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I really don't know how to describe it that well within a post without it being long, but it is logic-based in a sense, with the logic of canons being present as math equations.

I created it: I just haven't written anything for it yet besides little snippits here and there.

-kA

(Edit: Added words.)

Pretty short so far, though. It was nice. Not much else to say.

Hands out an urple graduation hat-thingy

(What is it called anyway?)

But I like the sound of “Sunflower Mathematician,” regardless.

Sorry.

O'Ryan Keys put down the newpaper with a "hm."

Dr. Val Burner looked up from her equation work. "O'Ryan?"

"Yeah?" he asked.

"Everything alright? Usually, you put down the newspaper with more noise," Val said.

"Oh, I'm fine," O'Ryan replied. "I just learned that our author just graduated from high school."

A pause, and then a sigh.

"We don't have an author," Val said finally. "That's just fake news."

"No no, it's not," O'Ryan replied. He grabbed the newspaper and held it up to Val. On the front of it, a person stood smiling in purple next to a man dressed in red. "See?"

"Who would spread such news?" Val asked. "It's obviously not true."

"The Mathmatical Monitor," O'Ryan said.

"And I'll repeat myself: Who would spread such lies?"

O'Ryan turned the newspaper over to reveal the Sunflower Mathematician's "face." "Prime Writer/Editor" was written beneath the photo.

"Oh, you have got to be [shpxing] kidding me," Val replied.

Soooo, that was a story way of saying "hey, I graduated!" but my brain wouldn't shut up unless I did it this way. So here is a segment of CPP characters reacting to an article in The Mathmatical Monitor, a newspaper I just made up.

-kA

(Edit: "Writor." That's embarassing. Fixed.)

Weirdly, it's been deleted or otherwise rendered unviewable, but I found the full fic in a PROJECT AFTER style mock, where someone would go line-by-line and mock it. If I just ignore the other sporker, I can do a PPC style mission. I won't reuse the original mocker's gags.

Beware, it's a squickfic. HERE. I'd just need someone with some Naruto knowledge to help me iron out the Mission proper, but I do have a hilarious gag I plan on ending this particular one on.

I especially like that Gimli and Galami show species solidarity and refuse to fight each other! I feel like Galami, and maybe the hobbits, could have integrated into canon harmlessly, so I sort of wish Jay and Acacia had let them be.

I think the whole "letting side characters reassimilate into canon" seems to be a more recent trend that started with the push to do less assassinating in general? I mean, J&A recruiting badfic characters was established as unusual, and they did kill off all bit characters in "Rambling Band" and others, too. I remember even when I was doing E/C missions they'd go out of their way to kill the bit characters there, too -- though by the time they were doing Star Trek missions they'd let a couple bits reassimilate. But during TOS era it appears that the standard procedure was to excise all non-canon stuff, including killing off bit characters. (I could, obviously, be wrong. :P)

But yeah, I do imagine that had someone been tackling "Sisterhood" now, the less obnoxious Sue-Fellowship members would be neuralysed and plonked into some other part of Middle-earth far away from the Fellowship.

Big Sue Magazine, you’re guide to ruining cannon!

((That’s their catchphrase. And I think this merger was a good idea.))

Especially since LPS was mostly a joke on my end that never actually showed up in any PPC writing, haha.

And found both Neshomeh and Huinesoron had reviewed it.

—Ls, certain that this is irrelevant.

By this point (um... technically yesterday ^_^;), the fact of The Takedown was pretty well established. In this 'chapter', mulberry got in touch with Acacia, and got the word direct from her (making this, technically, a cowrite!):

Clan of the Cactus: News Brief by mulberry & Acacia

Of note here is that there was already a new homepage for the PPC: this one, hosted by Philosopher@Large (and archived only three days later, good going Wayback Machine!). That page would go on to become the main homepage of the PPC for many years...

hS

Honestly, it's like watching a bunch of kids bickering over who's got whose PE kit.

"Karen?"

Karen looked over her shoulder. "Yeah, Al?"

"Are you sure this is helping?"

She rolled her eyes. "Of course it's not helping. I'm just being a cow. It's more fun that way. Besides, how many times do you hear people talking about us like we're a pale imitation of what the Multiverse Monitor And/Or Monitors do? I reckon they're due a little payback."

Al's forehead ticked gently while he thought. "Wait, I've literally never heard anyone say that."

"And furthermore," said Karen, who'd built up a head of steam by now, "why should we be the inferior copy? None of these publications have any serious journalistic traditions, it's just newsletters! And yeah, they write long articles that aren't bullet-pointed lists, but we credit the authors properly and anyway I can't type that fast!"

"The Cube tried to find you again, didn't it."

"What, and that would make me feel insecure? Unsafe somehow? Like I was gonna be drawn back in and spat out again when it was done with me? Like nothing I did that didn't involve it was every worth anything? Don't be daft. You'd know if that happened. I'd be in my recliner chair checking my bug-out bag was ready. And I already did that, so I'm fine now!"

"You're not fine, are you?"

Karen's shoulders slumped, and she looked back at the screen. "... No, Al. No I'm not."

The screensaver had come on. A brightly-coloured beach ball bounced around the darkness. In depths, there were two eyes, and the ghost of a face. It shook, just a little.

Al walked over slowly and stood beside Karen, his arm falling across her shoulders, slow and gentle as his words. "You don't have to be. You won't lose us if you're not."

There was a long silence. "I know." Another one, quicker, darker. "I do know that. I promise."

"Okay." Al squeezed her shoulders and stood straight. "Your therapy group's later today, isn't it? I'll get Bogbrush to handle this, he's not got much on."

"He never does, Al. He's a toilet brush, he doesn't wear clothes." It was a weak joke, but it wrung a laugh out of Al and a smile out of Karen, watery and fragile but real. "I'm off back to my RC. Gonna have the door down for a bit. I think I need the quiet."

"You do that," Al said. He watched her hop down from the seat and head towards her RC. It wasn't normal for Infrastructure departments to have those; then again, it wasn't normal for RCs to be made of piled-up tins of spaghetti hoops. You did things for your friends.

Al checked the intra-departmental message board for anything from the Shallot or Bogbrush. The latter was currently having a spirited debate (or absolute flaming row) about who was in charge of the Real Conspiracy, so he was indisposed; the former was currently circling back to an in-depth reupping of his core competencies, which meant he was playing golf again. He sighed, closed the tabs, and brought up a new PageMaker document. You did things for your friends. He selected a random number, selected a second one that Will Shock You, cracked his knuckles, and began to write.

It seems clear enough that's not gonna happen, and I'm fine with that. It was, after all, a radical idea. {= )

But I still want to talk about PG group chat and why I don't think it's something to be afraid of.

• Fact: The PGs have always had the ability to communicate privately as a group via email.
• Fact: We have done it before.
• Fact: We have only done it rarely, under extreme circumstances.

• Fact: We have so far resisted becoming a committee, much less a clique, much less a cabal or a hive mind.

• Conclusion: We can be trusted with the ability to talk to each other.

Based on that, here's my logic:

• Fact: For at least some people, chat feels more accessible/less formal than email.
• Hypothetical: A PG who's uncertain about a decision can more easily seek feedback from all the other PGs rather than being left out to dry or only consulting the one person they feel most comfortable with, thus being influenced only by that one other person's opinion.
• Hypothetical: People who don't want to weigh in haven't been pressured beyond a personal sense of obligation to do so before, and won't be now.
  - The inverse: If Kaitlyn does want to weigh in, she can read over hS's shoulder? And if another non-Discord-using PG does get elected in the future, we can cross that bridge when we come to it.
• Hypothetical: If the PGs deliberately arrange to take turns with requests rather than being uncertain if someone else will step up this time and thus feeling pressured, and if the weight of each decision is distributed, each decision will be less burdensome, and there will be less burnout.
• Hypothetical: If more PGs communicate more regularly about decisions, more perspectives are involved in each decision, reducing the influence of one person's bias.
• Hypothetical: Over time, decisions become more consistent and more moderate, thus decreasing uncertainty in the Permission process.

And finally,

• Fact: Some people will complain no matter what we do.
• Fact: There's only so much we can do to manage other people's perceptions.
• Fact: Perception is not fact.

So, why fear?

~Neshomeh

Imagine if he'd seen C*l*br**n.

BTW, a few months ago I ran across someone who claimed to be married to twenty-seven different characters of a certain series (five of whom are already taken in canon, and another of whom is very much out of the picture). Tungsten-Tritium-Fluorine?

(Sorry my replies are kind of throwing this thread out of order; I'm trying to keep up as best as I can!)

Acacia doesn't think the disguise generator can produce the forms of specific, named characters, but one of Indemaat's agents wound up doing that in one of her A-Team missions. Doesn't mean it's a good idea, though, and it's understandable the Flowers and DoSAT don't want that function to be common knowledge in HQ! Once they're disguised, I love that Acacia went with a spooky elf, a perfectly reasonable appearance for a Maia, while Jay just went to plaid (and without even passing Ridiculous Speed first!), and it is complete and full plaid, the staff and the beard and everything! Why is there no fanart of this? I feel dumb, though; even though the disguise generator was set to "Scotsman," I was still picturing Jay as a Scotswoman until Aragorn sees her as a man towards the end.

I agree with Jay: that was way too many OCs to introduce into a short story and expect readers to keep up, especially with the final eight all being introduced at once! I will say that I found parts of the original duel scene legitimately funny, putting aside Boromir's weird comeuppance. I especially like that Gimli and Galami show species solidarity and refuse to fight each other! I feel like Galami, and maybe the hobbits, could have integrated into canon harmlessly, so I sort of wish Jay and Acacia had let them be. Also, we all agree Arond "tripped" on purpose as an excuse to cuddle Legolas during the sweet embrace of their mutual unconsciousness, right?

Ah, I see crash test dummies haven't been conceptualized yet! I thought the scene where J+A started singing to Aragorn was weird, though still funny, but it was worth it for the payoff during the first charge scene. I love it when the canons snap out of it just in time to be helpful!

R.I.P. Eep's poem! Acacia says it was in the reviews, and . . . well . . . I've already seen the titles of "future" posts on this thread, so . . .

—doctorlit did not remember Acacia having a little sister. Is that the only mention of J or A's family ever?

I really do like. And, um, guess I accidentally stole your concept. Maybe the Mary Suniverse Monitor and Le Petite Sue can rivals.

And yes, I do know that is technically a canon Dalek rank.

P.S: "Green" and "blue" are also the same word in Vietnamese, which leads to sometimes having to specify whether it's, say, the "sea" one or the "leaf" one.