Subject: Another option ...
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Posted on: 2012-02-15 16:06:00 UTC
... would be a blogging site, such as LiveJournal or Blogger.
Subject: Another option ...
Author:
Posted on: 2012-02-15 16:06:00 UTC
... would be a blogging site, such as LiveJournal or Blogger.
So while going around the PPC Wikia to get an idea of things like Departments (Thinking of making OC's join Department of Mary Sues, I stumbled into a page called "The Pit". AKA- Fanfiction.Net.
I'm just asking if it's alright to post any PPC Cases (If any) I make and put them there- for example, I found this Star Wars story with a Gary Stu, and I'd post the... what's it called, sporking? Whatever- I'd post the thingy in the Star Wars archive.
But back to my point- I know there's so much bad stuff there, but is it only to find the crap of the day?
If I recall it correctly, Fanfiction.net gained this nicknames not (or more probably not only) for the sheer amount of badfic that can be found there, but because the admins didn't think twice about getting rid of the Original Series after a complaint from one of the people whose badfic was sporked (thus showing that they considered less offensive canon-raping badly written fics that well-written tasteful mocking of them.)
Long story short, the Pit name stems from FF.net basically siding with the badfic authors during the Original Series.
The Pit- or FFNet- is a funny place.
I actually hail from the Pit. It was where I started out, and it's where I do most of my work today.
It's kind of like walking into a dark mine, sans lamp. Sometimes you'll find a gem, but more likely than not you'll just haul up some rocks and dead rats. I am one of the few who has good enough vision to find more diamonds than rocks.
The thing is, there's a lot of badfic there. It's where a good chunk of your sporking material will likely come from. Cupcakes and Molestia started there, for instance, as well as My Immortal. It's also prone to Trolls. And don't even get me started on what happens in the Pit of Horny Weasels.
But there are also some goodfic authors there too. They post there for the wider audience. I've seen a couple of things I would even consider Legendary Goodfic, such as "The Urthblood Saga", which I believe all Redwall fans ought to read. It's also one of the places where most OFUs are posted.
Basically, if you venture into the Pit, be careful. You might come out with the motherload, or you might lose all faith in humanity. Or maybe both. You may be flamed, or you may be praised. A few others here also have accounts on the Pit. Try to find them. They'll help you out.
OK. I come from there too, and like you, I've found many goodfic and craplots of badfic.
I'm gonna play it safe and use something like DeviantART or GoogleDocs instead- I've heard that PPC missions are pulled down at the Pit, and that you can even lose your account.
A lot of people actually find it easier to use a free website such as webs.com to create their own site just for missions. It's what I'm doing, and I actually consider it much more convenient than using DeviantART or something like that.
... would be a blogging site, such as LiveJournal or Blogger.
I have no idea why.
Technically you can put your PPC stuff there, but it's recommended to back it up elsewhere, because they frown on such things. So it's not necessarily a good idea-- you could find your whole account dissolved, which would be bad.
OK. I'll try Google Docs or DeviantART. Thanks for letting me know.
People didn't take kindly to PPC missions when they were posted on the pit. I think there are some people here you can ask about that, particularly whoever it was that got their stuff taken off for whatever reason.
Yes, PPC missions have been taken off of the Pit. That's the main reason why we don't do it.
If you want, though, you can post missions onto Googledocs and share the document, which isn't too hard to do.
So like the way you do it? Maybe. How about DeviantART, do they mind?
The Pit itself tends to frown upon Sporkage, and to be fair back when PPC stuff was posted there it actually led to PPC badfic.
I'm sure others will put it more eloquently, but I think you'll find it something of a resounding no.
Why is it called the Pit of Voles? I've always wondered about the specific reasoning behind the name.