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I intend to poke fun and throw things at my tv tonight!

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I intend to poke fun and throw things at my tv tonight!

Think I should protest in defense of the TV?  Poor TV, its a slave to the filth that gets fed to it.

@BronxWenchI mean I take comfort in the fact that it will be used by future generations on how not to create an adaptation. Going forward, any author contacted by hollywood for an adaptation of their works must be on set at all times and in the writing room no exceptions. With veto power in their  contract no trust whatsoever. When I said I wouldn’t let Hollywood within a light year of my characters. This is the definitive example of what I meant.

@DemonGoddessI shall pray for your TV’s Absolution. miserere nobis 

 Dark Lord Leo, The Black Lion That Stalks Unseen

-Slain Narcissa Malfoy on the crossroad to knockturn Alley after being provoked

-Subjugated The locket horcrux, Found Rowena’s Diadem.

- Plunged into the abyss and fought off the horcrux that infested him and ate it. Violating the fundamental law of magic on a level much worse than Voldermort did.

-Dark Lord finally matures. Leo has taken over. And is about to make a play for Azkaban.

@Desiderius Price Slowly catching up

Nice thing with where I branched off, I don’t have to mess around with horcruxes! 

@Desiderius Price has a point. The editor needs to focus on the elements of the story, rather than act as a proofreader. If you don’t want to do an editing pass, have someone who’s good at it beta-read for you, and listen to them. 

I rely on my editor for things like making sure I haven’t screwed up the chronology between events and chapters, haven’t left some dangling threads or gaping plot holes, and that my characters won’t cause the average reader to think they’ve stumbled into the literary equivalent of Madame Tussaud’s. My editor also watches for repetitive phrasing, run-on sentences, and other abominations against the language. We both rely on the proofreader to catch any spelling or grammar mistakes we missed (damn those homophones!) and to keep an eye out for anything else that rings false on a clean read-through. But first and foremost, it’s my job to turn over a manuscript that I’ve read, re-read, proofread, spell-checked, grammar-checked, and cleaned up to the best of my ability. If I piss off my editor by being sloppy, or lazy, you can bet the publisher is going to be less willing to take another manuscript from me. Authors are a dime a dozen; good editors are rare, and therefore precious. 

I’m grossly simplifying of course, but at if you want to be an author you do need at lest a couple pair of eyes to catch what you can’t.

my editor was well compensated and tipped in gratitude.

I always try to respect the hired help, because they’re people too.  (Good plan in life, TBH.)

That’s okay, JayDee.

Completely normal to start stories just take your time pick one and affirm that you intend to finish it. Its not a race, there is no time limit. There is no score keeper.

[After death]

Me: So, I understand there was no scorekeeper?

Anubis: *Pulls out my heart, puts it on a scale which drops so fast the feather on the other side is catapulted into space*

Me: Is… is that bad?

I’m pretty sure you can get by on a technicality rather than suffer oblivion from Ammut. But in seriouness I’m pretty sure you’d be fine. Smut and writing aren’t damnable sins.

And while evil may be real. Most people aren’t.

No matter what pantheon or deity. They will accept your virtues. Avoid Isfet and you’ll be fine.

The 42 Ideals of Ma’at aren’t hard.

Hm. There are so many possibilities…

I like positions which are easily fortified but which also provide avenues for escape. Mountain ranges with an extensive network of caves and tunnels would work, especially if I could allow my shadow people free rein in those caves and tunnels. “No one who enters leaves without my permission. Now have some pie.” That sort of thing.

Mountains are hard to assail, and also very useful for hiding things you’ve acquired but aren’t ready to use yet. And there’s just something wonderfully majestic about being on a mountaintop, surveying the world below, ripe for the taking. My gamer brain keeps recalling Flemeth of Dragon Age fame. She starts out in Origins as a cranky old granny in the Wilds, and by the end of Inquisition, well… the Old Gods are never really gone, are they?

thank you

Hadn’t considered mountains like that. Delightful space to hide the spoils and to found a harpy’s roost.

No one is gonna get the drop on you.

http://original.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600109177

I don’t know if that’s a problem.  I had the summary/blurb for WitS be from Kevin’s PoV, but the story isn’t all from his perspective.

The job of the blurb is to get a potential reader to say, “Hey… hmmm...” and to look at the book’s summary—that one to two paragraph bit from the flyleaf or back of the book that clinches the sale.

Your blurb got me interested enough to look at a summary (when you have one, of course!). I’d say it did its job, right there. 

Glorfindel would have required as you said a vast cinematic universe of LOTR of multiple movies. Since he’s the only elf to essentialy be upgraded to maia after slaying a balrog no less.

I can see why peter jackson had to cut certain things, the one I’m grateful for is no tom bombadil.

That said the movies are light years of this bad abomination. I’d call it fanfiction but fans actually love the world.

Brandywine to Bree could easily have been a movie – think they could’ve made Tom Bombadil a good tale.  Ditto for Bree to Rivendell.  However, I suspect the actors might’ve objected to a 12 movie commitment (aside from the niceties of job security).

Also fun to consider the other roles the actors had.  Sam is also Mikey from the Goonies.  Bolomir is Ned Stark.  And Elrond...Elrond… had a tough time on my first viewing separating him from the Matrix

Omg halfway through the season and they finally did a decent scene! Its a miracle… I mean aside from hitting rock bottom and finding a basement beneath but hey whose counting?

To measure or not to measure, that’s the debate    Some dishes, this ain’t required, like number of bacon strips to cut up for the scrambled eggs.  Some flavoring ingredients, like cinnamon or vanilla or even garlic, can be easily increased in measure, so for french toast, I’ll eyeball it.  That soda mix I made, that required the syringes.  And the rocket propellant, that required the digital scale down to the milligram precision.

I remember asking my grandmother how much of a seasoning she used, and she cupped her hand and said, ”This much.” Drove my mother nuts, but I totally understood it. I just had her measure it out and pour it into my hand. Worked like a charm!

“Looks about right” is really a unit of measure, really, I swear

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How does it feel? I’m always torn when I make it to the end of something. I’m thrilled to be done, but never quite ready to let the little story go out into the world all alone…  

You guys are making it to the end of things?

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You guys are making it to the end of things? 

“End of things” … that does not compute.

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You guys are making it to the end of things?

I do actually make it to the end of things. I just never seem to get around to actually posting them.  

So, first off…

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Or its just your TDS going terminal.

If that abbreviation means what I think it means, I would recommend not using it.  Progress only gets made when the discourse is civil, and writing off any critics of current policies as “deranged” (again, assuming I’m right about “TDS”) is far too dismissive an approach.  There are completely rational disagreements people can have and there’s no need to accuse someone who thinks differently of having some sort of mental illness.

Now,

1. Socialism certainly isn’t a perfect system; it can implode as we’ve seen in Venezuela, but it can also be a functional socioeconomic model, as we’ve seen in the countries of the Scandinavian Peninsula, for instance.  I’m not saying Norway or Sweden are utopias, but they’re not dystopias either.  They’re functional.  Whether or not democratic socialism functions or collapses has to do with how it’s administered and with levels of corruption in the government of the nation in question, which are the same things that determine whether or not a capitalist socioeconomic system functions or collapses.  Now, don’t get me wrong, Soviet socialism was pretty disastrous, but most of what the Soviet Union did was pretty disastrous so that’s par for the course.  I think it’s worth not immediately writing off an idea that comes from a democratic socialist source purely by reflex.  We should consider the idea on its own merits.
2. While it’s true that China is the world’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, and that they will have to be dealt with at some point, that doesn’t mean there’s no point in the United States helping out.  We are the second largest emitter of greenhouse gases, and we are the largest economy on Earth, which means that we are in a unique position to do something about this problem.  Recall that human civilization is currently set to pass a tipping point around 2030, but that’s assuming our emissions don’t change.  If the US were to get to net-zero emissions, or heck, to cut our emissions in half, that would change things in a big way.  It would buy the rest of the world more time to push China to cut its own emissions.  We would be holding the line for the rest of the world, doing something very heroic, actually.
3. Past generations have absolutely screwed the current one.  That, in my opinion, is all the more reason not to do the same thing to our children by making them solve this problem.  This doesn’t have to mean that the American dream dies.
4. From what I remember, Brexit was primarily about a chunk of the British populace not wanting to put up with EU laws and not wanting to have to send money (like the other member nations) to help the EU fund its own projects.  I don’t remember any of the Brexit campaigners saying that the EU was going to collapse within ten years (anyone in the UK feel free to weigh in on this).  As for genocide, while there have been surges of far-right nationalism in Europe, including Germany, I wouldn’t start predicting the return of Nazi Germany just yet.
5. We do have problems within our own borders, but unfortunately I don’t think we can really afford to focus entirely on them.  Large-scale, planetary threats like climate change can’t really be kept out by staying isolated.

1. saikat chakrabarti. You need to look him up. Cause he’s the one pulling the strings and the one I will point as an example of why it wasn’t opening a dialogue. He’s got a puppet politician and its not at all harmless. Everything after that. I will agree on.
2. I’m not saying throwing up our hands or towels. But you do have to at somepoint concede on some level. That our conservationist and eco friend policies and regulations will help…. On a regional level and the good we’ve managed to achieve is being underscored/offset on the macro scale. You can clean a room and invent new strategies and solutions and all that but. All that effort is for naught if two children who are dirty and refuse to take a bath want to recklessly play and roughhouse in the room you have put so much effort into cleaning. You would absolutely ground them. Yes, more effort is needed but I am also aware that as big emitter as we are. Our emissions are also decreasing as technology improves.
3. I will concede that point.
4. We are taking the first baby steps into a global consciousness. So far, it is not going well when the very word of globalism is steadily becoming synonymous with treason and corruption. There has to be a way to bridge that gap. Without undercutting regions and as we are now. Humanity isn’t capable of surviving global governance. Because of all the corruption, inherent bias and plain old grudges some of which are literally millennia old.  I have family there too. I resolutely want Brexit to happen. Britain can survive without the EU. Nay, It can thrive without that superstate’s imperialistic ambitions. The EU, however, won’t survive a free Britain precisely because of its financial acumen.
5. Superpowers are also monopolies. it complicates things just a tad bit when even if they don’t want they still have to play by the rules of the superpower within reach. Then we have the EU trying to become a superpower. While at the same time stepping on the toes of all current superpowers.
6. I have extensively read the Roman Empire. History rhymes but never exactly repeats… Until a Reincarnated Caesar drives his sports car across the Rubicon. I think we’ll be fine. That is if the barbarian hordes we just open our borders to and pretend we have no crisis with have no intention to acclimate or assimilate into our culture… Oh.

1A. Its a little too close to socialism has never been tried ad nasuem.It's been tried extensively. Its a failure. The Scandinavian countries have some socialist flavors but are predominately free market.(take a listen its interesting). An idea should be able to stand by its merits. However, socialism apologists. will make up any excuse and blame everything but the idea that failed itself. Democratic socialism is little different other than we’re all equally guilty in voting for and encouraging human misery.  Maybe a hive-minded sapient species could make it work. Maybe. But for our species. Its time to just pull the plug and let the bad idea go. Without someone reanimating its corpse. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MerkGUx-2V4

1. B.I agree. We can do something and we are. Its easy to forget in all the gloom and doom. Our emissions have been decreasing. That right now we are living in a wonderous, nay miraculous age. Capitalism is pulling billions out of poverty. We have never been closer to eradicating a second disease from the world and so many wonderous good things. We should always strive to do better. This era of reckless rapid industrialization is ending and that's a good thing. More sustainable for one thing. And one of the best news in a long time is that the hole in the ozone layer is repairing itself Humanity managed to do something truly wonderous.https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ozone-hole-was-super-scary-what-happened-it-180957775/
2. Absolutely agree on three.
3. Dx. I have to provide a lot of context so I don’t sound insane on 4.  So when greece went bankrupt I started reading up on financial stuff and information like the budget of that aristocratic nightmare with delusions of empire. One of those major projects no one wants to comment on is the creation of the EU army and its a major project Britain absolutely refuses to fund with good reason. If and when Britian manages to leave. Its almost assured the EU army is coming regardless but Britain leaving effectivly silences one of the biggest voices against its creation. Now if you back to my comment of the EU is gunning for a cold war with US. There is one country in the EU that has the most to gain from it.(Germany) Since that nation hasn’t honored its financial obligations and has been freeloading its NATO obligations which is a mere 2% of GDP and they’re not even doing 1.5% of it.) This goes all back to my decade hypothesis. Because I’m assuming the EU will manage to create this military in that time. Macron and Merkel have spent alot of time talking about it after all. And since the EU has designated the US as its enemy. Germany will more than likely be where the EU army is for one reason. US has 20ish bases there.  Now if I’m an insane illegitimate power hungry superstate.(Which the EU is) Those military bases look like a threat to its imperial ambitions and with a flase flag or manufactured outrage pretext… Or to put it another way. A big shiny red button to press wink wink with a sign of don’t push. Maybe, I am completely wrong. But, I'd keep a much closer eye on Germany and what it is doing.
4. Addendum. The EU with its absolute irresponsible unfettered open borders. Have managed to not only import “children” (who happen to be grown men facts be damned and they’ll censor you for bringing this up)  of completely incompatible cultures who show no sign of assimilation. Or to be more frank. Civil unrest is assured for the next few decades if not century.
5. “Europeans” who are not European, don’t speak European languages, have no European ideals or historical context have little to no justification to be into Europe. Be considered as full-fledged natives(cause fuck history). in a surprise that surprised absolutely no one but the propagandists in the BBC. Nationalism is back and even with the propaganda mill constantly praising diversity. The cracks in the EU only grow.

True, But the fact remains evil exists. I would probably put at least a watch team on those who do evil for evil’s sake. Always a few who confuse mystery with the banality of what they espouse. Which I will always profess to be one of the great tragedies.

The true threats have always been those willing and able to ignore all moral and ethical boundaries to get what they want no matter the cost.

There are psychopaths with no remorse or sense of guilt, always trying to get away.  Some become harden criminals, others become CEOs and/or politicians.  Still, even they’re not doing evil for the sake of evil, they’re doing it for some reason.  Anyways, your story, write them as serving evil gods if you want

Here’s a secret I know from RPing Evil characters.

There’s always a reason to serve outright evil demons and or gods. Not a good reason, but a reason be it vengence, spite. Its even possible to serve an evil god out of nothing but genuine thanks because when you were at rock bottom, they were the only ones that listened.

You have to get something out of it. influence, power, wealth and or a fully stocked harem of your choice. All of the above etc… Even if it is nothing more than a reprieve from the eternal torture they promise.

The evil deities know very well how duplicitous and self-serving you are. They’re using you just as you are using them. They know very well well the moment you get a chance to taste great power. You’ll try to usurp them, and they’re counting on it. But in the mean time you poor dupe, there’s a nunnery in need of pillaging,that orphanage is oppressing you and the goody two shoes high priest isn’t going to ritually sacrifice himself in a rhapsody of torturous ecstasy.

Since the deal is a form of spiritual bribery. The more horrid and evil you are the less your assuredly damned afterlife is going to be. Because you got a ^{I did big bad} sticker and the evil spirits aren’t going to torment you as much.

@GeorgeGlass Max Brooks*’ short story The Extinction Parade and the comic miniseries adaption pretty much matches that.

*The World War Z guy.

Edit – https://www.amazon.com/Max-Brooks-Extinction-Parade-1/dp/1592912346

“As humans wage their losing fight versus the hoards of the subdead, a frightening realization sets in with the secretive vampire race: our food is dying off. This is the story of the vampire's descent into all-out war with the mindless, hungry hordes of the zombie outbreak as humanity tries to survive them all! “

Suddenly, the thought came to my head… “The Zombie Dating GAME SHOW!”  I must be very disturbed.

I kinda want to write a zombie apoclypse that happens during a dating game show. hahaha

“Sorcerer’s Stone” does run off the tongue a bit better than the Philosopher’s Stone, otherwise, yep, would’ve been better if the Britishisms weren’t removed.

As to my potter fanfic, not sure where the old disclaimer that I was American went to, apologizing in advance for not being perfect to British.  However, I do try to insert some British where I can, particularly “todger” and “zebra crossing”.

Only have two HP fanfictions when where harry is trying to survive in a zombie apocalypse a scenario were the wizarding world is almost guaranteed to thrive in since wands don’t run out of bullets 

And a dark lord Harry who AK’d peter in the graveyard, a relatively slow corruption story hahah.

I’ve only got one potter fanfic I’m working on, now A/U because it was a “continue the story” type of fic that was popular between book releases, and it’s interesting enough to finish.  As it’s technically a sequel to my first “continue the story” fanfic, which itself was “continue the story” based on  another (now abandoned) fanfic, I can’t bring the story itself to AFF w/o filing off the serial numbers which I couldn’t bring myself to do.   However, it’s plenty fun to write with Harry being framed up to be a “suspected dark wizard” and it pokes fun at the Harry/Ginny shipping.

I try to avoid shopping that entire weekend.  Though the one time I did go shopping on a Black Friday, I needed groceries, and that side of the store was nice and empty.  Electronics section was a different matter (fortunately didn’t need that).

Cyber Monday is where it is at.

Yes, Cyber Monday.  I prefer online shopping anymore, something that can be done in a birthday suit! 

My recommendation is to stop making these bets with these horrific, torturous outcomes.  Get into something safer, like skydiving.

I’ve learned my lesson @Desiderius PriceBut to be fair against a mono-green squirrel spam token generator deck even my Black/White Zombie horde  life gain combo stood no chance whatsoever. So many Squirrels.

I shall regale you with my tale of folly. For while Anointed Procession+ Endless Ranks Of The Dead+ Soul Warden= Equals a zombie apocalypse with a lifetotal of easily 100+ I had assumed I was going to win. So I made the bet.

But oh… Oh, how naive I was. For while the combo above is good. It does not compete with Parallel Lives + Doubling Season+ Doubling Season= Eight times the tokens for every token spawned and the Coupe De Grace was Squirrel Mob the size of a death star.

I implore you to hold this wisdom. You see a squirrel on the board. Be prepared to wipe the entire board with a nuke. Or at least something that can destroy enchantments.

Aw, so the writing desk now has bloodlust?

if a killer gingerbread man could happen. An evil writing desk isn’t out of the question.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBhsPP06-mA&ab_channel=radamail

They made a killer bed.

All of that sounds amazing so now I want duck too 😭

@BronxWenchMight I ask for the details of the recipe?

Thinking about it for Christmas

Sure!

For the glaze, I use 12 ounces of fresh cranberries, 1 teaspoon of orange extract, 2 mandarin oranges, peeled and chopped roughly (save the peels), 1 cup of water, and 1 cup of sugar (although if you don’t want it too sweet, you can use ½ cup of sugar). Bring the water and sugar to a boil in a medium saucepan, then add the cranberries, orange extract, and chopped mandarins. Reduce the heat so you get a gentle boil, and simmer for 10-15 minutes until the cranberries have burst open, and the liquid has reduced most of the way.

For the duck, preheat the oven to 350°F. Put the duck on a rack (really important) in a roasting pan, and put a few pieces of the mandarin peel in the cavity. Brush some of the glaze over the duck.  Roast for 45 minutes, painting the duck with glaze every 15 minutes. Take the pan out of the oven and prick the skin all over, so the fat will release and drain off. Put the duck back in the oven and roast for another hour and 15 minutes, painting the duck with more glaze every 15 minutes. I check for doneness with a meat thermometer. For duck, I check the thickest part of the breast, and it should reach 175°F. If the duck isn’t done, keep glazing every 15 minutes and checking the temperature until you reach 175°F.

The rest of the glaze makes a nice sauce for the cooked duck when you serve it. 

Just beware the red measuring tape….

Its nice to know the red tape is self-aware.

Red tape is the only sentient/intelligent life to be found in a bureaucracy.

@GeorgeGlass Sorry if it came across as anything other than trying to continue the joke, sometimes the effort flops.

@Desiderius PriceWell, you gave my post the “Sad” reaction, which is generally reserved for “I’m sorry that happened to you” kind of posts.

@GeorgeGlass Aw, I don’t restrict it as such. Though at this point, trying to remember the full point of the intended joke… too much time

jewish lore on this one is actually quite fascinating.

@Strange_idea oh? Fill us in.

The jewish people believe in debate. A LOT. To the point where there's an old joke that if god himself joined in a debate between priests, that'd only make the vote two to six.

They emphasize things like moses whittling the commandments down to ten (which is also in muslim tradition) and Abraham bargaining to find ten honest men (although some argue that's so that he can see for himself how futile it is). And in a famous story (have to track it doen, sorry), the rabbis actually beat god in a talbot debate and he celebrates his 'childrens' accomplishment.

 To them, the relationship with god is a pact, one where he has to fullfill part himself. Theyve succesfully argued terms of worship a number of times, within reason because god needs to get something too. And yes, he asks for worship, but it's closer to a parent wanting to be in your life, if im understanding it righr. Does that make sense?

Well, suppose you could torture them with a brick by brick description, along with blueprints, see how long it lasts until they’re throwing stones…

I’ll second @BronxWench with her method, similar to how I do it.  Describe the basics, leave the rest to their imagination, unless there’s something important, like a loose brick.

Aw, a more clear-cut evil for the sake of evil?  Most of my original fiction “antagonists” could be written as protagonists if you switched POVs – ie, they think they’re protecting society from the evils my typical main characters “represent”.

Sometimes you don’t need a complex motivation other than

I’m going to destroy everything!- Angra Mainyu

Angrboda’s primary motivation is family. She genuinely loves her children Fenrir, Hel and Jormungander and wants them safe on earth is understandable. Wanting to avenge her own murder is too,  Conspiring to get humanity to nuke Asgard less so.

True, sometimes it simply takes a divorce to bring out the worst in people.  Have fun writing whatever the heck you want to write!

Possibility 1.

I adore forests in fog.

I adore that spooky otherworldy air.

I can laugh at it now.

The bruises are gone but I don’t think I’m going to step into that house for a long time nomatter how much I love my grandparent.

Oh, good, you survived.  Did you need search & rescue to pull you out? 

Well between getting conked in the head by 1970’s ads in boxes , three outdated encyclopedias and essentially covered in every single issue of 1981’s readers digest surprisingly not.

Seriously, that is exceedingly unprofessional to make you come in to be told you were let go. What industry is this in?

Ironically, hospitality.

Well, shit. If it’s a hotel chain, let me know, because I won’t stay with them in future. Same thing if it’s a restaurant.