Don't die. And do go to Oxford for me.

I have to admit, I wasn't too sure about your agents at first. But they're definitely growing on me. Not only that, but the mission was both tremendously entertaining and very well put together.

The one qualm I have is that there are occasional stretches where your agents just stand around and complain. Once or twice is okay, but it started to wear on me the further along things went. Maybe try to spice things up with a bit more banter next time.

Other than that, this was great. Kudos!

I must immediately brainstorm as to exactly what genophase does. We got geno- for the genome, obviously, and -phase as in a distinctive form. Maybe it liquefies your genome? That sounds pretty fatal, though. Not something that there could be a cure for. Anyone want to chime in with ideas?


Also, what's going to happen to the hybrid? Will he/she/it/whatever be available as an NPC in the Nursery? What would a quarian/human hybrid look like, anyway?

That was a stupid fic. I'm not a fan of crossoverships to begin with and this had all the worst traits of the species.

By the way, when I read the title and the ... um ... second title? What are these things called? Anyway, where it says 'In which romance is approached way too quickly' I thought there was going to be something about Maria. ^^

The daughter of Sauron and Eragon's mom? *snickers* I love classic 'Sues! Can I have a link? I'd love to claim this for my first mission, if no one else is. :D

Though I'll definitely have to brush up on the movie-verse, quite a bit. *Pulls out Extended addition DVD set and portable DVD player* YAY! There goes my life for the entire next week!

I also loved the dæmons and that your agents got to keep them. So cute! And the soul baring (bad pun intended) talks were funny.

It was a very enjoyable read. Nicely done.

the mission. It was easy to follow despite not knowing the canon (with the sole exception of the word "Gobbler," which can easily be interpreted from the context as a Bad Thing.) Not terribly funny, but it would've clashed with the tone.

Good work.

I really enjoyed the mission. And so, we finally know Lee's true name.

No doubt she changed it, is really, really long.

Wow, that was a really good mission. I love the daemons, they were really good. And that Sue... ugh.

mini-panserbjørne

Mrs Coulter
gyptions
gyption
Edwards
Masters
Scholars
Metraphysics
Mrs Coulters

Here it is, after much anticipation, Chapter 4 of Garfield Effect, MST'd.
I think i'm starting to get the hang of this.
http://tinyurl.com/3d332l8

Garfield entered the room with a manly strut ready to take on supernovas.
//This is already the best thing I’ve ever read.//
"The only thing I hate more than racists is collectors, I am going to slam them into outer hemispheres." Said Garfield, head held high and fist pumped with justice.

The story and your MSTing are just awesome. I'll be looking forward to the updates.
The idea of actually linking to appropriate music, rather than just mentioning it, is cool. I might consider stealing it some time in the furture. ^^

That fic is how I imagine a Michael Bay script looks before the screenwriters clean it up.

Ode to Joy works better if you switch to the chorus :D

Great job!

Chapter 3
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lNDPLlw4oAX1I4G9iognZtpYlbK_qugmk-AAY2KwPAk/edit?hl=en_US

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xDIl4QipjkBSfQAFfly1iRnIwDHbfDl74mMBMYkHLgE/edit?hl=en_US

Getting a LJ/Tumblr/Wordpress/etc would probably be your best bet. It doesn't seem much like something that would go on the wiki, but with a LJ you could still post a link to your list on here.

It sounds like a really fun idea to me. :) Just for curiosity's sake, what fandom did you have in mind?

But if I get too annoying, feel free to bring out the clubs and flamethrowers. I'm quite used to them by now. Or, at least, I should be.

Since there's an OFU and all...

I'm pretty sure the Rivan Codex lists totems for all the gods, including UL and the spoiler - although these are described as not being exactly totems. I remember the latter as a horse (for certain obvious reasons), but I don't know about UL... according to Wikipedia, the albatross is a good bet.

All this is irrelevant, since the OFU exists, but I mostly wanted to get my Belgariad-love on the thread ;).

hS

Yay, another Eddings fan~!

Anyway, on to your question. Originally I thought maybe a mini-Hrulgin, but then I read the OFU for the Belgariad/Malloreon, and they've got mini Eldrakyn. Here's a link to the story. http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1889470/3/The_Annals_of_BelMal_Tech

I've seen an MST of this one and recognised it at once - Elrond is so incredibly creepy and I kind of want to use the descripton of the Sue as an example of implausible beauty.

In fact, treating the fall from her horse as if it were life-or-death might put this in Jackson and Feleben's jurisdiction as their first Sue, if no-one else kills it first (and given how quickly I write, the next ice age might have come and gone before I get to it).

What's funny is that as I was reading the bits about the falling off a horse (which by the way doesn't generally hurt all that much), my little sister started singing "Oh my oh my that's quite a sight" and she had no clue what I was reading... I'm cracking up...

Would we be collaborating with the Skainet roleplayers? Would we just be taking the idea and running with it? I mean, a mission requires a fanfic to spork.

Unless you meant like a non-canon roleplay with PPCers taking on fanfic-imps, which I would be totally for. PPCer Sburb session would be amazing.

"My name is Zevran, Zev to my friends, I'm one of the Crow." he said, and Leilana gasped.

I mean, wow, was that fic bad. This is why those elements don't work at all. And the butchering of the English Language... I swear, I had to read that paragraph where she talked about the Archdemon being the same thing twice because it was incomprehensible the first time.

Also, really obvious Sue. And I don't think she knows what a Fade Walker actually is. *points at Feynriel*

Great mission!

Forgot to mention them. The mission is heavy with spoilers for the Dragon Age: Origins game.

My biggest fandom right now is GI Joe, and I love love love crossing over stuff with it. The great thing about GI Joe is that it can, with only minor tweaking/creative thinking, cross over with any number of universes--as long as it's set on an earth where the 1980s conceivably happened.

For example, I wrote a crossover fic where Snake-Eyes (heavily scarred, blond, mute martial artist good guy) meets Deadpool (heavily scarred, blond, never-shuts-up martial artist Chaotic Neutral). Also, for the hell of it, I did a short "what if Larry Hama and Andrew Lloyd Webber collaborated on a GI Joe musical?" thing, which essentially crossed over Joe and Phantom of the Opera.

My favorite effort, though, is a crack crossover without the crack: GI Joe meets Alien vs. Predator. It's kind of sad, and scary, how much effort I wound up putting into making it all fit, and how eerily everything matches up. *headshake*

Detective Conan and Card Captor Sakura? The people on the forum where I posted it liked the fic so much I wrote a sequel. And they liked it too.

Card Captor Sakura and Knight Rider? Same thing, only that I don't want to write a sequel, despite having already some ideas for it. I'll probably recycle one of the OCs as a PPC Agent, though.

No links, though - it's all in Italian, ad I think nobody else understands it here... Do I look like I'm claiming to be a good writer while trying to hide proof?

However, an author that you all can check is Shadow Cristal Mage. He's got 64 fics on the Pit, and all of them are the crackiest, funniest things ever written. Too bad a lot of them are incomplete.

It's got four oneshots: HP/Transformers, HP/Hannah Montana, Twilight/Rocky Horror, and Twilight/Grinch.

My favorite is the second one.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5442156/1/Implausible_Crossovers_Ahoy

Yes yes yes! Half of the ideas I have for fanfiction are weird crossover ideas that probably shouldn't go together. But then I get either a brilliant or terrible idea as to how they could be combined and I have to write it. Most of it is slightly cracky and not good for publishing, but some of them have turned out to be my best work. I just love reading and writing crossovers. And hey, some of the ones you would expect to be crackiest are actually the best.

Whenr a certain friend of mine comes over- let's call her Bellatrix- sometimes we'll just go on a crackfic adventure and end up joining LotR with Artemis Fowl with Pride and Prejudice just for the heck of it. It's good fun... but I'm not sure if it would make for good reading.

Your idea in particular, though, sounds good to me, since many animated animal movies look like it's just animals being controlled by human personalities.

It's very popular for discussing crossovers, and some of it can get just plain weird. I mean, can you imagine Frodo and co. trying to take on Sburb? Someone's already written a Harry Potter crossover, with the kids and trolls in Hogwarts. It's actually pretty good.

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic is another one that gets crossed a lot. I'm not entirely sure why.


...We need a Homestuck and MLP:FIM crossover. Someone get on this.

Personally, I consider Real Person Fics to be a form of libel.

I don't read a lot of real person fiction, but in my opinion, it depends on what the story is about, what happens, and how it's written. A famous actor having an amusing day on the beach seems pretty harmless.

The same actor getting written into bad slash in which he leaves his family behind to take part in whatever fantasies the author has in mind.... Not so much.

But Aster already made a good point about real people as characters. And I agree, forcing an AU real person to go too far is a bit creepy.

So my reaction to real person fiction can range anywhere from amused to thoroughly creeped out, but it all depends on the story itself.

In my spin off, if the PPC ever encounters 'real people' in a badfic, they are kind of like author inserts in that they aren't the 'real' real person (the one that we know, behind the fourth wall) but an alternate universe version that exists in the PPC Prime Multiverse.

In the same way a Self Insert isn't REALLY the author, but an AU copy, so are the 'real people' copies of the originals. No less important than the originals, though.

But... it's kind of bad to do that because it's one thing to write an AU of yourself, but another thing entirely to write an AU version of someone else. An author may choose to make their Self-insert leave their family and friends behind and forget about them, but MAKING another person do that? Nightmare fuel.

If I encountered a Real Person, I would have to escort them back to their real origin-AU to be with their family and friends, or exorcise that origin AU of glitter to let them just live their lives in peace.

I wouldn't go after RPF itself, though. That sounds like a job for Despatch.

But not totally. For instance, Robert Graves' "I, Claudius" is technically RPF, being essentially the fictional autobiography of the emperor Claudius. Compare/contrast Ralph Nader's "Only The Super-Rich Can Save Us," (which, I feel obliged to add, I was very disappointed in; Ralph Nader writing RPF should be the crackiest thing ever committed to paper, not this dull slog) where a whole bunch of billionaires get together and decide to change the world with a parrot mascot.

I think RPF can be done well (as in the case of Claudius) as long as the author bears in mind that they are writing about a real person and does their best to treat the subject(s) with respect. I'd also add that, as a point of courtesy, one shouldn't write about people who are still alive. Writing RPF as an extension of one's own lurid fantasies is just sleazy.

I loathe the stuff. I know that when somebody puts their lives out there as public, they generally know people are gong to mess about with it. Same as prying, for the press-- it's not okay to pick a random neighbor and start writing stories about how their kids are turning out, but it's fine to do that to a celebrity, because they're public figures...

But the idea of taking a real person's life and, without their consent, drawing up stories about them, sort of flips a switch in my brain. Like bandfic-- people might have a lot of fun slashing four attractive musicians, but they don't seem to realize that those people who they're writing about having sex in the studio have wives, and kids, and... the whole idea just sorta makes me twitch.

But everybody's different. Like Cassie said, the PPC doesn't (as far as I know) go after RPF, but I don't know if anyone here does MSTs or something. There might be something on the Wiki.

it depends what you mean by "think of it". We don't do RPF missions in the PPC any more, so far as I know.

Willkommen an Bord! (Welcome on board in German)
Huan ying guang lin! (Chinese, used to welcome somebody to their store. I don't know any other way to say welcome)

Here is a army of six thousand Charmanders! Burn all your enemies with an army the size of a Roman legion! After your enemies are on fire, you can kick them off a very high building!

P.S. I do not play Pokemon. I just researched a bit.

Glad to have you on board. Have some Glistening Oil, that all may be one.

Hi and greetings!

Have a holy hand grenade! (Warning: Do not use near rabbits or any other kind of lagomorph)

Welcome to the PPC, I hope you enjoy your time here. Glad to see another pokemon nerd! We could always use more. :D

Here, have some Bleepka! You can never have too much Bleepka.

Well met, Albatross! I heard about you on the IRC earlier! Another Castlevania fan, that's dandy! Have this handy whip that plays Vampire Killer when cracked, and some lovely pudding!

Well met, rookie! Please enjoy these noise-dampening headphones as a welcoming present.

New people are always awesome!

Here, have some Stravinsky for the road:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTGoqle4m34

Have a pair of socks, useful for when you need a clean pair or when you need to make an improvised weapon.

Welcome! ^_^

Have a towel and a spork. You never want to go anywhere without your towel, and a spork comes in handy for those really, really awful fanfics.

Enjoy the madness!

Enjoy this Applied Phlebotinum!

Have some Mary Sue candy!

Have a bag of pebbles and a Random Shiny Object.

Of your favourite fandoms, I only really know anything about Pokemon, and that's only really a couple of the games and fragments of the early bits of the anime.

Still, it's all good. :)

Hi, have some fudge!

Welcome to the Board! Here, have some chocolate, and enjoy your stay!

Thanks for the warm welcome! And the Wingull Egg! And the Bleepka! And the Conical Hat and Cheese Tea Biscuit! And my favourite Final Fantasy Game? I think it would be Final Fantasy IV and Tactics Advance 2.

Hey man! You get a tea biscuit and a conical hat!

The tea biscuit is cheese. The conical hat is made of tin foil and duct tape. It's indestructable AND impervious to water!

Welcome, new friend! Have a Wingull egg!

Oooh, you like Final Fantasy too? What's your favorite FF?
Also, have a few crates of Bleepka! You will need it, trust me. :D

Normally, I like to start off my comments with the aspects of the piece that I really liked before moving on to the areas that needed improvement. What bothered me about this MST, however, was so big that I feel like I need to bring it up right away. Don't get me wrong; this is very enjoyable and quite funny. But I've got to say this.

I did not like the structure of this piece. The conventional story format, I mean. I've always associated MSTs with the much-maligned scriptfic format, like so:

Quote from the fic being lampooned
CHARACTER: Snarky comment!
OTHER CHARACTER: Response to snarky comment.

Using an otherwise normal format for action and dialogue - as you have done - makes the piece feel sloppy, especially when you take into account that almost every new paragraph starts with someone talking. I feel like you could have turned this into a typical scriptfic-style MST without losing any of the jokes. You actually could have used both styles if you wanted to, using Luxury's pulling of the 'light switch' as the cue to switch over to the scriptfic format. Once the badfic ended, everything would have reverted back to normal.

Still, I understand that everyone has their own style. Feel free to dismiss me as a backwards-looking kook if you like.

*gets down off his Ranting Podium*

You have some excellent character interactions here. I particularly liked Cali's stuttering and blushing routine. I just want to hug him sometimes!

TL;DR: It's very funny, but I did not like the structure.

“Wait, you have children in this madhouse?”

“I have four!” Cali said proudly, pulling a wallet of pictures from a pocket of his vest.

“You and Miah had four kids?” Luxury asked him in surprise. “Wow, where do you guys find the time?”

If Lux can't find the time, nobody can, I guess. Heh.

Many, many happy returns, Phobos and Neshomeh, and hoping this will just be the beginning of many happy years together.

Elcalion, festive

A rather belated congratulations from me as well.

May you have a long, prosperous marriage and a happy honeymoon. ^_^

Yes, may Eru smile on them. :)

A lovely occasion for two truly lovely people. May disaster continue to neglect to strike. :-)

Congratulations! I wish you both a long, happy, and grammatically correct marriage.

Thank you all for the blessings and wishes of good fortune. We really appreciate it.

Also, Tungsten Monk, good article, though there were some mistakes. It was not the Imperial March, though various other Star Wars pieces were included. And the Hokey-Pokey never occurred. Instead, we did the Electric Slide.

We look forward to the pictures, as we are sure the rest of the Board does, too.

-Mr and Mrs Phobos (though Neshomeh objects to being a Mrs, on the grounds that she is too young for that sort of thing)

Yay! *pours the champagne*

祝你們好運，幸福，快樂！Which literally translates to 'Be blessed with good fortune, luck, and happiness'!

~X.B.

Many Blessings for both of you! (cue the Overture from "The Marriage of Figaro")

I had no idea this was happening, but I wish Phobos and Neshomeh the very best!

Non-disasters are always fun for a break from regular life. But seriously, congratulations! May you have a happy marriage!

Many returns to the happy couple... whatever that means.

Now to find some rice to throw...

*bows* I'm really happy for you! :D

LOLing at the glass-chiming thing.

Congratulations you two! Granted, I didn't even know it was happening until I checked in this morning, but still, congratulations!

May you two have a happy life ahead of you, and many, MANY glorious sporkings hereafter. =D

The report is funny, cute and awesome, and the news is just cute and awesome. ^____^

Congratulations to Phobos and Neshomeh~!

All the best wishes!

And what a wonderful report from the wedding.

Unfortunately, since my agent (out sooner or later) appears to be a manifestation of my inner shipper, she may have already added Phobos/Neshomeh to her OTP list.

That is... if she could be bothered to give a hoot about Real-Person stuff. I think the happy couple are off the hook

Anyway, Congratulations. We haven't had a wedding around here since... um, what decade is this again?

Whoo! I'm so glad to hear it. Take THAT, Laws of Narrative Comedy! :D

May you forever be happy.

And may your marriage be continually happy for many years to come!

and may the happy couple remain a happy couple for many a year.

A Mark IV K-9 for the both of you!

Let there be much celebrations and merriment all around! Let trumpets sound out in celebration! Let there be dancing in the streets, drinking in the saloons, and necking in the parlor!

To both of you! A long, happy, and truly Awesome life!

Sorry I couldn't make it! I really wanted to jump out of the cake too! Hope you guys have a lot of fun on the honeymoon! Oh, and don't do anything I wouldn't do! *Wink*

*Throws rice and Glistening Oil.*

That sounds like a wonderful ceremony, I'm glad you guys had fun! here's to your guys and a happy future and other fun stuff!

Wooooo and yaaaay and yooooo and waaaay!

I have to admit, I cheered a little bit when I read this!

Congratulations are in order!

Everything is awesome. 8)

Oh dear God...*hides under bed* NEVER NEVER DO THAT.

1. Fluffy from Harry Potter is NOT Cerberus from Greek Myth, and I will not tell people that he will only attack you if you try to leave his room. He will attack you even if you try to enter.
   
   1319. I won't keep telling other agents that 'The Force is strong with them'. It is no longer encouraging or helpful.
   -I will especially not tell it to Hopeful Recruits who ask how they did. It only gives them false hope.
   
   1340. I will not try and stop Avada Kedavra with Reflect from Final Fantasy.
   -I will not test this theory out, in any way, shape or form.
   -Especially on my partner.
   -In fact, I will not preform magic out-of-continuum at all.
   
   1341. Telling a Mary-Sue to open a Bag of Holding is only funny once. The mess it creates isn't funny at all.
   
   1342. I will not use House Elves as way to travel. They are used enough.
   -Especially Kreacher.
   -Doubly so if you don't wipe their memories.
   

1. Charles Augustus Milverton must NEVER be introduced to Photoshop.
   
   1311. I will not portal Antigonus from The Winter's Tale to Care-a-Lot.
   
   1312. Kroll and Cthulhu must never be allowed to meet.
   
   1313. I will not give the Gems with Insulting Lines to a Hippogriff.
   
   1314. I will not give the Celestial Toymaker a copy of Spore.
   -Or Portal.
   -I Wanna Be the Guy is right out.
   
   1315. I will not portal Tobias from Animorphs to Nephelococcygia.
   
   1316. Lucky Luke is not Luxy Luke.
   
   1317. I will not give my partner a choice of "either Care Bears or No-Drool".

• My Junior Year travel partner is not a Mary Sue.
  b) Regardless of the incredibly long, silky hair, spectacular singing voice, amazing drawing skills, perfect figure, eyes that magically changed from brown to green upon puberty, ability to dance well, speaking French, Irish, Spanish, and Elvish, ability to write and play songs on any one of her seven guitars, claims to being a druid priestess, wildly shifting mood, ability to make everyone (including me) love her, regardless of her wildly shifting moods, and the fact that All my crush are belong to her.
  c) Actually, that's a pretty convincing argument.
  d) Regardless, I am not allowed to report her to the PPC.
  e) Nor am I allowed to attempt to slay her myself.

• I will not make Urple, Bled, Crimsun, or other Sue Colour spray paint.
  - Especially if I intend on spray painting penises all over HQ.
  
  - I will not talk about anyone's plump virgin breasts.
  - I will not spray paint that all over HQ, either.
  
  - Stalking other Agents ala Belarus is a Bad Idea. They are very paranoid people and most know how to use flamethrowers.
  
  - No one in HQ wants to become one with me. Or Mother Russia.
  
  - Acting like a weaboo will end in Pain.
  
  - I will not send Hetalia Tony to SatW America as a present.
  
  - Talking in a Tommy Wiseau accent is a Bad Idea.

1. I will not write bad shipping fics about my fellow agents.
   -No, not even for people who legitimately have a thing for each other.
   -Especially not if I plan to show the fics to the agents in question.
   
   1281. I will not brag about setting the console so that it plays the Imperial March instead of beeping.
   -Nor will I complain when the Laws of Narrative Comedy change it back again, and with a volume upgrade to boot.
   
   1282. Background NPCs in video games do not make good recruits.
   
   1283. No trying to write a Linking Book to HQ.
   -Especially if your previous attempts self-destructed.
   -And absolutely do not give one to Gehn, Sirrus, or Achenar.

1. I will not remove any quarian's masks in the Mass Effect continuum.
   -I will especially not do it if said quarian is Tali'Zorah vas Normandy/Neema nar Rayya, and especially not if she is my lust object.
   
   1281. I will not hack into a C-Sec terminal for any reason.
   
   1282. I will not 'embrace eternity' with any asari. Ever.
   
   1283. Air quoting is only memetic when the turian councillor does it.
   
   1284. I will not headbutt a krogan.

1. Giving a new partner an orange shirt and telling them 'can't talk to orange' is not allowed.
   
   1271. I am not allowed anywhere near the SCP Foundation.
   
   1272. SCP-682 is not a valid way to deal with Mary Sues. Yes, it would be a good way to get rid of them, but the Foundation staff would notice.
   
   1273. On that note, no SCP is a valid method of executing Sues. As before, the Foundation would notice, and the consequences would not be good.
   
   1274. No, being an intern does not automatically make one a target.
   
   1274b. Especially not for any of the following: Beethoven's 5th Symphony, any kind of opera, Tom Bombadil's poetry, or food from the Cafeteria.
   
   1275. I am not allowed to read badfic to Hex.
   
   1276. I am not allowed to replicate any of the items on Skippy's List, whether they made it onto the list or not.
   
   1276b. Especially not throwing squid pies into the SO's face.
   
   1276c. Or filling the SO's office with inflatable sheep.
   
   1277. No, the German lyrics to IAMX's song 'Bernadette' do not in fact translate as a sure-fire spell of any kind. Yes, it might be good for scaring Sues, but it won't make the SO give me time off.
   
   1278. Rammstein's music will not annihilate anything in front of the speakers if played loud enough.

1. If Rose/Ross walks by with a rat on their shoulder, I will not mention the black plague.
   1269 b. If I do, I will not roll my eyes at their
   explanation of the difference between domestic
   rats and wild, and the difference between the
   Black Death and the Bubonic Plague.
   
   1270. I will not touch Azraelle.
   1270 b. Unless I am a judo master.
   1270 c. Not even then.
   
   1271. I will not paint eyes on my fingers and give a devil-horns to Andalite agents, claiming to have eyestocks.
   1271 b. The scythes on their tails are not just for
   show.
   
   1272. I will not bring home "A Pre ent from Ankh-Morpork".
   
   1273. I am not Mrs. Cake.
   1273 b. Or Ludmilla.
   
   1274. I am not allowed to work in the HQ kitchen.
   
   1275. I may not redecorate the inside of my TARDIS to look like a yurt.
   
   1276. I will not give catnip tea to feline Agents.
   
   1277. I will not cause an Emergency.
   
   1278. I will not go into the halls selling "Makes-Things Lives!" Tee-shirts.
   1278 b. Nor the Cafeteria.
   1278 c. Nor the Lounge.
   1278 d. "Makes-Things Lives!" Merchandise
   is banned from HQ.
   
   1279. I will not kidnap any of the school-aged Severus Snapes and feed him cookies.
   1279 b. Or biscuits.
   1279 c. Or scones.
   1279 d. Or pie.
   1279 e. Cupcakes are right out.
   
   

...Why would anyone do that?!?

I swear, from what I've heard about the Axis Powers Hetalia fandom... things can get downright INSANE.

I feel the strong urge to bang my head against something. The ignoring of canon in some areas (like America and Canada being the biological children of England and France)- UGH. And it rarely mentions the names of the nations themselves- is she trying to make it an AU and yet never mentions it? Now, where's a good wall or some bleepka?

I'm also going to add onto this their RoChu Mpreg story. Let me quote: "I know it's not rare for someone to rape someone they love if that person doesn't love them back, aru." WTH. And when they try to justify the MPreg- "It's not rare that people have both reproductive tracks".

I'm prepared to believe (based on fairly old memories of her portrait) that if Sirus' mother had had a baby that was a squib, she'd have drowned it on the spot. However, unless she was older than Sirius and never spoken of again, he probably still would remember.

I enjoyed the way you set up Zug in the beginning. And how Kirill didn't even know Zug's name.

Crazy times were had with that. And yay to agents being affected by the Word World mishap! I don't think we get enough of that around here...

Yay... okay, no dibs for Prince of Thrulls. He's a bit too icky.

As you already know, I liked the mission. Very much...







That thing in the end... does that mean that there won't be any more MTG missions for Kirill?

A minor nitpick: black on grey is quite hard to read. Otherwise, it looks like an interesting mission.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6134663/1/Official_Fanfiction_University_of_YuGiOh Here you go.

(Hope you don't mind, Aeidhryn)

My agents need to use the handy dandy "present tense detected, reset fic to past tense" button. I was going to look up how other authors have handled this, but every link I find on the wiki is broken.

I don't feel comfortable with rewriting fic quotes to past tense. OTOH, leaving the quotes in present tense gives the impression that the button didn't work.

Has anyone on the thread dealt with a present-tense fic? How did you handle the reset to past tense?

1: In a few of my missions I've mentioned that the fic will fold in on itself. It will just disappear. In a way it's like everything non-canon will be sucked into a black hole and everything else will pop back in the place where it belongs.

#2: Like hypothetical badfic? That could work. Just don't write your own. I've seen a few people write Sues on purpose (both for parody and so they'd have something to PPC, seriously) and they usually overdo it on the bad spelling front. If on million monkeys can churn out Shakespeare, than 352 of them wrote that dialogue.

#4: Technically, I have copyright on anything that I have written. Including this message post. But I guess that is not what you meant.

Hmm. A bunch of equipment belongs to the PPC, except the things that were stolen from other canons (such as neuralyzers and SEP fields). Minis originally came from OFUM.

#5: Mentioning things without having permission in my opinion, is okay. It would be like a pop culture reference. I doubt Joss Whedon had permission from Monty Python when he had Dawn say: No one expects the Spanish Inquisition.

Since you mentioned Discworld, this is sort of addressed in "Thief of Time" (someone is the opposite of insane...sort of. It's complicated). I would think it sort of works the same way as being knurd; you need some body alcohol to keep the world from looking like the awful place that it is (or something), so maybe you also need a bit of insanity to supply creativity, dreams, inspiration, etc. or to make life more fun.

I don't know how you would get to be "enasni," though, since there isn't an insanity equivalent of Klatchian coffee...yet.

Question #1:

No idea, personally. I'm sure someone knows, though.

Question #2:

Yes. ElvenEars, long, long ago, did that-- wrote a mission set on a composite of badness, rather than any specific badfic. And I believe others have, as well. If I ever do a mission, it'll probably be along the same lines. Definitely don't write a badfic yourself. One of the reasons for the PPC is a love of goodfic-- last thing we want to do is reverse that.

Question #3:

It sounds like a very, very interesting concept and story, and you've my best wishes for writing it.

Question #4:

The rules are fairly simple. Don't use PPC property-- HQ, the Flowers, the uniforms (specific to PPC), etc. The OFUs were Miss Cam's domain, but she doesn't handle those anymore, I don't think. In light of recent RL events, poking her about them might be a bad idea. If you're using a PPC character that's not yours, ask permission and give credit-- that's about it, unless someone else has a better answer. If you're really not sure about something, you can always check with a beta, too.

Question #5:

Absolutely. There's a plethora of anti-badfic agencies out there, we're just the coolest. Personally, I'd love to see more essay-type-things about fanfiction in general, and I'd really love to see more people with a wider range of badfic-responses than "Sue! Kill!" I might actually have to join you, there...

The Sunflower was indeed invented by Jay and Acacia. He's one of those characters that's pretty much fair use for anyone, as long as you're not going OOC. Just don't kill anyone off or make sweeping changes to PPC canon without asking.

September isn't great for me. 26th through 29th I can probably work, but I think I myself have work 30-31. Unless I tell my boss I'm taking off for Canada early. >.>;

This is gonna be fun scheduling, isn't it?

And thank you for making another thread, Pretzel. I was actually just coming to do that when I noticed that there was one.

Why do they target the Redwall section?

You're back just in time for me to leave for two weeks (honeymoon!). Cursed Ironic Overpower. I guess that mission will have to wait just a bit longer.

Welcome back, anyhow. {= D

~Neshomeh

You guys have no idea how much I've missed this place. Thanks for welcoming me back!

We've missed you a lot here! Great to see you're back!

Welcome back, Guv.

Welcome back, dude.

Yay!

I am confused and entertained all at the same time.

And sure Chicken Boo is really desperate, if he tries to join the PPC.

It's been way too long since I've thought about Animaniacs. You definitely kept it true to the original Chicken Boo shorts.