So Sorry 2014-11-26

[CPUGuy1]

Now, Monica needs to come up smiling ... or even laughing. Even if the little 'star' meant the hitting the ground may have hurt. She needs to show that the collision WAS an Accident.
And quickly calm things down, plus, get control of the loudness of their voices.

[as363]

And in other matters - As an old phart - and almost blind - why can't I find the "Like" button in it's usual place ???

Just asking...

[as363]

Well - it's there now - but when I click on it - I get a "Not available at this time " response .

[Dave]

So Calista is the living proof of conservation of mass. Big or little, she masses the same.

Once we take into account the fact that an object's mass increases, as the object's velocity approaches the speed of light.

That's from the point-of-view of an outside observer such as Monica, of course. Cricket could try to outrun approaching darkness and doom, she could try to outun light itself, but she couldn't exceed the Speed of Monica.

I wonder whether we could persuade the researchers at the Large Hadron Collider over at CERN to adopt a new unit of measure? One billion high-energy proton/proton collisions would be counted as "one fuckbucket"

[meisdadoo]

Not that she thinks she guilty, it is because she is terrified of the Jaguar Girl! Current rumor about the Jaguar Girl has her being the meanest and nastiest force going. Able to stomp, fry. rend, tear, fold, and spindle anyone who ticks her off. Then when Cricket met her Monica appeared to make Cricket believe Monica will be her worst nightmare if Cricket messes up. All of this made Cricket into the timid little soul whole is ready to assume that if Monica is upset it has to be at her!!! With her Fae nature and age she is totally cowed and all she can think of is RUN AWAY! Cricket is not ready to believe that when Monica says the problem isn't Cricket on just on repeat.
Monica needs to sit Cricket down and get her to understand that Cricket is not a total F* up and not everything is aimed at her. A good trick if Monica can pull it off.

Two things:
1. Cricket's biggest problem is that she thinks the world revolves around her, hence her unreasonable expectations about the actions/inactions of others. Including her over reaction to how she was treated (the fisting illusion). Now she has been sentenced to be "mentored" by the the scariest person on the planet (see # 2 below)

2. Monica Villarreal is not just a BAMF, she is THE BAMF; and here is why. She can make you experience your greatest fear, over and over again if so inclined. She is the demon shepherd and can not only control her demons, but yours as well. She is immortal. She wields astral fire (a quick Google search indicates that Astral fire properly wielded could permanently incinerate your otherwise immortal soul and remove it from existence). She can poit herself, you, and any other matter anywhere she wants to--there is no where you can escape. Are there beings that could overpower her and reign her in, probably. But it would take at least a Titan to do it.

If that doesn't scare, nothing will.

[lake_wrangler]

Yes. And the thread title currently has the title and date backwards.

Oops...

Fixed it...

[lake_wrangler]

It is a little known fact, that "Running around with scissors" barely edged out "Running around with your eyes closed" as THE go-to phrase to illustrate a dangerous action, by a margin of 0.013%...

[AnotherFairportfan]

So Calista is the living proof of conservation of mass. Big or little, she masses the same. Of course, Monica has always been a little top-heavy. (c8

Didn't Atsali hold her in the palm of one hand?

[illiad]

2. Monica Villarreal is not just a BAMF, she is THE BAMF; and here is why. She can make you experience your greatest fear, over and over again if so inclined. She is the demon shepherd and can not only control her demons, but yours as well. She is immortal. She wields astral fire (a quick Google search indicates that Astral fire properly wielded could permanently incinerate your otherwise immortal soul and remove it from existence). She can poit herself, you, and any other matter anywhere she wants to--there is no where you can escape. Are there beings that could overpower her and reign her in, probably. But it would take at least a Titan to do it.

If that doesn't scare, nothing will.

Nah.. in the library, etc, she is only a **beginner** And she really should d be called 'phoenix', NOT immortal.. ... she cannot take nice lava bath to get right down to the crevices... yes, Nudge hates them awfully, just like cats hate having a bath, but the outcome is good!

you may not have seen this..

[Opus the Poet]

Why was this thread not named "Awww fuckbuckets"?

Anything else is a crime against literature!

Because the trope has already been appropriated?

And done pretty well if I do say so.

[AnotherFairportfan]

Why was this thread not named "Awww fuckbuckets"?

Anything else is a crime against literature!

Because the trope has already been appropriated?

And done pretty well if I do say so.

I did, indeed, think of that. Especially since, the day it was posted, inspired to Do Something.

Jolene Brooks is almost as cute as Claire Augustus

[KnightDelight]

So Calista is the living proof of conservation of mass. Big or little, she masses the same.

Once we take into account the fact that an object's mass increases, as the object's velocity approaches the speed of light.

That's from the point-of-view of an outside observer such as Monica, of course. Cricket could try to outrun approaching darkness and doom, she could try to outun light itself, but she couldn't exceed the Speed of Monica.

I wonder whether we could persuade the researchers at the Large Hadron Collider over at CERN to adopt a new unit of measure? One billion high-energy proton/proton collisions would be counted as "one fuckbucket"

They might go for one F-Bucket so as to be family friendly. A combination would be Fucket so I doubt that would fly either.

You know I never have found a good explanation of how that extra mass is actually manifested as an object gets near the speed of light. Apparently the energy used to propel the thing forward is converted to mass instead of forward momentum, thus creating inertia and keeping it from going faster, in a continuous loop. But, how does that extra mass manifest itself? Do the individual components of each atom get more massive? Or do new atoms just pop into existence, adding to the number of atoms in the thing itself? And how does the process know what kind of atoms to create? And then there is this thing about the object getting flatter, as if it is being smashed into an unseen wall. A wall that travels just ahead of the object.

[Dave]

You know I never have found a good explanation of how that extra mass is actually manifested as an object gets near the speed of light. Apparently the energy used to propel the thing forward is converted to mass instead of forward momentum, thus creating inertia and keeping it from going faster, in a continuous loop.

That's a pretty good intuitive description, as to how the situation appears from the point of view of an outside observer.

But, how does that extra mass manifest itself? Do the individual components of each atom get more massive? Or do new atoms just pop into existence, adding to the number of atoms in the thing itself? And how does the process know what kind of atoms to create? And then there is this thing about the object getting flatter, as if it is being smashed into an unseen wall. A wall that travels just ahead of the object.

Well, a big part of the answer is in the term used to describe it: "relativity". The things that we see, depend on where we're looking from.

The changes in a fast-moving object (its increase in mass, the fact that it shortens, the fact that time slows down) are things which "appear" from the point of view of an external observer - one which hasn't been accelerated.

To an observer in the (e.g.) accelerated spaceship... nope. These changes don't exist. The pilot of the spaceship that's been accelerated, doesn't notice any increase in the mass of his/her ship... it behaves just as before. No physical shortening. Clocks on-board run as they seem they ought to.

What the pilot does see, is that the whole remainder of the universe warps in strange ways. For example, if you travel to a star ten light-years from here, the trip can't take less than 10 years... from our point of view. If the spaceship accelerates at about 1 G (which would accelerate to light-speed in about a year), the total trip will seem to to the pilot to take only a couple of years - one year to accelerate and one year to decelerate. The pilot will never see him/herself exceed light-speed as measured around the ship - instead, it will appear to him/her as if the space ahead of the ship "squashes flat" so that the distance to the star is shortened.

Neither the pilot, nor anybody else, sees new atoms (or other new particles) created. Instead, from the external observer's point of view, every individual particle "measures out" as having a higher mass, and a slower-running clock, than would be the case if it were moving slowly. From the pilot's point of view, the particles' masses are normal, as is their "clock" behavior.

Things really are screwy... two observers passing one another at high speeds, and observing events off at a distance, can't agree on when those events occurred. In fact, they often won't be able to agree on what order those events happened in - each can see a different thing "happen first".

Space-time is weird (from the point of view of our normal intuition).

[Alkarii]

The next time something goes wrong, I will have to use the term "fuckbuckets" unless there are customers around.

[meisdadoo]

2. Monica Villarreal is not just a BAMF, she is THE BAMF; and here is why. She can make you experience your greatest fear, over and over again if so inclined. She is the demon shepherd and can not only control her demons, but yours as well. She is immortal. She wields astral fire (a quick Google search indicates that Astral fire properly wielded could permanently incinerate your otherwise immortal soul and remove it from existence). She can poit herself, you, and any other matter anywhere she wants to--there is no where you can escape. Are there beings that could overpower her and reign her in, probably. But it would take at least a Titan to do it.

If that doesn't scare you, nothing will.

Nah.. in the library, etc, she is only a **beginner** And she really should d be called 'phoenix', NOT immortal.. ... she cannot take nice lava bath to get right down to the crevices... yes, Nudge hates them awfully, just like cats hate having a bath, but the outcome is good!

Well she does age normally, but when she dies she resets to where she was when the machine was "fixed" (or "broken", depending on your point of view), so very Phoenix like, but still immortal in that she cannot be killed by the Gollum Girls, and if they can't do it--who could?
If you were to give her a lava bath, she would reset and be really pissed, so I can't recommend it.

Is she a beginner?, sure. But a beginner with (hate to say but it almost fits) Mary Sue-ish powers and abilities. The only upside is that she is a beginner that is just as flawed as every other human on the inside. Demon shepherd or not, she still has doubt, insecurity, lust, anger, etc. poking and prodding her along the way. Personally, I think she needs to look in the mirror with one eye closed more often.

Which makes me wonder, can Cricket see the Demon herd that follows Monica around? If she can it would explain the fear and terror LOL

[jeffepp]

Kid likes to run. Probably been too cooped up too long.

X-country therapy?

http://youtu.be/3CUr0bnDCfM

[jwhouk]

This is one of those times I wish we could attach a poll to a new thread, because the question is obvious:

Where should Monica take Calista for "a little chat about life"?

• Back to her house (afterwards, she can work on fixing Dietzel)
• Mucho Mocha, of course (where Tina's demons will run, run away from Calista's mean ones!)
• Punk Yoga (maybe Jacqui can help teach the little Fae some peace)
• Gut Bomb (Monica's hungry.)
• Amanda's (Calista hasn't had her series of "glamour pinups" yet...)
• Papa's Pizza (DIETZEL is hungry!)
• Punch's (CALISTA is HUNGRY!)
• Paradise Island (for some sunshine and some chit-chat)
• Other (please explain)

[illiad]

pheeeewww, Dave.... are you good friends with brian cox????

jwhouk: or...

Monica starts blabberin'.. "I'm hopeless, I didn't want to do this, MY BF hates me, no-one loves me, cant even sort my own life out, how can can I help a poor little fae????? "

Cricket says " well you have a lovely little dog, he told me how much you take care of him, he's very sweet and helped me see my problems... "

OR... (just right for cliffhanger.. )

Scene in hospital... "No, she just jumped right in front of me, and seemed to trip.. she must have hit her head really bad! I was too frightened and running in case she killed me!! "

next frame, cricket and dietzel at bedside, M fixed up to many tubes....

(NO, she did not die, for her it might be better to escape a coma !!! LOL )