Jan 2017 Archive, part a

Just came across her Pit account while working on something else. She had some fun things! Like:

The real origin of Mary Sues!

Possibly the only fanfic starring Trevor the Toad!

And something Huinesoron probably wishes I hadn't linked just now!

—doctorlit prefers his goats non-zombified, though

There is a lot of tension in this story. I can tell someone got hurt bad, but I can't figure out who it is. There is urgency with the lack of good explanations.

But I'm afraid I still don't get it. Apparently we start with a nightmare about Ajax and Levy's last mission, and a hundred eyes standing refers to the Argus replacement, but I wouldn't even get this if I hadn't read Ajax's biography on the Wiki.

Ajax receives a message. Since he already joined Mathew, the message can't say that Levy woke up from her coma, and it can't be a message from Levy saying that she'll move to Floaters (or this interlude doesn't match the bio); I wonder what it actually says.

I guess that Ajax's memories while he goes to visit his friend in Medical appear incoherent to show a specific state of mind. So we get a continuation of the nightmare, where Levy escapes to medical, but then we get a flashback to events before the events of the nightmare?
An arrow grazed the girl’s cheek, followed by another feminine form flying over the Eyes. The boy then slammed into the Eyes, dropping a smartphone-like device in front of the girl.
Capitalizing the Eyes may work, because they are a stand-in for Argus, but why didn't you do this from the beginning? Just to confuse me?
Who is another feminine form? The Sue? Judging from the flashback below, wasn't the Sue chained to the bed when they charged her before the Argus replacement hurt Levy? So who shot the arrow? The Argus replacement?

The screamed occurred along side the sound of glass shattering. Wings appeared on the girl's back, and once blonde hair returned to blue. The eyes, not missing a beat, grabbed the wings.
Should be "scream", and we are back to non-capitalized eyes.

Then we are back from the flashback and in Medical, where Doctor Appleby may just have introduced himself and now shouts for a Defibrillator, and a draconian humanoid rushed through the still open portal into Medical? Or to the place in the badfic, where Ajax still is? I'm not quite sure about this.

And we're definitely back to the badfic, where Ajax has just killed the Argus replacement (while Levy escaped to Medical?) and now wants to kill the Sue, too. But his leg is hurt, and the Sue is advancing onto him (wait, wasn't she chained to the bed?), and there's the draconian humanoid again.
"Get to the portal," the spectacled Dragonborn said. "She’s okay, just get going."
I'm lost. Did the Dragonborn go from Medical to the badfic to tell Ajax that Levy is okay? Who is he? DIA – Special Response?

Ajax dispersed his scythe, and hightailed it back to the motel room they found the Sue in.
You may have meant to say "they had found" (past perfect) or I may be getting this totally wrong. Anyway, I'm lost. Are there two portals, one the Dragonborn just came through and another in the motel room (where the Sue should have been chained to the bed, or is this bed elsewhere?), and why must Ajax go to the motel? Can't he use the portal that's apparently right there?

In the final memory, Ajax arrives at Medical, and obviously Levy isn't okay, and apparently Ajax didn't kill the Sue, so his bio is a lie?

But I don't actually need to know what exactly happened on that mission to relate to the characters and feel their pain.

HG

*begins noticing tiny errors all of us managed to miss*

Have an invite to the Discord channel.

Hope that you have a fun time here .

Nice to see another SU fan around these parts! ^_^ And I agree with the YouTube thing, though it's Game Grumps, paulsoaresjr, and ZackScottGames who give me life, personally. :)

Aside from one of my own shed feathers, have a replica of Rose Quartz's sword and a miniature Lion plushie!

It's very nice to meet you. Here's a hat from the Mystery Shack gift shop, a Together Breakfast, and a pack of to-do lists so you'll always have a plan! Enjoy your stay!

Well, only thing left here are a bag of black-hole chocolates, and a welcome to this madhouse. Between end of the year and all the newbies... Bah, these things were meant to be gifted anyways.

I'm so happy to see you here, Tyler! I feel like I'm a good recruiter... an unofficial one. (Now all we need is Tuna and the trio of whatever-we-are will be complete... muahaha.)

Anyways! Your intro was fine, luv. As my moirail, you get more than just my standard Newbie Gift.

As the standard, I present you with a full set of D&D dice - perhaps they're patterned like your space dice, or Lore's scarab set, or my bubblegum-and-death ones. Who knows? You know. (I don't think I need to remind you of the shapes, do I? I'm doing it anyways. One d3, one d6, one d8, two d10s, a d12, and a d20.)

And the Special Moirail Gift (that my brother got none of): I hereby present you with a large statue of the Triforce - but with familiar faces on the golden triangles. On the top is mine, which you and Tuna totally set up with that cult-coronation-and-declaration; the right triangle is yours; and, of course, the remaining face belongs to Tuna.

Cheers, luv! <

Papa Franku? Idooppz? Maxy boy?
I love 'em!
I would not recommend them to anyone anywhere, but I bloody love 'em!

And, listen, mate. You can go ahead, type up 'Welcome,' or whatever, and find my introduction. Still in the system, I'm pretty sure.
Look at it.
Look at it. Cringiest bollocks you'll ever see, let me tell you. Pure liquid cringe oozes out of it, from every crack.
What I'm saying is: you're fine!
Well, least in my book, anyways.

Anyways, welcome! My gift upon you is: hair cake.
Don't eat it. Dear God, you animal. Don't eat it.

I would like to inform you all that though I have read the Constitution and a lot about the PPC on wiki, I have not read all of The Original Series. Though, I do inteand to read all of the Original Series, it is kinda long and I have really bad dyslexia so it might take me awhile.

Ah, another friend of Calliope! Welcome and welcome!

*gives the official PPC bumper sticker, and a one-up*

Welcome to the Board!

And ohoho, the Triumvirate is complete at last!

*clears throat* Right, introduction speech: Hello, and welcome aBoard! For your newbie gift, take this plate of freshly-made SPaGhetti!

Glad to finally have you join us. Since it seems like you've already done the required readings, might I ask who else you've read?

Hope you like it here!

(Also, fellow Das Sporking reader! Hi!)

Since a nice chunk of my PPC stuff, as well as what's up of the Deleterius material I'd been archiving, is on LJ because I was feeling nostalgic when I chose my posting method 4-ish years ago, I'm now in the process of moving to Dreamwidth. Their most recent news post actually addresses the LJ thing, the site seems pretty easy to use so far, and I read through their mission statement, etc and Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, and while I could certainly be missing something, all of it places them in a pretty good light. Also? It uses very similar code to LJ and apparently has no ads or something like that. I know some people here have been using it for a lot longer than an hour or two, so I'll leave it to them to provide more about their experience if they want to.

The move over, I can tell you, is extremely easy, because you can import pretty much everything. Including comments, tags, and profile data. The only downside is that your request gets placed in a queue, so moving some things (entries and the attached comments for me) can take hours or, apparently, up to a day. I haven't checked this morning whether it's done yet, but I can say that everything else I imported came over very smoothly. So that, and the somewhat cleaner UI, are already points in Dreamwidth's favor.

Anyway. That's my two cents: it looks good, and moving over from LJ (oh, you can also move a community if you want to, and it works the same way) is pretty easy, if potentially time consuming. I'll be updating my links once I've got everything set up.

~DF

There's a really easy way that anyone can help. If you have a few minutes, take a look at the Complete List of PPC Fiction and scan over a section for LiveJournal links. You can also look here (I think, assuming anyone can use the external links search) for more obscure links. Then go to Archive.is and check to see whether its PPC content is saved (lower text bar). If so, great! If not, enter a post's URL in the upper text bar to back it up.

When checking for saved posts, make sure to put an asterisk at the end of the URL (e.g. http://firebird766.livejournal.com* ) to make sure the archive looks for all URLs starting with that prefix, and not that specific URL only. Otherwise you'll miss things.

A note: It's probably a good idea to only back up PPC stuff. People put personal stuff on their journals, too, and that's no business of ours. Be considerate, and don't just blanket-save the whole journal, even if it means putting in a bit more time looking for PPC tags and whatnot.

A lot of this has actually been done already, which is awesome, but it doesn't hurt to check again. {= )

The PPC Archivists' Society thanks you for your contribution!

~Neshomeh

No matter what name you have, you will always be my dear and beloved brain twin. I will continue to call you Dawn, as that is Your Name to me, but henceforth I shall endeavor to refer to you as Zingenmir and also I love the name. You are beautiful and I love you.

Seriously, that N in the middle is going to catch me out every time.

How about Zigzag?

Or if you insist on correct spelling: Zing the Merciless!

...

... wait.

OMUGUH. Are you actually Xing, vanished founder of FFN?! I bet you are.

hS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFaWwyZ5nm0


Thank you, though, 'cause that's a good song!

Also, nice change. Probably will take me a couple of tries, but now... I'm gonna treat you as a reborn-bie! Have a slice of Infinite Pizza

I present, as welcome presents, an AK-47 for each of you, a self-replenishing dish of lemon drops, and a dagger which severs magical contracts.

Welcome aboard~

- Rin

For my first newbie gift, please accept these two 6 oz. jars of Kimchi and a replica of a 'Free Hugs' sign a classmate once made!

I must applaud you two. Going straight to chatting with the community from years of lurking must be rather disorienting, yet you both were quick to converse at the Discord channel mere moments after you two revealed yourselves. Even though only one of you is shy, it's still quite a feat nonetheless.

Hope you enjoy your stay!

Hello, Hug Friends! I am here to present you with Newbie Gifts!

Firstly, the both of you receive a full set of dice, in all the classic shapes: d3/4, d6, d8, two d10s, d12, d20... you know, the works. The patterns are your own to choose; it may be a good idea to choose differenokay then. You can choose the same pattern if you like. This is fine.

Secondly, both of you get Hug Vouchers! There are redeemable for Free Hugs whenever. I'll try not to break your ribs.

--Calliope, Face of the Triumvirate

Have both black-hole coffee and chocolates, up to you to decide who takes what.

And since all the questions were asked, welcome to the madhouse.

Here, I swiped a few of Belle-Mere's tangerines for you. :) Enjoy your stay!

That's like our thing Sibling Combo! Hooray!

Also, c'mere, man! *EPIC MAN HUG OF EPIC PROPORTIONS*

Both of you get a slice of Infinite Pizza

Have two of my own shed feathers and complimentary kits of Spikes!

Not to worry, my friends. Just as plants gain sustenance from the sun and vampires gain sustenance from blood, we gain sustenance from sudden and unexpected glomping.
And food, too, but only the boring boarders use that stuff.

My gifts upon you two are: a pair of hugometers, to detect the hug-concentration on the surrounding area. Works up to fifty metres away, explodes rarely. Explosions are only lethal in 1/3 of cases, you'll be fine.
And, I mean, there are two of you, right? You've got spares, you'll be fine!

Since no-one else has asked: what're your fandoms, then, oy?

Welcome!

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

Since it sounds like you guys already know what's what around here, I'm just gonna say I hope you decide to stick around for a bit! While you're at it... have an invite to our Discord channel.

The implicit assumption of prior DES material has been that all its agents are the original Weeds. We've never seen a DES agent who wasn't named Weed-[Number], other than the Captain himself.

But I don't believe it's ever been stated definitively that that is (and always will be) the case. It does mean that any prospective new additions would have to fit into a team that's been together for decades, which tends to be a difficult process.

hS

One teeny-tiny error. You have it "PoV" in one spot and "POV" in another. Please decide on a capitalization scheme and stick to it throughout the mission.

I liked how the agents dealt with their being noticed by canon characters. Their handling of the situation was smooth and showed that they're experienced agents, but still awkward enough to be entertaining.

My main question is, what happened to the One Ring? The Fellowship is in possession of the Ring Frodo, so it could be anywhere. I'm not an expert in the continuum, but doesn't the One Ring wreak all kinds of havoc when left to its own devices? Leaving behind the One Ring seems like too big a canonical inconsistency to be fixed by canon's reasserting itself after the Sue's death -- when canon characters are replaced, PPC agents are typically responsible for tracking down the original (who is usually stuck in a plot hole). So unless I'm missing something, at the end of the story the Fellowship is still in possession of the Ring Frodo, while the One Ring is off doing who-knows-what.

That loose end is bugging me (are you planning to explain how the One Ring got returned in a sequel? Or were you thinking that the agents handed the job off to a different team?), but other than that I found this to be an efficient, satisfying Sue-slaying.

--Key

was being really buggy, and it kind of drove everybody else.

I'm one of those newbies you mentioned; you can call me Calliope, though the chat seems to have decided to shorten that further to Cal.

For a Returnbie Gift, have a full set of Roleplaying Dice! They're in all your favourite shapes: d3/4, d6, d8, your Probability Dice (2d10), d12, and d20. You can choose the pattern, and only you know what it is.

Glad to see oldbies back again. Can I interest you in a mini-Missingno? Its name is fury swipe and it looks like a Kabutops skeleton.

Please have a bag of black-hole chocolates, and a self-updating guidebook of all the deathtraps in the multiverse.

Quick question though. You said you wrote Missions. What spinoffs are yours exactly?

And, as of late, we've been covered in blood, let me tell you! Blood everywhere! All over the place!
In the carpet!
Dripping from the ceilings!
How lovely.

Welcome, mate. I gift upon you: a diamond. So you can put it on your head and become a diamond rin, and be used as a way of proposal!
You can also have this cricket bat, so you can beat my head in. Just in case.

I've not actually heard of your spin-off or agents. Who're they, might I ask?
I'm, er. Uncertain what to search up on that there wiki.

Welcome!

Have an apple.

Have a plate of welcome-back SPaGhetti!

This may be old, but I will be a beta whenever someone needs me. The address is animechanlives@gmail.com. Fair warning - I can be a bit merciless.

*coughs* sorry

Unfortunately, I've got a job interview all day tomorrow (Wednesday Jan. 11) and won't be back until midnight that day. I'd like to see your work regardless, so if you're willing to wait until Thursday for me to do so, that'd be great. :)

And also a Permission Giver~

Click my username for email address.

Also, because I forgot to gift you earlier, have a massproduced Sengoku Driver with the Pine lockseed!

Apparently my Skype account was still associated with my old Yahoo e-mail address, and I've learned Yahoo had some kind of security issue in December, so I wonder if the incidents are linked. If anyone else has Yahoo, you might want to check it out.

In any case, I've reset my passwords and detached Skype from that address, so that should be the end of it, I hope.

~Neshomeh

Of all the things I can think to give you, nothing is more useful than... this. You know, since you're old and grumpy and can't wait in line now. :P Kidding, of course. Happy birthday again!

Bad Earth, going around the sun!
Bad! Bad Earth, bad!

Here, mate. Here's your gift: a pickaxe.
So we can both punish the Earth as it deserves.
Bad! Bad Earth!
Bad!

Happy you're now an old man day!

And for going with the black-hole food/coffee you can take, I gift you with a self-updating guidebook of all the deathtraps in he multiverse.

Hope you'll get to write a mission someday...

J: As said in the chat.... HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
I gift you a rather interesting stopwatch, recently repaired.

W: Happy Birthday! I would give you this nice wineglass, but it causes digestive issues.
Have a nice Hatsune Miku Doll instead!

Happy birthday, and many happy returns!

You already got the birthday song in Discord, so I'll just pass you this plate of SPaGhetti and call it a day.

Happy birthday!