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keaaluMini-update. I've re-uploaded all of RtA so far, excluding chapters one and two (which I'm obviously rewriting), since I don't THINK the rest of it will need too much exhaustive work doing on them (for an older work, I'm not too displeased with it). There's only a couple of chapters to go before I finish it, and I'm determined to get it DONE at last. Once I have stories finished, I have less of this persistent kneejerk to rewrite them. :P
"Ride the Avocet" - the story so far
@ Aegis: I took some of your advice, and got rid of a bit of the wordiness of the first bit. I'm still not there, I don't think, but it might flow a bit better. Histories and such can come out more gradually. :P
In an unrelated incident, I just had the WORST (or maybe best, if your definition is "most humorous for being total tosspots") phishing email EVER. For one, they didn't turn on their html, so I got ALL the code. For two, this completely revealed that the link supposedly going to "http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_login-run" actually went to "http://paynucadeaducupdassert.again.at/". So if anyone actually goes TO that site to "update their Paypal details" they deserve all they get. :P *reports it to Paypal anyway*
On another unrelated matter, Doctor Who the other night was quite cool. :) Although I was a little disappointed when the one who "has woken" turned out to be a variant of "Satan" and not Cthulhu. :P I was holding out hope it might be one of the Great Old Ones (especially as the Ood looked so starspawn-esque) and the writing was described as so old the TARDIS couldn't translate it, but meh, no Great Old One, just Satan.
Edit: I'm seeing a theme developing here. Sligs off Oddworld, Sammael from Hellboy (who made me shriek like such a little fangirl. :P), cephalopoids in all their various forms... Cthulhu... Mrf. (I'm sure He wouldn't have approved. But then, I always reserve the right to revise my opinion - these things are terrifing! Think of the worst thing furries could do to Cthulhu, then put that through the eyes of a stuffed-toy maker...)
"Ride the Avocet" - the story so far
@ Aegis: I took some of your advice, and got rid of a bit of the wordiness of the first bit. I'm still not there, I don't think, but it might flow a bit better. Histories and such can come out more gradually. :P
In an unrelated incident, I just had the WORST (or maybe best, if your definition is "most humorous for being total tosspots") phishing email EVER. For one, they didn't turn on their html, so I got ALL the code. For two, this completely revealed that the link supposedly going to "http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_login-run" actually went to "http://paynucadeaducupdassert.again.at/". So if anyone actually goes TO that site to "update their Paypal details" they deserve all they get. :P *reports it to Paypal anyway*
On another unrelated matter, Doctor Who the other night was quite cool. :) Although I was a little disappointed when the one who "has woken" turned out to be a variant of "Satan" and not Cthulhu. :P I was holding out hope it might be one of the Great Old Ones (especially as the Ood looked so starspawn-esque) and the writing was described as so old the TARDIS couldn't translate it, but meh, no Great Old One, just Satan.
Edit: I'm seeing a theme developing here. Sligs off Oddworld, Sammael from Hellboy (who made me shriek like such a little fangirl. :P), cephalopoids in all their various forms... Cthulhu... Mrf. (I'm sure He wouldn't have approved. But then, I always reserve the right to revise my opinion - these things are terrifing! Think of the worst thing furries could do to Cthulhu, then put that through the eyes of a stuffed-toy maker...)
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Date: 5 Jun 2006 07:13 am (UTC)Didn't know you knew of mythos. Now if only I could remember exactly what was Yog-Shoggoth... something involving gates, I think.
Dr. Who's on the tenth season over there, isn't it? I'm lucky to have gotten to see the ninth - I get the finale of it sometime next week. If nothing else, I can see why you like Daleks so much now. And how to prounounce "EX-TER-MIN-ATE".
Should I wait until Chapters 1 and 2 are back up before reading the rest of Avocet?
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Date: 5 Jun 2006 10:27 pm (UTC)Anyway, Ood (http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/episodes/2006/impossibleplanet.shtml).
I don't think the revised chapters 1 and 2 will make a massive amount of difference, aside from to explain some of the things that went unexplained in the first draft. ;P Chapter three was always where it properly STARTED - you think the NEW version of 1 jumped all over the place, you should have seen the OLD one, it bore almost no resemblance to the plot at ALL and added... well, nothing to it, really. :P So go figure.
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Date: 6 Jun 2006 06:00 am (UTC)And they're still using the Rose character? Interesting... Of course, it'll probably be a year before I see any of them over here, if at all....
Hm. So if the first two chapters had no relevance, why not just start with the third? Or do the first two make for a more proper introduction?
Maybe it's just a matter of formality.
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Date: 6 Jun 2006 07:25 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 5 Jun 2006 10:35 pm (UTC)