Hiyas! Peeking in here, mostly.

I'm old enough to have been on the MST3K Usenet groups in their peak. Good to see the occasional more direct homage to it here, as well as the general spirit of concrit with a generous helping of snark.

Personally, I like how the MSTs use the entire fic. Quote the whole fic and let the reader play along instead of having to consult the raw text on their own to really get the flavor.

I'm not into much of the continuums in the current Unclaimed Badfic list. I tend toward several current TV fandoms. Haven't been into anime since lion Voltron and Sailor Moon in the 80's.

I play computer games, but most do not have the sort of fleshed-out characters that a Mary Sue can screw with, literally and figuratively. The closest I get to a video game franchise these days is any of the LEGO games based on hit films. (And I got the LotR one in part so that I wouldn't have to slog through the dense Mid-E histories and other stuff that you'd pretty much have to have been born and raised there to get.)

I have had Nintendo consoles, just not in the past few years, so I know some of Mario and Link.

Actually, the real reason I am here is that, after coming to you through TVtropes (not through the Cupcakes page as with Artemis below, but some other mention) is wondering what would Agents make of my current super-fave, fangirl-glee, wow-I-am-a-shipper continuum:

Welcome to Night Vale. :-D

Consider:

-- A continuum new enough that agents might recon it just to get a bead on what is "normal."

-- Timey-wimey shenanigans that would give even a TimeLord headaches, and mess with Agent's Chronometers.

-- Plenty of weirdness about so that many of the common crazy ideas in fanfic seem actually plausible. (Canonical non-human MPreg!)

-- This also makes it crossover bait: What would (insert char here) make of Night Vale?

-- Even has MiB types running around, which makes this one canon that might maintain knowledge of the PPC because those agents might also know the neuralyser trick.

-- Also, I think that Carlos, being an outsider getting to know Night Vale, might spot bewildered Agents a mile away. Maybe he wouldn't see through the disguises as he is canon, but he'd notice they were not from around here, and not the usual government type.

-- An evolving storyline that can just as easily make obsolete as confirm fan speculations, with no off-season to catch up, updating twice a month like clockwork.

-- Canon that creates bit players seemingly just for the funny, but then comes back and uses some of the more interesting ones for larger stories.

-- One OTP to mess with.

-- And, best or worst of all, depending on your perspective, it is a magnet for a demographic notorious for badfic: Prepubescent girls! Most podcasts skew to the guys, but some elements in WtNV attract the girls.

I am with Karen and the others in looking forward to badfic in Night Vale with both dread and morbid fascination.

So, I may be lurking much of the time until there's a fic in something I do get into.