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This is going to be fun. :)

This show has changed so much since its first season - it went from a wacky comedy of bizarre filler episodes with a few hints at deeper intruigue mixed in to a plot-heavy drama about the conflicts of different forces in this magical world, centered around themes like coming of age, navigating responsibility and attempting to come to terms with the injustices of the past and the deep-seated prejudices of the present.

How do you generally keep track of the temperature? Do you use a thermometer, or do you just have a good feel for when the water is about right?

Be sure you are using the correct temperature for whatever tea you are brewing. If it is a fruit tea you have to take note of what tea makes up the base. If the temperature is too low, flavor isn't well developed, and if it's too hot, the leaves get damaged. A good guideline is 70 to 80 C for green tea; 80 to 90 C for Oolong if you brew the western way (rolls eyes), about 85 to 95 the Chinese (real) way; and 100 C for red tea. Some sources online may cite slightly different values but this is just a general rule of thumb. Each tea is different.

P.S. I'm joking about the real/fake thing.

Here, have a return cupcake. It's chocolate with chocolate chips and chocolate icing!

"A Mighty Demon Slayer Grooms Some Ponies" was a good one. I say was because the author dropped the ball at the end and had to delete the chapter. What's still there is worth a look.

Then there's the "Pony POV Series" which has the previous generations in the backstory... but it might take a while to get to. The story is also worth a read, even if it's also quite long.

Let me know what you think and I can point you in the right direction.

Here ya go, there's my thing. I probably took way too long and this thread'll probably be swept away into nothingness soon enough but HERE SHE IS KIDS.

Another Boarder I will be able to roast for being a pom! Brilliant!

Ix is moving up in the world. Good bloody on ya, mate! And good luck with all that study stuff!

I give unto you a Neon Genesis Evangelion reference:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyFQVZ2h0V8

I'm guessing this is a link hub to the completed stories? In which case, gorgeous! If not... still gorgeous. =]

Prompts are noncanon, unless the author states otherwise. So you can write without permission.

It is not always the best-written of series, having its share of ridiculous plot points, inconsistencies, and uninspiring prose (especially in the latter half of the series, which is mostly ghostwritten), and there were definitely points in my reading journey where I questioned why I was even bothering.

I think its biggest flaw for me is that it suffers from a tendency to bring up interesting things - pieces of worldbuilding, perhaps, or overarching ideas about morality - and then fail to make full use of them or explore them further in any depth. On the other hand, this means that there are some interesting ideas explored, and I found the series overall engaging.

In the end, despite many flaws which are much more evident to me now than they were the first time I encountered the books, I personally am happy with my decision to revisit them.

...I'm currently in the process of cross-posting all of my PPC missions and interludes to AO3 now, since I don't want to see them accidentally deleted due to some freak accident or something. Once I've put up all my past writings there, I'll post new missions both here and on my AO3 account concurrently from that point forward. Some of my past missions have even been updated and improved a little during the cross-posting process, so if you want to read the newest, bestest versions of them, my AO3 page is where it's at! :D

https://archiveofourown.org/users/SkarmorySilver/works

I've been around since July of 2014, I believe, and may have been reading PPC works for longer than that - I don't know when I started but I apparently won't stop anytime soon. My personal definition is that the attendance range for newbies is about one to two years, middlebies would've been here from three or so years to around six or seven, and anybody who's been around longer is an oldbie. I guess the definition is highly subjective, though, so if you guys feel I'm an oldbie by chronological association (I joined not long after Iximaz posted their first mission, and they've been given the oldbie hat IIRC), then I suppose I can roll with it.

At any rate, I've been online since 2007, which was way back during my early days in college, so at the time I was just an innocent little... well... one of how many non-canon Skarmory pre-evolutions the Internet has produced. I say this because the first fandom I ever produced artwork for was Pokémon (which still is my biggest fandom today), and fanmade Pokémon specifically where why I joined DeviantArt in the first place - I'd seen some very good "fakemon" artists on dA and thought I'd give it a try. I think I've explained my online history since then a few times before, but I gradually expanded to other fandoms including various movies, books, TV shows, manga and anime, and even certain kinks!

Looking back, getting sucked into fandom at such a young age was both a blessing and a curse, since it allowed me to find friends and common interests at a much faster pace than college life ever could, but at the same time my skin hadn't yet turned to steel, so to speak. That left me woefully unprepared for the harsh lessons of social interactions online - and believe me, I did get in trouble multiple times both online and off for being a selfish egotistic little bugger, and I have no excuse for those actions. If there's one good thing that's come out of it, though, it's the personality equivalent of Skarmory's Silver Pokedex entry: "After nesting in bramble bushes, the wings of its chicks grow hard from scratches by thorns." In other words, the drama I'd accidentally caused and the humiliation I was rightly subjected to in retaliation caused me to wise up and begin to make honest efforts to become a better person. I think my family recognized this as well and the various social events and interactions they chucked me into during my graduate period helped me grow up just as much as my online interactions did. Of course, I do still make slip-ups every now and then, but at the end of the day I also have a better idea of working with how people think and feel.

Be that as it may, though, it should be obvious why I comprehensively disemboweled the one and only badfic I ever managed to complete for my first mission - it had always been my intent to spork it for my first outing even before I joined the PPC, let alone getting Permission. I understand that it was probably not the smartest move in hindsight and that there were plenty of safer alternatives to use as a jumping off point, but there was a lot of emotional baggage associated with that fic, so from my standpoint, I guess missioning it and exploring the legacy of said mission was the only possible way I could cope. It's kinda sad that I haven't been able to pick up that level of investment for any mission I've written since then, but I've already made it this far with my characters and I've got quite a few plans as to where they'll go in the future. I just need to find the motivation as well as the time away from Real Life things (and many, many other personal projects!) to return to PPC stuff, and hopefully interacting with you guys should help restore that motivation.

If you want to get to know me in other places aside from the PPC and the Discord, my DeviantArt and Tumblr handle are both SkarmorySilver. I had a Twitter for a short while but it's DOA, and while I do have both a Spotify, YouTube, and SoundCloud, those are largely for faving and consuming media content rather than producing them, so dA and Tumblr are your best bets. I've also shared my Gmail around here before (once again, it's the same handle as my PPC account) if you want to check me out on Hangouts, and though I don't use that as often as Discord nowadays, I may drop in every so often to check how some of my chatroom buddies are doing.

Tl;dr, I talk way too much, have feathers made of knives, and am far too busy with Real Life right now to do much else. Yeah, that's me. Ask me stuff! :D

*ba-dum tish*

While the vast majority of the replies are related to the PPC universe one way or another, you could also write something that is not connected to the PPC as well. Personally I'd recommend keeping it to a canon well known enough for other people to recognise it for giving concrit, but you can do anything you want, so long as its inspired by the prompts.

Are these prompts meant to be just for the PPC universe, or could one write/post something inspired by the prompt but entirely unrelated to the PPC?

Thanks!

Just want to say I'm glad to hear of you again. I'm sorry real life is keeping you away, but I hope you're doing well and keeping fed and all that. Keep yourself safe and healthy, okay?

—doctorlit, caring long distance

It's been about a decade, I think. Although I certainly hope no one is feeling intimidated by me, as I'm hardly even a person.

So hi. I'm doctorlit. I am a workaholic with a psychological need to feel busy. I have little to no emotional spectrum to speak of (unless a hose gets kinked around me, in which case the Rage Glasses go on). I have difficulty understanding the emotions of others, and can barely tell people apart unless I've been around them constantly for months. I strongly believe in depriving myself of fun time unless I've run out of work to do, and am secretly obsessed with living forever.

I'm really stingy with money, even though I don't really need to be. Even so, I've amassed a large chunk of tv shows, books and games in my condo that I almost never touch, due to the previously mentioned fun deprivation, and a very time-eating zookeeper job at an understaffed zoo.

I have a large and complex spin-off planned in my head that weaves the stories of multiple characters together, but I'm also a perfectionist, so i write so slowly that I doubt I'll ever get it all written out before I die.

I don't really know what else to say about me. I eat, sleep, and job, and sometimes I do hobby work in between.

—doctorlit, or whatever there is of him

Oh my gosh! I almost can't believe we actually have our Permission now. Just... gods, it's been six months of us working together. Six months on one pair! Granted, most of it was waiting around for beta replies, but still... just... gods.

So happy.