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.

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