It's never explicitly said in canon what material it is they're made of but they're frequently described as being like marble (you know... indestructible, sparkling marble...) and when we see one of the sparklepires get her head ripped off and later dismembered, there was no blood, just the sound of rocks being broken. Are they actually made of stone? I don't think so, but it's certainly close enough.

People slap it on bad writing and go "lol it doesn't have to be good because crack!!1one!" >.> I have read good crack. It's flipping hilarious. This was boring, too realistic for something claiming to be crack, and just augh. It wasn't even bad crack, it was just... bad. But I ranted enough about that in the mission.

And sorry, but the next one's going to be a bit longer: a Percy Jackson fic where it turns out he has three sisters, all daughters of Poseidon.

Yep. Three.

*vomits*

This one was definitely bizarre, but I wouldn't say it was unpleasant. At least, there was nothing squicky (for me) in it, just a boatload of annoyances.

Ix being like Gabrielle, I'm not too sure about. Gabrielle is a Stepford Smiler—she hides her pain behind a façade of bubbly happiness. With Ix, what you see is what you get; even though she had traumatic stuff happen to her, she had support in her family and at Hogwarts so she never had the time to develop the angst that was scheduled for her later in the fic she came from.

I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves! I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves and this is how it goes for-ev-er...

is that a challenge, hS?

And no, it was basically "Lol BEWBS" the whole time, but since I've had very few missions where nobody dies at the end, I was running on the assumption that the characters had been hijacked from their canons and possessed by the author.