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I tried seeing if I hadn't enabled that option when I started this topic, but I couldn't find an attachments option anywhere. I'll PM one of the mods and ask what's going on.
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"Too long." --every decent person ever "Not much longer." --Prof
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Theorycraft- Epics-Weaknesses-prof - Etc.
TwiLyghtSansSparkles replied to kuchapel's topic in The Reckoners
It could be something that reminds him very strongly of Tia. I'm not sure what it'd be, but I do think Tia has some sort of connection to his weakness. -
Series you were disappointed with...
TwiLyghtSansSparkles replied to ProfessorMLyon's topic in Entertainment Discussion
Here's one: Rick Riordan's Heroes of Olympus series. His Percy Jackson books were never what you'd call great literature, and they weren't meant to be. They were fun, irreverent looks at Greek mythology through a modern American lens, with just enough characterization to make you care. I liked them. As a college and later a grad student, they were the perfect diversion from my stressful classes. A few years after the original series ended, he published The Lost Hero, the first in a spinoff series introducing a Roman version of Camp Half-Blood, and demigods who are the children of Greek gods in their Roman aspects (so instead of a son of Zeus, we're introduced to a son of Jupiter). Which struck me as sort of fanficcy. Were I younger, that's the sort of thing I would have written, posted on FF.net, and thought was the most brilliant thing in the world. My impression of the book wasn't helped by the fact that the central character had no personality to speak of, and the other two fit almost perfectly into stereotyped roles (Poor Little Rich Girl and Class Clown). I was willing to give him another chance as an author, so I read the next book, Son of Neptune. And I really enjoyed it. He brought back Percy, and paired him with two new characters, both of whom I liked quite a bit. The series' momentum carried me through the next one, Mark of Athena, which I consider the high point of the series. All the characters had a good chemistry, the Poor Little Rich Girl and Class Clown grew beyond their stereotypes, and the son of Jupiter showed shades of a personality. Well, then came House of Hades. I had plenty of quibbles with that book—the lazy writing, the lack of emotion, the frantic action-scene-after-action-scene pace, but my biggest gripe came when he retconned one of my favorite characters for the sake of a twist. By the time I finished the last book, Blood of Olympus, I was thoroughly disappointed with the entire series. -
O.O That is all.
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Sounds good to me. mail-mi, will Timeport be in a good mood or a bad mood when he returns? I wouldn't mind at all.
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Should we do it, then? Quota with his lattes and Timeport with his battleaxe?
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Well….what were CorpseMaker's plans for the evening? If he doesn't have any, maybe Timeport would wander around and spread mayhem? (He and Quota could team up for that, if you wanted—if Timeport proved himself sufficiently devoted to spreading mayhem, Quota wouldn't bother with his usual push-them-to-despair-while-drinking-a-latte deal.) That was beautiful.
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I thought of that as I wrote it. (I do plan to bring her back in various flashbacks, but I'm not sure exactly when or how. I'm sure Aldo and maybe Revolution would know about her--she now rules a good portion of southern Alaska (near Wasilla) and part of Canada.) No...sadly.
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Oh, that's a cool name. I wondered about that the minute I decided to make Quota a character. I'm torn between two possible reasons. He believes everyone gets a certain amount of happiness in a day, and he's the one to ensure they don't exceed that quota. Pre-Calamity Quota was an immature fourteen-year-old who spent his days trolling websites with upvote/downvote options for posts. He got a certain kick out of bringing a post down into negative reputation (or karma, or upvotes, or whatever the measurement system on the site was) and sometimes targeted certain members because he felt like it. He always felt a little thrill whenever he managed to antagonize someone into deleting their account. Alternatively, I could combine the two. (I also feel obliged to say that Funtimes' flashbacks, as they're currently conceived, don't exactly show Khione in action. But she does play a part in them.)
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I think I will, once I'm done with finals. Oh well. After that, I'll have an entire month off. Sadly, no. I think a lot of Epics would choose names from various mythological traditions. It seems to go hand-in-hand with claiming divinity. Since a RAFO would, at this point, be as good as a yes, I'll just say yes.
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That is terrifyingly perfect. Haha, I found that punny. Khione, after the Greek goddess of snow. A minor goddess to the Greeks, but this Khione resolved to become a far more fearsome and ambitious goddess than the first Khione ever was.
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I haven't seen that series. Is it any good? Thanks Weather, actually, although creation of hurricanes was one of her biggest goals. Snowstorms and blizzards were what she mastered first, since the place she first gained her powers and later claimed as her territory has a famously cold climate. Hurricanes, however—that was what she saw as the ultimate show of power. Command the winds from across hundreds of miles to create a storm for the sole purpose of venting her displeasure? That, to her, was true power. Her initial frustrations with actually creating one did lead her to conclude her weakness must be close by and, unsure of how exactly that weakness affected her powers, attempted to destroy that assumed weakness immediately.
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A backstory Epic that has been neither shown nor mentioned, but who was involved in the past of one of my characters.
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What, by ponies?
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New topic, new possibilities. I expect great things and many ponies from you guys.
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I shall end this thread with a quote from the Doctor: There has to be something in somebody's collection that tells how to defeat Nighthound. (Or, if all else fails, we could always clock him over the head with a computer. )
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And then TwiLyghtSansSparkles got one million extra credit points for "exhibiting a deep understanding of the largest threat to the future of any school library, fictional or otherwise, and determining a sound strategy for eliminating said threat."
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Shard of American University Education: You pay thousands of dollars, move across the country, and allow the Shard to put you through four to eight years of stress-inducing tests, and when you finish, you maybe get powers. If the job market is good.
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I'm using this alternate universe as a chance to be nice to all the nice characters here. (If I could, I'd fit something in about a feisty young athlete named Rachel single-handedly restraining the notorious criminal Michael Jager, preventing him from harming an entire bus full of children as the driver called the police. When they arrived, Jager put up a fight, and was killed by an officer on duty.)
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Yes, that might be helpful. Especially since I can't think of a single library in the US that doesn't require librarians to have a Master's degree. Then again, this is an alternate universe where Sam is old enough to have finished grad school and worked for a public high school for five years after that. And one where Purple Phoenix became a high school principal instead of a scientist.
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Her reaction.
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Cliffside Public School it is. Lucentia will not be hired by any of these schools. The principals took pains to hire librarians who cared about their students, and each principal gave his or her blessing when the federation (called the Ocean City Educational Librarian's Guild) was formed. The second Lucentia sat down for the interview and started to complain about the principal's tie or the long drive there, he would say, "Oops, would you look at that, we're out of time. Good luck on your job search, Ms. Jaeger, and if you need anything from me, please hesitate to ask."
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A public high school in an affluent area, with more wealthy and upper-middle class parents and well-off businesses. These schools usually have better materials, their libraries have better technology, and some of them are considered college prep (as in, a large number of graduates enroll in college soon after, and their coursework is specifically tailored toward helping students do better in college and university courses). The most obvious difference between a low-income school (like the one I worked at) and a more affluent school (like the one I went to) is that the computers in the school I worked at were Windows that were maybe a year or two from being completely out of date, and the computers at my high school were Macs. (Not fair at all, in my opinion, but that's another story.) Voidgaze's house?
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Ponies are everything. No, that's the project I'm currently working on, for my digital asset management class. That's also one where Laurie Springfield becomes the librarian at a private Christian school and partners with Sam to create a federation of public and private schools across the (fictional) city that allows librarians to both share materials and help each other come up with solutions to their various problems. (There are three librarians I've mentioned but haven't named. Should I make Voidgaze the librarian for an affluent school, a Catholic school, or a non-religious private school? )