Subject: Salutations
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Posted on: 2010-08-24 20:55:00 UTC
Why hello! good to know I'm not the only new kid on the block! Have a small, furry thing I picked up in Star Trek. Guaranteed to almost certainly not be a tribble.
Hail to all of you brave and wonderful people out there :-)
I am new to the board but not so new to PPC. I've already read all of TOS and most other stories stored/linked to from there.
Me and one or two of my friends (MSTers) were wondering if the PPC has any foreign language units. I am from the Czech Republic and I would love to spread the tradition of PPC to my homecountry and my mothertongue. Would it be possible to obtain a Permission for a non-english PPCing?
From the Original series of Star Trek. It might not work against silicon based lifeforms but you can hide it in your mouth if you want.
Have a generic heavy object to hit Sues with!
*tries to handle the GHO and fails* Maybe not so much for hitting...but I can always portal it above a Sue's head, I guess.
Fair winds!
Now you can throw BBQs.
Hey, good idea, I could start a French unit.
BBQ at my RC as soon as I get one assigned, I promise ;-)
We will spread and maybe, one day, rid the whole world of the plague of badfics!
But I'm coming anyway. Or I might send my Agents hehehe...
Here, have some chocolate, and enjoy your stay!
Welcome, new friend!
Have a tarantula and an emperor scorpion.
for the emperor scorpion. The tarantula I can't accept - I am afraid of all things arachnite. But thank you anyway :-)
Don't feed it Sues.
Or Generic Meat.
Thank you for the links, though I read most of the articles already when I stumbled upon the PPC wiki (looking for the definition of the Laws of narrative comedy)before I dared come to the Board.
I'll need a beta for Czech as well, I dare say. One should not overestimate the power of self-check. However I'll definitely keep in mind to get a beta for English.
You're already well-informed!
That is bilingual... awesome. What's your fandom(s)?
are manifold. You could say I am as geeky as they come ;-)
Of the series it's Life on Mars, Dr. Who (+Torchwood), SG, BSG, TBBT, Lie to me, House MD, Defying Gravity. From the bookverses I like Harry Potter, Sherlock Holmes and Honor Harrington, among others. I can find my way around the Mass Effect- and Starcraftverses of the game variety. And I also quite fancy webcomicses namely XKCD, Questionable Content, Abstruse Goose and Ensign Sue Must Die :-)
I plan to send my agents to Potterverse and crossovers thereof but that is mostly because it is the most Sue-infested in my country. If I ever grow enough balls to enter the murky waters of bad slash, I might bring together a team for Sherlock Holmes fics...
The Particular Problem of Postern Prison
This is written by Westron Wynde Who has several series of Sherlock Holmes stories. I haven't read them all, but all that I have are above excellent. I would pay for print copies of the series that the story I linked belongs to.
It may be three feet long, but it's still useful!
Why hello! good to know I'm not the only new kid on the block! Have a small, furry thing I picked up in Star Trek. Guaranteed to almost certainly not be a tribble.
Does it vibrate and purr?
As a token of my gratitude please have a pocket-size thestral. Don't be alarmed if you can't find him, he can choose to be invisible. Thinks Suethors are delicious snack ;-)
Have a pet cat. You may name him whatever you wish.
Hello! Have a seventeen foot long, multicolored, wool, knit scarf (curly wig not included), and a bag of jelly babies.
Please use IRresponsibly!
I am a fan of of SG-1 and Atlantis, too.
...btw. is it a reference to the Fourth Doctor, or am I totally lost? ;-) I love the new series but haven't had time to dig around for the old ones, so my knowledge is kind of sketchy.
And what about SG-Universe, not your cup of tea?
Nice to meet you!
Have a sonic screwdriver and a bag of jelly babies, please use responsibly.
Thank you, one should always have a spare screwdriver around :-) Now I only need a TARDIS. Do you happen to know about a free one somewhere in the vicinity?
...The Department of Sufficiently Advanced Technology? They might have one lying around. ^^,
About the spreading, I didn't actually mean trying to recruit people or anything like that. It's more like introducing the PPC style into a community, that is all about protecting the canons and mocking the badfics anyway, only so far in MST and nothing more.
I won't lie, I want to do it for myself more than for anybody else, 'cause some of the Czech Mary Sues just have it comming. ;-)
While the badfic was written in Italian, I wrote the mission in English.
I think sporking foreign language badfic is not a bad thing, expecially if English is not your first language (you find charges with less difficulties, as an Italian boarder I know this well), but mission should be in English to let more people read it.
...or write it in English as well as in Czech.
The only trouble is, that most of the grammar wrongdoings won't be transferable, because Czech is just too different.
Though many of the PPCers are native speakers of other languages than English, I'm not sure whether there are actually any non-English PPC stories. On second thought, there might be one, but I haven't read it because it was not in a language I know.
I don't know about the permission givers. They'd probably want a writing sample in English because they probably can't read Czech. After that, it's your choice, I guess. I mean, there are no limits on the fandoms you can choose, so why should there be on the languages?
I know they will want to read something from me in English and personally I don't have a problem with English. It's just that a surprising number of people here is not able to read in English, at least not well enough to get the MSTs or PPCs written in English (not to mention the bastardized English in the badfics themselves). That's why I'd prefer writing it in my own language to writing it in English.