]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=14938 Sat, 08 Nov 2025 03:17:28 -0500 Labster]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=14938
On a start of a rewatch, and via consulting the wiki, I noticed that the Queen is named Elfrida, but I had just assumed that she was Victoria because, like, she looks basically identical to Victoria.  Actually this is an easy one to resolve: maybe Alexandrina Victoria decided to take a different regnal name in this universe?  Perhaps one motivated by the romanticism of the era, as Elfrida is truly a retro name for a queen -- the last one ruled as regent around 980.

The bigger question is: Why are there dukes of Normandy and Aquitaine?  The only thing I can figure is that England didn't lose the Hundred Years War... and somehow still didn't lose these territories to the French later?  Like, what is happening on the continent?  Did they actually enforce the Angevin claims to the crown?  The thing is, up until, well, the Glorious Revolution, England was a total backwater.  They were able to punch above their weight in the 100YW because it was a much more centralized state than France in the 14th century, but later against the absolutist Sun King... how?

If I had to guess, maybe the Black Death really fucked over France, and England got off lightly.  And that this would be enough to negotiate a settlement that cedes the French claim on Gascony, Aquitaine and Normandy, in exchange for ceding the claim to the French crown.  It's hard to imagine they came by these specific lands later.  And if Elfrida === Victoria, the German princes need to be mostly unaffected by the change in history.  Which is to say that France still needed to rival Austria, rather than an OP Angevin Britain.  After 400 years, these people might actually be speaking English (quelle horreur) -- it took about that long to fully Romanize an area.

Alternatively: no Joan of Arc in their timeline.  Those areas are most similar to lands that England held in the 1440s.

But... what about Bonaparte?  If he fought for the French, we have to assume he took all of Britain's continental possessions (save Gibraltar... and maybe Calais for the memes?). (Alternatively, he could have fought for the Savoyards, and unified Italy a few decades early.)  Of course, the British were fighting a land war against Bonaparte in real life anyway, largely in Iberia, and funding the war elsewhere.  And, like in real life, the Brits got their land back and then some.

The weirdest thing in this show is moving the republican revolution into the what, 1890s?  What on Earth were the politics that allowed the Crown to control London and Kent and its overseas possessions, while losing most of the island to, uh, Roundheads?  Victoria (or Elfrida) was not an incompetent monarch, so it can't be that.  By the late 1800s, most of the revolutions in the world were nationalist, attempting to forge a state out of an ethnic group's homelands.  But, of course, the Midlands are just as English as London. So it seems unlikely.

But the Commonwealth is a group that can't control London (The City), Canterbury (the Church) and the colonies, but has its base in the industrial heartlands in Lancashire.  Oh my, the Commonwealth are damned commies!  For the common wealth, not the capitalist wealth!  It definitely makes the whole Berlin, er London Wall thing more appropriate.  And the late 1800s were full of communists (as well as anarchists, ultra-nationalists, etc.) – perhaps they're actually trying what Marx said, rather than applying communism onto an immature economy like Russia (still is, too).  It also explains why colonies would stay loyal to the Crown, since one would expect Indian client princes and Cecil Rhodes to want to continue keeping the proletariat down where they belong.

Anyway, that's my attempt to put Princess Principal into a plausible timeline.  Anyone else have theories?]]>
On a start of a rewatch, and via consulting the wiki, I noticed that the Queen is named Elfrida, but I had just assumed that she was Victoria because, like, she looks basically identical to Victoria.  Actually this is an easy one to resolve: maybe Alexandrina Victoria decided to take a different regnal name in this universe?  Perhaps one motivated by the romanticism of the era, as Elfrida is truly a retro name for a queen -- the last one ruled as regent around 980.

The bigger question is: Why are there dukes of Normandy and Aquitaine?  The only thing I can figure is that England didn't lose the Hundred Years War... and somehow still didn't lose these territories to the French later?  Like, what is happening on the continent?  Did they actually enforce the Angevin claims to the crown?  The thing is, up until, well, the Glorious Revolution, England was a total backwater.  They were able to punch above their weight in the 100YW because it was a much more centralized state than France in the 14th century, but later against the absolutist Sun King... how?

If I had to guess, maybe the Black Death really fucked over France, and England got off lightly.  And that this would be enough to negotiate a settlement that cedes the French claim on Gascony, Aquitaine and Normandy, in exchange for ceding the claim to the French crown.  It's hard to imagine they came by these specific lands later.  And if Elfrida === Victoria, the German princes need to be mostly unaffected by the change in history.  Which is to say that France still needed to rival Austria, rather than an OP Angevin Britain.  After 400 years, these people might actually be speaking English (quelle horreur) -- it took about that long to fully Romanize an area.

Alternatively: no Joan of Arc in their timeline.  Those areas are most similar to lands that England held in the 1440s.

But... what about Bonaparte?  If he fought for the French, we have to assume he took all of Britain's continental possessions (save Gibraltar... and maybe Calais for the memes?). (Alternatively, he could have fought for the Savoyards, and unified Italy a few decades early.)  Of course, the British were fighting a land war against Bonaparte in real life anyway, largely in Iberia, and funding the war elsewhere.  And, like in real life, the Brits got their land back and then some.

The weirdest thing in this show is moving the republican revolution into the what, 1890s?  What on Earth were the politics that allowed the Crown to control London and Kent and its overseas possessions, while losing most of the island to, uh, Roundheads?  Victoria (or Elfrida) was not an incompetent monarch, so it can't be that.  By the late 1800s, most of the revolutions in the world were nationalist, attempting to forge a state out of an ethnic group's homelands.  But, of course, the Midlands are just as English as London. So it seems unlikely.

But the Commonwealth is a group that can't control London (The City), Canterbury (the Church) and the colonies, but has its base in the industrial heartlands in Lancashire.  Oh my, the Commonwealth are damned commies!  For the common wealth, not the capitalist wealth!  It definitely makes the whole Berlin, er London Wall thing more appropriate.  And the late 1800s were full of communists (as well as anarchists, ultra-nationalists, etc.) – perhaps they're actually trying what Marx said, rather than applying communism onto an immature economy like Russia (still is, too).  It also explains why colonies would stay loyal to the Crown, since one would expect Indian client princes and Cecil Rhodes to want to continue keeping the proletariat down where they belong.

Anyway, that's my attempt to put Princess Principal into a plausible timeline.  Anyone else have theories?]]> <![CDATA[I'm curious...]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=14890 Sun, 22 Jun 2025 11:48:55 -0500 Bob Schroeck]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=14890
I'm only asking because in the footnotes for the second chapter of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Touring were links to MP3s of original music we created for Wakaba Girls. And no one has commented on them in the week they've been up. In fact, no one has even responded to my explicit query about people's reactions in the story thread.]]>
I'm only asking because in the footnotes for the second chapter of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Touring were links to MP3s of original music we created for Wakaba Girls. And no one has commented on them in the week they've been up. In fact, no one has even responded to my explicit query about people's reactions in the story thread.]]> <![CDATA[So, the Youtube Algorithm Spat This Out For Me Tonight...]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=14883 Sat, 07 Jun 2025 19:57:51 -0500 Bob Schroeck]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=14883
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]]> <![CDATA[Meta notes]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=14877 Sun, 18 May 2025 13:52:53 -0500 robkelk]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=14877

Deconstructions can be time-consuming to write. I just spent a half-hour researching the real-world answer to a question I had about a story element that's so inconsequential that it'll probably go unnoticed by the readers... unless, of course, we got it wrong.

The answer, by the way, is "Yes".

(Okay, okay... "Yes, five hours of "BD Pure Audio" lossless-format 7.1 channel audio will fit on a single Blu-ray audio disc or a single 50 GB SSD, so we can do a studio-quality master of the entire concert." At this point, I'm not going to say which concert, because there are at least three points in the devfiles where we might want to do this.)]]>

Deconstructions can be time-consuming to write. I just spent a half-hour researching the real-world answer to a question I had about a story element that's so inconsequential that it'll probably go unnoticed by the readers... unless, of course, we got it wrong.

The answer, by the way, is "Yes".

(Okay, okay... "Yes, five hours of "BD Pure Audio" lossless-format 7.1 channel audio will fit on a single Blu-ray audio disc or a single 50 GB SSD, so we can do a studio-quality master of the entire concert." At this point, I'm not going to say which concert, because there are at least three points in the devfiles where we might want to do this.)]]> <![CDATA[I did a thing (and you can too)]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=14860 Thu, 27 Mar 2025 11:36:35 -0500 AvrosRaven]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=14860 ) 

Raven stepped off the plane, stretching his hands behind him.
“It’s nice to be back in SoCal… ok I barely remember living here, but it’s still nice…” he said, quietly groaning in pleasure as his muscles stretched out. His bones creaked. It hadn’t been a particularly long flight, but it was still enough to make his legs fall asleep.
“I wonder what shenanigans I’m going to get up to while I’m here…” he thought as he walked into the airport proper. He picked up his bags, then set out for Rutgers University.
The ride down to the dormitories in the Uber was quiet. Lines of trees blurred past him, and it put a smile on his face. He had always liked the natural world. Besides, seeing so much green was really nice when he compared it to Arizona, with its rocky greys and browns, and small, compact trees struggling to survive. Here, though, trees grew tall and proud, a stark difference to what he was used to. It was a nice difference though, and he appreciated it. It was a good change.
The car stopped about 20 minutes later. Raven ducked his head out of the car and took his bag from the trunk. He thanked the driver, and tipped him too. Then he ran a hand through his hair as he looked up at the building in front of him. A gust of wind swirled around his body, lightly chilling him. Douglas Garden, a place that had recently had a large uptick in tenants for no apparent reason. A sly grin creeped up his face. This was going to be fun.
Raven stretched after knocking on the door. A man, maybe late thirties, early forties, opened the door. Raven plastered on his “I love people” smile and stuck his thumbs in his pockets.
“Hello! My name is Raven, it’s a pleasure to meet you! Well, it’s not my given name, but here…” he said while he pulled some papers from his bag and handed them to the older man.
“Well, it’s nice to meet you Raven, we’re glad to have you here. Welcome to Douglas Garden, my name is Bob Shroeck, but you can just call me Bob, I suppose,” Bob said in response as he took the papers. Raven stood expectantly. Bob raised an eyebrow looking at the papers. An awkward silence ensued.
“Errrm… can I live here?” Raven asked in an attempt to break the silence. Bob jumped slightly, but smiled.
“Yes, you may. Come in, come in, we’ll just get the tenant contract ready and you’ll be good to go,” he said, waving Raven in. Raven let out a sigh of relief.
‘Well, I’m certainly glad that’s over..’ he thought before following his new landlord into the main office.
The contract signing was anticlimactic. Just a couple of scribbles later, plus a handshake, and he was officially a tenant of Douglas Garden.]]> ) 

Raven stepped off the plane, stretching his hands behind him.
“It’s nice to be back in SoCal… ok I barely remember living here, but it’s still nice…” he said, quietly groaning in pleasure as his muscles stretched out. His bones creaked. It hadn’t been a particularly long flight, but it was still enough to make his legs fall asleep.
“I wonder what shenanigans I’m going to get up to while I’m here…” he thought as he walked into the airport proper. He picked up his bags, then set out for Rutgers University.
The ride down to the dormitories in the Uber was quiet. Lines of trees blurred past him, and it put a smile on his face. He had always liked the natural world. Besides, seeing so much green was really nice when he compared it to Arizona, with its rocky greys and browns, and small, compact trees struggling to survive. Here, though, trees grew tall and proud, a stark difference to what he was used to. It was a nice difference though, and he appreciated it. It was a good change.
The car stopped about 20 minutes later. Raven ducked his head out of the car and took his bag from the trunk. He thanked the driver, and tipped him too. Then he ran a hand through his hair as he looked up at the building in front of him. A gust of wind swirled around his body, lightly chilling him. Douglas Garden, a place that had recently had a large uptick in tenants for no apparent reason. A sly grin creeped up his face. This was going to be fun.
Raven stretched after knocking on the door. A man, maybe late thirties, early forties, opened the door. Raven plastered on his “I love people” smile and stuck his thumbs in his pockets.
“Hello! My name is Raven, it’s a pleasure to meet you! Well, it’s not my given name, but here…” he said while he pulled some papers from his bag and handed them to the older man.
“Well, it’s nice to meet you Raven, we’re glad to have you here. Welcome to Douglas Garden, my name is Bob Shroeck, but you can just call me Bob, I suppose,” Bob said in response as he took the papers. Raven stood expectantly. Bob raised an eyebrow looking at the papers. An awkward silence ensued.
“Errrm… can I live here?” Raven asked in an attempt to break the silence. Bob jumped slightly, but smiled.
“Yes, you may. Come in, come in, we’ll just get the tenant contract ready and you’ll be good to go,” he said, waving Raven in. Raven let out a sigh of relief.
‘Well, I’m certainly glad that’s over..’ he thought before following his new landlord into the main office.
The contract signing was anticlimactic. Just a couple of scribbles later, plus a handshake, and he was officially a tenant of Douglas Garden.]]> <![CDATA[Meta thread (I never meta thread I didn't post to) - Feedback, please]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=14779 Sun, 01 Sep 2024 18:33:31 -0500 robkelk]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=14779
  • "Like Calls to Like": new, 18 views, no in-thread comments, no ratings
  • "Fuku'ing With His Head": new, 34 views, no in-thread comments, no ratings
  • "Thermal - er, Culture Shock": retcon re-work, 49 views, no in-thread comments, no ratings
  • "House Call": retcon re-work, 384 views, no in-thread comments, no ratings
  • "It's All Relative": retcon re-work, 355 views, no in-thread comments, no ratings
  • "A Little Slice of Heaven on the Gulf": retcon re-work (EDIT: and botched slightly in that the Firefly characters got nearly zero screen-time), 513 views, all of the in-thread comments are from pre-readers, no ratings
  • "No Thanks, We've Already Got One": new, 228 views, no in-thread comments, no ratings
  • "Tell me, what do you want?": new, 193 views, no in-thread comments, no ratings
    • /me taps microphone

    Is this thing on?

    I was hoping to get some idea from reader feedback as to what to work on next, but there's no feedback. (Yes, I know the first two on the list are new enough that people might not have had time to form opinions of them yet.) I can't write stories that you want to read if nobody tells me what is and isn't working in the stories that I do tell. I don't even know whether you'd rather see new stories or re-works of pre-retcon stories... or if you even have a preference.

    As Bob mentioned here, comments go in the stories' threads, please.]]>
  • "Like Calls to Like": new, 18 views, no in-thread comments, no ratings
  • "Fuku'ing With His Head": new, 34 views, no in-thread comments, no ratings
  • "Thermal - er, Culture Shock": retcon re-work, 49 views, no in-thread comments, no ratings
  • "House Call": retcon re-work, 384 views, no in-thread comments, no ratings
  • "It's All Relative": retcon re-work, 355 views, no in-thread comments, no ratings
  • "A Little Slice of Heaven on the Gulf": retcon re-work (EDIT: and botched slightly in that the Firefly characters got nearly zero screen-time), 513 views, all of the in-thread comments are from pre-readers, no ratings
  • "No Thanks, We've Already Got One": new, 228 views, no in-thread comments, no ratings
  • "Tell me, what do you want?": new, 193 views, no in-thread comments, no ratings
    • /me taps microphone

    Is this thing on?

    I was hoping to get some idea from reader feedback as to what to work on next, but there's no feedback. (Yes, I know the first two on the list are new enough that people might not have had time to form opinions of them yet.) I can't write stories that you want to read if nobody tells me what is and isn't working in the stories that I do tell. I don't even know whether you'd rather see new stories or re-works of pre-retcon stories... or if you even have a preference.

    As Bob mentioned here, comments go in the stories' threads, please.]]>         <![CDATA[Does anybody here speak Norwegian?]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=14750 Sat, 29 Jun 2024 15:32:25 -0500 robkelk]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=14750
    I've written a scene that's the first time two characters whose native language is Norwegian speak with each other "on-screen", so of course the conversation is in that language because why wouldn't it be? But it's a language that I can't read. We come in near the end of the conversation so there's less than a half-dozen lines.

    I'm not completely convinced that Google Translate did a perfect job in translating them.

    I don't need the text proofread right away (and can probably get away with footnoting it's mechanically translated), but I'd appreciate a second opinion on the translation, please.]]>
    I've written a scene that's the first time two characters whose native language is Norwegian speak with each other "on-screen", so of course the conversation is in that language because why wouldn't it be? But it's a language that I can't read. We come in near the end of the conversation so there's less than a half-dozen lines.

    I'm not completely convinced that Google Translate did a perfect job in translating them.

    I don't need the text proofread right away (and can probably get away with footnoting it's mechanically translated), but I'd appreciate a second opinion on the translation, please.]]>         <![CDATA[SO which cute foodie dances around the kitchen singing this?]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=14728 Tue, 07 May 2024 18:02:10 -0500 classicdrogn]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=14728
    Je Suis Baguette]]>
    Je Suis Baguette]]>         <![CDATA[Things Saber is older than...]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=14688 Sun, 11 Feb 2024 01:03:03 -0500 Labster]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=14688
    We're going with the earlier time period, 407-577 AD, largely because it offers some of the other elements of the story -- roughly Welsh/Cornish/Brythonic sounding names, an invasion of pagans taking on the Christian people of Britain (i.e. Angles, Saxons, and Jutes who would later win... and then later convert to Christianity), and a more blank slate into which to write.  Romans withdrew their last soldiers from Britain in 407, after the Groans of the Britons, circa 450, they disappear from the historical record completely.  Historian and archaeologists are currently on the peaceful immigration meme, just as they supported the tribal conquest meme before 1950, so it's hard to know what really happened.

    This thread is about that time, which I don't think people really have a sense of.  So what is our Artoria older than?
    • Chivalry - it's not hard to see why later writers would want to add deeds of chivalry, because the lost kingdom idea is very good romantic literature.  But the idea of a code of knightly ethics largely evolved in the aftermath of Charlemagne's empire, which leads us to...
    • Charlemagne, Karl the Great - his being crowned emperor happened in 800, which is centuries too late.  She may have lived at the same time as Clovis, the first of the Merovingian dynasty, but certainly not alongside a Carolean.
    • Crusades - The First Crusade started in 1096!  Crusading was roughly as close in time to her as we are to Columbus' first voyage of discovery.
    • Islam - And why would you need to crusade, because Mohammed had not yet begun to preach? (He does so in 613 AD.)  The whole of the Mediterranean world was Christian, at least officially.
    • Turks living in Turkey - outside of perhaps a few merchants, Anatolia was thoroughly Greek, having been ruled by Greeks and Greek Romans for a millennium
    • The East-West Schism - The Christian church was not divided to Roman and Orthodox -- but there were other sects like Arianism which were very dominant in Western Europe, via the Vandal and Ostrogoth, and early Lombard kings
    • Hungarians living in Hungary - The Great Migration was in full swing at this period, with the above mentioned people and the Visigoths invading old Roman lands, but the Hungarians didn't come to Europe until the ninth century.
    • Formal/informal distinction in Latin languages - this seems to have emerged in the Middle Ages from the imperial "royal we" getting extended to more and more petty nobles, finally becoming the tu/vous distinction.
    • Venice - The most serene city did not yet exist, being founded later (c. 700) by Roman refugees from Lombard invaders, with many leaving from Aquileia on the land).  Nearby Ravenna did exist, and has very lovely mosaics from the same period as our Arthur/Artoria.
    • Nationalism - This one is obvious, but just a reminder that there was no concept of a British nation back then, or a nation of all of the Gaelic-speaking peoples -- in fact invaders from the north were just as feared as Germanic people from across the seas.  Religious identity played a much larger role (on the Christian side anyway; pagans were rarely concerned with orthodoxy).
    • Jadwiga of Poland - Okay, this one is pretty distant, but in 1382 Hedwig was crowned King of Poland, because there wasn't a rule in the student handbook that women can't be kings.  She was canonized as a Catholic saint in 1997, but is an early example of women ruling as a king.

    Just on the topic of of women as rulers, I think there's enough evidence that a female!Arthur as a "king" is at least plausible, historically.  Besides Jadwiga, others included precursor Pharoahs like Nefertiti and Cleopatra VI.  Matilda of Tuscany was an enormously powerful margravine of the Holy Roman Empire in the late eleventh century, and was crowned "Vice-Queen" of Italy in 1111.  It's hard to tell what title Boudica had, given all of our sources are Roman, but she would have ruled in her own right had the Romans not contested the will.  Boudica is closer in time to our Artoria than Jadwiga, though!

    Yes, this is a relatively short list of women in power, but it's much more possible than a female Empress of Japan (though there were many powerful Dowager Queens in Korea and the Ottoman Empire).  And much, much, much more plausible than a female Leonardo da Vinci, as suggested in the later Fate works.  There's a tradition of feminist reinterpretations of King Arthur, but not so much of randomly genderswapping people with mountains of written documents about their lives for fanservice.]]>
    We're going with the earlier time period, 407-577 AD, largely because it offers some of the other elements of the story -- roughly Welsh/Cornish/Brythonic sounding names, an invasion of pagans taking on the Christian people of Britain (i.e. Angles, Saxons, and Jutes who would later win... and then later convert to Christianity), and a more blank slate into which to write.  Romans withdrew their last soldiers from Britain in 407, after the Groans of the Britons, circa 450, they disappear from the historical record completely.  Historian and archaeologists are currently on the peaceful immigration meme, just as they supported the tribal conquest meme before 1950, so it's hard to know what really happened.

    This thread is about that time, which I don't think people really have a sense of.  So what is our Artoria older than?
    • Chivalry - it's not hard to see why later writers would want to add deeds of chivalry, because the lost kingdom idea is very good romantic literature.  But the idea of a code of knightly ethics largely evolved in the aftermath of Charlemagne's empire, which leads us to...
    • Charlemagne, Karl the Great - his being crowned emperor happened in 800, which is centuries too late.  She may have lived at the same time as Clovis, the first of the Merovingian dynasty, but certainly not alongside a Carolean.
    • Crusades - The First Crusade started in 1096!  Crusading was roughly as close in time to her as we are to Columbus' first voyage of discovery.
    • Islam - And why would you need to crusade, because Mohammed had not yet begun to preach? (He does so in 613 AD.)  The whole of the Mediterranean world was Christian, at least officially.
    • Turks living in Turkey - outside of perhaps a few merchants, Anatolia was thoroughly Greek, having been ruled by Greeks and Greek Romans for a millennium
    • The East-West Schism - The Christian church was not divided to Roman and Orthodox -- but there were other sects like Arianism which were very dominant in Western Europe, via the Vandal and Ostrogoth, and early Lombard kings
    • Hungarians living in Hungary - The Great Migration was in full swing at this period, with the above mentioned people and the Visigoths invading old Roman lands, but the Hungarians didn't come to Europe until the ninth century.
    • Formal/informal distinction in Latin languages - this seems to have emerged in the Middle Ages from the imperial "royal we" getting extended to more and more petty nobles, finally becoming the tu/vous distinction.
    • Venice - The most serene city did not yet exist, being founded later (c. 700) by Roman refugees from Lombard invaders, with many leaving from Aquileia on the land).  Nearby Ravenna did exist, and has very lovely mosaics from the same period as our Arthur/Artoria.
    • Nationalism - This one is obvious, but just a reminder that there was no concept of a British nation back then, or a nation of all of the Gaelic-speaking peoples -- in fact invaders from the north were just as feared as Germanic people from across the seas.  Religious identity played a much larger role (on the Christian side anyway; pagans were rarely concerned with orthodoxy).
    • Jadwiga of Poland - Okay, this one is pretty distant, but in 1382 Hedwig was crowned King of Poland, because there wasn't a rule in the student handbook that women can't be kings.  She was canonized as a Catholic saint in 1997, but is an early example of women ruling as a king.

    Just on the topic of of women as rulers, I think there's enough evidence that a female!Arthur as a "king" is at least plausible, historically.  Besides Jadwiga, others included precursor Pharoahs like Nefertiti and Cleopatra VI.  Matilda of Tuscany was an enormously powerful margravine of the Holy Roman Empire in the late eleventh century, and was crowned "Vice-Queen" of Italy in 1111.  It's hard to tell what title Boudica had, given all of our sources are Roman, but she would have ruled in her own right had the Romans not contested the will.  Boudica is closer in time to our Artoria than Jadwiga, though!

    Yes, this is a relatively short list of women in power, but it's much more possible than a female Empress of Japan (though there were many powerful Dowager Queens in Korea and the Ottoman Empire).  And much, much, much more plausible than a female Leonardo da Vinci, as suggested in the later Fate works.  There's a tradition of feminist reinterpretations of King Arthur, but not so much of randomly genderswapping people with mountains of written documents about their lives for fanservice.]]>         <![CDATA[My Apartment Manager is not a Fanfic Archive]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=14686 Thu, 01 Feb 2024 21:22:03 -0500 Bob Schroeck]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=14686 has a presence on Archive of Our Own. We're still going to post our work here, but eventually everything will also be posted on AO3 as well. We're only posting one chapter a week or so there, so as long as we keep writing at a reasonable pace, the Stories subforum should always stay ahead of it.]]> has a presence on Archive of Our Own. We're still going to post our work here, but eventually everything will also be posted on AO3 as well. We're only posting one chapter a week or so there, so as long as we keep writing at a reasonable pace, the Stories subforum should always stay ahead of it.]]> <![CDATA[Rejected Ideas]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=14667 Thu, 28 Dec 2023 15:26:14 -0500 robkelk]]> http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=14667 (12-28-2023, 02:05 PM)In Old School for Younger Readers!, Bob Schroeck Wrote: Okay, here's one I just dug up and reread for the first time in ten or twenty years: Jim Bader's A Tale of Two Wallets. Late 1990s-vintage Ranma-centric megacrossover (I identified nearly twenty different works, either as major parts or cameos, and I'm sure there are more that went right past me because I was unfamiliar with them and didn't recognize them). Worth a look. Sorta-kinda finished? The main story seems to conclude properly, but there's an incomplete epilogue/sequel tacked onto the end of it, which is unlikely to ever be finished as I seem to recall that Bader passed away some years ago.

    Anyway, you can find it on MediaMiner here, or on Fanfiction.net here (link goes to chapter 2, because chapter 1 is actually a genealogy full of spoilers).
    I don't care what that story says. I don't care how well the Makoto/Ukyo relationship is developing as of chapter 90. Our version of Makoto is not going to think that Ukyo reminds Makoto of her sempai.]]>     (12-28-2023, 02:05 PM)In Old School for Younger Readers!, Bob Schroeck Wrote: Okay, here's one I just dug up and reread for the first time in ten or twenty years: Jim Bader's A Tale of Two Wallets. Late 1990s-vintage Ranma-centric megacrossover (I identified nearly twenty different works, either as major parts or cameos, and I'm sure there are more that went right past me because I was unfamiliar with them and didn't recognize them). Worth a look. Sorta-kinda finished? The main story seems to conclude properly, but there's an incomplete epilogue/sequel tacked onto the end of it, which is unlikely to ever be finished as I seem to recall that Bader passed away some years ago.

    Anyway, you can find it on MediaMiner here, or on Fanfiction.net here (link goes to chapter 2, because chapter 1 is actually a genealogy full of spoilers).
    I don't care what that story says. I don't care how well the Makoto/Ukyo relationship is developing as of chapter 90. Our version of Makoto is not going to think that Ukyo reminds Makoto of her sempai.]]>