Stop the presses!

[x_maker]

Or rather, start them would be more appropriate.

If anyone sees a fax come in for me today, page me immediately, I'll drop whatever I'm doing. This is an excellent day.

Do not laugh at the Dance of Joy. For I am overjoyed. Okay, there may be laughing.

Where is that fax?

UPDATE: Fax received, signed, and returned. Printing starts tomorrow!

Comments

[x-icarus.livejournal.com]

Would you like to share with the rest of the class?

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

How many folks here were published authors before the age of 18?

Whatever number you come up with, increase it by one.

[x-icarus.livejournal.com]

Dude.

DUDE.

Duuuuuuuude.

(I've been spending too much time with Kyle.) In any case, congratulations. Wha did you write? Cold Fusion For Dummies?

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Well, the publisher's creative folks and I are still arguing over the final title, but it's a biography of Erik Lehnsherr.

[x-icarus.livejournal.com]

. . . Huh.

That's going to piss off a lot of people, I bet. You sure it's worth the risk?

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

I thought about it, and I really do. I've had the Professor go over everything with me before I even approached a publisher; fitting, since he was one of the major sources.

I think it'll piss off a lot of people, but I hope for at least some people it helps them get a glimpse into what's made him who he is, and show that he's NOT indicative of the general mutant population. I'd never go so far as to say the things he's been through justify his point of view or his actions. But understanding them can help explain them.

It doesn't change who he is or the things he's done. And believe me, if when he gets brought down and hauled in front of a trial for everything, no amount of understanding is going to keep me from being glad when he's locked away properly this time.

[x-roulette.livejournal.com]

"....."

Well, whatever the outcome. At least it won't be boring.

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

No such thing.

Also, Forge, dude, fricking SWEET.

[x-emplate.livejournal.com]

Ah, I see.

Time to pack my bags, then.

[x-foliate.livejournal.com]

I'm jealous. I admit it.

[x-emplate.livejournal.com]

You didn't go and do something silly like win the Nobel when our backs were turned, did you? If that's the case, I think I'll be leaving the flat. Your already not-inconsiderable ego will need the spare room.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Aha, I see how it is. Your insignificant ego is threatened by the Alpha Ego! I have established dominance!

(never let it be said Catseye hasn't been a positive influence)

[x-cypher.livejournal.com]

See, now I have the mental image of that scene from The Rundown where The Rock and Sean William Scott are trussed up in a tree, and a monkey is trying to hump The Rock's face, and Sean William Scott keeps yelling "Establish dominance! Establish dominance!"

...does that make Marius the monkey?

[x-traction.livejournal.com]

I hope you didn't sugarcoat it. Expect to hear back from me once I read it - if its an accurate portrayal, kudos to you. If you make it sound like it was ok for him to do all the horrible things he did, then don't expect any kind words from me.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Ah, you haven't caught up on all the gossip yet. Let me sum up:

Violently kidnapped by a brainwashed friend with a sociopathic artificial intelligence in her head, and basically given the choice of "Design me big power-neutralizing superweapon or experience what intense magnetic fields can DO to those wonderful prosthetics of yours".

It was no picnic. While I think I can understand him, believe me, I have no sympathy.

[x-traction.livejournal.com]

Yes, I am behind on my gossip...I'll have to work on remedying that.

Perhaps what this school needs is an "I've been kidnapped by a sociopathic magnetokinetic" club.

[x-polarisstar.livejournal.com]

Be accurate, Forge, I wasn't brainwashed. But there was a sociopathic telepath in my head.

Don't worry about it, Marie. What's passed is past.

[x-cable.livejournal.com]

The teacher who shepherded the independent study project in the first place had better be mentioned in the acknowledgments. Just saying...

And congratulations, by the way.