Subject: *Puts a Hat on*
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Posted on: 2015-07-31 02:26:00 UTC
Hoom, hoom.
Activity: Do I know you? I think I should stop using this joke.
PPC knowledge: I have not spotted any lore-related blunders.
Fic to spork: I don't know PJO. However, I asked Ix, and her response was
"NOPE
NOPE
ALL OF MY NOPE"
so I assume it's a very bad badfic.
Writing ability (creative): Characters are good, VJ is especially entertaining; furthermore, I don't remember seeing an agent that cares less about badfic in the way you described VJ, so kudos for originality. The prompts flow nicely and the jokes are good (except the penis one in the profile, that's a bit immature, IMHO).
Writing ability (technical): Can I get a creaky door? No? Oh well.
-Your SPaG is still sub-par. There are tense shifts, missing words, missing plurals, instances of weird word order and so on. I recommend either getting a beta that speaks English as a first language or getting someone like Hieronymus Graubart (our resident Greybeard is an awesome beta — HG, you get this shiny medal!), because your current betas did not catch those errors.
-Your treatment of vulgarity confuses me. On one hand, you basically make a penis joke in Venus' profile. On the other hand, you censor 'sh*t'. And on the other other hand, shoving sticks up someone's arse is totally fine...? Only censoring some of the profanity is really weird and not terribly consistent, either. You need to choose one way and stick with it.
-There is a possible canon breach in your second prompt; to wit, William sends Greyback to Azkaban. That's fanon; the only time he could have been in Azkaban is post-Battle of Hogwarts, and there is no certain information about that time, so he might be dead, or on the run, or something.
So: while you have shown improvement in the characters department, your technical writing still requires work. I'm sorry, but Permission Denied.