Subject: Think about it this way.
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Posted on: 2014-05-16 15:19:00 UTC
The DIA are, for all intents and purposes, the police. And for the most part, you have the right to know the charges laid against you should the police be after you - obvious exceptions aside (if you've been arrested at the scene of a crime, say, or right after a pursuit or shootout or whatever) you're probably going to be told why you're being arrested.
Nobody has posted anything all day today. How odd. Maybe I'm the only one with no life at the moment. (He, he.)
Anyway, I have a question about the Department of Internal Affairs. I have been looking around the fiction for that Department, and I haven't caught any instances of reading charge lists to suspected rule breakers. I mean, obviously they can't do that very much in an invasion, but it got me wondering (since I have not read very many actual missions other than Mary Sue Invasions). Do agents of the DIA need to read off any charges? I am assuming that they don't, because I haven't found any in the one purely DIA mission I read, but as usual, I like to make sure.
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 Her definition of a Mary Sue is out of date now, but this is still an important foundational series.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. ^_~ )
You might want to drag out the anti-Lustin again... Nume might kinda sorta maybe have a little fangirl over here... >_>
And what hermione said- you're too modest. Seriously.
I remember you saying a while ago that you'd been working to move the locked-away 2008 Mary Sue Invasion writeups somewhere more accessible. How has that been going?
The trouble is that the rest of the site isn't done, and July doesn't want to make it public 'til it is. And now she's in Basic, and I'm not really comfortable messing with it without her around to give feedback (so I don't follow my instincts and take over the whole thing... >.> ), so we're stuck for a while. That, and Zeeblio is hellish to work with. It's a struggle. {X P
~Neshomeh
I'd thought that you'd just have the writeups moved to your archive site, especially since there are RP logs there already. I hadn't expected that there'd be a third archive site starting up. Good luck!
What all is going to go in the new Zeeblio archive? More lost spin-offs, all the RP write-ups, some of the other recoveries from locked Google Docs, or something of the sort?
Outhra, did you get my email?
Ah, the Original series.the piece De resistance. (My spell check will not let me spell that correctly!) I did in fact read the original series. I particularly liked "Why am I Here" and "Gwendolyn". The cheese thing was hilarious, and the nine Mary Sues is an excellent touch.
I have been meaning to read about Architeuthis. Maybe I will read her missions after we are done here.
Trojanhorse and Paddlebrains of the Department of Bad Slash! I read a few of their missions. They were fun.
Really? I changed my mind. I'm reading up on Suicide, Diocletian and Ithalund. Architeuthis can wait for a little while.
Thank you for the recommendations. I will get right on them (even though I have read some of your suggestions).
...to recommend her own missions. So I shall. I like Agents Supernumerary (Nume) and Ilraen, and my personal favorite is "Ring Child" a co-write with Tungsten Monk that involves Agent Suicide.
-n sense.
Yeah, it does seem like common sense.
The DIA are, for all intents and purposes, the police. And for the most part, you have the right to know the charges laid against you should the police be after you - obvious exceptions aside (if you've been arrested at the scene of a crime, say, or right after a pursuit or shootout or whatever) you're probably going to be told why you're being arrested.
Thank you for clarifying.
We're just doing it in the older threads, rather than making new ones. You might want to try joining in some of the conversations yourself, if you see something that interests you - this is a community, after all, not just a place to ask questions.
hS
I know. I just find it easier on me to separate the stuff that has to do with my subject. Maybe a little selfish-ish-ish (whatever that actually means) on my part.
You're not annoyed with me, I hope?
Though you could probably (no, definitely) have added this to your previous thread - you know, the next one down the Board.
But my point is, you've made 42-at-last-count posts on the front page of the Board. Only, uh, 5 of those are in threads you didn't start, and most of those five are trivially small comments (a 'Happy Birthday', for instance). By all means keep asking questions, but please, also get into the conversations. We're very fond of them around here, y'know.
hS
When the DIA is arresting a PPC agent, that's basically two (or more) canon characters interacting in their regular world.
When fighting invasive Sues, even though the Sues are invading another world, they're not doing so through a fanfiction story. Hence, there aren't crimes against the PPC setting, just the more mundane crime of attacking, and therefore no charges to officially read.