Oct 2012 Archive, part a

There are many reasons that modern languages have punctuation. Latin is the only language I know of to lack spacing and punctuation, and that's because the words tell you which other words they modify. Also, Latin is hard to read when all the words are run together.

This probably wasn't helpful at all, but I tried.

*points at hS* What he said. :P

...dialogue punctuation is necessary. In fact, I have recently been charging heavily for a lack of it in my current missions.

Poor Cyba and Eagrus are getting sick of comma-storms...

I'm pretty sure I was always taught that dialogue needed punctuation (my last actual English lesson was over 10 years ago now, so there is some stuff I'm genuinely uncertain about).

I've certainly noticed that trend in badfic, though I'd never gone as far as checking the nationality of the authors to see if there was a pattern.

Taking a random sample of all of the British authors I've got books for on my bookshelves shows that they all use punctuation to end their dialogue each time.

In Italian we use a different type of marking for dialogue (hipens instead of quotation marks), but we still use full punctuation, so I'm afraid that whoever said they could be dropped has a low grasp of actual grammar.

... well, you already know. :P I've never heard any reasonable person say you can drop it - just badfic writers.

hS

So I just finished writing DOI report for Officer Rooney (we recruited him from one of Christianne and Eledhwen's missions). Could I get a DOI person to look it over for me?

If you need my meagre help, I'm happy to serve. I believe you have my mail.

singingthethunder1@gmail.com

You can reach me at expertmechanic [at] yahoo [dot] ca.

If you need a Beta, I can do that for you. SeraphWeasel@gmail.com.

To clarify, I mean the fic the very first mission is based on.

Sorry 'bout that.

I really like this mission! You two did a good job at describing the progressively weirder costumes equipped by the Sue. There were enough explanations by the Agents to help those who didn't know much about the 'verses in question to understand what was going on. Also, I really didn't expect death by karaoke to crop up in a PPC mission. That was priceless.

Keep it up!

NCIS? How te hell did that get there??? I mean, these are fantasy anime's! How does a mystery/crime show fit in there?!?!?!

DOESNOTCOMPUTEDOESNOTCOMPUTEDOENOT-

To be frank, I'm gonna have trouble reading this one without more of them. Everything is very smooshed together, and since my vision options at the moment are "no glasses and terrible eyesight" or "old glasses and lots of scratches and smudges," it's a hard prospect. ^_^;

Your options are:

1. Double line-break for each new paragraph (preferred online)

OR

2. Indenting the first line of each new paragraph (typical for print).

Right now you have no indents and only single line-breaks for most paragraphs, with the odd double line-break thrown in with no pattern I can discern, except the ones around badfic quotes. This is hard to read.

Also, every time someone new has an action, they get a new paragraph. I recently learned this goes for all actions, not just speech. You're kinda forced to pay more attention to which things happen in what order this way, leading to a clearer visual for the reader, and there's less confusion for readers trying to sort out what name belongs to what action/speech. It's hard to get used to doing if you aren't, but I've been working on it, and I think it's really made a positive difference for me. I recommend it.

I do look forward to the planet-shattering kabooms eventually, though. *g*

~Neshomeh

I'm not up to date with any of the series, but since when has that stopped me from enjoying missions?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAi4izfvXo4

The band is called Chameleon Circuit, and they have done a bunch of original songs about the Doctor Who universe. My favorite would probably be "Blink" but that's very episode specific, while this song basically sums up the series.

Doctor Who and Green Day, two of my favorite things in one song. It's stuff like this that I need to hold me over until Christmas.

This is what mash-ups are for. *sings along* Doctor Whoo-oo! Doctor Who! Doctor Whoo-oo! Doctor Who!

A lot of it is new, but it also has some bits from a really old Dr Who song... that I used to listen to when I was little.

And yeah, cool. Thanks for posting this.

*Warning spoilers of most recent Dr Who episode below!*






















Also, while I'm on the topic of Dr Who: did I miss a get-out clause or has Mr Moffat left a whopping great canon!plothole lying around in that last episode of Dr Who? He keeps plugging the fact that Rory waited 2k years for Amy (because he was a plastic Roman), so how come he managed die from old age - twice! - in that episode?

My next two missions for this group project are now also ready for beta-ing/Araeph's perusal (when better, of course). They can be found on my LJ memories along with the other two, friends only until fully beta-ed.

Sorry for the delays, everyone. I've come down with a cold and my reading comprehension, to say nothing of my writing ability, is well nigh zero. Hopefully by the end of this weekend/early next week, we can resume normal operations. Thanks for your patience!

Araeph

Just claim it, ya ninny. :P Put dibs on it right now and note that you've already got some missions in the pipeline so it won't be your immediate next target.

I haven't gotten a chance to start my missions yet, but I should probably start sometime... Also, I'll keep the idea of Huns as Mulan minis in mind.

Having discovered minis 'Zouh' and 'Emporer', and not having found a Mulan OFU or previous listing of a mini type for the continuum on the wiki, I have pencilled in mini-Huns (dragons being taken by Narnia). If nobody minds the idea of mini-Huns, Eagrus claims Zouh but Emporer is waiting at the adoption centre.

There is also a baby, Miley, delivered duly to the care of the PPC nursery.

Wanna see your childhood be ripped out from under you? Now's your chance! See Mr. Conductor be able to have sex with normal people (Don't worry, this is Work Safe.) See a blatant Sue! See Mr. Conductor go completely OOC!

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7100168/1/The-Magic-of-Gold-Dust

Also: A troll fic.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8530137/1/the-closeing-of-sodor

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8331843/1/Profile-Update
Summary: Carl the Intern wears a lot of hats at the OWCA. Naturally some responsibilities are a bit more fun than others. The tedious and sometimes disgusting job of maintaining surveillance on the DEI Building is brightened by one hilarious chore: keeping tabs on updates to Strudelcutie4427's online dating profile.

This is a cute little piece exploring the relationships between Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorporated the Organization Without a Cool Acronym - Doofenshmirtz and Perry, Perry and Vanessa, Monogram and Carl, Carl and Vanessa, even Carl and Perry - it's all in there. And in true Phineas and Ferb fashion, it's chock full of references to the episodes that highlight Doofenshmirtz's dating life. Well worth reading.

Draco Malfoy: Boy Who Lived, might sound like a Stu, but it's actually good.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8538091/1/Draco-Malfoy-the-Boy-Who-Lived

[Please note, actual levels of pleasure experienced may vary]

While searching for any remaining links to the badfics used for the Original Series, I came across a whole range of LotR badfic. The following are some of the ones that I feel DoI would flag up for special attention.

1) http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3307759/1/The-Tale-of-Vearanniel (rated T)

A Sue, possibly even the Sue. Her intro reads like someone looked up a Litmus Test, and then set out to fail it as quickly as possible. To summarise, her name is Vearnniel, and she’s from America, but ends up in Middle Earth after being trans-dimensionally snatched by ‘Gandalff’ so that she can fulfil her part in a prophecy. She has ‘gold hair that falls in a wondrous water fall down to her slim waist’, colour-changing eyes, as well as perfectly tanned and ’beutious’ skin. Both her parents died in plane crashes (one on Christmas, one on her birthday), so she has to live with her wicked stepmother evil stepaunt. She’s the smartest girl in her class, which means she has no friends and is picked on constantly.

Most of that is from the first three paragraphs, and trust me, it gets a lot worse from there.

2) http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6432818/1/Emerald-Istar (rated K+)

This is a re-write of ‘Ring Child’.

Yup, despite the best efforts of Ilraen, Supernumerary, Suicide and Diocletian (in a mission I very much enjoyed) Archir the Emerald is back! Archir’s character seems essentially unchanged, although he is slightly older (by which I mean a year or two), and his initial interactions with Gandalf seem slightly creepier to me.

3) http://www.fanfiction.net/s/538447/1/Once-Upon-A-Time (rated T)

This is a sequel to ‘All Souls Night’, otherwise known as Mission 13 from the Original Series. In this, Boromir is still alive and well, having married the Sue from All Souls, and has a sueish daughter. Cue a kidnapping and an excuse for the Fellowship to get back together again.

Featuring a couple of Sues, severely OOC Boromir (sadly, due to the timeline, breathing is out of character behaviour for him), varying levels of illogic, and general nonsense.

4) http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8512318/1/A-Dark-and-Terrible-Beauty (rated T)

Did you know that Gandalf had arranged for another... I'm gonna misuse the word ‘person’ here... to follow the Fellowship in secret, to keep them safe and help them out when they were in the most dire need? This is the previously untold (for good reason) story of that character.

Oh yeah, and she’s a shape-changing dragon.

We might need to get Spec Ops or ESAS in on this.

I usually allow a small margin of error within CLAMP universe fanfiction, as CLAMP does a very good job at wrapping things up and fanfiction authors feel the need to create a new story-line. This story, however, is not okay. Creating an AU that makes sense, or following a logical progression of events is fine. Throwing together things that do not make sense is not.
Most of the problems have already been covered by firemagic. The only gaping wound in the story I haven't seen addressed is the fact that Chobits, another of CLAMP's works, takes place in this universe many years later. Most of this would render that entire work null.

It should probably mentioned that this is a 'fic for the Studio CLAMP manga Angelic Layer.

The Stu calls a sentient Angel a munchkin marrionette. Is that a racial slur? It seems like it should be.

. . . I almost had to read every line you quoted from the badfic in a duller-than-Ben-Stein voice, the wording was so stilted and expressionless. Kudos to both of you for slogging through this.

I like how Kilroy's absence due to being in a certain other, currently unpublished mission is referenced in the beginning here. Aside from tying things together with a clear timeline, it gives all the agents involved in both a greater feeling of autonomy, since we see them functioning with a greater cast of PPC characters than in most spinoffs.

There was one scene I couldn't quite formulate in my mind. It's in the beginning, when Mike is shooting the targets on the wall while Tanya reads the mission report. Mike then turns to speak to Tanya, and is looking over her shoulder while firing, and Tanya has to duck under the line of fire. But . . . when I look over my shoulder while pretending to hold a gun, my arms don't wind up aiming anywhere remotely near where my head is facing. It seems to me the only way for Mike to end up shooting near Tanya here is to have swiveled her entire upper torso around.

One other, minor detail: when Jeanne starts to attack the Alucard replacement, the narration briefly refers to her as Mike. (Mike closed the remaining distance between . . . ) Since Jeanne seems not to identify as Mike in the scene immediately after, I thought this might be a mistake.

I giggled like crazy when the sue screamed "YOU DIE NOW" at Alucard.

"TODAY! IS THE DAY! IN WHICH YOU SHALL PERISH!"

*runs Generic Mook through with a Justice Sword if Justicey Truthiness*

Come on. I can't be the only guy who thought that. Or something like that.

Oh my, poor Mike and Tanya got another one of those Sues that think "state" is the only way to have a person say something. Jay and Acacia would know all about that!

I rather enjoyed the French exclamations. They made me happy. Only one note have I, and it has to do with how Tanya nodded at one point. "Tanya nodded, once and sharply." The wording seemed just a teensy bit...off to me, but maybe that's just personal preference...

Hey, welcome! Enjoy your stay, cuz you'll be here for a looooong time :)

Welcome to the Board! Have some of my hydrophobic water to commemorate the event. Also try our new hydrophilic cookies!

Ooh, another Pokémon fan. What's your favourite type? I like Ice for its raw offensive potential.

Welcome a-Board newbie! I believe it may have been pointed out, but pleases take a trip to our Wiki (http://ppc.wikia.com/wiki/PPC_Wiki), our Constitution (https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=18hztHpDehxcfrjaXoFUew1vb0BdZPDAusHxMHzHiCzM), and the Original Series (http://www.misssandman.com/PPC/story.html). Those are the main pillars of our community and they will grant you infinite knowledge of a very narrow field.

Aside from that, have a clockwork clock, guaranteed to tick* 'till you forget to wind it. Cheers!

~ThatOne


*Tocks not included in regular plan. For premium plan (includes tocks and seconds hand) add twelve denarii and fifteen yen.

Have a bag of pebbles and a Random Shiny Object.

Have a graduated cylinder and welcome!

Welcome to the PPC! Here, have a coconut. :D

Greetings Ranger! Welcome to the PPC! Please enjoy your stay here.

Have my eternal friendship!

*Hands over contract*

Have this ordinance gun. It shoots explosive rubber ducks. How? I don't know. Why? You don't ask why here.

Well, welcome aBoard!

Welcome aboard!

Hmmm...Morning Star Ranger, huh? Have some daybreak starglasses - think sunglasses but for the dawn, the only time when morning and stars could cross over. They are very useful for looking cool at the right time of day!

Do you have a team of Boarders With Varying Degrees of Attitude yet?

If not, to help you in your quest, or to help you fight Sues, have a Jaal'darya biogolem! It's shaped like a giant transforming robot, except it's small.

Also, I will give you a cookie if you know what I'm referencing without using Google.

Hi and welcome. You should read the Constitution (read: must read it) -- there's a link on top of the Board. It is also recommended to read the Original Series; you can find a link to it in the wiki, which is also linked to the top of this page. You are also more than welcome to hang around the IRC -- again, link on top of this page.
Last but not least, have a gift of Camelia Sinsesis Carnivorae, tea made from the best carnivorous tea leaves there are. Just don't let the leaves eat you.

Hi, have some fudge!

Do you have a favorite fandom?

Ahem, remind me not to do that again.
Anyway, not entirely sure what a Morning Star Ranger is, so have a real morningstar, perfect for braining those pesky Sues.

Greetings, Ranger, and welcome! I am not a giant floating head in an overlarge aquarium, nor a slightly annoying overlarge relative of Robby the Robot, but I am still authorized to bid you hello and good day. In that vein of thought, here, have a near-infinite Bag of Holding. Trust me; you'll need it around here.

Anebrin's probably concussed or in some sort of shock. Also, he probably shouldn't be walking if he's running into walls after being hit on the head, but since when have the flowers been great on employee safety?

(Also, technical note: are Fighter, Ranger and the like supposed to be titles? I figured they were, due to the setting and the consistency with which you did it, but if they aren't then they need to not have capitals at the beginning.)

After that, Des' trick of "I've analyzed your fandom," actually reads okay, for Des being in shock/concussed. It does make some sense for ppc agents that come from world one to guess fandoms that they're very familiar with, and it's not especially Sherlock-style specific. Anebrin not having a lot of reaction to what is essentially a non-personal deduction is okay, because, let's face it, Sherlock gets cussed out because he blurts out things that are private in front of all of Scotland Yard. What I have slight trouble with is that Anebrin might be surprised that someone knows what type of elf he is, even if there are multiple types in his home world: either they are easy to tell apart (as they probably are in a videogame) or they are very hard to tell apart, and so far his only experience is within his own world. He does not know where he is, that there might be elves from other worlds in HQ, or even what has happened to him. If it is easy, in his setting, to tell elves apart based on dress and hair color, he shouldn't be as shocked by Des' deduction as he is. (Compare: Hey, I see you have red hair and green eyes, are you Irish? Yeah, I know it's stereotypical, but if it works in the setting he'd be used to it.)

If Anebrin is going to get riled up, I'd think that knowing where he came from would be the thing to bother him, unless the elf group is some sort of secret in the game. Plus, the getting riled up just doesn't seem to jive right with how stunned he was a moment before. He needs to transition from stunned to wigging out over things being crazy, or something.

However, the battle scene read a lot better than the last time.

Right, let's do this. Analysis, ho!

The Profiles

Anebrin: Well, I'm going to assume you've characterised Irdiyan elves correctly... :P. Actually this is quite interesting, because while 'falls through a plothole into HQ' is a common origin story, it's almost exclusively for World One agents. And, going on to the story, it's very rare that the actual fall-through gets written. No problems here, provided he does develop personality beyond 'Is Basically Haldir'.

Desdendelle: I love the idea of 'Oh, yeah, I'm from basically World One, only they teach us axes in school'. However, as with every gimmicky origin, it really needs to be used as something other than a gimmick. If you don't ever mention his homeworld again (do they have legal duels? Are wars constrained to ancient weapons?), it just becomes a way to accelerate his weapons training for free - a deus ex machina, basically. So that's a warning flag, but not a major one. I have no problems with the rest of his character, as he falls nicely into the Standard-PPC-Agent slot.

(Oh, and: argh, more Floaters? Seriously, is specialisation so hard?)

The Storywords

Wow, that's a lot of betas. Actually that almost worries me, since it means any problems may have been filtered out - but I suspect Vixenmage wouldn't let that happen for a Permission piece.

I'm flagging a few somewhat 'off' uses of linking words in your sample - for example, 'as well as that stony, burnt smell the more experienced Rangers and Avengers told the rest of the elves was that of troll shamanic magic' feels a bit heavy on the 'that's, and 'If things would have gone as planned' just sounds strange - but since those are the only two I found in the first page, and I'm actually looking for them, I don't think it's a problem. Again, the second sentence I just referenced is quite long - but I haven't tagged any others as being too long, so it's not a major concern.

As to the rest of the piece: I've already mentioned that Anebrin's reactions are bothering me, and I'll expand on that. He comes across as confused and disoriented... but not disoriented enough. He seems coherent enough that he should be reacting more strongly to what's happening - particularly if (and I don't know if it is) teleportation is possible in his canon.

I'm also somewhat concerned over how lax the Marquis is getting over recruiting proceedures. I'm sure there used to be at least some paperwork... actually Dafydd tells me he had to wait two days for them to find a copy in a language he could read - and then another two days while he filled it out. But this is the PPC, we're a bit haphazard over that sort of thing, so no real problems there.

Overall, I'm quite impressed. I went back and reread your last request thread, and the comments there were mostly that your writing was bland and unexpressive. I think you've fixed that quite well (although, always room for improvement), so unless someone's spotted something I didn't...

Permission Granted.

Go wild. ;)

hS

PS: The glasses-related comment in Anebrin's thoughts amused me, possibly because I've played around with the idea myself. ~hS

I understand that Des is supposed to be an author-avatar of you, but is he also supposed to be a Sherlock Holmes write/look/sound alike? I'm getting this for a) your description of him having a "Sherlock Holmes-esque coat" (Not that that's bad, but the many different adaptations of Sherlock have featured different coats, so it's not really a sound description) and b) his immediate analysis of Anebrin. It's a bit far-fetched for him to get every single thing correct, especially because there are so many different types of elves and The Battle of Wesnoth is not a very well-known fandom (I'm basing this off the 0 fanfics I've found for it on ff.net). Anebrin also has very little reaction to this analysis, which is unusual as Sherlock Holmes gets cussed at a lot whenever he does it. You might want to look into that.

Mind relinking when you see this?

I especially like the "John Watson is not in the mood to indulge you" icon. Hee...

Could I see a... significantly longer writing sample? Three hundred words is very short, and your sample doesn't cover areas I'd like to see.

That said, a few thoughts:

Why is a pure-blood Slytherin skipping through HQ while singing Gilbert & Sullivan? This is decidedly Not the Slytherin Way.

Why is a LoTR elf condemned to speak in Urple? We have the technology - in the form of the Reality Room or beatings with large sticks - to fix this.

I like it! Granted, the characters and the story could use a tad bit more fleshing out, but otherwise your characters are creative and original, especially Coriander's urple prose curse. The only thing that caused me any confusion was the fact that her name was misspelt as Mareln, and is now Mare Elm. Was the switch from an n to an m on purpose? By the way, Mare is quite a nice name; did you know it means sea in Italian?

I think you may want to flesh out that piece a bit, mate. It's a tad short.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7164234/1/Chornicles_of_narnia_love_story

The title should tell you enough. The shifts from second to first person, often in the middle of sentences are just the scum on the Ankh.

You mean to say these past Badfic Games have never seen something that was more entertaining than cringetainment?

Well then. /bows

Anyway, it was fun being the really annoying bad femslash and bad het writer who turns her own Agents into blatant caricatures, and equally fun to write in, like hS did with JayBird's stuff, those Agents' reactions. Because I genuinely cannot sit down and write something terrible for long stretches of time. Eurgh.

And then it was even more fun to write the PPC Sherlock AU (OMG PUNS) even if it was in present tense which feels a bit disjointed from other missions! I'd been wanting to try a new way of writing a mission - arriving in-fic after the Canon has been demolished, figuring out the canker like a detective mystery, and then setting things right. Only problem is then it's not as assassination as it is detective-work but hey. PPC Sherlock.
(I may or may not be running amok with the idea of Sherlock Holmes, Consulting Sue Slayer elsewhere on the internet. Oops.)

Also, this was the first game in which my own Agents got written about in someone else's story and I will admit, I giggled like a loon. Because GrimChick6x9's portrayal of Eledhwen and Christianne was hysterical (and fluffy, and her comments with ~AmythystQeen~ made me gigglesnort because I really like pulling LesYay with Ellie and Chrissy... oop).

I am glad to be of service.

Anyway, it was another fun year for the PPC badfic game. I was, of course, D4rkm0k (self-proclaimed M4573r 0f d4rkn355), Ponyrella96 (lover of ponies and Katy Perry), and Dystopian_Utopia (who is a dick). I enjoyed most of what I wrote. The jury is still out on DU.

Anyway, D4rkm0k needs to finish "An Unexpected Dwarf" and Ponyrella will continue writing the adventures of Sparkly Desu and the Department of Cute and Unique Friendships. DU will also be back with "Inner Strength" (or as I call it, "Ithalond Kills the PPC Universe") next year.

TheGreatDestroyer was a worth adversary. I like that hS was cheering for TGD against DU. I guess it's true what they say, "Either die a villain or live long enough to see yourself become a hero." Pretty sure that's how it goes.

Also, I love that Nume has somehow joined the ranks of Dafydd and Suicide as fangirl bait. Lots of fun watching Nesh's reaction every time Nume got shipped.

-Phobos

To get into the mindset, I tried to imagine a twelve year old girl who likes pink, kittens, and sparkles. She had probably watched Sailor Moon, and probably only read a mission or two. Then I made her the type to write and fill in the misspellings with whatever was the first suggestion, be it right or not.

There are defiantly different types of bad fic that have been explored. The raging 'Sue with good SPaG Jaycacia, The morbid squicky mess that Dystopian Utopia was responsible for,the very VERY bad slash of Lilith Wydenbrooke the unintelligible ramblings of TEH PSOICIC WALE (or however it may have been spelled), and the most common misspelled 'Sue which made up the rest of the fics. It was also interesting to see PPC goodfic, something that I would hope to explore further. Perhaps some crossovers?

Obviously, I was FyreStarBlossom. This was one of the more fun ones, though I also wish I'd thought to do more kinds of bad than blatant mispellings (though, that was more me not checking the way I spell things, since I type quick and make a couple errors most of the time.) I wonder, can I edit my two badfics up on the website? I might want to continue those, and see just how terrible I can make them. And how satisfying their deaths can be.

Even though I would have wished for more shades of bad than just I SPEL RLY RLY BED!

I was Ameyumi-sama and Penguin King, by the way. And I have to say, I find Ameyumi-sama's writing "style" hilarious.

Also, the last (fifth) chapter of The Marquise's Secret still doesn't have line breaks. :(

As bad as my fanbrat fics used to be, I don't recall ever claiming to know any authors/artists in them. And I could actually spell rather decently.

xXlongxhairxshinyxthingsXx was like fanbrat, thirteen-year-old me on steroids, hence only two chapters. But it was fun to use her as a way to tease everyone in my hometown who still remains unable to spell or pronounce my name correctly. All in good fun - and thankfully I have yet to be called 'Carilinia'!

Being relatively new here, this was the first Badfic Game I was present for. I was teh-psychic-whale, and I really wish I could have written more than I did. Then again, when you're writing a story about a psychic whale that sets universes on fire and has sex with ghosts, there's really not a whole lot to build on. That description is all you need.

But anyway, yeah, great ride. And who knows, maybe next time I'll continue the adventures of TEH PSICOCH WHAAL... or however you feel like spelling it.

I think we should really do an AU writing challenge sometimes.

A while ago, the Steampunk!PPC of... who was it? I already don't remember anymore... anyways, that was a good concept, and I particularly liked Firemagic's Magical Girl PPC idea too.

Or maybe a "Put a canon character together with a seasoned PPC Agent, and send them after a badfic in another canon." challenge.

Could be incredibily funny, or also can be a way to explore a character's psycology when out of his/her normal context.

I added a few more paragraphs, if mah boi Sevenswans is going to look it over still. Pwease?

Which makes me a decent editor for gross grammatical errors, since I'm not distracted. :) I've been through it quickly for grammar.

Good luck in school!

I'm not a fan of either, but I know both series casually. I stopped after a few pages of jerk->nice->jerk, mixed with fanart, fanservice and WTFery. I've seen Ask-based comics that were genuinely funny and used the comments in a creative way, but this just became repetitive and kind of boring after a while.

Not a big Who fan, but this still looks pretty neat. I READ!

It is also an Ask blog, but with a storyline. There are many other Asks that are in the same universe, such as Askthetime_Master, i beleive it is called. Note that The Doctor is Out is often NSFW and the Master's blog is occasionally NSFB, and almost ALWAYS NSFW

...and you probably aren't, but Im'ma tell you anyway. As soon as I get my wireless connection back, Im'ma post a copy of the mission on Dreamwidth, which was my initial plan anyway. There'll be a link to the Dreamwidth version on Caroline and Veralyn's pages on the wiki when that happens.

/does not like Google Docs at all.

Reading the mission, it was really well written. I'd say more, but the people who have posted before me have put it in better words. I do believe the interactions between Caroline and Veralyn was one of the things that got my attention. The rather heated bickering between them made them pretty interesting, and real.

All in all, this was a very enjoyable mission to read.

Very nice work. Thank you so much for killing this abomination. :)

From reading your mission, that badfic really needed destroying - and you did it well. And the agents getting used to pony bodies - absolutely brilliant! Well done!

Finally! This has been a long time coming, and it's a great mission. Here are my thoughts on the mission, in no order.

One thing: I thought the disguise thingy automatically fixes it so that Agents can pick up things like walking or flying really quickly--one of my agents, Tera, was able to adjust to missing 3 of her eyes and a tail thanks to that.

Oh well, it's an entertaining sequence.

Interesting--I think another agent, I forget who, was supposed to die in their home fic. But since they didn't they had ridiculous bad luck all the time.

The Ritual of Activation of Ancient And Possibly Cantankerous Machine-Spirits was quite funny.

Hm... Honestly, I'm not sure if the violent deaths of the Proctors, Caroline ripping off Replacement Dash's wings, and death by grinder violate the laws on torture.

Wait, Caroline was missing her cutie mark? I didn't know that.

All in all, this was a good mission. Nice job.

Thank you for taking care of this mess! It's bad fanfiction like this one that make me wonder what the hell is wrong with some people!

Also, why was the sacrificial lamb pony named after the author? Is it a sadomasochistic kind of thing?

Eh, whatever... glad this piece of crap was finally taken care of...

No, seriously, it is.

There are so many things I love about this mission: Caroline's stand against Veralyn's attitude, rescuing Aurora Dawn and Orion, Kilroy and his 40k-related vocabulary, and the purging of the Factory. You've even managed to integrate humour into this piece, a remarkable achievement for a fic so dark.

You've even picked up on some charges Gaspard missed out on during his Intel run. Looking back on it, I can't believe I've managed to miss those...

In my opinion, the only thing that weighed this mission down was the more-violent-than-usual assassination.

You did a wonderful job with this. Have some Seasons of War, performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

One last thing: if it's all right with you and if she's up for adoption, may I please have Aurora Dawn? I promise to take good care of her!

So my phone hates the wiki. To the point that I can't link the story anywhere. Or edit anything in general.

-sobs-

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

Welcome! Welcome! To the greatest show on earth! Here, we have no meaning for sanity, and all our dictionaries are severely hitting people! (who said words never hurt anybody?) So sit back, relax, and enjoy the ride...

Hello there young dwarf star! Welcome to our community of psychos and writers, and please note that some of us belong in both of the previous categories. Let's see... *rummages around in large sack* I have a top hat with your name on it! No really, it actually has your name on it, right here under the brim. See? "SiriusA" right there in gold lettering. I wonder how that got there... *scratches head in confusion*

Here, have a totally harmless Awake. It gives your insomnia just the boost it needs. Also it multiplies if you don't feed it on time.

Have a graduated cylinder and welcome to the insanity!

Welcome to the Board! Have some of my hydrophobic water to commemorate the event. Do not look directly at substance unless you want to cause a reality-bending paradox.

Welcome a-Board newbie! Your name reminds me of this wonderful webcomic of which I am a fan. To give some context, it's like Hetalia (an anime/manga about personified countries) but for planets. For you I have a radish gun, capable of shooting radishes up to 200 feet or your money back*. Enjoy!

~ThatOne (or TO if you wish)


*Money not refundable if gun is given as a gift, purchased from any country but Monaco, or stolen. Warranty does not cover exploding guns.

Here, take this plank and this constitution. You'll need them.

Have a Laceration Telescope and a Decoding Transmitter-Radio! I haven't any idea what either of these does, but I'm almost sure that they do not explode. Without warning, anyway.

Hmmm... digging in my pockets for your gifts produces two litmus strips, half a roll of twine, a mandarin orange, and a calculator chip. I suppose you can have the scented marker too.

Welcome to the community! Don't be afraid - we don't bite! We even give you presents! (The presents might bite, though.)

As a newbie present, have the total contents of my pockets at this moment! (Thirteen cents, a hall pass, a pencil stub, a piece of string, and far too much lint.) I'm sure you'll find some use for it.

Have a thing. I built it in my sleep. There is a button on top, but I'm afraid to press it.

Have some cans of CAFfeine. The wake you up drink made only from the most sickening Cute Animal Friends.

Side effects may include a hightened Cuteness Proximity Reaction and growth of claws.

Hi, have some fudge!

Welcome aboard! Have a pile of chocolate to celebrate!

Good to meet you. Have a bag of pebbles and a Random Shiny Object.

Hi and welcome!
First of all, you should read The Constitution. The Original Series is also a recommended reading. The PPC also has a Wiki and an IRC channel and you're more than welcome to browse the former and join the chitchat in the latter.

Last but not least, have a gift of Camelia Sinsesis Carnivorae: a bag of the finest carnivorous tea leaves there are. Just don't let them eat you.

Welcome to the family! Here, have this sentient bucket KittyNoodles accidentally made a few weeks ago. It needs a good home.

Welcome a-Board! Here is a near-infinite Bag of Holding; trust me, you'll need it.

Here, nibble on this rainbow-chip cookie and tell us your favorite fandoms and such, yes?

Well, it's handled agent-by-agent. For example! *pulls out list of non-human-agents*

Well, Agent Tera (sort of a bug-human thing) doesn't normally wear clothes. She does have a scarf that works just fine, and she keeps her patch on it. Agent Narav mostly wears a plain black robe (made of skin) and keeps his patch on a belt, because giant wolfman. Dr Kindheart is a unicorn, but she has a doctor's coat from MLP and an armband, and a pair of saddlebags that she stores her emergency kit in. She also has a set of specially-made light armor that fits over her chest, forelegs, and most of her barrel, because she got tired of getting bitten or scratched by monsters or whatever. Finally, Agent Riaa'lzhor is a drider, so she has to get modified shirts and stuff (in her RC, she has a box of modified Snuggies, because they're actually practical for her) and a really modified saddlebag/belt-pouch thing.

I think that all of them would find special support groups hilarious. Tera might go along just to see what's up, Kindheart would go to make sure actual, correct psychology was being practiced, and Narav would go to see if he could find any new and interesting kinds of blood. If you decide to write the support group thing, then feel free to drop me a message--I'd love to help with that.

Hmmm... somehow I missed that on my latest read-through of the permissions page. Thank you, MadHatteress. (Aw, it's a very cute mini-boarder!)

My one concern with this piece is that it's a little long. (No permissions giver should have to wade through that story when it's not finished... and I have just shy of 7 k words written and posted so far.) I suppose I'll scrounge up something else that I've written recently, or I could just have them read the first chapter.

To quote the wiki with regards to Permission pieces: "A link to a sample of your own writing. This does not need to be related to the PPC, but should be representative. We want to see whether you can write well, basically."

So far as I have been told, its actually preferable to write a non-PPC piece for Permission than it is to write, say, the beginning to a mission.


As to the other question, I'm afraid I'm just as in the dark about that as you are.

Hope what I could find helps!

Due to the considerable variety of agents in the PPC, it's implied that all personnel wear a non-uniform uniform. The only rules about clothing is that it has to be black and it has to have the departmental flash patch on it somewhere.

Support groups for non-human agents, eh? To my knowledge, none exist yet but you could do as TheMadHattress suggests and start one when you obtain Permission.

According to the wiki, your permission piece does not have to be PPC related, so your PPC spirited piece should be fine. I am also planning to use a non-PPC piece, as soon as I get off my lazy bum and finish it. As for the second question, as far as I know no such group exists, so maybe you or your agent could start one. Maybe it could be a co-write, I don't know!
By the way, here's a link to the wiki article:
http://ppc.wikia.com/wiki/Permission

Warning: contains disproportionately large amounts of HAIR.

Don't attempt to brush your teeth while watching this video.

*wipes off face*

-Adjusts his glasses-

I don't like YouTube poops. But I'll drop this nice piece of music here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzTBNfQ7_GA

..one of the funniest things I'v read for a LONG while. I like how the story was paced, and the ending made me LOL until I cried. Good work!

Oh, Harris, you make me laugh until I sneeze ginger ale. Kinda stings actually.

This was fun - I especially like that you gave the Ironic Overpower a demented sense of humor. Can't wait for the next installment!

And now I know why it's an (un)intelligence report. If this keeps up, someone will have to have words with Harris, as soon as they've found a mop, of course.

I see Harris is one of those coworkers. I like his single-mindedness in focusing on the one particular Atlantis on his one particular Earth. Hopefully, he'll get some vacation time (eventually) so he can visit one of the worlds with an actual Atlantis, and calm down in his obsession a bit (or get louder in it).

It occurred to me while reading this, would it perhaps be a smart idea to make a page on the wiki with Intel cubicle numbers, akin to the RC number page? I know there's only a few used now, but if Intel becomes more popular in the future, it will be easier to keep track of what cubicles are already taken if we start now.

I like this format—short and sweet with a good laugh at the end. You set it up beautifully and didn't rush to the end, taking time for character descriptions and setting the stage, which allows for building anticipation and curiosity and makes the final payoff all the better. Good work! I look forward to more of these. {= D

Poor Harris. It seems he hasn't quite gotten himself unstuck from his badfic role yet. Hopefully this incident will help him grow.

~Neshomeh

I've always been quite fond of Intel (hence my semi-adoption of the Sub Rosa and Architeuthis - although, of course, since they aren't actually mine, you can use them if you need them), and it's fun to watch them at... whatever that thing is that isn't work. I think I've heard of it... plae? Pliy? Something like that.

It's good to see Bulldog's definitely fully recovered from his House-Elf episode (and see him turning into an actual character!).

I'm also intrigued by the fact that Harris can go from 'I was recruited from a fic' to 'I'm from the real World One' in a few lines; I suppose it's the same as the difference between Middle-earth and a LotR-fic - they're the same world, but one is warped. It adds weight to my thus-far-unvoiced theory(/fact) that World One isn't actually our world... but enough of that.

Fun stuff. RiTe MoAr!!1. :P

hS