Aug 2009 Archive, part a

(I so wish I could actually do those.)

The long wait has been rewarded!

The common link here: Uncanon family members.

The solution: Learn to freaking write a decent story about them and we won't KILL YOU! Why do you think I cancelled my Harry's twin story? And that was when I was still a Suethor. Even I could recognise it was awful.

ARGH. I couldn't make it through the first one. PUNCTUATION. THEY DO NOT KNOW WHAT IT IS.

I need to work on my tolerance.

Also I need to post here more often. Hello, Ansela.

This place actually dot dot dots the F word? Since when?

Glod, you make me thankful I don't live in your country.

That said, we had elections here recently. More important than most; these were elections for the European Parliament, and the interesting thing with the European Parliament is, unlike the national government, they've actually heard of proportional representation. This makes me smile, and I had high hopes.

Unfortunately, I ended up having the same argument with my housemate that I've had every year since he hit eighteen in 2004. I'll spare you the detailed ramble about why a European Parliament, if done properly, is an immensely excellent thing, and skip to the bit where my housemate didn't bother to vote because, once again, he assumed there was no point.

This was coupled with me discussing these elections with various people around the same time, and discovering one of our PPC members was going for voting UKIP, and one was going for the BNP.

You expect this from your family, I think. They're your blood, and you love them, no matter what, even when they hold some bloody weird views, and they will hold some bloody weird views. What I wasn't expecting was to have PPCers espousing the same views as the BNP. I passed on the arguing about it, because I'm old enough to be jaded, but it was worrying in the extreme nonetheless.

is glade I am not an United Statesian. Although, being Canadian, we feal all the bad that comes from American Policies. But our own government isn:t any better...

The beter question is: Is there ANY difference between the two parties anymore?

The election system needs a compleat overhaul (as in, throw it out and institue a compleat new theory with the party system and electoral set up). Canada needs that too. There is just too much stupid going around. Isn:t this the way that many large empires disolved (ex. Roman Empire)?

But that is my to 2cent (which is currently about 1.8cents US).

Leto

...Just be glad they didn't teach the babies to say "Obama es un comunista". Although at least my family isn't psycho right-wing, so I take what I can get.

Back during campaignin' time, my mom was helping out at a Boy Scout camp. She was sitting down to eat with the other staff, and they were all going on about how great Sarah Palin is, and how perfect she is for the job, and how McCain did a great thing when he chose her as his running mate.

Consider now that they were referring to a woman who has made disconcertingly stupid comments, who answers questions without really answering them (granted, many politicians do this, but her way of doing it is more distinct them most), who is COMPLETELY inexperienced, and who, to top it all off, is very proud of the fact that she shoots moose from helicopters for fun.

My mother, who was a supporter of Obama, reacted thus:

"Wait, you're saying you want four more years of stupid? You like what Bush has been doing for the past eight years, and you want four more years of it? Really?"

That shut them ALL up.

It sucks and on top of that you have to wear stupid glasses that rarely fit. I'll be content with 2-D until they invent holograms. The only exception would be if, oh, I don't know, they made a Star Wars/Trek/Gate film in 3-D. Then I'd probably go and see it.

When I heard a film called G-Force was coming out, I immediately of the old eighties anime that I watched as a (very small) kid. That would've been fun. Then I find out it's about a bunch of guinea pigs-turned-spies... >.>

Don't get me wrong, I like guinea pigs, but...damn. >.>

Freaking Disney...they haven't made a good movie since 1995 or so. Okay, so I liked Lilo and Stitch, and Hercules was all right. And their Pixar stuff is great, but their live action and traditional animation stuff has gotten more sickening over the years. I wouldn't have liked this movie even as a kid. I can only hope The Princess and the Frog jumpstarts Disney into better quality.

I've been wanting to see it, and I think I'll just reserve judgment for when I actually see it. Though, my dad and I both agree, it's a renter.

It does look awful. Disney will do anything to put out a 3-D movie right now. But that does not excuse this... this... UGGG

Leto

... because I work at the cinema and can get her in for free, so even if it sucks at least we haven't wasted money on seeing it. (I stop working at the cinema in a month or so, though - it's my gap year and I want some time to travel before uni starts. Thank God. I hate hate HAAAATE that job >_

Have a bottle of Anti-Lustin as compensation!

Welcome back.

Have a jar of evil.

How are you doing?

*glee*
...I think. Only you were slightly differently-named?
Pff, nighttime. >.> Welcome back, at any rate. I'm trying to get back on my feet again, too.
Good luck with the original story? I have to ask, what sort of story is it?

Take your pick. Be careful not to take a Norwegian one, they work at the PPC now as Agents. (Whatever, Krisprolls and South)

I remember you, a little vaguely but your name is familiar. Welcome back.

You have not been forgotten; I remember your name at least.

How's that mission coming then? Did you ever get it finished? And how's the original story? If you ever want another pair of eyes to have a dekko at it, do let us know.

Welcome back!

I think that's enough to be going on with. I probably won't use everyone, but we'll see where the story leads. Thanks again. {= )

~Neshomeh

…suppose there are three incarnations of the Doctor? Say, Two, Four, and Ten, due to Sue-induced wangst. Now, we know from Fear Her that the Doctor is a Star Trek fan (Ellison can go pound sand).

Both traumatised by the amount of times fanbrats make them sleep together.

Not from a mission, but:
Grimmjow Jaegerjaques, Bleach. In FicPsych due to complete personality replacement in a fic, which turned him from an obsessive, psychopathic killer to a fluffy, loving wimp completely in love with the person he canonically thinks of as 'his prey'. (Oh how I wish fanbrats would stop butchering his character like that already.)

Ulquiorra Schiffer, Bleach. In FicPsych to have his emotions removed after overexposure to Sues and/or non-canonical love interests. He's meant to be even less emotive than a Vulcan, which is something that most Suethors, and bad slashers, forget.

Aizen Sousuke, Bleach. In FicPsych due to being turned into a genuinely kind and caring person, instead of a cold, calculating sociopath who only sees others as pawns to be manipulating according to his will.


Grimmjow and Ulquiorra are GivenName FamilyName, Aizen is FamilyName Given Name.

Aizen is the sort who is likely to start plotting a takeover once he's recovered enough to resemble his canon self. Keeping his sword away from him and preventing him from having contact with Ulquiorra and Grimmjow is probably a good idea. Ulquiorra won't act without orders from Aizen, but Grimmjow may require frequent sedation to keep him from looking for Macroviruses to tear apart or vaporise, especially if he's been cooped up for a while.

Hope this helps.

…of Luke Skywalker turning his lightsaber on the bugs.

I'll also suggest Jim Phelps, Rollin Hand, Willie Armitage, Barney Collier, and Cinnamon Carter (the Impossible Missions Force in seasons 2 and 3).

Shindo Hikaru and Akira Toya. Both males from the anime Hikaru no Go. Ages anywhere between 10 to 16 years of age (depending on where in the serise the story takes place)

Reason for being in FicPsych, in practically every fanfic with them in it, they are paired together. They are rivals and that rivalry, for some reason, is interpreated as lust for the other. It is not, they would never pair. (But that does not stop the `Suthors.)

So, after the nth time of being slashed together, they both snap. Thier minds are too fried from agents going in an fixing the story line. They need time in the psych ward to heal before they can go back.

Hope this helps!

Leto

Any preference between one of the cute vermin or one of the psycho vermin?

Don't know if I can find any actual fics bad enough to send 'em to FicPsych since TS is over. The fandom tends to ignore the background characters in favour of creating Sues which are even more superpowered and interchangeable than the ones in the canon (at least Mr Jacques remembers to specify what species each character is at the beginning of each book *sigh*). But I could probably invent something horrible.

I'm basically just desperate for some names to use in this story; I'd like them to be from actual badfic situations, and I really don't want to go trawling aimlessly through the badfic. So, in a word: help!

~Neshomeh

As long as it's a goodfic, anything goes. And as long as it's realistic, no ten-second romances or anything; I'm vehemently against the concept of 'love at first sight' and related things. Love takes time or hardship, and lots of fics apply neither of the two to the pair. These are normally considered badfic.

Mostly, though, I prefer nonromance plots or ones where the romance is not the main plot. I like stories more when the ships, canon or not, occur as an aside instead of dominating the story. Large or small, it's subplots most of the time. After all, it seems somewhat silly to have a world where people live for relationships alone.

Slashfic sounds like all the characters are being murdered and they need to solve the mystery before everyone is dead.

And het just sounds like a pairing between a hat and a net, which, sadly, is exactly the kind of nonsense I expect from fanfic writers in general.


I am, however, always willing to read a good pairing, and whether the characters work together matters to me more than the statuses of the individuals involved.


Heck, I once read a well-written pairing between Plank and the Companion Cube, after Johnny had been abducted by GLaDOS.

I'll read het or slash, bad or good.

Preferably good.

I think the company I keep has changed me, I used to avoid slash like the plague. But now I do rather like it.

...as long as all those involved are in character, no Sues or Stus are involved, no canon relationships are broken up, all the characters are consenting adults, and there's no incest. This, of course, means I like about four percent of the het/slash out there, dislike a further thirty-five percent, and am completely squicked by everything else.

This is mostly because I dislike romance fics as a whole, and whenever I see a summary that includes either slash or yaoi (how on earth do you pronounce that, anyway?), I always get the impression that said fic is entirely about the slash*. Which, to me, is boring and likely to involve canon rape (as is shipping in general). I know this isn't always the case, but I don't want to wade through the 999 pieces of crap to find the single gem.

*This applies to yuri as well, but it's a lot less common.

But I'm a lover of romance before I'm a lover of yaoi. I love canon het couples, and ship them with a burning. I'll admit I do prefer slash (both femme and male), I suppose because I find the dynamique a bit interesting, and it's not something I'm exposed to very often in RL. I can see het couples whenever I want. Also, I'll be honest. It's hot.

That said, I do write and ship het just as much as I do slash. Most of my RP pairings are het, I write both in fanfic, and I'll d'awwww over Sakura/Syaoran just as much as I do Touya/Yukito. So long as I can believe the pairing, I'll ship anything.

When it comes to the NC-17 stuff, I prefer slash to het. Maybe because I am more detatched from it, somehow. I don't know.

And so ends my ramble.

I feel it may be time to point out, in response to a notion more than one people have hinted at subscribing to, that there is such a thing as Good Slash.

Some people, it seems (whether here or in IMs on the topic), object to the fact that slash pairings simply aren't canonical, or that in slash canonical pairings are disregarded, or even that to make a character non-straight is to make them wildly OOC. I invite all of these people to check the standard DBS charge list.

If slash is Good Slash, then canonical het pairings are acknowledged. If a canonical het pairing stands in the way of a slash pairing, then in Good Slash the het relationship will be dissolved via a well structured and well written plot, with all due care and respect paid to the source material. Given that the whole point of fanfiction is to alter aspects of canon, I see no problem here.

"But they're canonically straight" is one I'm not touching right now, because it's been done to death, and it's the insistence upon the heteronormative status quo inherent in that statement that, in part, drives me to slash.

And finally, the OOC thing. In Good Slash, the characters are not out of character. This is because Good Slash is, by definition, well written slash, and well written fic keeps the characters in character.

So, bearing all this in mind, and seconding Trojie's point that the Happy AU Where Everyone Is Gay is a great big cross on the "Bad" side of the equation, I can't see any reason for objection to slash pairings in fiction. If a fic's solely about the pairing, and that pairing's not your cup of tea, fair play, but some slash on the side, for the sake of realism? Who could object to that?

Oh, and while we're at it, is it time to borrow ffr's standard disclaimer: "Except in Torchwood"? Because anyone objecting to slash fic in that fandom is clearly not watching the same show as the rest of us.

When it comes to reading, I'm not really a 'shipper in any sense of the word. Romance is fine if it happens, but I won't be disappointed if there is none at all. Slash, het... it's all the same to me. Both can be done well, both can make me want to vomit.

Funny thing about me, though: I dig romance that arises in role-play--especially screwed-up, complicated romance--but I don't particularly enjoy writing it on my own. Again, straight or gay makes no difference. I have brought characters to the brink of relationships only to take them away, and I have created established couples (successes and failures), but I don't do putting them together. There's just something weird and maybe fake about it. I dunno. *shrug*

~Neshomeh

On a fundamental, subconscious level, I don't believe in slash, in much the same way that I don't believe in breathing underwater.

This does not mean that I run screaming from the merest whiff of same-gender interaction; I have no objection to interaction, friendship, even situations that look compromising, between two persons of the same gender. I do get a bit antsy at, for instance, Twelfth Night and the like, for the implications that naturally arise.

That said, I tend to avoid het, as well, if it appears to be approaching the realm of the lemon.

because, while I do have some gay relationships in my stories, I don't think I have just them. I have het as the main thing because, obviously, that's what happens in real life and if I'm trying to keep my characters real, I'm not going to have them all turn gay in an instant. I have played with a few small fics set around a gay character, but those never amount to anything.

I'm also more comfortable with femslash. Don't know why. Could be I've read more bad slash than bad femslash. All I know is that the majority of my gay/bisexual characters are women and there's only one male/male relationship I can think of and I can't actually remember what fic that was in.

Honestly, though, I don't give a toss. I'll read good stories, regardless of what the hell is happening in it. The reason I stay away from slash a bit is possibly due to seeing more bad fics attempt to pair off two random characters who hate each other and do it appallingly. I'd type more, but I keep thinking of something else to add mid-paragraph and that makes me forget what I was saying to begin with.

... I'm a slasher. Always have been, always will be, since the beginning of my stumblings into fandom.

However, there are places in my heart for het pairings, both canon and non-canon, which I cherish and love and dislike seeing wrecked. It's just ... those all tend to be in fandoms I don't actively read or write for.

Reading het almost bores me, to be honest. Het is ... well, the majority. A well-written slashfic can have so many little edges of 'forbidden' and 'what will our friends/neighbours/relatives/coworkers think?' and all that society and psychology stuff to it ... that's what I like.

Which is not to say that all those things cannot be found in het fic, but slashfic also has, for me at least, one other feature: the slightly less literary and more self-serving aspect of, I am a straight woman, I find men attractive, and you know what's more attractive than one man? Two men!

As far as I'm concerned though, there doesn't have to be 'het VS slash'. They can coexist. Maybe not in the same person's brain, necessarily, but one is not better than the other. They are different.

Actually I've read some lovely fics that centre on multiple partnerships - both slash and het. There's nothing worse than fic set in the Magical World Where Everyone Is Gay and all the couples happen to be same-sex.

/end ramble as it's nearly midnight

- A possibly slightly incoherent Trojie, who isn't keeping up with her intarwub responsibilities well lately...

I have a great problem whenever this question comes up because, in spite of the best efforts of our dear Pads, I just can't read slash without hitting the "back" button.

I have nothing against it - really, I would like to strangle the next person who accuses me of being a homophobe, because there is a DIFFERENCE between not approving of something and just not wanting to be a part of it - I liken it to the difference between knowing your parents had to have sex to concieve you and actually watching them do it. That's how I feel.

So as you can guess, I don't read slash in any form. I just side-step it. I can't say I understand why people write it, but neither can I understand why people write non-canon pairings - and yes, that question has been anwered for me several times by several people, so I get the theory, but I myself have never really been inclined towards any uncanonical pairings.

I think it has something to do with the way I percieve the original canon stories themselves; I see them as a cohesive whole, and if Character A 'originally' (ie, in canon) fell in love with Character B, then I feel like something major would have to change in their personality/characterisation for them to fall for someone else. This may, however, be related to the kinds of stories I read; I tend to go for more fairytale-like interpretations, too. I'm sure it doesn't help that, Dumbledore/Grindelwald aside, none of my main fandoms involve slash pairings of any sort.

I'm rambling now, but is it making sense? To answer your question directly, my own sexuality - as a woman attracted to men - basically controls the sorts of relationships I like to read about. I can't really understand(/internalise) why other people have other tastes, but that doesn't bother me in itself - I'm quite happy to live and let live.

It is an interesting phenomena, though, and I'll be more than interested to read everyone else's opinions.

A lot of what I read is femmeslash, but I wouldn't say I'm a slasher. If I'm looking for mindless romance, or *winces* smut, it's gonna be femmeslash, chances are, since I'm a lesbian. There's also a side of the fact that it's a lot easier to find f/f romance on the internet.

That said, I have no dislike of het or m/m slash, and I'll read either one if it's good. Really, I care more about your general writing, and how well you portray the characters, than said characters' genders.

I mainly stick to reading het fanfictions, just because most of the canonical pairings in my favorite book series are het. I don't mind original fiction slash, but I don't see much of it around, either. I really can't read slash fanfiction because, for some reason, I can't stand the thought of my favorite canonical pairings disappearing. The nausea I feel at the thought of a Draco/Hermione fic is the same amount I feel at the thought of a Draco/Harry fic. To me, once there is a canonical pairing, as stated or as written by the author, I think it should stay that way in fanfiction. At least in what I read, fanfiction wise. Yeah, the shipping wars are scary, but I don't join in them, if possible.
Hermione/Ron, Astoria/Draco, and Ginny/Harry FTW!
I understand the slash fanfics with characters who didn't have canonical pairings and sort of implied what type of pairing they would prefer. *coughUblazcough* Those I can stand, but they are few and far between.

I honestly adore both gay and straight romances - and anything in between - as long as it's done right.

I'm lean quite heavily towards slash, personally. It makes up the bulk of what I read and write on the internet. I see nothing wrong with het though, especially now that I've started looking at the het subtext in my main canon, as well as the slash.

My main reason for avoiding het fics is the fact that very few het pairings interest me, and it's pretty hard to find well-written fics for the ones that do. Plus the het shipping wars are pretty scary, especially for someone like me who can't pick a 'side' and stick with it.

To me, it really doesn't matter as long as it's at least somewhat plausible of a pairing. (Snape and Dumbledore? No, not seeing it.) I think I lean toward het more just because I can just relate to it better. That or girl-on-girl, but people don't seem to write as many of those.

If I wanted het, dear, I'd fall off the celibacy wagon (again). Slash, however, I cannot have, and so must simply read instead.

Incidentally, you know Trojie and I are winding you up when we say we don't believe in het, right? Well, mostly winding you up at any rate.

Hi, I'm new to this, and new to the PPC. However, I have come across some badfic that is truly in need of sporking. I actually feel bad for it. Could someone tell me where to get permission if I want to record a mission?

Thanks!

Xanthia B.

Have some Anti-Lustin!

Late again, curse my tendency to stay away from the Board for a long time and abruptly return. Have a shapeshifting plushie.

Here, have some Groucho Marx glasses with big fake eyebrows.

No, not those three. These are my Agents.

I offer either a Capillary Towel (which would be good for wiping off those blood tears) or a Transdimensional Pocket Knife (apparently very useful, but no one uses them).

You sound like you'll fit right in. Nice to meet you!

Welcome, welcome, once and future friend!

I'm afraid I don't have anything to give you, but take my best regards as a substitute. Here's hoping you stick around-- I think you'll really enjoy yourself here.

No kidding. Which reminds me, since you seem to enjoy this, they're making a Twilight MMO. At first that seems awful, but my friends and I read: Castlevania raids welcome. Please troll the sh*t out of us.

Dann beat me to the first one. Oh well. *poke*

I actually know exactly what you're talking about. I was there for that era. Heck, maybe we even crossed paths over there. *shurg* But ah, yes, the nostalgia! Sometimes I wish I could go back, but it's just not the same.

So I hang out here. *g*

Anyway, what fandoms were/are you into? Any big Neopets RPs I might've known about, or were you just there for the lulz?

~Neshomeh, who went by variations on the same name at Neopets.

*gives Orange Hotaru a PPC bumper sticker. And a poke.*

Welcome to the board! I'm sure the usual suspects will be along shortly with the big bag o' links.

I comes bearing links. *drags out Big Bag O' Links and digs through it* I know you has some of these already, since you mention the Wiki, but as I don't know which ones you've found...

First off is the link to the Wiki, a veritable fount of information for a newbie to read through. Especially helpful for you if you want to write missions would be the page on Permission (note the capital P).

I would advise against reading any Legendary Badfic, unless you are of strong mind and stomach. Even the summaries have been known to give those of weaker constitution nightmares.

For your reading pleasure, not knowing what you have already managed to find, I have several links for you. The Original Series (not to be confused with Star Trek) is a good place to start, as the PPC did many aeons ago. What do you mean I'm exaggerating? The Department of Geographical Aberrations is another interesting place to visit, if you have the time and inclination. Also by hS is the Tangled Webs site, which contains backstory for the PPC as an organisation. If you would rather visit the Floaters, then July's site is the place you need to be. And last, but most definitely not least, Response Centre 45 is where Trojie and Pads' missions are archived.

Hope you enjoy your stay here. Please deposit your sanity into the container offered to you by another Boarder; you won't be needing it here.

For fans of the Doctor Who audios
What Was Lost in the Eye of the Storm by moonmama
Singapore, 1941. A most unusual patient turns up at a British military hospital, with no memory of how he got there. Two planets, two wars, and countless timelines converge on one tiny pocket of reality where two lovers struggle to find their past, knowing they have no future.(Eight/Charley-quite possibly the best thing I've ever read on here.)
http://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=23367

But I'm rather fond of this one

Fandom: X-com
Author: Hobbes
Title: X-com, The Unknown Menace
Link:http://www.fanfiction.net/s/245417/1/XCOM_The_Unknown_Menace

1. Rumor Has It by San Antonio Rose reviews
   
   Rumors are flying about the Pevensies, and Corin Thunderfist decides to investigate. ::Sequel to Inquiring Minds::
   Chronicles of Narnia - Fiction Rated: T - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,096 - Reviews: 20 - Updated: 2-1-06 - Published: 2-1-06 - Complete
   
   2. Out to Lunch by Three-Eyed Squirrels reviews
   
   Andrew Ketterley was having a very, very bad day.
   Chronicles of Narnia - Fiction Rated: K - English - General/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 5,778 - Reviews: 15 - Updated: 6-8-07 - Published: 6-8-07 - - Andrew Ketterley/Jadis the White Witch - Complete
   
   3. The Stibbons Awards by Laburnum Steelfang reviews
   
   Discworld's equivalent of a certain Internetbased prize. Ridcully embarrasses Ponder yet again. 250 words, just because I wanted to see if I could keep to a limit.
   Discworld - Fiction Rated: K - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 275 - Reviews: 9 - Updated: 5-6-07 - Published: 5-6-07 - Complete
   
   4. An Analysis of a Mother's Love by Sev's Girl Forever reviews
   
   I decided I'd define Mrs. Molly Weasley's words to Bellatrix. C'mon, you know what I'm talking about...
   Harry Potter - Fiction Rated: T - English - Angst/Family - Chapters: 1 - Words: 298 - Reviews: 17 - Updated: 9-8-07 - Published: 9-8-07 - - Molly W. - Complete
   
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   A look at how Hell prepares and educates young devils for their work tempting human souls. Based on The Screwtape Letters.
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   6. Questions and Answers by E. L. Lockhart reviews
   
   Five year old Yeesha asks a question. Cute little oneshot.
   Myst/Riven - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 501 - Reviews: 12 - Updated: 10-18-05 - Published: 10-18-05 - Complete
   
   7. The Prize by Lungbarrovian reviews
   
   Leela learns a valuable lesson when the Doctor takes her to a funfair. Gentle whimsy (I hope!)
   Doctor Who - Fiction Rated: K - English - General/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,988 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 9-23-04 - Published: 9-23-04
   
   8. Case Studies of Tragic Sues » by Leelee5 reviews
   
   Tragic consequences can result when a Mary Sue is not informed of the nature and laws of Middle Earth. These case studies will help prevent future accidents.
   Lord of the Rings - Fiction Rated: K - English - Humor/Parody - Chapters: 14 [But something is wrong with chapter 14; it doesn't load. Above last-chapter link goes to chapter 13 -- Tawaki] - Words: 17,835 - Reviews: 150 - Updated: 4-15-05 - Published: 1-10-03
   
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   The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has this to say about fanfiction...last chapter. It's been one heck of a ride.
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Fandom: crossover between Ranma 1/2 and Sailor Moon (yeah, I know)
Author: Fire
Title: Destiny's Child
Link: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/26926/1/Destinys_Child
This, I think, is one of the best fukufics I've ever read, with the possible exception of one or two which are still in progress, and I'll need to see how they end to decide if they're better. Namely, Contrast Match and A Time Apart.
Sure, it has Ranma collecting entirely too much stuff, but the idea is that the events of Ranma happen well in the past, and they're entirely less... momentous, and he's been hanging around collecting things till now.

Besides, he kinda needs it to match power levels properly.

My favourite fic is usually what I read last, same as favourite game, favourite book, favourite film, favourite music. I usually have some form of Top Ten (Thousand), but it's usually what I've read last.

Disturbingly, that makes my favourite fic Agony in Pink.

...and most of them are by a small number of authors.

The Bleach Ficlet: Dare To Live and Saiyuki Serial: Beautifully Broken Evolution by LJ's Iron Dog are among my favourites. Her two-part Orgy Fics are what introduced me to her writing, and they're the best cross-fandom eight-man orgies I've ever seen written.

Another favourite writer of mine is Dracoqueen22, and her large number of Bleach fics, especially her Of Violence fic, which is the best story on the topic of spousal abuse that I have ever seen in any fandom. Dracoqueen22 is also on ffn under the same name, which I no longer frequent all that often.

Unless, of course, I'm tempted there by DelMarch. I might be biased here because she primarily writes about my two favourite characters, but she is a good writer whose work I love reading.

A Shadow of What Was is another of my favourites. It's pretty long, and not yet finished so it may take anyone who attempts it a while to read.

And, of course, there is the Poignant Pevensie Porn series, as well as the Seamus/Dumbledore fic written by our very own Pads and Trojie, that can be found on this post, below all the PPC stuff.

This one's my favourite at the moment. Nearly died laughing the first time I read it. Probably not work-safe, as it features a lot of gratuitous sex for comedy purposes:

Fandom: Torchwood
Author: redscharlach
Title: Seven Days That Shook Captain Jack's Pants
Link: http://redscharlach.livejournal.com/173094.html


Also, coat!porn:

Fandom: Torchwood
Author: k-haldane
Title: Coat!crack!fic
Link: http://k-haldane.livejournal.com/108788.html

Gah.

Anyway, here is an arsenal of Anti-Lustin weapons as a gift! Happy Birthday!

Why do I keep taking Board hiatuses? It's terrible. Terrible, I say. Anyway, have a giant floofy bunny plushie. It may compete against the otter... but only sometimes, don't worry.

Here, have some shiny.

Have a sack of pebbles, your own sling and a basket of Bleeprin-berries!

Sorry for the late post, but oh well. Yippee hurrah, another August birthday! Here, have a handheld vacuum cleaner!

I give to you...purple rock salt. Good for warding away spirits, melting ice, or staining unsuspecting white sneakers.

Here, have an otter plushie. 'dorable little thing. ^_^

Pick. Let me remind you that almost all ships your age are taken. Only Iskra is left (Polish 50m tall white ship whith a red stripe). Unless you like them older, or younger... lol.

May merriment and mayhem stalk you all day.

The only Fairtrade chocolate producers in the Philippines that I've seen are Ben and Jerry's and maybe (low chance of having it) Guittard. And they aren't particularly accessible, either. I am likely screwed in terms of chocolate if I stop buying from other sources.

I don't think they sell exclusively Fairtrade, but they have products labelled as such, and that's a start at least. I might email their HQ saying this is good and they might wanna consider using Fairtrade chocolate in more of their products - anyone want to join me? The more people say so, the more chance they'll listen. Probably people have already asked them this, but we might as well join in.

I don't like Green & Blacks', it's weirdly bitter, but as a rule I've found stuff labelled Fairtrade tastes better than stuff that's not labelled as such. Might be psychosomatic on my part, but hey. (My one experience with Fairtrade orange juice, however, was horrible, and sticking to my principles is not worth drinking stuff that tastes like orange-flavoured vinegar. I'll send the protest organisations a cheque instead.)

Near where I live, there's a beautiful Fair Trade shop which sells all sorts of goodies, including coffee and chocolate. I just wish they had more of those Indonesian skull carvings...

... reported himself for the crime of being an accomplice after the fact because he had eaten chocolate that he could reasonably assume was produced with slave labour. The court replied they couldn't handle his case.

He did take action for the production of slave-free chocolate, which is available in the Netherlands at Fair Trade shops, and lots of other places that sell chocolate.

The wiki-artikel (in Dutch)

I can't honestly say it's the only sort I eat, but I do eat it a lot.

Just a side note - anyone googling there might do better to try "Darfur conflict" or "war in Darfur". Only the US government's calling it a genocide.

I am about to go on vacation tomorrow so I can:t promice a speedy beta. But I can read for continuity and accuracy.

letohaven @ hotmail . com

Leto

I enjoyed that quite a lot, particularly the way it flowed so nicely :)

If I had one quibble, it would be simply that I found your site extremely hard to read (I have poor eyesight and white text on dark backgrounds does my head in) and so I prevailed upon Pads to share the Gdoc with me so that I could read it without pain :) Thus my one suggestion would be, next time, dark text on light background? Pretty please?

What was lj complaining about, by the way? Because it suddenly occurs to me that you had that mental voice within and lj will assume that's a crazy tag and it'll spaz right out.

I liked it, though I agree with the things IndeMaat pointed out--it's unclear what's going on some of the time. In addition, I have to ask, was that a little encounter with one of the occupants of RC #999 at the beginning? I imagine that would be an easy mistake to make. *g*

~Neshomeh

Nice mission.
Some nitpicks.

All the paragraphs have a one space indentation. I only noticed the indentation on my second look at story. I don't think it's necessary to indent when leaving a blank line between paragraphs.

“You’re my new partner, then?” she asked cheerfully, ignoring how naked she was.

“Nadine Moreno,” she said awkwardly, nodding.

Two things here: (1) in both sentences a "she" is referred to, both they are two different people. A little more distinction would be nice. (2) "Ignoring how naked she was" is Jodi's POV, while up to that point everything had been Nadine's POV. Some people (I imagine mainly those that have read a lot about keeping POVs consistent) would find such a switch jarring. (It's much later that Nadine notices she can follow her partner's POV, which I find a great escape for POVs that sometimes wander.)

Guessing that she was finished getting dressed, Nadine turned around and saw her sitting on the edge of one of the bookshelves.

Blame my high-school education for this one: whenever I see "she" I think the antecedent is the last female mentioned previously. In this case Nadine. Which made this sentence confusing on first reading it. Changing "she" with Jodi or the girl would sort that.

“Hey, if you’re going to clean for me, it’s fine with me,” Jodi said. Nadine smiled slightly, and nodded.

“Do you know when we’re going on our next mission?” she asked, sitting back on the bed and pulling off her boots. Her partner grinned.

The people that say, "start a new paragraph when a new person starts speaking" are not entirely right. A new paragraph can (should, depending on how strict you are) start when a new person starts acting or speaking. Which means that when a person first acts and then says something then that can be done in the same paragraph. In the above example:

“Hey, if you’re going to clean for me, it’s fine with me,” Jodi said.

Nadine smiled slightly, and nodded. “Do you know when we’re going on our next mission?” she asked, sitting back on the bed and pulling off her boots.

Her partner grinned. (...)

Could you make direct quotes from the fic stand out in some way (putting them in italics, bracketting them, opening the paragraph with a minus sign) so that a distinction can be made between what you wrote and what came from the fic?

After the impostors are apprehended Nadine seems to take charge of the situation and Jodi, her more experienced partner, just waits around for her. This seems unlikely for a seasoned agent and a cat-person. I imagine neither to be good at following orders. Waiting impatiently because their partner had run off with the equipment they needed, that I can imagine.

Definitely a good mission - that fic sounded horrendous.

The Agents seem to promise a lot of interesting events in the future, too. They certainly intrigued me, anyway.

As usual. *sigh* I have to break the habit of leaving for a week then reading the archives, this isn't a webcomic.

I've seen the name, but never met you. Have a shapeshifting plushie.

Have some Anti-Lustin shurikens!

*waves back*

Oh, welcome back then. I hope you will enjoy the new PPC missions that have been done.

I definitely remember you. You and the good ole SIELU. If I recall correctly, your agent had a cameo in my Legolas-Sue smiting ceremony.

Well, there've been some changes around here, but if you lost all of your old links, I can think of a good place to start.

I do remember you, but from how far back I couldn't say. Welcome back, anyway!

hS

I'm one of the latter category, I think. I don't remember your username, anyway. However, it's lovely to see you.

Have a bag of pebbles and a Random Shiny Object as a welcome -back gift.

No, don't take those three. These are my Agents.
I've been here for four months or so, so we don't know each other. I'm in charge (lol) of Agents Whatever, South, and Krisprolls, three Norwegian tall ships.

And a Mark III K-9!

Welcome back.

I am definitely a newer person and thus not known. I suffer from a bad habit of organizing things. :D

You definitely don't know me -- I arrived about a year ago.

But I used to go as Eternal Newb.

I have no idea who the heck you are! Let's be friends!

I also fall into the latter category.

Oh, wow! Hi! I remember you! I was but a wee newbie back then, though. Welcome back!

*offers hugs and Galadriel™ brand lembas*

~Neshomeh

Oh, well. Nice to meet you, and welcome back! :)

Is there a list of the songs available at the karaoke bar, or is that something you only find out by turning up?

Sadly, I won't be able to make it. Possibly the next Gathering, but I won't be able to get to this one, not enough time to get everything arranged and such. Especially since I'd still need to get all the papers and such in order for transcontinental travel (I don't even have a passport).

I thought I should say, since when this was brought up earlier I'd said I'd make the attempt to get there, but it turns out I cannot. I apologise for this. I did want to come, but can't this time. Also, about the CDs, would it be too much hassle (including transatlantic costs) to mail one to me after the gathering, or failing that to email me the mix (though in that case, I don't know how to burn it to a CD, and my computer currently has no sound, so I wouldn't be able to listen to it on the computer) so I can burn it? I can email the address in the case of the former, and provide my email in case of the latter. I was interested in the mix idea, so I thought I'd ask about that, even though my plan of actually attending fell through. Sorry again.

Hang on a mo, ten quid an hour? That... isn't how this one was sold to me. On the dole here; cash flow is minimal. What's the price if we just turn up on the door?

You probably should have made this a comment on your other thread, to save on space on the Board. No worries; just so you know for next time. :)

http://yamete.smackjeeves.com/comics/

This. It's basically a bunch of teenage girls drawing theirselves as slim bishies and being "cute".

At first when I was younger and hungry for acceptance for my sexuality, I thought the idea was novel and cute. Now I see the authors are annoying, screechy little girls.

This ended with me trollin' the founder as an Anon via email, but unfortunately she guessed who I was correctly. (This would be no problem, but she was very convinced and planned on just bitching about it to whoever.) and I wound up having to fake a heartfelt apology to make sure she wouldn't whine about me to any more intelligent people I may socialize with in the future.

I dunno why that comic annoys me so, or why I keep reading it anyway. Just something about it sets my teeth on edge.

I don't know that I have a least favorite. I mean, there are some I've drifted away from because they didn't interest me - Goblins, 8-bit Theatre - but I can't think of any that would prompt me to say "you don't want to read this".

Well, maybe Unicorn Jelly and its spinoffs. Maybe.

Generic Surface :P

... because a lot of them, e.g. Penny Arcade, give the impression that they would be very funny if I had the faintest idea what they were talking about. (I don't play any videogames beyond Diner Dash.)

I used to like the work of Ralph E Hayes. That got old fast. If I'd agreed with even one of the political rants he put in the comic, maybe I'd have kept reading them longer - I don't object to "Ozy and Millie", which does a similar thing on the end of the political spectrum that I agree with. I kept reading "Tales of the Questor" till he started sticking unrelated pages featuring his latest blathering in there. Though I gotta admit, much as I despise him on a personal basis, the guy draws better comics than I do.

Morale Booster » by DopeyTheChosen1
After a long day of work, Draycos finds himself in need of a morale booster . . .
Dragonback series - Rated: T - English - Humor/Romance - Chapters: 2 - Words: 1,799 - Published: 7-23-09

My comment: No. No. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Off to read now. :)