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Nice mission. That fic was painful to read, and Kaguya, Urato and Momya were a pleasure to read about as always. Interesting development in Arare's case, though.

One typo:

"I don't know this canon, but this fic's use of language is painful. Has this fic ever heard of paragraphs? Dialogues by different speakers need to be on different paragraphs!"

Should be "dialogue".

--Ls

Now that the yukinbo has learned of all of the four's fears, they have a surprise waiting for them on their five-man mission into the Onmyōji continuum. Warning for disturbing sexual content in-fic, though the mission cuts off before explicit portion.

Merry Christmas, everyone!

Also hi yes I'm still here. Infrequently save for on Discord, but I'm still here!

"I hope I'm not too late."

She was dressed in an ill-fitting pumpkin costume, which looked as if it had been sown together from several unmatching shades of orange. Since no one had deigned to answer her, Mina sighed and headed for the turkey. Hopefully it would be at least edible this year.

--Ls

I used to give graduated cylinders when I was doing DMSE&R stuff, and then after we found the Circle of Lemmings, I started giving lemming repellent.

Make up whatever you want. It's not like anyone will be upset at what you give them.

--Ls

I want to be a good gifter and not just copy things other people get new members

The second part of the series in which I talk about the truckload of things I end up changing while working on such a big story as The World Without Authors is, and the reasons why, and what the early plans looked like. I hope it is interesting!

I suppose forbidding New Bloods from returning home, right from day one, is the inevitable evolution of the Sponsor program now that Gaunt is in power. Still, those are eleven-year-olds. There’s something especially heinous and twisted about Greengrass calling an eleven-year-old a “Chosen One” as part of the justification for keeping her from her family. It really condenses the mentality behind those who buy into the Mother Magic stuff: “We’re not like those Others; we’re Special and Above.”

Aha, I see that Tonks being a part of the Wheezes store is influencing some of the products to be more focused around modifying appearance! That’s a fun detail. (Unless all that stuff was canon and I just forgot about it, ha ha!) I wasn’t expecting Wheezes to be connected to the Muggle Potion-Drugs, though! If Gaunt’s Ministry is set on shutting the store down, they could easily use the Statute of Secrecy as an excuse to do so. Heck, I even wonder if leaking the potions was an intentional plan to do so? The twins have a lot of clean-up to do!

Ah, the Hallows are figuring into the plot at last! I guess even as “prime minister,” a man with Gaunt’s ambitions isn’t going to be happy until he’s made himself a super-wizard! And of course, the Hallows are all connected with VERY ancient houses, so possessing them would lend Gaunt even more social cred. But honestly, I’m more interested in Narcissa’s plans than Gaunt’s right now. She’s in an awful position, but she’s pulling on the protagonist gloves and working to solve the problems. I just . . . don’t have quite enough information to figure out what it is yet! I hope she and Harry will get to team up properly by the end of the year, and do something cool together!

—doctorlit isn’t falling for that Theo Nott red herring! He’s probably doing something completely innocent—oh wait. Just reread that section, and he’s totally on a mission from Gaunt to find the Slytherin locket and nab the Resurrection Stone, isn’t he? Whoops.

The fic was marked as complete a few days after the Discord ban; it was definitely written way before then, probably in 2021. If owosphere were still around, I might want to discuss this, but she isn't, so there's not anything we can do. Personally, I would find it kind of disrespectful for a current community member to publish to everyone a piece without Permission; but yeah, there's not anything to do at this point. And yeah, Permission certainly isn't perfect.

I haven't really read over the pieces, so I can't really comment there, I was more interested in bringing this to the attention of others, like me, who I assumed had no idea it existed. That's all.

--Ls

PS: My impression was that Suvians ruined the canon by warping its reality to be like their own, permanently. Could be wrong.

Very little is ever 100% confirmed, and we've deliberately tried to keep it that way. {= ) At its core, the PPC is a vehicle for making jokes about bad writing, and possibly doing some character development, analysis, and/or philosophy while we're at it. The more mysterious the Flowers are, the easier it is for individual writers to spork what they want to spork without having to justify themselves.

That said, if you're looking for hypotheses, you probably want to look at the science departments, PPC history stories, people's essays about the nature of Suvians, etc.

And then, if it doesn't work for you, come up with an opposing hypothesis! It'll be just as valid as anyone else's.

~Neshomeh

Permission works on the honor system. Presumably, people who are interested enough in the PPC to want to write a mission will respect us enough to go through the process or else not post. If someone decides they don't care whether we approve of their spin-off being posted, we have no actual power to stop them, and asking them politely to take it down is probably wasted effort, too.

And it isn't as though having Permission is a foolproof quality or tastefulness guarantee, either. We try, but historical missions exist. So, the best way to handle it is the same way we handle any spin-off we don't like, which is to ignore it. {= )

~Neshomeh

So glad I could provide a bit of relaxation. =) Thanks for reading and commenting!

Loki called himself Mr. Trixter in the Musical too, when he was doing an incognito thing around Suvians. I had forgotten this completely and was fully prepared to make up a last name for him. But I didn't have to. Thanks, past me!

Annabelle works hard to make cool babies. I can respect that, even if I don't respect her parenting choices.

/Ekwy, foaming at the mouth to write more

This is old news so I think some of you have probably seen it already, but I figured I'd make a post just to be sure.

TL;DR: Assume every password you have ever used at any point in time for a LiveJournal account of any sort has been compromised. If you currently use the same password or a similar one to one you used on LiveJournal for any account at any point, change that password immediately, if not sooner.

There were a few password breaches some time ago (if you have a Dreamwidth account or you signed up for haveibeenpwned you probably got a message about this—by the way, you should definitely sign up for haveibeenpwned if you haven't), and there is reason to believe that there could be more in the future. The bigger problem is that LiveJournal stored all passwords as plain text, and to the best of anyone's knowledge the still do.

Basically, assume Russian hackers have your LiveJournal password and adust security protocols accordingly.

Ooh, betrayal fics! I've always wondered why they're so common across so many different canons, haha. Anyways, welcome aboard! Hope you enjoy the stay. We're not as active perhaps as we were ten years ago or so, but we're still around for sure.

I think it’s important to note right off the gate that the Ao3 fic is a crosspost from Tumblr, where the original mission was published in October, and I think the Shifter interlude was finished earlier - just to clear up any mistaken takeaway that this was some kind of ‘revenge’ piece for the ban, because I don't think it possibly could be. It's two months of seperation.

Maybe this is just me, but I’m not sure I see too much of an issue with them existing anyways. It’s there, it doesn’t affect the community all that much, and at the end of the day Permission was just a quality and tone check, yeah? At least, it’s not some kind of hard boundary where we’ll go Anne Rice on anyone who writes without it, y’know? It's just 'unofficial.' I actually do remember reading this a while ago and really liking them, they felt like they fit tonally even with their unconventional angles and meta sections. The writing’s nice, the characters are neat, and I think it legitimately uses the setting better than anything i’ve written, so there’s that.

The ‘mission’ itself does kind of draw interesting attention to one of the implications of the in-universe PPC’s vow to protect All Canon, since that would apply to places like Gor as well. It raises questions I’ve tossed around myself every now and then, and i think at some point i might want to take an angle at it in one of my own spinoffs. I kind of like the idea that what the PPC does and what’s considered the morally better choice just isn’t always the same thing. Judgements being subjective and all that. Was never one for the 'we're Heroes fighting against the hordes of fanfic authors' tilt of a few older spinoffs anyway.

Also, the Shifter interlude’s ‘Hogwarts castle gets graffiti’d in trans flag colors’ bit is funny since I remember mentioning it in the Discord (i think possibly because I read the interlude when it first was drafted) and the idea was received positively, including a concept that a lot of agents would refuse to kill it or even consider it goodfic that strengthens the canon. (Something about it going against JKR’s terf-ish tendencies was also mentioned as an upside). Not as relevant as some other bits, but noteworthy enough, I feel.

And iirc the incident that got owosphere banned was an argument with a mod + a half dozen other server members at once around the Israel/Palestine war’s start. It felt heated and fast and the ban was rather sudden (it seemed to start with misunderstandings and end with a kick for not backing down?) so I’m not sure I can confidently say it was resolved perfectly.

(And on a related note, was it ever 100% confirmed in the setting what happens when a malicious Suvian sticks around canon for too long, or the consequences of it, or the exact reasoning the Flowers focus so much on preserving every canon’s purity in the first place? Was thinking about poking a bit at this myself but i never felt like i could find the sources i was looking for - the Original Series doesn’t go into infrastructure all that much)

Sorry for all the words haha, started drafting this way too far past midnight and I had a lot of thoughts about it.

-OrangeFox (trying to get another mission/interlude combo done before the new year because i finally have the time for it)

In my defense, I’ve been staying at my parents’ house, so it’s harder to be juggling tags on my phone than it would be on my desktop, and I’m just not as motivated to go searching for things as a result! But yeah, I guess I knew Nea’s surname, and just didn’t recognize it by itself . . . “Loki Trixter,” heh heh!

Agh, forgot Blessie’s mom was in the Musical! Still, though, she and Smaug? Like?

—doctorlit, not %100 yet

It's a unique gift I thought of, pretty cool huh?

Hi, hello, everyone and I'm sorry to bring this to your attention. So, this October, on the 9th, the user "owosphere" was banned from the PPC Discord for, and I quote, "terrorist apologia". I was not involved in this, and I do not remember seeing the messages owospehere was banned for.

Five days after this, on the 14th of October, owosphere completed this mission. She did not mention this mission, ever, on the board. She did not have Permission, (which the mission itself mentions) and AFAIK this was never mentioned in any official community space (no hits for the mission name on the Discord). The linked Permission attempt was posted a few days before this mission was initially posted to AO3 (it was initially on Tumblr? I guess?), in October of 2021.

So, uh, in conclusion, a former community member has posted a Permission-less mission. I don't know that we need to take any action, but, um, this exists, and I found it by searching the PPC tag on AO3. I figured this is something we should be aware of.

--Ls

EDIT: Oh, and I missed this piece, too.

EDIT AGAIN: I guess the first, Harry Potter piece was mentioned on the Discord? Very briefly. And never on the Board.

It's been a nice reprieve at the end of a very long workday; something about your writing has always felt relaxing, even when it's dealing with deep or dangerous subjects.

To echo what many others have said: I know nothing about Psychonauts, and that wasn't a problem in the slightest. ^_^

hS