Random Stuff V - The Adminpire Strikes Back

[Voidus]

Can we all take a moment to appreciate how hardcore Sirius Black must've been? He turned himself into an Animagus, and the form he got wasn't just A dog. No, he got THE dog that happened to perfectly resemble the Grim.

Sirius Black >= Death

Therefore Sirius is still alive and the Buckbirius ship is still plausible.

[Mistrunner]

It's interesting living next to an artillery base.

Loud and shaky, but you get some interesting light shows.

[Zathoth]

Well, Bayonetta is in Smash Bros, Im not sure how to feel about this.

[Kobold King he/him]

My "Dear S.C." story was pretty popular here on the Shard, but the thought processes that led me to write it have exacted a terrible price.

 

I am no longer allowed to talk while the family watches old Christmas specials.

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

My "Dear S.C." story was pretty popular here on the Shard, but the thought processes that led me to write it have exacted a terrible price.

I am no longer allowed to talk while the family watches old Christmas specials.

We'd welcome your snark here. Criticize Christmas specials to your heart's content!

....but if you lay into It's a Wonderful Life, I will end you. After dissolving into a puddle of tears on the carpet.

[Mistrunner]

Am I the only kid who never believed in Santa?

Was it the older siblings?

Was it the fact that I was always jaded and suspicious?

In any case, I always found it strange that other kids really, truly believed. The idea of Santa made no sense to me. How old was this guy? How could he possibly go all around the world in a day? Who is he to decide who was "naughty" and who was "nice"? Why would he pay for coal, a rather expensive resource, to give to "bad" kids?

In other words, I was a cynical, depraved child.

[Kobold King he/him]

We'd welcome your snark here. Criticize Christmas specials to your heart's content!

....but if you lay into It's a Wonderful Life, I will end you. After dissolving into a puddle of tears on the carpet.

 

 

Well, have you ever seen Twas the Night Before Christmas? The one with the mice and the awesome music? Santa's response to a letter doubting his existence is pretty nasty. I mean, a single public appearance out of his 364-day vacation time would put all the skeptics to rest, but instead jolly old St. Nick elects to spite an entire town full of people. What's up with that.

 

But don't worry. It's a Wonderful Life is safe, if only because I haven't actually seen it.

 

 

@Mistrunner: my parents never told me Santa was real. As my mom says, it would have been terrible to start a precedent of lying to her offspring so early in their childhoods. We watched Christmas movies, opened presents, and overall had a blast, but none of us had any illusions about who was really paying for the gifts.

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

Well, have you ever seen Twas the Night Before Christmas? The one with the mice and the awesome music? Santa's response to a letter doubting his existence is pretty nasty. I mean, a single public appearance out of his 364-day vacation time would put all the skeptics to rest, but instead jolly old St. Nick elects to spite an entire town full of people. What's up with that.

But don't worry. It's a Wonderful Life is safe, if only because I haven't actually seen it.

@Mistrunner: my parents never told me Santa was real. As my mom says, it would have been terrible to start a precedent of lying to her offspring so early in their childhoods. We watched Christmas movies, opened presents, and overall had a blast, but none of us had any illusions about who was really paying for the gifts.

No, I've never seen that one, but it sounds like Santa missed his nap time. I'd definitely recommend It's a Wonderful Life, though. Not only does it not involve Santa at all, but it was the first Christmas special to move me to tears.

I never believed in Santa, either. My parents told my brother and I early on where the gifts came from.

[Mistrunner]

@Mistrunner: my parents never told me Santa was real. As my mom says, it would have been terrible to start a precedent of lying to her offspring so early in their childhoods. We watched Christmas movies, opened presents, and overall had a blast, but none of us had any illusions about who was really paying for the gifts.

My parents never told me he was real either. They never had to. My mother has told me I was a very jaded five-year-old. Sometimes they'd jokingly act like he was, but only because we knew it was Mom's handwriting that said "From Santa."

By the way, you can't make fun of Miracle on 34th Street either, because I will react in a way similar to what has been described by Twi.

[Elbereth she/her]

Doesn't count if it's not twilight.

...That's where your name comes from. How? How did I not get that? I thought it was just a reference to MLP and was rather confused about the "sans" part.

...I'm an idiot.

In other news, I'M ON BREAK!!!!!

[Kaymyth she/her]

...That's where your name comes from. How? How did I not get that? I thought it was just a reference to MLP and was rather confused about the "sans" part.

...I'm an idiot.

In other news, I'M ON BREAK!!!!!

 

Actually, there's a lot more to her name than that.  The story's on the boards somewhere.

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

...That's where your name comes from. How? How did I not get that? I thought it was just a reference to MLP and was rather confused about the "sans" part.

...I'm an idiot.

In other news, I'M ON BREAK!!!!!

Yep. It started back when I was 15 and began using the screen name TwiLyght. My luck was such that I did this just before Twilight became popular. I didn't read it, and so not long after, I joined an anti-fan forum for the Inheritance cycle after Eldest cruelly betrayed me, which happened right around the time the admin added Twilight to her snark list. I posted ONE topic in that forum--ONE--and got angry responses and a PM from the admin about spamming.

So I was reborn as TwiLyghtSansSparkles, lest the people of the Internet mistake me for a Twilighter again.

[Kaymyth she/her]

We did, indeed, get all of my generation of first cousins in the same place at the same time yesterday.  We hadn't done that in umpty-mumble years, so we got pictures.

 

The funeral went about as well as funerals go.  I did pretty well for the most part, but Granddaddy was buried with full military honors and so I found myself tearing up when the flag was presented.

 

He was a World War II veteran, a Navy fighter pilot in the Pacific.  We don't have many of those left, and I know that a lot of folks around here are young enough to not have many strong memories of family members from that era.  So I'm going to tell you all a story about my grandfather.  It's one that Granddaddy told everyone, one that we all grew up knowing.  Documentaries have been made about what happened in that story, but he was there in the thick of it all.

 

The USS Franklin was an aircraft carrier, nicknamed "Big Ben".  It was the carrier on which Granddaddy served through most of his involvement in the war.  He flew quite a few different types of aircraft, but the only two I know specifically were the Corsair https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vought_F4U_Corsair and the Hellcat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_F6F_Hellcat.  He flew fighter sorties and reconnaissance photography missions.

 

On March 19, 1945, the Franklin took a massive bomb hit.  It was early in the morning, and Granddaddy had been on the last flight of the previous night, so he was asleep when it happened; he slept right through the first part of it, only waking up when the "man all battlestations" alarm went out.

 

When he made it up on deck, the ship was in chaos.  Fires burned on the flight deck, and smoke and carnage were everywhere.  He ducked back down below decks just long enough to get a life vest and then ran back up to start helping.  A lot of what he did was firefighting; there was a lot of airplane fuel and ordinance on that ship, so more things kept catching fire and exploding.  At one point, he was one of a group of men rounded up by the ship's chaplain, Father O'Callahan, to organize assistance.  There's a documentary of the Franklin that features brief footage of my grandfather assisting O'Callahan with giving a few sailors last rites.

 

Eventually, the carrier Santa Fe pulled up alongside the Franklin to assist with rescue efforts, and her captain took one look at the pilots involved in dangerous firefighting work and just about blew his top.     He ordered Granddaddy and the other pilots off of the ship, telling them that they were not expendable.  (Other accounts attribute the order to the captain of the Franklin; it's quite probable they both gave the order near the same time.)  They dropped a radio mast down between the two ships and used it to crawl over to the Santa Fe.

 

When all was said and done, Franklin had lost over 800 of her crew, with an additional 300 wounded, the heaviest losses a carrier had ever taken and remained afloat.  And even with a severe list and heavy damage, she did indeed stay afloat; the captain refused to leave the ship, insisting on overseeing enough repairs to get her back to port under her own power.  It was 12,000 miles and over a month's journey, but they made it back to Pearl Harbor.

 

And that's how the Franklin became known as The Ship That Wouldn't Die.

[Young Bard he/him]

That moment when you hear there's a series called 'Bard Academy'.  

And then you google it, and it's a teenage love story.  

[Zathoth]

You know that story you imagined when you heard the name "Bard Academy"?

Write it.

[Young Bard he/him]

You know that story you imagined when you heard the name "Bard Academy"?

Write it.

 

That... actually helps. Not even as a story of it's own, but I've sort of sketchily filled in a backstory for a character that I was trying to figure out.

 

School's finished until late January (while we have our summer holidays). I've made a promise to myself to write 1000 words per day. I might post the (edited) mess of my writing onto a blog and share it to prevent myself from chickening out (again). Are you all OK with that?

[Kestrel she/her]

Pre cal final today

I'm so stressed

At least its a half day for school tho.

[Curious Anamaximder he/him]

Pre cal final today

I'm so stressed

At least its a half day for school tho.

Good Luck! To cheer you up, I spontaneusly emailed someone I know with your DeviantArt name.

[Kestrel she/her]

Good Luck! To cheer you up, I spontaneusly emailed someone I know with your DeviantArt name.

!!!

Thank you!

Eep this should be interesting

[Guest]

I JUST WATCHED THE STAR WARS MARATHON!!!!!!! IT WAS. SO. GOOD. I WILL SEE IT AGAIN.

/end rant

MAJOR SPOILERS FOLLOW. DO NOT OPEN IF YOU CARE ABOUT SPOILERS!!!

Removed by admin who is REALLY UPSET that someone posted crap like this.

Edited December 16, 2015 by Chaos

[Orlion Blight he/him]

Dude, get your spoiler tags right, please.

 

Or don't post spoilers outside of a Star Wars topic, either one would be fine.

Edited December 16, 2015 by The Orlion-Thing

[Curious Anamaximder he/him]

Fix the dang spoilers! Not cool!

[Blaze1616 he/him]

Fix the dang spoilers! Not cool!

 

Him fixing his spoilers won't fix them in your quote.

[Curious Anamaximder he/him]

Him fixing his spoilers won't fix them in your quote.

I know, but anyone can see them!

[The Honor Spren she/her]

WHY?! D-:

At least I didn't read it, but still . . .