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As in, Albus and Scorpio. Thanks! I guess I just misread it.

Oh! I get it now. It's IL(ver)MORN(y), and all the complaining about the houses. Phew! Problem solved.

Baron Neshomeh is in kind of an unenviable position: she's the sole baron of Wechi, so there's no border squabbles for her to get involved with. Maybe she has a comment on Hieronymus' question - if she approves of expanding the Council of Plort, how large a representation group should the archivists of Wechi be entitled to? Or the Beytahs of the Riding, since I believe she's also proficient in those arts.

(But you don't have to say anything if you don' wanna.)

hS

But this may just be because white on white doesn’t work for me. The light version might look better if it were presented on a colored background.

HG

Department of Analytical Science

Flowering Leek

Journal of Investigating Veracity by Experimentation

As well as edits to existing pages as needed, such as the DMSE&R page and the Complete List of PPC Fiction. This work is not nearly finished; if you see something out of date anywhere on the wiki, please fix it!

And since I realize I haven't actually said this yet, I enjoy all of this and support it and want it to continue. {= )

~Neshomeh

You've got the latter in "The Fall of Air'ihpotre." The former makes more sense as a reference to Albus Severus, the Cursed Child, though. {= )

I'm afraid I have no idea what the Beasts of the Isle of Morn might be.

~Neshomeh keeps meaning to join in these threads, but can't think of what to say in-character. {= (

Yes, that's it.

Is this document what you meant to link to? (If so, you left the = off the href)

- Tomash

The Scholars' Empire land of Air'ihpotre fell towards the end of last year, leaving only the Marizu League realm of Roe Lin. At the time, several people wrote up their reactions to the news; I've just gone through and added those to the Cyclopaedia.

The Fall of Air'ihpotre

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Air'ihpotre

(If anyone can figure out what I was on about when I mentioned the Curse of the White Serpent, and the Beasts of the Isle of Morn, I would be very grateful. :D)

hS

Éowine, Steormægð, and two Sindarin newbies tackle a very derivative Narnia Sue.

Hey, I'm happy to review! You always put a lot of creative effort into your stuff, and it shows—to say nothing of all the development you do within the setting, in areas most of the rest of us don't even touch!

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Hey there! Just found a copy of your science mag, ad went browsing through. Lot of stuff I don't get, 'cause, you know, big science and stuff. But there was one thing stood out as being way weird, even to me. In the one article, about Narrativium, why the heck did your scientists give it Zq as an abbreviation? Shouldn't that be, like, Na or NR or something?

—Laquisha of the Nursery!

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To Agent Narlossë of DAS-DAMP:

I recently finished your article "Mapping the Rose" in the premier issue of JIVE. It's a very interesting theory, and gives me, as a former resident of a science fiction galaxy, much to think about!

However, I must admit, there appears to be one aspect of reality missing from your examination: you've listed many of the PPC's alternate universes, but none of its alternate timelines. We all know they exist, even if we don't like to talk of them much! So how do they fit into your classification scheme—if it's even able to account for them!

—Technician Voctor Kamras, DoSAT

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Regarding your article, "The Trials and Triumphs of Ancillary Canons" :

It was definitely an interesting read. (I'm of the "World One agent who follows the Compromise Model" camp, myself.) While reading, though, it occurred to me that there is one more sort of story that you didn't cover: parodies. Things like Spaceballs that are more of an homage of a genre, I can easily see being their own proper canon. But what about more derivative parodies, like National Lampoon's The Hunger Pains, or The Lord of the Discs? What do the two models say about them?

—Agent Doc, Department of Floaters

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To Dr. Niamh:

Regarding the Suvian genetics section of your paper, Medical has known about that for years now. Back when a couple of gullible generous agents adopted Agent Alec, a reformed Sue, when the boy got de-aged, Alec's DNA changed itself to make him actually their genetic child in everything but fact. Kind of nice, actually, having a kid without the actual having part. Anyway, you might want to do more research before publishing, in future.

—anonymous, BRD

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—doctorlit finished typing with four minutes to spare this time, still needs to brush

Everything is canon. :D No, seriously, that's the premise of the Tardis Wikia: everything is valid to some extent.

Obviously DWU: Exile takes place in a weird side universe, but that doesn't mean its physical laws are invalid. (Also it amuses me that it's yet another story with 'future Doctor actor plays a Time Lord who beats up the Doctor' - hi, Colin Baker!)

But yes. I've only listened to the Unbound stories once each, so while I recommend the concept, I can't really comment on the quality. And no, it's absolutely not something that's going to be held up/looked to as canon.

(In fact, Unbound has already been explicitly made uncanon at least once - the one where the Doctor gets shot immediately after regenerating, and thus regenerates again. Um, no - depending on how it's done, that would either cause the regeneration to fail, or cause a River Song-esque light show. It certainly wouldn't cause a second regeneration.)

But it's still an amusing idea. And maybe Time Lord Tennant is just... not a very nice person? (In fact... pretty sure he isn't, thinking about that story.)

hS

This is for multiple reasons. Most of them are below, and are because this audio includes:

- The Doctor drinking and vomiting (with very realistic sound effects)
- Major transphobia, including some voiced by David Tennant
- A very loose plot revolving explosive gasses from human waste in the car park at the store the Doctor works in
- David Tennant eating dog food
- Frequent discussion of poo
- Yet more transphobia
- Seriously, here’s a quote from it: “Doctor, you have been found guilty of crimes against the laws of time and Time Lord decency. You stole a TARDIS and interfered in the affairs of others, but worst of all, you had a sex-change regeneration.”

it's.... really not good. I'd prefer not to ever think about its existence, let alone take the 'Time Lords committing suicide' part as canon.

(not trying to start a fight btw, just putting all of this out here)

This is another thing I worked on while I was gone, and it's... odd. If you read xkcd, you might recall this comic, about making 'an extreme sport out of waiting' by calculating the relationship between the amount of time past and the history of the Earth.

Well, I do remember it... and I decided to do it.

Extreme Waiting is a JavaScript implementation of the idea. It comes with three prebuilt timelines (I prefer to go forwards, rather than backwards): the History of the Earth, the History of Writing, and (of course) the History of Middle-earth.

They're all exponential curves, so time gets more spaced-out as you approach zero; I have jigged the exponents to get roughly even information density across the timeline, though.

You can also write your own timeline and paste it in the box - just follow the example of the samples ('@10.05 Event here', with a space after the percentage). If you do, you can share them here - I might even implement them with their own pictures!

(It works on Chrome and IE; let me know if there's a problem on your browser. Oh, and tell me if any of the pictures fail - I've had to move them from PhotoBucket, and errors are possible.)

hS

Redrawn to scale with the other Plort flags. In place of the crown (the Discord isn't monarchaic, and we've already got the stars for the Mords), we have a symbolic representation of the Great Gate of La Wunj, as well as harking back to the '#' symbol on the flag of Iric. The curving lines indicate openness, and the way they extend beyond the bounds of the square speak of 'thinking outside the box'. (And in keeping with the expansionist theme of the eastern realm: "The rest of Plort is in its little cozy box. We are everything outside.")

Thoughts/feelings/reactions? If we can get agreement on this and the flag of the Riding, I may even come up with a new version of the Union flag that includes all five nations...

hS

Editorials: Thanks! ^^ For some reason I've found it impossible to spell Leek right, even though 'leak' isn't exactly a word I use on a daily basis. I've had to correct her so many times. (Also I could never keep in my head that the Thistle is supposed to be male; to my mind he's clearly female, which means the Leek is clearly male... despite being female. I've no idea, honestly.)

Cladogram: What, you don't think Middleschoolicus builtlikeapornstarricus is the most excellentest Latin evar? Shame on you.

Stellar: Yep, that's the idea. This is PPC HQ. Everything in it is affected by how people think (I may do a paper on different forms of mini in Issue 2). So when a mathematician and a magical White Hole get together to discuss stars... yeah, they were never going to answer anything. (I tried to keep the theme of 'actually getting concrete answers is super hard' running through the entire journal.)

Narrativium: I knew going in that there were going to be some papers that some people couldn't understand, and the chemistry one was always going to be high on the list. But it sounds like you enjoyed it anyway, so that's good!

The Rose: ... is a reference to <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uyY7ugbeCepIbVirsCPh-OeWV8kNukM1YxxWilDLwg/edit#">this paper by the DAMP (before it was DAS-DAMP), which creates the theory that the multiverseplex is an icosahedron (because... just because). It said this:

The question of what occupies the centre of the Icosahedron, where all the multiverses meet, is likely to become highly debated. Already several hypotheses are being bandied about, including the notion that it is a ‘real’ multiverse of which all ours are but shadows (though this idea is also said of the outside of the Rose), that it is simply a mathematical point with no physical significance, and that ‘At the center of all lies the Dark Tower, do it please ya.’

... which may actually have been quoting you. ;) I've dropped a link to the paper into the first paragraph, which should really have been there all along.

Cannibal: The DMSE&R is intentional. Most of Dr. Niamh's collection is inherited from the old department. (And yeeeeah, Alumia. ^^)

Cookbook: And now I've learnt something about animals! It was actually moderately difficult to figure out how to do Atlas' parts, but then the idea of the salt entry hit me. At that point it all fell together.

Archaeology: I'll let you in on a secret - I just came up with things I wanted to use for agents, and then maneuvered them to fit. I have a document where I listed first their species, then the details, then their personalities, and usually finally their names. A Thomas the Tank Engine agent was a fun idea, so I found a division to slot her into.

She was also the hardest one - other than Atlas - to photograph. I've artificially recoloured her from red to bronze, and added a hint of lips and eyelashes (because this is TTTE - it's not subtle about sexual dimorphism in steam engines).

Ancillary Canons: This one came about because of Norlosse, actually. She's a Middle-earth native, but is also obviously not from the Middle-earth canon. I needed (well, wanted) a name for that, and I had a physicist with a sociological bent to hand...

Generic Surface: Yay, it worked! ^^ The idea of 'two students fall through the Avon Rift and have to work together despite not getting on' was a very early one, but this ended up being the last paper written, because I didn't know how exactly to do it. I'm pleased it worked. ^^

Suvian Biology: And this is where it all started. I wanted to piece together everything we had on Suvian biology, and see if there was any way to make it coherent. The idea of writing it as a formal review article popped up about halfway through the table, and led directly to "what if I made more mad scientists...?". (As for Agent Cocoa - I have no excuse. It's just like the Leek.)

Thank you for your extremely detailled review. ^^ It's hard to descibe just how much it means to know that someone's read it, and liked it, in such detail. This goes to everyone else, too: thank you.

hS

... in one of the Doctor Who Unbound audio books (they're AUs, and actually pretty awesome), that Time Lords will switch sex if they regenerate due to committing suicide. (The one I'm thinking of is Exile, the first full-length story to feature a female Doctor. She is probably an AU Three, having escaped from Time Lord justice presumably as Two.)

Well, so far that pretty much holds up. The two sex-change regenerations we've seen are the General standing in front of the Doctor's gun even when he's checking whether (s)he'll regenerate, and the Master literally stabbing him/herself in the back (assuming Simms did in fact regenerate directly into Missy).

Assuming this is part of the ongoing regeneration from the finale... well, he did trap himself on a deck full of Cybermen and walk in front of their guns while planning to blow the whole place to smithereens. It's not hard to call that suicide, too.

(Of course, if you do that, the Doctor practically always commits suicide...)

hS

There's some Star Wars: The Last Jedi behind-the-scenes footage out there, and I'd just like to say:



Alolan Vulpix: confirmed!

hS

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-me-george-romero-20170716-story.html

Legendary filmmaker George A. Romero, father of the modern movie zombie and creator of the groundbreaking “Night of the Living Dead” franchise, has died at 77.

Romero died Sunday in his sleep after a “brief but aggressive battle with lung cancer,” according to a statement to The Times provided by his longtime producing partner, Peter Grunwald. Romero died while listening to the score of one his favorite films, 1952’s “The Quiet Man,” with his wife, Suzanne Desrocher Romero, and daughter, Tina Romero, at his side, the family said.

Romero jump-started the zombie genre as the co-writer (with John A. Russo) and director of the 1968 movie “Night of the Living Dead,” which went to show future generations of filmmakers such as Tobe Hooper and John Carpenter that generating big scares didn’t require big budgets. “Living Dead” spawned an entire school of zombie knockoffs, and Romero’s sequels included 1978’s “Dawn of the Dead,” 1985’s “Day of the Dead,” 2005’s “Land of the Dead,” 2007’s “Diary of the Dead” and 2009’s “George A. Romero’s Survival of the Dead.”

The original film, since colorized, has become a Halloween TV staple. Among other notable aspects of the cult classic was the casting of a black actor, Duane Jones, in the lead role, marking a milestone in the horror genre.

It's established that the Riding uses the Arrow of Acacia as its symbol; we (because apparently no-one opposes Baron Huinesoron claiming baronial lands in the Riding) could use that to divide the flag in two, with one half octarine, the other half... well, grey is a traditional Plortish colour, and would represent the Grey Lady, who lived in the Twin Temples. So grey?



It's a bit on the dark side, but, y'know, this is Plort; we do that. On the other hand, this version:



Gives us "typing on a white page is super creative", which is a good message for the Riding of Sittorese.

Thoughts? (Pseudo-octarine is obviously the best we can do on the 'net; it tends to burn out pixels if you do it properly.)

hS

JODIE WHITTAKER IS NUMBER THIRTEEN!

I don’t actually know what it should look like, but I feel that the flag should somehow represent the conflict of "imagination" versus "sticking to the rules (of kanun and spelin)". I would like to use octarine to represent imagination, but obviously we cannot draw that. But then, this may be the reason why after two years there is still no image of the Riding’s imaginary flag, just a vague description?

HG

Because I seem to fail to deliver my wish. Here goes.

Later on, I want to write about a friend of one of the protagonist. He raided a caravan, and the protagonist comes to help the attacked caravan. The friend was caught and he cries before the protagonist. I still want them both to work together, which is why I am thinking about a proper to make an immortal to atone for his banditry.

Regarding criticising immortality, what I want to point out is simply that getting hurt hurts, even if you are immortal. Take Ajin for example. I want to see if the pain of death inhibits people by how much if they don't die because of it. Or in my fic, their body reattach themselves perfectly a few hours after they die.

And about the lesser life thing, unfortunately it also occurs in real life. Therefore, it is perfectly reasonable for some lives to mean less to specific characters. Since most pieces of fiction are writting partially from the protaginist's perspective, naturally some lives look cheap because they are, from the protagonist's perspective at least. In the grand scheme of things, all lives are equal. From the perspctive of an individual, definitely not.