Subject: Well, it seems it's not.
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Posted on: 2016-06-28 18:22:00 UTC
All my congratulations to you, Hieronymus. Please take this self-updating guidebook of all the deathtraps in the multiverse. I'm more than happy to give it to you, and hope we can read your first mission sooner than later. Bravo.
In response to this thread and since I don’t have the time to prepare anything, I’m going to test whether it’s possible to get permission ignoring all rules.
PG: Can you write?
HG: Yup. Evidence here, here and here.
PG: Cool. But can you write the PPC?
HG: I hope so. You may remember my exercises for PC’s workshop. In case you don’t, they’re still in the archives, here, here and here, although they are a bit tedious to read, having the wrong type of apostrophes and possibly some other problems.
PG: More cool. But what would your agents be like?
HG: If you can’t piece this together from what you’ve already seen, I did a bad job and I’ll just give up.
PG: Ahh – so, what badfic would you tackle in your first mission?
HG: Rose's Visit.
PG: You’re cheating. Picking from the list of approved unclaimed badfic may imply a total inability to recognize badfic on your own when you see it. Permission ...
(If I actually get permission through this thing I put together during lunch break on my job, I will probably not do anything with it for a long while, due to lack of time.)
HG
"Granted."
As had been discussed, several of us already feel that you more than fulfill the requirements.
The items you linked as proof as evidence of your ability to write are more than substantial and show you not only have a decent command of spelling and grammar, but can and do think about possible alternatives for showing a scene.
Your consistent participation in the community does not only meet the requirements for requesting permission, it's also made you a cornerstone here in the years since you've joined.
Please see hS' post for any further commentary to be had.
-July
All my congratulations to you, Hieronymus. Please take this self-updating guidebook of all the deathtraps in the multiverse. I'm more than happy to give it to you, and hope we can read your first mission sooner than later. Bravo.
Alas, my schedule still stands:
Anyway, congratulations, HG! You deserve it. *cakefetti*
It was a serious attempt to get permission in the most ancient way mentioned by JulyFlame here, solely depending on reputation, never doing anything specifically done to get Permission. Even the links to the "writing examples" are rather there for newbies who haven’t been around at the time; the PGs could have seen all of this, and more hints on what I’m planning to do with my prospective agents, when it was created or plugged on the Board.
Although it worked for me, the obvious disadvantage is that it took nearly three years, and most Boarders aren’t this patient (and having built reputation before joining the PPC by writing fanfiction the PGs liked to read doesn’t work anymore due to diversity).
The lesson that might be learned here is: If you know how to make the PGs wanting to give you Permission, just do it; if you don’t, continue learning and follow the advice that’s there to help.
(As JulyFlame mentioned, I knew already that some PGs did want to give me Permission, and I was preparing a longwinded answer explaining how I didn’t want to be speshul and get Permission in a non-regular way before I even asked for it. But then the discussion about the Permission process started again, and I realized that there is no regular way, there are only best practices that change over time and never fit everybody.)
HG
I've checked and can confirm that the IP is probably HG's.
This is effectively how I and many others Way Back When were granted Permission. 'I've read your fics and the stuff you've demo'd for the PPC looks good'. I imagine the only question, say, Miss Cam would ask is 'Are you planning on making the Uncanonical Department of Inaccuracies canonical, then?'.
We can't ask people to do this any more because it's been a long time since people a) were mostly fanwriters and b) hung around as long as HG has to give us a feel for their PPC writing.
I would honestly be inclined to grant it.
hS
... to draw an Octagonal Snowflake on a flash patch?
I have no idea when, if ever, the Uncanonical Metafictional Department of Inaccuracies will need a flash patch that is not a badfic cliché ripped off the DTE’s Red Pen. But if it’s too complex anyway, there is no sense in keeping it in mind, and I will try to think of something else.
HG
If your plan is to murder the death out of every chemist in the audience.
hS
It’s also a Twilight reference, but I only know this because I read Das Mervin’s sporkings.
HG