Yeah, I tend to just ignore the more unsavory pictures.

@Blue: Nice job with the agent. Hope your dad is okay.

edited 18th Jan '12 5:10:29 PM by JapaneseTeeth

@bluespade congrats on that

Congratulations on the literary front, Bluespade. I'm sorry to hear about your father.

Ugh, I'm no good at offering support, but ditto what the guys above me said, Blue.

I get no thanks?

edited 18th Jan '12 5:15:58 PM by gingerninja666

Thanks to all three of you. My father's situation isn't really anything new, he had surgery for cancer a few years ago. Now it seems to be growing slowly back, the radiation is to stop it ahead of time.

I wrote the initial post before you posted, Ginger.

edited 18th Jan '12 5:16:39 PM by Bluespade

Ginger, c'mon. You don't ask someone for that...

I know.

...

I measure my worth in how much people thank me

I need to step out for a while

@ Bluespade

I'm real sorry about your dad. But hey...congrads on the literary front right?

Ginger: Eh. I measure my life worth on how much feedback and attention I get. I empathize.

GINGER I DID THANK YOU DONT FREAK OUT OK

No, no, no, It was rude of me to EXPECT thanks (like Freeman said).

... sometimes (read: a lot) I type without thinking

edited 18th Jan '12 5:22:22 PM by gingerninja666

Don't worry about it, Ginger. The sentiment was appreciated, I'm sure. =)

Yeah, it's alright bro.

edited 18th Jan '12 5:25:29 PM by TheFreeman

Sorry to hear about your dad, Blue, but congratulations on the manuscript thing. I hope you go places.

Wishing the best for you. Also, if you don't mind me asking, what's your manuscript about?

Thanks and thanks.

It's a pretty short fantasy novel, grew out of a short story (I should have known better, I really can't write short stories). It's a pretty dark, sort of horror flavored thing, but with an extremely positive, idealistic main character. It involves a small squad of expert mages/warriors going into a forest affected by an eldritch curse in order to remove it. Things go wrong. There are flashbacks showing the main girls past and how she recruited all of her subordinates. If anyone has seen the Firefly episode Out of Gas it's does the same sort of "weave in and out of three distinct timelines, " thing.

Will pray for your dad :)I am also curiosu about that

edited 18th Jan '12 5:38:06 PM by FallenLegend

sorry about that bro

I appreciate it.

Thanks.

Wow, I didn't mean to derail the thread. I did the exact same thing over in MSPA last night. It seems to be my special talent.

edited 18th Jan '12 5:45:18 PM by Bluespade

Hmmm, taste something sweet! (Megasweet, that is)

genuinely sweet btw.

Idealistic works are my favorites :) @Ginger you are very apreciated don't ever doubg that trust me

edited 18th Jan '12 5:48:42 PM by FallenLegend

Dawww.

Actually the POV is split between two characters, one who is realistic but idealistic, one who is cynical and pessimistic. The whole book treads the line between the two, and by the end it looks as though everyone is going to die and the main character's beliefs are going to be shattered. I basically wanted the reader to not be able to tell what side of the idealism/cynicism side I was writing from.

It ends with a Earn Your Happy Ending.

edited 18th Jan '12 5:50:57 PM by Bluespade

D'aaww

dawww

edited 18th Jan '12 5:51:38 PM by FallenLegend

@ Bluespade

Your story sounds great! And I'm really happy for you that it got picked up!

Also...I dawwed at the AJ/RD pic...and then there was that twi riding human twi picture...

...so...wrong yet...so right.

edited 18th Jan '12 5:54:06 PM by ApplelightLimited