TwiLyghtSansSparkles

No! You've been targeted by HINDSIGHT LADY, that most diabolical of Epics! She keeps her victims from seeing things until it's far too late...and then allows them to see nothing else but what they did wrong. Let's just pray she never teams up with Writer's Block.

Admittedly, I forgot about that too. (And there's always the edit feature. It was a fairly minor thing; I can easily change it to PP batting Sam's ankle with the pad of her paw instead of retracting her claws.)

Protector Pug's cuteness laughs at your logic. In seriousness: I've left her abilities vague enough that whatever isn't completely essential can be cut with no detriment (for instance, pugs are already extremely loyal, so giving her extra loyalty isn't necessary; enhanced claws could be sufficient as pigs are good at avoiding scratching people). That would leave room for the most important ones for Sam's scenario: enhanced strength and intelligence. Additionally, if the protector dogs were given traits specific to various situations and distributed accordingly--Protector Pug sent to a girl like Sam, with a more powerful husky sent to Angel--it might help.

I'm sorry. And I don't get it. Lecturing me about my mistake took time that she could have spent finishing up before she clocked out, and it almost kept me from answering the phone. Calling together those meetings clearly takes time that your boss could spend in other, more productive pursuits….so why not just alert others to their mistakes and leave it be? Oh well. I've been listening to this song, which seems especially apt.

So that's why I liked it so much! And you're right—all of the evolutions I saw were adorable. But now I can't stop picturing a pug with the same evolutions….a psychic pug? A flame pug? I don't know if the world is ready for that. Yeah, all the pictures Google gave me made it look way way way too happy.

It would be her standard practice in hopes the Pokemon would all come to her. At some point, I may or may not post something about Pokemon that makes no sense. I, um…would you believe me if I said I wasn't allowed to watch the show as a kid and have gained almost all of my knowledge of the mythos through cultural osmosis and Google? No? Okay, I never watched the show because it was too mainstream.

At least she gives her Pokemon a nice cottage* to live in, rather than stuffing them in a teensy little ball. *that may or may not have a lemonade faucet

You act like you need justification.

There's no chance of getting a super-smart platypus in a fedora, is there? On a completely unrelated note, every fictional character who was ever called out by TVTropes for "Wanting a Prize for Basic Decency" has received an apology. Apparently, our standards were just too high to begin with.

I think using Nighthound and Timeport as your standards for morality results in a slightly skewed system, where not testing your new machine gun on a crowd of disaster victims could win you the Nobel Peace Prize.

Sometimes I feel like I should make more mistakes, because some people seem to like nothing better than pointing them out. When I make a mistake at work, the other receptionist doesn't say "Hey, you made a mistake, don't do it again" and move on. No, she takes pains to tell me what mistake I made, why I shouldn't have made it, what trouble it caused, and how I have to be EXTRA CAREFUL not to make it again. Sometimes, I'll even get a diagram of exactly what I did wrong. And I get it. My mistakes cause problems. I understand that, and once you point it out to me, I won't do it again. But I make very few mistakes. I have never made a mistake like the one I made last night before, and I've also been here a while. Wouldn't it be more productive to just assume it was an accident and leave it at that? But no, apparently I need the full lecture treatment. I'm actually starting to regret turning my schedule upside down so she can get three days of vacation next week.

He's a morally bankrupt slontze, but I can't help liking the Metal just a bit.

Cower before the power of a thousand abstract concepts, and a thousand more random objects like Kool-Aid!

Who's Vasher, then? Forget that—who/what the heck is Nightblood?

That would make him the swapped prince, meaning there would be another who should've been sent to marry her. A prince who had gone through all the proper court training, who was outwardly willing but nursing some extreme bitterness about his lot in life, who possessed the ability to appear respectful of foreign customs while secretly judging everything and everyone. Funtimes was supposed to marry Lightwards. Remember when I said Nalthis would be in trouble if Funtimes were the Godking? I take that back. Nalthis would be in bigger trouble with Shiny Sparkle as an Awakener.

If Funtimes is the Godking (Godqueen?), Nalthis is in trouble.

Just wait until the secret behind that odd zodiac is revealed. My siblings and I are still theorizing about it. Oh! And if you're into that sort of thing, the closing credits for each episode have a cryptogram. I've never had the inclination to decode one, but I've seen a few translations on YouTube. But you have such a wonderful and quirky journey ahead of you. Conspiracies, humor, sly winks to American history...I think you'll enjoy it quite a bit.

How shortsighted can you get? "In other news, Democrats and Republicans alike have rallied behind third-party candidate Remington Springfield, whose 'If it seems too good to be true, shoot it just in case' foreign policy rocketed to popularity after Steven Lawrence's brief and surprising speech last night."

The lack of a plaid shirt is one of many things preventing an Exel pony. ignorance is bliss, dear Backtrack. Yeah, that sounds about right. What if he ran for president?

Do you have that Vasher pony finished? Because we need a "Scumbag Vasher" meme. At least he gets some semblance of a happy ending in Narnia. What if he got a quiet job as a cubicle drone?

Edited, because I refuse to picture Nighthound destroying evil. It's just too hard. He's far, far too overzealous. I have a feeling he'd destroy more than a few politicians and other public servants in our universe--if only because that whiff of evil was enough to send him into a frenzy. Heck, a pundit who uses a tragedy as an excuse to push their pet issue might be enough to set him off. What about the Marvel Cinematic Universe? Or the Dark Knight trilogy? Or LotR? Or Narnia?

Worldhopping pants don't look anything like hammer pants, do they? Whether or not Nightblood can tell the difference boils down to how much he considers personal choice when judging evil. It's almost impossible for Epics to resist their darker urges while corrupted, but some Epics enjoy it more than others. So would Nightblood kill Fortuity and spare Firefight, or would he kill them both because they possess the same inclinations even though one resists while the other does not? Silly Backtrack, did you think worldhopping would make you less of a butt monkey?

Probably the Nutella-and-banana chimichangas she wants, too. I have no idea. I doubt she'd be able to wield it, but I don't know enough about Nightblood's standards to know if he'd decide she was evil. She can be horribly ruthless, and she is very self-centered....but does that blend on it's own constitute evil in Nightblood's nonexistent eyes? Or does the fact she'd rather save the server than kill him redeem her just a little bit...or do her selfish reasons for doing so make her evil? Would Vivenna made a bit more ruthless qualify as evil, or would she merely be dangerously self-centered? This requires quite a bit more rumination.