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Yeah, fair.
My early AI use was rough, especially when I’d outline and then let it spit out the dialogue, which was a bad call.
Since then I’ve gotten more careful about it, but I’m not pretending I’m tool free now.
I still ask ChatGPT questions and use it to clean up drafts, and I also lean on...
Threadmarks: 110: Advertisement for Uber and Leet on the Villain Hiring site "Blacklist" - 8/3/11
System: Advertisement for Uber and Leet on the Villain Hiring site "Blacklist"
Operation: Materials Acquisition Heist - 8/3/11
Uber: Alright, hey, everybody, quick check-in so I know you're all actually breathing and not staring at the floor wondering how you signed up for this.
Leet: Check in...
Threadmarks: 109: Monday, August 1st - Star Trek Full
So, good news, we got some Laser Pistols!
We were actually able to grab up designs from multiple different decades of Lazer pistol (and lots of other things) development.
The bad news is that this is some kind of Orwellian Supercommunist Space Empire, and it's got 2 former enemy Empires turned...
John Helltaker - Helltaker
Base Cost: -100cp
Lore & Details:
Hell is bureaucratic, sarcastic, and held together by paperwork, contracts, and surprisingly fragile egos. Demons rule less through terror and more through personality, routines, and who controls the living room. The protagonist is a...
Threadmarks: 107: Saturday, July 30th - Tsunade's Taijutsu Training
For someone ostensibly teaching me biology right now, Tsunade’s lessons seem to involve a lot of punches and kicks.
I really shouldn't have tipped her off to my slightly-enhanced strength and ability to use a laser sword.
She seems to have gotten it in her head that I'm an actual genin, not...
Threadmarks: 106: Thursday July 28th - MHA Day 2-7 and Wards IRC Mini
Dauntless is a total buzzkill.
Eric and I were totally down to go exploring, but he just ordered us to go read about history and current events at the library for a week.
Hell, he even had us doing Homework when he realized we were both getting a break from school for this!
The only...
If AI is an automatic disqualifier for you, you should probably bounce now, because I'm not quitting it to make a stranger on QQ feel better.
When I was in college, the first thing they did wasn't "discover my authentic voice."
They handed me Grammarly and said, "run your work through this...
Threadmarks: 105: Wednesday July 27th - MHA - Day 1
Something interesting happened today.
It started when Dauntless and Eric forced me to join their flying patrol.
Since Daunless still outranks me, and Eric is technically my Team leader, even if I spend most of my time checking in on NOVA branches or doing training with different people like...
Lung hasn't been doing anything big, and it's really creeping me out.
By this point in Brockton Bay, he'd already fought off the entire Protectorate and begun consolidating the little refugee gangs into his personal empire.
But here?
According to the Ninja, he's just consolidating his cult of...
Threadmarks: 103: Saturday, July 23rd - Pocket Space and Hugs
Two Doors might have been a mistake.
It's gotten everyone treating me like glass.
I'm really hoping I get a fun role because I really don't want to talk to people right now.
Because no matter how much they doubt, it really wasn't about me.
It was meant to be a favor to Missy to drag the Youth...
Threadmarks: 102: Wendsday, July 20th & PHO's Creative Writing Board
Silverveil was nice, just flying free for a few days.
But as much as I loved my time in Silverveil, I like the idea of bringing that civil war Thora mentioned over here a lot less.
Especially since they haven't seemed to get around to guns yet, and adding them into a war that already involves...
The forge behaved for once, which meant I did not trust the evening at all yet.
The coal burned hot and steady, the draft through the vent pulled straight instead of wheezing, and the lump on my anvil had finally stopped pretending it did not want to become a proper claw.
My helper had only...
So, I guess I'm in Starfleet now, what with the whole "To boldly go where no one has gone before" thing.
But I should explain…
So I was using the fanfiction power, since I'd decided to start sprinkling references to Cauldron in, when an old woman walks up and asks me not to.
Now, this wouldn't...
Threadmarks: 99: Saturday, July 16th - Ode to Brandish
So Vicky found out about the new power and apparently made up with Dean in the meantime.
I took the fic down, but it seems I underestimated just how popular supernaturaly good fanfiction would be since it was back up in a bunch of copies within the hour.
Vicky seems to think I should be using...
Threadmarks: 98: Wednesday, July 13th - Dean's Doom
Chapter Text
So… something really weird is going on with the perks.
It's been in the back of my head that nobody's commented on how familiar some of the perks are. Like, taken directly from Aleph imports or sometimes directly from things that exist in media here on Bet, like Star Wars.
But...
Threadmarks: 97: Sunday, July 10th - Ethen/Assault Interlude - Movie Night
Movie nights on their days together kind of grew in sideways, and Ethan never really remembered when they had officially become a thing, only that sometime in the last few months Saga stopped standing by the door the whole time and started actually sitting down while the movie played.
The...
One of the Ninjas who got a job as a manager at a canning factory has been making friends with a family who live right down the road from the Nuclear power plant.
I guess it's a big enough deal that it has its own history of villain attacks.
Which is lucky since apparently the ABB has already...
Extras: Celestial Saga: Lore - Chapter 4: Saga's Earth-Bet's Version of the Movie "UP"
Opening. Carl launches his balloon house. Emotional impact: curiosity about why this old man is so determined and attached to his home.
Russell arrives on the porch. Emotional impact: humor and confusion as a cheerful kid crashes into the story and contrasts sharply with Carl.
Early flight...
Threadmarks: 95: Friday, July 8st - Starting in New Brunswick
Welp.
Lung is here to stay, and so am I.
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We've started to build up NOVA in this area around Maine and New Brunswick.
The dream of all of New England and The Maritimes is still a thing, with a few teams still expanding in Vermont and Nova Scotia, but mostly we're a Maine/New-Brunswick...