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[Miz en Scène]

EDIT: 500 posts in less than a month!

*Gasp* I joined last year and I'm just reaching 200.

Thoughts on Titles
I can't say my titles have been any good. A bit cliche to say the least.

How much have you improved since your first Pokémon fanfic? In which ways did you improve the most? Do you still retain some of your early weaknesses?
I think that I've moderately improved since my last fic. Though, I still have a problem with comma splices and logic. I'm working on it.

 

[Vigilante]

How much have you improved since your first Pokémon fanfic? In which ways did you improve the most? Do you still retain some of your early weaknesses?\

I have written a few fan fics, and they did not turn out good. I don't really write much now, but I think that if I was, it would be better, but still not good. My grammar is shoddy at best, my spelling is sub-par and my vocabulary is just plain lousy.

 

[Citrinin]

You should try to write again. :) It may not turn out as good as you'd like, but it'll help you practice and improve. ^^

 

[Misheard Whisper]

Yeah, there's nothing that will help you get better than actually trying! /anti-sarcasm

 

[Citrinin]

Isn't it funny how statement like that, meant to be encouraging, would be automatically be interpreted as sarcastic? Interesting quirk of the language and culture, really.

 

[Misheard Whisper]

I love anti-sarcasm. I just invented it, but I'm sure it already exists.

 

[Miz en Scène]

My grammar is shoddy at best, my spelling is sub-par and my vocabulary is just plain lousy.

Yeah, like SD and Citrinin said, try writing again. Conjure a suitable plot then get a Beta.

 

[Vigilante]

Yeah, yeah, try writing again. I have been brain dead.


ARGH, this hiccups won't leave me alone! Gone, here, gone, here, gone, here. It is driving me nuts.

 

[Miz en Scène]

ARGH, this hiccups won't leave me alone! Gone, here, gone, here, gone, here. It is driving me nuts.

Try drinking water, slowly.

Side note: Chapter 3 of The Chronicles of Neo Groudon is up.

 

[Citrinin]

You know we've gone crazy when the side note is about fanfiction, and the main note is about hiccoughs. XDD

 

[Vigilante]

They are gone, I used a cool remedy I found.

 

[Misheard Whisper]

Please share! I don't tend to get hiccups a lot, but when I do, they last for ever.

And Citrinin, when was the last time we dedicated any vestige of effort to maintaining the outward appearance of sanity?

 

[Vigilante]

Ok, but before you look at it, you must sign this waiver entitling everything you own to meremember to listen your brain.

Spoiler:

Step 1: Start by inhaling through your mouth until your lungs feel full (when it feels like you cannot inhale any more.... your lungs will basically stop taking in air).

Step 2: Swallow. You are not really swallowing anything but it seems that without this act, it doesn't work.​

Step 3: Now inhale some more until your lungs feel full again. You may not be able to inhale a lot, but do get some more air in. It will start to get difficult to do this as you go, but keep trying. You obviously can't suck in as much air as you did initially, but just a little will do (think of it as taking a "sip" of air).
Step 4: Swallow again. This too will start to get difficult as you go.
Step 5: Repeat steps 3 and 4 (inhale and swallow) until you cannot swallow again. While it seems you can almost always suck in just a little more air, it is the swallowing that gets to be impossible. When you feel like you cannot swallow again, swallow again anyway. It will be hard to do, your face will probably turn red, and you may make squeaking sounds. But you CAN swallow one last time. By this time, your lungs should also be quite full and it should be difficult to get much more air in as well. While you should try not to let any air out, if you have really repeated steps 3 and 4 as many times as you can, you probably will end up letting a little out before you can take that last swallow. If you find that air keeps escaping out of your nose even early in the process, try squeezing it shut with your fingers.
Step 6: Exhale.

 

[Miz en Scène]

And Citrinin, when was the last time we dedicated any vestige of effort to maintaining the outward appearance of sanity?

The random insanity is the very essence of the FFL. If this insanity were to suddenly dissapear, the FFL would be no more. And yes, that is the side note, since not many people read it.

 

[Feign]

*nods and begins singing a random Rammstein song that would fit the moment*

 

[Misheard Whisper]

~They're coming to take me away, ha-ha, they're coming to take me away. But I'll be happy to see those nice young men in their clean white coats and they're coming to take me away, ha-haaaa~!~

It's not Rammstein or whoever, but it still fits.

 

[Miz en Scène]

~They're coming to take me away, ha-ha, they're coming to take me away. But I'll be happy to see those nice young men in their clean white coats and they're coming to take me away, ha-haaaa~!~

They told me that if I went there one more time, I'd get an Asylum coupon.

 

[Citrinin]

And Citrinin, when was the last time we dedicated any vestige of effort to maintaining the outward appearance of sanity?

Eh... Uhm...

You make an irrefutable point. XD;

 

[Misheard Whisper]

I tend to do that. No-one gives a shitake mushroom, so why should we pretend we give a shitake mushroom?!!!1!!?1!!!!8!!twohundredthousandmilliononehundredandseventyfourthousandthreehundredandtwentysixpointfivesevennineonesevensixpeanuts!

I just love the mushroom distorted euphemism.

 

[Citrinin]

Especially when done on Austin Powers 3. Ah, screwed up subtitles... one thing we book writers can't use. XD;