Subject: Ah. I figured those were companies of some kind . . .
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Posted on: 2018-07-05 14:23:00 UTC
Also, I love the idea of the Canadianized Flowers and other heads! It's amazing how even a little joke story like this can lead to so much world-building, huh?
—doctorlit
Are you Canadian? Do you in any way like Canada? Do you just like celebrating things? Well, join us in celebrating Canada Day! We have only virtual food and fireworks, but it's a start!
Although we do have something else...something special. Something fun.
It is...an interlude! In which Naya'Keegan vas Headquarters and the Reader fly the Reader's TARDIS into...well, click and see! We hope you enjoy!
*exeunt, eating maple sugar candies and riding a polar bear and a moose*
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PS: Canada Day is, in fact, on July 1st. I (Zing) had an exam and didn't quite get to posting then, so...slightly belated Canada Daaaaay!
My love of Turtle's writing (Turtle, if you're reading this, please write up some Alistair and Corellieth shorts, because they are hilarious and I love them and more people should see them) and general respect for Zing (sorry Z, I want to say I love your writing, but I haven't actually read much of it yet...) won out over being intimidated by the fact that I don't know any of the agents here.
Thankfully, the entire thing was essentially coherent anyways, and extremely entertaining. Having met geese, they really are that evil.
Oh, and I would be awesome at the roll-the-rim thing.
Also, it's good to hear from SeaTurtle again!
And I'm with hS: the goose definitely reminds me of Agent Monty. He's a gray goose, IIRC, but this is the Canada AU, so there you go. Clearly the same character. ^_^
~Neshomeh wishes she liked coffee.
That's amazing. XD I don't know what it's going to do to Multiverse Theory, but it's amazing.
I'm going to cheerfully assume the goose is alt!Monty, and that he was just doing his job by spotting the intruders. ^_^
hS
The Canadian stereotypes!PPC (and American stereotypes!PPC) were neat places, and I liked the humorous snippet we got of them.
Who won the game, by the way?
Also, minor note (aside from the thing doc mentioned below), in the line about the Doctor's TARDIS, "at least" echoes - y'all might want to reword that a bit.
- Tomash
Very fun! I love the sheer silliness of both AUs, even in the fact that they exist at all. I love that you guys incorporated Redwall-style animal agents to represent the wildlife of both countries. The goose was fun—I especially like that you state so matter-of-factly that it beat up the human agent without describing the fight. Speaking as someone who has had to work with geese, its behavior is . . . FAMILIAR. I would hate for Agent Canada Goose to meet up with Agent Cape Barren Goose from the Australian HQ.
Out of curiosity, what's the meaning of the joke about the DoSAT technicians' names? (At least, it felt like a joke/reference, disregard if I'm wrong.)
The only technical thing my OCD whined about was the phrase, "or some strange place that was some sort of off-AU-HQ." The double "some" plus the vagueness of the phrase "sort of" is making it feel a little washed-out to me. Though I'll admit I can't really come up with a way to rephrase it that doesn't sound clunky, soooo . . . maybe English just isn't equipped to express a phrase like that. *shrug*
—doctorlit, wondering if the CPC only has access to Canadian-made continua . . .
Glad we nailed the goose behaviour!
The technicians...well. Rogers and Bell are phone/WiFi/etc service providers, and both...have some issues. I'm pretty sure it was ST's brainwave to make them Techies. Not included in the end were: Rogers' little brother who goes around yelling "Yahoo!" a lot (Rogers has something to do with Yahoo! which is...it offers mail and I think has services along the lines of MSN? It's been a long time since I used it), and a new guy named Koodo who goes around trying to make things better (another, I believe newer provider, with fewer problems that I've witnessed).
Hmm. I suppose that could become "a strange place," but I'd have to see it in context to be sure.
Glad you enjoyed!
~Z
PS: you might appreciate this: so much stuff couldn't make it in...including that the Flowers have become more...Canadian. Such as the Bonsai Maple. I think there was something about incorporating the official provincial flowers and animals as well? Anyway, quite a lot of animals floating around. And many squirrels, of course.
PPS: as to Canadian-made continua only...that would make sense to me, but we never discussed it that I remember. Although, do American productions filmed in Canada count? Because, for example, Supernatural is filmed in Vancouver...
Also, I love the idea of the Canadianized Flowers and other heads! It's amazing how even a little joke story like this can lead to so much world-building, huh?
—doctorlit
Though, actually, it's the other way around--we came up with so, so many ideas and then chose a heaping handful to put into this story so that we wouldn't be writing forever. More snuck in anyway.
~Z
That was very silly and I loved it. It was a nice, goofy bit of crackfic that made me grin.
(I particularly liked the Shakespear reference—that one made me guffaw.)
Happy Canada Day!
This made for a nice little number. X3 I'm glad they managed to escape the goose, as well (those little agents of the Lone Power... per fandom running gag, anyway).
So, yes, I did enjoy! =D Thank you both for writing, and happy Canada Day!
...I actually have a bit of art floating around for this. If I can figure out a good way to put it up, I will.
Apart from that, glad you enjoyed!
~Z