Subject: A fine suggestion, I say. (nm)
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Posted on: 2012-10-14 16:47:00 UTC
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A community of Sues had been unearthed. by
on 2012-10-13 22:36:00 UTC
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Robert Downey Junior's portrayal of Sherlock Holmes has birthed the interest of several interested suethors. This is perhaps most eloquently stated through a glimpse of a community I found while browsing through the pit earlier today.
Click if you dare: http://www.fanfiction.net/community/BakerStreetof_OCs/77483/
I must say, it is impressive that such a large group of Sues can inhabit the same space without nullifying each other's powers. Do not fear, however, I am assured that at least one of these fics has a merely borderline Sue. The rest... well, you'll see. -
What. by
on 2012-10-14 07:28:00 UTC
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-puts on fangirl psychologist glasses- by
on 2012-10-14 18:57:00 UTC
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A rite of passage? by
on 2012-10-15 05:44:00 UTC
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Which is why... by
on 2012-10-15 12:55:00 UTC
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... I strongly approve of PPCing our own mistakes - or rather, each other's - when requested. Doing in your own characters is harder, so I'd advocate passing them on to someone else... but it's a good idea nontheless.
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Le Question? by
on 2012-10-15 16:57:00 UTC
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If I can recall at least one scenario involving my Sues, could I spork it without having Permission, or do I still need Permission?
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Going off Calista's point... by
on 2012-10-16 00:10:00 UTC
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You could do things like MSTing, or commentary like they used to do in Deleterius and still do in other sporking comms on LJ. Those don't require Permission. Writing it as a PPC mission requires Permission because it uses PPC ideas. But killing a Sue without being tied to the PPC doesn't necessarily use PPC ideas, and would not need Permission.
So feasibly, if I wrote a Sherlock AU in which Sherlock and John were consulting Sue Slayers without connections to the PPC (unlike in my fic for the Badfic Game where they were in the DMS), I would not need Permission to do it. -
Not to spork it, per se. by
on 2012-10-15 20:18:00 UTC
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Permission is needed to use the concept of the PPC itself, because the PPC is a semi-quarantined continuum. But if you wanted to spork it in some way other than using the PPC to kill a Sue or rearrange a bad crossover, etc., you could totally do that. You could even use it as a Permission piece. I'm not sure if this has been done before, but you could certainly write your agents as freelancers, dealing with the fic before they even know what the PPC is--followed by recruitment, naturally, if you decide to ask for Permission. The concept of either 'Sue-killing or fixing the damage a fic does to a continuum is not proprietary to the PPC, and you wouldn't be doing any plagiarism if you did those things. Just don't use anything that the PPC invented, and you're fine.
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Re: Not to spork it, per se. by
on 2012-10-16 02:35:00 UTC
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That's actually really good to know, because I'm not at all ready to ask for Permission, and there are some fics I really want to get after.
A lot of them ones I wrote. -
Well, as I say... by
on 2012-10-16 07:25:00 UTC
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... asking someone else to do it can be cathartic, too. Since we're generally nice people here, we probably won't even disown you, flame you, and block every IP address for 50 miles around you. :P
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Re: Well, as I say... by
on 2012-10-16 15:03:00 UTC
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That's also nice to know, that is.
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Re: A rite of passage? by
on 2012-10-15 12:14:00 UTC
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I must agree. I never wrote a 'Sue in my life, nor a fanfiction. I've started, indeed, with poetry. Of course, that does not mean my writing wasn't horrid at first...
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Re: A rite of passage? by
on 2012-10-15 06:22:00 UTC
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That could be part of it, too. I mean, heck, I could probably compile a list of over nine hundred Mary Sues that I've written from my early childhood, and most of the names I would be incapable of remembering because there were so many.
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Re: -puts on fangirl psychologist glasses- by
on 2012-10-14 22:00:00 UTC
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oh for the love of f-[WOOHOO!]ing Aeldra, typos. by
on 2012-10-14 22:08:00 UTC
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Dammit, I meant CONFIDE.
I hate my phone's auto-correct. -
My apologies that you had to witness this. by
on 2012-10-14 09:04:00 UTC
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Here, come and sit by the fire. We shall shoosh and papp each other on the heads, read goodfic, and rejoice over the knowledge we share. Then, after being revived through the power of chocolate and bleeprin, we can examine those... things.
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A fine suggestion, I say. (nm) by
on 2012-10-14 16:47:00 UTC
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Like I said before: I CAN'T by
on 2012-10-13 23:16:00 UTC
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I just...
Get a load of this one:
Watson and Mary have broken off their engagement, much to Holmes' delight. Now he can find Watson a woman that he approves of, but could he find the perfect match in his own cousin, Abigail Newton? Watson/OC
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Pass the Kleenex, Lilly. (nm) by
on 2012-10-14 04:52:00 UTC
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-takes mini-Boarder and hands Kleenex- (nm) by
on 2012-10-14 06:38:00 UTC
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Re: -takes mini-Boarder and hands Kleenex- by
on 2012-10-14 17:35:00 UTC
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Whoops! Hey, any chance mini-Boarders could be recruited, you think?
(and am I the only one who thinks it would be ridiculously adorable to see minis in Agent uniforms?) -
That is an adorable mental image. by
on 2012-10-14 19:03:00 UTC
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Stop me before I art again.
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Too late. (nm) by
on 2012-10-14 22:18:00 UTC
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Shoosh, come here. We'll have some Hot Beepolate. by
on 2012-10-14 00:57:00 UTC
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/papps/ It will all be okay.
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/sobs by
on 2012-10-14 00:59:00 UTC
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I will console myself with the fact that Lux Piper is thinking of continuing the 1895 Baker Street Fanfiction Academy.
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Yes, happy thoughts are good. by
on 2012-10-14 01:02:00 UTC
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The continuation of a much beloved OFU, the fact that it's nearly Halloween, WiFi, good fanfiction, and the image of Eledhwen in a chicken suit.
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...A chicken suit. by
on 2012-10-14 01:03:00 UTC
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The hell did that come from? It sounds vaguely familiar, but...
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You needed a new happy thought. by
on 2012-10-14 01:05:00 UTC
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I provided one. Birds are on my mind anyway, as I just spent thirty minutes in a who-can-make-the-most-bird-puns contest. It was in-crane.
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Bah-dum KSSSH. (nm) by
on 2012-10-14 03:19:00 UTC
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