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Isn't this the kind of tone responsible for the PPC's poor lingering reputation from years gone by? Not necessarily the idea of sporking itself - it's kind of funny how something considered 'mean' back then would be barely a drop in the bucket compared to what's seen on social media like twitter and reddit these days - but the general feel of it? The sense of 'wow, a twenty-year-old writing fanfiction? how stupid. what a clown for writing a crossover. how dare there be oc's!' that i sometimes got from older, late 2000's spinoffs that made binge reading hard at times. Genuinely how did you even get access to this. There's no mission that can be made out of this. The post just seems to want folks to point and laugh at an in-work project, and I do not understand what joy one could possibly get out of that. This is what TV Tropes thinks we are.

Dunno about any offers of my own, but I've been reading a lot of Brandon Sanderson lately and enjoying that.

--Ls

Red Lotus is a piece of feminist historical fiction set in 20th-century China, concerning women defying and escaping abusive people in order to find happiness. The story also avoids a lot of common flaws in feminist fiction. Saying anything more would be a huge spoiler 😰. Do note that the book is quite dark, it has frank depictions of abuse, rape, violence and murder.

Hi, everyone! I have no particular reason for starting this thread beyond "could be fun," but I've wanted to do something of the kind for a while. Basically, I only have a handful of Discord servers I'm active in, and one of them is a public book club with a few thousand members. I'm good friends with someone there, and it's generally good company, but sometimes rec requests and such can slip through the gaps of several discussions all happening at once. So basically, I declare this a Book Rec Thread - I'm taking any and all book recommendations from anyone who wants to share their favorite reads (I mostly read horror, fantasy and literary fiction, but I'll try anything if the premise is fun), and I want to give a few recs of my own, on the condition that you tell me what genre and/or vibe you're looking for. I have a few titles up my sleeve that I think some Boarders could enjoy a lot, so if you want to give or take book recommendations, please hop into this thread so we can discuss :)

-Oculus

My point is not to condemn them for not appreciating Helena's artwork or sensibilities. I'm trying to point out a reality that artists and other creators face: their works always risk going completely unnoticed and unrecognized, regardless of the amount of work.

Alas, some people just can’t appreciate good art! Or at least, appreciate the work that went into the art, right? Helena doesn’t need to bind herself to realism! I’m sure the painting as, as the young people say, “cool.”

Pearls for eyes makes me think of Shakespeare’s The Tempest:
In RC ripe Portavius lies
Of his school is canon made
These are pearls that were his eyes
Nothing of him that doth sane
But doth suffer PPC change
Into something rich and strange

Something like that!

—doctorlit, tempestuous

For the NA: I think we ought to expunge that link from the Board, please, just to be safe.

~Neshomeh

While I doubt there are many, if any non-PPCers watching the Board to find people to harass, yeah... I very much need to know how Ares found this.

I don't think you necessarily need to reach out to the author instead of missioning, but I've done that before, yeah.

We aren't the fanfic police, and nobody even knows who are for the most part, frankly.

As for the alters, that's apparently a term for alternate personalities in DID. Or something.

--Ls

Edit: mobile typos.

Why did you link us some kind of unreadable in-progress writing? What would we have possibly been meant to do with this? The fic isn't done, it isn't published. There's nothing to criticize, let alone mission.

I don't care if some random person is twenty and refers to themselves as an "it" or comes up with weird Star Trek lore. If it's published, we can reasonably discuss it. Until then... leave well enough alone, for goodness' sake.

--Ls

First of all, you're sharing a link to someone's in progress work - I doubt they gave you permission to put it out in the wild, and through Google Drive you're basically exposing their email address AND their work to anyone on the web. And we all know that out there in the web there are all kinds of trolls and malicious people. On top of that, I don't suppose the author would give you access willingly if you were upfront with what you were going to do with said access, considering you've defined them as "clown", so I have to ask this: how did you get access?

Second, stalking authors like that, before they even publish their work, is simply not what the PPC does. It is a very mean thing to do as this is a point in which constructive criticism can still be given with hopes that the author will be willing to listen. We only go after the worst of the worst, and many of us attempt to give constructive criticism first. I have dropped fics from my, let's say, target list several times in the past because the author was willing to discuss with me what I had found to be troublesome - a constructive discussion about writing is always a better thing to have than tossing your agents at a fic, because here we love writing, we love discussing about writing, and we love to see everyone improve - even those who wrote the worst things out there, if they're sincerely trying to improve!

And, for the truly irremedeable, well PPC missions are there not to police the fandom but to have some fun making a disguised, comedic form of criticism. If your mindset is to hunt bad writing like a vigilante to save the fandom... well, it's the wrong one. We mock the bad writing, not the person behind it. Calling authors names, like you did, is right out. We don't do that. Period.

That aside, I'm taking the chance to ask about something that left me confused in you other post. You said "note that this is a different alter using ares' account, he isnt around anymore" - care to elaborate what you mean by that? If you're a different person using Ares' account, you really should make your own instead - and I do hope he gave you the credentials willingly?

I managed to get access to a badfic-in-progress. Some clown - who i have word is twenty - is making a crossover between Star Trek: TOS and its (it uses it/its, i'm not being a dick) OC lore.

[Link removed. Just no. -Nameless Admin]

In which Helena shows her teammates her new handiwork.

*I will stop trying to think of obscenities specifically targeting agents I don't like, most of them don't make sense to begin with. *I will stop trying to create oath-based creative versus for non-god like canons, Zordon's energy tube isn't going to catch on anyways. *Just because we all dig giant robots does not mean I'm allowed to summon one in HQ

I'm pretty sure at 29, young people think I'm old and old people think I'm young

So I'll just take both options!

• Tomash

Congratulations on being old/not being old [delete as appropriate]!

hS

It's my birthday!

While it feels like rambling a bit about the last year might be in order, I need to get back to Aperture Science before they notice I borrowed their cannon, so maybe I'll so that later

Who wants cake?

Uh, hi Ares (I guess?). This is certainly an edgy fic. The sentence "There were no bodies to step over, just the nauseating stench of roasting pork." was just so horribly stupid I laughed out loud. It's too short, and not in a canon I know, so I'll have to pass, but... edgy indeed.

For future note, if you want to write a mission, you'll need to get Permission first.

--Ls

i dont have time to write a mission on this myself, but i found a fic featuring captain kirk (tos) having an overdramatic, edgy, poorly written nightmare with a side of projection. i thought yall might want to be aware

(note that this is a different alter using ares' account, he isnt around anymore)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/63472939

The tone of that scene with the purple was so different from the others, I assumed it was signifying something else going on.

Oh, I had forgotten about "Rest Well!" So Molly certainly didn't cause George's end, but it's still interesting that she seems to be assigned partners with a particular arrogant and heartlessly pragmatic attitude. Interesting pattern . . .

—doctorlit, puzzling

i do think i should mention, though, since maybe I didn't explain it well enough, but Molly's 'purple swirl' isn't exactly some latent magic power. It's a similar case to the exclamation mark that appeared over her head near the start, or the sweat drop that appeared in Rest Well, where they're more meant to be a cartoony physical expression of emotion. That's not to say there isn't something I have planned for her, though! She just isn't a wizard.

Here's hoping future entries for this spinoff can also live up to the start, haha.