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I don't know if there's any lore, but what do you think it does to a a 12 year old kid if an authority figure that is widely portrayed as infallible tells them they're Slytherin (ie. evil) and then force them to only hang out with all the other kids who've been told they're evil? I can hardly think of a better method of creating turning a quarter of your students into the in-universe equivalent of the SS!

@TheLowKing I'm not quite that invested into Harry Potter lore, but wasn't/isn't Slytherin more of 'mischevious pranksters' rather then evil? At least until Tom Riddle/Voldemort/You-Know-Who said "It's Voldemorting time" and Voldemorted all over the place. I feel like at some point we got about half of Slytherin explicitly hate the 'evil' label.

Also, wouldn't the Sorting Hat be WAY older then anything we see in the books (not including spin-offs and historical lore flashbacks). I feel like the thing's kinda necessary for the 4-house system to work. If it's not as old as Hogwarts, then it probably would have been one of the first Dumbledore did as Headmaster.

A CIA agent gets involved in the competition, but all he does is drop LSD into everyone's drinks (including his own) and then watches people go crazy.

No no, there'd be several agents, and they'd all be taking notes.
Also, you want to drug no more than 50% of the people there because then you get to see all the possible combinations of drugged hypnotists, undrugged hypnotists, drugged victims, and undrugged victims.

CIA is not that competent. Especially not during their LSD era.

Ah... that sucks. Get well soon!

I literally had never heard of Mick Jagger. Ever. The only mention of his name I ever heard was the song 'Moves Like Jagger', and the only name I'd ever heard that sounded even remotely like 'Mick Jagger' that was known for moving well was Michael Jackson.

In other words, I live under a rock, apparently.

:D

Well, there are also other MJ's you could mistake them for :)

I wouldn't say you live under rock - just that you are young and inexperienced ;)

At the risk I'm blowing your mind: Elvis is also not a nickname for Michael Jackson.

Would that mean that religious wars are caused by different writers trying to kill off each other's OCs?

If we assume the converse, that religion/mythology is how the characters percive the writers, then it stands to reason that the generally more 'evil' gods (tricksters like Loki) or destructive events like Ragnarok are a sort of 'writer war'.

Although, if we assume the 'gods' are self inserts, and they people behind the divine screen are really just trying to write a good story, then there is a very real chance the wars of our world are merely another part of the story, the supposed 'plot-twist'.

Really living up to the old username, there.

Says the guys yapping about murder to strangers online.
Although, we can join hands in the shared fact that neither of us are telling the truth about ourselves :>

in other words, HAPPY NEW YEARS!

Meaningfully*

I spent a solid 5 minutes trying to figure out how to make 'meaningfully' fit better before realizing that the joke is that 'meaningfully' is an adverb. In case someone didn't realize, I do NOT know what an adverb is. I don't intend to learn either, so don't tell me.

Wasted someone's time with a really lame joke: mission accomplished! ;)

I feel the vibe and yet have no clue what you mean. xD

That means you're currently closer to the Pikmin side; a Pikmin need know nothing but the whistle and the vibes.

And now I want to write a Santa Claus erotica lol

2/3rds of my chapter. Apparently they straight-up won't grade anything past 700 words. Therefore, my chapter is too long for exam graders from CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY. By a wide margin. I pulled up the calculator and my chapter is 40.57% larger than a 10th grade extra-credit special course essay. I would like to stress that I have even MORE chapters that are similar in length. Holy shit.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but 1000 words is not very long for a chapter. :P That's about 3 pages in a average-sized paperback novel.

Consider the following; I have 2-3 more chapters of similar sizes, plus at least 5 that are likely over 667 words, which comes out to roughly 19 pages. Thats for one (1) storyline.
I have two other storylines which are probably 10-15 pages each.
I have finished none of them.
Therefore, it is only logical to assume that I am, as they say, balling.

That's just kinda lame isn't it. Shame really, would be nice to have Paris outsmart those three like it happens so often in mythology. But oh well. Guess that means there is no good answer.

Then that leaves one question; what's the *funniest* answer?

The funniest answer is that Thoth comes over and brings the Egyptian pantheon to fight against the Hellenic one

You say its funniest, but no thats actually the *coolest* possibility. There's a reason the recent God of War games moved over to Norse mythology. And if we're taking the 'religion crossover' route, I think Buddha and Sun Wukong absolutly washing the Greek pantheon (heard most people say Wukong solos Goku, and Greek gods aren't nearly as busted as some other mythos are) is going to be one hell of a spectacle.