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Thank you! I don't think the logo is appearing on the ancient device I'm using now, unless it's metaphorical…

Thanks! WoF is close to my heart, even if I have a tendency to ignore the aspects of canon I dislike. I'm a very "pick and choose" person when it comes to my personal interpretation of books, although I acknowledge the canon before changing any part of it, of course.

I'm also brand new to the board, and it's nice to see a fellow writer! And your fic was the first to be sporked by the PPC ever, huh… probably feels weird.

Nice to hear that you're still writing. Embarrassment from getting sporked is only natural, and it's nice to know you've kept going and improved since then.

And thank you. I'm flattered that you like my stories. Are you the person responsible for the recent string of kudos on my AO3? ^_^

We seem to have a few things in common, too. Shout-out to my fellow ace who's into dragons and PotO!

If we'd met when I was younger, I might've fought you about Raoul; I was a total Phantom simp. ^_^; (Who could've guessed, amirite?) But nowadays, I find that Christine is the member of that love angle that I actually respect the most. Here she is, caught between these two love-struck idiots, one of whom is a psychotic manchild living in the Opera's basement, and—at least in the book—she keeps her head. She's scared to death, and yet she does the best she can not to hurt anyone while taking action to protect herself and others. Christine's compassion is badass. I wish more adaptations showed her that way.

Raoul does get horribly mistreated in fics, though.

Re. Discworld: Welcome to the Cult of the Great God PTerry. ^_^

Re. mentioning the PPC in stories: Do you mean they want to have the fictional PPC exist and be known about in the fictional universe they're writing? Or would it be a mention of the PPC community what hangs out on this here message board? Both are probably fine, but I'm curious.

~Neshomeh

Lily!

Upon discovering the board, one of the things that made me emotional was your Rambling Band inspired art. The mesmerized eyes and Laurel with the harp made me laugh and also it touched me that something I made in a way got turned into visual art!

I have plenty of fics on my FF. Net page. You can see my ages as I have written them…all through my 20’s up to my mid 30’s…where I dabbled in smut. I still prefer things to happen off-page but some of my readers loved it shrug?

I am not sure if Mirkwood was in the cards for Laurel, but I know the idea was for her band mates to get home and she stays behind. What the motivation was, I am not sure? Did she grow…sadly probably not. I wanted her to be a rocker chick and a fish out of water. And I made very poor, poor choices with Boromir.

It’s so nice to meet you!

I have a bunch on my FF page, around 16 or so. Some abandoned, some complete. I dabbled in smut but, eh, I still don’t know if it’s for me, haha. Still tons of typos and errors because I tend to write when I can’t sleep or when I am on my phone.

I can’t believe the community here. It’s been flattering and heartwarming in a way that only can come with time. I wish I had not been so rash to delete it when the MST-ing occurred. I now find it very funny and I think it’s pretty amazing that this has all kept going for 20 years.

You are too kind about Laurel. If I remember correctly after smooching Boromir, she then realized she was into Legolas and sang him songs by the band Heart down by the River on her, ahem, harp. I cannot for the life of me remembered what happened with Geoff and Cole, lol.

I think I made it all the way to Lothlorien with them, along some forced kissing by Boromir (which I wholeheartedly regret, he deserved better). There were many more rock music references as I had actually been taking music courses (history of) and I worked in a Camelot selling CD’s part-time.

What actually came from the MSTing was me taking a closer and more careful look at the source material. I fell even more in love with Tolkien as I read every single appendices and histories he noted in the books.

I’m kind of in awe about this board. I can’t believe the things that have come from it and been created. I’m floored!

This feels like meeting a celebrity, haha. The writer of the first story to be PPC'd, here on our message board. Wow! I guess it's fair to say that without your story, we might not be here today, so please accept my sincere gratitude.

Oddly enough, I also just recently went back and looked at some of my old fanfic and forum posts from when I was younger (15 in my case). Must be something in the air. So, I empathize very much with that feeling of fondness for an old work even knowing it's just awful. {X D

It's very cool of you to come here and offer to satisfy our curiosity even though you were embarrassed enough to take your story down before. For whatever it's worth 20 years later, Laurel was not the worst. She just had the dubious distinction of being the first. As one of the PPC's self-appointed historians, I'd be interested in anything you can remember about her story.

I'm glad to hear you kept writing! If you're comfortable sharing, I'd be curious to see some of your more recent work, too.

~Neshomeh

I'm glad to hear you've kept on with OCs and romance; if you've got any you'd be okay with sharing, I'd love to check them out. I wonder what you had originally planned for the story with Laurel and her band? Were there plans for her to introduce Thranduil to the joys of Led Zepp harp covers? :'D

~Lily, tickled to meet the person who Started It All

I felt nostalgic tonight and googled my name. I haven’t written a fic in six-ish years. I came across this board and got lost in it and amused by it.

I was 22 when I wrote Rambling Band. I know it wasn’t great, but I liked writing it. I remember when the MST-ing took place, I was embarrassed and ended up deleting it from FF.net.

I now find myself wishing I’d left it up because I published over 10 chapters of the story. I went back and re-read what was salvaged and I can remember some of the plot points going forward. I don’t know if anyone is interested, but I’d be happy to answer questions.

I did continue writing fic. I’d like to think I got better, but I’m still incredibly into OC’s and romance. I do, however, try not not make them Sue’s, but early on I was not successful. I recently went back and re-read all my stories and while they are not high art or deep, I love them. It’s also a way to revisit my younger self.

Anyway, I came here to thank all of you for keeping this alive. I am sorry I don’t have a copy saved anywhere, otherwise I’d be happy to share it with you.

I’ll be the first to admit, Laurel Carter is the worst.

Leah P!

I don't post on the Board nearly as much as I should because I'm mostly active in the Discord, but hello! Glad to see another dragon lover here, I had a whole phase where I read absolutely everything about dragons that I could get my hands on. Though somehow I managed to go without reading Wings of Fire until a friend recently lent me the first set of books.

My gift to you is a hecking cool dragon poster.

It's nice to see someone else familiar with the Wings of Fire series - been a while since I read the books, but they're prolly one of the biggest influences on my writing as of lately. I even wrote a mission for the series some years back, though looking back on it I'm ashamed to say it's by far the one that's aged the worst with time.

Anyways, welcome to the Board! Hope you enjoy the place - it's surprisingly chill, all things considered.

Have your very own hand-drawn logo!

So much so that I had to edit the wiki page to be more balanced criticism than angry rant. Which I did. shrugs And I’ve never actually read Warrior Cats. Someone just told me that my username sounded like that. shrugs again

As far as writing a story that mentions the PPC... dons paper-mâché ‘I am not a PG’ hat for legal purposes I mean, if Lightning has a story/fanfic that just mentions the PPC, and no one but you guys reads it... I think that’d be fine. Though I would wait for an Oldbie Opinion (which is not what mine is) before I’d say yes, absolutely.

Glad you like the pillow! I hope you can stick around, and be friends.

—Ls

Lightning told me they probably won't publish the story they mention the PPC in, since it's mostly a writing exercise.

And coincidentally, Lightning has read both Warrior Cats (they intend to read all the books, all 90+ of them) as well as the first two Inheritance Cycle books. The latter is worth looking into, although the Inheritance Cycle has something of a… bad reputation among PPCers from what I can tell. Heh. Not to mention finding time to read them between all the books I'm already in the middle of reading. I'll figure something out, hopefully.

And thanks for the pillow!

I’m Linstar! If you’ve been lurking for a while you’ve probably seen me here. I’m male (and my name sounds like a Warriors character, apparently), and I share a lot of the fandoms you mentioned.

As far as stories with nonantagonist dragons... dare I recommend Eragon? It’s got some interesting ideas, even if the main character’s a bit of a Stu.

As for Lightning’s stories... are they going to be posted publically? I think that might be necessary to know.

—Ls

PS: have a Pillow of Snuggle. It is a pillow of unlimited snugglebilities.

Uh, hi. I'm Thunder and this is my first post on this forum! Yay! Guess I should introduce myself.

First contact with the PPC: I found it via TV Tropes. More specifically, I found a link to the sporking of Light and Dark The Adventures of Dark Yagami on the aforementioned badfic's TV Tropes page. This "PPC" thing intrigued me, because I like parodies, and I have been reading sporkings ever since.

Favorite PPC story/character/etc: I particularly like Neshomeh's stories. "The Phantomess of the Opera and the Half-Blood Prince" sporking is probably my favorite so far.

Have I looked at the important stuff: I've gone through the Constitution and the sporking guidelines and such. I'm also slowly making my way through the Original Series.

On to details about me!

Name: I have a lot of internet pseudonyms, but I've chosen to go by Thunder here.

Gender: Nonbinary. I go by they/them.

Country: The US of A, specifically Washington state. Twilight was wrong; it can be quite sunny here, particularly in the summer. It's wet and dreary in the autumn, though.

Personality: Uh, I like snark. And I can also be quite lazy, it's a major flaw of mine. I'm an aspiring author (why else would I be here?) and spend way too much time thinking about characters instead of just sitting down and writing. I'm working on overcoming this, however. Also, I have an autistic and depressed brain, and fiction writing is a special interest of mine that happens to double as therapy/self care.

Fandoms: I'm intimately familiar with Wings of Fire and its fandom. I got into the books in elementary school and I've stayed a fan even as the quality of the last few books have… decreased considerably. I'm also fairly knowledgeable in the Phantom of the Opera fandom, like its tendency to bash Raoul and such. Oh, and I love Cosmere books. Anything by Brandon Sanderson, really. There are also plenty of media I have seen without interacting much with their fandoms. They include… let's see… Animorphs, ATLA, the Grisha trilogy (books), the Magnus Archives, the SCP Foundation, Star Wars (I'm more knowledgeable in Disney Canon than the old EU, although I agree that the sequel films, particularly Rise of Skywalker, were… bad), and probably a lot more that I'm forgetting. I've dabbled in a lot of things.

If it contains dragons that aren't just mindless bad guys, chances are I've seen it or at least heard of it. I know a bit about HTTYD (both books and films, though it's been ages since I've seen them), Temeraire (only read the first book so far, but my sibling has read more), and Dragonriders of Pern, which I'm planning to reread because the last time I saw those books was in middle school. And Wings of Fire, of course.

Currently I have been getting into Discworld (I've started with the Watch novels) and My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. I'm also reading LOTR because I owe a debt to Tolkien for his influence on fantasy and all that.

I read Harry Potter ages ago and I'm not planning on rereading it anytime soon. Pop culture osmosis helps refresh my memory on it anyway.

You may have noticed that pretty much all the things I'm into are SFF. The sole exception to this is Phantom of the Opera. I can't explain it, either; romance isn't my favorite genre. Maybe it's the mystery/horror aspect. The original novel is my favorite version of the story, after all.

Lust Objects: I'm asexual, so no luck. If I could hug/cuddle someone though, it would probably be Raoul from POTO. He's nice and has suffered way too much from badfics and I bet he's super huggable. I normally hate human contact, but I would totally hug him. He's my Cuddle Object, I guess. Oh, and I'd also hug Whiteout from WoF. She's endearing and us neurodivergents should stick together. She needs a hug, too.

One last thing: I have mentioned a younger sibling of mine, whom I'll call Lightning. They're aware of the PPC's semi-closed status and wants to know if they can mention the group in their stories but not feature them.

That's all I can think of for now. Thanks for everything you're doing!

I'll get round to them… I hope.

I'd love to see the flash patches if you're up for it.

Knowing what little I know about Japanese heraldry, I've designed a logo for Ichōnomiya High, Kaguya and Momoka's alma mater, in this style. This was hand-drawn with minor digital fixes and digital lettering, so not entirely symmetrical. I might remake the design later.

Drawn using pencil, gel ink pen and copic marker. The design features one ginkgo leaf, two gentian flowers and three momiji leaves inside a ring.

-Yuki, now considering drawing department flash patches in Japanese heraldry style

Actually it's bogie/bogey in UK English! I think bogie is a slightly more northern spelling--I might switch it to bogeys.

I'm glad you liked the Shakespeare reference! I mean, I'm the one responsible for the PPC's Shakespeare troupe--A Troupe by Any Other Name. ;)

The character interactions were just, well, adorable. And the Shakespeare line was very amusing.

Though I think it’s spelled “boogie” and not “bogie”? Maybe it’s a regional difference I’m picking up on.

—Ls

Harry gets back to Hogwarts.

This is not some concrete rule or harsh critique—just a (very) vague suggestion. Nevertheless, I’d say to just avoid overly long sections of quotation if possible.

You don’t have to restrict yourself to just snarky comments on the fanfic—you can include details on what the fictional version of yourself is doing, or create characters to comment on it with you. Em Kay’s good at doing that. If the fic is boring, you can say so. Physical reactions can be funny too! (You could even use a version of your Permissionless agents, though I’d avoid having them claim association with the PPC.)

Just try to keep things interesting.

—Ls

I'm writing Part 2, taking your advice into conisderation.... but how many sentences counts as "long" for a quotation?