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Forum Games / Re: Super "What Are You Thinking?" ReBirth
« on: May 04, 2014, 04:36:28 AM »
And if you decide to get a henna tattoo... be warned that the paste smells rather strongly. It's very spicy.
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Off The Wall / Re: Post Pictures Of Yourself
« on: May 04, 2014, 04:35:08 AM »
A few did. D:
One girl and two boys followed me. Not at the same time, but one boy approached me after basically following me around and asked me about the pendulum. Another girl did the same, and another boy kept pointing me out to his folks. Though, we did park near their car, so he saw me before I got the mask.
One girl and two boys followed me. Not at the same time, but one boy approached me after basically following me around and asked me about the pendulum. Another girl did the same, and another boy kept pointing me out to his folks. Though, we did park near their car, so he saw me before I got the mask.
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Forum Games / Re: Super "What Are You Thinking?" ReBirth
« on: May 04, 2014, 04:19:39 AM »
I finally decided to look up what a trans-fae goblin was.
It's a faerie trapped inside the body of a goblin.
Wedji TuCheeks is a trans-fae who frequents the Faerie Festival. Didn't see here there this year, though. But at least now I know what a trans-fae is!
It's a faerie trapped inside the body of a goblin.
Wedji TuCheeks is a trans-fae who frequents the Faerie Festival. Didn't see here there this year, though. But at least now I know what a trans-fae is!
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Off The Wall / Re: Models and Figures
« on: May 04, 2014, 04:11:24 AM »
As long as he's not sporting the Liefeld Chest Tumor, I think he'll be fine.
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Forum Games / Re: Super "What Are You Thinking?" ReBirth
« on: May 04, 2014, 04:04:12 AM »
No idea, but steampunk is big at the Faerie Festival.
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Forum Games / Re: Super "What Are You Thinking?" ReBirth
« on: May 04, 2014, 03:59:14 AM »
What better way to celebrate the emergence of Spring than by getting closer to nature and covering yourself in mud? 
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Forum Games / Re: Super "What Are You Thinking?" ReBirth
« on: May 04, 2014, 03:50:41 AM »
Cat girls, fairy cat girls, wolf girls, elves, trolls, goblins, bird girls, satyrs, I saw a griffin, lots of Green Men (guys dressed entirely in green with vines, leaves crowns of twigs, etc.), a Moss Man, lots and lots of steampunk cosplayers, faeries (as is expected), lots of belly dancers, and people covered from head to toe in mud.
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Off The Wall / Re: Post Pictures Of Yourself
« on: May 04, 2014, 03:45:55 AM »
It's leather and hand-formed. At the time, I was looking for something similar to a plague doctor mask, but that gold one was absolutely perfect. Once I put that on, I was recognized.
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Forum Games / Re: Super "What Are You Thinking?" ReBirth
« on: May 04, 2014, 03:43:51 AM »
So many cat girls at the Faerie Festival...
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Off The Wall / Re: Post Pictures Of Yourself
« on: May 04, 2014, 03:42:51 AM »
The mask is leather and cost me a pretty penny, but it was the perfect accessory.
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Off The Wall / Re: Post Pictures Of Yourself
« on: May 04, 2014, 03:32:50 AM »
So, I added a bit to the evo-hoodie...
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Off The Wall / Re: Latest Buys
« on: May 04, 2014, 03:10:55 AM »
Stuff from Faerie Festival:
Yellow goblin mask to compliment my evo-hoodie
Henna tattoo on my left hand
Three bars of specialty soap (lavender, clay, and charcoal)
A marble ring for a new pendulum
Then I stopped at the store on the way home and got toilet paper, shampoo and conditioner, acne stuff, and furry yarn to crochet a new and permanent ruff for my evo-hoodie.
Yellow goblin mask to compliment my evo-hoodie
Henna tattoo on my left hand
Three bars of specialty soap (lavender, clay, and charcoal)
A marble ring for a new pendulum
Then I stopped at the store on the way home and got toilet paper, shampoo and conditioner, acne stuff, and furry yarn to crochet a new and permanent ruff for my evo-hoodie.
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Forum Games / Re: Super "What Are You Thinking?" ReBirth
« on: May 04, 2014, 03:08:06 AM »
Back home from the Faerie Festival! I got inked (the excess henna is starting to flake off now), but I was too late to join in the maypole dance. The ribbons were too low to the ground, so it was kids only. 
But, I held a furry purple tarantula, a blue-tongued skink, and a vinegaroon. I tried to get Dad to take a pic of me with the tarantula, but he wouldn't.
Three people recognized what I was wearing and I got one photo op.
But, I held a furry purple tarantula, a blue-tongued skink, and a vinegaroon. I tried to get Dad to take a pic of me with the tarantula, but he wouldn't.
Three people recognized what I was wearing and I got one photo op.
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Entertainment / Re: Disney/Lucasfilm, EpVII coming Dec. 2015, post-RotJ EU non-canon
« on: May 03, 2014, 09:06:16 AM »
Oh rearranging the room is one thing, I meant the layout of rooms within the environment. I don't want to wake up one day and find my bathroom in a new place. 
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Entertainment / Re: Disney/Lucasfilm, EpVII coming Dec. 2015, post-RotJ EU non-canon
« on: May 03, 2014, 08:57:54 AM »
Oh, we hate midichlorians and want them wiped from existence, along with the ludicrous notion that all the stormtroopers are clones.
Canon in and of itself is not a bad thing. I try to maintain some level of canon with my own stuff, as I feel that it helps to keep things organized. To eliminate canon entirely is a ridiculous idea. It's basically eliminating organization.
The article seems confused as to what exactly canonicity is. It's referring to canon as story arcs and franchise universes and their internal canon and levels of canon. It condemns internal franchise story timelines while saying that all canon should be eliminated.
It's one thing to dislike a story's universe and internal timeline. It's another thing to condemn canon in fiction, period. Canon, when boiled down to its most basic components is basically organization of disparate story elements into a recognizable pattern. Names, characters, places, events. Keeping track of these things is where canon comes in. It helps to keep things consistent.
I'd love to be able to retcon large chunks of my life when I can and i'd love for it to have the most pliable of canons. But, it doesn't. That sucks. However, I still like some semblance of consistency. I want my apartment layout to remain the same day to day, not change on the whims of the universe because it got bored and decided that my current living quarters were dull.
Canon in and of itself is not a bad thing. I try to maintain some level of canon with my own stuff, as I feel that it helps to keep things organized. To eliminate canon entirely is a ridiculous idea. It's basically eliminating organization.
The article seems confused as to what exactly canonicity is. It's referring to canon as story arcs and franchise universes and their internal canon and levels of canon. It condemns internal franchise story timelines while saying that all canon should be eliminated.
It's one thing to dislike a story's universe and internal timeline. It's another thing to condemn canon in fiction, period. Canon, when boiled down to its most basic components is basically organization of disparate story elements into a recognizable pattern. Names, characters, places, events. Keeping track of these things is where canon comes in. It helps to keep things consistent.
I'd love to be able to retcon large chunks of my life when I can and i'd love for it to have the most pliable of canons. But, it doesn't. That sucks. However, I still like some semblance of consistency. I want my apartment layout to remain the same day to day, not change on the whims of the universe because it got bored and decided that my current living quarters were dull.
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Forum Games / Re: Super "What Are You Thinking?" ReBirth
« on: May 03, 2014, 08:33:54 AM »
All hell must have broken loose in Gettysburg, as for a while, all I heard were sirens and speeding cars.
Yep, truly a cesspool of crime, Gettysburg.
Yep, truly a cesspool of crime, Gettysburg.
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Forum Games / Re: Super "What Are You Thinking?" ReBirth
« on: May 03, 2014, 06:37:32 AM »
"Blobzilla" would be a better name.
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Entertainment / Re: Disney/Lucasfilm, EpVII coming Dec. 2015, post-RotJ EU non-canon
« on: May 03, 2014, 05:19:22 AM »
In some cases where the canon is so tangled up, such as with DC, I can justify a good Crisis to rectify everything. With DC and Marvel, you have writing by a committee. Multiple writers on one project. This is where continuity errors crop up, either in art or story, or both, due to that committee. Everyone is bringing in their own thoughts, their own ideas, and their own methods.
The end result of that committee is a tangled Gordian knot of continuity that needs to be nuked from orbit in order to fix it.
The thing is, in regards to the novel side of the EU, you usually don't see books written by a committee. Granted, the EU didn't have the most illustrious of canon and there are many, many things about it that fans can't stand. But, each novel wasn't written by a committee. You'd have an editorially-driven storyline, but each book wasn't written by a committee. You had one author's ideas, one author's thoughts, and one author's voice. The canon, for the most part, went along a smoother track, with retcons in place when G-canon contradictions would show up.
And honestly, as much as it would grate on our nerves at times, we were just fine with that.
The thing about canon to EU fans is it allows us to trace things back to a source. We can watch the progression of a character based on their stories. If retcons are in place to explain a character's personality quirks, we go back through past stories and find the symptomology to match up. We like our canon because it gives us a universe; it gives us a world.
If you eliminate canon in a franchise, you essentially eliminate the overarching world it exists in. Personally, I'd rather be able to trace events through multiple stories and watch my favorite characters grow than have a disjointed series of meandering events in a world where absolutely nothing matches up.
What that article fails to mention are the good things about canon. Canon gives us continuity. Continuity for world-building is a good thing. There are consistencies, there are things that happen because something else happened. These things exist in our own world, and when they're applied to fiction, they give a franchise a grounding in reality. Character see consequences that follow them, just as we do. Characters grow in response to various incidences, just as we do. And characters can expect something in their world to work the same way every time they use it, just as we do.
Let's face it; if there was no continuity, you'd be starting your car a different way each day, and it'd look different every time you see it. Our lives have a canon, so why shouldn't our fiction?
The end result of that committee is a tangled Gordian knot of continuity that needs to be nuked from orbit in order to fix it.
The thing is, in regards to the novel side of the EU, you usually don't see books written by a committee. Granted, the EU didn't have the most illustrious of canon and there are many, many things about it that fans can't stand. But, each novel wasn't written by a committee. You'd have an editorially-driven storyline, but each book wasn't written by a committee. You had one author's ideas, one author's thoughts, and one author's voice. The canon, for the most part, went along a smoother track, with retcons in place when G-canon contradictions would show up.
And honestly, as much as it would grate on our nerves at times, we were just fine with that.
The thing about canon to EU fans is it allows us to trace things back to a source. We can watch the progression of a character based on their stories. If retcons are in place to explain a character's personality quirks, we go back through past stories and find the symptomology to match up. We like our canon because it gives us a universe; it gives us a world.
If you eliminate canon in a franchise, you essentially eliminate the overarching world it exists in. Personally, I'd rather be able to trace events through multiple stories and watch my favorite characters grow than have a disjointed series of meandering events in a world where absolutely nothing matches up.
What that article fails to mention are the good things about canon. Canon gives us continuity. Continuity for world-building is a good thing. There are consistencies, there are things that happen because something else happened. These things exist in our own world, and when they're applied to fiction, they give a franchise a grounding in reality. Character see consequences that follow them, just as we do. Characters grow in response to various incidences, just as we do. And characters can expect something in their world to work the same way every time they use it, just as we do.
Let's face it; if there was no continuity, you'd be starting your car a different way each day, and it'd look different every time you see it. Our lives have a canon, so why shouldn't our fiction?
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Forum Games / Re: What are you currently Eating?
« on: May 03, 2014, 04:39:44 AM »
I just had a cup of shrimp ramen. Dinner of champions.
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Forum Games / Re: Super "What Are You Thinking?" ReBirth
« on: May 03, 2014, 03:58:03 AM »
I tried to use Quickmeme just a few minutes ago, but it needs an account and I don't want to make one.
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Forum Games / Re: Super "What Are You Thinking?" ReBirth
« on: May 03, 2014, 03:54:39 AM »
Or you could Quickmeme it.
Mabel came out of the bathroom, looked at me and meowed. So, I fed her.
Mabel came out of the bathroom, looked at me and meowed. So, I fed her.
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Forum Games / Re: Super "What Are You Thinking?" ReBirth
« on: May 03, 2014, 03:42:29 AM »
Just made a pendulum for costuming purposes. Now I won't have to worry about losing my dowsing pendulum. The one I made is cardboard, duct tape, jewelry cord, and three coiled bobby pins inside for weight. If I lose that thing, I won't be as upset as I would if I lost my amethyst pendulum.
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Forum Games / Re: Super "What Are You Thinking?" ReBirth
« on: May 03, 2014, 01:54:44 AM »
Blargle, stomach all upset and hip all sore.
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Fan Creations / Re: The Gonzo has art.
« on: May 03, 2014, 01:54:10 AM »
Giant eye crystal thing...
At least that's what it looks like to me.
What is it?
And Shadow should eat Doritos 3Ds with his Surge.
At least that's what it looks like to me.
What is it?
And Shadow should eat Doritos 3Ds with his Surge.
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Forum Games / Re: Super "What Are You Thinking?" ReBirth
« on: May 03, 2014, 01:29:14 AM »
Well, I made the topic.