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Ladies and gentlemen and kids and boils and ghouls and slugs: Grant Permission has entered the house!
Yeah!
Love that bloke!

Good on ya, Aegis.

Please have this self-updating guidebook of all the deathtraps in the multiverse. Make sure you can always kill glitterbags in a spectacular and, most above all, ironic way.

And one more spin-off to follow...

Discussion's over, fellows. We got ourselves an answer.

Pack up, ship out, move on, thread's dead, let's all pretend this never happened.

Let's see what we've got. I know you well enough for my liking, and haven't heard of any bad behavior, so we'll check that box.

Agents...well, there's two slight problems.

1) Your bio for Jack and his characterization in the writing samples seem to be at odds. On the one hand, you say he is just too gosh darn nice for his own good. On the other hand, we read about a gruff veteran who is, not unjustifiably, selfish in his motivations. This is a minor problem, but one you should look at, anyway, to see if what you wrote matches what you thought you were writing. (I actually prefer the way he is written to the way he is described. He makes a better counterpoint to your Time Lord.)

2) Another insufferable Time Lord. Ugh! Someone should build a time wall and make Gallifrey pay for it. (Not actually bothered, just having fun.)

Check the character box.

Technical writing is a check, as well. It all looks fine.

Unless someone else has an objection: Permission Granted.

-Phobos

Like Ix said, They certainly got the part about what else starstuff does to you—the floating, the happiness, the sounds, potential immortality and permanent flight—right.

In Peter and the Starcatchers, Peter gained the ability to fly and never age because he handled a trunk full of leaking starstuff. The overexposure (allegedly) made him the way he is in Peter Pan (though PatSc is more like an AU prequel of the book than anything).

Aside from flight and immortality, starstuff can turn birds into fairies and fish into merpeople. It also mutated a salamander into some sort of giant creature that escaped into Loch Ness. Along with that, it can also grant people enhanced strength and senses, be used to power rockets... basically, it's the Deus Ex Machina to end Dei Ex Machina.

I liked the fact this mission staged more scenes between Ix and Lottie, and I'll admit that I find refreshing to see an ending where death of a glitterbag isn't involved, or rather a scene where there is hope that there won't be a glitterbag at the end.

And... I'm curious about that last scene. I don't know this fandom, so I'll admit that in the dark here.

And listen to this one; it's a good sight more articulate, coherent, and polite than mine was.

--Key hides under a table.

Hello, all! In proud Whovian tradition, I'd like to retcon a couple of things in order to preserve continuity. Thanks again for taking a look, and consider this the Director's Cut to the original. Still the same prompts, and the same characters, but with continuity errors corrected.

The Character Bios

the First Prompt

and the Second Prompt.

Thanks to all able to take a look!

While the story seems to be presented as a kind of summary, I do like what it's trying to do. The explanation provided for the canonical contradictions are satisfying, and almost sooth some of the pain this play caused.

Almost. I could buy the possibility of alternate universes, based on how I understand time to work. But that ridiculous prototype Time Turner still shouldn't exist, Voldemort Day is still a nonsensical butterfly-effect style aesop about how the past shapes us, and everyone is still totally out of character (I mean, PIGEONS? I ask you. . .).

None of this is, of course, your fault. The fic you posted is interesting, and a damned sight better than the original. The writing is direct, to the point, and functional, which I admire. Do try and display a little more self-confidence, though. Tempting as it is to apologize, I find it's best just to put something out there and let others give their opinions.

Every other part of Harry Potter's been spoiled for me; why not Cursed Child too?

Okay, I like this story. The main problem with it? You don't seem to like it. If you're not happy with your story, why publish it and plug it on the Board? Why not work on it a bit more, rewrite it in a form you're more comfortable with, or find a cowriter who is strong in the places you feel weak? If you are happy with your story, why end each chapter with an author's note professing an inability to write?

These author's notes cause me as a reader to resent you a little, because usually when people say that kind of thing they're fishing for compliments. I don't think that's what you're doing here, but it has that association and leaves a bitter taste. They also feel like excuses: "I can't write novels," which confused me at first; fix fics are not novels, "so don't expect this to be good." The reasons why this is not valid are, I believe, outlined in the FAQ: For Other People. It's also annoying, along the lines of "I suck at summaries." Let your story speak for itself.

It's a good story, too. Feedback on it is harder for me to give, not quite being familiar with the canon, but I will write you up an analysis of what you did well at lunchtime.

--Key is almost late for class.

It sounds like it'll make the Wiki look a lot neater. I say go for it!

Forgive my late reply I had a hard time finding the thread again. ^_^'

We are Protectors of the Plot Continuum and must protect canon even if we don’t like it. But sometimes it’s a bit unclear what actually is canon.

SPOILERS for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Tales of the Grey Bard.

HG

some of which may be funny?
I feel like it may be somewhat redundant to create a miniature internet within the internet, but, sure, I guess. Maybe we'll get into one've those world record books.


*I will never again make a joke that can stand on its own two legs.
**If I do, my arms will be cut off on the spot.
***OH STEVE IRWIN MY ARMS

*I will never swear on Steve Irwin, otherwise my arms will get cut off.
**OH WINSTON CHURCHILL MY OTHER ARMS

Because rhetorical expressions of ignorance are still expressions of ignorance.

Why would one go to all the trouble of growing a fleshy dingalingadingdong when strap-ons exist? I can think of a few reasons.
1) As Tira mentioned earlier, so that both parties can feel what's happening.
2) As in the fic, so that one party can impregnate the other. I'm not sure that's a good reason, though.
3) Some women get turned on by the idea of temporarily having a penis. People get turned on by a lot of things. Rule 34.

--Key, always trying to be helpful!

Criticizing the Sue-wraith for using magic to give herself a penis when Ix had just done the exact same thing (well, he used the Disguise Generator, but DoSAT does get its name from the fact that its gadgets are indistinguishable from magic).

*hides under table* I'm joking; I do understand that the situations were as different as could possibly be. But the narrative parallel was noticeable, making this an interesting choice of fic for the first mission with Ix as a guy.

Also, question: I don't see why Ix had to be a mare for the plan to work? Couldn't Charlotte have done it? Or why not make the Sue copy his stallion body, since clearly this isn't a fic where people have problems with random body morphing? Hasn't Ix had to deal with enough dysphoria in his life?

--Key laughed very hard at that scene, don't be mistaken. Especially the part where he hits himself and starts complaining about how much it hurt. And the bit where he did the Funky Chicken. And...

For me, reading though wiki archives is way less fun than the discussions onBoard. . . I don't know why, since they're pretty much the same content (I guess I'm a social person? Or something; Social/Emotional Health is one of only two school subjects I've ever flunked). But yeah, I'm against the Infinite version if that would be the case, since it would kill the fun of it for me.

And. . . my contribution:

*I am not allowed to sweep my partner into a passionate osculation unless I am absolutely certain she/he/they/xie/etc. wishe(s) it.
**I am allowed to comb the dictionary for obscure words with the specific intent of confusing people.
***But no one will like me afterwards

--Key

That's right, we've got another CAHQ game going on! Our link is right here!

Password is PPCGAME! Let's get this party started!

Last December, when Bayonetta was announced as the final playable character for Super Smash Bros. for the Wii U/3DS, I wrote a little interlude with three of my agents reacting to that, though not much came out of it IIRC.

Then, almost a year later, I took another look at it and realized that the last few paragraphs were just ASKING for a mission (involving Bayonetta's home continuum, obviously) to be dropped on my agents' heads. So I've decided to write a sequel to the interlude in question, and take care of a little subplot with two of my agents at the same time. Two Flying-types, one Stone Edge!

So, without further ado, I hope you enjoy "Witches Get Stitches"!

So that would basically just be me not being consistent about formatting, rather than something important. Basically: Edgar and Agen____t live in RC 2.1459, which is also called RC Pie because this one time I misremembered pi and got that, whereupon I decided it should be pie. And then it became their RC. No matter what, though, there should be a period, not a comma. Neither I nor they would use that notation. You can go with the first version, I guess? RC 2.1459 (Pie)?

~DF

However, I decided to not correct it as SPaG errors were somewhat frequent in the original - even if that chapter featured none.

While not faithful to the original chapter, i believed leaving the error in was more faithful to the fic as a whole - that particular part was actually of somewhat higher quality compared to the rest. (Especially considering the plot of the scene was still solid enough that I could write a remake of it rather easily - can't say that for 95% of the rest of that fic)

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Yep. Yep she is. Those two scenes, orignal and remake? They feature the very same people six years, a lot of character development and a lot of writing improvement on my part later.

Some force kept the monsters from entering the room. Unfortunately, it didn't stop the Reaper of firing more orbs of energy. And the devastation they caused with each blast didn't feel like an hallucination at all.