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There really is no firm timeline - what we ask is that you wait until people know you and you understand what the PPC is about and how to write stories for it. You do this by reading the stories that are already written (as I know you're already doing!), and learning from them.

That said, there's a fairly solid guideline that you should wait about a month before asking. (It used to be a hard rule, but then people read it as "lurk a month and you'll definitely get it"; then we tried to throw it out altogether and people said "hi I'm new here are my agents"; so now it's a capital-G Guideline.) That gives you time to read broadly and figure out what you like, and us time to get a proper view of how you interact with the community.

hS

So, she's Mother Foster Mother? XD

Let's find out! Because I reckon it might be fun to translate what the names actually do mean where possible. {= D

I'll be looking these up primarily on Behind the Name. Will note if I venture elsewhere.

• Ursula, to start, is "little bear" from the stem ursa "bear [feminine]" + diminutive suffix. *snerk* She's a water bear. {X D
• Maleficent is... well, yeah, it's pretty much what you think it is. From the Latin maleficens "harmful, evil." (You could throw a reference to dragons in there for funsies, though!)
• Captain Hook has a given name: James! Seems the names James and Jacob both derive from the Hebrew name יַעֲקֹב (Ya'aqov), meaning ""holder of the heel" or "supplanter", or perhaps from a hypothetical name like יַעֲקֹבְאֵל (Ya'aqov'el), meaning "may God protect." IDK, I think "Supplanter" is a pretty decent name for a pirate. Just "Heel" wouldn't be far off, either. ^_^
• Jafar means "stream" in Arabic. Huh, that's rather nice.
• John derives from the Hebrew name יוֹחָנָן (Yochanan) meaning "Yahweh is gracious."
• Queen of Hearts is a dreary plain-English one. I poked around a bit, though, and found she's called Cora in Once Upon a Time (apparently it's under the Disney umbrella). I suspect it's meant as a derivative of corazon and would thus mean "heart," but BtN says it comes from the Greek name Kore, which means "maiden" and is another name for Persephone.

So there's the original six. I'd stop there, but I actually looked up Lady Tremaine and Mother Gothel earlier today, so:

• Tremaine is a Cornish place-name meaning something like "stone settlement," "stone town," "town encircled with stone"; sources vary. It's only on BtN as a user-submitted name, so I skimmed the Google results for more info. I'm shocked it isn't French. I could've sworn the story was French...
• Gothel isn't on BtN at all, and with good reason! To quote the Disney Wiki, it's "not a personal name at all, but an old-fashioned occupational word meaning 'nurse' or 'foster mother,' which the Grimms added to increase up [sic] the old-time German atmosphere of the story." I don't know why this amuses me as much as it does. {X D

~Neshomeh

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When should I request Permission? What's the recommended wait time? (I joined..let's see...four days ago. [That's all?])

Along with Shere Khan and... oh, let's say Chernabog from Fantasia.

(Honestly surprised I could find two more recognisable villains they hadn't done!)

hS

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But as you said, we might end up with a pile of requests 🤣

("Quiet, Pip - don't encourage it.")

What's really struck me about TOS12 is that the mission ends halfway through! Literally, they kill the Suvian halfway through the story. How very odd! (This, in part, is why I tend nowadays to stop writing before my agents get back to HQ - I know that if I don't, they'll just go on and on...)

Also of note: Makes-Things knows Lux, and is specifically scared of the very-new Acacia (was one of her transfers due to a Makes-Things Incident?). Also, Sean does handicrafts, and Lux is famous for having all sorts of bizarre skills (eg, unicorn skinning).

And flames. It seems incredible that the PPC got 11 chapters in before being flamed; I guess AWB had a dedicated fanbase for her fics. It is a real shame that the reviews all got eaten in the Takedown, but them's the breaks.

I'm pretty sure "the board" in Jay's A/N is the reviews to the fic on FFn. The Board was explicitly founded after the Takedown (on or about November 3rd 2002, as it happens, with the understated purpose of "suggesting potential targets and recruiting the Assassins"), so my best guess is that Jay churned out an overly-hasty (HOOM) reply to the incoming flamers.

hS

Though I do love conlangs in general.

If you look at the very first Claimed Badfic on the page, in Crossovers, it says "Permission Pending". So, yeah, there's one. I see at least five total in the first few sections.

There probably is at least one claimed example on the Claimed Badfic page, if I remember correctly.

-kA

At first I thought I'd just do the villains for the twelve canonical princesses, but that list starts with "Evil Queen", sooooo no. Instead, let's talk board games!

I've never played it, but I love the design of Disney Villainous: the playing pieces are stylised representations of the villains of the piece. The starting game has six, so let's see how they fare!

• Ursula the Sea-Witch: Surprisingly good Quenya! Ursala means "Raging [one]" (ursa + -la), and we can go ahead and translate her title too. Istar Eämbar is pure Quenya for "Sea-dwelling Wizard" ('Istar' is genderless, so I think we can cross-apply it.)
• Maleficent - It looks like we're going to have to go Quenya again, for Mále-fíne-sana > Málefínsana. Unlike Ursula, this one means "Healthy dextrous thing"; I suppose it might be appropriate for the more recent movies?
• Captain Hook - Okay, this one we actually have to translate, because both words are directly used in Quenya. He is Hesto Ampa, and is actually named after a letter (ampa is the Tengwa for -mp- or -v-.
• Jafar - A tricky one, because Tolkien didn't really like the letter J. Yáva comes pretty near on the pronunciation, and just means "Fruit" in Quenya.
• Prince John - Same problem again, so I could go with "Yón" ('region'); but for entertainment value I will instead choose Yonyo, the Quenya word for 'big boy'. Bless 'im! His title, oddly enough, already showed up in the previous thread: Cundo or Kondo is sometimes translated 'Prince'.
• Queen of Hearts - Once again I think we should just translate this one by meaning. Tári Homwa is a posessive phrase literally meaning "Queen of Hearts" - and yes, that's Quenya again. Odd, since I think a lot of the princesses wound up with Sindarin names.

There are also five expansion packs, which between them add (deep breath) the Evil Queen, Hades, Dr. Facilier, Syndrome, Lotso, Madam Mim, Lady Tremaine, the Horned King, Gaston, Ratigan, Yzma, Scar, Cruella de Vil, Mother Gothel, and, uh... Pete from Steamboat Willie. But I'll leave those for someone else to do. :)

hS

But Scar would be Nirwë.

Yeah, I'll probably do that. There's a couple fics I REALLY want.

I think there may end up being too many requests. Oops?

Can I Claim a badfic before I request Permission?

This badfic. Dark Yagami, who has already been missioned, returns! This time, SPaG is as bad as ever, and the author keeps talking about “Lesbeans”. I personally like beans.

Only one chapter, though, thank goodness.