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It's definitely cool to learn anything new about the Canon Librarian. I love the little glimpse we've gotten into his "nest," as well as some more vague hints at his physical presence.

The mood throughout this piece is great. I love that is keeps ramping up a more and more sinister feeling of foreboding, only to pull the rug out from under us in the last paragraphs and turn it very sentimental and reverent of Scape's work. Very nicely done!

The fact that the Canon Librarian seems to know what World One authors are writing for the PPC has intersting implications, especially considering he himself clearly isn't from World One . . . I must ask, though: what are The Everbright Glede, The Magical Adventures of Ladies and Gentlemen and The Kraken-Knights of Wintertide? I can't find mention of them online anywhere. They're not in the "PPC authors" cupboard, but they're in the same safe as that cupboard. What's the significance of those titles?

—doctorlit still wants to buy a copy of that book, Scapegrace!

This was well-done! There are so many little details that are different for Andalites and humans, but both of you guys always seem to keep them in mind so well when you're writing Ilraen and Farilan. And both characters react to each other and to every little stimulus from the experience level they feel like they're at right now. Just a very realistically done series of character interactions, all around. I'm also glad Farilan is going to have some emotional depth to her, rather than just being, um. Iskillion.

And good to see Ilraen "retrieved" the Monster Book, too. We should always clean up our own messes, after all!

—doctorlit

I enjoyed this one quite a bit. I think this is the only story in the group to use the line from the prompt not in a conversation, but by a single person sitting alone. And that gives it such a somber and lonely feeling that it really makes this one stand out from the others as unique.

I like how you use the structure of the photograph to not only introduce the main players in Marina's former life, but also to explain the magic system of that world a bit, and the types of danger she faced and feared. (I also love the little detail that vampire thralls are called "Renfields" in that canon.)

A lot of PPC agents either choose not to visit their homes/families for whatever reason, or are able to fairly regularly. I like the inherent conflict of an agent who would like to do so, but isn't able due to some instability of the multiverse.

—doctorlit would probably visit home a little out of guilt, but it's so easy to get caught up in work . . .

I don't know how much weigth it can carry, but I sincerly regret July's departure from PPC. For the really messy way it went, for not trying to discuss more with her and many people leving here, both for the interactions and the writing advices, and, well for the excellent missions like this one was. I really hope she gets to keep on the writing beyond the PPC, making this one the last hurrah would just be a damn shame. But, like she said, moving backwards wouldn't do.

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As far as telling new things about how awesome that mission was for me, there was something darkly meta with the Dark Ranger babbling about making Kimberly 'legendary'. The fact she was the one to make the win possible is also something really cool, and I guess meta too, since that's canon literally fighting back and winning.

I also chuckled with the last jab from the Flowers for the salary, and liked the reference to past agents. And, I'm now really curious about this Navigator. I just can't help it, mysteries like Huinesoron mentionned only leave me hungry for more.

Also a very last thing. We can't have a Power Rangers sporking without an appropriate theme running on for the final. Come on, if you didn't think about it, you never heard it before. And it's just perfect to listen to during Act 3. Dragonforce too, that said.

I love this! I've wanted to see this PPC'd for a long time!

This is indeed well done. I'm not really one for romantic/caring/emotional dialogue like this, but you really used some good language in the speech here to make it interesting and attention-holding.

I also see the implied reason for why Agent Thoth is suppressing the story of his former love. At least when he was still employed by the Empreror, he was in the same universe as Erek, and potentially could have seen him ever so rarely. But now, in the PPC, they really are separated for good.

—doctorlit, suddenly going to a friend's house to change fish water

Despite the short length, you get all the information we need into this. You hit us right out with the moment of leaving, fill in the reasons soon after, and make us understand the emotions of the leaver.

I'm not normally a fan of big block paragraphs, and this one does look especially jarring because of how much of the story it occupies. However, it does work in this case, at least somewhat. It kind of gives me the feeling that once the narrator got past That Moment, everything seemed to pick up speed for them. Maybe that's because the emotions and tears are making things blurry and out of focus, or maybe because the narrator is finally powering up into the momentum they've needed, and couldn't attain during the bad relationship. Doesn't entirely matter, but it's a good feeling to get across to the reader, and I think you've succeeded.

—doctorlit

This is very simple, kind of like the basic setup of this type of scene. It works, but I don't find myself getting very invested . . . which may just because I haven't been keeping up with the #Rudis logs, and don't really know of Dax, much. At least having access to portals in HQ, Dax is ironically more able to visit than she would be from a skyship, despite being on a different world!

—doctorlit hates this type of goodbye in real life

I've been around the PPC since... Jeez. A while now. Not on the board, not in the community, but reading missions at the very least.

As I said back after reading Part 1, this took me back. Back to the just straight-up FUN of some of the earliest missions I read. About half-bored, half-insane agents rocking out to heavy metal to distract themselves from agonizing fics as they tried to keep what was left of their sanity. This isn't a grim mission, or a bleak mission. It brought back both nostalgia and a genuine sense of joy at just how silly it was. It felt like the mission was enjoying itself, and I couldn't help but join in the fun.

The fact that it features Trojie and Dafydd (two of my all-time favorite agents) as well as a collection of other PPC legends really doesn't hurt either.

My thanks to Delta Juliette and Calliope for beta-reading this prompt.

Marina Nicodelli was crouched on her bed in the Response Center. Her mini Yale was napping in his corner of the room, and her partner had left not long ago for a few days with with his family for Christmas. From the sound of it while Richard had been wrapping his presents, his home situation wasn't stellar. Not that there was something she could do about it. She had her own problems with Christmas to deal with. And she could do it better alone.

Problems which were pretty much summed up by the photo she was looking at the moment. It was one of the few mementos of her life she had left after the Fomorians had burned it to the ground and attempted to kill her.

She was barely in the background of the photo, a half-smile on her face. Not that she had been unhappy at having the opportunity of being with her family for Christmas; she had been quite happy at the idea of spending the holiday with them. Not having to worry about any sort of trouble or ritual prepared to take advantage of the holiday had been as good for her as possible.

But... Her little sister Felicia, pictured sitting down in front of her with a big grin on her face, had received the first season of one of her favorite shows, My Little Pony, and she just had to start watching it as soon as possible, heedless of her older sister inside her anti-hexing circle. Marina had been unable to get out while Felicia cheered at her show. Marina sighed at the memory. At least Felicia had chosen a decent one to watch.

Next to the two sisters were their parents. Victor Nicodelli was fairly average at five-foot-eight, rather stout, with greying brown hair and a close-cropped beard, which was also turning grey. There was some subdued joy on his face and in his green eyes, like when he had taken her to a shooting range for the first time. He still looked rigid though, as if he had to be ready to spring to duty at any moment. He had been quite relieved nothing had happened on Christmas- it had waited for New Year's Eve. And trouble had been generous enough to involve Marina by making one of the suspects a ghoul.

Her mother had handled the resulting fallout as well as she could at the time. Namely, by putting up a good front for Felicia so she wouldn’t worry too. While she did that, she would ask herself once more why she had accepted her eldest daughter learn about magic rather than letting it go away. But none of that worry could be seen on the photo. Jessica Nicodelli was about six feet tall, with the same black hair as her daughters, although some white hair could be seen here and there. She had the same slender build as Marina, and a quiet presence that could be felt even through the picture.

Marina hadn't seen them for years now. She missed them, especially during the end of the year. Her master too, the old bear. John Riders. An americanization from his old name, back when he lived in Flanders.

The old man had been a stern master, and showed her how close she'd been to the edge in that alley. Magic was not a toy- under his instruction she'd witnessed the evils of black magic, and the terrors it inflicted. That the same old man had liked to read Twilight And Fifty Shades of Gray had left her rather dumbfounded. He would always laugh at the books before talking about how the standards of the White Court for ghostwriters had dropped in the last decades. Meyer certainly didn't compare to Stoker.

Marina lost herself in memories of him and her family for a while. Memories were all she had, for now. The C-CADs which had worked long enough to get a reading on her would constantly oscillate between ‘canon ‘verse’ and ‘RP setting’ regarding her origins. A pretty way of saying that as long as she didn’t know where to go back, she couldn’t go back home. And unless her… author wrote something about how things canonically were back in Philadelphia, it would remain that way until he ended the series.

Sure, she could probably live long enough to wait the end of the series out. She could probably even go back to the moment she had jumped for the Nevernever once the time for retirement had come. Or, more preferably, she would come back later, and away from her would-be killers.

But if things always went as expected, she wouldn’t have ended up facing what she had thought to be a psychotic junkie on her way back from school. It wouldn’t have ended up being a Renfield, a berserk thrall of Black Court Vampires. She wouldn’t have ended up crushing him to the ground with a power she didn’t understand yet. She wouldn’t have ended up discovering a world larger and more fascinating and dangerous as she thought. And she certainly wouldn’t have ended up discovering an even larger and more fascinating and dangerous one after that.

And if things went unexpectedly again, her family and her master would never be the wiser about it. Marina Nicodelli would be dead, in her office, or her apartment, or in an alley, or in the Nevernever. But she most certainly would not be killed in the service of some sort of multidimensional organization. An organization which looked at many, many universes as fictions, and fought eldritch abominations trying to make them fit their twisted desires.

But for now, all she could do was look at the picture and ask one question. “When can I see you again?”

This story does a good job of leaving the reader with uncomfortable questions that really can't be answered. I still can't tell if Lilianna is meant to be a Sue, with Agamemnon and his father getting recruited from her story and her being studied as a specimen; or if she's a former agent who got Suefluenced and is being cared for the Medical Research Division, with her family members waiting for her recovery. That level of speculation is tricky to create in a story so short, so very well done on giving us just enough info to get invested, but not quite enough to keep us from wondering—and that's not even getting into the question of what information Agamemnon was trying to get from Lilianna in the first place.

Lilianna is a cringe-inducing, negative character in just about every aspect imaginable. You get it across in every tiny action and detail of her you give. I do feel that the implied incestuous feelings are a bit too much, but I'm glad you at least ended on a tiny shred of hope that Lilianna wants this situation to get better.

A couple of potential continuity errors: First, I assume this is taking place before DMSE&R changed into DAS? I want to ask, since you said Agamemnon is a TYH character, and wasn't sure if this scene is taking place in our past as well as his.

Second, the DAS/E&R-that-was actually has white-painted walls and skylights, rather than looking darker than the rest of HQ. This was seen in Lily Winterwood's spinoff. I do like the idea of medical classes being taught there, though.

—doctorlit probably wouldn't have known about the skylights off-hand, except that he wrote a scene in the main entrance foyer of the old DMSE&R for his Thirty Hs mission

I'm working out the ideas, not sure if I should share it when I'm done to have someone go over them. Plus some story ideas, but they're kinda spoilery.

By the way, the book is “Dirty Magic” by Jaye Wells, and I think it is part of a trilogy, but like I said before, I haven’t read the other two yet. Let me know what you think!

I've heard of this fic, but was never brave enough to take a look... as a Power Rangers fan, it's great to see someone finally take it down!





And it was nice to see the returning Agents helping out with this. And the giant Zord battle was pretty awesome too!

Won't be going for host--I have no clue what my free time and energy will look like in the next few weeks, so it seems like a bad plan. Thanks for clarifying, though.

~Z

On a meta level, the host is the Boarder who agrees to organize the event, i.e. set up the introductory thread, keep track of who gets what, and enforce the rules of the Exchange as the players participate. The in-universe host can be any one of the agents that this Boarder chooses, and has a similar purpose albeit within the story of the event/thread itself.

It doesn't have to be me specifically, either, although I am, as always, the one compiling the lists of people and gifts. If any participating Boarder wants to step up and be the host, all they have to do is ask - especially since this year will probably be as busy for me as the last, and I could use a little help for events like this! XD

The rules make more sense now than when I first read them (very tired and catching a cold at the time), so I'm in. You'll get an email as soon as I figure out who to send and with what.

Question: what's the host's function? Do they direct the exchanges, or are they just the official in-universe host, ie the person who volunteered their RC or wherever else?

~Z

But all the yes.

The tone and the setup is just... fun.

This is a mission that reminded me why I was drawn here to begin with.

And the spoilery one, too.

July makes PPCing a godawful NSFW Legendary fun. I can think of no higher praise than that. It was a pleasure to help bring this along, and I'm proud to have been a part of it.

~Neshomeh

You're right, Futa Prison is horrible, and completely messed up the characters from RWBY. It might as well have used completely original characters. It also ruined Kill La Kill, SnK, and Fairy Tail, and I assume it will ruin Bleach and One piece at some point, since those are tagged.

This review contains spoilers. You should not read it, or even click on it, without reading the mission first. Seriously. It's an amazing mission, and you shouldn't spoil it for yourself by reading my ramblings before you get to it.

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Part One is a wonderful exploration both of July's return to HQ and the Flowers' dealings with Agony in Pink (and Legendaries as a whole), then turns into the glorious Cafeteria romp. The whole section is stuffed with foreshadowing for Part Three, which definitely rewards rereading once you know what's coming.

Part Two does a marvellous job of gradually establishing just how tough the fic is going to be to kill, but is also a quality mission. I've always preferred reports that don't linger on the NSFW parts of badfics - my Clbr__n mission is the same - and although it's short, it didn't need to be longer. It establishes what's bad about the fic, shows us enough that we feel it, introduces the players for Part Three - and then isn't afraid to move on.

As for Part Three... in the original outline (I said I'd been watching this for a long time), July introduced this section with the line And then... Go Go Canon Rangers!. It grabbed me by the fannishness and has never let go. I love the escalation over the course of the fight; I have to particularly highlight "I think we're about to find out what happens when a badfic fights back," which stands as a mission statement for the mission that is spectacularly fulfilled.

Reading over this, and Dafydd's interactions, takes me back to the process of writing it. I tweaked a lot of what he says and does, but the core of it is straight from July. (Though I will claim Ambalenar Atsordë! all for my own - ambale-nar is Quenya for 'fiery yellowhammer', while atsordë is a phonetic Quenyification of 'Zord').

The Dark Ranger is a perfect payoff to the setup in Part Two, and July was absolutely right to let Kimberly fight it. Some demons, you have to fight by yourself.

The Aftermath is a perfect ending: bittersweet levied with humour. I still have no idea who the Navigator is, but I guess some mysteries don't need to be answered.

I love this mission. It is a perfect farewell, one of the best I have ever read, and the only one that inspired me to create fanart:



Thank you, July, and safe voyaging.

hS

As July says, I beta'd it, so I've been watching Part 3 in particular for a long time, but it's been ages since I went back and read the whole thing end to end. And... I love it. Part One showcases everything that is best about the world of the PPC, and starts building up the anticipation for the denument. Part Two builds the tension up to spectacular levels - and Part Three delivers. Oh, how it delivers. This is the most creative finale to a PPC mission that I remember reading, and I've been here since '03, so that's saying a lot.

Read this mission. Read it unspoiled. You are missing out if you don't.

hS

The first badfic (archiveofourown.org/works/8451553/chapters/19362307) is "Futa Prison" by Damien_Kova. Just looking at the tags, I see charges for transgender fetishization and rape. I also see multiple characters with the same family name in an explicit fic, and a skimming through the text confirmed an incest charge. While I don't know any of the involved continua other that Persona 5 well enough to evaluate characterization or canon compliance, the writing appears to be of low quality, featuring awkward phrasing and several technical errors. I'd appreciate if someone familiar with RWBY (which is the most heavily involved fandom) could confirm that this is indeed awful.

The second one (archiveofourown.org/works/6408871/chapters/14671612) is "Meant to Be" by Waterrain. The main charges here are ultra beige prose (does the PPC have a term for when the prose goes beyond beige, like urple prose for when the opposite happens?), mangling of characterization and sibling relationships (the incest is, unfortunately, possible in canon and thus not charge worthy), and mpreg according to the tags.

The last two (archiveofourown.org/series/543514) are a series entitled "takumeme gets cummies from big dragon" by xXM0n0chromeNimbusXx. Featuring beige prose, transgender fetishization, bad characterization, anatomically impossible sex, and impossible anatomy in general (remember that archers tend to have very muscular arms), this fic is basically just poorly written smut. The incest is, once again, possible in game, so it isn't chargeworthy, but everything else still is.

I get what you mean, and I wouldn't want my agents to kill sue just by waving their hands. Most of the sues in the fandoms I have enough knowledge to spork are of the "several tons of tnt or stronger/hax" variety, so powered or not, my agents will still have their work cut out for them. (Just for reference 11 tons of tnt generates a blast radius of 150 metres.) I just want the sporking to be plausible you know? I don't want to be a hypocrite since I tend to nitpick on the more concrete aspects of a continuum.

Members of the PPC, it is finished. The Legendary Badfic "Agony in Pink" has been sporked. Let the history books note this triumph!

Ahem. Anyway, here you are:

Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Aftermath
Author's Note

Any comments shall be passed on to JulyFlame, the author of the piece. Please enjoy, and share your thoughts.

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