The Forum's Scriptorium

[Yastreb]

Nonsense? Nonsense!

[Groupoid]

Struck by an impulse I scribble down some notes, step on this stage of our forum and recite “today’s happy thought” of mine.

There’s the wheel that’s spinning,
Always turning, never winning.
Ever onwards, ever lasting,
Through times and spaces blasting.

Slowly slowing, steady going,
not a moment backwards Boeing,
but then stop.

Where is this time the crack?
We’ll try to fix it, put it back.
But horror! See:
The future’ll never like the mem’ry be!

And new things will roll and glide,
And steady towards future slide.

Spoiler: Apologies • show

I used "Boeing" only for the rhyme. Had no other idea how to "fix" this verse.

[RanVor]

The bad news is, my main Code Geass fanfiction is, as of now, put on hold until I figure out what I want to do with it, which might take some time.

The good news is, I've written and published a short Code Geass piece which you can read if you want, available on ArchiveOfOurOwn and FanFiction.net. It doesn't really contain any spoilers, so you can go ahead without worrying about that.

[Jitter]

Ran, I don’t know anything about Code Geass so it’s hard to understand what is going on, but I like your use of language. You don’t explain things, you just describe what Lelouch sees and feels unfolding, and it feels like the sentiment or the atmosphere thus created suits the story very well.

[Yastreb]

I wrote this... pastiche under a YouTube posting of The Eve Of The War, the opening chapter of Jeff Wayne's classic rock opera The War Of The Worlds. You have to imagine Richard Burton reading it.

No one would have believed, at the end of the second decade of the twenty-first century, that societies and nations across the world were on the brink of disaster.
No one could have dreamed of the chaos that would be wrought by those microscopic creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.
Only a few souls considered the possibility of another global pandemic.
And yet, below our perceptions, a life form so immeasurably simple in structure compared to us stirred, and changed, and slowly, and surely, it crossed the barrier of species, and the Time of Isolation began.

[thegreyarea]

That's very good, Yastreb! I'm glad that you chose "Time" [of Isolation] instead of "Age". Much less ominous

[Jitter]

@Yastreb please elaborate on the "some unpleasant aspects", is it violence, sex, horror, gore, language? (I don't think we can actually use really bad language in English, the Forum software censors keywords on its own)

If you feel knowing this would detract from the enjoyment, you can put the content description under a separate spoiler before the text, so that people can choose to check it or not.

Please also bear in mind we are PG-13

Note I haven't read your text yet and don't have time just now, this is a general request from you friendly neighborhood moderator!

[Jitter]

I added it as warning on your post. I’ll have to take a look to see if it should go into the Mature Board

[Jitter]

@Yastreb please move your work to the Mature Board. I don’t think it conforms with our intended PG-13 rating. The things are implied, but very clearly so.

I will remove the work within a few hours if you don’t move it. I’m sorry, but we want to be a safe place for our teenage users too.

[Yastreb]

Where's the Mature Board? I can't find it. Sorry to be a pain!

[JoB]

Where's the Mature Board? I can't find it. Sorry to be a pain!

In order to have access to it, you need to provide a birthdate in your profile (so that the forum can check your age to be 18+), and maybe (didn't do so myself yet) request membership in the appropriate group, also in your profile.

[Yastreb]

I've deleted the story post and the related post about the content. When I find the Mature area, I may repost.

[Jitter]

Thank you Yastreb!

It is as JoB says, you have to add yourself to group +18. See here: https://ssssforum.com/index.php?topic=3.0

[Róisín]

Please do put your birthdate up so you can join the mature board, Yastreb. I know I have found it interesting. It covers horror and extreme violence, as well as the usual erotica, which I suppose is what this is? I would be curious to read. I’m sure the mods will help you sort it out. I’m no good at the computer stuff, so can’t help, but they are helpful.

[Yastreb]

I tried to join the Mature Board, and got told that I was off limits, despite changing my profile to include my birth date. I went back in to find that my profile still reads 0001-01-01.

So I changed the birth date again and was told that my profile had been updated. I tried again... off limits! I looked at my profile... not changed despite being told it had been updated.

Definitely vexing.