Tales of the Parodyverse - And, for no other reason than I found it while hunting GNS m

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HH really liked this one

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HH spoent an hour supporting his septegenarian cousin through getting kindle on her tablet recently.

Subj: And, for no other reason than I found it while hunting GNS material, here is a link to Paris in December by Dancer
Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2016 at 02:42:15 am EST (Viewed 2 times)

Reply Subj: On the other hands, she did push you through her birth canal. That has to have been inconvenient for her.
Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2016 at 02:08:06 am EST (Viewed 2 times)

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I suppose it could be good cover if he was still working for the Faerie Queene and needed an undercover position from which to keep tabs on Magweed. Or maybe he just really likes spoons.

Vizh famously turned down the spoon of Mungo Mogcrawler during his Faerie quest. It's too late to go back for it now since his visa is revoked. Also, the moment when a spoon-shaped object could have preserved the gates during the Siege of Ayesgarth and held back the armies of the Parody Master has now passed.

But there will always be other spoons.

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I must admit, delving into all of these old stories has had me finding all sorts of supporting cast creations that I had completely forgotten about, despite the fact that I quite enjoy them when I rediscover them.

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I apparently got restless in my later PV years and just randomly started writing stand-alone stories with a variety of leads... Wangmundo, Squibb the alien bounty hunter, Joan Henry the steam-driven robot, Mary Prankster, Brap, that Appraiser guy... Many a file I'd open up in the last week or two and say "Oh yeah... that guy!"

You were just being fertile. Like in that Miiri tie-in you did.

Of all the last crop of stories you started but didn't follow up, the Vizh-as-alien-ambassador one interested me the most. I'm counting that as not-yet-happened in current UT timeline, but if I'd still been going on with regular weekly stories I could have had a lot of fun with that (for reasons that will be clear after UT#354).

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Executive Producer Jeph Loeb forced his Red Hulk creation onto Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes.

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Is that what happened there? I remember being surprised that such a recent storyline (Red Hulk) was being covered in that show.

There was evidently a behind-the-scenes power struggle that led to the series' creators leaving the show and a decision not to proceed with series 3 in favour of a new series "in line with movie continuity". This caused quite qa backlash amongst some fans, and criticism of the few episodes written by the pseudonymous "Man of Action" that were filler towards the end of series 2.

Series 3 sounds like it would have been real fun, as well. The creators (whose names I do not readily recall) had planned to go large on the Surtur story, with S3 themes on supernatural stuff as S2 had been themed on alien events. S3 was scheduled to introduce the Scarlet Witch.

Instead we got the new series where Falcon spends an episode running round Avengers Tower hiding all the posters of himself as an Avenger so that his visiting aunt doesn't know he's been sneaking out after curfew to secretly save the world. You know, just like in the movies.

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It's a shame that animated series was cut short... it really showed a love for the title and its history. I only watched a very small amount of its replacement, based on the movie line-up. I hear they will finally get around to adding the Vision, so maybe I'll check it out again then.

I've seen clips that have led me to actively avoid it. It seems pitched at a slightly lower viewer age than that cartoon Super Hero Squad where Dr Doom and all the badies lived in a fortress just outside hero town and plotted to get shards of cosmic cube. At least Super Hero Squad knew when it was being ridiculous and making the heroes look pathetic.

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Who wouldn't want a solar deity in the family?

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I don't know... I like sleeping in well past sunrise too much.

Think of the savings in alarm clocks, though. And the lack of vampires.

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I was assessed today as having a dominant agressive personality. My view is that I will be the one to decide that.

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Were you wrapped in a cowl and sitting on a stone throne at the time they offered this assessment? Either way, assuming they were allowed to withdraw unchastised then I think you proved them wrong.

Indeed.

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The best we may mange is some "reunions" from time to time.

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That actually does seem do-able, and a worthy goal really.

We'll need to keep nit in mind.

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I miss the ability, but I have severe doubts that I will ever recapture it.

The only way to recapture it is to write. Unless you've had some kind of degenerative stroke then the ability is still there. Life circuumstances and time might have made it harder to access, but so important a part of your healthy expression needs restoring.

I'm not really the person to advise you on that, so imagine you were variously being encouraged or threatened at this point by Yo, Shep, and Lisa.

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It was, in fact, scheduled to end with wishes... It was a large part of the motivation of the antagonist. I just... can't remember exactly how the wish resolved everything the way I wanted it to do so.

See? There's your chance for a new, more inclusive ending right there.

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I need to dig up the whole Dancer side of that tale too, as I don't have it. It wasn't started as a round-robin, but that didn't really stop Sarah. Tying the whole thing back together was part of the challenge as well.

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I would have enjoyed doing more with the Robots Rights stories... I think where things last left off, Jason had written a story where his character Anna had gotten declared a US citizen in court, and in my follow-up Hallie, Fleabot and the others were expecting some bad backlash.

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That's a theme worth taking up.

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It was adopting to a curve that Jason threw into what I had been thinking, but then that's the fun and the challenge of the whole shared universe thing.

Proceed. You're welcome to drop Steve's hearing in there too if you wish.

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I'm currently picking over some of my old PVB work to translate into novels. It's quite challenging.

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I wish you luck with those! Your generosity in featuring other characters in your work makes it far more of a chore to separate out concepts than it might be for the rest of us, I'm sure.

I'll certainly struggle if I ever go to the Transworlds Challenge - or associated Caphans.

Paris in December