Subject: Goodbye and good luck.
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Posted on: 2015-10-05 05:38:00 UTC
I hope you'll be okay with this Real Life simulation of Agents' life. Although I'm thinking you'll want to stay once you start the work on this... I cannot find a word for this.
My work is taking me very far away for the next standardized period of time and I'm going to be surrounded by a pack of lunatics whose only companionship is each other, the very questionable food we get to eat served and cooked by people who did very questionable things to very questionable foodstuffs, and the junk food from the general store everyone goes wild for while we do missions we can't talk about with lots of acronyms being thrown around and occasionally people when we get overly excited. Also the higher ups really don't like us playing with fire, and there is a whole department of people who hate us when we break things which is very, very frequent.
...I'm not saying I'm going to work for the PPC, mind, but there are an awful lot of grey surfaces involved. Oh, and banter.
Anyway, I'll occasionally have internet and will make vague attempts at poking the board but I can honestly make no promises there, especially when there are plotholes involved. The technology gets cranky about those, you see.
Meanwhile, two things, apropos of nothing.
A humorous list by Des and I, if the PPC really were militarized...
...and a teaser of things to come.
Next summer...
She frowned at the contents.
Maybe she really wasn't done with the PPC after all....
Let the sledgehammer fall.
"You came!"
"Of course I did, what sort of partner would I be to let you take on a legendary yourself?"
"A retired one?"
"Or a sane one."
Agony in Pink.
"So, can I count on you?"
"Are you insane?"
"Probably, yeah."
It's time to get....
Legendary.
-July
I've been little distracted recently and almost missed this.
But yeah, safe travels and all. Huh, navy life does sound kinda like PPC life, and that list of a militarised PPC was very entertaining to read :)
I'm looking forward to seeing what comes of that teaser.
- Irish
... And be smart.
The list was a lot of fun to read, even though I know much of the humor is lost on a civilian homebody like myself.
Looking forward to seeing your mission next year. I'm sure you're going to nail it!
Don't be set upon by any sues!
Definitely looking forward to that.
See you around on Plurk, July! Or here, too, I suppose. :P
You get back here safe and sound, okay?
Also, I really enjoyed that list. Definitely made me chuckle.
I'mma miss you like cray-cray, Jules. I hope you meet many moustached men who sing many YMCA songs in regards to your chosen vessel.
And I can't wait for you to have teh interwebs so's we can do the Skypeing thingamajigger.
Have fun, stay safe, and be awesome!
It has been nice to get to know you in both of short periods of time I have been here.
I can only wish you best of luck and since the situation you are going into sounds at least slightly dangerous, I also hope you are able to return safe and sound.
Also, it's nice that you are taking down Agony in Pink when you do make your full return. Many thanks in advance.
Could I have picked better than AiP? Ehhhh maybe.
And yes, being cooped up with a bunch of people who are turning slightly nutty is indeed a trick.
Would be considered at least quirky by most people. Whatever works for you, July, whatever works for you. As long as you're having fun and not (completely) losing your sanity, just go for it. And I wish you the best of luck in that endeavor as well. :D
But best of luck, my best wishes and keep safe, aright?
*salutes*
~Des
Email me!
We eagerly await your return!
I can just make no guarantees while I'm gone.
Keep safe and sane out there, okay?
I . . . I can't not address this: "Female uniform has no pockets whatsoever." No . . . pockets. No pockets? How . . . what. No. That is intolerable. Where are you supposed to keep things? Keys? and, and wallet? I am so confused.
—doctorlit buys shorts/pants entirely on the merits of their pockets, and pretty much requires pockets for work, particularly petting zoo shifts, and he just can't even right now.
Cannot ensure sane, though.
And you definitely email me since you have it!
A lot of my colleagues complain about the lack of meaningful pockets. Of course, male uniform has pockets big enough to shove a small book into (I know, I've tried).
But, yeah. That's a little problematic.
Outside of my peanut butters and dress uniforms all my uniforms have plenty of pockets.
You must operate in cold climate.
Glad you have usable pockets, though!
—doctorlit forgot to sign the other post, but remembered this one.
Called peanut butters because they are khaki colored.
Not cold climates, all climates.
And wow, Agony in Pink, huh? I haven't read the fic itself, but I HAVE read the KnowYourMeme article, which should be enough to tell you how notorious it is!
May Arceus-forsaken and his majestic hat hair have mercy on your agents...
Hardly an indictator of its notoriety.
What is is the fact it got a whole community banned in Australia over its posting.
...Sounds like you'll need it.
... And the militarized PPC is so bad that probably none of my Agents would stay in it for long.
Is the PPC that bad or is the military just that hilariously implausible?
It's more of "combining the worst of both is not going to end well".
I would say 'have fun', but I'm not sure the world would be safe if you did...
... so have fun!
hS
According to the XO our mission is "kill people and break shit" so it is rather PPClike. So lots of mundane waiting while a few people do all the cool stuff.
I wish you all the best, and hopefully the time will pass quickly! :D
One can only hope for time to pass quick.
Good luck yourself with school.
I hope you'll be okay with this Real Life simulation of Agents' life. Although I'm thinking you'll want to stay once you start the work on this... I cannot find a word for this.
The main thing is internet. Even the board loads massively slow despite dating from the dial-up era.
Never actually considered the parallels between the military and the PPC. Now I am and it's super amusing. :P
Well, I live it, and it is alarming just how many there are.
Agony in Pink is a torture smutfic with the Pink Ranger being tortured to death.
No Sues here.
...So it would go against at least one in universe rule to not have something grow giant.
Plus it's kinda hard for a badficcer to not associate PR with giant mecha in some form
You are being very rude and demanding. You are the only person in this whole thread demanding something of me when everyone else is wishing me good luck.
You are being insulting, rude, and inconsiderate and slightly hurting my feelings by behaving in this manner.
This is my mission. If I wanted to give the charge list via hula I could do so and justify it.
I do not have to have a giant robot fight to satisfy your petty and rude demands.
Please stop, both due to your behavior and the fact you clearly have no idea what is involved in the fic or canon, just that you know giant robots are involved and you want summat.
I didn't mean to come that way. I just had the concept in my mind of "Something evil gets defeated in Power Ranger or Super Sentai canon would turn giant." I again apologize for any in convenience this has caused you
An inconvenience? There was none of that.
What I was wanting you to apologize for was being rude and demanding, not inconvenient. I'm not even sure how a human could be inconvenient.
Yeah, no, it's not a Power Rangers fanfic. It's a really quite disturbing bit of torture porn wearing a Power Rangers skin in much the same way as Ed Gein.
Mind you, I haven't watched MMPR in years, so I could be wrong, but I could have sworn there are at least a few episodes where they didn't even transform, never mind using the giant mechas. Like the episode where Trini had to get over her fear of heights? I remember that one stood out to me as a kid because all the rangers refused to transform for some contrived reason or another, even after they were cornered.
And badficcers will write whatever they like. I can guarantee that somewhere out there is a Power Rangers AU where there are no Power Rangers at all and they all just go to high school and worry about the prom, with not a single mention of a giant mecha.
Do you even know what Agony in Pink is like? There was absolutely no giant mecha in the entire fic. Like July said, it's straight-up torture porn.
*Fyi the top was not sarcasm*
As in, MotW comes, destroys stuff, rangers intervene, then giant happens.
(FYI I haven't seen much of MMPR, I watched some of it when it was rerunning on ABC Kids back in like... 2010)
But are still making demands of how July handle the mission?
I'm really not sure how to respond to that.
If what he says comes off as mean or arrogant, he probably means it in a joking manner.
I didn't mean upset or enrage anyone, I was just adding input in my own form.
(I also realize this may sound like... a Suethor that discovered we sporked one of their fics... in a way... That's the best way I can explain how this may look in another's eyes.)
(Though I am keeping up with Dino Charge and the current Sentai, Ninninger (Future season previews!))
I understand what you want to do and I appreciate your willingness to help, but I can also do this on my own, without the adding in of images tha put what you're saying into the range of being condescending.