Jan 2009 Archive, part a

In New Zealand I could drive when I was 16. Admittedly, I wasn't that good, and admittedly, I was only on a Leaner's License, but I knew several people who could drive well at 15/16. So that doesn't appear to be a major problem.

The rest, though, burn her dead.

Am I qualified? I've only seen the film (I am planning to read the Twilight book, though) - I'm not hugely impressed by it, but sparkly skin aside, it doesn't annoy me. The way she treates Peter, though... grrr. But this looks Twilight-film-based anyway.

I now join the ranks of those of you with a growing backlog of missions-to-write, but I want to claim it nonetheless. Any objections.

I'm afraid to even open thse links.

That's all I have to say. Someone kill this!

Dialogue like that makes my brain hurt. Few things annoy me more than questions without the '?'

Urgh, I think some people are gonna be picking up headaches from that. Also... whoo! Go Britpicking!

*sound of tinkling glass as her mind shatters*

That... it... just... why??

Apparently this writer has a thing for crossing good fandoms with fandoms that many people despise. I guess I don't know for sure how people here feel about Twilight, but my guess is that anything in which the canon characters actually sparkle is bound to be frowned upon. My morbid curiosity isn't even enough to make me try reading the series. {= P

If nobody wants the HPxEragon one, I'll put it on my kill list.

~Neshomeh

Aye, this needs sporking. This exchange is going to give whatever Agent witnesses it a real headache.

“By the way my name is Eragon.” he told me as he took his seat.

“Hermione.” I said

“interesting name”

“I could say the same to you.”

“My parents got it from Shakespeare, how about you.”

Then there was a look in his eyes that seemed to be getting glossed over with hard thought. “I really don’t know, I never knew my parents.”

“How sad” I said trying to sound worried.

Now, either one of them says two sentences in a row, which doesn't seem to work, or a third person joins in unannounced. Trying to read it, it seems the speakers are Eragon-Hermione-Eragon-Hermione- waitaminute, Eragon comes from Shakespeare? Shakespeare doesn't exist in Alagaesia. Then after that it's Eragon speaking again.

I'd forgotten you'd chosen the name Parjir. I know I read it and frowned once before, but put it out of mind without saying anything. Perhaps my brain was avoiding the problem, since I've had a future Agent in the works for quite some time now, named Parjai. Clone commando.
I approximated him with this.

Or items within the generator? 'S been a while since I fooled with Tektek, so I dunno for sure... hm. But I remember Gaia likes their knock-offs of popular culture~

I might try www.subetahq.com/wardrobe - it's a generator for the Human Avatars on Subeta.

I personally prefer that sort over the Gaia ones, and there's a bit more variety that I've observed. Depending on what sort of guns/armour you're looking for, the Invader set might work, or the Cyborg Soldier set.

Umm... yeah. ^^; There's another generator for the S-HAs that lets you do nifty things with the hair, though I don't particularly like how they coded it...

But anyway. ^_^ Hope I've managed to help a little. And there's always photoshop, etc, to change colors around.

and fixed it.

link should have been Website Link

Well written, as always. And yeah... sparkly, indestructible vampires should go get another name. Cos they're not vampires.

I would hug her if I weren't fairly certain I'd end up dead. {= (

~Neshomeh

So Selene is now officially off the deep end, huh? Shame.

Well written as always!

Poor Selene...that's just sad.

Fantastic as always. Bit saddening that Selene's gone bonkers, though. End of an era.

And very up to date.

(tiny voice - "the suddenly-appearing newcomer was talk," I think you meant the sudden newcomer was tall...

As usual, a thoroughly enjoyable interlude!

That was entertaining, nicely written, though (no rudeness intended) are we actually going to see any more missions from you instead of random adventures of your agents (or future versions of them)? Not that they're not fun to read, but just after that whole "missions are the core of the PPC" speech a while back, heh. :P But as I said, not pointing it out to be mean, just thought I'd ask about 'em.

You can tell something's bad when the title doesn't even use proper grammar. And I bet even a fifth grader can write better than that.

Ironic Overpower, this is NOT FUNNY.

... There needs to be some sort of limit to how many exclamation points you can use... Per page, if not per book. Because I think this one's exceeded it.

Badly.

And I bet Rebecca is just as super-sparkly-speshul as the three freaking princesses

Well, at least it is following in the tradition of painfully terrible, and kind of hilarious, books.

The cliches! The angst! The STEREOTYPES! I can't TAKE IT!

It's all my fault, too - wasn't I the one saying something about copyright laws and publishability before? *cries*

Right, going to DO something about this...

*runs after Ironic Over-Power with a sledgehammer*

You frakking - THUMP! - horrible - THUMP! - pathetic - THUMP! - cruel - THUMP! - irritating thing!

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

The stupid! It burns!

The sound you just heard was that of my head colliding with my desk as the sheer horribleness of that book caused me to temporarily loose consciousness.

still looking for people? agent drake is interested. sorry for not responding to this sooner.

Due to extenuating circumstances, one of mine could use a little fun athletic activity to help her relax and get her mind off things.

Agent Teek is in. She has a very short temper and her strategy for accomplishing most things is to flail wildly and hope, but she's in.

get Kumori out of the RC every once in a while, let's say that she volunteered her partner during the Christmas party. ^_^ So, Kumori's in.

Because I've got a rather bored undersized hydra in the Department of Intelligence who'd be very interested. Kyaris, of course (who doesn't have a very comprehensive Wiki article). And of course it's fine for you to do whatever you want with her. I'll try and work out how many heads she has right now if you decide she's on the team.

hS

Agents Allison and Tasmin offer you a couple of been there, done that t-shirts; and some textil markers so you can write a witty/Sue or slash appropriate text on the back.

I got that impression from an article I was reading in the Independent about the law against extreme pornography. From what I remember, it was something like "photograph and film, or anything which is indistinguishable from photograph or film".

Best just to keep a low profile, I guess.

http://myimmortalrehost.webs.com/index.htm

Boy, and I thought David Tennant would go down in history as the Prettyboy Doctor. I figure either the BBC is actively trying to provoke fanlust, or he's just that good. Let's hope it's the latter. On the brighter side of things, the amount of new bad 10/Rose fics will probably go down...probably.

The hair is a bit silly, though. Maybe we should throw Sylar at him. Sylar is very good at haircuts.

Have to admit, I was rather hoping for an older Doctor in the style of OldWho, but I'll reserve judgement until we've seen him onscreen. Hey, is it true that a ton of fans threw tantrums when they heard that Christopher Eccleston left, causing the Outpost Gallifrey boards to go down? Is something like that going to happen again?

He has stupid emo hair.

I'll trust Moffat, because he knows what he's doing, but this kid's no Ten.

If that long floppy hair in the photo is current.

Can't wait to see how he does as the Doctor regardless.

*gives you sharpe, pointy object of choice* I've read some of the stuff on Jargon file. It's interesting stuff. Anyway, welcome to the PPC! Please leave your sanity at the door. You won't need it here.

~Zoe~

I love open source software, particularly Linux (even though it was my ex who introduced me)!
So have some chocolate as a welcome gift.

A bottle of Amasec (it's a rather interesting alcoholic beverage, you can mix it with bleeprin and get Bleepasec), and a compact electronic book storage system with a crank generator. It is much easier to carry around than a bunch of books. All you have to do is download the books, open up the proper one, and then conduct a Canon Exorcism on the possessed characters.

Welcome to the PPC. Have a Squickbrella. It's like an umberella, but it shields you from Squick.

'Ello, tiny person! Have some flame-broiled Suenicorn and a coconut. I'm not exactly sure why; it is just a thing that I do.

Here, have a graduated cylinder! *tosses*

Have a Prinny suit. *goes into Copy and Paste Capt. Exposition mode* It increases stats (in an RPG sense), may or may not come with complimentary Prinny bombs and a pair of swords, and makes you say "-dood" at the end of every sentence. It makes people explode when thrown, but that's... usually... only a problem in NIS videogame canons and similar games. Basically, games where people can be tossed around anytime, by anyone. (It's amusing to see the biggest normal enemies being carried by the smallest creatable characters in Disgaea, where the suits are from. Testing on the Final Final Boss, Baal, has not been attempted yet.)

P.S. What does OUATIM stand for? Doesn't ring a bell, for some reason.

Have a box of hand grenades. They come in three varieties; tinsel, glitter and confetti. (although if you ask REALLY nicely I'll give you one that has all three)

Anyhow, welcome to the board person-who-has-probably-known-about-the-PPC-way-longer-than-me!

As well as a transdimensional pocket knife and an official DMS flag!

And links!

The PPC Wiki

...Well, one link, but if you search for "The Original Series" and "Permission" you'll get the ther Important Pages. :)

Welcome!

Here's a vibrospork.

Ooh, Merlin and Death Note! Cool!

I gift you with a coxcomb, in a color of your choice. It's a sort of funny hat. Welcome to the PPC!

Welcome, welcome! Here, have an egg whisk. It's shiny, gold-plated, and whisks not only eggs but author wraiths and spambots as well! Use it for good and not much evil.

Welcome to the insanity! Enjoy your stay.

The question:
What's the Star Wars universe's official designation?

The Stu:

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4651314/9/Family_Bonds

Someone forgot to tell the author that the roles of annoying kid and wesley are filled quite well by the canons, thank you very much.

I abhor it and anything associated with it. Even if I didn't, Huinesoron would smite me if I gave you the Permission. Try something else, please!

Not outright banned, but there was some fuss with permission regarding the person who created it - I forget who - and I thought the entire thing was abandoned. Though that may have been what prompted hS to make his clear definition of what PGs don't do.

No thoughts to help you ther, Ugolino. I never much liked the idea of that cult in the first place. Sorry.

...'cause I don't work in the DMS, and I don't know how you guys work, but... deliberate Sues? Option b) looks like creating Sues for PPC purposes. Isn't that something we, er, don't really approve of? Something along the lines of there being enough of the sods out there as it is without us making more?

In fact, I'd rather like to do B. How does a Daughther of Sauron and Tar-Miriel sound?

What exactly are you looking for? (shows off his newbie streak) Are we talking 'Oh God this is bad' deliberate badfic or particularly humourous spoof badfic? I mean, I could probably do either, but I thought I'd better check first before I started off with the wrong thing.

Name - Gender - Canon - Species - picture

Captain Malcolm "Mal" Reynolds - Male - SF - Human -

Kaywinnit Lee Frye - Female - SF - Human -

Inara Serra - Female - SF - Human -

Zoë Alleyne Washburne - Female - SF - Human -

Hoban "Wash" Washburne - Male - SF - Human -

Jayne Cobb - Male - SF - Human -

Dr. Simon Tam - Male - SF - Human -

River Tam - Female - SF - Scient. Altered Human -

Shepherd Book - Male - SF - Human -

Genjyo Sanzo - Male - Anime - Human -

Son Goku - Male - Anime - Seiten Taisei/Youkai -

Cho Hakkai - Male - Anime - Human/Youkai - http://pics.livejournal.com/kate_nepveu/pic/000fw99x/s640x480

Sha Gojyo - Male - Anime - Human/Youkai -

All from Rurouni Keshin, an anime continuum.

Place: the Akabeko Restaurant
Picture:
Fandom: Anime
Terrain: Building
Drunken Activists may be found here.

Place: the Shrine in the Chinshu Forest
Picture:
Fandom: Anime
Terrain: Forest
Udo Jin-e may be found here.

Place: the Takeda Kanryu Mansion
Picture:
Fandom: Anime
Terrain: Building
Takeda Kanryu may be found here.

Place: the Kiheikan Dojo
Picture:
Fandom: Anime
Terrain: Building
Hiruma Gohei may be found here.

And the matching monsters:

Monster: Drunken Activists
Picture:
Fandom: Anime
Species: Human
May be found in the Akabeko Restaurant.
Stats:
Attack- 1
Defense- 1
Health- 2

Monster: Udo Jin-e
Picture:
Fandom: Anime
Species: Human
May be found in the Shrine in the Chinshu Forest.
Stats:
Attack: 5
Defense: 3
Health: 4

Monster: Takeda Kanryu
Picture:
Fandom: Anime
Species: Human
May be found in the Takeda Kanryu Mansion
Stats:
Attack: 3
Defense: 2
Health: 3

Monster: Hiruma Gohei
Picture:
Fandom: Anime
Species: Human
May be found in the Kiheikan Dojo.
Stats:
Attack- 3
Defense- 3
Health- 4

Maybe more to come later.

Mary Sue: Eruaphadiriel, water nymph, 16, female
Jewel, Control of Water—If she is near any location with water, double her stats for one turn.
Attack: XX
Defence: XX
Speed: XXX
Observation: X
Allure: XXXX
Special: XXX


Mary Sue: Princess Amariel of Silverbeam, elf, 16 (in mortal years), female
Crown, Lullaby—Nightingale-like singing voice lulls enemies into sleep for one turn; their defence is -2.
Attack: XXX
Defence: XX
Speed: XXX
Observation: X
Allure: XXX
Special: XXX


Mary Sue: Espanilla Reticulus, elf, 13 (in mortal years), female
Tiara, Prima Ballerina—Dance up a frenzy and gain +2 speed for one turn. (-2 Observation)
Attack: XX
Defence: XX
Speed: XXX
Observation: XX
Allure: XXX
Special: XXX

Since the game seems rather lacking at the moment.

Name: Raven Serena
Picture-
Species- human
Age- 13
Gender- female
Stats-
Attack:2
Defence:3
Speed:4
Observation:3
Allure:2
Special:1
Single Tear- raises Allure by +2, drops Observation by -1.
Artifact- pendant

Name- Kit Crimsonstar Fox
Picture-
Species- demon
Age- 15
Gender- male
Stats-
Attack:4
Defense:3
Speed:2
Obervation:1
Allure:4
Special:1
Fox Eyes: Raise Observation by +2
Artifact- dagger

Name- Amelia Cullen
Picture-
Species- vampire
Age- 105
Gender- female
Stats-
Attack: 2
Defense: 3
Speed: 3
Observation: 2
Allure: 3
Special: 2
Sparkle in Sunlight- Raise Allure by +2, lower enemy Defense by -1
Artifact: jewel

Name: Beethoven "Moonlight" Sonata

Department: Mary-Sues
Fandom: Science-Fiction
Species: Typo
Years: 2007-
Lust Object:
Weapon: Lightsaber
Special: Paranoia- +2 Insanity for one turn
Attack: 3
Defence: 1
Speed: 2
Stealth: 2
Insanity: 5
Special: 2

Name: The Rouge

Department: Bad Slash
Fandom: LOTR
Species: Typo
Years: 2008-
Lust Object: Eowyn
Weapon: Dagger
Special: Grammar Ninja- +2 Speed when facing Mary-Sues
Attack: 3
Defence: 1
Speed: 2
Stealth: 3
Insanity: 4
Special: 2

Name: April Amelia Halloway

Department: Mary-Sues
Fandom: Science-Fiction
Species: Human (Magpie Daemon)
Years: 2002-
Lust Object: Obi-Wan Kenobi
Weapon: Revolver
Special: Magpie Divebomb- +3 Attack for one turn
Attack: 4
Defence: 0
Speed: 2
Stealth: 3
Insanity: 3
Special: 3

Name: Lora Riker

Department: Mary-Sues
Fandom: Science-Fiction
Species: Android
Years: 2008-
Lust Object: Wesley Crusher
Weapon: Phaser
Special: Platinum Skin: +1 to Defence
Attack: 5
Defence: 5
Speed: 3
Stealth: 0
Insanity: 1
Special: 1

Name: Michel Javert

Department: Bad Slash
Fandom: Les Miserables
Species: Human
Years: 2008-
Lust Object: Cosette
Weapon: Truncheon
Special: Old-Fashioned- +2 Defence against female Sues
Attack: 4
Defence: 3
Speed: 2
Stealth: 2
Insanity: 2
Special: 2

Some Agent cards for you (I've got more to come but they'll require me to make canon location/character cards as well, so they might be a few days)

Name: Trojanhorse
Department: Department of Bad Slash
Fandom: Narnia
Species: Human
Year of Recruitment: 2003
Year of Retirement/death: N/A
Lust Object: Caspian X
Weapon: Bell (blunt instrument)
Picture:
Special Ability: Unsquickable: +2 Insanity, -2 defence for one turn
STATS
-Attack: XX
-Defence: XXXX
-Speed: X
-Stealth: XX
-Insanity: XXX
-Special: XXX

Name: Montbretia Tornquist (Mombi)
Department: Department of Angst
Fandom: Harry Potter
Species: Human
Year of Recruitment: 2005
Year of Retirement/death: N/A
Lust Object: Sirius Black
Weapon: Hand-to-hand combat
Picture:
Special Ability: Cheerfulness: +2 Defence, -2 Stealth for one turn
STATS
-Attack:XX
-Defence:XXX
-Speed: XX
-Stealth:XXXX
-Insanity: XX
-Special: XX

Name: Soulshadow
Department: Department of Bad Slash
Fandom: LOTR
Species: half fire-demoness, half human
Year of Recruitment: 2003
Year of Retirement/death: 2005
Lust Object: Elrond
Weapon: Bow
Picture:
Special Ability: Burst into flames: + 1 Attack, Speed, Insanity, -1 Defence, Stealth for one turn
STATS
-Attack: XXX
-Defence: XX
-Speed: XXX
-Stealth: XXX
-Insanity: XXX
-Special: X

And some Narnia cards just for giggles

Location: Cair Paravel
Fandom: Narnia
Picture:
Type: Castle

Location: Aslan's How/Stone Table
Fandom: Narnia
Picture:
Type: Ancient Landmark

Character: Peter Pevensie
Sex: Male
Fandom: Narnia
Species: Human
Picture:

Character: Susan Pevensie
Sex: Female
Fandom: Narnia
Species: Human
Picture:

Character: Edmund Pevensie
Sex: Male
Fandom: Narnia
Species: Human
Picture:

Character: Lucy Pevensie
Sex: Female
Fandom: Narnia
Species: Human
Picture:

Character: Caspian X
Sex: Male
Fandom: Narnia
Species: Human
Picture:

Character: Mr. Tumnus
Sex: Male
Fandom: Narnia
Species: Faun
Picture:

Yes, all the Narnia character pics are movieverse. I'm justifying this two ways: a) most of the fic we end up sporking/seeing is movieverse, and b) I couldn't be bothered trawling through google to find non-movieverse pictures I liked :P

Enjoy!

Location: Battlestar Galactica, Battlestar Galactica (so “Sci-fi”), Battlestar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Battlestar_Galactica_-_Re-imagined_series.jpg”>Picture
Location: New Caprica, Sci-fi, planet
http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/Image:NewCaprica.jpg”>Picture
Location: Caprica, Sci-fi, planet
http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/Image:Caprica_from_Orbit.jpg”>Picture
Location: Kobol, Sci-fi, planet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kobol.jpg”>Picture
Canon: Laura Roslin, female, human, Sci-fi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LauraRoslin.jpg”>Picture
Canon: William Adama, male, human, Sci-fi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:WilliamAdama.jpg”>Picture
Canon: Six, female, humanoid Cylon, Sci-fi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Number_Six_Tricia_Helfer.jpg”>Picture
Canon: Lee Adama, male, human, Sci-fi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LeeAdama.jpg”>Picture
Canon: Kara Thrace, female, human, Sci-fi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KaraThrace.jpg”>Picture

I'd like a card for these three. Eledhwen and Christianne are Agents and Lilith is an Enemy.

Eledhwen Elerossiel, DMS, LotR, Elf, 2008-
Lust object: Frodo
Weapon: Sword
Picture: How about this one?
Special Ability: Generic Elf—can lose distinguishing characteristics in home continuum: +1 stealth, -1 insanity
Attack: 2
Defense: 3
Speed: 3
Stealth: 2
Insanity: 2
Special: 3

Christianne Shieh, DMS, LotR, Human, 2008-
Lust object: Maglor (Because Dafydd ain't Canonical. What?)
Weapon: Sword
Picture: Here.
Special Ability: Sadism boost—In Canon locations, +2 Attack, -2 Stealth.
Attack: 3
Defense: 2
Speed: 2
Stealth: 2
Insanity: 3
Special: 3

Lilith of the Wintry Woods, League of Mary Sue Factories, Elf
Weapon: Aura of Smooth (If that doesn’t work, then a sword will work)
Picture: Here.
Special Ability: Doppledanger—If Eledhwen is also in play, Lilith can masquerade as her and try to gain information for the League.
Attack: 3
Defense: 2
Speed: 3
Observation: 1
Reinforce: 3
Special: 3

Are there any cards for PPC staff? Not Agents, but staff. Like Doc Fitz or something? Just wondering.

I've got ... six agents I can give you, for starters. Will have to wait til I get home, though, as working out stats for fictional characters in card games probably doesn't count as proper use of my work time :)

-Trojie, always happy to further the cause of wasting time

This seems to be a deadlock. Mini-Bloodthirsters look more like Mini-Balrogs, but Mini-Nightbringers are an established fact. I guess it would depend on which has more lulz. I need a definitive answer, though. I found a mini-________ in a badfic. Abbadon. It has a particular fondness for 80's music. And dinosaurs.

We eventually decided on Mini-Nightbrigners.

Mini-Bloodthirsters would work as well...

He's a 40k fan as well. Personally, I don't know anything about the fandom, so I'm no help.

I only read your post, and... An iPod in the 1990's? An elf named Silimarillion? *Anything* named Silimarillion? And I'm not sure I *want* to know what Hot Topic bondage pants are. No, wait, cancel that; I'm sure I don't. *follows the link anyway*

An elf? Named Silmarillion? Oh, you have got to be kidding me. She didn't even spell the name right on some occasions. An iPod... Smite smite smite. Oh, and her profile has minis in it, such as "Elros Erestor", created by a missing comma. Yes, burn the fic... Burn it until there's nothing left to burn!

Skyfall's pretty cool. Fantasy, two races at almost permanent war, something up with the gods, six artifacts that're probably a key of some sort.

You may or may not've seen, but… Shades of Grey is pretty good, too. Heaven, Hell, a lot of mixup.

Mixed Myth is finished, but pretty awesome. People chase about parts of a dragon, one part tries to take over the world.

Sea of Insanity uses Greek mythology. Mainly follows a nymph who used to date Apollo, Calliope who does duty as her muse, her doctor who turns into a fish, and some guy.

And… it's not really a webcomic, as such, but I wouldn't be counting on seeing it on shelves too soon. Axis Powers Hetalia is worth a look, though your mileage may vary, given it portrays history (the main storyline following WWII) with anthropomorphized nations.

Johnny Walker is a kind of slice-of-life thing. The artist Aido has done some other pretty awesome stuff, and is currently subbing at Applegeeks, which also might be worth checking out.

I must second xkcd!
And to add one that hasn't been posted yet, I absolutely love A Softer World, a one-shot collaborative comic, made up of Emily's photos and Joey's text. It's brief, hilarious, graceful, creepy, macabre, and often thought-provoking. Here is what they wrote in the description for one of their t-shirts:
Here's what's going to happen when you wear this shirt out: A really attractive person is gonna come up to you and say "Oh, A Softer World! I read that too! Man, I wonder what the heck is wrong with that Joey guy, seriously? Who thinks up things like that? Anyway can I buy you a coffee or something -- Oh my God, I'm sorry I didn't realize you two were together! Faux pas!" And then as the three of you awkwardly laugh off the faux pas the person will slip a small piece of paper in your jacket pocket. When you get home you will notice it and unfold it. On the paper will be the following message:
YOU ARE BEING WATCHED

People seem to have covered most of my favorites, so I'll just post a few:

Shortpacked!--set in a retail toy store, the comic mainly focuses on the lives of the cast, but occasionally throws in comics that make fun of various fandoms--primarily the DC comics universe and Transformers, but it includes others. It makes fun of fandoms and fan antics in the way only a veteran greek would know how to do. Screamingly funny, with a spinoff comic posted on Mondays. www.shortpacked.com

The 10 Doctors--This is actually a fan webcomic, but it's so awesome I had to include it. It's a Doctor Who comic wherein all ten regenerations of the Doctor are brought together for unknown reasons and, in typical Doctor fashion, get caught up in all sorts of strange adventures. It captures the spirit of the show perfectly and is a must-read (in my humble opinion) for anyone who's ever enjoyed the show. comics.shipsinker.com/

Errant Story--A half-elf mage decides to take over the world for a school project. On the way, she gets caught up in a rather spectacular adventure. I get the feeling that the authors set out to write a different story than they ended up with, since the beginning is fairly different from the rest of the story, but it's still a pretty great fantasy webcomic in my opinion.
www.errantstory.com

And here's a link for it. It's funnier if you play D&D or at least know some of the terminology.

I also enjoy the following:

Ctrl+Alt+Del (CAD) - Generally a good laugh, even if you're not a gamer (which I'm not).

DAR: A Super Girly Top Secret Comic Diary - Nothing like the title indicates. It's crude, lewd, and pulls no punches on things like lesbianism, nudity, sex, pimples, boogers, and other things normally not mentioned in polite conversation. Also totally awesome.

Looking for Group (LFG) - Funnier if you have at least a passing awareness of World of Warcraft.

Casey and Andy - Ended, so no new comics, but full of mad science and geek humor.

I think the rest of mine have been mentioned already.

~Neshomeh

By Rich Burlew

Adventurers!, which mocks typical video-game traits. Warning: it's way long. As in, there are probably multiple hundred strips numbered 999, and then all the epilogues.

Anti-Hero for Hire, which is about superheroes in a future where Canada invaded the northern United States using genetically altered dinosaurs. It's by the same guy as Adventurers!, above.

Darths and Droids, which posits Star Wars as a role-playing game, and completely subverts all expectations.

Girl Genius, which you've already mentioned.

Irregular Webcomic, which has just about everything. Especially Legos and plastic allosaurs. It's been going every day since late 2001, so there're a few strips to get through.

Narbonic, now ended, which is about a mad scientist's lab. It's rather wacky and very gripping.

The Order of the Stick, which pokes at RPG traits. It started developing a story early, and weathered the transition very well, although Vaarsuvius is annoying me lately.

PS 328, which you've already mentioned.

Skin Horse, which is about a government agency that deals with products of mad science. It's by the same person as Narbonic, above.

Interesting true fact: except for Girl Genius, I got to all of these because I was reading Order of the Stick. Much of that was because it led me to TV Tropes, which has links to just about anywhere and everywhere.

... Catharsis.
http://www.catharsiscomic.com/
Dust bunnies! DUST BUNNIES!

Most of these are snarky, violent, otherwise sick and twisted, or all of the above.

The various works of RK Milholland - my absolute favourites ever.
Suicide For Hire.
Jack.
Concession.

And a few less snarky/violent ones if that's not your thing:
Kevin and Kell.
Friendly Hostility.
Ozy and Millie.
Doc Rat.

I'd also have to recommend looking at the works of

Kid Radd (www.kidradd.com) is quite possibly the best sprite comic you will ever read. Now finished.

Casey and Andy (galactanet.com/comic) is a strip about a couple of mad scientists, one of whom is dating Satan. Sometimes they die. Now finished.

Order of the Stick (www.giantitp.com) should need no introduction. It's about a group of characters in a D&D based world, one of the best.

Misfile (www.misfile.com) - due to a cockup in the Celestial Bureacracy, a guy gets turned into a girl, and another girl loses the last year of her life which she spent slogging away to get into Harvard. Hilarity Ensues. Better Than It Sounds.

Schlock Mercenary (www.schlockmercenary.com) is a space opera about a mercenary crew. Has been updating every day without fail since mid-2000. Well worth the epic archive crawl.

Gunnerkrigg Court (www.gunnerkrigg.com) - a story about a school that has a fairly strong connection with magic, where not everything is what it appears.

No Rest For The Wicked: A very twisted fairytale including a murderous Red Riding Hood, a hillariously sarcastic French cat, and a princess who can be bruised by feathers. Recently started updating again.

Dr. McNinja is a comic about the elder son of the ancient line of the McNinja, who has angered his family by becoming a doctor rather than a ninja, but he still kicks ass from time to time with Ninja Skillz. Excellent comic.

Giant In The Playground, on which Rich Burlew hosts Order of the Stick, an affectionate parody of D&D using stick figures, and Erfworld, a... well, it's an alternate world gaming comic set in a "Safe for Kids" turn-based-combat world. Both better than they sound?

Overcompensating, the Journal Comic with a Seething Disdain for Reality, by one of the coolest dudes in the universe ever, Jeffrey Rowland. It's awesome.
Wigu, also by Jeffrey Rowland, is about a young boy named Wigu Tinkle and his crazy family and crazier adventures.

Questionable Content, by Jeph Jacques, is about a guy named Marten, and his friend-who-lives-with-him-but-is-not-a-girlfriend Faye, and her boss and his girlfriend Dora. There are a lot of indie music references.

Sinfest, a comic about Slick the wannabe-pimp, Monique his love interest, and their friends. And various religious figures. Sometimes NSFW. Sometimes offensive, kinda. Very cool though.

Wondermark, which is hilarious witty captions applied to Victorian engravings.

Looking For Group, which is kind of a parody of all fantasy-world games, featuring the hilariously evilly violent Richard the Warlock.

Dinosaur Comics, which is dinosaurs talking, better than it sounds. Includes philosophy and crazy alternate universes. And Stomping.

Irregular Webcomic and spin-off Darths and Droids. Notable for spawning the phrase "Jar Jar, you're a genius!"

You know, at first I thought it wouldn't be that bad; there were just the standard they-are-so-speshul Mary Sue introduction, along with some questionable description ("somewhat identical"? "almost frog-like voice"?). Then they turned the Jedi into chauvinists- and when has there been any support at all for the bit about women being weaker in the Force? In short, DIE!

Is anyone wiling to beta my first mission? It involves the Star Wars universe. My e-mail is hungryugolino@gmail.com

There's only two of them (32C and 32D). Could be that they're for agents created by the same author.

My agents are in 80s as they mainly work in fandoms that were on TV in the eighties. But I also use an RC that has not yet received a number (I figured it would be easier to find as you wouldn't know what you were looking for).

I guess I'm the unofficial editor of the List of RCs. I don't know why the trend has started with the number 32, but it's fine to add letters after a RC number. (The problem arises with adding letters BEFORE the number. Only Jay and Acacia have that.)

You can probably do anything you want. But I'm not the expert. :)

If that's allowed, I'll move my Agents back into 1138 B.

I'm pretty sure I want one of my Agents to be a Sammie from Discworld, but I'm not sure where the other would come from. The archetype I'm going for with him is an older character, coming up on middle aged, who is legendarily unsquickable, responding to every situation with a raised eyebrow, and nothing more. I'm thinking I'll take on some of the worst fics if I actually get round to writing for the PPC, as it seems I just don't get squicked by words. Thus, it seems a useful trait for an Agent working in that field to have.

So, where do you think he should hail from?

But do you know which Department you'll be wanting your agents to work in? Because if you want to write for the DMS, reading DMS missions is more important than reading DBS ones, for you to get an idea of how things work. And I'm sure hS will jump in with a link to Crashing Down et al soon enough; it's not stuff that you absolutely need to know, but he's been writing the history of various major events, and it's interesting stuff, and generally accepted as fairly canonical since half the Board views him as some sort of minor deity.

As for changes, so long as stuff's plausible and doesn't wildly counteract what anyone else has written, you should be okay. Killing off the Sunflower Official in a mission, for example, probably wouldn't go down all that well. And if in doubt you can always ask.

That's all there is to it, really. The fluid nature of PPC canon means the only things you have to acknowledge as solid canon are the events of TOS, though a lot of people have a sort of "everything is canon" mindset. Most of the major events like the Reorganisation, CD, the Mirror Multiverse thing, or some of the Sue invasions happened long enough ago to not really be relevant. You can pretty much do whatever you want as long as it's not offensive and doesn't contradict anything specifically set in stone, especially since HQ and the PPC itself are so huge.

FFnet doesn't allow MA rated stuff, but says the rating is for graphic sex and graphic violence. But what is graphic?

It seems that if you name all the bit parts by their proper names it's graphic (or too graphic for FFnet). Talking in metaphores and similies would often be okay for M, or even T (though will probably make half the people here want to slap you).

I once wrote a scene were there was one mention of how blood splattered. I offered it for consideration to an administrator of a fanfic site/forum and suggested an M rating. They said I should scratch the sentence about the blood and tag on an M rating (while the blood sentence was the only reason I thought it should be M). It's currently on FFnet with the blood line and rated T. Used to be M, but the rest of the story so is not, and I don't think the one sentence has enough shock effect in it to warrant the M.

And really do warn for things. There's another story, in the same fandom as my above mentioned story, where a torture scene takes place. It's rated T, but I stopped reading when the first joint popped. I asked the author to at least warn for gore if they weren't going to mark their story as M. The torture is built up slowly, and that's just too much drama (for lack of a better word) for a T rated fic.

... where I always think of the line as being is; M = swearing frequent but not incessant and/or moderate violence and/or sex scenes that exist but aren't graphic.

NC-17 = incessant bad language and/or graphic violence and/or graphic sex.

I'd also suggest that rape and non-con are almost always NC-17 even if not gone into in too much detail (just a mention in passing could be M, but if you have such a scene, even a vague one, it ought to be NC-17).

And whatever rating you choose, always WARN for: slash or het (because people like to know before clicking the link) non-con, dub-con, threesomes/unusual pairings, underage!, kink, bad language, violence and character death.

-Trojie

PS: I believe that ff.net do not allow NC-17 type stories or graphic sex scenes. I'm not sure of the details, though, so I advise checking their terms and conditions etc.

She's from a role-play based on Battle Royale, but she's not, in fact, a character from any officially published work? I just want to make sure I understand it right. If you frequently have a temptation to lift minor characters from canon works (Agent Cham?), I'm going to tell you right now to get over it.

The writing sample could use a little bit of work, but it's nothing a beta wouldn't catch: a few commas where there should be periods and a few places where it wasn't clear who was supposed to be speaking. Also, please avoid interrobangs. They tend to be more annoying than anything else, and I'm pretty sure none of the Flowers would ever indulge in them. Other than that, I enjoyed it. {= )

Pending your response, this is a tentative Permission Granted.

Taking off my PG Hat now: mind if I borrow Nurse Barker for a story set around the Invasion? He seems entertaining. *g* (Your response to this particular question will not affect your status vis a vis Permission.)

~Neshomeh

My short review of the twilight book.

(My Twilight movie review, from two weeks ago.)

I've tried to be fair, but personal opinion will always shine through.

I've been meaning to check it out myself, but other books take higher priority on my reading list.

I couldn't even get through the first book. Too much Sue and Stu. Everyone and her Alsatian reccomended it to me just because I'm gothly. Bah.

LJ Cuts are Good Things. Especially to anybody who friends you and doesn't want your posts to eat a friendslist page up.
If you edit in html rather than rich text mode, use this helpful guide, which includes the wonders of LJ cuts and other such things. ;)

Nice job. Very nicely killed.

...um. I don't really have much to say... I was entertained, which is good...

Oh, yes. Looking forward to seeing what happens~ somehow, I get the feeling these two are stuck, no matter how they try. ^_^

Happy birthday, Oozaru. I present you with a sack of pebbles, your own sling and a basket of Bleeprin-berries.

*hides, hoping that the issue of polybetaness won't cause OA to throw pebbles at her*

Have some urple duct tape!

And yes, cake is good. Just figured I'd say something on the board. What the hell, right? I mean, everyone else on the bloody board has turned up, I might as well toss something in. Don't get too wild at the party. ;) (I kid, of course)

*throws you an otter plushie*

Ooh, cake!

*gifts with Suenicorn jerky* You can eat it...or something...

And here, have this retractable spork. So you can steal other people's cake off their plates, and then look innocent whilst they wonder where their food went.
Oh, and you can also spork things from a distance with it. Like Sues. Although why you'd want to spork 'em from a distance when you can get up close and personal with a nice sharp blade and....ahem. Yeah. I'll shut up now, and let you have a good birthday.
:)

Also, have a Sky Bison.

Have a spork-staff. It's basically a really long magical spork. Or something like that. It's also really, really shiny.

(Because the other option would be wildly inappropriate.)

*brings a platter of fairy bread* Happy birthday! Here's to many more. *downs a glass of water*

In your honour, I shall claim the last drink was for your celebrations.

...

What do you mean, I didn't know it was your birthday when I drank it? I can retcon, dammit!

*gets drunk in your honour*

Happy birthday!

Ah, seventeen. I'd reminisce, but I'm slightly scared by the total mental blank that is my seventeenth. But enjoy it! Your next one's eighteen, and that's when everything becomes legal, and so becomes a lot less fun.

Have a graduated cylinder with a party hat (instead of the usual graduation cap) and ... *digs around* some ice-cream cake! That is, if you like ice-cream cake. Because I do.

Hurray! Happy 17, and congratulations! In my opinion, 17 is when things really start getting good. Screw 16.

(But remember: The cake is a LIE. DO NOT BE FOOLED.)

...and a steamboat. Painted white, just waiting for you to name it so they can put up some massive letters. :D

*hands around the Convenient Cake*

Happy birthday!

Have a pencil sharpener and... um... a metal bottle cap. It's shiny and it has sharp edges. That's good, right?

^_~

~Neshomeh

You can charge for the misspelling with extra venom, considering that the writer should at least be able to spell their own characters' names, but other than that, not much happens. I suppose in extreme cases you could end up with two different characters, but I don't think I've seen such a thing.

~Neshomeh

I'm from Australia (east coast)

I'd go with "He needs his head checked" out of the two options, but I'd think that "His head needs checking" would be preferable to either.

Elcalion

Consensus seems to be that we're looking at a purely British English phenomenon. I'm still confused by why non-British English is rather more prescriptive in this particular matter, but investigations will continue.

Cheers!

A) Frederick, MD, America

B) [ii] He needs his head checked.

a)Central North Island, New Zealand.
b)"He needs his head checked." In a put-on Cockney accent.

a) I'm from the Eastern Coast of the USA, Maryland to be exact.

b) I'd use "he needs his head checked," but I might also use "his head needs checking."

A) New York
B) (ii)

He needs his head checking what? His E-mail?

a) England
b)i. Just sounds better that way.

a) America, which means you should totally disregard the next answer.
b) "He needs his head checked."

a) where are you from?
I'm from the Pacific side of the U.S. of A.
b) which grammatical construction would you usually use?
(i)"he needs his head checking"
OR
(ii)"he needs his head checked"
I'd use the latter.

1) Derby, via Krefeld, Hannover, Catterick and Harrogate. (Don't ask)

2) I use both, but more often than not it's 'he needs his head checked/examined/felt' with the addition of 'with a sledgehammer' to the end of that.

a) Seattle
b) it really depends on context - if you're saying "I think he's crazy or obsessed about something", it's "I think he needs to get his head checked". If, however, you're saying "he's borderline crazy and needs to talk with his shrink", I'd use "he needs his weekly/monthly/annual head checking".

Grammatically speaking, it all comes down to what, exactly, is being done - is his head being checked, or is he getting a head check?

The first strikes me as being slightly more serious, while the second is a bit more colloquial... Once again, it depends on context.

a) Northern Midwest USA

b) ii. checked

Although, to be fair, I think it's only used around me when people want to talk about me. It would be a bit pot, kettle, black if I did use it.

Anyway. a) South East England
and b) I'd actually say "he needs to have his head checked". Out of the two, "he needs his head checked" sounds better to me though.

I think the authors of C*l*br**n, Ch* Ch*ng's D*sires, and S*bj*g*t**n need their heads examined.

I'm from the States. I'd use "He needs his head checked."

a) Untied States of Hysteria.
b) "he needs his head checked".

a) Northeast United States
b) "He needs his head checked."

a) Originally from Cornwall, but been living in the Midlands for twelve years.
b) I'd use "he needs his head checking", but that's more because that's how I've always heard the phrase used (and used it myself) than for any reasons of grammatical correctness.

I'm gonna have to go with "he needs his head checked." The first one works but it could also mean that he needs his head to be checking something. 0.o

a.) Ninth zone east after the great prime meridian (sorry, can't resist).

b.)ii

a) from the Netherlands. Learned my English from TV (I'm sorry English teachers, but that's the truth of it), so it's a mix of British, American, Canadian and Australian.
b) second option. First option made me ask: what does his head need to check? I assume that the intend of both sentences was that someone's head should be examined rather than that the head does some examining.

Regional difference could be very likely. In Dutch there are several difference between the Netherlands and Belgium in how certain things are said, and even within the Netherlands there are regional differences. For instance in the south someone would say: I brought the book with (litteral translation, so excuse for the incorrect English for a moment). And people from the north always insist the correct sentence is: I brought the book with me. For a southerner the "me" is implied; who else are you going to bring a book with?

Guess something similar may be the case here: in the first sentence it is implied that heads to check things, so they must be the things getting the checking.

I'm from... uh... shoot.
Born in northwest US, lived in British Columbia since I was twelve.
I think I'd use ii - "he needs his head checked."
...i could work, I suppose, but I'd put a hyphen in it. Because yes, I am just that strange. Turn that last bit into head-checking and all of a sudden it makes sense to me.

...yes. That's all I have to say on the matter. Really. ^^;

a) I'm from the northerly midwestern USA.

b) He needs his head checked.

And I'll tell you why I think so. First of all, the full sentence should be "he needs to have his head checked," presumably by a medical doctor or psychologist or something like that. As far as I know, there is no such activity as to have a "head checking," so that makes no sense to me. To have one's head checked, however, implies an examination of some sort, and makes perfect sense if you're questioning someone's intelligence or sanity.

~Neshomeh + $0.02

I'm from Sydney. If I was going to use an expression like that, I'd probably use 'he needs his head checked'.

PotCSues, who invented her, encouraged me to use her as much as I wanted, so I guess I'll do the same to you.

*encourage**encourage**encourage*

I think Lady Contrivance is a gag more than a character, so I'd say she's free for use by all and sundry.

~Neshomeh

While back couldn't send messages from my yahoo.co.uk address to hotmail adresses. Could reach all other addresses, plus I could reach the hotmail address from my yahoo.com address. I told yahoo about this problem; they told me there was a problem with my service provider. Which I doubt, unless my provider hates both yahoo.co.uk and hotmail but not yahoo.com

Haven't tried sending anything to a hotmail address in a while, but I guess a yes to your question would be in order.

I've had a tough time getting access to the British Life on Mars television show. I'd be more than willing to rent it from the video store, but there is no domestic import; while I've managed to get my hands on copies from Britain, the DVD format is different and messes with my laptop. You'd think that if a show was so appealing to people that various countries around the world are remaking the series, it would be a good idea to export the original, but noooo...

Sorry, this has been a long-running pet peeve. I'll stop ranting now.

Also, while I haven't been actively trying to buy it, I've heard of gamers who wanted to get the Japanese game called "Metal Wolf Chaos." However, the company won't export it even though the game has the most spectacularly awesome concept ever.

If you trust me I can get it to you, depending on if I can get it. I would have to get your real life address (off list of course). Or you could even have amazon send it to my place, and then I would send it to you.

What are you looking for? (I may be able to get it at a cheaper price than amazon). Since it isn:t an English book or something like that, it is not easy to get english books in Yamaguchi-ken. *wink*

Up to you, I would not be offended in the slightest if you don:t want to give me your address at all.

PS, depending on the weight, international shipping can be very stupid. Four paper back books form Canada to Japan by mail cost $30 CAD. If you don:t mind waiting for it (~6 months) I can get cheap shipping. If not, it does add to the price of the object.

Leto

Happens all the time. Amercian companies (except Amazon.com) seem to forget that there's a world beyond their borders, and that the internet allows us to look, drool, and then pay twice the item's price on shipping because we have to route it through a proxy, which half the time is impossible.

Bah; sorry. Grumbling. Any reason you ask?

If I were actually doing a spinoff (as opposed to pretending that I am), I would take this one so fast. Ah, my poor childhood.

Anyway, who wishes to take the fic? Hello, anyone, hello?

One of my few problems with your last mission was that it read more like an MST than a mission, so I'm glad that was improved on in this case. The mission was done well, I enjoyed reading it, look forward to seeing more from you.

No offense, dear, but that is a lot of excess punctuation.

Anyway, to actually be useful, I think that they'd just be a sort of Author's Note. The author attempting to put words in the readers' mouths, I guess. That's my two cents.

I had a similar idea: an entire PPC fic from the POV of the Sue or the brainwashed canons. The latter would be similar to one of the POTC Mara stories in which Grimes is aware of the Agents.

That was me. Thanks for the link, although I don't really know enough about the 'verse to PPC it and was asking out of a)my Morbid Curiosity (TM) b)Putting a link for anyone interested in the PPC.