Lord of the Rings

Newbie here by Dragormir on 2012-04-21 14:26:00 UTC Reply

Umm... Hey. Stumbled across this site while I was on FFN. Was curious as to what sort of people lurked here, and decided to read some more. I found it intriguing (and some of it was hilarious). So...

Decided to join. Out of curiosity, what's the process for becoming an agent?

-Dragormir

Hai! by Skorpionne on 2012-04-22 22:08:00 UTC Reply

Welcome! Have some biscuits!
Hi! by M1Garand8 on 2012-04-22 17:09:00 UTC Reply

Welcome to the PPC board! Have a clip of thirty-aught-six rounds!
Welcome. by Ellipsis Flood on 2012-04-22 16:45:00 UTC Reply

Have an awesome-laced cookie.
Good to have you a-Board! by doctorlit on 2012-04-22 05:56:00 UTC Reply

Greetings, new friend! Have a pixelated drake!
Welcome a-board! by TheMadHatteress on 2012-04-22 01:40:00 UTC Reply

Here, have a magician's hat. magic not included. Also, what are your fandoms?

Thanks by Dragormir on 2012-04-22 03:16:00 UTC Reply

I like hats. I have a rather large collection at home.

Well... I like Hogan's Heroes, The Cape, Quantum Leap, Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, and a few movies--most of which star David Lyons, Derek Magyar, James Frain, or Vinnie Jones. (Although I will not be watching Train again until I turn twenty-one and am legally allowed to drink. *shudders*)

Fandoms are what I'd be doing missions in (in a month or so), correct? Is it a bad thing if I don't have a particular fondness for anything to come out of LOTR, despite loving the books to death?

-Dragormir

A tip of my hat to you fellow hat lover. by TheMadHatteress on 2012-04-22 03:48:00 UTC Reply

Fandoms are basiclly all of the fans of a series or the like. No, it's not a bad thing to not like fanworks, however, be aware that the main thing agents do is go into bad fanfiction and fix things. It would help if you were a bit aquainted with LotR fanfiction if you plan on working with LotR.

Lord of the Rings by Dragormir on 2012-04-22 15:26:00 UTC Reply

I have no intentions of touching LOTR with a ten-foot pole. This writer is a large reason why. Long story short, a friend recommended the writer. I read one fic. Died. I got better. Went hunting for more fic, and realized this was probably the best I was going to find. Died again. Came back as a zombie. No longer enjoy LOTR fanfic in any capacity.

I got the whole "destroy badfic and set right what once went wrong" angle. I just wouldn't touch LOTR with a thirty-foot barge pole. Let people with more sanity deal with that.

Have a cowboy hat; I've already got four.

-Dragormir

Hello! by the Irish Samurai on 2012-04-21 19:44:00 UTC Reply

Welcome to the Board, have this Random Shiny Thing that I found earlier. I've no idea what it does, so, just be careful with it, OK?
Hello there! by SeaTurtle on 2012-04-21 19:03:00 UTC Reply

Welcome to the Board! Have some of my world-famous hydrophobic water! ~~Factory fresh!~~ Bottled* right at the source!

*Term "bottled" used figuratively. Actually contained in a completely sealed climate-controlled environment in which substance is not exposed to any elements of reality or anti-reality to prevent explosion.
Thanks by Dragormir on 2012-04-21 18:48:00 UTC Reply

Thanks for the advice (and the links). Those are helpful to know. And the fudge. (Definitely gonna enjoy that. :D)

Regards to becoming a boarder/agent: Thanks for the info. Definitely going to come back more often then. :)

Polyhedral number generator, huh? I wonder what I can do with that...

-Dragormir
Re: Newbie here by Antigone68104 on 2012-04-21 17:10:00 UTC Reply

Hi, have some fudge!
Hello by Phobos on 2012-04-21 16:27:00 UTC Reply

Welcome. Have a bag of polyhedral random number generators. Please use them responsibly.

As to your question: If you are talking about writing stories in the PPC, you are going to want to read the Permission article on the Wiki. That will tell you just about everything you need to know.

If you are talking about hanging out and participating in the community, but maybe not writing, then congratulations, you are already there.

Other things of interest:

The Constitution - Ground rules for hanging out here. Very important to read.

The Wiki - Where we deposit all of our useful information for easy browsing. The FAQs that are linked on the main page are especially useful.

The Original Series - This is the first series of PPC stories. Another very important thing to read.

Phobos' Lair - My stories...because I can. Not a necessary read, but fun anyway, I hope.

RC #999 - One of my favorite spin-offs.

Anyway, welcome aboard.

-Phobos
Hallo, new freund! by AnnaBee on 2012-04-21 15:37:00 UTC Reply

Have a (only slightly melted) Canon Analysis Device. :)

*Freund by Ellipsis Flood on 2012-04-22 16:45:00 UTC Reply

Also, your generous application of gratuitous German is irritating.

Thanks for the lesson... by Dragormir on 2012-04-22 20:36:00 UTC Reply

but your comment is rather rude. I appreciated AnnaBee's sentiment.

-Dragormir

I'm sure... by Ellipsis Flood on 2012-04-22 20:51:00 UTC Reply

...you would have appreciated it the same way if it had been all-English.

And I don't know, but I find foreign words thrown randomly into your sentences irritating. It doesn't matter if it's German (my native language, by the way) or, for example, Japanese.

There was no reason to substituted friend for Freund. It has no different meaning. And it's not a way to show off your knowledge of said language.

Bad habit, sorry. by AnnaBee on 2012-04-22 23:16:00 UTC Reply

It's something I picked up in Hetalia fandom and can't quite shake. It is not meant to be weeaboo German, though I'm SURE that's what I'm doing, and I'm sorry.

If it irritates you that much, I'll stop doing it. :c

The fangirl Japanese is also a bit grating. (nm) by JulyFlame on 2012-04-22 23:42:00 UTC Reply

I'm really, really sorry. by AnnaBee on 2012-04-23 00:05:00 UTC Reply

It's a bad habit, I picked it up, I need to get rid of it. >/////> I talk like that in real life, too. So... yeah.

Quite possibly. by Dragormir on 2012-04-22 21:29:00 UTC Reply

I'm sorry about that. I was probably being rude.

I just appreciated the sentiment, even with the random German words dropped in, in place of English ones. I've seen it in a few decent fics over in the Hogan's Heroes fandom, so it didn't really bother me.

It was easier to understand than if the entire message had been in German, although that would have been fun to read too.

My apologies for upsetting you, EF.

-Dragormir

I don't actually see where EF's comment was rude... by FlareShard on 2012-04-22 20:51:00 UTC Reply

... since she (and I) are actually native speakers of German, it's not very nice to see the language go the way of Fangirl Japanese. Especially if it's not even done right. There's nothing rude about expressing dissatisfaction with that.

You don't actually "become" an agent by melancholicPoet on 2012-04-21 15:13:00 UTC Reply

you become a boarder, who writes about agents. If you want to be one of those, then just hang out for about a month and get to know people. On the front page of the wiki there's a section for newbies with links and stuff about all of this, and it explains it a lot better then I could.

Nice to meet you by the way.