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BlookKING
Joined: 08 Sep 2005
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Location: The George Washington University
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 Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 12:17 pm Post subject: Hello All |
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I am new to this site and I came here because of my interest in the LoTR world. I plan on writing fan fiction, but I will probably be an observer until I can really understand how to start. Hopefully I will get to talk to some of you and make new friends that share the same LoTR interests.
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Alassante
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Joined: 10 Dec 2004
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Location: Hitchhiking to Rivendell
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| Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 12:44 pm Post subject: |
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Wow!  Another Man on the site. Woohoo ladies!!! We love men and we rarely see them. I think we scare them off for some reason. I don't know why. 
Welcome Ben and thanks for being brave enough to venture in the insanity of the forums!  You will have fun and you will learn alot. Probably a lot of stuff you didn't want to know but some stuff you do. Let me pre-warn you about screen spitting AKA the OSA spew factor. When reading forum posts from certain people - do not eat or drink. A few members have died, trying to choke back laughter. The rest of us have learned to keep windex and paper towels handy. I will not tell you which members are prone to cause the spewing because hell, that would just take all of the fun out of it. 
Oh and just cause I like to torture the Howdy Crew - HOWDY! (oh and watch out for the dutchess and her red pen too - everytime you mess up your punctuation, she tortures a small hobbit named Flower Proudhinney) 
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SilverMoonLady
Joined: 14 Jul 2003
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Location: Breaking in a Brandybuck... *wicked grin*
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| Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 1:20 pm Post subject: |
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Greetings & such!
Welcome to the madness We're a friendly (if occasionally nutty) crew, so by all means chat, ask questions, add your 2 cents (or more!) and please do post your creative efforts!
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Neniel
Joined: 29 Dec 2004
Posts: 147
Location: Hiding from the men in white. Contrary to common belief, psychiatrists are *very* sneaky people
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| Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 2:47 pm Post subject: |
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Hi!!!
Representing the various tortured college/uni/insert-other-evil educational-institution students here, that pop up at the weirdest hours of day and night (namely when they should be studying) and post the weirdest little stories during certain months (i.e. when they should be studying again, check out your local uni exams program for details)...
*takes in a deep breath and goes on rambling incoherently*
...while being jealous of everyone else having a normal life, all I can say is:
Welcome!!!!!
The drabbles or little one-shots are a perfect way to start testing your potentials in writing, as I myself have been discovering lately, and the senior OSAers are always around to give you advice! (teehee, I think they hate it when I call them that! )
Either way, the most important thing is to have fun!
So, welcome and hopefully we'll be seeing you around!
Neni
PS: Yeap, I hate my life and my profs (with very little exceptions) again, exams are once more in full mode!  And maybe I should cut down on my daily coffee intake...
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NancyBrooke
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Joined: 11 May 2003
Posts: 160
Location: In a motel 6 by the airport
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| Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 3:24 pm Post subject: |
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(I just responded to your other post, Ben, so:) Again, Welcome to OSA, from the Northern side of the Potomac.
Now, I must say, I think you sell yourself short - you've already found the right way to start: joining the forum and reading the fic. That's pretty much it in a nutshell.
However, that being said, you will also get lots of secret squirrel brownie points if you review and rate what you read and you'll be smiled upon with great presents, wild admiration, and heavenly hallelujahs.
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HamsterofDOOM
Joined: 12 May 2005
Posts: 56
Location: I\'m stuck in a bucket!
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| Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 5:14 pm Post subject: |
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*pushes through crowd to the microphone* *tap tap* Is this thing on? *screech* Uhh... well I would just like to say Hello, and Welcome, free cake in the lobby, and don't let the authors scare you and if they get too close either wave something shiny or a picture of a hot guy at them and you'll have enough time to slink away. But anyway I am the Hamster of Doom *squeak* and I suggest reading and more reading and reviewing and post your own story for all to enjoy!
*is pushed off the stage for rambling*
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SpaceWeavil
Joined: 27 May 2004
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Location: Looking at shiny things
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| Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 5:39 pm Post subject: |
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| Alassante wrote: | Wow! Another Man on the site. Woohoo ladies!!! We love men and we rarely see them. I think we scare them off for some reason. I don't know why.
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I was going to ask how you knew it was a man, then I saw the name and slapped myself hard across the forehead.
Welcome Ben, 
If you are thinking about delving into the world of fan fic, you should find a load of folks available for support and advice here. Any questions, lay 'em open to the forum and usually a whole host of people will reply and try to help...although no one can guarantee everyone will agree on the answers, 
If you think it might help, you can always enlist the services of a beta reader or co-writer or general ideas-person via the beta reading forum here.
Hope you feel at home here,
Space Weavil
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trekqueen
Joined: 07 Jul 2004
Posts: 292
Location: Chambers of the Balrog Slayer
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| Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 6:32 pm Post subject: |
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welcome! hope you enjoy yourself and dont worry about everyone else here. There's a wealth of knowledge here so don't get intimidated or anything from anyone, they are rather nice.
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NeumeIndil
Joined: 06 Jun 2005
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Location: St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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Greetings, salutations and whazzup. Another disgruntled college student posting her unsolicited 2 cents at 4AM Eastern Standard time. I'd just like to point out the necessity of towels and/or kleenexes on this particular site. See, sometimes we get a little funny and if you happen to have coffee, soda, beer or whatever in your mouth, it could end up on your monitor which is particularly not cool with laptops. If you see a spit warning, heed it. Other than that, enjoy the fic, please read and review and when you think you're up for it, the Beta Readers thread is a great place to get a second opinion, a "go post this" pep talk or "What the heck language were you trying to write in again?" editing services.
Welcome again,
Neu
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Viv
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Joined: 24 Apr 2003
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Location: Texas
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| Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 9:43 am Post subject: |
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| trekqueen wrote: | | welcome! hope you enjoy yourself and dont worry about everyone else here. There's a wealth of knowledge here so don't get intimidated or anything from anyone, they are rather nice. |
Hmm. Between that warning and the earlier "senior" comment, you might get the idea we're pretty, er, energetic around here. 
Really, it's been a little dull lately, so having someone new show up was just the distraction we've been lookin' for. Hope we haven't pelted you with hellos, so you'll stick around a little longer. |
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DarkElfChilde
Joined: 23 Aug 2004
Posts: 1013
Location: I'm located somewhere
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| Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 2:53 pm Post subject: |
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Hi Ben. Everyone calls me DEC, so you may call me DEC if you want, or spell out the whole username. Whatever floats you boat. 
New to fan fic, aye? Cool. I remember those days.
This is a nice site with a bunch of nice, crazy people; easy to get along with, just watch out for those rabid >.> <.< penguins, hamsters, whatever. Heh.
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Tylany
Joined: 07 Aug 2005
Posts: 67
Location: Stuck in a daydream.
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Damn! My machine was dead and I miss the good stuff! Well anyway hi Ben. *Trips over a bag of popcorn* Oh, I understand they were happy I was not here.  Guess what, party is over because I'm back and my insanity came to. 
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ghettoelleth
Joined: 06 Nov 2004
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I didn't fall dammit! Hammy pushed me.
Now Ben, what are you doing over here when you were over there?
Well crap. Everyone calls me that bi&ch, so you can call me Whiskers. Welcome to OSA some more.
Viv, rip your top off and slap em on the glass honey, that'll liven things right up.
Space, We know cuz he's got an outty
Crap Neni, didn't you just finish exams last Tuesday? Don't they have to teach you something before they can give you a test on it?
Nancy confessed, I refrained from taking a full page ad out in the NY Times, fear my self restraint.
Sil, I beg to differ, I got no nuts.
Okay Ben, if you're still here and can manage to draw enough self restraint to use your finer motor skills with the buckle, strap on your helmet and come join the rest of the  I believe today is chipped beef on toast day. Al's favorite, she's getting older and its easier to gum than fried chicken and corn on the cob.
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DarkElfChilde
Joined: 23 Aug 2004
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Location: I'm located somewhere
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When my dad was in the army, they called chipped beef on toast...
"Shit on a shingles"
This educational information was brought to you by DEC.
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Alassante
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Joined: 10 Dec 2004
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Location: Hitchhiking to Rivendell
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| Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 12:12 pm Post subject: |
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| NeumeIndil wrote: | | I'd just like to point out the necessity of towels and/or kleenexes on this particular site. See, sometimes we get a little funny and if you happen to have coffee, soda, beer or whatever in your mouth, it could end up on your monitor which is particularly not cool with laptops. If you see a spit warning, heed it. |
Is there an echo in here? Didn't I give the spew warning? Its all rather irrelevant now since I am pretty sure we scared him away. 
| ghettoelleth wrote: | I didn't fall dammit! Hammy pushed me.
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Sorry - that was me. I was try to push SLM cause she wanted to learn to stage dive. She's a slippery little sucker though and moved at that last second.
| ghettoelleth wrote: | | Al's favorite, she's getting older and its easier to gum than fried chicken and corn on the cob. |
I am still younger than you. No matter what I will ALWAYS be younger that you. I'm like an elf after the Two Trees and you are like from the awakening of the elves. You were, of course, with the group that got lost looking for their fearless leader who was playing in the woods with a Maia. In fact if I heard it correctly you were the one that suggested the short cut cause you were looking for some souvenir for your homies from Aman.
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