I understand what you meant

Subject: I understand what you meant
Author: Cat-on-the-Keyboard
Posted on: 2017-04-10 07:12:00 UTC

And yes, we do all know it's an April Fools thread. But when I saw Twistey's misunderstanding, I realized that, well, we (hopefully) get a lot of people coming through who aren't yet super familiar with how we work. I thought having that post might help to avoid scaring off newbies an potential newbies, or at least giving them the wrong idea about us as a community. It wasn't the best thought-out post and I think sarcasm is probably an appropriate response to it :P

--Key

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Favorite agent outfits? by Iximaz on 2017-04-01 20:05:00 UTC Reply

Because let's face it, your agents can't be good agents if they don't look good while doing their jobs. For example, in my lastest mission, the Aviator was wearing some really cool combat camo things (I don't know the names of them lol), then she had to seduce the Doctor and wore a dress kinda like Rose's from that one Doctor Who episode, but it was red and had sequins, and then later she was wearing skinny jeans with rhinestones on them, and black combat boots with silver studs, and a purple tank top that says "Pilot" across the front, and a black and red leather jacket with a really cool bloody dripping rose on the back.

But I'm having trouble deciding what she should wear for the final showdown with the main character. Should I give her a miniskirt and thigh-high boots, or leggings and really cute pumps?

Also, share your favorite agent costumes!! I need ideas!!!!!

BIG PROMINENT NOTICE THAT THIS WAS AN APRIL FOOLS JOKE by Cat-on-the-Keyboard on 2017-04-08 06:04:00 UTC Reply

We were RPing as the Mirror-Multiverse version of the PPC.

--Key hopes this clears up the confusion

Really? by Huinesoron on 2017-04-08 06:54:00 UTC Reply

And here I thought we were a community of readers who could interpret from context.

hS

Was the sarcasm really necessary there? by Scapegrace on 2017-04-08 17:47:00 UTC Reply

~~hello kettle you are looking very black today~~

... no. I apologise. by Huinesoron on 2017-04-08 18:47:00 UTC Reply

What I meant was: as a community of readers who are good at reading the context of things, I feel that we don't need an explicit statement that the thread in which I say my agents go around mostly-naked because it's hott... is an April Fool's Day thread. Particularly since a) it's stacked on top of two even more obvious AFD threads, b) it starts with a post about an agent seducing the Doctor, and c) it already has a note from Sergio Turbo saying the exact same thing.

hS

I understand what you meant by Cat-on-the-Keyboard on 2017-04-10 07:12:00 UTC Reply

And yes, we do all know it's an April Fools thread. But when I saw Twistey's misunderstanding, I realized that, well, we (hopefully) get a lot of people coming through who aren't yet super familiar with how we work. I thought having that post might help to avoid scaring off newbies an potential newbies, or at least giving them the wrong idea about us as a community. It wasn't the best thought-out post and I think sarcasm is probably an appropriate response to it :P

--Key
... I also apologise for this post. by Huinesoron on 2017-04-08 19:07:00 UTC Reply

It was unnecessary.

By way of explanation: coupled with Sergio's short response to my discussion of the Nameless Admin downthread, I unconsciously percieved this post as an indirect attack. I tried to express my discontent in a humorous manner, which ended up as sarcasm.

I have previously been attacked by at least two former PPCers for using sarcasm on the Board, despite my personal feeling that sarcasm is quite in keeping with the feel of the PPC. Thus, this second post was written with my hackles thoroughly raised.

I'm sorry.

hS

Sorry for looking like I was angry with you. by Sergio Turbo on 2017-04-08 19:54:00 UTC Reply

It was mostly a combination of looking at that post when I didn't really have the time for a full answer, and also that... well, I didn't know what else to say? What I meant was that I had understood your point about the Nameless Admin being, well, only supposed to be used when necessary and not for random edits.

And I'm sorry for being a bull in a china shop. by twistedwindowpane (Twistey) on 2017-04-09 19:55:00 UTC Reply

You put that big notice up there because of me, didn't you? It's fine, it's fine.

As I said earlier, I don't know too much about The Aviator, so I figured that that post had been entirely serious and that she was just an edgy city girl with a thing for flying planes. And seducing the Doctor seemed like it might be imaginable if one was attempting to get him away from a Sue-possessed companion. Or something.

This is what happens when a newbie tries to jump in too fast and ends up wrecking everything. (Wrecking everything is a special talent of mine.)

Apologies,
Twistey

Honey, you're fine. by Cat-on-the-Keyboard on 2017-04-10 07:15:00 UTC Reply

Newbies usually mess up at least a little. This wasn't so bad -- nothing but a misunderstanding. A little embarrassing, maybe, but no one got hurt, and if you're still around a year from now we'll look back on it during your Boardversary party and laugh.

--Key

Okay, thanks! ^//u//^ by twistedwindowpane (Twistey) on 2017-04-10 21:59:00 UTC Reply

Am I right in saying that "(nm)" stands for "no more" or "no message" and means there's nothing in the body? Is that what that is?

-Twistey

It stands for 'no message'. by Zingenmir on 2017-04-10 22:40:00 UTC Reply

And if you don't realize that it fills in automatically and so you write in '(nm)' at the end of your subject line, you get '(nm) (nm)', from which occasional trend sprung NM&NMs! They're like M&Ms, but instead of chocolate they're made of Bleepolate! (see the wiki page, under 'Bleepolate' in the listing).

~Zing

Okay, thanks. by twistedwindowpane (Twistey) on 2017-04-11 22:25:00 UTC Reply

Just needed clarification is all. And bleepolate... there's a Bleeprin equivalent of everything, isn't there?! I don't particularly like Bleeprin; I prefer to just tough it out (or avoid the really weird stuff in the first place), since I've heard that Bleeprin is addictive.

-Twistey

Dunno where you heard that. by Iximaz on 2017-04-11 23:23:00 UTC Reply

I mean, it even says on the Wiki that nobody has a Bleep addiction as far as we've seen.

Also... just to clarify, but you know it's not you joining as an agent, right? Because some of your messages on the Wiki suggest otherwise.

I am smart person. by twistedwindowpane (Twistey) on 2017-04-12 22:10:00 UTC Reply

I guess I was just thinking of the effects of a bad fanfic, then. Plus the fact that there's dispensers of Bleeprin everywhere and a Bleeprin version of everything? My idea is that it probably would make sense that some nameless, faceless NPC has a Bleep addiction, it's just that the PPCers themselves seem to steer clear of making their agents Bleep addicted due to the fact that drug addictions are a serious topic and easily trivialized or turned into offensive humor. (Which I respect completely.)

About the agent: Yes, I do know that. (For once I know something. Take that, everyone! Haha!) If I join, I'm the PPCer, not the agent. The agent is the character I create for missions. However, my characters-that-were-going-to-be-agents are somewhat based on me, much like many folks' agents are (probably because it's really hard not to want to directly feel the satisfaction of killing off a badfic, instead of having to distance yourself from the character and not feel quite as strong.)

I'm guessing that what suggested that idea to you was that I mention how "I can't really join" and stuff? Yeah. I can't be a PPCer, or at the very least, since you say that being active makes you a PPCer, I'll have to be a secret one. I just can't let them know that I'm here. All because killing fanfic hurts authors' precious little feelings. (Even though bad fanfic hurts feelings too - ahem: trivialization, blatantly discriminatory authors, and tragic backstories done horribly wrong.) So yeah. Have I explained everything enough?

-Twistey

On Bleeprin and Boarders/Agents/PPCers by Zingenmir on 2017-04-16 05:51:00 UTC Reply

I'm pretty sure I have yet to see an outright Bleep addiction, though there certainly are overdose effects (mainly to do with memory issues, IIRC). Also, now I've started thinking about the Bleep versions of things that haven't really shown up yet, and...Bleepotatoes? That is, mashed potatoes with Bleep in them? How about Bleepizza? I'd totally go for that. And what about Bleepfries with...hm. Ketchbleep? Ketcheep? Ketcheep is probably the best name I'm going to come up with right now. Might be a little harder to manufacture food with mixed in Bleeprin--for one thing, it wouldn't keep as long or as well--but I'd be very amused to at least see an agent joking about it sometime. Because, really, there kind of is a Bleep version of everything...at least, where 'everything' means painkillers, candy, and alcohol or coffee.

Re: terminology...

PPCer, in my experience, tends to mean a Boarder. I suppose an agent might use it as well, but the general usage I've seen has been for Boarders (whether they've written missions or not!). Feel free to correct me if you've seen it used differently, though.

(The Wiki, meanwhile, actually says it refers to both Boarders and agents, which does make sense. I do wonder what the current usage is, though, and whether Boarders or agents are currently more likely to be referred to as PPCers...maybe that should be a question in the PPC Survey, when it returns?)

Boarder is used for, well, a Boarder: a real, living person who makes posts on this PPC Board. Again, this applies to everyone regardless of whether or not they have Permission. I am a Boarder; Huinesoron is a Boarder; the newbies are Boarders. I'd say that intention to stick around for at least a little while (and also posting, of course) is the main criterion for being a Boarder, though if someone feels differently, they're of course welcome to put in their own definition.

And lastly, an agent, as you said, is a character created for missions (and/or just general life in the PPC canon!) This character might be based on you (a self-insert or a semi-self-insert), or an original character, or an original character based on a recruited/rescued bit character or character replacement or even reformed Sue. Plenty of options.

I...don't think I follow your last paragraph very well, though that may be because I'm getting rather tired by now (long and busy day, this was). Your post below (which is the main one I'm replying to, actually) says you meant 'PPCer' as 'Boarder' here, but...that's not making it any clearer for me, since it sounds more like you're talking about agents. Would you mind further clarifying or rephrasing?

Thanks and goodnight (and I hope the terminology definitions helped),

~Zing

Ketcheep?! by twistedwindowpane (Twistey) on 2017-04-18 22:41:00 UTC Reply

Oh gosh, more Bleep stuff... Everybody seems to have a thing for that thing... (After thinking about Ketcheep for a while, I suddenly thought it sounded like a... weird ship... I'll spare you.)

Okay, so I got the term correctish there! Yay! I'm pretty sure I know what Boarders and agents are, and you are right that there's a lot of other ways to make an agent - just as there are lots of other ways to make any sort of character, and in fact self-inserts are kind of eschewed (you probably know this already.)

And about my last paragraph, your agent may be doing the killing of the fic, but you still wrote the spork. You're going to be the one that the author screeches at if they find the spork. Their precious little feelings will be essentially hurt by you, not the agent. And for that reason, my parents (the "they" I mention in that paragraph as in "I can't let them know that I'm here") have asked me to stay away from the PPC.

"And now you know my meaning."
-Hortensio's wife, from Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew"

Welp, is there anything else you need me to clarify?

-Twistey

Or did I have the wrong term there? by twistedwindowpane (Twistey) on 2017-04-15 15:32:00 UTC Reply

Is "PPCer" the same thing as "agent" or "Boarder"? I meant the latter in that previous post.

-Twistey

I'm not addicted, I can stop any time I want. Nowgiveitback. (nm by Every PPC Agent Ever on 2017-04-12 06:46:00 UTC Reply

Sunglasses by Larfen J. Stocke, esq. on 2017-04-02 06:34:00 UTC Reply

Sunglasses are soooooo coooool their the cooooolest things ever. i once made a big fridge out of sunlgasses and i put some pasta and some chicken and some beans in it to stay cool and wehn i opened it the next day, there was nothing but ice! So i put it into a drink and the drink was delicious but it tasted kiind of like pasta chicken and beans but thats fine.

what i'm saying is: SUYNGLASSES.
And not just on eyes too. i kidnapped three scientists to examin this and they determined (after they stopped tyring to call their familys or whatever some dumb stuff) that sugnglasses are cool because they COVER the eyes and make it mysterious. What could be behind them?! It could be anything, which is why its so cool It might be eyes, but then they might be knives or lasterguns or sockets or icicles or katanas or eyes but RED eyes that are glowing!!!! And they fall out and their katanas that are STILL GLOWING RED!!!!!

so if just covering eyes with sunglasses is cool then covering MORE with sunglasses is even cooler. SO my next missun has Yocherry but instead of wearing shorts and a coat he wears SUNGLASSSes. HUGE sunglasses and the only thing that you can see of him is his ankle, and that's okay because the ankle is the cooles part of the body and its still cool even not-coverd
As little as poss, obvs! by Huinesoron on 2017-04-01 21:03:00 UTC Reply

I mean, I write elves, so I ALWAYS have them go shirtless. How else can you show how hott they are, amirite? And it works for the girls as well! Think about Gláclya's chainmail bikini, or Selene Morgana Lilith and all those corsets!

Basically, skin is good, more skin is better. (Just don't go too far and get all crude, y'know?)

hS

((Gláclya, AKA Maethorwen, who I should really put back into circulation. Maybe she can join the Hunger Games...))

I mean, I guess that works. by Iximaz on 2017-04-01 21:26:00 UTC Reply

But come on, at least tell me the chainmail bikinis are made of solid gold or something. You can't skimp on outfits, even the skimpy ones!

Duh! Mythryll, of course. (nm) by Huinesoron on 2017-04-01 22:43:00 UTC Reply

Hmm. I dunno. by Iximaz on 2017-04-01 23:55:00 UTC Reply

I mean, I guess that's all good if you like the classics, but if you want a more modern twist to your outfit, maybe go for adamantium instead?

Oh, come on. by Aegis on 2017-04-02 04:22:00 UTC Reply

Vibranium, surely. And everything that implies. . .

(( {X D That last line, wow. Love it! )) (nm) by Neshomeh on 2017-04-01 21:30:00 UTC Reply

((*bows*)) by Iximaz on 2017-04-01 21:59:00 UTC Reply

((*also sequins and glitter. Lots of it.*))

Dahling, only coats! by Matt Cipher on 2017-04-01 20:13:00 UTC Reply

Long leather coats are basically saying, "I can kick your butt, and looking awesome doing it! Also, I'm so deep and misunderstood in this modern society, and they don't understand me at all!"

Actually, let's go all out: fingerless gloves, knee-high boots, silver chains and jewelry! Make-up! Crimson lipstick, fake long fingernails... Yes, that will be perfect!!!!!

Maybe not all of that... by twistedwindowpane (Twistey) on 2017-04-06 22:58:00 UTC Reply

(Despite not being a PPCer, I think I have a say in this since I design a lot of characters.)

I like long coats as well (or just jackets), but more in the Sherlock kind of way, or perhaps the way that General Hux does it in Star Wars Ep 7. It makes you look very intelligent. I'm also partial to high collars and high boots. Also, any sort of shirt or jscket that fastens sideways! I don't know much about the personality of this Aviator girl, but I'm just offering a few things that I often do.

-Twistey

Ahem, Twistey? (Also calling the Nameless for addign tags?) by Sergio Turbo on 2017-04-07 11:29:00 UTC Reply

This topic, and a couple of others as well, were actually April Fools ones in which we roleplayed being from the Mirror multiverse.

What you see in these topics is basically us parodyzing Suethors.

Nameless Admin, can you please add some tags of sorts to the elevan topics? Like, I don't know, "April Fools 2017" in the header?

I disagree with that idea. by Huinesoron on 2017-04-07 14:55:00 UTC Reply

The Nameless Admin exists to get rid of trolls and spam, and to protect people's identities when they accidentally get leaked. Using it for anything else just leads to people demanding changes which they later regret.

hS

I see. (nm) by Sergio Turbo on 2017-04-07 22:32:00 UTC Reply

Well then! If that's the case! by twistedwindowpane (Twistey) on 2017-04-07 14:18:00 UTC Reply

(Suethor mode, activate! Grammar cringe warning :P)
i haf 2 agree w/ whoevr said as little clothin as posibul cuz how else can u get all the boiz to luv u if ur not shmexay?!?!?!?1?!//!??1/

-twizzlers

I like coats as well! by ThatAnnoyingTurbo on 2017-04-01 21:27:00 UTC Reply

But I think black, hooded cloaks are cool as well. They're perfect for rogueish characters, and they give that aura of mystery as well.

The only thing I'm uncertain about is that they cover ammo belts - should I put them over the cloak for Sergio?