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Great. Now that we’ve continued, nobody will see my idea, and I won’t get any more support. Pity.
I could just make a link…
I guess I got a first post. But if I say I got a first post here, and nothing else, the GAPAs will zap this post. I’ve got to think of a point besides glorifying my speedy thread-finding ability. WHAT TO POST?
Ah. I’ve got it.
Have we ever had a Monty Python thread?
Yes, Pentatonikk (then known as randomrohanfreak) requested it long ago.
We need another.
as i said in the random thread, an LGBT thread would be awesome.
We should have a thread for things we want to accomplish, or fantasies we have, no matter how rather far fetched. I think that would be fun…….just an idea.
5-Are you one of the four? Just asking.
As always, a 1337 thread. Seconds, anyone??? ANYONE??? *glares*
3-I should ask this on ask the GAPAs, but since this is an example…
One minute after PC posted you posted with a link to something you said happened loong ago. (I didn’t click on it yet! But I will!)
How did you find it so fast? Is there some cool searching window for old posts in the moderating window? Or is this just another case of the Power of the GAPAs? Whoa. *bows*
5 (DoJ)- I think an LGBT thread would end up being either exclusive or pointless–either the blog’s few LGBTs would spend several hundred posts talking about their LGBT-ness or those of us who are either straight or too young to tell would spend several hundred posts on “lol I KNO A GAY KID I R SPESHUL n not prejudised (sp?)” and that would be lame.
I myself am kind of morbidly curious about a MuseblogSecret thread, similar to PostSecret or an LJ secret community. The basic premise is as such: Bloggers post anonymous secrets like so:
1. Anonymous
Coward�|� October 42nd, 2007 at 27:63 pmI hate 2,3-dimethlyPENTane or whatever she’s calling herself these days. She is so horrible but I cannot tell her this to her face because I will be blinded by the light of her awesome.
Ph33r teh contradiction.
lol furst post0rz
And then braver bloggers reply with real names. Iunno, there are several kinks that must first be worked out, but if we can keep it somewhat civil I think it could be good fun! 8D -sparkles-
(8) No, I just used the same search engine that’s available to everyone here: the mustard-yellow panel in the upper-lefthand corner of the page. I typed “python” in the box and hit “Go!” That’s all.
(9) – It sounds cool, but I think that idea could lead to trouble. First of all, the GAPAs would know who you were, and also, it could lead to a bit of turmoil on the blog, especially if people were talking about other MuseBloggers.
5- l second.
7- Yep.
9- Fun? You call that fun? lt’s gossip! Boy, you’ve changed.
7 – yes, i’m bi. also, i second your request for a 13375|?34k thread.
11 (PP)-
Now, see, in the old days…If we were allowed to enter the gapa @ musefanpage email instead of our real ones, for supar-seekrit-seekritz, that might help.
12 (trevor)- It’s only gossip if you abuse it.
How have I changed, anyway, and who are you?
7-no, please! not that torture! ick.
how ’bout a thread where we pretend to be our favorite snack food!!!!! no? well, it was an idea…
(9, 11) A thread about super-secret secrets sounds like a moderator’s nightmare.
(7, 13) So does a thread about 1337.
Ergo, the GAPAs can muster no enthusiasm for either.
(5, 12) As for an LGBT thread, I think that topic is hot enough to belong on the Hot Topics thread.
We’ll create some of the other threads after we recover from the effort of making the October monthly threads. As always, we’re happy to hear new ideas.
I am ALSO fond of the idea of a Musers Recommend thread, where we can vapidly squee about our most recent obsessions (or is that just me?) and such. I think we had one of those a while ago. Someone back me up ’cause I’m too lazy to wait for the search function to load.
I would make lots of silly posts about how tofu is made of UBARWIN and you all need to eat it. This is a Good Thing for your Souls, though not for your Capitalization Skillz.
14- lf you were to say how awful l was under an assumed name, how would that differ from gossip?
17- I second the Musers Recommend.
How about a new soccer/ cryptoids thread, OEADs? Or a new music thread?
I have a feeling that after the GAPAs get over their exhaustion from creating the monthly threads, there will be an explosion of new ones.
I second the Cryptids and Soccer idea.
What about a thread for books that are sequels?
I would appreciate it if we brought a new “Smooth or Chunky?” thread, especially since there have been a lot of newbies that might find it interesting.
And if you really like me, you can post the graph that I posted on it that no one read:
I did a survey for math class, and these were the results.
1=I hate chunky
3=It’s okay/so-so
5=I love it!
x=1 person
*=no people
Female:
********x
********x
********x
********x
********x
* * * x x x
x * x x x x
1 2 3 4 5
The one #1 came from someone who doesn’t like any kind of ice cream. 0 preferred smooth.
Male:
******x **
****x x x
****x x x
x x x x x
1 2 3 4 5
3 of all don’t like any kind of ice cream very much. 5 preferred smooth.
Since that graph didn’t turn out very well, I’ll try something else:
Female:
1 – x
2 – *
3 – x
4 – xx
5 – xxxxxxx
Male:
1 – x
2 – x
3 – xxx
4 – xxxx
5 – xxx
The actual information is the same.
(Sorry for the double post)
Suggestions, Huh? How about a new RRR, say… Crime Investigation?
I second (or third?) or whatever the GBLTQ thread. In my mind, it’d be less of a thread where the HT ness of homosexuality would be discussed but more of a thread to talk about the GBLTQ community.
I like Penty’s idea of a MB secret thread. GAPAs, wouldn’t you only have to edit out swearing and contact info? and maybe if MBers felt comfortable they would just let the GAPAs in on the secret? though that does sort of defeat the purpose…
25- not yet.
27 – No? Mayyyy I ask why not?
28- we need to finsh one to start one. if you help us finsh a rrr, we’ll grant you a new therd.
I suggest yet another words and names thread, because, well, I love words! Most words. there are precisely 12 words which I despise. but words & names would give me an opportunity to rant about those, too
especially the stupid one with the stupid stupid stupid silent Z…..
30- Gosh, let’s see…
29 – *Shrugs* Alright. I am helping with the time travel one.
This is fair enough. I just am antsy to write about Crime Investigation. xD
30 – THE WORD “INCREASE” IS POSITIVELY DESPICABLE!
I suggest another quotes thread. Except (no offense to anyone as i’m probably guilty of this myself) people should post things besides the same DNA/MP/Pratchett quotes that everyone else just posted nine times.
I’d like some way to use old threads/see what’s been done before, because it seems like once a thread ends, it’s over. Can we “recycle” them? Maybe i’m not making sense.
34-What’s Here at the top, next to the H2GMB, has the entire archive
(34, 35) If you don’t want to wait for the long What’s Here download, you have other options for browsing old threads.
On the main page, below Recent Comments, click on any of the subjects under Categories. The resulting page also has a useful Posts by Month sidebar (posts=threads).
You could also type “threads” in the orange search box at the top right of any page. This will bring up, among other things, all the back issues of Don’t Forget These Threads (and its antecedents).
Or type a random interest in the search box and see what pops up.
I suggest having a way to tell, from the outside, if a thread is open to comments. Right now, we usually have to click on it to see if “Add your own” is by the number of comments. Maybe you could make the link a different color??
34- Depends.
Perhaps we need a new The Art of Being an Alien thread. The first one did pretty good, but the second died before 100 posts.
HEy, almighty GAPAs’ could we posibly have a thanks-giving thread? I know the American Thanks giving isn’t until novembre…. but….. I get to do the celebrating this weekend! yay for Canada! and pumpkin pie!
How ’bout a family thread? Has that ever been done? I mean, families play such massive parts in our lives, and shape who we are. I think it’s only fitting they have a thread dedicated entirely to them.
does anyone agree with 39? cuz i shure do!!!!!
39- Lucky. *grumbles*
On the other hand, down in the States we get Thanksgiving vacation in November so we have more time to do NaNo.
the man for aeiou recomeds a thrid person thread.
43- Capricious seconds that.
And she thinks pumpkin pie is delicious-o.
HALLOWEEN THREAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!
costumes, ideas about, food, candy, consumerism, all that jazz. Realll, a place to talk about the worlds fastest growing holiday. At least, I think it is. Here in Denmark and other European countries, it’s really taking off.
38- Oooh yes!
I think it would be cool if there was another parents thread, where the parents themselves came on the Blog.
(45) In fact, the blog is already on its second Halloween thread of the year.
43- PC seconds that.
PC thinks that it might be somewhat like the random thread, only with people talking in the third person.
the man for aeiou see that it has been put on a secound, and thirded. let the theard began!
emmatheduck seconds her own motion for a Words & Names thread, since no one else seems to be doing so. She also wants a NEW PPP THREAD!
We need a new homework thread.
50- I would second it, but we didn’t get very far with the old one… I don’t want to waste thread space.
43,48- Why a whole thread to talk in third person? I do that anyway!
Dear GAPAs’,
I was wondering if we could please, please, please have a thanksgiving thread. Possibly today or tomaorrow. Please. I need somewhere to talk about my love of pumpkin pie and all the things I’m thankfull for. Please, oh mighty GAPAs’, grant me this one wish.
Yours sincerely and forever,
Kagcomix the Pleading
I do hope my letter works. The GAPAs’ do not want to see me go down on my knees and cry. I am very scary when I dry.
I tremble at the thought of your tears. See for yourself.
I love you GAPAs’ *sqwee* *w00t*
16- Hot enough- What? But not hot enuff to have it’s own thread? Are you worried about parental reaction?
Hey, what about a thread about really great lines people have said? Not quotes, exactly, but stingy little one-liners, even retrotorts or staircase wit MBers have come up with and would like to share.
50 – I also would like a Words and Names thread.
oh. we should follow GAPA contest thing(by PC) awards include, having the word GAPA in your name for that day only, and a house in Muse acadamy. They’d take place once a year. Who likes it?
1- I take it that it was never made. We should have one.
Alice and Gimanator have seconded the request linked to in post 1 so far. Any more?
61- Well, yes, there are.
Yeah, l second. l just n eed to post.
62- That doesn’t count, o She of Many Alter Egos.
64- No comment.
But anyway, we have three now.
(1, 64, 65) That sounds like a perfect application for a MuseWiki, whenever I get around to installing it. Meanwhile, if you’ll think up a name and description, I’ll create the thread.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Name and description . . .
MuseWiki: work in progress
pralis canix has a idea for a world:
(his post on therd one)
this could also be good for RRRs. post your ideas, or help with Canixs effort.
Hi. Sorry if I seem to be a little frazzled. Incident with a computer virus.
Name and description?
Name: Muse Legendarium
Description: A world-building venture in the tradition of J. R. R. Tolkien and Larry Gonick. It is somewhat like an RRR, only with the tone of a scholarly text or a complete encyclopedia of this world.
A note. While this is craziness, it is strictly nonrandom. If the first few posts set the tone for seriousness, do not attempt to make it silly. Conversely, if it is more in the comic vein, do not inject ill-suited seriousness. A universe of HPBs and pie throwing should not be intruded on by people with cosmic quests and pointy ears, or vice versa.
Another note: this is more like RRRiting an encyclopedic text than playing an RPG. Unlike the Musiverse threads, MBers have no participation in it as pwners, sea captains, prime musers or otherwise. And unlike most RRRs, as far as we’re using the Tolkien analogy, it’s more like the Silmarillion than LOTR and Hobbit, providing backstory instead of an actual story.
Well, we’ve got name, description and three supporters. Any more ayes?
70-we must begin now! is three not enough?
71- Good point. GAPAs, por favor?
(71, 72) Voilà .
nobody else responded to my idea yet…it’s post 59…(to be said in nagging, whiney voice)
How ’bout a new religions thread??
(59) The GAPAs are not enthusiastic about awarding honorary GAPAhood.
(75) Do you all really think you can handle one? Our last few attempts here have not been encouraging.
I think we can try…now that FS is gone…I don’t think I want to go into my whole rant right now, but I think that with FS gone, it is time for another chance at a religion thread…unless there were religion thread before FS showed up on the Blog….
76- I went back and found the very first MBer Religions thread. It seems to be a nice, respectful discussion of what religions different MBers are, and the beliefs of those various religions. Nor were there flame wars arising on the second MBers Religion thread. The third Religion thread, 2007.1, is where the trouble started(post 15 and all the responses to that, basically(oh and I was apparently wrong about it all being FS who was at fault)). MB got through two threads without having flame wars. Can we have one more chance?
And besides, you always have the power to zap posts. To quote the first attempt at Religions 2007.2(which became a Hot Topics thread)
“36 – Yea, I agree. I’m really suprised some stuff on the other religions thread didn’t get zapped.”
If you think we’re getting out of hand, you can zap the posts, or close the thread.
I liked the format of the religion threads where you based it off chapters in that book. it made it seem like less of a debate and more of an objective study.
(79) Here’s the thing about the power of zappage. We don’t like to exercise it.
For a start, it’s not pleasant to censor. We’d much prefer bloggers to express what’s on their minds. In almost every problematic case a little extra thought is all it takes to do so in a non-inflammatory manner.
Furthermore, zapping is not a simple call in any but the most blatant cases. It takes time to deliberate, to consult with other GAPAs if need be, to edit when necessary.
In extreme cases, such deliberations disrupt the thread for which the post is intended, as it may be left hanging for some time while other comments appear on the blog as usual. Then if it eventually is allowed in some form or other, subsequent references to numbered comments are thrown out of sequence.
</sigh>
81-I didn’t know you guys put in so much thought with zapping! Those are good points, but I didn’t know you actually found time to do that for as many zaps as you are able to make now!
Red-tailed HAWK
81- Wow.
76-oh. ok…
81- just forget I said anything…
(85) It’s all right, Raven of the Hawk. Besides, I knew the job was dangerous when I took it.
We need another homework thread, so we can procrastinate by talking about our homework instead of doing it. ^.^
hahaha awesome…
we need a LOTR one so i can vent my feelings on how my friends and i all drew straws for our future spouses; my BFF gets Aragorn, and I got gimli!!!
89- There already is one. I’d post a link but I’m about to leave so I can’t.
[ https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=808
Yes, you guessed it…the Link Gnome happened by. ]
procrastination thread? perfect! I’ll totally go with that!
Big thank you to the GAPAs for listening to me!!!
*thank you pie*
a new NaNo theard!
A website thread? (i know, against policy, but whaddabout only appropriate ones?)
l suggest a museworld thred that has all the llocations on museblog, so l can make a museworld map.
interesting…
OOOOOOHHH, whasabout a POTC [Pirates Of the Caribbean] Thread??? A duck thread?
94- There’s already a thread where you can discuss websites- Questioning the Net.
A sock thread?
98-And why would we need a sock thread?
To talk about socks of course. [duh]
100- YEAH! I second the motion (or whatever it is)
My fave pair is this one with green shamrocks and it says lucky on the side.
Cappy! I have good news! the school rrr has given up. you can have that theard.
The man for aeiou definitely has spelling issues.
How bout a cheese forum?
IMPORTANT!!!
WE NEED a Maximum Ride thread!!! Have you seen the Halloween 2007 thread? Kiki and i are taking it up with our maxchat. We need a place where we can do that and be on topic.
!!!!!!!!PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
can we have a theard for the muse theame park PC and I are working on in the kokonspiracy theard?
please?
I had an idea for a long-term blog project. I can’t do it on my own, since I need some bloggers who have been around since Welcome, Musers, in addition to the help of a few Administrators. Anyhow, here it is:
Musers join together and determine different “ages” of the blog. Golden Age, Dark Ages (hopefully none of those), Transition Era (no idea when that would be, I’m just making up examples). An era would last from a certain thread’s creation date to another thread’s creation date.
This would organize the blog with the added benefits of giving us the air of stuffy scholars (“Well, as I recall, it was back in the Tenrec Era when…) and allowing us to determine more clearly when we arrived on the blog (“I first appeared near the end of the Snark Era…”).
107- That would be a great idea, if there were enough people willing to go through all the past thread, and determine what sort of connections there was between them. I’d be willing to help, but only if there is at least some interest in this idea.
108. Thanks! Any more support?
107- too bad i’m fairly new to the blog. it sounds like fun, though.
dearest GAPA’s could we please have a “strictly original comics” thread. because i’m getting really tired of listning to people obsess over manga*.
yours, Kagy
*face the music people, they’re not really that great. besides most of them are the same anyways.
Does “strictly original” mean comics that MBers have drawn themselves, or published comics that are distinctive rather than generic? If it’s the latter, I’d say it would be hard to define and even harder to enforce.
basicaly i just meant non manga comics.
109- yes! me!
Can we have a thread for MB anniversaries? For example, my 1 year MB anniversary is next month, and I think it would be kind of cool to have a thread where we could celebrate everybody who has been around for a year or longer…
here- i’ll give a better explenation to my thread idea: I’m tired of listning to poeple talk about manga as if it was the best thing alive. it’s not, there are really awesome artists from North America and Europe who toil forever on seriously awesome comics. i’d just like to give them some recognition, y’know. I’m talking about comics from Oni Press and things like that, stuff that isn’t totaly branded (and there’s a lot of non-branded or little known stuff). so please GAPAs’, can we give it a try?
pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez???? [makes bambi eyes]
A note about the idea in 107- It would be a very long term project.
(117) I’m sorry, but Bambi eyes won’t get you a flamethrower. (Anybody recognize the “Calvin and Hobbes” reference?)
119- I did. I’ve read every single C&H strip ever drawn.
l did!
i own the fat book of calvin hobbes comic strips, and i don’t want a flamethrower [at least not until xmas…] But, seriously, once we start a good max conversation, someone else will butt in and talk about something else. PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZ????????
(122) MissSwann2223, we don’t typically make threads dedicated to specific books/series unless there is widespread demand for it. (LOTR and Harry Potter are more like handbooks and/or spiritual guides for MBers, so they are exceptions.)
As a compromise, I’ve created a new Books and Reading thread so at least you can have your discussion on the front page.
pleezpleezpleezpleezpleezpleez?????????? [preparing pie catapult w. devilish glint in eye]
Robert–will you make another Robert’s Time Capsule?
125-Yessssssss…
Maybe a thread of things we liked/did when we were younger? Like how I insisted upon being called Cinderella (“my name isn’t _______! It’s Cinderella!”), or how much I liked My Father’s Dragon (the first two books, anyway). Although the age differences might make for some hurt feelings…
126- yeah, I never quite understond the last one ethear.
126 – I like that idea. I think it would be a fun topic to discuss
(128, 127, 126) That would make a good topic for the Chameleon Thread. It’s more pleasant than the “annoying ailments” people are starting to discuss right now.
Speaking of which… Where did the Chameleon Thread go, anyway???
It keeps sliding down to the beginning of the month. Nobody knows why. Maybe it has a crush on one of the other threads down there.
Okay, group, it’s my bedtime. Maybe other GAPAs will keep moderating for a while. If not, see you tomorrow!
Night, Robert.
129-Hehe, yeah. Because nobody here wants me to complain…
127-Yeah… it never seemed to fit.
107 (PC)- I’d do it. Except I complain so much and remember so little that basically everything would be a Dark Age. Except for the early days of the blog (the ones I was a part of, at any rate), which were good fun, the period of a couple months after MG left, which would be the Age of Good Intentions, and the current slump, which would be the Age of N00blets.
I feel rather silly for asking for this, since we already have a similar thread, but could we possibly have a Muser Role-play thread? Not Muse RPG, sort of more similar to Muse Fanfiction, where the bloggers meet up and…do stuff. Yes.
I was thinking we could set it at Muse Academy–the OEADs could assemble a crack blogger force to go out and investigate strange happenings, while other students uncovered mysterious doings at the Academy. Or something.
So, sort of like a fusion of Muse Academy and Museblog Fanfiction. It could be fun! ~*sparkles*~
134- Seconded. Seconded with profuse wishes for more affirmations.
Translation: “YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY! I AGREE! MORE AGREEMENT PLZ!!!”
(134, 135) But do we want to start it on the eve of NaNo or wait until you need procrastination material?
136- Eesh. Good point. Maybe we’ll put that idea off.
107- I’ll help!
(134-138) Why don’t you just start doing it on the Muse Academy thread? Not much else is happening there at the moment.
I always need procrastination material, no matter what month.
I’ll try and start it up, I guess.
Could you ask which thread the chameleon thread has a crush on?
We need a homework help thread.And a POTC thread. And a maxride thread.
Could we have a Shakespearean insults thread? I have recently been having a Shakespearean insult war with a girl in my homeroom.
hahaha i had a really good one just now but now i 4get.
Can we have a thread for ranting?
Ranting? Ranting what about?
life
Any certain aspects in life?
Once we are done with November and the chaos it entails (i. e. NaNoWriMo), we ought to get a new RRR. With two rules:
NO MAGIC
and
NO SPACE TRAVEL.
I think it would be a good experiment that would force participants (including me) to think and write outside the box.
(148) Or would that be more like putting the toys back inside the box? Which might be the greater challenge in this context.
149- Kind of lost me with that analogy. Are you saying that an RRR without those would be no fun? Or that MBers are like stubborn kids who refuse to put their literary “toys” away?
In either case, I’ve noticed that the two sci-fi RRRs we had both had space travel, and the innumerable fantasy RRRs all had magic. I think it’s time to pull a Monty Python and say “And now for something completely different.” I think that the writers on the blog (including me) might enjoy a challenge.
(150) No, I think your idea is a good one. My analogy probably went astray on account of my having just finished cranking out the second fastest 1828 words of my life.
My thought was more along the lines that MBers spend so much time outside of the boxes as other people see them, that being inside the box might be like being outside the box for anyone else ….
*the thin cord holding her mind together snaps and all the beads of that thought scatter across the floor*
151- Makes perfect sense, but that might be because I’ve been cranking out my NaNo too.
I can’t wait to see what people come up with on this RRR. Pity that Dark Thirty is so far away…
But actually, it’s not a pity, because I have only a little above 18000 words.
I’m going to be really sad when NaNo’s over. I’ll hardly know what to do with myself
I think the RRR’s a great idea!
154- You can use it to give your life a sense of purpose after NaNo. Brilliant!
You know my idea about dividing the blog into eras? I’ve figured out a way to make it more manageable. Each person who decides to help volunteers to read through ten or more threads thoroughly in chronological order and post their findings on the thread. Then, when a large database is assembled, with a few essential facts about each and every thread, we can begin dividing them up into eras.
156 (Prarilius Canix) – Yeah, I really liked that idea! I’ll definitely help. Last year I read through all of the old threads (before I came in March 2006) and the entire GABOOMBA, but I don’t remember a whole lot. But I can do that, and work on the no magic/space travel instead of NaNo next month!
It might be a bit more tedious to report the findings on taht actual thread, though. Perhaps each person could read a certain amount of threads and put their findings on a Word document or something, then we could all paste our documents into a post so we could see them all together? That might make it a little bit easier.
Let’s call it RRR SMAST, or Round Robin ‘Riting Sans Magic And Space Travel.
148- I like that.
The hard thing about writing about one planet, without magic, is that you have to know something about the world and how it works. With fantasy, you can make things up to suit yourself. It will be a challenge, but I’m sure you’re up to it.
158- I think that is good, but how about RRR SMAS-TT
or Round Robin ‘Riting Sans Magic And Space-Time Travel.
Anybody like the idea of a Rants thread? Yes, I know I’m coming in on the middle of another discussion, but I stand by my suggestion.
160- That’s the point. I want a challenge. And there are plenty of good fantasies without magic, and sci-fis without space travel.
RRR SMAS-TT. Sounds good.
Revive Coy woodnesse since nobody posts there any more. and also I second 162.
PC and TMFA, I’ve set my calendar to send a reminder. RRR-SMAS-TT, December 1.
166- Thank you very much.
Now I’m really excited for the RRR-SMAS-TT! It should pose a good, happy challenge and I’m looking forward to it
Furthermore, who can resist a title with “sans” in it?
168- So am I!
169- Nobody! Sans… sans… sans… lovely sans… wonderful sans… *is hit over the head by a dead parrot*
(170) All together now: ” ‘e’s not dead… ‘e’s stunned.”
171- I’ve never actually seen that, but I read it on the Monty Python thread.
I will NI you
NI NI NI NI NI NI NI NI NI NI
that was fun.
And random.
So howsabout my maxride thread?
(173) See my comment #123.
And I will say the same no matter how much you Ni at me.
17- I wish I could go back and edit my comments even after I posted them. That would be nice.
If MBers could do that, they’d be so busy rewriting history that they’d never say anything new.
176- We would, wouldn’t we?
176-I would probably frantically fix any random errors (spelling) I failed to see (I have a sticky keyboard, not sticky like maple syrup, but something inside the mechanism sadly
)
Red-tailed HAWK
176 (Robert) – Somehow, I think we’d find the time to rewrite history and continue with new things. We’re just that talented
The rewriting would make threads even harder to follow than they are now, though. On the whole, I think it’s better just to keep forging ahead.
180 (Robert) – Yes, I definitely agree, we should keep forging ahead.
pie a head! pie a Head!
do you get the joke?
Well, of course, when you pie people, you aim for the head. It’s not nearly as satisfying to smoosh someone on the knee or the elbow. And if you’re fending off hot-pink bunnies, the head is all you can hit, much of the time. So “pie a head” is perfectly sound advice.
I’m not sure I get the joke.
I suggest a Muse Mysteries thread, in which Muse-related mysteries can be explained, debated and analyzed. And occasionally solved.
For instance: Pwt’s gender, why heesh* chases Crraw, and what himmer* is.
I think it would be fun.
*EPICENES!!!
186- oh! yes!
174- Yeah, but now people are being all picky,saying we don’t need to be all OMGy about Max. It breaks my heart.
l request a thread about HPBs without all the preudice.
predjudice?
please can we have a thread about complaints
191 (Kagcomix) – Why don’t you complain to Mr. Joe?
Yes, prejudice! Everyone says all HPBs are evil!
can we have a general science thread?
big bang,classification, string theory, you know.
look, GAPAs, I need this theard!
*shakes GAPAs.*
*pies GAPAs*
Rant thread??? Please????
(191, 194-196) You got ’em.
I know from experience that not all HPBs are evil. Take Deemo Elbunn, Loblolly Boy aboard the Black-Footed Ferret. He’s a splendid fellow. But then again, he’s always been a sort of oddity. Bunniesloverus herself kicked him out.
I love making references to obscure portions of the BLOG.
What would this . . . RRR SMAS-TT be about, exactly? If it is going to be RF I will go jump in the marsh below my country home (not really), but adventure would be fun. As would be intrigue and conspiracy.
200- Not necessarily. It could be alternate history, post-apocalyptic dystopia, fantastic world without magic… the possibilities are endless.
I’d enjoy doing alternate history, but that would require much more organization than is common in RRRs. We’d have to settle on a point of divergence and develop it from there.
201- Alternate history would be fun.
I sort of wonder how many RRRs will return to life after November. Several have failed, and I’m going to ruin my reputation of a person who keeps them alive at all costs and say that I don’t really mind.
Living RRRs:
The Sea Roc
Hopefully soon to live RRRs:
Dreamland
Fractured Fairy Tale (I spent a long time on that one. I don’t really want it to die.)
Semi-living RRRs:
Spirits and Blood
Role-playing Writing
Terenika
Time Travel (God this one is a mess. Maybe with some serious editing, some dedication, and a total plot twist, it’ll inspire me, but not before.)
Dead RRRs:
School
Finished RRRs:
Terraformed
And if you ask my personal opinion, there are two categories:
RRRs that I care about:
The Sea Roc
Terenika
Dreamland
Fractured Fairy Tale
Role-playing writing
Terraformed (the publication of)
RRRs that I don’t care and may or may not feel obligated to stick with:
Spirits and Blood
Time Travel
School
I should probably just drop the entire second category and make myself much, much, happier.
Sorry, off topic. I like alternate history.
Oops. Forgot Etheterre. How could I? Anyways, it’s finished and I care about it.
If I get my hands on SMAS-TT first, I will suggest AH.
I with you! about the AH.
202- um, school is not dead. it is midway to the trash and that great hard disc in the sky. I will destory the keepers draft today, or tommarow. I have asked the GAPAs to close it.
Robert, to resond to your post on the rrr school theard: If it is still open I will keep checking it, and it will take up a lot of time, and it just give a seance of closer.
it is in the trash!
and now off the hard disc! boy, am I glad to get that out.
As for points of divergence, I’ve always wanted to explore what might have happened had Ogedei Khan not died in 1241, and the Mongols kept expanding into Europe.
perehaps we should have a pointless post thread? That way when people feel random, and want to say it, they put it there. then again…it might clog up the recent posts bar…hmmm
209- Yes!
With all that support, I think we can consider AH to be a strong possibility for the RRR-SMAS-TT. However, we shouldn’t lock ourselves into a decision just yet.
SCHOOL TOMORROW *dies*
can I just ask? how do you write AH? I understand the concept, but not how to write it.
213- AH determines the setting, not the story. You figure out a turning point (let’s say, for the sake of the argument, the Battle of Tours between the Moors and Franks), send it a different way than what actually happened (Moors win instead of Franks who actually did), and figure out likely political and cultural consequences (Islam much more prevalent in Europe, Caliphate of Cordoba spreads across France and possibly farther.) Then it becomes more in the realm of fiction. After the easily predictable consequences are exhausted, you can make up new developments (fleeing Frankish nobles cross English Channel, establish a state in Southern Britain) as long as they’re possible. (I apologize for any gross historical inaccuracies, this is just for example purposes.)
Then, once you have the setting figured out (for RRR purposes, I think it ought to be done in the form of a prologue, so that we all have it down at the beginning), you can begin making up the story, which can be set in any time after the turning point, from five seconds after the divergence to the year 3000 AD. (Though, since this RRR bans space travel, I don’t think we should set it too far ahead.)
Whew, that was a long post. With lots of parentheses (seven.)(No, wait, eight.)(Wait, now it’s nine.)(Ten.)(11.)(I’m changing to numerals for the sake of brevity.)(That brings us up to 13.)(14.) ….. ( ∞ )
Took a long time to type that. But now I hold the definite record for most parentheses in a post.
214- and you copied Urania’s anwer to sofya’s letter in this mothes muse!
215- Yeah, yeah, I did. But did that clear some things up for you? Despite incomprehensibility brought on by parentheses?
216- so you just write a story, but use a different history?
May I suggest a Geek Culture thread? Y’know, the works. From Newton to Shatner to WotC. Just a place to report and remark upon the geeky wonders that we see every day.
A bit of an expansion on the General Science thread, I’d say…
217- Yup. Of course, the story is influenced by its past, but so are we.
219- got it! but do you write a diffent path as a prologue?
218- sounds good. or maybe a you konw your a geek when… therd, like the you know your addicted museblog when… theards.
220- You don’t have to, but it’s helpful to figure out the turning point and subsequent events up to the time you set your story in, and I was thinking that since this is a group project, we should RR’Rite the alternate timeline as well as the story. That could be incorporated as a prologue, or it could not be considered part of the story at all, just the equivalent of an author’s notes.
221- ah.
this is random, but my computer keeps saying there are less posts then there are.
I guess it’s time to go check up on my history.
Sometimes I hate being so ignorant. Blah.
One a similar note, one of my friends is obsessed with the Civil war and keeps talking about an alternate history book called “Guns of the South”.
I googled Guns of the South. Apparently it’s a story in which a bunch of white supremacists from 2014, hoping to change history to make oppression of blacks more widely accepted, go back in time to the Civil War and provide the Confederate States of America with AK-47s.
(223) If it’s history you’re after, Larry Gonick’s Cartoon History books are a good way to scan the territory.
(224) There have been several alternate-history novels and stories in which the South won the Civil War. In most of the ones I’ve seen, the world winds up worse off in the long run.
can we please not do the south won the american civil war? it is the biggest thing for AH.
226- Of course. I’d never do anything as cliche as that. What do you take me for? jk.
227- well, you did do smothing about dreams for NaNo, and that has become rather “plain” this year.
224- Yup. Something like that. Dunno.
225- Ooh, good idea!
I’m cramming my head with history. I think it should be something before the 20th century but not medieval. Some suggestions:
Early 19th century (not a very well explored territory), around 1820.
WWI.
1890s.
Prehistoric. (Not dinosaurs.)
how about the rest of the homo genuse survived? home erctus still alive now?
Do you mean that Homo erectus has always been around and people have known about them, or that a hidden population of H. erectus is suddenly discovered?
228- Yes, that’s true, but come on, I came up with it long before November, and by the time I resurrected it, all sorts of dream stuff had popped up.
231- The former, I think. They managed to evolve at the same speed that we did, instead of dying out as they did in this timeline, and colonized different parts of the world than Sapiens did.
It’s a good idea, but I still like Mongol expansion into Europe.
231- they did not go extict, and still exist in the world with home sapians .
Considering how badly H. sapiens behaves toward its own kind, I suspect we wouldn’t treat H. erectus very well.
232- good point.
by the way, I can not wait intill 2020 when I open the paper and see all of the bestsellers by blogers.
while AH sounds confusing, and I may only post a couple of times, I say go for it. It also sounds cool.
hows about a ‘metaphorically speaking thread? to make up annoying metaphors?
like:THey will be more useless than a weasel in a cardboard box.
perchance we could have a “muser names origines thread” there has been many a time when i wonder where other’s names come from… please o mighty GAPAs’
Did anyone submit to that Muse contest the-other-month, about the gaming-alter-egos? I submitted one about “Purple Panda”
239- I was going to about TMFA, but I forgot about it.
I can’t wait to see it!(we all know it is getting in)
239-i did!
i sent in my penguin picture
238- There is one, a bit dead though… https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=792
NEW Year’s resolutions thread! YEah! I will need to start thinking early. Please? *Hands pie to GAPA to urge starting of thread
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Red-tailed HAWK, making list of resolutions
Good idea!
i think we need another GAPA apreciation thread. we also could possibly mabe *smile charmingly* have a new manga, anime, graphic novels thread as the one we have died about a month ago.
OK. Two things I want. First, we need a new Classic Pie War thread, because insulting Mr. Joe is kind of boring now. Second, I know it is discussed sometimes in HT and Just Friends, but we should have a Culture thread, where people can talk about there respective cultures. Of course, there would be no bashing of other cultures, but it would be cool to learn everyones cultures. Thank You!
I second all!
Anyone who was interested in my MuseBlog Eras idea: I’ve started the project on Muse Encyclopedia, which was until recently dead.
I’ve been working on several Muse projects, which I have probably mentioned before, and while I was working on them I thought of several thread ideas. One of them I got while I was looking at the World Religions thread. Where we read the book, and talked about each of the religions. What if we could do that, but with other things? For example, we could research different countries and discuss them. We could also do it with different animals, holidays, etc. Does that sound interesting to anyone?
248- yes, but It will have be one book.
234) just look at planet of the apes…
248) yes
I suggest a little Back to top link at the bottom of threads.
me too, and a pie smile to replace the never-used
.
can we have a theard for all of us computer geeks who like linux, run VMs, and other Geek stuff that chad and Aeiou might do?
and a new ships log?
and a new html practice?
and a new ask the gapas?
and a computers theard, as in post 253?
and a cultures theard?
and a theard to talk about pie, in a non-war setting?
and a
and a
and a
and a…
A new Monty Python Thread would be optimal.
255- Yeah! Monty Python!
254: We can talk about pie on the Food thread, if you want
255, 256: That would definitely be spectacular, we haven’t had one for a long time.
(255, 256, 257) Because you’ve been Mostly Harmless this year, Gapa Claus will grant your wish.
258- Y’d best get a clue, y’ better throw pie, y’ better read Muse, I’m tellin’ you why…
GAPA Cootz is moderating now
he’s making up theard,
monderting your post,
going to block spam all night,
GAPA Cootz is moderating now.
Can we have a thread on the works of the Bible, God, or generally anything to do with the study of Christianity?
We’ve had bad experiences with religion threads in the past. Before trying another one, I’d like to hear what others think about this idea and how it might work.
262- I wanted a thread in which people could peacefully discuss Christianity and the Bible. Non-christians could post on it as long as they don’t put christians down. So, how does that sound, people?
262- Religions thread didn’t work too well, I don’t see how narrowing the topic is an improvement. If we do a Christianity thread, why not a thread on Islam, Judaism, or one of the many other religions out there? If the Christians want a place to discuss their faith, then there are many websites devoted to that. I think non-Christians (obviously I do not speak for all of us) will either ignore it, or post and it will end up as a flame war.
261- Most of us here have already made our positions clear on religion, and aren’t going to change them any time soon. I’m curious as to what your goal is for the hypothetical Christianity thread.
Al I want for christmas….. is You!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Could you make a new WHat’s here thread?
Just like the What’s here button, but a thread. It takes too long to open the what’s here button. Maybe it could contain the fifty latest thread names and their url.
(265) That’s a good idea, but it’s hard for us to do. WordPress software generates the “What’s Here” page automatically. If we try to copy and paste it, all we get is the names of the threads, without links. If the names alone would be helpful to you, we can supply them.
264- My goal was to be able to talk about christianity without someone having to jump in and contradict everything we say. I wanted to be able to relate the Bible to science and discuss things like our history, geography, and creation according to the Bible. But if you don’t approve of one, I’ll try it on the religions thread.
(265, 266) Try this: MuseBlog What’s Here
Wow! Magic!
268- Oooo! *stares in awe*
(267) I think the Religions thread would be a good place for a discussion like that. It’s been dormant for a while and could use some activity. There may be a little more “noise” than you would get in a dedicated thread, but probably no more than you see on Chameleon Threads.
I what a new World religion thread!
264- we’ve had a Judaism thread. and a hinduism thread. and a Buddhism thread. we could use a islam thread. and Christian threads (one for talking about Catholics and the other for Protestants)
NOTE: THESE ARE THREADS FOR TALKING ABOUT THE RELIGION. YOU MUST READ HUSTON SMITH’S THE WORLD RELIGIONS FIRST.
272- I really am hoping that demand was a joke.
You can’t learn everything about religion from one book.
(273) No, but you can learn something — and that’s much better than nothing as a springboard for discussion. It also helps to have a single reference book for people to start from.
I like Huston Smith’s book because he tries to show the best parts of each religion and to describe it from the inside out — that is, explain how its devotees experience it and what it means to them. Some of the chapters get a little abstract, but most of them repay the extra effort it takes to read them. We had some good discussions based on it back in 2006:
https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=349
https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=451
https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=466
https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=493
https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=494
268-Wow, that’s so awesome! Are you going to keep it fairly updated?
274- can we please have another one? please?
Can we have a foreign film thread?
We need a new Art of Being an Alien thread.
can we have a His Dark Materials thread?
(279) I don’t think so, but you can discuss the series (and the movie) on the new Books and Reading thread.
278- Yeah.
I have a suggestion:
MuseBlog Press
A thread to discuss the (not very possible) possibility of a publishing company for all those RRRs, MuseBlog fanfictions, and short story compilations that are written or thought of and then abandoned.
P*ease?