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Hiya,
Sounds like a plan. If you had any outline or rough plot developement in mind, shoot me an E-mail and I'll see what clicks. D'ArtagnonBlues@hotmail.com I check it fairly often so I'll be able to look it over ASAP. I'll see if Timmy has any difficutlties with swaping possitions (now what a nasty thought that brings to mind) and get back with you about how I see the next developments.
Cya,
D'Artagnon
It's not the wolf you see you should fear, but all the ones he howls with. Don't be afraid of the song, but don't piss off the choir.
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Yeah, My dad's got that on one of his bookshelves as well. Might have to ransak his library and give it a go. Although an idea has been bubbling in my head, kinda like a Merlin based version of the Highlander movies and TV shows (hey, I'm a fencing adict, sue me, you wont get much) Merlin as a teenager in modern times, still Youthening, but at a very slow rate, and remembering his life as an "older" kid as well as his present adventures.
Whaddya think? Any merit to it, or will it just wind up looking like Harry Potter slash? Comments?
It's not the wolf you see you should fear, but all the ones he howls with. Don't be afraid of the song, but don't piss off the choir.
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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
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Bikes had mudguards. And lights!
Motorbikes sounded like they meant it, not like a wasp on wheels
BMWs were 3 wheeled and called Isetta!
Computers? What computers? But Mr Hollerith had a nice card sorting machine
Rover had made a gas turbine car, not for the road.
Seat belts?
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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Go for it...writing should always be enjoyable for the writer, and we write for ourselves primarily, so if it looks like Potter slash, so what? Besides, you can always make him gay. Why not?
"Always forgive your enemies...nothing annoys them quite so much." Oscar Wilde
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On timmy's stories page is the list of rules, etc. for the Robin series...one of the rules is no swapping or collaboration, each chapter should be a surprise/challenge, which is part of the fun. Also, he has a line-up of several other writers already arranged for the next few chapters after mine...so I will try and speed up my efforts!
Hope that's ok!
"Always forgive your enemies...nothing annoys them quite so much." Oscar Wilde
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NO hurries, no worries, pal. Just do it some justice and make us all laugh and cry a bit. I'll wait my turn as it comes around.
It's not the wolf you see you should fear, but all the ones he howls with. Don't be afraid of the song, but don't piss off the choir.
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Hiya again, David.
Well, believe it or not, I already started something like that. I hope it can turn into a multi-author collaboration. The Genisis chapter of it, which I am entitling Once and Future will put the youthened Merlin into modern society as a 14 year old in Boston, awaiting the return of Arthur, who has been reincarnated (or so Merlin believes) as a kid named Alex Duncan.
Other authors wishing to get in on it are encouraged to drop me a pop at my hotmail addy with their ideas. The only restrictions I put forth are as follows:
1. there must be an element of either modern day chivalry or bravery in each episode, since this is high adventure as well as romance;
2. if you wish to build off of another author's plots or utilize another author's characters, you must have their permission first; &
3. write with a little class. Love isn't the biggest adventure in life, but love is an essential part of the grandest adventure of all, which is life itself.
Stories should also involve some aspects of the Arthurian legends, either as reincarnations of the knights of the round table, or descendants of the same. I am not limiting settings to the Boston area. Actually, I'd like to see some kind of global association of Knights, making the Earth itself the round table.
The two great principles of the Arthur legends that should probably be stressed are that Might does not make Right, and that one man, or in this case, boy, can make a difference.
Aside from that, have fun with it.
Whaddaya say people? Let's turn up the juice and see what shakes loose, eh?!
The call has gone out.....now who will answer.
Cya
D'Artagnon
PS, oh yeah, almost forgot my e-mail Addy!
It's not the wolf you see you should fear, but all the ones he howls with. Don't be afraid of the song, but don't piss off the choir.
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Don't want to mess people's creative spirit here, but shouldn't this story take place in England, since it's an old English legend? 
I know Americans (particulary those residing in Hollywood, hehe) are very fond of taking familiar things and putting them in a new setting, but sometimes things are best left the way they've always been.
I dunno, but a story about Jesus being reborn in New Orleans, practicing voodoo lore this time 'round doesn't appeal much to me for example and I'm not even a christian!
But hey, don't listen to me if I don't make any sense. Go ahead and do whatever you want. I'm just babbling here... 
-L
"But he that hath the steerage of my course,
direct my sail."
-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act One, Scene IV
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Well, you gottah start somewhere, and one of my ancient and venerated English professors always said start with what you know, research the hell out of the rest, and make up what you have to.
Hehehehehe, "and let history shudder in your wake," but he was a bit of a silent anarchist, one who was curiously orderly.
Anyways, the sub-concept is that Arthur's Knights and their message are universal. And after all, didn't mighty England once rule the world. With an empire that once was the envy of the planet, with the fact that so many concepts and influences of English culture touch so many other cultures, perhaps the legend is now part of our worldly collective conscious?
Just rambling as well, guys.
Cya.
It's not the wolf you see you should fear, but all the ones he howls with. Don't be afraid of the song, but don't piss off the choir.
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My first car was a VW beetle, built the same year as me and 6 volt! (Yes, for the audiophiles, I had a converter for the 12V stereo, and CB radio.) The driving test guy was not impressed by my lack of seatbelts, but it didn't come with 'em. Today in my state, seatbelts are mandatory, as are bicyle and motorcycle helmets.
Speaking of state laws - just hear a new (?) one outlawing sex toys under a profanity clause or somesuch in one of the deep south states - Alabama, I think. And of course sodomy is illegal in a few like Texas. Land of the free?
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Section 13A-12-200.2 "Distribution, possession with intent to distribute" of dildoes
"It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly distribute, possess with intent to distribute, or offer or agree to distribute any obscene material or any device designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs." This is a class C felony.
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simon
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Location: Perth, Australia
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I was born in 1983 - did I really miss all that? Way cool!
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tim...of usa
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Location: buffalo, new york...USA
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simon you missed all the "good" stuff
well it all seemed like the good stuff when i was growing up but now that i look back on it i guess it was the porew of the human childs mind that made things cool.
to bad todays generation dont have things like erector sets, lincon logs, board games (that dont require 16 different batteries) and i could go on and on
really sucks that today every one is so lost in instant every thing...pop corn..potatos...pudding...life is not instant it is an on going challange and to find any sort of peace and happiness it take some hard work some times.
i have never found instant gratification any place...it takes some thinking and loving to find peace
now how did i get on the tangent?
oh shutting up now
peace
tim...of USA
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True, there's no instant anything that is really important.
I have a friend that had nothing but instant everything in his fridge/kitchen cupboards. Instant rice, instant macaroni, instant coffee, instant noodles, instant...
Well, you get the picture. There's way too much instant in this world. Even the good things, far inbetween as they may be, seem to be over in an instant!
Btw, I went to the gym today. Whoo me. Then I had some NICE thai food and bought a copy of the latest issue of my favorite Swedish superhero parody comic: "Captain Geezer"... Captain Geezer's the defender of things as they used to be, tradition, stodgy moral codes, all that. Heheh. It's funny as hell I think!
Hugs:
-L
"But he that hath the steerage of my course,
direct my sail."
-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act One, Scene IV
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simon
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Location: Perth, Australia
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I live in a house full of "old-fashioned" things! Whwt the heck use is a Dansette, it doesn't play CDs.
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tim...of usa
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Location: buffalo, new york...USA
Registered: July 2002
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rock on dude
peace
tim...of USA
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and Man make you some terrific Thai food in our kitchen in Thailand?
You've been to England, after all...the flights may be a bit more expensive, but after that, everything is dead cheap, and Man and I LOVE to play tour guide...hehehe
"Always forgive your enemies...nothing annoys them quite so much." Oscar Wilde
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actual dials on the TV, lighting the gas burner on the stove with a match, cranking down the car window, push mowers, chasing your board after a wipe out, 5&10Cent stores, home canning with veggies from your own garden, learning to use an abacus in Math, watching Jack Ruby shoot Lee Harvey Oswald live on TV (because school was canceled until after the funeral), sock hops, P.E. (Physical Education) required every day in every grade.
Hugs, Charlie
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those weird little rabbit antennas perched on top of the old black and white TV...
8 tracks...
stick shift on the column...
am radio only, before fm or tapes or anything else, for that matter...
tether ball at camp...
"Always forgive your enemies...nothing annoys them quite so much." Oscar Wilde
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In grade school at recess. I was damn good at it too. It's funny how things can seem old, but aren't. While moving some stuff into my new house yesterday I dropped a CD player on the floor. At first I cringed, but then realized I have a newer one that holds multiple CDs at once so it wasn't so bad if I broke the "old" one. But come to think of it, it is old for a CD player, I bought it in 1985. I still have my turntable, though, and my cassette deck.
Think good thoughts,
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trevor
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Good to see ya - it's been awhile. You got a serving utensil I could stack my bagels and doughnuts on? Would be nice to shake off the loose powdered sugar and onion bits, too.
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trevor
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trevor
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Really getting into it |
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Most of the old favorite toys are still available, although a few are made with plastic instead of cast metal. There is a plastic erector set, but the old metal one with screws and pullies and the motor if you buy the deluxe one is still available. Lincoln logs and most of the old board games, too.
My kids sometimes put down the video games so they can play rummy or Yahtzee or Scrabble with the adults. It's really nice to spend time with them that way.
It IS nice to use your hands to make a nice meal or to build something rather than all the instant and disposable stuff, but it leaves me with less on-line time!
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I'd LOVE to come, David. I so enjoy Thai cooking and the country itself (and its people, tee hee!) is just beautiful!
Unfortunately, a plane ticket to Thailand is way above what I could afford.  From my point of view, it might as well cost a million dollars. Bleh. Now, if only Ryan Air had flights there...
-L
"But he that hath the steerage of my course,
direct my sail."
-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act One, Scene IV
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Seems it was just you guys who had to put up with that silly nonsense. Even my 'rents ancient b/w TV had eight little channel-switch buttons on it as I recall.
Of course, at the time Sweden only had ONE TV channel, hehe!
And David, my grannie used to make her own pickle too. Man, could she cook or what! She was like a true old-school upper-class housewife, she was a GREAT cook. She was so thin and frail though, but she wanted to do everything herself, lift those heavy cast iron pots and stuff...
And daily P.E. is coming to some schools in Sweden because studies have shown 30 minutes of exercise makes students more healthy and alert. (Geee! Who coulda thunkit!  )
-L
"But he that hath the steerage of my course,
direct my sail."
-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act One, Scene IV
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How about this one. Who remembers having to wear Garanamals clothing?
Or an old public TV show by CTW called the Electric Company?
Or corderoys?
Or Transistor Radios that plugged into the car's lighter jack?
How many of you actually went to see a Smoky and the Bandit at a theater, or for that matter a Drive In?
Who can remember the original Mod Squad? Or Starsky and Hutch?
And how many of you are actually guilty of purchasing a pet rock?
Just some things to be thankful we forgot at times, and remember fondly while not totally remembering everything that....well, you get the idea.
It's not the wolf you see you should fear, but all the ones he howls with. Don't be afraid of the song, but don't piss off the choir.
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marc
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Registered: March 2003
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Yup..... Guilty..... I was there.....
Crud, I feel sooooooooooooo old............
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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On fire! |
Location: currently So Cal
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My first car was painted like Starsy's Torino, but it was an older '69 GTO. Gold with a brown stripe. Remember when Hutch called the car a "striped tomato? Well my car became known as the "rotten tomato."
Think good thoughts,
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