They're awesome, analytical sporkers. Also, sisters.

Has anyone heard of Mervin and Hyde? by PoorCynic on 2014-10-17 01:44:00 UTC Reply

I asked because I came across this through a link on the PPC TV Tropes page (hey, sometimes I get bored). The "mission" dates back to 2008 and contains a lot of things that the PPC doesn't actually do, including having two canonical characters as agents and just killing Sues for the sake of Sue-killing. The only mention I could find on the wiki to either the authors or their similarly-named agents was one reference talking about their sporking of the Rose Potter series.

Is this a pair of writers who just adopted the PPC for their own purposes, or did I miss something in my fact-checking?

Hm... by JulyFlame on 2014-10-18 23:05:00 UTC Reply

Definitely don't recall them on the board in 2008 or that being posted to the board then; this is the first time I've read this mission and I read everything back then.

Of course, it may have slipped through in some manner, but I suspect Nesh will have the same recollection as I do.

Yeah, I don't remember them. by Neshomeh on 2014-10-21 16:16:00 UTC Reply

Have to say, though, I found the story very amusing. If it weren't labeled as a PPC mission, I'd have absolutely no problem with it. I mean... dangling Snape from the ceiling as bait and letting all the most horrible Sues destroy each other... {X D Kinda reminds me of the Sparklypoo comic.

~Neshomeh
These missions (there's 1 more) may have been posted earlier by DawnFire on 2014-10-19 22:01:00 UTC Reply

There's a note at the beginning that says 'originally posted on the STFU'. Eris Discordia was posted in November 2007; Threshold was probably earlier, unless I missed it (I'm going through the archive).

I do remember wanting to read these missions (after seeing the link from Miss Cam's site), though; reading them now is resulting in excitement, recognition of in-jokes from their sporking community (das_sporking on LJ), and...yeah, it's not entirely the PPC as we know it, but it's definitely historic?

Eh, I'm happy to have the chance to read them, anyway.

~DF

I'd heard of them, but not in connection with the PPC. by Ekyl on 2014-10-18 10:16:00 UTC Reply

PGs, do any of you remember either of these fellows (fellowesses?) applying and getting Permission? Because like PC points out, this is very much not the way we do things...

To expand on what doctorlit said: by Huinesoron on 2014-10-19 17:55:00 UTC Reply

They were listed by Miss Cam between February and December 2005, according to the Wayback Machine. Miss Cam was one of the original three Permission Givers; being listed by her is, pretty much, acknowledgement that they have Permission. The fact that we don't like what they did with it is pretty much irrelevant to that question. ;)

hS

Fair enough. by PoorCynic on 2014-10-20 07:49:00 UTC Reply

I can live with that. I'd just never heard of them before now and wanted to make sure that they had been recognized in some capacity.

Well, they are linked from Miss Cam's site. by doctorlit on 2014-10-17 14:46:00 UTC Reply

(Third from the bottom.)

So that's a permission giver who was at least aware of them, roughly around the time of the Original Series.

Let's see . . . the Wayback Machine seems to have saved the main navigation hubs, but not the actual content. Nuts. Based on the URLs, though, it seems they were primarily MSTers, rather than mission-writers. So . . . eh, Idunno. I'll probably still archive them as a piece of PPC history, even if we don't add them to the wiki.

Ah, good catch. by PoorCynic on 2014-10-20 07:48:00 UTC Reply

I missed that. Guess I'm not as well acquainted with the history of the PPC as I probably should be. Thanks for pointing that out.

I've heard of Das Mervin and Mrs. Hyde. by Iximaz on 2014-10-17 01:52:00 UTC Reply

I think they're- or at least, Mervin is- best known for their/her Twilight sporkings. I've never actually come across them as agents of the PPC, though I have read the Rose Potter sporkings and unless I'm misremembering, there had been several mentions of the PPC throughout.

They're awesome, analytical sporkers. Also, sisters. by DawnFire on 2014-10-19 22:09:00 UTC Reply

Mervin did the Twilight sporkings, and recently finished (or is still finishing extra material?) Breaking Dawn. Mrs. Hyde tackled Midnight Sun, and regrets it. They (or Mervin? I'm not sure Hyde is a mod) run a sporking community on Livejournal called das_sporking, which is full of contributing sporkers doing fanfic, published fiction, 50 Shades of Grey, and even some movies and an anime. Their sporking method is extensive analysis (often involving images, gifs, and canon/original character guest sporkers), which is one main reason why they're popular; the other main reason is that they also tend to be funny, and often provide a different analytical perspective than other sporkers do. That last bit, apparently, is a main draw for the Twilight and 50 Shades sporkings.

They also write fanfic (I highly recommend "The Wedding Crashers"). And spitefics. Many spitefics. And as you can probably tell, I've become a fan.

~DF

Oh yeah, I'm definitely familiar! by Iximaz on 2014-10-19 22:15:00 UTC Reply

I spent last Christmas Break binge-reading the Twilight Sprorkings and greatly enjoyed The Wedding Crashers. It's actually thanks to the sporkings that I can follow along with my friends' conversations about Supernatural>.

I'm also a big fan, though I've yet to start 50 Shades because that series scares the crap outta me.