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Ah, that new thread smell, mixed with the delicious elixir of chaos.

And ouch, Grayven. You do realise that when you decided to Leeroy you lost your hat, right? And any plan where you lose your hat...IZ A BAD PLAN!!
 
That was just bad artists with bad tools.

The good ones got as close as could reasonably be gotten with the tools at the time to the same standards as are seen today.
Not at all. Beauty standards were legitimately different hundreds of years ago, with good reason. In general, we find people attractive that are wealthy and healthy. In the old days, being able to maintain a rotund physique said you had access to plenty of food or money to pay for food. Being pale/free of freckles was attractive for a long time in both Europe and Asia because it said 'I am wealthy enough to not need to work long hours in the sun.' Now obviously these indicators are secondary to a healthy body, so actual obesity or sickly pallor was never attractive, but they were indicators of status and went well with bodily symmetry, clear skin, and a general air of health.

After the Industrial Revolution a tan went from 'I work long back-breaking hours' to 'I have the leisure time to sit around and do nothing.' A thin body went from 'I am too poor to eat' to 'I have the luxury of eating fresh food.' Pale skin went from 'I can do nothing' to 'I work long hours indoors.' A large body went from 'I have the money to eat whatever I want' to 'I can only afford cheap foods that are bad for me/have no restraint/have poor health.'
 
What's that noise? Ah. I don't turn to look at the three Thanagarian fighters currently lurking just in front of the bridge's front window, but I do look at Lieutenant Kragger as he manages a vicious smile.
Isn't there no sound in space? I mean, he's in a closed-off atmospheric area presently, but how could he have heard the fighters appearing?
 
I understand the bitterness, but I'm glad you're carrying on regardless; it would've been more frustrating if it had caused you to abandon the story.

Of course, I just have a little folder in my bookmarks that I middle-click on and it opens up my Watched Threads for all three sites, so it's not a big deal either way.
 
Oh and-- since it's a new thread and all, now, maybe we could make use of the threadmarks system? Tends to come in handy a lot, really.
 
I kind of want to know what exactly Zoat said over on SB, the consensus seems to be it wasn't really a spoiler, and I'll admit I don't even really care if it was, but...

Either way, glad you're not letting the ban slow you down!
 
Glad to see you back Zoat! I've got to wonder where fear of injury and/or death ranks when you've gotten used to being nigh invulnerable.
 
They're just high in the atmosphere. Not space. Otherwise when the window broke there would have been other stuff happening.
Also there the scene with the fighters:

Fine then! I fly up and out of the window at high speed. Three ships close to, another five further back. Guns are on fixed nose mounts. I fly past the first fighter and hammer its left wing with the blade of my axe, cutting through and throwing off the balance of its antigravity propulsion system. Two plumes of smoke erupt from the cut and the fighter lurches to the side as the others in the squadron try and reacquire me. Standing in the air I glare at the closest and open my soul to their fear. They saw their fellow Thanagarians fleeing, didn't they? The yellow light builds in my eyes for a moment and then blasts out, smashing clean through the craft and severing the rear third. As it tumbles in the air the canopy blows and the pilot leaps free. Right, wings. Does he have a grav-chute on that ridiculous armour? Doesn't look like it. He's not going to-? Yes, he drew his sidearm and shot me. Fine then. Flashes of yellow from my eyes annihilate his pistol and pierce his wings in what looks like an extremely painful location, causing him to yelp and drop from the sky. He'll probably manage a survivable landing.
He's pretty clearly in atmosphere; low enough for it to be breathable, even.
 
whoo! Glad you're posting on another site. Honestly so unreasonable, what's so good about that film? Just like the first three. Now I'm going to catch up on some missing chapter(s).
 
In a nutshell:
"Why is it still a Resistance/Rebellion, didn't they win? Aren't they the government now?"
I haven't seen the movie yet, but being an evil empire
they wouldn't realistically recognize the legitimacy of a government that isn't them (the Empire), so everyone not part of the Empire is a rebel. It they crossed over with Star Trek, the Klingons or the Vulcans, or the Federation would be considered rebels because they aren't conquered by the Empire
 
In a nutshell:
"Why is it still a Resistance/Rebellion, didn't they win? Aren't they the government now?"

Nope. Palpatine was the leader of the Empire, but the Empire was more than just him. Until they can properly re-establish the Senate and so forth, the galactic government remains an Empire and they remain a Rebellion.
 
"I've been reading this story for awhile now. I didn't really pay much attention to the meta surrounding it, the community talking about it, preferring to take the story on its own merits instead. The whole ban thing was completely ridiculous. I can't blame you at all for coming here. Is there going to be a story-only thread on this forum too? Trying to find the individual story posts in between the discussion seems a bit... daunting."
Threadmarks will make that easier.
 
So I tried to see if I could streamline the transition of WTR over to SV using the multiquote tool. Selected all of the first episode with the intent to quote it all at once, remove the quote boxes, then copy the BB code straight to SV. The whole process should have taken maybe 5-10 minutes per episode.

The second I hit the insert quotes button my computer's fan went into overdrive and the browser crashed. Word of warning then @Mr Zoat, don't do that. Five at a time maybe? I really don't feel like testing it further. I have like seven tabs open and I don't want to go recovering them again.
 
Finished! Hey I fixed the tvtropes page so your fans can know! There is some much discussion about it on Thread Eleven. I'm kind of scared to post there now and mentioned it. The only reason I signed up for that forum, this one and loving SIs are all because of your fic and amazing ideas! You have a life long fan!
 
While I might not entirely abandon Spacebattles, I will absolutely be following this story. Especially as the other fanfic I read on SB, The Games We Play, has ended.

As for the decision to move, honestly, I support Zoat on this one. Not going to get into the spoilers vs. not-spoilers debate, but given what he has said occurred, I would move over here too. Breaking an incredibly reliable streak like that over this would have made me irate as well. Admittedly, I'm sort of ambivalent towards Star Wars, so perhaps I'm a bit biased, but I feel like the level of Secret Policing that was required for that to occur was wholly unnecessary.

EDIT: Also, adjusted the TV Tropes page to describe the switch in the most neutral language I could. If someone else has a better phrasing, please go for it. I don't want to cast Zoat in a bad light, or the WTR fandom.
 
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