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[cave_fatuam]

We figured out how to climb up in the ancient schools air ducts. We stole books from the library next door when it was closed for the librarian's lunch. XD
I think every slang word I learned for devious sexual positions was learned in GT.
Also, it's where we discovered that if you poured rubbing alcohol on a rubber coated lab table, you can set it on fire and just let it burn itself out.

Edit for top:

Really old Anders picture. Yay! XD

Modifié par cave_fatuam, 27 novembre 2010 - 10:00 .

[Miri1984]

Huh, the things you learn when you're writing fic. Just spent an education half-hour looking up the long term effects of bruising to the brain. Scary.
I'm tempted to walk around wearing a crash helmet for the rest of my life.
ETA: the things I learned in OC (opportunity class - our PC name for G&T):
How to make sherbert
How to swear in Italian
Which tank fish will eat all the other tank fish
How to infuriate scripture teachers

Modifié par Miri1984, 27 novembre 2010 - 10:00 .

[cave_fatuam]

@Miri

*nod*

I had an awful concussion and am still dealing with the paraphasia it caused.

For a while whenever I tried to say "married," I'd say "died." It was awkward to say the least.

[Miri1984]

@Cave Oh, that was some ironic paraphasia there! *chuckle*. My mum would tell you they're the same thing anyway.

[LupusYondergirl]

Miri: I figure you can always handwave and say "magic heals better than current medical technology" or something like that if it doesn't fit where you want the story to go.



(I should not enjoy messing with my characters as much as I do. But it really is fun.)

[Miri1984]

@Lupus Oh absolutely!

I know what you mean about messing with your characters. Poor, poor Alim is going to get the sharp end of the stick a fair bit. I keep having new ideas of horrible things I can do to him. Truly my outline is like "Then he'll be emotionally ravaged by THIS and then he'll get THIS hideous injury and then...."
...Zev should NEVER have left him alone with no one but Oghren and Anders to talk to...

@Cave This has to be shown here also:

Modifié par Miri1984, 27 novembre 2010 - 10:40 .

[LupusYondergirl]

Miri: really, that's been the driving force behind AOA. "What can I do to drive Maggie insane today?"
(Particularly proud of the current torture I've got cooking up.  And I'm so close to 900 reviews I'm half tempted to put up an unfinished chapter just to see it click over.  Since I'm an ass like that.)

Oh, or another handwave. "It's this because they're an elf, not a human." I've even used that for mages. (hey, whose to say their biochemestry isn't slightly off from normal humans and elves, even if they are otherwise identical physically)

Modifié par LupusYondergirl, 27 novembre 2010 - 10:47 .

[Sarah1281]

(Particularly proud of the current torture I've got cooking up. And I'm so close to 900 reviews I'm half tempted to put up an unfinished chapter just to see it click over. Since I'm an ass like that.)

Well if you don't decide to do so I'm going to get back to reading it once I finish watching The Devil and Daniel Webster (you can tell it was made in the 40's because the guy's wife blames herself for her husband making a deal with the devil and becoming a raging ****) and I should get through at least two more chapters.

[sabreene]

Miri1984 wrote...

@Lupus my Viking novel has been printed out on a dot matrix printer. I actually got a friend to recover all the files from 5.5 inch floppies back in my uni days. My earliest files were written on the AppleIIE. For those too young to remember what cutting edge design was in the eighties:



Crikey I feel old.

Ah, memories. We had one of these. Along with a couple IBM's. My dad sold/built computers in the early 80's, so in 83 or 84 I was thrilled to have my own computer in my room, with an amber screen! I had a word processing program in dos, since it was before Windows, and had to save everything to those huge floppies so I could take it to my mom's computer to print it out on the dot matrix printer. I still have stacks of printouts with the little holes in the sides that have never been ripped apart. 

I keep them in a box in the attic. I'm afraid to read through them all. I wrote soo many short stories and a nearly 600 page book. I was a fan of both Michener and Heinlein so it was a sweeping saga of a place & family from the past into the far distant future. I cringe to think of all the "futuristic inventions" I made up. And the sex scenes. 14 year olds really should not write sex scenes and then ask their parents to read the book. 

On a completely different subject -- I think it's funny how many Anders fans were in the G&T programs at school.

We also got to use computers - I remember playing Oregan Trail. But what I most remember from GT was that the teachers trusted us. They left us alone to study in a separate room -- where we then jumped from table to table saying as many swear words as we could think of, in as many languages.
I was only in it from 2nd to 6th.  By 7th grade I withdrew myself from the program in an effort to seem less smart and more popular. The stupidity of junior high.

[Liliandra Nadiar]

LupusYondergirl wrote...
 "What can I do to drive Maggie insane today?"

Didn't that become redundant after chapter two of Blue Skies?

[Sarah1281]

I was only in it from 2nd to 6th. By 7th grade I withdrew myself from the program in an effort to seem less smart and more popular. The stupidity of junior high.

In addition to the fact that my parents would have killed me for even thinking of that, in middle school I hadn't quite developed a way to deal with the stupidity that could be found in normal classrooms. Oh God, the biggest example of that was English. Freshman year I took Honors English and we learned how to use semicolons and had to put a certain number in our papers. Senior year I took both AP English and a semester of a regular elective, philosophy. There we learned how to use a semicolon and had to put a certain number in our paper. I just wrote the paper and then checked it over to look for spots to add a semicolon and, to my surprise, had one more semicolon than was required actually in the paper already.

[Liliandra Nadiar]

I left the advanced learning program when I went into middle school. Bad time at home left my grades sucking badly. A state they didn't recover from until I left to live with my mom and got held back a year. Then I skipped my Junior high school year.

[Miri1984]

Five hours? Too long. *stares at Lupus* I want my AOA chapter. I'm sitting here coming up with all the people that man could be. I have a theory and I want to know if I'm right or not .



Fallout Anders!

[Liliandra Nadiar]

"All I want is a warm bed, a good meal and the right to set crazed, mutated humans on fire."

*also seconds Miri's need for story*

[Wedger]

@ Sabreene "On a completely different subject -- I think it's funny how many Anders fans were in the G&T programs at school." We didn't have G&T back when I went to Elem & JH. Actually - had no idea what you were talking about...ha ha.

We had to earn our way - with rocks & sticks Going up hill to school - both ways (as my Dad would say.)

I just wish they had taught us to type in Engineering. Who knew back then, I guess, that we would be typing on this computer thingys all day?

[Sarah1281]

So speaking of Lupus' story...I'm on chapter 29. Does anyone remember around when they get married? Not knowing how far from that I am is practically killing me.

[Wedger]

Sarah1281 wrote...

So speaking of Lupus' story...I'm on chapter 29. Does anyone remember around when they get married? Not knowing how far from that I am is practically killing me.

Was it around Chapt 56 or so?  I'd have to go look.  (Or maybe I'm thinking of the wrong thing...)

[LupusYondergirl]

I'm working on it! I'm torn because it ends where I want it to end but it's short (well, for me). Maybe 1000 words shorter than my usual chapters, so I don't know what to do. I'm thinking it'll just be a short chapter...



@Sarah: Off the top of my head, it's somewhere between 51- and 60 or so. I know it's after 50, but not by much.



And... Sarah posted AOA's 900th review today! *dances*

[Liliandra Nadiar]

Close, 55 was the wedding. Or at least it was the start of it.

Modifié par Liliandra Nadiar, 28 novembre 2010 - 05:02 .

[Galagraphia]

Hey, I wasn't in G&T! Because we don't have that program But I'd changed the school when I was 12 and went to a school "for little geniuses" as people ironically called that place. And I did it not because I was smart (in fact I wasn't), but because the lessons there started at 8.30 a.m., while in my old school they started at 1.00 p.m., and I can learn only in the 1st half of the day. I remember I loved only maths, because our teacher told us that mathematicians are lazy and don't bother to remember a lot of things, they just calculate

[Miri1984]

Hey, short chapters are cool! (says the girl who rarely makes it over 1500 words). I've often tried to stretch short chapters out and it never works for me.

[LupusYondergirl]

And... chapter is done! it's a shame psychotherapy hasn't been invented yet in Ferelden. They all need it.

[Sarah1281]

LupusYondergirl wrote...

And... chapter is done! it's a shame psychotherapy hasn't been invented yet in Ferelden. They all need it.

I am never going to catch up, am I? 

[LupusYondergirl]

Well, it was a long weekend. Where I had surprisingly little homework. Needed something to do besides drink and worry about my sister. Torturing poor Maggie fit the bill.

[Liliandra Nadiar]

Just read at least a chapter a day, you'll catch up eventually. She doesn't write that that fast, alas.

Absolutely loved the big with Oghren's daughter. Very 'child of Oghren', also fitting with what Maggie thought waaaaaaaayyyyyy back when about any child of his and battle axes.