In a message dated 8/31/2001 9:38:01 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
sommer@3rdm.net writes:
Word of warning. I might be changing providers in the next couple of weeks.
So you might see an address change soon.
Ah, well, then... I'll try to keep my eyes open.
And getting back to business:
(Raises a thimble, full of partially hydrogenated soybean oil) To business!
> Belldandy looked up at the restaurant's big sign, then took
> a deep breath, opened the door, and walked inside.
And was shot in the chest by an irate dwarf with a gun. But things like
that
happened in Nerima.
And downtown New York, for that matter.
Actually, wherever you go, you have roughly as much chance of getting shot by
an irate dwarf as you do getting run over by a busload of penguins.
But in this story, anything goes. (Anything Goes Martial Arts Fanfic Writing?
Nah. ^_^)
> 'Tim's Ucchan was a good business. The food was good,
recommend 'excellent' since you just used 'good'.
Right, right. Got it fixed.
> The beautiful goddess scanned around for the owner. Usually,
> he would be at the table nearest the doorway to the back room,
Ah. Used to having to make quick getaways, no doubt.
Got it all figured out, huh? ^_^
Who does he have after him?
Washuu-chan, the Dirty Pair, Galactus, the Juraian Empire, the Galaxy Police,
the Invid, the Shadows, and some guy that has a lot of orange-faced gnomes
working for him.
One makes a lot of friends in his chosen hobby.
but
> he really could be unpredictable sometimes--oh, there he was! What
> was her line again? Ah, yes.
Bell: (In an Austrain accent) Are you Sarah Conner?
^_^ Heh...
>
> Belldandy walked up to the pink-haired man in the Ryouga-
> style outfit
Ryouga style in the sense that he looked like a 'lost' cause in it.
Tell me about it. ^_^ Whatever he wears has to have a lot of green, black, or
pink
in it, thus throwing his enemies into confusion.
If he were younger, I'm sure he'd run around in an elementary school's boy
sailor
uniform, for one simple reason:
(Random unfortunate soul): Hey! Lookit the lil' sissy in a sailor-suit!
Chibi-'Tim(glares, rolls up his sleeves): Hey! What'd you just call me?!
*Sounds of violence*
> "Thank you," Belldandy whispered to the Forces that Be,
'that' doesn't need to be capitalized?
Hmm... Yes, it does. Thanks.
> 'Tim's body decreased in mass and height, a slight bulge at
> the chest forming and hair length extending, leaving a long, pink
> mane down her back. Her sight, petite figure was dwarfed by her
> unflattering travelers' garb.
Got to have the gratuitous sex change in there, I suppose.
It's obligitory. Fan fiction just wouldn't be the same without it!
I mean, just look at the Star Trek stuff. ^_^;;;
And, for the record, this is going to be the only time in this universe that
he's
going to be a party to such Ranmalike activities.
Can't have the shoujo anime heroes switching gender all the time. It simply
wouldn't
be proper! They'd frighten the children and whatnot.
Though alternate universe gender reversals are quite fascinating.
I still want to see Chris Jones finish that SM--Reversal thing he started so
long
ago. It was a brilliant concept, IMHO.
Though, an interesting concept to explore would be going halfway:
S. Moon--Male
S. Mercury--Male
S. Mars -- Female
S. Jupiter--Female
S. Venus--Male
T. Kamen--Female
With the most notable character clashes and mayhem being when Mars joins
the crew. Though the storyline would have to diverge significantly to keep it
interesting.
Though I'm hardly an expert on gender shifting. All I can do is guess which
scenario would provide the most entertainment.
Like... S. Moon being female and the rest of the cast being male. But then
you'd
end up with a Fushigi Yuugi-Miaka variant...
Or S. Moon being male and the rest of the cast female? No, then we'd end up
with a Tenchi Muyo plotline...
Eh, well, I may as well quit speculating for now. It's not like I'm up to
writing
something with so much potential at the moment...
> Belldandy continued. "Authorized from high above, you have been
> promoted; From an undiscovered class, you are now granted the full
> rights and privileges of Goddess Fourth class, with limited powers.
> Stand and present yourself now, Tammi, Goddess of Errors,
Oh, there's potential there, all right.
^_^;;; A little. Just enough to squeeze on by.
> A circle of light formed around the new goddess' form,
'body' (just used 'formed' earlier.)
Right! Got it.
> "You know," Urd commented thoughtfully, "I think he looks
> a lot better like that."
Urd: Really turns on my lesbian tendencies, don't you know.
Belldandy(gapes): Uuurd!
Skuld: Hey, what's she talking about?
^_^
> The black-haired goddess nodded. "Yeah, that's probably
> enough simulations for now. We've got it down perfect."
Heh. I see. They don't stand a chance, do they?
Not really. Their words have already jinxed them.
> "Hmm," Belldandy looked down and put a concerned hand to her
> mouth. "I thought about it a little more and now I'm not so sure this
> is a good idea,
Nice try, but too late. The inane plan has already been theorized and
practiced. It must be initiated and backfire now. It's the way the cosmic
laws work. :)
I said it before and I'll say it again: Got it all figured out, eh? ^_^
> Urd shook her head and shrugged. "Of course it'll upset him, but
> the plan's perfect like it is."
Perfectly doomed, she means. :)
Indeed!
> "What about marrying off Sailor Pluto to the Atomic Starlight
> Knight?"
>
> It was Urd's turn to frown. "Uh, hey, it was a good idea," she
> said defensively.
Urd: It's not my fault Pluto bungled it up by not letting him use the time
portal. A relationship is supposed to be give and take. So she should have
taken a chance and given him access to the portal.
You know, I like that line. I could use it...
> "How about we try something else?" suggested Belldandy. "We
> could raise his height a little, declare him Demigod of Errors,
> and we could fix the bugs basically just changing his outfit."
'just by changing' perhaps?
Right, got it.
> It was a mushroom, sort of. Standing about five and a half
> inches tall, it had a sort of fuzzy red wig, a white-painted
> face, large floppy red shoes, baggy pants, and a large, red ball-
> nose. It hopped out of the box and began to wheel around on a
> unicycle on top of Amy's hardened cast.
Now that's just twisted.
If it's good enough for Arby, then it's good enough fer me!
Arby: Have some soup, little mush, and make yourself some more mumbling
mushin-room pie!
> *Honk-honk*Mumblegrumble* The mushroom honked its nose and
> started to juggle a few tiny rainbow-colored beach-balls, mumbling
> to a carnival tune.
Obvious reject from the Dead Moon Circus, eh? :)
Quite. ^_^
> "Oooh." This was the most entertaining thing Amy had seen
> since her last MRI scan.
When one of the interns and the doctors had started getting it on in the
room while she was being scanned. She had always had a thing for Yaoi
scenes.
... Hmm.
Naaah, I couldn't use that.
Could I?
Naaah, then we'd have to put a lime tag on it. Wouldn't be propa'! ^_^
> *BEEEEEEEP!*
Her pager went off.
Yup, and John Lenin wants to talk to her.
> "Climb inside, Amy," her belly button whispered, "fun awaits
> you, if you climb inside!"
At least the wallpaper isn't after her. :)
Personal experience? ;)
> o/AMY'S ON A TRIP TA-DAY!\o
>
> Amy flapped her wings and sped by the rings of Saturn.
>
> o/THIS GIRL'S GONE OUT TA PLAAAY!\o
Never thought I'd see this day. Now I know why. :)
It had to happen someday. It's always the quiet ones...
> The caped superheroin
superheroine (superheroin causes drug overdoses. ^_^)
I had it right one day, long ago, but Danny, the one who masterminded the
ArbyFish, corrected me, just in time.
> "These lyrics lack proper grammar and pronunciation," Amy
> commented to herself. "And it's not all that good, either."
>
> There music stopped with a great sound of a record scratching
> badly in the subspace ether.
Heh. Cute again
Thank ya, thank ya very much! ^_^
> The girl took stock of how she felt: Better than perfect.
> She maintained a wide-eyed, broadly smiling expression. Her wings
> were gone, so all she had on was her hospital gown and a red, white,
> and blue cape. For some strange reason, she also wore knee-length
> riding boots and had about a dozen strings of beads tied around her
> neck. Plus, her hair had apparently grown half a meter and was
> done up in a big, puffy 'fro.
Now that's imagery. :)
Trippy, huh?
> Amy suddenly found herself dancing an unholy mix of a waltz,
> break-dancing, and river-dancing with her gigantic companion to a few
> famous children's songs.
Yes. That is unholy.
Scary, ain't it?
> Amy woke up with a migraine headache the size of Ted Kennedy.
Then she should be begging for someone to end her life right now. That's
what I always did at that point. :)
Yes, I agree. :)
> Amy meditated the last part of her dream. "And my computer?"
>
> "I bought you a new one. It's on the shelf," Dr. Anderson
> reached over to pick up a plastic bag with Radio Shack scrawled all
> over it.
Heh. Cute touch.
It's... gotten worse in the revision, I'm afraid. ^+^
> Upon closer examination, the object was a small, red clown shoe.
Of course.
^_^
> Okay, I have my opinions of how it went, but what does everyone else
think?
Bit too surreal for my taste. But I never cared overmuch for surreal, so
take what I say with a grain of salt.
Well, can't win 'em all, I suppose. Some people liked it, others did not.
I was giggling maniacally when I came up with the sequence, which is typically
the sign that it's a good scene, but... Eh, well.
Thank you for your commentary. It has been useful thus far. Revisions are
coming
along smoothly, despite scholastic interference. ^_-
-------------------------------
Benjamin A. Oliver
boredcollective@aol.com
"We are the Bored. Lower your shields and surrender your fics.
We will add your standup and slapstick comedy to our own.
Your humor will adapt to entertain us.
Resistance is and always has been: Futile."
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