Telling me to my face that they are made of pure "what the" is fine. I was aware of this when I started, (if the names are enough of a hint,) and even my current projects in that world are building off of ridiculous.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2465079/1/Self-Insert-Authoress-Tripe

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6639591/1/Self-Indulgent-Authoress-Tripe


I may never write the actual mission, but build off of this rough outline.

Hillary is confronted for the My Little Pony crossover that I haven't finished yet. The characters know that if she dies, they lose the world that they're in and default to their last moments, so they argue to let her continue. In exchange for keeping my playground, my avatar fills out some paperwork about my Mary-Sues. (That fandom's definition, not so much the board's definition since I was trying to write anti-Sues.)

Samantha and Elizabeth are the two that I want to recruit. No one volunteered to spork the one Elizabeth came from, so I'm taking it. (Elizabeth won't become an agent, but get some job within the PPC. I basically want to throw those two together so they can have an argument.)

Two are completely flat plot-device contrivances from abandoned stories and can be killed before they cause trouble. One is in another story that I want to spork, possibly with help. There is one more, but the non-canonical son isn't really damaging the story or being a Stu.

For one thing, it's probably unnecessary. I don't think any of us would knowingly PPC something another Boarder wrote without specifically being asked to do it. Deliberately making enemies in the community would be dumb.

On the other hand, why are you posting these things in public if you think they're stupid enough to be sporkable? If you don't want negative feedback, the smart thing to do would be to leave them safely sequestered on your hard drive.

~Neshomeh

You want to claim your old badfics, so that they are not PPC’ed by anybody else before you find the time to do it, and you don’t want your claim to be removed at the next clean-up action.

Maybe you can just add a note, saying "claimed by author, please don’t remove".

But be aware that somebody may take an extra-critical look on these fics when you don't respond to a question whether you still intend to do this. Claiming something permanently so that it never can be sporked doesn’t work. :evil grin:

HG

I haven't seen a formal term for it other than Tenth Walker, but tag-along seems reasonable to me.

Sometimes other agents adopt them. Otherwise, it's assumed someone is running an adoption centre.

I don't see any reason they would make copies of their reports for other departments. It only matters that the mission got done.

If another department wanted to see the report, they could probably get a copy, but I think that would only be in extreme cases. Like, "I want a copy of that report because I heard they blew up an entire fleet of Daleks with a bottle-rocket, and I don't believe it."

Contacting other departments in an official capacity is usually just asking for back-up or advice. Floaters is probably less likely to ask another department for help than most, however. They should be able to get back-up from within Floaters, due to the diverse nature of the department.

-Phobos

No one knows what happens between Intel and the consoles. And I kinda feel like that is part of the joke.

How does a mission show up exactly when someone lays down for a nap? Who knows? It's funny when it does, and that's the important thing.

Is there someone in Intel you can bribe to get something you want? Probably! Is it going to get you what you want? Probably not! And that's funny.


I guess what I'm saying is, don't worry so much about the "How" of of things in the PPC. Think more about the "Why". And here is a hint, the "Why" is usually "because it's funny".

-Phobos