Keith Inc.
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Love you.
Loooooooooove your name (have a few Blackadder fanfics of my own).
Love your chosen fandom for expression.
Love your icon. Well. Like your icon. Okay, i like uniforms. Norrington...NSM.
Love the oceans.
hugs.
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Gene Wolfe says there are two things to consider in a story.
SOmeone is telling it. And when they do, someone is hearing/reading it.
Your story could be written to random posterity on a cave wall, told to a confessor, fed to a computer, written as advice to an unborn child...
Could be first person, told by the participant, by the sidekick, by an observer, by a prosecutor...
Written, dictated, built, or whatever.
Form the tale in your mind, at least the setting, tale teller and listener(s).
Figure out what the teller wants to convey, then convey it.
A first person speaker may get deep into his own motivations. Especially someone like Spenser explaining how he solved the case or why he shot the bad guy, or someone trying to explain to their kid why they picked this woman.
A third person speaker probably would quote a lot, maybe guess at motivation.
And so on...
Oh, and if you're thinking you need more dialogue, consider drafting the story as a script. Block it out:
Speaker: I think that you need to say this.
Listener: um, hmmm.
Speaker: Then later, go back and block out the actions and location.
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Not familiar with him.Thanx.Keith, you wouldn't happen to be a listener of Pat Condell would you? If not, you might like to check him out. -
While I agree one should respect another's religion,
What sort of moral code would this be based upon? Infinite punishment for finite crimes? The superiority of a chosen race, nation or ideology in the eyes of the creator of all mankind? God dies as a blood sacrifice to himself to convince himself to forgive those that transgressed laws he himself published?
I don't see any reason to respect any religion.
I fully respect anyone's right to have a religion, to worship freely (up to the point of infringing on the rights of others), and to wave their religious symbols at the undead.
("Sister Ophelia! Show the vampire your cross!"
"Oi! Fang-face! Get the fuck off the hood!")
I'll respect the religious. And nonreligious. And the irreligious. But no, i don't see any purpose to respect the religion...
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Sparrow staggers over the side of the ship and lands in Disneyland?that's a great idea for a parody. think about it
Oh, his eyes would light up from within when he saw all the happy shiny toys...
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Obviously, this judge decides child porn issues based on the reaction of the viewer. the idea being, i guess, that pedophiles wouldn't BE pedophiles if they never saw people, or anything that might be taken for people, ragging the nasty?
I prefer the view that CHILD porn be judged for its affect, or potential effect, on the child involved. The child thatperforms or poses is a concern. Ink that poses is not. Besides, Bart was eleven in, what, 1987? He's past his majority. Hell, Maggie was two, so she's 23 now. She certainly wears it well...
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SightSoBlind's review of Commodore, i would guess?
My first temptation would be to reply to the review by quoting SSB's review and correcting all the spelling mistakes. Nothing more.
Actually, MY first temptation would be to say thanx. I love reviews. Good, bad, i'm such a review whore i'll take any attention. Which sometimes seems to go right up my critic's nose...
But really, why would anyone assume that fanfic of a Disney movie was meant as a historical piece? Were the zombiepirateghosts historical in the movie? The Kraken? A sailing ship that was resurrected?
I could see, maybe, writing fanfic that corrects a Disney movie's mistakes, and presenting THAT as history. Instead, criticizing fanfic for anachronisms is just insane. Why would a historian expect history in the POTC archive?
Ah, well, SSB got their rocks off feeling all superior to you, and you know that their critique fell wide of the mark, so you can feel superior to them in return.
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Found a site that actually acknowledges AFF's bible fanfic.
usually, they're all het up about The Site Dat Won't Be Named, and the huge Bible archive there.
This 'n:
http://blaine36.blog.friendster.com/tag/po...lture-scandals/
even refers to a particular story here.
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WOOT!! Battlefield 2142!!!!! You make it sound like one of the knife only servers Keith.
I have no idea what you just said...
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Bwah! Hehehe. This is just the stuff i talk about in something resembling public... You should see what i do for daydreams.Settles Keith down on psychiatrists chair, makes sure there are no sharp objects in reach.... "Now, tell me, how long have you been having these dreams?"I look forward to seeing what (if anything) comes from this small beginning.'PurrHuh. Once i started, i could hardly stop. It's here:
http://books.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600093824
It's pretty much the dream, dressed out into a story told to another.
Hope you enjoy reading it even half as much as you enjoyed anticipating it.
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Title:Necromancy
Author: Keith Inc.
Rating: Adult (some violence, some undead, No real sex)
Summary: An army of the Dead has been raised to attack Ankh Morpork. The wizards can't help, the Priests will be a bit delayed, the City Watch is all that stands in the way. Some popular Watch characters, and one OC, help Sam fend off disaster.
Feedback: Oh, i am a review WHORE! Good, bad, your mother wears army boots, i love every sort of feedback. And she's a size 7, thanks.
Fandom: Discworld books
URL: Necromancy
Thanx for reading my little boast, here. Hope you read, really hope you enjoy the story.
Keith Inc.
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Well, my 'Lamia' got up to 63 chappies, about 12 actual chapters so far.
http://original.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600091706
and
http://original.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600094238
And my Land of The Giants sequel series has about 20 episodes in season 1... http://tv.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600093848
Most of my stories are rather small, limited in duration and scope. An idea forms in my head and i write it down. For these, though, i keep coming up with additional scenarios for the heroes/heroines involved.
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You mean the not banked money? I ran a utility to match posts to open money, after modding the store back in. I don't do that very often, but it DOES need to be done occasionally
Well, i had the max in the bank and the max for not banked. The other day i noticed that it was all gone, so i've been shifting the interest out of the bank.
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Is that where everyone's money went?I had to run an upgrade, which required, I recopy all the damn forum files. Which means I now get to re-mod everything -
Well, no, unless they put in a footnote at every line to show what was 'inspired' and what was original to Tolkinefan78. They're still presenting a story that the reader can't tell what was copied without permission and what was theirs.What if say Tolkienfan78 did that, but put in the disclaimer something very vague, like "Not all situations in this story are 100% original. Credit to all authors this work has been inspired by."Even though it doesn't cite anyone by name, is that enough to discount any claims of plagiarism?
that may be their DEFENSE for plagiarism, accidental mimicry, or honest confusion about what they wrote vs. what they remembered.Or what if Tolkienfan78 maybe read ForceMaster's fic a year or two ago, and without realizing it, copied the scene almost exactly.Maybe different words, definitely different names and places, but same sequence of events exactly? Would it still be plagiarism if the person did so unintentionally. or without their own knowledge?
But it's still someone else's work being presented as their own.
Yes, there are long legal battles, especially in music, that work to show that Artist A holds the copyright to the backbeat on Artist Bs album.This happens a lot more than I would have thought, before hearing about it many times, even in published work.Intent is an important part of 'fair use' in copyright law, but not on the basic charge of plagiarism. Is it your work or someone else's? Kinda binary.
But open sourcing in software is meant to make it easier to write software units that work on specific hardware platforms.If a vague disclaimer like that could work, and was put into general use, we may see more derivative works, which would make fiction that made use of it kind of samey, but at the same time, if something like that was mainstream, and such a movement of ideas become standard, it could open doors for some writers to take things that have already been done in fanfiction and put a spin on it much more easily, like programmers using open source code in their own programs to speed things up.The only analogy to writing would be that we have standardized spelling in a common language. makes it easier to get ideas across.
I appreciate fan, fandom and fanfic. if someone said that they got the idea from my story, or got some scenes from my story, and identified it, anyone reading THEIR work could find mine and compare. THEN it isn't plagiarism. They could call it fanning the fanfic. More power to them.
A generic 'this isn't original to me' disclaimer without those specifics would not clearly specify what they got from where.
Or, i suppose, they could post in different colored inks... This is mine, this part you'll have to google or something to see if you can find who wrote it.
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I think the essence of plagiarism is presenting another person's work as your own. There's no real upper or lower limit to the amount that must be stolen to be plagiarism, just an issue of credit where due.
In fanfic, it's a given that the fan isn't the creator of Harry Potter, NCIS, Atlantis or the USS Enterprise. Any canon characters, settings, plot points, plot devices or even entire scenes of dialogue are used, often depending rather heavily on the readership recognizing the original for where it comes from. It's not plagiarism if no one would reasonably assume, from your story, that you invented the concept of Warp Drive or the Force. It might be a copyright violation, but that's a different issue.
But if, for example, you take a scene from someone else's story, say Luke and Leia having whoopie smoochies on the Millenium Falcon, and just replace the names so it's Aragorn and Eowyn getting down in Helm's Deep, without any sort of credit to the original author, it's plagiarism, even if it's onlyone scene.
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I'm curious, who here seems to be the one and only writer in a fandom? What (sub)category do you write in where you are the one and only author on the page(s)?
What categories? How many?
I have the one and only story in Crocodile Hunter, the only Jack Chick Tract fanfic slash,
Both of Reno 911,
And all 12 of Gulliver's Travels.
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Writers create. This is the assertion of an author, one who seems quite upset about fanfiction. I’m afraid I don’t quite see eye to eye with him. Her? Wasn’t paying that much attention and can’t find the page again.
Anyway, this individual asks how I’d feel if I was a real writer (fanfics are not creations, so if I write only fanfic, I can’t, he says, call myself a writer), and had created a new story and someone fanficced it, slashed my characters in relationships I found offensive and so on.
I did think about this. Really. And maybe I’m just the wrong person to be asked of this.
I do like to imagine something I’ve written being picked up and used, by TV or movie. And I could imagine that there would be tie-ins, marketing and merchandising. And maybe a TV series or some spin offs. I mean, in the best possible world, of course.
Now, as a reader, I often am disappointed in movie characters of books I’ve read. They don’t always look right, they don’t act right. Maybe I’m the one that’s wrong. Maybe directors, screenwriters and actors take extra special care so that their interpretation of a character matches the author’s original vision precisely. And when they drop scenes there just isn’t room for, it’s always the one’s the author felt less than married to. “It was something my editor wanted, I never saw a need for the scene,” they may say.
Or maybe not. Maybe there’s always going to be someone professionally hacking my characters, scenes, narrative. If I’m paid for the opportunity, I probably won’t be terribly concerned. It may even be in the contract.
Then there’s the audience. My characters will be action figures. Kids will act out scenes from my movie. Of course, they’re going to get bored doing the same thing over and over again. They’ll start improving on it in their play. Lamia’s action figure will fight Darth Vader. Clarisse will marry Barbie. Or eat her. My Starfleet Blackadder officer will serve on the Voyager Bridge playset or maybe he’ll lead GI Joes on a mission. It’s what we used to do, so I haven’t got a problem with that.
My Character’s RPG stats may show up in a magazine so people can introduce Dungeon Skippy to their campaign. I could be parodied on SNL or in MAD Magazine.
The TV show that is inspired by my movie would probably employ a number of different writers over the ten seasons it’s in production. Not all of them will have a perfect handle on my giant SID Agent or his human partner, or the various subplots confusing the people and governments involved.
At conventions I would have to establish carefully that the smart-assed sidekick was not my invention, nor the plucky robot or the dodgy mechanic who becomes a fan favorite. And when I judge the costume contests I can’t downgrade a woman’s efforts just because there were no women on Space Station Arcadia when _I_ envisioned it.
It seems that the height of authoring success leads rather directly to a whole bunch of people just absolutely fucking with your character(s). Why would I treat the fanfic differently? Or, why would slash ‘shipping be too terribly different from everyone else’s take?
Again, though, maybe I’m the wrong person to ask.
Do I create, though? Writers create, it is asserted. But how easy would it be to create something completely original? The basic plots are eternal: Man vs. nature, man vs. man, man vs. public transit, whatever the asserted basic seven, ten or thirty plots are. When you boil down Star Wars and Harry Potter, how original are they? An orphan living with relatives founds out that the world is not as he thought, he has powers and a bearded old man to teach him to use them, new friends and adventures, natural piloting skills, deft hand with the magic system they depend upon, an important heritage… And so on and so forth. No one complains that basic plot devices or character archetypes depend on previously established fictions and are not entirely original creations.
Dante’s Inferno, Milton’s Paradise Lost are both respected efforts building on characters and settings they didn’t ‘create.’ But Inferno, for one, was so successful many Christians I’ve talked to think their impression of Hell’s set up is biblical, not Dante’s in source.
For me, I’d say that any new story is at least a little bit ‘creation.’ Without fanfic, it is unlikely that the agents of NCIS would ever investigate the deaths of Marines serving at Stargate Command. Different networks, different studios, different contracts.
I do dislike some fanfic, such as the hamfisted self-insertion. The Supernatural brother’s long-lost sister; Agent Scully’s new and unstoppable partner; the human Starfleet officer who can program Spock’s computer better than Spock can… But then, a lot of original fiction sucks. I stopped reading Dirk Pitt’s adventures when the masturbation became too obvious to ignore. So, it’s a matter of good writing vs. bad writing, not creation vs. fanficcing.
I guess some of us are just too full of ourselves. I wish I could refind this author’s rant. I want to buy his action figures as a compliment. Then pose his characters in Celtic dance numbers with Lego men and anime bobbleheads and call it fan art..
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I was all set to hack. To slay. To pile bodies...
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Cuspigroup to help at-risk borrowers stay in homes
Monday November 10, 9:40 pm ET
By Pella Dupi, LP Business Writer
Cuspigroup unveils moratorium on foreclosures, plans to reach out to 1,500,000 at-risk borrowers
NEW YORK (AP) – A seldom considered aspect of this society being victimized by current economic woes is receiving much-needed attention today. Cuspigroup says it is imposing a moratorium on most foreclosures as part of a series of initiatives aimed at helping at-risk borrowers remain in their homes -- making Cuspi the latest big bank to announce sweeping efforts to try to curtail losses from souring mortgages.
By ‘borrowers’ they do not mean the people that hold the mortgage, although they benefit. The moratorium is being established on home in which tiny human-like beings, who call themselves ‘Borrowers,” reside.
Cuspi said late Monday it won't initiate a foreclosure or complete a foreclosure sale on any eligible mortgage on any home if it is the principal residence of a family of Borrowers that qualify under the terms of the moratorium.
Qualification depends on residency and family size. The greatest urge is to protect the homes and housing of Borrower families with three or more children. Following them, any family with at least one child still living between the walls will take second priority. Borrowers that correspond to human retirees in age and established habitation have a priority over new couples with no children. Single, unmarried Borrowers of both genders are specifically excluded from this initiative, although individual arrangements with individual lenders can be concluded within existing bank policy.
Cuspi said it is also working to expand the program to include mortgages the bank services but does not own.
Additionally, spokespeople for the US government have indicated that the Obama administration is interested in participating on behalf of threatened Borrowers. Programs have been opened for those that are anxious about attempting to survive in houses that may be abandoned for some length of time in this economy, but are outside of or of low priority in the bank’s initiative.
Some 3000 single Borrower males have been identified to be in threatened circumstances, but decline any assistance. Cultural traditions require them to strike out on their own, either to live as ‘ferals,’ out from under the umbrella of human habitation, or to find their own niche dwelling among largely unaware humans.
A further 5000 single Borrower females have been located among imperiled housing units, or soon to be of age to depart their home situation. The same cultural traditions that impel the males towards independence do not apply to the females. They are mostly welcoming federal assistance. Michelle Obama has volunteered to coordinate an effort to place as many Borrower women as possible in foster homes with qualified human keepers.
Of the four biggest U.S. banks -- CuspiGroup, JP Chase & Cage, Birdcage of America Corp. and Butterfly Nets Fargo -- Cuspi has been on the shakiest footing as a result of the mortgage crisis, reporting losses in the past four consecutive quarters while its rivals have managed to post profits. The steps announced Monday are designed to stem the number of Borrowers affected by those losses.
Suusave Davahs, chief executive of CuspiMortgage, said, "It is in our interest that Borrowers stay in their homes, preserving their cultural traditions. If they’re all driven out into the fields and sewers, there would be no one keeping mice populations under control in the city habitation environment."
"There is a huge amount of anxiety among borrowers," he said. "We will reach out to them before they become ghosties." The term refers to Borrowers that inhabit abandoned domiciles and work to keep them that way. Common strategies include making the house appear to be haunted, or damaging them to drive away prospective buyers. If you’ve ever encountered strong smells of cat pee or large piles of rat droppings during an open house, you may have been close to a family of ghosties.
Since early last year, Cuspigroup has helped about 370,000 families avoid foreclosure, representing more than $35 billion in loans, and about 300,000 Borrowers the bank said. Borrower numbers are more vague due to their distrust of journalists, humans, cameras, bankers and almost any other aspect of ‘Biggie’ society.
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Well, there's two reasons to tag.Sorry if this is in the wrong forum, but I think this is the most relevant place to ask this in. I'm awful at story codes and find it a bit overwhelming to find every last tag that could be applied to a potential upload, even to the point where I'm not sure if I should upload anything. How do you guys manage to sort through all the codes and find what describes your fic?To invite those with a certain interest and to warn off those with disinterest. If your story is about a man getting a blow job, then it needs an Oral tag. If the story is about two men getting drunk and sloppy and one says 'bite my crank!' but the other refuses, the invitation to oral sex wouldn't really be enough to satisfy anyone looking for such things, nor offensive to those that are squicked out by such things. So the tag wouldn't really be relevant.
Figure what is the main plot element or elements in your story and select those tags. Gender(s) involved, major intercourse actions, and anything that will drive certain readers screaming into the night.... Anything more than two or three is probably overdoing it unless you really put effort into the full spectrum of perversions in your story.
For me, if the story description is shorter than the list of warning codes, i'm unlikely to open it.
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Sure we can. If they're put in position by the Church, and abusing that position, then by tolerating it the Church is effectively endorsing it. A credible threat of taxing Catholic holdings in the US will almost certainly cause them to police their own. Either they kick them out from under the umbrella protection of the church or they shut them up.Narrow it down a bit. You can't target every church because of a few activist bishops.US Military members are restricted from doing endorsements in uniform or under circumstances that could be interpreted as not being an individual opinion but representing the service branch. We can't march for politicians or for gay rights or to restrict gay rights in uniform. If a religious authority can make it clear that he is speaking as an individual, then it should be allowed. If he uses terms of religious authority, such as threats of excommunication, then he's representing the church. They should shut him up or lose their 501.c(3) status.
It's a bigger and longer-lasting fix than targeting each individual. It might also get them to stop attempting to dictate religious doctrine to the government.
Necromancer
in Aimless Babble
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Heard the song 'Womanizer' on the way to work. Felt a potential. Thought this might appeal to some people here.
Necromancer,
By Normandy Halberd
Sorcerer
Where you from? It’s my appraising,
I know you, I gotta clue, what hell you're raising
You can play the Wizard to all the other hicks out here
But I know what you are, what you are, baby
Look at you, Wearing robes made from a death shroud
Baby, you, Have all the presence of a big crowd.
Underplaying all your evil, but I see you as a devil
I know what you are, what you are, baby
Necromancer, Necro-Necromancer, Your’e a Necromancer
Oh Necromancer, Oh you're a Necromancer, baby
You’re bizarre-are
You’re bizarre-are
Necromancer, Necromancer, Necromancer
Boy I see your hearse,
I, I know that it’s not a car, car, car (x2)
(You) You’re quite disarming
(You) And oh, so charming
(You) But what you want is
(You) Body farming
Boy I see your hearse,
I, I know that it’s not a car, car, car (x2)
(You) My body’s willing
(You) But you’re so chilling
(You) You’ll make a killing
(You) Necromancer
Deadie-Yo! You got the body of a teen,
Too bad for you, It doesn’t fit behind the screen.
I guess when you have one too many, makes it hard
It could be easy, who you are, that's just who you are baby
Clean it up! Your breath reminds me of a coffin
Gotta wonder What exactly you’ve been boffin’
If the morgue is where you’re cruisin’
I gotta tell you that your loosin’ any chance, chance with me, baby.
Necromancer, Necro-Necromancer, You're a Necromancer,
Oh Necromancer, Oh you're a Necromancer, baby
You’re bizarre-are
You’re bizarre-are
Necromancer, Necromancer, Necromancer
Boy I see your hearse,
I, I know that it’s not a car, car, car (x2)
(You) You’re quite disarming
(You) And oh, so charming
(You) But what you want is
(You) Body farming
Boy I see your hearse,
I, I know that it’s not a car, car, car (x2)
(You) My body’s willing
(You) But you’re so chilling
(You) You’ll make a killing
(You) Necromancer
Maybe if we both lived in the daylight world
It would be all good, and maybe I could be ya girl
But I can't 'cause we don't
Necromancer, Necro-Necromancer, You’re a Necromancer,
Oh Necromancer, Oh you're a Necromancer, baby
You’re bizarre-are
You’re bizarre-are
Necromancer, Necromancer, Necromancer
Boy I see your hearse,
I, I know that it’s not a car, car, car (x2)
(You) You’re quite disarming
(You) And oh, so charming
(You) But what you want is
(You) Body farming
Boy I see your hearse,
I, I know that it’s not a car, car, car (x2)
(You) My body’s willing
(You) But you’re so chilling
(You) You’ll make a killing
(You) Necromancer
Boy I see your hearse,
I, I know that it’s not a car, car, car (x2)
Necromancer, Necro-Necromancer
You’re a Necromancer
Oh Necromancer, Oh you're a Necromancer, baby