Subject: PPC+20: "Two Worlds" & "From the Files of Polaris and Aria"
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Posted on: 2022-08-23 14:28:11 UTC

(Since it's been some time since I last explained this... PPC+20 is a project to re-plug every PPC story from the first couple of years of our existence, exactly 20 years after it first came out.)

It's been a while, and that means it's actually realistically for me to be a little late: our hypothetical reader in the year 2002 clearly missed these stories when they came out on the 21st, and has only just noticed them. Sure. That's what I'm going with.

Protectors of the Plot Continuum: Two Worlds United by Jay & Acacia

It's been a month and a half since the original Assassins moved to Crossovers, but "Two Worlds" shows that they haven't given up on us. And nor have their spinoff writers, because:

PPC: From the Files of Polaris and Aria - Forward & A Time to Love, a Time to Fly by Cat Meringue

I confess I don't remember this at all; maybe I've never read it! I'll have to take a look when I get a chance. Page 3 of the reviews is a role-call of early PPC writers: we've got Wunderlust (Jay), Meg Thornton (Despatch), Meir Brin (HFA), and I'm delighted to see Jocelyn, LeoD, and Andy and Saphie dropping in too. Lots of memories of those people. :)

And a bonus non-story, from the very same day!

On the Art of Creating Original Characters in Fanfic by Architeuthis

Wayback Machine link, but this is a great essay by Archi about how (not) to do OCs. The PPC has no problem with original characters (just Suvians), and this is Archi's way of helping people do it right.

hS

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