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I like the try-for-older-stuff rule. It does seem nicer. (And yeah, I don't like smut or whatnot. Certainly not my cup of tea. Yuck.) And poorly-written summaries do tend to contain poorly-written stories.

I don't have much experience with Wattpad, and I don't personally look for fic to spork on AO3 because its content is the least restricted and therefore has the greatest concentration of explicit smut outside of a dedicated erotica site, and I'm not writing for the Department of Bad Slash. I suspect that's not your cup of tea, either. {= ) But, Quotev and the good ol' Pit of Voles have served me well. Scanning story summaries for clichés and horrible spelling is a good first step.

I'll also add a suggestion I've been following myself: avoid sporking anything less than five years old. I think it's a good way to address the issue of us allegedly bullying thirteen-year-olds. If the fic is at least five years old, the author should be at least 18 now (assuming you still have to claim to be at least 13 to join most sites), and ought to have gained enough distance from the work to a) recognize its flaws for themself, and b) not take it so dang personally when someone else points them out. 'Course, that won't be possible in new fandoms, but still.

~Neshomeh

Project Messiah is the fictional universe in question, and technically I have 3 PPC agents from one of its various versions. The original "novel" (16k words) should be at the second link, under the title Messiah Reborn. Beware of the writings of a, cripes, 15 year old who has read way too much Anne McCaffrey.

Dafydd Illian, meanwhile, is the star of Tales From DOGA. His 'haha my back story is even more impressive moment' comes in "Two Worlds United"; it is quite silly.

hS

There's a particular book series/anime adaptation that I want to mission. Oh well, I'm sure I'll find something eventually.

Where's the best place to find new badfic? Outside of the PPC, I don't read much goodfic (sadly) and there are some fandoms I really wish I could find a badfic for.

Only oldbies need bother with that anyhow.

Though, honestly, if it's PPC and not squicky then I'd like to give it a shot.

Or, indeed, Actual Dafydd upstaging Selene?

Two of these are available. :)

hS

To be honest, I've only seen maybe two anime. (Is that the correct plural?) (Not sure "couple stuff" is grammatical, though)

And that was just the first acronym to pop up in the Google search results. :)

I just said “hey, what if that background elf behind Legolas at the RotK coronation had a backstory?” 🤣

The OFU for the anime Axis Powers: Hetalia, which was very big back in 2011-ish. Conceit of the show is basically national personifications being over the top stereotypes. I’m not in the fandom anymore, but the OFU was one of the places where I developed my writing chops so I could write better PPC missions in 2012-2014. It also developed a couple stuff I’ve been playing with in my PPC spin-offs over the years: the New Multiverse Monitor, stuff with the Mirror Multiverse and crossing Multiverses in general, and the League of Mary Sue Factories.

I have an entire proto-novel out there with Very Mature 16 year old protagonists saving the world. At one point they actually got de-aged back to 16 for the sequel. :D

In retrospect it is very lucky that I decided to upstage my cowriter's "Selene is a vampire" revelation by making Dafydd into a famous elf. Otherwise he would have fallen into exactly the same mold.

hS

I was simply being facetious. I like going off the rails. Tangents are fun. :) (I did temporarily create the mini-Agent Derrik. Thanks to edit, he is no more.)

While trying to get my various agent pages up to scratch, I realised Nyx Nightingale is almost 50. I could plausibly have painted her with grey hair! How does that happen?

I've stayed vague on Terri Ryan, putting her down as 'thirties', but, like... she was around in Y2K. Even if she was 13 then, she must be at least 35 now. None of my agents are young any more.

This is why I have so many immortals. Whatever happens, Dafydd, Huinesoron, Mortic, Morgan, and Selene (among others) will always be "very old but doesn't look it".

hS

(And I'm flattered if you do! I hope you enjoy them.)

Oh, re. rails: Just in case this needs saying, you don't have to reply to every reply if you don't want to. If we go off on a tangent about character ages or whatever and you're not interested, that's okay.

That said, it's been really nice seeing a thread this active! {= )

~Neshomeh

I'm just not planning on any romance at all for my first pair. (Note to self: Read some Gall and Derik missions) [Sorry, mini-Agent!]

Gall is quite a bit younger than Derik, but since both of them are badfic characters living in HQ, their ages are "20-something" and "idk, 37? 42?" respectively.

IF I wanted to pin it down and IF they'd aged at a normal rate since their respective recruitments, that would make them about 31 and 48 wait what *cough, wheeze* I'm sorry. I got about ten years stuck in my throat. Dammit I'm old.

ANYWAY, SO, turns out they'd be roughly 17 years apart by rational reckoning, which is a lot. But I think this is mitigated by other factors, such as how Gall is the one pursuing Derik, she's undoubtedly considered a mature adult in her own culture (Berkian Viking), and Derik is still considered in his prime in his (Pernese). They are, in fact, both in the same life stage.

Plus, they're badfic characters living in HQ, so I don't give a toss what rational reckoning says. {= )

~Neshomeh

ETA: minus a plus.