One of the largest Proboards in existence, the NTWF—short for "Neopian Times Writers' Forum"—is a place in which one discusses Neopets, writes and reviews, abandons their sanity at the door, gloats and rants, debates matters of Serious Business, forms 'bloidal family trees, chats and clicks some clickables, and hugs a white weewoo.For a bit of a historical backstory: the forum was created in early October 2002 by Shidi, who later relinquished the role of head admin to Patjade.While a Neopets fansite, that's but one section of the forum as a whole. Other parts include The Editor's Mark, for discussion of writing in general; Artist's Alley for artistry; General for off-topic, talk of Real Life, all that; Games and Interactive, having the Discussions and Debates boards and the forever insane 'bloids. The members are much of a big, happy family, with plenty of Crowning Moments of Heartwarming, awesome and funny. NaNoWriMo is a huge event here, leaving the other areas dead the whole month of November.Another noteworthy event of the forums are the Guild Wars play-by-post roleplays (no, not that one), where members create their own characters (often based on their real life selves) and collectively write a Troperiffic fantasy story based around seven guilds: Pirates, Ninjas, Mages, Knights, Mercenaries, Spacefleet, and Steampunk.There's also a subpage for the NTWF Mafia roleplay, in which members were assigned different roles (under the category of Mafia or townspeople) and created characters within the roleplay.Don't forget to check out the YMMV!
This forum contains examples of:
Aerith and Bob: A lot of people have names that you don't really see in real life, but then there are some who have perfectly normal names (like Dan, Jo, Carrie, etc.).
Kit especially. The knowledge of Kit's true gender is said to trigger the implosion of the universe.
Artifact Title: Doesn't have nearly as much to do with Neopets nowadays as it used to. The fact that a number of its members don't play Neopets anymore is a factor.
Break the Cutie: Hayati trapped Candy in a bouncy box with her husband, Draco, with a lot of beach balls. Ever since then, Candy has never been the same.
Rule of Funny: Arguably a major driving force in the 'bloids.
Shout Out: A heck of a lot: Hunty's continual Discworld references, Sev's Queen rendition, Rider's gradual adaptation of Jack Sparrow's habits and phrases, Corico's GLaDOS shirt.
Sound Effects Bleep: Combine with Non-Sound Effect, and we get things like [BEEP], [EDIT] and [REDACTED].
Unusual Euphemism: Aside from whatever gets QM'd, some users have come up with their own euphemisms.
The Forum's filters gave us the brilliance that is "cooking".
Weasel Mascot: Zylaa, who has a weasel persona, fits the personality type to an extent. She does have an army of weasel sidekicks, but they've got the personality of ADD magpies.
World Building: Fang of the Dead REALLY likes doing this to Neopia - when he gets to writing a story, he likes to explore the sociopolitcal states of Neopia's lands.
Chekhov's Gunman: Farmer Bob (aka Robert). Had a very minor role in GW2. Years later, he returned as a fairly important NPC.
Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Usually what happens when someone leaves the roleplay, often due to Real Life circumstances. Sometimes it's explained later, or even lampshaded.
Cool Boat: The White Weewoo/Black Beekadoodle, the Pirates' ship.
Dark Is Not Evil: Celestial. Subverted, however, in the third Guild Wars plot.
Drives Like Crazy: Spacefleet!Zari (there's two of them) has two speed settings: fast and too fast.
Easily Forgiven: Pretty much any Guild Wars character by the end of a particular roleplay.
Fainting Seer: Kat can often perform extraordinary magical feats, but will just as often crumple into a heap soon after.
Fantasy Kitchen Sink: The Guildverse has everything from medieval villages to a massive space station on the moon.
Fluffy the Terrible: The Blarf, at least at first. It got to be a lovable giant really, really quick.
Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Hunty made her own batch. There's Death, War, Famine, and Too Many Connections.
Karma Houdini: Leraye. Plain and simple. I doubt anything could kill that dog-kicking godmode-in-a-box.
In retrospect, he's pretty much responsible for everything that happened in Guild Wars II, and, to a different extent, the following plot named "Redemption." And he gets away without a single scratch.
Magic Knight: Most of the Mages are either this or a Squishy Wizard. Some characters, such as Ikkin and Kat, are aligned with the Knights and Mages simultaneously.
, the NTWF—short for "Neopian Times Writers' Forum"—is a place in which one discusses Neopets, writes and reviews, abandons their sanity at the door, gloats and rants, debates matters of Serious Business, forms 'bloidal family trees, chats and clicks some clickables, and hugs a white weewoo.For a bit of a historical backstory: the forum was created in early October 2002 by Shidi, who later relinquished the role of head admin to Patjade.While a Neopets fansite, that's but one section of the forum as a whole. Other parts include The Editor's Mark, for discussion of writing in general; Artist's Alley for artistry; General for off-topic, talk of Real Life, all that; Games and Interactive, having the Discussions and Debates boards and the forever insane 'bloids. The members are much of a big, happy family, with plenty of Crowning Moments of Heartwarming, awesome and funny. NaNoWriMo is a huge event here, leaving the other areas dead the whole month of November.Another noteworthy event of the forums are the Guild Wars play-by-post roleplays (no, not that one), where members create their own characters (often based on their real life selves) and collectively write a Troperiffic fantasy story based around seven guilds: Pirates, Ninjas, Mages, Knights, Mercenaries, Spacefleet, and Steampunk.There's also a subpage for the NTWF Mafia roleplay, in which members were assigned different roles (under the category of Mafia or townspeople) and created characters within the roleplay.Don't forget to check out the YMMV!
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