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			<title>The Council of Wyrms: Invasion of the Dragon Isles</title>
			<link>http://criticscorner.getdiscussion.com/fandom-based-f17/the-council-of-wyrms-invasion-of-the-dragon-isles-t63.htm</link>
			<dc:creator>Joy&amp;amp;RaptorsUnrestrain</dc:creator>
			<description>NAME: (Dragon names tend to be either descriptive of the habitat and breath and hide of the dragon, or to be on the longish side, with around four syllables. A Blue Dragon might be called Erosion, Skybolt, Azure, or Khellendros).

SPECIES: (I'll post a list of the dragon species after this. Dragons can mate with others outside their particular species, but their offspring are either one species or the other)

ART: (Dragons raised by the Council are expected to learn and study different paths...  ...</description>
			<category>Fandom-based</category>
			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:15:29 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Divine Right: Gods in America</title>
			<link>http://criticscorner.getdiscussion.com/non-fandom-f18/divine-right-gods-in-america-t57.htm</link>
			<dc:creator>Joy&amp;amp;RaptorsUnrestrain</dc:creator>
			<description>Whether man made gods, or gods made man, they have always been with us. However, North America is not very good soil for gods to grow. While demons, vampires, werewolves, gremlins, witches, wizards, giants, dragons, ghouls, ghosts, elves, fairies, and the like have all made their way here, only the strongest gods can manifest on American soil for any length of time... and with the other creatures here, we increasingly need divine guidance and protection. So the very strongest gods of each pantheon  ...</description>
			<category>Non-fandom</category>
			<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 01:17:51 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>The Mystère: Immortal Pirate Adventure on the High Seas</title>
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			<dc:creator>Joy&amp;amp;RaptorsUnrestrain</dc:creator>
			<description>The Mystère is an elegant, beautiful frigate-style sailing ship made of black wood decorated with ivory, gold, silver, ruby, sapphire, diamond, emerald, pearl, coral and amethyst in intricate designs and arcane sigils and veves. Its milky white sails are woven of pure silk, but it they hardly ever tear, even in pitched battle. Its elaborately carved figurehead changes depending on who is currently acting as captain, from a lifelike mermaid to a coiling serpent, to a fierce lion to a looming spider.  ...</description>
			<category>Non-fandom</category>
			<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 06:34:06 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Scion: Hero, Demigod, God</title>
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			<dc:creator>Joy&amp;amp;RaptorsUnrestrain</dc:creator>
			<description>THE STORY:

At first, when there was nothing but chaos, the Titans gathered, absorbing like energies and expelling that which was different from them. In the havoc, some tried to give birth to new forms of themselves, but these children, the Gods, were more advanced and had greater identity than their parents. The gods could also make alliances, and they fought and turned back the Titans, binding their parents in a prison that was supposed to last forever. The titans' other brood, collectively  ...</description>
			<category>Fandom-based</category>
			<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:17:28 GMT</pubDate>
			<comments>http://criticscorner.getdiscussion.com/fandom-based-f17/scion-hero-demigod-god-t61.htm#221</comments>
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			<title>My Twisted Sense of Reality: A xxxHolic fanfic</title>
			<link>http://criticscorner.getdiscussion.com/anime-manga-and-tv-f10/my-twisted-sense-of-reality-a-xxxholic-fanfic-t60.htm</link>
			<dc:creator>WeirdPerson</dc:creator>
			<description>My Twisted Sense of Reality

xxxHolic fanfic Watanuki/Doumeki

“Because everybody but Watanuki knows”

	“This is it!” Watanuki thought as he marched toward school. “This is the day I tell Himawari I like her! And that damn Doumeki isn’t going to get in the way!” He thought angrily, clenching his fist. 

	“Hey Watanuki!” Himawari called, walking up to him at his locker.

	“Himawari!” Watanuki cried, his voice jumping up a couple of octaves as he said her name. “How are you today?”

	“Fine.”  ...</description>
			<category>Anime, Manga, and TV</category>
			<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 07:19:09 GMT</pubDate>
			<comments>http://criticscorner.getdiscussion.com/anime-manga-and-tv-f10/my-twisted-sense-of-reality-a-xxxholic-fanfic-t60.htm#220</comments>
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			<title>The Rainbow League!</title>
			<link>http://criticscorner.getdiscussion.com/novels-novella-and-plays-f6/the-rainbow-league-t41.htm</link>
			<dc:creator>Joy&amp;amp;RaptorsUnrestrain</dc:creator>
			<description>Dramatis Personae

Skyrocket / Rob: Curly Brown Hair, Brown Eyes, Italian American, Slim and Tall, T.A. Education Major and Surfer. (Telekinetic control of speed and direction and distance, superfast, kinetic energy only, air fields) (Salt)

Polar / Lars: Short, buzzed White Hair, Blue Eyes, Goatee Circle Beard, Nordic, Huge and bear-like, Architect/Construction (Resistant to cold, claws, strength, resilience, senses) (Great Heat)



Sunburn / Jesse: Spikey Blond Hair, Blue Eyes, Farm Boy,  ...</description>
			<category>Novels, Novella, and Plays</category>
			<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 08:56:11 GMT</pubDate>
			<comments>http://criticscorner.getdiscussion.com/novels-novella-and-plays-f6/the-rainbow-league-t41.htm#149</comments>
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			<title>The Imperial Colleges of Magic</title>
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			<dc:creator>Joy&amp;amp;RaptorsUnrestrain</dc:creator>
			<description>Long ago, the Old Ones emerged from a gate in the North Pole. Their vast resources of magic and technology were intricate and powerful, allowing them to cross worlds, create life, and command gods and daemons. They took an interest in the creatures of this world, and began training and changing them. Their first students were the Lizardmen, reptilian, amphibian and saurian creatures living in the land of Lustria (roughly Mexico, Central, and South America). These savage creatures were the first  ...</description>
			<category>Fandom-based</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:06:36 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>The Nine Runeworlds: Norse Mythology at its best</title>
			<link>http://criticscorner.getdiscussion.com/non-fandom-f18/the-nine-runeworlds-norse-mythology-at-its-best-t58.htm</link>
			<dc:creator>Joy&amp;amp;RaptorsUnrestrain</dc:creator>
			<description>In the beginning there were three things... Ginungagap, the endless void; Muspelheim, the primordial fire; and Niflheim, the Primordial Ice. As the flames of Muspelheim melted the ice of Niflheim, and the ice doused the flames, the two mixed together in Ginungagap to form the first beings: Ymir, father of the giants, and Aumdumla, the primordial cow whose power brought forth the first gods. The Gods defeated Ymir, and drowned most of his brood in the Ginungagap, and used Ymir's body to build  ...</description>
			<category>Non-fandom</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 05:35:11 GMT</pubDate>
			<comments>http://criticscorner.getdiscussion.com/non-fandom-f18/the-nine-runeworlds-norse-mythology-at-its-best-t58.htm#213</comments>
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			<title>Grimm: Trapped in a World of Twisted Fairy Tales</title>
			<link>http://criticscorner.getdiscussion.com/fandom-based-f17/grimm-trapped-in-a-world-of-twisted-fairy-tales-t56.htm</link>
			<dc:creator>Joy&amp;amp;RaptorsUnrestrain</dc:creator>
			<description>Once upon a time there was a land of fairy tales. Where dreams and nightmares walked hand in hand, where wonder and despair were two sides of the same coin, where magic and imagination ruled, and where kindly villagers lived next door to strange beasts.

 

These are the Grimm Lands, where you - a clever kid from the Real World - find yourself trapped. You might start out as a bully, a nerd, a jock, or an outcast... but you could become much, much more.



Maybe even a hero.



To survive,  ...</description>
			<category>Fandom-based</category>
			<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 07:41:39 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Demon: The Fallen</title>
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			<dc:creator>Joy&amp;amp;RaptorsUnrestrain</dc:creator>
			<description>History, as the saying goes, is written by the victors. Whether an uprising is seen as a glorious rebellion or a treacherous insurrection depends entirely on who held the upper hand in the end, with the loser consigned to posterity as traitors, tyrants, and worse. Their story is largely forgotten. We are told that demons are the incarnations of evil, spirits who exist to seduce the innocent and lure the virtuous to destruction. They are driven by a relentless hate of all things holy, consumed  ...</description>
			<category>Fandom-based</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 08:17:13 GMT</pubDate>
			<comments>http://criticscorner.getdiscussion.com/fandom-based-f17/demon-the-fallen-t53.htm#179</comments>
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			<title>The Little Girl and the Three Stray Cats</title>
			<link>http://criticscorner.getdiscussion.com/short-stories-f5/the-little-girl-and-the-three-stray-cats-t55.htm</link>
			<dc:creator>Joy&amp;amp;RaptorsUnrestrain</dc:creator>
			<description>(This is a joint effort between AriEmeraldstar and myself. Ever space between lines marks a different author.)



Once upon a time...



in a faraway magical land...



there lived a little girl



in a little house



... with her mother and father



and three stray cats



, all of whom she loved very much.



The cat's names were Larry, Curly, and Mo.



(sigh... you had to do that, didn't you) , though Larry looked more like a &quot;Mittens&quot;, Curly was the most uncurly  ...</description>
			<category>Short Stories</category>
			<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 06:54:58 GMT</pubDate>
			<comments>http://criticscorner.getdiscussion.com/short-stories-f5/the-little-girl-and-the-three-stray-cats-t55.htm#197</comments>
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			<title>Wildguard!: The Made-For-Reality-TV Superhero Team!</title>
			<link>http://criticscorner.getdiscussion.com/non-fandom-f18/wildguard-the-made-for-reality-tv-superhero-team-t19.htm</link>
			<dc:creator>Joy&amp;amp;RaptorsUnrestrain</dc:creator>
			<description>Welcome to Wildguard! In a world where you can't throw a car without hitting at least four people in costumes with powers, it is hard to make it big and become famous. The Ultra Mega Super Five (who haven't had just five members since the seventies) are the world's premier superhero team. Powerplay is a super-powered Boy Band. And last season's Wildguard was a rousing success, led and produced by Four: Superhero, Supermodel, with four distinct powers (Mist form, laser blasts from hands, metallic  ...</description>
			<category>Non-fandom</category>
			<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:09:47 GMT</pubDate>
			<comments>http://criticscorner.getdiscussion.com/non-fandom-f18/wildguard-the-made-for-reality-tv-superhero-team-t19.htm#42</comments>
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			<title>Beastess Snippet</title>
			<link>http://criticscorner.getdiscussion.com/anime-manga-and-tv-f10/beastess-snippet-t54.htm</link>
			<dc:creator>WeirdPerson</dc:creator>
			<description>A/n: So hi! i'm not dead. Just trapped in  a writer's block. I wrote this an like 1am after watching Justice League and Batman on youtube. 



Backstory: It's kinda self explanatory. Beastess is my DC OC (heh that rhymes). She is kind of a slut, but that's mostly because she is immortal, and has guy issuses. Through some event, she ends up being adopted by Bruce Wayne (I'm thinking this is after Dick but before Tim [for those that follow the bat-verse]). She is all purple (hair eyes, skin ect),  ...</description>
			<category>Anime, Manga, and TV</category>
			<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 03:45:39 GMT</pubDate>
			<comments>http://criticscorner.getdiscussion.com/anime-manga-and-tv-f10/beastess-snippet-t54.htm#190</comments>
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			<title>Defenders of Gotham</title>
			<link>http://criticscorner.getdiscussion.com/fandom-based-f17/defenders-of-gotham-t37.htm</link>
			<dc:creator>Joy&amp;amp;RaptorsUnrestrain</dc:creator>
			<description>Batman is gone. He has protected the city for years, against any number of villains, but now he is gone. And the city needs a protector. Or protectors. So Oracle, also known as Barbara Gordon, daughter of Police Commissioner Gordon and former Batgirl, has used her computer networks and connections throughout the city to reach some unlikely heroes, all from her wheelchair. But these young &quot;heroes&quot; know Gotham's crime very well indeed, for each of them is the child of one of Batman's  ...</description>
			<category>Fandom-based</category>
			<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 08:37:09 GMT</pubDate>
			<comments>http://criticscorner.getdiscussion.com/fandom-based-f17/defenders-of-gotham-t37.htm#143</comments>
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			<title>Drops of Jupiter, soy latte</title>
			<link>http://criticscorner.getdiscussion.com/poetry-and-lyrics-f8/drops-of-jupiter-soy-latte-t52.htm</link>
			<dc:creator>AriEmeraldstar</dc:creator>
			<description>Keep in mind that this piece was written to be performed, not read.  I still like it, though -- it's what I'll be performing for my Spoken Word final on Friday.  Enjoy.



Drops of Jupiter, soy latte

Meet Virginia, smokes a pack a day

Oh wait, hold on, that’s me

The music is flowing in

I’m caught up in the tide

Carrying

Eddying

Swirling

Racing

I never want to leave

Warm depth

Low

Soothing

Frigid heights

High

Screeching

I love it

The rhythm

The current

I  ...</description>
			<category>Poetry and Lyrics</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 07:26:45 GMT</pubDate>
			<comments>http://criticscorner.getdiscussion.com/poetry-and-lyrics-f8/drops-of-jupiter-soy-latte-t52.htm#178</comments>
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			<title>Mummy: The Resurrection</title>
			<link>http://criticscorner.getdiscussion.com/fandom-based-f17/mummy-the-resurrection-t47.htm</link>
			<dc:creator>Joy&amp;amp;RaptorsUnrestrain</dc:creator>
			<description>Over the course of thousands of years, ancient Egyptians perfected the art of preserving the bodies of the dead. Their intent was to maintain the body for the family of the deceased. After death, the individual's soul passed into Duat, the Egyptian Underworld. There, in the spirit city of Amenti, Osiris ruled over the dead. The god Anubis guided new arrivals before the judges of the afterlife, so that they could determine the spirit's reward for its life. When incorporated with the mummification  ...</description>
			<category>Fandom-based</category>
			<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 06:38:40 GMT</pubDate>
			<comments>http://criticscorner.getdiscussion.com/fandom-based-f17/mummy-the-resurrection-t47.htm#158</comments>
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			<title>Fireborn: Return of the Dawn</title>
			<link>http://criticscorner.getdiscussion.com/fandom-based-f17/fireborn-return-of-the-dawn-t21.htm</link>
			<dc:creator>Joy&amp;amp;RaptorsUnrestrain</dc:creator>
			<description>In a forgotten age, before recorded History, mankind did not live as cavemen in ignorance and squalor, as we have been led to believe. They built great cities, civilzations, and cultures long before the rise of Mesopotamia and Egypt. The Empire of Atlantis spread across what would be Europe and mastering the arts of metallurgy and magic. In that Mythic Age, humanity was not alone in the world, and his power dwarfed in the shadow of the elusive forest-dwelling Fae and the colossal storm-and-mountain-born  ...</description>
			<category>Fandom-based</category>
			<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 22:10:58 GMT</pubDate>
			<comments>http://criticscorner.getdiscussion.com/fandom-based-f17/fireborn-return-of-the-dawn-t21.htm#46</comments>
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			<title>Words</title>
			<link>http://criticscorner.getdiscussion.com/poetry-and-lyrics-f8/words-t51.htm</link>
			<dc:creator>AriEmeraldstar</dc:creator>
			<description>Words...

What are these...

I want to talk

I want to scream

Afraid

Of what will happen

Words, words,

Meaningless words!

They are my voice,

My soul,

What good are mere words?

Sharper than swords

I...

One such as I

Cannot wield a sword

Like words...

But why?

If others can use them

Why can't I?

And if I try

What then?

What now?

Why shouldn't I

Be able to use them

I'm just as good as them

Smarter

Just as good

So why shouldn't I? </description>
			<category>Poetry and Lyrics</category>
			<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:06:18 GMT</pubDate>
			<comments>http://criticscorner.getdiscussion.com/poetry-and-lyrics-f8/words-t51.htm#164</comments>
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			<title>Friendship</title>
			<link>http://criticscorner.getdiscussion.com/poetry-and-lyrics-f8/friendship-t50.htm</link>
			<dc:creator>dnite</dc:creator>
			<description>Moving closer to impending doom

Guilt and greed moves us on,

We fled but face the evening dawn

Quivering and racing towards our death 

Asking for forgiveness, we try our best

Such grief and sadness we hold in our hearts

We shall always be apart in mind

Hate and curses that controlled us

Shall make our souls, forever bound

Last two we jest until one falls

But end up that we both don’t stand at all

Two hearts competing, two friends now rivals 

A fate not as cruel as the  ...</description>
			<category>Poetry and Lyrics</category>
			<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:01:58 GMT</pubDate>
			<comments>http://criticscorner.getdiscussion.com/poetry-and-lyrics-f8/friendship-t50.htm#163</comments>
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			<title>perspective</title>
			<link>http://criticscorner.getdiscussion.com/poetry-and-lyrics-f8/perspective-t49.htm</link>
			<dc:creator>Rho981</dc:creator>
			<description>Walk down the hallway lined with doors

Nameless doors,

faceless doors, colored with

the blandest shade of reason.



Walk, down the hallway, past the walls lined with photos

landscape photos, those

Hateful photos, surrounded by

thick white barriers

And the edge of darkness they 

call frames.



Tiny, framed,

spiteful wishes of freedom, Disgustingly,



Futile.



Walk to the window at the end of the hall

To find no glass or object there

Just, Empty,



the precipice  ...</description>
			<category>Poetry and Lyrics</category>
			<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 07:58:44 GMT</pubDate>
			<comments>http://criticscorner.getdiscussion.com/poetry-and-lyrics-f8/perspective-t49.htm#161</comments>
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			<title>Ghostwalk</title>
			<link>http://criticscorner.getdiscussion.com/fandom-based-f17/ghostwalk-t44.htm</link>
			<dc:creator>Joy&amp;amp;RaptorsUnrestrain</dc:creator>
			<description>Welcome to the City of Manifest! Built on ancient ruins that guard the entrance to the land of the dead, this mystical place has some unique qualities, first and foremost among them being that the city is full of ghosts --- spirits that have traveled to the land of the dead's border but are not yet ready to leave behind their former lives. In most parts of the world, ghosts are incorporeal and unable to affect the people and things around them, and many are carried along in the currents of the  ...</description>
			<category>Fandom-based</category>
			<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 07:04:11 GMT</pubDate>
			<comments>http://criticscorner.getdiscussion.com/fandom-based-f17/ghostwalk-t44.htm#154</comments>
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			<title>Pirates, Pearls, and Profit (an English essay)</title>
			<link>http://criticscorner.getdiscussion.com/essays-and-school-work-f11/pirates-pearls-and-profit-an-english-essay-t48.htm</link>
			<dc:creator>AriEmeraldstar</dc:creator>
			<description>This is a rough draft of an essay I have to write for my English class, about how archetypal and mythic patterns, particularly a retelling of the hero's journey, explain the success of a film -- in this case, it's Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.  I also need to discuss what aspects of our society or cultural evolution this film appeals to, as well as show if it deviates from the universal forms (discussed in an essay in our textbook) and explain the significance if it  ...</description>
			<category>Essays and School Work</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 09:05:34 GMT</pubDate>
			<comments>http://criticscorner.getdiscussion.com/essays-and-school-work-f11/pirates-pearls-and-profit-an-english-essay-t48.htm#159</comments>
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			<title>Sanguine: Vampires through the Ages</title>
			<link>http://criticscorner.getdiscussion.com/non-fandom-f18/sanguine-vampires-through-the-ages-t46.htm</link>
			<dc:creator>Joy&amp;amp;RaptorsUnrestrain</dc:creator>
			<description>Vampires walk among us to this very day, and have done so since the ages of myth wound to a close. Every child learns the story of the first vampire, perhaps before he or she is taught to walk. Who is it, you ask? Cain, son of Adam and Eve and the first murderer? Lilith, first human rebel against God? Count Dracula? Kingu? The hindu goddess, Kali? The monstrous Libyan queen Lamia, cursed by the gods and transformed into a wormlike beast? No... none of these, actually. The first Vampire's story  ...</description>
			<category>Non-fandom</category>
			<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 05:55:24 GMT</pubDate>
			<comments>http://criticscorner.getdiscussion.com/non-fandom-f18/sanguine-vampires-through-the-ages-t46.htm#156</comments>
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			<title>My Surrender</title>
			<link>http://criticscorner.getdiscussion.com/poetry-and-lyrics-f8/my-surrender-t45.htm</link>
			<dc:creator>psychicpixy44</dc:creator>
			<description>Hold my hand and lets take the step off the edge

Here you purge yourself of misery and disgrace

I feel your hopelessness at my fingertips

And it's why i have led you to this dreadful place



You've confessed your life is a reckless mistake

So please listen when i admit mine is too

I feel the breath of suicide at my neck

That's when i realize that I'm just like you



An imposter, a fake, and a horrible mess

I cry in the dark and now I'm screaming your name

I'm over pretending  ...</description>
			<category>Poetry and Lyrics</category>
			<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:38:49 GMT</pubDate>
			<comments>http://criticscorner.getdiscussion.com/poetry-and-lyrics-f8/my-surrender-t45.htm#155</comments>
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			<title>X-men: DeciMation</title>
			<link>http://criticscorner.getdiscussion.com/fandom-based-f17/x-men-decimation-t36.htm</link>
			<dc:creator>Joy&amp;amp;RaptorsUnrestrain</dc:creator>
			<description>M-Day was a day like any other. You went to work. Went to school. Went on dates. Talked with family. Traveled. Saved the world. Threatened the world. Everything. You were a mutant, one of the special ones, and people said that at the rate things were going, normal humans would have faded away and EVERYONE would be a mutant. And you had a head start on them. You had powers. You looked different from everyone else. You had an extra gene. You could fly. Play with fire without getting burned. Dive  ...</description>
			<category>Fandom-based</category>
			<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 08:18:20 GMT</pubDate>
			<comments>http://criticscorner.getdiscussion.com/fandom-based-f17/x-men-decimation-t36.htm#142</comments>
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			<title>The Rise of the Superiors: A retake on an original team</title>
			<link>http://criticscorner.getdiscussion.com/fandom-based-f17/the-rise-of-the-superiors-a-retake-on-an-original-team-t43.htm</link>
			<dc:creator>Joy&amp;amp;RaptorsUnrestrain</dc:creator>
			<description>Humanity is changing, evolving, becoming something greater. Already, humans with superpowers, known in common parlance as &quot;Superiors,&quot; have been born. There were a few who cropped up in the Cold War with unreliable powers, but only in recent years have there been those born with superpowers that were both functional and devastating. Recognizing a need for training, strong leadership, and solace for these emerging superiors, Dr. Andrea/Andrew Zephanias, a noted psychologist, surgeon,  ...</description>
			<category>Fandom-based</category>
			<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:04:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<comments>http://criticscorner.getdiscussion.com/fandom-based-f17/the-rise-of-the-superiors-a-retake-on-an-original-team-t43.htm#152</comments>
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			<title>Mary Wollenstonecraft Godwin Shelley U: Mad Science Ed</title>
			<link>http://criticscorner.getdiscussion.com/non-fandom-f18/mary-wollenstonecraft-godwin-shelley-u-mad-science-ed-t42.htm</link>
			<dc:creator>Joy&amp;amp;RaptorsUnrestrain</dc:creator>
			<description>Welcome to Mary Wollenstonecraft Godwin Shelley University, home to the greatest (and scariest, and most unhinged) scientific minds in the world! Here the best, brightest, and most explosive all come to study, research, invent, explore and redefine the laws of reality. Each member of the university is a Spark, gifted with a sort of natural talent that enables them to gain a spark of inspiration for inventing or designing theories. This is usually accompanied by a great deal of rapid experimentation  ...</description>
			<category>Non-fandom</category>
			<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:17:14 GMT</pubDate>
			<comments>http://criticscorner.getdiscussion.com/non-fandom-f18/mary-wollenstonecraft-godwin-shelley-u-mad-science-ed-t42.htm#151</comments>
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			<title>Joy&amp;RaptorsUnrestrained!'s Poems</title>
			<link>http://criticscorner.getdiscussion.com/poetry-and-lyrics-f8/joyraptorsunrestrained-s-poems-t23.htm</link>
			<dc:creator>Joy&amp;amp;RaptorsUnrestrain</dc:creator>
			<description>A Tribute to a Valiant Knight

The lord strode from his grand throne room



And left his favorite chair,



To confront the dragon of doom



Within its dark and filthy lair.



The dragon, it was vicious; a fierce and deadly brute.



The Burnished Knight it planned to slay, for thrill and for loot.



The Knight was a brave and noble lord,



A scholar, statesman, and skilled with sword,



Strong of body, mind and heart,



past the dragon’s claws he’d dart.



Out the  ...</description>
			<category>Poetry and Lyrics</category>
			<pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 05:50:53 GMT</pubDate>
			<comments>http://criticscorner.getdiscussion.com/poetry-and-lyrics-f8/joyraptorsunrestrained-s-poems-t23.htm#81</comments>
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			<title>Reminisce With Me</title>
			<link>http://criticscorner.getdiscussion.com/poetry-and-lyrics-f8/reminisce-with-me-t40.htm</link>
			<dc:creator>AriEmeraldstar</dc:creator>
			<description>Quite possibly the most random bit of writing I've ever done.  You've been warned.







Reminisce with me

So much has changed

Consciousness flows away like water

The inspired goon

Finding a cure for life

The killer is safe

With the paparazzi

Energy is home

The gear of time is sweet

Like candy, and always welcome

In it's deluxe gold wrapping

That caused the extinction

Of Halifa -- </description>
			<category>Poetry and Lyrics</category>
			<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 03:09:23 GMT</pubDate>
			<comments>http://criticscorner.getdiscussion.com/poetry-and-lyrics-f8/reminisce-with-me-t40.htm#147</comments>
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			<title>Dynamites!</title>
			<link>http://criticscorner.getdiscussion.com/non-fandom-f18/dynamites-t39.htm</link>
			<dc:creator>Joy&amp;amp;RaptorsUnrestrain</dc:creator>
			<description>Flight. Superstrength. Laser vision. Shapeshifting. Telepathy. Blizzard breath. Electricity control. Regeneration. Sonic shout. Phasing. You know the powers, right? Everyone does. They belong to Wonder City's greatest hero, Captain Dynamo, right? Well... not anymore. Captain Dynamo's body was found in a hotel bed a month ago... undressed and with poisoned lipstick on his lips. The killer has thus far eluded authorities, though that hardly matters, because with Captain Dynamo one, all of his foes  ...</description>
			<category>Non-fandom</category>
			<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:36:23 GMT</pubDate>
			<comments>http://criticscorner.getdiscussion.com/non-fandom-f18/dynamites-t39.htm#146</comments>
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