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lilfluffTitle: Rhett's newsgroup posts
Fandom/'verse: Fenspace, what's Fenspace (TL:DR for those not following the link), sometime around 2006 a mysterious substance called handwavium is invented/discovered. Handwavium is liquid plot-device powered by intent, belief, and memes. Paint some on a car and you can get a flying car. Or a car that transforms into a bipedal humanoid vehicle. Or a car with wacky Inspector Gadget type equipment.
Summary: College student Rhett fell asleep mid-handwavium experiment and woke up to discover he'd accidentally dosed himself and was now a short and young looking catboy. These are a few newsgroup posts he made in the weeks afterwards.
Warnings/Triggers: Ought to be safe
Prompter: Random demifiction prompt made using An Owomoyela's demographics generator
Note: Mostly unedited. Inspired by other bits of writing I have for Rhett, but none of this is determined to be canon yet.
From: NotAButler_7
To: nntp://fen.support.biomods
Time: 13:55 MST (-0700)
Date: September 12, 2015
Subject: Hello out there
Hello out there, your friendly new Earthbound feline biomod here. I had no idea that newsgroups were still a thing or that there was a whole fen hierarchy.
The good news, apparently the local authorities are tired of playing hunt the biomod. The bad news, the paperwork. Oh lord the paperwork. I thought signing up for my first semester of classes involved a lot of paperwork but replacing my drivers license was what felt like a couple dozen pages of forms, hunting down my birth certificate, not yelling at a clerk who claimed there was no such form as the one I handed him, and an hour long meeting with the head of the DMV office in which I filled out yet more paperwork.
All that and I won't even get a drivers license since I'm to small to sit in the driver's seat of any of my friends cars and comfortably work the peddles with a seatbelt on. So just a non-driver's state ID card for me. :( At least I'm a little taller than the limit for Arizona's booster seat law. Sure it's got an age cut-off but needing to convince people I'm really nineteen is already getting old.
So any advice for a new catboy? Other than guarding my tail from the evil called the bus door, I've learned that one the hard way.
From: NotAButler_7
To: nntp://fen.support.biomods
Time: 17:31 MST (-0700)
Date: September 16, 2015
Subject: Q for other fur-bearing biomods
How the bleep do you keep from getting heat rash when it's hot and humid out? The last two days have been bleeping hell. Summer is always bleeping hot in Arizona but this is insane. All I have to do is step outside and it feels like I'm wearing a lead coat and hat. In an oven. I was born here it shouldn't feel like this. If it's this bad here I'm never going to the south (right, like any sensible catboy would head into the land of dueling banjos. I barely trust that I won't get jumped by crazies here).
From: NotAButler_7
To: nntp://fen.support.biomods
Time: 17:44 MST (-0700)
Date: September 16, 2015
Subject: RE: Q for other fur-bearing biomods
So uh, the bleeps. Apparently a friend who will remain nameless decided my newsreader needed a profanity filter. Assume that by bleep I meant, "Dear lord, it rained last night so now it's humid as a shower and 115 degrees out!" I like living in the desert. Well, I liked living in the desert. If someone warned me I was about to get modded I could have at least tried to get it to be a fennec mod. Surely they don't mind it. That much.
No. Nevermind. They're sensible and live on the night shift. Wish college was that sensible.
From: NotAButler_7
To: nntp://fen.soc.biomods
Time: 22:36 MST (-0700)
Date: October 31, 2015
Subject: Halloween, okay this isn't too bad
I've lost count of how many times I've been complimented on my 'costume'. Only downside is they keep asking J-friend and D-friend how much their 'kid's' costume cost. Or if they know about the costumer's guild they ask them how long it took to make.
I probably could have brought in a good haul of free candy if I'd snuck out trick or treating. But that would have meant missing the local gathering's party which would have been very sucky. At [mumblemumble] House we've been having a grand time. Nigh unlimited snacks, friends, and B-Movies. We're watching Plan 9 as I write this. Not the worst film I've ever seen but it does have the worst Day For Night scenes I've ever seen.
Anyway, how's Halloween up among the Fen? Must be a fun time for the kinder since you can get away with much more up there than down here. That said, those 'costume' compliments? I think I might let D-friend talk me into one of the cosplay sig's group events. She'd been trying to talk me into a group play of the closing credit version of the characters from Black Cat but she's being so secret about it now I think she's found something else.
From: NotAButler_7
To: nntp://fen.rocketscience.amateur
Time: 09:57 MST (-0700)
Date: January 10, 2016
Subject: Avoiding the FAA's wrath
So, assuming someone had started doodling designs yesterday for a small single seat flying contraption, are there are good howto documents explaining how to avoid bringing down the wrath of the FAA?
So far I've kept everything to paper and 3D modeling software (the learning curve, ow). If I ever get this thing built I'd like to be able to fly it without racking up federal charges and missing any future family reunions that aren't held in Oz. Maybe my Google-Fu will be better after some sleep but all I've been turning up page after page of rants about fen and their flying cars giving air traffic controllers heart attacks. Will they even grant experimental certification to amateur build spacecraft?
So, any M's anyone wants to suggest I RTF? Even if it is probably a pipe-dream to think I can get approval to legally possess and use wavium without a boatload of money for a decent workshop and brib^H^H^H^H processing fee money. But a cat can dream, right?
Fandom/'verse: Fenspace, what's Fenspace (TL:DR for those not following the link), sometime around 2006 a mysterious substance called handwavium is invented/discovered. Handwavium is liquid plot-device powered by intent, belief, and memes. Paint some on a car and you can get a flying car. Or a car that transforms into a bipedal humanoid vehicle. Or a car with wacky Inspector Gadget type equipment.
Summary: College student Rhett fell asleep mid-handwavium experiment and woke up to discover he'd accidentally dosed himself and was now a short and young looking catboy. These are a few newsgroup posts he made in the weeks afterwards.
Warnings/Triggers: Ought to be safe
Prompter: Random demifiction prompt made using An Owomoyela's demographics generator
Note: Mostly unedited. Inspired by other bits of writing I have for Rhett, but none of this is determined to be canon yet.
From: NotAButler_7
To: nntp://fen.support.biomods
Time: 13:55 MST (-0700)
Date: September 12, 2015
Subject: Hello out there
Hello out there, your friendly new Earthbound feline biomod here. I had no idea that newsgroups were still a thing or that there was a whole fen hierarchy.
The good news, apparently the local authorities are tired of playing hunt the biomod. The bad news, the paperwork. Oh lord the paperwork. I thought signing up for my first semester of classes involved a lot of paperwork but replacing my drivers license was what felt like a couple dozen pages of forms, hunting down my birth certificate, not yelling at a clerk who claimed there was no such form as the one I handed him, and an hour long meeting with the head of the DMV office in which I filled out yet more paperwork.
All that and I won't even get a drivers license since I'm to small to sit in the driver's seat of any of my friends cars and comfortably work the peddles with a seatbelt on. So just a non-driver's state ID card for me. :( At least I'm a little taller than the limit for Arizona's booster seat law. Sure it's got an age cut-off but needing to convince people I'm really nineteen is already getting old.
So any advice for a new catboy? Other than guarding my tail from the evil called the bus door, I've learned that one the hard way.
From: NotAButler_7
To: nntp://fen.support.biomods
Time: 17:31 MST (-0700)
Date: September 16, 2015
Subject: Q for other fur-bearing biomods
How the bleep do you keep from getting heat rash when it's hot and humid out? The last two days have been bleeping hell. Summer is always bleeping hot in Arizona but this is insane. All I have to do is step outside and it feels like I'm wearing a lead coat and hat. In an oven. I was born here it shouldn't feel like this. If it's this bad here I'm never going to the south (right, like any sensible catboy would head into the land of dueling banjos. I barely trust that I won't get jumped by crazies here).
From: NotAButler_7
To: nntp://fen.support.biomods
Time: 17:44 MST (-0700)
Date: September 16, 2015
Subject: RE: Q for other fur-bearing biomods
So uh, the bleeps. Apparently a friend who will remain nameless decided my newsreader needed a profanity filter. Assume that by bleep I meant, "Dear lord, it rained last night so now it's humid as a shower and 115 degrees out!" I like living in the desert. Well, I liked living in the desert. If someone warned me I was about to get modded I could have at least tried to get it to be a fennec mod. Surely they don't mind it. That much.
No. Nevermind. They're sensible and live on the night shift. Wish college was that sensible.
From: NotAButler_7
To: nntp://fen.soc.biomods
Time: 22:36 MST (-0700)
Date: October 31, 2015
Subject: Halloween, okay this isn't too bad
I've lost count of how many times I've been complimented on my 'costume'. Only downside is they keep asking J-friend and D-friend how much their 'kid's' costume cost. Or if they know about the costumer's guild they ask them how long it took to make.
I probably could have brought in a good haul of free candy if I'd snuck out trick or treating. But that would have meant missing the local gathering's party which would have been very sucky. At [mumblemumble] House we've been having a grand time. Nigh unlimited snacks, friends, and B-Movies. We're watching Plan 9 as I write this. Not the worst film I've ever seen but it does have the worst Day For Night scenes I've ever seen.
Anyway, how's Halloween up among the Fen? Must be a fun time for the kinder since you can get away with much more up there than down here. That said, those 'costume' compliments? I think I might let D-friend talk me into one of the cosplay sig's group events. She'd been trying to talk me into a group play of the closing credit version of the characters from Black Cat but she's being so secret about it now I think she's found something else.
From: NotAButler_7
To: nntp://fen.rocketscience.amateur
Time: 09:57 MST (-0700)
Date: January 10, 2016
Subject: Avoiding the FAA's wrath
So, assuming someone had started doodling designs yesterday for a small single seat flying contraption, are there are good howto documents explaining how to avoid bringing down the wrath of the FAA?
So far I've kept everything to paper and 3D modeling software (the learning curve, ow). If I ever get this thing built I'd like to be able to fly it without racking up federal charges and missing any future family reunions that aren't held in Oz. Maybe my Google-Fu will be better after some sleep but all I've been turning up page after page of rants about fen and their flying cars giving air traffic controllers heart attacks. Will they even grant experimental certification to amateur build spacecraft?
So, any M's anyone wants to suggest I RTF? Even if it is probably a pipe-dream to think I can get approval to legally possess and use wavium without a boatload of money for a decent workshop and brib^H^H^H^H processing fee money. But a cat can dream, right?
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Date: 2014-08-14 08:00 pm (UTC)Actually, by the time he graduates Jenga Station should be up and running and he'd probably love it there (CI's first made by catgirls, for catgirls space station, also known as the solar system's largest cat toy -- a space station made up of lego-esque sections such that they can detach and rearrange parts at a whim).
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Date: 2014-08-14 08:03 pm (UTC)Still reading?
Wen I was in my 20's, I had a ... friend, 18-year old skinnyboy, who ended up getting "maternal" attention from many of the more "maternal" of us in the social group.
Turns out, from quite a FEW of us.
Kittyboy will be fine.