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Also, as Remus already implied, Editors aren't really the people to get stuff published. Editors in publishing are handlers and points of contact at the best of times, and taskmasters and guard dogs at the worst of times. While knowing an Editor who likes your stuff would be a major help in getting published, the publishing houses I'm aware of have relatively rigid submission guidelines. Mostly to prevent accusations of idea theft and the like. None of which involve databases.

In fact, I'm quite unsure how a database would help with poetry unless you were setting it up as some piece of interactive artwork to correspond with your poetry book.

Best exchange ever.

Best explanation ever.

And this one always made me kinda sad.

I think it's hard to claim that Reincarnation is immoral in this setup. It's akin to claiming that condoms are immoral because they prevent the creation of new life. Yes, there actually are a few people condemning condoms in the real world, but in the main case it's because of having sex for pleasure rather than procreation being considered immoral. It's impossible to judge things that haven't happened yet, or their prevention on moral grounds because no-one can imagine the consequences in their entirety. I'm sure no-one would have minded if Hitler's parents had used condoms, but that's hindsight.

The only thing that is known is that the soul not reincarnating will truly vanish from this world. In that sense, I'd imagine that souls considered valuable would actually be encouraged to reincarnate rather than discouraged. Who wouldn't like Beethoven or Van Gogh or Jimi Hendrix to come back in some form?

I can't really get behind this. I mean, see above with regard to subgenres of music. But if it has lead breaks, it's not punk. Especially the examples the site gives for Black Metal are IMO clearly in a metal tradition, not in a punk one.

Gah, the more I look at it, the more I find wrong. Power Metal from Speed Metal? Death Metal from Thrash? Is Folk Metal even on this map, cause I haven't been able to find it. It's cute, and I'm sure it was a whole lot of work... but... yeah.

I really don't like categorizing music overly much. I call everything with guitar riffs rock and leave others to marvel whether it's Hard Rock, True Metal or Grindcore. That said, if I really wanted to get down to basics, I'd have to disagree with a lot of this. Black Metal derives from hardcore punk? Srsly?

And I resent the term 'Rap Metal' for Crossover (never mind that the entry doesn't mention pioneers D.R.I. and Suicidal Tendencies), but that's neither here nor there.

I'm in the 'no Ledger' camp simply because I still hated his performance, though the script was probably more to blame for how it came about than Ledger himself.

Peter needs to buy off that DNPC Disad. You'd think he'd have gotten enough points by now.

1) Snowmen aren't a Christmas tradition, they're a 'it's snowing, let's do **** with it' tradition.

2) If he's never seen snowmen with genitalia, he doesn't get out much.

Never mind Mark Strong as Septimus.

Though I can't for the life of me find Ricky Gervais funny. Even just telling jokes he botches the delivery on every punchline. Then again, he gets killed so all was good for me.

I demand Robin be made Pakistani to add even more colour to the team.

Jakeem Thunder is the first one I can think of. Natasha Irons as well as Black Lightning's daughters, Thunder and Lightning are the other ones that spring to my mind right away. They're all 2nd generation or legacy heroes.

And Luke Cage is a Marvel character :P

Finally got around to taking a look at this and all I can say is WTF?

Blaqualad? What was wrong with Garth?

Yes, alternate Earth, yadda yadda, but this doesn't do justice (meh, no pun) to either Young Justice or the Titans. Points for using the Mike Grell look on Ollie, though, but that's about the only positive thing I can say. Other than 'it looks better than Teen Titans' but really, I can't think of anything worse than Teen Titans, so that's hardly a compliment.

Oddly, I expected this to be about Francis Bacon.

Am I the only one thinking that Mark Valley is starting to look like Mel Gibson as he matures?

I really haven't got a clue. Back in the day while I was still in college, I was working security on the weekends to keep myself afloat. After some really nice cartoons they'd eventually show Buffy on the telly. Which still beat watching informercials, so I'd watch it. I just remember random bits here and there.

I'm pretty sure I've even seen entire episodes where Spike did nothing but pine over Buffy. In a very unmanly way. I've no idea when exactly that was in continuity, mind you.

I haven't read all of this, but I don't think it's that hard. Incarnates channel the power of a divine entity. A guy with a gun getting even better could for example channel an entity concerned with warfare such as Ares or Tyr to develop an advanced grasp of the flow of battle, allowing them to foresee events and act before they even happen. Shoot at where people will be when your bullets get there, as it were. Alternatively, they could channel an entity concerned with crafts such as Exael or Wayland Smith to build a better gun. Hell, they could channel an entity signifying dance such as Huehuecoyotl or Michael Flatley to become a dervish raining down bullets.

Whatever floats your boat. I only regret that Tartarus is already spoken for cause he'd be the perfect fit for my main who deals in... repurposing souls. (And it's really a bad fit for Recluse anyhow. Recluse should have been Prometheus considering his agenda.)