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Anne Rice's views on transformative works were rooted in hypocrisy (I point to her writings as A.N. Roquelaire, specifically the trilogy of garbage erotic novels about Beauty And The Beast, by way of evidence) and now that she's dead an explosion of fan creativity has occurred. The PPC as a community is well within its rights to join in. Will I specifically be taking part? Probably not. I don't know any of Rice's canons well enough. But someone who joins up some day might be in love with the world of the vampire Lestat, just as I am with niche computer games and forgotten webcomics, and that person should have the right to engage with their favourite canon the same way everyone else does.

As OrangeFox pointed out in the Discord, it's not clear whether anyone would even make use of the option to go for this material, so this entire vote may very well be a technicality. (I don't even remember anything she's written, so it sure won't be me.) But if the author has relaxed limitations, I don't see why we shouldn't let ourselves move in.

Vanishes off the face of the Board for another six months.

Oh man, we’re getting close to the end now, aren’t we? I see that both the protagonists and I were wrong about Lockhart, which means . . . I don’t even want to think about what it means, I’ve probably already gone over any speculation I could make in past comments anyway. I am ready to lay hands on teenage Riddle now, I don’t care that he was a minor at the time, the idea that he sacrificed his best friend for some blood purity nonsense . . . I want to slap his prepubescent face so hard, he sees the insides of his own toes. Congrats, Lily; you’ve created a version of Riddle that I hate more than Voldemort!

On the other end of the emotional spectrum, I don’t know if you intended for this to be humorous or not, but I was literally laughing out loud when the beautiful, silvery doe Patronus steps daintily out of the forest . . . and then hisses out Sev’s smarmy voice! Like, I know that’s just the way Patronuses function, but the juxtaposition just destroyed me. It was very early in the morning, so maybe I wasn’t entirely cogent yet . . . Another detail I liked was Ron using Mordred’s name akin to the way U.S. speakers use Benedict Arnold’s as a shorthand for “traitor.”

One typo:
They set off again, and now the trees were starting to feel a little more friendlier, relatively speaking.
Either “friendlier” or “more friendly” is less redundant.

—doctorlit is professionally obligated to say, “No chocolate for dogs!”

As a result of this thread, Nessie has suggested that a separate thread be made for the comm to vote on whether or not to remove Anne Rice works from quarantine status and allow missions into them. Reasoning is provided by doctorlit in the post linked above.

-Yuki, who has zero experience in running voting threads and does not use Discord.

Hi! I hung around a bit... six years ago now (gosh) and was wondering if I could get an invite to the discord?

I don't know if I have the energy to restart my agent projects, but I miss the discord and don't remember why I left.

I still frequent the Discord pretty often, so I can give the folk there a heads-up. Might try one of these myself while I'm at it, provided I find the right time and motivation.

Hazama Takeo and Mitsuki had no daughter, but they celebrated Doll Festival all the same. It would be a waste not to display the hina doll set they had, a treasured Hazama family heirloom. Crafted by the famed Andō clan, it was an outstanding work of Kyoto craftsmanship: a full seven-tier set, every doll from the Emperor and Empress down to the three officials minutely carved and painted and clad in fine textiles, accompanied by furniture lacquered and gilded. Though passed down many generations, the doll set remained as new.

However, there was yet a more important reason for the celebration: the couple's son was fascinated by the elegance of hina dolls and blooming peach blossoms, the colours of chirashizushi and puffed rice. It was what truly mattered.

They're back!

In all seriousness, apologies for not doing any last month, I wasn't in a great headspace at the start of the month and as the month progressed while I felt better I couldn't think of good prompts (and the idea of looking some up on the internet literally only just came to me as I write this). Also I wanted to try and write my own response to at least one of the prompts and I just wasn't in a writing mood.

But anyway, here are the three prompts for March, and I will (hopefully) be writing a response to one of them in the next week or two.

1) Your character has a secret

2) "A Surprise is just around the corner"

3) Keeping Traditions.

Well, good luck!

Nova

P.S. I don't frequent the discord anymore so idk if people would be open to the prompts there that don't look at the Board so much? Let me know and maybe we can figure something out.

And then someone should tell the Discord it's happening so they can participate.

~Neshomeh is recovering from an illness and is not volunteering.

...and the fact that she was stated to have softened her stance on fics (including slash fics, which I think was part of her reason for banning fic earlier?), I would favour de-quarantining. But I don't actually have much of a horse in the race, since I haven't actually read her books.

an StGRB equivalent for fanfiction (shudders). For those not in the know, it stands for Stop the Goodreads Bullies, a notorious group of authors who "exposed" reviewers who left negative reviews on Goodreads by hunting down sensitive info on them, up to and including what dining establishment they liked to frequent and at what time, and sharing the info publicly on the Internet alongside disparaging comments about the reviewers' character. The group's website was shut down in 2015.

Well, I think this is the first time an author with a quarantine has passed away during the PPC's existence(?), so that is ultimately up to the community overall to discuss and decide. In my opinion, we should definitely continue to respect the wishes of an author after their death, and keep such continua quarantined.

Now, when I pulled up Rice's Wikipedia page to check what you meant (as I said, not having realized she was dead), I found this quote by her, from a 2012 online article that has since been deleted:
"I got upset about 20 years ago because I thought it would block me. However, it's been very easy to avoid reading any, so live and let live. If I were a young writer, I'd want to own my own ideas. But maybe fan fiction is a transitional phase: whatever gets you there, gets you there."

Soooooo . . . are Rice's works quarantined? That is also a matter the Board will have to discuss, I guess! It sounds to me like her main worry was being exposed to ideas in fanworks, which she then wouldn't be able to use in her own stories, but since she can't produce any more, and doesn't seem to have minded fic as much these last ten years, I think we could probably de-quarantine?

—doctorlit, very aware of current events in the literary world

Some of the more adjusted members might have been Lawful Neutral, but the harrassers are definitely Lawful Evil.

—doctorlit, Neutral Good, but toeing the line into Chaotic

Here.

—and doctorlit will likely do it again

about a song he heard in a movie. It's weirdly personal and kinda hilarious.

-Ls

Edit: My speculation was entirely wrong, had the months backwards.

-Ls

As continuum quarantine is based on respecting authors' wishes, what is our stance on quarantining for authors who have passed away?

I got curious as to when certain types of fic were banned on FFn, so I did a bit of research.

25 April 1999 - "Fanfic only" rule enforced, removing polls, questions, announcements etc

20 May 2001 - Anne Rice fanfic removed

1 April 2002 - Lists removed (they previously had their own category)

1 April 2002 - MSTs banned

7 April 2002 - Actor-fics banned

12 September 2003 - NC-17 fics banned

12 September 2002 - "Chat room or keyboard dialogue based entries" banned

6 February 2003 - Original fiction moved to FictionPress

22 March 2004 - Poetry category removed; original poetry banned

19 April 2004 - Clarification that the no-chat-dialogue rule means none at all, including author notes

30 April 2004 - "Original superheroes" category removed

27 July 2004 - Clarification that script format === chat dialogue

27 July 2004 - Clarification that CYOA and 2nd person are banned as interactive fiction

27 April 2005 - Clarification that pasting song lyrics into fic is banned

That's all I can find. Notably, I don't see any indication of when interactive fiction was banned - it may have been a founding condition of the site. Similarly, they don't ever seem to have explicitly banned song lyrics - just clarified that they already were banned.

Script format is rolled up under chat format, and banned on the simple grounds that it's usually bad. At least they're honest?

hS

The Trio follow the butterflies spiders.

No one other than the pretty boy botchan himself dressed as the Empress doll. I did not intend for the whole thing to also look like a matryoshka.

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I am attempting to get a script together for an adaptation of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde, because I reckon that most of the adaptations out there have too much unnecesary romance and other unnecesary bits as well. So far, I am mostly taking my dialogue from the book, with a few changes and a scene or two which I thought up myself. When I get it up to scratch, I am hoping to use it to make a radio theatre/audio dramatization.