Disturb Not the Harmony of Fire, Ice, Nor Lightning

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The Cori Falls MSTs

For those not knowing Cori Falls’ fics, allow me to summarize:

Pokémon fandom, too, has its Slytherfen.

Longer summary:

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In short – tags:

Extreme SnapeTeamRocketfen, Rabid, Where Did The Personalities Go?, Erection Lasting Over Four Hours May Require Medical Attention, Character-Bashing, Wangst, French Toast

Those of her fics rescued by sarajayechan for archival and MSTing purposes can be found here.

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( ...Collapse ) Edited on 3/2/2013: As of the demise of Deleterius, all of the above links are irrelevant. I am very sorry to say that - it profoundly depresses me to think of all that's been lost. Fortunately, my sporks are all archived on my journal under the Little Miss Mary tag. Perhaps I'll update the appropriate posts so that you can go to individual parts - I haven't decided yet. Now that I'm older, I should organize my journal more, but... I have over 1,667 journal entries, over a third of which are likely sporkings, so you might understand if I'm a bit hesitant to go trudging through the backlog. Again, my apologies. ...I'm not happy to think about it, either...

A list of my sporkings for my own reference (to be updated as I fetch the various posts):

Child of Grace, Chapter 20
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The Chamber

Little Miss Mary

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Harry Potter and a Series of Unfortunate, yet Highly Amusing, but Most Problematic Events
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A New Life
Chapter One

Misc.
Well, That Explains A Lot (A Rose Potter Parody)
The Secret Diary of Draco Malfoy (Draco Dormiens Parody)
Expressing some frustration with The Black Heir
Letter to Author
HP Fanfiction Abridged: Powerful!Harry and MPreg edition
Chronicles of a Powerful!Harry, Part One

Childhood's End
Part One
Part Two

Being Free To Be Me
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Hogwarts Too Exposed
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Script-Format Parodies
Revenge of the Sith
The Right Sort, Chapter One (Part One)/(Part Two)

Now updated!

(Figured I might as well have another post.)

Answer the Call, Send Help-verse sporkers

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Albus-and-Gellert Team
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More to be inserted when I feel like it- the thing is, I do more actual in-spork introductions of sporkers nowadays, so it would be redundant to put more in. Although I s'pose it might be a good idea to write longer profiles... :)

I got around to watching the Nostalgia Critic Star Trek episodes!

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At the elementary school, Obama watched as a group of youngsters learned to write about their favorite zoo animals. He asked what else they are learning and proceeded to quiz them on simple arithmetic. When a student couldn’t come up with the answer to “2 minus 1,” Obama said in a sympathetic tone that “subtraction is tougher than addition.”
...*physically winces*

I mean... very nice of him and all, but...

...good gad, what is wrong with our school system...

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So, which cluster are you on?

guardians_song is on NewYorkStrip (#4).

I came across the weirdest bug on one LJ I was surfing - when I clicked the cut text to expand an entry from the main journal page, it worked, but all of the individual entries were blocked by Error 500. Do you think the journals and entry pages could be on different clusters? It would be interesting if so...
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http://xkcd.com/1212/

Also, I have five FE TFLNs produced. ...Zephiel has a very impressive 'Bitch, please' face. I thiiink TFLN!Zephiel is the sluttiest of the lot, possibly tied with TFLN!Nergal.
Scratch that, I just reviewed the old posts, TFLN!Nergal outdoes everyone at... everything. O_____O Dude, seriously... get into rehab...
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No, wait, that's this link. Ahem. I meant:

You have Civilization IV economics...
It turns into two cows...
The cows turn spherical...
And then they move to California.

That sound better? :P
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In cheerier news, the Shining Force mage-run is steamrolling the opposition, and I could probably beat the final chapters with my current team. Only stall right now is grinding up Alef, Torasu, and *pained wince* Adam. The latter is less of a unit and more of a sustained trolling attempt by the developers.

The pertinent points:

A) He's a robot!
B) He's a robot with less Attack than the mages of equivalent level.
C) He cannot equip weapons.
D) He has 4 Move, so you can't even really give him the Power Ring unless you really plan on having stronger units stall for him...
E) He comes at level 10, when ideal promotion is at 20.
F) He comes in the very late-game (midway through Chapter 7/8).

However, I've committed to using certain units, so I'll use him. And then I can brag that I've actually used Adam, and I'll never have to use him again. 8D *TWITCH*

Okay, now for the less whiny information.

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Party members: Kalkin (20/12 Hero),  Arthur (20/18 Paladin), Anri (20/18 Wizard), Alef (20/1 Wizard), Tao (20/8 Wizard), Domingo (23/NA Magic Creature), Lowe (20/6 Vicar), Khris (20/4 Vicar), Torasu (20/1 Vicar), Gong (20/11 Master Monk), Bleu (20/11 Guardian Dragon), Adam (17/0 Robot)
Battle: Chaos
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Exclusive: Benghazi Talking Points Underwent 12 Revisions, Scrubbed of Terror Reference
After that meeting, which took place Saturday morning at the White House, the CIA drafted the final version of the talking points – deleting all references to al Qaeda and to the security warnings in Benghazi prior to the attack.
Justice Department Complies With FOIA By Releasing Completely Redacted Document
Instead, the Justice Department released 15 pages that were entirely redacted – shaded over in heavy black from top to bottom.

...*FACEPALM*
...Why am I reminded of the "corrupt a Word document" trick used by sociopathic procrastinators?

Also, on the 'distinctly humiliating' side -
“That would be a quarter of the 300 then, so we’re talking 75 or so?” asked Tom Costello of NBC news, in an attempt to clarify how many groups had been affected.

“That’s correct. Is that a quarter?” Lerner [Director of IRS Exempt Organizations Division] asked hesitantly. “I’m not good at math.”
...This... explains... so... much... about... the IRS...
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...I approve of this article.

Also, an interesting article on cults as broken RPGs, and... oh, dear. Thanfiction is at it again.

On the bright side, someone did an amazing write-up of his recent activities. Read her Tumblr - it seems she's joined the Thanfiction watch. Gives me faith in Internet humanity. :)
And we finally hear about the astral undead shaman wizard story!



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Well, well. Turns out I'm not the only one who suffered side-effects for over two years after stopping Yasmin.

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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration, resolving years of internal debate, is on the verge of backing a Federal Bureau of Investigation plan for a sweeping overhaul of surveillance laws that would make it easier to wiretap people who communicate using the Internet rather than by traditional phone services, according to officials familiar with the deliberations.
NY Times gives more details.

Spread the word, reblog the snooping, protest like there's no tomorrow. It may seem relatively tame now, but -
The F.B.I. has abandoned a component of its original proposal that would have required companies that facilitate the encryption of users’ messages to always have a key to unscramble them if presented with a court order. Critics had charged that such a law would create back doors for hackers. The current proposal would allow services that fully encrypt messages between users to keep operating, officials said.
If they get their way now, you can be certain they WILL progress back to their original proposal. If you place any value on your privacy whatsoever, raise the hue and cry NOW.

Let me note:
The F.B.I. director, Robert S. Mueller III, has argued that the bureau’s ability to carry out court-approved eavesdropping on suspects is “going dark” as communications technology evolves, and since 2010 has pushed for a legal mandate requiring companies like Facebook and Google to build into their instant-messaging and other such systems a capacity to comply with wiretap orders. That proposal, however, bogged down amid concerns by other agencies, like the Commerce Department, about quashing Silicon Valley innovation.

“I think the F.B.I.’s proposal would render Internet communications less secure and more vulnerable to hackers and identity thieves,” said Gregory T. Nojeim of the Center for Democracy and Technology. “It would also mean that innovators who want to avoid new and expensive mandates will take their innovations abroad and develop them there, where there aren’t the same mandates.”

They WANT to have the social-networking leaders to have the power to read all your PMs at will. They WANT to be able to see what you're doing and saying at all times. They WANT to be able to monitor you like a parent looking over your shoulder...

D'you seriously believe that, once they have this power, they'll only activate it when a court-order calls for it? I suspect the Patriot Act allows for loopholes. This isn't alarmism - just observing the way the government has trended for the last dozen years.

Please spread word of this.
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Now all I need is... um...

Projects time! :D
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I mean, I understand the rest.

But what did the poor yaks do to you, fandom?

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Choose ten characters from a fandom, then answer the questions.

Twilight

1. Bella Swan
2. Edward Cullen
3. Aro
4. Carlisle Cullen
5. Jacob Black
6. Leah Clearwater
7. Alice Cullen
8. Emmett Cullen
9. Victoria
10. Mike Newton

( She'd give Sam the finger, give Quil a wedgie hard enough to damage his ''imprinting'', and wolfsplode off into the sunset, leaving a trail of sparkle-blooded destruction in her wake.Collapse )
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*in a deep voice* That's good to know...

So, guardians-song, your LiveJournal reveals…

You are… 8% unique (blame, for example, your interest in wizardmon/gatomon), 34% peculiar, 38% interesting, 18% normal and 3% herdlike (partly because you, like everyone else, enjoy naruto). When it comes to friends you are popular. In terms of the way you relate to people, you are keen to please. Your writing style (based on a recent public entry) is conventional.

Your overall weirdness is: 48

(The average level of weirdness is: 28.
You are weirder than 86% of other LJers.)

Find out what your weirdness level is!
...Obviously I need more interests. >_>
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List 5 pairings 10 characters from various fandoms and answer the following questions.
Welcome to February 2009!

1. Max (Shining Force)
2. Eliwood (Fire Emblem)
3. Bella Swan (Twilight)
4. Ariana Dumbledore (Harry Potter)
5. Vegeta (Dragon Ball Z)
6. Fei-Wong Reed (Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle)
7. Tony Jones (MagiNatioN)
8. Anita Blake (Anita Blake)
9. N (Pokemon)
10. Princess Zelda (The Legend of Zelda)

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Yanked from gehayi : Take the first lines of your last ten stories and run each of them through Translation Party until they reach equilibrium, or until the program gives up on you. Post the results.

Yes, I last did this back in 2009.

The original lines are back here.
( Incarnation of the legal edge naive justified slavery abolition of her final release: means any slaves.Collapse )

And now, since I already had 21 lines laid out, for a bonus round!

( Associated with effective drunken driving missions often put the risk of multiple generations or weak one breast pain.Collapse )

And now, how about you?

(As a bonus bonus, given the theme of my journal:
Disturb not the harmony of Fire, Ice, or Lightning lest these three Titans wreck destruction upon the world in which they clash. Though the water's Great Guardian shall arise to quell the fighting alone its song will fail. Thus the Earth shall turn to ash. O, Chosen One, into thine hands bring together all three. Their treasures combined tame the beast of the sea.
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3 These began operation non-destructive ice Titan Thunder doom, world harmony crash. To quell the fighting failed to cause a great guardian of the water just a song. Therefore, you must enable ash to Earth. O all brings together choice 3. Join the 飼いならします treasure mammal.

Don't you want to join the 飼いならします treasure mammal?)
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 So we've got a silly-looking Eevee evolution, a weird new form of Mewtwo, and a rumor that Nintendo will be introducing 'Fairy-types'. 

Thoughts? Hopes for the new game? Regrets that they didn't (somehow) do a B3W3? Mental squealing over Pokemon in 3D?

Myself, I think I'm going to take Chespin. Depends upon what the final evolutions look like, though. ...And upon their power levels. Was a bit embarrassed to find that my AZUMARILL outdid my Samurott...
Do you think Fennekin will turn out Fire/Fighting? :B

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Fandom: I believe “Dragonbara Z” is the term?

Summary: Kakarot’s passed him up in every field before – but Vegeta won’t let him win this time!

Genre: “Romance”/Crack

Word Count: ~950

Author’s Note: Inspired by the commentary “Okay, so. Six chapters in and Goku realizes he’s in love with Vegeta. Considering I’ve seen stories where it takes all of two sentences, this is pretty impressive.” In other words – blame Brill for this.

 

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( ''Vegeta, I brought you flow-'' ''I UPROOTED AN ENTIRE ROSE GARDEN AND PLANTED IT NEXT TO YOUR HOUSE!'Collapse )

 

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Entries describing "Work on X for Y amount of time" completely fail to work, as I have extremely poor time-perception skills and the exercises thus mean nothing to me. ("Get a stopwatch"? Stop your crazy talk! :P More seriously, I... don't do well even with timers. Einstein's 'sitting with a pretty girl/sitting on a hot stove' comment really describes my varying time-perception.)

Entries describing concrete actions, however, motivate me like heck. So I'm going to switch the time-based To-Dos/Dailies/Habits to action-based variants, and see if things pick up.

...Ah, well. I'm calling this a brain deficit in need of correction and am going to focus on compensating for it in the meantime.

...Also, this is going to help as a reminder that I have a certain all-purpose notebook without any of the garbage from notes and doodles. I have the Russian alphabet in here! And a list of all hiragana + katakana! And math formulas! How did I survive when I misplaced this? :D

(Being finally able to admit to this deficit is possibly the best thing HabitRPG's done for me. I'll have to adjust my planning skills accordingly...)
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@_@ The bugs... in those JQuery exercises... were horrible...
(But it WAS hilarious that the exercise focusing on tabbed menus had a nearly course-breaking error with its tabs. Thank goodness for the Q&A Forums.)

Anyway, now I can try PHP and Projects!

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Now I have CodeYear, PHP, and Projects to finish...

D: Well, at least I won't run out of uses for my "Codecademy: 20 lessons" Habit on HabitRPG any time soon, I guess...

(Think I like Python more than Ruby... and possibly Javascript, at this point. The notation's relatively elegant, and the indents are a lot easier to keep track of than {}-pair-#12. Javascript was too formal, and Ruby wasn't quite rigid enough for me. Python's a nice compromise.

I admit that I may change my mind depending upon what language I'm doing at the moment.)

I... dang. 70 days ago, I didn't know any programming beyond a little bit of C++, and now I know the basics of three languages. :S I haven't made this much progress since I was an undergrad... That may be why I enjoy it so much. *sigh* I get bored with things once the rate of reward drops off. It's a despicable flaw, but I'm not sure how to get rid of it... yet. The flaw will be smashed.
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Party: Kalkin L15, Arthur L12, Anri L14, Tao L14, DOMINGO L1, Lowe L13, Khris L13, Gong L13
Battle: Just cleared the General Elliott battle.

The Laser Eye battle was unremarkable. Swing, swing, swing, smash.
The General Elliott battle was embarrassing - both for me and the enemy. It embarrassed me because I initially botched it by walking my units into a swarm of enemies, and it was embarrassing for the enemy because they kept walking into double BLAZE L2s. That's another difference between this and Fire Emblem - you will never see 3+ enemies dying at once in FE.
(The only problem is that I'm hitting the point where mages and healers no longer make good physical attackers... Urk. Well, that's what magic's for.)

And now I have Domingo! :D Go forth and turn your enemies into ice cubes, oh Lord of Freeze! (I have an actual tank! Will wonders never cease?)




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Other people's dragons:

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