User:Tolkienfan

"I read the news today, oh boy

Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire

And though the holes were rather small

They had to count them all

Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall"

-Day in the Life by The Beatles

Want to talk to me? I now have a forum mailbox I'll be checking daily (or every hour or so on weekends). Unless you want to correct my college spiel, use that rather than the discussion page. Thanks.

IMPORTANT:

For the next little while, I'm concentrating on moving all, and I mean all, of my Scratch CCRP content onto the wiki. Check the forums for the reasons for this. Until I've completely finished this, I'm unlikely to be responsive either on the wiki or on Scratch. Right now I'm moving everyone's CCRP books to the wiki- see CCRP Writing for updates on this subproject.

Once I've done this, I'm moving accounts on Scratch. I'm sad this had to happen, but I have my 100 followers and will have to sooner or later. I possess a highly active altnet, so I can't just leave, but lots of my secret alts will also be banned if I am, so I'll have to come clean about how many of them are me and relocate to one central location (I'd move them all separately, but if they all move around the same time that would be suspicious).

Also I've just started my first year at college (if you want the obligatory spiel on the differences between education systems in Australia and North America, that's what the discussions page is for) so I won't be able to spend as much time on even this as I could during the summer holidays.

Also, does anyone know if you're allowed to submit a ban appeal for an account you don't own? Because if so, and everyone in CCRP submits a (politely worded and logical) appeal, we might get ST to actually notice what the situation is. As with the now months-old studio updates I still doubt they'd actually do anything about it, but it'd make it much harder for them to ignore, and I at least would feel a lot better about everything because of that.

On the Wiki I primarily edit pages. I write stuff about my country, New Canciona, in CCRP II; I correct details about my previous country, the RCM, which has since changed ownership; I write on behalf of @Teppic and @Ptraci, previous owners of Inutilia before the split; and I correct grammar, spelling and punctuation on other people's pages, being pedantic about such things.

If you want your country to have a complicated history but can't be bothered writing one, I'll do it for you.

I'm working on being more responsive on the wiki, because right now it's looking like we may have to move. Still, I suggest you don't talk to me here. I'm open to discussion at my profile on Scratch by the same name; if I'm not active there, I'm probably not active here either.

Spooky knowledge
Confession: The cartographer, -Hannibal-Barca-, is my younger sibling, so I've seen bits of the map while he was working on it.

I saw Imo Mundi, and the original three continents (or four if you count Canciona). Because of this unfair advantage, I've taken an unofficial solemn oath NOT to colonise Imo Mundi; that's not fair on other players, who unlike me haven't even the haziest idea of what sorts of resources are there.

I have NOT seen the rest of the map; there could be hundreds of new continents for all I know.

What I've done and am doing on the wiki
Most importantly, I'm on the Move CCRP To The Wiki team.

At the moment I'm finishing off the history of Solis, and correcting the grammar and punctuation on the existing article. (I need to get on with this. I started in January, and also have Universia on my Write Histories list.)

I've also done an extensive history of Inutilia; due to the recent founding of New Canciona it has no history, or I'd write one of that as well. Really, I think I can be rightfully added to the list of rightful owners of Inutilia. Teppic and Ptraci founded it, Epilson_Omega (--Spy1--, I think) maintains it, but I gave it a history, and said history changes the whole character of the country, to the point where I almost know it better than my own. I also created the History category.

I'm writing Operation Spider Crab on WordPad, and copy-pasting it into Scratch and the wiki.

Fictia basically promoted me for doing so much of the work on history, and the funny bit was that none of it related to my own country except the Silver Wars, and even then indirectly.

Big Plans
I'm about to begin an extremely ambitious project of doing at least a sketch, and preferably an in-glorious-colour, drawing of EVERY SINGLE INUTILIAN MONARCH and loading photos of them all onto the History of Inutilia page. Given what my art style is like, especially how for some reason I can't draw male people very well without an actual photo in front of me, it's likely that they'll all look pretty much the same apart from the hair colour, but I'll do it anyway.

Expect this to take over a month. It might not, but probably will.

When I've finished this and worked out exactly how much work it's likely to be doing it again, I may or may not take portraiture commissions for other people's monarchs, and hope it doesn't end up like the history commissions I have yet to finish. If I do, my drawings of monarchs will doubtless look very different from how you picture them, so be warned.

Slightly personal information
No surprises to anyone that I'm female. None at all.

I'm not going to reveal my real name online, but if you don't want to call me Tolkienfan you can call me Juliet. Most people seem fine with my Scratch username though.

(Yes, there is a reason why this happens to be the name of so many Inutilian monarchs. No, I'm not going to share it. I assure you my actual name ISN'T Juliet, though.)

(No, it's not Tracey either.)

I'm not going to reveal my real birthday, but for online communication purposes, I will officially go from 16 to 17 on 25 May ('Glorious 25th'). No information forthcoming on how close this is to my actual birthday.

I think everyone knows by now that I'm in AEST. That's GMT+10 hours, or +11 hours during daylight saving. (Remember I'm Australian, so my daylight saving time of year almost certainly won't match up with yours.) I'm not willing to reveal which state I'm in, though.

List of Fandoms I'm In

 * The Lord Of The Rings and related Tolkien-themed topics, as should be obvious
 * Discworld/Pratchett
 * Monty Python, or the slightly cleaner bits thereof
 * The Beatles (slightly- I have two siblings mildly obsessed with them)
 * The Princess Bride (one of the few films better than the book)
 * The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy (or at least the first book)
 * CCRPII, if that's allowed to be a fandom

Knowledge for LOTR Fans
For LOTR fans, my mum recently turned me onto yet another way for me to waste my time on the internet, i.e. a blog written by a history teacher in which, among other things, he has written a series of posts about why Saruman made a lousy general. The link to the first one is here if you want it. He's also done a series on the Siege of Gondor, and a recent post on the war between Russia and Ukraine.

(This is even worse than turning people onto TV Tropes.)

Knowledge for Beatles fans
I used AHypnoman's Make Your Text Stranger engine to translate the Day in the Life quote, line by line, on Level 20, into THIS:

Today I am reading the news, son

Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire

Even if the hole is small

You have to measure them all

Now they know how many holes Albert Hall has to fill

I used the same engine to enact the following translations (again, all on Level 20):

"Let me take you down 'cause I'm going to strawberry fields, nothing is real" somehow managed to become "You went to the Braszczyk area and ruined everything, you have nothing."

'Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band' turned into 'Collection heart of salt pepper', which was interesting. I was hoping the 'sergeant' would stay as 'sage', but no.

'I am the egg man, I am the walrus' became 'I am the egg man, I am the walrus' into 'they are at home, they are meteorologists'.

Moment of Revelation
I've just realised that the length of this page about me says something about me. I'd like to believe it's just another manifestation of my inability to stop writing about anything that interests me, but unfortunately it probably just means I'm self-centred.