Feb 2012 Archive, part b

Hi, welcome back! If you're looking for bad, try 'Pattycakes.' Basically, Fluttershy reverts RD to the mental state of an infant, the whole town is in on it, and yeah, everyone's either a replacement or heavily Sued.

Looking for really bad MLP fic? Tawaki posted some further down this page.

If you're wondering about OOC resistance in Luna or Celestia, I would say they'd be about on the same level as the other characters, if only for the canon-warping abomination that is Princess Molestia.

As for your question on bio/chem weapons, I'd say anything forbidden by the Laws of War should be observed. Besides, spreading something like the Black Death on a canon location seems like overkill, no? (Not to mention it being a really, really horrible death...) Remember that bit characters can assimilate into canon when the Suefluence is gone.

Drugs, in my mind, are right out.

Great mission you guys! I am glad you could make a boring sounding fic into something funny.

My favorite parts were probably the Vietnamese Crystal bits, they were fun. Especially Thomas talking to them in their language, and the two Doctors hugging when they met. Made me D'awwww for some reason.

I can't really think of any spots that I didn't really like or stuck out as bad. So, that is good!

Also, Drew going on his own mission off-screen was funny too! It sounds like a fun story for sometime. :p

My initial reaction seeing this post: "Yay, new mi—" *see the fandoms* "—What."

What a sadly bland and uninteresting crossover. I mean, Pokémon fighting zombies could be really entertaining. Think of all the ones like Magnemite and Geodude that would be immune to infection! But no. Instead we get elves who turn into princes under a full moon, or something.

I especially liked the way you had the Vietnamese Crystal professors appear. Was their "language" all taken from the game, or did you make some of their dialogue up?

Another amusing mission folks. Keep the great work coming.

Lovely mission! Oujide doctor and Wusiji doctor are actually pretty adorable in their engrishness. The idea of werewolfelfprinces makes my head spin, though. *psyduck face*

I HAD to read some of the fic itself after this mission; HOW could you make such goofy stuff boring? Well, looks like THAT is how...

Aside: I am not sure, but I think I found one typo. Was this intentional?

“Correct me if I’m wrong, dude, but so far this all seems perfectly canononical for Zombie Surivival Guide type zombies.”

My mind had never been so blown as by two electronic personifications of misspellings having happytime together.

...that the fic would've been more awesomely bad. But no, we have to deal with this.

Well, you crafted a very funny mission out of this fic, so kudos to you guys. :D

I may have a biased opinion, but *thumbsup* on the mission!

So was Vietnamese Crystal a ROM hack or a bootleg?

A little late I know, but Happy Birthday nonetheless Caddy. Hope you had a good one.

Have a big box of Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans!

Happy Birthday Caddy.

Wishing you the best.

Wrapped, though, so no germ worries.

Silly Caddy, thinking I'd hide in the cake! ^_^

I've already used that trick up enough! I have something for you too! Do you wanna unwrap it here or some where more... private?

The cake wasn't made by GladOS, was it?

Have a cute fluffy Portalverse Turret! It's a stuffed one, it shoudn't shoot you.

Congratulations!
You have managed to not piss off anyone you know long enough to reach the age of 21!!
Happy Birthday!

Or the other way round. Have some cookie cake.

*pokes through the original cake* Okay, seems clear.

*Gives bleepka-filled liquer chocolates*

Happy birthday to you
We'll make cake out of Sue
With sprinkles and icing
And glitter on, too!

Congrats on making it to 21! :P Have a sack of pebbles, your own sling to throw them with, and a basket of freshly picked Bleeprin-berries. Delicious and useful!

Here, have a triple-chocolate cupcake (chocolate w/ chocolate icing & chocolate chips)!

Have some happy birthday variations:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1oqWKAp1N8

And be careful around the alcohol, Caddy.

Here's hoping today is better than yesterday. Good luck and have some fun, man.

Happy birthday! And I'm sure you're not planning on drinking anything stronger than apple juice. :)

♪I'm all right, nobody worry 'bout me . . . ♪

First off, a grammar thing.

“The last group of minis who tried to have fun with him was threatened.”

The subject is odd here. I think changing who into the singular that fixes this issue.

I guess that's my first good point: that was the only SPaG issue I personally saw, so good job on that.

I also really liked the army of mini-Discords, well, acting like Discord. Playing keep away with the RA was funny, as well as mildly tormenting the agents.

There were some issues, though. First off, the beginning part, before the minis steal the RA, reads like an MST. I don't really have a sense of the agents being there. The same thing occurs again after the brief fun with the mini-discords. Tieing into this, I forgot that the agents were disguised as ponies until the end when it's brought up again. I think it was mentioned twice during the whole mission. (At one point, a hoof is mentioned.) This seems odd; shifting into something with a non-human anatomy seems like it would be a bigger deal. So maybe more should have been made of that. As far as length goes, good job! This was short enough that I could easily read it, but long enough that I got a good sense off the fic. So yeah, it was a pretty good mission overall, just some things to keep in mind.

(I also disagree with your assessment of whether or not this is trollfic, but that really isn't a big deal.)

A absolutely terrible mission, told in a really entertaining way. I did a mission once with eight minis in and thought that was bad, but 23 is just taking the biscuit. Surely it HAS to be a Troll fic. Either that or written by someone who dropped out of school at Kindergarten level.

Nonetheless, as I said, entertainingly told and looking forward to seeing Florestan and Eusabius deal with something a little tamer next time. If only for their own sanity.

I'd like to take in flutershy, once I get Permission.

Hey, Herr, could I request that you not hand out the mini-Discords in such manner?

The thing is, there's an MLP OFU in progress (literally being written as I type this), and... well, I'm one of the cowriters. When there's an active OFU going on mini adoption is typically processed by the people operating the university, rather than the PPCers sporking the fics.

So, if it's not too much trouble?


(Also look for a thread regarding that juicy tidbit soon)

Good job! I notice you're really trying to cut down on the length, and I'm actually really impressed with how much that improved this mission writing. Keep it up! It's always feels really good to see people working on pacing and getting the hang of their length. It's not easy...

Aside, they do mention death in MLP, albeit very indirectly. Several ponies last episode were seen attending a funeral. But yeah, it's not treated with any amount of attention as a plot device, and making it be a central idea of what happened really is against MLP ideas...

Adopting one of these mini-Discords sounds very tempting at the moment. I may take Raimbowdash if I'm feeling up to it sometime.


he just leared a good trick to do in her spare tire when sh wasent busey with her clouds.

As for the fic... dear sweet Celestia is it stupid! Makes me wanna bang my head against something...

(Oh, in the way of minis, can I take Rainbowdash? Though out of curiosity, what exactly are they capable of?)

Well, I don't think Discord counts as a spirit of fun. He's a bit like Pony Joker, taking sadistic glee in breaking minds in the most traumatic way possible.

On the other hand...WOW. Just... just wow. The stupidity, it buuurns.

If it's all the same, I'd like spitrire. Hopefully Hacken Form, Teana Lanstar, and rein like her.

As a Boarder, you don't join a Department. Your Agents do it, and you can always get them reassigned if you end up not liking your initial choice.

I'd say to start with Floaters, and then make your Agents "specialize" when you get an hang on what you prefer sporking. Or let them stay as Floaters, so you can spork whatever you get into you hands and like to write a mission about.

About the Sue Scalps, I'd say that still falls under "torture". And if it doesn't, well... it's still kinda graphic, no matter how you write it. However, as you have control on your missions, you can try to always find a way to have an "harvestable" body, or you can go for Sue objects instead when that doesn't work. (Misplaced Katanas and other Sue weapons are great to hang on walls, and I heard that Cute Animal Friend fur can be used to make excellent rugs.)

Remember, however, that the main rules for PPC are good writing and having fun. So, as long as you get proper humor, you can pull of nearly anything.

I say be honest with zir. Don't be brutally honest- reserve that for the people who really deserve it. Be an Applejack sort of honest. That is, tell her straight up, but try to phrase it nicely. If you don't tell zir nicely now, someone else will tell zir very rudely later on. Which is better, I ask of thee?

What if you showed them a badfic out of one of their favorite fanfics? One that has high levels of OOCness. If they get upset over it, then show them that their fic is also OOC.

Or something like that. I don't think that paragraph in phrased very well.

Name: Pelina
Coloration: Banana Yellow Coat and Navy Blue Mane. My Cutie Mark is a Magic Wand.
Favorite pony race: Unicorn
Please specify one luxury item you require at RFAE: Jet earrings.
I have: Watched some of the episodes.
I have written slash: No
My favorite character is: That dream stallion from "The Ticket Master" (Rarity didn't name him).
I am in love with a canon character: Yes (see previous entry).
I have a fear of: Rarity (what a bitch).

Name: Senomar
Coloration: Cyan coat, green mane, gray eyes. Cutie Mark is a swing vine. A hands-on Puzzle Making class in Edanna at the Myst OFU sparked my interest in botany.
Favorite pony race: Pegasus
Please specify one luxury item that you require at RFAE: Nothing more luxurious than a homemade Xiangqi set. I have to stay on top of my game.
I have: Watched all the episodes many times
I am: Very Familiar with Canon
I have written slash: no
I have written a Mary Sue: yes. (Now that I look closer, I realize that Nova Kicker is one. I should know better, having been to the Redwall and Myst OFU's some years ago. I would hate to think that I'm forgetting the lessons I learned then)
My favorite character is: Fluttershy, followed by Big Macintosh
I am in love with a canon character: Not as a human. If I were a pony, I think I might fall for Rainbow Dash or Derpy.
I have a fear of: In this fandom? Parasprites and Discord.

Being that I have watched only a few episodes of the show, this should be interesting. I'm going to go in order of when things come up, since I will be making notes while reading.

Chapter 1:

"Slow going," Glyph replied. "We've worked out the tweaks we needed to fix as far the central design goes." I believe you are missing an 'as' at the end of that line.

Did I misunderstand something, or did Rarity walk off across campus at some point and then reappear in the conversation as if she hadn't left?

I'm wondering where Fluttershy is during all of this. Surely the Mane Six are all involved.

Chapter 2:

Hilarious. I know Bronies are often college aged, but it hadn't occurred to me that someone might be sitting around swearing, drinking and smoking while they talk about MLP. It's so discordant. I love it.

Also, the appearance of the letter was inspired.

He managed to catch about half of it,. The rest and his Zippo dropped onto the grass. Two problems. 1) The comma at the end of that first sentence. 2) How do you catch half a scroll? These sentences could be clarified to make it more apparent that the scroll unraveled and had multiple pages, which is what I decided after reading it a few times.

Chapter 3:

I was expecting Terry from chapter 2 to be back in this one. I guess we'll catch up with him later.

"That question's a miite phi-lo-soph-i-cal, miss. Everything'll be explained inside. You best get along." I think you have an extra 'i' in there.

The left and right walls both had doors which were currently closed, leaving the unlit corridor before her as only direction to go—deeper into the building. I think it should be "the only direction to go."

Bright colorful banners hung from the corridor's ceiling light wrapped wires, occasionally punctuating the darkness with 'WELCOME!' and 'THIS WAY!'. There is a problem in this sentence right around "light wrapped wires". I am not quite sure what you were going for, so I don't know how to fix it.

the path form the doors Should be 'from'.

After watching a few still-unsure-on-their-hooves ponies walk though, Heather warily followed, descending into the dimly lit auditorium. Something is off in this sentence. I think it should be 'through' instead of 'though'.

and a several scattered throughout the various rows Take out the 'a' and you should be fine.

Suddenly, the lights went off. Kinda disappointed that we don't find out if some of the Ponies DO glow in the dark.

and momentarily he appeared behind the stand 'after a moment' would be better. Right now it seems like he appears behind the stand and then disappears.

The spotlight gags are good. I assume the CMC are running tech? They would not have been my first choice, but I am not usually going for comedy when I am doing tech.

Oh no! Blank flanks! The worst possible thing! :P

You have done an excellent job keeping the cast in character, though I wonder why Luna was even there. She didn't really add anything to the story.

The PPC ponies seem a little harsh for this environment, though I suppose that could just be an act to put the fear of the PPC into the students. I will have to wait and see how that pans out.

Overall:

The first half of chapter 3 was rough, due to some of the issues I pointed out earlier, but the story, descriptions, and characterization were excellent.

I am wondering what the classes are going to be, and which Ponies will be teaching what. I suppose I will have to read further to find out.

Keep up the good work.

-Phobos, 20% more concrit in 10 seconds flat

I liked it, and I think you guys have a good handle on characterization of the Mane Six as well as the Princesses. I'm excited to see more from this OFU. ^^

Sounds cool. Let's see what I can whip up here. Oh, and I'll try to criticize constructively, but that'll take a little longer, I think.


Name: Dr. Hitech

Gender: Male

Coloration: Cherry red with black mane/tail, bright green goggles

Favorite pony race: Unicorn. Why fly or kick trees when you have telekinesis?

Please specify one luxury item that you require at RFAE: A wrench made of solid gold.

I have: (Watched some of the episodes) Good enough, right?

I am: (What is Canon?) No, really, I don't even know what the word means.

I have written slash: (no) Though there are some pairings I've been wanting to try. Vinyl Scratch and Octavia could use some more attention...

I have written a Mary Sue: (no) Of course not! Building a Gundam with standard pony technology is perfectly reasonable!

My favorite character is: (Twilight Sparkle) She's intelligent and has a keen scientific mind. That's why she's my lab assistant.

I am in love with a Canon character: (no) There's no time for love when you've got a robot apocalypse to initiate!

If so, whom?: Even if I did have time for love, it most certainly wouldn't be someone like Pinkie Pie. Far too hyperactive, and she might break something important while bouncing around like a lunatic. That's why she was the first one to die in the robot apocalypse.

I have a fear of: (Princess Celestia/Nightmare Moon/Princess Luna/Other (Rarity, Discord)) I've read those ask blogs. I know what they get up to in their spare time, and I want none of it. As for Discord, well...do I have to explain it? Reality warpers are just scary, not to mention that hideous mismatch of parts. He's like some kind of animal Frankenstein or something. It's a good thing he's not real.


After watching a few episodes scattered throughout Season One, the young man known on the internet as Dr. Hitech began writing a fanfiction series of his very own. Though he had a good grasp of spelling and grammar, his primary knowledge of canon came more from the various "ask blogs" than the show itself, twisting his view of the world of FiM.

In his stories, Celestia and Luna periodically molested their subjects, and the entire world was shrouded in darkness. But then, a pony called Dr. Hitech appeared to resist them! Rescuing Twilight Sparkle from the clutches of the eeeevil princesses, he made her his lab assistant and together they built an army of giant pony robots, with which they easily overthrew Celestia and banished Luna to the moon again.

Unfortunately, the author didn't want the story to end there, so he made it take a turn for the grimdark with a robot apocalypse and a time travel plot that blatantly ripped off Terminator. Naturally, his self-insert character was the hero of the pony resistance and would often angst melodramatically over his involvement in the situation.

This is probably where he got the "invitation" to the OFU.

Sounds like fun, I I think I'll come up with a character. Though do we just make them up on our own or can we base them off ourselves?)

Eh, maybe I'm missing the point here... I'll figure out something and put it up.

Name: Ellintyra Lloysinthayr but u can call me Ellie
Coloration: pale pink with big blu eys and wings and a prety long yellow mane and tail
Favorite pony race: Pegasus coz they can fly!!1
Please specify one luxury item that you require at RFAE: Choclate I must hav choclate!
I have: Watched some of the episodes
I am: What is Canon?
I have written slash: yes but not for the ponys
I have written a Mary Sue: no even though stupid FLAMERS said I hav!
My favorite character is: Rainbow Dash
I am in love with a Canon character: no that would be wierd
If so, whom?: I siad no already
I have a fear of: Spiders D:


((I don't know much about the fandom, but hey - no better place for my fanbrat to learn, right? Also I find the lure too much to resist. :P ))

Name: Penny Reed
Gender: female
Coloration: Pale yellow with a short black and red mane and a black tail, wears glasses
Favorite pony race: Earth
Please specify one luxury item that you require at RFAE: Notebook and pencil to write down story ideas
I have: Watched all the episodes many times
I am: Very Familiar with Canon
I have written slash: no
I have written a Mary Sue: No. Well, maybe. Okay, yes, but HELP. HOW DO I STOP.
My favorite character is: Fluttershy/Rainbow Dash
I am in love with a Canon character: no
If so, whom?:
I have a fear of: Snails

Should a cutie mark be specified, or will all the students be blank flanks?

We were also really, really, really hoping for some proper constructive criticism as well.



Also, Joe accidentally left off the 'gender' line since he was using an older form from one of our docs, so guys, mind adding that one in as well for your applications?

You really thought I wouldn't want this? Here goes, hahahaha!
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Name: on Earth: Michael Portales; as a pony: Treble Clef

Coloration: black, with blue mane; if I can have a cutie mark, let it be a quarter note, as my special talent is music; either that or a pair of wings for flight, but that feels a little overdone, and I'm a bit more use to planes than my own wings, and I'd imagine the mechanics are quite different.

Favorite pony race: Earth/Pegasus/Unicorn: pegasus, easy. Dash and 'Shy are pegasi, and what could possibly beat out the joy of flying, besides the joy of music?

Please specify one luxury item that you require at RFAE: oh, dear sweet Celestia, this is a difficult decision. iPod. If there's no electricity I'll have a unicorn recharge it.

I have: Watched all the episodes once/Watched all the episodes many times/Watched some of the episodes/watched none of the episodes: All of them. And keeping up. I'm kind of a nut for it. Which, I suppose, is why I'm even filling out this form in the first place.

I am: Very Familiar with Canon/ Slightly Familiar with Canon/ Reasonable with Canon/ Minimally Knowledgeable about Canon/ What is Canon?: I'm super-familiar with FiM canon, but not G's 1-3

I have written slash: yes/no: Yes, yes I have. Femmeslash, if you want specifications. No smut though: clop is bad.

I have written a Mary Sue: yes/no: I've written a Gary-Stu. We all have. I seem to have trouble fixing mine, but that's what this OFU is for, isn't it?

My favorite character is: Twilight Sparkle/Rarity/Applejack/Fluttershy/Rainbow Dash/Pinkie Pie/Spike/Other (Please specify): Fluttershy, with ease.

I am in love with a Canon character: yes/no
If so, whom?: Fluttershy. For those who know me I may seem like more of an RD or Pinkie, but nope. Even the crazy guy needs someone quiet and calm in their life. Balance is important, isn't it? Well, that's my theory on why. No sense trying to figure it out, though. All I know is she's simply perfect. Sets my heart a-flutter, pardon the horrible, horrible pun.

I have a fear of: The Everfree Forest/Princess Celestia/Spiders/Nightmare Moon/Princess Luna/Being Banished to the Moon/Other (Please specify): pretty much all of the above except Everfree. After some of the fics I've read on a dare, you'd be scared of Their Majesties, too! Spiders are just kinda gross. Banished to the moon, I think it's obvious why I'm scared of that. Same goes for Nightmare Moon. Also, certain badfics. You know which ones. I'll be hoping they don't manage to circulate around to me.

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A few side notes on this character: it's me, but I'm filling it out as if it was the person I was when I first started writing, but with a fascination for MLP, which is something real me only recently got into.

I'd also like to give some specifications about him/me: with regards to music, he plays trumpet, euphonium, and a little snare, doing a fantastic job of that much. He/I doesn't/don't sing much, and isn't/am not great at it. Barely passable. Regarding his/my reference to planes: he's/I'm part of the RCACS in his/my day-to-day life, so he's/I've been up in small, single-engine aircraft many times, and found no greater pleasure besides music. "Theoretically," he/I always say(s), "I could fly one. Not legally, but it's a theory."

He/I also mentioned being crazy. It's a PPC Agent type of insanity. If you have any questions about his/my personality, feel free to PM me on the Pit or ask here. Please.

I've got an upcoming mission with a grand total of 25 mini-Discords. *grimaces* Any ideas how I should handle these little nuisances?

Name: Aura Spice
Coloration: Unicorn, blue, pink and gold mane (striped like Rainbow Dash's, of course), black body, gleaming silver eyes.
Favorite pony race: Earth/Pegasus/Unicorn: Ooh, so hard! I mean, like, pegasuses (or should that be pegasi? I don't know, that's for like, brains) are totally awesome, and Rainbow Dash is like the best, but Rarity is sooooo pretty, and she's a unicorn, so I guess I'll, like, go with her! I mean, like, unicorns, of course! *high-pitched giggle*
Please specify one luxury item that you require at RFAE: Oh my *God*, I don't know what I'd do without my hairbrush! It's, like, black with beautiful sparkly bristles and if I don't have it I'd like, die!
I have: Watched all the episodes once/Watched all the episodes many times/Watched some of the episodes/watched none of the episodes: I've *totally* watched all the episodes, like, a dozen times each, 'cause they're soooo awesome!
I am: Very Familiar with Canon/ Slightly Familiar with Canon/ Reasonable with Canon/ Minimally Knowledgeable about Canon/ What is Canon?: Oh, I totally know like everything about Canon. Except, like, I heard some rumours that MLP: FiM isn't the first My LIttle Pony thing to come out, but that can't be right, can it? I mean, like, MLP: FiM is too awesome to not be first!
I have written slash: yes/no: Oh, totally! Slash is sooooo hot!
I have written a Mary Sue: yes/no: Oh, Celestia no! All my characters are, like, perfect!
My favorite character is: Twilight Sparkle/Rarity/Applejack/Fluttershy/Rainbow Dash/Pinkie Pie/Spike/Other (Please specify): Ooh, I have to think about that. Maybe... I guess it'd be, like, a cross between Rarity and Rainbow Dash. They're soooo beautiful.
I am in love with a Canon character: yes/no: Ooh, well, like, maybe, but it's not like I can actually *say*, right? But, like, just between you and me, Applejack is totally hot. And her hair's so *pretty*...
If so, whom?: It's my little secret! *high-pitched giggle*
I have a fear of: The Everfree Forest/Princess Celestia/Spiders/Nightmare Moon/Princess Luna/Being Banished to the Moon/Other (Please specify): Oh, that cockatrice was, like, terrifying!


Yeah, I did my best to come up with a decent character for you to use. Or abuse. Whatever works. Please excuse me while I take a shower to try wash off the airheaded vapidness.

Name: Dusty Parchment (aka Sasha Barnes)
Coloration: A picture for reference; a medium-sapphire blue with a sort of dusty-rose & blue mane/tail. Cutie mark is a stack of three books.
Favorite pony race: Unicorn
Please specify one luxury item that you require at RFAE: Notebook and pen
I have: Watched all the episodes many times
I am: Very Familiar with Canon
I have written slash: Yes, but not in MLP.
I have written a Mary Sue: No
My favorite character is: Derpy Hooves/Ditzy Doo or Doctor Whooves
I am in love with a Canon character: No
I have a fear of: The Everfree Forest, as any sensible pony would.

Yeah. Okay, so all my minis are going to the adoption center of the OFU.

Anyway, I have to come up with a profile, hm? Well, here we go with a completely made-up character:

Name: Richard Mahler
Coloration: brown fur, dark brown mane, green eyes
Favorite pony race: Unicorn
Luxury Item: Manuscript paper
Watched all the episodes once
Very Familiar with Canon
I have written slash: No
I have written a Mary Sue: Yes
My favorite character is: Rarity
I am in love with a Canon character: Yes
If so, whom?: Rarity
I have a fear of: Silence

Note that that's a reflection of the character, not myself.

Name: Xila
Coloration: White
Favorite Pony Race: Pegasus
Item: A stuffed dog doll.
I have: Watched some of the episodes
I am: Reasonable with Canon
I have written slash: No
I have written a Mary Sue: No
My favorite character is: Fluttershy
I am in love with a Canon Character: They're ponies. None.
I have a fear of: The dark.

Name: Carson Gray.
Coloration: Uh, white? More of a pale beige, really. Is this racist? This is racist. You are racist. Maybe you mean my eyes? Those are blue. Seriously, why do you need this information?
Favorite Pony Race: Unicorn! Magic is awesome.
Luxury Item: Sketchpad and pen
I have: Watched most of the episodes
I am: Very Familiar with Canon. Fanon is pretty close, right?
I have writen slash: Uh, no? Are there even two guy characters in this show? Anyway, ew.
I have written a Mary Sue: No! Uh, maybe. I'm pretty sure my self-insert had enough flaws.
My favorite character is: Twilight Sparkle is best pony.
I am in love with a Canon character: No! nononononono. no. haha. No.
I have a fear of: Princess Celestia. Seriously, I'm pretty sure there's something sinister going on there. Sinissterrrr.

((There are doodles all over both sides, almost obscuring the page.))

No Alicorn OCs? Aww....:)


Let's see...

Name: Annette Robinson
Coloration: Grey coat, blue mane, blue eyes
Race: Unicorn
Item: Computer (Which, of course, will probably not work in Equestria. Have fun, Annie!)
Watched all episodes many times
Reasonable with canon (Knows G4 really well. Everything else is "I think there was a bad guy named Ritek at some point, right?"
No slash
She has written a Sue
Favorite Character: Luna
Is not in love
Fears being banished to the Sun.

P.S.
Can I still have the mini spitrire?

If I recall it correctly, Fanfiction.net gained this nicknames not (or more probably not only) for the sheer amount of badfic that can be found there, but because the admins didn't think twice about getting rid of the Original Series after a complaint from one of the people whose badfic was sporked (thus showing that they considered less offensive canon-raping badly written fics that well-written tasteful mocking of them.)

Long story short, the Pit name stems from FF.net basically siding with the badfic authors during the Original Series.

The Pit- or FFNet- is a funny place.

I actually hail from the Pit. It was where I started out, and it's where I do most of my work today.

It's kind of like walking into a dark mine, sans lamp. Sometimes you'll find a gem, but more likely than not you'll just haul up some rocks and dead rats. I am one of the few who has good enough vision to find more diamonds than rocks.

The thing is, there's a lot of badfic there. It's where a good chunk of your sporking material will likely come from. Cupcakes and Molestia started there, for instance, as well as My Immortal. It's also prone to Trolls. And don't even get me started on what happens in the Pit of Horny Weasels.

But there are also some goodfic authors there too. They post there for the wider audience. I've seen a couple of things I would even consider Legendary Goodfic, such as "The Urthblood Saga", which I believe all Redwall fans ought to read. It's also one of the places where most OFUs are posted.

Basically, if you venture into the Pit, be careful. You might come out with the motherload, or you might lose all faith in humanity. Or maybe both. You may be flamed, or you may be praised. A few others here also have accounts on the Pit. Try to find them. They'll help you out.

I have no idea why.

Technically you can put your PPC stuff there, but it's recommended to back it up elsewhere, because they frown on such things. So it's not necessarily a good idea-- you could find your whole account dissolved, which would be bad.

People didn't take kindly to PPC missions when they were posted on the pit. I think there are some people here you can ask about that, particularly whoever it was that got their stuff taken off for whatever reason.

Yes, PPC missions have been taken off of the Pit. That's the main reason why we don't do it.

If you want, though, you can post missions onto Googledocs and share the document, which isn't too hard to do.

The Pit itself tends to frown upon Sporkage, and to be fair back when PPC stuff was posted there it actually led to PPC badfic.

I'm sure others will put it more eloquently, but I think you'll find it something of a resounding no.

Or anything with super-horrible lyrics, I guess.

I know nobody's seen me for a long time, but I'll reply anyways.

I like classical music, mild pop, and LOTR film score. Especially the LOTR film score.

A lot of this is various types of rock. Hair bands, Classic heavy metal, Classic rock, Disco, Punk, Alternative, Chicago blues, Delta blues, Big band, Bluegrass, Old country (like Merle Haggard, Hank Williams), Some specific fast country songs (particularly from the 90's), Some Techno and Dance, Some Classical, Some Some old time Gospel songs, and Irish folk music (think The Dubliners. The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem. Etc.). I'm probably forgetting something.

Mostly I like anything that has a fast beat to it, or has a good story to tell. A lot of the Blues, old country, and the Irish Folk is not fast at all, but it says something, or it's beautiful, and I like that too.

I seem to be an outlier here in that I love... I'm not sure how to classify it, but I like the Birthday Massacre, Sleater-Kinney, and Evanescence especially. Just things in that family. Somehow, though, my radio always end up on a pop station while I dance like an idiot to Nicki Minaj...

My radio spends 99% of its time on the local classical station (the exception would be when the Nebraska football team is playing, so it's staying on classical until next August).

I listen to some classic rock, I think I have most of the Alan Parsons Project on CD. I have a lot of classic jazz as well. There's also a group called Brule (there should be an accent on that e) that I really like; it's a mix of contemporary music and traditional Native American.

I also own a lot of soundtracks. My "go-to" CD for when I'm having trouble writing an RPG scenario is the full soundtrack for "Alexander Nevsky", it's especially good for fight scenes ;) .

If I'm trying to do something, I prefer to put a pure instrumental on. Vocals in a language I don't understand work as background music as well, but if I understand the words I end up following along with the words and get distracted.

I like heaps of stuff- I have weird tastes in music, so my music library is a little strange. My favourite bands include Angelspit, The Birthday Massacre, IAMX, Goldfrapp, Imogen Heap, Lady Gaga, Garbage, Placebo, Shiv-R, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Sneaker Pimps.

I, as with many others, have a really random taste in music and my current playing jumps all over the place.

Playing so far this morning I have had; Korn, Frank Sinatra, Niel Diamond, Final Fantasy VII, Rammstein, Phantom of the Opera, Madness, Dolly Parton and it's currently on Pirates of Penzance.

Mostly ska, techno, and rap (especially pony rap and nerd core). I'll listen to just about anything, though.

Well, I've got a pretty eclectic taste in music, but my current playlist has music from A Very Potter Musical/Sequel, Adele, the Uncharted 3 OST, several MLP:FiM techno remixes, E.S. Posthumus, Mumford and Sons, the Portal 1 & 2 OSTs, and so on.

Music is pretty awesome. I tend to listen to... well, pretty much everything on the rock/metal, and I actually do lead vocals/rhythm guitar in a Lovecraft-themed power metal/grunge/prog metal band.

We... uh... we aren't all that great.

Rush is a way better band and you should go listen to them.

Like, right now. Just stop whatever you're doing and go listen to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQEgZNqa8jE

Edith Piaf, Jacques Brel, and Alain Bashung rank among my favourite musicians. I don't know too much about the anglophone music scene, but I know that there quite a few good French artists and bands out there.

Aside from that, the London Philharmonic Orchestra has made some pretty awesome covers for various video game themes.

But especially electronic, soundtracks, orchestral, etc.

Here's a trivia bit: do you know that my username is based off of the opera 'Wozzeck' by Alban Berg?

So yeah, that characterizes me. I like pretty much a lot of classical music, through a lot of time periods, and a lot of craziness in that regard.

Just don't show me Mozart: I personally think Mozart is the single most overrated musician of all time. Well, except for Justin Bieber (who, ironically, takes all the attention away from H.G.I.F. Biber, a Baroque-era composer who wrote some great violin works).

I'm also a sucker for musical theater, especially Rodgers and Hammerstein as well as Stephen Sondheim.

Generally speaking, I don't like songs with words; I find that often as not, the words kind of get in the way of the music. Pokemon music's usually pretty good. The boss battle for Bowser's Inside Story is freaking awesome, and Super Smash Brothers Brawl has pretty good remixes.

The few songs I like with words generally tend to be from the group Vocal Point. They do a cappela versions of whatever songs catch their fancy, and it's really cool.

We don't necessarily have to stick to fandom or fanfiction on the Board; we talk about whatever seems interesting.

On that note, my favourite music... well, I have a lot of differing tastes, really. ABBA and Queen are among my favourite old groups, but I enjoy cheesy pop music, Disney Princesses songs, and musicals such as The Lion King, Wicked and assorted works by Andrew Lloyd Webber. :P

My absolute favourite musical artists, though, are Blind Guardian, a German power metal band whose biggest claim to fame is their Silmarillion concept album Nightfall in Middle-earth.

I liked it! Orken's backstory was interesting to read, but getting to see the characters from it is much more fun to read.

I like Jeannine, she is one of my favorite female PPC characters. I also may or may not totally think that Orken and Jeannine would look super cute together andmightshipthemcoughcoughcough.

>.>

<.>
Annnnnyway, sorry it took so long to get to this. Me and Miah just finished fixing up (with an actual beta, too!) our own Interludey thing, which was sucking up time. Definently worth the wait, though! :D

Also, thanks for the small mention! :) I wonder how Jeannine would react to hearing about Cadmar now? :P

PS: I look forward eagerly to reading more from Jeannine! ^_^

Two years? That's sad.

"We do our best, but it's not the same as a . . . friend."

Those were trategically placed ellipses.

Great interlude as usual Guv. Does this mean we'll be seeing the end of Orken and Greenwall's partnership now that his old partner is on the mend.

That was a kind of bittersweet interlude. On the one hand, it's great to see them getting right back along again. That's a spot of happiness. But on the other hand, knowing the situation his former partner was in...

Great interlude, Guv.

Nice Mission, was fun to read. Sorry for the delay, had too much going on at once...

"I like I'm in in a cheap romantic'

I /feel/ that there might be a word missing. :P

In the future, maybe show a bit more fic bits, or more of an explanation for scenes like the CAPS LOCK OF RAGE. It sorta came out of the blue, with no reason I could see and was kinda jarring.

Oooh, and the hook at the end was a nice touch. Now I am interested to see his Deep, Dark, Secret.

It was entertaining and fun and groovy! Enter-un-roovy!

I know of Stargate, but I *loved* the line about normal healthy relationships being slow.

Also, what? They hid in a wardrobe and there were no Narnia jokes? :D

A) I see a cliffie!

B) Garçcon ought to be garçon, I think.

C) This is the first SG•1 sporking I've read.

D) That allcaps rage was weird.

E) Poor Daniel.

F) I like lists.

And also the free presents- like this one! *presents you with an orange*

Have some Swiss Chocolate. Oh, and here's a bottle of Bleepka. You're gonna need it.

Here's 4GB of Write-Only Memory!

Welcome to the board! Have a generic welcome gift!

Well met, rookie! Please enjoy this waterproof wide-brimmed fedora as a welcoming present.

Frostbiter, huh? I'll give you an ice sword as a welcome gift, then. Makes sense, right? XD

Welcome! Have some fudge!

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

First up, I suggest that you don't post PPC stories to the Pit. They get banned quite a bit.
Secondly, I commend you for staying strong in the face of My Immortal. I went sort of insane. *eyetwitch*
Thirdly, welcome, welcome! I shall give you this handy bottle of Bleeprin and these chocolate-chip cookies.
Fourthly, what are your fandoms?

As Mr. McClain says, "Welcome to the party pal!" Here, have a bottle of anti-lustin and a unsent Valentines day card.

Have an ... um ... half-empty carton of milk and some licorice root. It would seem I need to refill my random-gifts closet.

As for what you should do, you can start with checking out the links Mr. Eldritch gave you.
After that, as the Chesire Cat would probably have said to you if you were Alice, what you should do depends on what you want to do.
If you want to write missions, then the links explains what you have do. I would also recommend reading the rest of Jay and Acacia's missions along with a lot of spin-offs to get to know the PPC canon.
If you want to make your first fanfic a goodfic, we have beta readers, who can help you out. http://ppc.wikia.com/wiki/PPC_Beta_Reader_Directory
If you just want to hang out and be more or less silly, that is also welcommed. You don't have to write missions to be a PPC'er; simply being a boarder makes you one. You can support the effort by reporting badfics that need to be sporked (if there is an existing badfic-thread on the frontpage, please use that rather than starting a new) and/or by helping others improve their missions and fanfics.

But for starters, just come on in and get to know us.

Thanks for all of the gifts and advice!
Normally I lurk around the Harry Potter and Hunger Games fandoms. I'll occasionally venture out into other fandoms like Percy Jackson and Lord of the Rings. I'm currently trying to finish my first fic (in the Hunger Games fandom).

Have a Frying Pan of Doom and a Almost-Infinite Bag of Holding. Just watch out for the Nifflers that may move in if you have too much stuff.

Greetings, new friend! Have some notched icicles, good for fitting in any standard bow!

It's great to have a newbie here! :D

Just out of curiosity, what are your fandoms? We always like to know what fandoms other people are into just as a matter of course, ya know?

Anyway, have some Stravinsky for the road: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IDyrJnKkpI

Hi! Welcome to the Board! Have a 100% fat-sugar-calcium-gravel-carbohydrates-pigeon-feathers-vitamin free box of muffins! Eating under ridiculously specific circumstances, for the purpose of.

...please put your sanity in the Aperture Science Emergency Sanity Disposal Unit we've recently set up in the corner.

Have a bottle of my world-famous hydrophobic water! Now with 23% more quantum-proofing!

Oh, and what are your fandoms?

Alright. Joining the PPC is a really simple process!

First, check out the wiki: http://ppc.wikia.com/wiki/PPC_Wiki

There's resources for newbies right on the front page.

Second, introduce yourself, maybe tell us what canons you're into, and receive imaginary showers of virtual gifts, salutations, and silly messages.

Third, hang around for a month or so until we more or less get to know you, follow the Permission guidelines (also on the Wiki), and you're good to go.

Here's a few resources:

http://ppc.wikia.com/wiki/PPC_Board_Constitution
http://ppc.wikia.com/wiki/Guide_to_the_PPC
http://ppc.wikia.com/wiki/FAQ:_For_Newbies
http://ppc.wikia.com/wiki/Mission_Writing_Guide

That's basically it! We're really informal here.

Also, hi! Have a PPG and some Bleepolate-covered coffee beans.

3 out of 4 of my PPC writings got a "Stephanie Meyer" result. Oddly, the other one had "Douglas Adams" as the result. (I didn't submit the MST as those kind of writing has a formula to follow)

So, my writing is 3/4 Publishable Suethor and 1/4 Great Genius? It... doesn't make any sense.

...um...who? I've never heard of this Dan Brown...

Neil Gaiman, Kurt Vonnegut, Rudyard Kipling, Anne Rice...

The analyzing-thing never repeats itself.

It's fun, and I would be flattered, but then I'm pretty sure Stephenie Meyer is the only author they've got that I'd be ashamed of.

Apparently almost all of my Miah and Cali missions resemble William Gibson's writings, with a few coming out as Cory Doctorow.

Probably not surprisingly, most of my Kelok and Unger missions resemble Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

My original stuff is seemingly random. Every chapter was a different author. This might not be a good thing.

The weirdest result was on my dark urban fantasy. It's first person, present tense, and according to this thing, it reads like something Jack London wrote.

My permission piece is written like J.K Rowling apparently.

Using one of my characters' profiles, I apparently write like Isaac Asimov. Using a backstory I wrote to tie another of my characters into the world of an RP I frequent, I also write like Arthur Clarke. With several paragraphs of a fic I'm writing for the drawer, I write like J.R.R. Tolkien. Finally, with a post I wrote for the aforementioned RP, I write like Cory Doctorow.

The first one was from several years ago, and the last one was deliberately written in a different style, but the other two are both pretty recent and written as normal. My writing style must not be very consistent.

I put both my missions in, and got Robert Louis Stevenson for both.

It says that some of my missions scan like Shakespeare. I am not surprised, really; I favor short lines of dialog and action, peppered with some longer exposition here and there. I can see how that might scan to something like this like playwriting. I wonder how it evaluates entries.

Apparently my post-apocolyptic Peter Pan retelling reads like Stephen King, and the few pages of my mission that I've written so far read like Dan Brown.

Also, I stuck in some of Tara Gilesbie's work for shits and giggles. Apparently she writes like Mark Twain. Whatever has the world come to...

Pasted in a chapter of some original fiction, and found out I apparently write like Dan Brown.

... Should I be concerned right about now? o_O

Apparently my Permission piece resembles Douglas Adams and my upcoming Intel piece reads like H.P Lovecraft.

What.

I am actually pretty surprised. Seeing as I'm sick and probably am not going anywhere for the next day or so, I decided to make a list of all my results from both my spin-off and my experimental writing blog.

The results were 6 counts of William Shakespeare, 2 counts each for Mark Twain, J. D. Salinger, and Stephen King, and one count each of J. K. Rowling and Oscar Wilde.

...I don't think my writing is very Shakespearean.

From my last full DMS mission:
I write like
Stephen King

I Write Like by Mémoires, journal software. Analyze your writing!

Huh. I would not have called that, although it has been a while since I've read anything by Mr. King. I do remember liking his dialogue, though.

Jay and Acacia write like... Douglas Adams!
(I used a sample from TOS.)
Terry Pratchett, using a sample, hand typed, from the back of The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents, writes like J. D. Salinger.

From this thing.

I write like
H. P. Lovecraft

I Write Like by Mémoires, journal software. Analyze your writing!

From Jof's Origin...

I write like
Harry Harrison

I Write Like by Mémoires, journal software. Analyze your writing!

Interestin'!

Haha, this is awesome!
For some reason, it thinks that I write like Dan Brown, Anne Rice, and J.K. Rowling...all in the same fic. o_O

So, for one chapter of a Harry Potter 'fic I'm writing I apparently write like Edgar Allen Poe, while for the other I write like Ms. Rowling herself, but for most of my works, it seems, I write like David Foster Wallace.

I write like Kurt Vonnegut and Cory Doctorow (judging by two separate paragraphs of one of my blog posts), and Chuck Palahniuk (judging by my Thor fanfic).

My Tales of Vesperia fanfic says that I write like J.D. Salinger. My Hetalia fanfic says I write like William Gibson.

I don't even

And ironically, that's how I found out about David Foster Wallace. Whose work I still haven't read. :/

These fics used to be more popular a few years ago, I remember: especially in the Pirates of the Caribbean, Lord of the Rings, and Kingdom Hearts continuums. For some reason they have fallen slightly out of fashion and I don't see them too often anymore.

I originally was going to make my agents in Despatch but I could not find enough stories where the snatchers/hoppers were actually OK to just escort back home. If they're Mary Sues, then they're chargeable and assassinate-able.I could find a few stories like that, but just not enough to make a series of it.

What is this i don't even...

...Sorry. Sometimes I can't help but wonder what's wrong with some fanfic writers...

I think that anything involving 'Truth or Dare' in a fanfic should be nuked on site, unless it's by an author who has written a lot of goodfic in the past. Sadly, many fics fail that criteria.


Phineas and Ferb, you say? That's one of my favorite cartoons...if you find it again, please toss the link up here, I'd love to mission that.

Oooh, I saw one of these once. It was a Phineas and Ferb fic, but I can't remember what it was called. What is it that makes Truth or Dare so irresistible to some writers?

The Department of Trans-Dimensional Hopping and Snatching, which is an offshoot of Implausible Crossovers, is dedicated to retrieving canon characters from the effects of continuum-crossing Sues.

http://ppc.wikia.com/wiki/Despatch Read more about it here.

Oh sweet Emmental slices! What the flipping heck is up with this woman? I have a feeling that this series could need a full team of agents to deal with it.

I could wish you luck, but I'd prefer to give you concrit.

Wait, I can do both... GOOD LUCK!

The thing about Dummies is this: usually, they're used if the story is told from the POV of a Sue/Stu. That way, the author wraith possesses the Dummy and the agents are safe to do their work as usual.

I'm not sure how that would work if it was from the POV of a canon character who isn't replaced (according to you). It is perfectly possible for a wraith to possess an agent without a dummy, though: Aster wrote a mission sporking a fic that was in first person where the author wraith possessed the central character of the continuum the story was set in.

I'm not going to make a judgment call, but I'm not sure you need the Dummy in the first place. Dummies are only there to keep the agents from getting Sued by a Sue in a first person fanfic. If it's a different character altogether, then the wraith probably won't need a new body. I'm not going to make a judgment call, but in your place that's what I'd keep in mind.

I haven't used a Crash Dummy (yet), but I would think that if one is in use, the real character is stuffed in a plothole somewhere. Every mission I've seen with a Dummy, there's a Sue-wraith animating the thing.

Hi, have some fudge!

Welcome to the PPC.

Aside from giving you a cookie, two things:

1. Already asking for permission? Woah, slow down a bit. Give us some time to get to know you.

2. My Immortal has already been claimed. Also, just because something's bad, that doesn't mean it makes for a good (first) mission.

Can't you tell? I'm a zombie vampire ghoul! XD

Anyway, welcome to the forum!

Oh, and have this pistol with silver bullets. Just in case.

Greetings, new friend! I . . . Hm. Finn is my brother's gamer tag. *peers closer*

Well, my brother is certainly no friend of dictionaries, so I guess you can't be him. So, then . . .

Have a dicionary! It's a typo I discovered. Dicionarys define misspelled words. Very handy for field work!

Hi! Have a welcome wagon I totally didn't steal from the new MLP:FiM episode!


My immortal...may GreyLadyBast protect your sanity. Your agents are gonna have psychological scars for YEARS.

Welcome, newcomer! Here, have various Bleep-products! And please, don't drink Sea Turtle's hydrophobic water. As fun as explosions of blood and organs are, recruits seem to be in short supply.

I'm a local Brony. There are others, but they don't appear to have arrived yet. Nevertheless, I'm glad you're here!

I'm glad you're so enthusiastic, but Turtle's right: you really should mess around a while. I still don't have permission, actually.

I'm a fan of HP too, and fully understand why you'd want to kill My Immortal. The canon just about curled up and died. It ruined a good song. And, quite frankly, the so-called lemons were really just sorry excuses written by a person who's probably never even seen pornography, let alone known how actual sex works. Or how love feels, no doubt. It's being speculated that the author is just a particularly cruel and clever Troll.

And this site will never die, my dear. So long as there is a Plot Continuum, there will be a PPC. Or at least until something like SOPA or ACTA passes. But then we'll have bigger things to worry about, such as the violent coup d'état that will no doubt take place. Well, it will if my miniscule faith in humanity has even a little foundation.

Welcome once more, my dear! Enjoy your stay!

Though I must say, I was kind of hoping you were named after the university. I'm a fan, and I've never been there. I don't even know if I *can* be a "fan" of it... in any case, cool name.

Consult the wiki on receiving permission. I'm sorry you can't have My Immortal. :( But there's plenty worse out there-- I'm not sure if that deserves a happy or unhappy face.

We've got a lot of blunt, brutal, brusque people (nice alliteration, by the way), and plenty of spineless, neurotic spazzes too (ahem, me).

This is a great place to get concrete criticism for anything... as long as you're sure you had it beta'd first, and thoroughly.

Welcome, I say again...

Firstly, welcome to the Board. Have some of my hydrophobic water! Now an acceptable substitute to battery acid!

By what I understand from your post, you seem to be asking for Permission, yes? If so, just let it be known that we need to get to know you better before the PGs decide upon your request. We like to say that a month is a good time to sit back and participate on the Board, so... yeah. Just stick around and have fun!

I regret to inform you that My Immortal is already claimed by... well, somebody. I can't find it on the Claimed Badfic page, but its Wiki page says it's been claimed.

AWESOME. Rainbow Dash FTW!

Rainbow Dash curb stomping Starscream?
Pure awesomeness!

For the record, I am not a brony.

Yes, I'm overpunctuating and capslocking.

It. Doesn't. Make. Any. Sense!


Yet, I still see a pony curbstomping Starscream as something awesome. He got his afterburners rightfully kicked.

And, for the ones who didn't notice it, the still image of a F-15 shooting a pony in the beginning actually isn't Starscream.
Notice how only the right wing is red? That's Solo Wing Pixy from Ace Combat Zero. And I'm sure he would be able to give a better fight to Rainbow Dash.


Must start working again on that Plasma-Pulse Engine equipped F-22 again. A pony going at 7800 MPH? There must be a way to beat that. Seriously, if a pony can be that fast, there is something faster.

Click me!

That. Was. Awwwessssoooome!!!!!!

Seriously, it was a cool death match, even if it was skewed a bit in RD's favor.

I wonder what a deathmatch between Commander Shepard and Isaac Clarke would look like...

It was a curb-stomp battle in RD's favour.

Not that there's anything wrong with it, of course.

...I'm going to start adding the delete template to Sue pages up for deletion. Anyone else who wanted to could do so as well, assuming there are no objections.

In terms of the author and there being a clear nomination period that takes place well after the mission with the Sue or Stu in question. If people can't remember the mission after two months, or bring it up as a go-to, without you as the writer plugging it, it really isn't that special.

I'd also further that people involved with the mission itself not be able to nominate- that is, if you're the beta or you contributed by having one of your agents help, you cannot nominate the mission.

1) I'd go with Neshomeh's plan.

2) I should have time to help rewrite a few of those pages.

3) I think a committee with clear guidelines would be the simplest. Voting here on the Board could also work, but might push other threads too far down the page.

If we go with voting, I would suggest that someone other than the mission author make the initial nomination.

... Obviously I like my own suggestion for the deletion process. >.> I'm also still willing to take a hand in re-writing. I'll volunteer specifically for the Balrog Sue (I can take care of renaming the article at the same time), and also Alumia and Sairalinde, unless there are objections.

For adding pages in the future, I like the idea of peer nomination and/or a committee, but I'd also suggest a built-in delay. For instance, if people (not including the mission's author(s), for obvious reasons) are still talking about a particular Sue X months later, that suggests it was outstanding enough to have some impact and stick in people's minds beyond the end of the mission. It might also go some length to deterring gimmicks for gimmicks' sake just to get a page, since no gimmicky thing will guarantee that people are impacted enough to talk about it after a period of time. If nobody's talking, then perhaps that Sue wasn't such a big deal after all, and it won't hurt PPC posterity to not take up wiki space with it.

For a period of delay, my immediate thought is at least two months. That's more than enough to knock links off the Board and the wiki front page, providing for a test of group memory rather than group ability to spot links.

~Neshomeh

1. Why don't we go with Nesh's idea?
   
   2. Page needs work? Page gets work. It's a wiki, so I don't see problems with rewriting pages authored by others, especially if they're no longer active.
   
   3. That's not that easy. I'd say that could be chosen when a mission is posted on the board. It's mostly going to be the author of the mission who writes the Sue page anyways.
   

Well, let's go with this.

1. Frankly, I'm surprised someone hasn't started doing that already, so yeah.

2. Hm... Well, you got me there. I'm not sure myself, so...

3. Adding pages in the future... Well, this is of special interest since I already mentioned the Subject 23 page to you and EileenAlphabet. So... I say we get a small group of people who can decide by votes what is or isn't speshul. Maybe even set up a kind of thing where if someone forwards an e-mail to this panel, we can vote on whether or not we think this Stu/Sue is speshul or not. But I'm open to other ideas.

I suppose it says something that the best library in my city has a Wii and there are actually children standing around in a line waiting to use it and complaining they're bored right in front of a large and shiny display of the latest and greatest books in children's literature...

I hope that libraries don't die in the same way I hope Barnes & Noble doesn't die. I think perhaps they'll disappear entirely, but I don't know very much, so maybe it'll be okay after all.

Which, sadly, most people aren't well aware of, and for the worse.

Libraries are important cornerstones in our society- and this recession has been utterly terrible for something that is so important. That comment defending libraries is one of many, thankfully, against a growing attempt- that is often successful in many areas- to defund public libraries, or cut where they can. What this means, overall, is less help for people who need it, and lowered standards.

There are many libraries out there now that have skeleton staffs where they can barely help the public for the lack of people, or they're staffed by people who are purposefully picked up because they don't have the training so they don't have to be paid well or given full time hours, or they can't replace the books and equipment they have. Libraries all across the US- and in other countries as well- are experiencing this woe.

That article's hypothetical person does exist. Libraries are often the first line of defense for people who need help that they can't otherwise get; supplementary education, access to a place to get those important forms filled out and help with doing them, access to improving their lives, overall.

Public libraries are one of the equalizers of the world, because they represent free knowledge, and the guaranteed access to that knowledge.

That's chilling. I don't even know what else to say. That's... chilling.

(Also? It's a good thing to post interesting links that aren't asking for Permission. This is something that is a very, very, very good thing to have on our 'Board. Thank you for posting it.)

It is a well-written post, but I'm stunned at the conversation that prompted it. California did what? And... people don't see the problem with this? Granted, plenty of folks in the discussion do, and I applaud them, but wow. *shakes head* California, you make me sad.

~Neshomeh

I'm seeing quite a few Author's Notes in there.

Also, I can't tell if this is dealing only with the "Mass Effect" games or if it's pulling in the books as well.

When I hear 'Mass Pigs' I think an enormous stampede of pigs. Pigs en masse. Weapons of Mass Pigstruction.

Not to mention that any gun in the ME universe might be able to shred through a marine's armor like magma through butter: they do not make kinetic barriers.

I smell that Starcraft is the writer's very favorite universe in the whole wide world...

As if the title isn't enough to chortle at to begin with.

A brief examination of the fic confirms everything: formatting's out of whack, constant run-on sentences (GAAARGH!), crossover method I am still at a loss to explain and, of course, the balance of power in combat.

Good grief! OK, it's a given that Starcraft has a few balls in their court (such as their battleship-mounted Yamato cannons). But surely even the Terrans of Starcraft have their own Achilles heel? For example, their infantry have head-sized, UV and photo-sensitive visors, so surely a merc with an M-8 assault rifle should be able to punch through that. Instant severe, if not fatal, casualty.

Not to mention the fundamental, defining aspect of the M.E. universe: the creation and generation of mass effect fields. If there was a way for the Citadel space races to even the score should conflict between the two factions break out, this would be it. Why? Because Terran scientists seem to have not even touched on this area of cosmic science.

Modified mass effect fields in small arms could allow for better penetration of armour. Utilising biotics on a larger scale could be a major boon as well - even Terrans cannot stop being torn apart atom by atom by a singularity. And so on and so forth.

OK, I think this rant of mine against this badfic is done. Sorry for wasting the community's time.

I will team up with someone on Teana's Travels. Teana would never quit the TSAB, it goes against her whole character, since her motivation for joining the TSAB was to restore her brother's honor, since he died in combat, and she wants to prove the techniques he taught her weren't useful, and that someone who didn't have a rare skill, or who wasn't absurdly powerful, could keep up with those who DID.

Nanoha, not Nahona, darn it.

Well done! You did a much better job at explaining the relationships between the canon characters this time. (Although I still wouldn't mind some more info on the canon. Any interest in making a wiki page for Nanoha?)

One error I noticed:
"As the emerged into the Pre-Fic space . . ."
should be, "As they emerged . . ."

Had a good laugh seeing Tera freak out when dealing with "her" human anatomy. And that rolling period was a grat idea too.

Loot:
A small vial of Nitrogen-Sodium compound (now in some DoSAT lab)
A black period, about the size of a basketball, that, when you hold it, makes you end every sentence with a period.
Eight knives, four labelled fear, four labelled jealousy

Minis:
Fate chan
Fate POV
Nanoha POV
Yunno
And Teana Lanstar, from the last mission, is still up for adoption.

And that's okay.

Though I didn't understand the half of it, it was still thoroughly enjoyable.

Actually, I don't know what Clavidos is. I mean, desdendelle uses a Barrier Jacket, which suggests a Mid-Childan Intelligent Device, but it speaks German, like a Belkan Armored Device! Unless it's like Eriol Mondial's Strada, which does both... (TL,DR: It's a magitek weapon from Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha)

Aww, this looks so fun! I wish I'd stayed on the chat.

(And, to be utterly pedantic, "turbolift" really is a single word. [Memory Alpha])

Words fail to describe the awesomeness that I have beheld.

More, please.

I'll look around once I've gotten more familiar with the canon.

I originally got this from Caddy, so it's doubly recommended. Honor Amongst Thieves

It's a 'What would have happened if Daniel had been found by Vala before being found by SG-1?' fic.

I like this fic: http://rydra-wong.dreamwidth.org/79396.html

It's the only non-crossover AU I can really say I think is excellent, and least as far as Stargate goes. The premise is really interesting. The first chapter's really weird, and it does require some familiarity with two season six episodes, but for all that, it's really well written, and you can probably get by without knowing about them.