Subject: You... should really read actual missions, you know.
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Posted on: 2014-05-16 15:41:00 UTC
If you're just reading invasion stuff... need I explain why this is concerning to me at this point? Lemme skip that and get straight to my recommendations for missions to read that should give you a real idea of the PPC:
* Jay and Acacia - Duh. If you haven't finished the Original Series yet, make it a priority!
* Caitlin and Sidh - This is just a one-off, but I think it introduces the PPC really well, has excellent characterization, and is overall high quality writing. I wish they'd written more.
* Architeuthis - The original Department of Intelligence series. Her definition of a Mary Sue is out of date now, but this is still an important foundational series.
* Nenya and Rosie - The Jay and Acacia Kooky Spin-Off Nerd Society. Of particular inspiration to me is the FicPsych chapter.
* Mara and Isaiah - The Department of Technical Errors. Excellent and foundational. Araeph is a real-life editor, so you can't go wrong taking cues from her.
* Trojanhorse and Paddlebrains - Department of Bad Slash. Absolutely hilarious. Takes an under-appreciated department and owns it in a way few others have managed before or since.
* Dafydd and Selene (and Constance) - Department of Geographical Aberrations. This is how you start if you want to work your way up to tackling Legendary Badfics and big, sweeping plots.
* Suicide, Diocletian, and Ithalond - Tungsten Monk is quite simply one of the funniest people I know. Also, she's a real-life published author now.
I could go on at length with this (and include some more recent writers), but those are, in my opinion, some of the most historically important spin-offs as well as the best-written. If you read nothing else, you could do a lot worse and no better than reading those.
~Neshomeh
P.S. I'm obviously rather partial to my own work, too. Supernumerary even had a real fangirl for a while. (She got better. ^_~ )