Subject: One thing that can help in an obscurish fandom
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Posted on: 2010-01-03 23:06:00 UTC
Is having one of your Agents not know it at all, so that the other Agent can legitimately explain bits of it to them, and thus, to the reader.
(Agent Pads frequently drags Agent Trojie through fics in fandoms she has no idea of, so I know it can be done ^_^)
What if there's a new Fandom you want to add?
Is Code Geass already a Fandom that the PPC cover?
~Xanthia B.~
There are no limits. As long as it's not original fiction or published (so, authorised) work, then you can PPC the badfic. It's sometimes quiite... er... 'fun' to be the only agent working for a particular fandom.
In a few fandoms I'm the only one active (or was active). It may mean that you get fewer readers among other PPCers because they don't know the fandom, but you also get more room to experiment with PPC fanon for that fandom, because there are no other authors you have to keep up with.
Is having one of your Agents not know it at all, so that the other Agent can legitimately explain bits of it to them, and thus, to the reader.
(Agent Pads frequently drags Agent Trojie through fics in fandoms she has no idea of, so I know it can be done ^_^)
I suppose it doesn't matter to me how many PPCers read my missions - unlike fanfic, I do them entirely for my own fun. I was actually thinking more about how you can be the one to decide how the minis manifest or be the first to make observations about typical traits, or how you can drag anyone you like into the mission for sheer lack of other options - I wheedled Trojie into joining me for a Wicked mission even though that's entirely out of her norm just because I know no one else who'd even seen the play.
There's no official list of fandoms the PPC covers. The PPC covers anything that needs covering/that they have agents to work in.
The only pseudo-official fandoms are the ones that are so hugely popular that divisions have been created for them in the various departments, like LotR and HP, because they generate so much badfic. Most fandoms don't fall into this category, but that's not because they don't have badfic. It's just not so overwhelmingly common. {= P
Inversely, there are a few fandoms (Twilight, Eragon) that are hugely popular but that no agent will go near, simply because they can't distinguish between the badfic and the canon and can't be trusted not to kill canon characters. That's not to say that the PPC wouldn't cover them if they had people willing to do it, though.
Some fandoms, like Farscape, are lucky enough to have virtually no badfic. Some mediocrefic, but no badfic. I've looked, and I've never once seen any hint of a serious attempt to break up the canon romances, for example. Most of the fic on the Pit is filling-in-the-blanks or AU, with a few "canon adventures" for spice. It's astonishing. That said, if anyone ever does see Farscape badfic, please tell me. I will PPC it with vengeance.
So... yeah. It doesn't matter what fandom the badfic is in. If someone wants to PPC it, that's awesome.
~Neshomeh