Aug 2016 Archive, part b

The memory of what had happened to her closest friend, and the only one she’d had for years, still haunted her to this day — and it felt like a bit of relief to share her feelings to his partner’s new partner.
Who is he? If you are still talking about Lapis, it should be "her partner’s new partner".

Anju, having had it enough as it after trying to stay out of it, spoke up at that point.
Do you mean "having had enough of it"? Continuing with "after trying to stay out of it" sounds still a bit clumsy. You may want to replace either "enough of it" by "enough of this" or "out of it" by something more specific like "out of the discussion" or "quarrel" or whatever "it" is.

"But t-that is … so horrible," Anju replied with a tearful expression, then turning to Aiko, determinedly said, "Aiko, don’t you think it is time to end this terrible feud of yours? You have alway been jealous of her, yet she has clearly suffered for more than its worth. "
alway should be "always".
The worth of what are you talking about? Did you mean "more than it is worth"? ("it is" may be contracted to "it’s", "its" is a possessive pronoun).
Also, the whole thing is a bit running on. I’d recommend to split the action between the spoken lines into two sentences.

"That would probably be a good idea," asked Binary.
How do you ask that?

And indeed, the one she had was Anju, her Digipartner.
This sounds weird. May there be a word missing?

Anju! It’s so good to see to see you again!
Too many words? I don’t believe that Aiko talks like that, even when she is excited.

It’s not that we are both on a break long enough to actually meet each other.
I’m not sure whether Anju means what I read here. "It’s not that ...", being a bit colloquial, implies that Anju currently is not on a break he deems long enough, and somehow (how?) also knows that Aiko is not on a long enough break, too, so that actually meeting each other is a really weird coincidence. I guess Anju means "It’s not usual that ..." or "It doesn’t happen often that ...".
And I guess that the period should actually be a comma, because the sentence is continued by "Anju replied ..." (that’s a really tricky punctuation rule because what was replied were actually several sentences).

And there is not much we can’t do since ...
Is the double negation intentional? There is actually a lot they can do? (Using double negations while meaning a single negation is significant for some dialects, but I don’t believe that Aiko talks like that.)

Still, we should enjoy this moment while it last. Where you headed?
Should be "lasts" (third person) and "Where are you headed?", although leaving "are" out may be an intentional colloquialism. (Again, I don’t believe that Aiko talks like this.)

I specially like seeing the ones we knew growing up and still there.
I’m starting to wonder whether Aiko has a habit of leaving "are" out. Maybe the sentence should better end after "growing up", because she obviously can’t see the ones who aren’t still there.
Also, MS Word Spell and Grammar Check thinks that specially is not the right choice of word, it should be "especially", but that’s beyond my understanding of this foreign language.

And even we do, it’s probably unlike that it would always on same day and time like this
Aiko continues to leave words out. This should probably be "And even if we do, it’s probably unlike that it would always happen on the same day and time like this". Also, unlike may need to be "unlikely".

We are both always get too many missions for that.
To compensate for Aiko, Anju inserts an "are" that doesn’t need to be there.

Yeah, me too. Hopefully we can find soon now.
And then, Anju leaves out an "it" (should be "find it soon").

Aiko hugged her right back, a warm smile showing itself on her face.
How does the smile do that? Actually, the face is doing the showing, so even "a warm smile showing on her face" is a bit weird, although not unusual ("her face showing a warm smile" would be more accurate); the word "itself" definitely should not be there.

I don’t particularly mind, if helps you with your class, but what is it that you would be talking about?
Another "it" missing (should be "if it helps you with your class").

She bit her lip nervously.
Who? Obviously not Lapis, the last female character mentioned. With so many female characters being around, figuring out who it is takes too long. Better just say "Diane".

Aiko, don’t think you played a part into that as well?
Should be "don’t you think".

Enjoying this was difficult, seeing how often I was forced to figure out what was said and done. Halfway through I was close to give up, but it got better from there.

HG

Okay, that's an interesting connectin to have between them, I guess. And having them called out by their Poke/Digi-partner was a nice touch too. (Will Anju have its own missions someday?)

And now, anybody can see where this next mission will go. How bad will the two of them screw up, though? anyways, spectacle is guaranteed.

I liked the interaction between the agents, and especially the way that Diane pointed a way towards some kind of reconciliation. Let's see if anything comes of it.

And more than that: I didn't spot any SPaG errors!

I look forward to seeing how Aiko and Lapis continue from here.


(OT: Speaking about agent interaction, paging SkarmorySilver:
I'm curious: What's Backslash's progress on teaching Cupid how to read?)

Somebody call Erebus. But don't do it until it comes out again, or I'll explode again, and it kind of hurts to explode.

Are we seeing a tsundere aspect to Farilan's personality? Oooh!

I'm very much looking forward to seeing the conversation between Farilan and Ilraen! And perhaps Ilraen (or Alex) can get Farilan hooked on cinnamon buns!

Anything that smashes Farilan's belief of Andalite superiority is very welcome.

The "very severe librarian" appearance for human!Farilan is just perfect.

And... Awww. Uncle Alex is already working on stuff for his little niece.

I really liked this, keep it up!

And Farilan. Totally didn't miss you. And I think Ilraen is far too good for you, especially with such mentality.

I suggest Alex tricks her to eating the ultimate drug for Andalites, cinnamon buns. Ah, taste buds, two words demonstrating why humans are better than most of the Andalites.

Oh, Uncle Alex is doing some present, and a really good one to boot. Although I wonder how he took the news in the first place.

Nice to see him. And Farilan. I guess.

IfyouknowwhatImeanifyoucatchmydriftnudgenudgeeheheheheehehe

Grasped that human speech thing pretty quick, didn't she? Always seemed rather complex, to me, though, it's pretty evident her main plotline's not going to involve 'becoming human' too largely. It'll involve, you know, 'giving pointers.'
IfyouknowwhatImeanifyoucatchmydriftnudgenudgeeheheheheehehe

Pleasant read, all around. Love that 'very severe librarian' description. Very pithy, but strongly descriptive, all the same.

You will be missed.

1) A guy once said that Marvel make heroes you can relate to, while DC make heroes you can look up to. What I like most, though, is when heroes band together against the forces of evil and try to be smart about it. This is why I love Worm and why I am going to dig up every Hellblazer trade in the county if it kills me. John Constantine isn't very powerful at all, but he's cunning and thinks round corners and tries to game the system as much as humanly possible (which, considering this is a bloke who ripped the wings off the Archangel Gabriel with a friggin' chainsaw, is a surprisingly large amount). Also, something he said struck me as profound.

"I'll tell you the ultimate secret of magic," he said. "Any c*nt can do it."

I want heroes who can be heroes. I also want heroes who aren't immensely musclebound paragons of jock-style masculinity - seriously, Supes, it's the Fortress of Solitude, not the Fortress of CrossFit - and heroines who don't look like two watermelons nailed to an upturned mop. I want to see normal people using their small amount of powers to make the world a better place. I like the small-scale, street-level guys who make lives better for the little guy; not just beating alien invaders, but the crime bosses, protection racketeers, and smaller-scale indignities. It's why I'm getting on well with the Marvel TV stuff on Netflix, I suppose. People fighting in hallways with costumes courtesy of the local Oxfam. Good show.

2) I sort of think I've answered this already with my talking about what heroes mean to me, but I really like the diversity of origins and backstory available to the world of superheroes. They present a much more optimistic worldview (except for that period in the Nineties where everything was grim and gritty and XTREEEEEME) and, y'know, I can respect that. I want more superheroes from other cultures, specifically sub-Saharan African nations (big surprise, I know). I want more than just Americans punching each other and/or aliens. Let's have a chain-smoking Scouse wizard hack his own soul in half to get around a deal with Satan.

Catch Spiderman doing that to get his marriage back. =]

3) A similar objection to the ones Ix has, really. There's not much diversity in the big names. Take the seven founding members of the Justice League (or the Justice League of America to give them their full title, which is a whole other can of worms that led to a brief appearance in one of my Champions campaigns of the Justice League of the Glorious People's Democratic Republic of Milton Keynes and Surrounding Conurbations). Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Aquaman, Green Lantern, and the Martian Manhunter. One woman. No POC, unless you count the ostensibly Greek-ish Diana. For decades, the black guys on the team were outnumbered by people who were bloody green. Also, super glad that Cyborg's in now, but still. My point stands. I would also really like it if some superheroines could not look like the contents of the artist's spank bank, that can't be too much to ask. =]

Also, to expand on an earlier comment, I hate One More Day and I'd love to see Spiderman get an army together and kick Mephisto's teeth in. Possibly with the help of people from the DCU, like John Constantine. I think they'd get on well.

So why not both at the same time? I do see a lot of similarities between these two, after all.

1) SO many things! The heroes, the villains, the monsters and machines, the over-the-top fighting, the effects... I could go on and on!
2) A lot of stories in both genres are basically "Characters meet each other, fight a lot, and eventually form a team." That's a perfectly fine example of what happens when people work together for long enough and I like it a lot. By the same token, the "villains teaming up with heroes against a common foe" scenario is also fun to watch, especially if it leads to the redemption of the former.
3) tfw minor characters get killed off like flies EVERY SINGLE EPISODE ;_; I just want even the C-Listers to live, dangit!

But since I don't have the patience to answer all of them, I'll answer the ones about magical girl shows.

1) They were some of the first anime I ever watched as a fledgling middle-school weeaboo, and I felt like I understood the main characters a little better than, say, Yugi or Goku. Also, I've always been fascinated by any variety of magic, so there you go.

2) The literal Power of Friendship saving the day. Also how the girls go from cute, awkward civilians to cute, magic-wielding badasses when the monster of the week comes calling.

3) How the heroes (and occasionally the bad guys, too) barely even disguise themselves and still no one notices anything unusual. (Sailor Moon and Tokyo Mew Mew are particularly notable offenders; Cardcaptor Sakura gets points back for having a different costume for each Clow Card fight.)

1) Wish fulfillment, simple as that.

2) Shy/nerdy/bullied kid turns out to have superpowers or gains them through random accident and goes on to become a hero. Again, wish fulfillment; I identified a lot with Spider-Man as a kid for those reasons.

3) Every female superhero looking like this:



Can we please get somebody with a smaller chest in here? I don't think these artists realize how difficult/painful it is to run, let alone fight, with such large *ahem* assets.

Also, the all-too-pervasive "We can't be together because my enemies will hurt you to hurt me" trope. I'm sorry, but the emotional attachment is there and the bad guys know it. Spend time with your loved one while you can, because inevitable kidnapping/torture/murder is inevitable.

1. Action. So much action. I like seeing stuff blow up— and things that go pew pew.
   
   2. Anything related to gunplay, power armour, hi-tech stuffs, fist fighting, explosions, and general badassery. Testosterone Poisoning optional.
   
   3. Fanservice. Why ogle the characters when there's more fights to be had?

Thing is, my British accent is fake. Very fake. I'm practicing. . . but I might not make it passable in time for the end of the casting call. But your announcement has not gone unnoticed.

--Key

Welcome to everyone's favorite madhouse! Take this urple Pygmy Puff! It's really, really cute (and urple)!

Yay more Asians!

Even shadier fact: I got into Twilight before the franchise and the explosion. I blame my 7th grade teacher for this.

Here's a flower crown and a box of popcorn! Who are your favorite agents so far? Mine are Valon and Kala. Actually, I have a lot of favorites, but I'm working with their author, Voyd, right now, so I naturally went to them. :)

Here, have a Starter Pokemon of your choice, any generation!

You say that you're into anime, right? Are Pokemon and Bakugan among your fandoms, by any chance?

Welcome aBoard! Here, have this bottle of space.

For your newbie gift, have this Royal Ice Cream Container! Close the lid, state a flavor, open the lid, bam, ice cream! It comes with every flavor, but the flavors that aren't typical ice cream flavors are all accurate to what they're supposed to replicate, so I wouldn't recommend eating, say, desk-flavored ice cream.

So, you like anime, do you? Favorites? Code Geass? Yu-Gi-Oh? Ouran? Madoka?

Alrighty, glad to see someone new. Since I seem to be in the habit of giving crazy things, here's a clockwork egg. It will hatch into something in the next..... 9999999999995 seconds.

Hello and welcome to the PPC Board, as your newbie gift you can have this replica of the One Ring, that doubles as a SHIELD communicator, with a direct line to Nick Fury.

Glad to have you aBoard!

Come on in, grab a chair by the fire, and leave your sanity at the door.

It looks like everyone else has already asked the important questions, so I'll just give you this Replica Holocron as a newbie gift, and wish you a merry stay in this little world of ours.

Oh, one more thing, what House are you in?

Because not only are Skarmory from Johto, but my own real-life parents immigrated to the US from Indonesia, so yee.

Have one of my own shed feathers, a replica of Captain America's shield, and a copy of the One Ring that actually turns you invisible!

Hi I'm Larfen J. Stocke, esq [This is my real first name, my mother actually called me this. She came up with it all on her own. My last name is 'Charles']

Welcome, welcome, welcome! You've derped into the right place, you have.
Watched tonnes of Anime, have you?
Ever seen Ghost In the Shell? That stuff's brilliant.
Also, what's it you mean by 'getting inspiration' from the Constitution and FAQ? Were you inspired to... follow the rules? In which case, good on you!

My gift upon you is: a real vampire, because, lord knows, you need experience with them.
Feed him regularly, and be careful. He's had a good five centuries to find reasons to hate humanity, and let me tell you, he's used them well. Good luck, derp-traveller!

Please have a pot of black-hole coffee, and may you enjoy your stay at this madhouse.

Well you answered all the questions, so only thing left is wishing you well.

And don't worry about that. There are ex-Twitards here, nothing to fuss about. Now, if you really want to forget tht part of your life, try also Das Sporking. Te administrator of the site, Mervin did a wonderful critic of the series with her sister. Said sister also wrote severral sprklepires' backstories, except now they're characters you can like, and is halfway through a (sadly) non published rewrite of Twilight the first. Let's say the two first unbetaed chapters uesd as previews trump the book and leave it at that.

Welcome, welcome! Make yourself comfortable and have a slice of Infinite Pizza

Hello, and welcome aBoard! For your newbie gift, take this plate of freshly-made SPaGhetti!

Since you didn't mention it specifically, mind if I point you in the direction of the Original Series? Aside from the Constitution, that's pretty much the only required reading around these parts—

Wait, you're a League of Legends player? Get out, we only accept World of Warcraft fans! ;P

And no worries, I was a huge Twilight fan when I was twelve, so you're not alone in that regard.

Hope you like it here!

How should I credit you as my editors? I was thinking leaving links to you, for whatever site. as well should I go by your PPC Names? Just tell me how to give you proper credit.

Hi! I'm a newbie, but I'd definitely be interested in betaing. Where/can you post the link/email?

Why?

Supes' one weakness other than Kryptonite is attack from another dimension. (Mister Mxyzptlk proved this.)

The TARDIS hands The Doctor the win for the fight, even if no one opted for trying to actually destroy the other.

Unite against a common foe, specifically the one making them fight because they've got a vested interest in them being bogged down for a bit while trying and incapacitate each other. It's the sort of thing that fits both their characters.

That it results in both Superman and the Doctor coming after fanboyish internet lardovores who derive vicarious satisfaction from "their guy" beating up someone else's in what amounts to a fictional character cockfighting ring is merely a side benefit. =]

I don't know much about DW, but which Doctor, exactly? And why would they fight? I think it would either end with Superman smashing the TARDIS, or The Doctor traveling through time to get a piece of kryptonite. Otherwise, they would probably be at it until one of them either dies of old age, or passes into the public domain

The Doctor can't beat classic Supes, short of killing him, which he wouldn't do, and while Superman can physically overpower the Doctor, he wouldn't because there's no reason to beat up an unassuming British fellow in a coat.

alaralin128@gmail.com

Consider a sitcom. A classic sitcom, like Seinfeld or It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia or Red Dwarf. Those shows adhered to a formula, but they worked because while the setup for a show was formulaic, the character interaction and arcs kept the whole thing moving. Everyone might have stayed fairly similar, but they evolved over time. That's what good PPC writing tries to achieve. Sure, you can do distinct breaks from the formula - I've got a few projects like that on the boil myself, including one almost entirely done in haiku - but it's not necessarily what people are here for. There's nothing inherently wrong with having a formula, if that formula consistently results in high-quality writing. I don't think it's something that you need to be afraid of. =]

While I have not been paying attention to the board as of late (still busy, incidentally), you're using BM?

Er, not to be rude or anything, but this is the first I've known of anyone else planning on doing things with them? I'm trying to not come off as possessive but I did kinda come up with BM in the first place.

-July, who has apparently missed way too much.

As long as you keep liking them too. Background characters are just as important to a story, though they might not be in the limelight.

Hope things are going alright for you :/

And putting cheesecakes in water baths when baking help prevent cracks :)

Even if the Big Sib thing exploded I'd still like a big sib

I'm mildly worried about “the whole Big Sib thing's Pompeii-ified,” and hope everything's okay, but leaving that aside for a moment, there's absolutely no problem with Background Maintenance teams. I certainly hope that hasn't changed, at least, or it makes my next mission rather pointless. Write the kinds of characters that you want to.

I don't see any explanation in here for why you think you need them to not be in Building Maintenance. So, could you clarify?

hS

Sorry if I'm a couple days behind everyone else, just started a job this week. Anyway:

At my college, most of the tabletop RPG players run in the same group. We've had some loony characters and players we had to deal with, but none as Sue-ish as the guy who wanted to play Thor.

He needed to be a deity, or as close to it as you can get as a player character, so he was a Kyrie, which are basically angels. But he didn't know he was an angel, and he didn't have wings. This was because when he was young, his mother was kidnapped, he was cursed, and he forgets anything that has to do with who his mother is, or what his powers are. No word on the father, who presumably fell victim to Protagonist Parent Syndrome. But don't worry, this guy still had a relic to remember his mother by. It was basically Thor's hammer. Big, lightning-y, and with a spell that let it return if he threw it.

The idea itself was vaguely overpowered, poorly thought out, and cliche, but it was serviceable. The real problem was when he actually played this character. If it didn't advance HIS plot, he didn't care. He got into a significant amount of (verbal) fights with the party about how he needed to find his mother, because the GM kept enabling him with plot hooks, even though the entire rest of the party was more concerned with the actual campaign objective. This was a group of upperclassmen after all, so they were basically working on a timer until they graduated.

Eventually, the player ended up moving schools. I can't say he was anything less than a good guy, but I also can't say that I miss his play-style.

Roll20 3.5 campaign about you being transported to a fantasy world. We had a Sorcereress with a working keyblade. Other than that, she was sounded patronizing to everyone. Upon further inspection, her appearance was based on a Natsumi from "Date a Live". I only experienced on session with this session, because I was later kicked out from the group by the DM.

The troll I took down in my last mission, no hesitation. Once I saw this ... thing, there was no way I could walk away without missionning the heck out of it.

For a more regular glitterbag, I'd go with the emo hunter from my RWBY mission. Breaking basic rules of the canon, and knew that, the ducker.

This one time I was in a Secret Santa event over on deviantART, and the person I was partnered with requested a story about her OC, Delilah.

Problem was, her story changed in literally every picture I looked at. Sometimes she was an Eevee with a green collarband tail, sometimes she was a fully green wolf, sometimes she was wolf!Saturn's sister, sometimes his partner...she even mentioned, of all possible characters, Richtofen and Dempsey from Modern Warfare in one picture. See for yourself. For simplicity's sake, in the gift fic itself, I stuck with her Eevee form but decided that "she" was actually Mesprit messing with my self-insert OC, Allison, hence the references to Richtofen, Dempsey, and Saturn.

At least, I hope so.

The character I have in mind was definitely not the Worst Sue (TM) I've encountered by a long shot but I was forced to share the most intimate, enduring experience with her. And her sister.

Her profile reads as follows:
Race: Human (half Rhodinian- Aritownian)
Skill set: Reasonable when it comes to cooking.
Can sew well
Character Description: 18 years old. Patient and mother-like. Cares dearly for her younger sister, Lilac. Her Aritownian Mom and her Juctimian Father ran away after giving birth to Lilac for an unknown reason. Lyra had to find herself a job at Thornspike Hall to feed herself and her sister. However she is very depressed and has low self esteem due to the racism she faced during her time at Thornspike Hall. As well, all the other maids and servants seem to be comparing her appearance to Lilac - although Lyra is actually better looking than all those servants and maids. She finds this world unfair and is secretly determined to seek revenge on her parents and the society - practically everyone.

Which sounds reasonable enough. But this description doesn't even begin to describe what she was actually written like.

I had to work with this for years in a writing collab. I'm still working with this. I joined the project late, so it took me a while to catch up on things, and since the character had been accepted I just assumed she was less Sue-y than I was thinking, or that Character Development happened. I only learned recently that the lead writer just never had the heart to tell her.

I've read a lot of badfic, and it all sort of blends together after a while. But I'm pretty sure it was on FiMFiction.

But I'm gonna second the statement that the worst Sues are the ones we've created ourselves. I know I still feel ashamed of mine.

I went over the limit. I should have axed the material that caused it to go over. I didn't. Now everything get super weird when I view my message.

Assuming we're allowed to post unpublished Sues.

Early in around 2011-2012, I stumbled upon this website. If you don't want to click it, basically it's a bunch of comics that are set in a school AU of Plants vs. Zombies with different character personalities. (Due to the "species" argument, where each plant in the game is in fact only representative of tens, hundreds, perhaps thousands of a species like them, it's not a replacement.)

Of course, MS Paint and having a bunch of those kinds of kids at the wheel don't get you very far at all.

Unfortunately for me, I did not know what cringe was and I also happened to conveniently be a part of the demographic I just mentioned. So I treated it like it was some big media production, cooking up some incredibly wicked fantasies, including an implausible crossover between an AU already going straight to hell and mechs from mecha anime. ...Yeah.

If I didn't renounce my status as a fan of the genre for years I would've become a stereotypical weeb, I'm sure of it.

I'm not even ready to type the fullest of my memories up a second time, so I'll just copy-paste a few bits from the first time I did.

- "I would seriously imagine each character as holding on to a weapon, item, etc. up to and (mostly!) including downscaled fully functional mechs (which I imagined as suits/transformations) from mecha anime and games.
I would then proceed to beef up the original mechs as much as possible." Surprisingly enough, this actually makes the most sense for how it came to be since this is pretty much what most badfic written by a child is.

- "The Mary Sue approach to death. Die, friends mope a bit ton, five days later they're back and everyone acts like it'd been five years, not five days." I treated the "depressing" points of the AU like the ultimate edgelord. Don't get me wrong, I still do that sometimes, but at least I have some better judgement in playing it out.

- In short, I also wound up creating replacements of the entire cast. Eventually, the multiverse kitchen sink bug hit, with Minecraft taking the lead by a huge margin. I had basically developed at least five different versions of myself, with no variety. (I'm trying to write two agents right now that are supposed to be this but with actual variety. One's the snobby, hot-blooded-but-weak-minded kid and the other's the more judgmental, realist individual. I sort of have to balance these two major personality factors as one whole every day.)

And there you have it. Of all the Mary Sues in the world, nothing can really top what children wind up making. It's just that none of their "brainchildren" (including mine) have surfaced on the internet until now... — LonelyStar, Fri Aug 19 12:44am

Assuming we're allowed to post unpublished Sues.

Early in around 2011-2012, I stumbled upon this website. If you don't want to click it, basically it's a bunch of comics that are set in a school AU of Plants vs. Zombies with different character personalities. (Due to the "species" argument, where each plant in the game is in fact only representative of tens, hundreds, perhaps thousands of a species like them, it's not a replacement.)

Of course, MS Paint and having a bunch of those kinds of kids at the wheel don't get you very far at all.

Unfortunately for me, I did not know what cringe was and I also happened to conveniently be a part of the demographic I just mentioned. So I treated it like it was some big media production, cooking up some incredibly wicked fantasies, including an implausible crossover between an AU already going straight to hell and mechs from mecha anime. ...Yeah.

If I didn't renounce my status as a fan of the genre for years I would've become a stereotypical weeb, I'm sure of it.

I'm not even ready to type the fullest of my memories up a second time, so I'll just copy-paste a few bits from the first time I did.

- "I would seriously imagine each character as holding on to a weapon, item, etc. up to and (mostly!) including downscaled fully functional mechs (which I imagined as suits/transformations) from mecha anime and games.
I would then proceed to beef up the original mechs as much as possible." Surprisingly enough, this actually makes the most sense for how it came to be since this is pretty much what most badfic written by a child is.

- "The Mary Sue approach to death. Die, friends mope a bit ton, five days later they're back and everyone acts like it'd been five years, not five days." I treated the "depressing" points of the AU like the ultimate edgelord. Don't get me wrong, I still do that sometimes, but at least I have some better judgement in playing it out.

- In short, I also wound up creating replacements of the entire cast. Eventually, the multiverse kitchen sink bug hit, with Minecraft taking the lead by a huge margin. I had basically developed at least five different versions of myself, with no variety. (I'm trying to write two agents right now that are supposed to be this but with actual variety. One's the snobby, hot-blooded-but-weak-minded kid and the other's the more judgmental, realist individual. I sort of have to balance these two major personality factors as one whole every day.)

And there you have it. Of all the Mary Sues in the world, nothing can really top what children wind up making. It's just that none of their "brainchildren" (including mine) have surfaced on the internet until now... — LonelyStar, Fri Aug 19 12:44am

Assuming we're allowed to post unpublished Sues.

Early in around 2011-2012, I stumbled upon this website. If you don't want to click it, basically it's a bunch of comics that are set in a school AU of Plants vs. Zombies with different character personalities. (Due to the "species" argument, where each plant in the game is in fact only representative of tens, hundreds, perhaps thousands of a species like them, it's not a replacement.)

Of course, MS Paint and having a bunch of those kinds of kids at the wheel don't get you very far at all.

Unfortunately for me, I did not know what cringe was and I also happened to conveniently be a part of the demographic I just mentioned. So I treated it like it was some big media production, cooking up some incredibly wicked fantasies, including an implausible crossover between an AU already going straight to hell and mechs from mecha anime. ...Yeah.

If I didn't renounce my status as a fan of the genre for years I would've become a stereotypical weeb, I'm sure of it.

I'm not even ready to type the fullest of my memories up a second time, so I'll just copy-paste a few bits from the first time I did.

- "I would seriously imagine each character as holding on to a weapon, item, etc. up to and (mostly!) including downscaled fully functional mechs (which I imagined as suits/transformations) from mecha anime and games.
I would then proceed to beef up the original mechs as much as possible." Surprisingly enough, this actually makes the most sense for how it came to be since this is pretty much what most badfic written by a child is.

- "The Mary Sue approach to death. Die, friends mope a bit ton, five days later they're back and everyone acts like it'd been five years, not five days." I treated the "depressing" points of the AU like the ultimate edgelord. Don't get me wrong, I still do that sometimes, but at least I have some better judgement in playing it out.

- In short, I also wound up creating replacements of the entire cast. Eventually, the multiverse kitchen sink bug hit, with Minecraft taking the lead by a huge margin. I had basically developed at least five different versions of myself, with no variety. (I'm trying to write two agents right now that are supposed to be this but with actual variety. One's the snobby, hot-blooded-but-weak-minded kid and the other's the more judgmental, realist individual. I sort of have to balance these two major personality factors as one whole every day.)

And there you have it. Of all the Mary Sues in the world, nothing can really top what children wind up making. It's just that none of their "brainchildren" (including mine) have surfaced on the internet until now... — LonelyStar, Fri Aug 19 12:44am

Good to hear you're feeling better now. :)

Places a Minecraft Trading Card: Town: Sunspire at your feet. It has a stretched out castle as it's picture.

Please have this cup of tea as a welcome-back gift!

Glad you're feeling better, at least. You keep yourself well, okay?

—doctorlit

Ohmygosh I missed you so much! Sorry to hear you've been feeling under the weather. *offers hot soup and warm blankets*

It seems that the community's decision is to make Tomash (five votes), Ix (four votes) and Cat-on-the-Keyboard (three votes) mods of the channel. Tomorrow I will make it so and remove mod permission from Delta Juliette and PC. If anybody has any sort of objection, voice it now or forever hold your peace.

The next article is the mods' powers, to wit: should they be able to ban people from the channel, or should that only be something the Owner does after a person was banned from the PPC in general?

Also, since nobody said anything, I am going to prune the members of the channel every week — in other words, every Saturday I'll kick any member that did not log-in for 30 days or more. The channel can be rejoined by asking the owner or the mods for an invite, in any case.

I am very late to this party, but Real Life is kind of mean.

I actually would have nominated myself, but then my computer's bottom started falling off. I can't access Discord until I get it back from my parents.

That and it feels like the height of arrogance to think of oneself as being a good fit for a leadership position...

She's already nominated herself, but, y'know. Elections, and all.
I mean, I've already made my vote, and reasons and all. I'd endorse her even if she wasn't in here right behind me pointing a Glock 22 .40 caliber pistol at the back of my head.
So it's a good thing she isn't!

First of all I apologise for the spelling errors that are likely to appear in this, this is the first time I've sent a message via mobile in an age. Being on holiday in France has its disadvantages.

Secondly, I think that Iximaz would be a good mod for the discord channel, we all know her and (AFAIK) respect her.

I would make this longer but I need to go and I don't know when I'll get the internet again.

Storme

He knows his way around technology, and is generally a sharp person.

I would like to make it known that the Discord has a room dedicated to RP-ing as your agents, regardless of permission, taking place in Rudi's. As I am typing this, my own Matthew, Des' Merrem, and Ix's Charlotte and Ix are discussing DnD.

I do have tons of free time, and I'm on Discord anyway so I don't mind watching over people.

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This magic shovel digs up mufflers. Because you kinda need them. Ease up on the extra capitals and punctuation marks.

I AGREE!!!!

WELCOME!!!!

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Have a pot of black-hole coffee, because everything is awesome!

Hope you'll stick around in this madhouse.

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Please take this floating Persian.

*shakes fist after DCCCV*

Anyway, hello, and welcome aBoard! For your newbie gift, take this plate of freshly-made SPaGhetti! It looks like the others have already asked my usual questions, so I'll just say I hope you like it here. :)

Welcome to this wonderful Internet community! Here is a steak with non-gemstone-grade diamonds on one side.

Here's some movie-theater popcorn to eat while you read the important stuff linked to at the top of the Board's main page!

We're so much more than just a wiki! You've found the Board (good job!), and we've also got a Discord server; but really, the heart of the community is the writing. This is a writers group run gloriously amok, the wiki is merely where we consolidate the ridiculousness that happens in long-form writing across the interwebs.

Here is your bumper sticker, here is a grammarite crystal, suitable for a lightsaber or Crystal Gem-style soul storage. Welcome to the Board!

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Jokes aside, have you read the Constitution? What are your fandoms? Are you a he, a she, or something else? So many wonderful questions!

You should know my e-mail address by now.