Aug 2010 Archive, part b

Fantastic! The time-traveling portion was a little difficult to follow, but the ending was absolutely terrific.

I don't know much at all about the canons involved, but I really enjoyed this mission. That was an impressive amount of work!

Anyway, greatly enjoyed it. Very nice mission, and welcome back Suicide and Diocletian!

I love the way you worked the Board activities into the mission. How long had you all been planning this food fight?

I am in a group of FIVE people and co-write a... thing that would drive an entire department mad. It's a mega-crossover that started as a parody, but evolved into a more serious story.However, I was 14 when we begun, and the others even younger (one as 9), so it's quite a bad-witten thing at the beginning, but now we write better (it was our "writing gym", we used it to improve). It has a double Creativity Shield and it is placed in an AU, just to avoid troubles, since there are too much things that would cause troubles to canons. Just a small list: Sakura and Li from Card Captor Sakura break up (and that erases Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle from existance), it's revealed that Voldemort was good while Albus Silente and Harry Potter evil, and a lot of things that usually would be charges. However, we are trying to save the good original plot and characters for an original story.

Not to make us seem like attention whores, but... No reaction to the ending at all? Really? I thought people would be a lot more excited. Are you all THAT new, that this holds no significance for you? Or did we really screw up and make it not a surprise and/or interesting at all? O.o

~Neshomeh, pleased at the positive responses (thanks for commenting!), but very confused.

Thank the Bronze Dragonflight!

I saw a misspelling of "barbel," but that's no big deal.  I literally laughed out loud at the "desidion."

Draenei tail swat = epic.

I'm liking the "wrong target" twist, flirty dragons, the use of "foul dwimmerlaik," and dragonhawk-in-the-face.

And at last, we know why the cafeteria has that sign.

And most enjoyable with chocolate coated popcorn.

5. Posts should be kept from the G to PG-13 range. Keep it clean people. If you have to say something over the PG-13 level (like if it includes cursing or something) give a warning at least.

Referencing the gory details of badfic erotica should be kept to a minimum, and with a NSFW warning at the very least.

Thanks,

Araeph

That caused some very strange mental images that I did *not* appreciate until I figured out the anatomical delusions the author was writing. Oh rule 34....

My second involved a manual you don't understand.

Weird names is of course also IKEA.

How would we go about distinguishing possessed canons from look alike replacements? And what kind of rating would this have? Would it have to be restricted to the non-NSFW, non-NC-17 targets? Would it be only Sues?

My agents (if they are granted permission) should both be played by myself. I think I can pull off 6'7" northern English male and 4'10" London english female. Well it would make a good talking point anyway.

Given the sheer mind-blowing scale of the PPC (does anyone have any idea about the total wordcount of all PPC-related materials to date?), I'd say we're looking at a very long-running TV show here, not a movie. It'd also fit the episodic format better, don't you think? (With the obvious exception of the Emergencies, which would be long-running arcs or season finales). And there's a mind-blowing number of actresses who could be Sues. However, does anyone else think that some Sues at least might be better played by really good actresses, sort of like the best tone-deaf singers are played by people who can actually sing so that they can screw up properly?

Animation or CG would be good.

Who would play a Sue... that's a tough on-- oh, wait, Lindsay Lohan. Justin Bieber would make a great Stu. He practically is one already.

As for my agents... I dunno, since most of my agents are in their teens it kind of makes things difficult.

...Or made with CGI a la Avatar (only much better plotted, of course). That way, the Agents can be tailored to whatever standards we (alright, the directors) will. But, if I had to choosea person, it would probably be a young Edward Norton to play Julius, and...well, I can't think of a good actress for Leila off the top of my head and I just did a Google image search for 'actress' and the results are 90% NSFW.

See, this is why I say CGI is the way to go.

But it's about fanfiction, so we'd have copyright trouble if we made a real movie out of it, right? Or would it be different because it's all about the fan treatment of something published?
I kind of think that there should be something different, unrealistic, about the suefic to represent its disconnect from reality. But that would have to compare to something. HQ isn't exactly in touch with reality, either, though I guess an RC would look lived-in and messy. We'd also have to represent the strange things that happen when a scene is described wrong. I think there would be an good contrast if the agents and people not directly connected to the Sue, or a canon when the agents talk to them privately, could be shown as more real than the Sue and her immediate surroundings.
A glowing hot pink with a little bit of purple in it should work well enough as urple.
What would the Words look like?

I'd probably choose Brandon Routh as Ken. That's not to say all Kryptonians should look like Superman; it's saying that author of the Suefic Ken came from basically envisioned him as Superman with slightly different hair and eyes. Poor thing.

Grace would be Mia Wasikowska. She nailed the "dreamy blonde with untameable hair with a limited range of expression" thing in Alice in Wonderland.

I go with the general consensus that Sues should either be animated or played by Megan Fox. Angelina Jolie would probably do well as a Sue, too, as would Britney Spears...if someone could only convince her that she can't sing worth a darn.

I suppose the obvious choice for Nume is Zachary Quinto. He's the right age, but they'd have to make him look more haggard. He's a bit on the pretty side. Or maybe Thomas Gibson (Hotch on "Criminal Minds").

Possibly Matthew Gray Gubler (Spencer Reid on "Criminal Minds"--funny how that works) for Ilraen. He has the right amount of innocent geekiness (though a total madman, if you visit his website. Wow). Neil Patrick Harris might do it, too.

Jenni looks like Julia Roberts, but she's too old now. Any suggestions?

Gerard Butler would have to play Derik. No getting around that one. Fortunately, he probably wouldn't be required to sing. However, he does well as a sword- (or sledgehammer-) toting action hero.

No idea whatsoever for Earwig. Possibly a child actor with greater than average maturity? Thoughts?

Also, Barid and I have cast Liam Neeson as the Sunflower Official, Patrick Stewart as the Marquis de Sod, and Judi Dench as the Sub Rosa. We're not sure what to do with Morgan Freeman, but he needs to be there somewhere. Maybe Captain Dandy?

~Neshomeh

...but I'm thinking Lady Gaga as many of the Sues.

Various Dalek voice actors as Omicron, Charlie, and Fearn. John Leeson as K-9, of course.

Dustin's wings would probably be CGI. I'm not sure who would play him, Five, Tadkeeta I, Tadkeeta II, Tawaki I, Tawaki II, Tawaki III, Chrysocome, Del, or Madison. Any suggestions?

Given the way he interacts with the twilight fantards, I think he'd enjoy playing an agent.

Meanwhile one of the sues could be played by Megan Fox with the help of CGI (like her role in Transformers). There's probably a few other no-effort 'actresses' that could play other sues.

If there is ever an ESAS movie, I think it would go something like this:

Logan: Ryan Reynolds. He has the try-hard, slightly-annoying flippant humour requirement down-pat, and even looks vaguely like him. Unfortunately, with Ryan Reynolds involved, I think cliche is unavoidable. Runner-up, Marshall Allman (who actually looks quite a lot like Logan).

Kern: Harder to cast. I think Paul Bettany is the closest match (but not particularly close). Hollywood doesn't have many blond 30-something actors, it seems. Or at least ones that could pass for Jedi. (Neil Patrick Harris as a Jedi? Awesome, but unlikely)

Iodin: Kate Beckinsale. If she can handle glowing blue vampire eyes, glowing red Chiss eyes (and blue skin) should be no problem.

Aegis: Katie Holmes (but she'd need to grow her hair long again)

Sues: I think rotoscoped Beowulf-3D kind of thing. I think Sues need to have something CGI about them (even if it's CGI real actresses) so that they are in the "uncanny valley". Megan Fox comes to mind as a possible Sue candidate.

Hmm, that would be an interesting movie. I think there might be some interesting performances from Kern and Iodin, but I fear that Logan and Aegis would bring the movie down somewhat. Ryan Reynolds and Katie Holmes do better in ironic roles, in my opinion.

My inclination is to say that Sues would have to be CGI-generated. At the least, they would have to be Serkis Folk of some sort, just because many Sues would look so utterly inhuman in reality, if the movie takes Sue descriptions literally, which I assume it would if it wanted to be a proper representation of the PPC. Perhaps the more normal-looking ones could just be played by a beautiful actress (I'm seeing Liv Tyler as fifty different extra daughters of Elrond), but having them as Serkis Folk would also make it possible to change their features enough that it was obvious that they were different characters (or as different as Sues get), and the PPC wasn't just fighting a collection of five women who won't stay dead despite having been chopped up into pieces and eaten/burned/drowned/etc.

I also think that the work of the assasins would probably end up getting toned down a lot if the film wasn't going to be rated through the roof, just because our good guys go around killing people for existing. I know and you know there's more to it than that, but if it's going to be aimed at people who don't know the PPC, that's what they'll see. Still, since there's no way any film would be able to show every single mission ever, they could end up picking the ones where the Sue's death was most obviously totally justified because she'd performed some positively evil act. Mind you, this could probably be managed by showing the Sue-influence like demonic posession - make more use of the author-wraiths, perhaps? - to make it really obvious who the villain is and who the noble warriors standing up for all that's good without thanks or recognition are :P

Well, that was sufficiently rambling.

we did try to make a movie a couple of years back, or at least start planning for it; it was to be based on the 2008 Macrovirus and Mary-Sue Invasions. We were going to use drawn animations, and various PPCers were going to voice the characters.

Trojie and I were sort of masterminding it all, but Real Life intervened; we both got distracted and busy, and people had to drop out. We still have the notes and plans somewhere, but the movie itself is on hold indefinitely.

...that Elrond's nieces and nephews were ''human'', and therefore mortal?

"I wrote this because I wanted someone besides Aragorn to get some love"

Because clearly he doesn't get any in canon. >.>

Lleu

...I think that the world's still sort of shying away from the idea of homosexuals on earth. It's a rather touchy subject in some religions, and even in some countries. So I think that maybe there's something that makes authors think, "Oh, maybe nobody will read it."

Personally, I haven't really noticed anything about homosexuals in fiction. Maybe it's because I'm neutral about it. But maybe someone with more reading experience can tell you about some novels. I can suggest 'Tipping the Velvet', but it's a historical piece.

~X.B.

I don't think I could kill a baby Sue. At least she didn't act like a baby.

but that fic...wow. I am glad you killed it.

... But then, so's that little creep, further proving my theory that some people just SHOULD NOT WRITE FAN FICTION. Seriously.

Explain, please? Are you having fun or did someone steal your identity? I actually don't think that the nonsense looks quite the same as the other two troll-messages, as if it were inexpertly imitated, so maybe it is just a joke. But if the troll is an identity thief, that shows a certain level of intelligence, which I find frightening. Is there any way to block people on this board? Once or twice is funny, but...
Let's see, a bomb should do the job...

Its CHLIEVER, dammit! Not that goddamn troll again! Unless...

...Chliever is the troll? Hmm.




Wait, what? Chliever's the troll? Oy gevult, when did this happen? O_o

(I know, I know, emoticons are frowned on hereabouts, but...Chliever's the troll! I mean, what?!)

FIRE! *shoots*

Feel the blunt end of my frying pan! *THWACK!THWACK!THWACK!THWACK!THWACK!THWACK!THWACK!*

Now that I think about it, make's no difference to you. *lobs pipe bomb*

Don't make me get the spork gun!

Out of my fandom, you blaggard!

*Hits troll over the head with her Special Edition Frying Pan of the Apocalypse^tm*

Fool! As a former YTMNDer, I can channel the power of far more powerful internet creatures than yourself. I call upon the Knights of YTMND!

[Ultimate End]

*hits again* And that's for the PPC!

*stabbity* And that's for my old Gaffer! Begone, troll!

TROOOOOLLL! IN THE MESSAGE BOOOAAAARD! TROLL IN THE MESSAGE BOARD!

...Thought you ought to know. *faints*

would you prefer death by C4 or Kalishnikov or angry zombie or Nac Mac Feegle or what? Pick something interesting, do.

*hits with wrench*

You're boring me.

Ok, there are 3 possible things.

One, the guy has a malfunctioning keyboard. Buy a new one.

Two, he wrote in a language with another alphabetic system. Sorry, can you write in English?

Three, a troll. You're in the wrong place. We mock trolls. They make us laugh.

Is there anything besides the mega-crossover nature and the mini in the title (which is, admittedly, Very Bad, but could also be a don't-follow-the-fansubs-honey issue) to make you think this is sporkworthy? The TvTropes page seemed neutral-to-positive, which it usually isn't for badfic of the caliber we target, and last time I checked there were rules about labeling all of a genre as badfic. Rules to the general effect of "don't."

I don't know the fandoms, but it seems like you're threatening death on rather slender grounds. A lot of the quoted lines seemed genuinely funny, and not funny in a so-bad-it's-good way either.

Hey everyone,

As I type this, I have just finished putting up six more badfics on PPC Wiki's Unclaimed Badfic page.

Read at your own risk.

Signed,
Sister-to-the-Queen

to make fun of West Side Story, but... changed Maria's name to Herrrrrmmmmy. What the Glaurung? And... all the snogging in the other one... and...BLEEPKA NOW

Hijacking the thread for a moment:
Does a misspelled Sindarin word create a mini-Balrog, or is it only proper nouns and names of races? There weren't any examples in the new list, though there were some on Miss Cam's list, so I wanted to check.
(the word in question is elloth for ellon, or possibly elleth for the purposes of hilarity, though the author does seem to know how to spell that one.)

First off, can you try to keep the new topics down? If you have stuff relating to the topic you first posted, post that as a reply, please. Each new topic you post shunts another one off the end of the Board into oblivion. Just saying before other people jump on it.

Secondly, Miss Cam is no longer involved with OFUs, minis or the PPC, and doesn't particularly want people contacting her about them. If you want to set up an OFU that the PPC recognises, most people these days just mention it to the Board and see what the response is - usually something along the lines of "go ahead".

Mini-Balrogs, on the other hand, now have an official Adoptions Agency set up to handle them. I got permission to set it up and run it back in 2008. You send the minis there and I keep track of which ones are new, which have been found before, and which have/haven't been adopted yet. I also adopt them out. The Agency is here.

I can also tell you now that Eldorna, Agaorn and frandiul have already been found and adopted... several years ago, by the look of it. You must have found a fairly old fic. Still, re-finding them is good of you, and if you send them along the Agency can send them back to their owners.

was 'Eldorna' supposed to be? Is it clearer in context?

Who is in charge of OFUM now? Because I tried to email C. Sandman and didn't receive any reply. I've been wanting to do something like Sisters of SNAOL for ages.

Agent Paddlebrains is a (very) warped RP-created version of Sirius Black. You can do it, just be careful with it, and have fun with it!

- Trojie, not around as much as she should be these days but trying to work on it

There is a brother-sister agent pair. Although I believe there is a third member to that little group. Their names escape me for the moment. Brother had a thing for Victorian or Edwardian England.

Brothers and sisters would make excellent agent pairs. I mean, aren't it your sibs that drive you crazy the most?

No one's complained so far about one of my agents. She's from an Modern Day World One original 'Verse much like yours, with magic, were-beings (though technically they're more shapeshifters, but I digress), vampires, and other assorted beasties.

Anyways, I have a question for you: Where in the general timeline of World One is your 'Verse set? What I mean is, is it more like modern-day times, medieval times, or something else? That might impact how your characters interact with the advanced tech the PPC has, and could prove to be a running gag/funny thing for your agents.

I have a father and his two sons from an original universe as Agents. They have a dynamic that I found appropriate for the place.

1) From what I've heard that's fine, and even if it isn't, that sort of original fiction universe isn't too hard to come by and I'm sure you could foist them over to a canonverse if you really wanted to.

2) Weeell, it's PPC policy to have agents be a sort of 'odd couple', and that might be rather difficult with twins, but...If you think you can make it work, that's fine by me, anyway.

3) That is basically the same backstory as Dafydd Illian, one of our most well-known agents. What do you think?

...hailed from a version of Earth with various types of were-birds.

Send them along.

code.name.schroeter@gmail(dot)com

I don't know if I'm a bit late or not, but here's a good list:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanficRecs/DoctorWho

Also, I highly second (third?) the reccommendation for "The Ten Doctors", an excellent webcomic with loads and loads of characters from all across the continuity.

It's a bit long, and sort of slow at times, but on the while, it's really, really good.

I can't remember how to create a link for the life of me...

The author JJPOR generally does pretty good Dr. Who fanfiction, they write on the A Teaspoon and an Open Mind Dr. Who fanfiction archive. Her profile's here at http://www.whofic.com/viewuser.php?uid=7103 . The fic that I particularly like is a oneshot, "The Ten Doctors" here at http://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=27266 but her other fics are quite good too. Ummm, now that I think of it, "The Ten Doctors" does have small hints of slashyness, but it's mostly implications of what happens.

I can't really remember any other ones at the moment, but I'll try to dig around my booksmarks to see if I can find any other ones.

If you can never hate a genius piece of literature... then don't hate LotR! :) It won't hurt you. There are just a few inside jokes here and there about Sons of Feanor and probably even stuff I don't understand...

But as it is, have a fairy-expanding chest to carry all of the presents you're going to get! Here! It can be as small as your thumbnail or as large as a walk-in closet... and you'll need it. Hah.

Here's a Frying Pan of Doom^TM, and no, you don't have to know much about LOTR to enjoy reading/writing PPC stuff.

Fair winds!

Here's a bag of candy and a sonic screwdriver! Please use them responsibly.

Here, have a pet cat. You may name her whatever you wish.
So, what d'ya like?

Do not feed it sues.

Welcome! Have a Cookie, and enjoy your stay. ^_^

...I was asleep when you posted this, I think. Time differences and all that. Either that or I was eating dinner. Anyway! Happy day, happy day.

Here's a bottle of Bleepka! Welcome!

~X.B.

It won't bite, promise.

Nice to meet you :) As I'm guessing the others have probably said, not knowing Lord of the Rings is hardly going to disqualify you from joining our little community, though you may miss out on some jokes and meaningful details as you read the Original Series.

To help you out with learning everything else, here follows the List of Links we give (in some form or another) to every newbie. In short, they are a bunch of 'Go Read This Now Please' urls that actually do give Useful Information. In relative order of sensible-reading-ness, they are:

* The Original PPC Series, which we usually assume you've already read. (Have you?)
* The List of Killed Badfic, which will direct you to a large number of non-Original PPC Missions.

The Board:
* The Board Constitution
* The FAQ: For the Board

The Wiki:
* We have our very own PPC Wiki
* The very-important-to-read-before-requesting-Permission Permission article
* Our Guide To The PPC
* The Mission Writing Guide
* The Slash-Sporking Guide
* The FAQ: For Newbies.
When you are ready to edit the wiki, make sure to read Neshomeh's excellent editing tutorial.

And finally, but very usefully,
* The List of Everything PPC


Once again, good to meet you!

Hello! Have a seventeen foot long, multicolored, wool, knit scarf (curly wig not included), and a bag of jelly babies.

Please use them IRresponsibly!

What are your fandoms?

Welcome to the Board! Here, have some chocolate, won't you?

Have a set of polyhedral random-number generators. Very useful when stuck somewhere with a group of people.

So, you do not know much about the Lord of the Rings, no big deal. What fandoms do you know more about? Which are your favorites. Inquiring minds want to know.

Elves, though. And just about anything else.

Here's a box of the complete works of Tolkien. You have a lot of catching up to do.

Actually, LOTR is far from the only thing we're interested in. If you like any book that's fanficced, you should be at home here.

Welcome, new friend! Have a venomous arthropod!

Out of curiosity, does that mean your brother is someone we know?

Hello and welcome, have a Mark 6 phaser.

Just posting here and expressing interest is generally enough to join. :D I hereby present you with a welcome gift of a bag of pebbles and a Random Shiny Object.

You don't need to know much about Lord of the Rings to join; just having respect for good writing is favourite, though.

Welcome to the Board!

Stop double-posting. It's considered rude, as you keep bumping other people's threads off the page. This one is just annoying, because it's the exact same as your first post.
But on the other hand, welcome to the board. We're all a bit mad here, so we don't mind a bit of insanity and we definitely like people who've read the original LotR series. (By the way, who do you ship in there, if at all? And are you a Legolas fangirl?)
So, reiterating another line: welcome to the board, and have a random heavy object. You can throw it at someone or use it as a paperweight!

-Honu_Wahine

I would've liked a bit more closure at the end, other than "and then, leaving no lasting traces, she went back to HQ," not to mention knowing what Ian and the newbie got up to. But maybe you have that planned for next time? If so, I'll look forward to it!

Anyway, it was neat getting a look at Lee's world, and your writing is generally clear and easy to read. Kudos!

~Neshomeh

Rather shocking, but very interesting!

Out of curiosity, is the world where Lee has ended up from an established fiction, or did you create it?

I like it a lot. I'll be very interested to see where it goes.

Lleu

Like everyone else, I agree that the mission was fun, not boring, and the swear jar is an excellent idea. Of course it would be Bleeprin. It's practically currency around HQ anyway, being the only countable commodity widely available and yet rare and valuable enough to serve.

... Now I'm imagining Medical and FicPsych in the role of banks. This could get complicated. {X D

Anyway, good mission. Not knowing much about either of the main canons involved didn't seem to hinder me at all, which is always a good thing.

~Neshomeh

Hey there,

Just read your mission and don't worry, it is not boring.
I especially enjoyed the snappy dialogue between the agents.

Gotta love that swear jar.

Sister-to-the-Queen

That was an awesome mission! Not boring at all. Vampires and lightsaber battles can improve just about anything (though apparently not the original fic).

So we can, y'know, go see the badfic.

Also, capslock is annoying and should be avoided in the future.

Thanks!

~Neshomeh

Is it one fic with elements of Alien AND Predator? In that case, it's a crossover, and it goes in Crossovers.

If it's something actually based on Alien vs. Predator, I would guess that gets its own category in either Films or Video Games, depending on which iteration the fic is based on.

If you've got two fics, one in Alien and one in Predator, each fic goes in its own category in Films (probably). If the categories for the specific movies aren't there at the moment, just add them--but make sure they're in alphabetical order.

On a completely unrelated note, why the random line breaks? The text box you type into will wrap your lines automatically, and it doesn't reflect the width of the page once you post anyway, so it's not like there's no room for a long, continuous line. O.o

~Neshomeh

Pop into the chatroom sometime this weekend.

I should be around for most of this weekend, and can thus help.

Oy vey, if this is your first time making one get ready for a headache. I quite literally flipped out an hour into trying to make some for my agents. Thank God for Calista, is all I can say...

In any case, your mission seems good. Albeit, I don't know much, or in fact anything, about the Kingdom Hearts continuum...or either of your Agents...and I haven't actually read the mission yet...But don't worry. Unless you hear otherwise from me, take this as a glowing review. I tend towards the nitpicky, so if I don't like something I will tell you. From me, silence is the best compliment.

I don't know Kingdom Hearts very well, but that was still pretty funny. 'Portalus ex Playstation' made me giggle :)

No, what you are doing is not plagiarism. Plagiarism is taking someone else's work and calling it your own. One line is not plagiarism and even if it was, you are crediting the source, so no worries.

To tell you the truth, I do much the same thing. There is a saying, "Imitation is the highest form of flattery." That is all you are doing in this case; imitating the source. It is done all the time, and not a bad thing.

Happy writing,
Barid

I noticed some misplaced italic tags, and there are a couple of places where you slip into Roger's thoughts without marking them, but that's easily fixed. I noticed it at the following locations:

Paragraph 1: "Anne's up early as usual."

Paragraph 7: "Maybe I'll go back to Tolkien for a bit and finish it later."

And this, toward the end of the interview with the Marquis, is italicized when it shouldn't be: "It rummaged in its desk and withdrew a sheaf of papers."

But, again, that's just HTML stuff--no big deal. The actual writing is really good and I look forward to seeing more of it in the future. {= )

~Neshomeh

Is that Roger seems to know that being a werewolf is strange. Does that mean they're pretty rare in his world? If they're common, why does he equate being a werewolf with going into fictional stories and killing fanfic characters?
It's picky, but it's the sort of thing I always notice. Sorry. I think your agents are great and I'm pretty sure you'll get permission.

I really like it. There were a couple of minor missing punctuation marks, but other than that I really quite enjoyed it. You've got interesting and developed Agents, and the sample piece was quite engaging. I like your writing style, and I hope you do get Permission.

G'luck!

Even though I don't know all the characters (okay, the only one I know is Lux), this is good stuff. Anyone with some imagination could build a fic around these sentences.

Memes and one-sentence fics don't really count anyway. At least, not in my book.

I think it's clever.

I know, the official mini for the Harry Potter universe is a mini-acromantula. However I am arachnofobic and my agent "inherited" this trait from me. Would it be possible to change the fandom mini to eg. mini-thestral in my fics?

One, rewrite your mission to either change the appearance of the mini or explain why/make note of the fact minis in this fandom take different shapes.

Two, I think you can. Tawaki brings minis to the board a lot more often than mission plugs. If anything there is precedence.

I have no idea about the fandom you are talking about here, all I can say is: unless on the wiki the shape of the minis is already determined and rule of funny can't be applied, you can chose what you want.

Have a special edition sonic screwdriver with a bag of jelly babies!

Well, here's some more joy... first day of school tomorrow for me. Oh the joy, joy, joy is in the air it reminds me of Christmas just like all the red and green in my spellcheck...

Hmm... I'm pretty sure I've already given you a scarf, and you've gotten a K-9.

So, I guess I'll give you a curly wig, model TARDIS, and another bag of jelly babies.

I loved marching band. I wasn't very good, but I loved it. With all that practice you all must be serious competitors at competitions!

Good luck for all of them that are coming up this year.

Here, have a triple chocolate cupcake! (Chocolate with chocolate icing & chocolate chips) Enjoy!

Thanks for the goodie bags! Here's an oboe-care kit.

I play flute, but I refused to be in marching band, so I had to play all on my own during high school. :(

Fair winds!

Now you can throw BBQs.

What? You want presents?
Fine. Have a Random Object of Rassilon. (It's probably a fish. At least, it looks like one.)

Now you can prepare for any ending scenario!

Have a zombie trumpet player (he doesn't quite have the lungs for it, but he's not too bad) and half a cup of tea. *cuts a teacup in half*

And have fun playing music (what instrument?)!

Happy Birthday! Maybe you can get them to play the birthday song for you!

Hope the practice goes by quickly.
Have some virtual cookies. :)

I hereby present you with a sack of pebbles, your very own customised sling to throw them with, and a basket of home-grown Bleeprin-berries - delicious and good for you!

Hope things go awesomely for you today and in the next year!