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This seems like a matter to discuss with your family and IRL friends. I don't think that we, your online buddies, are really equipped to help you out here.

I hope you can find a solution to this issue.

--Ls

I work next to a nightclub that plays music too loudly; they even have outdoor speakers on the sidewalk playing loud enough to rattle our door every night and sometimes knock things over. I have to wear ear protection, but recently they've installed two more sets of speakers. I'm afraid ear protection will no longer be enough, and my hearing will be completely lost in a few days. We cannot tell them to turn down the volume or they will lose business. I need help in order to cope with almost certain hearing loss.

"What? No way." Mina stomped her foot. "I don't know anything about... PoCaCo...whatever it is either! We should get someone else to help us."

Carlisle didn't move from his position on the couch. "Go ahead. See if you can find someone. Until you do, I'll stay here."

"No fair!" Mina said. "Why do I have to go find someone? Why can't you do it?"

"Because I'd rather read this issue of The Truth of the Sunflower than talk to anyone." Carlisle didn't look up from his newspaper.

"Fine!" Mina said. "But when we get back, we're absolutely taking down this 'Test alert' badfic. Weird name, really."

Carlisle didn't respond.

As Mina huffily walked out the doorway, Carlisle called after her. "Don't forget to get a crash dummy! Oh, and hazmat suits, for the diseases."

Mina mumbled something vaguely affirmative under her breath and left RC !111.

Carlisle heard a soft "bip" after she left, but he was too engrossed in learning about the false SO's plan to enslave all the other Flowers with mind-control soil to bother paying attention to the alert.

((Maybe Mina can encounter someone else in the hallway? I'm not really sure where to go with this.))

((--Ls))

Title: Test alert
Author: Tomash
Fandom: Proof of consistency and completeness of a model of Peano arithmetic
Rating: G
Warnings: 1st person, 2nd person, tense shifts, airborne hazards, infohazards, infectious disease, severe reality distortions
Summary: Words that go in this field so there's something there
Intel notes: *shrug*

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[bip]

The previous mission alert was sent out in error. We apologize for the confusion and inconvenience.

(( That is, I've now just set a bunch of people's consoles off for no good reason. What happens? I figure this is either a writing prompt or RP depending on if people begin to angrily storm DoSAT ))

They're useful for adding to discussions

Since I've put Kaguya in lolita outfits twice already, I figured it would be fun to imagine other PPC agents in various flavors of lolita fashion. Do note that I'm not a fashion or lolita fashion expert. I'm only doing this for TOS agents and my own agents; you can feel free to continue the thread for yours.

Since neither Jay nor Acacia are particularly feminine women, I think they'd look best in prince lolita, an explicitly tomboy/masculine style.

Luxury shouldn't wear lolita fashion at all, for obvious reasons.

Makes-Things would look best in steampunk lolita. Prince lolita could work too.

Momoka is wa lolita (like her master) or China lolita.

I'd put Urato in gothic lolita for the sole reason that it'd be funny. He'd probably rock it too.

Inasuke is obviously sweet lolita.

Fáelán is obviously gothic lolita.

It's quite hard to put Helena in any fashion style; she'll just ruin it in two seconds with paint and other art stuff.

Sheen might work with any style except sweet. He has long hair so it could be easier to wear more girly stuff.

I like how angry Usuasagi acts, despite acting like a rabbit. He's great.

--Ls

Following up on his sudden attack on Kaguya, the rabbit tells the four the full story.

We don't see newcomers too often as of late, so it's nice to meet you! Hope you have a good time here and whatnot

So, like, it's PPC-related, at least.

Check it out here!

--Ls

It makes me happy to see Rhysdux's work getting some love! If you haven't found the Buffy and Angel Fanfiction University yet, you should definitely read that, too. (Wiki page with chapter index here.) I wish I'd been a BtVS fan soon enough to appreciate it when it was being written. Alas, I was a latecomer to the fandom.

I was into The X-Files back in the day. I had a crush on Mulder, insomuch as I wanted him to have hugs, be taken seriously, and be happy, haha.

Linstar already answered your question, so yeah. Broadly speaking, Permission is only required for publishing stuff that would be considered canon in-universe.

~Neshomeh

I have google docs problems too.

You don't need Permission to beta or report badfics at all. Both of those things just require some interest.

--Ls

Fandoms: Mostly Buffy or The X-Files, Legend of Zelda, a few audio fiction podcasts. I liked Rhysdux's missions. Everything I've written pretty much languishes either in google docs or my notebooks. What is the policy on beta'ing or reporting badfic without Permission? I've looked around the FAQs, but I'm not sure.

hello there!! as a welcome gift, have a magical rubber duck that can change into whatever outfit you desire for it!! :>

Conclusion here. --Ls

Have your choice of virtual bumper stickers!

Feel free to share a little about yourself, such as your fandoms, profile(s) where you post your writing, favorite stories (PPC or otherwise), etc. Your intro thread is also a great place to ask any questions you may have. {= )

~Neshomeh

Oh man, Harry is so angry at Lily! . . . Why, though? Like, I can understand a bit of teenage frustration over everyone trying to make him leave that night, especially in light of him being correct, that his and the other students’ wands were necessary to join in the defense spell. But Lily didn’t get Gideon or Regulus killed; Harry ought to be saving his anger for Gaunt! Poor Lily . . .

Jeeze, seeing Dumbledore’s hair supernaturally shortened and dehydrated really shows just how much power Gaunt was wielding during that battle, and that’s just when drawing on Pettigrew’s magic! (I think? He was the only one whining about it during that chapter, at any rate.) And I see Dumbledore has also dropped the series title in this new prophecy. I like that the prophecy in this timeline is even vaguer than the one in canon, and therefore even less connected to Harry. It ties back to Lily not wanting Harry to see himself as a “Chosen One” figure. Of course, she’s just wanting to keep Harry safe, but it also means that Harry has chosen to stand up to Gaunt of his own volition because it’s the right thing to do, unlike the canon Harry getting more or less coerced into it through Voldemort “choosing” him. Hm. “For the land of rotting apples, the Heirs of Avalon will rise.” But we don’t actually know who’s set to inherit “Avalon” at this point. I want to see the “land of rotting apples” as Wizarding Britain, where the corrupt “few bad apples” have “spoiled the bushel,” the whole society. Which would then mean the heirs of society, the young folks, are going to rise up to reform things? But it looks like the “bad egg” expression only dates back to the 1800s, so it’s not a phrase Tycho Dodonus would have used for that meaning . . . Dumbledore also touches on my main criticism of afterlife myths, which is that they encourage people to devalue the world they live in, and place all their energy and resources into “earning the right afterlife,” rather than taking care of the world and the other life forms in it. It’s an emotional crutch against the fear of death, but death is a normal part of life, and can’t be avoided or, dare I say it, magiced away. Funny how Gaunt is using afterlife fears to manipulate and control, while his canon counterpart was trying to avoid death entirely! No, societies with an unrealistic attitude towards death don’t produce very healthy psychological profiles, do they?

Welp. The couple is together. Yay? I know this is where they were headed endgame-wise, but I’m still more on Hermione’s side that Harry is rushing in too young, into a culture with unhealthy practices and strictures. Plus, I’ll admit my view of your Draco has dimmed a bit with him joining the Inquisitorial Squad, even if he ultimately wasn’t very loyal to Umbridge. I’m a lot more interested in what’s happening with Draco’s parents right now. “A purge at Malfoy Manor?” Surely Gaunt wasn’t so angry about Lucius leaving the ceremony to rescue his own son, as to retaliate?! Draco is a Pureblood heir, Gaunt should see rescuing him as a reasonable investment of time! And surely he didn’t straight-up kill Lucius, for the same reason of keeping Pureblood influence in the Ministry? Actually, my main guess would be that Gaunt has transferred the Malfoy family magic to Bellatrix, on grounds that she’s Narcissa’s sister?

. . . And what other households are due for "purging"?

Dropping Harry off with the Dursleys hits so. Hard. Harry’s summers in this timeline have been so nice, getting to interact with friends, go to birthdays and parties, work on projects . . . I don’t know if this version of Harry is prepared for an entire, wandless summer with the Dursleys, and frankly, I don’t know if I’m ready to read it, either . . . at least Dudley is going to be 15/16ish, so we can skip the worst of his bullying tendencies from the earlier canon books. And there’d better be no cupboard under the stairs, Harry deserves a real bedroom! (Also, honestly, I'm not sure if I agree with Lily confiscating his wand? A Ministry employee has already managed to sick a dark magic creature on Harry in a Muggle neighborhood; it might be better to, you know, NOT deprive him of his only source of magical defense?!)

I am chiseling “[I]t is the mark of a tyrant to speak of fear and sell themselves as hope” on the wall in my brain. Thank you.

"Draco followed Crookshank’s gaze"
I think an “s” got dropped before the apostrophe, though I know making proper nouns ending in “s” into possessive form is a whole can of worms . . .

—doctorlit read-and-reviewed this instead of shopping today; time well spent!

I totally didn’t steal this jar of Sue glitter i’m giving to you.

Oh, there it is. Maybe. Yes, I've read both of them.

Welcome, welcome. Have this newbie gift of an invisible frog. It's around here somewhere, I'm sure.

Have you read the Constitution and Original Series yet? They're both linked on the main page above.

--Ls

I’m not quite sure what to put here. I’ve been a reader for a while and decided to finally gather up the courage to say hi. I sometimes write, mostly a mix of fanfiction and short stories. “Okenia” is from the scientific name for a sea slug, if anyone’s wondering.