Desiderius Price
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Black’s so overdone as a nefarious color choice. In my current potter fanfic, it’s now canary yellow! Really helps distinguish this group from the others. (The next group in this story will be using bottle green.)
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Yeah, sterile white sounds good, especially when the nefarious group thinks/believes they’re doing the right thing. Even in my case, the canary yellow group thinks they’re doing the right thing too. As I re-read the material (rewriting), I did notice a lot of black, however, I think the switch to canary yellow is a *WAY* better decision.
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For villains, I like to use colors that seem unnatural or out of place. I once wrote a Steven Universe fanfic about a nefarious collective intelligence called the Splinter, which could infect people and control their minds. Infected persons had swirling orange specks in their eyes. I chose orange because it's not a color you ever see in human eyes, or a color that was normally associated with any of the main characters.
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I really make my plots complicated. In my case, it’s not the intention of the canary yellow group to be evil, the canary yellow simply being a close proximity to the Hufflepuff colors around the martyr that’s been chosen, and this group is being tricked/fooled into being evil toward Harry. Bottle green is by the next group is to (incorrectly) affiliate themselves with Harry, reinforcing the fears at the core of the slander/smear campaign being waged against him.
In prior drafts, I had both groups in black (ie “dark”). However, this pass through (of what I hope to be the FINAL draft), the canary yellow simply evolved, and I realized it was more effective than the black had been. I applied the same logic to the next group, and so they’re going to be in robes of bottle green, to match Harry’s eyes.
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YAY! I’ve finally met my NANOWRIMO (November’s) GOAL! Yippee!
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Better late than never.
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The game’s been distracting, so haven’t been sinking quite as much time as I’d like into the story, it was otherwise a semi-reasonable goal. This is also where having a daily morning writing habit helps, because I hadn’t really abandoned that (simply because it’s too unsafe to delve into the game before work), means I’m still plodding along at hundreds if not a 1K per work day.
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What sucks is I’m on my second power outage of the day
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Wishing Dirty Angel another happy birthday! (Maybe she’ll bless AFF with a visit?)
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Like this FB meme going around. “There are literally NO rules saying your New Year’s resolutions can’t be for evil.”
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The inverse is also true.
World Domination can be used for good
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Good vs evil can be in the eye of the beholder too. Ends justify the means sort of thing. Aside from Halloween fics, I tend to write my originals like this, where both sides believe they’re doing good even though it’s interpreted as evil by the other side..
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Happy New Year. May 2022 fare better than 2021.
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New Years Resolution: I'm going to strive to avoid making resolutions/goals, I'll only let myself down.
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Winter arrives in about an hour, solstice time!
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Need more BBQ sauce.
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And marshmallows.
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Chocolate for the Smor’s (dessert)
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On the FOURTH day of Christmas, a true love ought to give:
FOUR scammers getting baited and losing their gift cards
THREE busted spammers’ modems
TWO broken spammer’s modems1
ONE spammer’s head in a pear tree1Credit to @BronxWench for the second line
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Can you tell I’ve gotten peeved at the spammers slithering across our website, littering our forum with their filth?
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Believe me, Desi, we really appreciate the giggles as we fight the bastards
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Don’t know the available settings on this thing. However, if you can update the captcha requirements to post as a guest, and get all guest-posts put into a moderation pool (for approval) before becoming visible, that might help? Even though, yes, you’re fast to remove them, it is pubic in visibility for a short period.
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On the THIRD day of Christmas a true love ought to give three destroyed spammers’ modems, two broken spammers’ keyboards1, and a spammer’s head in a pear tree.
1Credit to @BronxWench for the second line, maybe a forum topic would’ve been better?
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For the first day of Christmas, a true love OUGHT to give a spammer’s head in a pear tree.
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One the second day of Christmas, my true love gave to me two broken keyboards, and a spammer’s head in a pear tree.
(For nostalgia’s sake: http://www2.adult-fanfiction.org/forum/topic/18623-12-days-of-aff/ )
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Tis the season for Santa’s Workshop to be bought out by a Wall Street private equity firm.
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Started off as a conversation with a coworker about the likely OSHA violations (for Santa’s Workshop).
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Yeah, I’m going to say it’d be the otherway around. You’d think it would be like wolves descneding on some old dude but then you realize Old Saint Nick has one eye.
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Word of advice to any Wall Street private equity firm thinking about this potential buyout? Do not fuck with the All-Father.
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88 Kudos on AO3, does this mean I’m going back in time?
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Crisis averted, somebody helpfully hit the button, 89 kudos.
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Sure, November’s goal might’ve been a bust, however, I think I’ve overcome the hurdle that stopped my progress. Therefore, my December’s goal is to advance my potter story from 1066k to 1125k (on-drive count). Already had 1.1k this morning before work, so off to a decent start.
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November’s over and I’ve missed my goal for the month
Still, 40k’s not too bad I suppose.
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Thanksgiving turkey recap: It was tasty/delicious, didn’t bother with gravy based on the QA taste test
Being single & celebrating by myself, I opted for a turkey breast (which is less than a full bird). Started this on Monday, when I let the thing soak in a bath of orange juice mixed with sugar, salt, & spices. Yesterday, fired up the propane meat smoker, used cherry wood chips, let it sit for four hours inside. (Also had some chicken thighs along for extra meat to enjoy later.) Only mistake, didn’t fully dump all the OJ bath out, so it was still in the cavity at hour three, dumped that then … so at that exact spot, it was a tad under cooked despite the rest being well-done (I’ll get it with the microwave on leftovers).
All in all, quite pleased with how it turned out. Quite moist, tender, and bursting in flavor with every bite, hence the decision to skip the hassle over gravy. Carcass is now in the freezer, I’ll take it out once I’m inthe mood for turkey soup.
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Turkey breast would’ve fed a small family’s feast w/o an issue, and way less effort than a full bird
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But I like the whole bird…
Actually, for a family dinner, a turkey breast is fine. It’s just not quite Thanksgiving for me.
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A whole bird would be nice, gotta admit, but then I’m one mouth, and that’d be a month of leftover turkey...gets old after awhile. So, considering all angles, made the right choice IMO. (Of course, having family living closer to go and join, that’d be even better, TBH.)
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Death penalty for spammers, anybody got an issue with this?
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It’s not just the forums; I’ve been getting a lot of spam “reviews” in the archives, too.
But yeah, the wicker man solution sounds valid.
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Cross my fingers, not an issue in my reviews, yet. But yeah, tar & feathering’s too good for them.
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Not even spammers review my stories, so I’m fine. lol
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Make yourself feel better, go back and re-read the reviews you do have for your stories.
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Only 74k left to go to meet my November goal!
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A burst in my morning writing before real work means a tad under 73k remaining.
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Happy Halloween Everybody!
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Happy Halloween! Looking forward to seeing all the little goblins at my door tonight.
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I want my money back! Third COVID shot so far, no super powers.
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No, not yet.
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Just rabbis…
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Rabbis are more filling than anything I’d find in DC.
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So, is eating a rabbi considered Kosher? (Asking for...a friend
cause ‘tis the season for questions.)
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Not that I know anything about how that works, but I’d think, if the rabbi’s kept kosher for an x amount of time (how long does it take our bodies to entirely renew all its cells?) then he’d be considered kosher…
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So, liberally apply the Kosher salt to be on the safe side?
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Oh, absolutely! Rabbi’s aren’t known for their flavour, after all...
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Now that November is almost upon us, setting a (stretch) NANOWRIMO goal, get my potter fanfic to 1.1M, on drive.
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Last week, I wrote past a million, this morning, I posted past a million on my potter fanfic!
