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A thread on which Musers who have written, are writing, or want to write books can bounce ideas off others who share that interest.

Continued from v. 2008.2

LadyGaladriel asks:

What exactly are the types of points?
Who can give out what points?
Do you have to have points on your blognickname to be able to give them out?
Can you make your own points?
What do the different types of points mean?
Why are you awarded points?

To which we would add: What exactly is the point of points?

Concerned neophytes and GAPAS want to know!

Need help? Comfort? A place to vent? Find relief here.

Years later, the children of the MuseBloggers band together to fight a renewed lagomorphic menace. Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.

Planning for the new characters and storyline started on Bunny Apocalypse, Part 6.

Continued from Part 1, where you can figure out what this genre is all about. Or not.

Something everybody likes to talk about.

Continued from version 2008.2.

Known Muser birthdays this month:*

09-02 Der Wachtelschlag’s/Queen Julietaini’s birthday (1993 – orange)
09-02 Loupgarou’s birthday (1991 – blue, purple, or green)
09-09 jammin j’s birthday (1993 – green)
09-15 The Man For Aeiou’s birthday (1995 – Muse Shirts)
09-17 rachael’s birthday (1993 – yellow)
09-17 eragon’s birthday (1997 – blue/rainbow)
09-18 Sweet Melpomene’s birthday (1990 – black-and-white)
09-19 The Bookworm’s birthday (1995 – green, purple, blue, silver)
09-19 marfwarrior’s birthday (1995 – green, with multicolored flecks)
09-24 Zinc the Sorceress’s birthday (1997 – any green except vomit)
09-25 Lioness’s birthday (1995)
09-28 Dracasting’s birthday (1993 – green or purple)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between December 25, 1994 and January 23, 1995.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between March 30 and April 28, 1992.

*Note: Listed MBers who have been inactive for several months won’t appear on next year’s birthday calendar unless they show up again.

School or no school, the blog’s monthly Random Thread keeps rolling along regardless. It’s the place to talk about anything or nothing at all.

(Users’ Manual: Obey The Rules. Consult The Guide. Have fun!)

Unlike the random thread, this discussion thread stays on topic until the topic changes.

Newcomers should read The Rules and The Guide before plunging in.

Current topic: Travel
Gardens

“Neophyte” comes from Greek roots meaning “newly planted.” If you’ve landed on the blog and think you might want to put down roots here, stop in for a friendly welcome and some helpful tips from those already here.

Please read The Rules. You might also glance at The HG2MB (Hitchhiker’s Guide to MuseBlog), which contains helpful hints regarding local customs, lingo, and other peculiarities of the blog; smiley information included.

Attention, non-neophytes! Please don’t fill this thread with non-neophytic chatter. If there’s no one around to welcome, there are plenty of other places where you can post.

Help others navigate the blog by signposting your favorite threads here, when they’ve scrolled off the main page. As always, we start this thread anew from scratch every month.

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Current categories:

ADVENTURES IN THE MUSIVERSE
Ships’ Logs (IBCF, kiwimuncher)
Pieceful Pie Planet (IBCF)
Muse Academy Student Lounge (Piggy)
Muse Scouts (Zinc the sorceress, Leafygreen)
Muse Academy (Zinc the sorceress, Leafygreen)

LIFE BEYOND THE VIRTUAL DIVIDE
College/University/Higher Education (Axa)

SILLY FUN
Off with their Heads! (IBCF)
Stupid Senseless Smiley Stories [SSSS] (IBCF)
Polling Place (kiwimuncher
Coy Woodnesse (kiwimuncher)
Harry Potter Trivia-Off (Luna the Lovely, Taiwan Hippo Fan)
BA: The Next Generation (Zinc the sorceress, Leafygreen)
You Know You’re Addicted to X When You Y (Rainbowstar)
Dissing Mr. Joe (Rainbowstar)

WRITING – RRRs
Sea Roc (kiwimuncher)
Alchemy (kiwimuncher)
Etheterre (kiwimuncher)

WRITING – ASSORTED OTHER
Theme with Variations (Vixen in the Eyes of the Moon)

OTHER THINGS WE LIKE
History (Purple Panda)
Visual Arts (Purple Panda, Taiwan Hippo Fan)
Chess Lesson (Purple Panda)
MuseBlog Chess v.3 (Piggy)
Cooking and Food (Taiwan Hippo Fan)
Soccer and Cryptids (Cat’s Meow)
Music (Midnight Fiddler)
Song Lyrics (Midnight Fiddler)

USEFUL ITEMS
Suggestion Box
Last Month’s DFTT
HG2MB v.2008.1

The discussion that started on Bunny Apocalypse (we think) and has been wandering about the blog may reconvene here. Once you’ve figured out what you want to do, we can tweak the title and this description as necessary.

The Rules:

~No characters, powers or technology that don’t fit the setting or plot line. Technology: Almost anything steam-powered goes, but analog computers are stretching it. Powers: Please, no magic. Characters: For cryin’ out loud, no ninjas (although pirates are acceptable) or time-travelers from the future. Or aliens. Normal, vaguely European-colonial (or vaguely African, if you decide to play one of the Forest People) human beings.
~No power-playing. Everybody can control non-player characters, but you cannot control other players’ characters.

Continued from Part the Eighth.

Map by Red-tailed HAWK (click to see larger image):

The final installment of the August random thread has been cooling on the window ledge a little longer than usual, but we trust there are a few pies left to fill out the month.

Continued from Part 2.

(Users’ Manual: Obey The Rules. Consult The Guide. Have fun!)

Talking about talking.

Requested by giminator and Zinc.

John Calvin (1509-1564) was a 16th-century French Protestant theologian. Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was a 17th-century English political philosopher. Some MuseBloggers have become interested in their ideas and have requested a thread on which to discuss them.

Just kidding! We know about Bill Watterson’s comic strip “Calvin and Hobbes” and love it as much as you do. Here’s a place for you to talk about Snow Goons, propellor beanies, G.R.O.S.S., and other memorable parts of Calvin’s world.

For topics that need to be handled with extra care. NO FLAMING.

Continued from version 2007.8.

WARNING! Will definitely contain spoilers!

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Let us know when your issue arrives. NO SPOILERS, please. There’s another thread for discussing the issue.

It’s big, it’s important, and, thanks to the Olympics, it’s on our minds. A discussion has already begun at the Hare & Hedgepig; it will continue here.

MuseBlog’s preeminent contribution to world culture.

Continued from version 2008.2.

As Part 5 drew to a close, new characters entered the fray, and the anti-leporine resistance seemed to have encountered a cabal of Sith Lords. Or something. It’s all terribly hard to swallow, um, follow.

Your family and friends might know you pretty well, but how many of them have seen the interior of your gastro-intestinal tract? Pan has graciously provided us with photographs of hers, which she’ll explain on this thread.

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So, what do you think? Is beauty only skin-deep?

Being GAPAs of Very Little Brain, we’re not sure how much more there is to be said about Pooh & Co. But they are clogging up the Words and Names thread, so we’re relocating the discussion here.

(Requested by Kokonilly.)

Editor Elizabeth Preston writes:

Could you make one more announcement on the MuseBlog about the “Muserology” (readers’) page? We need to have one more in, for November/December, before the first one gets published (September). I only got a few submissions earlier, and then they stopped coming. But various bloggers were talking about ideas they had for articles, which they never sent in. So…they have another chance! (Also, if someone sent something and didn’t get a response, they can send it again–I think some things got unnecessarily deleted from the Muse email.)