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We’ve definitely sneered at this before, i do not recall if it was known that KP was the cowriter in this weird forum RP fic
E: googling “lintamande kelsey piper” and looking at a reddit post digs up the inactive since 2018 AO3. A total just shy of 130k words, a little marvel stuff, most of it LOTR based, and some of it tagged “Vladmir Putin/Sauron”. How fun!
No judgement from me, tbh. Fanfic be fanficking. I aint gonna read that shit tho.
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E: we didn’t fucking know
Not sure if anybody noticed the last time, but so they get isekayed into a DND world, which famously runs on some weird form of fantasy feudalism and they expect a random high int person to rule the country somehow? What in the primogenitor is this stuff, you can't just think yourself into being a king, that is one of the issues with monarchies.
E: ah no they are in a totalitarian state ruled by the literal forces of hell, places that totally praise merit based upwards mobility.
Hey, write what you know
An encounter of this sort is what drove Lord Vetinari to make a scorpion pit for mimes, probably.
For all of the 2.2 seconds I have spent wondering who Yud's coauthor on that was, I vaguely thought that it was Aella. I don't know where I might have gotten that impression from. A student paper about fanfiction identified "lintamande" as Kelsey Piper in 2013.
I tried reading the forum roleplay thing when it came up here, and I caromed off within a page. I made it through this:
And I got to about here:
... before the "what the fuck is this fucking shit?" intensified beyond my ability to care.
Yeah I couldn't find the strength to even get to the naughty stuff, I gave up after one or two chapters. And I've read through all of HPMOR. 😐
I'm hard-pressed to think of anything else I have tried to read that was comparably impenetrable. At least when we played "exquisite corpse" parlor games on the high-school literary magazine staff, we didn't pretend that anything we improvised had lasting value.