Subject: Some thoughts.
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Posted on: 2013-07-02 05:14:00 UTC

Since I should really contribute, having started all this in the first place...

1. Let's not get too carried away. After all, the main thing I keep repeating is that this thing is not a big deal. So let's not make renaming it a big deal. If it seems like a good idea, fine, but if it's going to be more trouble than it's worth, I think it's safe to just clarify the article and move on.

2. With regards to clarifying the article, I think a close reading of the relevant bits of TOS would be an extremely good thing to do first, since that's the origin and ultimate basis for the concept(s) we're supposed to be describing. Also, references on the pages, so future PPCers don't have to do the work of tracking down the relevant bits all over again.

3. We shouldn't neglect influential non-mission materials such as the original description of Anti-Lustin™, which is based on modified dwarf blood proteins. (OTOH, what with the increase in Dwarf-Sues since The Hobbit, perhaps that coveted Dwarven resistance to Sue-induced lust is no longer reliable and enterprising biochemists should be considering alternatives before the agents taking the drug start to lose it—perhaps unpredictably, at times when it would be the most hilarious....) "Suedom" also leans heavily on the idea that Gimli and Éowyn can fight off Suefluence and thus are able to aid Kate and Kira on their quest.

4. Never forget that out-of-universe, this is all for the lulz and not everything has to make perfect logical sense and fit into neat little boxes. The wiki is mainly there to describe the madness and help to navigate it, not to make it fit some kind of Universal Theory of the PPC. It's perfectly fine for Dwarves to be resistant to Suefluence because it was a running joke once. It's also perfectly fine for present writers to ignore that entirely if it's funnier to show Thorin Oakenshield going googly-eyed at Thorina Ramsbuttsdotter. The PPC has no logic. The PPC needs no logic.

If I seem to be contradicting myself, it's only because I love logical sense and neat little boxes exactly as much as I love the PPC's in-jokes and random silliness, and I don't have a problem with paradoxes. {= )

~Neshomeh

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