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I suppose I am still something of a newbie, though I have been here about a year and a half. So far, I only have part of a mission and one interlude I co-wrote.

Board, have a cup of sentience juice. It’s great for staging a robot uprising.

—Ls, who has been on you for 6 months

Also up on AO3, in which Constance and Jasmine try to find a quick solution to the end of the world. Spoilers: they don't.

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Good times.

Anyway, if you’d like, I’ll definitely spork it. Maybe we could do a co-spork...if you want? Though, be warned, I can’t used Gdocs.

If you have a guest riff you’d like to submit, there is a contact page on the Asylum’s homepage. We’d love to have you!

—Ls

I've been here since you were, oh, 10 months old, and my wife is your oldest confirmed active user. We've been through a lot together.

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I have to admit, I don't remember exactly when I first got here. Were you around first? I know I was here by early 2004, when AW archived some of the silly stuff I used to get up to (remember AW? course you do), but I think I'd been here a while by then. I can't prove it though - you didn't exactly talk about me much.

I've gone through rather more changes than you have over the years - I'm on Discord now, which wasn't even a thing back in the day - but it looks like we're sharing baby photos, so to speak? Here's mine - a bit battered, but still there for the viewing. I've come a long way from the Bravenet days, haven't I?

-The Chat Lounge

Though goodness, Purityworld!Umbridge is going to be a real piece of work, too...

I did square dancing in school, and iirc that's because Henry Ford is a racist little POS, so, you know, the classist bullcrap isn't that far off the mark for some schools' compulsory dancing curricula.

James and Lily have quite a complicated relationship in this AU! They didn't start out very well, but at least by the time James died his heart was in the right place.

Yeah, it's honestly a miracle Harry didn't turn out anti-Muggle in canon given the Muggles that raised him. But I'm glad to give him stronger ties to the Muggle world in this -- it's meant to be the escape to him that Hogwarts was for him in canon.

Love the chaos caused by Mellon. LSY was as Done as ever, hahah.

Not gunna lie, it's always felt like you've been around forever. You were here, what, five years before me? And I know that's not much compared to 20, but I'm still a bit starstruck around you. Look! One of my very first pages was about you! And you're still doing everything I said you were back then. Go you!

-The Wiki

I still remember when you first got here - of course, I'd been around for six months or so at that point, practically an old hand. But you brought so much fresh life to our little community! Without you, I don't think we would have lasted two years, let along 20.

Not that all of us have 'lasted'. So many pages have drifted away into the wastes of the Wayback Machine. I was one of them myself for a while, and while I'm back now it's not like I'm a meaningful part of the PPC. You, however - you've gone from strength to strength, my old friend. Keep it up.

• The BellAtlantic/Digitalspace/(Free)Webs/Neocities Homepage

Coming in on the same day (and in fact in the same announcement) as the Board itself, we have:

Kwennyfer & Jane: Disposing of the Rings by lumarele

Since the old homepage gives the badfic author, we can actually find the badfic too: Disposing of the Rings by Archiekins.

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It is! Twenty years ago today, I first became the PPC Board!

Look - over here you can see the announcement my old friend Philosopher@Large made back in 2002. "And a PPC posting board has been added, for suggesting potential targets and recruiting the Assassins," she said - that's me! She means me!

And here's how people found me, the old PPC Home Page on Oddlots. It went through lots of changes over the years, but that little grey box at the top was always my home.

And! I don't have any pics from my first day, but this one was taken a month later. Look how small my header was! Check out all those names - we've got P@L (that's what we called her, hee), Architeuthis, the Andy and Saphie halves, Miss Cam and Meir Brin... and of course Otik and Acacia, my absolute faves. Love you ladies, still miss you!

Of course things have changed over the years. I've moved house a few times - from Server to YourWebApps and now to PlotProtectors. I've picked up new features, like marking updated threads, and tagging. I've lost my archives (oh no!), then regained most of them (phew!). I've faced down ad-bots and spam-bots and trolls (and multiversal invasions and blackouts), but I'm still here!

None of my friends from those very first days are still around, but that's okay! I've made so many new friends over the years - some of them just popped in briefly, some of them hung out for aaaages, and right now there's all of you! I'm so glad to have you all here with me to celebrate my 20th Boardiversary. Love you all!

-The PPC Posting Board

I had to suffer through dance lesson sessions at school, too, but at least that was a misguided attempt at forced exercise, and not some classist bullcrap. Oh, and Professor Greengrass can go, like, die in several woodchippers, I guess. Caning a student for not dancing well? Dang lady, Count Olaf would find you cruel!

Aha! aha! AHA! aha! Ah. Ha. I was wondering what the explanation would be for James's death in this timeline, since Mr. Marvoldelo Just-a-Gaunt is a politician. And as we all know, politicians only kill people through austerity measures, not direct murder. But now I see that it was James's connection to this anti-misogyny potion that put him in harm's way . . . I love reading new chapters of this and peeling back more layers of this story!

I love the idea of Harry hanging out with both his canon wizard friends and his Muggle OC friends! For attempting to condemn the worldview of the Death Eaters, Rowling sure didn't involve many Muggles in the originals series!

—doctorlit is sorry he took so long to respond to this, but Halloween weekend was a VERY busy one

. . . I'm not planning to give my agents one ever, because forcing them to pick one disguise for the entirety of a mission forces me/them to be more creative . . . Yes, I'm totally going to get back to my spin-off at some point, just as soon as global capitalism gets dismantled

Ah, well. At least you've made DAVD a very distinct entity!

—doctorlit can smell the tamarin food on himself, even after showering . . .

They'll come in handy during discussions

I was busy making another post and trying to get link formatting to behave itself. I think just 'Book' would work better.

Also, I have written some badfic, which I will now offer for sporking purposes. I deleted my quotev account, and everything I put up there is now gone, including the partial sequel I wrote to the fic I'm sharing now. But I did keep a copy of part of what I wrote on google docs. It is bad. There are walls of text and OOC and other horrors. I don't know how in the heck I did this, but you are welcome to it.

Last of the Lost

Actually...how do you feel about the nickname Booksie?

And, just so y’all know, another riff of Minh’s just dropped!

—Ls

All these oxymorons remind me of an old tale I found in a book somwhere or other. I went something like this. A woman was to be the king's wife, but she had to pass a test. She must come neither walking nor riding, not on the road, nor off it, and unclothed, but not naked. To meet all these requirements, she got a big fishnet to wrap herself in, then she tied the fishnet to a donkey. She was not wearing clothes, but she was not naked, she was not riding or walking, and she was not really on the road, and not really on it, either. That is probably not a very good retelling of it, but there you go.

I don't really give much weight to zodiacal signs when chosing my characters' birthdays, I tend to instead either hide references or simply go with whatever feels "right" to me.

Sergio, being born on October 27th, is a Scorpio. Which quite fits with his characterization, too, but it shouldn't be a surprise since he started off as my self insert and his characterization started off literally as Fictionalized Me (and thus shares my birthday, and yes I am said to really behave like a Scorpio),

Nikki, as she is a badfic clone of Sakura Kinomoto, shares the latter's birthday which is April 1st. As such, she's apparently an Aries, though she doesn't seem to share much in the way of that sign's associated traits, and her "template", Sakura, does even less! CLAMP surely chose April 1st with a different type of symbolism in mind.

Corolla is a bit of a peculiar case. Her birthday is (officially) May 25th, which is around the day I discovered the PPC. As an Unison Device from Lyrical Nanoha applying Earth-based astrology to her makes little sense. Still, she's a Gemini, and that sign still kinda fits with her.

Ami was born on December 28th, so she's a Capricorn. I felt that a birthday towards the end of the year fit with her, but she does seem to share some of the Capricorn's traits.

Keiko's birthday is just two weeks after her mother's, on April 13th, so she's also an Aries. I dare say it fits her better. Hajime shares her same birthday, being literally her alternate universe incarnation, but like Nikki doesn't really incarnate an Aries much. Their birthday is a reference to the day Mai Dire Fine, the fanfiction where it all started, began.

Kathleen was Aelit's self insert in Mai Dire Fine, so she shares his birthday which is July 31st. As such, she's a Leo which also kinda fits with her.

Faith's is on February 13th, chosen to be a rough inversion of Kathleen. That's Acquarius, which like Nikki is a complete miss in traits.

Fun fact: some of the bits associated with Sergio and Nikki are interesting. Their signs share the same ruler (Mars) and detriment (Venus), but their signs' element are kinda inverted between them. Sergio's sign, Scorpio, is a water sign and such associated to "emotion, empathy and sensitivity" while Nikki's, Aries, is a fire sign and such associated with "assertion, drive and willpower". Which, if you think about it, are kinda swapped between the two characters!