A mouthful of answers.

A Handful of Questions by sjosten on 2014-03-21 17:05:00 UTC Reply

After a week long seminar, I have finally had a chance to return to the boards! Over the last few days, I have come up with a few questions.

1: How exactly does one claim a badfic? Do we have to post a message about it, or do we just move it to the list of claimed badfic on the wiki? Or maybe something else entirely?

2: What is the preferable way to post PPC stories? I've seen people use google docs, fanfiction.net, and a number of other sites in the past. Since the PPC has been around for some time now, have we found one place that is better/easier to post stories on, or is it just a personal preference kind of thing?

3: What do people use to make those little sprite image things we use as to demonstrate how the agents look on the wiki?

Thanks in advance to anyone who gives me a hand with these.

Good thing I stick around by Dark Brother 16 on 2014-03-22 06:42:00 UTC Reply

Thanks for asking these questions. I'm new here and I need to know these things too. Saves me some trouble asking everyone myself.
A mouthful of answers. by Huinesoron on 2014-03-21 17:21:00 UTC Reply

1/ There's no actual formal way of claiming a badfic - if you write a mission about it, it's yours, whatever you have or haven't done. That said, if it's on the Unclaimed list, moving it to Claimed will stop anyone else trying to do the same mission (question, people: does anyone actually use the Unclaimed list? I don't think I ever have). You don't need to post here about it, though - 'claiming' is only important in that it means you've chosen something to write a mission for; it has no inherent value.

2/ Not fanfiction.net! Seriously, they have a habit of taking missions down. Google Docs are popular right now for hosting the actual text, though of course they don't make for memorable site addresses. Livejournal is always an option, and (for example) sjostenppc.livejournal.com is easy to remember. You can also make your own website - I use Webs.com, Neshomeh prefers Tripod for some unearthly reason.

It basically depends what you want. If you're happy for your missions to only be reachable via the Wiki, post them in Google Docs. If you prefer to have your own website, either all for the PPC or just in part, make one - and then link to the missions in Google Docs anyway. ;)

3/ Most of them use TekTek Dream Avatar. It's quite versatile, and the 'bold, flat colours' aesthetic makes it easy to edit in the image software of your choice if you need to make tweaks.

hS

I use Tumblr. by Lily Winterwood on 2014-03-23 14:13:00 UTC Reply

The formatting might be limited, but it serves me well, and has the ljcut feature (but called a read more).
Thank You, That Was Very Helpful (nm) by sjosten on 2014-03-22 16:23:00 UTC Reply