Subject: On the ABO division
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Posted on: 2020-06-11 07:33:38 UTC
Creating a division for this specific sub-genre assumes there is someone who wants to write agents who deal exclusively with ABO badfics.
Is there?
(I say this as one of the people worst about doing this: DOGA has been all over the place. But I'm trying! And I put Kaitlyn and Selene in Floaters specifically to avoid 'why are you in that department/division anyway?')
hS
I know I don't have permission right now, but quite a few of the other people who were discussing this are.
So basically after looking at the ???th gacha life badfic we thought hey imagine if there was a division/department to spork these things. Shortly after that, the idea for the DUM was born. Here's some basic stuff we mostly agreed on.
It would be called the Department of Unusual Media, or the DUM for short. It would be for missioning badfic like comics, gacha life stories and the like. We were thinking there would probably be a GLMM division because of the large amount of gacha life badfic. We also just about came to the consensus that the flower that would head the department would probably be the snapdragon.
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
I would be interested in sporking comics in text format (like the mission for How I Became Yours). And if I have time and hate a video enough, I might even copy GLMMs frame by frame. But fitting it in established PPC canon is going to be a little tricky.
Which, as the title of a game, needs to be both capitalized and set off with italics, btw...
I have the following questions:
~Neshomeh
Gacha Life may be a specific game, but it seems that people make comics based on the game's style, including fan fiction in other canons. I'm pretty sure I saw someone in the Discord posting pictures of a Gacha-style Harry Potter story the other day, though I'll admit I was trying to avoid looking at the pictures themselves because the art style is so terrible.
So I think that sort of fan comic is what's being discussed here, rather than missions into the actual Gacha Life canon itself.
—doctorlit wonders, entirely off-topic, if Neshomeh got the email he sent a few days ago?
Those were screenshots of videos made using some sort of feature in the game. You can pose characters you make however you like on different backgrounds and add speech bubbles.
Namely that Gatcha Life, like comics, is an example of a strange and unusual medium for fanfic.
If the Department of Unusual Media exists to undertake missions to fanworks created in unusual media, is there anyone who actually intends to create missions only to those fanworks, no regular written-word fanfic? (Edit: Or, well, have at least one team of agents who only do this. That person could still have other agents in other departments.)
If so, good luck and godspeed, but allow me my skepticism in the meantime. {= )
~Neshomeh
Generic Surface: Breathing Space was a full mission, over 30 strips long, into a 'Star Wars' badfic. Granted the badfic was made up for the purpose, but there's been several spinoff that do that.
I mean, you can still call it not successful if you like, but at least it exists. ^_^
hS
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.
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.
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.
(preemptively, edited for formatting)
Creating a division for this specific sub-genre assumes there is someone who wants to write agents who deal exclusively with ABO badfics.
Is there?
(I say this as one of the people worst about doing this: DOGA has been all over the place. But I'm trying! And I put Kaitlyn and Selene in Floaters specifically to avoid 'why are you in that department/division anyway?')
hS
ROM Hacks would also be categorized under the Department of Visual Media.