Jun 2014 Archive, part a

I wouldn't recommend something if I didn't have a reason for doing so, you know? That said, you may find the PPC Rec Center helpful.

As for the second bit... you're going to have to explain the connection between "it" (the Ring, I assume?) making Bilbo invisible and Soul Reaver. I don't know how many people besides me know much about the LoK series, and even I'm not quite sure what you're driving at. Unless it's about Middle-earth having Ring-wraiths and Raziel being a wraith, but Tolkien's wraiths don't get involved in The Hobbit, so...?

~Neshomeh

It's a podcast, right? Where can I find it?

I am so incredibly into the latest developments.
Also I am in love with Khoshekh. The Erikas are pretty awesome too.
I really can't wait to see where the whole plotline is going; I especially love how Night Vale somehow developed an actual plotline along the way, considering it started out as a series of sort of unconnected events.
Viva la Nightvale! Down with Strexcorp!
And I want Tamika Flynn back.

I was looking online for information about the last book in the series and found something that was most certainly NOT canon, but I read it and wanted to read more. And then I wondered if there was anything for Harry Potter, and it was like I'd found a buried treasure chest. It was so amazing- and then I saw one summary that looked pretty good, though I didn't know what the word at the end, 'yaoi', meant.

That kind of scared me off for a few months.

Then I thought, if all these people can write Harry Potter fanfiction, I wanted to do it, too. I'm still hoping to one day complete the fifteen-part series I have planned out, but first I think I'll go back and rewrite the first two and a half stories I already did. The OC isn't super-Sued, but it could definitely use work. Her Marauder nickname is Ebony. That probably tells you enough... ^_^'

I first started reading fanfiction either on K/Sarchive or the House squidge archive. It may have been K/S, introduced to me from the wikipedia page (my first ever ship, followed by Huddy from House MD)
I think my first fanfictions were K/S. I was being bullied at the time so I ended up reading a lot more M-rated stuff than I probably should have at the age of ten. It was my refuge, and I still struggle with an unhealthy addiction with the stuff.
My first fanfiction was a Warrior Cats/House MD fusion (yes, yes, quite seriously) and it was AWFUL. AWFUL AWFUL AWFUL AWFUL. Thankfully I never posted it. The other fics I wrote and actually posted were actually awful.
The fanfiction.net/ao3 handle LightDarkPheonix comes from my obsession with phoenixes, the misspelling dates all the way back to my second account on FF.net (I abandoned my first one because of aforementioned House MD badfics).
To my frustration I can never show what I write to my parents because they a)think all fanfiction is 200k of NSFU stuff b)they seem to be opposed to gay pairings, despite not being homophobic, and all of my fics are gay pairings.

I only learned about fanfiction in maybe 2008. I believe the Sprout was already born. it could have been a year or so before that though, I am absolutely horrible with hammering events into a timeline. (I got the idea to check when I made the ffnet account, but CANNOT get logged in. Serious aggravation.)

I belonged to a writing group aimed at authors trying to get published. When someone mentioned fanfiction. I of course had to check it out.

I honestly have no idea why I ever tried it a second time. Maybe morbid curiosity. Maybe I have a masochistic streak?

Being the first time I read a fanfic, I had no idea what all those terms that are common in summaries meant. This a couple of clean-up-TOS-breaking-fics purges ago on ffnet, so I blithely go to the LOTR section and limit it to Faramir fics.

Let's just leave it as that I learned what slash meant, and I've always really, really wished those fics hadn't gotten purged so that I could hit them with the Department of Bad Slash.

I've still never really gotten into reading LOTR fanfic. I tried NCIS eventually and Stargate and the rest is history.



Now, not really fanfic, but when I was younger I had a seriously overactive imagination that would scare me at night, so I would make up stories. Mostly about Star Trek TOS, ironically enough. (No, I'm not THAT old. It was on re-runs, but this was before Next Generation.) I never wrote any of those down. When I got up into about 5th grade I took characters that I liked from TV shows, kept basically the names and personalities and stuck them all into my own original world. Even as a little kid is made me uncomfortable to be messing about in someone else's sandbox like that. I've only started writing fanfic this year, because of that.

Later, I changed their names and everything else until they had no resemblance, but the origins all go back to a ridiculously bad one season cop show that I obsessed over in 5th grade. Benjamin Bratt was on that show though, so you know, hey I still think he's good looking. Maybe it wasn't so ridiculous, even though I didn't really think in those terms then.

My Fanfiction experience... The memories.

I wrote my first fanfic before I read any. My first one was a Skyrim fic. It's called Skyrim Allegiance, and I am currently redeveloping it, along with just about all my fics. I will need them later for Imaginations Collide, but they are currently not so good. I wrote them a few years back, took a break, then read them again. But, I'm pretty confident that I never wrote a Mary Sue or Gary Stu. I got close a few times, but never actually did it.

The first fanfic I wrote was also a Skyrim story. I forget the title, but it's dead now. It was a story about an OC rebuilding the Dark Brotherhood by accepting numerous OC's from readers. I submitted one, too. A psychotic who would brutally murder anyone he was attracted to. I believe his name was Nikita Contortus.

And that is my fanfiction experience.

I don't really have much fanfic writing experience, but my first fanfic I ever READ was a Naruto Sasori/Deidara slashfic that probably needs to be sporked a little bit. After that I branched out, finding new fics in many different fandoms, and a couple decent crossovers as well.

The first fanfiction I wrote, if you could call it that, were a trio of horrid Red Alert 2, Worms and Bionicle not-even-stories that never made it past the two-paragraph stage I wrote back then in second grade's creative writing lesson.
I didn't start reading fanfiction until I chanced upon the PPC, IIRC.

My first experience of fanfiction was around 1999 or 2000, when I discovered the alt.drwho.creative newsgroup, back in its heyday. I loved reading the "IA" (Internet Adventure) round robin fics, where writers would take it in turns to write one chapter each. The group also had Jerri Massi's "Always the Third Doctor" fics, and the surreal alternate universe of "This Time Round". Great stuff.

But I only lurked, and never joined in. Like I said before, for me creative writing was just something we were forced to do at school, and not anything I could ever imagine myself doing if I didn't have to!

Star Fox is where I started, although I can't give you a precise date or time.
I've been working on the same fic for what, years, now and am apparently fated to never get anywhere with it. I'm not writing it down, at least.

That's all there is. Being who I am I generally don't read fanfic that is made with any level of deep thought put into it - nor do I read the obnoxiously bad kind.
The latter is naturally disgusting, whereas all the former does is inspire envy and contempt. If the subject at hand genuinely interests me I can't help but despise those who do better than I - a notable exception being Marauder Shields, which I will follow until its end.

I form hypotheses, theories, complex systems and simple one-frame images.
I never put any of it to paper. I don't think I ever will.

My first encounter with fanfiction was sometime in the 80s, thanks to an acquaintance who collected PWP fanzines. (And badly written PWP at that -- I could be wrong, but I don't think porn is supposed to bore the reader.) It took me longer to start reading internet fanfiction, because I had to figure out that there were non-porn fics first.

Writing ... while I've got several ideas, I haven't posted anything. A lot of my "write fiction" impulse gets channeled into writing gaming scenarios instead.

It all began with The Light Fantastic. Waaay back in the last milennium, a schoolfriend suggested I should read it. I did, and now I own every single Discworld novel. ;)

After some time, I was browsing Discworld sites on the internet (I remember The L-Space Web in particular), and happened across a small Discworld fanfic site. Well, I know now it was small... at the time, it was the only one I knew existed.

At around the same time, I was producing unshared self-insert fics of my own, in Pern and Star Wars (and possibly a couple of others... not sure). I still have them somewhere - they're pretty bad.

Late in 2002, I developed an actual online presence, in the form of my very first email address - and yes, that was when I became Huinesoron. I created a Hotmail account in order to talk to a friend about The Two Towers over the Christmas holidays. As you can see, I was already a big Lord of the Rings fan - I'd read it since I was a child - but hadn't yet started on the histories.

Then, and it must have been around the same time, another friend (that's three, if you're counting!) noticed me on the Discworld fanfic site and directed me to Fanfiction.net. My mind practically exploded, and it didn't take long for me to abandon Discworld fanfic to its fate (though I still retain a certain fondness for it - hence my writing OFUDisc) and dive headlong into the LotR section.

My first published story came about in March 2003, because I was bored at a Scout meeting. We were making pancakes - which means, two people were making pancakes at any one time while the rest of us stood around - and I decides to write something; I put Legolas in it because I knew he was the most popular character.

Pancakes! hit fifty chapters. It has over a thousand reviews. I'd say that 'popular' thing worked. :D

The next step came about because I couldn't spell. Well, I could spell most things - but I was positive that Legolas' father was named 'Thanduril' (as opposed to 'Thranduil'; my entire family did the same thing with a certain headmaster named 'Dumblemore'). So Thanduril went into a story - I forget which - and someone pointed out that he was a mini-Balrog. They directed me to OFUM, which I devoured.

It was through OFUM that I found the PPC stories, which I also devoured - and I was nowhere near to getting full. Vaguely inspired by Jay and Acacia, I started writing a spinoff to 'Pancakes!', about an organisation named Ispace.

This very Board noticed me, in the person of Vemi, and on September 8th, 2003, Hellga (I'd forgotten that fact, but the review is definitely her) invited me to come join the Board. On a dark autumn's evening, I looked it up - and found that Vemi assumed I was female. ;) So my first post was protesting that I was actually male, and not ripping the PPC off, honest.

And... I stuck around. I made friends - within three months I was chatting regularly over MSN with Kaitlyn, who I eventually married. I founded a new department (DOGA) early in 2004, started writing Histories very soon after... and just kept on sticking around. Now I'm far and away the most prolific PPC writer (though not with the most missions).

My other fanfic hasn't been quite as numerous. By April '04 I'd completely stopped writing, and when I resumed, I made a new account to escape my fangirls (oh yes, I had fangirls). That was September '04.

The last significant change came in 2005. The Reorganisation had stalled out some months earlier, and I was on a hiatus of sorts. Somewhere in that break, something must have happened to change my writing style. Everything before that point, I cringe a little to re-read; everything after it, I'm okay with. I think it was at that point - after the hiatus, when I picked up Reorg again (by myself; no cowriter) - that I started writing Narto and Lou's missions. They're all in the new style, I believe.

So that's me. Didn't expect quite that many words, huh?

hS

My first experience with fanfiction came, oddly enough, while I was in my second year of law school, so in a few months, it will be three years since I've read my first fanfic!

IIRC, I first heard of fanfic while I was much younger. After I read the last book of the Animorphs series, it mentioned somewhere in the afterword that there were being fanfictions made picking up from the series' cliffhanger ending.

Fast forward all those years to law school, and I was looking for something to read. I remembered that snippet of information and started looking for Animorphs fanfic. I eventually ran across an unfinished goodfic by Blue Dragon: The Kelbrid War: How to shatter trust. TVTropes eventually led me to the PPC.

Of course, I've only recently started writing fanfiction; I have a crossover in the works. It is a Bakugan/Pokemon crossover titled The Vexos Chronicles. I have quite a few stories planned for the series (yes, it will be a series, God willing), and hopefully, my entry into fanfiction will be with a bang.

I wrote my first two in fifth grade. One was a Pokemon fanfic in which a girl got sucked into the anime (rewritten many times since and still messy) and the second one was a Neopets fic intended to be a grand tropical/alien adventure. I think.

My first experience reading fanfiction was probably on the website "The Cave of Dragonflies." It has a whole section devoted to the author's fanfiction, which is pretty good if sometimes morbid. I particularly remember her two longer fanfics, "The Quest for the Legends" and "Morphic", as inspiring to me. I still have a large Word file on my computer containing profiles for twelve different human/Pokemon hybrid OCs I've not really written a story for. (I'd make one a prospective agent if I weren't slightly convinced I wrote a band of Sues and Stus.)

Also, I think I joined deviantART around the same time (2011/2012). The first fanfic on the site I liked enough to favorite a chapter of was "Follow Me" by SakuraMota (read it, it's good). She inspired me, avid Soul-as-player/Silver shipper I was, to write a fic of my own starring them. (It's currently two and a half chapters long, outlined for far longer, and awaiting a rewrite as a college AU. Don't ask.)

That was... a long time ago...

Technically I've been writing fanfiction since I was about eight in the form of poems, but I didn't think of it like that. Still, it's rather pleasant to be able to look back at what is technically my first fanfic and bathe in the roaring success that turned out to be. Much better than all the Redwall drivel I followed it up with. When I was twelve I happened to mention it to my mom and she explained the concept of fan fiction to me. A couple of years later I was looking for a guide on molespeech and ran across an online Redwall-based community, which I joined without hesitation. Most of the stuff on that site was badfic, and I've actually considered linking the whole fanfic page board-wards, except some of my first work was on it and I'm too embarrassed to let anyone see. (Even though it deserves sporkage.)

About the time I started writing LotR and Star Wars fanfic I quit the internet for a while, and when I came back I'd improved significantly. Among other things I had started writing original fiction and figured out that no, actually, Mary Sues weren't such a great type of character.

I don't actually remember what happened next very clearly, but it involved a lot of anonymous stalking of ff.net and AO3 as well as *grimace* written guides on determining what exactly is in a fanfic by the summary and title. (Fortunately I never managed to share these with anyone.)

Anyway, I guess that sort of brings me up to the present, where my primary form of recreation is writing songs making fun of bad fanfic. And writing introspective pieces I never finish.

The first fanfiction I read that I remember was some Redwall piece that had a tolerably good story and pretty neat characters but was almost as unintelligible as My Immortal. I wish I could find it again, because in hindsight it was pretty amusing. (At the time I was still naïve enough to believe everyone could spell words like father, so it all came as something of a shock.)

The first fanfic I wrote (while knowing it was fanfic) was a weird take on a Rose!Lives that I am forever ashamed of. I retained some of the ideas, though, and twisted it into another story that is pretty much unrecognizable as the same story and almost doesn't even qualify as a Rose!Lives anymore. So technically I'm still writing it. But not really.

Slightly amusing unrelated: I told some dude that I wrote fanfiction in one conversation. In a different conversation, I mentioned that I didn't appreciate reading sex scenes. It was almost impossible for him to reconcile these two ideas in his head, because somewhere he got the idea that it's not technically fanfiction if it doesn't include sex.

Yet another dude, immediately upon discovering that I wrote fanfiction, demanded to know whether or not I shipped. His definition of shipping turned out to be Aragorn/Legolas.

I think people who do not read or write fanfiction don't actually know what it is.

I first really came across fanfiction in about September 2012, Up til then the only thing I really did online was RP, then one of my friends from the site I RPed on mentioned fanfiction, I think he was talking about some Pokemon fanfic or something, and I decided to check it out although I quickly became more interested in Harry Potter fanfiction. It also coincided with another person I knew advertising their writings on fictionpress via the same forums and so I became interested in fanfiction.

My first attempt at writing fanfiction can currently be found on the Claimed Badfic list, which gives you an idea of how bad it was. The spelling and grammar for the first half of it or so is appalling and the latter half is only a bit better. It also included entering 2 new races into the Harry Potter continuum (Succubi and Elves if you're wondering) re-hashed quite a bit of magical history, although I did try and work it into the gaps left by canon. Oh and I created the "most adorable mini-Aragog", Hugglepuff.

I can't remember the first bit of fanfiction I read, but one of the fanfics I did read early on, and can remember was The Return of the Marauders by TheLastZion. I re-read it occasionally, it's got bad grammar at points and some of the characters do have some Sue-ish traits amongst other things, but as an early fanfic writer it did inspire me, and make me aspire to become a better writer.

On the topic of early fanfics, whilst I was looking at joining the PPC I browsed the Unclaimed List a couple of times. And on looking down the Unclaimed badifc list, I noted a HP fanfic named "Harry Potter and the Guardian of Hogwarts", which to most people doesn't mean much. To me however, whose first fanfic was called "Harry Potter and the Guardians of Hogwarts" it freaked me out for a bit, before I realized it was a completely different fic.

Storme Hawk
Who's trip down memory lane has sufficiently distracted him from revision.

I think I first learned fanfiction was a thing in middle school, thanks to the Creatures computer games. That would be about 1998, give or take. That was also about the time I was learning the Internet was a thing, and spent my some of my free time hanging out in MSN chat rooms and stuff. (Hey guys, who else remembers a/s/l queries being commonplace and not automatically creepy and stalkerish?)

Somehow, I made my way to a Creatures fan forum and found that people had written stories based on the games. It kind of blew my mind. I don't remember any specific thoughts, but I used up a lot of paper printing off a particularly good series of long-ish fics—and I still have them! I was already something of a writer (so my parents and teachers told me!), so fanfic seemed like an awesome way for me to get involved in the community. I started writing my own fic pretty damn quick, but I never finished it. Middle school was not a great time for me writing-wise, at least not until the 8th grade, when I actually had a competent English teacher.

1999-2000, my freshmen year in high school, was when I got into Farscape, though, and that changed everything. I got involved with a little Pilot fansite called FaDoP (Friends and Defenders of Pilot), and they were the most amazing group of people I'd ever met online. Fanfic was definitely in, and I wrote up a decent-length fic—about 20 pages, single-spaced with indented paragraphs, definitely the longest thing I'd ever written at the time. And that one I actually finished, with an alternative ending and a sequel, even.

And that's how I learned about Mary Sues. ^_^

The FaDoPer who pointed out that my OC might be a Sue did so in pretty much the nicest way possible. I think they were going by the then-standard "idealized version of the author/person the author wishes they could be" definition, to which I agreed that, yep, that sounded about right! I was a bit defensive about it, as I recall, so my agreement was sort of a passive-aggressive attempt to own whatever so-called "flaws" people were finding with my work which was obviously perfect, thereby transmuting them into deliberate style choices that I totally did on purpose for a reason so don't judge me... but still, at least I didn't throw a tantrum or anything.

Anyway, I think I found out about fanfiction.net from my fellow writing-inclined FaDoPers, and that Farscape fic is the first thing I posted there. Apparently this was in early 2002, which I'm pretty sure is a good bit after I actually wrote it, but that's beside the point.

By then I was heavily involved in role-playing, mostly on Neopets, and I wrote a handful of fics inspired by or directly based on what I was getting up to in RPs. In particular, I started writing a massive Harry Potter epic... that I never finished. I think I discovered OFUM not very long after discovering ff.net, and through OFUM I found the PPC, so I'd heard of "canon," and I wanted my story to harmonize the events of the RP with the books as much as possible, so when new books came out and changed everything, it was difficult to recover my momentum.

Plus, by 2004 I was pretty entrenched on the Board, and PPC stuff took over a good bit of my free time. I remember starting and never finishing a fair few fics between 2003 and 2006-ish, but since I'm pretty sure they were all garbage, that doesn't bother me. I did write another Farscape fic in 2005, after the miniseries came out, and I've poked at the Epic Potter RP Fic, but basically my interest in writing my own fanfic petered out in favor of writing PPC stuff. It's a lot more fun writing for an audience who knows you, likes you, and is generally willing to give meaningful feedback. And here we are!

~Neshomeh, who wrote a lot in this post, jeez.

For a mission Herr Wozzeck and I have been doing, knowledge of Doctor Who, ATLA and/or X-men would be nice.
If anyone's interested, email me on: thestormehawk@gmail.com
Thanks

Storme Hawk

I'm currently working on an original fic (or rather a series of short stories) that has at it heart two teams of seven superheroes. (It's where Apollo comes from). I'm quite willing to let you have any of them, if you want them. I have a guy who utilises Force Fields, a girl who can become invisible and intangible, another girl who can transform into any inanimate object, a telekinetic, an echokietic, a pyrokinetic, a telepath, Apollo (see his profile) a girl who can control and manipulate clouds and fog, a standard super strong dude, a shadowkinetic, a girl who can fly (and has bird physiology), a guy who can create light from any part of his body and a hydrokinetic. Pick any of those you want and I can give you their full profile.

So, hey, I've been wondering something.

I was re-reading the Original Series, and wondered where I can find the story that the mission Sisterhood is based off of. Does anyone think that they can help me?

...which came first?

That is, were the mountains on Titan named AFTER the Middle-Earth mountains, or did Tolkein get the names for his mountains from the moon?

Well, what do you know about that. That is crazy.

The fact that there is an actual Mount Doom in our universe fills me with joy!

Let's see... I also see Xanadu (did Kubla Kahn... you get the idea.) Erebor (presumably the mountains are lonely) Merlock Mountain(Merlocks, really) and Angmar.

Dang, astronomers are nerds. ;)

Any Sue that claims a connection to any one of the the mountains in middle-earth can be teleported to the name-equivalent mountain on Titan.

Sans protective equipment.

Same thing works for Sues claiming connections with mt. Olympus, although in that case you'd need to use Mars.

Nesh, I shall join thee in thy pilgrimage, gladly.

-Aila

Presumably from writing best-selling novels that get turned into the blockbuster movie trilogies and/or groundbreaking HBO series of the decade, causing the next great fanfic explosion...

It will be far enough in the future that we can charter a private space flight out to Titan and go lay Tolkien fanworks and memorabilia at the feet of the Taniquetil Montes and sing filks in praise to Tolkien and the Valar, which we will barely understand because of the static over the radios in our space suits, but we won't care because it will be the nerdiest, most epic pilgrimage ever.

Who's with me? {= D

~Neshomeh

I'm confused, though. "Erebor" looks a little too close to "Mt. Doom"; are they close in canon or is the scale of the photo just weird?

Sorry I wasn't here to welcome you earlier; I was busy with SAT stuff. Anyway, nice to meet you! I'm probably going to call you GT- is that okay? Here's your present: a squawking miniature urple elephant! Make sure to feed it lots of peanuts. ;D

Hello, newbie! As for your newbie gift...
*rummages in bag of holding*
Here, have a snowglobe with a replica of your favorite fictional locale inside!

Nice to meet you! Don't worry about the social awkwardness; I'm the same way. (I just googled Letter Bee, it looks...odd.) Why'd you put a question mark after full-blooded? Is there some dispute about your ancestry that's probably none of my business?

Anyway, your newbie gifts are movie-theater popcorn, a big white scarf, and a classy gray fedora. (Suit sold separately.)

Have some fudge!

Since other people pointed you toward stuff, I'll just give you this cup of mao feng jasmine tea.
Just don't let the leaves eat you.

Kamu hanya perlu baca peraturan yang telah ditulis, sertai perbincangan yang ada di sini, dan paling penting sekali, berseronok sementara melawat ke mari.

[You only have to read the written rules, join the discussions here, and most importantly, have fun of while you visit here.]

What is KHR, by the way? I haven't been into anime lately.

Hello, G, and welcome to the PPC!

Indonesia, huh? Sweet.

Hey, nobody has the time to read all of it. Heck, for here you only need to read the rules.(And then follow them, of course, which isn't hard).
ANYWAY! Let me just dig around and find something to give you... Hey, you can have my spare fez!
~really needs to think of more newbie gifts~

Hi!!!! Have this America jacket and England plush toy

How are you doing today? I welcome you here with open arms, a coupon for a free custom gunblade smithed by yours truly, and some advice...

<.>
>.>

...Don't trust the tea leaves.

Hello and welcome!

I give to you now a lined Infinite Notebook, complete with urple covers and wilver binding. Don't look at it straight on!

-Aila

*crosses self*
There's a very good chance we wouldn't have been able to live as we do without the men who died that day.

I know he was talking about a different aspect of the War, but 'Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few' still seems pretty apt.

"A hero is someone who voluntarily walks into the unknown."- Tom Hanks.

"There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism."- Alexander Hamilton.

"Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion."- Calvin Coolidge.

**Silently bows head with eyes closed**

The First Chief Minister of Sabah, Tun Fuad Stephens, died in an aeroplane crash on the same date, but at the year 1976. A visionary, a thinker, and the first local ruler of Sabah for centuries.

"Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force!

You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you. In company with our brave Allies and brothers-in-arms on other Fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the German war machine, the elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe, and security for ourselves in a free world."

--- Dwight D. Eisenhower's Order of the Day (excerpt)

I'm ashamed to admit I haven't heard of the other places and missions you mentioned. Can you tell me about them?

I almost forgot about that one...

Well, I hope they had lived a good life before they...died. And it's for the greater good...I think...

Would Marquis de Sod put a problematic trainee with a non-agent employee that he wants dead?

Basically I'm thinking that Larry is begging to be an agent, Samantha bit someone who was overly cheerful. Two birds with one stone, except that they come back successful.

Say, how have you come across that name? I am curious.

Is five things:

* 2 agent bios (the characters you actually plan to use together)

* 2 writing samples, one from a control prompt and one from a random prompt, about those characters

* 1 badfic that you intend to spork.

I'm seeing a whole lotta character bios and a whole lotta badfic, but only one prompt. It kinda looks like you don't have your final thoughts together. Is that the case?

Also, does this mean you're changing your Board handle to Cartesian? Otherwise, what do you mean by your "writer-name"?

~Neshomeh

...but, hey, I did it. Unfortunately, there are no other PPCers in Western Australia. :-(

...and would also like to take this time to confirm that yes, I am, in fact, still alive.

...before posting...as such, I'd just like to say up front that I am not a ginger male when I live in Canada and a black woman when I live in Israel. Should I ever gain the ability to magically switch genders, hairstyles, and skin colors over the course of a plane ride, I'll be sure to let you know.

In the meantime, of course, I'll be staying female and ridiculously light-skinned. Sorry to disillusion anyone who may have recently (or otherwise) decided that I'm a Metamorphmagus...although, if you've been under that impression for a while, I'd *really* like to know why, if you wouldn't mind sharing...

~DF

Is a shiny thing. :D



Oh, and hS? On a tenuously related note, Lycaenion is pretty much guaranteed to make the London Gathering this year. I've been planning with her, and she and I will be touring the UK afterwards.

Gee I'm far removed from everyone else, aren't I?

THE EMPEROR PROTECTS!

Mean's yall need to head on up to Alaska. You know, because I'm, like, the only one here. Just saying.

Seriously though, this is interesting. Perhaps we should add a link to this on the wiki or something, so that even when this falls off the front page, pins can be added by newbies. Just a thought.

The link to it just sends me to the website's main page.

I feel kind of lonely in here...

You're writing a video game? Cool! What kind of game is it? How much can you tell us about the plot without spoiling anything? (Also, congratulations on not writing any Mary Sues.)

So, another Neopian, eh? Here, have a Kacheek plushie! (I hope I spelled that right; it's been a while since I've been on Neopets.)

Here, have a starfish of doom! A shiny green pencil! A pair of gears from a smashed clock! Oooh, and a bag of trail mix with blello nm&nm's!

Hello, hello! Always nice to see new people! Your welcome present from me is a meowing miniature crocodile. ;) We're a very welcoming group, so don't be shy if you have any questions!

And a Gamze plushiee

I don't think I've ever met a genderless person before, it's very nice to meet you. Your welcome gifts are a yellow Wocky plush (I used to be into Neopets, too), a red Truffula bonsai, and "Growing Bonsai for Dummies". Enjoy them!

(Also, have you read the Original Series yet?)

Hello and welcome!

I give to you now a lined Infinite Notebook, complete with urple covers and wilver binding. Don't look at it straight on!

-Aila

Have a hoodie with your God Tier aspect of choice!

Welcome to the PPC!

You might want (other words: it is highly recommended) that you read the Constitution (link on top of the page), as well as the Original Series and some stuff on the Wiki, which are also linked up there.
That said, here, have a cup of sencha tea. Just don't let the leaves eat you.

Hi, have some fudge!

The last thing I remember hearing about was minecarts (did that actually go in, or was it just speculation?), and it seems like this'll be more of a thread if you have any details. ;)

hS

...everyone tells me that it's a really Fun game (on the level of the epic of Fort Bronzemurder), but all of my experiences with it can be summarized as "SeaTurtle can't set tasks and thus watches his dwarves starve to death".

Every. Gorram. Time.

Why can't I micro my dwarves Starcraft-style? That'd be great!


Personally, I'm excited for Dreamhack Summer. It's a huge LAN party-- the biggest in the world IIRC-- and also a major video game tournament. For some strange reason, I'm really into the competitive Counter-Strike: Global Offensive scene right now, so this is gonna be a real treat. By the way, does anyone else watch esports here or am I the only one?

First off, I should point out that I am definitely not the person who should be reviewing this piece. My antipathy towards the works of Tolkien is at least relatively known on the Board. I did my best to put that aside, but it still colored my perception of the story a little. Sorry.

I like that this is a story that doesn't involve the DMS or Floaters. I like to see the smaller departments in action. I also really like that this is written from a first-person perspective. It's a point of view that is rarely seen in PPC missions, and it's rather well done here. The moment where Agent Huinesoron is forced to confront his prejudices in particular is quite good.

This is a very little thing, but I'm a little glad you didn't blow up the CAD. I'm a bit tired of that running gag.

I noticed you used the stand-alone ellipsis as an indicator for silence a few times. This might just be me, but I'm not a fan of that particular usage. It strikes me as almost being a cheat: rather than saying something like "she stared at me in a brief gobsmacked silence before doing whatever action she did," you just write " '...' she did the action."

A technical point: the sentence ""How do we know the Strider is a friend of Gandalf's I mean come on his horse is a black horse of Morgul?"Merry questioned Frodo." is supposed to be italicized, as it is (what I assume to be) a quote from the badfic.

Finally, a bit of rambling on SIELU. I think that SIELU could actually be a bit more interesting if it wasn't so specific to Middle Earth. What if it was spread out from just Tolkienian Elven to a wide swath of fictional languages? You've got Klingon, R'yehian, Na'vi, Tamriel Dragon, Hutteese, and what have you. You could even include real world languages if badfic characters keep spouting phrases in German or French or Japanese. Not everyone is going to be an expert in every language. That's where the new and improved SIELU would step in, sending agents to act as translators and proofreaders. I'm basically saying that I want SIELU without the 'E'.

I kinda wandered away from the main point of this post. Ahem.

Nice job, hS. The subject matter wasn't necessarily my cup of tea, but I still found myself enjoying it.

I've been rambling away on this thread, and forgot to say how much I loved your mission. Not only was the badfic really bad (not even bothering to show us the all-important scene of Pippin learning he was a werewolf for the first time!) but your writing of the mission was fun too. Agent Kaitlyn's Hobbit fixation was cute, and it's always great to see a pompous Elf being taken down a peg or two,

First off, congrats on turning up some lost stuff. Do you mind if I ask where you found it, so I can try sniffing around myself?

On to the mission: Holy macaroon, even with that gigantic list of ten years' Tolkienverse missions on the LotR page, and we're still finding new, unique badfics for new, unique missions in that fandom. This one would have been unique even as a DMS-style mission, just because of all the werewolf nonsense, but you went above and beyond the uniqueness bar by making it a DCPS mission. It turned out swimmingly; that moves the perspective of the mission from the surface contradictions against canon to Agent Kaitlyn's specific love and respect for the hobbit characters. I like how that turned out; we don't tend to see that kind of possessive love for particular characters nowadays as often as we did in TOS' days. It would be nice to see missions swing back into this style, as it feels a lot more character-driven, on both the parts of the agents and the canons.

I also liked your treatment of the moment when Aragorn became character-replaced. Each individual piece of that sequence was a tiny scene in itself, and they added up to a very complex and momentum-building sub-plot overall. Aragorn's awareness of a problem breaking the badfic's hold over him for just that split-second is brilliant. The tone of Aragorn's speech before and after the POV shift is jarring enough that the timing--which might seem overly convenient at first glance--ends up feeling natural and logical by the time the scene has played out.

Usual typo list Actually, I'm not even certain these are typos. Here we go.

When Aragorn is released from the plothole, you spell it "Dunedain." In the full charge list, it's "Dúnedain." Is the accent mark interchangeable?

You used Never mind I just looked it up. "Whingy" is apparently a word. (We Yankees tend to be "whiny" instead.)

The one legit typo is . . . a mini-Boarder! It's Elvea Aure, not Aura. I must sound like such a tool, correcting someone's spelling of the name of a person they knew whom I never met. Boy, I like stike-through text tonight, don't I?

Finally, I must finally and embarrassingly ask . . . how is your name pronounced? >_> I've been saying "win-ES-ur-ON" all this time, but seeing it interspersed with all this Elvish today, I realized: it's actually more like "hoo-EE-nay-SORE-own" isn't it?

The mission, that is. I haven't read the other stuff yet.

In any case, Agent Huinesoron is getting character development! Yay! I really like how you handled his revelation, and the introspection that followed.

(I would find a mission with Agent Râmwê incredibly hilarious, by the way. Maybe I'll even go badfic-hunting, though, inexperienced as I am, I'll likely not turn anything up, if there is even anything to be found. There probably isn't.)

-Aila

With reference to Agent Râmwê: if anyone can find me a badfic which either (in order of preference) a) uses Primitive Quendian/Primitive Eldarin/Primitive Elvish (ie, this language), b) is set before the departure of the Eldar from Cuivienen, or c) is set during the Great March (ie, before the Vanyar and Noldor sail to Valinor), so that I can actually use Râmwê, I will write you a 1000-word story of your choice as a reward.

hS

Is the Medical Department capable of replacing severed limbs? That is not entirely clear to me.

If you have an uncanonical location - a town, say - send in DOGA to burn it to the ground. If you have an uncanonical race, send in the DMFF to, uh, commit genocide? Well, maybe they'd find an alternate home for them, instead - they're named Misplaced Flora & Fauna, after all.

hS