Nov 2012 Archive, part b

Because I'm that kind of person.

In all seriousness (pfft!) though, I have a reason for this.

So, I discovered a fic in the Tales of Vesperia continuum that, and I kid you not, has introduced me to two (as of present) Sue colors that seem to not be recorded on the wiki.

Firstly: Pilver.

Yes, it's pink and silver. A hideous combination of the two. And it wad on a neck accessory, of all things.

The second one is Whirple.

Whirple is white and purple. Or (as I found a misspelling later on), while and purple. Don't ask how, I couldn't tell you.

Since I am fail at wiki, could somebody log these into the database if they don't already exist?

Thankies.

Sure! Email is in field.

You can chuck it my way at lilywinterwood@gmail.com!

Mail is desdendelle@gmail.com. I'm on sick leave from the IDF for the next three days (till Tuesday; Wednesday I'm back at the base), so you'd better mail the profiles before that.

Of course. I adore my twisted thoughts. They make me happy.

and there were ten people in the same cosplay as me.
We proceeded to play the pocky game.
So... yeah.
/hides under a rug

In the vein of xkcd's "Making out with yourself" theme, the good/bad copies would certainly make for a... an interesting version of that. I don't think I could ever write it, but I'll bet done well, it could be a pretty good story. Toon-version Jackie might not be the best subject, but it could work.

And... uh, yes. Though as you might be able to tell from the above, that doesn't really register on my 'twisted' scale, at least not as more than a blip.

Yeah.

I'm a straight guy who once imagined a Train/Creed pairing in Black Cat.

It still haunts me to this day.

Why...augh. Just augh.

But Legendary Badfic squickinesss can sometimes be re-interpreted, say, two characters across fandoms are pretty similar personalities, and if Character A does something squicky then I might imagine Character B doing it. And then I'll be like "How horrible I am, to make Character B do that!" And then comes the Bleeprin. Here, have some.

Sooner or later it'll bite you right in the [PUDDING].

Uhm, I occasionally thoughts sort of like that, only more, "What if I got cloned... and then the clone got genderbent? Would we have a kind of 'best friends who may be siblings' relationship? Would we fall in love? Would that count as narcissism? What would the kids look like?"

And no, I have not read any books on the subject of being romantically involved with your own clone or traveling back in time to become your own ancestor. It's something I am able to contemplate on my own, which is terrifying.

I also tend to imagine myself doing really horrible and/or life-threatening things, and how easy those things would be to do, and why I would never, never do those things... It's kind of like contemplating my own evil counterpart, and, again, is rather frightening.

Oh god... Oh god... Gah. "What would a badfic involving Aslan and Severus Snape riding off into a horny glose sunset be like?"

-weeps-

-WEEPS-

I've some pretty weird thoughts, but they're more like 'something exists (postulate) but I don't know what' than 'chicken with ties'...
Here, have some Handel to distract you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ETyInYfMSE

If not, no agent other than possibly a Spy should be going into it. If so, it is worthy of the attention of the PPC.

As to whether it's doable, a second question: Would it be funny to write (and read) a mission into it? If not, it shouldn't be written. If so, then go for it.

hS

I'm in, for whatever it's worth. I've been around about as long as you have, so I guess that counts for perspective or something. I'm not a huge fan of my voice on recording, but I doubt anyone else cares, so I can suck it up. {= )

I can draw, but I am not reliable at it, as anyone who was in the March Madness event knows. >.>; You're welcome to use any PPC-related art I've already done, though—just try to avoid the older, crappier ones. ^_^; And pictures of other people's characters would probably need permission from them, too.

~Neshomeh

It should be, anyway.

I am rather lacking in video skills, and utterly swamped with school/work/writing right now, but I do remember bits and pieces of the PPC community history; I'd be happy to archive-trawl, jabber at a voice recorder, or what-have-you.

I'd definitely contribute--video if I can figure out how to record off my webcam, definitely audio. Unfortunately, I have the drawing skills of a five-year-old.

I've spent the last half hour sketching in most of the major events I can remember. This assumes that things like new departments aren't significant (except for, I guess, the first one - but I don't know what that was); in general, anything which has been done before doesn't deserve a mention. So the Oxford Gathering '04 is on there, and will include mentions of the others - but the others don't get their own slots unless something special happened at them.

Anyway... if you can think of anything that should go on the list (particularly since 2008 - it's all a bit of a blur!), or if you want to volunteer to write/say/film&say something about a particular event, this is the time to do it... please. ;)

Huinesoron's Concise History of the PPC

2001

FotR released

2002

Creation of the PPC - Rambling Band extract
Launch of OFUM (August, apparently)

2003

Relaunch of the Oddlots homepage (& the Board?)
Me!
(Apparently my original version of Origins dates to November of this year...)

2004 - The year many PPC traditions began

Knights Who Go ^^
Oxford Gathering - The first PPC Gathering
July: First badfic contest (ffL in '06) [I have several stories dating back this far saved]
? The Board Shipfest
The Battle of Goldberg
'The Lord of the Things' RPG (http://www.alswaiter.net/LOTR/Things/; may be the only reference for the old chatroom, but it's a good'un)

2005

Reorg
Snowfight
TungstenMonk dissects a troll (http://www.alswaiter.net/LOTR/Msts/troll.htm)

2006

Multiverse Monitor launched

2007

December: The Wiki

2008 - the year of emergencies

March: The Anniversary Party, Macrovirus Epidemic and Mary-Sue Invasion - the death of Makes-Things and the ban on emergencies
May: Generic Surface launched
The Ypur Invasion & the Other Board
PPC wedding - hS & Kaitlyn

2009


2010


2011


2012

UNDATED - anyone know a date we can hang on these?

The IRC
The old chat (from the beginning?)

hS

My friend Brian would like to volunteer his expertise and possibly his services if you contact him at birdmanbjnue@yahoo.com
He doesn't always check his e-mail very regularly, so it might be better to find him or the production company he works with on facebook.
http://www.facebook.com/goodlamm.prod

I would love to see a documentary on the PPC Community.
You're a veteran Boarder, you'd do a great job. If you contacted Miss Cam or Jay and Acacia...wow. *falls down and worships*
So I say go for it!

This sounds like a lot of fun!
I'd be willing to do an interview or something!

I'm all for it! Except, I'm not exactly sure I would be comfortable showing my face on camera. Maybe I could just put a hood over my eyes...

I'm not that comfortable with sending pictures or voice recordings over the internet but I can write something if you're interested... provided, once again, that Real Life lets me breathe for two seconds.

What exactly do you have in mind for written material? Short stories, Q&A sessions, reactions/essay-type things, or a mix of all of the above?

I have a microphone, so I could record my voice. I can also draw, but terribly, so that should be a last resort.

(I guess we're assuming not many non-PPCers are likely to see this? Don't want negative attention from trolls and whatnot.)

And yes, I'd do an interview... video would be unlikely, but with my measly art skills I could at least provide an image.

Not sure if I do anything to help, but I can interviewed if you want.

Only thing is, my English pronunciation is TERRIBLE. Who wants to "dub" me?

Sign me up for an interview/spiel/etc.! This sounds like so, so, SO much fun! (Not to mention a great way to get publicity!)

Seems fun, let's do this. I'm willing to help, but I've no idea how much free time I'll have in the next three months or so.

I have a friend who's part of a small film production company and he might be willing to help out. If nothing else, he'd be a good person to ask for advice. I've got his e-mail somewhere...

I'll record interviews, readings, anything you like. *jumps up and down with one hand in the air* I would totally volunteer to do a reading from Rambling Band! XD

I could do video with my webcam, though it won't be very high quality. I personally don't have any qualms about letting my face/name be known. (Apart from the fact my face might scare people. :P) And the idea of seeing Dafydd again would be awesome!

So yeah, consider this an enthusiastic supporting statement. :p

I could draw stuff when the bulk of my college apps are out. And I conceivably could also provide audio, but I'm not too big on recording (my voice is creepy recorded, imo).

I'm not willing to put my real-life name or voice online, and I'm no good with video splicing or anything like that.

I suppose I could try to draw something - maybe make a big ok' Specs and Co. logo to represent me, and so avoid having to shore people my dodgy drawing skills.

I could definitely do a written spiel. Goodness knows it's where my strengths lie, right?

If this went through, I'd probably need to know what I would be writing. I could probably handle it from there and, I dunno, email it in or something?

Could work.

I'm not, so I don't feel comfortable making a final decision. However, I'm leaning toward a "not yet." Your writing is okay in that the SPaG checks out, but I thought the overall tone was more angry than it was funny (both characters seem to have quite the snooty 'tude on them), and I found myself confused about where we were, what was happening, who was speaking, etc., more than I like.

For instance, I didn't find out we were in a Suefic before somewhere in the middle of the second page. Up until that point, everything relating to the mission is a past-tense discussion of how it went, so I thought it was over and Cale just had an RC with an odd-colored floor.

Incidentally, did you know the crash dummies deflate into squishy cubes for storage and transportation?

Another specific issue I can point to is dialogue attribution. You really, really don't need a tag for everything, and it can become incredibly redundant, such as in this one:

- "‘I’m sorry, okay,’ she apologised"

I could see she was apologizing because she said she was sorry. The narrator didn't need to tell me that. I was paying attention, I promise.

That's the most obvious example, but it comes up elsewhere, too, as in "the troll rationalized", "she remarked", "she conceded", etc. Almost always, such tags are redundant. I know she just rationalized, remarked, or conceded something, because I read the bit where she did it. Context supplies the how and why much better than being told about it.

For comparison, here's a good example of well-attributed dialogue:

- "Cale looked at her, bemused. ‘So you know why I’m here?’"

The description of Cale's expression tells me it's her line of dialogue and supplies everything I need to know about her tone, without any extra "she verbed" bit tacked on the end. It's clean, efficient, and effective. More like this would be better; or even just "Cale said" if you need to distinguish who's talking. You can't go too far wrong with a nice, simple "said."

On the other hand, it's easy to get carried away with huffs and sniffs and snaps and sighs and other extraneous noises. It's actually very difficult to speak those sounds, particularly the sniff. I dare you to try it sometime. {; P You definitely can't speak a gesture, as here:

- "‘Cale, I am so glad you are back. Please, explain to me how the “it oon database” works,’ Narciss gestured towards the console."

Also, not to spark another argument about paragraphing, but I would really seriously discourage everyone from writing lines with one person's actions next to another person's dialogue. It can get confusing quickly. For instance, take these lines:

- "Cale glared up at a grey face, which was fixed in a disapproving expression. ‘I did try to get your attention,’ the troll rationalised. Cale moved to rub her thumb against her palm, but stopped in mid-motion. Nervous tics were dead give-aways, and although ‘Professor’ Holmes wasn’t snickering at her currently, she was trying to break the habit before the end of the semester."

This dialogue is in the middle of a paragraph all about Cale, so it should be Cale's dialogue. If the reader doesn't know the grey face goes with the troll, they're going to be confused. The problem is compounded when we get to the next paragraph:

- "‘I thought you were supposed to stay in your “tower”,’ she remarked. The troll snorted, flopping down beside her."

Who is speaking here? We just left a Cale paragraph, and a new paragraph signals a new speaker, so it can't be Cale. But wait, it actually is Cale, even though the troll has an action on that line, which would normally signal that it's the troll's dialogue.

This is a problem because time that the reader spends figuring out what's going on with the dialogue is time they're not spending being involved in the story. You want to keep them hooked and not give them any excuse to wander off until you're good and done, yes? {= )

Anyway, those are the things that jump out at me. I really think another PG or two should add their two cents, especially since I can't comment at all on the characterization of the troll.

~Neshomeh

The first thing I noticed was the tone. It's clear that Cale has been around the block for a while (appropriate for someone coming from a fanfiction academy - those places can get rough) and she seems to be adjusted well enough to the missions aspect of the PPC to already work through things.

That's actually very interesting - an agent who plans things out rather than jumping into a fic with the DORKS and the closest weapon and waiting until they figure they have clearance to kill stuff. Also, it makes for great background to her being an overenthusiastic intern and learning why most people just show up and shoot things.

I'm supposed to be confused by the troll, right? I don't know Homestuck. Though, it seems like she'll make a decent recruit... I'm a little fuzzy on when she learned anything about the PPC (her demands that Cale take her home and such come off as having a rudimentary idea of what the PPC does,) but it seems that they sorted things out.

I do start to wonder about the contents of the badfic - since I don't have background for why the two are arguing until they actually start arguing. One nitpick I do have about this is that it seems as if their final argument leaves things very up in the air and ends on an odd note. It doesn't seem to flow as well as the first half.

Here's to hoping you get Permission and stuff! /beams luck your way

I enjoyed how each short story integrated Kübler-Ross' five stages of grief into its theme. Character interactions are well-written and give insight into each character's personality. Descriptions set up the mood and stage perfectly for the action.

The short sentences and narrative style in the first story greatly contributed to the theme of Denial. For that reason I think I'm going to declare it my favourite short story of the five, though Depression made quite an impression on me.

Hats off to you, sir.

Depressingly sad, but very well done.

Now excuse me while I cry manly tears like when I watched Madoka Magica.

Yes, I understand that the job is dangerous... but all the same, I'm more biased towards happy endings.

...Man, now I need some cheering up...

This is some very heavy stuff, but I like it. I agree that agents wouldn't get off scotch-free if the PPC were less humor-oriented and more realistic; of course, then it wouldn't quite be the PPC. But that's what AUs are for, eh?

I think "Anger" and "Depression" hit me the hardest. "Anger" because of seeing Laura so viciously upset at Danny, and "Despression" because realizing just how much Xericka is relying on Gremlin as her heart is . . . well, heart-breaking. I hope our universe's Xericka never has to go through that. "Acceptance" was probably the least emotionally turbulent for me, because of the time it has separated from the death. (As well as the bits of hope thrown into it, with Xericka marrying Gremlin (I assume) and adopting another badfic baby.)

"Denial" is my favorite, due to it depicting Danny's death in a moment of action. That action helps to dilute the impact of his death, making it feel a bit more "valuable" to me. The deaths in the other stories were a bit more difficult to swallow, since they all get mentioned after the fact, and were more sudden and unexpected as a result. However, I also liked the narrative structure in "Depression," with Xericka's purely Nobodyish thoughts interspersed with outside observers' commentary. Even though it made me feel rather depressed.

As usual, my obnoxious Pointing-Out-Of-Errors™:

("Denial") She only stopped when he heard the noise from behind her. Someone weakly calling her name.

("Anger") The color returned in force to Laura’s face; an livid purple-red, like an old bruise.

("Bargaining") Gremlin voice was thick and broken now, interrupted by intermittent sobs.

("Depression") "Do the two of the you speak about anything?"

("Depression") "I figured she was just wanted company.”

A good something, definitely. Sad and heartwarming and also sad. It's an interesting look at what things would be like if a) the PPC wasn't humor-focused and b) authors were more inclined to kill off their agents. So basically, if the PPC followed a bit more 'Real-World' logic.

Also, Death of the Endless! Took me a minute to recognize her, but I think you did a good job writing her.

Hello and welcome! I'm a Harry Potter and Hunger Games fan too, and I've been meaning to watch Supernatural for a while now, but for right now I'm behind on my novel for NaNoWriMo so I really should be concentrating on that instead. Anyway, have a propeller cap; it will take you wherever you need to go and runs on AA batteries!

Have a Schrodinger's Cookie (may or may not contain chocolate chips).

Role-playing since you were nine? I'm still trying to get a friend of mine (friend being a loose term) to GM a game of Mutants and Masterminds... or DnD... or Marvel Heroic Roleplaying... or anything, really. Do you have a favorite game?

Welcome a-Board, newbie! Please deposit your sanity in the labeled bin, as you won't be needing it much here.

I'm sure you hear enough jokes about kangaroos and koalas, so have a genuine deer, straight from the forests of New Jersey. Seriously, take a bunch. They're everywhere. 100% toxic waste and annoying reality television show free, just for you.

Also, a friendly hint: if you want to reply to someone, instead of hitting "post reply" on your original post, hit it when you're viewing their comment. It makes the conversation a bit easier to follow.

Welcome to the Board! Have some of my hydrophobic water to commemorate the event. The substance's chemical formula, derived from many painful experiments, is as follows: H₂Awesome.

Thanks to you, too!

My favourite series so far is TOS, although I'm much better acquainted with the movies. Numbers 2 and 3 are my favourites.

I'm not a D&Der, but I do play RuneScape and Star Trek Online... I prefer forum, play-by-post role-playing.

What kind of role-playing? Forum-based, the video game sort, tabletop...?

Let's see, you can have a honey bear, three plastic sporks, a package of staples (Good for putting things together, but you'll have to find your own stapler, I'm afraid,) and a package of dry spaghetti.

I'm just getting caught up on (read: watching until my eyes bleed) Supernatural. I've just about gotten halfway through season 2, and have missed most of season 1.

I hear Australia is nice this time of year. :)

Greetings, new friend! I would normally offer you your pick from the sack of venomous invertebrates, but living in Australia, you probably have access to more than enough venomous things! Instead, please enjoy this basket of complimentary antivenins.

It seems you are an old hand at general nerdery! Most impressive!Hopefully, there will be many opportunities to discuss fandom things with you!

Hi, have some fudge!

Which ruleset do you prefer for roleplaying?

I second my sister Apricot's question of which Star Trek series, and also, who are your favorite characters? I like TNG, but I also like Voyager a lot. My favorite characters are Data, Spock, Seven of Nine, and Q.
Have a tribble as a welcome gift. :)

Hello and welcome from Portland Oregon, land of the hipsters and home of the strange. its nice to see another Role-Playing fan. I played D&D with my family for as long as I can remember. As a gift, I present you with your very own Facebiter Squig!

That's so cool that you live in Australia. What's your favorite Star Trek series? I'm a huge Trekkie.
Have some bubble wrap as a welcome gift.

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

As stated in the handy little title seen above: hullo! It's nice to meet you, and I'd like to welcome you to the board! Here, have an Awake- a mysterious being that is made entirely of caffeine, adrenaline, and misused adjectives. Feed it espresso and love! Or espresso and hatred. Either works as long as espresso is involved in some shape or form. If you do forget to feed it, the only consequence is something alluded to as the Tribble affect.

Thanks, guys!

Yep, I'm a Trekkie. A minor Trekkie, but still. I have an idea for an agent, but I gotta wait.

I read the first mission in OS, the one with Laurel.

Welcome to the PPC! As a welcoming gift, have this bag of NMs&NMs and an internet huggle!

-huggles-

I see that Cyba already pointed you toward the Constitution and TOS, so I don't need to do that. The IRC channel is where people hang around and talk, and you're welcome to drop by and say hi.
Also, have a cup of tea. Just don't let the leaves eat you. (Agent Des will be very disappointed if they will, and will probably have to make Bleeptea out of them...)

Greetings, madam Aussie!

Have a Totally Not Stolen Bag of Holding from a friendly American bespectacled eccentric author-to-be!

It's totally not stolen. Don't let those bounty hunter types tell you otherwise.

As a welcome gift have a box of Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans. Watch out for the acid ones.

It's wonderful to have you here, Ilesan. We love having new people, especially enthusiastic people. :D Have a bag of pebbles and a Random Shiny Object, and do wander around and see what interesting things you can find.

And ask questions, too, we like questions. :3

Greetings and salutations! I suppose, first things first, if you haven't already, please read the Constitution and the Original Series.

Constitution: https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=18hztHpDehxcfrjaXoFUew1vb0BdZPDAusHxMHzHiCzM

Original Series: http://www.misssandman.com/PPC/story.html

Don't forget to leave your sanity at the door!

Secondly: ah, I see you are a Star Trek fan! In that case, have this Starfleet comm. badge my agents seem to have acquired from somewhere.

Thirdly: have you read any/many missions yet? If so, which?

My feeling is that I'd like to see you hang around long enough to settle down a bit before getting Permission. Enthusiasm is good, but I kinda feel like you've been loading the Board with lots of one-line references to memes and your own work. Since I don't want to see missions colored heavily with references to memes and your own work (where your avatar is God, I think?), I'm leery of a yes here, especially with these agents. One has a history of getting shiny presents directly from his author, and the other one is defined as a walking vending machine for powerful weapons. You say he won't use it, but in that case, why even put it there? How often will there be "no other solution" but to tap into it? And Specs' glasses—bursting into flame when he takes them off is not a Law of Narrative Comedy, it's random chaos. It's important to know the difference, because random does not necessarily equal funny. This is a common misconception.

I'm just... very leery. On top of what VM has already noted, I think a "not right now" is appropriate. I'd like to see you read more missions, settle in, and maybe come up with a pair of agents that don't seem so heavily inclined toward big guns and shiny swords that come from On High, okay?

~Neshomeh

Bad logic indeed: it practically fuels the PPC, at least the parts that don't run off of comedy or phlebotinum.

The story does seem to be a little short, especially for five characters to be popping up in. Plus, I don't know where any of the people are - I assume they've found a generic table because it seems like they're sitting down.

Also: the word condone. I'm not sure it means what you think it means, or at least that it should be used where you're using it. For example

"I practice magic, but condone its practice as training for megalomaniacal buffoons."

To condone is neither to approve of something nor to disapprove, but to overlook it even though some might find it objectionable. It's like an old west sheriff looking the other way while his nephew busts some heads in a saloon brawl. In this paragraph, you used the word in a way that doesn't fit the structure of the sentence. There's no conflict between practicing magic and condoning the use of it, so the word "but" shouldn't be used in that context. In addition, the tone of magic being "training for megalomaniacal buffoons," doesn't fit with the idea that the character is condoning it either. (Also, context as to why he has these opinions on magic might have helped.) Logically, it's hard for a person to condone their own actions - the condoner would have to be someone else who turned a blind eye to the proceedings.

(One wonders how you get a whisky flask into a tabard - the last one I saw had no pockets - but that's neither here nor there.)

Unfortunately, aside from all that, the dialogue felt kind of stilted. The phrasing is a bit off to require so many commas, and the order and flow of the sentences doesn't come off as someone talking or even someone trying to talk in an old-fashioned manner. It seems like someone trying to puzzle out a seventeenth or eighteenth-century letter. On top of that, the actions that go with the dialogue don't seem to fit with it, probably because I'm having a hard time parsing the dialogue and it's meaning to begin with. I'm not seeing much emotion from your characters, or any personal choices in regards to how they talk and act.

I do like the message of 'I am human, who are you to criticize,' but it lost a lot of impact in delivery since the sentence was tangled up and didn't show tone. I also don't know enough about any of the non-speaking characters to appreciate why this is a revelation for them.

It seems like you got stuck on large words. You don't need to bring us thesaurus boquets to prove you love us. :)

In the future I'd pick a longer scene with some movement or a less formal tone - you did much better with the agent bios, probably because you weren't trying to write in an old-fashioned manner and because the humorous nature of, say, Specs' glasses-removal problem goes a long way towards helping words like "wherein" get along with the rest of the sentence.

Good luck, SC. :)

First of all, you forgot a link to the fic, but that's easily remedied.
The second and more serious problem you have is that your story is too short. The characters just appear, have some dialogue, and that's it. We don't know much about them, and they're in the Featureless Plane of Bodiless Dialogue. It's not necessarily bad, it's just too short.

Agreed, it's not terribly written. The logic, on the other hand... ow. >.
Yes, because Legolas, Aragorn, and Gimli are totally going to divert their HIGHLY time-sensitive pursuit to mess around with some random chick sitting in a river. That makes perfect sense. Oh, but wait—they do remember they're on a highly time-sensitive chase. So they take off and expect her to keep up if she wants to go with them. Some random girl without even her own clothes to wear, who is human for all they know at that point, and not one of your hardy Ranger types, either. Riiight. Smooth.

They ought to know she's an elf just by looking at her anyway. They're, y'know, preternaturally beautiful and perfect and stuff. It would take a lot of work to make one of the Eldar appear mortal. 'Course, I also question just what she's doing there in the first place. What happened to her parents, what were they doing there, where did they come from, etc.?

And that's all before she starts manifesting her speshul Mary Sue powers.

I don't know how sporkable this is, given the relatively good writing, but it definitely deserves some attention.

~Neshomeh

This fic would be immensely sporkable if it were longer. For now, it's just laughable. It managed to knock Spock OOC to the point of being a character replacement in 422 words.
The summary: this is my 1st fic! Ples r&r. Jade Flower is promoted to USS Entepriz where she meets spok & kirc. what will hapen next? Read to see!
The link: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5105462/1/Jade-Flower

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8036563/1/Goodbye-For-Now
An OC/Wheatley story. Kat had nothing left to lose now, she might as well at least try and carry on... But did that mean that he was out of her life for good? Rated T for now, may change to M if necessary.

Blarg. So, 'Kat' replaces Chell in Portal 2, and sticks Wheatley into GLaDOS's (what do you call it? Cradle? Mainframe?) but her ability to actually talk stops Wheatley from doing his whole 'why do you have to leave now?' bit. So Kat decides that because OMG Wheatley' so mean she'll just stay in Aperture. And then Wheatley puts GLaDOS back in charge so he can go comfort Kat, who is a super-speshul maid android. Also, GLaDOS and Wheatley are both humans.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7524541/1/renegade
Since Chell has escaped the facility, Wheatley must find a new labrat to play with. He didn't expect his new "toy" would be so hard to tame... Wheatley/ OC

Trigger warning for rape. Yet more human-Wheatley. Wheatley is somehow in charge post-Portal 2, and opens up a new test subject (where'd he get that from? Did he send Atlas and P-Body to get them?) Alice Griffen. She then does the whole 'I won't test and you can't make me!' apparently preferring to sit in the Relaxation Chamber. And then in chapter four he attempts to rape her (the chapter ends before we see anything, but trigger warning all the same)

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8235441/1/Extrile-Ventrify
The sexah new goth gurrl finds her destiny at a school caled HOgwarts, an is later whisked away too the world of APERature Science Innovates

Portal trollfic. Not much else to say.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8504243/1/Grief-and-Souls & http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8625331/1/The-Girl-Who-Lives-Forever

The Doctor shows up in Mitakihara for some reason. Really, he doesn't do anything - he doesn't change anything in the canon and most of the story is bits of him intercut with canon scenes. And then when Kyouko and Sayaka dies, he decides to first threaten to eradicate Kyubey from existance, then tells Kyubey that Kyubey should kill him, and UGH. I can't really find a plot, and it doesn't seem to have any point.

A Journey to the Beginning of Time (Rated K) is basically 11th Doctor, Amy and Rory visit The Creation (yes, that one from the Bible. I kid you not). I'm not sure whether this 'fic is just crack or genuinely bad.

Jesus Christ: Vampire Slayer (Rated M due to gore and lots of curses, including the F, N and C words; probably offensive to Christians, beginning from a certain level of devotion), on the other hand, is crack Up to Eleven. Jesus, the Apostles, Mary Magdalene and the rest live in modern America. Jesus is a vampire hunter and behaves like a GTA player, Mary Magdalene is, well, a whore, Paul is a afro-American bar owner... I'm not sure whether those guys are IC or not, but they sure swear a lot. Oh, and Jesus' target? Ew-dard Cullen. Apparently Ewdard turned the whole of Forks into garden-variety vampires and is planning to Take Over the World...
TBH, the more I read JC:VH, the more it seems like an anti-Twilight 'fic. I'm not sure whether to be offended or to laugh.

I Got The Last Room (Rated T) is what seems like a DWxBible oneshot goodfic; it's basically 'the Ninth Doctor shows up in the inn Mary and Joseph were turned away from in Bethlehem', and it's pretty good. Characters are IC, the setting's depicted believably, no SPaG problems, and the story's enjoyable.

I grant that there was an instance of a human being raised by elves - Aragorn, I believe the name is? (Or, at least, he's very well affiliated with elves.)

But he's still human, and very much outclassed by Legolas in certain fields, because there are just some things humans can not do that elves can.

And being raised one way and born the other has an interesting way of negating the latter's effects on the child in question. While it isn't impossible for an elf to be raised human, odds are that she wouldn't just pick up on her ancestry like that and just totally roll with it.

And just the notion of joining the Fellowship is a call back to the original series - every single instance of a character and the Fellowship being involved together ended badly, as I recall it.

I imagine this will be duly sporked soon enough, and I will only gladly read the results.

Proxy Girl (A Slender Man Love Story)
The website doesn't allow copypasta but boy oh boy I think I've found a new pit of voles...
Can we call it the pit of rats or?

Agent Blu, Reporting for duty!
idaprevweqae@sofimail.com
I USED A FAKE EMAIL THAT FORWARDS TO MY REAL EMAIL FYI.
MY REAL EMAIL IS PRIVATE.

A bit long, but I guess I can manage.

Congratulations! Have a... hmm... how about a "sorry I didn't congratulate you on Friday, I'd just got out of the hospital late Thursday and still wasn't thinking to check the Board" and a giant-sized HUG?

Happy belated birthday!

Happy birthday to you (a little belated),
Happy birthday to you (just a little belated),
Happy birthday dear KittyNoodles (or whatever your real name is),
Happy birthday to you (okay, belated).

Happy Belated Birthday!

Sorry I missed this yesterday -- between the Twitter chat/poster contest for the new MCF and getting ready for a craft fair today, I didn't have a chance to drop by the board.

Happy birthday Kitty!

Alternately: A very merry un-birthday to you!

Have some herpy birthderp cake and candles and did I ever give you a graduated cylinder? Oh well, have another one.

And all the Bleepolate milk you'll ever want today, too!

Teh Specs is a hipster.

He told Kitty happy birthday... BEFORE IT WAS COOL.

(Naw, she brought it up during a movie-watching of Macbeth. It was, like, three in the morning, and I was barely awake.

But I'll say it again because I can:

Happy Birfdayz!

Have spiders. Because they're everywhere.

Happy happy birthday! Who wants to play pin the tail on the donkey?

I call for festivities! Pin-the-Tail-on-the-Balrog/Monster of your choice with questionable tail presence! Various sweet pastries! Out of tune singing! Huzzah! Exclamation points!!!!

The only cake I have to offer is Portal cake... and nobody ever seems to want to eat that.

Nineteen's good.

Have some delicious birthday chocolate!

Have a cake made out of noodles. No, I'm not sure how they stick together.

Have a towering pile of hats. For situations where your hat needs a hat needs a hat.

Also, a song about cake or something.

Have a triple chocolate (chocolate with chocolate chips & chocolate icing) cupcake!

Have some virtual cake.

Many happy returns!

Here, have some lie.

"I didn't eat that cookie, I swear."

I'm not sure whether that's called beta services or not, but I'm certainly willing to help. My mail is sur DOT nhm AT gmail DOT com. Drop it there, and I'll see what I can do to help. It'll have to happen today or tomorrow though, because I'm supposed to go back to the army in Sunday.

With this game, we'll get to see a LEGOlas.

I'm just imagining Legolas shooting an Uruk and watching it explode into little plastic body parts.

It's glorious.

Looking at the Wiki pages for "Claimed Badfic", "Killed Badfic", and "Unclaimed Badfic", it doesn't show up anywhere. I think you're fine.

...I have no idea what you're talking about. I mean, clearly it's a problem right now, but I haven't seen any Hate-fests, though that could just be because I can be spectacularly unobservant at times.

Are the hacks at least funny? Like, with grossly inaccurate info?

Makes me miss the ypurs...

Everyone can enter your user name in the field up there.

~Ellipsis Flood

Hackers are scary.

For future reference, I am extremely liberal. Not the biggest fan of Obama per se, but the bloke is infinitely better than Romney.

You know it's Polyjuice Potion when posts like that happen under my name.

I'm not a fan of Obama. If you are serious, you're making the rest of us look bad. If you are a supporter of his operating under a false flag, shame on you.

I've just spotted another one - Antigone, apparently posting the same article, with a topic post I used that should have nothing else written but the topic title.

I'm dead serious, are we being hacked?

I'm wondering...how do you pronounce Dafydd's name? I've been pronouncing it "Davith", am I right?
I also recently caught up on reading his missions. I liked them a lot. Even read the "Celebrian" sporking and liked it, which is just a testament to how good the sporking was.
I'd like to learn more about Marrissa Picard--I only see one mission on the wiki. And also, do you happen to know why My Immortal hasn't been sporked yet? Did it scare the agents off like "Subjugation"?
Liked the video, I hope you make more starring Dafydd.

Dafydd is brilliant! As are you, hS, for doing this.

Bravo!

I lost it at the cupcakes. :)

The visual aids were extremely helpful. ;)

Oh my various canonical deities, this is a wonderful thing to wake up to. :D Dafydd did a wonderful job of explaining everything, even if he was incredibly annoyed at having to do so. *sends him hugs for talking about C*l*br**n without too much cringing*

"Don't try this at home...it doesn't work. You don't get better."

I greatly enjoyed it. Dafydd's disapproving looks deserve starring credit.

fyi, I went to find the C*l*br**n mission to give it a reread after watching the video, and the link from the wiki wasn't working.

I can't get enough of him!

...Your character might be a new LO for me... o.0;;

Also, I lost it around the time a US spacecraft(?) and a ship were used to represent the Enterprise. I could not stop laughing after that.

In the first sentence said by the Hyacinct, you italicized " the Hyacinth projected into Vania’s head" too.

The rest is very good, though. And very funny.
I really liked seeing Ray Bans in the list of "everything that a PPC Agent needs".

I like the ending, it's kind of cool to find a mission written with such sympathy; though I imagine there might be problems if certain parties find out that the Agents didn't assassinate the Sue...

Agent Moon would like to welcome Who to the ranks of typo-born Agents. I'd adopt him if I weren't overloaded with Agents already...

I guarantee you that Zanna Ashlar would join every single secret society she came upon. She would love the Flower Paranoia Society, and come to every single meeting (partially for the SECRETS, and partially for the pie)

If she thinks the Flowers work for the IO, she might be a little suspicious, because Cyba and the IO have not always been on the best of terms.

Of course, this is assuming a Borg attending won't cause paranoia among the other agents present (or three, given that if Cyba's going, Sigma and Phi probably will, too).

Besides... secret society - fun!

...when she's trying to get away from her partner. She probably finds nothing odd about sentient Flowers; she's just liable to migrate towards gatherings of people.

If you get Eledhwen in, you might have a Christianne wandering in after her asking where the hell she's been.

She's not really into the Flower Conspiracy thing but she likes to poke around and collect information on whatever is happening in HQ. She's sort of like that one person in the back that goes :"Hey guys, mind if I hang around here? Whatcha doing?"

If you want her to speak, feel free to poke my Talk page on the wiki!

...also, is Agent Sonata part of the SO conspiracy theory, or is he "freelancing"?

Agent Veralyn is highly disturbed by the Flowers That Be. I'm sure she wouldn't mind popping up in your mission.

I wonder, could Kindheart show up in some kind of 'No, seriously, you have meds for a reason. Take them.' role?

I just finished Basic Training and could use some wind-down. I believe you know my mail.

SeraphWeasel@gmail.com

singingthethunder1@gmail.com