And now for something completely different!

[kitanzi]

How many are familiar with milliways_bar? Hands, please?

Really? Wow. Well, it's an LJ role playing community that allows crossover of every fictional character you can conceive of in a self-contained bar at the end of the universe (yep, Douglas Adams reference!), and which tends to spawn some addictively readable characters and thread lines. When it works well - and it usually does - it's brilliant. I'm hooked, really hooked. Those of you who have already found out about it know what I mean. Those of you who haven't, give it a try.

Those of you who are familiar with Good Omens, or Firefly, or just would love to read a wonderfully evocative bit of roleplaying, may I suggest this bit to try? Even if you're iffy on the sort of thing as a rule, this is a lovely bit of writing.

If you find you'd like more of an overview of who hangs around, what's going on, and how it all works, I'd suggest millichannel for daily thread summaries and links (the place is even more of a time sink than LJ as a whole) and this explanation of the workings and characters at the Bar at the End of the Universe. Great fun!

Comments

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

batyatoon and sdelmonte are heavily addicted and involved. I wonder if you're in any of the same threads?

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

I don't actually have any characters myself. I knew Sdelmonte played but I didn't know Batyatoon did. :)

[sdelmonte]

Well, if you you've been following the Firefly crew, you've seen Batya's handiwork - she plays Simon Tim.

She's also Andrew Welss and Cordelia Vorkosigan.

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

Ah! I didn't know she was playing Simon, damn nice! Thanks!

[batyatoon]

*beams* Glad you like. I'm pointing my fellow RP-ers to this entry as we speak.

[batyatoon]

... now how the heck do you misspell "Tam" and "Wells" but not "Vorkosigan"?

Mwah.

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

Natural talent??