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Post by Anya the Purple on Jun 13, 2013 23:00:49 GMT -8
This all makes me so happy. SO HAPPY. Anyway the Erinversary is literally one minute from being over for me but I made this thing I know the math is way more convoluted than it needs to be - like instead of fucking around with logs I could have just multiplied by ln(N) - but whatever. It looks cooler this way. Oh also, there should be another N^2 in the third to last step XP
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2013 15:09:52 GMT -8
Wow, good haul this year! I'm especially intrigued by the promise of a brand new series from Talys, but really, everything is fantastic. This is probably the only thing where people have kittens and poetry and coffeeshops and calculus in one day? Anyway, thank you all!
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Post by Talys Alankil on Jun 14, 2013 18:14:44 GMT -8
I think we can all agree to say that Erinversary 2013 is a frank success.
Party hat kittens for all!
Also I still haven't read your coffeeshop AU puzzle but I swear I will ^^'
And yay for the promise of a suepidemic prequel ! \o/
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Post by PuzzleChick on Jun 14, 2013 20:05:34 GMT -8
Aw yiss, this was quite a lovely Erinversary indeed. x3
SUEPIDEMIC PREQUEL YES PLZ
ALSO WHOA MATH.
I love that our fandom combines kittens, haiku, mmorpgs, coffeeshops and calculus. xD I also love Rei's cute doodles.
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Post by Traitor on Jun 15, 2013 18:23:29 GMT -8
A Slightly Different World
I stare at the ticking clock and grey scrubbed walls. Something draws near to me, breathes and not-breathes on a patch of tender skin. Close to bone and blood. Close to me.
Break upon me like a wave and let me hear you scream
Hold me in a gauzy shimmering softness and tell me I belong to you
Tell me I belong
A pulse through my body, not heartbeat, never heartbeat, not now. More primal. More to be feared. I would but he says not to. He loves me. He says so all the time, and I believe him when the blood means a fresh grey coat and an evening dress all for me.
Break me make me unmake me Let me be as I am Let me be as you desire Let me be Let me be in love with you Oh heavenly Father let me be in love with you
Cast loose upon the world, another mewling, squalling, pale thunderhead golden creature born from a pale blue feeling. Monster, some say, but they say it of him too and we have our love. No other love will do.
I need his love to forgive my lust, and my children to absolve me hate. Nothing else. No-one else.
Only the love of my brood.
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Post by PuzzleChick on Jun 17, 2013 17:12:41 GMT -8
^ Oh wow, this is really cool. I think Joan is the point of view in it? It sounds a little like how she would talk about Ward and her all-consuming love for him.
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Post by WolfBloodRei on Jun 18, 2013 0:02:53 GMT -8
Yeah, Suepidemic Prequel, which will cover Twila and Joan. I'm still thinking on it's title though.
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Post by Traitor on Jun 18, 2013 0:27:03 GMT -8
Yup, PC! A little poem about how Ward is keeping Joan locked up in a basement and using her for nothing but procreative sex. The "slightly different" nature is that, instead of Brewdening, her love is for her brood of terrible half-vampire offspring.
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Post by Talys Alankil on Jun 18, 2013 6:04:57 GMT -8
So… Joan is actually capable of physically withstanding giving birth to those?
(yes, this is the part I'm not sure would happen. The rest seems very likely, actually)
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Post by Traitor on Jun 19, 2013 5:49:40 GMT -8
For the purposes of the story, I had assumed that Edward was keeping Joan alive as an incubator and general dumping-ground for his foul, demonic hell-spooge.
I like that phrase.
I must use it more often.
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Post by PuzzleChick on Jun 19, 2013 16:51:25 GMT -8
Holy cow, that's some good horror right there. It's not like Edward couldn't afford it. Plus it's an AU so it doesn't have to follow all the Twilight rules. It's also possible the mother could survive even in Twilightverse if they induced delivery early. I mean, they grow insanely fast and seem to be developed way before being born, so what's a bit early? Human babies are born early all the time and they're much more fragile than a Renesmeespawn.
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Post by Traitor on Jun 20, 2013 4:20:14 GMT -8
It also fits with the themes of female subservience in both BL and Twilight itself - if there's one thing Edward wants, it's a woman who's barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen. Blood bank. Whatever. The question, of course, is how to force the pregnancy to occur, which I believe is a thing known as "yet more stupid sparkly vampire bullshit".
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Post by PuzzleChick on Jun 20, 2013 5:26:26 GMT -8
Joan would be easy to manipulate. As long as Edward fed her platitudes about loving her and God's will that wives submit to their husbands, she wouldn't even argue.
Also hell-splooge is totally my new name for rude customers, replacing dickweed.
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Post by Traitor on Jun 20, 2013 5:45:15 GMT -8
It's such a fun thing to say, isn't it?
Also, I completely agree with you on the subject of Joan being easily manipulated. Hell, a fun AU might be that Edward is the leader of a Jim Jones-style doomsday cult and Brian and Hugo are sent undercover to investigate him... maybe with cameo appearances from the cast of Spooks (or MI-5, as it is known to US citizens) and Sherlock, or maybe even post-Deathly-Hallows Harry Potter. Possibly all of them. Yes. Good.
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Post by Anya the Purple on Jun 27, 2013 3:30:04 GMT -8
^I would be okay with this.
(What? Me? Posting in this thread? Hell yes. I'm at math camp right now btw IDK maybe I can turn graph theory into Brugo somehow)
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Post by Talys Alankil on Jun 28, 2013 7:57:06 GMT -8
I'm all for more math geekitude.
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Post by PuzzleChick on Jun 29, 2013 6:23:58 GMT -8
The square root of awesome is Brugo. /o/ /Speechless reference
(What exactly does one do at a math camp, anyway? I'm quite curious.)
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Post by PiedPiperPluto on Jun 29, 2013 18:46:50 GMT -8
So I believe someone mentioned a crossover between the BLEU and Animal Crossing... (Brian is Forks' town secretary) (definitely not a secret agent in disguise) (nope)
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Post by PuzzleChick on Jun 29, 2013 19:27:25 GMT -8
omg I have no idea what I'm looking at BUT I LOVE IT. (Is Brian a kitty? Brian must be a kitty. It suits him perfectly.)
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Post by Anya the Purple on Jul 1, 2013 13:54:51 GMT -8
Well, in my experience, one messes with dots and lines, gets rained on, and plays card games that nobody outside Michigan has heard of.
In other news, there is actually a type of graph called a Snark.
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Post by PiedPiperPluto on Jul 25, 2013 18:10:52 GMT -8
LIVE, BREWDENING THREAD LIIIIIIIIIIIVE {Spoiler}
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Post by PuzzleChick on Jul 26, 2013 19:27:34 GMT -8
Also that is a cute Hugo yes.
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Post by Talys Alankil on Jul 27, 2013 9:14:59 GMT -8
Cute Hugo doodles are always welcome ^_^ Also, I'm a bit late to the Homestuck bandwagon, but I've done some Brewdening Love/God Tier sprites. Click the names to see my reasoning behind each, and I hope you like them ^-^ ETA: Added Brian to avoid double post. ETA2: And here's Jenny!
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Post by Talys Alankil on Jul 29, 2013 16:29:45 GMT -8
I would apologize for the double post but I think it would sound empty by this point. So I've sort of given up on camp NaNoWriMo (I did get to 57k, but nowhere near my goal of 80k. Oh well). But that also means I can start publishing a little earlier! So here's the prologue to the Brooding Series, part 3. {Brooding Brothers — Prologue} Prologue — Descend
As he walked through the streets of Cairo in the afternoon sun, Dan couldn't remember ever being to Egypt before; which was ironic, considering his parents and he were Egyptians. Now he was on his own, with his adopted sister, Becca, their parents presumed dead and a third of the Organization turned against them.
It had all started with the Cullens. Being assigned to infiltrating the coven had sounded like a promising task, one that would help Dan climb up the ladder; and, for a while, it had been just that. It even proved more effective than expected when Esme Cullen offered an unexpected alliance, and killed the Leader for him, forcing the Pope, the second-in-command, to establish Dan as the new Leader.
Of course, such a quick rise to powers had attracted antagonism from within the ranks of the Organization itself. A secret society made up almost entirely of powerful men and women, and lusting after more power through the use of the supernatural, would not take a young Leader that well. But the fear of the vampiric witch, Esme Cullen had been enough to keep them at bay, and to let Dan make his own alliances.
Dan was very thankful for his insight, because a few days later, Esme was dead, her coven annihilated, and the Pope decided to take back what was rightfully his. A third of the Organization followed him — a thankfully small fraction, and much less than Dan had expected, but most of the highest ranking members were part of the dissenters.
However, the Pope had control of the Organization's headquarters, and some of their more advanced technology. Dan's side was far from powerless, but it had also lost much. And to make up for that, Dan had had to travel to Egypt.
He had only heard rumors of the forces that kept the supernatural in check in all of Africa, similar to how the Cullens had kept North America in their iron grasp: the Ennead. Old creatures, worshipped as gods by the Egyptians millennia ago — and their species was still named gods, even today. If vampires and werewolves were victims of magic, both affected by a magical mutation, the former through a virus, the latter directly to their own system, and witches were channeling the magic surrounding them, gods were in control of magic; some even said they were its source.
Dan was not perfectly sure what to believe of these rumors, but the Ennead were the only gods who were still openly active, and with the Cullens dead, and, since a few days ago, the Volturi were in chaos, the gods were definitely the most powerful faction in the supernatural world. Dan needed allies and they were his best choice.
As he approached the ruined temple of Ra, his cellphone rang. He glanced at the screen to see Becca was the one calling. "Missed me already, sis?" he said, trying his best to keep a light-hearted tone. Becca had not been involved with the Organization until Dan's rise to power, and just a few days later, their parents went missing before they could board the plan that would get them to reunite with their children. Since then, Becca had forced Dan to accept her help, but he knew his sister well enough to know she was devastated, even six months later.
"Not really," she replied dryly. "I have a lot of work here while you're out visiting archaeological sites."
"You know what I'm doing—"
"Yes, yes, and it's important. But you also wanted any information we could gather on the remains of the Volturi, didn't you? Well, it seems we've located Sulpicia."
"Really?" Dan had not expected that the first they would hear of was the last remaining leader of the Italian coven. "Where?"
"Somewhere in Virginia. It's not entirely clear: I don't think she's settled yet."
Dan pondered the information. They didn't have any strong implementation in Virginia; but an idea quickly formed in his mind. "Send one of the Assassins." They were a sect of professional assassins and spies, affiliated to the Organization for a few centuries, and located in Massachusetts. That would be close enough. "Tell them we need Sulpicia alive; for now, they just need to keep an eye on her. If everything goes smoothly today, we'll leave Cairo soon and join them to start an actual operation."
"Actually…" Becca started, sounding embarrassed, "they already have a man going there."
"What?" Dan let out. The Assassins had supported him so far. Had they suddenly switched sides and pledged loyalty to the Pope?
"It's not what you think. It's… they said it's some sort of loose cannon who decided to go there on his own as soon as he heard about Sulpicia."
"What's his name?"
"Alex Miles."
"Can you contact him?"
"Yes. And they said he should at least be somewhat obedient. He's still very young"
"Why did they let him go?" Dan erupted. The Assassins tended to view obedience and loyalty as very important
"He's part of the Animus project. The genetic improvements. He's also one of the most successful subjects, from what I gathered. I'm not sure they could really stop him if they wanted to. Not without killing him, at least."
Dan sighed. "All right. Try to see if you can keep him in check. Talk to you later." He hang up as he found the hidden entrance in the ruins, bearing the mark of the Wadjet, the Eye of Horus, in a shimmering web of light that vanished as he walked through it. A door closed right behind him.
A torch was stuck in the wall next to him, already lit, but barely pushing back the darkness now that there was no daylight coming in. It had taken months to find the Ennead and have an audience with them, and even then, they had only agreed to meeting Dan alone.
He followed the single path, leading him deeper underground. He estimated he walked for about twenty minutes, following the twists and turns of the hallway until he was completely disoriented, until he reached a larger, natural-looking cavern. Far above him, he could hear running water, and wondered if that was the Nile itself he was hearing. He crossed a bridge to find a large doorway, and walked through it.
The room he reached was massive, a mix of a tomb and a throne room — fittingly enough, if he was on the left bank of the Nile as he thought, which was traditionally the domain of the dead in Ancient Egypt. Nine sarcophagi, tall enough that he could stand in them and long enough for several men to lie in them, were lined against the walls, four on each side of him, and one directly across the room, and nine empty golden thrones, each one decorated differently, floated above him in a circle, held in the air in defiance of the law of gravity.
As he advanced in the room, the thrones moved, reorganizing into a half-circle, facing him. Then, the sound of wind came to Dan's ears — even though he knew there shouldn't be any wind so far beneath the earth — and his torch was blown, leaving him completely in the dark.
A/N: Yeah, I chose Brooding Brothers as the title in the end. I wasn't sure I would, because the original idea behind that title has become pretty much irrelevant now, but— well, it still holds true in other regards. Such as with Dan himself right here.
Oh, Dan. How I love you. You poor soul dragged into Erin's fantasies. You have just enough of a role in Brewdening Love that you don't count as an original character but just a small enough role in it that I can basically do whatever I want with you. Or, well, whatever I want that's in continuation of his arc in Brooding Lust. Yeah, remember that? It was almost two years ago. *sigh* So yeah, Dan had been put in charge of the Organization by Esme, remember? And then he vanished for the entirety of Brooding Impostor? Well, now he's back, along with Becca.
Aside from that, this opening is funny in hindsight, because I didn't have any plans to include the Ennead at all until I wrote the epilogue to BI, and now here they are. Obviously enough, it's not the last you see of them either. My plot-weaving skills are in full action. The only problem is that I need to get past some key points of the plot, which is why I haven't been able to write as much as I'd wanted to. OTL
So, instead of introducing our Sue, we open up with Dan. Well, technically, the Sue is also introduced. Well, Stu. Yup, I'm using TAD as a base for this, in case you haven't been reading my tumblr. But then again, there's a reason Alexandra's DA account exists for longer than the troll contest, and that's because I already wanted to use her for this very purpose. Although obviously the contest steered TAD a different direction; but I'll work with it.
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Post by PuzzleChick on Jul 29, 2013 17:32:58 GMT -8
OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGYESSSSS
I'm psyched to learn more about Dan and the Organization. And Becca, too. What is TAD though? Is it one of the fics from the trollfic contest or a legitimate one?
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Post by Talys Alankil on Jul 30, 2013 11:11:18 GMT -8
^It's from the trollfic contest. I may or may not be its author.
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Post by PuzzleChick on Jul 30, 2013 17:21:16 GMT -8
No but I mean what does the TAD acronym stand for? xD
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Post by Talys Alankil on Aug 1, 2013 11:50:12 GMT -8
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Post by arcanius on Aug 1, 2013 12:55:11 GMT -8
OK... I thought I was a horrible artist, but this.... Just horrendous.... Atleast now I know I'm not THAT bad, I'm not even sure if I should just laugh or cry at the fact that someone can be like this. Thank you people for keeping such a thread alive so I could see it, lifts my spirit to see that there is hope for me
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Post by PuzzleChick on Aug 1, 2013 18:03:28 GMT -8
Hey there! Nice to meet you Arcanius! Welcome to the Brewdening fandom/hatedom. x3 Try to keep your spirits up; when you're not Erin, the future is full of potential.
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