Oct 2013 Archive, part c

If not, go do so. Right now. Parts of it are NSFW, but it is the Dwarf Fortress Let's Play.

So I think I can offer up this Dwarf Fortress x My Little Pony crossover.

I can't comment on the DF canon details, having never played it, but the actual writing seems to suffer from a lot of SPaG and formatting issues.

Out of interest, how much Bleepka are we talking here?

Seems to me our definition of a badfic is kind of impossible. DF is at its core a fantasy-world generator, which essentially means any "fics" written in that continuum are more like original fics in a setting created by the game. Unless we're talking fics of stories and Let's Plays like Boatmurdered.

Often. The most Fun I've ever had is watching my dwarves starve to death.

Speaking of DF goodfic, have you ever heard of the legend of Fort Bronzemurder? Read it and bask in its radiant glory.

The Department of Temporal Investigations from Star Trek. Individual agents can probably be neuralized (although there's probably some obscure species in the Federation that can't be), but they have a "shielded archive" that preserves other timelines that I don't know if we could tamper with. They're meta enough to know about the continuity reboot, and they're used to not asking about things they know they shouldn't know.

We generally shouldn't be having a lot of canon characters with PPC knowledge. It can mess with the whole modus operandi of "keeping the multiverse safe from threats it knows nothing about", and having the agents go into a badfic knowing beforehand that a potentially powerful character, in Pinkie Pie's case one of the main leads of the canon, is going to be on their side, seems to skew the basic set-up of hard-won victories and sanity only kept intact by snark and distractions.
Having Jack Harkness on the list is bad enough, since not only is he a main lead in Torchwood, he's usually immortal. Plus, I have no idea why he's even there. Does his brain heal from the effects of neuralyzation? That doesn't make a lot of sense, since the logical extension of that would mean he can't forget anything, and we know that isn't true. Whatever. There's too much precedent to remove him anyway, so... moving on.

A new canon character should really be added to the list if there are complications, for example if the character is all-knowing in-canon. Omniscience is a big complication, since it means the character can't be neuralyzed, which is why Aslan and Madoka are on the list. Doc Scratch, from Homestuck, would probably be up there as well, since he's not only nigh-omnipotent and omniscient, but he doesn't have any eyes to flash the light in.
Fourth-wall sight equalling knowledge of the PPC would make for a cognizant character in every third continuum or so, and since the fourth-wall-breakers usually tend to be less attached to sanity than their compatriots, that would create a scenario constantly on the precipice of spiraling horribly out of control. I don't think anyone would want that.

Pinkie Pie can be neuralyzed (pretty easily, come to think of it. "Hey, Pinkie, check out this shiny party favor!"). So, if she did find out about the PPC, which is totally possible, then the agents can just make her forget.

-Phobos

... back in the ReBoot community about ten years ago. She fell off the face of the internet, never to be seen again.

Make the forum page your home page? Worked on my old PC. Then when I switched to my mac laptop, I took a long break from the board.

~AW~

I think I'll just second everyone else's advice so far...because I haven't had enough experience yet to really offer my own. That is, I've done something similar myself, on and off, and haven't quite figured out how to deal with it yet, beyond deciding I'm doing what I can and that's that. So if I don't really post much for a while, and forget to welcome newbies (hi, newbies!), orcan'tbebotheredtopostonorreplytoanythingthatdoesn'tgrabmyattentionrightaway likealotofnewbiepostsbecauseIknowthey'renewbiesandI'mgoing tohavetodothesameroutineandeventhoughIdocareaboutnewbies--Iwasonemyselfyouknow--sometimesI'mjustreallytiredandbusyandamcheckingtheBoardforstufflikeanalysisoftheHobbitorsomething andIjustkindofgo'noI'llwelcomeyoulaterorI'llmakeacollectivenewbiewelcomingpostIloveyouanywaybutI'msotiredandcannotinternetbyez' andnoI'mnotsayinganythingwhyareyoulookingatmeyou'rejustlisteningtoahissingwindrightnowIdon'tunderstandwhy I'mjustasnakenoI'mnotnotasidekickeitherthatI'mawareof ohmigoshstoryideasomeone'sasidekickanddoesn'tknowit! anywaythehissingwindisnotherethehissingwinddoesnotexist donotlistentothehissingwinddonotthinkaboutthehissingwind thereisnohissingwindwhyareyoutalkingaboutahissingwind?Andnowtheweather...

Um. What was I saying? There was this nonexistent hissing wind and I moved to Night Vale temporarily...oh yes.

So yeah, once in a while I just really can't be bothered to reply to anything, unless it's...no, I don't even know what. Someone specifically trying to get my attention, I guess. So...I don't actually know yet what I do about that, but...I'm currently determined not to fade away (although that's a subject I could talk about at length).

While I don't want you to go either, there is what someone told me last year (about year-long/summer programs, but ignore that for the moment): even if you don't keep in touch with someone, if you lose all contact--that doesn't mean that you aren't, or weren't, friends, and that doesn't mean that you can't, or don't, appreciate them and what you've done together. It just sometimes means that your lives have stopped intersecting for the foreseeable future, and that's something that's going to happen a lot over the course of your life; but that doesn't make things pointless, or meaningless, or not worth doing. And it doesn't mean that you don't care about the friends you've made and may no longer be keeping in touch with.

But that's just what I was told at one point (when the program was ending) by a very smart woman who was one of our main teachers. What I'm trying to say, really, is...don't worry about it. And I'm only an email or chat line away.

~DawnFire

PS: Sorry about any nonsense...
PPS: Belated welcome to any newbies reading this who haven't been welcomed.../headdesk/ Sorry about that. ~DF

is just make the Board my internet homepage. That way, it's always the first thing to pop up so I see new posts when I start the internet.

It's really not something to worry about. A number of the people who've been here for quite a long time have gone through phases of posting a lot, then disappearing and coming back (yours truly included). We never really see it as fading away - just popping in as and when time and inclination permit.

I can understand your concerns, though; I made a number of very good friends through the PPC and this has proven to be one of the more consistently caring communities I've ever seen - though these days I spend more of my time lurking than I do posting.

The way I handle making sure I don't lose contact is to have the Board bookmarked and make sure to check it at least once a day, scanning the front page for anything new or looking at discussions that catch my interest, and sometimes (like now) I contribute to a conversation. :P

Hope that helps!

Well, the people here are pretty understanding of the fact that some of us have real lives beyond the PPC. I wouldn't worry too much about it.

Now, I'm far from the expert on the ins and outs of the PPC. I don't know all the departments and the devices that have sprung up since my seven year absence.

I have done tense shifts in my writing before. Any author can do it, which is why it's important to have a good beta reader.

With that said, maybe Agents could experience something like a glitch in the Matrix. Either a repeat, or see everything around them physically shift (or swoosh or something) like good sci-fi special effects.

Sorry if people have already suggested these. I'm not in a reading-all-the-things mood.

~AW~
-I have a code en mai dose unt mai brain feelz fuzzy.

Or being tugged REALLY HARD at some random part of the Agent's body, causing him/her/it/whatever to end up splayed out on the floor in a disoriented mess.

I know that I've interpreted tense shifts as causing nausea and headaches, due to the stress of a different paradigm being imposed on the mind and brain. Anebrin is especially susceptible, with the handwave being that his faerie nature makes him more sensitive to such things.
Of course, that's just my two Cents.

The problem is, there are lots of ways to make names. Leaving aside the question of whether the character should be named in Quenya, Sindarin, or Sindarin-accented Quenya - or, indeed, Telerin, Doriathrin Sindarin, or Nandorin - you have the fact that the traditional Internet 'slam two words together' method, while making technically valid names (sometimes), doesn't cover all the ways you can make names. Check out my mini-discourse on the name 'Eredan' for some of the complexities.

My general method is to check whether a name:
1/ Has the right letters, clusters, and general structure for the language it should be - so no, Sindarin named don't have terminal -es, and Quenya names don't finish in -n (usually).
2/ Can be made to be a combination of two or more words from the language in question. Elven names mean things.
3/ Don't mean something stupid.

Oh, and 0/ Aren't just random words from the languages. 'Aniron Sauron', anyone?

hS

Let's do this!

Lasting Damage:

Now this was a sweet little thing. I don't have too much to say about it, 'cause it was a sweet little piece, it had good interactions with the characters, and really, that's all you need from an interlude, y'know?

So yeah, this was good. Now on to the next one...

End in Tears:

Okay, this one I did have a slight issue with: I think the main problem is that the bulk of the action just goes by too quickly. I think that mostly, it might be a function of the fact that, for a PPC mission, there's almost nothing about the fic it's snarking in there. The vast majority of the mission was summary, with barely enough ficbit to qualify as a proper PPC mission.

And yes, I get that End in Tears was less about the Suefic and more about the culmination of Anebrin's snapping, but I feel that you could indeed still have gotten that across even while showing a little more of the Suefic. I don't know: I get your intent, but at the same time I feel like your intent basically sacrificed the fic being sporked for the sake of character development, which is not something I feel should be done in a PPC mission.

I don't know. Color me a little less than impressed with this one.

I haven't read End In Tears yet, but considering the little glimpse we got of Anebrin's desperation in Lasting Damage, and the fact that you said his story ends there, I can only imagine what happens.

-Aila

...and thankfully, the presentation makes the fanfic.

I've sometimes wandered over to the comments sections of some more politically-inclined websites, and I do have to say that you hit it right on the nose in terms of the kinds of comments you might find there. Some of the comments were really crazy: in particular, I tended to roll my eyes at the religious idiot who completely misinterpreted one of the poleepkwan comments on choice as it refers to reproduction. I also loved how some of the less well-spelled comments come from the unintelligent people: as far as I'm concerned, that tends to happen quite a lot on these websites. So reading this comment track was great.

And overall, I think it tapped into the wonderful world-building that made District 9 such a great movie in the first place. It did a wonderful job of giving us a potential window into what the rest of the world might think, and it did so without hammering us in the face with a ton of exposition. That, good sir, is one of the hardest ways to build a world, and you hit every cue exactly right.

So overall, this was a really good fic. Well done!

I've had a time picking out slang from idiom, euphemism, and just plain swearing, but here's what I've come up with:

- Yo!

Could be a response to "'Sup?", or vice versa. Can also be an accusation: "Yo, watch it!" Basically interchangeable with "Hey!"

- Chill, e.g. "he's pretty chill," "this scene is pretty chill"

Variation on "cool," generally meaning relaxed, easy-going.

- Sweet!, e.g. "dude, that's sweet!", "sweet moves, bro!"

Basically synonymous with "cool." See also "sick," "wicked," and (I'm told) "ill." See also also "rad," if you're a dweeb from the `80s or so.

- Dweeb

While we're on the subject... a dweeb is a socially inept, uncool person, much like a dork. Dweebs and dorks don't necessarily need to have the obsessively honed expertise and/or IQ of nerds and geeks.

- Mad skills

Someone with mad skills is really, really good at what they do.

- Killer

An intensifier. Can be positive or negative: "killer moves," but "killer workload."

- Lame, bogus

Uncool. Note that "lame" may be considered offensive and "bogus" may make you sound like a dweeb from the `80s or so.

- Right on!, rock on!

Approval, agreement.

- My ride, my wheels

Slipping into idiom a bit here, but these are pretty common expressions referring to a car or other personal vehicle. May be used with slang, e.g. "sweet ride" or "sick wheels!"

- This rocks!

This is great, awesome, exciting, the best. Can be escalated to "this totally rocks!" Also, "this rocks my socks!"

- This sucks!, this blows!, this bites!

Oddly enough, these are all the opposite of "this rocks!" "This bites!" usually stands alone, but the others have infinite variations: "this sucks hardcore," "this sucks balls/[unpleasant, inappropriate, and/or humorous thing]"; "this is sucktastic"; "this blows chunks/monkeys/[unpleasant, inappropriate, and/or humorous thing]", etc. Also, "you suck!" is common, but not "you bite/blow!" However, "bite/blow me!" is used... but I digress.

- Epic, epic win, epic fail

"Epic" has by now lost its original meaning and simply become an intensifier. An epic win is an impressive victory, accomplishment, or display of talent; an epic fail is an impressive display of stupidity, clumsiness, lack of talent, etc. Something described as simply "epic" is probably cool, awesome, sweet, etc.

- Screw-up, to screw up

Someone who just committed an epic fail probably screwed up. If they screw up a lot, they may be a screw-up.


... I think I'll stop there for now. This tale grew in the telling, as they say. ^_^;

~Neshomeh, who was born in 1985 and was a kid in the `90s, for what it's worth.

Or rather slang I'm used to here in Britain.

-'sup?
shortened version of 'What's up?' if ou're trying to be funny a reply along the lines of 'the sky' or 'the ceiling' works well.

-Ace
Wonderful, brilliant, really good etc.

-'aye up
Hello, pretty much solely used in Yorkshire and some other northern English counties

-Dunderhead (Dunder'ead)
Idiot, fool. Only works as one word, don't go round trying to call people a "Dunder".

-duff
false or fake, most commonly used in "The information was duff" or something similar.

-dibs
Also (and more commonly now) shotgun. Calling for it, e.g "Dibs I get the shower" or "Shotgun the shower" NOTE: ownership of shotgun not required.

-Taking the Mickey
To tease/ridicule someone.

then of course you have cockney rhyming slang and the nicknames that various countries/counties/cities/teams have for one another.

"Cool" as we use it today has been around since the 1930s; if I recall correctly, the first documented use of it in this manner was in 1933 (and I only recall this because it was also the year Adolf Hitler came into power, see my useless trivia).

I was going to do something similiar. I might have a Hunter of Artemis and a male Egyptian magician from the Kane Cronicles be my agents. Assuming that I can get someone to beta for me.

It's an interesting concept you've brought up.

If you extend the definition of bit character a bit to just mean "a person who lives in that continuum and never had a major role in the canon work" then we've got tonnes of agents like that, so in some cases I don't see why not. Thinking about it, my worry with that specific example is you're taking two minor canons who were never really given an identity by the author and forcing a fanon identity onto them, though.

...but I believe canons, in general, are not PPC-recruitable.

Welcome! Here, have a bar of Bleepolate. Not sure about the Board? Check out these links:
http://ppc.wikia.com/wiki/FAQ%3A_For_Newbies
http://ppc.wikia.com/wiki/FAQ:_The_Board
http://ppc.wikia.com/wiki/Guide_to_the_PPC
http://ppc.wikia.com/wiki/Mission_Writing_Guide

Enjoy your time here!

~Autumn

Hey! Another Anime fan! *High-fives* What are some animes on your list?

For your gift, I give you a bled-colored pencil. It works, but don't look at it.
Also, I give you a link to Icarus by Bastille.

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

Enjoy the PPC!

Okay, then... first time I've ever given a newbie gift... what to give, what to give...

Aha!
I grant thee a sharpie that writes in urple ink, perfect for when you want to punish someone for reading what you write!

Please excuse my previous post; I had clicked the wrong button.

Welcome to the PPC! I see that you've already started reading the Original Series, and I would love to see what kinds of things you'd do!

An anime fanboy, eh? Are Pokemon and Bakugan Battle Brawlers among your fandoms? I'm actually working on a crossover with the two, and any reviews/concrit would be greatly welcome!

But enough about me; your newbie gift awaits! So...
*rummages through Pokemon-Trainer-issue bag of holding*
Here, have a replica Keyblade! It's completely plastic, so don't expect it to have any magical powers at all! (Though I still cannot explain for the life of me why shapes show up when I bonk people over the head with it...)

Oooh, a fellow D&D player? That makes me gleeful. :D I've been playing for about three years now, it's great. I hope you find a game you can stay in!

Have a bag of pebbles and a Random Shiny Object, and do stick around!

So, I'm 99Hedgehog, but just call me 99. I'm sure we'll all get along brilliantly.

Although, I do have a friend alot like you...

...anyway, welcome! We won't bite. Have a bolter!

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Bolter#.UmjSGlCkxz8

Greetings and welcome!

On another note, I solemnly give to you one of my someday-to-be-patented lined Infinite Notebooks, complete with urple covers and wilver binding. (The tag says that I'm not responsible for any injuries to eyes that occur due to this gift, by the by.)

-Aila

It looks like you've checked over the Wiki and such already, so no need to point you to it, then. Have you read the spin-offs yet? Which one did you find first? Do you have a favorite?

Oh, and your gift! Let's see. Well, it looks as though you're a D&D fan, so... ah, there it is! Take a silver clockwork horror, straight from the crystal spheres of Spelljammer! I've been looking for an excuse to hand off part of my prodigious collection of spider robots to the new arrivals. Just don't let the little guy near anything it can disassemble and rebuild into more clockwork horrors. That sort of situation quickly gets out of hand.

Good to see a new newbie.

Have an urple coloured notebook to commemorate the event.

Storme Hawk

Welcome to the PPC! We love newbies here, so take your shoes off, leave your sanity at the door, and come right in!

But yeah, seriously, come on in. What exact fandoms are you into? And... well, I hope you don't mind my asking, but what's up with the username? It's kinda... innovative. In a great way!

Hm... As a welcome gift, I'll go ahead and gift you some music by Pierre Boulez. Enjoy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvWBiox8Hd8

Why Daphne Greengrass has been addressed - it's probably because she's such an open canvas, for better or worse. As for why "Ice Queen," my guess would actually be that a few of the more well-known fanworks involving her portray her that way. Sorta like how a really well-known fanfic can establish itself as nearly canonical in other places: a LotR fanfic posted here that involved Lindir would, presumably, use the characterization given him in Don't Panic! and Okay, NOW Panic, despite neither of those being canon, technically speaking.

Ron!Bashing is... I don't know, just irritating. But Dumbledore, you must admit, was written as a fairly manipulative character. Fandom just takes it up to eleven.

This is the first I've heard about that! That seems weird, and I wish I had a better answer other than "I don't know." Hope you find out soon!

I've read all of the books... but who's Daphne Greengrass?

I read a lot of the fanfictions that pair Harry with rarer girls like Daphne, there aren't that many compared to say, Hermione or Ginny pairings but compared to pretty much every other 'rare pair' it's probably got the biggest backing.

I agree with Karen DuLay in that one of the most appealing reasons to pair Harry and Daphne is that she's really a blank slate for writers. However there are other reasons for it, I believe, moving into the others things you've said.
By wanting to make Harry different and stand out compared to the canon fanfic writers want someone different to be his love interest, if its another Gryffindor it's hard to stay away from Hermione and Ron because he'll still be spending time with Gryffindors, unless something along the lines of Lords Quarters are used (or Harry is in a different house, but that's a whole different kettle of fish). If he's with a Ravenclaw (Cho or Luna are the only two I've really seen it with although there are plenty of other girls mentioned in Ravenclaw if they have been paired with Harry in a story it hardly ever gets finished), with Cho it seems to carry on as if they never broke up in OotP and Luna is already part of his friendship group from 5th year onwards really and so things don't change. Hufflepuff gives a few decent girls, but considering most of their reactions to him in the books (Chamber of Secrets and Goblet of Fire especially) combined with Harry's usual new persona in these stories (unforgiving of those who've betrayed him etc.) means they don't really work. Now the only house left is Slytherin, which is the least obvious choice (and most shows Harry 'breaking away' from his old life). Of the mentioned girls in Slytherin Pansy is generally a no (besides being with Draco for most of the books) Millicent is generally seen as a barinless, slightly ugly minion of Pansy's leaving (really) Tracy and Daphne, Tracy isn't actually mentioned in the books, whilst Daphne is, making her the more obvious choice.
There's also the fact that most writers (including me at one point) seem to want to prove that Slytherins aren't always evil (something that canon seems to leave out, unfairly one might add). by pairing Harry (the usual epitome of good) with a Slytherin means that along with any statement of "We're not evil we're neutral" or something similar gives the writer (and maybe the reader) some sort of relief.
Moving on from Daphne, Ron is seen as the weak link of the Golden Trio, the stupid one, the lazy one, the one who betrays Harry the most etc. etc. and in canon no matter what Ron's done Harry doesn't seem to care and immediately accepts him as a best friend again once the apology is through (Remember this isn't my view point). In Harmony fics Ron bashing gives Harry and Hermione a way to fall in love and in other fics it gives Hermione a way of seeing how evil Ron is and join Harry's side. Manipulative Dumbledore is easy, it's pretty much written all over Canon and most people love to extend that and make it worse. Whilst I do write a manipulative Dumbledore I don't bash him or make him evil, (I tried once and realized how wrong it was) He fulfills more of a supporting role, reduced to that because of his manipulations and plans, but still on the side of good. And there are a few fics that do that.
There are Hermione bashing fics about, normally more severe betrayal ones but there are a good number if you search hard enough.
Manipulative Draco? No, I hadn't thought of that, but then again it may not really fit his character. Manipulative Lucius? Now that sounds like a good idea.
Err, why not? I don't know. I've seen them named Monica and Wendell as well (after the names they 'adopted' after Hermione memory charmed them). But then I've also seen them have different names as well.

Well, I'll stop with the wall of text for now

Storme Hawk

I suspect one reason the Daphne/Harry pairing is popular is because we know so little about Daphne, and thus fanfic writers can essentially take a canon character and give her whatever traits they want. As for her Ice Queen nickname...it may be because she was a Slytherin?

I've no idea about Daphne Greengrass, having only ever seen passing mentions of her in fanfic. It might just be that people associate her strongly with Draco/the Slytherin creed, but know very little about her - therefore making her perfect for "development" by pairing her with the hero.

However, the Ron-bashing has some theories behind it. The most enduring one I've seen is that he's not "special" the way Harry and Hermione are; Harry is the Boy Who Lived, the hero, the central figure, and Hermione is brilliant, pretty (they're usually going off Emma Watson's looks) and confident. Therefore, Harry is better than Ron because he's special, and Ron is ordinary and only bickers with her and is piggish (remember how much he likes his food?) and clearly does not deserve such a paragon of womanhood as Hermione. Essentially, Harry is the bigger prize because he's the hero and therefore Hermione must only ever settle for the bigger prize. But because canon says she and Ron love each other, people have to bash Ron to make Harry actually look like the more suitable partner and force Hermione into his arms.

Manipulative!Dumbledore is generally a way for people who want Harry to do his own thing let him do it. It's true that there was a fair bit of manipulation going on in the series by our twinkly-eyed Headmaster to get everything ready for the ultimate elimination of Voldemort - but it was done with good intentions. A lot of ficwriters ignore that, or blow it out of proportion, or twist it to make Dumbledore Teh Evulz so that Harry will break free and go on his merry way, building up his own power base and challenging people to gain even more power. Basically, it's to give Harry a power trip, because that's exactly what modest, unassuming, loving Harry really wants. Yup.

Hermione's parents being named Dan and Emma is just a bit of fandom meta, I guess - "LOL, we'll name them after Harry and Hermione's actors, aren't we original and witty?" seems to be the idea.

My apologies for the slight Wall O'Text... I get verbose about the Potterverse.

Hey! It's always good to have oldies come back!

Hello, Casey. Have a bottle of Bleepka. I do share some of your fandoms, namely Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings and Pirates of the Caribbean (the popular ones, y'know). Have a nice time here!

~Autumn

My name is Olivia Fries. My fandoms include Homestuck, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, and My Little Pony. Rachael and I found out about PPC from searching "Ebony Dark'Ness Dementia Raven Way", and we figured that it would be rad. Exterminating Mary Sues, untangling bad crossovers, and dealing with bad yuri for the sake of fanfiction? I am so in!


My name is Rachael Winston, and when Olivia told me about PPC, I wasn't sure about it, but then I thought, "Hey, we could be like Jay Byrd and Acacia Thorntree!", and we posted our applications here, and here we are!

An anime fan, eh? Have you seen Accel World, Phi-Brain, or Cardfight!! Vanguard? Those are some pretty good series.

But I bet that you've been drowned enough in anime questions already, so...
*rummages through bag of holding*
Here, have a Ditto! If you like, you can have it take your place while you slip out and, uh, not get mobbed by anime questions!

Have a generic magical girl trinket!

What kind of Vocaloids? Do you mean Hatsune Miku or the Kagamine twins? (iTunes is awesome for having all this.)

Anyways, do you enjoy the Shonen Jump heads? Naruto? Fullmetal Alchemist? Stuff like that?

But enough questions. Have a fluffy velociraptor.

Another Cassandra on the Board (even if I dislike using that name for myself)? Oh joy! :P

I recognise about three fandoms from that list, but that's cool, we love people who love fandoms of all kinds. :D

Have a bag of pebbles and a Random Shiny Object.

Hi, have some fudge!

Hey there newbie! Call me 99. Have a bolter!

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Bolter#.UmoycFCkxz8

Hey! Nice to see someone new!
(It's okay if you like some yaois too. We don't judge).
You seem to like a lot of the animes I like. (That's a good thing....I think.)
As a welcome gift, here is Sennbonnzakura by Hatsune Miku.
Also, I give you a urple laptop case. Don't look at it directly!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LUgH_X7sFM

Hello, Casey!
Please note that unless you remind me to call you "Casey" in every post you make (preferably by using a signature at the end), I may end up calling you "Mage", short for your penname, "mage-of-eternal-time". Just a warning.

As for the newbie gift, I grant thee a pen that writes in blello ink- perfect for making sure a document remains unread.

Always glad to see anime fans, even if I actually haven't watched many of the shows you listed (though Free! is definitely on the list).

Greetings and welcome! I hereby grant to you a lined Infinite Notebook, urple covers and wilver binding included, and a warning not to look at it straight on.

-Aila

Always glad to see a new face! Welcome to the PPC!

In continuation of my tradition of giving newbies dangerous gifts, I present to you a .22 pistol disguised as a pipe, a copy of The Imperial Infantryman's Uplifting Primer, and The End's Mosin-Nagant. Have fun!

Thanks for the recommendation! I have a lot of things I need to read, but this series is definitely on my 'to read' list!

I haven't watched Free! yet, but it's slice-of-life about a swim team full of eyecandy dudes, yeah? So I guess a character who was way better than any of the main characters at swimming, and whose presence threw any or all of their personalities out of whack in order to fulfill some shipping fantasy or other would be a couple of qualifiers. Or perhaps there's an OC who really likes boys who play basketball, so one of the dudes (like, say, Haruka Nanasae, who according to MAL "always loved to be immersed in water, and to swim in it") give up swimming to join the basketball club impress the character, that OC is prooobably a Sue.

Basically, just take whatever makes Free! what it is, and add a character who turns that on its head for no good reason. I wish I knew more about the show, so I could have a more informed opinion XD

Mary-Sues are pretty much the same in all continuum.
Unless you're implying that all of the characters in the canon of Free! fit the normal definition of Sues/Stus, they should still be the same as a normal Sue.

Ohh yes, I've been waiting SO LONG for this.

This was awesome!!!

That's... hella long. Like, wow. I'll add it to my list of stuff to watch, though. I'm a fan of both series, so I should enjoy it. Thanks for the links!

Our good friend TVTropes has a page on this.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fanfic/TokyoMewMewNoHopeLeft

To balance out the badfic just below this, I give to you the Wholock fic called Just Human. http://wafflestories.livejournal.com/3968.html#cutid1
... I cried at the end.

Also, someone made a podfic of it, which is just as much, if not more, wonderful. Listen to the version with the music. http://archiveofourown.org/works/602873

-Aila

I've only read the first chapter of this, but even the title screams Suefic and I'm not sure I can go any farther without running away. So here, have a Dark is Rising badfic.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5477249/1/Will-Stanton-and-the-Princess-of-the-Balance

-Aila

I have never watched this series, so my perception of this may be incorrect.
But still, this fanfic made me want to pull my hair out and scream and cry and to erase what I was reading.
They are writing in incorrect Janglish (japanese+english). As a native Japanese and English speaker, this kills me to no end. (Besides, even if she used correct Janglish, I bet the story would still kill me because of grammar usage.)
And, although I don't know who this "Minto" person is, (if she cannon) I can almost bet that she is not the way described here.
I really feel bad for any agent sporking this.

With a name like xxxKawaiiBloodyGothx, I'm sure this person is a very respectable author and nothing here could possibly go wrong!

Eurgh. Sometimes I forget just how utterly bad some people can be. I just... wow.

"mid-leg length black hair with ao and pinku streaks"

UHOEJWRHG;RGUET

AO AND PINKU WHAT EVEN IS THIS

Also, "He was cruel and superfishal" makes me imagine him turning into a superhero fish.

I only got through one chapter. I don't think I can make it any farther.

Partly because I don't feel I have a good sense of who you are as a PPCer, partly because I think these are good kinds of questions for anyone to think about:

1. Why the Department of Floaters? It it just because you don't have a firm idea of where your sporking interests lie yet, or is there something about it that specifically appeals to you?

2. All of your agents except Paige seem to have a characteristic about them that exists "just because," randomness for the sake of randomness: Legacy's appearance and style of dress, Zarathustra's background music, Tristan's hammerspace meat cleavers. Do you think these traits can be used for more than one joke without getting old? If so, how do you see them playing into your stories and affecting your characters long-term?

3. I'm not familiar with the continua in the badfics you're eyeballing, so tell me, what's so bad about them? They both have some shaky mechanics, definitely, but why do they deserve death by sporking?

4. I like that you're looking at doing something with the DMSE&R, but it seems like people typically do one, maybe two things with it and then drop it. That's not a crime or anything, but I'm curious about what you have in mind and whether it's just a single idea or longer-term plans. Also, are you thinking of using the lab report format, or something else? What's your relationship to science in your real life?

Just to be clear, I'm not trying to put you on the spot or quiz you or anything like that. Mostly what I'm trying to do here is get a sense of what you're all about, since I don't know you very well. I've been in and out for the last few months, and I don't think we've ever talked. I'll commence with the actual feedback and decision-making pending your responses—unless, of course, a better-informed PG gets around to it first. {= )

~Neshomeh

'Celebrian'. That fic left me mentally scarred for life. I was literally gagging throughout the entire process of reading it. Luckily, our great hS here has killed the fic.

Next is 'legolas by laura'. Either that or 'My Immortal'. Honestly, I had a migraine after both. Both are so bad, so ridiculous, they actually made me laugh with what's left of my sanity.

Ugh.

~Autumn

Is "The Girl And Her Dragon," a How to Train Your Dragon fic. This fic actually caused me to change the way I write because the grammar is so persistently godawful that anything resembling it gives me flashbacks.

The Harry Potter Legendary "Subjugation" (which was lost from the Internet last I checked) is probably next on the list, though. It's awful both in its subject matter and because it's technically well-written enough that it just drags on and on, without any humorous typos, malapropisms, or mangled meanings to get in the way of the yucky things going on. There was an attempt to PPC the thing in 2006, but it didn't get very far because there's so little to work with in the humor department. I am going to take it down before I'm done, though—I have story and character plans.

~Neshomeh

...in the Rainbow Factory.

It's not often that I find a fic that really upsets me-- I have a tendency to laugh off most things that aren't "Gorefest 9001" or "Let's-abuse-my-least-favourite-character" stories-- but this piece of trash featured an institution that willingly murdered children for no real good reason at all.

I can't describe how much I loathe this story.

It was missioned by KittyNoodles and Riese a while back, here and here.

Hands down, THE NEW GIRL on Voyager (Star Trek: Voyager) Where to begin? The SPaG is hilariously horrible, leading to interesting turns of phrase like "nanaprobes" and "the Bog Queen". The plot is nonsensical, involving a transdimensionally hopping Mary Sue who is caught in a love…something with all the young men on Voyager (including one she de-aged into a teenager). But she's "Christian" and therefore doesn't hang out with boys EVER and can't make a commitment to any of the boys fawning over her! She's so dedicated to her ideals! Also the Borg have taken Captain Janeway, but that's not important. At least, not as important as Harry, Icheb, and a de-aged Chakotay all vying for beautiful, pure Shaundrah's affections! It's so stupid that it actually gets funny after a point.

However, the fic that made me the most mad was Red Dragon (Star Trek: TNG). The Mary Sue is a whiny immature teenager who somehow has the rank of Commander and also is the last of her kind, a race called the Draconians that can shapeshift into dragons. Riker is turned into a rapist, bringing up memories of her last commanding officer who raped her - and of couse she couldn't press charges in a progressive society because then she couldn't angst about it to her boyfriend Data, who, by the way, is suffering strange fits of emotion and hits her during one of them. Then she breaks the laws of physics by transforming into a dragon and using her weight to crush a ship IN SPACE and then being rescued from the explosion by Lore, who makes her a cybernetic hand and half-brain to fix her up. Cyborg shapeshifter-dragon teenager. Yep.

Sorry to rant, but like I said, it made me mad.

The terribadest fic I've ever read? Well, excluding bleepfics and legendary badfics and the like, TSAB DOWNFALL: Halo War (NSFW, NSFB, Not Safe for Nanoha fans) which is eleven chapters of alternating horribly bland boringess and trivialised genocide. Yes, you've read that right, trivialised genocide. And torture. Not to mention that every canon that has more than one line is gods-below-damned replaced. This 'fic actually caused me to cry. It's that bad. Small wonder I co-wrote a mission on it.

I'd say a little horror called 'spirit of bravery beginning,' a Rise of The Guardians fic that has since been deleted.

Thank goodness. All the... shooking and... arrgh...

The fic is called Pinkamena: The Pink Shadow, supposedly set in the MLP universe, though Ponyville is neigh unrecognizable in this fic. I would link to it, but for some reason I am unable to access the google doc that this monstrosity is archived on, so I will have to link to the main doc here, and tell you to click on the name of the fic. Now, it is a half-finished MST, and has been for several months, so don't expect the full snarky goodness of a proper MST.

So, why is it the worst fic I have ever read? Well, the grammar, while not the best, is leaps and bounds ahead of what most would consider the worst fanfiction. That is the best possable thing I can say about this sticking piece of-

The characters are so insanely Out Of Character it makes me sick. Pinkamena is back from the infamous Cupcakes, and everypony says, "Welp, that's just crazy old Pinkie Pie! No harm done, except for the pony she just gutted! Just don't eat any cupcakes for a month or so!" Equestria is thrown completely out of sorts. Religion for some stupid reason comes to Equestria. So, is this religion a ponified version of several different religions brought together in one world, causing some conflicts in interests? No, it's only Christianity and Satanism directly from earth, brought to Equestria through the main character Dark Slash after he returned from Earth.

Oh yeah. The main character.

Dark Slash.

Where do I begin with this guy? He is a red and black alicorn with a katana as a cutie mark to represent his natural affinity for cutting ponies with swords, along with a second cutie mark behind it of 666, representing his deal with the Devil for supreme power. Yes, The Devil, as in Lucifer, Christianity's favorite villain. As a reward for his imortal soul, he now has a demon in his hooves which he can call forth whenever he wished, as well as superpony speed, strength, and- wait, did I say that the demon was in his hooves? Yes, I did, and not figuratively: his hooves are now white because they are the prison of one of Hell's greatest demons. This demon is a complete asshole. I'm sorry, I know I should not curse here, but that is the nicest thing I can say about that festering little...mmph, thing that dares even GLANCE at Equestria and it's citizens. Another thing about Dark Slash is his horn, another gift by the Devil. Oh yes, he was a pegasus before his little deal, and now he is an alicorn. Now, this should be fantastic news for him, right? WRONG! He hates alicorns, and anything to do with them! He constantly angsts on and on about how, "Boo ho, I am an alicorn now! I am going to BRUTALLY MURDER ANYPONY WHO MENTIONS IT! Because I am so torcherd by the fact that I AM A GOD NOW!" Further, he is married to Twilight Sparkle, has adopted Spike as a son, has brought not only earth religon but earth military with him from the other world, has a mashine that can trasport him "through the fourth wall," and...

You know, I think I will stop there though there is plenty, PLENTY, more I could yell about. The thing about this particular fic is the emotion it brings out of me. Most badfics make me shake my head, or laugh, or grumble about the poor writing ability of the authors (sorry, I know, don't rage against the authors, but I don't demean them personally when I grumble) or something along those lines. This fic, at the very thought of it, makes me angry. Very angry. Like, I punched things repeatedly to vent out anger levels of angry. I never get that mad, but this thing...

So yeah. This is the absolute, no questions asked, worst fic I have ever read.

Probably "Forbidden Fruit The Temptation of Edward Cullen".


That panda, man... that PANDA...

This is a massive tie on my end. It seems that I have the absolute worst luck in finding terrible fanfiction, 'cause I just gravitate towards it even if I'm not trying to find something bad.

I'd say that the worst fic I've ever read is a three-way tie between Subject 23 (a Mass Effect self-insert with a main character who was loved by all despite the fact that he's a complete psychopath and extreme character bashing that the author even tried to justify by intentionally ignoring some parts of canon), If You Don't Have Something Nice to say (a Fire Emblem fic with one of the whiniest Mary Sues ever and an Idiot Plot that boggles the mind--and let's not get into how it romanticizes sexual harassment after the halfway point), and From Another World (a tale set in an alternate universe of Mass Effect where it's AU in name only and the only thing that happens is lots of plot regurgitation and a lot of a massive, self-aggrandizing Gary Stu who says he's doing a lot of good for the galaxy when he really is just acting like an idiot while coming up with numerous excuses to stick to the canon plot--oh, and the author plagiarized a vast majority of it).

Probably the one I sporked in my second mission, but even then it might be because abusing Sakura Kinomoto (in this case in a very literal and unpleasant meaning) is my berserk button.

There are far more terrible fics than that one, and I guess all Legendary Badfics and Bleepfics would qualify, but I never read those. I like my brain sane, thank you.

Wicked, hands down.

If given the chance, I'd also like to see The Lion King, or The Book of Mormon.

The only problem is figuring out when a good time would be...

My two favourite musicals (both of which I've had a part in when we did them at school/college) are Grease and Pirates of Penzance, I probably prefer Pirates but Grease has a special place in my mind after I performed parts of it (including a badass Grease Lightning routine) in front of over a thousand people at the nearest theatre.

...mostly 'cause I've always been an opera junkie myself more than a musical theater one. Even if they are technically the same thing.

So... my favorite musical would probably be Sweeney Todd. Not only is it a really intense musical, but everything about the score is just... Oh man, I could hum that score forever. Besides, I am a bit... stringy about it. (And no, I'm not a piccolo player, 'cause I'm not piping hot.)

As for favorite opera... Hands down, Alban Berg's Wozzeck. If Sweeney Todd is intense, then Wozzeck is even more so. Wozzeck, while it might not be everyone's cup of tea (it's an incredibly dissonant work and you do have to get used to Berg's non-tonal language) it's absolute pure genius in every single way. Love it, love it, love it, and I would murder kittens if it meant I could see it live.

I like Wicked, Anything Goes, The Music Man, Phantom of the Opera, A Very Potter Musical (can that count?), Aieda, and Mamma Mia!. Mamma Mia! holds a special place in my heart because that was the first musical I saw.

If I could only choose one, though, I'd choose Phantom of the Opera.

I have a few favourites, but the top ones are The Lion King (which I saw this January), Wicked (which I saw last month) and the Very Potter Musical series. :D

Hmm, let's see, I've played in pit orchestras (violin and viola; in one memorable amateur show where we couldn't get an oboe I actually played the oboe and cor anglais parts on violin/viola!)

The list, to the best of my recollection, is:

• Godspell
  
• The Mikado
  
• Aspects of Love
  
• Les Miserables
  
• Dracula Triumphant (it was a flop, which is why no-one's heard of it!)
  
• You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown (where in addition to violin and viola, I had to play alto recorder, tambourine and kazoo!)
  
• South Pacific
  
• The Producers
  
• West Side Story
  
• Into The Woods (I actually only just played that show last weekend!)
  

I may have done one or two more, but if so I've forgotten.

My favourite musicals that I've done were Les Mis, Producers and West Side Story, all for different reasons. Les Mis has the best story (Act II is so intense), Producers is just simply good fun, and West Side Story has some amazing music, possibly the best music in any musical.

Including shows that I haven't played, Wicked is a big favourite (Defying Gravity is such a great showpiece), and I'm quite a fan of Next to Normal, which I saw earlier this year when a friend was playing in it.

Elcalion, musical

I have been in my fair share of musicals. "The Wizard of Oz", "Fiddler on the Roof", "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown", "Footloose", "Schoolhouse Rock Live!", "Little Shop of Horrors", and "Threepenny Opera", to name all of them. So, I do have a fondness for them.

What is my favorite, though? That is a difficult question. Let me try to break it down.

Musical I would most like to star in: "Jekyll and Hyde" I sing a mean "Confrontation" and I know I can do better than Hasselhoff.

Musical I would like to star in opposite my brother (he was the Seymore to my Audrie II in Little Shop): "Les Miserable" With him as Valjean and me as Javert. Our "Confrontation" (odd that that title keeps coming up) is formidable. Also, I am looking for any excuse to bring this look back:



Musical I just like to listen to: "Avenue Q" (NSFW) What can I say? I am a big fan of raunchy puppets. Also, I like to poke fun at Neshomeh with "What Do You Do With a BA in English?"

Other musicals I think are worth checking out:
"Aida" I saw it on-stage when I was in high school. It is a classic 'choice vs fate' story and the music is great, with a few exceptions (I'm looking at you "My Strongest Suit"). This one is overlooked most of the time, and I think that's a shame.

"Urinetown" If you are looking for ridiculous meta-humor, look no further (It starts out with a song called "Too Much Exposition"). I never got to see it, but the soundtrack spells out the story clearly enough.

"I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change" This one is a series of short scenes that explore various aspects of relationshipes; from first date to growing old together. It is often hilarious and sometimes touching. Worth a listen, if you get the chance.

"Songs for a New World" This is another series of songs without a central plot. They all revolve around the moment of decision. Do you take a stand, back down, run away, or something else?


-Phobos, who is still waiting for someone to write a leading role for a bass.

Sorry I'm late. Anyway, congratulations on making it this far!

Here, have an Apocalypse-Class battleship!

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Apocalypse_Class_Battleship#.Um8cTPmkyLI

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

Have some macarons!

As a gift, I virtually give you a Fanon Pinkie Pie Party! What is the difference between a Pinkie Pie Party and a Fanon Pinkie Pie Party you ask? Well, I'll tell you! Due to the My Little Pony brand being made primarily for little girls, Hasbro has forced the canon to restrain Pinkie's partying abilities to those for a five year old little girl. While this is all well and good for said five year olds, those much older then that can only find so much enjoyment from them that is not based on nostalgia.

Enter the Fanon Package, where fanfics do right by semi ignoring canon to break the shackles enforced by corporate onto our favorite Party Pony. Now she can use that cutiemark and throw you what is quite simply the BEST PARTY EVER! Music, drinks, snacks, party games, and quite simply the most delicious cake you will ever taste!

Due to being a member of the PPC, extended bonuses are given to you! Pinkie Pie uses a mixture of her fourth-wall breaking abilities and an RA she managed to get her hooves on to bring in ANY CANONS YOU WANT! Indeed, even the party can be set wherever you so wish, and no canon will question it for this day! Get drunk with you favorite characters, glomp your Lust Objects without (much) consequence, and anything else you can think of!

By the end of the party, specially programed robots with Neuralyzers will sort out all of the canon mess left behind, so worries about any damage to the continua. They will even neuralyze you, making the party seem like it never happened and that all you were doing was sitting at a computer screen reading about this fantastic, though fictional, package deal. The robots even have time travel abilities, due to being based off of the T-1000, so you won't even notice the time difference! This is quite simply the best party you will never remember!

Happy birthday to you~
Happy birthday to you~
Happy birthday dear Sergio Terbo~
Happy birthday to you!!!~

And many more~
'Til you're 164~

I grant you, as a birthday present, one box of assorted candy!

To celebrate this momentous occasion, I give you some variations!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViHj77TbPh4

Chocolate cake, anyone?

*hands Sergio a Generic Gift*

-Aila

Seeing as it is usually a safe bet, have a big bar of chocolate!

Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Sergio, happy birthday to you!
-Opens a bottle of Spumante Verdi-

Here, as my birthday gift to you, have some Bleepka!

Happy Birthday! Have a sonic pen! *hands you a cake and a party hat*

Happy birthday, Sergio! Allow me to give my usual birthday gift: A Delibird! Watch out, its presents have an 80% chance of exploding.

*presents you with a sack of pebbles, a hand-made sling, and a basket of Bleeprin-berries*

Allow me the honor of being the first on the board to wish you a very happy birthday, my friend!

... but the Doctor Who Unbound audio plays have always captured my interest. If you try them, let me know if they're any good.

hS

Do you mean a spin-off? Torchwood is one, though it is8s a bit more mature than Doctor Who. There's also the Sarah Jane Adventures. And K9 and Friends, though that one isn't sponsored by the BBC.

As in, the Warriors of Kioshi from Avatar: The Last Airbender? Cool!

Nice to see you around again. Feel free to go about and add your two cents to any of the conversations we have up on the Board right now!

…What is this?! WHAT HAVE YOU BURNED INTO MY MIND FOREVER, 99HEDGEHOG? AIIIIEEEEE!

Okay, I'm mostly better now. I have to go smash my head through the wall to fully recover, though.

Cheerioughbbth.

I beseech ye in corrupted early modern english, do nay click the link to and place, person, or thing. Although they all have a thing vibe going.


Oh, and I'm back.

I feared this day would come, guys... I feared a day like this would come...

Well, I guess I better find some bad Sonic fanfiction from the DIC side of things...

That's a thing...Not a thing I wish existed, but a thing none the less.

I think I made a terrible mistake.

Chuck Norris doesn't los- Oh wait, Bruce Lee 1 Chuck Norris 0.

When Chuck Norris does push-ups, he doesn't push himself up. He pushes the rest of the planet down.

-Phobos

Chuck Norris doesn't call the wrong number. You answer the wrong phone.

Chuck Norris died 20 years ago, Death just hasn't built up the courage to tell him yet.

If you spell Chuck Norris in Scrabble, you win. Forever.

Chuck Norris hears sign language.

Chuck Norris can strangle you with a cordless phone.

The Chinese built the Great Wall to keep out Chuck Norris. They failed.

And:

Superman and Chuck Norris made a bet. The loser had to wear his underpants on the outside of his suit for the rest of his career. Guess who won.

http://youtu.be/pcxthg885ZY

(BTW, *who's, contraction of "who is.")

~Neshomeh

Someone other than me remembers it exists! (blows noisemaker) Okay, that's a bit of an exaggeration. I know at least Lily Winterwood also remembers it exists, because she writes an agent for it, but I've hardly if ever seen it even referenced in recent stories, so I'd been planning on doing something with it once I got Permission, however far away that will be. Maybe we can collaborate at some point.

Well, considering that "he/she/it/they fell through a plot hole" is among the most common reasons for someone or something to wind up in HQ(and actually is going to be the centerpiece for the DMFF story that I'm planning), having a canonical basis for a character suddenly disappearing and reappearing somewhere else provides a justified prompt to take advantage of the trend. So, yes, it would be possible.

As for plausibility of recruitment opposed to extradition, that would depend on a few factors, but just in general, I'd say so long as he's sapient, capable of interacting with other beings and the PPC technology, and reasonably non-hostile, I'd say chances are high they'd let him in. The PPC is perpetually understaffed no matter how many agents it has, after all.
What is he, by the way? I don't know Spiral Knights, so I don't know what the species are, who can become a knight and how, what their power levels are, and the like, so I can't say much about the matter for certain.

There are going to be a few layers here, but given that it's a Homestuck question, that's far from unusual. Oh, and in case anyone is reading this post and hasn't this post and hasn't caught up with Homestuck yet, or at least reached Act 6 Act 3, spoilers of the largest sort will follow.

Initially, in the B1 universe, multiple copies of the game existed and were distributed(I'm not counting the Alternia universe as "initially", even though it created the B universe set, for reasons I'll get to later). Since Sburb has been compared by Word of Hussie(I don't remember whether it was in the story itself or through Formspring) that the game exists as a sort of cosmic reproductive system, this makes sense. The Genesis Frogs would need to be able to multiply themselves, rather than just existing and creating a new version of themselves every time one dies. There was a map in Act 3 that showed that while there are numerous sessions, there are far more meteors than there are active sessions, but there still are active sessions. The prevalence of the meteors is probably because there are multiple sessions' worth of meteors aimed at the same planet. While The Battlefield is always destined to be destroyed during the Reckoning and the Prospit side is always destined to lose, Skaia still needs to exist to provide the alchemy cradle for the formation of the Genesis Frog, so some, but not all, of the meteors are sent through; ones sessions' worth which would heavily damage a large planet like Earth or Alternia, but not kill it all on its own.

Compare the trolls' world, A2, which only had one session, and the B2 universe, which only had one session, to B1 Earth. The troll world is, compared to the B1 Earth, almost undamaged when shown in the post-session era. Sure, most of its society has been destroyed due to the corrosion of troll cities and infrastructure following Gl'bgolyb psychically killing the planet's population, but a lot of what it is in the Exiles' time is almost the same as it was in the trolls' time. Even the deserts that the trolls' exiles operate out of are still present and widespread in the pre-session days. They can be seen most frequently during Kanaya's segments, as Kanaya lives smack in the middle of said desert. Granted, she lives in an oasis, but she made it herself, so it's not representative.

Both the A2 and B2 planets weren't as badly hurt, and in fact managed to rebuild their societies, albeit through the influence of the Felt(which included an omnipotent First Guardian among their numbers) and a space conqueror respectively, but B1 Earth is irreparably damaged by the onslaught. The only thing we see of it is a continent-wide desert, which means it's likely that the rest of the world is devastated or uninhabitable. So, why is the B1 Earth torched completely while the B2 Earth only has widespread flooding and climate shift? Simple. The B2 Earth existed as an extension of the session played by John, Dave, Jade, and Rose, while the B1 Earth existed to be the starting point for their session and all of the other human sessions.

The Scratch resets only a single session, because as you said, resetting every single session for an entire species because one session isn't working out would be pointless. What if the flawed session was simply unable to win for a reason that was out of anyone's control, as happened in the main story? So, the Scratch creates a new planet with shifted-around versions of the null session's players in an attempt to correct the problem, and retroactively inserts it in the universe set's Genesis Frog.(Remember, when Bec Noir attacked the B universe Genesis Frog, it was revealed that all worlds in the Homestuck continuum containing Earth and its population exist within the Frog's body. All timelines, all doomed timelines, all offshoots, and the like. Since a scratched world contains ts own alpha timeline, it would be an offshoot rather than a doomed timeline, but could still potentially create more doomed timelines itself.)

The B2 universe only had one session, with all of Sburb under wraps, with a closed beta, etcetera, because it only could have one session. It doesn't exist to propagate on its own merits. It's the path of a single ovum, if you'll allow me to compare this to real-world mammalian/amphibian terms here for a moment. The ova cannot create more of themselves after the construction of the ovaries, and thus there is a maximum number of possible successes. Likewise, the scratched universes cannot create more than one new universe, but they can finish where their predecessors failed. Not a perfect comparison, because ova can't go back and try again if they weren't fertilized the first time, but it's the closest I could come up with.

This fits into the setup of the Alternia universe. It is a post-scratch world, designated A2, and was the result of one of the A1 universe's sessions encountering a dangerous and session-fatal glitch. It has not been revealed whether Beforus had more than one session attached to it, but I think it's a likely scenario. And, regardless of what hundreds of fanwriters will tell you, in the Alternia that produced Sollux, Karkat, Kanaya, and all the rest, there was only one session, and it succeeded, creating B1, a new, fertile life form that would eventually produce numerous sessions of its own.

So, to sum it all up, the other B1 sessions do in fact still exist. In fact, they wouldn't have been affected by the Scratch for the same reason the rest of the Medium wasn't affected by it; the Scratch only hits a single Incipisphere, and they're outside its range. We just haven't seen any of them because we're following, in the words of Hussie, "a boy and his friends and the game they play together". Granted, those were circa-Act 4 words and it's a little more complicated now, but they still hold up. The other B1 kids probably either died when the universe's cancer hit the session(likely), performed a scratch of their own(less likely, but distinctly possible), or won(enormously unlikely), so their stories probably wouldn't have even been as fun as the tri-layered, quad-universal adventure Homestuck's been telling us.

Those other sessions never got off the ground. No one ever figured out how to prototype their kernel sprites. There problem here is that you assume that the meteors are supposed to spur the other players into starting the game, like they are with the John and the rest. However, there is another explanation.

It could be that the meteors that hit the other players houses were meant to keep them out of the medium because they aren't John and Co. Skaia knows what it needs to make this whole thing work, after all. It needs John, Rose, Dave, and Jade. It doesn't need Tom, Dick, and Harry.

So, where are all the other kids who are playing the game? They are all dead in meteor impacts. If, by some twist of fate, they did manage to get to the medium, I would say that they probably ended up in eternal void sessions and were reset with the rest of the universe.

-Phobos

I don't have permission yet, but I am working on some Agents for the occasion when I do decide to ask, as long as that's acceptable. Figure it'll help me get some characterization work down and whatnot.

http://disc.yourwebapps.com/discussion.cgi?disc=241484;article=2956;title=PPC%20Message%20Board

Sorry it took so long. Also sorry if the intro is lame. Writer's block kicked in pretty hard, and it was like pulling teeth. >.
I'll try to get my RCs up tomorrow, but I might not be able to respond much until Saturday.

~Neshomeh

I don't have Permission yet, but I would love to participate!

Oooh, this sounds fun!
I have done RPs in chats before, but never done it here in the PPC.

Also, I don't have permission.

How would I introduce the two characters I am thinking up?

And speaking of which...

Would it be a stretch for the kids to go to a DAVD(a) RC?

Hope those guys have some dextro candy that's been sterilized, though. Otherwise, poor Saim'Rodriguez is gonna be very left out...

I'm going to a party tonight so I wouldn't be able to do much of anything today but I could pitch in if it goes on.

Hehe, I'm interested in the game... I have a few kiddiewinks who might like it.

I think my agents will be interested. Heck, I'll have it set slightly in the future when Jumper and Sarah have been introduced, as well as Marvin and Printworthy. Heck, why not, I'll break out my Changeling agent idea for this too! (She won't be mine after I properly introduce her, as I think the agents I have now are plenty.)

Now, what will their costumes be...

Can non-approved agents take part? I think it would be a good character builder for the agents I am working on for approval to take part. That and I love to RP

I was actually just wondering if we'd be doing a Board RP for this! So yay

I'm definitely down with this. When do we start?

As someone who happens to have an agent with a child, you may consider my interest piqued. What should be done to get started (you know, provided the interest is there all around)?

I'd love to enter, but I'm afraid my agents are a little too new to bring into something like this. And besides, I don't even know where the other board is. (Is it that little link there?)

Also, hi Neshomeh!