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    Master of Wood, Water and Hill (The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings)

    Yep. There was a dog that Tolkien wrote about, called Roverandom. I played a bit, though, with the level of sentience allowed to animals on Arda.
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    What are your most hated fanfic tropes

    You can totally have an agricultural revolution in Westeros though. And I disagree some about the industrial revolution too, it's like people forgot it all happened during the victorian age. Industry is a lot more than guns and smoking factories. Textiles will incentivise a certain level of...
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    Master of Wood, Water and Hill (The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings)
    Threadmarks: The Secret Hearth – 2: Propriety Boasts the Singer of Home and Hearth

    A/N: With this, the Shadow of the Movies has finally been vanquished. If I never get back to this, at least this is a good place to leave it. The Secret Hearth – 2: Propriety Boasts the Singer of Home and Hearth "-. .-" Bilbo watched the barrow-wight flutter like a sibilant curtain when...
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    Fandoms you'd like to see more fanfiction for?

    Good books don't get fanfic because they don't need it. People mostly write fanfic when they think something in the story is missing or done wrong. They do it for closure more than anything else. On that note, Lord of the Rings is a false positive. The book is literally the most sold book in...
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    Automatically concatenate posts without intervening users.

    Yes, if a necromancy alert and a 'this post is too short' alert are possible, this should also be possible. There's already a 'who replied' button, this functionality shouldn't be too different from that. That said, I don't think it's a big enough problem to require anything done about it at...
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    What are your most hated fanfic tropes

    You just described Sony's Spider-Man 2. But I otherwise agree with everything you said. Yeah, it's especially sad when one crossover is perfect to fill a world-building gap of the other setting. Conversely, Highschool DxD is basically a massive multi-crossover already, but most people...
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    What if Robb received some Rag Tag Reinforcements?

    Robb's problem was never the army. He won every battle, and was winning the war. His only 'mistake' was accepting responsibility for protecting the Riverlands. What he really needs is for someone to take away Tywin Lannister's Cerebro-level telepathy and Atreides-level prescience that enabled...
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    NSFW CRW Subforum for new fics

    Yeah, I'd rather we have less regulation, not more. It's not like old or dead fics crowd out the new ones, that's why they're filtered by update date.
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    Question regarding the new UK law

    I was under the impression that the USA was passing or preparing to pass a similar law, dare I hope I'm completely wrong about that? The EU too.
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    Video Games General

    Planescape Torment beats everything before and after when it comes to story, and characters too, but it's an isometric RPG so you'll have to decide if you can get over the low resolution (the art style is amazing though, with hand-drawn maps). Baldur's Gate 1 and especially 2 are also good...
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    Moderator Applications - 2025 Edition

    Consequences never mattered anywhere else, real or hypothetical. Wherever they got mod powers, their sort got their way. AH, SV, SB, everywhere. Porn isn't some magical shield against that track record. And I disagree that this should be hidden in the rants thread. I consider this a most...
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    Moderator Applications - 2025 Edition

    They didn't like SB either, that's why they changed it to what it is now.
  13. Karmic Acumen

    Moderator Applications - 2025 Edition

    Are there any measures in place to prevent SB mods or their groupies from gaining power here?
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    What are your most hated fanfic tropes

    No, you know exactly what you did.
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    What are your most hated fanfic tropes

    Goal shifting, typical.
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