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It was good. I just... have no idea what to say about it.

There was one where Hobbits were trying to buy chocolate... was that also the one with the letter?

There was a story where the LOTR cast was almost poisoned by drinking soda. The tool hurt Gollum.

There was a recruitment story where a super-soldier fell out of a half-written story...

There was one where Pinkie Pie was breaking the forth wall too much so the agents drugged her and had the agent stand-in for her remaining part of the story...

There was another MLP where Cadence was possessed and would have killed the agent except the sue-wraith just wanted to make him suffer before letting him go.

There's the one about the Cafeteria workers stealing drugged tater tots from an RC.

There was one where the agent didn't have enough faith in the exorcism ritual so it backfired.

There was one where the agents gave a cannon a manicure.

I was thinking that New Caledonia had some shops, but I guess that's only for weapons, poison, and general goods? Maybe I read about the Rook and Pawn somewhere else.

This was a weird idea that I don't think I saw in the PPC... I imagined that while it's not a full vacation, the agents could get a few hours off to go shopping in whatever unremarkable paperback they want.

I guess I'd better brush up more on my knowledge.

Please have a pot of black-hole coffee. Did you read the Constitution and the Original Series? Did you have the occasion of visiting the wiki too? And last thing, if you read spin-offs, what are your favorites ones?

And now all the questions I could think about are asked, let me wish you welcome here to the PPC. Hope you'll like it and stick around.

Although I'd potentially expand/change it a little to

"Your characters finds/uses something antique"

So then it can be applied in a wider range of situations, especially seeing as IIRC the HQ doesn't have a thrift shop or anything like that really.

Thanks for that (and hello)

Novastorme

It's Pelipper.

Testing a few teams at the moment. One of them has no business being as effective as it is, but it is certainly a fun team to play with

Well, I'm not really a part of any Fan communities... What I've heard of Steven Universe and what I've briefly seen of Supernatural is a bit nutty.

I'm a casual watcher. I've been watching House lately. I watched some Doctor Who last fall but got kinda bored with Billy's arc. 10 and 11 were better. I'm kinda into Big Bang Theory.

I like Name of the Wind but last I heard the third book isn't out a decade after the second book was published. Kvothe is kinda sueish, but that might be some embellishment because he's telling his own story. The next time I pick up a book, it's probably going to be The Familiar Dragon trilogy.

I haven't watched all of them, but Gravity Falls, Steven Universe, and Star VS are cool. I also watch My Little Pony but while the analysis vids are interesting, I'm not in love with the show.

What are your fandoms, BTW?

How about a story where they go to a thrift store or antiquing? Has it been done yet?

Hello.

Hey. I know I'm a day late with the prompt, but I've just been busy this week at work, so I haven't had time to really think one up. If one of you wants to create a prompt for this week, go ahead. I'll be back to normal in two weeks time.

I'm not sure which one is going to drag the other into a social space that currently contains Vulkan, though. Shipfic!Ix seems the likeliest of the two. Maybe tell Corax there's a stage where he can be utterly ignored while reading his latest giga-dark poetry? *g*

~Neshomeh

"Strip trivia!"

Ix and the Ixcubus both glared at the Succubix. She seemed unashamed.

"Winner gets to cuddle Aegis first?"

"And by winner," the Ixcubus said, "you mean 'first person to get their clothes off', right?"

Ix themself had a mean arm and an eye to win- their pants took the Ixcubus in the head, followed closely by a well-thrown boot to the Succubix's face. "Mine."

I know it was nominated in the previous Legendary discussion, and everything said there still applies. But I also want to toss in another fic by the same author. This one was a Naruto Legendary.

Chunin Exam Day seems like a pretty good candidate. Published between 2007 and 2010 and still heavily referenced on various sites within the last year, it fits all the qualifications for a Legendary.

As for the fic itself: Naruto gets stuck in a Groundhog Day loop and quickly uses it to start winning over (romantically) all the ladies with massages and simple gifts. This includes adult women. He also uses it to make himself incredibly overpowered. All good characterization is tossed out the window immediately so Author tracts can begin, and the fic is just awful.

The Tropes page, with a link to the fic:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanFic/ChuninExamDay

PKH is one of the few badfics I read waaaay before joining the PPC. It's... it is a riiiiide, folks.

...one of the angsty lovers (most likely me) dies, leaving the other to angst further over the death of their beloved.

SPaG is generally very good, actually. Formatting isn't bad either, though it suffers when it comes to exposition tangents. Or just regular tangents. However, he has a very distinctive (and, eventually, extremely annoying) writing style, exposition *everywhere*, thesaurus abuse, barely shows anything...

As for plot...while he has a surprisingly good grasp on his million and one details (though there are definitely continuity slips in a bunch of places to go along with the times when he put something in twenty chapters earlier only to bring it back), his villains look incompetent and stupid when he claims they're not. What else...He does have some plot points that go nowhere, he--ah. That's the one.

He very, very much plays favorites. His main characters don't have anything bad stick to them. They get miraculous escapes. They get magical improvement upon magical improvement, not to mention stuff upon stuff upon stuff. There's protagonist centered morality, the mains end up looking a good deal more awful than he seems to have intended, and while this is very firmly an AU, his reading comprehension of Rowling's books...doesn't seem to have been the best. This last ranges from small details (apparently forgetting Ted Tonks is not a pureblood) to larger ones (...not even going to start with that).

He also drops in crossovers everywhere, there's a ton of author tract, and he has no sense of moderation. At all. This is apparent in Wonderland scenes, in Harry and company getting more and more and more stuff, in tricking Dumbledore into stupid ideas, in...look, in just about everything. Subtlety, knowing where to stop before something just gets unbelievable or annoying or ridiculous--there's very little sign of it.

This all makes, of course, for a frequently hilarious or just plain *weird* fic, but it's not good writing.

~Z

I've seen this thing mentioned around a few places, and... wow. Just wow. It definitely qualifies as bad enough.

...that it's not just the Middle East, there's also a ton of sexism, Alice (from Wonderland) is in it and awful, Luna is one of the worst people in it, Voldemort takes over at one point and puts in laws to breed purebloods (yup, you read that right), and all those dryads are generally too old for Harry and also brainwashed in multiple ways. And so, so, so much more. It's extremely loud and incredibly detailed.

Oh, and the kicker?

This takes place over third year.

Harry is thirteen.

So are his closest companions.

Yeah.

I claimed it a bit ago and have been reading through it since. And, uh, hard though it is to believe--he actually wrote all of these details and more. 103 chapters of it, between 2008 and 2012.

It's a wild, frequently hilarious, equally frequently off the rails or horrifying ride. Apart from chapter 99 (the nuclear fallout), I've rather enjoyed the process because such big chunks of it are so weird or out there.

Missioning it is going to be interesting.

~Z