Hope everyone who celebrates it had an awesome Turkey Day. ^^
I know I stuffed myself full. I love Thanksgiving.

So I'm at home right now. But I'm leaving tomorrow afternoon to head back to school. For, like. 2 weeks. Until Christmas Break starts up. XD
It's kinda scary... only one full week of classes left? Maaaan. Then nothing but exams and then back home.

I STILL NEED TO DO CHRISTMAS SHOPPING. D8

So I'm also trying to get all of FMA: Brotherhood downloaded so that we can have a marathon over Christmas. IT WILL BE EPIC. I've already got through episode 8 downloaded, but the internet is much slower here than at school... so I'll get the rest of it when I get back down there.

Also. We went lasertagging last night with all our friends. From 8pm until 1 in the morning. AND WON EVERY SINGLE GAME. Even against the guys who come every week. Because we're just that awesome. 8D
We even took the top level after the blue team tried to get there ahead of us. And managed to hold off a combined blue/green assault. Where they managed to get a bunch of guys onto the top and we had to push them back out again.
WE WERE SO AMAZINGLY COORDINATED YOU GUYS. I WAS SERIOUSLY IMPRESSED. 8DDD

So yeah. That was awesome.


Aaaargh so tired. Why can't this break be longer?

So I'm sitting here, staring at the tags in this group, and I can't believe my eyes. No one has touched California Diaries yet? Surely, my eyes must be deceiving me. Maybe no one else ever read them (I never did, until last month when I found the entire series at Friends of the Library for a buck a piece) and no one cares to snark them. Maybe they aren't snark worthy. Well, there's only one way to find out, right? I guess I have to read one.....


Dibbly Fresh is all screwy, so thanks to Goodreads for the image.

( Bitchface Dawn )

Meanwhile, at the Twittercave...

• 21:41 Check out the new DBZA release from TeamFourStar, the Bardock Special Abridged XD www.tfsabridged.com/episodes/?ep=bardock #
• 21:45 @gem2niki I did the Commie Mom's monologue to her son from the (original) "Manchurian Candidate". It's an Angela Lansbury bit. #
• 03:13 I see what you did there, Peej's latest writer. Still not buying the 'justification'--now eyerolling harder than usual bit.ly/1Kl6vE #
• 03:32 @asaphira Doesn't help that every time a Powergirl writer responds to fan criticism of her uniform's boob window, the reasons for it change. #
• 03:33 @asaphira It's like we KNOW why it's there; guys like uncovered boobs. Fine. Stop trying to pretend it's MEANT to be strategic or empowering #
• 16:45 @deanibean THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH WATCHING LOTS OF ANIMATION. NOTHING. PURGE THAT THOUGHT FROM YOUR HEAD. #
• 16:47 @medoroa Only /one/ of the three..? #
• 17:12 @medoroa They could be an incredible homosexual brothers statistical outlier too! Who knows? th_esaurus on LJ might have thoughts on this..? #
• 17:13 @deanibean Goooood, good. Don't let it happen again :) *goes back to animating, with cartoons on for background noise* #
• 17:24 @feikoi Slashgoggles<3 See I might've enjoyed a "OMG it's Powergirl I should say something smart!" babble instead of the writer's nod we got #

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Dear Pokemon fandom,

( Cut in case of triggers. )

So it's a pairing A/B fic - a the-end-of-the-world, apocalypse type of fic and, towards the later chapters, is hinted that Character B got infected and might die. Possibly.
You, reviewer, left a comment somewhere along the lines of,

"Oh I hope it's just a misunderstanding! But omg if Character B dies, then maybe Character A can finally get with Character C! After all, Character C is so shippable with those fluffy hair and puppy dog eyes that just make you melt! <333"

No, just - no. I appreciate you reading a story that doesn't have your OTP in it, but did you really have to put it that way? You make it sound like you want Character B to die just so A/C can happen. I can't say it's appreciated. At all. :(

Also,
"Summary: Please read I swear it won't take much of your time <3" does not entice me to click on the link at all. If you were trying to be cute to net you readers, well, you failed. Try again.

Guys, the modern-girl-goes-back-in-time-to-the-Holocaust has been done, 100x better than 99.99% of you can do it.

Not that the Holocaust isn't a cliche setting anyway by this point for a Romeo and Juliet romance, given the sheer amount of fics set there, but...my point still stands. You deny that pretty much every tenth story or so at FictionPress in the Historical section has something to do with the Holocaust or WWII, more often the Holocaust?

A little creativity within that standard won't kill you.

EDIT: Also, I'm pretty damn sure the Nazis didn't wear name badges on their uniforms. That's a modern convention if I'm not mistaken.

Get a comfy chair and possible some snacks, oh you peoples of BRPS. I bring you a two-for-one. Half rants, half observations.

Rantish Observation the First:

I have come to determine that generally, there are two mindsets when it comes to those who RP. I call them the RPers, and the Fic Writers. Now, this isn't to say that rpers can't be fic writers, or that fic writers can't be rpers. The two do blend, and as I've often seen, they can blend extremely well. But sometimes old habits die hard, and the ficcers get in over their heads.

There are some key differences, you see. The rpers know that the game, the roleplay, is an overall story of all the characters, all the interactions, all the plots... it is everybody's world, no character any more important than the next. They are in it for the story, the ride, the long haul, the whatever you want to call it. And then sometimes you get a stubborn ficcer (a motherficcer, if you will) who is completely out of their element. They are there for their character's story, and in that, they are the narrator, the story-teller, the Jesus, Buddha, and Zeus. Their character is the main character, because they're writing it, and everyone else's characters, plots, and needs are of a lesser priority.

One of the worst traits I have found in motherficcers are the needs to control everything. Those who play scenes out in their head, before they are written, without taking silly little things into account like, oh, say, how the other characters might react. And then it comes time to play the scene out, and, omgosh! People just don't react right! They RUINED your scene! THEY PLAYED IT WRONG!

Or worse, the rampant wangstbeast motherficcers who have decided not to sit idly by and let other characters ruin their vision. These beastly motherficcers who decide the best way to not let other players fuck up a good story is to try and tell them how it should be played properly. And then when these other players, these peons in your perfect world, dare to refuse – well, naturally there's only one sensible option. Through an epic shitfit, whine in every possible public forum, wangst about how mean everyone is to you, and occasionally flounce entirely.

Listen, you thundercunt motherficcers. If you can't handle the stresses of things like 'other people' and 'free will', why in the seven bloody hells are you even here? Go back to your fic, and your perfect little world that you control. We don't want you in ours. If you require an audience and must come play in our sandbox, do it with a shred of dignity and etiquette, and STFU and STFD.

Rantish Observation the Second:

In this respect, and the observation of countless motherficcers over the years, I have come to think it is generally a bad idea for a writer to play their novel/fiction characters in a roleplay setting – particularly those they've been writing for years. You may love them, and you may love writing them, and you may be terribly attached to them – but really, isn't that all the more reason to keep them in an environment that can't fuck everything up for you?

Think about it. Your novel character has always been in your environment, with your rules. Some times these characters don't translate and transplant well into other sandboxes. And you must take into account that, like it or not, not everyone is going to like your precious shnookums. Both IC and OOC. Before you transplant, ask yourself: can you handle that? If there's even the slightest chance you can't, if a single hair stands up on the back of your neck or the slightest uncomfortable flip of your stomach, don't do it. It will probably end badly.

If you have built up a character so grandly in your head, idolized them, babied them, loved them more fiercely than any character you have ever written in your own fiction, you may not be prepared for other peoples opinions on him/her.

For instance, your precious novel character, who you describe as 'intense', 'tragic', and 'heroic' may be perceived by other characters as more along the lines of 'annoying', 'a crybaby', and 'functionally retarded'. Ask yourself: are you ready for that? Can you handle such a thing without going home to your own tear-stained diary and wangsting about how everybody is always picking on you, and someday you'll publish your story, and THEN THEY'LL ALL BE SORRY MWUHAHAHAHA, like a sad-assed Batman character reject with a shitty origins story?

No? You can't.

Then you may also: STFU, and STFD.

Oh, and this is my Amazon Wishlist for 2009.

Here's an interesting one! Rather than mount the magazine vertically as in modern firearms, it's mounted horizontally, with individual chambers for each pinfire cartridge.

Yup. community.livejournal.com/ru_glamour/3473562.html

What is it with people and "zomg every character has to have kids and luff them and let them take over the story" usually to the point where the plot is totally forgotten?

( Kids and sparklings in fanfics )

1. Reid and Tyler are not going to Ascend after having super awesome sex. It's something that happens on their 18th birthdays, not something inspired by magical orgasms. And adding a caveat to the Book of Damnation allowing for this early Ascension-by-sex isn't gonna fly, either. Also, Ascending involves more than just a flash of light. It's painful and Reid and Tyler aren't going to Ascend while lying in bed *headdesk*

2. Tyler is not a crybaby. All of the "sobbing" and "bawling" (your words) that you're having him do is beyond ridiculous. He might shed some tears like a normal person, but the constant waterworks is getting old.

3. Even after they get together as a couple, Reid and Tyler aren't going to turn into emo woobies. They will retain their personalities. Reid won't be quoting the lyrics to some cheesy love song to Tyler while they're in bed. Just no.

No love,

me

My... third FE fanart here. :P Of our dear Raven King, with a preview pic to poke at:



Leads to my DeviantART. Shameless self-promotion woo! :D

Dear crossover author, there doesn't need to be that many couples in one fic. Out of everyone, there are nine couples and two characters left alone in this fic. Not everyone has to be in a relationship. Nine couples is way too much. Single people can be happy.

Also, there is such a thing as too many crossovers. You don't have to cross every single show by the same producer every time you write. Especially in one fic.

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I've seen this come up often enough in fanfiction, and it's driving me nuts. I'm not an expert in family structure or sociology or anything, but I'm reasonably certain that when a child is adopted (i.e.: Not a stepparent adoption, either; the fandom in question this time has a child who was taken in by his best friend's family following his father's arrest), then his relationship with his new brother is not "stepbrothers." They would be "adopted brothers," or simply "brothers" if the linguistics is driving you nuts.

Furthermore, when adoption takes place, I believe "foster" is the wrong term as well. At least in the U.S. (which is where this fandom takes place, though in the future and with aliens, so who knows how that affects child services), the foster care system is meant to be temporary, waiting for either reunification between child and parent or adoption. So I'm pretty sure "foster brothers" would be wrong as well.

Less of a rant and more me bemoaning the fact that what appeared to be good fic is probably going to turn lame pretty fast.

So, I like your fic. It's well written. The prologue was phenomenal. I knew going in that it was going to be a war story. I knew that you were planning on pairing an OC with a canon character. I was okay about all these things. Excited, even, because I think your plot rocks, and I was willing to give your OC at least three strikes because you seem like a competent writer. You still seem like a competent writer, but here's the thing about war stories: there's a fine line between a badass and fanatic. No, really. And your OC is toeing the line of fanaticism. She's supposed to be the good guy, but right now? Right now, I really want to punch her in the face.

I understand the necessity of making her a hard woman. Hell, I like the (relatively traumatic) background you gave her because it fits. But in making her a hard woman, you've got to be careful. There's a difference between being a badass who has suffered through a whole ton of crap and being a fanatic who wants to kill everyone who's different. I don't think the latter is your intent, but that's definitely the way your kid is coming off. I want to like her, I really do, but I'm seeing shades of Hitler in her and her quest to slaughter the canon character's race.

So honestly, right now, I'm pulling for the guy who is supposed to be evil, even if, in canon, he was the genocidal nutcase because your girl takes it a step too far. You're shooting yourself in the foot, author. Please stop because I really want to like your story.

I've been going through a rare (but not unheard of) bout of insomnia lately. I was watching a show called "Spider Riders" on Teletoon last night.

The content was pretty typical of any derivative anime stabled in the 4 a.m. time slot. Destined kid with spunk issues, disjointed sentences, treacherous family members, etc. To its credit, the pre-teen cast was bonded with gigantic spiders instead of yet another twenty dragons who are from legend, but are subservient to spiky-haired boys whose balls will never drop, ever.

Me: "I like the idea here. It's different. Everybody has a fantasy about riding a dragon into battle, but who wants to ride a spider?"

David: "Mary Jane?"

Well, I walked right into that one.

The new Made of Fail podcast is up, and it's something like my fifth appearance on the show--and this time we also have Rinna from Poufwa, the first podcast I ever did! Also, my sexy, sexy phlegm ("Yeah... I'm reporting live from my death bed..."), brought in loud and clear courtesy of my new headset. Topic: half New Moon and half Crazy Fans, with a substantial segment on the Dollhouse cancellation up front (aw, hell, I just heard myself cough in the background).

("I am in bed with another woman right now...")

And now, I'm going back to bed.


ETA: OH BY THE WAY we totally discuss the Twilight porno that Dayna watched for us.

ETA: Who has the "fever of a hundred and werewolf" thermometer icon, and who made it? Because I totally need to start using that.



(Zomg e-book! The Annotated Movies in Fifteen Minutes: Wizards!)

Dear Writer,

No, it is not acceptable to be a lazy, dumb-ass when it comes to writing. I know short-hand was invented to make life for secretaries, P.As, and notaries easier, however, I do not want to read your notes, I want to read your fic...

At least I did until “he arrived at the dept. Apprx 1.5 hours after he left the house.” Hmm, yeah, no.

Please stop, your shorthand is killing me.

The Warriors fanfiction section on Fanfiction.net is for posting fanfiction. It is not for any of the following:

* Your recruitment drive for your 'cleaning up the junk infecting the Warriors fandom' group. It's counterproductive, let me tell you.
* Your version of a popular song with the lyrics replaced to be about cats. Not, that is to say, any cats who feature in Warriors, or any culture practiced by the cat who feature in Warriors, but just about cats. In general.
* Your rant about the quality of lemon fics.
* Your five (exceedingly short) chapters about the life of a human boy named Ricky who has, as near as I can tell, absolutely nothing to do with Warriors. (Apparently at some point he's going to turn into a wolf, but I still don't see the connection. I mean, there are no wolves in Warriors.)
* Your character list. I mean, there's nothing wrong with including it, but putting it up as a story in its own right?
* Your essay on why people shouldn't hate a specific character
* Your list of the songs which you think fit specific characters.
* Your list of/guide to Warriors names.
* It may, in fact, be the place for your attempts at humour and parody fics, but I really, really wish it wasn't. There's nothing wrong with a good parody, but these just aren't.

Seriously, fandom, you people should move to LiveJournal. This stuff would only be extremely bizarre on here, not actually against the rules. That essay on Ashfur isn't even that.

Also, it's kind of odd that more than half of the fanfics on the first page don't have any of the canon characters from Warriors in them. I can see the appeal of using your own characters to tell a story that you couldn't tell with any of the canon characters and also couldn't tell without the frame of Clan society or to deconstruct the concepts in the book, but shouldn't there be more actual canon!fics?

http://feeds.reference.com/click.phdo?i=100d8a344ac46e75e802ebc6b8e18637

http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/archive/2009/11/28.html

rusticate: to go or send to the country.

With the NCIS: LA ep that aired this week.
A casting call was made on this list so some of you I hope made it on there or the ones who made the call can clear this up.
Was any of it shot at the "The Edison" in LA or not?
I hear yes and I hear no and looking about online my self has come up with nothing.
I was told that it was not shot at "The Edison" and was filmed at some random club in LA that they dressed up. I also have been told most of it was shot on a sound stage.

So what is it filmed at The Edison or not, yes or no?

and for you this bores the hell out of.

This is funny , cute and a has costumes.

I'm sure this has been addressed at some point in the past, but it's really been gnawing at my ass lately, so...

It's spelled TARDIS. Capital T, capital A, capital R, capital D, capital I, capital S. Because it's a fricking acronym. Time And Relative Dimension In Space. There's a wikipedia entry and everything.

It's not Tardis. Or, for the love of Rassilon, tardis.

While you may have accomplished something by setting interdimensional speed records in my hitting the back button, I somehow don't think that's what you had intended with your fic.

Send any and all news or story recommendations to ff.press@gmail.com or leave them in the comments of the most recent issue. Before sharing any links to fanwork, please make sure you have read our listing policies carefully; all fanwork must meet these policies to be listed. For older links, please check the archive.

Activities
adventawards: Icon challenge - Movie Titles
ff_exchange: Poll - FFEX Roud 3 interest poll: 2010 or 2011?
ff_santa: Final Fantasy Christmas Exchange - sign-ups close November 30th!


Fanfiction
Final Fantasy VII Compilation
Dirge of Cerberus
ellnyx: How We All Got There Was A Mystery (Lucrecia, Ifalna, Vincent, Hojo, Gast, President Shinra, Turks, Grimoire, Jenova, past Cetra) (PG)

Final Fantasy XII Compilation
Original Game
ellnyx: the fun stops being fun (Vossler/Ffamran) (NC-17)

Crossovers/RPGs
tipsybluetips: Smile of the Wheel (FFVI/FFXII) (Vaan, Setzer) (G)


Fan Art
Final Fantasy X/X-2
justira: For Soon You Weep for Me (Auron, Braska) (G)

Final Fantasy XII Compilation
Original Game
blue_babochka: Doujinshi - Summer's End (Basch, Noah) (PG-13)
justira: Half a Breath Away (Vaan/Gabranth) (PG)


Icons
Various
klauus: 27 icons (FFX, FFX-2; FFXIII, Versus XIII)


Searches and Offers
lady_hedge: RP - Dark City Treno game seeking FFIX characters!


Miscellaneous
trixie_bayn: Angeal/Zack in Sims2

Finally, the last installment of our Walt Disney World trip during October! So we bought tickets for Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party for the nights of October 8th and 9th. Sadly no cast member discounts, so we had to pay full price. But holy cow it was worth it, because after several years of going to Mickey's Trick or Treat Party in California Adventure, I can now say that Florida's Halloween parties kick our parties' ASS. Florida is better in every way, not only do they have way more characters and way more treat trails, you get to wear almost any costume into the MAGIC KINGDOM (which is not allowed at D*sneyland). Sure, I had known about this event for years, but actually experiencing it kinda blew my mind.


The first night I wore Giselle, Kat wore Mary Poppins, and Jen wore Belle.

( MNSSHP All Around! )

In the beginning, there was the Q, and he was good. He created an RP for original characters on the new forum features for a certain original fiction website. There were no real rules for entering, other than the need to make an intro thread, and all of the given rules were common sense for ease of play, and it was good. All those that entered read the rules and played characters they felt the need to develop, all interesting with several dynamics played against each other. It was fun, and fast-paced, and exciting.

Then real life happened to many of the original players... Some, like the creator, dropped off the radar completely. Others had to go at the game at a slower pace between posts, and the main thread, where new people entered, lay dormant. The older players, lamenting the state of things put in a couple of new characters, hoping to revive what had once been and encourage new people to join. And it worked, at least somewhat. A new group of players joined the fold, all fairly decent writers and RPers, and much fun was had by all.

But... then came another lull, and a new breed of player joined... game-breakers. Taking advantage of the relaxed rules, the new breed began entering millions of modern, cracky characters into a medieval tavern. They replaced the well-established NPC bar man with a new PC, and generally ran around the whole establishment like ants, adding things there was no reason for as they had already been established, and filling one area with tons of characters played by the same person so that anyone that entered could have no choice but play with the shallow, one-trick characters. It was the death of any interesting character development, at least in the main thread, and the last straw for me. I stopped playing there, and kept to my long-established side quests that had been going for quite some time with some of the older players.

However, some of my friends continued attempting to play in the main thread, long past my point of patience with what it had become. Tonight, however, was the last straw with the last one. She has officially stated that it has gone to hell. With the entrance of a fandom character from Okami, a catgirl who drinks "soki", a guy with an author avatar who's teh awesomest animu drawer evah!, people who show ooc knowledge and give ooc advice ic, and all the rest of it, I am inclined to agree.

Rest in peace, dear tavern. We knew ye well.

ETA: This links to someone's picture of "their character". It made me lawl because of how badly they photoshopped a ganked generic anime pic. Enjoy the thoughts of hidden back braces! http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2ib1942&s=6

Fire Emblem 7 (26)
- Lyn, Ninian, Nils, Eliwood, Hector, random others. SPOILERS for the whole game.
Fire Emblem 9 & 10 (16)
- Various characters.



more at epicfail.

Dear First-Time Poster,

You are new to the community. You have obviously not read the community rules. Nor have you really read through the community's posts.

To quote you: "I feel extremely out of place posting this here as it is slash, but it very angsty and this fandom seems so cheerful. But it is also severely lacking in fanfiction."

How is your slash fic out of place in a slash community?

And while the community is a pretty happy place, there's a lot of angsty fic. Actually, there's a lot of fic. The most commonly used tag in the community is "fanfiction".

And the actual fic you wrote? Paragraphs can be either indented or block style (a blank line break in between each paragraph). Both is excessive. Also, if you switch back and forth between third and first person, perhaps you should rethink how you present it. I see that your third person section is an outside view of the first-person sections' narrator having a flashback of events that happened earlier. I think your flashback would have been more effective if it had stayed in first person, so we could see what he is seeing.

Even if the narrator would never let that sort of thing happen to him. Ever. Bad ass weapons dealers with superpowers do not let themselves get abused by unknown aggressors. Well, maybe some do, but this one in particular sure wouldn't.

Finally, I call comma abuse. Here's one example of many: "And to his bed without me, throwing up again, or, screaming."

Hoping you go back to that fandom you came from,
tonks17

P.S. I sure hope toppls was a typo.


Edit: HTML and a few words for clarification, just in case.

The General: If you're going to use the old "Character X can't be gay (and bisexuality doesn't exist) because he showed interest in a woman!" reasoning, you might want to consider a character who hasn't stated in canon that the woman meant nothing to him and that he was just using her. Kissing girls doesn't make you straight if you're not attracted to them.

The specific: The character in question was Jezebel from Count Cain/Godchild. Which makes the whole thing even more laughable, given that Jezebel is the king of incestuous homoeroticism. And the same person said that they did think that Cassian was gay. Which makes it doubly ironic, considering that Cassian has actually canonically been in love with a woman. (They also said that Cassian was in love with Jezebel, but I'm not disputing that. That's obvious.)

Hey, you*, over there. I don't really need to see a blow by blow account of what Character A is doing. I really don't. Frankly, it's boring as hell to see a character get dressed. I don't care about the color, the quality, or the formality of the clothes, even if the inclusion of those details make sense in context. I can kind of deal with that, even if I roll my eyes as if I were reading something out of Quizilla. But that's not the most irritating.

No, what's bothering me is how you give the order of clothes as they're being put on, which amounts to a nice amount of paragraphs (OK, like three or four) detailing just that. Yes, just that and nothing else.

I DON'T CARE AND I DON'T NEED TO KNOW. A simple "Character A got dressed in a button down shirt and a pair of dark slacks they had only worn once before" would suffice.

THIS ISN'T MOVING THE PLOT AROUND NOR IS IT PROVIDING INSIGHT TO CHARACTER A OR ANY OTHER CHARACTER WHATSOEVER. IT ISN'T EVEN PARTICULARLY CLEVER.

So, why in the hell is it being included?

-Your Confused and Disgruntled Reader

* Specific you inspired the rant, but it really applies to any fandom or writer. OH YES IT DOES SO MUCH.

Not all of you, of course, but some of you.

Let me see if I'm reading your stories right.

1. Snape is perfect and can do no wrong.
1A. His actions that might be wrong are someone else's fault
1B. He is perfectly justifed in bullying.
1C. It would be perfectly alright for Snape to do anything he wanted to Harry, just because he's the son of his worst enemy.
1D. Snape is perfectly justified in how he treated other Gryffindors, especially Neville

2. Everything that happened in Harry's fault
2A. Even the bad things that happened to Harry.
2B. It's because you don't like Harry.
2C. Harry deserved to be abused as a child.
2D. Harry deserved to have Snape bully him
2E. Harry should be grateful that he was shown how worthless he is.

3. Gryffindors cause all the problems at Hogwarts
3A. Even the bullying by Slytherins.
3B. It's because of Gryffindors that all Death Eaters exist. If it weren't for the absolutely horrible, awful Grys, there'd be no need for the poor, poor blood purists.
3C. The Grys should all be punished, and they got what they deserved (though not enough of it) In Deadly Hallows.

And you don't see anything wrong with this? Snape was a bitter, bitter man, who bullied 11-year-olds. He was a teacher, and he did everything he could to put down the children he was supposed to teach. Even if you think that he was justified in treating Harry the way he did (here's a hint- he wasn't) he had no right to treat Neville the way he did.

Death Eaters were prejudiced and horrible. In many cases, they were murderers, and they chose their own actions.

The Dursleys were also horrible people, and no child deserves to be treated like they treated him. No rational person would actually think that a child deserves to be told they're freaky, to have frying pans aimed at their head, to never get any presents, etc, etc.

And some people wonder why I rarely read Harry Potter fanfiction. I never know if I'll get something good- or the utter nonsense that comes with hating the main character.

Setting: 1822, the countryside around l'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France. Thus, I'm looking specifically for Provençal dialect, but I fear a lot of what is on the web may be Lengadocian.

Research: Omniglot has the phrases I need, but they don't note the dialect/if there's a strong dialectal difference. I'm less concerned with the spelling, actually, as the orthography varies between Classical and what Mistral did for the Provençal dialect, as long as I can get Provençal rather than Lengadocian. As it is, at this period, it may well be a more localised patois, but I'd like to have something.

The story is this: 15 year old son of wealthy landowner has been at boarding school in Avignon, gets to come home to the village for Easter, has sex with slightly older farm girl after mass. His father is proud. At this period, if the farm girl is not the one in her family constantly going into town for market, then she is unlikely to speak any French, correct? Not that one needs much dialogue to have sex, but I'm looking for a very few basics so that my boy can at least try to be polite to her by coming out with a few phrases in her language.

The needed phrases:
Hello/Good day (also, pronunciation may well have changed significantly, but in modern Occitan in this general area, does "bonjorn" sound different enough from "bonjour" to make it worth using as a greeting or is it the same as "bonjour" with a heavy accent? If the latter is the case, is there a reasonable alternative, or do I just deal with "this not where my language issue comes in"? Formal preferred, as this would be the girl addressing the boy.)
How are you? (formal and informal forms of address)
I love you. (unless "S'il vous plaît, mademoiselle, je voudrais vous baiser" is not going to get wholly lost in translation to Occitan.)
Goodbye (formal and informal if there are differences - I want the boy to be slightly confused as to his own use of phrases.)

So I'm really looking for two things: confirmation that I'm right that there is a linguistic issue to accompany the class issue, and clarification as to if Omniglot's phrases are useful to me.

Crossposting to multilingual.

Success! A PS3 bundle from Best Buy was obtained. Two in fact lol. I didn't want to make my parents deal with the crowds at an ungodly hour so I went to pick it up myself (also, so you don't think we're rich and can just toss around PS3s this is my bday and only Christmas present lol)

I couldn't sleep so got up at 5:30 and went to the Best Buy down the street. there were alot of people in the small store but not as many at the register though enough people were certainly carting out large TVs! Stupid Best Buy, they had -plenty- of PS3s XD; I'm glad the workers weren't looking too haggard, infact one I was talking to said it was alright really. Like a busy day, rather than freaking insane. I was looking at PS3 controllers too and one mentioned how they were price matching Radio Shack's sale on it even though I had no idea. So nice of him! So got a 2nd controller for half off. I checked the store prices for Little Big Planet and Ratchet and Clank to see how much I was really saving with the bundle, and it turns out to be more like $50. But $50 is still $50! Can't wait to tell Justin I'll have a PS3 for Christmas, I've been using to Ratchet and Clank to draw him more into video games >.> <.<

Apparently my parents couldn't sleep either, so went to a different Best Buy and got one too XD; I feel bad, they spent at least 20 minutes in line whereas I didn't spend any time at all, either times.

Was planning on going back to bed, but I was pretty awake so went to Walmart looking for bedsheets. I got there around 6:30 and they were already sold out. Bummer, so got some picture frames instead. I can actually have photos of my loved ones around the home now and frame some gift art I've gotten lol. Planning on covering one wall of my office with lovely gifts from people :3

Hit the mall afterwards but didn't really see much. Bought a sweater and two cute skirts but that's it. Got more sparkly gel pens from JoAnn's at 50% off. Can't wait to use them on gifts and such X3 Yay more gel pens!

Got my hair permed straight and trimmed. Yeesh I needed a trim so bad! It's a subtle change but with the naturalizer too, my hair is looking and feeling alot nicer X3 Yay for having a hairdresser mom.

Went over to the home we're having the craftshow at tomorrow to help make signs and decorate. Yeesh, posterboard really absorbs sharpies! We decimated a good bunch before we went and got the super big fist sized sharpies. Still feel extremely anxious about tomorrow. It can SO easily be a HUGE flop. I really really hope it does happen the way I think it will -.-;;

Thanksgiving day was really nice. Finished up some commission work and have that carted off, so yay I get paid! Then headed home to my parent's place and chatted with them about their trip to Taiwan and Japan, which they just got back from. Was so good to see them <3

Then over to the neighbors' for dinner! We had 4 families total and we all know each other quite well and I utterly love everyone's company. We had fried turkey pieces, like fried chicken, to try something new! Was interestig though I still prefer the more traditional oven baking. The drumsticks were all undercooked but small pieces were quite tasty! Though I'm mad at my appetite. I was starving constantly all week, then not so much yesterday. Pretty standard fare otherwise, though we had this really interesting nutty cranberry sauce. So tasty and unusual X3 Mmm.. pumpkin cheesecake.. Everything was soooo good.

I played a bit of Call of Duty, which was fun but I always suck at shooter games, then we watched the football game. I'm not too into football but it turned out to be a really good game!.. if you're rooting for the Broncos, which we were :D;

I'm so tired lol, I haven't gotten a full night's sleep all week and yet I'm still up and raiding tonight XD;; Need to be up early tomorrow for set up.. then up way way early Sunday for soup kitchen stuff.

Wish me luck with tomorrow!!