General Discussion Thread

[Amity]

No its not for the academic help thread I'm writing a fake essay as a prologue for a story.

Then you already have a great and useful ally in your project, named Jorge Luis Borges.  Borges has been put on this earth to serve as an example of all those who want to write fake history essays about increasingly weird things, while sounding as plausible as possible.  Go and read.

In terms of something  more immediate, one stylistic technique often employed by actual scholars is to introduce a topic by way of some controversy or counterintuition.  There's no reason why this can't work just as well with fiction, and if you do it right has the added benefit of letting you trickle in bits of the setting and background by imputation, as though the reader is expected to know all these other things as a matter of course.

Something like:

The start of the Sundbergian Era is widely considered to have begun with the publication of the first pages of Stand Still, Stay Silent in 2014, yet careful scholarship suggests that a more appropriate inauguration of that now-fabled period in history lies some years before, when the artifacts of a now-lost opus known todaly only as "ARtD" first became available over the airwaves of antiquity.

And so on.

[SectoBoss]

They've always been there, just getting more common as the world goes on.  Say, 1% percent of the population at the begin of civilization(these are hypothesized to be the gods of each civilization, but people can get pretty fighty over it), and 76% today.(and getting slightly duilted as , but that's because I just Do Not want to deal with really powerful telepaths) And the history remains pretty much unchanged in the grand course of events because Reasons.

In that case, what Amity just said seems like a pretty good idea.

[daItrick]

Hey guys...
Is it normal to feel sad right now? Like, in a random moment? because I didn't watch anything sad or something-

[KicknRun]

The start of the Sundbergian Era is widely considered to have begun with the publication of the first pages of Stand Still, Stay Silent in 2014, yet careful scholarship suggests that a more appropriate inauguration of that now-fabled period in history lies some years before, when the artifacts of a now-lost opus known todaly only as "ARtD" first became available over the airwaves of antiquity.

And so on.

Well, now I'm reading A Glimpse into the Work of Herbert Quain and also, the essay was very cool, because it sounds like an essay to anybody who doesn't know what's up, but we know what's up and that makes it hilarious.

Hey guys...
Is it normal to feel sad right now? Like, in a random moment? because I didn't watch anything sad or something-

Yeah! People are weird, and emotions exist for the sheer purpose of messing you up, so its no problem.

[daItrick]

Yeah! People are weird, and emotions exist for the sheer purpose of messing you up, so its no problem.

Oh, yes but I don't think is more normal when it happens everyday in every second o.o

[Daéa Reina]

Speaking of airports, I have this stuck in my head every time I go to one.

I guess the lesson here is... don't brake stuff that belongs to people capable of creating catchy songs

Thank you so much for reminding me of this song!! It is such a classic!

And one day the silly little things will get a little off-track and misplace the souls of an entire Finnish village and a boy and his dog will have to--
Wait

So YOU were the real reason behind all that mess... At least Puppy-fox took all the blame in the end.

Oh, yes but I don't think is more normal when it happens everyday in every second o.o

I don't know if I understood you correctly... Do you feel like this all the time? Are you always sad?

[koalalou]

So YOU were the real reason behind all that mess... At least Puppy-fox took all the blame in the end.

My bad.

[Koeshi]

Makes one wonder whether emptying the suitcase on the floor right then and there and setting the pile of cloth alight might be the proper method of reeducation.

Wasn't much clothing in there anyway.  Most of the weight came from gifts and such like.

[Haiz]

I MADE IT TO PRAGUE
and through metro hell
and to the apartment
......... czech is technically not foreign country to me but i am very very uncomfortable with big cities so it might as well be

I hope you don't mind my constant rambling about my journey but I'm so incredibly nervous about everything, and writing it out somewhere to others is very calming to me for some reason

Emil is obviously working at the in-hairport salon, what else?

...If the airport doesn't have one, then he's like, the beautiful flight attendant on all the ads

I've never seen a hairport salon on an airport, BUT today in the plane magazine I read about Stockholm's airport having a tattoo shop, so.......... who knows..........


anyway it's late, i'm beat, i've got Big Things going on tomorrow apparently, so

good night everyone. Haiz: Adult Quest day 1 is ending

[Mélusine]

I hope you don't mind my constant rambling about my journey but I'm so incredibly nervous about everything, and writing it out somewhere to others is very calming to me for some reason

Writing can help to be less nervous
Good luck for tomorrow !

[Sunflower]

I MADE IT TO PRAGUE
and through metro hell
and to the apartment
......... czech is technically not foreign country to me but i am very very uncomfortable with big cities so it might as well be

I hope you don't mind my constant rambling about my journey but I'm so incredibly nervous about everything, and writing it out somewhere to others is very calming to me for some reason

anyway it's late, i'm beat, i've got Big Things going on tomorrow apparently, so

good night everyone

No worries -- we love hearing about Haiz' Big Adventure.  Aside from the fact that we on the forum know you and care about you (so you can think of us all out there in the Mage-World), you have a really entertaining way of describing your adventures.  Take lots of notes -- maybe someday you'll have a cartoonblog!  And we can all say "We knew the artist when..."

[Daéa Reina]

I MADE IT TO PRAGUE
and through metro hell
and to the apartment
......... czech is technically not foreign country to me but i am very very uncomfortable with big cities so it might as well be

I hope you don't mind my constant rambling about my journey but I'm so incredibly nervous about everything, and writing it out somewhere to others is very calming to me for some reason

good night everyone. Haiz: Adult Quest day 1 is ending

I really like reading about other people's travels and such, so please, keep on rambling!
Good night!

[KicknRun]

Aw man. I went through old things and got very embarrassed.

First of all, this project where we had to make a rap, and its so horrible. I MUST SHARE IT.
Duh Duh Duh Duh Romans 4x
It needed A bunch of representatives to make the Senate
The people in conquered lands are now tenants
I'm sure it required some acceptance
The government may not be to their preferences

Rome, capital of a multinational empire
Great and powerful,they invoked many nation's ire
They invented many things, like the Roman candle
But that didn't protect them from things like the Vandals
Some of our daily lives were as different as can be
Differences like that you can still see

Rome was a great nation, It had a good station

We sometimes have a dictator
We would have them sooner or later
Some of them are good
Some of them are great
Then some of them you have to hate
That is pretty much how it goes
I wrote the refrain, which is in black, and another section, which wasn't included. This was a group project.

Also



When in my life time did I draw this
When in my life
I don't even know if this is a character of mine
Actually maybe I'll redraw it

[KicknRun]

When in my life time did I draw this
When in my life
I don't even know if this is a character of mine
Actually maybe I'll redraw it

I REDREW IT!



On today’s episode of: Kick redraws things and gets too emotionally invested

So instead of a regular old redraw, she gets a backstory and everything.

She’s Fluer-de-lis(excuse my French), an amputee superhero with light and healing powers! And overconfidence and a sense for dramatics.

[Emil]

yessss they gave me a call and wanted an interview on tuesday this is great

aaaaaaaaaaa omg I got the job aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa