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We are allowed to use the same 'fic to satisfy multiple items, right?

From: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12624709/1/Evil-in-Disguise

"The train whistled at station 9 and ¾ths, and I shivered hesitantly as my parents wrapped me up in one final hug."

I'm aware it's relatively minor (only saying you measure things in fourths instead of quarters), but if I find a better one I will replace this with that.

I missed the 'fics must be from a month before' rule. I have free time, but not that much free time.

From: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12609631/1/Harry-Potter-Horizon

"I do noet own anything. harry ptterverse bwlongs to JK Rowling The following contains Wikipedia content, which i also dont own ..."

Going straight into what 'story' the 'fic has (if by story you mean the copying out of Wikipedia articles)

A summary or title with a SPaG error. If we're allowed two from the same 'fic that is.

From: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12626459/1/I-didn-t-know-I-was-a-veela

"Draco Malfoy is returning to Hogwarts to complete his final year. The wizarding world is at peace at the death of Lord Voldemort; however in the Malfoy household, no peace is to be found. Draco found out that he is actually a veela and he needs to find a mate before graduation! Failure to find a mate will result in a catastrophe. Will Draco be able to find his mate?"

Charge 1: Keeping Draco in Hogwarts too long Charge 2: Unnecessary semicolon Charge 3: Draco can't be a Veela, enough said?

From: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12626853/1/Harry-Potter-and-the-Shaman-s-Rock

"Mrs. Dursley was fat, a brunette and had nearly no neck, although she could have done with one, as she spent so much of her time craning over garden fences, spying on the

neighbours"

The four moons have aligned in crux for the first time in centuries. A portal opens, and souls pour forth from the afterlife, eager to latch onto any body that's lying around. Even if it's already occupied.

(Someday I'm gonna do something with this idea.)

~Neshomeh

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12603607/1/Pest-Control

This is Thalion Estel's story about Thalion Estel hanging out with her muses, Aragorn and Faramir. Apparently.

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https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12625232/1/Mirkwood-in-Winter

This is a poem, purportedly about the coming of Sauron to Mirkwood. I know that because a) the summary says so, and b) it uses the name 'Necromancer'. Beyond that, I'm pretty sure this is Game of Thrones, not LotR.

No tender lover he, beneath pale moons, His longing, crypt-born, guides the conqueror worm, No soft caresser; caster of the runes, His frozen lich-touch scorches flesh from bone.

hS

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9023350/1/Returning-Home

Legolas returns home to Greenwood after the Ring war, and the Fellowship is thrust into the ever so confusing relationship of Legolas and his Childhood friend Ava, but as soon as thing seem to be going the right way some Men from Gondor make terrible some terrible decisions. Threatening everything. Im shit at summaries, please forgive me

1) Altering the timeline; Legolas did not return to Mirkwood after the War, but settled in Ithilien. 2) Also, the Fellowship didn't go with him. 3) Mirkwood was never renamed Greenwood, but became Eryn Lasgalen, 'Wood of the Green Leaves'. 4) 'Ava' is not an Elvish name, nor (in case it comes up) a Mannish one in Middle-earth. 5) Grammar errors all over the place. 6) While they're not necessarily charges, the childhood friend and unidentified Men from Gondor do not bode well.

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Edit: The story was updated 22 hours ago, but originally posted in 2013. Does this still count?

I'm claiming Galadriel from https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12620427/2/Enchantment-Passing-Through. She has description like this:

The Lady Galadriel was tall and poised, every inch of her screaming royalty. Her face was always calm and serene, a beautiful wall hiding the raging storm of power and emotion Laerorniel knew was surging underneath.

And telepathic lines like this:

The Dark Power call to me, too. It draws us both. I can feel it here, as do you. It is carried by a hobbit by the name of Frodo Baggins.

She bears very little resemblance to the Galadriel of the books... but she is actually pretty plausible as a version who made different life choices. Artanis Nerwen was very similar to her uncle Feanor; this version clearly stuck with that, rather than mellowing.

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And in here I will place things that don't quite qualify:

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12153324/1/No-Woman-Am-I is, of all things, a trans!Eowyn character replacement. I've read over the first chapter and 'Dernhelm' is definitely replaced; he says this to Faramir in the Houses of Healing: "Do not mourn [Boromir], then, for he found a glorious death, while you will be slaughtered like a dog. Envy him."

Sadly, the most recent chapter doesn't contain any evidence of Suvianness; he seems to be aiming towards a romance with Lothiriel, who's also gone pretty OOC. But I can't claim a #27 'LGBT+ Suvian' from the last month.

A near miss for #14, 'A character with a negative age':

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11778904/3/My-Precious

This is a retelling of Smeagol's fall into Gollum. Here's the entirety of Chapter 3:

I suddenly heard a loud piercing scream which I only assume could be Mrs.Brandybuck. "Deagol! Deagol is dead!" She screamed

Deagol died nowhere near the Shire, so this is impossible. But, sadly for me, he did die about a hundred years after Gorhendad Oldbuck changed his family's name to Brandybuck.

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https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12588564/1/Lance-Time-Jumper

Shorter than 500 words!

:D

Hello everyone, the PPC scavenger hunt has started! If you're interested, head over to the T-board (https://ppc-posting-board-2-proto.herokuapp.com/posts/5694) to participate! I'll leave signups open for the entire duration of the game, so don't worry if you didn't sign up earlier.

Good luck!

If you have any questions about anything, please ask them here.

Hello everyone, and welcome to the PPC scavenger hunt! This is a new game, where boarders look for various uncommon to extremely rare things in fanfic (mostly badfic) and then get points for finding them. Whoever has the most points at the end wins.

There are 50 items to find, all of which are worth one point. To enter the game, make a reply to this post title "[your name]'s finds". When you find something, reply to that post, including the item you found in the subject, and quote the part of the fic that you found the item in and link to the fic. You can't use the exact same thing as another boarder, but using something else from the same sentence for the same item on the list.

Also, to keep the scavenger hunt safe for people verifying finds, NSFW or NSFB fics are not allowed. This is probably going to mean T-rated or below fic. To keep things interesting, any items must be found in chapters that were published at on or after 2017-07-23, and anything from any fic that has been PPC'ed is not allowed. The game will run until the end of 2017-09-24, EST (to match the timestamps on the main board).

Now that the rules are out of the way, here are the items to find, all of which I have seen in fic (although not necessarily in eligible fic) :

1. A mini with three or more letters added, deleted, or removed
2. An object of an impossible color
3. A Suvian reformed within their own fic
4. A sentence with more SPaG errors than words
5. An author's note in the middle of the chapter
6. A heading in the form of "[character]'s POV"
7. A generic weapon
8. An instance of reader bashing
9. A pronoun problem between two characters not being shipped
10. A nonsensical illness
11. An instance of "Canon" misspelled as "cannon"
12. A completely unromantic scene intended as romance
13. A canonical creature described in a completely wrong manner
14. A character with a negative age
15. A piece of figurative language that makes more sense when interpreted literally
16. A page-long paragraph ("pageagraph")
17. An uncanonical character who would be OOC resistant or immune if canon
18. A badfic shorter than 500 words
19. A soap opera cough
20. A character who checks off an excessive number of common Mary Sue traits
21. A character who is over 99% OOC but not replaced
22. A sentence that ends in a punctuation mark not normally used to end sentences
23. A poorly-written poly relationship
24. An unclosed parenthesis or similar punctuation mark
25. An author's note not marked as such.
26. An unintelligible acronym
27. An LGBT+ Suvian
28. A character who is both bashed and a Suvian's LO in the same fic
29. A ship which is obviously a bad idea
30. A ridiculously flimsy excuse for two characters falling in twu wuv
31. A misuse of mathematics
32. A sentence which does not begin with a capital letter
33. A summary (including any tags) which implies at least three charges
34. A series of three or more of the same punctuation mark
35. A comma splice
36. An unnecessary line break
37. A correctly used semicolon
38. Food with an impossible flavor
39. A nonsensical object (such as "Long Table Elrond")
40. A word misspelled as a different word
41. A number used as a word
42. A canonically incorrect romantic custom
43. A completely generic setting
44. A sentence with three or more ambiguous pronouns
45. A character that has no reason to appear in prose (\^, |, _, etc.)
46. An unattributed line of dialogue
47. A statement of something obvious
48. A character with the same name as the author
49. A summary or title with a SPaG error
50. A good CAHQ card (Anything extra weird that doesn't fit one of the above items)

Good luck hunters!

I'm feeling rather sadistic, so, to help you in your um... corageous? suicidal? quest, here's a question: have you heard of Celebrian?

Now, for the actual gift, have a an inkwell for you to drown your resulting suffering in, and a set of quills to match.

Anyways, Multi, I'm glad you joined!'Til the next post,

Diana.

The sun goes dark. Malaysia does not see the shadow. A person looks at the sky and see the clouds gathering. "Time to get the laundry." He remembers seeing the sun eclipsed by the moon as a child before his maid pulls him back inside. "Do not go outside! Dragon wants to eat the moon."

He remembers watching the TV, and Chinese people of his country clanging cymbals and playing gongs to chase away the dragon. The Muslim Malays do the eclipse prayers. He was a child, he did not have to attend. The Indians offer prayers in their temples.

The eclipse was over in minutes. The gossiping goes for years. It will be almost a century before such an event can be seen again. "Will I live to see it again?"

I definitely get how uncomfortable this experience is for him—the body horror works well that way. All that pain and suffering, and years to come to terms with it, and now this fairly ridiculous and arbitrary nonsense. Oy.

He doesn't seem the type to go for hugs, but Nurse Jenni could put him in touch with Agent Derik, and they could go for drinks? I imagine they'd find plenty in common.

~Neshomeh

"Well," thought I, "I've read both Team Phoenix updates, I may as well do the hat-trick and read this Lazarus thing."

"Aha," thought I, "it's Alec "not-the-self-insert" Trevelyan again, I can see how things have changed for him since his recruitment."

"Well," thought I, "that was a great exploration of what happened to Alec - I wonder how closely it relates to canon? Oh, she's discussed that with doc, coolcool. But what was up with that tattoo? Let's check the story this is a direct sequel to."

"Okay," thought I, "that doesn't really answer anything... what's a Valcentica? Maybe there's a previous mission I can reference."

"... what," thought I, "the actual flipping heck?!"

I ended up checking the Board for discussion of it, and finding your conversation with Nesh and Zingenmir when you came back... seriously, that's completely loopy.

Anyway, yeah, you sent me down a rabbit-hole. ^_^

hS