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I mean like I have greater issues with the authors who write basically slash and then in their authors notes go "and this is obviously not slash because that would be gross and wrong" (WHICH IS ALSO SOMETHING THAT HAPPENED IN A PUBLISHED SHERLOCK HOLMES THING THAT CAME OUT A FEW YEARS AGO BECAUSE UGH) but just.
Why is Watson always mpreg. Why. WHY
(weirdly Sherlock Holmes is a place where I found the One Good Sentinel/Guide Fic so)

(OKAY SO I LOVED THAT SHOW AND WROTE A LOT OF FANFIC IN IT UNDER MY OLD USERNAME AND NOW I AM SO UPSET
when the 19th century author writes better female characters you need to rethink things. A lot.
-vague mutterings about Mary-)

1, The Daughter of Elrond > by Violet Eagle reviews
The Ring has been stolen and a daughter of Elrond is missing. Rated T for possible language.
Lord of the Rings - Rated: Fiction T - English - Chapters: 41 - Words: 82,127 - Reviews: 85 - Favs: 36 - Follows: 50 - Updated: Jul 19, 2016 - Published: Jul 1, 2014 - Status: Complete - id: 10500120

My comment: She's Arwen's sister, and joins the Fellowship to supplant Frodo's Ringbearer because she has visions that without her the Nazgûl will get him for sure. She saves Boromir at Parth Galen only to lose him at Cirith Ungol (after sticking more than a few pins in Shelob).

2. Lost in Fire > by Violet Eagle reviews
It has been months since Eleryna destroyed the Ring and brought peace to Middle Earth. But she cannot have peace until Sauron is dead, once and for all. Sequel to Daughter of Elrond.
Lord of the Rings - Rated: Fiction T - English - Legolas, Haldir, Elrohir - Chapters: 5 - Words: 9,101 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 5 - Follows: 5 - Updated: Jan 21 - Published: Aug 23, 2016 - id: 12116807

My comment: Diediediediedie!

3. The Ringbearer's Baymax > by Sev Baggins reviews
Girl . . . doesn't fall . . . is pulled into Middle Earth by Gandalf. Too typical to be glorious, and too different to be normal. "You are here to comfort and heal him, not to fight and not to speak." "So I'm his Baymax." Frodo/OC; AU storyline, not an LotR script repeat. Please review! :)
Lord of the Rings - Rated: K+ - English - Friendship/Romance - Chapters: 10 - Words: 27,701 - Reviews: 33 - Favs: 8 - Follows: 11 - Updated: Jan 21 - Published: Nov 22, 2016 - [Frodo B., Human] Samwise G., Gollum

My comment: She's typical all right--in the sense of being a textbook Sue.

4. The Mermaid Princess > by butterfliewingz reviews
A beautiful merimad goes on a quest to find her father and to saves the world and finds her true love
Lord of the Rings - Rated: T - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 4 - Words: 3,712 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Updated: Jan 20 - Published: Jan 3 - Legolas, OC

My comment: This one had better be sitting alone on its seat of stone, while munching and mumbling a bare old bone!

I'm generally a slash shipper too, and while I'm not heavily into Sherlock Holmes, I'm familiar enough with the canon (read a good chunk of the original short stories, saw a fair piece of the new show) that I know there is a lot of H/W out there, and as the maxim goes, 90% of it is crud.

(I need to go refamiliarize myself with a decent version of Irene Adler, the greatest Sherlock Holmes that wasn't written by a certain Mr. Moffat.)

I read up until the... somethingth book, and then there was time travel which turned me off because little me was more interested in the spells than the characters (whoops). I NEED TO READ CARRY ON (that's the gay harry potter one, right?)

I read the synopsis, admittedly, so was very confused, but I am definitely going to reread that at some point now that I remember it exists. (Oh no, I hate it when that happens. Sincerely. As a boy who was at one time a small lesbian (it's complicated) I feel you)

I read it so long ago I can't remember, whoops.

THAT SOUNDS INCREDIBLE. I need more librarian friends.

I haven't read anything by Susanna Clarke, or six of crows, but i gotta. I went through a huge YA phase-- got into a highschool on the strength of an essay about how much I hated the last divergent novel :P

SHAKESPEARE IS A FANDOM AND DESERVES MORE FANFIC AND I LOVE HIM

I feel like if I tried to write missions now it would either be for excruciating Sherlock Holmes stuff (I am a slash shipper and some of the H/W stuff is just. Painful) or, alternatively, THAT ONE REALLY BAD ARCADIA FIC I FOUND (arcadia is a play)

I definitely remember you! You seemed pretty cool, if terrifyingly impressive (which described how I viewed all the oldbies, ngl)

THANK YOU SO MUCH THAT IS VERY USEFUL :D
-Wes

Since I don't think I've given you a newbie gift before, have one of my own shed feathers and a complimentary kit of Spikes!

I'm afraid I can't finish this. It's a combination of too much time passing, being too worn out, not knowing a thing about Tython, and not having the energy to do what would essentially be 'running from monsters: the roleplay'.

The fun of these chains has been in using people and places to flesh out the story. In this case, we're on a planet that hasn't been visited in a thousand years, and has changed significantly since the period people are thinking of it in.

I'm happy for someone else to pick it up and carry it through, but I just... can't. Sorry.

hS

I wish it were easier to find missions without killing in them in departments that aren't supposed to be about Suvians. That's actually one reason I wanted to write for the DIC, because I wasn't too sure about doing the whole assassination thing back when I joined. As it turned out, I got over it by the time I started writing—but I do try to at least come up with creative solutions for the team's baddies, and avoid calling "character replacement" unless there's a name change on top of them being very OOC.

That said, there are some fairly solid storytelling reasons that Sue missions are easier to write, and Suvians do crop up just about everywhere. *shrug*

Like I said to Tomash, I wouldn't hold your breath waiting for more about Nume. I'm kinda feeling sorry I set it up as some sort of deep dark horrible traumatizing secret, cuz I didn't mean to. There's stuff he's not telling anyone, sure, but he's pretty much just bitching and moaning there, and Jenni latches onto it because she's Jenni and she just can't help herself.

Glad you liked that other bit, though. Nice to know someone caught it. ^_^

Thanks for commenting!

~Neshomeh

I probably will look into the lore -- if I ever get around to writing missions, they will for sure be for tiny, tiny fandoms.

Also, hi. I should probably say that. I do remember your old username, if only vaguely. Welcome back!

For the links, I have a list of spin-offs I like specifically for occasions like this. You don't have to read them in any particular order, though starting with the introductory ones is probably a good idea. Enjoy! {= )

~Neshomeh

How thoughtless of me! Have an invitation to the live chat on Discord: https://discord.gg/HatcBnQ

I'm not actually on right now, since I have an essay to write, but they seem to be having a lot of fun. Looks like a dramatic badfic reading.

The Sub-department of Rare Fandoms doesn't have its own wiki page yet, but there certainly could be if anyone were interested in making one! There are actually quite a lot of missions, but most of them are by just one person, for just a handful of fandoms, many of which aren't actually all that rare, now that I look at it. I dunno how much lore there is about the actual division, either. If you delve into it, good luck!

~Neshomeh

All those years of futile searching kind of killed the joy. But good, you have something in common with periferal! Help make him love us so he doesn't fall prey to Disappearing Newbie Syndrome!

(I would look it up, but the computer I'm on is too slow to load the wiki. I think they only had a couple missions, anyway.)

WE HAVE MORE SEPTIMUS HEAP FANS HERE?

I spent a solid five years looking for the second Septimus Heap book. I only found it last summer, and I was in the middle of something else at the time (was it Carry On?) so I didn't pursue it. I probably should have.

I personally love time travel, and think Pseudonymous Bosch handled it pretty well, but I get that it's not for everyone (I wish I hadn't read the whole series though *grumble grumble* actually I liked it; I'm just annoyed that my first-ever LO had to go get herself a boyfriend *disappointed small lesbian noises*).

Ayyyy, one can't not read the prequel! As for Chasing Vermeer, the big question: how many of the codes did you crack?

And Lemony Snicket's writing is pretty amazing. Yeah, it's settled; I have to read ATWQ. I'll probably do it this summer; I volunteer (high school requirement) in the children's section of the library, and they let me read on the job (befriending librarians is among the best life choices I ever made).

Okay, I also want to ask you about stuff I like that I got into post-fifth grade: Anything Susanna Clarke? How about Six of Crows -- it's kind of YA, I know, but it's good YA. Are you perhaps one of those wonderful people who treats Shakespeare as a fandom?

Honestly despite being way older than the main character ATWQ is amazing just for the descriptions.

I read Vermeer and the mysterious Benedict society (including the prequel) and some of the name of this book is secret-- when the time travel happened I got very confused.
Do you remember the settings heap books?

But that sounds nice

There are so many books that deserve so much more love.

What a wondrous device!

Oh whoops. Uh. It's honestly been a while, which I should correct, but the stories with the characters who are all minor characters played by the same actor were could.
I'm very tired right now so more specifics will come in the morning. I also don't know where to begin, now that I've returned. There's just so much and I'd like a list of what order would be best to read them.

It's not a bookmark, it's an incredibly complex device that has been passed down the family line for centuries. It is an astoundingly complex, intricate mechanism, built of over a million gears and pistons and springs and engines and such.
It, er, makes a really good bookmark, but! But!
It makes a really good door-holder, too! And window-breaker!
Don't you forget that.

And I meant PPC spin-off! The sort of other stories that aren't from Jay and Acacia, is what I meant.
Spin-off is a really, really vague term, and, er. I realise I honestly would have reacted the exact same way.
Pardon me!

But, you know, if I ever feel the sort of need to read Sherlock Holmes, I will remember that!

It never even occurred to me to write fanfic about Agatha Christie (even though I once put on a fan production of Murder on the Orient Express with my little sister and a bunch of stuffed toys)! And Then There Were None will always have such a special place in my heart.

By the time ATWQ came out, I was way out of the target age group and firmly attached to my headcanons about Lemony Snicket and VFD, so I never quite got into them (didn't want to, oddly enough -- Lemony Snicket was a mysterious figure who communicated through coded notes stuck in your dry cleaning; it was weird seeing him have a life and childhood. That was narrow of me and I ought to give the series another shot).

Things I put into a category with ASOUE: The Name of this Book is Secret? Mysterious Benedict Society? The Candymakers? Anything by Daniel Pinkwater? Chasing Vermeer?

--Key