Aug 2009 Archive, part c

I figure if they're taking it down because they realized how awful it was, it might amuse them to see it immortalized and lambasted. Or it might be horribly embarrassing. Either way, it makes the most sense to just ask.

If it's been deleted, it presumably can't have any effect on the canon any more, so my instinct would be to leave it be.

Of course, if you'd published your mission of it and then it had been taken down, you could pat yourself on the back for a job well done, because your agents had clearly done such a good job the fic was totally removed from the multiverse.

• point. I wouldn't say it's necessarily wrong, but in this case it might be better to leave it. Especially since there's the question of how you're gonna spork it if the fic's gone. :P Seriously though, it'd seem a bit pointless, and beyond the embarrassingly textbook nature of it there wasn't much to work with, with that Stu.

I faintly remember a mission in which the agents were endangered because the fic was being deleted - was that The Original Series? - but I think that ought to be the exception. Up to you, and no one would blame you for it, I think, but in your position, I'd leave it be.

I like this partnership. As someone said on the Journal, it looks as though they'll be unusually functional. Almost sane, even. It should be interesting.

And, of course, it is always good to see the bizarre effects of badfic cleaned up and made right again. And, well, one more future PPCer in the Nursery.

~Neshomeh

It may be because mpreg completely revolts me (and this coming from the GIANT DISEASE MONSTER FROM SPAAAAAAAACE), but I really like Oscar's missions. And I just got back into ol' Potter, too, with the release of HBP, so this was a veritable goldmine for me. Thanks muchly for posting!

I know Serenity. She hasn't written anything, as far as I know. However, I know that she DOES read missions a lot.

Does that help?

X.B.

Page blocked. *swears at ridiculous library censoring system which allows porn through, but not WoW*

However, I'd likely still be more impressed by BioWare's trailer for The Old Republic. Damn, BioWare needs to start making films.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxgDAQB8kFM&feature=fvsr (I'm pretty certain that's the right link. Now YouTube won't load *swears some more*)

I played WoW for about a week once and never really got into it but I see screenshots and videos that make it look so interesting. Maybe I was playing it wrong.

This sounds good. While I still cannot afford the game and its regular online payments, i've been paying attention to its universe for several years now, and I must say, I like what I see.

But I have to say, I'm impressed by the imagery. Is that meant to look like a Balrog?

...no pun intended.

I seriously wish now that I hadn't given up playing World of Warcraft. This looks epic.

WANT.

I love the ideas that they have for the new expansion. I have been waiting for some of this content to come out. They are answering a lot of questions and filling in a lot of blank spots on the map.

I can't wait.

*looks embarrassed* Hope you had a nice day, anyway. Here, have more chocolate (because there is never such a thing as too much chocolate ^_^).

Here's an arsenal of Anti-Lustin Squirt Guns, Guns, Bullets, Rocket Launchers, Bolters, Grenades, C4 Rounds (just in case you also want to destroy the building Luxury/Maeluwien/Fanboys/Fangirls etc. are in), and Chainswords to use as you see fit.

Happy 21st, Cassie!

Have my Shiny Knife and a corn on the cob!

I bring to thee a Lovely Bunch'a Coconuts.

*tackle!*

Here, have an otter plushie, m'dear. It's soft and adorabibble, and if you say the correct phrase, it'll bust out into "Defying Gravity".

Happy birthday! :-D

Have some snickerdoodles!

*helps self to other goodies*

~Neshomeh

*adds chips and pizza to the party food* Celebrate!
Here's a sabre from the Raven Armory. (And in case you run into any Sues that are sensitive to garlic, I've also added a bucket of garlic powder.)

Don't puke on it, though. Or my Agents will go after you.

*gives you a very big Convenient Cake*

PARTY!

Here, have some chocolate, a Significantly Shiny Cape (for swirling around in and being shiny at people... or for reflecting light into signals at need :p ), an' a Puffskein. :D

*facepalm* I was so sure I hit 'reply'.

I'm sorry. I'm crap. I had a house to clean in preparation for an Ansela's parents descending. It... took some doing. Can I tentatively say tomorrow and look deeply ashamed of my own ineptitude and general unreliability?

Have been getting them, just keep having a million and one things to do. Apologies to Neshomeh too. *hangs head in shame and is a bad, bad beta* Is tomorrow good for you both?

Several guns that create and shoot Anti-Lustin, perfect if you are suddenly attacked by Luxury (you can use tranquilizer darts in her case) or fangirls.

Have a shapeshifting plushie.

Nice to meet you. Here, have a glow-in-the-dark spork to aid you in your fighting :D

Welcome to the insanity. :D

Have a graduated cylinder, and I'm very pleased to have a fellow BSG PPCer onboard to spork those (you know of which I speak) fics. :D

Welcome to the PPC. Please deposit your sanity in the provided receptacle. *indicates bucket marked "Warg Fodder"* You shan't be needing it here.

Thanks everyone for the greetings, the food and the shiny things :D

Here, have a magical shield! It's +5 against glitter. I originally made it for combatting the fae, but I'm pretty sure that it'll be useful against sues as well.

I, uh, haven't field tested it yet in that regards... but it's always fun to be a guinea pig, right!?

Welcome to the PPC! Have a complimentary walnut! *offers bowl*

And I assure you, comrade, any fight against badfic is invaluable and appreciated, especially by our poor, tortured, mutilated canon. Have a Bag of Shiny Things!

Welcome to another Sue-bashing community, filled with those insane enough to try to rid the world entirely of badfic! (Well, we make a big dent at least.)
Anyhoo, here's a dagger from the Raven Armory and five bottles of bleeptol-dismol for joining.
:D
Good luck with the Sues!

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

*poke* It's a tradition. {= )

Sci-fi Sues, huh? I may have to check that out. Half my fandoms are sci-fi to some degree.

Anyhow, welcome!

~Neshomeh

This Scifi Sues thing also on livejournal? Please link.

Just posted a 2000 word review to a 7500 word story. Am incapable of complete sentences now.

They're remarkably unpopular, but that's all right. Welcome! It's nice to meet you. :)

Pick. No, you can't take the Cuauhtemoc, I gave him (he's male) to another newbie last month. A pity, it would have been most appropriate.
Uh, not my Agents either. I still need those freaks.

GAH! What a fic! *dies* Well done for killing it!

*headbangs*

... you could also try playing the PPC Card Game. I've revised the rules to a point where it may actually be a workable game.

(This is mostly because I'm not going to get a chance to play it any time soon, so I'd love for someone to playtest the thing. Don't worry, though, I'm not expecting you to)

hS

a couple of fics I discovered through Sara.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4428673/1/300_Batled_for_the_Alamoe - 300 Batled for the Alamoe, a very short but incredibly ridiculous story that Sara tackled in a mission a while back.

And http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4364314/1/Harry_Potter_Son_fo_harry - Harry_Potter Son fo harry. And yes, that really is as bad as it sounds.

I've never heard of readings, but they sound like fun. I didn't know there were Badfic drinking games, either. Too bad I live across the sea in a quaint little place called the U.S.

Sounds fun, I've done a badfic reading before but we all played the Mary Sue Drinking Game! Some time later we also attempted the Eye of Argon challenge... *shudders*

Bring whatever you like, I'm not fussy. And the only badfics I know of tend to be horribly smutty, so best if I don't pick, I think.

wish I could join you guys, sounds like alot of fun. Will travel out of the London area if that is more convenient for you guys (what is a 50 ish Euro after a couple thousand already spent?)

You guys have fun!

Leto

I automatically want to claim anything with Sailor Moon in it. Too bad I can't, yet. But when that time comes...

But not against mental attacks.

You'll have to find somebody else to help you properly.

Huzzah! Horrible Narnia smut that isn't slash! Trojie and I won't have to have anything to do with - wait.

There's no Sue in it, is there?

That means it goes to Bad Het. Whose only known agents are written by, er, us. Bollocks.

*hands over a bottle of bleepka*
I don't blame you. I just about smashed the computer in when I read the summary of the last one. Darn you, fanbrats! Don't ruin one of my favorite childhood book series!

But, what's a delicate conclusion?

And, speaking of the Nursery, were Trojie and Pads adopting Harry and Snape's son? Because if not, Jenni seems intent on doing so. You know that feeling when a character is nudging the back of your brain? {= p Maybe there's an interlude in it, if you'd like to co-write a little visit to FicPsych sometime in the future...?

~Neshomeh

Hahaha, must be hard being a parent in the PPC. Or a child, for that matter.

I would suggest Bleepsinthe. It seems to be fairly effective.

I'm sure Medical mind-altering drugs. Might need a bit of therapy, as well...

The hell.

Warriors and Pokémon? What? I… My head asplode

embrio 

embrio

I think I know what they might be hinting at, in a way, by the words "tango", "echo", and "x-ray". (As it is, I'm not sure my insight will be all that helpful.)
This may sound really stupid, but I'm positive that those code words are all taken from the military alphabet. Which, (partly because of the part the military plays in my relative's lives, partly because it's an interesting subject, and partly because memorizing the alphabet was fun), I decided to do a brief study on.
First, here's a handy link to the wikipedia page on it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_alphabet
Anyway, the NATO alphabet is used in the military so that code words assigned to different letters of the alphabet don't get mixed up over telephone or radio communication. (e.g. "B" and "D" sort of sound alike.) I don't know what the code words are, but I'm guessing they aren't the same for every mission. So, yeah. That's my thoughts on the subject.

I believe that Tango is indeed an Americanism, as I've seen it used in books I've read about the Navy SEALs. Fraid I can't help you with the rest, though.

embrio 

And yet, I love it. *eg* It would be hilarious to see agents try it, whether it worked or not.

But of course, absolutely don't get caught doing it. >.>

~Neshomeh

No guarantee it'd work, though; Sues tend to twist the Word World in their favour much like the canon protects Agents, so the Sue might just be saved by a deus ex machina instead of the canons.

embrio

No Agent is well-enough liked or impossible enough to accomodate that the Flowers would create an entire universe for them. That brings me to my second point; the Flowers might have advanced technology, but that's something they just can't do. If they could, I get the feeling they would've done it before, but for themselves, not Agents. My opinion/idea is that the Flowers would pick 'verses most able to accomodate the Agents, and if there are several there might be a choice involved (like Acacia deciding to retire to Rome). For example, if Tawaki's one of the ones you're retiring they'd probably let him retire to Doctor Who. If they find nothing, which I doubt since we're talking an infinitely huge multiverse, they just wouldn't allow the Agents to retire yet.

embrio 

blue screen of death-ed cell phone

The Zombie Simulat[or?]?

How many things have you signed up for to recieve e-mail alerts? My brother gets his spam box twice as full as that because he's signed up for a million things online. I keep a different e-mail account for such things.

Yeesh, if I had that much spam arrive my account would probably just explode!

That's not that scary; gmail accounts tend to accumulate that sort of spam in the spam folder just because the spammers try every variation possible.

If it was in the inbox I'd definitely feel for you, though.


The names for 'who' sent it can give you good ideas for character names and stuff, though.

1057 spam messages. I am amazed. I have no idea how to deal with that much spam, except perhaps to take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

Here, have some absinthe to strengthen you, and clicky that little 'delete all spam now' button.
Is it just me, or is a wave of spam hitting the PPC?

*pats shoulder* Just make sure your junk mail setting is high and hit the "empty" button as often as possible.

Woot! A Spambot! Time to fight fire with fire!

*Unleashes the herd of Ypurs*

Go my pretties, kill, kill!
By the way, Ypurs have been fully tamed. Now available in the colours the Sues cannot see: Dusty Blue, Ordinary Red, Vomit Green and Somesorta Yellow.
Ypurs are avilable for whoever needs them. Considering they're resilient to magic and standard methods of killing (Swords, arrows, Bottomless Pits) you may as well use them to kill Sues.
I'll be darned if I'm the one who rounds them up though. You use them, you're putting 'em back.

::hums Monty Python's Spam song::

that Tamiflu cannot be given to children and that there is no proof that it does ANYTHING to swine flu, right, Mr. Spambot?

On the plus side, it couldn't do any links. FAIL.

I'm going to start deleting spam threads if this continues, so don't be too alarmed if threads disappear.

Lovely spam! Wonderful spam spam spam spam...

Dinnertime, Cthulhu, my little ferrety! Just like we practiced! Yum yum! *releases spambotivorous white ferret*

$8.97 per pill. SURELY YOU JEST.

Thank you for spamming up my day with a little spamalicious spam. I'll take some o' that Spam-B-Gone, Mr. Mays.

Tired of spambots on your boards? One wipe, and the spam is gone! BUY NOW AND I'LL THROW IN A CONTAINER OF ORANGE-GLO! REMOVES FILTHY SUES WITH THE POWER OF ORANGES!

Jokes aside, I wonder why we keep getting spambots lately.

*stabs spam with a sword*

*considers situation*

Anyone want to start a campfire?

Gorram Spam!

Marsha's cluelessness is very entertaining.

Gollum. Just, gah. >.
Also, Marsha rocks. Her cluelessness is very funny. She has a lot to learn, and it looks to be a very entertaining journey. ^_^

~Neshomeh

Nicely done, nice timing as well. Somtimes Bad Slash scares me... OO

I have a feeling Marsha's going to fit in just fine in HQ. Excellent work to all three of you, and congratulations to Marsha for her first field mission!

I know that it isn't the Board, because there's a post which has replies taking up the greater part of the webpage, and I would have noticed if something like that was on the board. On the other hand, exept for that (and all the other people asking 'where are we') it looks exactly like the board, and I'm getting this uncanny valley vibe. I got here from the Wiki, but it's being so vauge I have no idea what's going on.

So...help with this, please?

I'm half-wondering if this is going to happen every August. The idea of switching to a more controllable forum now that Oddlots seems to be down for good, maybe with a post on the Board explaining where we went, could do nicely, I guess. The alternative is using this one as our main Board, since it never seems to get hit by spammers.

I'm diving into cleanup now.

I bet this causes the same sort of emotion as being a survivor in a zombie apocalypse.

The spambots have inflicted a bunch on us.

That's quite a lot. I wonder if we'll get more from the same source.

This is actually the first time I've ever actually been in the middle of a spam attack. Huh. Well, might as well make myself comfortable.
*gathers up stash of junk food and books*

It seems more like a directed effort to screw up the board than an effort to make any sort of point, or for that matter sale.

I wonder what we did to attract them this time. Ah well, at least this one's speaking English. Want some popcorn? *holds out mega tub of buttery popcorn*

That is weird. I only sort of skimmed through the first chapter, but I can still tell that there's something really wrong. I can see Sirius doing that, though. :)

Snape will console Harry, use improper grammar, and offer to help Harry clear Sirius's name THE DAY I GET A SEX CHANGE AND ROUNDHOUSE KICK A MINOTAUR.

The crackfic bunny that just started eating my brain can attest to that ...

I don't have the constitution to sit and read the whole thing. I'm not a masochist.

Also, it's aggravating when people don't Brit things up when writing in a British continuum. They're CRISPS! *Brit-pick* *Brit-pick*

I didn't see this until now. It's great. I really like Derik. And the kender's kinda funny too.

I rather like this one, though it does remind me of a point that I don't recall ever being adressed. Doesn't voyager have the macrovirus cure as of the end of the first and possibly only cannonical appearance of the macrovirus? If so, why did it take so long to create and deploy it?

I liked the longer format. I also like FicPsych's interactions with all the canons.

Of course, I had a teensy sneak-peek, hahaha. I found the second part as a whole particularly interesting, especially the process of Derik going through the reality room. I really like how it rationalised his scars and such.

Anyway, I'm glad I have a character squirrelled away in FicPsych. I think, like I said when I had a look, that you did him perfect justice and took good care of him. No *permament* damage was done anyway ;).

BUT YEAH. It was a really interesting take on things, and it was nice to see kind of alternative war stories to the 'main' events of each crisis. Shows that even though the invasion and epidemic have been and gone, there's still room for more writing to be done about them.

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Great job!

Lovely, all of it! A great morning read. I like... well, all of it, especially the overall cohesion, as well as some littler things, my absurdness insists that I randomly mention a few: Luke going out to play hero, for instance - very typical. Now I'm getting mental images of Legolas going with him, armed with bow and arrow and totally unable to communicate with his partner...

Exclaimation-Mark TARDIS! How fitting :D

Also, I really like how you've written the inclusion of the Duty Song, as well as the Reality Room, and how it affected E'rik/Derik. I wonder if I should shove Iza in there... ;)

Anyway, thanks, Nesh. I really enjoyed it - the whole thing. All of it. Good work! :)

I like it. I particularly like Derek (pretty much his whole section in Part Two) and the view we get on how the fight against the Macrovirus Infestation actually went. I think that was the first fight in HQ I've read that actually seemed desparate.

hS

However, the LMSF were responsible for the bugs, not the EPC.

Very well done. I'm impressed.