Sep 2013 Archive, part c

though like Desdendelle said, it depends on what computer you have. I know that on my laptop, the cover for the 'x' key occasionally pops off because the cover for the 'z' is totally gone, thus affecting the 'x' key( but it still works since it's pressure sensitive and all that). The key-cover has a little plastic doohickey on the back that snaps down into place over the actual button for the key.

As for scrolling on a track pad, try going along the right-hand side of it with one finger. That's usually where they put the scroll function for PCs. Also, you can use the 'page up' and 'page down' keys if you absolutely need to. It's clunky, but it's there.

On what sort of computer you have. Also, by trackpad I assume you mean something like this?

1. The PPC deals with two types pf "Anti-sue". The first one seems to be what you're describing, the TVTropes-defined antiSue. Since these are often just as bad as "classic" Sues, we kill them just the same- if one isn't bad, then it's just an OC who doesn't need PPC attention. The other type is a "reformed" Sue- they could have been any “flavor” of Mary Sue or Marty Stu originally, but they've seen the light and renounced the use of their abilities. Some Agents are reformed Sues.

2. You may be looking for the League of Mary Sue Factories or the Mysterious Somebody.

3. Is it anything like a Marty Tzu?

4. We have a Department of Bad Parody. If the Parody isn't Bad, it is considered goodfic, and is left alone to bolster the canon. I always liked to think that the canon characters in good parodies (and the OCs) know they are in a parody, are playing along, and are as amused as everyone else.

Youuuuuuuuu

Some years ago, I started to play WoW, because I wondered what all my friends’ sons were so excited about (my daughter was more interested in The Sims then). I only played as long as I didn’t need to pay for it, so I couldn’t really explore much of this world, but I’m still considering to start again when I have more time, probably meaning when I’m retired from my job :-)

So, repeating and expanding on questions from my introductory post you missed:

Will we ever see a third chapter of OFUA?
I totally understand when this doesn’t happen soon or ever, for technical or other reasons.

Are applications still open?
I would really like to know what you would have done to my alter ego if I had applied in time.

Don’t you get into trouble for interactivity when students apply via comments?
Well, if this is true, it’s probably too late to do anything about it. Also, I don’t have an account on ff.net, but I think I could comment anyway?

Can I simply apply here?
I’m the “bored old man”, who never found the Plaguelands, and as far as I know you still didn’t get this kind of student.

Hi! Welcome back!

Welcome back to the PPC, my friend. You know the drill by now, so welcome back!

WoW of WoWcraft, you say? I've had a passing interest in the lore for some time now (although that died somewhat recently when Christie Golden took over the books >_

So, did you get a new laptop, or are you on a desktop right now?

Either way, welcome back!

Good to see you again, both here and on the IRC!

Since Himu seems to have vanished, let me give you a welcome-back Welsh sheep in her stead.

But I think this would make a really awesome badfic game story.

I'm going to have to agree with Techno-Dann here (albeit in a somewhat more vehement fashion). This does not strike me as being a good idea, in large part because it doesn't make sense considering the structure of the PPC and what the PPC does.

If a canon were to get loose in HQ, then the Department of External Security would likely step in and take down (in a non-lethal sense, of course) the renegade character. If not them, then there are hypothetically hundreds of well-trained agents who could deal with the situation as well. Bringing in more dangerous canons in an attempt to capture the rogue would be phenomenally ridiculous considering all that.

Even with that taken into consideration, I have to ask: why Azula? Why a Nazgul? Why two nigh-uncontrollable villains? If you were to bring another canon in, why not an individual who is an accomplished hunter/trapper? Someone like Mustrum Ridcully (Discworld) or Sir Hammerlock (Borderlands 2). Not only are they good at what they do, they're also relatively benign -- especially in comparison to the unhinged Azula or the Ring-bound Nazgul.

Finally, PPC stories -- and HQ stories in particular -- are not about canons. They're about our agents, and how they live and work and react to badfic. This idea seems to be focused on the antics of the canonical characters and this ultimate showdown of ultimate destiny. Where do the agents fit into that picture, besides as the well-meaning dolts who cause the problem in the first place?

I don't mean to sound like I'm being mean or spiteful, I'm just trying to explain why your idea doesn't fit in regards to what the PPC is all about. I apologize if I seem overly brusque in my explanation.

Responding to a loose canon in HQ by loosing more canons really doesn't seem like a good idea. It's sort of contrary to what we do?

(And double or triply so on the bad-idea-o-meter for Azula or a Nazgul - that kind of power/scary really shouldn't be let loose on HQ.)

That'd be kind of funny to see, considering her latest character development in the comics.

Because he seems to resist the Sues and PPC tech. He'd be curious, right?

It's Massive Multiplayer Crossover Time (tm)!

I don't know about any of you, but I silently glee'd in the theatre when 'Blunt the Knives' began being sung in Bag End. And I know there is much love for the 'Far Over the Misty Mountains' rendition from the first movie.

I would love to see more songs/poems done.

I was a little disappointed with the lack of "Tra-la-la-la-lee" song when they got to Rivendell. There was a joke in the podcast that I listen to, that even though it seems a little out of character for the Lord of the Rings elves, the song could easily be translated into elvish and then sung as a Gregorian chant. I would have laughed so hard that that.

/Though/, the extended version of the Hobbit1 hasn't come out yet, so there still might be a version in it. I also hope to see a little dark haired four year old boy running around Rivendell.

As for the new movie, I'm looking forward to seeing the elven halls in Mirkwood. The Mirkwood elves are considered more wild and dangerous than the high elves and I would like to see the distinction between the two. Other than Legolas, all we've seen so far are the high elves in Rivendell and Lothlorien.


That's pretty much it really.

Oh! And a more solid form of the Necromancer. Something more than just mist.


~AW~

Harry, like any well-rounded character, does have some evil tendencies. He keeps them under good control, but he does. Most of his Slytherin-ish traits are the more neutral ones, though.

His time with the Dursleys left him with little respect for authority or for Muggles in general. Because Harry is a generally decent person, he will respect authority figures who prove their trustworthiness, and he will risk his life for a Muggle like Dudley when necessary. But he certainly does a lot of sneaking around, probably more than he needs to do.

He has a temper. If he's angry, he'll let you have it. Most of the time, Harry gets angry at people who deserve it, but his friends get caught in the crossfire too, like when he smashed up Dumbledore's office after Sirius died. And he'll often create a fight where there doesn't need to be one, because he is too proud to back down from a challenge.

Harry is also quite ambitious. Becoming an Auror is a difficult goal and Harry initially states that as his career plan mostly to mess with Umbridge. That same ambition lets him take on challenges that are much more than any person his age should be expected to conquer, without more than occasional doubts as to whether he is up to the task.

He can be pretty sneaky when he needs to be. Hiding a brewing Polyjuice potion, convincing Ron that he's sneaked him good-luck potion, spending all that time under the invisibility cloak, using secret passages, etc. He had good reasons for most of those things, but he did choose the sneaky method rather than the straightforward charge-into-battle Gryffindor style.

And of course, he's a Parselmouth who's got a bit of Voldemort in him. That, too.

I always thought it was a bit of a pity that we never got to see more of the non-evil Slytherins. It doesn't make much sense that fully a quarter of all wizards are evil wizards. Slytherin can mean sneaky, ambitious, proud, competitive. There are probably good Slytherins. Except, for the most part, they didn't come into the story much--Harry probably never thought too much about getting to know them.

... that given Gryffindor is identified as, what, 'brave' or 'corageous', and Slytherin as 'evil', er... something like 'cunning' or 'sly', that it means Harry actually starts thinking for once acts... you know... more like that. [Shrug] I don't think it necessarily means 'evil', since in theory you can have good Slytherins.

Of course, in the stories, it may well mean 'Harry occasionally hits his friends for no reason' or some such, in which case it's a charge all by itself.

hS

As has been mentioned before, the Sorting Hat almost put Harry into Slytherin. Furthermore, let's not forget that Harry is a Parselmouth. I'm guessing that that is what is being alluded to by his "Slytherin side."

...that it's just people using a phrase they think sounds cool to describe Harry behaving in a way other than the Gryffindor stereotype. I'm not that active in the Harry Potter fandom, so I can't say for sure, but that's what it sounds like to me.

It probably originated from the fact that the Sorting Hat said he might do well in Slytherin, and Slytherin has been stereotyped as the "bad guys" of the Wizarding World. In other words, Harry does something morally questionable? Clearly it's his "Slytherin side."

What do other people think?

The Sorting Hat wanted to put him in Slytherin, and the fans likely interpreted that as "Harry has repressed Slytherin qualities!" or something like that, rather than "the Sorting Hat noticed Harry was part Voldemort and decided to roll with it". While I'm still doubtful about my skill at deducing what is or isn't a charge, I'd guess that yes, making this sort of mistake would indeed be charge-worthy.

I bring a cracked up fic of what would happen if Middle-earth was a planet the Star Trek cast stopped by in ... er, appeasement. To an extent.

I'm still waiting on my present from the birthday boys!

To celebrate yesterday, we had lamb stew (we weren't able to get a proper leg of lamb), seed cake, talked Tolkien, and listened to the "Unexpected Journey" soundtrack.

I wish we had the movie.

I was going to say something, but I was sure someone else would, and then I fell asleep...

*parties anyway* To Bilbo and Frodo!

Any idea why these tests rank video game characters so highly? I ran some random ones through just now, and Gordon Freeman scored 53%, John-117 scored 42% (including actions he took in the expanded universe), Pre-Other-M Samus scored 43% (Post-Other-M Samus scored an unbelievable 112%!!), and Jak/Mar scored 45%.

I suspect it's because video games usually aren't fun unless you're more powerful in some way than 90% of the mooks you run into (otherwise the game would be all boss battles, and the pacing would be terrible), and the character is actively being controlled by the player.

The thing with this test is that it detects character traits as opposed to actions.

What I mean by this is that Sir Large McHuge, suave young attractive philanthropist playboy multibillionaire, owner of a multinational high-tech product empire, and secret fighter of crime would be flagged as an enormous Suvian by the test you linked.

I've also described Tony Stark, aka the Iron Man (though my knowledge of the actual character is limited to The Avengers and the first Iron Man movie). Whether he truly is a Stu is hotly contested among certain fans.

However, the test would not catch Snivelly Uselesspants, a totally inept and hideous freak of a human being whose only purpose in life is to whine and complain about being stuck in a rut. That's an Anti-Suvian, and they're just as annoying to read as regular Suvians.

You see, it's about what the writers have their characters do that differentiates between Suvian and non-Suvian. If a character is shown to behave in accordance with his/her established personality, face logical cause-to-effect consequences for his/her actions (be they positive or negative), and experience character growth over a certain period of time (though admittedly difficult for "gag" characters or other one-dimensional types), then they are most likely not a Suvian.

In short, a character needs to be alive as opposed to a walking stack of random traits and clichés bound together by Rule of Cool and wish fulfillment.

I have used that test for characters as a way to try to figure out whether they have too many speshul traits. Cluttering up a character like that makes them (ironically) less interesting, so it can be quite helpful to answer those questions. My characters usually get somewhere from 10-25; the higher-powered characters do test in the low Mary-Sue range; the highest, an Abyssal Exalted character I played in a tabletop game, scored a 28. Exalted has a very high power level, and Abyssals by definition have a tragic past. And yet I don't think he was a Gary Stu. Yeah, he had the big sword and the necromantic power, he did save the world a couple of times, and he did manage to complete a nice little redemption arc (which is near impossible for Abyssals, considering their brains are basically linked to eldritch abominations)... but on the other hand, he started out as honestly cowardly (though he didn't stay that way), spent most of the game looking more like a living mummy than a glamorous vampire, and got manipulated by pretty much every ancient evil in the game until he finally broke free (and died shortly thereafter, because you don't flip the bird to the Neverborn without serious consequences).

So yeah, I think it's a useful tool, but you do have to look at the setting and the character's personality. If you're writing a high-powered character, and the character needs all of those powers to make the story work, you might ping as Mary Sue even though the character is an engaging, interesting character. Some Mary Sues don't show up as Mary Sues on the test simply because they're low-power self-inserts with little personality, who don't disturb the canon much but don't add anything to it either.

In-universe, Mary-Sue litmus tests are represented by litmus paper, which works like ordinary litmus paper except that it measures glitter level instead of pH. It has a tendency to burst into flames when a particularly bad Sue is around, but at least your agents won't destroy yet another CAD.

So, a gamer in the Touhou fandom! Nice.

Welcome to the PPC! Being a Pokemon fan, I'd usually rummage about my trusty bag of holding (you should see the assorted things I've been able to pull out of it), but for you, have some links to some of my favorite Touhou-related music:

Danzai Yamaxanadu, and what I dub the "⑨ Destiny series" (and no, I did not make any of them):
Kero ⑨ Destiny,
⑨ Destiny - It's Always Cirno's Turn,
and a mashup of the two themes.

And before you ask, no, I've never played Touhou. I've heard of it through some Let's Player that I've watched--I believe that "Shagg" ("kuposan4" on YouTube) is the culprit.

Hi, hello, welcome and welcome! Since you already read the Constitution and are reading TOS, I don't have to give you the Generic Newbie Message. So I'll just give you this cup of tea. Just don't let the leaves eat you.

You're a gamer? Do you play Skyrim at all?

Hello, welcome to the ppc. As a gift have this urple coloured notebook.

A starting point would be the Wiki List of Categories.

The best I could find there is the Wiki Category Creatures. But it doesn’t have all you are looking for.

Hieronymus

I'm going to check on the shield guarding OfWho. Whatever you're planning, can help?
I can provide some minis...

I am ready for whatever you are planning.

I had fun doing it last year, but it might be that I will be too overloaded with work and term exams to do it. So probably not.

Well, I'm working on a novel as it is, a sort of film noir story in a prestigious university, so I could probably use NaNo as a prompt.

CURSE YOU WRITING GODS!

I've done it every year since 2009, and managed to cross the finish line every time, through sheer will power and copious amounts of crap writing.

I haven't decided this year if I'll work on either of my two epics -ridiculously long stories that are nowhere near close to done - or start something new with one of the myriad of plotbunnies that have been popping into my head.

Either way, feel free to buddy me, my NaNo name is, surprise surprise, DrewMarigold. Shocking, I know. :P

As far as tips go, I like word sprints/word wars - set a time limit 15-20 minutes, and compete with someone else to see who can get the most words written in that time. I also like writeordie.com and writtenkitten.com. They're both helpful for solo word sprints, when no one else is online.

I have not decided if I am going to give it a go this year. I don't particularly have anything going on during November, just don't know if I want to go for the 50k.

If I did try it again, I have two potential plots. 1) Strange new creatures are causing trouble in my fantasy world and a group of adventurers is sent to figure out what they are and where they come from. Adventure ensues. 2) The next part of Catastrophe Theory (not a novel, I know, but writing, none the less).

If I do it, the plan is to write it out on paper. I can't be trusted with an internet connection while I'm writing. I'll need to buy a new notebook, if I decide to get it done.

I've done it a couple of times, though I can't remember exactly which years. They all blend together a bit. I've never even come close to winning. I've never been what one might call a "prolific writer". It takes me forever to write anything and I get distracted by new ideas all the time.

Words of wisdom, I've got.

1) Find a place to call your Writing Workspace. When you are in that place, you do nothing but write. You don't eat in there. You don't make phone calls. When you are in that place, you write. Stick to that.

2) Find a way to limit distractions. Unplug the internet. Switch to paper and pen, like me, if you can't be trusted. Make a special playlist that doesn't have any words (words are all right if you can't understand them). Lock your roommates in a closet. Whatever you need to do.

3) This last one is the most important. Get plenty of sleep, stay hydrated, and remember to eat well.

-Phobos

...but the truth is that I just have too much going on IRL to be able to do it this year. I'll definitely think about it next year, though.

I won't be participating directly, but I will be supporting someone else very strongly. Lycaenion, one of our old members who now merely lurks occasionally, is doing NANO and her story will focus on a character from an original D&D setting that she and I have been working on for the past year.

I did my first NaNo in 2009, and my second in 2011 - so how can I break the pattern? Two years is just about long enough to get over NaNo burnout...

I will be breaking a different pattern, though - I'm not going to try and write the third volume of my trilogy, the first two stories in which were my first two NaNos. That, I think, can wait until I've edited at least Volume 1 into some semblence of decency.

But I do have a plan: to be completely crazy. The Kraken-Knights of Wintertide will be riding to bring destruction to the Skyfarms, and I intend to let the whole story descend into ridiculousness as soon as possible. I am (as always) inspired by BeautyID's The Magical Adventures of Ladies and Gentlemen, which she was kind enough to post in its entirety on LJ back when she wrote it (2007!). I highly recommend it for the sheer surrealism.

hS

...but I think I may try this year, if only because this year seems to be about new beginnings for me, the most noticeable of which is that thing called high school. Whether I'll get anything done, however, is the real question, considering my tendency to procrastinate on anything and everything.

Ah well. I have some friends I could probably poke into trying it with me, and it's not as if my life depends on it or anything. *shrug*

-Aila

NaNoWriMo? Never heard of it. Sounds interesting... maybe I'll join

I am doing it this year! It'll be a great tool to beat upon ye olde work-life balance with, and I finally have coworkers who are into NaNo.

I do have a plot! It is plot-shaped and things. Iit goes like this: Not!Hitler makes an evil pact with Not!Sauron and opens a couple hundred portals between Not!Earth and Not!Middle-Earth. Dragons and spitfires dogfight.

I have participated in NaNoWriMo since 2006! I won it in 2006 and 2007, and then came down with a bad case of college. Now that I'm out of college, I hit 30k words in both '11 and '12. This time for sure!

And for advice: Hang out with writers! Poke them mercilessly about their wordcount and get them to poke you back. Having constant botherings to escape is a great motivation to get off the internets and write more words.

Am I planning to do it [again] this year? Yes.
Do I have a plot? No.
Anything resembling a plan? HA! I'm "pantsing" this year. (I didn't get to last year since Fellowship of the Urn was my NaNo)
Done it before? Fifth year and counting.
Won anything? Four years and counting.
Words of wisdom: (see below)

1. Write. Just write. Leave your editor in October and don't look back. You can pick him/her up again in December. They won't mind. No, they'll complain at the mess you made, but then they'll edit to their heart's content.

2. Get a writing buddy that you can do word sprints with. For fifteen to twenty minutes write as much as you can, as fast as you can. IE Word vomit. Doesn't have to be good, just get it down.

3. Give yourself writing rewards. A lot of people do food rewards. That doesn't work for me. I have a few TV shows that I can only get online. I write 500 words, I give myself ten minutes of that TV show, then write another 500 words. Three of those and you're almost at the word minimum.

4. Try and make it to some of the write-ins in your areas. They do word-sprints, plot bingo, and all kinds of other things. And quite often, they're at coffee shops, or places that coffee is. Always good.

5. Don't give up.


My NaNo name is... alswaiter. *shock* PM me if you want there. I'm always up for NaNo stuffs.

A few good writing podcasts I listen to are:
http://www.writingexcuses.com/
http://www.thenarrativebreakdown.com/ - (Drew just found this one)

Want to pick my brain? I'm not a published author by any stretch, but I am a Nano Vet and love to encourage other writers.

~AW~

A friend of mine has entered it for the last few years now and I've peered over her shoulder enough times to know what it's about and whats going on.

This year however I'm going to have a go at it for myself (hopefully) so hints and tips would be greatly appreciated.

So soon already? And I haven't got anything prepared. Again.

I've done NaNoWriMo (or as I like to call it NaNoRhiNo) three times and have managed to squeeze out a victory every time. I've also done Camp NaNo a couple of times.
I'll probably have a go again this year, if I can think of something. And like the other years, I probably won't get any planning done and will have to pants my way through under heavy influence of chocolate and Hans Zimmer music.

My profile name in NaNoWriMo is the same as here, EileenAlphabet, so feel free to add me.

And on the subject of writing advice, I heartily recommend Chuck Wendig. http://terribleminds.com/ (Possibly NSFW. The man has creative swearing and multiple references to pantslessness as a trademark.) He also do great flash fiction challenges every Friday, if you feel the need to stretch your writing muscle to get in shape for November.

Assuming my estimate of Julie's height being about a third of Gorem's head is correct and using those two images you provided as scale, Gorem is ~23.25 times taller than her, or about 32 metres tall.

(Email should be above - but keep asking on the Board! It's more fun!)

Well, there's two major problems here:

1/ Either Gorem's legs are ridiculously huge, or the size chart (and indeed every picture I can find) is drawn with massive perspective. But for the same of argument, we'll assume both the height and proportions are correct.

2/ The visible features on the closeup are small enough on the other that a single pixel will make significant difference.

There would be a third issue, that we can't tell how far in front of Gorem Julie is standing, but fortunately, a slightly different angle confirms that she's standing on what appears to be his (its?) shoulder. So that's okay.

Now, the height. Assuming Julie to be 4'6'', and that she's standing upright (which she mostly is), and to be exactly level with Gorem's head (which she isn't, quite), we can see that her height of 260 pixels is equal to:

-The distance from the middle of one of Gorem's eyes to the far side of the other
-The distance between the narrowest parts of his cheekbones
-The distance between the bottom of his 'mouth' (not including the goatee) and the bottom of his brow ridge.
-The distance from the outside of his eye socket to the far side of his nose, on a level with the eyes.

On the full-scale picture, if we zoom right in, we can measure those distances as, in order, 10px, 9px, 11px, 10px. And Gorem's height is 300px (excluding crest)/320 px (including crest).

That gives us an average 'Julie-equivalent' unit of 10px - which means Gorem is 30 times Julie's height, with an extra two Julies on top as his crest. That puts his height as 135', or 45 yards - or 0.026 miles, or indeed almost exactly two chains. In metric, he's 41 meters.

By contrast, the biggest Pokemon I'm aware of is Wailord, who clocks in at 14.5 m, or 47'. That's almost exactly a third of Gorem's height. The smallest Pokemon I've actually heard of are things like Diglett and Natu, at 0'08'', or 0.2 m. That, um...



hS

I feel kinda mixed about it. I don't like Whatsisface Awesomeagent guy and Skye irks me, Maya seems interesting but rather flat, but I do like Fitzsimmons and Maria Hill here. Coulson I still like but not as much as I did in the Avengers. The story seems interesting so far, especially the Tahiti thing, and I must admit that whatsisface's rant against superheroes at the end, I kinda thought was actually supposed to be about race - I mean, in-character, not just subtext wise.

I misspelled that on purpose. I think.

Anyways, Agents of SHEILD is awesome. Joss Whedon is a great director, and master of writing snarky comments. (If you've seen Firefly, you'll know what I mean.)

Now all we'll have to do is look out for the next Marvel fanfic explosion.

Just watched it on 4od (cos i'm a Brit). It's good, and I liked most of it. But there were some points that just irked me, probably cos I've watched so many similar shows where they always find a third way to do it, it'd almost be nice if they didn't manage to do it sometimes cos after all Marvel isn't always a happy comic universe (look at the X-men and X-men vs Avengers stuff)

I thought it was going to go the way of the Sarah Connor Chronicles and just suck royally, but I kinda like it so far.

They also commercial-teased me with a Thor 2 movie on the horizon, to which I say ABOUT TIME!

http://www.hulu.com/watch/536957

Personally, while I wasn't blown away, and was a bit disappointed about the true identity of the mysterious superhuman from the trailers(don't worry, there'll be no spoilers from me today), I really liked the episode itself, and it certainly did its job as a pilot. I got more character definition for most of the main cast out of one episode than I see in a full season for a lot of other shows, and I think it's set itself up to go plenty of places from where it is now, especially since it has all of Marvel's concepts and characters to draw from for future story ideas.

Case in point, apparently Franklin Hall, a.k.a. the guy who becomes Graviton, is going to show up in a few episodes. If he gets his powers before the season finale, things are going to get fun.

The character interaction was interesting, and the boss--talk about a master manipulator! He knew what made everyone tick.

The storyline, so far, is compelling, and I can't wait to see how this ends up.

Not much else to say on that actually. I personally enjoyed the continuation of the cinematic universe, and while there was nothing brilliant about it, there was nothing to hate either. I will be sure to watch more of it later, though not necessarily when it airs.

In other words, it's...nice.

Welcome! You're not pathetic--far from it, we love newbies here! As you've seen, we're (mostly) friendly people here. Please, stay awhile, and allow me to be the first to say good luck when you finally start your first mission.

But I'm jumping ahead of myself. Your newbie gift:
*rummages through bag of holding*
Here we are!
Have a snowglobe with a replica of your favorite fictional city!

I have nothing to say to you.

You'll see why soon enough.

You just have to check and see if the fics are claimed yet. If they're not, then check and see if they're on the Unclaimed Badfic List. If they aren't, you're safe. If they are, be sure to get an account on the wikia and claim them for later when you can spork them.

At least, that's how I do stuff.

But welcome! Have a fluffy velociraptor wearing a feathered boa constrictor! Don't worry, they're tame. Also, favorite canons?

Welcome to the Board! Have a dozen cookies!

You are not a pathetic newbie! You are a shiny new newbie, and as a welcome gift I present you with one Odd Container, which I have placed into your inventory!


Odd Container
Item Level 1
Chance on Opening: Receive one shower of confetti or one huggle--your choice.
[This container is perfectly spherical and seems to have been constructed from glite-painted wood. Its weight seems to change at odd intervals, and you have the uneasy feeling opening it might be detrimental to your health...]

Hello Emma! Please accept my gift of a potato cannon, a basket of sweet potatoes, and an Official Fanfiction University of Doctor Who sweatshirt. (If you want to join, please let me know.)

As for permission, you might wanna wait a little. Just sit back and relax and join in the craziness. Nice to meet you!

Hi, I'm KittyEden, and you can call me Kitty!
if you and your friend want to Spork, I suggest you become a part of the community.

Come in and join in discussions! There's always new ones, and you're sure to find some that interest you.
Or jump onto the IRC. I hang around there at about 8.00-8.30pm, Aussie Time.

Also, read the Original Series. Even if you haven't read LotR, you should be able the understand it.

Lastly, here's a cup of old tea.

~Kitty

Welcome to the PPC! We love newbies here! So step on in, take your shoes off, and leave your sanity at the door!

As a welcome gift, have some music by Alfred Schnittke: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4CDD2w5E0I

Hello of other new person! :D

Here, a Bleep blue Pencil case, with pencils ranging from Bled to Wilver in color!

Hey there.

It's probably best to wait and get to know the community before going for Permission. So long as they remain on the unclaimed badfic list on the wiki they will be well... unclaimed.

What fandoms are you into then?

Storme Hawk

P.S have an urple colored box to put things in.

Somehow, that makes it worse.

led to this new Suvian color?

In other words, I would like to know the context, provided that it is not NSFW/NSFB.

OH DEAR GOD IN HEAVEN SOME ONE HELP US!!! ANOTHER SUE COLOR!!!
*ring all the alarm bells and angers the flowers*

AHHHH! IT BURNS us...
Can I use it in the OFWho?
It burns...

I see it as a nightmare in citrus, the eldritch fruit of the sleeping horror Veryfriutaflaves. I actually managed to picture it in a way that gave me a migraine. Now scarred for life, I will retreat to my crevice while taking bleeprin.



I accept your apology regarding Maglimeta.

@.@

I think we should call it Limegenta!

Where does that fall on the light spectrum?

Spray it with bleach before it spreads.

Here's my email address.

I don't have high hopes, but...

Anyone remember, um, Dragonlance, I think it is? There were all sorts of different authors writing in the same series. Same with such things as the Star Trek books--they're authored by many different people. (However, the Star Trek books are not considered canon by everyone, while Dragonlance was, I believe). And I'm sure there are many more examples.

Also, wasn't Eoin Colfer going to be writing a continuation to Douglas Adams' Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy? I remember seeing an ad for that in the back of an Artemis Fowl book a while back...

~DF

Welcome fools! I have decided to grace your contest with my presanse! I record tales of my adventures for the touhou weaboos, but I have stepped into the world of the PPC!

(New guy ChibiChen here, taking my hand at it now that I have time. Little late, but better late than never!)

I could still write the sequel The Roots of Evil, in which I exorcize the first exorcists who exorcized an Author Wraith, while Androiaavata adores my gentlemanly badassery? (Don’t steal this idea, it’s trademarked and copyrighted by me!)

Unfortunately this has to wait until next year. I don’t have the time just now. I need to tame educate Androia. She behaved quite bad these last days.

I'm back.

You can't hide forever, Notebook Where I Was Writing Glitter Trek: The Next Generation. You may try to shirk your duties, but I swear to the Gods I will find you. And then you shall meet...your pencil!

If there is a continuation, I think that I may have to write another chapter. Perhaps even a few more chapters. I have a few ideas on where to take Verce Jumper, including a bit outside of the PPC universe... I mean verce.

However, treating this as a non-continuation, I will go ahead and reveal some facts about Jumping In. Oh, I suppose I should say that I was xX-VerceMaster-Xx, but honestly, I think I was a little obvious.

Jumping In has a sad story behind it. Jumping In, much as it sucks, is the original origin story for Jumper. While aspects of it are purposefully altered to make it even worse, a sad number of plot points in the story were from the actual origin.

The Library was almost exactly as described, for the exact reasons I stated in the story. How did he get it? No idea. Why does he have it? Because he can and it is cool. The original idea was for the Library to be his 'hub,' from where he travels across his sector of the multiverse using the books around him. This would allow for me to write stories with Jumper without interference of the PPC, as they cannot contact him inside his library. Handy, no? As bad as it is, I may have the Library be his yet. Not as powerful as I had it here, but a similar idea. We will see.

Jumper's writing in LoTR, correcting the books? Yeah... The idea at the time was to show that the worlds he traveled to were different from the Word Worlds of the PPC. While they are, and I know how to present this difference much better now, this was not the way to do it. Does not speak well on his ability to protect the canons when he views the original work as incorrect. The part of him being Tom Bombadil was not part of the original though; this was just for me to rant on how much I dislike Tom while showing that Verce Jumper does care for the canon. See, Verce is not bad, because even though Tom is a useless diversion from the plot and serves no purpose for the story, Verce will make the sacrifice and look like the not-god for the sake of the original story. Agent material right here folks. Oh, while we are on that sequence, Jumper actually did steal a sonic screwdriver from the Doctor. You see, Jumper has a bit of a curiosity about fantastic items, scientific or magical in nature, so he takes them and tries to 'examine' them. See, personality flaw!

I originally thought that Jumper would fall into the PPC because of a stray plothole in mid Jump. Perhaps it came during the Blackout? No idea, and I have found a much better way of introducing him. I just have to finish this darn Marvin and Printworthy mission first, then in the next one... Well, you'll see.

Now, for Verce standing in the halls screaming, "EVERYTHING IS WRONG!!!" This is a point that I am still going to use, though much calmer. And less hammy. As I have mentioned, Jumper is from a different sector of the Multiverse, and during his travels, he began to 'feel' the nature of the world he was in. Not reality-sensitive per-se, more just started noticing the more subtle differences between worlds. As such, when he enters HQ, he complains of the world feeling 'wrong.' HQ, for him, is a hybrid of the Word Worlds and the organic worlds that he is more used to. It manifests for him as a conflicting feeling in his head, giving him an almost constant headache.

Nothing else I can really think of to comment about that story for now really. I regrettably have missed out on a lot of stories, so before I give my thoughts on others stories, I will have to run by fanficWorld and catch up. If you have any questions on this story, just ask, and I'll be happy to respond.

Oh, one last thing. Jumper, Marvin, Printworthy, and Sarah (Jumper's future partner) will be MSTing this story at some point, with additional chapters added to it. Fun times are ahead.

I haven't finished my first story yet, due to a variety of reasons that gave me little time for writing, and I have a second in the works(possibly). I'd like to at least get the first finished before the Badfic Games wrap up for this year. I could post the last chapters on the second page, but that would be no fun. Nobody would read them.

Outhra/Cyber-Observer

This past month has been more crazy than expected, and it doesn't look to be getting any better in the near future.

So, I am going to hang up my badfic hats and retire Ponyrella96 and D4rkm0k until next year. Sorry, JayBird, D4rkm0k won't be able to write that chapter he promised you.

-Phobos

That is, I still have several stories that I'm working on and would like to post. That hasn't happened yet because I've had holidays. Not sure if that applies to anyone else, but...I'm in favor of continuing, and was actually about to ask you about this :)

So yes. That's my vote. I'm still working on stories as of today and yesterday, and would love to be able to post them this year instead of saving them up for the next Badfic Game.

So...round two, anyone?

~DF/~DW~*

I'm looking for a beta just to read through the latest draft of my Permission writing sample. I've got most of it sorted out but a fresh air of eyes would be appreciated.

I believe you've got my email account if not send it to either stormehawk@gmail.com or thestormehawk@gmail.com, I check both.

That is, share away!

dawnfire360@gmail.com

Wow, it's really weird not to be posting as DuskWater.

~DF