Thanks!

Permission Request by HerrWozzeck on 2011-05-26 14:50:00 UTC Reply

Hello.

I would like to request Permission to become a proper PPC Agent as part of the Department of Implausible Crossovers. So here is all the relevant stuff:

1) Writing Sample: An Introduction:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZUAwAnt7WsDx0jc2mKFT36SkOx42rSvfs9UFNP-OnBQ/edit?hl=enUS#

(Many thanks to Aster Corbett, Vixenmage, and EF for beta'ing!)

2) A Quick Bio of Florestan and Eusabius:

<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wxgQoLIdC32zG3tGqivkXgpamdyGfxzE4AcaE8Tk/edit?hl=enUS">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wxgQoLIdC32zG3tGqivkXgpamdyGfxzE4AcaE8Tk/edit?hl=enUS#

As well, I would like to spork this badfic as a first mission: <a href="http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6353706/1/MysteriousEvents">http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6353706/1/Mysterious_Events

Permission granted! by Techno-Dann on 2011-05-30 06:42:00 UTC Reply

Some of your phrasing seems a bit odd, so I'd suggest you continue to work with beta readers (not that anyone shouldn't), but you're definitely up to spec.

Any interesting stories/characters behind the names, out of curiosity?

Yay! by Neshomeh on 2011-05-30 17:13:00 UTC Reply

I was just coming to do this, but anyway, I'm glad to see more Untanglers joining up. {= D Of the "major" departments/fanfic types, the DIC is probably the least represented in missions.

~Neshomeh
Thanks! by HerrWozzeck on 2011-05-30 13:32:00 UTC Reply

Excellent! I get to spork things now! Thank you! =D

As for the stories behind the names... it's an inside joke on Robert Schumann. See, in addition to being one of the foremost composers of the Romantic era, Robert Schumann was also one of the day's leading music critics. His style of criticism wasn't what most people would do these days, though: what he did was that he signed off his reviews as one of two pseudonyms. These two pseudonyms are the namesakes for my PPC agents: Florestan was the passionate, incredibly excitable one, and Eusabius was the calm, pensive one.

It even made it into some of Schumann's piano pieces, as you can see here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXlH4y7ps4Y&feature=fvwrel