New Year's Eve

The Magical Kingdom books span over a full year; from January 1st to December 31st. Every year, there is a dash for chapters. This year, I added 12 chapters to the usual 36 chapters. It would be a feat to finish all that in time for New Year's.

This morning, I woke up at 6:30 and wrote for five hours without stopping. Insane, I know.

Now it is lunch time, and I have finished the very last chapter, The kingdom for S & E 48.

Stats will follow once I regain conciousness.

Edit:

Stats have been figured out.

All of that, in one year.

*goes into shock so hard my brain explodes*

Happy New Year, my friends and readers. Happy New Year.

Spider

There was a giant spider crawling up and down the wall of my desk. I made a scary face. It ran under one of my drawings taped to the wall.

I ran to find a weapon.

I came back.

The spider was gone.

I set my Google Talk status to officially freaked out, and then ran to find my mom. I came back.

There was still no spider.

Mom and I searched and then mom went back to bed. I glanced at my desk nervously and then opened a Word doc to write.

A few minutes passed, no more, and something big and black fell off the ceiling and practically hit me in the head.

"AAIIEEEEEE!!!" *pencils, earbuds, and blanket go flying*

...

Now I'm sitting on the couch, watching my desk out of the corner of my eye, paranoid about giant spiders. And it's not even seven in the morning yet.

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas, my dear readers.

A Random Post

My Mom: Oh no, we forgot to get candy canes for the tree!
Me: Whaaaat??
My Mom: There was only one box at the store, and we didn't grab it....
Me: Then go to a different store!

Merry Christmas, dear readers. Over the last weekend, I have finished this year's Christmas special. For those of you who did not recieve it through email, I will post it up onto my blog on the 24th (two days, wheee!)

I think that's all for now. Oh, here, have a pic I drew with Paint.

Nessah or Rayon?

A few months ago, I posed a semi-important question to my group of readers: who was cooler, Nessah or Rayon? (Your opinion doesn't count right now, Silvermist. I know you're going to say Rayon and continue to say Rayon no matter what my argument is.)

Here are some pictures/descriptions for Nessah and Rayon:

Nessah Wildsom

He is a king, warrior, father, husband, half wolf man, and artist. At his best, he is gentle, supportive of his friends and family, and thoughtful. At his worst, he is vicious, rowdy, and bloodthirsty. He was invented in the fifth S & E chapter in the first book, more than four years ago. He has undergone hundreds of changes, but taken them all with ease.

Quirk: I don't know if I originally spelled his name 'Nessah' or 'Nesah'. I'll never know for sure.

Rayon Hunter

Like Nessah, Rayon is also a king, warrior, husband, and father. (In fact, secretly, Rayon is based off of Nessah, but you're not supposed to know that. [Oh, whoops. Now you do.]) Rayon is also a half lion man. At his best, he is eager, curious, heroic, and social. At his worst, he is reclusive, aggressive, and dangerous. Rayon was invented in a freewrite during November 2009. I never anticipated some of the things Rayon went through, but overall they have turned him into a much stronger character than I thought.

Quirk: Rayon loves ice cream.

So, readers, tell me which one you like more, or post some comments/arguments below. Remember to be nice when you argue, ok? Ok.

EDIT:

Ok. Nessah's winning. Go ahead and give a killer argument, Silver! ;)

A Plea for Help

All right, everyone. I am currently working on a submission for the school magazine and I need to use my writing skills to their full. I have decided to go for a humor short story; after all, not many school magazines have much humor in them any more.

I need some help. This current idea is slowly starting to fail. It is extraordinarily difficult to write an assigned story; even with a cast like mine. So, do you have any ideas, readers?

The requirements for this story:

-Two Pages (More or Less)

-Due by January

-I want humor

Thanks!

Coming Soon...

This year for Christmas, I'm not going to be writing a Christmas special.

Instead I will be making an animated movie.

Here are some of the 50+ drawings I have been working on for the movie:

I can't wait. ^^

This is What I May or May Not Look Like

Some of you are wondering... who on earth am I? You probably think I'm a disembodied voice from Pittsburgh. Or you may think I look like the little green guy in my profile pic.

I hate to disappoint you, but that is not what I look like. I have glasses.

I do have several drawings I did of myself. Here is one drawing with an expression I have regularly.

Or:

That second one would be my sleep-deprived face.

I also have a face for ranting:

That one was from a comic I drew.

So, now you may have an idea of what I look like. Not this, at any rate.

A Night Off

A night off! Finally!

Random Post

Hey, I know I should probably do a post over the weekend, but I'm exhausted from a bad cold. So, here's a random post for you, and a picture.

A good caption would be, 'I am going to stare at your kneecaps until they burst into flames and melt'.

Actually, no. This is from the Christmas Special 2011, which I am going to go finish writing the script for.

Have a nice day!

December 1st

Today is December first, as you all know. Today isn't a special year mark or anything. However, it does mean that November is over and won't be coming back for another year.

I'm kind of depressed about this. I have to wait several more months for the next NaNoWriMo; I am also now diving into the dark wintery months. I'm also still coming to terms with the fact that I have finals this year.



Ahem.

However, despite the lack of November, I do have some things to look forwands to. This month is Christmas! I'm hoping for a pair of fingerless gloves. Thoughts?

Another thing I'm looking forward to is in four days... December 5th, the official year mark for my stories! On December 5th, I will have been writing with this team for four years in a row.

So, until then... I will mourn the loss of November. And do this:

Silver: Random question
Me: Shoot.
Silver: *BANG*
Me: *die*

Harret

As many of you may know, I have many internet aliases. Most of these are names of my characters, the Magical World Warriors. (I keep linking to that page, I know. It's because you really should look at it.)

One of my most-used aliases is Harret, or something close to it. For example, here is what goes on with one site under the alias Harret:

Now, as you may have noticed... Harret has a Facebook page.

So, instead of this:

People on the web will now be seeing more of this:

You're welcome.

Rayon's Theme

Hello everyone! I would like some opinions. For each of my characters, I have selected a theme song. Normally this is easy. However, Rayon proves to be giving me trouble. I have several songs I would like to have his theme be.

So, you decide. Below are several canidates for Rayon's theme. Comment and tell me which one you think works.










(Note... if at first they don't load, try refreshing the page.)

Validation

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!

EDIT: I just finished printing it out. This, friends, is what a manuscript looks like printed out. This is also what I'm going to take to youth group and wave around in everyone's faces.



I am also proud to announce that my kid sister has just finished her novel for the Young Writers Program. I'm really proud of her. She's not a crazed lunatic like I am, but she still managed to write.

Happy Birthday Diamond Realm

Today is the first birthday of the Diamond Realm Series. They are a team that are not unlike the Magical World Warriors, and played a big part in this year's NaNoWriMo novel.

To celebrate the Warriors of the Diamond Realm, I have finally made a book cover for their story! Here it is:

Happy Birthday, Diamond Realm!

Checklist for October - January

My busiest writing months are between late October and early January. Here is a check list of what I've accomplished so far and what I want to accomplish:


-Write Hilarious Halloween Special (done, and I have not looked at it since)

-Finish first Heroicits Chapter (done! It was a two parter, too!)

-Do Last-Minute Brainstorming for Epic NaNoNovel (done!)

-Start NaNoNovel (done!)

-Finish NaNoNovel (done, in seven days!)

-Glory over NaNoNovel (done!)

-Launch Heroicits Chapters and Celebrate Year Mark (done!)

-Try to Remember Diamond Realm First Year Mark, which is on November 23rd

-Print out NaNoNovel, take it to youth group, and wave it around in everyone's faces

-Thanksgiving Special?

-Plan something epic for Magical Kingdom Fourth Year Mark (December 5th) that Will Blow Everyone's Minds to Mars

-Work on Special Thingee for Christmas Special

-Finish up the entire Magical Kingdom Book Five by/on December 31st

-Finish first Heroicits Book in Series Three by the end of January

-Start Magical Kingdom Book Six (SIX!? whoaaaa....) in the first week of January

-Sleep.


I'd better get cracking! x)

A Scary Pumpkin (The Fate Of)

In my post A Scary Pumpkin, I showed pictures of the annoying Frg Face pumpkin. Well, anyone who's ever read a story with Frg, or any comics with Frg knows that Frg is annoying.

The fate of the Frg Face pumpkin was this:

It had it coming.



Happy [Late] Birthday, Heroicits

Yesterday, as you all know, was November ninth. For most, it was just another Wednesday. However, it was also the Heroicits second year mark. And I utterly forgot about it because I had youth group, which always throws me off.

Anyhow, this post is in honor of the Heroicits year mark. Following Far Fetched and Beyond tradition, I will be posting an excerpt from the first Heroicits chapter of this new series.

"...“Take this, scum!” Obernon shouted, jabbing the sword directly at Rayon’s chest. Rayon leapt backwards. The tip of the sword narrowly brushed past his front, and Rayon backed into the table that the fairy council had their meetings on. Rayon jumped onto the very edge of the table. The other end popped into the air because Rayon’s weight had thrown it off.

            “Don’t say things like that,” Rayon answered calmly, having suddenly gotten an idea, “You might get mobbed by angry fangirls.”

            Rayon dodged another swipe. With one motion from his back legs, Rayon had leapt clear into the air. Rayon flipped his sword around and sheathed it quickly; he would need both hands for this stunt. Rayon grabbed onto an overhanging rafter, looking down at Obernon from the ceiling.

            “You can’t stay up there!” Obernon shouted, spreading his wings, “I can fly, remember??”

            “Yeah, I was wondering about that. Do your have a pilot’s license for those?” Rayon grinned. He dropped down off the ceiling, aiming for the table. Obernon had backed up a pace so that he could fly up to the rafters. He was surprised to see Rayon intentionally falling.

            Rayon crashed into the end of the table. One arm went up to protect his head, and the other reached out to grab the table edge. The table flipped upwards and came crashing down, bottom up, on top of Rayon and more importantly Obernon.

            “Ack!” Obernon shouted as the wooden table smacked him clean in the head. Rayon jumped out from under the table, barely winded at all. Rayon delivered a punch to the fairy servant, a salute to the fairies that were loyal to him, and then charged out the door whooping.

            “Well,” Lunette commented with a small giggle, “I think he’s cute.”

            Outside…

            Sara was just approaching the meeting place when she saw Rayon come charging out of it, jump on his horse, and ride off in a hurry. Sara hesitated, her blond hair blowing softly around her. She turned in mid air, watching as Rayon’s horse galloped away from the building.

            Obernon stumbled over to the entrance of the building, waving a fist in the air and shouting, “Curse you, Rayon Hunter! Curse you! You will soon learn the consequences of disobeying my will!”

            Rayon pulled back on the reigns. His horse turned so that Rayon could look back at Obernon. Rayon pulled back on the reigns again and the horse reared up, front legs kicking, as Rayon roared back, “If you want this kingdom, you’ll have to kill me first!” Rayon jabbed his heels into his horse’s flanks and the horse galloped off.

            “Oh, lovely,” thought Sara...."

Copyright 2011-2012 by LE. All rights reserved. Srictly enforced by the flying ninja monkeys.

Happy two year mark!

A Novel in a Month? Nope.

Well, dear readers, I have been doing some thinking. You know how the NaNoWriMo challenge is to do a novel in a month? Well, I've been writing a lot, and... I'm not going to write a novel in a month.
Today is the seventh day of NaNoWriMo, and I have typed the 49,999th word of my novel. Forget writing a novel in a month! I just wrote a novel in a week.

The reason for the sudden spurt of activity is because of my Cousin. Cousin and I have been competitive for a while now, and an unspoken challenge started between us about halfway through our novels. Neither of us said a word to each other, but we continued writing. Soon it was a race to see who could write fifty thousand words first.

I honestly do not know who won.

I purposely stopped myself at 49,999 to wait for my friend, Silver, as always. Despite how competitive I may get with Cousin, I always keep Silver in mind. Well, I entered in '49999' into the box at the top of the NaNoWriMo page, and checked to see where Cousin was. Cousin was at 50k.

We either tied, or I won, or she won. It doesn't really matter much to me now. The important thing is that I'm going to wait up for Silver, because I know that friendship matters over glory.

As for Cousin, well... congrats to her, and well done.

Here's some screen shots I did (click to see them bigger) :

Dear Friend

Dear Friend,
About a week ago, you chatted me up over the I.M. and told me that you didn't like the way things were going in your life. You told me that you kind of didn't want to be alive any more. You had too much work to do, too many people getting on your case... you scared me, Friend. For a moment there, I thought I might lose you.
When we both logged off that night, I grabbed some candy and drew a picture for you. I began searching out an envelope so I could send you some happiness. Unfortunately, I found out that we didn't have any stamps left. I was forced to wait.
I told you multiple times about how much you mean to me. So, this post is for you. Friend, the next time you get down in the dumps like that, think about the fun moments. Think about the rubber spiders, the funny stories, the life-sized paper Frg, the novels we've written side by side, the piano recordings we send to each other, and those epic drawings.
Sooner or later, I have to get blood work done. When I told you about this, you were upset. You were afraid of what would happen if the doctors found something bad. Do not worry, Friend! I will always be here to log on and talk to you. Even if the doctors do find something bad, I will survive. I'm more likely to die from falling out of a canoe than if they find something bad in my blood. Think about it. Makes sense.
Note: I've already fallen out of a canoe before, and I lived, so no worries. (Such wonderful memories of camp....)
Friend, remember our farewell? Stay safe, be awesome, and remember that I love you with all my spleen? Well, think about that for a moment. Stay safe. That's an obvious one; staying safe, and returning without getting hurt or hospitalized. Be awesome. You're an epic, awesome friend. When you go places, hold yourself with high self-esteem. You're awesome. Keep it in mind. The last bit: I love you with all my spleen.

Nuff said.
Love,
-LE

Ps. You're going to receive a big envelope in the mail soon. Be wary of rubber spiders. >x)

Geeks Unite

This is my 42nd post on this blog. It is also a Thursday. Eek, a geek!

I am a big fan of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy. That alone should make me a geek. I could probably go on and on about the millions of ways I'm a geek, but that would be much too long for a blog post.

Instead, I wish to say- geeks, be proud of your geekdom! I'm proud of my geekiness, and if you're a geek, you should be too! I mean, who else can happily say that they've read all five HHGTTG books? That they looked up a site for translating words to binary just so that they can set their status to: 01000100 01101001 01100100 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01101011 01101110 01101111 01110111 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100001 01110100 00100000 01101001 01101110 00100000 01101000 01100101 01111000 01101001 01100100 01100101 01100011 01101001 01101101 01100001 01101100 00100000 01100110 01101111 01110010 01101101 00101100 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01101100 01100101 01110100 01110100 01100101 01110010 00100000 01000010 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000 00110100 00110010 00111111 ?

Heh. Well anyway, geeks unite! We will someday rule the world together, because we do geeky things!

That is all.

November First

*collapse*

Random Post

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHOOOOOIEEEEEEEEEEEEE

...Sorry, had to get that out of my system.

Burs

NaNoWriMo starts on Tuesday, so don't expect any sane posts then.

...

In fact, don't expect any sane posts on this blog at all.

Today I'm going to blog about an incident that happened last summer. Sometime near late summer, I got a summer job watering an elderly couple's plants because they were on vacation.

They lived about a mile from my house. Every day in the morning, I would ride my bike over there, water their plants (they had a miniature garden on their back porch), pick any ripe tomatoes I saw, and bike back home.

On Sundays, my parents would drive me over to water the plants. After I did that, we would go to our church services.

I was wearing an extraordinarily soft skirt that day. I loved how soft and warm it was. Well, I went and watered the neighbor's plants that day. While I was trying to get to the spicket, my skirt got caught on the bushes. I tugged it away and went about my job.

When the meeting started in church that day, I felt something irritating my legs. I looked down and picked a small green thing off of my skirt. It appeared to be a bur. Something dawned on me. I examined my skirt completely, and realized there were dozens of little green burs stuck to the soft fabric. It was like Velcro.

Thus, that is how I spent the entire church service picking burs off my skirt.

Character Personality Quiz

Hello hello hello! I recently wrote up a quiz that's for you readers to take! Have you ever wondered which one of the Magical World Warriors you're like?

No?

Well look at this anyway.

What to Do: Take the quiz and pick one (1) answer for each question. Write the letter of the answer down on a seperate sheet of paper. When you're done, see how you compare to the list at the bottom! Whichever letter you picked the most is the character you're most like. (Dur.)

Have fun.

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1.) You have some free time all to yourself. What do you do?

           

A. Find someone to pester.

B. Practice on a musical instrument or singing.

C. Read quietly.

D. Nap.

E. Write.

F. Work out. Weightlifting, jogging, or another physical activity.

G. Meditate.

H. Spend as long as I can on the Internet.

2.) One of your friends decides to go camping and invites you to come. What is your reaction?

A. Sure! Any chance to pester someone.

B. Certainly. I enjoy spending time outside.

C. Nah, I’d rather stay home.

D. Awesome! Lemme go get packed!

E. …Will I be able to write?

F. Probably, but I’ll have to check with [family member].

G. Sorry, I have other duties that must come first.

H. It’s going to rain if I go camping! Plus there’s probably no WiFi.

3.) Said camping trip ends badly. How do you react?

A. Well, at least I got to pester people.

B. It’s all right… I mean, look at the bright side!

C. I told you so.

D. I had fun anyway.

E. I could’ve spent that time writing!

F. Ugh.

G. Perhaps next time will be better…

H. There wasn’t any WiFi!

4.) You have a chance to participate in a competition of your choice. What is it?

A. A making faces competition!

B. A race, on foot.

C. A boxing match.

D. An acrobatics match!

E. Word war. I will pwn.

F. A sword fight. On guard!

G. A dance off.

H. A virtual competition via the Internet.

5.) One of your enemies is insulting you, what do you do?

A. Prank him. See who’s laughing now!

B. No one insults me. They know better.

C. HE WILL DIE!

D. One punch is all it takes. They know I’m superior.

E. That enemy won’t be laughing when I grab my friends.

F. For his sake, his legs had better be as fast as his tongue is.

G. My enemies will never stand up to my might.

H. I will kill him via the Internet.

6.) You’re shopping at the store when you see a lady drop twenty dollars on the floor. She doesn’t notice and begins to walk away. What do you do?

A. I’M RICH!

B. Pick up the money and give it back to her.

C. I’m too busy keeping [Name] from trying to pull a get-rich-quick scheme.

D. Miss! You dropped twenty dollars! Here you go.

E. I bet I could buy some nice stuff with this, but I should do what’s right and give it back to her.

F. Give it back to her. It’s what’s right.

G. Naturally, I give it back to her. It’s her money, and in times like these every dollar counts.

H. I shop on Ebay.

7.) You’re walking along the street when a man steals your bag and runs off. What do you do?

A. Have fun with the rubber ducks, whoopee cushions, and other assorted junk, you creep!

B. Chase him, catch him, and send him to the proper authorities.

C. I will kick him in the face.

D. Mr. Robber, meet my black belt….

E. Hey! Bring back my notebook and pencils, jerk!

F. I’d like to see him try.

G. Call the police.

H. I don’t carry a bag.

8.) You have been invited to a formal dance.

A. ACK!

B. I’d love to go!

C. No.

D. Ehhh… formal means I have to dress up nice for once… I dunno.

E. All right, but only if my friends go.

F. Sure! I’ll go find my special friend to go with me.

G. Well. It will be fun to drag along my special friend. I think I’ll go.

H. Will there be food?

9.) All your friends have decided to go jump off a bridge.

A. Sure!

B. I’ll be waiting at the bottom to help them to the hospital.

C. Yeah right.

D. I’m the one that suggested we jump off a bridge.

E. Errrrrrrmmm… maybe we should think this one over, friends.

F. I’ll catch my friends when they jump.

G. Oh no. Not this again.

H. Bombs away!

10.) Your best friend catches a cold, what do you do?

A. Wear a gas mask.

B. Give my friend chicken noodle soup and lots of tissues.

C. Visit a bit, but not too much. I don’t want to get sick too.

D. Talk to them and keep them entertained while they’re bored and sick.

E. Write them a story and give it to them to read.

F. Help in any way I can.

G. Do chores for them so that when they recover, things aren’t piled up.

H. Instant message them. I won’t get sick then!

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All right, now that you've got your answers, here's who's who!

A. Frg

B. Snow

C. Rachel

D. Rayon

E. Sandra

F. Nessah

G. Sara

H. Harret

What I Do in My Free Time

On Saturdays, sometimes I actually get a break from stories, classes, and other such things. That is when I chat with my friend Silver.

Today we had a crazy chat (that was perfectly normal by our standards), and I decided to post some of it on here for your amusement.

Disclaimer: I'm not actually trying to kill her.
...Or am I?
You'll have to see for yourself.

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Me: what happened to all the granola?

  <.<

  >.>

 Silver: :x

  I eated it.

 Me: You did??

  *pull out dagger*

  I'm sorry, Silver

 Silver: I was hungry!

 Me: but it was granola

 Silver: *plead for mercy*

 Me: *slowly approach with dagger*

 Silver: brb

 Me: k

Silver: back

 Me: hi

  so anyhoo

*continue approaching with dagger*

 Silver: *quickly write will*

 Me: you have eaten my granola!

  you shall Pay!

 Silver: I needed it for scientific purposes!

  to save the woooorld!

 Me: what do you mean?

 Silver: I...

  uh...

  well

  you know how it is.

 Me: well, yeah

Silver: so you can't blame me

 Me: but still

 *pin you to the ground*

 Silver: Dx

  I'll!

  Um

  Make it up to you!

 Me: say yer prayers, wabbit!

 Silver: I know how to make cupcakes!

  and banana bread!

  and muffins!

 Me: well....

 Silver: and cake!

 Me: it's not granola

  *brandish knife*

 Silver: I can make granola? *stabbing at possiblities, no pun intended*

Me: *Rayon runs in* "Stop, thou shalt not slay the fair maiden!"

 Silver: yay my knight in... a tunic!

 Me: "Actually, a king, but you've got the right idea."

  *Rayon kicks the knife away*

Silver: *I roll out of the way*

  aiiiee

 Me: "I am a fierce warrior and mighty hunter!" *he says to me*

  ...

  "Meooooow!"

  a demon!

*I run*

 Silver: *I snortify*

  thank you, O king!

  *I kiss his shoes*

  yech

 Me: "Err... don't do that."

Silver: muddy

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Heh. x)

A Scary Pumpkin

Halloween is just around the corner. So, last night, my youth group decided to carve pumpkins. I looked at the designs, and then decided I could do one even scarier than the ones in the book. Here's what my pumpkin looked like in the end:

Not scary? Well then look at this picture I did.

Now look at the pumpkin again.

You should be scared now.

Number One Fandom

In my Introduction to my Cast post, I made a note about Rayon being the most popular with the readers and fans. This is true. Way back when the Far Fetched and Beyond blog was a simple thread on a school forum, I had a poll asking which character from the series everyone liked the best.

Rayon was the winner. Most people chose two, but Rayon was always one of those two. This was probably because most of my readers were female. This picture is basically describing what Rayon was and is like:

One reader in particular rose above the others. This was Silvermist, a spunky Writer and artist who had decided that she was Rayon's Number One Fan. It wasn't long before Silvermist and another reader, Swiftflame, were arguing over who was The Number One Fan of Rayon. I was playing middle man the whole time, and recorded the whole conversation.

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Swift: Oh no, I'm Rayon's top fan from infinity and back! Infinity and beyond! And more than she can ever say. ;>) You copied what I said about being his fan to the chat you were having with Silver? This is gonna be good. Let's see what she says to this. But I'm Rayon's biggest fan.

Silver: The problem is that I am The Rayon Fan with capital letters. No, make that, The Number One Rayon Fan, with capital letters as well. That makes me, officially, Rayon's Number One Fan. Impossibility stands between Swift and I, so that's that. As Rozar would say it: "I is the fan."

Swift: Now, the thing is, I'm Rayon's Number One Fan, to put it very simply, and there's no point in arguing about it, as I am Rayon's Number One Fan, in bold and italics and capital letters and Technicolor.

Silver: Technicolor is cool, but it doesn't make you The Number One Fan of Rayon. That tile belongs, unarguable (as before stated) to me. So, all said and done, you can be The Number Two Fan of Rayon. I'm sure it'll be fine with Rayon either way.

Swift: Yeah, Technicolor is cool. ;>) Okay, Number Two Fan is fine. It just sounds kinda weird. As for being fine with Rayon... I have no idea. Yeah, I was thinking about that. Good point. But he asked first! *Grin*

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Now, readers, it's your turn! Do you think you deserve a chance to battle Silver and claim the role of Rayon's Number One Fan?

...'Cause I tried, and it didn't work.

(Note- when I pasted in the argument the text went a little funky. I don't have time to fight with it, so here's the post. Maybe later I'll come back and work with it more. Anyhoo, enjoy!)