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Subj: Print book sales actually rose by 3% last year.
Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2016 at 03:32:26 pm EST
Reply Subj: They say that about print in general.
Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2016 at 11:47:24 am EST (Viewed 2 times)



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      Well, in my original c2005 plans, after the New Pantheon came a brief Juniors at College interlude issue and then The Da Visionary Code, which famoulsy features the passing of Visionatus Improbablus. So there's that.



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    At least he gets a snazzy tomb out of the deal!


It's a bit of a fixer-upper.


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    Most urgently, though, please repost a tie-in to the Quest for Naari called "Sir Mix-a-Lot".



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    I'll see what I can do on both counts. I'm pretty sure I read the St. Patty's thing on your website, and it's certainly the only place where I'd find the other contributions to it.


Actually, I'm mistaken. I do have a copy of "Sir Mix-a-lot". It's your previous chapter, "Nymph-o-mania" that is absent. if it helps Jason to track it the address used to be http://www.mangacool.com/php/show.php?msg=parodyverse-20060731132702


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    I know that the original idea was mostly inspired by the likes of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", only instead of the Hellmouth there would be some inherent creepiness in the town and school itself and then active interference by faeries sent by Camellia. (Faeries would do well in a shallow High School environment.)


The town in question is Willingham, an ideal name for a place where reality and fable meets.


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    In the years since, the more specific elements of the plotline were used by Hasbro in setting up their human spin-off of Pony called "Equestria Girls". They sent their formerly-antisocial-librarian-unicorn-just-turned-princess to an alternate reality where everyone was an oddly-colored human in high school.


There's a whole other world of adventure that I've just never encountered, isn't there?


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    So it had the not-totally-human princess from a magical land not fitting into the school, yet eventually uniting the fractured student body through friendship and good deeds (and defeating of monsters drawn by the influx of magic she represented), thus reassuring her that maybe she's cut out to be a leader after all.


After Harry Potter, school days stories are back in fashion, even if they're mundane schools not wizarding ones.


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    Sadly, she didn't have a "Last Unicorn" style breakdown about being able to feel her now-mortal body slowly dying around her... Sure, that's maybe a bit dark for High School hijinks, but still a missed opportunity, I'd say.)


That is what fan fiction is for.


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    I found one extra chapter of the North Star story beyond what you had, which I feel like I must have posted at some point, as it was written up to a suitably dramatic break (as Dancer enters my part of the story). From there it was just a matter of resolving it all.


It's certainly worth the effort to complete it for the trade paperback.


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    I think the exposition required was daunting, and so I kept putting it off in the hopes that some way of making it entertaining would come to me. Regardless, I'm not entirely sure how I meant to resolve it... I have some cryptic notes which makes me think I had some clever ending, but if so it has fully escaped me.


As I mentioned elsewhere on the board recently, a good way of breaking that deadlock is to change the point of view or delivery format. A diary entry might suffice for this one.

Maybe I've got diaries on my mind, since I've just rediscovered a story I'd forgotten about where 11 year old Sam featherstone recounts her first visit to the Lair Mansion. I'd completely forgotten about it and it came out fresh.


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    If I actually get the free time to tackle anything, I'll give the whole thing another read-through and see if I can't recapture the mindset for it.


Splendid.


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    I'm not sure what their current status quo should really be though, or what the timeline is. The last thing I wrote was a future story about Griff as an adult SPUD agent, I think.


I recall that one. I was only remarking to Rhiannon today that it was very tempting to just jump forward seven years or so and pick up with the Juniors, Mags, Griff, and Sam as the Lair Legion, were it not for the fact that it excludes many posters and almost all poster-heroes.


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    So there's another story, right there, including advice and helpful intervention form a wider cast. I look forward to "The Quest for Hallie's Pants", coming soon.



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    Best before the Da Visionary Code, eh?



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    I'm not entirely sure that it's something to resolve, long term... but yes, there is certainly the possibility for some story material there. We'll see where things lead.


The reason I flippantly mentioned fitting stuff in pre Da Visionary Code is that, as plotted, it involved Vizh and Hallie reincarnated - or preincarnated to be technical, in the past with their current memories - and human flesh.


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      There are always worse things to do to Lisette.



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      And any lurkers that might wish to de-lurk are welcome. Very few people have ever objected to more yellow font on the board.



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    I keep hoping that, like Beetlejuice, if you say her name enough times, she'll appear...


Proceed.






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