Bored and decided to make a banner I've been thinking about for a while.

Brownie points to anyone who knows where I got the line from.
Thoughts? Comments? Abuse?*********
Touched By His Noodly Appendage
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Im struck with a particular fanfic that I want to re-read but can not manage to remember the author or title well enough for a search to turn it up.
The memorable scene involves sailor moon being chased by amorous tuxedo mask across town, and through a newspaper office only to corner her in an elevator.

Well, it looks like Chris Jones' biannual domain lapse has come due again -- and just when he started updating again too. (Ah, the irony....) Site's still live, though -- map 204.177.232.33 to www.furinkan.net in your HOSTS file if you want to see his latest update. (Gabriel ch. 5, circa. three weeks ago)
So, in the interest of not having a sluggish relic of fanfiction yore redirect to some godforsaken squatter portal or Hot! Barely! Legal! Teens!, can anyone dig up an email address for him that is not @furinkan.net?
Danke.

A Harry Potter fic which I can't remeber the title or the author name I read it pretty recently.
Synopsis:
Harry goes to Europe using a glamour as a disguise and Black as an alias. Leaving a trail of dead death eaters behind. most of whom mange to kill themselves in truly bizarre accidents such as porting in and appearing outside a balcony 10+ stories up while Harry is on balcony. Porting in front of a train in station. Harry's alais is thought to be an gent who has been around a long time. Meanwhile Harry is traveling around Europe totally clueless as to what's happening leaving a trail of havoc behind himself.
WMD
--Werehawk--
My mom's brief take on upcoming Guatemalan Elections "In last throes of preelection activities. Much loudspeaker vote pleading."

A new series, even - though with sidewise ties to Hopelessly Lost. Enter, the Iron Age!
- CD w00tfulSERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
Dr. Akagi will recover. Observe, Rei smiled. Shinji-kun, are these your clothes?
Ritsuko shot up like a spring loaded meerkat. What? Shinji-kun is naked?
See, Anata? Dr. Hentai is alive and well. - Innortal's _I Do_
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows

the Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast award is one of my longest-running half-serious jokes, it's given to authors of fanfic that just makes my jaw drop for taking an idea I expect only to loathe with the burning passion of a thousand firey suns, something I read for the express purpose of heckling, and making a story that not only doesn't suck, but is actually GOOD. It's been so long since I gave out #1 and #2 that I can't even remember the stories themselves beyond that one was a Power Rangers fic of all things, the other original-flavor Evangelion, and the graphic was lost three or four hard drive failiures ago, but that doesn't detract at all from my pleasure at awarding #3 to EmySabath for her story Time to Spare, which is a post-HBP Harry Potter time travel fic, in which Harry is sent back to the Marauders' days in Hogwarts, with Draco malfoy his only companion and reluctant ally.
The writing is good. The characterization is beleivable. There ar no asinine prank wars. There is neither smug "I know what's coming before it happens" timeline tweaking, nor angsty wailing about changing the futre and how it could cause a paradox. It explains the events of HBP with beleivable motivations that let the author do her own thing with the characters anyway.
EmySabath, I salute you.
- CD
Edit: Holy crap, I found it!
SERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
Dr. Akagi will recover. Observe, Rei smiled. Shinji-kun, are these your clothes?
Ritsuko shot up like a spring loaded meerkat. What? Shinji-kun is naked?
See, Anata? Dr. Hentai is alive and well. - Innortal's _I Do_
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows

There are a lot, actually, but the one that comes to mind fastest is Relatively Absent, by Mark Shurtleff. And a couple other things by him as well which were left to twist in the wind.
I'd also love to see Jack and Jillian Staik come back to the Net and finish Our Wedding Day, which is Part 4 of their epic series The Tales of Ranma and Ranko.
And of course it goes without saying that I fervently wish for Eric Hallstrom to take up writing Ranma and Akane -- A Love Story once more.
So... what dead fics would you like to see resurrected?

-- Bob
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For Jor-El so loved the Earth, he sent his only begotten son...

Wow.
www.sfwa.org/writing/turkeycity.html
"The Turkey City Lexicon"
Which appears to have successfully reduced/distilled all my pet fanfic peeves( and favorites) into trite, insulting one-liners.
Edit: I realize that more than a few people in this forum might have already seen some version of this but, hey, its new to me.

I don't have a lyrics link handy - just thgouht of it as I was heading for the sack - but madonna's Live to Tell sruck me as a possible power song for hiding information - specifiy a certain set of knowledge as it's played and a time to stop hiding it, and after the end of the song all the subject (probably limited to Doug himself without metasong use) has a vague idea of what kind of information is being hidden and roughly when it will be revealed, but it can't even be accesed by telepathy, not even details of what sort of sevret is hidden - frex, "plans" but not whether they're plans for a microchip, a steam engine, or a surprise party.
Whether he lives to convey the information to whoever it was meant for, like the song says, well... that's up to him and his backup.
- CDSERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
Dr. Akagi will recover. Observe, Rei smiled. Shinji-kun, are these your clothes?
Ritsuko shot up like a spring loaded meerkat. What? Shinji-kun is naked?
See, Anata? Dr. Hentai is alive and well. - Innortal's _I Do_
--
"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows

I've been listening to a lot more filk lately, since I just got a new toy a few days ago: a 1 GB digital audio player. One of the songs comes from the Owlflight album - songs based on Mercedes Lackey's book of the same name.

Snare and Deadfall
Michael Longcor
Snare and deadfall, pit and noose
Drive your quarry where you choose
Baffle them with trick and ruse
Snare and deadfall, pit and noose
Snares are meant to catch and hold
Loop of vine with knot to hide it
Placed just where the overbold
Still a foot or head inside it
Hook it to a counter weight
Or a young and sturdy sapling
Use their manly pride as bait
Catch them with its sudden grappling
Snare and deadfall, pit and noose
Drive your quarry where you choose
Net them so they cant get loose
Snare and deadfall, pit and noose
Deadfalls kill the prey with weight
Dropping down from high above them
Make it look like act of fate
Rocks and limbs with none to show them
Carve the triggers out with care
Hide them so that none can see them
Greased with fat from boar or bear
So the slightest touch will free them
Snare and deadfall, pit and noose
Drive your quarry where you choose
Lost without a hope or clue
Snare and deadfall, pit and noose
Hidden pits for them to tread
Drop them down to kill or maim them
Men cant fight if they are dead
Men march slower if you lame them
Line the holes with wooden spikes
Harden tips within the fire
Row on row like warriors spikes
Give them more than they desire
Snare and deadfall, pit and noose
Drive your quarry where you choose
Dead men cannot carry news
Snare and deadfall, pit and noose
Lead them on and lead them long
Make it look like natures crafting
Fear and greed will drive them on
Bite your tongue to keep from laughing
Let them think theyve won the war
While the noose draw ever tighter
Deadly though these brigands are
Traps can take the toughest fighter
Snare and deadfall, pit and noose
Drive your quarry where you choose
With no choice except to lose
Snare and deadfall, pit and-
Snare and deadfall, pit and noose
Drive your quarry where you choose
With no choice except to lose
Snare and deadfall, pit and noose

I see two potential abilities for this one. First, it could boobytrap the area surrounding Doug, but this would probably only last until the song's end, so it's of limited usefulness. Second, it serves as a very strong 'Detect traps' ability: ALL traps within Doug's range are immediately sensed by him, with all the details known. This allows disabling/avoiding any trap sensed.
The second option would also work VERY well together with Operation Desert Storm. Play Snare and Deadfall first, follow with ODS, and every trap within range should backfire. This is great for making henchman/minion hash, since all of the traps should backfire against their creator/his people.
-Feinan