My read is that you're talking about missions exclusively into Unusual Media, not into badfics /about/ unusual media (in the latter case, Nesh is right that it would just fall under the VG division etc). In which case I think it's a decent idea!

1/ Is anyone actually planning to write for this? I've recently run into a few old posts about not creating stuff unless you're going to use it, which absolutely applies here. If so, how do you plan to write it? Just text format, or something more involved?

2/ Is this going to absorb the Bad Roleplay Department, and it's Division of Bad Quizzes? We never got to see how the BRD operated, but Bad Quizzes is definitely in the DUM's remit. (And frankly, if BRD is supposed to take on badfic /inspired/ by roleplay, they were always redundant anyway.)

3/ Similarly, is it going to pick up the leftovers of the Wrecked Music Department? They would absolutely fall under this. The justification for shutting the WMD down could be used in explaining the establishment of this new department, too.

If it did absorb both of those departments, you'd have three Flowers already in place as prospective Division Heads (the Daffodil, Bonsai Monkey Puzzle, and Inverted Cactus). I don't think any of the agents are free to use, but I might be okay lending out Althea and Tracer for cameos if they decided to go back.

hS

Which, as the title of a game, needs to be both capitalized and set off with italics, btw...

I have the following questions:

1. Why wouldn't these fics be covered by the Video Games Division of the DMS and/or DBS?
   • What about knowledgeable freelancers in the DMS/DBS?
   • What about knowledgeable agents in the Department of Floaters?
   • What about a Gacha Life division of the All-Purpose Department?
2. How would this new department be unique from the DMS, DBS, DF, and APD? Why is a difference in operations necessary? What stops it from being "new" in name only while doing the same things everyone has always done?
3. Is anyone intending to write missions tackling these fics at this time? If so, what are their answers to these questions?
4. If we're actually talking about missions to bad fanvideos/fancomics, how do you plan to overcome the difficulty of writing a mission to a visual rather than text-based medium? Note that this has been done successfully only once in the entire history of the PPC (Ix's mission to the infamous fancomic "How I Became Yours"), because it is more difficult than writing a mission to a fanfic. There has never been a successful PPC mission in comic form, and no one has even attempted an animated mission that I'm aware of.

~Neshomeh

Well, I like the idea of the DUM and the Dumdums. I vote for this new department!

So, awkwardness aside, here's what I was working on.

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Somewhat(?) recently, there's been some talk of new Divisions and Departments in the Lounge, so with Quantum's help myriad conversations were gathered into something less chaotic for the general consideration of the Board! But that makes it sound like there's a lot of ideas, when really there's only a couple.

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• Division of ABO: While ABO as a genre is possibly most well known for the MPreg elements, not all ABO ends in MPreg, or is even slash. ABO is also much more intense then what DBS agents usually get - even including NC-17 specialized agents. It's like the ESAS of slash, if you will. There was only one suggested flashpatch for this - a wolf howling at a moon.

• Department of Visual Media / Department of Unusual Mediums: There's other kinds of badfic out there, and this was the general idea on how to address that. The DVM/DUM could have divisions for each new medium; comics, videos, etc. It needn't be overly large, as far as Departments go, since the agents could simply be well-versed in their mediums while other agents are sent in for canon knowledge. There were a few ideas for flashpatches, such as cassette tapes and a brand of lollis called Dumdums. And since this is a new Department, department heads were suggested as well: azaleas, garlic and snapdragons.

Under the DVM/DUM could be the Division of Gacha Life Mini Movies: This is the medium that got us talking about this in the first place and - well, I'm not a member of the community, but there's generally a lot of glitter involved, whether it be kidnapping canons and turning them into animal hybrids before tossing them into intimate situations, or general OOC highschool shenanigans. And OC 'Sues. Lots of those.

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