The Revived 667er - Big Brother Edition
Jun 7, 2017 1:01:58 GMT -5
Cafe SalMONAlla, Esmé's meme is meh, and 2 more like this
Post by Linda Rhaldeen on Jun 7, 2017 1:01:58 GMT -5
Original idea by Huffington Post Dude Akbar Le Grey
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Guest Editor - Linda Rhaldeen
Co-Editor - Linda Rhaldeen
Designer - Existing banners from Cafe SalMONAlla and Linda Rhaldeen designed the rest
Spell Checker - Linda Rhaldeen
Gawky Editor - idek what that is lol
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Thanks this issue to: Isadora Is a Door for writing two articles and being awesome and also giving me a laugh when he forgot to send me his article and then sent me a reminder to post this when I didn't have his article yet, Esmé's meme is meh for mageey drag queens, trip for giving me a template to write Netflix News and letting me know quickly she couldn't write it so I had time to write it, and the rest of the forum for not doing anything, thanks for all the hard work guys.
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Hello everyone. Welcome to the Big Brother edition of The 667er. This month we have a lovely article by Zortegus, The Month and a bit of the next chapter of Rivers of Blood by Mister M, and a lot of stuff by me. Enjoy!
-Linda Rhaldeen
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Over the last month, several things have happened on 667.
Most notably, I have organized a completely fantastic competition to find 667s best Member of ALL TIME. Several people complained about my choices, and several more didn't really care, and even more people voted. Highlights included Trip threatening to ban anyone who votes for her, Charlie's brilliant defense of Rellim, and this tense tie-break. Voting on the final is still underway.
The build of anticipation is still, um, building for this years Big Brother. I've signed up, but don't let that put you off. Fun people have joined up too! Like violetbunfortunate, which I'm very excited about. There's still time to sign up, althought i'm not sure how many people are still needed, but I'm sure Linda can edit in the number? Linda?? (Editor's note: be patient, that's next article)
The Darkies took place throughout most of the last month, with a special edition of the 667er full of darkies statistics being published. Whilst we're doing the shameless self promotion, I also am writing a new fic, which you should all read.
Thread of the month: In a new, much anticipated feature, I will now choose a thread that has been the most monthly each month. Or the best, whichever. This months thread of the month is 667 Generations by Hermes, with a pretty good analysis of 667 over the years.
Honorable Mentions: construtively criticize a 667er by pepper fingers by Charlie Good Ass Shots by Reba
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Big Brother is beginning on June 9th this year, with Zortegus and I as Big Brothers and 13 housemates. In advance of the house opening up, we'd like to introduce our lineup of housemates. Who do you think will win?
- Anka - Long time 667er, contestant, and even a one-time Big Brother. Currently lives with Mister M in real life, which should bring an interesting dynamic to the house.
- BSam - Even longer time 667er, contestant, and also a one-time Big Brother. BSam always makes things fun.
- Him - A male 667er who we know the identity of but who has decided to try the secretive thing. We'll see how long that lasts.
- Lemona - Literally registered just a few minutes ago. Just under the wire there, Lemona.
- Luna - Most likely joined through our facebook page. All we know of them is their location (Toloso, Spain), which I was able to gleam from an ip address.
- Mister M - Our former editor and also a former Big Brother. We'll have to watch him and Anka and make sure they don't give unfair advantage to each other.
- Quotester- A housemate of indeterminate gender who is yet another 667er planning on trying to be mysterious.
- Renuoquidvis - Has yet to make a welcome thread, but appears to be going for the mysterious vibe. Seriously, people; it's getting old.
- Sophie - A past winner of Big Brother, I met this lovely Harvard scholar a couple months back. She has good taste in coats.
- Trip - Last year's winner and this year's 667 admin, Trip is trying her hand at the game once again.
- Tryina - Going by Tryinem in the house this year, she has come close to winning in the past and this year wants to take it all the way.
- Violet B. Unfortunate - A rather new member, though technically she joined in 2014 so not that new? Still, other than Luna and the V for Vendetta folks, the least well known of the bunch.
- Willy - Probably Willis? Unless there is another 29-year-old with a name like that. If you're trying to be mysterious, Willis, you've got some stiff competition this year.
All in all, looks like a great mix. I can't wait to see them try to out-mysterious each other.
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A column by Linda Rhaldeen
Since I already wrote a History of 667 article about Big Brother in 2015, I'm going to shamelessly relink it.
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I feel like there hasn't been a Netflix News in ages, so I'll go over more than one month, with bullet points based on topic in roughly chronological order.
- First off, filming for season 2 has started! They finished filming The Austere Academy (episodes 1 and 2) on May 17th and are currently on The Ersatz Elevator (episodes 3 and 4). The approximate filming schedule, so far as we can tell, is 5 weeks per book, which will put the end of filming at early October.
- Season 3 has officially been greenlit, and the writers finished the scripts on May 19th. The current expectation is that season 3 will film back to back with season 2.
- As far as casting goes, we have multiple new actors and actresses confirmed for season 2. The latest list includes Bronwen Smith, Roger Bart, Kitana Turnbull, B.J. Harrison, Malcolm Stewart, Lucy Punch, Nathan Fillion, Sara Rue, Zachary Levi, and Adam Manfredi (see @gothicarchiefan's fine cast guesswork here).
- NPH gives a preview of his Gunther and Coach Genghis voices in this interview.
- A radio interview indicated that one of the books would only be one episode long. This has led to much speculation, but the general consensus at this point seems to be that it will be a feature length (90 minute) adaptation of The End.
- A musical and dance number featuring Esme and Gunther is confirmed to take place during The Ersatz Elevator!
- A discussion recently took place about the look of the village of VFD, with emphasis on the overly large courthouse pictured in the Helquist illustration. Reba provided multiples examples of ostentatious Missourian courthouses.
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#13 - The 2017 Big Brother Thread
While the majority of the game will take place on snicketeyes.probards.com, major announcements and such will be made here, so keep an eye on it.
asoue.proboards.com/thread/35247/ready-big-brother
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An excerpt from Chapter Two:
There is a cemetery on the west side of the city, next to a grand cathedral. It sits of the side of a large hill, the tombstones looking down over the rest of the city. At the top of the hill there is a large statue of the angel Gabriel, striking an impressive height into the sky. At the bottom of the statue is an inscription, reading
' Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. '
Below the statue, if you pull away at the grass and brambles that had to begun to grow, you will find a metal grating, leading to a secret stairwell.
In this cemetery, down the stairs, and along the secret passageway that follows, Linda Rhaldeen was standing before a large metal door. The door was old, older than the cemetery itself, or so she was told. But it wasn't the door that mattered, it was the locks. There were seven, and three of them had keys in them, the other four were empty.
Linda reached into her pocket and pulled an extremely large and extremely old key, and placed in into the lock, and turned it slightly to the left.
There were three left now. She was halfway there.
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~ I don't know who the next permanent editor is but they've made a new account named Mister E (heh geddit), so that's a thing.
~ Next month's 667er will be guest edited by someone new (not a 667er staffer like Zortegus and me)
~ Big Brother's gonna be fun guys, participate.
~ snicketeyes.proboards.com
~ For real, the season's gonna be cool.
~ Peace out!