Subject: Man, I'm really off my game today. Sorry about that . . .
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Posted on: 2022-12-17 02:54:23 UTC
Caddy-Shack's stuff is also still up, just in individual Google Docs linked from the agent pages. I seriously don't know what was up with me this morning . . .
—doctorlit is tired and cold
So, you said to talk here some more so people can get to know me. Well, I thought I'd start by sharing my favourite mission. It's Love and War.
It's got so many great gags! Characters sprouting bad accents due to typos, Voyager being "entarred" which turns into being covered in tar, the cup of "coughee", and of course, the fact that the Stu's name is Jack Russell and so he's rendered as a dogman!
There are definitely spin-offs that stick with me through the years, though!
I'm not quite sure how to put into words the element that makes me like these spin-offs. There's a certain camaraderie between the agents, I think: a casual friendliness that makes me feel that they would all be close, caring buddies, even in a more "normal" setting. I guess I like that found family element? Again, I'm having trouble putting it into words, beyond "I like the way these characters speak to and interact with each other."
Miah made a fairly long spin-off, and it was even better before Caddy-Shack's stuff fell off the internet, since they did a lot of crossover work, but it's still quite a project of long-running character interactions.
Rez's agents are just super fun to read, and I like the structure of the missions, too!
And Makari's series is a bit short, but the characters make it worth it, especially considering the twist at the end of the final mission . . .
—doctorlit was going to bring up Caddy-Shack and Ellipsis Flood as well, but it seems their works are missing from the web. He has backups, but won't have time to rehost anything any time soon . . .
The wiki links there from at least some pages, including her user page. Some have Archive.today links, too.
As for Caddy, I'm pretty sure they took their stuff down deliberately, so I don't know if rehosting is an option there. (I mean, I always want to preserve everything because it's our history, but I guess we have to respect people's wishes or whatever. Sigh.) But the crossovers still exist if the other writer also hosted them, and I think Miah usually did, so there's that.
~Neshomeh
Caddy-Shack's stuff is also still up, just in individual Google Docs linked from the agent pages. I seriously don't know what was up with me this morning . . .
—doctorlit is tired and cold
I have not read any other missions by these agents, but—man, that was good! It had a TOS vibe, and the gags were just so funny (I particularly liked the badfic ship). I was laughing out loud.
—Ls