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You may notice that my missions so far have had no failures. This is because:

1. Adding failed missions would overly complicate the plot and compromise the tone for stories meant to be light-hearted. This is also why I don't intend to kill off (especially Hazama clan members; killing them would flat-out lead to plot holes) or irreversibly mentally break any of my agents either.
2. The main conflict is not agents vs. badfics. It's agents vs. each other and agents vs. their wacky life in the PPC. Those areas are where I put conflict and failures in.

Do note me if there's anything wrong with this set-up.

I think you made a typo in saying "the preference for romantic love uber alles", because I'm not sure what that means.

--Ls probably won't be using the concept of amatonormativity, unless as a trivia question

And, frankly, you don't need to shoehorn a relationship in just to have one.

--Ls, agreeing with Nesh and Lily

Female characters honestly get shafted in all sorts of ways, including very often being written solely as romantic lovers or love interests with nothing else going on in their lives. The world loses nothing by having more female characters fulfilled by friendships and activities, without needing to be/do anything else in order to be worthy.

And that goes for real women, too. {= )

~Neshomeh

And honestly older writers, too--we all have these moments of doubt regarding the reception of our work. But I can say for sure that writing for yourself and what you want to see will always make for better writing than writing for the opinions of other people.

Honestly, sometimes I doubt my own writing, which is why I regularly check in with the comm to make sure my writing doesn't violate the general spirit. Do stop me if I come off as repetitive or attention-seeking.

Characters develop relationships organically as you continue writing them into situations. I know I didn't start out intending to put my Agents together; they just kinda fell into it after a while. And amatonormativity--the preference for romantic love uber alles, and how everyone's expected to fall in romantic love and place romantic relationships above all others--is equally worth "protesting", especially in fanfiction spaces. ;)

especially in fanfic, so I impose this rule as a kind of protest.

And why only for female characters?

~Neshomeh

I impose a personal rule that any and every female character that I'm currently writing must, without exception, eventually have a permanent love interest. However, I'm very stuck on who should be coupled up with Helena, and I don't plan on creating an entirely new character as a love interest for her. Boarders who have read the Fairy Godfathers spin-off, who do you think has the most romantic chemistry with her?

Since everything is hard-coded into it, all you have to do is reverse-engineer the choices of background and character customization the author did. However, for comics in general I assume the "describe through narration" trick is the most suited, and to be fair since the Words would likely appear as a comic page we could also have PPC Agents being forced (for SEP field effectiveness or just "The Flowers will nag us if we don't") to constantly move out of frame to not affect the fancomic until the kill time comes, of course it being played for comedy.

Likewise, the Words for a fan animation or fan film would be the video feed - but it would likely be silent, forcing PPC Agents to track down the original video on their own devices and have to rewind and fast forward to take notes. Not good for their sanity, but good for our laughs.

Relatedly, I did the opposite once - I did a mission in comic form, though the fanfiction sporked was a regular text one. It was kind of a special for the 15th anniversary of me publishing stories online, as the mission is basically a remake of one I originally did in regular text format.

One example that comes to mind is Iximaz, who sporked a comic by showing panels where fic excerpts often went for an Avatar: the Last Airbender comic I don't remember the name of.

An alternative route, funnily enough, can be seen in my last mission finished a month back. There, I just described the panels in narration because while the Atla comic was digitally published and could provide high-quality screenshots, the comic I sporked was a terrible one I made when I was ten, drawn on a sheet of paper with art quality so awful that using Ix's method wasn't an option for me. I had to take a photo of the paper and it just didn't come out all that well.

I've never seen one done to a fanfilm, though it definitely sounds like something that could reasonably fall under the PPC style, considering its inspiration from Mystery Science Theater and its movie-sporking tendencies. I know something similar was discussed on the Board with the possibility of sporking a Gacha Life 'fic,' though nothing came out of it.

Hope this helps!

Have there been any instances of agents in the PPC taking on fan works that weren't written? For example, comics (i.e. It's (Not) Your Fault) or fan films (i.e. Spider-Man Lotus).

Nothing good is going to come of Draco grabbing a sample of Draught of Living Death, especially since he hasn’t been tasked with assassinating Dumbledore in this timeline.
Oho.

I just hope the Sectumsempra spell isn’t there in this timeline, or that Harry doesn’t run into it, or never gets put in a position to try it.
Ohoho.

I guess someone’s trying to sabotage Gryffindor this year? Or maybe specifically the Gryffindor Quidditch team?
Ohohoho.

I'm glad you liked the house-elf shenanigans :D And yes, Astoria is such a wet cat right now. Poor pathetic little meow meow with her ill-advised crush... It is like a plot from a badfic, isn't it?

You make a good point about Gaunt Snr. being so obsessed with reclaiming the manor like Sauron reclaiming the Ring! I'd argue he's a bit more Gollumy, but y'know.

Read on to see more maidenly shenanigans ;) (I laughed so hard at that joke tbh)

Harry and Draco deal with the consequences of their kiss in the Forbidden Forest.

MASSIVE BL10/11 warning for Harry's nightmares in this chapter, plus warnings for self-harm, blood, indoctrination, physical (and sexualised) assault, body-shaming and ableism, and allusions to date rape (what Merope did to Tom Riddle Snr) and child marriage. Please check the pre-chapter notes for more details!

I've planned this pottersues tribute project for a while and after discovering that pottersues has started posting again, I finally went through with it. Say hello to Disney Sues, the DW community dedicated to reviewing Suefics in Disney fandoms. Those with DW accounts and knowledge on Disney works can feel free to join up and post.

In a record burst of productivity, I've managed to finish up another dual feature!

The first story in drafts is a 10k word first mission for a new ESAS spinoff into Where the Red Fern Grows, canon knowledge hopefully not that necessary in the grand scheme of things. It's set in early 2024 for timeline reasons, because I'm hoping to tie this into an interesting bit of older PPC worldbuilding I found while binge-reading the backlogs one night. I'm just hoping I managed to make this new dynamic distinguishable from others I've done in the past.

The second is a small, long-delayed DIA piece, standing at 12k words and featuring a bunch of assorted one-off characters brought back just for this. No canon knowledge needed at all, except for the PPC in general and for, like, maybe one reference.

As usual, I can be contacted through the Discord or my email, though I'm more likely to respond to the former.

We don't get too many visitors these days, and even fewer who stick around, so it's nice to see new faces! I'm afraid my stash of symbolic virtual gifts is lacking at the moment, but I do hope you enjoy your time!

I would like to repeat that I got too many cutouts

Wow, what an insufferable little punk! Bold of him to call Kaguya “infuriating,” when he’s the one joining a club for the first time and chewing out the long-standing members. I don’t know if Kaguya will ever meet this club president again, but he can rest assured that his experience as de facto leader of this quartet of agents, and assassin of Suvians, has developed in him the will and leadership to satisfy that stuck-up president’s arbitrary requirements.

—doctorlit is impressed Kaguya had the self control to give such a polite reply to such an unkind speech