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My Webplex is still there, though; a lot of its images have been lost due to Photobucket being a pain in the neck, but the stories are all still accessible. Or at least they should be! Which bits are down?

Anyway: that's one of them. The other never got finished, but would have revolved around the idea that if characters make it to the real Real World, there's no way for the author to know what they're up to.

hS

The one where the PPC became aware of the board, right? I don't remember the name, and your website seems to have been taken down. (please fix that, by the way)

Yes, that puzzled me as well. Maybe he got corrupted/had to do something awful, and REALLY didn't want to play the bad guy?

I shall consider it.

Thanks for the dice, and the copy of the Imperial Creed (An extra copy of the Lectitio Divinatus always comes in handy. I believe Rogal Dorn uses his as building material). In return, I bequeath to you a copy of the Imperial Truth (to be used as reading material, or as a firestarter: your choice), and any book you want from what I've been able to recover of the libraries of Prospero. With this name, what were you expecting? :D

Be careful with some of that stuff, though. Clever, accurate, and astonishingly prescient though some of it may be, things did NOT end well for its previous owners, fanfiction written by people who really should know better aside.

I shall... try to get something recorded and sent. (It's that 'just sing anything you want!'; it led to massive indecision on what I should sing, and ultimately me just not doing anything.)

For people struggling with microphone quality, I've found that the best microphone in my house is actually my phone! It's designed to filter out background noise, too (being... a phone), so it actually makes not-too-awful recordings.

hS

Hi! I'm Calliope, more frequently abbreviated to Cal. We're both named after writing people, so yay for that!

(Then again, I'm also named for a musical instrument, a Homestuck character, and a missile silo. I like meaningful names.)

Here, have a few Newbie Gifts! You get the standard set of roleplaying dice in whatever color and/or pattern and/or texture you want, plus a calligraphic copy of the Imperial Creed to decorate your Boarder RC (I think we have those, and if not, we do now).

If you decide to join the Discord, you should join us for Dark Heresy at some point! We need another player, because some of ours had to leave - one for moral reasons, one because life got in the way. All we have now is a Tech-Priest, a Psyker, and a Cleric with a budding reputation for seducing inanimate objects (and the occasional heretic, but those were accidental). Plus, you know, Our Lord GM. But he's not a player.

I mean, all I'm signed up for right now is the Unnamed Yenka-Sue and the Agent Choir. I can do another part easily.

Just tell me what you need, Kitty!

I really enjoyed Serafinowicz as Crowley. I can't really say 'I'm surprised they didn't keep him', since this is a completely different company, but it would've been nice. Kaitlyn has repeatedly said it would also be nice to see the kid from Merlin stick around as Newt, too; he certainly has the perfect face for the role.

I find it amusing that our two angelic beings are both non-English Britons - AziraSheen is Welsh, while can't-portmanteau-Crowley-and-Tennant is obviously Scottish. An internet did observe that it's very conservative casting - Tennant is super famous, and of course they're both white (and male - angels are sexless, of course!). Which may be a valid point, but on the other hand, we have no idea what the rest of the cast is going to look like. You can't even say they've relegated diversity to the secondary characters, because (at minimum) Adam, Newt, and Anathema are all leads. In a movie, they couldn't be, but... six hours!

hS

Back when he was still the Doctor, my family watched Secret Smile, a TV drama where he was actually really scarily creepy.

Of course, on the flip side, Crowley's evil isn't all that... y'know... evil. I'm trying to come up with a way to describe him, and actually, I can't do better than his initial character: he's a snake. A snake in a snazzy jacket and a nice car, but still at the base of it all a snake.

I agree that I can't quite see that as Tennant's forte - I can mostly imagine him playing 'charming right up until the moment he sticks the knife in' - but on the flip side (there's lots of flipping in this post), it's David Tennant, and he does act well.

hS

Yes, they probably can look it up themselves, but when trying to attract people's interest to something new, it helps to make it as easy as possible for them. {= )

Fer instance: This appears to be the official Steve Jackson Games site for Toon, which has links to PDFs. The main sourcebook is going for $14.99 through their Warehouse 23 store. Presumably only the GM really needs a copy.

~Neshomeh, not interested in playing, but wishing to help.

He probably can do slick, oily evil as well as twitchy, bug-eyed evil, and I'm happy to give him the chance, but I'm sure there are people who would be more likely candidates?

Still, happy for a GO movie. ^_^

~Neshomeh

And I can confirm that I seem to have subconsciously cribbed plot-points from 1/0 at least twice in my PPC writings. (It might look like thrice, but Lou's nature predates my reading it.)

hS

I remember these guys. :D

I think this is an idea the Flowers wouldn't go for in 2017, but 2003 - at the height of the Fanfic Explosion - I can see it. And if it all goes spectacularly wrong, they only lose, like, one agent, right? Win/win!

~

On an unrelated note: when did you actually join the PPC? 2003-dated people are pretty rare around here, even the ones who left for a while and then came back. Any idea what time of year you showed up?

(From my records, it looks like you were here in 2015 for a bit, 2010-2012 on and off, 2008 for a while, and... were you GreenCat3? I have a couple of records in 2004, though it's very patchy back then.)

hS

Yeah, and Tailsteak's website is still updating semi-frequently as well. It now lives at tailsteak.com, though.

Have you read Tailsteak's... other work of note? It too is hilarious and gloriously entertaining. It is, however, VERY NSFW, and... well, not NSFB, but rather strange. I shall say no more, but merely link it here, and trust you lot to use your discretion[1].

[1]: Thoth is not responsible for what occurs when you click that link. These may include: amusement, disgust, strange fascinations, other euphemisms because I'm not sure if I can use those words, and Obsessive Link-Following Disorder, otherwise known as TVTropes Syndrome.

http://www.undefined.net/1/0/?strip=65

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.