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[Scytheteen]

:o

My asty is moving farther away from me then she already lives

*dies*

I'm lazy and only came here to answer the question about FFC's and that I'm too lazy to finish mine and choose to copy Asty and play the Sims 2 (but unlike her I play it on the gamecube, which has so much more pwnage)

 

[Astinus]

Yeah, well, Scythe, can you have custom clothes/hair/skin/furniture/houses for your Sims? Or give them seasons, a place to go downtown, dates, college educations, pets, hobbies, or give them babies? Huh, can you? I's du not think so!

Why are you moving to North Carolina?

Really, the reason why I'm moving is because of old men who write books. And I'll leave it at that.

What do you personally think of Astinus' posts? Have they changed from what they were before her name change? Discuss.
They smell like dirty socks.

And I guess the reason why my post style changed is because:
I'm happy again
I really don't care anymore
I have a stash

There is no way TK would ever type something like that. There must be a hidden message in there somewhere!

TurtleKing has been into the same stuff I've been in.

 

[Scytheteen]

Um...well...there's not custom clothes, hair, skin, furniture or houses for my sims. I can't go downtown, there's no dates, college educations, pet, or babies. WAIT! I THINK THEY HAVE HOBBIES!

*shot*

Astinus, your new posts reak of anarchy. It makes me ice cream melt.

 

[Unforgettable]

YAY being happy, not caring and having a stash. That is the only way to be.

And I have the ps2 version of the sims 2 as well as the PC version. The PC versions PWNS all. XD

 

[Astinus]

I love melted ice cream, and am currently waiting for my own ice cream to melt.

Yeah, well, we don't need no rules. Except for one: The enemy's gate is down.

Okay, that's why I'm crazy. Because I'm a rabid fangirl! With the rawr and the beating people over the head with vegetables when they don't agree with me and the looking for sekret clues. She talking, she talking, and the crazy, she come out of me and soak into the walls, and when the other people hit the walls, the crazy she go into them.

Now, ssshhhh, Scythe, for the people who make this life unbearable will complain about our anarchy, and try to force us to conform! But never conform! Never!

But to save us, we shall talk about the fanfiction as it says so in the title of the thread.

Write? We shall not write. We shall VALTZ!

 

[Saffire Persian]

Whoa whoa guys, what happened to fanfiction!? Hmm... let's talk about why only two FFCs were finished. I was going to finish mine but I wanted to get my first chapter of DI done. Now that March is almost over, I'll just wait for the April prompt.

Actually, mine is about two paragraphs away from being finished, but as I have contest judging, that's been getting in the way of it.

 

[Scytheteen]

Okay. I'll say one line about fanfiction than rant about the sims 2, or anarchy, or melted ice cream, or some other random and SPAMmy topic. I may renew Season Champs. There, a line of fanfiction.

Annnnd, the Sims 2 for PC has like, no storyline to it, but the Sims 2 for GC has a story line, and much hotttter clothes to wear. Plus, you can go to a bio dome. o.o spicy.

I'm not an anarchist! I'm a monarchist...

*shot*

Melted ice cream rocks my wanna-bee black and blue canadien socks!

 

[Unforgettable]

My FFC fic will be posted tomorrow. Too bad it sucks ^^;

Now I want Ice cream thanks a lot. =/ And everywhere is closed.... sad day for me.

 

[TurtleKing]

There is no way TK would ever type something like that. There must be a hidden message in there somewhere!

Haha, yeah it's me Oni! LOL. I'm serious about that message, too. I didn't think people would stick with my fic, but people really have. I'm honored, lol.

True, I haven been into the same stuff that Astinus has been in. God, I was about to say Hanako. -facepalmz-

 

[JX Valentine]

Jax, what I wrote is a piece of crap as well.

But is it an angsty piece of crap?

What do you personally think of Astinus' posts? Have they changed from what they were before her name change? Discuss.

I really don't know if I could've gotten the same response that I did from hitting on Astinus repeatedly earlier in this thread had she still been Hanako Tabris, which is why I'm quite content with the possible slight change.

...Either that, or it just wouldn't be the same because the name Hanako makes me think of Ash's mom.

 

[Astinus]

But is it an angsty piece of crap?

It's more of a piece of crap that you step in randomly in the woods, and you have to head to class in a few minutes, but you realize "oh shi- I stepped in deer droppin's", so you meander around trying to find a stick to clean off your shoe. And then you crawl out of the woods into the teacher's parking lot with a stick in your hands, and you're looking for a specific car, and then you have to run to class because the police are staring at you because you're in the teacher's parking lot looking for a car with a stick.

In other words: no angst. Just crap.

And I was so going to give you a term of endearment, but I couldn't think of one that fits you, and I really don't like those terms of endearments.

lol j/k bby ur the greatest

...Either that, or it just wouldn't be the same because the name Hanako makes me think of Ash's mom.

Don't forget to change your underwear...every single day!

Hey hey! Don't forget that that woman won a bathing suit competition! She beat out James!

The name "Astinus" makes me think of gods. Gods > underwear...perhaps.

Jax, every time you post in this thread, my brain dies.

Or perhaps it was just all the dirty jokes that I was making in work about hot dogs. Oh lawsy lawsy lawsy.

God, I was about to say Hanako. -facepalmz-

itz ok becuz i still call me hanako in real life becuz i is a psycho

 

[Gummy]

What do you personally think of Astinus' posts? Have they changed from what they were before her name change? Discuss.

Its beginning to cling on to me a slowly suck my lifeforce... in other words, I like it. But whenever I type 'Astinus', it sounds like it could be turned into some crude joke like 'Uranus'. Hehe... Uranus XD

 

[Bay]

Seriously, I think Spring Break makes things a little crazier around here...XD

On to a more serious note, I've been wondering what people think of the epic genre:

What do you guys think of epic fics? You think having the fic as an epic genre makes it more deveolped, thought out, and better quality or is the epic genre a bit overated sometimes?

That thought came to mind after reading one review at Serebii of how there was suddenly a lot of epic fics coming or at least fics having potential to become one.

Wonder how this discussion will go. XD

 

[Astinus]

The funny thing is that I'm not on Spring Break.

Hay guyz, we're getting rude in here. So let's all stop having our fun and be normal. Sorry, peeps, but there's no more keeping it real. *holds out fist* Feel me?

No one's seen me be rude yet. And you don't want to see me rude.

What do you guys think of epic fics? You think having the fic as an epic genre makes it more deveolped, thought out, and better quality or is the epic genre a bit overated sometimes?

I'll just copy my comment from your LJ, since it's six in the morning. So this post? Does not bring on the lulz.

To be an epic fic, the fic has to fall into the definition of what an epic is, which is the hero leaving home, fighting adversaries, gaining allies, and returning home transformed in some way. That's what it takes to be an epic to me. And it doesn't matter if the hero fights an evil team or the demons inside of them, as long as the hero changes somehow.

For epic works, there's of course "Beowulf", "The Odyssey", and "Gilgamesh". Those are the top poems of the genre. As for novels, the one I can think of is a triad of books from the DragonLance series, called Legends. Good books.

There is such a thing as "epic" failure, as there are failures in every genre. I don't know right now what would make an epic fail. I just woke up.

My own Pokemon fanfiction started out in the basic sense of an epic. My character begins and ends at home. This edition, however, she never returns home, but finds a new one. I have no idea if I would call that an epic. I try not to stick my fic into a genre that it wouldn't meet the qualities of.

 

[Sydian]

It's more of a piece of crap that you step in randomly in the woods, and you have to head to class in a few minutes, but you realize "oh shi- I stepped in deer droppin's",

Funny story, I did that on my first day of high school. X.x

The funny thing is that I'm not on Spring Break.

Neither am I...mine's in April cause my school's lame. Oh yeah...there was a cow in the back of my principal's car, vasoline on the front steps, and all the wires were pulled out...and trees got the usual 'roll' and there were eggshells everywhere. There's a $300 reward for the arrest of the vandals. And they wonder why my school always gets vandalized...?

For epic works, there's of course "Beowulf", "The Odyssey", and "Gilgamesh". Those are the top poems of the genre. As for novels, the one I can think of is a triad of books from the DragonLance series, called Legends. Good books.

I've read "The Odyssey", and part of "Beowulf"(movie sucks), but I haven't gotten around to "Gilgamesh". Homer was a genius! And Shakespeare was a genius...I'm hoping to read more from him next year.

 

[Astinus]

I also read "The Odyssey" and "Beowulf", albeit really abridged ones for little kids. Which means that it has been years since I read them. As for "Gilgamesh", that was read to the class I was in last year. And, to be quite honest, I am not sure what happens in the poem, since I was too busy looking at the storyteller than listening to the story.

As for Shakespeare, I highly enjoyed "Hamlet".

On the plus side, my already-loyal readers, I wrote two pages of my Pokemon fanfiction last night. Unfortunately, I messed up on the chapter breaks, so I have to go through and figure out where each chapter begins and ends. Do not fret, for I will be posting it this year.

 

[txteclipse]

What do you guys think of epic fics? You think having the fic as an epic genre makes it more deveolped, thought out, and better quality or is the epic genre a bit overated sometimes?

Seeign as I'm writing one, I'd probably have to say I like them or my own mind would cancel itself out and my head would explode. That and my fic would go unfinished...I can't decide which would be worse.

Anyways, no offence, but this type of question kind of bugs me. The reason I say that is because everyone likes different things: I've met some people that think the fantasy genre is a waste of time, while I personally believe it is a perfect engine to express ideas about society and life without beating the reader over the head with said ideas. Also, quality varies from story to story, and author to author. I can't really say the epic genre is wholly awesome, because some stories contained within it aren't.

Given the potential of the genre to do certain things, I'd say it isn't overrated. It gives the author the ability to place characters in situations that aren't possible in order to illuminate or extrapolate upon the human condition. That's why I like it so much: it brings out the humanity (or inhumanity) of its subjects, and allows the author to delve deeply into the human conciousness. This allows him or her to attempt to show us (humans) exactly what we are: sometimes we are shown as brutal and beast-like at our core, while other times we are depicted as having an almost angelic center, or a combination of the two.

I could go on for days about the merits of the genre, so I'll stop there, but that's one of the major bits.

 

[Bay]

Opps, sorry if that question bugged you txteclipse. ^^; The only reason I asked that question is that is the genre most people discussed and there would always be two sides on that genre, at least from what I saw: either you like it or don't. Also, I kind of got mad after a couple of people were saying, "This story is epic so it'll be good!", even if quality isn't the best in the world. True, that question could be asked on any genre, but it seems the "epic" genre is the one that causes the most stir, at least in my ophinion.

 

[Gummy]

Is there going to be an official FFC Discussion thread or can we talk about it here? Either way, I have a new topic:

What do you think the new FFC prompt should be?

 

[Astinus]

I think that the thread that Yuna started is the official thread. I should really sticky that thread or something.

And I already have an idea for the next prompt, and the prompt after that, and so on. It's just that if someone sends me a prompt that they really want to share, then it gets used at the next opportunity.

There will be no leaking of the next prompt. You'll just have to wait for Tuesday.