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    Depending upon the level of angst, training may not be necessary. And she has already been training in stealth techniques that managed to fool drunk college kids and a megalomaniac aberration. If the recent comics can be believed, she is already developing the skills of hiding in plain sight without even trying.
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    An Angst Induced Awakening perhaps?
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    CritterKeeper

    NP Friday Aug 31, 2018

    Oh, good. I haven't hated this storyline, but it's not exactly something I'm interested in either, so I think if it had gone on much longer I'd have gotten annoyed, or even stopped reading for a while. At this length, it's a somewhat interesting foray into a fandom I'm not familiar with, which lets me learn a little about it without having to immerse myself directly. Here's hoping the next story has our main characters as themselves!
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    CritterKeeper

    NP Wednesday August 29, 2018

    I remember watching The Transformers and G. I. Joe in the afternoon, after high school let out, when we were in the mood to give our brains a rest for an hour. I started watching Transformers with the movie (the friend who had wanted to see it, had to explain stuff like why people were cheering when the good-guy boombox ejected little cassette bots to fight the bad-guy boombox's cassette minions), and only watched Joe because it was on after Transformers. My older sister and I were savvy enough to know the shows were trying to sell toys, and evaluating how they did it and how successful or blatant they were was part of the fun of watching. We could appreciate the good writing and try to figure out where the bad writing went wrong, and see writing about new toys as a challenge the writers had to meet, rather than an automatic failing. When my sister invented the Nocturnicons, she figured out gimmicks for the toys, like a bat who was a spy/had excellent hearing, and the toy was a Mister Microphone-type toy inside. She also wrote a terrific short story with Starscream's ghost that was modeled after Steven King's short story "Survivor Type" (if you've read it, you will likely remember it the moment I say "med student stranded on a desert island"). I leveled the field by inventing some female Decepticons, again with the toys all planned out. I don't recall doing as much of that with Joe but I was aware of the marketing elements there, too, trying to come up with things like an excuse to put everyone in new outfits (perhaps an "alternate universe" episode where you can make evil versons of the good guys and good versions of the villains, who just happen to be the same mould with different colors of plastic ;-) or create a new character who was an inventor as an excuse for new gizmos and their toys. The challenge was to tell a good story in the process of selling those toys, to come up with interesting toys and well-rounded characters who were distinct from those that already existed. And there were times when the shows managed to do all of that, if you paid attention. I honestly think a good show will sell more toys than a bad one, even to little kids, and I think at least some of the writers and people in charge got that. Every writing class or group I've been in has used challenges as an exercise, like "write a story with only dialog" or "write three paragraphs with your main characters, not using the letter 'e' at all" or "write a scene set in an unusual place, where the setting it an integral part of the story." These shows were a great example, basically "write a half-hour episode which introduces this new toy, in a way that will make kids like the character and want to buy it." Sometimes, having to follow restrictive rules can lead to wonderfully creative stuff. ....I'm still disappointed in them for not coming out with a Starscream's Ghost toy made of clear plastic....
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    animalia

    Story Friday August 31, 2018

    This is the first time I’ve appreciated Lucy. I’ve said it before and I’ve said it again, but I appreciate honesty. Even blunt honesty is perferable to me, then to people who mislead me witg good intentions. It doesn’t mean I don’t understand the latter, or even understand why it’s occasionally necessary, just that it isn’t something I like.
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    Having seen Rhoda and Catalina together, Rhoda seems more like the old days when new kinksters had to spend time as subs before they were allowed to try out being a Dom/me. She certainly seems to be coming into a more dominant role now! Then again, maybe she's a switch and enjoys playing both roles in turn.... I feel the same. The cliche may be to lose one's virginity in high school, but the reality is that I knew a fair number of virgins in college, too, and sometimes beyond that. Most likely they have, if we apply our world's standards, but not absolutely. Again, I've known couples who went around more than one base without ever hitting that home run until they were married. Especially with what we know about sen....seyen....ololu.....part-Uryuoms, they value closeness much more than sex. I can easily picture Grace wanting to snuggle, hug, and even kiss, without feeling the urge to go further. And Tedd, of course, at first would feel lucky for that much, and later he'd know that Grace didn't want it the same way he did, and might not want to make her feel pressured. (In other words, maybe he was wiser that Second-Life-Ellen in that regard....look what happened to that relationship when she pushed for sex!) Now this one I suspect is most likely! After all, Elliot's main reason not to, according to Nanase at least, was "math." Ellen and Nanase have zero chance of that problem, unless one of them makes a major change. Absolutely. No "things". Just watching things. And we've already debated whether solo is likely so no need to rehash here. ;-) A bit surprising if he's the only "out" boy in his school, that no one else has come to him in private, but not impossible and/or not necessarily leading in that direction if it had. A pity, because statistically there would be quite a number of LGBTQ+ kids at a school that size. Heck, in the suburbs any time within the last decade or so, there'd probably be at least one QUILTBAG club! EGS is showing its age a bit here. Future kids may (hopefully) not even see such clubs as anything more significant than a chess club or a journalism club, or whatever kinds of clubs non-nerd-school schools have. Hmm, I hadn't actually thought that relationship through to that aspect before. Maybe it's because Ashley still seems so innocent. But yeah, I could definitely see that as being the reason she was so affected by Bad Tom. Fits with my experiences, too. Whenever I see those statistics about how many teens have sex in high school, I always see the flip side too, that if X percent have had sex, then 100 - X have *not* had sex! ADD/ADHD can have similar problems, due to being too distracted to pay attention to social cues. Interrupting is a classic example. If you don't notice that people look annoyed when you interupt them, then you're not likely to learn not to interrupt. And then it's a mystery why people don't want to let you in on their conversations, and it feels like they just exclude you for no good reason. (And if that makes you all the more determined to be in on the conversation....) My default tends to be to assume everyone gets along and can be friends, until I get hit with a clue-by-four about it. Even when I've had problems with someone, I still tend to think, Well, we seem to be getting along now, maybe we can be friends, until something overt happens again. (Perhaps) Surprisingly often, that turns out well. :-)
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    animalia

    Story Wednesday August 29, 2018

    Geez I ended up feeling bad for Diane. In part due to my Asperger’s Syndrome I have my own difficulties with social que, and a lot of social rules seem arbitrary. As a result I ended up taking on the idea of just being myself, not caring about my reputation. This is because those who care about you will care about you will care about you for who you really are, and those who don’t, don’t matter. It comes from my DEFAULT. mindset of not seeing the point in pretending that reality is anyway other then it is. What this means is that when I try to relate to others I try to imagine how I would feel in their position. On one hand that’s why I messed up and assumed that Diane didn’t care about her reputation. On the other hand I can easily imagine being hurt and betrayed, when all you want is interpersonal connections. To give a personal example I wasn’t always (If I even am now) the best judge of character. Once when I was a little kid, I was over in the yard of someone who I, at the time, thought was a friend. He ended up chasing me around this huge field with a board (like a 2x4) with a nail through it. I ended up going up and being scared and telling my mom I never wanted to go back. I didn’t even tell her the specific reason why at that point. It was only OVER TWO DECADES LATER when I ended up talking with my parents about it again. In hindsight I realize that such a person and (another who I don’t want to talk about (let’s just say what he did was less terrifying but just as obvious in hindsight) were never really my friends at all. But I was both so bad with social ques, and wanted friends so badly (and could be a bit of a brat myself back then to be fair) that it took something exteme to wake me up to the reality back then.