* `Smoot hrmms. I think, on a side note, that #plotting's talking to me....
<Phrykyh> Smoot: To you or of you?
<Samy> Smoot: Hm?
<`Smoot> To me. AliMc.
<Samy> Smoot: Good or bad 'talk'? :)
<Phrykyh> Samy: I'm guessing bad.
<`Smoot> Nothing yet. It's about the post, though.
<Samy> Phry: That's because you're a pessimist. :)
<Samy> Smoot: I imagined it was. :)
* `Smoot snickers. You guys get to answer this question...
<`Smoot> * AliMc would just like to say it's not in her usual style to be confrontational, and I'll probably regret bringing this up later, <wry look> but I was wondering exactly what provoked your choice of names for the new channel?
<Samy> Smoot: Humor. :)
<Phrykyh> In light of the recent events, we thought it would be catchy and memorable.
<`Harlequin> Because We're Not Plotting. Anyone can come here for help. No one would be turned away. None of us are elitists.
<`Harlequin> How about that ;p
<Samy> Phry is an elitist. :)
* `Smoot doesn't want an IRC war. They'd hang me.
<Samy> Smoot: Good call.
<Jim_Smith> Smoot: I'd hide you under a box.

[I like Jim Smith, a lot. He's a really good guy.]

<`Harlequin> Well, okay, some of the Plotting folks aren't, either. So for all of thier elists, we have non-elitists, and for all thier non-elitists, we have elitists. It's balance.
* Phrykyh grins. I like that.
* `Harlequin will gladly provoke an IRC war. Not like I'm on IRC or write enough fic to give a flying rats ass.
<Samy> Provoking fights is never a good thing. I'm sure Alicia's reasonable enough to work it out. You mind if I msg her and try to chat with her?
<`Harlequin> Well, true. Ali's at least semi-decent.
<Samy> Mandy: Yes, but it puts the rest of us in a nasty spot. And you're my friend so you don't want me in a nasty spot. :)
* `Smoot has got it right now.
* Phrykyh is on constantly and writes more than enough. Fortunately, the only room I care about is here.
<Samy> Smoot: Okie.
<Samy> Phry: Heh.
<`Smoot> Harle: And as much as you like to start fights, this is OUR chan.
<`Smoot> If I get hanged, I'd like to have fun and deserve it.
* `Harlequin doesn't /like/ to start fights, thank you very fucking much ;p
* Jim_Smith smooches Harl.
* `Smoot grins. Well, folks, we posted our existence an hour ago, and we're already attracting attention.
<Samy> Smoot: This is...good, I think. :)

[Heh heh... heh...eh...ehhhhhh....]

<`Harlequin> Smoot: We're controveeeeeeeersial. And my god, Mitai just came into Subcafe! She has left the plotting cage! */*
<Phrykyh> Smoot: If I can be of assistance, just scream.
* `Smoot is fine.
* `Smoot is, however, amused.
<`Smoot> Samy, Phry, something you guys should read too.
<Samy> Shoot.
<Phrykyh> Oy.
<`Smoot> <AliMc> #Plotting, as we've said ad nauseum, is not what everyone thinks it is. Look, I'm not going to make an issue out of this...like I said, no posts to the messageboard, so you don't need to be watching out for me trying to stab you in the back or anything. But I thought better of all three of you. All you've done is added another little current of resentment to the river of it we've already got these days, and that's really not productive.
<Phrykyh> Ah. Less oy.
* `Smoot nods. You know, I defended our name choice rather well, I think.
* Jim_Smith hasn't been invited to #plotting. That's all there is to it. I can spam here, and can't spam there. Anyone can freely tell Alicia this, if they'll be nice about it.
<Samy> Smoot: Keen.
<`Smoot> Jim: Already have, in a more general way.
<`Smoot> * `Smoot shrugs. We made the chan about three weeks ago. It's not a shot. Ever heard the term "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery"?
<`Smoot> <`Smoot> #plotting, whether everyone wants to admit it or not, does what it's intended to do quite well, I've been told. We're emulating that as best we can. We wanted a writing-only channel on IRC, and not everyone can get into #plotting. So we made #not-plotting.
<Phrykyh> Couldn't have done better m'self.
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<Samy> Hey Hex!
<Hex_16> Hi Samy! :)
<Samy> What's up? :)
* Hex_16 high-fives Samy.
<Phrykyh> Greetings and salutations.
<Hex_16> Nada.
* Samy high-fives back.
* Yonalove wavies.
<Hex_16> Hi Yona!
<Hex_16> Is this a sort of anti-#plotting protest? :)
<Yonalove> miaow.
* `Smoot salutes at Hex. Rockin'. Welcome.
<Hex_16> Hi Smoot.
<Samy> Hex: It's a non-violent, non-insulting alternative. Or trying to be, most of the time. :)
* `Smoot shakes his head. Nope. Just an alternative writing-only channel. Not everyone can get into plotting, so that's why we're here.
<Samy> Though if 'anti-#plotting' keeps you here, you can think of this channel that way, I guess. :)
<Hex_16> Amen, brother! :)
<Hex_16> Phr: Nothing, except that I'm persona-non-grata there for some reason or another.
* Jim_Smith gets his eggrolls. OK...time to go...
<Samy> T'care, Jim.
* Jim_Smith smooches Harl and leaves...
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<Hex_16> And as usual, Harley is the silent one.
<Phrykyh> Hex: And I'm the loud one. Same old, same old.

[He's only said a total of like, 45 lines in #subcafe. Ever.]

* `Smoot grins.
* `Smoot nudges the co-founders again. This is getting repetitive.
<`Smoot> * AliMc just keeps coming back in my head to the fact that none of you really know what #plotting is, if I judge by the description in your post. Count me as having misinterpreted, and while I won't attack any of you publicly, I'm afraid I'm not going to be shy about voicing my opinion if someone asks me. I'm tired of myself and my friends being blatantly or subtly cast as the isolationist bad guys in all of this.
* Samy sighs.
<Hex_16> Smoot: I'm not casting her that way.
<Samy> If someone's casting anyone as bad guys, it's in their own mind.
<Samy> 'not-plotting' means just that. We're not #plotting.
<`Smoot> I want to answer politely, you know, but the sarcasm in me is pounding. I've already told her we're not taking shots.
<Samy> If they want to read more than that into it, heck, sure, but it's not our business. Because I'm not reading more into it.
<`Harlequin> It's because, in all honesty, and speaking as a ex-plotter, that's exactly what they are.
* Phrykyh calmly keeps quiet. Whole tact thing getting in my way again.
* `Harlequin speaks from experience.
<Hex_16> Harley: Thank you. :)
<`Smoot> Samy: Were you ever invited to #plotting?
* Phrykyh was.
<Hex_16> Smoot: I was invited once.  I was cast out, like Adam from the Garden of Eden. :)
* Phrykyh never bothered to go in. Whole lack of fan-fiction bit.
<`Smoot> Hex: Cast out?
<Samy> Smoot: I was, back when it was still starting out. I've been a regular there and left intermittently/sporadically.
<Hex_16> Smoot: Perhaps a bit dramatic.  I'm not welcome there, however.
<`Smoot> Hex: What did you do, if I may?
<Hex_16> Smoot: However, I've never received an explaination other than the cop-out, "You're not invited."
<`Harlequin> hex: You were, to my knowledge, never invited by any 'regular'. In fact. 99.9% of the group specifically did NOT want yuo in there.

[See, now, THAT is harsh. This is not something for good writers, no matter what they say. I just don't think they liked Hex. Hell, they don't really like me. That's why I'm not there. But these people hype my writing all the time.]

* `Smoot hrmms. I got to go in for an evening, as I've said, thanks to Yona. They said go to #spam!, which I calmly pointed out was deader than a 120-year-old Spanish whore.
* Samy laughs.
<Samy> And it has been.
* `Smoot nods. I know. It was Redhawk and I. That was IT. For a while.
<Samy> Heck, they all gave a full endorsement to #SPAM!. This is hardly at all different, just with a different name.

[An inflammatory name which pissed the HELL out of everyone else, too. Go us.]

<Hex_16> Harley: That's fine.  I had no objection to that.
* `Smoot about gets righteous. Okay, everyone. What is plotting?

[Smoot about gets righteous?]

<Phrykyh> A private fan-fiction writing room.
<`Smoot> Who's told you this?
<Samy> What Phry said. #plotting is a private channel for fanfic-writers.
<Hex_16> Harley: I just get this weird feeling of being an outcast.  I don't obsess over it though.  This is the first the topic's come up in a while.
* Phrykyh points at Samy. "Him, most recently."
<`Smoot> Who's -told- you this? Besides him. Can you think of members of said channel saying this?
<`Harlequin> Yup.
* Samy can't cite references. Been too long since I've bothered to be involved.
<`Smoot> One.
<Phrykyh> Saying it outright? Uh-uh. I never went in.
<`Harlequin> Alicia. Mitai. Kaylee. Lots of them.

[Alicia and Mitai? Wow, it IS a small world after all.]

<Phrykyh> Thank you.
<`Harlequin> Brooke.
<`Harlequin> Uhm..
<`Smoot> To your knowledge, then, have they openly said "No, we're not?"
<`Harlequin> Nope.
<Samy> Smoot: I've never been told that it's not a private channel.
<`Smoot> No, that they're not a writing channel.
<Phrykyh> With a name like #plotting and an alternate room called #plottingchat... you'd kinda -figure-, wouldn't you?

[Overestimation, perhaps.]

<Samy> They're a channel for a group of fanfic-writers who are friends and share spam with each other. Is that more accurate?
* `Smoot slams his hand down on the table. THANK you.
<Samy> They're not a *writing channel*, they're a *channel for writers*, if one wants to play semantics.
* Samy doesn't really think the difference is relevant, though.
* `Smoot spams Ali lecture.
<`Smoot> <AliMc> You're a writer. You should know about how much impact language has. "We're #not-plotting. We're not the Exclusionary Channel." And for God's sake, Smoot, how many times do we all have to tell the rest of you this? #plotting was not started as a writing channel. It's reputation as a writing channel came about because of one horrendously misinterpreted comment on a messageboard almost a year back.
<`Smoot> <AliMc> No one is saying you don't have the right to found a half-dozen writing channels.
<`Smoot> <AliMc> Just that choosing a name that, whether you want to admit it or not, casts aspersions on something that's already been a focus of too much unneccessary controversy, was a bad idea.
<`Smoot> <AliMc> You're skewing this channel right from the very start by defining yourself by something you're not...something presumably less-than-desirable, or there'd be no new channel in the first place.
<`Smoot> End.
* Hex_16 shrugs.
<`Smoot> Samy? Phry?
<Phrykyh> Her antecedents are screwing me up in the last sentence.

[Ever the editor.]

* `Harlequin snorts softly. "Plotting brought this on themselves by being mean, nasty, and exclusatory."
<Samy> We're not casting #plotting as 'less-than-desirable'. They're just trying to cast as as if we're doing that to support their argument. We're casting #plotting simply as 'different', and we offer a different experience, not better or worse.
* `Smoot nods. I'll tell her that.
* Samy nos.
* Samy nods.
<Hex_16> Harley: Amen. :)
* Phrykyh just stays shut up. I need someone I don't like to argue with.
<Samy> Phry: Do you like to argue with me?
<Phrykyh> No. That was unclear. I need "someone that I am not fond of" to argue with.
<Samy> Phry: Ahhh.
<Hex_16> Harley: It'd be one they were to tell me I'm not welcome because of my behavior, or something I did, but I don't even get the slightest idea from them as to why...
* `Smoot grins. Yep. The new guy gets no respect. Samy, I think she's listening to you.
<`Smoot> Except...
<`Smoot> <AliMc> I would have THOUGHT you'd both have at least considered the possibility of a reaction like this FROM #plotting
<`Smoot> <AliMc> So what is it? You didn't consider it, or didn't care?
<Samy> Hex: Sometimes, it's very hard for a person to tell another person why they dislike the other person. It's hard enough to dislike a person, but to actually back that up with an explanation is even more uncomfortale.
<Samy> I considered it, and decided that if anyone wanted to read bad things into it, they're of course free to do so. I can't stop people from interpreting things as they will. But no malicious intent was as my motivation.
<Hex_16> I suppose maybe I suffer from the George Cosanza syndrome... I can't stand thought of someone not liking me. :)
<Phrykyh> We assumed that you'd be mature enough that you wouldn't take it personally. Oh, wait, tact again.

[<snicker>]

<`Harlequin> Hex: I know, personal, I've told you a zillion times about things that have bothered me, and it's taken, oh, four or five people telling you the same thing for or five times to get it through your head. I hate to say it, you're dense. So... well, cope.
* `Smoot nods at Phry. See, I WANTED to say that.
<`Smoot> But yeah, tact.
<`Harlequin> Fuck tact.
<`Smoot> Well, we're certainly known.
<Hex_16> Screw tact!  Be blunt.
* Hex_16 smiles.
<Samy> Mandy/Hex: Fucking tact is only going to get one in trouble.
<Hex_16> Samy: Tiptoeing around the issue doesn't help either.
<Samy> Hex: No, but there *is* a middle ground, believe it or not. :)
<Hex_16> Samy: I know.
<`Smoot> Hex: We need credibility. We're NOT set up to enrage #plotting. I persaonlly am not overly opposed, but I don't want to be ostracized. I'm going to be civil, especially if they're not.
<Samy> Smoot: *Exactly*.
<Phrykyh> Samy: Screw middle ground. "The extreme tend to make an impression," says the oft-quoted Jason Dean.
<Samy> Phry: Who's Jason Dean?
<`Smoot> Some impression HE made...
* Phrykyh snickers.
* Samy grins.
<Hex_16> Samy: Nute's on one end of the spectrum (speaks his mind).  Chiaki is the other end (waaaay tactful).
<Phrykyh> Character from "Heathers." Probably most noted for saying, well, "Greetings and Salutations."
<Samy> Hex: Yeah.
<Samy> Phry: Ahhh.
<Phrykyh> Hex: Note how it takes Chiaka an hour to say what Nute expresses in a sentence.
<Hex_16> Phr: And that's what I like about her.
<Phrykyh> Chiaki.
* Samy will take too much tact over too little anyday. :)
* Phrykyh nods. That's what drives me nuts about, well, pretty much everyone. If you're going to request the use of my time, you better not waste it.
<Hex_16> On the other end, I like how Nute can be in-your-face if necessary (and sometimes, unfortunately, when it's not).
<`Harlequin> WHat about Chiaki?
* Samy grins and rubs temples. "Can we shift the topic from Nute, please?"
<Hex_16> Harli: Chiaki's a personal role model. :)
* `Smoot shakes his head. You know, everyone forgets how much of a HOBBY this whole things is.
* `Harlequin dunna wanna talk about Nute either -.- But Chiaki can actually be QUITE scathing in private ^_^ But you have to know her well.
* Phrykyh ahems at Smoot.
<`Smoot> Phry: I'm talking fanfic.
* Samy doesn't even know Chiaki, really.
<Phrykyh> Much better.

[He's going pro. Probably, like, tomorrow. He's good enough.]

<Hex_16> Harli: She's told me off (politely) a few times. :)
<`Smoot> Phry: I know, you're different. Which is also partly why this is a writing channel, not just a fanfic one.
<Phrykyh> Thank you.
<`Smoot> Of course.
<Hex_16> Harli: I have yet to see Chiaki get *angry*.
<`Harlequin> Hex: <g>
* Phrykyh sighs and contemplates writing another themed story. I'm really hurting for decent ideas.
<Phrykyh> Smoot: She still talking at you?
* `Smoot nods. Yep.
<`Smoot> And I believe it safe to say that she is PISSED.
* Samy fehs.
<Phrykyh> I figured.
<`Harlequin> Blah Blah Blah Blah denial blah blah blah blah <whine> blah blah blah blah <veiled accustation> blah blah blah blah <whine some more> blah blah blah...
<`Harlequin> My impression of most plotters.
* `Smoot nods. I saw it coming as soon as I posted. At least it wasn't a rebuttal post, though.
<Hex_16> Smoot: Tell her to stick it in her ear.
<`Smoot> She's gone.
<`Smoot> <AliMc> I'm offended, I'm not going to apologize for that. I think your motivations are still questionable, and the timing was unbelievably lousy, considering the mess with #subcafe.
<Hex_16> Good.
<Phrykyh> We have motivations? I think we're being overestimated.

[SEE?!??!]

<Hex_16> I don't dislike Ali, I just think she's overreacting.
* Hex_16 LOL
<Samy> Phry: So, Phry, what're we going to do *tomorrow night*? :)
<`Smoot> <AliMc> But I won't bring it up again.
<`Smoot> * `Smoot nods. I know, you're entitled to what you feel. I'm just talking about the people who I'm sure, now, will not act as maturely as you have. Thanks again for bringing this directly to me. And if you have any other complaints later, you can bring them to me again. And, as moot as it sounds, you're more than welcome to come by to see what we're about.
* `Smoot snickers at Samy.
* Phrykyh grins. Good ending line, Smoot.
<Samy> Smoot: Nice. Thanks for being polite and all that.
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<`Harlequin> They brought the mess with SubCafe on themselves, too ;p
<Hex_16> Hi Mitai!
<`Smoot> Of course. Getting huffy and angry completely destroys what we're here for. Hi, Mitai!
<Mitai> Hello. ::sweetly::

[She is SO here to burn down our houses.]

<Yonalove> 'tai!
<Samy> Hey Mitai.
<`Harlequin> MitaiKins!
* Yonalove snuggliesmooches 'tai.
* `Harlequin snugs Maiti!!
* Hex_16 feeds Mitai's sheep some hashish-laced brownies.
* Phrykyh waves a hand. Anyone know Hamlet's first on-stage words offhand?
<Samy> Phry: No, but I can probably get those in 5m or so if ya want.
* Phrykyh hrms. Don't put yourself to any trouble. There might be a copy on Project Gutenberg, now that I think of it, and it shouldn't take -too- long to load.
<Samy> Phry: "A little more than kin, and less than kind."
<Phrykyh> Oooh. Thank you.
* Samy had /Hamlet/ in arm's reach. :)
* Phrykyh nods and grins. Awesome. Finally, I have something I can work with.
<Hex_16> Anyway, with something Harley said earlier in mind, I want apologize to everyone here for any time that I've thich-headed.
<Samy> Phry: Oh? Does that inspire?
<Samy> Hex: You've never been thick-headed to me, so you're forgiven. :)
* Phrykyh nods at Samy. Very much so. And I can match it up with one of the themes I was looking at. I just need to decide whether "A Little More Than Kin" sounds better than "More Than Kin." Any opinions? It's a cloning story.
<Samy> Phry: Are you gonna use just the first clause? No 'less than kind'?
<Yonalove> Smoot:  what's lynx talkin' to you 'bout?
<Phrykyh> Samy: It's a title. I don't want to make it too long.
<Samy> Phry: Point. I'd say "More Than Kin".
* Phrykyh nods. Cool. This is going to be fun.
<Samy> Keen.
* Phrykyh needs to come up with a good way of naming clones, though, without using numbers or anything of the sort.
<Samy> Phry: You could have an alphabetical list of names and give those in order to the clones.
<Samy> Adam, Albert, etc all the way to Zeke. :)
* Phrykyh nods thoughtfully. If I started them with the same letter, I could have more than one line. Think that'll be confusing or hard to keep track of?
<Samy> You mean that one line would always have the names starting with the same letter?
<Phrykyh> Yeah. Adam would be first, then Albert would be Adam Mach II, then Alex would be Adam Mach III (or Albert Mach II)...
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<Samy> Hey Maria! :)
<LadyNomad> Cool.
<Samy> Welcome. :)
<LadyNomad> I read the message board.
<Phrykyh> I'd probably only need two or three lines, so it wouldn't be -- greetings and salutations -- wouldn't be horribly complicated.
<Samy> Phry: There's also the matter of how much individuality you're planning to give the clones, and how much characterization. The more distinct personalities you're gonna give them, the more it's a bad idea to have closely related names.
<Hex_16> Anyhow, I should be getting myself to bed.  Work tomorrow from 9-5.
<Hex_16> `Harlequin: BTW, how's work at the bakery going?
<`Harlequin> Hex: Quit
<Phrykyh> Samy: Hrm. I'll have three main characters, one descended from one who was descended from the other. If I can name -them-, I'll be fine.
<Hex_16> `Harlequin: Pick anything else up yet?
<Samy> Phry: Ahhhh.
<Phrykyh> Samy: Maybe if I pick a letter that's... like C? Except that I can't think of three mail names that start with C.
<Phrykyh> Something where the second letter modifies it heavily.
<Samy> Phry: Adam, Alex, Azrael. :)
<Phrykyh> Adam's great, Alexander is great, and... Azrael? Hrm.
<Phrykyh> Where'd the name come from originally? I can't remember if he was some demon or the angel of death.
<Samy> The latter, I think.
<Samy> Axel? :)
* Phrykyh grins. "You mind if I use those names? I can get biblical symetry all over the place."
<Phrykyh> I could use Adolf, but that might be a bit blatant.
<Samy> Not at all. Go for it. :)
<Hex_16> Anyhow... I'm outta here folks!  G'night!
* Phrykyh nods at Hex.
<`Smoot> Night, man.
* Phrykyh actually stumbles into this story, now. I'll be done in an hour, I think.
<Hex_16> Later Phrykyh, `Smoot...
<Hex_16> Later Samy!
<Samy> Later Hex.
<Hex_16> Later Yona! Maria, Mitai,
<Mitai> Bye. =)
<Hex_16> Darn... I wanted to get all the "m" names in a row for alliteration. :)
<Hex_16> Mandy, Maria, Mitai...
<Hex_16> There... :)
<Hex_16> G'night all!
* Hex_16 runs off.
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<LadyNomad> I gotta go.
<LadyNomad> Bye.
* Phrykyh nods at LN.
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* Phrykyh needs a pompous sounding word for "very." Any ideas?
<Phrykyh> Extraordinarily. Every time I ask, I come up with something. Hrm.
<`Harlequin> Heh
* Phrykyh stops writing. Darn it. I just wasted four hundred words. This plot's been done before. Hrm.
* Phrykyh does it anyway. I'll just shift it around a little. Should still work.
<Samy> Phry: EVERY plot has been done before.
<Phrykyh> Samy: Exactly. Which is why I don't want to do it the same way.
* Samy nods."Gotcha."
* Yonalove curls up on 'tai.
* `Harlequin mmms. Maybe, just maybe, if I see any feedback for Angst Therapy, I'll finnish the next second chances story.
<Samy> Angst Therapy?
* Mitai has to window-kill. Nice place you guys have here. =)

[For me to POOP on!]

*** Mitai has left #not-plotting
<`Harlequin> A story by Rossi; it's basically hte Collective Mutants from her series, and my Second Chances GenXers..meeting in SubCafe.
<`Harlequin> Just relaxing and hanging out and being normal.
* `Smoot sags against the chair and collapses.
<Yonalove> smoot?
* `Harlequin eyes Smoot?
* Samy hehs.
<Phrykyh> I'd strike up a chorus of 'hail the conquering hero,' but that'd be kinda circular.
* Samy grins to Mandy and Yona. "He's just exhausted about fielding peoples' concerns about the channel name."
<`Harlequin> Tell them to grow up.
* `Smoot thinks concerns is too nice a word.
<`Smoot> It's over, though, for now.
<Yonalove> oh, ok.
* Phrykyh would've used 'outrage.'
<`Harlequin> 'Outrage'? ;P Oh, man, do they think alot of themselves.
<Phrykyh> Harle: Some of us -- not me -- rather like being part of the community.
* `Smoot isn't ostracized yet! Woo!
<Samy> Mandy: Antagonistic behavior isn't helping anyone...
<`Harlequin> Phry: heh
<Samy> Smoot: Damn you're smooth. :)
* Phrykyh goes back to writing, cheerfully. It's so nice to be doing this again.
* `Harlequin isn't antagonizing anyone! Jesus Fucking H Christ. Did I go over to plotting and scream? Have I said anything to anyoner outside this group? Did I stop with the bashing when Mitai came in the goddamn channel?!
<`Smoot> Mitai's fine, the mob's defused somewhat, the whole matter is just going to calm down for a bit, I outargued Mitai...
<`Smoot> harle: Easy.
<`Harlequin> Easy my ass. You've been poking and prodding since I entered. You think I'm inflamatory, don't beat around the fucking bush.
<Phrykyh> Harle: No, but the reactions you're suggesting are inflammatory. So're the ones that I'm suggesting.
* Samy sighs and rubs temples.
<`Harlequin> Yeah, but it's not in seriousness! ;P Otherwise I'd do it myself.
* `Harlequin bahs and has had it with the fanfic community in general.
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[I honestly can't remember if I ever saw her again.]

* `Smoot sags against the chair again.
<Phrykyh> Darn it. I hate when people leave before I'm finished typing.
<`Smoot> Okay, op vote.
<`Smoot> New rule.
<`Smoot> No #plotting bashing. We lose credibility that way. Discussion on it is fine. But no outright bashing.
* Samy nods. "I'll vote for that."
* Yonalove raises her coke can to that.
<`Smoot> All in favor?
<`Smoot> Aye.
<Phrykyh> I'll go with the majority.
<Samy> Aye.
<Yonalove> aye.
<`Smoot> Dammit, Phry...
* Phrykyh shrugs. I dont
<`Smoot> Well, none opposed. The motion carries. Slam the gavel and all that. I can die in peace now.
<Phrykyh> Cool enough.
* Phrykyh waves a hand. I need a serious stylistic suggestion. What's the prose equivalent of iambic pentameter? Is there one?
<Yonalove> i don't think so. . .
<Phrykyh> Darn it. I need, of all things, a way to show insanity. Obsessive alliteration, maybe.
<Samy> Obsessive alliteration would definitely come off as a crackpot.
<`Smoot> Olde English.
* Phrykyh grins.
* Phrykyh needs a word for mind/soul/something like that, but it has to start with w. Anyone?
<Samy> Uhh... 'womb-of-my-heart'? ;b
* Phrykyh snickers.
<Phrykyh> Ooh. Hey. I kn... hmmm.
<Phrykyh> Okay. Now I need a synonym for body that starts with W.
<Phrykyh> Except that this whole sentence sucks. Hrm.
<Samy> Heh.
* `Smoot gets sleepily angry. I barely got any writing done...
<Samy> Same here. *sigh*
* Yonalove tosses smoot a caffeinated beverage.
<Phrykyh> Smoot: Go make coffee.
* Samy sighs. This has just been a day for antagonism. I think maybe I should give up on the boards for a week, and also any other channels than this one for a similar period of time.
<`Smoot> Samy: Again, sorry about flinging you at the wolves there.
<Samy> Smoot: Hey, no prob at all. I accepted the risk when I voted 'yes'.
* `Smoot nods. I'll read the boards, but I'm not going to post.
<`Smoot> But I'm just going to see who's got what to say, and if anyone is with is.
<`Smoot> us.
* Phrykyh weakly apologizes for not helping with the whole argument thing. I guess that it might be nice to stick with the people who have a desire to be nice to the other people, but I kinda feel responsible.
* `Smoot slams his fist down on the desk. I've got something to write tomorrow!
<`Smoot> Phry: Dude, it's fine. I'm not angry with you or anything. Far from it.

[That was basically it. We stayed in operation for a little while after this, but the damage was done. #plotting had us against the wall, and they're the beautiful ones. We were the outcasts. And we were done.]