Subject: Aw, dangit.
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Posted on: 2015-01-23 03:03:00 UTC
Unfortunately, that will have to wait until tomorrow.
Subject: Aw, dangit.
Author:
Posted on: 2015-01-23 03:03:00 UTC
Unfortunately, that will have to wait until tomorrow.
Here it is, as promised: the dreaded My Inner Life.
"Hmm."
Rosalind looked over at her colleague curiously. "That's unusual," she said, "by which I mean that it's perculiar, or even simply odd, that you, Agent Haar of the Department of Redundancy Department, should make any noise at all, particularly one which is interrogative, speculative, or otherwise thoughtful, such as the one which you did in fact just make."
Haar reverted to type, simply staring at Rosalind. Above his eye, a green light flickered blue for a moment, then settled on a shade of pink that was alarmingly close to urple.
Rosalind coughed. "So," she said, "might I ask or inquire as to what you were commenting on, or speculating on as it may be?"
Haar held her gaze, and a string of red lights down the side of his face came on in sequence. He held out a sheaf of paper, fresh from the printer. "This."
Rosalind took the papers and leafed through them (three times, naturally). "Ah, Agent Rina Dives of the Department of Mary-Sues, and her partner, Agent Randa Roan of the Department of Mary-Sues, have sent us several messages or communications from their current mission." She checked the notes a fourth time. "Yes, quite a few letters, emails, and informative communiques."
Haar, naturally, said nothing.
"Well, come along, Haar," Rosalind said, putting the papers firmly on the desk. "We are needed and required in an unaccustomed manner, one which we have seldom been asked to operate - we are, in point of fact, needed in the field."
Haar usually stared at her, but this time the stare seemed more incredulous than usual. An array of green lights on his forehead seemed to flicker out a hundred games of tic tac toe before he finally said, "... what?"
"With a case or mission as serious and over-the-top redundant as this, the one Agents Rina and Randa have sent us," Rosalind said, "there is the potential for possible redundancy-related catastrophe and disaster! Why, one time, on one mission one day, Agent Starwind Rohana found herself duplicated not once, not twice, but three times, so that there were four of her, all identical, and her partner, Agent Estelnar Celebduin, who works with her, was trapped and stuck in a thirty-second half-minute temporal time loop which kept replaying for thirty seconds! All of which," she concluded, "could have been avoided if Agents Starwind Rohana and Estelnar Celebduin had bothered and remembered to inform us, the Department of Redundancy Department, of the redundancy which plagued their mission and cause all the problems which I have explained to you."
Haar continued to stare at her. Then he pulled another sheet of paper out of the printer and handed it to Rosalind. "No."
"No? What is the meaning which you intend by-?" Rosalind read the sheet, which was a standard notification that Agents Rina and Randa had successfully killed their target and returned to HQ. "Oh. Well... oh."
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I've never known exactly what the Department of Redundancy Department DOES, precisely.
In addition to and expanding upon what Iximaz said and explained, the Department of Redundancy Department or DRD is mostly invoked or named in joke and jest, for the sake of humor and getting a laugh, and are not necessarily meant to be taken seriously or held in particular esteem as a department and jurisdictional unit in the Protectors of the Plot Continuum, or PPC, in or out of universe; that is, either by those inhabiting and existing in the fictional and made-up world of the PPC, or by those of us, the authors, who invent, create, and make up the exploits of said inhabitants or characters, which we call agents, staff, personnel, et cetera and so forth.
I hope this has been elucidating and enlightening, and has aided your understanding and comprehension of the subject at hand, which we are discussing.
*g* {= ) ^_^
~Neshomeh
They respond to redundancies, that is, unnecessary repetitions, which is to say, pointless restating of the same thing that was previously mentioned.
Being a latecomer to this whole world of fanfic, I had no idea how bad My Inner Life was. But seeing your mission, it's clear that even if you believed that fic was a transcript of an actual series of lucid dreams (thus forgiving the Sueishness and the OOC behavior), there's enough horrible writing that the DTE would be able to do something!
Also, allow me to second Huinesoron's comment that you've done well in ensuring that the mission didn't devolve into an MST.
I must admit, I did find the death-by-punctuation to be a bit anticlimactic, but it was nonetheless funny, as was the mission in general.
All in all, a pretty enjoyable mission.
But of course, it's not an SOH176 mission comment without the usual SPaG comments, so...
1) "Be good!" She called before closing the portal.
The "S" in "She" needs to be lowercase.
2) "Oh, Faore!"
That's a mini-Gohma. The goddess's name is Farore.
I'll fix those first thing tomorrow, when I can access a computer that can support GDocs. Thanks for pointing those out!
Hmm... that's the second comment to say it was anticlimactic... I guess I'll just have to be more careful to avoid that in the future. ^^;
Nicely done. Very nicely done indeed. Made me laugh even though I know zilch about the LoZ canon.
I was pretty dependent on Randa for this mission in regards to canon offenses. :P
I loved that. I'm not a fan of the Zelda games, but I read My Inner Life way back when and I thought it'd never get missioned simply due to how bad it was. You have missioned it, and in fine, fine style. I loved your agents in this even more than I usually do, and I really felt for Rina.
Of course the best thing to do after rationing Randa's Bleeprin would be to hurl them into something like 120 Days Of Blueblood or a similar piece of vileness. Indeed, I'd say it was the only thing to do! You could even test that cactus juice theory from a couple of threads ago if you wanted.
Seriously, though, give the girls some holiday time somewhere more pleasant. I hear the Howling is nice this time of year... =]
They won't be getting vacation for a looong time, after Randa dumped a very bratty character replacement of Hermione in the Marquis de Sod's office. :P
I'm just glad the mission's done, to be honest. Yeah, it was fun to write, but my god, even knowing practically nothing about the canon, it was still horrid...
I have a lot of respect for you for doing this, I don't think I could I read a small part of this fic but I couldn't deal with the rest. By the way your missions are always hilarious but this one might be my favorite.
Just glad my sense of humor seems to work here!
I enjoyed the mission, and what with this thing apparently being a badfic classic, I kinda want to see the famous bad parts addressed. ^^;
Also, did you know <a href="ppc.wikia.com/wiki/LJSilverblade">Link Jr. is an agent? I didn't, but I vaguely recalled knowing the name Jenna Silverblade from somewhere, so I searched it, and lo and behold, there he was. It gives me an idea... suppose Jenna didn't quite die under all that punctuation, and managed to revive and continue the story? I dunno if Rina and Randa could stand to go back, at least not on their own, but if you could somehow rope Agent Phobos into it, he would be very useful to have along. He knows Ocarina of Time and isn't bothered by M-rated things.
... Not that I'm telling you to actually do this, unless you want to. It might be a good story, but not if you simply want nothing more to do with the fic, and who could blame you? Anyway, I wouldn't want to do it the honor of devoting any more of our time to it than necessary.
Anyway, good work!
Meanwhile, in FicPsych...
"Ah, Link, you're awake! My name is Jen—"
"AAAAAAHHHHHH! NO! GET AWAY!"
"... Oh, shards. A little help in here!"
"AAAAAAHHHHHH!"
"Immie? Nath? Anyone?"
"AAAAAAHHHHHH!"
"Fer cryin' out... where did I put that syringe...? Aha!"
"AAAaaah...."
"Whew. This might take longer than I thought."
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~Neshomeh
I left a thing on your Wiki User Talk page, but realized it would probably be faster to just mention it here:
The mission takes place November 2014 (HST). I just don't want to go changing your agent's page without permission... ^^;
I would have done the whole thing, or close to it. From what I've seen, that seems to be the unspoken rule. (I was this close to going all the way to that stupid Bonding Ceremony, at the very least.)
But hmm... you bring up an interesting idea. Unfortunately (and I don't feel bad about saying this, it's been coming for a while), Randa's last missions are going to be in the crossovers with World-Jumper and SkarmorySilver. And with Randa being the LoZ expert, Rina would only end up going back if she was partnered with someone who knows the continuum (and her next partner won't know LoZ, since I really and truly know nothing about the canon except bits and pieces).
I'll think about it for a bit, but Randa was pretty much done when we got to chapter two and refused to go any further. So... yeah. No promises. >_>
And by the way, thank you so much again for letting me borrow Jenni!
I never expected anyone to actually take on My Inner Life. Nicely done.
A couple of things that jumped out at me:
1/ It didn't feel like an MST! ^_~ You had a load of punctuation-gathering scenes to break up the quoted sections, and a fair amount of paraphrasing to go with it. Good job.
2/ I really liked the very short charge list. I actually read all of it!
And now you've prompted me to go looking for the various LQ rants... aw, man, these things are just as much fun as I remembered. I think I need to collect them all. Hmm... I'm sure Kaitlyn MST'd one of them at one point, have to see if I can track that down... I know AW did a couple.
hS
I considered it a warmup to the Legendaries I signed up to tackle. Glad to hear I'm improving! :D
Randa and I had a good chuckle reading the author's notes. Because LOVE WILL NEVER DIE. Never fails to make me laugh.
It says something about How Times Change that one of the original four Legendary Badfics is now a 'warmup'. ('Clbr__n', 'legolas', and 'My Immortal', since I can hear you wondering)
hS
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Wow. I feel a little dizzy now. I was considering it a Bleepfic, really.
What happened to get it taken off the list? Did it just fall into obscurity?
Those four were the Legendary Badfics; you could say the title, and anyone in the Canon Protection Initiative (PPC, GAFF, OFUM... probably a couple of others, but that's the big three communities) would know what you meant.
Honestly, I have no idea what the difference is supposed to be between 'Bleepfic' and 'Legendary Badfic'. I think that was made up when people said 'you can't call that Legendary, I haven't heard of it'. To my mind, it's Legendary if it's... well, legendary. And My Inner Life most definitely is. Or at least was.
hS
As far as I can tell, the difference between Legendary Badfic and Bleepfic is that the former is "infamously bad fanfiction" and the latter is "badfic so bad you wish to rinse your brains with bleach". TSAB DOWNFALL is bleepfic (still makes me shudder even two years or so after missioning it) while C*l*br**n is Legendary Badfic.
... I don't get why we have a list of 'Bleepfic'.
I mean, Legendary Badfic, yes. It's legendary. There's not a whole lot of it, either - you can recite the list off the top of your head (which is halfway to being the definition). But, really bad fanfiction? There's, uh... there's a lot of that. And any given person's opinion on what counts is going to vary. So why is there a list, rather than just a term which people can apply to stories they see - 'hey, guys, I've got a real Bleepfic here'.
Actually, that's a lie, I know exactly why. I even vaguely remember the conversation when someone said 'hey, this story from [fandom nobody's heard of] is totally legendary badfic!', and someone suggested the Bleepfic designation (& list) as a compromise...
hS
Let's take DOWNFALL as an example again. It's Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha x Halo, which means it'll never reach Legendary Badfic status (Nanoha is a small fandom; even here we have what, three Nanoha fans?) and, in fact, someone out of the fandom concerned might not see why it's so soul-crushingly bad. Therefore, Bleepfic.
Also, it can be added that while the term 'Legendary Badfic' is objective (wide renown), 'Bleepfic' is much less so (brain-scarringly bad).
I will admit, I was wondering why it wasn't considered Legendary since even I had heard of it long before discovering the PPC, and I'm not a LoZ fan. Actually, all of the Zelda fans I've talked to have at least heard of it, which is both hilarious and sad, considering it was first published back in, what, the Nineties?
And, well, it does make sense to have Bleepfics be classified in the same badness level as Legendaries; the only difference is that, like you said, Bleeps aren't as well-known. I'm planning on taking on that Percy Jackson fic that is basically My Immortal rewritten, but the only place I can find any reference to it is the Pit, where it's posted. It's still atrocious, just not very popular.
Usually I don’t do this. *hugs anyway*
I tried to look at this reposted thing on ff.net and gave up after approximately two minutes.
Burying the Sue under a pile of her own bad punctuation is an ingenious assassination method.
HG
I just can't believe how bad it gets.
For example? The Sue later gets drunk. While pregnant. >:U
I still have excess punctuation, if you want a souvenir.
.....
If I’ll ever be in need of excess punctuation, I’ll just write my own :-)
HG
You need a shovel. A +6 keen vorpal holy shock brilliant energy adamantine shovel.
I don't care if said shovel is required by DnD law to be an artifact, it needs to be acquired.
I don't have to, like, chop off my hand and graft on the shovel in its place, do I?
I don't? Okay, good. I was going to use that hand for Vecna wielding my Staff of Fiery Might.
Jeebus that fic looked terrible. Major props for taking it on. One question, though; why did Rina dump the mini blowtorch? That sounds like it could be really useful.
She kept it out to use later. Did I not make that clear enough? {:-/
And my god, it just got worse. Chapter eight had this thing called 'the Bonding Ceremony'... *shudders* And that's not even close to the worst part.
That fic reminded me of another that shall not be spoken off, though at least Linki wasn't replaced.
In other things, I liked the mission, although I think that the way the Sue was dealt with was a little anticlimactic. Still was good, so, here have coupon for a free bottle of Bleeprin.
*discreetly hides it from Randa*
I was rather pleased with the assassination, since it seemed particularly ironic. Still, sorry you didn't like it. *offers a stray quotation mark*
Just that I thought that was a little anticlimactic; I always like when a Sue gets its comeuppance. Thaks for the quotation mark. *puts the quotation mark in the Generic Bottomless Bag od Holding*
By the way, I think we should catch "Linki", the mini-Gohma that is running around here. Sorry about that...
Unfortunately, that will have to wait until tomorrow.
*holds up the royally furious mini from a leg* I made it a little while ago (seriously, look at my first reply!), that's why I said "sorry".
So could you open a portal please? =P
I thought you were referring to a typo in the mission. ^^; *opens portal*