There seems to be a hole in the routine

Normally when I crawl out of bed (whenever that may be, with my erratic sleep schedule), the first things I check online are my dA, e-mail, the Marathon Story Forums, the Pfhorums, and tumblr (dashboard first, then various blogs I have bookmarked). I haven't gotten to the lattermost yet.

There hasn't been much activity on my dash in the past few days (I don't even think the posts I wrote following the announcement got any notes), a few blogs I check have gone or will go on indefinite hiatus, and I watched at least one person (the lovely Lynne Triplett of Engelbaum/Spectramis Arts) bail out in almost-real time.

I'm probably gonna check in a minute, but still. Something tells me I'm gonna have to get used to not doing that.

...oh yeah. This may be old news (it was reported two days ago), but according to Vox and an anonymous site engineer who bailed out over all this, the recent TOS change was planned at least six months in advance and was about Verizon being able to advertise the site better, not dealing with the ulcer that was the pedo community; the app store fiasco just accelerated it. And with that goes what little doubt I'd tried to benefit the staff.

I'll probably write that "Marathon AU primer" post later.

Marathon Inmortalitas primer-thingy

Maybe not all that necessary, but I'll take any excuse to talk about my Marathon AU (and settling in on DW means I can go over the basics like I'm revealing it for the first time). I'll also gladly take any questions/comments about it!

This post assumes that you have at least basic familiarity with Marathon; if not, there's always the the Marathon Story Page. You should probably also read the Cortana Letters (archived under "Halo pre-release information).

Inmortalitas (a Latin term pertaining to immortality and memory) got started around mid-2015 when I decided to redo my fan-interpretations of the AIs from 2008. It kinda went on from there, and now I'm pretty sure that I've expanded on canon by 80%. Info and links pertaining specifically to it under the cut:

( Androids among us )