Nov 2008 Archive, part b

The question would be, what is the phosphorescent molecule?

Beer making involves turning sugar into ethanol. If the phosphoresance depends on the sugar, or even the sugar concentration, then, after a while the mixture would stop glowing.

The byproduct of making ethanol is CO2. Generally that will also kill any phosphoescent properties of anything until it is released. I chan go into an energy level diagram and molecules, but that would be a little too technical.

Leto, chem geek

If we use North America as a model, I would expect to see:

In the coastal and low-lying regions of Lammoth and Nevrast, there will be a mix of maples, oaks, spruce, and firs, with the occasional beech and cedar. The further north one gets (or higher elevation), the firs will become more and more prominent. However, once one crests the Ered Lomin, the firs will quickly give way to pine.

I suspect you're thinking of aspen, rather than birch - while there are oddball species that prefer it the other way around, most aspens are high-altitude trees, while birches tend towards lowlands.

I'm not sure where the tradeoff between pine and aspen happens - I remember that some areas of western Colorado (especially around Grand Junction) are very heavily forested with aspen, but that's a good six hundred miles from the nearest ocean, and across multiple rather high mountain ranges. Just by looking at the map of Beleriand in my Silm, I would guess that Nuath would have either a pine/fir mix, if the weather came up along the ered wethrin from south of mount Taras (a long trip, but no mountain ranges in the way to pull out most of the rain), or it would have a pine/aspen mix, if the weather came down from the firth of Drengist (and thus over some serious mountains).

Considering that a large amount of the water in the Sirion comes from Dorthonion and Ered Wethrin, I would suspect it's the former - that's a lot of water to go up and over the mountains. Also, the size of the Gelion up north suggests that the March of Maedhros gets a decent amount of water. It would make sense to me, anyways, if all of Beleriand's weather came from the southwest, from the sea.

Or, I could be all wet. The Columbia river is huge, and its watershed is on the far side of the Cascade mountains (and the Olympics) from the ocean. Personally, though, I'd take that to mean that Hithlum should probably have a fairly big river for drainage.

I volunteer. I can cover several canons, depending on which ones are involved (a list would be nice), I can Britpick, and I'm one hell of a SPAG Nazi.

Though you seem to have plenty of help already. Still, I'm standing by if you want me, seeing as I can access the internet regularly again.

But it looks like you've got lots of help anyway.

If you need it, that is - looks like there's plenty of people willing to help out. =) I think I'm familiar with most of the continua your story uses, so... yeah. I procrastinate a lot, though, so watch out for that. x.X I'm steelwingedvictory@hotmail.com, if you decide to take advantage of me.

...not in that way. Why do I have a dirty mind?

Not too familiar with some of those continua, but decent enough with them. I can give it a try if you want, though I'd probably be better at proofreading than canon knowledge. Email is kgarrett@operamail.com if you're interested.

I'll help with the HP part. I, er, kinda haven't betaed before and I'm not that hot on ideas, but I'd be willing to correct any grammatical and spelling errors you might have missed. I'll also britpick if need be.

What can I say, I love the idea. :P

...Yeah, that's bad. From the way it's going, it only looks as though it's gonna get worse too. Still, heh, LotR festival, that's gotta be a new one right?

Are you just reporting this one, or claiming it? So I know what wiki page to put it under.

agent_tomato5(at)yahoo(dot)com

Email is artic(dot)blade(at)hotmail(dot)com. Sounds fun. Send it along ASAP, I wanna read! *Gives puppy eyes*

fanwriter_sedri@hotmail.com, or fanwritersedri@gmail.com - I prefer hotmail, though. Send it over as soon as you like.

(Also, was it you that liked Wicked, Nesh? Because if so, I'm going to shamelessly plug the fic I've started over on livejournal. *is shameless*)

*gives a pack of stickers* Since everyone else gave out the good stuff. *sticks one on the face of the newb.*
On "The Road to Redemption"-is there a link?

*poke*

>.>

~Neshomeh, reviving an old tradition.

Hiya! Welcome to the PPC! *gives you bleeprin* You'll be needing it...

I gift you with an egg whisk! It's shiny, gold-plated, and whisks not only eggs, but author wraiths and spambots! Use it for good and not evil.

Welcome to the insanity!

As the Official Bumper Sticker Giver, it's my (oft-neglected, unfortunately) responsibility to give you a PPC bumper sticker.

*gives Red a PPC bumper sticker*

Welcome to the board!

Concerning question one, we've actually been trying to get back towards the original spirit of the PPC - less epicly bad fic, more run-of-the-mill stuff. I think your story qualifies.

As for two, there's a couple techniques - could you subvert it by converting it into a goodfic? Could you write it as parody? Could you write it, burn it to a CD (or a floppy, if it's small enough), and then burn the disk?

Welcome to the insanity!

Well, what qualifies? Let's see...
1) Canon characters acting so OOC that you don't even recgonize them.
2) Overly perfect Original Character who lands a Canon character.
3) UnCanonical places and realms. (Sparklymuffinland does not exist in Middle-earth, thank you very much.)
4) Lack of a plot line.
5) Melodrama. Oodles of melodrama. (And that fic you've mentioned does sound pretty bad...)
6) Loads of technical errors.

Badfic plot bunnies? I write them down for the desk drawer. Or computer file somewhere far, far away. Then, after a few years/months/weeks/days, I go back and laugh at the fic. Maybe even MST it. But that's how I handle plot bunnies. *grin*

Well, once again, welcome to the PPC! Now, because you got tackled by a bunch of mini-Dragons and mini-Balrogs, you might want to either see Cassie or the Medical Department for some burn salves. *evil laugh*

A link to the fic would be useful so that someone can take a gander at it ... but rape as a plot device is Bad. We does not like, precious, no.

Here, have some introductory lembas to munch while everyone rallies round :)

*shrugs* You could always use it to distract a Sued Big Boss or something.

Anywho, nice to see a new face around (mostly because it means I'm not the freshest newbie anymore, haha!) and I hope you'll stick around long enough to be spinning-off with the best of them.

Also: Rape as Drama... nah. It shouldn't be used as an excuse to cry.

First, welcome. Can't forget my manners. :P

Second, loads of people beta each other's missions here. There's a link on the PPC Wiki, which is at ppc.wikia.com . The beta page is at http://ppc.wikia.com/wiki/PPC_Beta_Reader_Directory - all of these people beta, me among them.

The fic you mentiones sounds pretty bad - OOC is always a charge, and rape as a plot device? No.

What I tend to do for badfic plotbunnies is write them, then store them deep in the recesses of my computer so no-one knows they're there. As a result, I've written a lot more than I let on. :P

BTW, will your Agents be based in a TARDIS or a Response Center?

Here is an egg for you. I have no clue what's in it.

*hands you a large egg*

^_^ I like new people, and knowing that other people are just as confused as I am if not more. =D Also, fellow ex-lurkers are fun.

Like Sedri said, it looks like Artic got your questions pretty well. So... I'll leave you with an excited glomp and a fairly standard query: what fandoms besides Heroes are you familiar with?

Be warned that if any games from the Tales series are on the list, you will probably be subject to more glompings by me.

Artic seems to have answered most of your questions. I was about to give you the wiki links, but July is indeed dangerous, so I'll settle for saying hello, echoing the Artic's comments about Permission asking, and add that any reasonably bad fic can be PPCd, even if we usually go for the worst of them. If it's dramatically out of character - ESPECIALLY if it involves rape as a plot device - you can do it. Once you have Permission. Go for it!

And welcome!

- Sedri

Welcomeness! It's fun to delurk.
Firstly, in order to write in the PPC Universe, you need to gain Permission. You do that by hanging around the Board (This place) for about a month, getting to know people and letting us get to know you.
As for the PPC Canon, the Wiki will help. I'll leave July to do that, otherwise I may get a spork in the hand.

The quality of a badfic is really up to the PPCer themself. You do need a list of charges, but that generally changes from story to story.
And getting rid of plot bunnies, write the plot bunny, giggle, and then squirrel it away whee no-one can see it.

Congrats Makari! No hidng around here, it makes it hard to poke you ad give you gifts. Tis awesomeness about the Permission!

See? It wasn't that bad. Nice work getting permission, make us proud! Keeping in mind what Huinesoron (I'm actually surprised I got that right, heh) said, they seem like they'll be fun to read. Looking forward to it.

Hey, congratulations on getting your Permission!

*plays fanfare*

I look forward to reading of your Agents' exploits.

... Permission Granted. We're not that scary, really.

I seem to recall quite a few normal human/powerful entity Agent teams in HQ, and they can go either way, really. Kat is perfectly normal for a PPCer (I'd swear we had several Kats already, but there's nothing on the Wiki, and it doesn't matter anyway). Samuel is powerful, yes, but with that massive drawback (which is clearly manipulatable by Legal... you'll want to watch out if when if he loses his bracelet that you don't end up writing Legal on his side all the time). We don't know his past (yet), and that's fine, provided you make sure it's not too 'Stuish; I think we can trust you on that score, however.

Your writing sample makes me giggle (and haven't we seen it before?), and while I don't know the Canon the Suefic looks pretty bad. So here you go, have Permission and get... well, finish writing.

hS

PS: It might also be nice to see you posting a little more. Don't worry about relevance -- post something on a complete tangent if you feel like it. The PPC is all about being completely bonkers, remember. ~hS

I felt a bunch of brain cells go "pop" after reading the summary.

Trojie's been hankering for a nice noncon OOC Elven pornfic for months. Finally the multiverse provides, and it's a damned mpreg! I'll have a dekko when I get back from uni and see if we can face taking it on.

Anyway, no, I don't think DBS has seen it yet. They probably have now that you reported it, though, thanks. I'll move it to Unclaimed Badfic once I'm done reporting a Joker!Sue fic I'm putting up (reporting, not writing, I mean. :P).

Abusive!Thranduil is nearly automatic badfic status, isn't it? Add rape and mpreg and that poor fic never stood a chance.

...hehe, Aragornette. :P

The sad part is that the author(ess) seems to at least have decent skills. Why turn them to this end?

"His body was golden like his hair..."

Ouch. That can't be fun. Jeez. You'd think they'd be more careful with their similes.

As in, rig up a speaker system so you can read out the charge list but he can't see where you are, and thus listens without having a target to aim at.

Full body-bind hex. Can't do diddly-squat if he can't move or speak.

'Course, if he's one of those annoying wordless casters, then you'll have to tranquilize him, not just paralyze him. Fortunately, there are drugs for that.

If it gets really desperate, I think the rules only stipulate that the Stu has to be alive when you charge him. They don't specify that he can't be bleeding from a major artery at the time.

~Neshomeh

Sneak up on him; open a portal underneath him, whatever. Just take him out of his continuum and into another where the laws of his continuum are not valid. Any place where Harry Potter has been established as fictional (Doctor Who, Buffy the Vampire Slayer) would do. In those worlds he would not be able to use his magic anymore.

On how he'll blast you into oblivion.

If physically, sneak up behind him and tranquilize. Restrain appropriately, and charge when he wakes.

If it's by some sort of magic... well, most continua have some sort of way of inhibiting their magic-users. Force inhibitors. Drugs. Stuff like that.

If he's developed a resistance to his native ones, either find the ones most similar to those from other continua, or find a group of friendlies (or an ex-Sue or Stu agent) who'll help you out. Highly unlikely that only one would be able to subdue him, though; Stu.

Er... um... write it out and send it to him anonymously? Then turn up the next day and blast him into oblivion from behind?

Yeah, I'm out of ideas now. ^_^;;

Is there any way to incapacitate him beforehand? If you can, find some way to render him unable to do said blasting before charging. Shooting out all four limbs (kneecaps and shoulders or elbows would be my bet) could do the trick, but I don't know the Stu in question. Other than that, maybe deceiving him, or simply use stealth. Remain undetected aside from voice until done charging, then just take him out from behind or in a blind spot.

I love this comic!

And that's a funny comic. XD

~ Rath ~

You could maybe hint at it? Like this...
"In the end, so and so was recruited to join an organization dedicated to preserving the well-being of literary characters."
Make the references vague, and don't mention stuff that will need a lot of explanation later. It is the epilogue, right?
*grin* Just don't mention the PPC by name.

Your ideas are fascinating, Ciri, but just a bit too complex. Stick to the simple, at least for now. *feels very bad for saying this... but says it nonetheless*

1. Long enough to give an idea of your skill level and style, but not very long. A couple of pages, maybe?
   
   2. Missions take as long as it takes to gather enough charges to make a kill/exorcism or fix whatever needs fixing. Agents could return minutes after they left if they wanted to, but I would think that existing in two places at once tends to get stressful after awhile.
   
   3. If you're planning on getting stuff published, I wouldn't mention the PPC in it. First of all, the PPC is a borrowed idea. We're allowed to play with it online by the grace of its creators, but publishing and making money with it is another thing. Second, good luck explaining the PPC to your agent/editor/publisher. Short answer: no.
   
   ~Neshomeh

Pleeze? I'm writing an MST, and I think this would be perfect for my Agents' first mission, if and when I get permission! I can has badfic pleeze?

Some of that spelling makes my *eyes* bleed, seriously. Somebody really is gonna have fun untangling that eh?

but what's DMF&F?

...that fic sounds terrible from the summary. x]

…I'll just move up the discovery of what ails Five of Six to near the end of Weapon of Atlantis or the beginning of this, move Dustin from the picture for a bit, and have Tawaki working with someone else briefly.

...But separate the dialogue with ellipses, to show the pauses when the other party's speaking.

But only if it's long sections of prose, perhaps describing action around the speaker or their thoughts. Short things can be inserted in one paragraph.

... insert an ellipsis between each phrase, where you would have put a line break, just to indicate the pauses.

Yeah, I agree with the previous posters. Like Adagio mentioned, the first looks like some kind of strange conversation between two different people.

The first looks sort of like two people talking.

On the other hand, according to the Manual, DAVD does actually do field work, or so it seems. It's a bit vague, but it does mention them having agents, along with a medical and intelligence subsection. Perhaps I can shoe my characters in there after all.

Well, being newish, I'm not entirely sure how all of the departmental stuff works, but... Well, assuming you have permission and you're using DAVD as your model, why not look into forming a new division of the Department for that purposes? Like I said though, I'm not positive of all the details, so it might be counter-intuitive for DAVD to have field agents. In which case, please ignore me/logic curbstomp me as you see fit. ^^

Maybe you could create a new Department or Division (with PG approval of course). The Department of Implausible Kinks or something like that.

I didn't know we could actually make one. If we wanted to do that we could just set up a channel or something on the real YouTube, it'd be simpler.

Full speed ahead, I say! The only personal problem is that I don't know how to make videos. Whatever...
Maybe we can post footage of Truth and Dare games? x]

I have no experience whatsoever with making clips and doubt that I even have the programs, but it'd be a good collection database for us. I certainly don't object!

"As one of the course coordinators of OFUTRC, I am quite happy to give my endorsement on this project," she nodded to Laburnum, still grinning. "I happen to know that quite a few of my staff members would enjoy such a site, particularly our head chef. He could put up cooking tutorials or something like that." That said, Miss Angel disappeared into the shadows. "Fufufu..."

Hey, we could stick the Movie there! And maybe some vids of what goes on in RCs, HQ, etc.

I'm not sure about clips, but I think we should definitely try this. I'll leave the details to someone who actually knows something about website design, but it definitely seems interesting.

I'm sure we could find space somewhere in the PPC's data center for it all...

Very nice! I don't know the fandom at all, but still managed to understand most of the details - well done!

I particularly like this bit:

"If you would kindly refrain from excessive use of italics?"
"No"

For some reason, that part made me laugh most of all. Thanks, and congratulations!

That was highly enjoyable, although I'm sure that some of it was lost on me, being that I've no knowledge of the fandom whatsoever, haha. Still, I didn't find it too much of an ordeal in length, I thought it was a goodly size. Enough to get your teeth into without dragging.

I very much liked the ending, and I'm anticipating your next mission with eagerness.

Nothing wrong with long missions. More to read!

Don't know the fandom, sadly, but still entertaining.

Spotted a missing question mark, here:
“What kind,” Samuel elaborated patiently.

Also noticed you've written "portaled", with just one L - is that a legitimate American spelling? Never seen it that way before. I'd complain that it's curtsey, not curtsy, but some of the online dictionaries are backing you up on that one.

She followed him though in short order. - missing an R in "through".

I have no idea about the canon, but still, an enjoyable first mission.

That was quite enjoyable, even though I don't really know the continuum. Samuel is intriguing. I shall follow him and Katrina with great interest.

As to length, my latest got onto its thirtieth page in OpenOffice before it was done. It happens. ^_^;

~Neshomeh

Sometimes they're long, can't help it. Quite a few of TOS' missions were even longer than that blighter. It's nicely written though, great job for your first mission. Keep at it and yours is gonna be a very enjoyable spinoff to read.

Personal squicks, even illegality, come second to what is canonical for that fandom. I'm squicked by slash and find incest mildly nauseating, but if it's canonical, then there's nothing that we, as PPCers, can do about it.

If not, of course, BURN THEIR SORRY BODIES.

*cough* That said, even if is canon and you can't charge for the incest itself, you could - I'm sure - find a number of nit-picky things to get them for instead.

The Department of Bad Slash counts it as a charge, unless it's canonical. Think about it; incest is considered taboo in most cultures. It's also illegal in most places (up to a point; technically having it off with your first cousin is incest and that is legal). And if offspring occur, it's geneticallly unwise (although that's not *usually* a problem we have in Bad Slash ... although mpreg does seem to be on the rise ... *cowers in fear of Rule 34*).

It depends on the canon, the characters involved, and how well-written the story is. What the fandom thinks has nothing to do with it. As you said, incest in Tolkien is pretty much always a charge, particularly if Elves are involved, because that's how Middle-earth works. Incest between Tolkien's characters would also pretty much always be a charge because of their society and personalities--same with the Weasley twins in Harry Potter.

If you've got a canon or characters with which incest might not be such a strong taboo as it is in our culture, and if the story is well-written in all other respects, then you might let it slide. I'd lay money that doesn't happen very often, though.

~Neshomeh

Assuming you follow the river (which in the days before SatNav and tarmac roads is the only way to be sure you get there) it's thirty miles or so from the Halls to Esgaroth-on-the-Long-Lake. Apparently a horse's trotting speed is 5-10 mph, which means that's a day's travel or a little less (accounting for terrain, trees, escort, anything you're bringing with you, random spider attacks, and lunch). From Esgaroth, it's then another thirty miles to Dale. Pushing your horse, and/or switching horses at Esgaroth, it's just conceivable you could make the trip in a day. But that's not advisable, and you'd probably make your horse very unhappy. Remember it gets rocky up around Dale, too.

If I had my atlas I could tell you how long the Esgaroth-Dale trip took on ponies. But I don't. Sad.

hS

no matter what the canon or genre, share them please. So much badfic is linked here, that it can sometimes be hard to remember that goodfic does actually exist. Share the love for your favourite fics.

Wasn't sure where to put this in the topic, so I'm just sticking it near the top. Anyway, I know I've had a lot over the past couple days, they just keep popping up in my mind. I'll probably cut down on them soon, I've just had a lot of things I've wondered. I'm only asking questions I don't think have actually been addressed in the actual stories, but if they have (other than my "where can I find story x" question earlier) I'm sorry, I just haven't seen the mission or story in question in that case. :P Anyway, not sure if it's been covered, but about how much contact with the outside world would one say Agents are allowed? Like, not just emails or calls (since mail has been referenced with the Postal Department), but occasional leave and the like. I'd assume very little or none, especially in the case of (again for lack of a better term) "shore leave" in the world out of HQ (which sounds like it'd be mostly a reward or something), but so far in all the stories I've read (by now I've read quite a few, but not every one) I don't think I've seen it directly referenced or answered.

Also, one that's always bugged me is about the New Caledonia city itself. Wouldn't the French government (hell, even people of New Caledonia, or whoever owns the first spy satellite to orbit near it) kind of notice a new, presumably large, city sprouting up in their territory and investigate? Sounds like the sort of thing that'd blow the PPC's cover wide open, especially if the HQ entrance in the mountains is also found. My first thought was an SEP Field on the entrance and city, but it'd have to be a really big field to cover a whole city, and unless it was there from day one I'd think someone would go, "hey, it looks like somebody's building a new city, did we commission one to be made there?". And then there's the issue of roads possibly leading there. Just something that's been on my mind about that, I never for the life of me could figure why the PPC city in New Caledonia never brought down the world's governments on it, either with troops or simply delegates there to ask just WTF is going on. Technology as it is now (though PPC tech seems way more advanced than World One tech), building a city without anyone noticing just doesn't happen. I don't mean it rudely, that one's just always been on my mind. Fridge Logic, if you will.

The way I've understood it is that you ask permission to write/post ppc missions. You do not ask for permission on specific agents. Meaning, you do not have to reapply for permission if you decide to start working with a different agent, or introduce cameo agents in your stories.

The writing sample is to show you have a decent enough grasp of grammar and punctuation as to not embarrass the PPC. You don't need permission for the actual content of the writing sample (well, perhaps you would if you want to use other people's agents in that writing sample, but I don't think your question was about that.).

Okay, so this young Jewish boy is in a concentration camp during the Holocaust. His mother was immediately gassed upon coming to the place, but he dreams about her often. One night, she tells him that she's going to send him an angel. So one day, he sees this little girl hiding behind a tree right outside the camp's fence, just watching everything that's going on. And then she takes an apple out of her pocket and throws it over the fence to him, and he catches it and runs off before the guards see. Every day, she comes back and sneaks him food, and though they never speak, he starts calling her his "Angel Girl". Then, one day, the boy gets shipped to another camp, and figures he'll never see her again.

After liberation, the boy goes to America. It's been fifteen years since he was in the camp, and his friends arrange a blind date for him. He and the lady get to talking about their lives in Europe. She was Jewish, but her family had posed as Christians to escape the Nazis. He tells her about this little girl who threw him apples while he was in the concentration camp.

Turns out, she's the exact same girl.

Six months later, they got married, and they're still living happily after today.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/20/earlyshow/main4532220.shtml

A fourteen-year-old African-American boy walks into a store and asks the white lady behind the counter, "Hey, babe, what's up?"
A few days later he is found dead, having been beaten to death and dumped in a river. His body is almost unrecognizable.

More here. Warning: pictures are INCREDIBLY disturbing. I almost threw up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Till

Definitely should have been fiction. This sounds like something a tyrant in some sort of novel would do to a rebellious peasant or a courtier getting too involved with a lady he likes. Not part of American history.

of a British spy who slept with the German ambassador during WWII or something...the details are blurry...
Anyways, the two had an affair, he'd tell her stuff that's going on, and she'd report them back. After the war, though, the two got married.

And there was also that Russian spy who was found out by a hollow nickel and a overly curious paper boy.

It even sounds like the title of a book or something.

The story: a bunch of ridiculously intelligent scientists get together in various locations across the country, each site working on a piece of a secret project for the government according to the specifications of a theory laid down years ago. Nobody really knows what it's all about... until the government bombs Japan.

Scary stuff.

~Neshomeh

Two palaeontologists who started as friends, even naming species after each other ... and then became rivals. Even enemies. These guys used to bribe quarry owners to spy and attempted to blow up each other's fossil localities. In the process of chasing each other up and down the country in an attempt to be the better palaeontologist, they discovered between them almost every dinosaur you could call 'famous'.

And the other ones were mostly discovered by Gideon Mantell. And his story would have made fantastic fiction; a poor country doctor became so consumed by his passion for fossils and geology that he lost his wife, his children, his home, his job ... and ended up making an enemy of Richard Owen, who plagiarised his work, had him refused membership of learned societies ... and when Mantell finally died, got possession of the poor man's twisted spine as an anatomical curiosity, because Owen was in charge of a museum. Oh, and he wrote a very nasty bitchy anonymous obituary for Mantell as well. Of course, it bit him in the arse because his behaviour to Mantell was so despicable that he lost his own position at the various learned societies ...

Radio, radio control, wireless electricity, AC power, the Niagara Falls generating station, death rays in a couple different flavors... the guy was incredible.

Those are some pretty eggs. Probably cost fortunes, too. x.X Plural.

Hmm... I can't think of much off the top of my head, though there's undoubtedly tens of thousands of examples out there. But did you know, it used to be fairly commonplace for ballerinas to essentially spontaneously combust?

No joke. Back when they used fire for stage lighting, most dancers doused their costumes in fire-retardent liquid (I don't remember exactly what) because, well, get too close and it's up in flames. However, some dancers ignored this because it made their costumes look "dingy," or something to that effect.

You can guess what happened the next time they danced too close to the lights.

Also, IMO, the amount of things Windows will choose to crash over is almost comical.

An absurdly creative writer and officer in the Royal Air Force is sent by the British government to investigate America's feelings prior to their involvement in World War II. He accomplishes this by seducing every woman rumored to be anti-British and gathering information from them. In addition, his writings earn him the adoration of the First Lady and her children.

Said writer was Roald Dahl, who along with Noel Coward and Ian Fleming worked as a spy for the British government. It would have made an awesome novel.

Adolf Hitler carried one king-size idiot ball after another! He even, on D-Day, refused to dispatch tanks, assuming Normandy was a cover target!

Speaking of cover targets, there was the whole affair of the man who never was. That's a weird plot device, used in the real world! And once again, the big bad -- and his generals -- fell for it completely!

That has to be some sort of mini somewhere. Somewhere. Because sweet Mew that is awesome in a very disturbing way.

Interestingly enough, I just discovered that comic yesterday; yes, I'm archive binging now. Funny how the world works, though.

Just had a brief flick through it. It's littered with OCs, and by Glod that Serenity Snape needs a good smack, and I couldn't actually find any mpreg or slash. (Hallelujah! We don't have to break our brains on it.)

...of my first HP fanfiction are resurfacing in that Chalice fic.

*whimpers*

...Seeing how you guys appear to agree with my assessment of OH GOD WHY THE PAIN. I'm putting them in Unclaimed Badfic since no one has explicitly claimed them. So if any of y'all decide to spork the evil in the future, drop by the wiki to claim them.

I made it about halfway through the first chapter before I started retching uncontrollably. The worst part was, looking at the warnings, that it was going to go downhill from there.

Urgh... MPreg is... just no.

What is it with the explosion in mpreg at the moment? Is it new or are we only just noticing it? Is this the universe's punishment for Trojie's love of biology? And I hope no one objects to us setting up a new division, because we're about halfway through the first mission for the Division of MPreg. Do we need permission for that?

Not Good. Have you added them to the Unclaimed Badfic list?

Just be sure to get out of range before it's turned on.

It's called the Moron Beam. It's actually a tool used by lazy writers to make their characters inexplicably lose their heads as a plot device (I'm sure we can all think of examples of this), but I'm sure DoSAT can easily adapt it for you.

~Neshomeh, who still maintains that Aeryn Sun should never have died that way.