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Nah, you're good. I'm going to give this about another hour and a half.

Merged Doublepost:

So it's official, signups are closed! Expect your assignments soon.

Yup, you guys are all in. I'm gonna give it tommorrow too, then close this in the evening.

Luckily for me, there's already a lot of piratey slang out there, including words I can substitute for swears. (Sharkbait, sink me, bilge etc) It would not be fun to have to come up with a whole new set from scratch. I try to avoid that where possible, though it's inevitable we'll have to come up with some new exclamations for S&S.

I enjoy a good catchphrase, and it's really fun to see well integrated, original words and phrases in things I watch or read. There is a danger of them being overdone, but they can also be great fun, add a bit more personality to the world and characters, or make stuff more memorable, even. Thinking on it, I'm sure depending on the work and genre, you can get away with using these with differing frequency.

Two more days to join!

@Jean Q Citizen: everything will go up on the existing exchange site, please don't post anything on your own before the exchange is over. -w-

Ah, my childhood!

I know it's cheating, but... I really liked the movie XD It felt like the perfect ending.

Very quick go at the formalwear. Went with modern stuff, cause I won't get the chance otherwise.



He's not the biggest fan of dressing well, but hey. At least it's black.

I think part of the reason I'm so against it is that it has happened to me, to the point the guy showed up at my house uninvited, without me even giving him my address. He told me we'd be together 'til death us do part, when we'd only kind of been together for three weeks. It was scary. Maybe not inherently to every case, but I still don't like seeing insta love in fiction. I find it very hard and slow to develop feelings for anyone myself and I'm really cautious.

I think how things are and have been for me have led me to be very skeptical. But my thoughts and experiences are all I can express, I don't intend to dismiss yours and I was wrong to call the concept silly. I just guess in fiction stuff, it's not for me.

Disembodied brain. If you're a brainless zombie, you have no existence. At least as a brain you'd have a limited one.

Would you rather swallow a pinecone, or drink a bottle of washing up liquid?

Worst thing for me is the predictability. If you have a male and female main character in a movie, they will fall in love. They will. They just will. It's boring. I like seeing this shaken up a bit, can't they just be friends? Or have some other interesting dynamic?

I despise insta romances. Having someone fall in love with you really fast is not romantic, it's scary. I like to see things play out much more slowly. Love at first sight always seems silly to me, though I can just about tolerate it in things aimed at children. I don't mind if there's flirting right away, or they're awkward, or start as friends. Anything goes. But I want the love and romance to be actually developed over time. And it'd like it to be shown, not told.

Honestly I think a lot of the time people shove in a romance just because it's expected, and then you end up with an unneeded love story, or even worse, a whole unneeded love interest! Yeah, I agree with Shrek.

In this week's comic update, we meet a new character, but it seems he's in rather a lot of trouble...

George R R Martin said something very interesting once, about how writers/creators tend to fall into one of two categories; architects, who plan out everything in advance, and gardeners, who begin writing, and see where it takes them, to paraphrase a lot. I'm sure a lot of people fall somewhere in between, but it makes me curious. Which category would you guys say you fall into most? I'm definitely an architect, I get lost if I just try to wing stuff, and Beyond is planned out a whole lot. I'd say it's pretty close to being completely planned out, to the page. Silk and Sword is different as it's a collab, and Blue's going for a more free sort of approach. Though we do still have a massive doc of plans.

The quote:
[spoiler]“I think there are two types of writers, the architects and the gardeners. The architects plan everything ahead of time, like an architect building a house. They know how many rooms are going to be in the house, what kind of roof they're going to have, where the wires are going to run, what kind of plumbing there's going to be. They have the whole thing designed and blueprinted out before they even nail the first board up. The gardeners dig a hole, drop in a seed and water it. They kind of know what seed it is, they know if planted a fantasy seed or mystery seed or whatever. But as the plant comes up and they water it, they don't know how many branches it's going to have, they find out as it grows. And I'm much more a gardener than an architect.” [/spoiler]

Five more days to sign up everyone! We currently have 30 comics in. -w-

That would be wonderful! I guess the main trouble is, everyone is so spread out.

That being said, see you at work on monday X'D

ooh, happy first exchange to you as well, then!

I like Steve.

Dang, this mutated gator event would've been great at april fools. Or maybe Halloween.

I find it pretty funny Kyo likes this gator, when he was so reluctant to have the original Legs on the banner.

@MST3KFan Funny you should say that. Sometimes people have made observations about the comic, or characters and thir motivations that make me think, "Dang, that actually makes me sound smart!" XD

That's so true.

It makes me wince, so only really when I need to check I'm not repeating myself, or leaving out vital information. Continuity stuff XD

Wow, I count 26 comics entered already! This is going to be fun. Oh, and I hope you have a nice first exchange, Sharpy!

We can have different versions of him for different occasions!