Subject: Re: DoI and minis
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Posted on: 2012-08-31 02:40:00 UTC

The Department of Intelligence is just a fictional construct within the in-universe PPC. Anyone here, in the real world PPC, can add new badfics to a badfic thread, or start a new badfic thread if there currently isn't one on the front page.

Minis are one of the things that do have pretty structured rules, partly because they're sort of shared characters between us and the Official Fanfiction Universities. For any given fandom, the OFU's director gets first dibs on deciding what they are. If there is no OFU for that fandom (which is very often the case), then the first writer who writes a PPC mission into that fandom that produces minis gets to discover/name them.

Occasionally, the aforesaid writer of the first mini-spawning mission for a given fandom will start a discussion on the Board to get feedback about what folks think should be the mini. This usually only happens for a fandom that doesn't have an obvious giant monster that could serve as the mini. (Try to imagine To Kill A Mockingbird or Matlock minis.) This last paragraph was just observation, not any official guidelines.

One more point, since I've taken an infodump everywhere anyway: it's been decided as a group that mini-Nazis or similar will never be acceptable. Something to keep in mind. :)

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