Jan 2010 Archive, part a

...But happy New Year anyway!

...Or IS it?!

Generally speaking we like to see a sample of your writing and brief descriptions of your agents. I'm busy for the next couple of days, so I may not be able to get to it right away myself, but there should be other PGs around.

*pokes other PGs*

~Neshomeh

I've got an unfinished (and pretty much abandoned) mission into a Brothers Grimm fic, in which one of my agents has to adjust to the fact that her partner set her disguise as Pus in Boots.

Other than that, I don't think I've ever cut more than some lines of dialogue.

I agree with Indemaat that you have been on the Board for a small amount of time; however, if you send me your first mission at the e-mail address above, I will look it over. You seem to have a good grasp of the basic spirit of the PPC; I recommend browsing the wiki a little more, but you have the essentials down.

In addition to the Torchwood minis, PotC minis are not mini-Krakens. Norflington is a Misspelled Monkey. You can find a (mostly) complete index of minis here. (And if you wish to adopt Norflington officially, I am in charge of making the graphics for that particular mini.)

Good luck!

~Araeph

Doctor Who minis are called mini-reapers. Boarder Karma (who seems no longer active) first encountered them, so she got to name them.

Incidentally, Torchwood minis are also called mini-reapers, because I got to name them and it made sense to me that in the spin-off universe the minis would be the same ('cept that they have a little trouble flying in a straight line).

You've got a nice comic touch, it seems, and I think I like your Agents. I'm not a PG, but this seems pretty okay to me, though there are a couple of hiccups that a decent beta would have caught, e.g. "hereby", not "hear by".

All in all, though, I like this. Good luck!

she's had nothing to do with minis or OFUs for a long time now. Over two years, if I recall correctly. What did you want to ask her?

OFUs are generally run and administrated independently now, but those who write them are generally connected to the PPC anyway, and it's really just a good idea to make sure no OFU exists for that particular fandom. A specific anime series is perfectly entitled to its own OFU - I was the co-writer of the Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles OFU before my partner gave up on it.

On the same note, each anime is permitted to have its own minis, too. You can't just lump the entire diverse field of animes into one category. A mini has to be specific to the fandom. A mini for, say, Bleach would not be the same as one from Fullmetal Alchemist or something.

Please don't take me as an expert on anime - I just happen to know a few of the Boarders who are. I'm speaking more in general fandom terms; you wouldn't lump all vampire stories in as one overarching fandom - there's Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dracula, and Twilight, just as examples, and they're all utterly different.

Hoping this helps.

There are anime canons with their own minis and OFUs out there. Naruto is one that springs to mind immediately, as well as Inuyasha and Ranma 1/2.

What would you use as a mini in Code Geass? Mini-Knightmares? If so, which model Knightmare?

LoTR/Star Wars? Uuughhh... A very good writer and a crapton of exposition might be able to pull something like that off. I don't see that happening after reading just the first post.

Ah yes, I remember that fic. Good story, although it reminds me of EXACTLY why I strongly dislike obssessive fans. They... scare me.

And for this fic, there is a sequel and a revision attempt that sadly never got off the ground.

Still, it's an excellent fic, one that's worth a look for Digimon fans out there

1) I agree that it's completely up to the Agents, and you, of course.
2) Well, since we do operate by the Laws of Narrative Comedy, so in all likelihood yes, they will hear it. (Moreover, people will probably be cutting their nails or doing something besides that that requires precision at the precise moment, so angry yells will most likely follow.)

1) If I may draw your attention to a previous line in the article in question: "Any other contents are up to the Agents that inhabit [the RC]." So, the agents can have whatever they want; it's just that Murphy's Law tends to prevent them from relaxing for long. But it's all for humor, so don't take it too seriously. {= )

2) I never really thought about this before. I think that people would definitely hear a scream like that, but wouldn't they also hear BEEPs from other people's consoles? Yet no one seems bothered by this. Hmm. HQ is weird.

~Neshomeh

We tend to have quite a bit of freedom with what we choose to do in any mission (which is probably a part of why we're so choosey about who gets Permission); the general rule is, if it can still affect canon, get rid of it. Jay and Acacia wrote that if a Mary Sue dies without any help from us, her 'legacy' will continue to affect tha canon characters.

If the child is a miscarried foetus, you don't have to do anything - let it die. If she goes through the issue that quick it's clearly not important to the story. The Sue herself is obviously the main source of un-canon-ness, so I'd say the pregnancy is effectively the same as if she'd described a rather odd-looking pillow in the Hogwarts Great Hall - it'll vanish, without a trace, once she's gone. (What you need to be most careful of are the things your agents bring in with them; they cannot be left behind.)

As for the garden, it's your call. If your agents are feeling particularly angry, let them burn it down, but be aware that canon characters might see the smoke. Use your best judgement.

(Also, "kids" should be "kid's" - yes, I'm picky, but this is the PPC; it's my job ;) )

...that I need to start watching NCIS again. Amazing show.

Poor Tony. I used to hate him when I first started watching the show, but he's grown on me a heck of a lot since then. ALSO KATE WHY? I didn't even recognise her as Kate. I had to blink at the name for ages to convince myself that this was not a random OC who'd been shoved into the office. And McGee seems to have been turned into a walking plot device. What did he ever do to deserve that?

And... you know what, if I point out everything that annoyed me about the badfic we'd be here all day. You've already done an excellent job of putting together a charge list. :]

...

WHY IS A TWO-YEAR-OLD READING DEEP SIX.

Okay, that was the last thing, I swear. But good lord, there is so much bad in this fic. And I'm only halfway through the mission as I post this comment.

In conclusion, I fangirl Tamsin's arsenic tangent.

You did a mission in a fandom I know! Yay!

NCIS Sue. Not yay. {= P

I agree that Gibbs is one of those characters who's very likely to resist the Suefluence, like Lord Elrond. I wouldn't be surprised if he was acting strange in that fic because he knew something was very, very wrong. And what a Sue! Was she using a checklist for how to be the Suiest NCIS Sue possible? I'm glad she's gone. It is unfortunate that your agents deemed the daughter unsalvageable, though.

One point: the expression is seeing as/that/how, not seen. People slur it to sound like "seen" a lot, but it isn't. I think you used it about three times in the mission, so you might want to go back and fix it.

So... is Tasmin from an NCIS fic, or is she just a student in the L. Jethro Gibbs Distance-Learning Course for How To Treat Your Co-Workers?

~Neshomeh, who might have to go hunting for NCIS crossovers to kill now.

Welcome to the madness, have a strangely sparkly sultana that was found lurking under a keyboard. Maybe it has some Sue repelling properties?

Hello and welcome! Have some chocolate, and enjoy your stay!

(Sorry about this being so late...)
Welcome to the PPC! Here's a dagger set from the Raven Armory and a bottle of Bleeprin! (I hope that badfic didn't hurt too much to read. I can't bring myself to finish any of them at all. I just get to about the first or second chapter and my brain won't let me read any further.)

Hello. I'm MAXinsanity. Hopefully you'll enjoy this community.

Have a nice arsenal of Anti-Lustin weapons, just in case Luxury and/or Maeluwien comes nearby.

Have an egg whisk! It's shiny, gold-plated, and whisks not only eggs but author wraiths and those pesky spambots that pop up every now and again. Use it for good and not much evil.

Welcome to the insanity! Enjoy the ride.

Help yourself to your favorite venomous arthropod!

*pokes ceremonially*

And don't grovel. If there's one thing I can't stand, it's grovelling--it's just like those miserable psalms: they're sooo depressing.

What're you doing now?!

~Neshomeh (who apologizes if you are unfamiliar with Monty Python).

Nice to see another newbie on here, and for the new boarder my welcoming gift is a nice thick copy of 'Common Sense and where to find it. (Hint: Not a sue-fic)' By Mr. Ed. In hard-cover of course to quell any fangirl-ish tendencies.

Oh and a nice big bottle of Bleeprin. Trust me, you'll need it.

Sincerely,

~Bronwyn

I was gonna provide a bucket for you to put your sanity in, but it seems that they be stealin mah bukkit. Noooo! Well, anyway, have some coconuts. 'Bye now, I need to go and beat Honu_Wahine with a stick.

I bestow upon you a bag of pebbles and a Random Shiny Object. Use them well, o new person.

And welcom to the madhouse PPC!

Have a softnose laser. You can use it to get real Sue eyes to put in a jar. XD

-Gathers all gifts and hordes them possessively- All mine. -cue evil laughter-

Ahem, yeah... moving on...

Thanks for the welcome. Very glad to meet all of you!

--anamia

p.s. No, 'Sue eyes aren't a habit of mine, nor are they likely to become so. As I say, I'm bad at them and trying always makes me crack up, which kills the effect... 'Sides, they'll get me killed, and being killed right after joining would be bad.

I gift you with oddly mutated strawberries; they may grow legs and wander off, but that's okay, they should still be edible. Or you can keep them as pets.

I see you don't need The Links (presuming you've read the Permission article?), so I'll get right on to giving you a Capillary Towel, a Transdimensional Pocket Knife, and a paperweight. Use them well.

Always nice to meet someone new :)

Hi, welcome to the boards. Don't worry, everyone here is crazy (*what do you mean, I'm exaggerating?!*) A note--don't use Sueperpowers, and abandon your sanity. To that end (and because no one's offered it yet), here's a bucket for your sanity. Don't worry, the Wargs won't eat *all* of it.
Honu_Wahine
PS-Don't ever, ever, *on your life*, read C*l*br**n. I did, and I'm still having nightmares....

Oh! Hello! Wonderful! A newbie arrives while I'm on the school computers! Lucky you; the last umpteen newbies have missed a greeting from me. *smiles smarmily* Welcome, welcome!

I hereby gift you with an unsolvable Rubix cube, a plastic model of the Millennium Falcon, and a sock full of rocks. I'm sure you'll find use for them somehow.

Word of advice... don't make a habit of the Sue eyes. The more homicidal of us don't take kindly to them...

We tend to give rather strange gifts around here.

Do you have to be an agent to adopt? If not, I would like to adopt Rabadashh, the mini-Dragon, and spoil him with lots of bacon.

-raises hand- May I adopt Riven, please?

Why is it that all 'Sues are stubborn and have fiery tempers? And is it just me, or is 'Raina' a fairly common name? -sigh- I suppose if the authors were original they wouldn't write 'Sues in the first place, but even so... would some variety be too much to ask for? -references the Ironic Over-Power, just to be safe-

--anamia

I'm currently compiling everything I can find in order to make thie FAQ, and will be posting a draft for the article for comments and critique as soon as it's ready. Trojie's helping me, but I second Neshomeh - ANYTHING you guys think needs to be included in here, please mention it. Please. I was a newbie more than two years ago, and I've forgotten a lot of the questions I had then.

This one is a bit personal, but the idea is probably fairly universal.

Question: after having agents approved (in the distant future for me, but oh well), are there rules for creating RCs? Basically, can my agents inhabit RC number ZZ9-plural Z-alpha, or are letters reserved for Jay and Acacia?

--anamia

These have all been answered, but I think they're important for other newbies, anyway.

- Can someone start an OFU if one has already been made?
- Are we allowed to PPC original badfic?
- How can we adopt minis?
- How do we get our RC number added to the list?

My main question, after having poked around a bit, is where I might find a fairly complete history of PPC. I've found the Reorganization, and the Crashing Down, mostly by accident, and read those. (Well, all of Reorganization and I'm working on Crashing Down. I got distracted by the snowball fight. But I will finish.) These, however, seem to be a very small part of the entire history. Is there a PPC history archive where a newbie might find it from the beginning and read until now? Like, the story of the MS' coming, or the Mary Sue invasion, or anything else I haven't yet found. If it's not all in the same place, then a Wiki history article with links in chronological order would be wonderous.

thanks!
--anamia

It did not go well. It seems slightly better than the first, but only by a little bit, which would probably be the fact that there's no reason for Harry to get more powerful because there seems to be no evil. As one of the reviews pointed out in the first one, the story is like a marshmallow. Or a giant bag of frosted marshmallows. When the story opened up by having Petunia and Harry have a heart-to-heart, loving conversation, I winced and stopped reading. (Just to clarify, I did not read the first one. I decided not to risk my canon-loving brain.) This person seems to me as if she wants a happy ending to the series, but is greatly misguided.

Um... I guess the first thing to ask yourself is, is this person a friend of yours?

If so, you might want to be diplomatic about it so as not to hurt the friendship. Point out all the stuff you just said here, but nicely. If possible.

If this person is NOT a friend of yours, then tell it like it is. It is your opinion as a reader--one whose opinions the writer deliberately solicited--that this is not a story you would want to read, and here's why. Come back when you know better.

If the writer posts it anyway, then if/when you get Permission, feel free to PPC the heck out of it. {= P

~Neshomeh

However, bear in mind that you're less likely to get Permission without also being active on the Board. It's not enough to announce yourself, vanish, and then pop up and ask Permission. We're a relatively close community, so we like to know who we're dealing with. {= )

~Neshomeh

I thought everyone knew that. ^_~

But seriously, it's quality, not quantity that counts. If it's too long, it isn't unheard of for permission requests to fall by the wayside for days.

Of course, that can happen anyway if all the PGs are busy. Enthusiasm is laudable, but patience is a virtue.

~Neshomeh

Neuralyzer - No, I don't think it would work in that instance. You'd probably have to take the character to FicPsych.

Suvian healing - You could play it either way, I think. There are no hard and fast rules about what the canon fixes when the Sue is gone. In some stories it's almost everything, in others it's less. I guess it depends on how severe you think the Suefluence is.

Severely - Um... I have no idea. But if it were, it might be interested to meet Severe the mini-Aragog. Also, Severelys sounds like a Suvian name if you shift the emphasis to the third E.

Deadpool - Based on the little I know, it would make sense for him to be aware of fanfic and the PPC. And I'm not sure that's a good thing for us. He's a bit scary. O.o

~Neshomeh

So, in Bizarreoptimism's name, I am applying to adopt Captain Jack Hardness. Maybe he can keep Jak, Capin' Jack Sparrow, and Jack Sorrow company.

BWAHAHAHA! Considering the character it is a mini of, my dirty mind finds it terribly funny. ^_^; Are you sure it wasn't a deliberate misspelling? It seems like the kind of thing badfic writers would do.

I should be terrified to adopt him, so someone else can have the pleasure honor.

~Neshomeh

Well, you can always cheat, like I did, and not actually seek Permission until you've been writing for a year, and then have fifty missions count as your writing sample. But that's not recommended.

This is my first official request for permission. I intend to only use one agent, until I can get into one 'fic that really, really needs killing, if that's alright.
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I, HonuWahine, also known as IronAmerica, do hereby request official permission to become an agent or two of the Protectors of the Plot Continuum. I do solemnly swear to not kill a Mary-Sue until I have gathered sufficient damning evidence and/or facts as to their insidious nature and have a charge list of crimes against the Continuum and have charged said individual.
I swear that should I lose what sanity I have remaining within my grasp; I shall not pick up the nearest sharp/blunt/very dangerous/potentially lethal object and go running through the corridors screaming “Mr. Rogers!” I will also not wreak havoc upon my immediate superior and/or the Sunflower official and/or his associates. I shall do my best not to succumb to the level of a Mary-Sue when faced with a lust object or a favorite—no matter what memory altering device I may have in my possession. It never helps.
I shall uphold the well-being of canon to the best of my ability with my primary agent, and any secondary agent that I may recruit or adopt at a later point:

Agent S.A.M.S
Species: Self-aware Mary-Sue
Age: Jailbait
Height: 5’8” Weight: N/A
Hair: variable, most often dark brown and 40s military cut
Eyes: Hazel
Department: Department of Floaters
Division: none
Previous Partner: none
Partner: none
Weapon(s) of Choice: Ballast Stone, ice pick, cast iron skillet, and a 30 lb brass bell
Response Center: 1943
Fandom(s): LotR, Hogan’s Heroes, Hetalia, Warcraft, Star Trek, and Avatar
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And a sample of my writing. This was written for a writing contest at school, but for some reason, it was never reviewed by my English teacher for admittance to the contest
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Excerpt from the memoirs of a Space Marine circa 2017--

Love.
It is one word, four letters, one syllable. It has so many meanings. It can be platonic, it can be passionate, or it can be lustful. Love can move mountains and start wars.
Love is defined as a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person. Love is an emotion, one of the most powerful ones that we, as humans, can experience. So often though, we lock it away, never to be seen or used.
A lot of the time, it is easier not to love. Love can cause you immeasurable pain. Hatred, rage and anger, though? Those are safe emotions.
Those three emotions can be controlled, focused and directed safely.
But love? Love is unpredictable. Love is a wild horse- it can hurt you more than any physical wound ever could. I’ve seen so many broken hearts after the air raid sirens die, or a patrol returns to base. So many of us never come back these days, and we leave our friends and our lovers behind.
Some days, I feel inordinately guilty. I have my lover, a doctor, who stays safe at the base.
I have a lover who isn’t likely to die anytime soon. I love him for it, and at the same time resent him for his safety. He has a permanent post at the base, behind the walls, and I’m almost always on the front lines, buried up to my neck in blood, water, and mud.
Who do you love? Do you hold them close at night, praying that you go first?
Do you love them as much as I love my doctor?
He is a medic, all of twenty one years old. I am a soldier, who has no business being in a relationship with him. Back on Earth, if she had never fallen prey to outside forces and our government’s shortsightedness, we might never have met. Back on Earth, my handsome lover would have a line of men and women falling at his feet, and I would have been miles away in another country. It’s funny what an interstellar war will do to you.
Yet, despite all of this, he chooses to spend his time with me, whenever I can be at the base.
I love him with all of my heart, but does he love me back? Or is our tryst merely a game or a joke to him?
Is it a game to him? Is he in love with me, or am I to be cast aside when someone new catches his fancy?
I am seventeen. My barracks chief says that he will kill my lover the next time that he sneaks into the barracks to spend the night. I worry that someday the Chief will carry through with his threat.
How much do you care for your lover, or spouse? Would you storm the gates of hell itself for them? I would. Would you die for your lover? I love him so much that it sometimes becomes so painful. I would breach the gates of hell to bring him home, and I would die for him. Of that, there is no doubt in my mind on the matter.
Does he love me as I love him?
Love: a feeling of intense desire and attraction toward a person with whom one is disposed to make a pair; the emotion of sex and romance. I read that definition once. It is that emotion, and others, that I direct towards my older lover.
Would you stay in a relationship, knowing that at any moment, you could die? Will you die next to your lover, watching their life bleed out of their eyes, even as yours leaves you?
I would. I would stay in the relationship, come hell or high water. I would die beside my lover. I would follow my heart, even as I pour my soul into these pages, knowing that he might one day see them- perhaps the day that I die protecting the last sorry dregs of humanity from the aliens.
We humans are slaves to our emotions, that much is true. It doesn’t matter if you are black, white, yellow, or bright green with black spots; we are all controlled by them. They dictate our lives according to their whims, even as we try to fight them.
I will forever be a slave to my passions. I will be a willing slave to them, even as I fight them.
Even as I sit here in the mud, rain pouring down my back, writing these words down, I stop myself from eating my gun. I love my partner too much to commit that kind of treason, to myself and my people.
Someday, I will confess my soul to him, but until that day, I’ll sit here in the mud, writing in this journal.
Perhaps someday, I won’t have to shoulder my gun anymore, or pull on a mask that turns me into a faceless protector of humanity, and settle down.
Love: A deep, tender, ineffable feeling of affection and solicitude toward a person, such as that arising from kinship, recognition of attractive qualities, or a sense of underlying oneness.
This is all that I fell when I think of Andy, this and more. I keep his picture folded into my breast pocket, and look at it to remind me why I stay on the front lines.
How much do you care for your lover? Will you die protecting them, will you face down the devil’s spawn that I fight ever day to protect them?
I care for him so much. I will die protecting him; I will face down a horde of the devil’s spawn and more to keep him safe.
No one can tell me that I take foolish risks. I am ruled by my emotions, and I cannot lock them away, merely bury them as best I can. I cannot force myself to become a creature of cold unloving stone. Many others have hardened their hearts to the world; others have merely walked out of the base, and never returned.
There is so much heartbreak here on this planet. It’s an unruly pisshole, but at least we can call it ours. The heartbreak can become unbearable at times. I believe that maybe if we had had forewarning, we could have saved our homeland. But we didn’t and now we are dying by the dozens.
We create, we survive, we adapt. We do these things, and we survive to keep on living as human beings. We aren’t animals, although some of the men and women that I fight alongside make me wonder, and we become.
I am in love, and I know that it is love, not lust.
***
That piece was a little existentialist, and probably more than a little bizzare — but it is one of my better pieces of short original fiction. Also archived on fictionpress.com at http://www.fictionpress.com/s/2649246/1/Love

For my Permission, I linked to a short fanfic I'd written for Stardust, but not all PPCers have written fanfic, so they use what they have - original fics, whatever. I suggest that, if you've written a story of your own (fanfic or original), you should probably use that before writing something specifically for Permission-getting.

Then again, it's also a question of what you consider to be the best example of your abilities. In short, we're not picky. As long as it's not a script or the like - I think that would be a bad idea, since there's no narrative, no flow, no pacing.

my writing sample was the story of my two Agents' recruitment and meeting. Although I did have a fair amount of time to play with, as they joined right before the Macrovirus Invasion of 2008, and therefore spent a month in their RC with no missions and forced interactions.

But a writing sample can usually be anything. Some people have used fics, Agent introductions, or entirely original pieces. It's just so the Permission Givers can get a feel for your usual style of writing.

Hope this helps. :)

I'm not sure, but I think it's generally an example of your fanfiction, or just any story you do, really.

*pokes*

We're not going to go insane just by looking at you or anything, are we?

Do tell about these obscure, little-inhabited fandoms. I'm a member of a few myself, and I can't help but wonder if we have any in common. I would be especially thrilled to know another PPCer who's into Farscape.

~Neshomeh

Are you by any chance familiar with the Discworld?

Anyway, hi. Have a softnose laser. Very handy when trying to dispose of Mary Sues quickly.

Welcome to the dedicated crazy! Help yourself to a venomous arthropod of your choice.

Yeah, I'm not a big fan of swearing either, in speech or in typing.

Have a intresting shaped lump of dust I found under the desk.

Hi there.

Yeah don't worry about the weirdness. I'm not used to it either. >.>

The only language I know apart from English is one I made up. And even then I somehow don't know all of it! DX

Hello and welcome to the PPC message board! Have some chocolate and enjoy your stay!

And don't feel bad about not knowing Klingon; I don't know much of it myself, or any other language other than English for that matter, only bits and pieces. I don't have the memory, patience, or attention span to learn another language...

Lovely to meet a fellow Grammar Nazi. =D

Have a bag of pebbles and a Random Shiny Object.

For you I have a large bottle of bleeprin, and a nice thick hardcover copy of 'common sense and where to find it (hint: not in a sue-fic)' by Mr. Ed. (For quelling fan-person tendencies)

Welcome to the board!

Welcome to the Board! Please deposit your sanity in the provided receptacle. *indicates bucket marked "Warg Fodder"* You shan't be needing it here.
Klingon for fish is ghot'I. Now you speak Klingon.

Welcome to the PPC! Here's a glitter-proof shield from the Raven Armory! (It can't be Sueified and it can be used to block your sight of the Mary Sues, if you need to.) Oh, and here's a bottle of bleeprin as well. You're going to need it, believe me.

Aren't big cats intresting?

At last! Another who shares my distate for profanity!

On the other hand, I can speak Klingon. Some.

In any case, welcome. I give you a Capillary Towel and a hairpin with For Official PPC Business Only stamped on it. It seems no one has yet given you The Links, so in case you haven't seen these before...

Of course, you already know about The Board, as you're here, but make sure that you read all of the Constitution that's linked up top, as it's there for a reason. Our most valuable resource is the PPC Wiki, which is always growing and usually reliable. If you intend to write PPC missions of your own someday, please read the Permission article thoroughly, and make a point of chatting with us around here for the next few weeks - don't be shy; we don't bite. Also, it is expected that you will have read the Original PPC Series, which just happens to be great fun as well as important.
A word of caution - every so often, some cheeky sod will try to goad you into reading a Legendary Badfic. Don't. There's a reason we take the time to warn people off. It's not a test of machoism or anything like that - we like our fellow agents mildly insane, not flamethrower-crazy.
All that said, welcome. It's nice to meet you :)

Hi! Welcome! -offers sparkly rock-

Glad to see another newbie and a fellow grammar Nazi. I feel we will get along well.

Besides, I can't speak Klingon either. -grins-

--anamia

Eh... that's going to be a doozy. If I didn't have a mission already and very, very simplistic grasp of canon, I'd have done it.

But here is my basic understanding of canon:
the guys in colors fight the ugly monster dudes and always get their butt kicked until the last five minutes of the show, which is when the power rangers team up and pummel the monster thing.

Oh, and the red guy is the leader, but pink and yellow are girls. I think.

Generally we only make wiki articles for goodfics so legendary that most everyone knows about and has already read them - the kind that come up in discussions or are referenced in puns or missions and which some people might need a wiki article or link to explain. After all, there's pleanty of goodfic around, and we can't make articles for all of them.

That said, it sounds interesting. When I have a week free, I'll take a look ;)

As soon as I'm sober, or as soon as Trojie's back from Auckland, whichever is first, we'll put together a post for the lj comm with links to all our missions. Is there a tagging system in place there?

1.) US, Mid-Atlantic States
2.) Only in the sense that it's a negative adjective used for emphasis. I'd use it as a synonym for "cursed" or "dang'd"
3.) No, not in everyday speech. It's out of my dialect.

1. Midwest America, Chicagoland.
   
   2. Only vaguely, and I won't embarrass myself by guessing.
   
   3. Nope. See above. I do, however, use "bugger," and I am well aware of what it means.
   
   On a side note, does "smeg" sound particularly disgusting to anyone else, or is it just me associating it with a particular substance beginning with it and ending in -ma?
   
   ~Neshomeh

1. Midwest USA
   2. Yup
   3. Sometimes, but not very often. I use 'bugger' more often than 'sodding'.

1) I'm in the northeast U.S., though not too far north.

2) Yes. I know that word quite well, thanks to Harry Potter and the fanfictions that I've read.

3) I sometimes use it, but not very often.

1) United States, near Boston.

2) Yes. Bit of an interesting story how I found out. I was reporting a Suefic in the PotC Mary Sue report, and I happened to mention this typo the Suethor had made. She had intended to write "sob." The line ended up being:

Mr. Gibbs began to sod uncontrollably.

Oh, the images. :)

3) No. Ever since 2) happened, I could never bring myself to use it without breaking into loud peals of laughter. Oh well!

mid-east in the Deep South, U.S. (but I lived in the U.K. until 2001.)

Yes, I tend to use it when I'm annoyed with someone. Smeg is another good word. or Flargnogg. (you have to be creative when working with small children who delight in repeating words they aren't meant to hear.)

1) Colorado, USA.
2)I am indeed. Yay obsessions with Harry Potter, Dr. Who, and British relatives. (Not obsessions with said relatives. Possession of.)
3)Not often, though I may start using it more often. My current curse words of choice are 'bloody,' 'gorram,' 'jesus h. roosevelt christ,' and various canned and usual ones. And, of course, 'merde' and 'scheisse.' Though, come to think of it, I have been known to tell the Evil Brother to sod off.

Here endeth my pointless rant concerning my use of profanity.

--anamia

I'll use "sod" sometimes when I'm annoyed with someone, but that's the extent. I imagine it comes from "sodomy"? And you know where I am ;)

1) New Zealand
2) Yes. And frequently bemused by the fact that despite its literal meaning, it's not considered a Bad Word here. Although then again, neither is 'bugger'.
3) Alllll the time.

1. Southwest U.S.
   
   2. Yes, thanks to Hot Fuzz.
   
   3. Because I tend to imitate the speaking styles of things I read or watch, I used it a bit after seeing Hot Fuzz the first time, and a few times recently thanks to reading the Board/PPC missions.

1) Just upstairs from you, Padsy.

2) More so than I was earlier, after hearing you list the words you wanted to use that the censors were blocking.

3) Sometimes.

Recipe for a Mary Sue

Mkay, there we go. Stupid me, mixing up html and forum codes. -sigh-

--anamia

I second the nominations of Sedri and Trojie.

I'm trying to figure out where the crossover would happen, and I'm coming up short. Unless... *woo-woo dream transition*

Mario dodged, the thunderbolt striking the ground where he had stood just a moment ago. The castle roof-top was slippery, the tiles crunching slightly beneath his plumber's boots. In the distance, the trees waved in the wind.

"Pii-pika!" cursed Pikachu, zipping over Mario with a horizontal quick-attack.

werp-Werp-WERP went Mario as he taunted the little electric mouse. He jumped, colliding with Pikachu as he scattered coins everywhere.

The window beneath the fighting pair snapped open. "If you can't keep it down, you'll have to fight elsewhere," said a very irritated Professor McGonagall. "You are distracting my Transfiguration class!"

WERP-Werp-werp went Mario, returning to his usual size. Pikachu's ears went down as they ceased their battle and shuffled toward the stairs.

"I-a told-a you we should have-a fought in-a Corneria," said Mario.

*woo woo dream transition*

...On second thought, I'd read that.

-MB

And true, I never asked for it, but if necessary, I accept. Thanks, Neshomeh. Good luck getting your Internet connection back.

I'll probably miss a great deal, but I can help. I've only ever played the original game and melee, though, so I might not know as much as would be desired.

I've been lurking a lot, sorry. Life continues to get crazier, and all that.

And yes, I definitely second Sedri and Trojie for PGs.

You know I'm happy to beta your stuff, if you want to throw it my way.

And I'll second Trojie and Sedri nominations. Even though I know Trojie will flail at the responsibility.

I'm pretty familiar with Smash Brothers, and Nintendo stuff in general. I know I'm new here, but if no one else takes you up, I'd be willing to read it over for you.

but I've seen Inato make an appearance in several other fics.

And Grey too, of course, because not everyone decides to look up whether it is Gray or Grey.

Known simply as "anto".

Well, I like pretty much anything with dragons in it, so the first book was okay. I haven't got into the rest of the series, though, and I doubt I ever really will.

You know what? You're not the only one.
I like the Inheritance Cycle, too, and have even written a little something about the dragons of that continuum. It's clichéd and everything, but still a nice story. And has decent grammar.

I liked it too. You're never a bad person just for liking something.

Unless it's Nazis, of course, but that's beside the point.

I don't think opinions can totally *make* someone a bad person or not. It's how you treat others whose opinions differ that counts.

Even if other people don't.

Hell, I see it as a good thing - there's *bound* to be Inheritance Cycle badfic out there, right? And so far none of us has taken it on. You can therefore one day boldly go where no PPC member has gone before :)

Nah its fine, the worst you'll hear is people bemoaning it.

I like the first Book of Inheritance but when the second came out it was like... he was trying too hard.

And with Twilight I was sucked into THAT little whirlpool of obsession until I read Breaking dawn. And then I said 'what was I thinking' and moved on. Thankfully I only purchased the books and not any merchandise. my Twilight books now reside in the Attic never to be touched again. The Twilight movie (haven't seen 2) only cemented that fact.

I liked the first one reasonably well. Could barely get through the second, but I liked the first.

Not in my mind. I like it, even if I don't think that it's at all a shining example of literature.

I too read and tolerated Twilight. Well, up until the release of Breaking Dawn, after which point I examined them again and decided that I had better things to squee over in my spare time. But I still enjoy twisting the characters until they break (have I mentioned anywhere yet that I'm a sadistic author?), which, for me, is a mark of affection. If we can like Twilight, you can like Eragon. 'Sides, someone has to agree to work in that canon, and you seem to be the only candidate.

--anamia

I read the Twilight books, and I do not hate them. I don't exactly like them either - I don't like the two main characters or the love story, which is the bulk of the story, but I like other aspects.

The good thing about the PPC - and it's mentioned on the Constitution - is that we're not going to exile anyone for liking things we don't, though I'm afraid you will have to put up with others complaining about those books. Sorry about that.

Not familiar with either of the fandoms, as seems to happen quite frequently, but I enjoyed both missions anyway.

I'm starting to wonder just how full the Nursery is...

I've never seen Merlin, but I tend to react with sharp point objects to fics that have canonically strong male characters break down in tears ever few moments. Maybe because I used to do it myself, and so know how hard it is to resist temptation. Thus, I suppose in my eyes it's the sign of inexperienced and lazy authors manipulating my emotions. -shrugs- It makes sense in my head. Anyway, glad you all got that sorted.

At least the Robin Hood one was better about that. And what is it with authors not understanding the use of proper punctuation? -sigh-

Great job to all the agents involved. -offers Bleepka, mostly in response to the Merlin fic-

--anamia