Quote:The Simurgh dipped out of the clouds and came rocketing down towards the group. At the very last moment she slowed her dive, just in time to come to a stop an inch from the ground.

Legend jumped backwards, both hands raised as if to fire at the Endbringer.

The two stared at each other while the wind shifted around them. The parking lot was deathly quiet for a few long seconds. "Simurgh, stop antagonizing Mister Legend," Taylor said. "Mister Legend, please don't laser my friend."

Legend slowly lowered his hands and loosened his tense shoulders a little. The Simurgh nodded at him as if they'd reached an understanding of sorts and floated backwards to stop near Taylor's side.

"Come on, there's no reason we can't all be friends!" Taylor said.

[Initiate Friendship Protocols?]

"Exactly!"

[Preparing for Orbital Bombardment.]

"What!" Taylor spun towards the Simurgh. "No, that's not how friendship works!"

The Simurgh tilted her head to one side. [Contrite. No Friendship Cannons? Sadness. Wasted Preparation Time.]

Taylor buried her face in her hands while all the--mostly--normal humans around her took in her one-sided conversation with the Endbringer. "No, Simmy, no orbital friendship cannons. Where did you even learn about those?"

[Anime!]

"You watch cartoons?" Taylor asked as she started walking towards the park again.

[Not Cartoons. Anime.]

"What's the difference?"

[Exasperation.]

Behind the little group, Legend felt as though he had made a very big mistake somewhere along the line.

(02-20-2025, 01:51 PM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: "No, Simmy, no orbital friendship cannons. Where did you even learn about those?"

[Anime!]

"You watch cartoons?" Taylor asked as she started walking towards the park again.

[Not Cartoons. Anime.]

"What's the difference?"

[Exasperation.]

(02-26-2025, 04:45 PM)classicdrogn Wrote:

(02-20-2025, 01:51 PM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: "No, Simmy, no orbital friendship cannons. Where did you even learn about those?"

[Anime!]

"You watch cartoons?" Taylor asked as she started walking towards the park again.

[Not Cartoons. Anime.]

"What's the difference?"

[Exasperation.]

... but the Orbital Friendship Cannon meme is from MLP:FIM, making it explicirtly cortoons, not anime, at least in the context of that kind of conversation. Sure, defeat mens freindship is a long standing anime trope, but the OFC formulation specifically is from the Sonic Rainboom episode.

KYM link

Eis Ascreia Wrote:"It does not come from something that you can learn or do, U'bai." I briefly closed my eyes. And I don't want you to have to go through what is needed to obtain powers, if it remains even possible here and now.

Jomasten Wrote:Taylor, talk about that last part out loud!

Taylor, please.

Taylor, stahp. You're building upon your legend.

TAYLOR YOU'RE NOT HELPING YOUR CASE BEING SOME MYTHICAL BEING FAVORED BY THEIR PHYSICAL GOD.

EDIT:

Taylor you're making them think you came to this world through the power of anime and nepotism!

Rivan9000 Wrote:A foolish soul of our would has been reborn as a Quincy.
Now a player in the great game, her Heresy has set the world on a new course.

A former soldier of the Wandenreich, in her fragmented memory lay the key to victory and perhaps salvation of those who would be lost.

What awaits at the end of the coming war? Paradise or perdition.

Tranquility Press Wrote:June 1st, 2392

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

NEW BERLIN, LUNA

The Tranquility Press announces the 200th anniversary republication of “SAN FRANCISCO 2161: 47 Days That Changed the Galaxy and Created the United Federation of Planets” by author Aubrey B. Marincola, originally published in 2192. This remarkable story of the birth of the Federation is another important text largely lost to history found by our resident literary archaeologist, Xander Malingowski. Says Malingowski, “This text, most forgotten now, provides direct insight into the minds of our Federation Founders with direct interviews and observations from Marincola, who covered the conference as a reporter. On a personal note, I am pleased to share this piece of personal history with our readers.” Malingowski is the great-great-grandson of the author.

The San Francisco Conference of 2161 occurred on Earth between June 26 and August 12, 2161 C.E. During this time, fifteen delegations, fresh from the bloodiest war many of them had ever seen, met to discuss the future. What might such a future look like? What values from more than a dozen delegations representing thousands of political, economic, societal, and scientific traditions would be enshrined in a single, static document? How would bad actors attempt to disrupt the proceedings? Why wouldn’t the Justice Committee let outside folks sit at their lunch table? Most importantly, how do we continue to define and redefine our utopia?

Author of “San Francisco: The First 500 Years” and “NOT ME, US; the Biography of Grethe Zhor”, Aubrey B. Marincola covered the San Francisco Conference as a reporter for the San Francisco Tribune, 2158-2171, communications director for Federation Councillor Lydia LIttlejohn (217{X}) and Camila Benso (2173) before beginning his successful and long running “A Night with…” lecture series through Marquette-Beloit University. During this series, he interviewed dozens of delegates to the San Francisco Conference and more than one hundred observers and attendees.

These nearly two decades of work, and his own personal notes of the conference, provide the bulk of new insights in this electrifying, fresh telling of the conference that birthed the Federation. Through anecdotes, recently declassified documents, and personal insight, Marincola helps us understand the personalities and characters that provided the blueprint for the United Federation of Planets. Though it ended in a small compromise, it began in large dreams.

Benjamin Muller, DBA nascent novice, Wrote:This novel-length fan “non-fiction” is an in-universe pop history book, written from the perspective of a journalist who covered the San Francisco Conference in 2161. In Star Trek history, we have long known as fans that this event is where the United Federation of Planets was born. However, in nearly sixty years of storytelling, it has hardly ever been explored. In collecting our fleetingly rare on-screen references, beta canon materaial, RPG guides, and other fan works, I’ve attempted to give a compelling, historically rich narrative of what could have happened. With both fan favorites and returning characters, many discussions about rights and responsibilities, dozens of new characters, and even a party or three, there is plenty to dig into for Trek fans, history fans, or just fans of a good read, with plenty of easter eggs hiding in the footnotes. I have had many inspirations within the fandom and this is best understood as a collective effort. Please check out the Thank You’s page to see all the amazing other Trek fans and artists who have brought this work to life.

Quote:When Percy and Annabeth walk into Aunty Em's Garden Gnome Emporium, Grover isn't with them. That means Grover doesn't have a bad feeling about this, and so Percy doesn't lie. It turns out that makes all the difference