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Now that is writing stories in a nutshell.

I assumed it had gone the way of Geocities many a year ago.

I've read 1/0 end-to-end twice. It's completely bonkers and I love it.

hS

Well, in voice maybe. But I doubt he could do it for the cameras. He'd have to spend a good while practicing the bug-eyed stare, in any case.

Honestly, I have no clue who'll do better. I haven't even gotten 'round to reading Good Omens yet. Although I do love Tennant. I'm not obsessive (he's not even my favorite Doctor), but he's been good in everything I've seen him in.

A few years ago I came across a webcomic which, aside from its TVTropes page, seems to have little reference on the web. It's called 1/0 (http://www.undefined.net/1/0/?strip=1), and it's probably one of the best instances of metafiction I've ever seen. And I've seen a lot of metafiction. This comic explores the concept with unbelievable throughness, and managed to remain pretty funny in the process. This thing should be a certified classic, but I don't know if anyone's even heard of it.

Okay, a Toon game in Discord could be fun. Do you know how and where to get the Sourcebooks? IIRC, they're out of print ATM...

Yep, that was along the lines I was thinking.

Oh, and I wasn't talking about OUR wiki, I was talking about the PPC wiki. Which, I must say, provides one of the best introductions I've seen to the vast, expansive, insane, REALLY REALLY BIG canon of 40k, despite it having no missions I've seen, and only a few Agents originating from the continuum. So some applause is in order for that.

And the 40k badfic? Yeah. I've seen some of it. It doesn't help that in 40k, "non-canon" is technically not an objective term, and that canon can shift out from under you. However, that's no excuse for not doing your research, overturning things commonly accepted as canon/fanon, or for being wrong about something that's been the same for 30 years.

One of the nice things about 40k is that it's got a nice corner of canon to place the really disturbing... adult fics, with a canon faction that explicitly has all your disturbing... interests (not sure I can say that word here). Which just makes it more annoying when badfic writers proceed to then write adult fic about factions which are canonically not interested, and also alter their biology to make it work instead.

Sorry. I just read something truly eye-bleedingly bad, which might be affecting this.

Anyways, if you want some 40k GOODFIC, (it seemed to be implied) then that I can do:

Avoiding Stupid Deaths in the 41st Millenium [Rated T]
(http://www.fanfiction.net/s/11122882/1/Avoiding-Stupid-Deaths-in-the-41st-Millennium): Yet another variant on Skippy's list (initially), it's a fascinating insight into the life of a guardsman, and progressively grows its own continuity, and even a story arc. Also, it's bloody hilarious.

Toyhammer [Rated T]
(https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5474237/1/40k-ToyHammer): A somewhat popular concept for 40k fanfic is that of "living 40k models", or, alternatively, of 40k characters coming into our world at 40k scale, both in the vein of Indian In The Cupboard. A couple of fics have done it, but this is the only one that matters, because it is so good the others fade into irrelevance. It is funny, touching, and highly entertaining, evolving from madcap comedy to something that feels - atmosphere-wise, anyways - a lot like Animorphs.

Warhammer High T-NSFW, but the site's NSFW as a whole: WHH is not the obligatory Highschool AU (THAT would be HS40k). It's actually something far stranger.

WHH takes place in an AU where the Emperor was a bit more careful - and probably nicer, and smarter - the Horus Heresy never happened, and the Crusade ended. He gave the Primarchs devices which would allow them to conceive - with a wife, of course - daughters. Who then go to Highschool together.

Yeah, I know, it sounds weird at best, awful at worst, and since it's a shared universe, some of the fics are (and there's at least one Mary Sue, in theory, but AFAICT he's never been written about). However, it's actually shockingly good, due in no small part to the work of the writer Someone Else, whose stories in the setting are the ones I would recommend the most. For introductions, I suggest his adorable and rather sappy fic "Venus's Burn" NSFW which convinced me that this wasn't an awful idea.

Confessions of a Wayward Son T: I'm not sure about putting this one one here, and it's not without it's problems. Also, I love the Thousand Sons. Like I said, I'm a sucker for moral ambiguity, and the Sons can do that pretty well when they want to. It helps that they've got (IMHO) one of the best villains in the setting. So I may be slightly biased towards this fic. Decide if it's any good for yourself.

Anyways, one semi-common (from what I've seen) fanfic premise is the idea of the Chaos Space Marine who goes rogue. Think Drizzt as your frame of reference, but less speshul (hopefully). This is, I think, a pretty good execution of that concept. For one thing, this premise makes a good deal more sense for the Sons than for just about any other Chaos Legion. Besides, being transported to an evil world of horror and corruption and then later seeing all of your friends turned into mindless robots by accident might make you rethink your allegiances. So our protagonist goes rogue and sets out to fight the forces of Chaos on his own. And things get kind of interesting. Then the fic abruptly ends because the author vanished into thin air.

If The Emperor Had A Text-To-Speech Device T - extreme profanity: Does it count as a fanfic if it's video? Whatever, I couldn't leave this one out.

What began as a one-off video rather acerbically going after some of the... less liked elements of 40k canon (at least, during the "glory days" of 5th and early 6th edition: things have improved somewhat since then) ended up being a lot more. TTS as it stands has a solid cast recurring characters, an actual plot and story arc, and is funnier than ever. Yeah, 40k's comedies tend to get hit by Cerebus a lot. It has an expanded universe with even more stuff, there's an IC podcast now... Look, just go watch it: it's a big part of how and why I got into 40k, and it's just really funny.

Sadly, the playlist is missing some of the newer episodes (namely, Special #4, where Kitten plays The God of Fate at Yu-Gi-Oh! - no, I'm not joking, yes, this IS plot-relevant), so you may just have to scroll down the video feed for them.

That's probably enough for now.

From the depths, it rises!

...or, you know. From out of my suddenly very busy life (school. Just...school) comes an interlude I wrote back in March and rediscovered recently. It's since been betaed and given a summary, so now here is...

"Darkest Fears"

What haunts the immortal? Bad dreams send Jacques Bonnefoy running to his family.

(Spoilers for the ending of Torchwood season three)

Rating...barely T? There's, well, a minor bit of nightmare fuel. If you've seen Torchwood, I doubt it'll bother you much; if you've seen Doctor Who, same note.

Enjoy!

~Z

Hehe, "light reading". More like "how to make a zombie reading." Anyway.

Interesting note about Warhammer 40k being really fanfic-friendly. (Yeah, I looked it up to make sure that that was what you were talking about - I've heard of the game before via its section on fantasynamegenerators.com.) That's kind of sad that your fandom doesn't get much recognition even from its own wiki. Maybe you should bring someone's attention to the fanfic, like someone who can bring further attention to it. *Almost says something speculative about the amount of badfic in 40k, but decides against it because the optimistic statement would give the Ironic Overpower something to do.*

About your agent ideas, maybe you should put one of each into one of your teams, so that the clash of one really uber-serious person and one person of debatable sanity will result in an endless fountain of comedy. The team from two different canons thing also sounds like a good idea, given how characters from different canons would be used to different things. The best agent teams are agents who work well together, but still manage to generate comedy through their differences. That's part of why PPC fic is fun to read. :)

-Twistey

Or are we replicating it via the Board, or something else? I'd be interested if this became a Board thing, and I might want to do it if it's online and there's a way to play as a guest, but I probably won't be creating any accounts for something I'm not likely to use for purposes other than the PPC.

-Twistey

Michael Sheen is a superb actor, and I think he'll do well with the part. However, Peter Serafinowicz's day job is an impressionist; not only do I think he can do Crowley better than David Tennant, I'm pretty certain he could do David Tennant's Crowley better than David Tennant. =]

Did you remember that Amazon is doing a six-part/six-hour miniseries of Good Omens, with scripts written by Neil Gaiman? No? Well, they are and you should. And apparently, the series is being co-produced by both the BBC (who already did a brilliant Radio adaptation which I can't possibly recommend you find on DailyMotion), and Narrativia, Rhianna Pratchett's production company. This is pretty much the perfect storm of 'involvement by the right people', and if it goes wrong I will be very frownyface.

The first casting news has been announced, and we have our two angelic beings: Michael Sheen is playing Aziraphale, with - wait for it - David Tennant as Crowley.

Naturally, at this point, there was only one place my mind went. ...no, not there. ...no, not there either. ... come on, are you even trying? Ahem:


Angel-off!

(For the Imgur-deficient: Image of Peter 'Radio Crowley' Serafinowicz, David Tennant, Mark 'Radio Aziraphale' Heap, and Michael Sheen.)

So who do you think will make the better Crowley - Peter or David? And which of the Aziraphales do you prefer - Mark or Michael?

hS

I'm not going to repeat all of the information from last time, so if you have no idea what this is/need a refresher, I invite you to check out this thread from last month, and then the information document.

I'm closing the auditions decisively a week from now (that's the 22nd of August) but there's still time. More specifically, about three parts of this thing remain unfilled at the moment and I'm still open to shuffling around the casting decisions I've already made. And if I can't get anybody for Ekwy, I'm gonna have to fill her myself, which.... is something nobody wants to hear. So! Please audition- no matter how awful you think your voice is.

(Although I do reserve the right to say that you're not going to be a part of it, if your microphone quality is bad enough. But I'll feel really bad about it if that happens, you have no idea.)

Peace,

Kitty

Sounds neat. I assume you're talking about Toon. Unless there's another one I should know about...

I found an RPG where you play as a cartoon character....and everything that that entails! You can't ever die, and you can play any species you like from any time period, so you can pretty much go crazy and have a really great, funny time! Rules-light and very entertaining. Anyone interested?

Name: Serena

Age: 18

Description: A hot light pink female Twi'lek.

Lust Object (if applicable): Han Solo

Light Side/Dark Side: Dark Side, even though I'm not a Jedi! Cos Dark Side is macho!

Notes: I'm a smuggler, admired by Han Solo himself, and an ex-girlfriend of his. Second best smuggler in the galaxy right here!

Thanks for the journals. I could use some light reading for when I get back to more scholarly content. SICP is hard on a man :-).

For agents? Nothing concrete. We've considered putting a pre-existing OC into the role (we have many of them)[1], but most of them are Space Marines, which hard: Marines tend to be pretty serious (even when I'm writing them, and I can't keep a straight tone for 5 minutes), and are kinda tricky to write. I mostly play/write Thousand Sons (with a name like this you could have guessed), so I can get away with more than some - seeing as how any of them may be half-mad already - but it's still tricky.

My writing partner (who you'll likely meet soon enough) suggested the possibility having a team from two different canons, so I'm not even locked to 40k: I have additional considerations to make here. Before coming up with a solid pitch, we'll probably have to talk more.

[1]You want to talk about friendly to fanfiction? 40k practically generates OCs and fic: I was honestly a little shocked that the 40k wiki entry said we don't write fanfic: We do. But then I realized that most of it is a) AARs, and thus debatably fanfic, b) 90% of the stuff gets publication outside the usual avenues, ending up on spacebattles, dakkadakka, bolter and chainsword, or the mighty /tg/ and its corresponding wiki (1d4chan), and c) even then we don't write as much as some other fandoms.

Here, since the original Thoth is the god of knowledge and other very scholarly things, have a few journals that totally aren't Dr. Schabbs's records of his experiments with making zombies! (I've been looking for a place to put these. They were too cool to destroy like I was ordered to.)

Anyway, hi! I'm Twistey, an uberchaotic neutral lightly-used-bie. I am in tons of fandoms, my main one being Wolfenstein 3D or just iD Software in general. I am obsessed with OC creation and other aspects of fandoms that deal with how friendly the canon is to the fans. This may have something to do with the fact that I also write tons and tons of original fiction along with the fanfic. (No, not fafnic or fnafic. Jeez, I can't type today.) A lot of my non-PPC fanfiction may end up being crack fic or other stuff that's not meant to be taken seriously, but I'll have to see how it ends up.

What are the ideas you've had for agents? I'd like to get a general idea of what you want to do once you're ready to write them. (You can write them doing non-mission things as pre-agents, from what I've seen. I think.) As I said, I love character creation, so I might offer a few pointers with regards to your characters. Nice to meet you!

-Twistey
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"Wait, who's Dr. Schabbs?" Glad you asked!
http://wolfenstein.wikia.com/wiki/Dr._Schabbs

I'm not too sure which "type" of Spanish I am most interested in learning, but so far I've learned kind of a mishmash, since the various tutors I've had have been teaching me different things. I may just end up asking a lot about whatever kind of Spanish my teacher will be teaching when I'm back in school. (Which will be Wednesday. Woo.)

Yeah! The characters themselves are what cause me to really like the fandom, although I still make OCs of fandoms that have good world-building but turn me off character wise (which for me would be Homestuck, Steven Universe, and other stuff like that.) Of course, I also make "walking MST" OCs for fandoms that I consider all-around absurd. (WinX Club.) I just really like making characters, for some reason.

Interesting idea with the being dragged into the PPC thing, although it does seem kind of legally iffy in the sense that the character agreed to something without completely understanding what they were getting into. (Gah, I've been spending too much time on Springhole.net, I'm starting to sound like a law student. Which does not mean that Springhole.net is a bad site, by the way.) Although I'm not sure that PPC stuff has to be completely legal, given that sometimes the Laws of Narrative Comedy and other "laws" preside over actual laws in PPC stories, or get mixed up with actual laws (maybe that's more on the Board... but enough about my personal grievances.)

As for potential agents of mine, I have four (not counting the two other strange "hired mercenary" characters who do a PPC-like job but work independently.) The group consists of three siblings and their close friend, and the two older siblings and the friend all have some sort of superpowers, which leads the youngest sibling to channel his efforts into science-type things. They will always be found together (minus whoever has to go do something at the moment), and the middle sibling and the friend are (going to be) partners in DOGA, so those missions will be done by both of them. The friend is the girly-girl, the middle sibling is the tomboy, the youngest sibling is the guy who's quiet until the subject turns to something he's interested in in which case he will never stop talking, and the oldest sibling is pretty much GLaDOS (except less sadistic), which is why I'm putting her into DOA. The youngest sibling is in one of those science departments (I don't remember what it's called, but it has something to do with researching and experimenting on Mary Sues. Oh wait, that's pretty much what the name is.)

My brain is kind of shorting out right now, so that description may be a bit confusing. Let me know if you want clarifications!

-Twistey

And by "newbie", I mean "returning oldbie". Whoops. We really need an edit option...

I haven't done this in a while, but here, have some chocolate!

Name: Leo "Ironsides"

Age: 18

Race: Human (Mandalorian)

Description: A grey Jedi dual-wielding a silver lightsaber and a darksaber. And a rotary blaster. Also he has a jetpack. And he wears the cloak of a Sith Inquisitor as a trophy, because he's killed so many of them.

Lust Object: None, unless canon introduces a katana-wielding Mandalorian soldier who is also a ninja.

Light/Dark: Grey! He helps the rebels, and is prone to beserker rages. Edgy!

Notes: Leo primarily writes action fics. He knows canon like the back of his hand (which is to say, approximately, and in broad strokes), but can't spell any of it. There is no evidence that Toey is involved. Lots of godmode sues, and "deep" characters.

He tends to write with his sister, who isn't here because she knows what she's doing.

Wants his nickname to be "Ironsides." This will never happen.