Peredhil

Parm - sorry, personal belief system is that at the current time, when you die, you're dead. Reincarnation is a different system. as a side-note: "sweating like a pig", pigs only sweat between their toes. This is one reason for mud-wallows, to cool down and prevent sun burns.

but in mid-flight, the Rubber Chicken changes vectors like a jet plane and flies back to Zool!

Oh. I like! This is so reflective of how being a Daddy can feel sometimes...

Nice...

Hmmm. We tend to remember the times things work out to our belief system. How many times have you had a dream that wasn't real? A terror or fear, that simply didn't work out? I do believe in spirits and a spiritual warfare. I'm all for seers and prophecy if they're willing to assent to the biblical test - one prophecy that fails results in death, so as not to contaminate the people...

This is a great opportunity! There are a number of members who have accounts but haven't, for one reason or another, made up a Role-Playing personae to go with the name. This would be a good non-hostile environment for them to introduce themself (and get a touch of online-Role-Playing experience). I'd imagine that a member could just make the one post introducing themself, and that there would be opportunity after that to make more showing interaction if they wanted to do so? -an excited Ancient

Well *THAT* was chilling... Brrrr. Very well written, consistent point of view through-out. The choice of details to write really showed the protagonist.

Was there a problem? I thought this was a fun idea...

You know? I'm really glad you found your way to us. Your unflagging sense of humor is refreshing.

Oooooohhhh Wonderful!

Watching the little demoness, standing there so earnestly reciting, with one foot angled in toward the toes of the other and her hands clasped behind her back. Cheering when she finishes, knowing that she'll never believe her work is as good as it is. Sighing as she blushes and ducks back to work You post such good works. I'd love to see more from you he coaxes

Fear of being alone is one of the top five fears in America, according to a census a few years ago. Right after Fear of public speaking, and above fear of death. You must be in good company

Peredhil opens the door to the Cabaret And carefully steps out of the way For it's a misunderstood Kitty's day and as they enter, all present say: Happy Birthday! Nineteen! The last prime number birthday of a teen!

Found this Classic while reformatting old threads. If you've ever wondered why it takes Wyvern so long to respond to Recruitment posts... Things haven't changed much.

Bursts out laughing. Rapidly assumes a straight face as Aardvark bursts in with automatic weaponry.

Normal. I grew up knowing it was a college that trained teachers. We had one in my home town, on Normal Hill. Then my parents started adding on definitions: A statistical average in large enough sets, a chemistry PH definition, a perpendicular in math. Then I hit school, and found in first grade, neither I nor any of my family were "normal". By that time though, I really didn't have much desire to be. This "normal" was fitting within the cultural norms and means of the majority segment of current society. In computers, we "overload" operators to perform different functions and operations depending on the context when parsed. In these threads, I see the words overloaded as well. Context is essential. -P

Sighs wistfully I think I was born a thousand years too late - I have the heart of a Knight-Errant, in the society of cynicism. Welcome back after a long absence to the Pen, Knight. And thank you for rekindling the magic of Romanticism for a moment. -Peredhil TBT

Perhaps if someone does see inside, past the magazine plastic smiles that ripple the surface and leave the aching depths untouched - Perhaps they go along with the false cheer in hopes that you can pretend it into reality? I've found from giving feedback a bit too sharp and a bit too real that sometimes, when people are really fragile and hurting inside, shedding light and showing them themself - can just magnify the hurt. I'd rather love people - as they are, as they want to be. Hugs

Hugs Like father like daughter... I was much MUCH shyer when I was young, and too smart for my own good: Knowing I was shy, I looked at the world and noticed that people sometimes sought out the shy ones. They left the loud hyper ones alone after a superficial glance - So, because I was shy, I acted loud and hyper - so I'd be left alone and no one could hurt the real me inside. Missed out on a lot of life and friends, doing that. Good poem. Hope Wyvern likes it too. Hugs her a lot

Quick note - I've been reading these build with something approaching envy. From the first post, to the last, I see an improvement as a writer. As to the last poem, I think a lot of people hold something similar inside - but you've expressed it well.

I had forgotten these gems. When I first read Robert E. Howard's Kull the Conqueror, I had a 103 fever. Whenever I think of Kull, I have a bitter-sweet painful pleasure aura to tinging the edges of Howard's writing. These posts give me some of that pleasure-pain feeling. They're so dark in places - and yet so compelling to read the next.

M'Lady, That was a really excellent word picture - plus I found it full of symbolism. It reads well to me on several levels - and all in so few words. I think it's harder to write a tight short scene like this, than a full story.

I like this. It would fit a legend for a RP world, the sort of thing the adventurers hear the wandering minstrel sing as the "hook". Some of the verb tensed seem a little awkward to me though - for instance, I thought "condoled" was a shared feeling of misery or grief. "I condoled with him". Used in the singular, wouldn't it be condoling (which doesn't fit the rhyme). I think you have something good here. You say you worked on it - and in my opinion, it shows. -Peredhil

Dark poem, but it conveys the pain and anger well. (If Chanz is Morbid Angel, like the last comment seems to mean, then an Elder could prolly change one account to another - I think.)

in my experience - whether you like it or not - yes. Although in the long run, it has always worked out for the best, even while during it may be not very fun. But, again, in my experience, obedience is the key. Do you trust? In my case, I never told God "no", I just obeyed in my own individualistic way... (which has, in the past, made things much harder on me than they might've been.)