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Good taste in music covers….well, it doesn't really cover any sins, but it's something in his favor. Nope. It's just based on the content of the first two books. The excerpt, as I recall, doesn't have anything about Prof's weakness, so there was nothing for them to reference. (I'm considering making a post about how trauma-based triggers work, just because there are so many people who seem to think that exposure to his weakness would make him more rational, not less. I mean, they all say "Oh, that makes sense" when a weakness is compared to a PTSD trigger, but still.)
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It's like putting a college slacker who got drunk one night and wound up crippling someone with his car next to Jeffrey Dahmer and the Zodiac Killer: The slacker's still got quite a few things to answer for, but compared to the competition he actually seems pretty nice. Edit: Speaking of serial killers, it looks like I'll be reading I Am Not a Serial Killer on the plane after all.
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Um, point me to some articles that need my expertise and give me a rundown of the format and whatnot? I remember thinking that the Firefight articles needed some serious TLC, but I was afraid to edit them for fear I'd do it wrong and leave someone else with an even bigger mess.
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It's also possible that his greatest fear is something he would never in a million years associate with being a fear. Take Steelheart. Fearing people who don't fear you isn't a common fear in the slightest, and it's something most people wouldn't even guess they had until they'd gone through years of therapy. Even then, they might not be able to verbalize it. The same goes for Newton's weakness--it's something she might not even connect to her root fear, but it's something that triggers bad memories regardless. Prof's fear might be something he doesn't even classify as a fear.
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My flying raptor dropped me too hard and it HURT ME! No cheery fire 'cause my floating fortress don't have a CHIMNEY! I couldn't finish off the Balloner 'cause I don't got a 'chute Then I went to the queen, got a look to make me puke. Oh no, there's a diamond right where I wanna land Now Nighthound's being a creepy Epic, man. I got FIRST WORLD, FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS!
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If they're the same person, Hellboy?
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Probably not. I know some people might consider this strange, but I don't like Brandon's Cosmere books as much as I like the Reckoners. This doesn't mean I don't like Cosmere at all; to the contrary, I've thoroughly enjoyed every Brandon book I've read so far, and I've been consistently impressed with the worlds he creates. Still, I've always been an urban fantasy girl. I thought I was geeking out when I read LoTR, watched all the movies, and started a Middle-Earth RPG as a teen, but I didn't know what geeking out was until I read the Harry Potter series a few years later. Since then, and since various Marvel movies captured my imagination, I've found the idea of supernatural things happening in our world fascinating. So for me, the Reckoners books are as close to perfect as a series can get--cool powers, engaging characters, a wonderfully disastrous twist on the traditional superhero setting, hilariously bad metaphors, and a central theme that really makes you think. I love the Cosmere, but I don't know that it would have captured my imagination the same way.
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Is there a book or series that you absolutely cannot stand?
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Theoretically, yes, but weaknesses function like PTSD triggers. Exposing himself to his weakness could have led to him removing the corruption, though we've seen that he's still corrupted, so it's more likely that he would avoid exposure. From what we've seen, exposure usually either makes the Epic angry, leaves them a terrified mess, or both.
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Well, she does this thing where she always brings a toy or some other item to anyone who comes home. For a while, she'd bring anything she could carry--usually one of her toys, but if a piece of laundry was lying in her path when she came to greet you, she'd bring that. I don't know why; maybe she just thinks it's rude to greet someone without giving them a gift. Lately, she's changed her methods from toys to random objects to shoes. Your own shoes, if she can manage it. I think her reasoning is that they smell like her people, so we're sure to like them. Or maybe they're just what she usually sees of us, being so small. Whatever the case, when I got back from errands this morning, she dropped the pillowcase she'd brought me in favor of one of the sandals I'd just taken off. She picked it up and pranced around in a circle while I thanked her for the gift.
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Mine sometimes turn out better the second time around, like with one Quota post I lost, so maybe that'll be the case here. I'm on my phone so I can't post pictures, but would it help if I told you about Mollie's shoes of greeting?
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Wow. I'm sorry, Kobold.
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So don't. Don't take the bait. She'll get the point.
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Hi Jack! Tell Edge Mary just earned herself a second spot on the ATTD List! (You're nowhere near it, though. )
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We can always hijack a Walmart delivery truck.
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Usually, I choose who to write by whose perspective is needed to move the scene along, which makes it simple when one of my characters is holding a conversation or performing an action that's needed to the scene to progress. When I have multiple characters in a scene, though, I'll usually choose whose perspective would be the most interesting. I don't outline, but I do play and replay a scene in my head, picking out snatches of dialogue or description that I want to use, tweaking them until the scene I've envisioned is the one I want to put to paper. If I have two characters in a scene, I'll test the scene from both of their perspectives to see which one gives the scene a more interesting flair. The one exception to this rule, I think, was Funtimes. Her personality and behavior were very clear in my mind when I began writing her, but I hadn't quite pinned down her internal dialogue or motivations yet. I like to think that I hadn't gotten to know her yet—but I did know Nathan, so I wrote solely from his perspective for a while. I've since learned what makes her tick, but at first I used Nathan and Remington to narrate her actions. I didn't want to write her perspective until I was sure I could handle it. I don't usually plan my posts ahead, since we pants so much, but I have been working on Funtimes' flashbacks and a sequence I've been planning to incorporate into her arc for a while. I'm doing those ahead of time because, with the flashbacks, I'll be sprinkling them in here and there and I want to make sure I have them ready for when I find a place they'll fit—rather than shoehorning them in because I need to move her backstory along. And for the future sequence, I'll want to structure her posts in order to build up to that, so I'll need an idea of what I'm working toward. As for non-RP projects, I do have a story I've been planning for a while. You know all those scientists in WWII-era comics who create a superpower-granting serum, use it once, and then either die or have something happen to their formula so it's never used again? I'm working on one where the scientist succeeds and releases it in secret, granting about a third of the world's population superpowers. I haven't really written anything for it, since I'm still hashing out character motivations (and trying to come up with a decent plot ) but I'm definitely going to pursue that one.
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Having a Bad Day? Stop here for a Good Rant!
TwiLyghtSansSparkles replied to traceria's topic in General Discussion
That is her hobby, so far as I can tell. She needs a different one. -
Having a Bad Day? Stop here for a Good Rant!
TwiLyghtSansSparkles replied to traceria's topic in General Discussion
Dear Mom, My eleven-year-old sister did ONE irritating thing last night. And that thing--pointing out that she hadn't taken her water glasses downstairs to the dishwasher like she was supposed to--can even be seen as an act of honesty. Lazy, yes, but also honest. You already told my dad how much it annoyed you when it happened. I think it's time to stop complaining about it to your friends. Seriously. It's not worth a twenty-minute conversation. -
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And it would depend on what kind of class he taught. I grew up partly in a mid-sized town, where the schools usually had two sets of teachers—one for the "advanced" students and one for the students who were falling behind, had behavioral issues, or both. My brother and I were homeschooled, so when we went into public school, the administration automatically decided we must be idiots, even though we had consistently tested in the 80-90th percentile for our respective grade levels. So my brother went into the fifth-grade class full of students with behavioral issues, where his good academic performance and behavior convinced his teacher not to quit in the middle of the school year. The year after that, our good grades convinced administration to move us onto the "advanced" track, where behavioral problems among the students were rare and nearly all of them wanted to succeed, and so learned without complaint. If Prof were a teacher for the "advanced" track, the idea that he became a teacher to maintain control would make some sense. However, bear in mind that most public school teachers start out at the bottom of the ladder (and I mean the very bottom) so he probably would have taught unruly students who were falling behind for at least the first few years of his career. He would have known this would be the case before he took his first job, having heard professors and students in their practicums talk while still at university, so it seems unlikely that he would choose teaching because it offered him control.
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Having a Bad Day? Stop here for a Good Rant!
TwiLyghtSansSparkles replied to traceria's topic in General Discussion
Ewwww. I've picked berries before, and there's nothing worse than doing all of that hard work for maybe a handful of edible berries. -
Inside Out (Spoilers! Obviously.)
TwiLyghtSansSparkles replied to mail-mi's topic in Entertainment Discussion
I thought his lack of resurrection made his sacrifice more meaningful, but I did shed more than a few tears at that scene. In his first adventure, he takes a little girl to the moon in his magic red wagon.