The Revived 667er - Edition Twenty-One
Oct 17, 2016 15:41:31 GMT -5
Cafe SalMONAlla, Teleram, and 5 more like this
Post by Isadora Is a Door on Oct 17, 2016 15:41:31 GMT -5
Original idea by Akbar Le Grey
Editor - Mister M
Co-Editor - Linda Rhaldeen
Designer - Lemona Snicket
Spell Checker - Anka Anwhistle M
Gawky Editor - Zortegus
Editor - Mister M
Co-Editor - Linda Rhaldeen
Designer - Lemona Snicket
Spell Checker - Anka Anwhistle M
Gawky Editor - Zortegus
Thanks This Issue to : Kit's tits kick ticks , Akbar Le Grey , Linda Rhaldeen ,
Cafe SalMONAlla , Violent BUN Fortuna , Esmé's meme is meh
Cafe SalMONAlla , Violent BUN Fortuna , Esmé's meme is meh
This is a very last minute issue. I don't, of course, mean that the issue itself is last minute, it's been planned for a while. What I mean is that a lot of the articles came in at the last minute. Including this first one, writing about events that happened mere hours ago. How exciting.
- Mister M
Somehow, the most recent penthouse had a surprisingly large amount of activity. My constant complaining about the dead parties a few months ago seems to have actually worked. So here’s an account of everything vaguely worth mentioning and the some about the most recent penthouse. (Note that Mr M is a cruel forum magazine mogul and is making me write this before the penthouse is technically even over but I doubt anything too gripping will happen now.)
First up there was a genuine conversation about weather between M, Comet, Trip and Zortegus, which is pretty rare.
Then M of course launched into his games, in which, according to Hermes “Comet, trip and I were participants. Bear was insulting.” Your intrepid reporter fortunately missed this.
Then Hermes educated some of the newer members on the whole Tragedy/Sophie thing. They were ”suitably shocked” apparently.
At some point Zort proudly revealed that if you google image search “667 dark avenue penthouse,” you are confronted by this which I think everyone would rather not be reminded of.
There was also this exchange during a discussion about board games.
Comet: Chess is good!
Mister m: but i can't play it in the evenings because then i have weird dreams
Mister m: no wait i'm confused
bear: catan is ok
trip: what the ickle how does chess give you weird dreams
bear: chess is fun to watch but not to play
bear: i also like the design of the pieces very much
Mister m: i was thinking of cheese sorry
When I rocked up someone by the name of Desenlace was there. Whoever they were, they said they liked Alison Goldfrapp so well done Desenlace for having good taste.
There was a short harry potter conversation with Zort, Trip, a newcomer called Thomas, bear, Teleram and myself if I remember correctly, and then Zort mentored Teleram on dealing with his (teleram’s) sister, who apparently is paranoid about her brother talking to threatening strangers on the internet.
After that I had to go to uni and nothing terribly exciting happened except for willis saying that his dad had got him and his sisters to watch RuPaul’s Drag Race.
When I got back Pepper and bear were discussing school grading systems in the US and Aus, and each was being baffled by the other country’s. Then trip reappeared and we all talked about tshirts, during which bear claimed “when i was little i had a shirt from ozzy osbourne's reality show that said ‘ickle my family, i'm moving in with the osbournes’”.
Subsequently I wittily made an Anchorman reference which really distressed Pepper and Trip because it’s 2016.
Later on M and Sam showed up and Sam aired his terrible views about food, most notably spreads.
Then it was time for games that, unlike chess, potentially could give one weird dreams. Mr M decided it was time for another of his famous penthouse day games, (so much for missing the last one) but this time he didn’t even bother to tell the participants before starting. He seemed to have some opinion-scoring system that involved asking people what confectionery they liked and then awarding a numerical score to their answer. Trip returned shortly after and got roped into it. Then M continued by trying to make us play some game involving numbers which we refused to take seriously. Finally, in the feeble hope of incurring participation, or merely to show off, he asked us to quiz him about Doctor Who. I don’t remember most of it except for the moment when I swooped in and answered a question correctly.
That triumph more or less brings us up to present day, where I am in a deadly race against time to write this and M has just threatened me with yet another game, presumably to put the fear of god into me as a motivator.
Shoutout to the attendees for not making this another dead penthouse party, especially the two new people who came out of the blue. (See what I did there? They came because Zort advertised on facebook. Yes, that was terrible. ) Credits: Zortegus and Hermes were my remote operatives or something of the sort and helped me cover this deceptively difficult day in history. Sam made a misguided stab at moral support while M was a fiend who engineered this whole thing so that I basically had to do live reporting.
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Happy?
Yes, very.
- Nobody is member of the month again. I therefore name Hermes as member of the month for October. Don't Argue with me.
- A competition to design a new banner for 667 is underway. I haven't entered, because I would only lose.
- Esmé's meme is meh is preparing Perilous Preperation,
- Teleram made a thread listing books he is planning to read.
- A discussion about bob dylan winning a nobel prize took place in the shoutbox, but penne took no notice of it and made a thread about it anyway.
- We lamented the sad anniversary of the release of the bad beginning.
- As part of the continuing anticipation of the Netflix series, discussions are underway about the soundtrack.
- Esmé's meme is meh is doing lots of cool things over on the facebook page, and also clocks up his second mention in one article.
- @sam 's Doctor Who group watch has just entered it's second week. Go join in.
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I:
I don't know: I don't know what to write about for the letter I. People in the penthouse have said I could write about myself, as in the pronoun "I", but I also didn't know what to say about myself, except that I say "I don't know" a lot, because I'm really bad at having ideas and making decisions. Actually I say "I don't know" so much that Mister M and my mum said they should give me a t shirt with "I don't know" written on it.
I asked Mister M if he has any ideas of what starts with an I, and he said several things including insects and interviews. We don't have that many insects in the forum, and you all know what interviews are. I also thought of some i words myself, like idea and international and information, but none of them seemed like a good thing to write about. So I don't know.
History of 667
A column by Linda Rhaldeen
Welcome back to History of 667. Today's topic of interest: 667 Fic!
The genre of 667 Fic is a genre of stories written about 667ers it may be an original story, or a retelling of an existing story with the names changed to those of 667ers.
There is a long history of 667 Fic dating back to 2003, when the very first story, E-Friends, was written by MambaduMal, though it was May of 2004 when the genre really began to take off. On July 14, 2004, the amount of 667 Fic was still small enough that a single poll was able to include all the major stories. This would not last for long. By late 2004 the new member Alice Wilde had joined and was churning out a new 667 story at least once a month, the most famous of which, dubbed the Thingagon Fic, was based on a chatroom conversation in which various 667ers, politicians, deities, fictional characters, and inanimate objects had an daycare center.
2005 was the year that the epic 667 fic began to really take off. While previous fics were largely one-shot and either shipping fics, parodies, or based on online chats, this new type of fic was multi-chapter, serious, and much broader in scope. Some of the most famous of the time period, such as Divided by Dante , became part of the lore of 667 for years to come, and the ones based on other stories (The LOST spinoff, Missing, being one my favorites) became too numerous to count. That summer the very first collaboration fic, Hogwarts: A 667 Story, was planned and written, a tradition that would continue on through the years. J., always the clever jokester and satirist, began to turn her attention to the genre, churching out short stories such as Dante and The Three Little Pigs.
In 2006 we had our first 667ers Weird Ship Week (WSW for short). WSW was originally created as a time for people to write about weird ships in the ASOUE universe, but in late March of 2006 the demand had grown for stories specifically about 667er pairings (and more than just PChar), and the response was overwhelming - I counted 17 written in one week. The epics continued, with Alice writing her masterpiece, J. for Jesus's Vendetta, and J. writing her Office parody.
In early 2007 we had recently become free of our admin ADR, and our next collaborative fic reflected that. However, the rate of 667 fics was beginning to slow down, understandable as the forum itself was slowing down. 2008 saw the rise of Willis fics such as Bante's Birthday Bash and several successive fics using "splashing" as a euphemism (here, here and here). 667 Dark Apocalypse, perhaps the most epic 667 story of all time, ran from late 2008 to early 2009. @sixteen, who had been a member since 2005 but who had gotten his start writing 667 fic when he helped on the Dark Apocalypse collaboration, began to come into his own with fics like A Dark Avenue Carol, and United We Stand, notable for being the last 667 fic anyone would write for over 2 years.
2012 saw a resurgence in 667 fic as the 667 Renaissance was taking place. It began with penne 's story Emma in 667land in April, but as the 10-year Anniversary (June 22nd, 2012) approached more and more stories began being written, stories with a disturbing trend of bryan dying. Bryan retaliated with his own fic, Kill Willis. And shortly after the anniversary, in August, another WSW, which Cafe SalMONAlla mistakenly believed was the first. Rounding out an amazing year was the 667 Opera by B. and sung by BSam .
In February 2013 another WSW was held, just as popular as the
For the next year, there were not a ton of 667 stories; in fact most of them were written by none other than our editor Isadora Is a Door , starting with The Big Cristmas Party and continuing on with sequels L.I.T.M.U.S. and The Wolf and The Pen. soufflé sophie took over from Cafe SalMONAlla and held a WSW in November 2014.
The next big 667 sotry was mine . Wicked, a full-length musical about the 100% true love between me and Charles Vane and totally not based off some witches in the land of Oz. One more WSW was held as part of the 13th Anniversary celebrations, and the next one was also one of my stories, 667 Ghostbusters (btw go see Ghostbusters 2016 right now, it came out on DVD and Blueray a few days ago and is amazing!). The only story so far this year is apparently a stolen Pretty Little Liars fanfic with the names changed, which makes Linda a sad panda. Go out and write more 667 Fic! Continue a proud tradition!
*Bonus Content: In the next few days I'm going to be posting a database in Chaotic Creativity with a link to every 667 fanfic ever written. Be excited.
Interested in seeing a specific topic covered? Send me a PM and I will do my best to cover it in a future issue.
Coming Soon...
#10 - Linda's 667 Story
Once I wrote a story. I made it up completely by myself, and posted it on 667. Once it was posted, I was told it bore a striking resemblance to the Twilight Zone story The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street (and I have since seen it, and it does). But I swear I had never heard of the Twilight Zone story before writing it. Scout's honor (I was a Girl Scout for 7 years btw)
asoue.proboards.com/thread/24220
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If you haven’t heard any Netflix series news since the last edition of the 667er, crawl out from that small mountain cave you live in, because boy, you are in for a treat!
Initially, we had a pretty normal stream of minor news for the most part— Instagram photos hinting at more to come, poorly-researched articles with no real news, very unofficial IMDb cast listing updates, and sort-of, vaguely confirmed cast members being less-vaguely confirmed. However, there was a pretty big to-do when, on September 23, Avi Lake(*) and Dylan Kingwell announced on Instagram that they will be playing Isadora and Duncan Quagmire. This announcement was followed by several pages of discussion, which you can read on ryantrimble457 's new Season 2 thread.
The Quagmire announcement alone might have been enough to sate us for a month, but Netflix wasn’t done with us yet— on October 3 they began posting a series of tweets on the show’s long-inactive Twitter account, warning of only more misery along the way. Though they were meant to fill us with apprehension, the tweets filled us with hope— was more to come? It was! On October 4, Netflix US & Canada released the first official teaser trailer on YouTube— 100 days before all episodes are to be released on Friday, January 13, 2017.
(Artwork by violetbunfortunate)
The teaser was, as expected, very divisive. How did we feel about our glimpse of Patrick Warburton as Snicket? Or the visual nods to the book series scattered throughout the trailer? Was the music too fairytale-esque? Did playing Count Olaf turn Neil Patrick Harris evil, or was he perhaps evil already? Is Lemony Snicket showing his face on camera a forgivable sin? Members of 667 Dark Avenue spent several days filling several pages with discussion of all that and more.
But was that enough for Netflix to
Though both Lemony Snicket and his handler, I mean his associate Daniel Handler warned us away from Netflix’s wicked machinations, a few brave volunteers fell by the hand of curiosity, and through following clues in the teaser trailer, unearthed a secret website containing concept images of some foul villain’s foul home.
Not to be taken by surprise by such craftiness again, many Snicket fans took to searching out various VFD domains. A few lucky souls found nothing, but several found something far more chilling than nothing— a deliberate nothing, which is to say, a worrisome 404 error page:
[404
DEAR VIEWER,
YOU'VE REACHED A
MOST UNFORTUNATE
DEAD END.
HERE IS A MORE SUITABLE ALTERNATIVE:
netflix.com/unfortunate
[VFD eye insignia]]
Are the dozens of VFD domains simply a ploy to aim the curious at the show's Netflix page, or are they saving them for something more sinister (if there is in fact something more sinister than that)? Check for alerts and warnings throughout the month on the Atrocious Adaptations board, keep your eyes peeled, and keep peeled eyes off of you, especially if they are literal peeled eyes. See you next month.
(*) - I went to get the link for Avi’s Instagram only to find that she has (adorably, imo) been writing couplets with every ASOUE post, and even has one in her bio, so check that out.
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