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Because for all that Team Cretaceous Calamity may be good on paper (and dang yoi, now it'll have a Minior named Katie in it), it's still got me commanding it. And I am not good at this game.

hS

I mean, it's a perfectly normal, totally not suspicious cake. That has to mean it's evil, right?

~Neshomeh

The Badfic page: "While there are countless examples of poor fanfiction on the internet, only the worst is considered to be badfic."

The FAQ: For Other People: "The stories we make fun of are not the stories that are mostly canonical, but have one or two flaws, or the stories that perhaps might be disrespectful towards the original work. We deal with the most awful, Sueish, worst-written, canon-warping fanfiction there is."

If you're doing monotype anyway, then ignore me.

I've not seen that, though I admit I don't browse the wiki much. Can you point me at a couple of examples?

(Oh, she will... eventually. ^_^)

hS

HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU
MAY ALL YOUR WISHES COME TRUE
HOPE NOBODY MAKES YOU BLUE
AND YOUR CAKE DOESN'T EXPLODE IN GOO!

*blows noisemakers*

That is the proper verb tense, right? Birth->Borth?

Anyway, have some Totally Not Suspicious Cake!

-Phobos

Trainer Hardric sends... Whatever monotype team he can think about during this weekend, or the following ones.

I think with point one, the reason why the mindset is that "everything we mission has to be terrible" is because it's mentioned in a few places on the Wiki. In-universe, though, that does make sense, so thanks for clearing it up for me.

Augh, I feel like I need to respond to every single other point you made, but it would just be me nodding in agreement, so... *nods vigorously*

(Also, Kaitlyn needs to become a hobbit, if only so her shrieking can puncture Selene's eardrums.)

(Also you're having a team themed after the K-T Boundary why do you not have Minior it is literally a falling asteroid up yo game mister ventral sparrow darkness)

You have about two thirds of a very good team going on here. Kommo-O is very good, Mega Tyranitar works well with your various Rock-types, Alolan Marowak gives you a lot of options and has a stratospheric attack courtesy of its signature item (Thick Club), and Haxorus is a very good physical attacker. If you ditched, say, Torterra for Minior, then you'd have the makings of a pretty decent offensive team, with Aurorus being a bit of additional special attack via Refridgerate to make up the numbers.

Okay, now that I've told hS he's wrong about something I will be hyperventilating into a paper bag for about three years.

The general naming rule for this team are Queen songs.

"Another One Bites The Dust" the Landorus-Therian
"Ogre Battle" the Excadrill
"Dragon Attack" the Charizard
"Seven Seas of Rhye" the Greninja
"Killer Queen" the Celesteela
"Flash's Theme" the Tapu Koko

My team:
Jennifer the Floatzel
Allen the Crobat
Ethan the Alolan Raichu
Angie the Roserade
David the Alakazam (can Mega Evolve)
Xander the Emboar

Welcome to the PPC! We're a bunch of crazies over here, so don't mind us!

Anyway, you know the drill. Leave your sanity at the door, do all sorts of other things...

Oh, and have some welcome music! https://youtu.be/5nrnW-F0DzE

Aurorus
Bastiodon
Haxorus
Marowak (Alolan)
Kommo-o
Torterra
Tyranitar

Introducing Team K-T Boundary.

(Feel free to drop me if you need to lose one person to make the bracket tidier; we all know Team Paleontological Mishmash isn't going to win anything except possibly pewter.)

hS

The one I dumped back into the Unclaimed page? Have fun missioning it sometime in the future!

The Harry potter one where Harry survives a dementor attack and gets power from it

1) "Tormentor" is a bit of a common name for a badfic; what fic are you talking about?
2) Please update the Claimed Badfic page accordingly, and note that the claim is Permission pending.

Guess it's time to binge Smogon, then.

I'm claiming Tormentor. Probably make it my first mission once I get permission.

First off, I've often lamented the mindset that all PPC missions must be into Terrible No Good Very Bad fics. A badfic doesn't have to be squicktastic to make a good mission - at least, I'm trying to prove it doesn't.

Secondly, and in-universe, the barely-badfics are still badfics. They still affect the canon, even if not as much. So they still need dealing with.

Third, Intel are just as overworked as everyone else. I'm sure some of them conscientiously look deeply into every fic they're assigned; I'm also sure they get far less done than the ones who go 'three extra Walkers, it's a badfic', or indeed 'Wormtongue slash, must be bad'.

Fourth, except for this mission and their very first one, everything S+K go into is by request from Board members. Since Architeuthis established way back that 'person sending in badfic' can be an in-universe synonym for 'Intelligence operative', this really is a case of Intel not doing their jobs. ^~

Fifth, S+K are supposed to be fluffy. They're designed to make you feel good when you read them. That means that yeah, they won't go into the 'o woe this fic is so bad I must rage' mode so understandably common among agents, because that's not their thing.

Sixth, this fic was bad. It was massively plagiarised from the movie script, gave the three girls utterly generic personalities - despite the fact that Rose Cotton has a personality, a very distinct one - and showed a general lack of understanding of Middle-earth. It was a bad fic. What it wasn't was cringeworthy or horrifying, on which, see point 1. But take a look at the concrit, where I/Kaitlyn found it nearly impossible to say anything good about the fic.

Seventh, there was absolutely no way I could not send Kaitlyn into this story. C'mon!

7+1th, I do like giving concrit at the end. But make no mistake, despite how gentle it was, this fic still ended up dead, dead, dead.

Bet you didn't think I'd have eight answers to that, huh? ^~

hS

You can keep it as a pet.
You can cook it up and eat it.
You can keep it as a roommate, on equal standing as you.
You can use it as your top minion as you attempt to conquer earth.
You can merge your chi with it and become more powerful than you could ever imagine.
You could drive to work in it.
You can get it elected as president of the world.

Whatever it is you wish! However your imagination takes you!

Now, in the inaugural Sunflower Cup I got to the final with an RU team... basically because I was the only one who knew even slightly what they were doing wrt team comp. I was Bodyhammer that year, basically, and if you get that reference then you were a nerd in the late '90s too, so grats. =]

Anyway, my team will be as follows:-

Toxapex
Pheromosa
Metagross
Volcarona
Serperior
Hoopa-Unbound
Tapu Fini

Reuniclus
Skarmory
Blissey
Azumarill
Togekiss
Shuckle