Welcome to the Board! Please deposit your sanity in the provided receptacle. *indicates bucket marked "Warg Fodder"* You shan't need it here. Also, here is some peanut butter.

I agree that the Star Wars EU is a ridiculous mass of info to keep track of. It's almost a shame SW is so popular, because of all the franchising it suffers from.

Anyway, have a lightsaber cheese slicer (pocket sized for convenience and, yes, blatantly stolen from Family Guy) and a cooked leg of Gamorrean to feed to Anikin.

Have a calculator. A sentient calculator. That will sing K-pop whenever you turn it on. :)

and welcome to the PPC!

I think similarly about original characters, with the additional explanation that you can have a lot more fun with a character you create yourself, because you don't have to stay within a pre-designed template. Neither do I go out of my way to include romance in anything I write. If it seems to be something that would develop between two characters, great! Otherwise, there's not much reason to include it, and even less of a chance that it would be believable.

I also find bad grammar, spelling, etc. increasingly annoying, and usually story-breaking flaws. For example, in a story I recently read (published, even!), the author used incorrect grammar in two out of two Spanish sentences. I was stuck at that part for over a quarter of an hour, and that's with only a year of Spanish!

I'm afraid I can't help you find the Star Wars OFU, or tell you anything that happened in it—it was way before my time. I will agree with what other people have said about your last question: the PPC deals with bad writing, not Mary Sues.

Oh, and, as you can tell, I also have a tendency to write long posts.

It's metallic and twice as long as your arm. Very useful weapon.

Always good to see a new face :)

Hello! Have a seventeen foot long, multicolored, wool, knit scarf (curly wig not included), and a bag of jelly babies.

Please use them IRresponsibly!

Have a container of exotic matter. It has negative gravity. Remember to keep it away from wormholes...

No, Implausible Crossovers don't have to have a Mary Sue; nor does bad slash; nor do fics targeted by SIELU or the Department of Technical Errors. In general, if it's bad writing and it's a fanfic, the PPC can target it. Even trollfics and bad parody have a department. The PPC started out with Mary Sues, of course, but there are more sources of wild, uncontrolled, continuum-destroying plotholes than just the usual glittery girls and their drooling, squeeing, glomping fangirl ways. :)

If you still have some of your old badfic, incidentally, you could PPC your own stories once you get permission to write spinoffs. Some of us have done that.

Welcome, Newbie! Have some chocolate, and enjoy your stay here!

May it inspire you to new heights.

This strange object can be either a polearm or a carnivorous freshwater fish, depending on which you want it to be!

I'm a newbie with a passion for writing, myself. Heh, I end up welcoming another newbie within such a short time after coming here. But anyway. When it comes to my fanfiction, I really like both canon characters and OCs, though I don't mind doing a fic without one or the other. Improving my writing skills is also something I want to achieve as well.

Also, you're a history buff (well, you're a college history student, so...)? Haha, me too! I'm most interested in the Aztecs and Elizabethan England, personally.

In any case, welcome to the board, fellow newbie!

Here, have a pet cat. You may name her whatever you wish.

Please enjoy this silk headband as a welcoming gift.

Hallo!


Welcome to the board. ^^

There's no problem with taking your time to get into the PPC before you dive head first in asking for permission and stuff; generally, we love it when you wait beyond the initial suggested month to get used to everything and everyone here.

If you haven't seen it yet, we have a wiki here . You might be interested in the pages under the "PPC Intro Pages" section, such as the Guide to the PPC, and the FAQ: For Newbies which will answer a lot of your questions. ^^

We've also got a chatroom here which you are welcome to join if you're interested in chatting with a few of us in moderately almost real time. (This is an open invite to anyone else interested, as well).

All in all, again, welcome, hope you enjoy your time here, and try to not spam the board with multiple posts if there's stuff you're wondering about.

I'm another person who's kinda here to improve their writing ability, and I like making characters, too.

Aside from that, not much for me to say.

Fair winds!