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Local Flavor

2018-12-20T03:11:57Z

Ptarmigan:

Local Flavor is a rural fantasy story written and illustrated by [[Ptarmigan]]. It ran in [[Issue 76]] at http://www.shousetsubangbang.com/mirror/local-flavor/ and takes place in the same setting as [[Rust Lake]] from 2017's December issue, but reading it is not required to enjoy this story as it is intended to be a standalone work with a mostly new cast of characters.

The story's main characters are elves.

==Story summary==
Cicada, the town snowmobile, gets an unexpected visitor from out of town and decides to take him out to some of Rust Lake's many fine dining venues.

==Author's notes==
I'm so happy I finally got to use the phrase "whipping shitties" in a story, but also that I finally got to write a story that's actually about Cicada this time where he doesn't spend half the story in jail and gets to be on his ''best behavior'' for his guest.

It also took me this long to figure out a name for the region these extremely north/midwestern elves inhabit; "Minnelaskwa" is a portmanteau of Minnesota, Alaska, and Washington, the three states that majorly influenced this weird little setting in some way or another. The area they go camping at later on is heavily based on the ghost town of Bordeaux, a beautiful abandoned logging town in the Capitol State Forest in Washington state.

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Local Flavor

2018-12-20T03:11:33Z

Ptarmigan:

Local Flavor

2018-12-17T13:56:55Z

Ptarmigan:

Local Flavor is a rural fantasy story written and illustrated by [[Ptarmigan]]. It ran in [[Issue 76]] at http://www.shousetsubangbang.com/mirror/local-flavor/ and takes place in the same setting as [[Rust Lake]] from 2017's December issue.

==Story summary==
Cicada, the town snowmobile, gets an unexpected visitor from out of town and decides to take him out to some of Rust Lake's many fine dining venues.

==Author's notes==
I'm so happy I finally got to use the phrase "whipping shitties" in a story, but also that I finally got to write a story that's actually about Cicada this time where he doesn't spend half the story in jail and gets to be on his ''best behavior'' for his guest.

It also took me this long to figure out a name for the region these extremely north/midwestern elves inhabit; "Minnelaskwa" is a portmanteau of Minnesota, Alaska, and Washington, the three states that majorly influenced this weird little setting in some way or another. The area they go camping at later on is heavily based on the ghost town of Bordeaux, a beautiful abandoned logging town in the Capitol State Forest in Washington state.

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Local Flavor

2018-12-17T13:53:28Z

Ptarmigan:

Local Flavor is a rural fantasy story written and illustrated by [[Ptarmigan]]. It ran in [[Issue 76]] at http://www.shousetsubangbang.com/mirror/local-flavor/ and takes place in the same setting as [[Rust Lake]].

==Story summary==
Cicada, the town snowmobile, gets an unexpected visitor from out of town and decides to take him out to some of Rust Lake's many fine dining venues.

==Author's notes==
I'm so happy I finally got to use the phrase "whipping shitties" in a story, but also that I finally got to write a story that's actually about Cicada this time where he doesn't spend half the story in jail and gets to be on his ''best behavior'' for his guest.

It also took me this long to figure out a name for the region these extremely north/midwestern elves inhabit; "Minnelaskwa" is a portmanteau of Minnesota, Alaska, and Washington, the three states that majorly influenced this weird little setting in some way or another. The area they go camping at later on is heavily based on the ghost town of Bordeaux, a beautiful abandoned logging town in the Capitol State Forest in Washington state.

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Ptarmigan

2018-12-17T13:52:12Z

Ptarmigan:

Ptarmigan is a bird on a typewriter who has contributed text and artwork to Shousetsu Bang*Bang. He's too anxious to have much of a social media presence but will make a modest attempt at keeping up a [https://www.pillowfort.io/ptarmigan Pillowfort] for posting artwork and sneak peeks for planned future stories. He aspires to be the Ed Wood of queer fantasy fiction, creating earnest, cheesy schlock for the sake of creating no matter how offbeat the subject matter is.

His claim to fame is getting banned from Cabela's for attempting to ride the taxidermy displays in full elf cosplay, but also writing weird stories about gay elves in Fantasy Minnesota doing gay things. It's mostly the latter.

Known to make [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec-E3YdAR1U positively ridiculous noises].

== Contributions ==

Ptarmigan has written the following stories:

* [[Rust Lake]]
* [[Local Flavor]]

Ptarmigan has contributed art to the following stories:
* [[Rust Lake]]
* [[Local Flavor]]

== External links ==
* [https://www.pillowfort.io/ptarmigan Pillowfort] - Hoping to actually maintain this as some kind of a sketchdump.
* [https://mastodon.social/@ptarmigan Mastodon] - Mostly shitposting.
* [http://birdonatypewriter.tumblr.com Tumblr] - Won't be updated anymore, but linking for completion.

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Ptarmigan

2018-12-17T13:51:55Z

Ptarmigan: Just adding pillowfort links~

Local Flavor

2018-12-17T13:34:08Z

Ptarmigan:

Local Flavor is a rural fantasy story written and illustrated by [[Ptarmigan]]. It ran in [[Issue 76]] at http://www.shousetsubangbang.com/mirror/ and takes place in the same setting as [[Rust Lake]].

==Story summary==
Cicada, the town snowmobile, gets an unexpected visitor from out of town and decides to take him out to some of Rust Lake's many fine dining venues.

==Author's notes==
I'm so happy I finally got to use the phrase "whipping shitties" in a story, but also that I finally got to write a story that's actually about Cicada this time where he doesn't spend half the story in jail and gets to be on his ''best behavior'' for his guest.

It also took me this long to figure out a name for the region these extremely north/midwestern elves inhabit; "Minnelaskwa" is a portmanteau of Minnesota, Alaska, and Washington, the three states that majorly influenced this weird little setting in some way or another. The area they go camping at later on is heavily based on the ghost town of Bordeaux, a beautiful abandoned logging town in the Capitol State Forest in Washington state.

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User:Ptarmigan

2018-12-17T08:06:12Z

Ptarmigan:

A bird on a typewriter. Sometimes a bird wielding crayons. Makes [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec-E3YdAR1U ridiculous noises]???

* [https://mastodon.social/@ptarmigan Mastodon]
* [https://www.pillowfort.io/ptarmigan Pillowfort]

Ptarmigan

2017-12-19T14:17:44Z

Ptarmigan:

Ptarmigan is a bird on a typewriter who has contributed text and artwork to Shousetsu Bang*Bang. He's too anxious to have much of a social media presence but will make a modest attempt at keeping up a [https://birdonatypewriter.tumblr.com/ Tumblr] for posting artwork and sneak peeks for planned future stories. He aspires to be the Ed Wood of queer fantasy fiction, creating sincere, cheesy schlock for the sake of creating no matter how offbeat the subject matter is. He hopes you will get something out of his writing, even if it's just a few laughs!

Known to make [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec-E3YdAR1U positively ridiculous noises].

== Contributions ==

Ptarmigan has written the following stories:

* [[Rust Lake]]

Ptarmigan has contributed art to the following stories:
* [[Rust Lake]]

== External links ==
* [http://birdonatypewriter.tumblr.com Tumblr]
* [https://mastodon.social/@ptarmigan Mastodon]

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Rust Lake

2017-12-19T12:46:05Z

Ptarmigan: /* Author's notes */

Rust Lake is a rural fantasy story written and illustrated by [[Ptarmigan]]. It ran in [[Issue 70]] at http://www.shousetsubangbang.com/mirror/rust-lake/. Larger versions of the illustrations can be seen [https://birdonatypewriter.tumblr.com/post/168692196708/rust-lake-is-out-on-this-months-issue-of here]!

== Story summary ==
An unusual murder in the isolated logging town of Rust Lake brings magical detectives Larus Sovat'ye and Albedo Al'satye up north to investigate the crime and watch a terrible movie about a talking moose.

== Author's notes ==
Finally, an answer to the question nobody wanted to ask: "What if elves wore flannel?"

The setting of this story was something I sort of accidentally stumbled into, inspired by a tiny quest hub in World of Warcraft: A small population of elves living in a lodge in a mountainous, woodland area neighbored by dwarves and otherwise fairly cut off from the rest of the world and their elven homeland. I play on a (fairly dead) roleplay server and had the idea of playing an elf from this area, and reckoned he'd be something a bit more backwoodsy than one might expect from an elf, and from that sprang an entire pocket culture of charming lumberjack elves that I pulled whole cloth out of my ass just to justify why my character had a Minnesotan accent, a fondness for dwarves, and fancied cotton workshirts over silk robes. Being that I play on a dead server the roleplay wasn't happening and I didn't have much of an outlet, my good friend [[Iron Eater]] encouraged me to take my homebrewed Minnesotan elf worldbuilding nonsense (lovingly nickamed "Canadian Elf Hell" in the liner notes because developing this oddball setting all but consumed my life these past few months) and put it to use as an original story. It probably should go without saying that I plan to do more with this setting, not just with the characters from this story but introducing new characters in the future as well.

About the elves in particular, I thought it would be kind of funny to play around with how we as humans tend to romanticize things (especially animals) while brushing aside or choosing to ignore their less-than-charming aspects. Foxes are a spectacular example of this and that's why I chose them as the base from which elves evolved from -- on the outside, we view foxes as cute, charming, and clever animals while in reality they're stinky little critters that make awful noises, eat garbage, and poop everywhere and get away with it because we think they're cute. There are maniacs who wants foxes as ''pets'' even knowing that everything in their house is going to get pissed on and it's gonna smell like skunk farts (seriously, google it, foxes are purported to smell as bad as skunks if not worse). Foxes are ''gross''. I love them so much. I can't believe I lived almost my entire life without knowing how gross foxes actually are and liking them is way more socially acceptable than raccoons or opossums because of that romanticism thing (for the record, I love raccoons and opossums too, but it would be harder convincing people to read a story about a sentient fantasy race that evolved from opossums).

Some elves will deny their stinky, trash-eating origins while others embrace it, much like how there are humans who deny that we're apes. Although it never comes up in the text, the creation story for these elves reflects their ancestors' dumpster-diving prowess and will be worked into a future story if I can figure out a way to do so without shoving it down readers' throats.

Larus is named after a genus of seagulls and I couldn't resist throwing in a joke about french fries. I'm not sorry.

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Rust Lake

2017-12-19T12:41:45Z

Ptarmigan: /* Author's notes */

Rust Lake is a rural fantasy story written and illustrated by [[Ptarmigan]]. It ran in [[Issue 70]] at http://www.shousetsubangbang.com/mirror/rust-lake/. Larger versions of the illustrations can be seen [https://birdonatypewriter.tumblr.com/post/168692196708/rust-lake-is-out-on-this-months-issue-of here]!

== Story summary ==
An unusual murder in the isolated logging town of Rust Lake brings magical detectives Larus Sovat'ye and Albedo Al'satye up north to investigate the crime and watch a terrible movie about a talking moose.

== Author's notes ==
Finally, an answer to the question nobody wanted to ask: "What if elves wore flannel?"

The setting of this story was something I sort of accidentally stumbled into, inspired by a tiny quest hub in World of Warcraft: A small population of elves living in a lodge in a mountainous, woodland area neighbored by dwarves and otherwise fairly cut off from the rest of the world and their elven homeland. I play on a (fairly dead) roleplay server and had the idea of playing an elf from this area, and reckoned he'd be something a bit more backwoodsy than one might expect from an elf, and from that sprang an entire pocket culture of charming lumberjack elves that I pulled whole cloth out of my ass just to justify why my character had a Minnesotan accent, a fondness for dwarves, and fancied cotton workshirts over silk robes. Being that I play on a dead server the roleplay wasn't happening and I didn't have much of an outlet, my good friend [[Iron Eater]] encouraged me to take my homebrewed Minnesotan elf worldbuilding nonsense (lovingly nickamed "Canadian Elf Hell" in the liner notes because developing this oddball setting all but consumed my life these past few months) and put it to use as an original story. It probably should go without saying that I plan to do more with this setting, not just with the characters from this story but introducing new characters in the future as well.

About the elves in particular, I thought it would be kind of funny to play around with how we as humans tend to romanticize things (especially animals) while brushing aside or choosing to ignore their less-than-charming aspects. Foxes are a spectacular example of this and that's why I chose them as the base from which elves evolved from -- on the outside, we view foxes as cute, charming, and clever animals while in reality they're stinky little critters that make awful noises, eat garbage, and poop everywhere and get away with it because we think they're cute. There are maniacs who wants foxes as ''pets'' even knowing that everything in their house is going to get pissed on and it's gonna smell like skunk farts (seriously, google it, foxes are purported to smell as bad as skunks if not worse). Foxes are ''gross''. I love them so much. I can't believe I lived almost my entire life without knowing how gross foxes actually are and liking them is way more socially acceptable than raccoons or opossums because of that romanticism thing (for the record, I love raccoons and opossums too, but it would be harder convincing people to read a story about a sentient fantasy race that evolved from opossums).

Some elves will deny their stinky, trash-eating origins while others embrace it, much like how there are humans who deny that we're apes. Although it never comes up in the text, the creation story for these elves reflects their ancestors' dumpster-diving prowess and will be worked into a future story if I can figure out a way to do so without shoving it down readers' throats.

Larus is named after a genus of seagulls and the french fry joke was intentional. I'm not sorry.

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[[category:2017]]

Rust Lake

2017-12-19T12:13:21Z

Ptarmigan: /* Author's notes */

Rust Lake is a rural fantasy story written and illustrated by [[Ptarmigan]]. It ran in [[Issue 70]] at http://www.shousetsubangbang.com/mirror/rust-lake/. Larger versions of the illustrations can be seen [https://birdonatypewriter.tumblr.com/post/168692196708/rust-lake-is-out-on-this-months-issue-of here]!

== Story summary ==
An unusual murder in the isolated logging town of Rust Lake brings magical detectives Larus Sovat'ye and Albedo Al'satye up north to investigate the crime and watch a terrible movie about a talking moose.

== Author's notes ==
Finally, an answer to the question nobody wanted to ask: "What if elves wore flannel?"

The setting of this story was something I sort of accidentally stumbled into, inspired by a tiny quest hub in World of Warcraft: A small population of elves living in a lodge in a mountainous, woodland area neighbored by dwarves and otherwise fairly cut off from the rest of the world and their elven homeland. I play on a (fairly dead) roleplay server and had the idea of playing an elf from this area, and reckoned he'd be something a bit more backwoodsy than one might expect from an elf, and from that sprang an entire pocket culture of charming lumberjack elves that I pulled whole cloth out of my ass just to justify why my character had a Minnesotan accent, a fondness for dwarves, and fancied cotton workshirts over silk robes. Being that I play on a dead server the roleplay wasn't happening and I didn't have much of an outlet, my good friend [[Iron Eater]] encouraged me to take my homebrewed Minnesotan elf worldbuilding nonsense (lovingly nickamed "Canadian Elf Hell" in the liner notes because developing this oddball setting all but consumed my life these past few months) and put it to use as an original story. It probably should go without saying that I plan to do more with this setting, not just with the characters from this story but introducing new characters in the future as well.

About the elves in particular, I thought it would be kind of funny to play around how we as humans tend to romanticize things (especially animals) while brushing aside or choosing to ignore their less-than-charming aspects. Foxes are a spectacular example of this and that's why I chose them as the base from which elves evolved from -- on the outside, we view foxes as cute, charming, and clever animals while in reality they're stinky little critters that make awful noises, eat garbage, and poop everywhere (and that makes me love them even ''more'' because of course it does). Although it never comes up in the text, the creation story for these elves reflects their ancestors' dumpster-diving prowess and may be worked into a future story if I can figure out a way to do so without shoving it down readers' throats.

Larus is named after a genus of seagulls and the french fry joke was intentional. I'm not sorry.

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[[category:2017]]

Rust Lake

2017-12-19T12:12:45Z

Ptarmigan: Added author's notes!

Rust Lake is a rural fantasy story written and illustrated by [[Ptarmigan]]. It ran in [[Issue 70]] at http://www.shousetsubangbang.com/mirror/rust-lake/. Larger versions of the illustrations can be seen [https://birdonatypewriter.tumblr.com/post/168692196708/rust-lake-is-out-on-this-months-issue-of here]!

== Story summary ==
An unusual murder in the isolated logging town of Rust Lake brings magical detectives Larus Sovat'ye and Albedo Al'satye up north to investigate the crime and watch a terrible movie about a talking moose.

== Author's notes ==
Finally, an answer to the question nobody wanted to ask: "What if elves wore flannel?"

The setting of this story was something I sort of accidentally stumbled into, inspired by a tiny quest hub in World of Warcraft: A small population of elves living in a lodge in a mountainous, woodland area neighbored by dwarves and otherwise fairly cut off from the rest of the world and their elven homeland. I play on a (fairly dead) roleplay server and had the idea of playing an elf from this area, and reckoned he'd be something a bit more backwoodsy than one might expect from an elf, and from that sprang an entire pocket culture of charming lumberjack elves that I pulled whole cloth out of my ass just to justify why my character had a Minnesotan accent, a fondness for dwarves, and fancied cotton workshirts over silk robes. Being that I play on a dead server the roleplay wasn't happening and I didn't have much of an outlet, my good friend [[Iron Eater]] encouraged me to take my homebrewed Minnesotan elf worldbuilding nonsense (lovingly nickamed "Canadian Elf Hell" in the liner notes because developing this oddball setting all but consumed my life these past few months) and put it to use as an original story. It probably should go without saying that I plan to do more with this setting, not just with the characters from this story but introducing new characters in the future as well.

About the elves in particular, I thought it would be kind of funny to play around how we as humans tend to romanticize things (especially animals) while brushing aside or choosing to ignore their less-than-charming aspects. Foxes are a spectacular example of this and that's why I chose them as the base from which elves evolved from -- on the outside, we view foxes as cute, charming, and clever animals while in reality they're stinky little critters that make awful noises, eat garbage, and poop everywhere (and that makes me love them even ''more'' because of course it does). Although it never comes up in the text, the creation story for these elves reflects their ancestors' dumpster-diving prowess and may be worked into a future story if I can figure out a way to do so without shoving it down readers' throats.

Larus is named after a genus of seagulls and the french fry joke was intentional. I'm not sorry.

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Rust Lake

2017-12-18T23:48:17Z

Ptarmigan:

Rust Lake

2017-12-18T22:36:18Z

Ptarmigan:

Rust Lake is a rural fantasy story written and illustrated by [[Ptarmigan]]. It ran in [[Issue 70]] at http://www.shousetsubangbang.com/mirror/rust-lake/.

== Story summary ==
An unusual murder in the isolated logging town of Rust Lake brings magical detectives Larus Sovat'ye and Albedo Al'satye up north to investigate the crime and watch a terrible movie about a talking moose.

[[category:text]]
[[category:stub]]
[[category:M/M]]
[[category:2017]]

Rust Lake

2017-12-18T02:54:19Z

Ptarmigan:

Rust Lake is a rural fantasy story written and illustrated by [[Ptarmigan]]. It ran in [[Issue 70]] at http://www.shousetsubangbang.com/mirror/.

== Story Summary ==
An unusual murder in the isolated logging town of Rust Lake brings magical detectives Larus Sovat'ye and Albedo Al'satye up north to investigate the crime and watch a terrible movie about a talking moose.

[[category:text]]
[[category:stub]]
[[category:M/M]]
[[category:2017]]

Ptarmigan

2017-12-18T02:50:53Z

Ptarmigan:

Ptarmigan is a bird on a typewriter who has contributed text and artwork to Shousetsu Bang*Bang. He has an allergy to social media but will make a modest attempt at keeping up a [https://birdonatypewriter.tumblr.com/ Tumblr] for posting artwork and sneak peeks for planned future stories.

Known to make [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec-E3YdAR1U positively ridiculous noises].

== Contributions ==

Ptarmigan has written the following stories:

* [[Rust Lake]]

Ptarmigan has contributed art to the following stories:
* [[Rust Lake]]

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Ptarmigan

2017-12-17T13:28:04Z

Ptarmigan:

Ptarmigan has contributed text and artwork to Shousetsu Bang*Bang. He has an allergy to social media but will make a modest attempt at keeping up a [https://birdonatypewriter.tumblr.com/ Tumblr] for posting artwork and sneak peeks for planned future stories.

Known to make [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec-E3YdAR1U positively ridiculous noises].

== Contributions ==

Ptarmigan has written the following stories:

* [[Rust Lake]]

Ptarmigan has contributed art to the following stories:
* [[Rust Lake]]

[[Category:author]] [[Category:artist]]

Ptarmigan

2017-12-17T13:19:54Z

Ptarmigan:

Ptarmigan has contributed text to Shousetsu Bang*Bang. He has an allergy to social media but will make a modest attempt at keeping up a [https://birdonatypewriter.tumblr.com/ Tumblr] for posting artwork and sneak peeks for planned future stories.

Known to make [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec-E3YdAR1U positively ridiculous noises].

== Contributions ==

Ptarmigan has written the following stories:

* [[Rust Lake]]

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User:Ptarmigan

2017-12-16T12:40:43Z

Ptarmigan: Just putting a thing here. o/`