Kaymyth

Well, duralumin is quite heavy on aluminum; depending on the mix, it's only between 1-5% copper, usually, with the rest aluminum. So, does the high percentage of aluminum carry over the inertness qualities? Or does the fact that duralumin itself has a separate Allomantic ability mean that it's exempt from the "most aluminum alloys" qualifier?

Honestly, that's about as scientific as you really need to get. You get a group of them, and you have a "shenanigan".

I believe that it's "trouble".

Yep, you just keep telling yourself that if it's how you manage to keep from going crazy not being able to talk about it.

Huh, sketch artists amongst the journalists. It looks as though photography is one of the technologies that's lagged behind the parallels with our own development.

Are you just going to answer every question with "RAFO"?

We just came back in from watching it. We had the perfect view on our back deck, and the weather was lovely and cool. Telescope and camera were out, and the next-door neighbors came over and watched with us for a bit.

He knew you needed him. Pets are excellent therapy. He's just made himself right at home, hasn't he?

Given that their anatomy is completely different from a human's, I imagine it'd have to.

Yes, but an iron compounder can give him or herself enough weight to anchor and pull down an entire building. There's a reason why the AoL MAG supplement states that they're known for "smashing themselves flat". (I know it's not canon, but on a few things I really do think they hit the nail on the head.)

So basically, while a brass compounder might indeed have the glorious ability to literally hate someone with the fire of a thousand suns, doing so would annihilate them near-instantaneously.

It's not specific places, so much as just being part of a community (even if that community consists of just, say, you and your roommate) that likes the same things you do.

My husband is poking around on the piano trying to figure out how to play Fur Elise by ear/memory. I wonder if I should tell him that we probably have the sheet music around somewhere...but then I'd have to teach him how to read it.

If you're angling for the Creepiest Post on the Forums This Week award, I'm afraid that already went to Lord Claincy Ffnord and his Weeping Angels.

Just start writing it. No, really. I had a vague notion of where I was going when I started writing Swift as Steel, and I was seriously about 75k in by the time the last pieces of the plot clicked into place. This now means that there are a pretty good chunk of scenes that are going to have to be rewritten/condensed/torn out completely when I go into revision phase for NaNo this year, but such is life. For me, the process of writing generates the story. I can plan out a general arc; these are the characters, X Y & Z bad things happen, but the actual details, the side conflicts, the villain motivations - those all came together during the process. (And in the shower. For some reason, I get some of my best solutions to things when I'm in the shower. I've no idea why.) Start with an idea. A seed. Start playing with the characters and their lives and watch what happens. They'll start telling you who they are and what they care about. Then all you have to do is start throwing monkey wrenches into their lives and the plot will appear.

I believe a while back that we established that I was the forum mom, and Twi is my younger sister (not really but totally), making her the Fun Forum Aunt. I'm still clamoring to get people to Kansas City for WorldCon next year, but I know it's one of the more expensive cons. That makes it hard.

AUGH There was a house centipede in my kitchen! Augh, augh, augh! It's dead now, but who knows what dastardly things it was plotting with its friends? Horrible awful creepy furry Goa'uld with legs....

I meant more in an 'overwhelming the original personality' way rather than a Shardic intent way. Basically, that Sazed may have a little bit more wiggle room in keeping his core self intact, each Shard trying to pull in a different direction, with himself balanced in the middle. But, I absolutely could be wrong, which is why I qualified it with 'arguably'. EDIT: Yeh, I didn't quite get it right. I was in the same ZIP code, at least, but on the woefully wrong street.

This sounds plausible. Furthermore, I would hazard to suppose that McGonagall herself was a holy terror herself when she was in school.

I keep waiting for one of the clerics to at least throw Roy an information bone - their conversation clearly indicates that he thinks it's still Durkon in the driver's seat, and nearly all, if not 100%, of those high-level clerics should know perfectly well that it's not.

And arguably, holding a Shard with opposing intents would actually provide some insulation for the personality corruption. Save for the hands-off stasis effect, they mostly cancel each other out.

Criminently, that would be terrifying.

Augh! Why did you quote it?!

Ten minutes until I am free...come on, workday, end already! EDIT: And I'm outta here!