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I wanted to use my other team. I just didn't consider who my mains were, and my mains don't live in the same RC. I didn't know that I could use the team that I was going to work with first.

I ended up having to abandon the Larry and Samantha team because they just didn't work.

I tried to talk about the problem I was having.

I think that the PG thought I was only going to do two things with my permission pair and then never look at them again.

...Why not just use a different character, then? I know I come up with so many different concepts so often I did like two things with my original permission pair and then never looked at them again.

(I'll probably reboot that spinoff eventually though, once I think of a story worth telling with them.)

I am wondering again if Samantha was a good choice of character, but I like her. Perhaps the bad choice is dealing with Legacy of Kain within the context of the PPC.

(There are humorus fics in the LOK universe, but most of them are good. Most of the bad LOK fanfictions are taking themselves seriously.)

Having Samantha chase children is like letting a wolf loose in a deer pen and not expecting something horrible to happen.

((I know that Wolf Park in Lafayette, IN lets the wolves loose in the bison pen. The wolves are fed and trained, and I haven't heard of any accidents where the bison were seriously hurt.))

Samantha is not like my cat, who continues to bring dead dragonflies into the house for no reason other than boredom.

I'll even agree with it.

My point, in turn, is that I feel banning is supposed to be used on people who are actively malevolent - who are deliberately trying to cause trouble. I don't know that I feel zdimensia/Bramandin has ever come across that way.

But I also think she should leave. I guess I want it both ways - I want the PPC community to have a set of shared values, but I don't like the idea of kicking out people who don't share them. ("Recognising when you're in the wrong," in this case.)

I don't know.

hS

... that you understand how to write for the PPC. In this story, I showed that I could pair serious issues with humour, without dismissing the serious part, but also without letting it override the humour. Precisely how well I did that is open for interpretation, I suppose.

Given that you told Neshomeh you couldn't write your vampire chasing children "unless you like dead baby jokes" (paraphrasing), I am not inclined to believe your description here.

hS

Okay, there's two problems there. One was Webs, which I've fixed. The other... is that FfW is built on Google Drive javascript and CSS files, which are no longer available.

This... may not be easy to fix.

Individual stories are still accessible; the addresses take this format:

http://fanfic_land.webs.com/FfW/Story21-1.htm

I think I may just make a link repository for both sites, and then move the next Badfic Games (that I feel up to archiving) to a third site. One that Liechtenstein can't find and sabotage.

hS

(Not sure if this should have been a new thread... best not to bump stuff, right?)

(Maybe add this to the FAQ?) I'd like to know rules about starting RPs. More detailed description on the talk page.

http://ppc.wikia.com/wiki/Talk:FAQ:TheBoard#Aquestiontoaskandtoadd

-Twistey

*picks up the mini-boarder* (My name's Narnian, so it looks like a dragon.) ((Non-sequitur, look up my name, and you might find a wiki article that explains why I chose it.))

I do intend to ask to have my IP temporarily re-blocked after this thread is finished. (If that's not too much trouble.) Not as a silencing or punishment, but as a precautionary measure until I heal. Just as you would put a cast on an arm to keep it from moving until the bone knits.

I think that banning me would be bad for the community, to set up a precedent of rejecting people with mental health issues.

((It would also symbolize that the community values protecting itself above all else, even a person's life. The way to make up for the past mistake is to give me an honest second chance.))

I do need to leave for a while. Not really a ban, no clock, just to go fix myself before I try to be part of the community. I realize that if I am disruption, (on my future actions, not because of the past,) it would then be right to remove me.

So in Iximaz's mission to Rose Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, a mini of Halloween (the holiday) was created.
It manifested in the form of a Jack-o'-lantern with the misspelled name carved into it. Halloween (the holiday) is not a continuum, so there can be no fan fiction or OFUs written in it.
In addition, Iximaz says that not only is the mini-jack-o'-lantern not their idea, but they also do not remember whos it is. If I wanted to add this to the Minis page on the wiki, what should I do?

...there's something wrong with the Fanfic Land and Fanfic World links. Specifically, of the links under "Links" on this page, only the third one works. None of the stories are accessible.

~Z

PS: The table, on the other hand, is working well and is very, very fun. It's also made me realize that half of my agent pages (or so) are several years out of date, which...I mean, I knew some of them were a little out of date, but I didn't know they were that out of date. Whoops? Anyhow, the table's been fun.

I'm not trying to flame. I just lack the language to state my interpretation; I lack the language to make it easy for the other person to correct it.

The response I wanted was, "This is why this isn't true."

I think I'm getting hung up on the difference between "didn't do anything wrong." "There wasn't a mistake." Or "This didn't affect the receiving party."

I am embracing that there was an accident. I am embracing that my misunderstandings turned a small problem into a big one.

Once other people acknowledged that they made a mistake... I might have been slow to accept it.

I admit that I was mirroring the community's attitude when I rejected Neshome's apology. She didn't deserve that, and I am sorry.

I was under stress for days. Non-sequiturs do not feel disconnected to me.

I felt that the myth you built up wasn't giving me a fair shot. I felt that the preconception that I was a troll prevented you from trying to hear what I was trying to say. I thought that Bramandin was doing somewhat well.

About the inability to be clear, I am working on it. I had this conversation with a stranger. https://docs.google.com/document/d/10EPxperH4W5zyuQSJb2eoE1-ZowUa8dFiQZ5DdrmYfE/edit?usp=sharing It was rather spooky.

Sorry about that.

The first half of this message... http://disc.yourwebapps.com/discussion.cgi?disc=199610;article=308647;title=PPC%20Posting%20Board

There was a lot of assuming that things were in bad faith, and not enough asking me what I meant.

IIRC, I was hesitant to apologize at that point because I was doing it wrong, and it appeared to me that every time, people were using the apology as an excuse to attack me.

The direct request I ignored, as I explained earlier, I perceived as flame-bait, and my response would not have been kind.

If anyone had really asked me and then paid attention, they would have seen that my "racism" was a reaction to getting scowled at on the street. Feeling guilty about it doesn't seem like the type of racism you need to protect yourselves from.

I didn't even know that's why I was banned. I thought I was banned for doing what people told me to do.

She told me in person on the day I told her who I was. Before that, I was thinking that I had gotten banned because of my autism, which I hadn't known about until well after June 2015.

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IIRC, I was hesitant to apologize at that point because I was doing it wrong, and it appeared to me that every time, people were using the apology as an excuse to attack me.

http://technodann.github.io/PPC-board-2.0/archive/2014/08b.html#post-137537

I had learned that I was doing it wrong, and decided that I needed to do it right.

Another boarder and I spent all day on that apology. He told me how to make a right apology, looked at what I was saying, and told me to rephrase certain lines.

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http://technodann.github.io/PPC-board-2.0/archive/2014/08b.html#post-98340

I had offered to leave, which they took as a sign that it wouldn't be punishment. What would have been a couple of months had I not tried to cooperate turned into a year because they mis-understood my intentions.

Do you hold the answers to everything right now because whaaaaat.

This is amazing. Quick, what's the fastest way to get to the moon? Why are there no three-legged animals? Why do amusing questions or lists of things come in threes? Will this even work with non-PPC related questions?

Ahem.

So, yes, that's pretty awesome and I'm going to see how I can adapt that. It looks helpful. And useful. And I can already see I'm going to have fun with it, whether or not I end up using it...though I could see it working very well for, say, the Reader's page, since there's a lot there and some of it has major spoilers for later stories despite being set earlier...yes, I think I'll give it a try. If it works, it'll go up; if not, it...well, it won't. Either way, I anticipate fun. :D

Thanks!

~Z

This is my mostly-abandoned SorTable of my stories on the Wiki. The code can be directly ported to other pages, and you can make any columns you want sortable.

I am so pleased right now I can't even. ^_^

hS

Meh... I'll take as a compliment!

I thought prompts were supposed to be funny. I don't think that getting her button pushed was funny.

I can't remember what the key is for, exactly. Clockwork sanity?

Samantha isn't a hair-trigger monster either. She's under a lot of stress, and started her development with a lot of angst. I have toned her down, but she was never the type to murder people without a better reason than looking at her funny.

Mini-Balrogs remind her of a traumatizing event.

Here's a bucket of movie-theater popcorn and a pair of Specter Boots I nicked from Terraria! The boots increase your running speed and allow limited flight; the popcorn is for eating while you read the important stuff on the top of the page, or for throwing at Sues when they annoy you. Enjoy!

But even two folks as silly/punny as us run out of steam eventually, so there won't be any further installments. Enjoy.

Also, the mini-Aragogs listed are all fair game. Questions? Comments?

Spoiler SPOILER spoiler spoilER SPOILer sPoIlEr SpOiLeR spOILer Spoilerman Does Whatever A Spoiler Can don't spoil my er How do you solve a problem like a spoiler? Spoi spoi spoi spoi spoiler SPAAAAAAAACE! Sorry about him. ~spoiler block here spoiler block there spoiler block spoiler block everywhere


People have guessed it right, and those of you who were still trying to figure it out were definitely on the right track!

The theme was hybrids (i.e. Hagrid who is half giant, Percy Jackson who is a demigod, Sendak who was part Galra part machine)!

You all did great, and it was fun to get to host this! Well done everyone!