Subject: Seconded.
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Posted on: 2009-08-21 23:51:00 UTC
Though I've never minded about PPCing a deleted fic, myself, asking is probably the most polite thing to do.
~Neshomeh
Subject: Seconded.
Author:
Posted on: 2009-08-21 23:51:00 UTC
Though I've never minded about PPCing a deleted fic, myself, asking is probably the most polite thing to do.
~Neshomeh
Remember the Redwall badfic I reported not too long ago? Well, the author realized how bad it was and took it down. Would I make a bad sport of myself if I did a mission for it anyway?
I figure if they're taking it down because they realized how awful it was, it might amuse them to see it immortalized and lambasted. Or it might be horribly embarrassing. Either way, it makes the most sense to just ask.
If I realised my story was horrible and took it down for shame, I wouldn't take seeing it parodied very well. Maybe a few years later, with enough distance to laugh, but at this stage I'd just be hurt - even to be asked.
Though I've never minded about PPCing a deleted fic, myself, asking is probably the most polite thing to do.
~Neshomeh
If it's been deleted, it presumably can't have any effect on the canon any more, so my instinct would be to leave it be.
Of course, if you'd published your mission of it and then it had been taken down, you could pat yourself on the back for a job well done, because your agents had clearly done such a good job the fic was totally removed from the multiverse.
I always make a copy of the fic if I intend to do a mission. That way I don't have to go back to the fic every time I need a quote.
I usually don't do missions of deleted fic. Only twice so far, and in both cases I found out the fic was deleted after I had finished the mission. Other than that, there doesn't seem to be much point to do a mission for a deleted fic.
I faintly remember a mission in which the agents were endangered because the fic was being deleted - was that The Original Series? - but I think that ought to be the exception. Up to you, and no one would blame you for it, I think, but in your position, I'd leave it be.