I am writing a novel! It's an erotic farce entitled It's Always Time, "IAT" for short. You can start reading it here.

Currently, the main purpose of this site is to host the first draft of IAT and related materials. When I'm done with IAT, I plan to use the site to host future projects, hopefully including cooperative works with other authors. If you are interested, let me know! My email address is Oblimo@gmail.com

No. As of the writing of this FAQ entry (11/27/06), it's about 80% complete. I post updates to the first draft as I complete them. (I have notes and rough drafts which I rarely publish to the site, unless I haven't updated in a while or I'm just desperate for attention.)

It's an experiment! This is my first novel-length project in a long time, and I am very keen on trying something different. IAT homages and parodies comic books, cartoons, manga, anime, and Internet bulletin boards--all of which are episodic in nature. I thought it would be interesting to write a serialized novel, where each update is like an episode of a cartoon, an issue of a comic book, or (when I'm really crunched for time) an entry on a bulletin board, in order to capture the feel of the stories I'm plagiarizing--er, I mean emulating.

Most important, however, has been reader feedback. Readers have contributed typo fixes, puns, continuity checks, editorial support, entire subplots and even a couple of characters.

Sure! Just post the question to the FAQ pop-up and I'll do my best to answer it in the FAQ.

That is the ShoutBox in the SideBar refreshing itself, checking for new shouts. As far as I can tell, it's forced down from the ShoutBox's server. I'm using Tag-World's free ShoutBox service, which does not include a smart refresh.

Just let me know, and I'll move the ShoutBox out of the SideBar and put it on the FrontPage and CommPanel only. In the meantime, I am trying to find a way to stop it. (If anyone with any scripting know-how has any ideas, let me know too!)

gal-ah-TAY-uh (Latinized) or gal-ah-TEE-uh (Greek). Both work equally well. Make sure to emphasize the third syllable. Saying gah-LOT-tee-uh will get you sour looks from mythology fans and Greek speakers.

yur-ID-ih-see. Hey, don't worry, I wrongly pronounced it YUR-ih-dess until my junior year of college.

Just like the girl's name "Eve:" EEV. "Yves," however, is not a girl's (or even girlish) name. It's French in origin, means "yew wood" (as in the archer's longbow), and is still a popular boy's name in France and Quebec. The Anglicanized version of the name is "Ives."

TOH-moh-ay.

Cheer up, emo kid.

Crap, alright...

Part of the framework of IAT is fan-fiction for one of the deepest, darkest corners of the web, an anonymous image board community known as 4chan. (Warning: Here be dragons, bile, obscenity, pornography, misanthropy, thought-cancers, invasive memes, recreational diseases, material considered contraband on most civilized planets, and the occasional very clever and funny moment.) Each sub-board of 4chan has its own letter (or letter combo, thanks to recent expansion), the weirdest of which is /d/, and the most infamous of which is /b/. The core personality traits of each character with a single-letter nickname are inspired by the content of that letter's respective sub-board.

I never name the location in the story, although I probably should for the second draft. In my notes, the story is set in the fictional town of Camelot (funny if you think about it), a mid-sized metropolis in the Midwestern US, home to a huge state university and a tech industry of startup companies founded by uni grads and drop-outs too comfortable to move.

The time period is "somewhere in the first few years of the 21st Century." Viggo is mentioned being addicted to Final Fantasy XII, although that will likely change in the second draft to avoid any cease and desist letters.

I'll put the answer in a "spoiler space." Select the white box below with your mouse if you want to know.

No.          

That's Kitty Pryde in a masterfully-drawn, two-frame double-take from Astonishing X-Men #16, published by Marvel Entertainment, Inc. All X-Men associated art, images, and identifying marks are ™ and © 2006 Marvel Characters, Inc. All rights reserved by Marvel Characters, Inc. "YEAHBUHWHAT?" image used without permission. It is replicated here for parodical and review purposes only, as is any mention to any other comic book character or company. Oblimo's Story Wiki is not associated with Marvel Entertainment or other comic book publisher in any way. For the love of God, please don't sue me.

Indeed it does, although "to slime" is Ghostbuster-inspired slang ("He slimed me!"), and the formal English translation of the Latin word "oblimo" is "beslime," as in "Verily hath yonder specter beslimed my personage!"

Right or wrong, SB attributes some of her abilities to her, er, banana side. Of all the honey nymphs we meet in the story, SB is the only one who can not only shape-shift into other people, but also into things, including machines with moving parts (and a few other tricks soon to be revealed). Like all the other meliae we've met, however, SB has very exaggerated notions about sex, sexuality, gender, and gender roles, some enlightened, others surprisingly archaic and stereotyping. SB thinks that, when she was created, her nanomek gave her the ability to shapeshift into machines because the nanomek associated technology with masculinity, proving the popular notion that a man's car is an extension of his virility. So why does she turn into a Mini-Cooper? "Do I look like I have any overcompensation issues? Besides, Mini-Coops are adorable!"

Tomoe is modeled after those mysterious, know-it-all characters that obviously have a deep, complicated back-story which is never fully revealed in the narrative, although many unhelpful clues are provided along the way, much to the audience's consternation and puzzlement. Some examples of this character type are Gandalf from Lord of the Rings, Gendo Ikari from Neo Genesis Evangelion, Guinan from Star Trek: the Next Generation, and Jesus of Nazareth from The Testament, Part II: Electric Boogaloo.

And speaking of unhelpful, frustrating clues, here's a doozy: If SB is the ironical opposite of what Tomoe expected when she mixed nanomek, strawberry-banana flavored gelatin, and fruit-sugar pectin, just what the heck was she actually expecting to make?