... Why the heck is Luna using the royal voice?

I think Tevish encouraged it. Seems like fun to me!

Now we just need someone to refer to themselves in the third person for a while, and using irony as a device...

Raven will not be doing this.

Well, I just saw Ridiculously Long Movie Title 2: Twelve Monkey Flashbacks, and man... That was actually really fantastic. Koba deserves a spot in the dictionary next to Kaiser Soze for being a magnificent bastard.

Is it bad that I felt the apes turned in a much better performance than the people?
With the possible exception of Gary Oldman, but then again, it IS Gary Oldman.

Still working on my plane, and I have a few questions. I'm not seeing a 100% perfect distribution of the plane's races. The western continent's tribes include humans, flamekin, goblins and dragons. Meanwhile the northern continent is originally home to humans, ogres, moonfolk, goblins and snakes. My eastern continent primarily features humans, kithkin, minotaurs and kathari. The southeastern continent is home to the viashino (for story purposes, the whole continent is rich in a type of metal whose magnetic fields comingle with the mana supply to throw off ships' compasses and navigators' implements). Throughout the seas live the amphin, who are enemies of the moonfolk (crude spiritualism of the amphin versus the scholarly, somewhat political nature of the moonfolk). Given the wide distribution of tribes, I'm not sure if this works best as one plane, or as several smaller, unrelated planes.

It depends what you want to do with it, I think. What kind of stories and themes are you trying to explore? Is there an overarching idea that all the continents touch on in some way?

Wanna see something creepy?

Go to a mirror, and grin. I mean, make the face you make where you encounter something profoundly awesome and amusing. Then, drop the smile, but keep your eyes exactly as they are.

Have fun, but remember, be careful how you use it...

The day I say "no" to that question, just wrap me in my parka and put me out on my ice floe, okay?

Probably not, but it's not something I can pick out yet. I can't actually see when there's a poor performance unless it's a really poor performance (I've had to watch a bit of cartoons like Little Einsteins when my siblings get a hold of the control before I do [for my nieces, of course]).

Not-quite-coincidentally, I started up Mystery Inc. yesterday because I didn't want to watch Monster of Mexico for the third time in as many days. I... actually didn't even get to finish the first episode because it took so long to find a VOD that would load and I had to stop it before the episode was over, but man did I see a metric ****-ton of self-awareness.

Back on-topic, I don't know whether the apes were fully CG or if there were instances of makeup, but besides being visually mind-blowing, the inclusion of mannerisms were fantastic, if a little exaggerated. It was obvious that studying real chimps was done for the movie, but considering the gorillas and orangs, I have to wonder whether they only studied chimps.

The continents of my plane are tied together by the theme of gambling against the fabric of magic manifested as roaming elementals or spirits. I was thinking of looking into non-corporeal tribes throughout all five colors--nightmares or horrors, archons or avatars, illusions, and perhaps simply elementals for red and green--and using those in place of roaming elementals. The gamblers are at war with the non-corporeals (once gamblers before the previous Entropic Genesis, a planar event in which mana spews from the planar veins, mana-burning the plane into a riot of magic). Could this be gathered into the theme of rising against and destroy the concept of fate or predetermination (since gambling is about playing the odds)?

I forgot to say this with my last post:

Citizens of the Expanded Multiverse: Thee have ruined a vast amount of previously titillating adult materials. We blame thee directly for this turn of events and psychological denial. Some among thee hold more responsibility over this than others, and we can only voice out frustration at the latest victim of thy follies.

Speaking of Mystery Inc, who wants to watch me make Keeper cry?

...He can do it too, that show hits me right in the feels.

God dammit I woke up to like three new settings a new character and like 20 new stories stop it STOP IT STOP IT STOP BEING SO PERFECT AND WONDERFUL AND CREATIVE ALL OF YOU IT IS OVERWHELMING

Is is any wonder we have written so little? Especially when you look at the last... 5 months?

In fairness... mine isn't new per se.

It's a weak defense though.

The hell of it is, too, that I'm zipping off to see Guardians of the Galaxy with Sara which means that I won't have time to read ANY of this till tomorrow.

Meanwhile the fanfic pile doesn't stop from getting taller.

Stupid thesis, taking me away from what's REALLY important...

I don't think anyone here would fault you for the choice.
In fact, I'm fairly certain I would be bothered if you skipped Guardians. Enjoy! Go! You deserve some time to just decompress and enjoy yourself, and you definitely will. Guardians is such a joy.

My thoughts after formatting Ruwin's 37-page work:



(Couldn't find a video clip nor animated gif of his line from History of the World Part 1.)