Today at school (i.e. work), a first-grader stopped me in the halls to ask if I knew about "When there were two buildings in New York and they flew planes into them and they fell down and half the people died."
Rather than get into the details with him, I simply responded, "Yes, I was in high school when it happened, it was very sad."
To that, he replied, "No, this was a long time ago."
The other day, I was contacted by Lithuanian FiMFiccer oranzinispegasas, who asked if I'd be okay with them translating Artistic License into Russian. I said yes, of course; what a delightful compliment it always is when someone enjoys something you did that they want to put their own time, energy, and skills into sharing
So! A bit ago, I blogged about how SPANIARD KIWI had translated a bunch of my stories into Spanish, and how I thought that was pretty darn awesome. And there, everyone's favorite disembodied ball of ectoplasm commented, "Only four
So, I'm eating lunch right now, and while doing that, I popped open FiMfic, mostly out of habit while poking around on my phone. And the first story I see at the top of the New list (because I'm an idiot who doesn't use the Mature filter) is a fic titled "My Life as a Teenage Sex-Pet."
A few hours ago, Lucky Dreams posted a fascinating blog about an AI review group that's posting AI-written reviews of stories (he choses to take the no naming/no shaming approach, and I'm going to follow his example by being nice and vague and not linking directly to
1974621 For Death/The End bits, bookmarks could send you down to the part and then return you to where you were before, without requiring a whole new page to be loaded/created. I experimented with such a method in Google Docs.
It does make for a long document, though. With a story like mine, simply being able to spoiler text in the story would suffice. With one that has branching paths like Chris', I can think of a solution, although wording it is proving difficult.
Dat mane.
Is this what I think it is?
Chris writing another Carrot Top/Golden Harvest fanfic?!
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Are you porting it to FIMFic? You poor soul.
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Yep
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Yep
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Not quite...
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Oh jeez, a thousand times yep. Almost there, though!
1970077 Oh!
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What ever you might be up to, my previous point stands.
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FiMFic really does need to make some sort of system to support CYOAs. If they did I might finally get around to uploading Onyx Origins.
1970850 How would you support CYOAs better than with chapters and links?
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For Death/The End bits, bookmarks could send you down to the part and then return you to where you were before, without requiring a whole new page to be loaded/created. I experimented with such a method in Google Docs.
It does make for a long document, though. With a story like mine, simply being able to spoiler text in the story would suffice. With one that has branching paths like Chris', I can think of a solution, although wording it is proving difficult.