Subject: Hello and Welcome!
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Posted on: 2013-02-10 20:59:00 UTC
I have for you a Thermite flame-thrower, two boxes of Thin Mints, and a notepad with 'Keep Calm and Carry On' on the cover. Welcome to the PPC!
And Doctor Who is fan-TAS-tic. Glad to see another Whovian joining the fold!
Hi! My name is Jessica, Jess if you prefer, and it'll probably be a while before I write anything deemed good enough to present for Permission asking, but thought I'd introduce myself now.
My main fandoms are Sherlock (BBC and canon exclusively) with some Doctor Who and other assorted loveliness. I love pretty much everything Ireland-related, and am looking forward to (hopefully) becoming a Sue Slayer. That's pretty much it.
Have some lemming repellent, dear newbie, and welcome! I see you like Wholock. I just recently finished a Doctor Who marathon, so I'm really excited about... well, everything.
Lemming repellent? It sounds useful, but what is it?
Also, would you happen to be THE Lily Winterwood? As in MBSFA's Lily Winterwood?
A place so foul and sparkly that all those who enter risk their very sanity!
And I wasn't aware I had a twin. Who's been impersonating me?
(Just kidding, I am that particular Lily Winterwood, yes. Hello!)
*rolls away under bed, fangirling and giggling insanely*
Oi, I've got Mycroft's cake supply. Come out and have some.
*shuffles out*
Thank you, sensi. Your cake is most appreciated.
Well, Mycroft's cake actually, but details, details.
Shared fandoms! Yay!
Also, nice to meet you! Welcome! And sorry for being so late about this...I cite the extenuating circumstances of being on a five-day trip/vacation with no internet :)
So yes, welcome to the Board! Have some tasty Swiss Bleepolate, for when you need to get those nasty details off your mind! This bleeproduct distracts you with chocolate-y goodness while dulling horrific memories, and is often much sought-after by chocolate-addicted PPC agents who have just completed particularly bad missions. Also...*rummages through closet*, have a...thing. It was never described properly, so the most it's ever settled on is that it's small enough to be held in one hand. Occasionally, it can be convinced to turn shiny, and then be used to distract unwantedly-homicidal partners.
Ireland is fun. Do you live there, or just love it? Also, how and when did you discover the PPC?
~DawnFire
Since I would consider myself a chocolate addict, Swiss Bleepolate should prove delicious as well as useful. As for the thing, well... since I'm pretty sure that I know who my partner's going to be, an anti-homicidal object is most appreciated.
To answer your questions, I love Ireland, and don't live there unfortunately.
As to how I found PPC, one of the authors who wrote BSFA mentioned on her Tumblr that they got their standards for Mary Sues from you so I look you guys up, and it kind of snowballed.
- jlaurel
Oh, hey, you're a fellow chocolate addict? Fun.
Oh? Well, glad to hear I picked out good gifts. Should be interesting to meet this partner of yours once you have permission...
Ireland is pretty awesome, I've got to admit. I don't live there either, but I like a lot of the culture and suchlike.
BSFA?
Snowballing is fun :) So, as I hope you'll find, is the PPC. Welcome! (again...)
~DawnFire
BSFA and KNOTS are the "Baker Street FanFiction Academy" and "Modern Baker Street Fanfiction Academy". Kinda like OFUM, but for Sherlockians.
Ooh. That sounds AWESOME. You don't happen to have links, do you?
~DF
Sorry, not "KNOTS" (damn autocorrect). Meant to say "MBSFA"
That's what I get for not taking a close enough look at the original post...
~DF
Have some Swiss Chocolate and a bottle of Bleepka. You'll need them soon.
Thank you kindly for the Bleepka
...and is this Swiss Chocolate perhaps a Toblerone?
I've just started watching BBC Sherlock myself, and I'm a longtime Doctor Who fan.
For a welcoming gift, I offer you this replica of Caladbolg – it won’t cut the tops off hills (maybe molehills, but not actual hills), but it does leave a rainbow arc behind the blade when swung.
That... is beautiful
That.. is beautiful
Welcome to the Board, and enjoy the craziness.
As for your gift, hmmm...
Aha! Have a genuine Pokemon-verse bag of holding! Like the TARDIS, it is bigger on the inside than on the outside! Great for carrying your sundry PPC items!
A gift from teh Specs:
An Adventuring Sword!
With each new level, this sword transforms to match the style and morality of its wielder. Also makes a good carving knife in a pinch!
Welcome to the Board! Please have this Fluffy Wambler. Good luck in your future slaying of the Sues (especially the Doctor Who Sues)!
Welcome, welcome! Hmm... *searches through bag of random stuff* Ooh! Have this cardboard box full of packing peanuts! It's great for storage and playing! There might be a bit of old sticky hard candy hiding in there, though. Anyway, see you around the Board!
Have a bag of pebbles and a Random Shiny Object. Do hang around and get to know us, we love newbies. :D
Thank you for the Random Shint Object and are the pebbles for dropping on the heads of unsuspecting Sues?
Welcome to the Board! Have some of my hydrophobic water to commemorate the event. A litre a day keeps the Ultralisks at bay. Or not. I don't know. Maybe if you force-fed it...?
A Doctor Who fan, eh? Obligatory question: which incarnation of the Doctor is your favourite? I am a fan of his fourth form, though nine was fantastic as well.
Thank you for the welcome and the hydrophobic water.
As to your question...
Eeeeeeeee.... *slithers away grinch-style*hides under bed shamefully*
Unfortunately, in the face of true Whovians, I'm merely a poser. I've watched all of nine, most of ten, and smatterings of eleven.
Contact me again in a couple years and I'll be at least halfway out from under my bed.
...in having only watched New Who! It's a very well-made reboot of the series. I just so happen to like Four because of all the Classic Who films lying about at the local public library. Okay, and maybe his scarf of awesome.
Seriously, I want that scarf.
...even though I haven't actually seen much of Classic Who either. I have seen a bit, but...there's a lot of it. And it's a bit hard to find online, too. (I don't have the benefit of my library carrying Classic Who...at least, I don't *think* it does...
~DF
...I know they've put up a collection of Classic Who episodes. They're all four-part episodes and every Doctor from One to Seven (with heavy emphasis on Four) are featured.
*crawls out gratefully from under bed*
Ah good. It was getting rather cramped in there.
Greetings, new friend! Have a bull! He definitely isn't a former human who got trapped in the body of a bull while wizard's-dueling someone else!
I will ride my new non-former-human bull to school everyday. I think it will prove most useful.
We love newbies here! So leave your sanity at the door, and come on in!
As a welcome gift, have Luciano Berio's Coro: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ksFm2h6c7E
Thank you. I will hang your most beautiful gift on my wall.
Welcome to the Board, Jess! I be KittyNoodles, and as a welcome gift I have placed bleepnerds and one Odd Container* in your inventory!
*Odd Container
Item Level 1
Use: Open to receive one shower of confetti or one huggle - your choice.
[This container is perfectly spherical and appears to be made of glite-painted wood. Its weight changes at odd intervals, and you have the feeling opening this container may prove hazardous to your health...]
I will place the Odd Container upon my shelf most carefully.
But I am interested. What are these bleepnerds you speak of?
Ah well, best to save it for a rainy day, yes? :D
Excellent question! I like your investigative instincts! -is bricked for MLP reference-
Bleepnerds are a bleep-based candy created by SpecstacularSC. They're like Nerds, except they're made of Bleeprin and colored sugar instead of... whatever Nerds are made of. They come in glose, urple, and bleen and are wonderful for wiping out the memory of specific (and typically mind-scarring) events, much like all the other bleep-based products, which you can read about here.
And if you're confused about what glose, urple, and bleen are, they are Sue colors, and the Sue spectrum is listed and explained pretty thoroughly on this page.
That remind me for whatever reason, which missions have you read yet~?
So far, I'm still working on the Original Series. Do you reccommend any missions for after that? There seems to be TONS, so I'm a bit lost as to where to begin.
Also, thank you for these bleepnerds, now that I know what they are.
Going to the pages for your favorite continua, and reading the missions there. That's how I did it, at any rate. Happy reading!
After you've read missions for your favorites, branch into other continua that might interest you! (Also, give the less well-known departments a whirl, too, if you can. Like the DTE and DoI missions!)
Thanks!
Welcome to the board! Here is a lovely bottle of vintage Bleepka. You'll need it if you're hunting for Sherlock badfic.
Speaking of which, I love Sherlock too! I can't wait till they start up the BBC series again.
Myself as well.
And thank you for the vintage Bleepka. That, combined with my newly acquired Sue-deflating pen and flamethrower, and I have everything needed to slay Sue's.
Hello Jess (if you don't mind me calling you that, as I already know a Jessica, so this is less confusing for me). Do you have a family connection to Ireland? Any interesting traditions or stories? I know some of my paternal ancestors are probably from there in the C18th, but that's distant enough that there's no oral tradition or anything in the family.
I don't mind at all.
Unfortunately I don't. My only connection to there was my granddad who had an irish mother, but he passed away a while ago.
I have for you a Thermite flame-thrower, two boxes of Thin Mints, and a notepad with 'Keep Calm and Carry On' on the cover. Welcome to the PPC!
And Doctor Who is fan-TAS-tic. Glad to see another Whovian joining the fold!
The Thin Mints I will eat immediately, and the notebook shall be revered. The flamethrower I'm sure I can find some use for.
And glad to see that I've almost instantly found a fellow Whovian. Allons-y!
Such as myself, for instance!
(in case the name didn't give it away...)
Welcome to the madhouse - have a slightly psychic fish head. It's supposed to be able to communicate, but all I can get it to do is sing 'The Girl from Ipanema'...
Its a good song, so I gladly accept your slighty-psychic-fish-head. I'm gonna bring him to my school's karaoke night, and we'll duet.
Here, have a conical hat (made from tin foil!) and some muffins!
If you're looking to get Permission at some point, it's a good idea to read this: http://ppc.wikia.com/wiki/Permission
Since you're new, it might be a good idea to read the Newbie FAQ, found here: http://ppc.wikia.com/wiki/FAQ:ForNewbies
Also, please ensure that you've read the Constitution: https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=18hztHpDehxcfrjaXoFUew1vb0BdZPDAusHxMHzHiCzM (This bit is very important!)
On a side note, may I ask how you found us? It's always good to know where we get our newbies from!
I've read pretty much everything (constitution, how to get permission, etc). But since there's a lot to remember, I'm hoping to kind of get a feel for it by just being here.
Thank you for the canonical hat. I'll wear it when I'm writing fic and eat the muffins at the same time.
Its kind of a long story. In a nutshell, I found MBSFA and BSFA purely by accident, then when I was on one of the author's Tumblr accounts, they said they got their standards and rules on Mary Sue's from you guys, so I checked it out, and it kind of escalated from there. My friend and I are hoping (after a time) to become a Sue-slaying team. Like I said though, there's much to get familiarized with before we can properly proceed. Like reading the Original Series and hanging about the board and chatrooms.
Sorry. I have a bad habit of writing novels instead of short replies. "Summary" is not in my vocabulary.
As other Boarders have said, you don't have to work on Permission right away. We don't mind if you just enjoy the general craziness of the PPC for a while, and in fact it's encouraged to get to know people around here before you try for Permission.
I think you'll find that we're quite the friendly bunch. Some of us are also fans of Sherlock and Doctor Who, and I think there might even be some Irish folks around here somewhere. You'll have plenty of people to talk to, at any rate, and you might make some friends while you're at it.
That said, welcome a-Board!
*tips hat* Thank ye kindly, darlin'.
I met some of you guys in the chatroom already. A very friendly bunch. I look forward to the general insanity.
Just hang around and get involved with the general insanity. Permission's not that important, if you don't plan on writing for the PPC.
I do plan on writing, but have heard its best to wait a while before asking for permission. Thank you though!
Have a candy necklace and a poison pen! The latter can be used to inflate the egos of Sues and Stus.
*bows deeply* Thank you, wise sensi
;D not to worry. I knew what you meant
Is it frowned upon to use emoticons?
Unless you're using them constantly. ;) We're more likely to criticize bad spelling and grammar, just because it's hard to understand.
Anyhow, welcome, fellow Sherlock fan! Have a deerstalker!
Good to know then :)
And thank you. I will add it to my collection of all things sherlockian