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	2010.02.02  19.03 I keep checking Neopolis, thinking something would be there. I don't think I did this after Crossover ended, but maybe I did. Or maybe Neopolis was just distracting enough for me, I don't know. I often think about what might have been in Neopolis. I know that I had plans and ideas that never actually manifested, and I doubt I'm alone. But while the game is still fresh in my mind, I'd like to get them off my chest. I promise, I'll go back to talking about gay marriage and tits once I purge myself of my Neopolitan leanings. For now, though: onto the graveyard. ( Unplayed Concept One: Anro the Sea-God ) ( Unplayed Concept Two: Wolf Bitch ) ( Unplayed Concept Three: The Demon ) Tl;dr? I miss Neo already.

	2010.02.01  11.59 If you want something from me, Neopeeps, just say the word. I know I'm not normally Johnny Log Guy, but what the hell.

	2010.01.26  15.35 In the style of those old cracky Marvel comics, pose a hypothetical question about one of my characters (What if Jimmy were bitten by a radioactive spider? What if Dimitri had never angelified?) and I will babble on about what that would have been like/possibly write a little drabble for it if the urge strikes me.

	2010.01.26  10.54 Living Fiction, Living Fiction, Living Fiction. All of us will descend as one onto this thing. Who's betting we break Insanejournal? ( Wherein Bennie-Hawkins-the-Pooh is a much more solid proposition ) ( Wherein Havelock Vetinari is considered )

	2010.01.23  00.47 ( Living Fiction concept number one. )

	2010.01.20  23.28 I should be wrapping up Neopolis instead of writing drabbles. And yet here I am. I wasn't even in the game when this one takes place, what the hell. ( Lance and George: First Meetings )

	2010.01.13  22.50 So for the next few hours, the Telltale Games website is giving away downloads of Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People: Episode Five: Eight-Bit Is Enough for the PC. Check it out.

	2010.01.02  17.05 ( Dimitri Goes to Hell ) ( George Johnson's Monster Madness! ) ( Welcome to Candyland, Do You Have Anything to Declare? ) ( Mountain of Madness, Starring Toni and Lance (Featuring Jimmy Snow) ) So any Neopocalypsplosion ideas will be mucho appreciated, you guys. For serious.

	2009.12.22  22.50 Hello, Neofriends! So I am an awful, terrible person, yes. But the reality is that if I haven't talked to someone in a little bit, I kind of forget they exist. So to avoid that, I'm trying to make a list here of people that my pups will be getting Christmas gifts for. Dimitri -Casey -Twitch -Chloe -Marla -Anderson -Amy Roxanne -Chloe -Vera -Agnes -Matty Jimmy -Jackie George -Everyone. George is a special case, because he's, you know, George. So basically, if you suspect at all that you would have gotten a gift from George, either because you were nice to him or made him laugh, you did. It was a box of candy and baked goods, or in the case of certain Gothics, a case of meat. Here's what I need from you. If your pup would have given one of my dudes something, or if they were friendly enough to be gift buddies and I just forgot about them, please, please tell me and I can get on that. You're beautiful.

	2009.12.18  13.03 As you've probably noticed, I'm back from New York. I was there visiting commiesharefest, who is, if you don't know, my girlfriend. It was suitably fantastic. It was kind of weird, I suppose. I was technically a tourist, but I wasn't that interested in the touristy stuff. We saw Rockefeller Center, Radio City Music Hall, Times Square, the Statue of Liberty, Central Park, the Met, the Museum of Natural History... we actually saw a lot of stuff, come to think of it, but most of what I remember was the smooshy girly parts where we got all cuddly. Which is gross and totally gay, so I'll focus on the manly sightseeing. There were times when I did stop and marvel at things. Manhattan sometimes seems like a giant shopping mall. Everything we passed was a store or a restaurant or something. There was a street vendor on every corner. If I had to call anything my least favorite part, it was probably Canal Street or Times Square, and only then because I hate people and they were pretty much unavoidable. Let me try to break this down by day. ( If I can make it there, I can make it anywhere! ) That was my trip. It's a bit stream of consciousness, so forgive me that, but I'll probably talk more about it once I get the pictures back. (By the way, I've missed you guys, too.)

	2009.12.12  09.59 Happy Hanukkah, Jewbags. Still in the NYC with the commiesharefest, having an awesome time, probably thanks to your well wishes. It's bitch windy here, though. Apparently the buildings and shit focus all the winds into like, a wind laser and knock you off your tits. Anyway. We actually haven't done any of the touristy shit, but we're totally going to hit up the Met and the Natural History museum today. There is a Nintendo store here. That's basically all I need.

	2009.12.10  22.04 Hey, kids. If you've been looking for Jack, you haven't been finding him. Why? He's in New York, making kissyfaces and doing various other disgustingly sweet things at commiesharefest. Email's the best way to reach me. And Krys, come to that.

	2009.11.25  15.14 fleets concept, because I am a sheep. A delicious, delicious sheep. God, I'm hungry. ( More will come. I assure you. More will come. )

	2009.11.12  15.42 ( Dimitri/Amy - Raining )

	2009.11.11  17.12 At some point I stopped writing drabble and started writing porn. Sorry I turned your character into the moral equivalent of a naked woman who can't afford to pay the pizza guy, Sarah. ( Dimitri/Sandy - Running )

	2009.11.11  01.23 So as you all probably know, I am not doing rpwrimo. I am lazy and bad at meeting goals and deadlines. But I am interested in doing some writing, so how 'bout some drabbles? Hit me with your requests for drabbles here. Old stuff, new stuff, our stuff, our stuff that might have been. They won't all be high art, but a few might actually be pretty nifty.

	2009.11.10  19.46 Soooo. You remember that baby meme? Sure you do. I wrote some babies for you guys. Well, Krys went and asked me for one from crossover for Padma and Caro. The problem is that Krys and I had long term plans with Padma and Caro that never actually materialized since the game died. So when I sat down, I actually had a few ideas in mind for how they got together, because I knew how they were going to get together, and I wanted to write them all out. Long story short, I wrote five thousand, eight hundred and sixty-seven words. Since that is way, way too long to stick in one comment, I'm putting it here. Still have Twitch and Dimitri to do, but I can assure you, that will not be nearly as epic. ( Emmaline Mackenzie-Smith ) And this baby meme is getting ridiculous. All told: 15,119 words just on this stupid meme.

	2009.11.10  11.31 neopolis dreams are weird. Jenlee and Scott were, of course, an item. And Jenlee mentions that she's on the Pill, but she sometimes forgets to take it, so Cole is like, "You need to get some redundancies up in there, girl." Yeah, my dreams are vaguely racist. Meanwhile I'm Fry from Futurama and we're all watching an episode of Scooby Doo where Shaggy rides a dragon to space to light up the constellations by order of the Greek gods. And then I wake up.

	2009.11.09  16.50 Jack Rants About Film Tropes Maybe it's because I went to a small, tolerant school in a city of around thirty thousand, but I hate teen movies that treat popularity like it's an objective, measurable, tangible quantity. Someone is most popular in the same way that someone can be the tallest or have the best grades. It's ridiculous, and I strongly disapprove. Also, the popular girls in these movies? They're all fairly unlikeable, sort of dumb, and rarely as attractive as the so-called "ugly" protagonist. Which may seem like a petty grievance, but when you're trying to claim that a girl is the most popular while all her traits would seem to imply the opposite, it's problematic. Sometimes they try to handwave it by making her rich, which in turn means that she's just buying her popularity, but even then, what are we supposed to think? That the antagonist is a horrible monster for buying friends, but the people who only profess their friendship because of the promise of cash and prizes are desirable symbols of status? There's always a scene where the Popular Girl and one or two of her genuine friends are shown their comeuppance. I'd like to see a film where the fairweather hangers-on get theirs. Speaking of "ugly" protagonists, who the hell was responsible for the casting nightmare that was The Truth About Cats and Dogs? Uma Thurman is, I suppose, attractive enough, but who the hell thinks that she's better looking than Janeane Garofalo? The movie was a fucking Unfortunate Implications machine anyway: suggesting that all women are hideous standing next to Uma Thurman is bad, but the ultimate moral of the story, that Uma Thurman is undeserving of love because she's not as smart as Janeane, doesn't really address the problem of superficiality, it just changes the delivery method. It was basically a gender-flipped remake of Cyrano de Bergerac, which was kind of a rape-a-licious play anyway. I'm sure it didn't mean anything by it, but there is something kind of skeevy about a dude seducing a chick on another dude's behalf without the girl knowing it. It gets by because it's a masterpiece of classical French literature. This gets no such pass. And another thing: we're meant to assume that Janeane is, in this case, the Cyrano. Cyrano, you'll recall, has a nose long enough that he could realistically fuck someone with it. So for men to be unfuckable: hideous facial deformity. For women to be unfuckable: kind of short with small boobs. Bravo, filmmakers. I also hate works where people of the same race pair up at the end. White with white, brown with brown, red man with get ahead man. I'll grant you, some people--probably most people--date exclusively within their own race. But it's not universal. If there's a legitimate relationship, that's fine, I'll shut up. But when the cast has one black dude and one black lady and they don't interact until the very end of the film, fuck that shit. "But Jack!" you say. "Shipping the sidekicks is a common enough trope regardless of race, and the sad reality is that minorities are often cast in the sidekick role." To which I say, "Yes, but." In this case, yes, but don't think for a second they don't actively consider this shit. To wit: Hitch. If you've never seen Hitch, it's basically about Will Smith hiring himself out as a by-the-hour Cyrano. It's not quite as rape-a-licious as the original, mostly because he doesn't tell them what to say or what to do, just how to be on their best behavior to a) get a date and b) act on said date. While Will Smith tries to help Kevin James get a girl he's in love with to look his way, he's also trying to seduce Eva Mendes. Now, I told you that story so I could tell you this one: the casting people chose Eva Mendes for two reasons. If they had chosen a black actress for Will's love interest, white audiences would have dismissed it as a "black" film and ignored it (despite Kevin James, the whitest man in the world, having one of the lead roles). If they had cast a white actress for Will's love interest, then there would have been controversy about the interracial relationship, and they would have made less money. So they went with Eva Mendes, who's talented, sexy, and, most importantly, not too brown. Anyway, the point I'm trying to make is that I really like Janeane Garofalo.

	2009.11.02  21.08 So as you may know, my first neopolis character was Dimitri. What you may not know is that he's not the first one I applied for. Yes, there was another, who was turned down for being too awesome. (Also because at the time, the game was pretty well full of demons). But it's just as well, since parts of his personality got divvied up into Dimitri and George. But I found the application in my old emails, and I decided to post my old shame. Now, keep in mind that I hadn't played there yet, so the application mostly works on how I thought Neopolis operated as opposed to how it actually did. ( Lucien Deabs )

	2009.10.30  14.58 Dimitri Davies -> Sam Marshall Trish Terroretti -> Dimitri Davies Dimitri will be thrilled, at first. I'm not sure how it'll happen, but I think it'll be something simple. His cell phone will mess up, and he'll fix it without anything exploding. That's when the fun'll begin. He'll go at least thirty hours without sleep, just taking advantage of the fact that all of the things he's tried to invent over the years will actually be inventable. Eventually the novelty will wear off, and he'll realize that he can't read a lot of his books because they're all in Russian and Japanese and shit, he can't fly, and bruises actually stick around. Given his propensity for injuring himself, this is not good news. It's not going to result in one of those thrilling reunions with his old powers where he comes to Appreciate What He Had Always Had. He's just going to be less annoyed about being magic and start noticing that the things he's been trying to do with science for all these years can mostly be imitated. George Johnson -> Emily Worth Marco Tate -> George Johnson George will hate this from the get go. He won't understand what's happening, for one. George sleeps as a dragon, so when he wakes up human it will be weird. He'll also be on a big pile of pennies, which is what he uses as his bed, so that'll be problematic. And the fact that George is a Big Eater who suddenly finds himself unwilling to eat most anything with his name on it in the fridge will definitely be novel. But most of all, he's going to get super insecure about his dad. It doesn't help that he was adopted even without being a changeling, and he'll probably fret a lot. I think he'll be afraid to call his dad and talk to him out of fear that his dad won't love him anymore. Jimmy Snow -> Kai Mahoe Master Li -> Jimmy Snow Noooo fucking clue. Jimmy's still new enough that I feel like I don't have too solid a grip on his characterization yet, so I don't know what his Jekyll will be like, and I really don't know what his Hyde will be like. I think he might just be a douche. Oh my god, his Hyde personality is going to be a Bro. He's going to be such a Bro, you have no idea. He will pop the col'. He will point his speakers out his window while listening to the Dave Matthews. He will wear a visor upside down. Roxanne Rhodes -> Queenie Hero Anna Myles -> Roxanne Rhodes Roxanne plans to spoil JuJu while she has him. He will be getting lots of scritches, and she'll play snake games with him. Don't know what kind of snake games, but surely they exist. I doubt she'll fuss around much with Queenie's other powers, since she doesn't know any dead people and she doesn't have much to do with magic anyway.

	2009.10.29  19.56 Give me one of my characters and one of yours, and I'll tell you how they end up together and what their first-born is like, even if they are unqualified to have children. I'll try to do PBs, too! Name one of your characters and one of mine that interact semi-regularly, and I will make up 1 or 2 random pieces of trivia about them. NB: I probably won't find a PB for them. Also, some Crossover babies would be nice.

	2009.09.27  21.09 There's that sex meme going around, but I never finish memes I start, so instead, I'm just going to start doing them one at a time and upload them as I see fit. And if that offends you, just keep scrollin'. First off, Miss Sarah "Dick Grayson" James. ( The Life and Times of Sarah James' Vagina )

	2009.09.14  23.46 First, in crossover: ( Padma Mackenzie ) ( Sarah James ) ( Ian Greene ) Meanwhile, over in neopolis: ( Dimitri Davies ) ( George Johnson ) For those of you who don't care, a MEME: Give me one of your characters and one of my characters and I'll tell you exactly what they think of them -- what they like, what annoys them, what they wish they could change, and what they expect to happen in the future.

	2009.09.01  01.28 I've done this before, but I think it was back on GJ. I can't be buggered to check. But let's drop that bitch! Give me one of my characters and one of yours (PLEASE DO ONE AT A TIME, IF I GET LOTS I GET OVERWHELMED AND THEN NEVER DO THEM), and I'll tell you how they end up together and what their first-born is like, even if they are unqualified to have children. I will totally also give you a PB.