Nov 2009 Archive, part b

on second thought, we should exorcise all this guy's fics. Im not familiar with every canon he is but I know that they're all from videogames and the all follow the same theme

...I see a speshul Bidoof that needs to die, and a bunch of canon humans who need to be exorcised. And some of those chapter summaries are just ridiculous to read!

Alas that the first video games I got into should become such smut fodder in later years...

At least they left Mewtwo out of it...?

Will probably be working then and have no idea what else I'll have to fit in, but I'll do my utmost to make sure I can come.

Maybe by then I'll have had time to make a Raketooth the Amazing Three-Armed Fox coat ... my sewing skills suck, but I'd still like to try that.

Count me in on the Great Kidnapping Plot Gathering!

We've already established that getting me from my lowly city to Hull is no great task, after all. =D

But you two meeting face-to-face is a moment for the history books. I insist that someone has a camera. Or else.

Also, why would you be drinking biscuits? That sounds unpleasant.

~Neshomeh

The essence of the PPC is that we're never going to finish our job; that's why the sadistic Flowers have so many Rules in the first place. What you suggest would be efficient, effective, and absolutely no fun. Who wants to read a story like that? It's effectively the Mary-Sue version of a war game.

That said, if you scaled it down immensely and put in a lot of problems that cause your agent's minor advantage to often malfunction, backfire, or otherwise be a source of humour without breaking the general PPC agent mold... that has potential. You'd have to run it by the Board first, though.

Conveniently located here for your convenience.

The point of the PPC isn't to be mythic heroes ridding the world of badfic, or even knight-in-shining-armor types cleaning one 'verse at a time - The point is that the agents are borderline-nutcases doing an impossibly large job one teaspoon-full at a time, with half-broken equipment that never was enough for the job, and working in the most messed up corporate environment that has ever existed. And humor, ostensibly.

This is why I'm so strongly against superpowered Agents - we aren't here to change the world, it's the very fact that the world is unchangeable in anything resembling reasonable time that makes the PPC what it is.

I'm just as much of a newbie as you, but those powers almost seem a bit OP.

This isn't a RP, after all, it's fiction writing.

WoG would probably be a better answer for you though.

*Is just going with a vanilla brit who failed the psych exam for the Met and is good with firearms*

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5459879/1/Crazy_Fun_with_Mind_Control
By anglecam7, Rated M, Rouge mind controls amy, cosmo and shade (Thankfully cream isn't in it.) Oh, and shade tries to fight rouge to save amy and cosmo but she loses.

…but would someone who does kindly KILL IT WITH FIRE?

You see, it drives the other threads further downward, and that is bad.

There's a ton of squick in the sonic fandom. 's why I stopped reading the comics.

Every time I hear "Arby", and it's not a video from JonCJG, I seize up.

I think it's disgusting. The worst one that I found for the Tortall series is actually canon (or quasi-canon; I forget). They call Numair Salmalín "Numy". Some like it, but it makes me feel like vomiting. I think the Tortall fandom has rather a lot of nicknames.

But yes, most are horrible. I don't think you're even supposed to call guys "-chan"!

Leggy-chan. By someone who's known him all of a few days. As the birds would say, HEADBRANCH! And then there's Jackie-poo for Captain Jack Sparrow. "If Captain J. S. ever heard himself referred to as... If I ever saw him put up with that sort of nickname... That 'Sue would be learning about the execution methods favored by Vlad Drakul--Vlad the Impaler." -- Agent Gallowglass.

And don't forget 'Mione.

Might as well just call him "Snappy" and be done with it. Bleh. I want to sic the real Snape on them.

By the way, speaking of webhosts, has Geocities gone boom or something? My favorite fansite was hosted on Geocities and it is dead now...

...any suggestions for good places newbies could post any mission? I know I haven't got permission yet (computer and internet problems), but I figure it's worth asking.

http://plotprotectors.tripod.com/home.html

... Yeah.

~Neshomeh

Actually, what I propose is making a new website for all of this stuff, so that multiple people can share the responsibilities of maintaining the site. That way, if somebody leaves, the site won't die, and we can expand it if we want to.

I'd be happy to get the ball rolling, if people are okay with using Tripod as a host. I've been using them for a long time and never had a problem. The URL would be http://ppc.tripod.com, unless someone else has a better idea.

~Neshomeh, who has also backed up a few things, including the Handbook, JAAKSONS, and SIELU.

...that is a fantastic word. What exactly does he think he'll accomplish by banning it?

...whether I should be laughing or bemoaning the fact that people like this are actually given the job of teaching future generations.

Ah, High School. What a bastion of civil rights you are. In fact, what a bastion of civil rights yo have ALWAYS been.

Someone give me the Principal's email, if you find it.
I want to exercise my constitutional rights.

That's just stupid. The disruption will take place regardless.

Because as everybody knows, telling teenagers to stop doing something ALWAYS works, and definitely NEVER backfires.
/end sarcasm

And seriously, doesn't Beaker suffer enough in his own universe?

Meep? Meep? A school banned the word "meep"? I got my seventh-grade Social Studies class officially renamed "MEEP", for crying out loud!

What can students saying "meep" possibly do? Meep-meep-meep-meep-meep! Ha!

This reminds me somewhat of the law severely fining a financially floundering teenaged girl for sharing a whopping ELEVEN SONGS with her friends on the internet. So that the millionaire artists don't miss out on a few extra bucks.

...Does this mean they've banned old Looney Tunes Roadrunner cartoons?

Right to free speech, and all that.

(P.S.: Meep!)

I think I'll just bash my head on the wall, it will be less painful then reading them!
That said the first one is being sporked over on Deletrius... and yes it is horrid!

Doesn't make it any less awful. Kill it DEAD.

Damn, Cruel trick plods along. I just wanted to get to the obligatory squick scene so i could make a snarky comment

That's... unusual.

I'm afraid to look at those now.

I briefly glanced at the first one. Star Wars ships do not mafunction like that! Not even if extragalactic space insects eat holes in the engines!

The author is quite right. I definitely identified with what she (he? didn't check) was saying. I never had the whole 'teenage heartthrob' thing, but I did have a six-foot poster of Orlando Bloom as Legolas on my bedroom door for about a year. SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP

Twilight is just another fad-- and yes, the books suck, though I don't know about the movies, but there's nothing wrong with girls having crushes on movie stars. It's just a thing, ya know? Especially the bit where she says "We imagine what we'd say to him if we were more confident," which is actually really sad, thinking about it. I can't be the only one on this 'Board who remembers middle school, and the fact that most guys were every -bit- as out of reach as Orlando Bloom or whoever the guy was at that point. There's something comforting, I think, in thinking about a guy who's unattainable to all the girls in your school, the popular and pretty girls just as much as the geeky, awkward kids.

Some people are obsessed. Upholstering your room in Pedowolf is perhaps even more pointless than covering it with Rapeface!Edward.

I don't have a problem with it. It places the Twilight movies' stars in the context of movie history as the next generation of teen heartthrobs, which is exactly what they are. I've got no issue with that.

I think the writer of the article probably doesn't know what these teens get up to in fanfic, but why should she?

~Neshomeh

I don't think it meets the level of professionalism that the onion demands

Because even the fans of the Great God Pterry are not immune to the allure of Mary Sue. Or badfic in general, for that matter.

I thought Sandman was "the comic book for intellectuals", and look where that got me...

…if it exists, there is badfic of it. If there is not badfic of it yet, "yet" is the operative word.

...my poor childhood memories. ;-;

That was hilarious.

Although I never got much exposure to the canon, what I did understand in this added up to a great work of parody.

Actually, I liked the scene at the end. For some reason, the idea that Sir Topham Hatt is some kind of mad scientist who created all those sentient trains almost vaguely makes sense to me...

Oh dear.

For a fanfiction used against its fandom, I think it's quite good. It was epic win. XD

Tawaki's brain has just divided by zero. Please wait while he reboots.

I didn't get past the warnings. Please tell me it's a parody.

I can beta, if you need me to.

My email's Thatguy52@yahoo.com

http://trickster.org/fannishbutterfly/hummus.html

We need to find an eccentric Japanese man with a boatload of money to come to America, build a sort of stadium with two kitchens in it--a Cooking Arena, if you will--and get the best chefs in the country to compete there for personal glory (and probably a fat paycheck). Then of course we'll need a Canadian to watch and report the action on the floor, and a geeky Southern guy to commentate, and a rotating panel of eclectic and eccentric judges (that's us) to vote on the quality of the dishes served.

~Neshomeh totally not a member of the Church of Alton Brown, why do you ask?

I've MST'd my own 'fic before and am in the process of PPCing another, and as others have told you, hS has sporked his own 'fic, as well. I'm sure there are plenty of other examples.

In other words: go for it!

As has been said, hS has sporked his own fic, and I'm aware that a couple of other PPCers have done the same, though I can't recall their names at the moment.

Besides, it shows you're willing to acknowledge that you've written bad stuff in the past and are willing to improve. If I had any of my old fics still hanging around, I'd do the same. Go for it. :D

I know Huinesoron - or someone he's hosting on his site; I sometimes have trouble keeping agents and handlers straight - has done at least one mission of his own fic.

Not exactly new. It was mentioned in the 2nd Nu Who episode, "the End of the World", which Ansela mentioned.

Still...the Doctor did say "eventually", and they probably have technology to get around the issues...

I can't remember which ep, but it's been mentioned that humans have bred with every species they possibly can. That was Lady Cassandra's whole basis of 'purity, IIRC: she was a 'pure' human, while every other human out there had some sort of alien blood in them.

Joint. Don't need to pack it; Geneva convention style will do.

(though I generally only use it when the headache is pushing towards affecting ability to function),

I've heard putting a rubber band around your head works for some causes, because of blood vessels constricting, or something. Actually, someone I knew swore by it. Sometimes a hot shower can help, if it's a sinus thing, just because the steam helps soothe that kind of thing-- same with a bath, which is also relaxing. Or just drinking a glass of water or having something to eat-- I've had headaches brought on by mild dehydration or fatigue, or overhunger, before. If all else fails, a nap often gets rid of headaches, too.

It tastes like puree of hell, but it works.

I find a bottle of water, some ibuprofen, and a ham sandwich always help. (I doubt the Hair of the Dog principle works on regular headaches)

First, get a book, and find a comfortable place to read it. After a while, you'll start to get bored. When that happens, just put the book down and try to fall asleep. When you wake up, the headache should be gone!

Ibuprofen + sleep usually does it for me.
Always trust in the power of pharmaceuticals.

Usually helps me. Granted, most of my headaches are dehydration headaches, but still...

And some Bleepka.