A Newbie Introduction

Subject: A Newbie Introduction
Author: TheShyIon
Posted on: 2014-11-26 09:22:00 UTC

I am always bad at these "introduce yourself" posts, but I'll try.

Hello. I'm TheShyIon. The username is based on a misspelling of a different screen name I use- "ioncoy," when the actual username is "iomccoy." I probably didn't need to explain that. I write much better when I'm not talking about myself, I swear! :P

I am also fourteen at the moment. Yes, I realize that that's prime Sue age. I hit mine at eleven or twelve, but I don't *think* I ever drew any PPC attention. (If anyone ever killed a storm-Alicorn-Princess-on-the-run with a golden apple somehow involved, let me know. I'd like to thank them.)

My main fandoms are Discworld and MLP:FiM. I know of and enjoy, but am not up to date on: Avatar: The Legend of Korra, Young Wizards (and thank something that my fics for this never saw the light of day,) and RWBY.

I've read the Hunger Games and Catching Fire but have neither read not have any desire to read Mockingjay.

I will also note that I am on the Autism Spectrum, and so may have issues interpreting things on occasion. If it seems like I didn't understand what you meant, I probably didn't. :)

I'm also trying to break myself from an ellipsis addiction. If I start overusing them, feel free to tease me about it. I have a strange taste for some of the less-NSFW sorts of really terrible badfic, too, which might be why I'm here in the first place. Badfic led to reading MSTs, which led to the original series of the PPC, which led to marathoning the rest of the PPC. Not *every* PPC mission, of course, but a lot of them.

Did I make this way too long? I can never judge that with these introduction post things.

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A Newbie Introduction by TheShyIon on 2014-11-26 09:22:00 UTC

Late to the party, but... by Thantosiet on 2014-12-03 00:04:00 UTC Reply

Welcome anyway! Sorry I didn't get here earlier, NaNo kind of took over. Anyway, you seem a lot more articulate and Sue-aware than I was at fourteen. And having read the Hunger Games, I totally understand skipping Mockingjay.

Here is a bottomless bag for all your other presents. It has a lot of pockets so you don't lose anything inside.

Re: Late to the party, but... by TheShyIon on 2014-12-03 00:56:00 UTC Reply

Woo! Something to store the other things in! Thank you!

On Sue-awareness: Yeah, having everyone else you know who writes 'fic (though I haven't in a while- decided I was going to improve first so I didn't spawn any more Sues) in their prime Sue ages is annoying. Especially when they want to know what you think about their weird-name-Mini-spawning-OOC-causing-falls-into-canon-kept-in-a-cage-trajeck-adopted-by-Fred-and-George-kitsune-woman. Yes, this was an actual fic a friend wrote.

Yes, she posts these things. No, Fred and George were not in character either, from what I saw.

Now I'm ranting about a random Sue. But she was practically the poster Sue for Sueishness.

Okay, now I'm done. Thank you for the compliment. I promise I'm a better writer than this when there's an actual plot. ;)

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Welcome by Pesoptim on 2014-11-29 00:45:00 UTC Reply

Have a NM&NM sculpture of Boneless the rubber chicken.
Hello (nm) by Seychelles on 2014-11-27 18:36:00 UTC Reply
Welcome! by Cassie on 2014-11-27 11:12:00 UTC Reply

It's been a while since I popped in to greet a newbie, but welcome anyway! Have a bag of pebbles and a Random Shiny Object.

I am familiar with only one of your fandoms (that being Discworld), but it's always good to have a wide spectrum. :D
Welcome! by KittyEden on 2014-11-27 06:44:00 UTC Reply

Always good to have a younger person here, considering I'm one myself. :-D
I'd be perfectly happy to murder your Sue viciously for you. I have a pointy stick I'm just itching to try out.

As a present, please accept this jumbo-size, limited edition Pointy Stick (patent pending). Use it wisely.

~Kitty

Re: Welcome! by TheShyIon on 2014-11-29 16:33:00 UTC Reply

Sorry for the late reply- power+internet outages are really annoying.

I'd probably kill her if I ever got Permission, having someone else do it just doesn't seem quite right. Cleaning up my own messes and all that. :)

Thank you for the Pointy Stick! I will use it well! To poke any Sues in my brain until they either go away or turn into interesting characters. :P

Welcome! by son_of_heaven176 on 2014-11-27 01:10:00 UTC Reply

Wow, quite a few MLP fans here. I'm no brony, but after watching the MLP/Phoenix Wright crossover Turnabout Storm?, I've watched a few episodes of MLP, and I even have some pony mods for my Civilization V game.
(Have you seen Turnabout Storm? If not, you should!)

Either way, welcome to the PPC! As Herr Wozzeck used to say, take your shoes off and leave your sanity at the door!

As for your newbie gift...
*rummages through bag of holding*
here's this Pokemon fan's usual gift for bronies and pegasisters: a Rapidash. (a/k/a Angry Twilight Sparkle).

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*waves* by Ailavyn Siniyash on 2014-11-26 22:44:00 UTC Reply

Greetings and welcome!

I give to you now a lined Infinite Notebook, complete with urple covers and wilver binding. Avert your eyes!

-Aila
Oh hey, a RWBY fan. by SeaTurtle on 2014-11-26 19:05:00 UTC Reply

We don't get a lot of those around here.

Welcome to the Board! Have some of my world-famous hydrophobic water to commemorate the event. Its Lagrangian function does not exist!

Re: Oh hey, a RWBY fan. by TheShyIon on 2014-11-30 18:06:00 UTC Reply

Ooo, hydrophobic water! Thank you!

Only slightly surprised about the lack of RWBY fans, since I don't think it's *that* popular a continuum. A pity, though, since RWBY fanfiction is already infected with Suvians. It seems like over half of the RWBY fics on fanfiction.net are badfic of some kind.

I don't know why I went looking. >_

Welcome, fellow MLP fan! by SkarmorySilver on 2014-11-26 17:31:00 UTC Reply

Have a Lyra plushie (now 100% free of suggestive holes!), a winged lemur, an albino mockingjay, and one of my own shed feathers! Watch that last one - it's sharp!

Haven't heard of any storm alicorns alas, but I know how you feel about embarrassing old fics. My first mission dealt with one of my own! XD

RE, and a little off-topicness by TheShyIon on 2014-11-26 17:57:00 UTC Reply

Eee, thank you! Feathers are neat!

I'm guessing that this Board has many former Suethors? ^_^

Off-topic, my brain is really wondering what would happen if someone misspelled the name of, say, the Marquis. Would that create a Mini-Flower? Mini-Generic Animal? ...Mini-Luxury? :P

Brain is weird today.

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Ooh, a newbie! *glomps* by Iximaz on 2014-11-26 16:11:00 UTC Reply

Have this singing pocket crocodile as a present! Feel free to remove the urple bow around its neck.

And you're a fellow brony! /)*(\ Brohoof! World-Jumper and I are going to start a mission soon involving three alicorn Sues- well, one's a Stu, one's the adopted daughter of Celestia and the other is Luna's biological daughter, so whatever you wrote probably isn't as bad as that! And hey, I've been through a Sue phase myself. I will one day have to go through and spork my old fifth Marauder self insert series. Ugh.

Anyway, welcome aBoard, and I hope you enjoy it here!

Re: Ooh, a newbie! *glomps* by TheShyIon on 2014-11-26 16:24:00 UTC Reply

Yay, a crocodile! With urple on it, eek. Hopefully it doesn't sing like a songfic.

Are you sure? Mine was their sister. On the run from them for... some reason that probably made no sense. Then again, she wasn't supposed to be wish fulfillment or a self-insert- I had honestly thought it would be an interesting story. At the time, that just amounted to poorly-written angst and a kinda useless Sue. I think she'd gone minorly Nightmare and fled before she could be banished, or something like that.

...Celestia having a biological kid at least makes *some* sense, but Luna's only been back for, oh, a year or so.

Oh, and pegasister would probably be the correct term. Not quite sure, since I've seen brony used gender-neutrally, but well. :)

/)*(\

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Fine, pegasister. by Iximaz on 2014-11-26 19:49:00 UTC Reply

Though I'm a girl, I prefer the term brony. Don't know why.

And the crodile won't sing if you feed him fanbrats, but make sure he doesn't get too fat!

Re: Fine, pegasister. by TheShyIon on 2014-11-26 20:24:00 UTC Reply

Was that an annoyed fine? I'm sorry if it was, I'm not insisting. Either one is fine, I'm just making sure you're not assuming male? I don't know, I can't exactly explain.

I'm sorry. See what I mean about being bad at interpreting things sometimes? :/

No, not annoyed. by Iximaz on 2014-11-27 12:44:00 UTC Reply

I guess I should have said 'okay' instead. Sorry! {:-)

RE: Introduction by eatpraylove on 2014-11-26 14:54:00 UTC Reply

Your post is the right length, don't worry. :) So, who's your favorite author so far? Mine are Herr Wozzeck and Neshomeh, among others.

I share most of your fandoms, woo-hoo! *double high-five* Your newbie gifts are some movie-theater popcorn, a T-shirt with Roseluck on it, and a box of colored pencils just in case!

Enjoy your stay! :)

Thank you! by TheShyIon on 2014-11-26 15:36:00 UTC Reply

Thank you for the virtual gifts!

I tend to remember characters more than authors- for agents, Kaitlyn and Selene are my favorites, I know Huinsoren did them because I read last Wednesday's post. Orken and Thomas are a close second, and Rose/Ross and their partner whose name is slipping my mind are probably my third, mostly for the punctuation incident and because I used to read the Keladry books. I may have read all of them, if Lady Knight was the last. It was certainly my favorite of them!

I know that some of the names may be hard to spell... by son_of_heaven176 on 2014-11-27 00:59:00 UTC Reply

but please try to get them right! You've read the Original Series, so you might remember the rhyme:
Every name misspelled in Rings,
A Mini-Balrog gets its wings.

Unfortunately, that applies on the Board as well, so we have a Mini-Boarder lurking about!

(Lest I be misunderstood, it's all in good fun; I'm not trying to make fun of you. But seriously, please try to get your fellow Boarders' names right!)

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Aww, poor Huinsoren. by Huinesoron on 2014-11-27 09:46:00 UTC Reply

Huinsoren says, "Why do you try to negate my existence? Why do you try to prevent my brothers coming to be?"

Actually he's talking Ewok, which I don't speak, but I think that's what he was going for. I suppose it could have been more along the lines of "Will I never have peace? Leave me to return to my eternal slumber!"

hS

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An Ewok? by son_of_heaven176 on 2014-11-27 15:11:00 UTC Reply

I expected Huinsoren to be either an elf or a mad scientist, given the likes of the original.

Mini-Boarders have always been Ewoks. by Huinesoron on 2014-11-27 15:25:00 UTC Reply

The first two ever acknowledged as existing were Hinesoron and Hunesoron, and they were always Ewoks:

Hinesoron, the first of the PPC's Mini-Agents, by Agent Dafydd

Hinesoron and his brother, Hunesoron, by Hirilnara

(from the old, only-accessible-through-Wayback,DOGA Artwork page)

As to why they were (and are) Ewoks... I'unno. Because it's funny? I don't think I had any particular rationale.

(And yes, there was wild inconsistency in The Old Days about whether they were mini-Boarders, mini-Agents, or mini-Authors)

hS

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Mini-Ewok Boarders? by Iximaz on 2014-11-27 20:56:00 UTC Reply

That's funny, because Iximax and Izimax look like Mini-Mes from Austin Powers. Except like me, instead of Mini-Me.

Well, then... by Desdendelle on 2014-11-28 13:49:00 UTC Reply

The mini-Boarder 'Dresden' is a city with a tendency for wearing longcoats.
The species must have evolved. by Huinesoron on 2014-11-28 10:18:00 UTC Reply

We all know that time on the internet moves way faster than in the Real World - that's how I can be considered ancient despite only having been here ten years (which really isn't that long). Those ten years of mini-Boarders must be the equivalent of millions; the species Miniscula boardari has simply evolved in response to its changing environment. Perhaps we should designate the chronospecies as M. boardari tedii and M. boardari hominii - though I'm not convinced using subspecies nomenclature is appropriate. As seen, Huinsoren still retains the old form, as do all my minis, so we seem to have full-on speciation. Perhaps M. boardari is the modern species, and M. autori is the older variety?

The genus Miniscula - which includes all minis, including of course M. valarauka, the mini-Balrog - is of course found in family Typographica, order Inadvertian, class Fandominus, phylum Literati, kingdom Imaginorium, domain Inventio.

Taking a look at our Sue Latin Names article, it's clear that Suvians fall in the class Fandominus. There's then an order Caractorian, which covers all intentional characters in fandom, within which is the family Puella, which includes all Suvians.

Puella is divided primarily into genuses Viatormundorum - world-hopping Suvians - and Indigenamundus - native Suvians. For each of these, there are two species, named in both cases (because Suvians delight in messing up nice neat science) perficipulchrituda - perfect and flawless Suvians - and infidimediocris - the ones who are specifically described as not perfect.

In other words, your Suvian's species is defined by where it comes from, and how 'perfect' it is. There are then myriad sub-species, including V. perficipulchrituda mellis, the sickly-sweet perfect world-hopper, and I. infidimediocris gladius, the homely warrior-Sue (closely related to I. i. aggressor; the DMSE&R is attempting to isolate the differences between 'warrior' and 'anger problems', but isn't having much luck).

And one for luck: the Flowers, if we accept them as being fictional, must be class Fandominus, order Caractorian, family Protectiflora. Genus and species names are as for their Real World equivalents, with sub-species sapiens.

And I'm pretty sure we could do with moving over to a more cladistic approach - splitting Protectiflora directly off from Caractorian is ridiculous, since it implies the Flowers are just as closely connected to Suvians as they are to agents. But we'll leave that for another time.

(Who wants to work up a phylogenetic tree for Inventio? ^_^)

hS

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You knew this was going to happen. by Huinesoron on 2014-11-28 12:54:00 UTC Reply

Not the whole of Inventio, just a few bits of Fandominus. Items in italics aren't specified down to the species level (though they could be). I've gone with the sub-species interpretation of M. boardari. And yes, it is very bad form to have both genus and species be identical to something elsewhere in the tree of life (eg the Agentiprotectis species Homo sapiens), but in the interests of not reinventing the wheel, I've done it anyway.

And yes, of course Toey's scientific name is badly misspelled. Duh.

hS

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Re: You knew this was going to happen. by TheShyIon on 2014-12-01 01:18:00 UTC Reply

But what about the Sue species? :D

They're down at bottom right. by Huinesoron on 2014-12-01 09:46:00 UTC Reply

I haven't included every subspecies, because, well, Suvians are so speshul that half of them invent their own subspecies just to be contrary. I do know there's a lot of redundancy in that area of the tree, unfortunately - because, again, contrary. ;)

hS

^_^ Glad you like them. by Huinesoron on 2014-11-26 16:01:00 UTC Reply

If you haven't already run across them, Selene's (much much) older missions are on my website, under 'Tales from DOGA'; I particularly recommend Interlude One, because it's just been rewritten to match her current stories better.

There's also one more mission starring Kaitlyn, Of Wolves and Fellowship, and a couple of very tiny vignettes from way back.

And now that it's occurred to me, I think I'm going to go and edit some more old material... hum-de-hum.

hS

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Re: ^_^ Glad you like them. by TheShyIon on 2014-11-26 16:13:00 UTC Reply

I've read Wolves and Fellowship, yup. I kinda ran across your website a bit back, and had thought that Kaitlyn and Selene were abandoned. I'm very glad they aren't!

Welcome a'Board! by Huinesoron on 2014-11-26 12:08:00 UTC Reply

That was actually a pretty good length for an intro - people who just post 'hi, I'm new' tend to get asked lots of questions to coax out basic information. And in general, here at the PPC we like using lots of words. So don't worry about your posts being too long!

Since you're a Discworld fan, have you happened across The Official Fanfiction University of Discworld yet? I ask this for perfectly legitimate reasons and not at all as a sneaky way to get people reading my story. ;)

Anyway, welcome! Hope you have a fun t--

WAIT WAIT. Desdendelle didn't, so I get to be the first person to poke the newbie! Ahem: *poke poke*

You're welcome. ;)

hS

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Eeep, Pokings! by TheShyIon on 2014-11-26 15:28:00 UTC Reply

I've read up to chapter six or so, right after posting the thingamie. Insomnia is fun! Death of Fangirls is also fun, though her using quotation marks during the Duty did jar me a bit. :P

Also, joy and bogglement! I had been looking for the rest of Kaitlyn and Selene's missions! :D

Hello there! by Desdendelle on 2014-11-26 10:55:00 UTC Reply

Hi, hello, greetings, &c, &c. You might want (that is, need) to read The Constitution of the Board. the Original Series is a most definitely recommended read, and we also have a Wiki most shiny.
Anyway: I'd set up a table with tea, scones and jam, but it's raining outside.
-Runs off after his beret-
-Des, who isn't really British, despite his accent and habit of tea-drinking

Re: Hello there! by TheShyIon on 2014-11-26 15:15:00 UTC Reply

I read the Constitution of the Board, the original series, and quite a bit of the wiki! It is indeed very shiny. :D

I reread the post on Sue glitter levels several times. I'm not sure if that's relevant.