So I like picking up crappy 1960s romance novels, and I got this one that is like SUPER GOFFIK. It is "Orphan of the Shadows" by Paula Minton. The main character is an orphan whose father was a Nazi. Her non-Nazi uncle (dad's brother) and his wife took her in and raised her like she was their own. The heroine spends all her time doing ( Read more... )

( characters from that old tf2 rp community )

It wasn't until the 1920s that sentries began to be electrical, and you could still find engineers clinging to the old clockwork-and-coilspring designs well into the '40s. Dispensers, being little more than prestocked ammo caches with a canister of Unspecified Liquid bolted on, took even longer to advance technologically; the earliest known ( Read more... )

The first arrival almost went unnoticed.  Scout just happened to catch a glimpse of a figure on the road outside as he ran past the main gate in mid-battle, and he backpedalled to look.  "Hey, guys," he said over his radio, "there's somebody walkin' out here ( Read more... )

( The Fabulous Adventures of James & Bond, wip, part 2 )

this is what i've been doing (well, this and band practice) instead of meeting online social obligations for about a month now.  it's not finished but it's almost there - i have to write the big action/adventure sequence at the end and then bring it to a successful conclusion that leaves it open for sequels, since it was primarily envisioned as ( Read more... )

( with apologies to hunter s. thompson )

( translation into Scots provided by a friend from Edinburgh )

( tf2 fic )

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