The Real Decoy (illustrated) - by coldangel_1

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Originally posted by jle1993:
Will you please all just speak english, I like to be able to understand what I read 

Seriously though, are you writing a sequel to your story?

I can only attempt to remedy the former - on the latter, I’m afraid you’re on your own... 

Originally posted by Xanfor:
Revera linguam latinam vix cognovi...

Xanfor says he doesn’t really know that much Latin.

Originally posted by coldangel_1:
Solvo reddo es non bonus. Quam operor vos narro 'shit' in Latin?

I have no clue to the first sentence, but, in the second, I believe ColdAngel is inquiring how one says “shit” in Latin.

Originally posted by Xanfor:
Bene, cum Latine nescias, nolo manus meas in te maculare

It seems Xanfor is telling ColdAngel not to bite off more [Latin] than he can chew.
The only Latin I ever learned was Pig-Latin! 

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Thanks SpaceCase, what would I do without you. 

Probably be confused and hit my head alot more I expect 

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Originally posted by jle1993:
Thanks SpaceCase, what would I do without you. 

[Starts to reply]

Probably be confused and hit my head alot more I expect   

[Halts, snaps fingers]

Crud! Beaten to it again!
[*Mutter*] [*Mutter*]

You're welcome. 

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xD lol.
Thanks for the translation SC, I wasn't going to say anything but I was feeling completely oblivious.

coldangel_1; Brill story! Fantastic ending, Bender's new body makes me laugh!

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Bene, cum Latine nescias, nolo manus meas in te maculare.

Actually, it says 'If you don't understand plain Latin, I'm not going to dirty my hands on you'. It was one of the first sentences in Latin I ever learned to make, and I couldn't resist the opportunity to use it, which is why I also said 'Just Kidding' and a winkie face.

 

See?

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All this academia is making my frontal lobe spasm.

As for questions of a sequel... not for a while 'cause I have a bunch of stuff to attend to; most notably trying to get my novel published.
But if it pleases you I shall commit to write one *sometime* in the future.
Thank you for your interest.

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Hey ya'll, err... 'fans'?

I just watched the entire series of Firefly and the accompaning movie 'Serenity' for perhaps the fifteenth time. I love that series. It's funny that three of my all-time favourite TV Shows - Firefly, Cowboy Bebop, and Futurama - involve the exploits of a bunch of misfits floating around on a crappy old starship.
Anyhow, I got to thinking that it would be a hell cool thing to write a crossover with Futurama and Firefly. I just wasn't sure how well something like that would go down... is anyone else a Firefly fan?

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Well not a firefly fan but I enjoyed the film

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Well I'll see what I'm thinking next time I get in a writing mood. It seems like a great idea right now, but my mind has a habit of changing.

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Like your moods, from big tough guy, to sweet shippy guy

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Sometimes in the space of a single sentence. I'm just a conflicted guy. The shrink called it 'borderline personality disorder'... but I proved him.

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I call it confused but still...

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No I'm... doesn't.

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Okay, here comes fun. It'll be a while before I start posting it 'cause I wanna do a few pictures first, but I have started another fanfic... actually a lot sooner than I intended to. It's recently become blatantly obvious to me (after a few more manuscript rejections) that I'm never gonna be able to make any kind of living off my writing as it's evidently somewhat lacking. I've set my novel manuscript on fire and watched it burn - two years it took me to write, and nobody will ever read it. Hooray.
Anyway. So now there's no reason why I shouldn't piss my mediocre talent away on geekish fanfiction that'll never earn me a red cent and disappear into the internet to be forgotten. It's a distraction at least, and fun for a fleeting moment.
SO - I was thinking a Futurama/Firefly crossover but decided against - there'll be too many characters. Instead I'm gonna do a sequel to this one, which will be a fairly Bender-heavy story which will partly adapt events in an episode of Firefly (Jaynestown) as a homage.
It's in the works. Beats opening my wrists anyway.

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Yayay another fanfic

Please don't mention open wrists
Thank god for doctors, I love life now

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Sorry to here about your manuscript, I've written a few stories myself and I know the frustration of self-criticizing one's own work.  I liked your first fanfic and I look forward to your 2nd

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I am hoping against hope that there might be a publishing executive on here... maybe... perhaps.... who might take pity on me. I've written a full-length action/thriller set in Russia in the post-9/11. It's deep and emotive and often quite witty; it has spatterings of science fiction, conspiracy theories... it's heavy with pathos, lovable characters, even a bit of romance, and it's a damn good read. I just can't find anyone in Australia willing to pick it up. Not for lack of trying... I'm just going out of my brain over it.
Anyone got any idea what I could do?

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Originally posted by coldangel_1:
I am hoping against hope that there might be a publishing executive on here... maybe... perhaps.... who might take pity on me. I've written a full-length action/thriller set in Russia in the post-9/11. It's deep and emotive and often quite witty; it has spatterings of science fiction, conspiracy theories... it's heavy with pathos, lovable characters, even a bit of romance, and it's a damn good read. I just can't find anyone in Australia willing to pick it up. Not for lack of trying... I'm just going out of my brain over it.
Anyone got any idea what I could do?

I know nothing about such things in Australia, but, in the US there’s the “Writers Guild of America.” Have you tried similar organizations there?
Or am I a day late and a dollar short, as usual?

Take this for what it’s worth:
Some years ago, I bumped into a writer who went on to work for “8 Simple Rules.” (If you’ve been living in a cave for the last several years, this was the show in which Katy Sagal co-starred with the late John Ritter) I don’t even remember the man’s name any more - but I remember what he said.
I quizzed him about what it takes to be a successful writer.
His answer surprised me, because it wasn’t “talent,” it was perseverance!
As best I can remember his words, it was “Perseverance... and talent helps too...”

ColdAngel, please... take this as the encouragement I intend.

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A good quote by Ernest Hemmingway I always think of when I try to write is "The first draft of anything is shit" I've written several stories that sometimes didn't work out but often led me to take certain elements from them and put them in other stories, and just remember the main reason you're doing it is to have a good time and try your best

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Yes. Thank you both. I do have a tendency to give up and martyr myself at the drop of a hat. Silly of me.
Nevertheless, perseverence or no; fun or no, there's still the issue of me not being able to pay the rent.

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Originally posted by coldangel_1:
Yes. Thank you both. I do have a tendency to give up and martyr myself at the drop of a hat. Silly of me.
Nevertheless, perseverence or no; fun or no, there's still the issue of me not being able to pay the rent.

Been there, done that, got the tee-shirt - it was way too small...
Southern California Aerospace industry.
'Nuff said.
It is unlikely that I can do anything to help you, but know that I'm pulling for you.
I presume you have or are looking for an interim job to pay the bills?

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Half-heartedly. I'm going through an interim 'don't care if I live or die' period. My main employer has given me three months off without pay because I lost my driver's licence and can't transport clients until January. I may be able to survive that time without seeking a temp job, or I may not. Don't really mind either way.

BTW: I started a new fanfic, called 'The Hero of Bot-any'.

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To cross-pollenate -
This fic now has a sequel:
 http://www.peelified.com/cgi-bin/Futurama/4-001405-1/

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After reading this, and knowing the last update of this thread was months ago, I felt it deserves a MAJOR bump..... Fullfilling what I wanted all along... Aside from another fanfic I read, this one was mezmerizing... Kudos to you, ColdAngel

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Thanks bro.

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Sadly, I don't have enough of an attention span for fanfic, but your illustrations are tops, and this part made me laugh:

“Space: the final frontier… These are the missions of the Starship… Planet Express ship. Its mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life, and new civilizations… to boldly go where no man has gone before… and deliver packages!”
“Who are you talking to, Fry?”

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Hate to ask this.... but do you have any more fanfics you might have made? Just got done reading "Hero of Botany", GENIUS, might I add  Or are these the only two you've done?

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I did some X-Files fanfics geological ages ago... they're still kicking around in my FanFiction.net account if you're at all interested. http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1181183/
I usually focus more on my own original stories though. Fanfic is just an occassional small amusement for me which I don't really put much effort into.

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Modest, modest, modest...

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Fanfic is just an occassional small amusement for me which I don't really put much effort into.

*sputters* Buh-buh-but -- what?
Are you kidding?  Little effort, yet great fics?
Yeah, make everyone else feel inferior, why don't you. 

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Oops...
Well, I didn't really mean it like that... Just that I don't devote a large portion of consciousness to fanfic as opposed to real literay works.

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Coldangel? I thought you left PEEL?

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Just stuck my head in briefly. Don't worry, I won't stay.

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Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?

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Which means what Xanfor?

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Originally posted by coldangel_1:
Just stuck my head in briefly. Don't worry, I won't stay.

Yeah, I don't understand really why you say that, bro, unless you're kidding around. Thanks to your work, I'm looking at Futurama in a whole different light, an awesome light. Of course, I hope I'm not being ignorant of other people's fanfics, but yours is by-far the best sequel to the final episode I've ever read. I've read other sequels, and found them rather appalling, tbh.. Hang around more, bro, and if you ever get bored, toss together more pics and stuff