Cover Art by Paegan
- Location
- Caribbean
Stopped reading about halfway thru but now that the fic is finished its time to make an epub and start over since I KNOW i've forgotten a bunch of stuff. Due to minor OCD issues I really don't like having ebooks withou covers so I did this thing based on the current post image and TheLoudestSound's Justice Duck Drawing :
Hope other ppl will be able to use it....
Hope other ppl will be able to use it....
- Pronouns
- male
Dude this was an awesome fic and i literally made on account here just so i could say that
Kryslin
[Has Delusions of Authorship]
- Location
- Mythic Iowa
I have a suggestion for the book that doesn't have a title:
"You aren't cleared to know the title of this book." (Will work best split between 2 lines)
- Location
- Earth, Sol System, Virgo Supercluster, Earth-1218
- Location
- Caribbean
Technically that IS the title ... If you squint...while drinking "ultra thump cosh fluid" ..... Maybe....
Woah, woah, woah.
No, that's not a point! That's utterly ridiculous!
Taylor, how can you possibly believe that any people attacking you would likely have logical plans?
Have you not been paying attention for the last... year? Even assuming a 50/50 chance of a sensible plan is being way to generous.
- Location
- Somewhere In Pa
- Pronouns
- Mr
Actually, that's only half right. It really all depends on the author in question, and how much they write.
Back on fimfiction.net (and for his stories on AO3) there is an author called Tatsurou that has well over thirty complete multi-chapter fics. That's just one that I know of. Take Ack, for example; he has at least half a dozen (or more) completed fics. I have two that I finished quite a while ago myself.
The reason why it might seem rare to see completed fics is all due to the serial nature of fan fiction in general. As these works are- generally speaking -serial in nature, they tend to take longer on average than novels do. We also focus more on them because we're getting them piecemeal, which is relatively novel, all things considered. Plus, due to human nature,. we keep track of all of those that are either slow to finish, or were dropped from one reason or another; all part of how we humans tend to focus on negative aspects while desiring positive ones.
Still, there are a lot of incomplete fics out there that go a long time with updates, let alone get finished. It's not as rare as you're saying though; it just seems that way. Grass is greener on the other side and all that.
- Location
- Somewhere In Pa
- Pronouns
- Mr
What do you mean it's ended? Sure, the story's done, but it's still a story. Just go back and start from the beginning.
That's what I'm doing.
- Location
- In My Parlour like a Good Arachne
- Pronouns
- She, her
A pony after my own heart.
- Location
- Somewhere In Pa
- Pronouns
- Mr
Why thank you! I do try. It just seems as if no one appreciates the efforts an older brony goes to make the established forums (not EQ, that site is DOA, just saying) a better, happier place.
How am I doing with that, do you think? I think it's better, but that might just be my pride talking. Happiness is relative.
- Location
- Alberta, Canada.
I stopped checking SV for a month or two and had fallen behind on MS before that. Imagine my surprise when I saw this was apparently complete! I thought it would literally never end!
I'm sad it's over, but everything did get wrapped-up very nicely and they were kinda running out of major threats and enemies. The world goes on without us, to a better and brighter future.
Thank you for writing this CmptrWz, it has been a joy ever since I discovered it.
I loved the actually reasonable and moral PRT, Cauldron, and other authority figures from the start (the S9 being a roving therapy group is so bizarre to think of that I keep forgetting and wondering "When are the Nine going to show up?" or "Ooooh, that's gonna get Jack's attention, guess I know where they're heading next..." forgetting that in this he's her uncle and a licensed PRT therapist), and the sheer degree to which you subverted the canon in those regards was pleasing and novel to me (such as Costa-Brown having a Presidential Order allowing her to keep her position despite being Alexandria, or the lack of anti-heroes being because a previous president stupidly forbid it) and made the whole story (kinda) feel more 'wholesome' and happy without that (though there was still plenty in the background (E88 are still violent Nazis, Bonesaw caused likely millions of deaths across numerous Earths and virtually wiped-out the senior population by accident, etc.) so it wasn't just whitewashing either). Virtually everyone was a reasonable and rational person, even the Shards and Entities, that I could at least imagine existing in reality instead of being warped caricatures of evil, callousness, and/or apathy.
One thing that I've been thinking about for the past while that bugs me a little: It didn't feel like Taylor ever really felt/emoted anything much stronger than 'mildly/sardonically amused' to 'somewhat annoyed,' at least in the last while in-story. No real extremes of emotion, joy, rage, sorrow, despair, love, etc. are really detectable from the story it seems (at least to me), despite us generally getting insight into what she's thinking and feeling.
That could be the PoV/tone though, as it's a somewhat odd third-person omniscient/hyper-aware first-person clinical thing that I've never really seen before and am not quite sure how to describe. Like we're getting it all retold to us as an after-action report or something, we know everything that went on and what people/she was doing and/or thinking, but it's sort of... stripped of subjectivity or something?
I'm sad it's over, but everything did get wrapped-up very nicely and they were kinda running out of major threats and enemies. The world goes on without us, to a better and brighter future.
Thank you for writing this CmptrWz, it has been a joy ever since I discovered it.
I loved the actually reasonable and moral PRT, Cauldron, and other authority figures from the start (the S9 being a roving therapy group is so bizarre to think of that I keep forgetting and wondering "When are the Nine going to show up?" or "Ooooh, that's gonna get Jack's attention, guess I know where they're heading next..." forgetting that in this he's her uncle and a licensed PRT therapist), and the sheer degree to which you subverted the canon in those regards was pleasing and novel to me (such as Costa-Brown having a Presidential Order allowing her to keep her position despite being Alexandria, or the lack of anti-heroes being because a previous president stupidly forbid it) and made the whole story (kinda) feel more 'wholesome' and happy without that (though there was still plenty in the background (E88 are still violent Nazis, Bonesaw caused likely millions of deaths across numerous Earths and virtually wiped-out the senior population by accident, etc.) so it wasn't just whitewashing either). Virtually everyone was a reasonable and rational person, even the Shards and Entities, that I could at least imagine existing in reality instead of being warped caricatures of evil, callousness, and/or apathy.
One thing that I've been thinking about for the past while that bugs me a little: It didn't feel like Taylor ever really felt/emoted anything much stronger than 'mildly/sardonically amused' to 'somewhat annoyed,' at least in the last while in-story. No real extremes of emotion, joy, rage, sorrow, despair, love, etc. are really detectable from the story it seems (at least to me), despite us generally getting insight into what she's thinking and feeling.
That could be the PoV/tone though, as it's a somewhat odd third-person omniscient/hyper-aware first-person clinical thing that I've never really seen before and am not quite sure how to describe. Like we're getting it all retold to us as an after-action report or something, we know everything that went on and what people/she was doing and/or thinking, but it's sort of... stripped of subjectivity or something?
- Location
- Dresden
Wait, just readed the chapter 200 Duck interlude, didn't the Siberian die in an Endbringer fight in the earlier chapters?!
- Location
- Jackson, Alabama
No, that was Crawler and Mannequin. In the end, although they were considered the worst of villains, they went out like Heroes, with Mannequin holding the Ziz's attention while others attacked, and Crawler taking a hit meant for Legend.
Just finished chapter 216 and remarkably Hookwolf is correct. Most mobsters who are in prison are there for either tax evasion or for conspiracy to commit murder, both of which have extremely harsh penalties for two reasons. One to use them against mob bosses to put them away and because both of those crimes are much easier to prove than actual murder; especially when nobody can find the body or murder weapon or any eyewitnesses.
Just finished re-reading chapter 26 and for some reason the bit about Coil's power somehow making him paranoid of his cell's toilet reminded me of a news report I heard of an analysis toilet that identifies the user by scanning their anus because apparently it's more unique than fingerprints. I doubt that's why he's feeling paranoid about it though.
- Location
- Twentynine Palms, California
pfft oh THAT nearly made me spray my drink all over my keyboard. What the hell? That's a thing? PLEASE tell me that's not a thing. Because whether or not it really IS a thing, I would LOVE to see someone suggest that in this story as an omake and get shut down HARD by ARMSMASTER of all people.
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M. H. Fuzzball
Aperture Science-certified Horrible Person
- Location
- Sector 2814
In this case, IIRC, it was because his power was trolling him. It did want to be used for practical jokes, after all.
- Location
- SoCal
"Patented by Chuck Berry"
Combat Medics are Badass's
- Location
- California, USA
- Pronouns
- He/Him
So I was going through a re-read and I ran across this part. In the previous posts CmptrWz mentioned that this was a follow up to previous events. Does anyone know which events those are? Or if this plot line ever came up again?