TacoMagic: So Long, and Thanks for all the Riffs
Posted: July 21, 2021 Filed under: Library of the Damned | Tags: TacoMagic 6 CommentsNow that the tenth anniversary of the Library has come and gone, I am announcing my retirement from riffing and the Library. Ten years is a long time by internet standards and it feels like a good milestone to use for closing this chapter of my life.
I want to extend this final thank you to everyone for giving me a great ten years to reflect on. Thank you to all the patrons who joined me in the comments section for the silliness and discussion, and thank you to my fellow Librarians for the support and friendship both inside and outside of the Library.
And finally, a big thank you to all the authors out there who found their work on the sharp end of my snark over the last ten years. I literally could not have written anything I wrote for the Library without you. Regardless of anything I said for comedic effect, there was always a joy I felt when I found a fic that was worth snarking on. Finding “the right fic” was a special moment for me, and though it may not have been the joy you indented to inspire as an author, it was still something your writing did, even if was in spite of itself.
I want you, and everyone else reading this for that matter, to remember to keep on writing even if, maybe even especially if, somebody is going to have a laugh at it. There is value and meaning in the joy inspired by the absurd, so embrace that.
As always, patrons, stay frosty!
2833: Uncool – Oneshot
Posted: July 14, 2021 Filed under: Original Work, Uncool | Tags: Humor, Mystery, Original Fiction, TacoMagic, Your Librarians Have Old Shames 10 CommentsTitle: Uncool
Author: TacoMagic
Media: Probably paper
Topic: Original Story (With influences from Matlock and the Three Stooges)
Genre: Mystery / “Humor”
URL: Uncool
Critiqued by TacoMagic
All right, everyone, for this last stop on our trip down memory lane we’re going to tackle the much shorter, and arguably better written “Uncool” that I wrote just after R-Tron. Uncool is actually the first in a series of three stories with this first installment being relatively well grounded and later installments featuring less coherent writing because of a mixture of influences from Mortal Kombat and R.L. Stein. As a peek into that hot mess, Uncool 2’s hook was an alien shaped like a chicken nugget.
(Un?)Fortunately I don’t have either of the sequels because they’re either lost, or in a box somewhere in my parents house. So, we’ll just be diving the first entry to the series.
2825: The War of R-Tron Series 1 – Chapters Six, Seven, and Eight
Posted: June 23, 2021 Filed under: Original Work, The War of R-Tron Series 1 | Tags: Adventure, Original Fiction, Sci-Fi, TacoMagic, Your Librarians Have Old Shames 11 CommentsTitle: The War of R-Tron Series 1
Author: TacoMagic
Media: Uh, paper?
Topic: Original Story (With obvious M.A.S.K. and Star Trek: TNG influences)
Genre: Sci Fi / Adventure
URL: The War of R-Tron Series 1
Critiqued by TacoMagic
Welcome back! Today we finish off The War of R-Tron Series 1 of 1.
Last time things got thick and chunky with lots of sudden, and from behind, exposition and battle padding, a token funeral, and a confirmation that the evil robots are in fact a Borg expy. Also, nitrogen.
Let’s finish this mess off!
2820: The War of R-Tron Series 1 – Chapters Three, Four, and Five
Posted: June 16, 2021 Filed under: Original Work, The War of R-Tron Series 1 | Tags: Adventure, Original Fiction, Sci-Fi, TacoMagic, Your Librarians Have Old Shames 12 CommentsTitle: The War of R-Tron Series 1
Author: TacoMagic
Media: Uh, paper?
Topic: Original Story (With obvious M.A.S.K. and Star Trek: TNG influences)
Genre: Sci Fi / Adventure
URL: The War of R-Tron Series 1
Critiqued by TacoMagic
Welcome back, patrons!
Last time Frank Nafin and his droid, Sir Not appearing in this Story, made some autobots Robotic Transforming Vehicles for the definitely not Federation of Planets. Due to some budget cuts in security, one of the RTVs was promptly stolen by the Norg (original antagonists, donut steel). And what do we do when evil robots steal one of you prototype ships? Naturally you send the other two to get it back.
2812: The War of R-Tron Series 1 – Chapters One and Two
Posted: June 2, 2021 Filed under: Original Work, The War of R-Tron Series 1 | Tags: Adventure, Original Fiction, Sci-Fi, TacoMagic 17 CommentsTitle: The War of R-Tron Series 1
Author: TacoMagic
Media: Uh, paper?
Topic: Original Story (With obvious M.A.S.K. and Star Trek: TNG influences)
Genre: Sci Fi / Adventure
URL: The War of R-Tron Series 1
Critiqued by TacoMagic
Hey, patrons! Today starts a special project that’s been percolating for a while now. This project is to riff a couple old stories I found! Or, rather, my parents found. See, in going through some old storage bins in their house, my parents found a small cache of my six-grade writing, and I thought it would be a bit of a lark to transcribe them onto the internet.
Primarily because I’m not known for great life choices; but also because I don’t think we’ve ever done something like this. I think it’ll be fun to take a trip down memory lane, poke some fun at my younger self, and see if I can remember what the hell I was thinking as a twelve-year-old in the nineties.
Now, I could full-on scan these pages, which themselves are photocopies of the originals, but I’ll spare you all that as these pages are frankly terrifying to behold. Still, I’ll retain the spelling and grammar errors in the transcription, provided I can read them through all the corrections added by my teacher. Also, bear with me with these riffs being super short, transcribing these ended up taking a lot longer than I thought it would; my handwriting was terrible, in cursive, and the school copier that produced these wasn’t the greatest.
So, to start this wild ride down memory lane, we have “The War of R-Tron Series 1” which I’m pretty sure was inspired mostly by M.A.S.K. Now that one is going to baffle some of you and you may wonder what a Jim Carey movie/cartoon series has to do with anything, but the formatting there is important. M.A.S.K. (Mobile Armored Strike Kommand) was a two-season “to-sell-toys” cartoon produced by the Montreal branch of Kenner-Parker toys in 1985&86 and animated in Japan. It was a shameless marketing-centric knockoff of both G.I. Joe and Transformers, combining themes from both in a way that defied any sense of subtlety. Still, I was young and had no taste, so I loved that show for long after its run and had most, if not all, the toys it was created to sell.
Pretty sure I still have a few of those toys in my basement now that I think about it.
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