--you feel an urge to review, review, review... even if it is someone's exceedingly dry essay from an honors biology test done ages ago. Was that a misplaced comma? Plural, not singular? Shame!

--when a friend hands you a story, you immediately begin to grade how Mary-Sue the main character is, only realizing after you have written notes on how you could best kill her canonically that this is not a mission. It is a very simple typo revision. Dur.

• Every time you trip, you blame it on Narrative Misfortune Syndrome and wonder what your original author did to you.

--You start using the more creative swear words- "Jadis in a Block of Ice!", "Glaurung", etc -in everyday conversation or your thoughts, and think nothing of it, even if people give you weird looks.

--Whenever you read a new book/ see a new movie/tv show set in an unfamiliar universe, you automatically think if it would be feasible to have an Agent from that 'Verse.

--You automatically think that someone famous would make a good 'Sue/'Stu, especially if they tend to wear really sparkly or crazy outfits all the time.

--When watching a show, you find yourself catching the logic holes or continuity issues and wishing you had an RA to skip past them, but TiVO's the closest thing you've got.

--You freak out whenever someone says 'glitter', especially in a positive way.
--You start thinking of ways badficcers could cause trouble in any canon, even if badficcers completely ignore it.
--Any PPC related acronym (PPC, RC, DMS, etc) causes you to connect it to said organization.

-- Every time you listen to fairly common songs that have appeared in the PPC songbook (like "My Favourite Things") you find yourself mentally (or, worse, audibly) subsituting the not-so-common lyrics.

-- You can't watch a new movie or read a new book without noticing all the characters, abilities and plot points that Sues are likely to steal.


(Cheers! This will be a fun list.)

Here are a few!

--You slip canon slash into your original universes, just to appease any possible fangirls.
--You often wonder what Real World Minis would be.
--You mentally refer any repetitious statements made by real-life peers to the Department of Redundancy Department.

You know you've been writing PPCs too long when...

--Anything and everything causes a possible new agent to pop into your head.

I admit, it probably wasn't a hot idea to leave 20th century tech in Fantasy Land. :P

Some things I've experienced:

-- When you find yourself utilizing that particular brand of not-quite-logic common to HQ, and wondering why it doesn't work. (e.g. getting lost to get where you're going.)
-- When your term of choice to describe a high degree of insanity becomes 'flamethrower crazy.'

And so on.

-- You not-so-subconsciously find yourself thinking about what the badficcers will do to your characters, and try to come up with ways to head them off at the pass.

-- You read everything with an eye for what would happen if it were a mission.

-- You're leery of figurative language, just in case someone might take it literally and get a bizarre mental image.

-- You have considered changing the name of the main character of your original fiction, either in said fiction or in the PPC, because you were an idiot and wrote her into the PPC years ago and want to avoid dragging the group into the public eye should your book(s) actually happen to get famous.

>.>

~Neshomeh

that a canon might actually implode due to bad fic on some level.