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As part of my Newbie-Reply-To-Everything-So-People-Know-Me-And-I-Can-Get-Permission-Faster plan, the link is here.

Maybe you can just translate similar words? Like, say, Malevolent and Gothic.

Yes, we have finally reached the far end of the mass timeslide from last time: Chapter 2 of Protectors of the Plot Continuum: The New Kids.

Protectors of the Plot Continuum: The New Kids - Morwen Daughter of Darkness

I think Dafydd and Selene killed a "Daughter of Darkness" once too... either way, I can't find the badfic for this one, I suspect it's long since gone.

I haven't caught up with the timeslide or the mission yet, but I will note that Sakira and Kage appear to be a cowriting team, so I guess I should credit them differently?

hS

Um, first off, can someone throw in a link to the previous thread? I forget where it was. :)

Secondly: actual translations is hard, because what does "Maleficent" or "Gothel" even mean? I'd end up just translating them all to Ulca - "Evil".

hS

Pancakes. They're evil. Love it.

I remember reading that thread. Please do this. Ooh, and Marvel characters too?

Now I wanna see the same treatment given to Disney Villains!

Can’t really be shortened, unless I want to be signing off posts with ‘Scar’. And seeing as I don’t want to kill my brother and take the throne, I can’t be that either

Wow, you've been doing it longer than I've been alive lol.

Me, on the other hand? I just smushed "Kitty" and "author" together. It's a relic from my "Kittyauthor" period. If you looked at my usernames from this time, you'll see all of them... are Kittyauthor (or some variant).

Technically, I could go on about how Kitty is a reference to my very first username I chose: KittyCatILoveCat. The last cat was intend to be plural (KittyCatILoveCats) but I ran out of characters. So, KittyCatILoveCat it was. My Minecraft username for a little while. Author in itself is a reference to my love for writing, but that's obvious :P, and a reference to my parents' influence to my writing. They always allowed me to write in peace, which is a thing they did right.

-kA

Because knS doesn't look exactly pleasing on the eye plus can be mistaken for an initialism of the Generation of Miracles from KuroBasu.

-Yuki, who's been shortening her screen name like this for years.

Let's see... apparently I didn't pick it up off the Board, because I was already doing it in my very earliest fanfic, half a year before I knew the Board existed. As I wasn't on any other forums at the time, best guess is I stole the idea from other FFn authors. It serves as a way to distinguish author's notes from story text, I guess?

As for why, hS, rather than Hs or [shudders] HS, that's because Elvish calligraphy. In Tengwar, I write the S curling around a much smaller h. (It's the bottom half of the calligraphed image there.)

hS, still doing it 19 years on

Knock once if there's an arthropod forcing you to send pro-invertebrate messages. I wouldn't put it past our ancient enemies to try that kind of thing.

hS

It's the Suvian artifacts episode! Except the artifacts aren't really given much opportunity to do anything. At least our ladies scored quite a haul from that backpack! Interesting that being in HQ made the backpack weigh properly; they must have conceived HQ as being closer to reality than badfics, if not proper word worlds

It's also the callbacks episode! In addition to the return of "stated," which was dictated by the fic, we see the invisible yarn and Aislinn's hide come back, plus we get to see Makes-Things return. He actually doesn't appear in the Original Series as much as I recall happening! We get another piece of evidence that only the Upstairs hallway was intended to be generic grey, with the magnet attaching to J+A's wall, like it would on real wall studs. Then again, since generic surface has no description, it can't be nonmagnetic, so this actually still holds up! There's also the reference to "Acacia's console," yet again implying the agents had their own PCs, rather than a single wall-spanning behemoth console.

I'm guessing what Jay's author note says about the "long-awaited guests of the board" means that the Board's original incarnation was released between "Mithril" and this mission? Her final line also makes it sound like Acacia invited Barton to join or visit the Board, which at least shows she was willing to interact with Barton beyond just dismissing the latter's flaming comments. A shame the comments are gone for good; I would have liked to see how Acacia handled her "essay" in response to Barton's initial complaint.

Ah, gods, I keep forgetting what Otik actually looks like. When I first read TOS, I pictured him basically as Plank from Ed, Edd n Eddy, but with vine arms. I need to remember he's a monstrous, seven-foot potato-nochio from now on. : (

Lastly, while starfish can be out of water for brief time periods, they do very much need to be in water to breathe.

—"I am doctorlit, and this is the secret comment to discuss the mission." doctorlit stated.

Though I have no Permission myself, thought I'd add that.

Here's my (rough idea) for how to spork it: a couple of Assassins or Floaters get frustrated with the SPaG, it affects their speech, and they need the help of the DTE and DoSAT turn off the horrible SPaG and then exorcise the the troll. Thoughts?

• Linstar, who has signed as Ls for the same reason, also understanding.

You don't have to if you don't want to. I started for no reason (and started doing kA rather than Kittyauthor for equally no reason other than to copy hS but shhhh).

-kA

Why do starfish get all the attention?! Sand dollars are lifeforms, too! Though I suppose the gold dollars in the show could just be the remnant test left behind after death, like we find of sand dollars in the real world.

—doctorlit, respecter of (some) invertebrates

He even has his own TVTropes page. But I think a good sporking could be done. Maybe. Again, when I get Permission, perhaps. If you feel like torturing your eyes with such odious SPaG, go ahead. Just don’t say you weren’t warned.

I’m Not Okay, on the other hand? Very sporkable. I want it!

—Ls, who’s unsure why people end posts with status reports.

The continuity being sporked here is the second series (2003-2008). There are two reboots after that one: one in 2010 and one in 2021, the former caused a bit of ruckus for whitewashing a previously black character and feminine-izing previously tomboy characters (oh, I'm especially irked by this one; even worse, the only one with tomboy tendencies in this reboot is the villain), and the latter disliked for just being not pleasing to look at.

About the sand dollars: they're just objects in the show, basically saucer-sized coins lying around on the beach and under the sea. Still doesn't make them any less dangerous 🤣

As always, thanks for commenting 😉

Sorry, I haven't got around to replying yet, things have been busy for me this last week or so, I promise I'll get a full reply out this week though.

Apologies

Nova

Also, yeah, it's pretty obviously a troll lol. "Ivy Caroline Celestia Allison Marissa Claire Bieber" has, like, quite a few names. Ivy, Caroline, Allison, and Claire are regular girl names, but Celestia is taken from MLP, as far as I can tell, Marissa is a variant of Marrissa, who is another Sue in another canon, and Bieber is... I hope that's obvious, alongside her supposed "prep" personality.

Personally, there seems to be too MANY typos for it to be sporked and the mission still be funny. I can barely read it as-is, but I suppose it could be sporked in a funny way.

oh hey look! The return of Cliffy!

-kA, who might just read more of this out of morbid curiosity.

Gosh, as much as I liked Kazra and Rich's first outing, this mission isn't quite as well done. It needs a lot more dialogue tags, or at least a way of showing what's a badfic quote and what's not, since it isn't obvious when such a transition occurs. And general scene transitions would help out quite a bit, as well. SPaG wasn't great, either, with "'had a tinker with it.' Rich replied" and "'Come one, let's move.'" Plus, they never charged the Suvian, and frankly, didn't show that canon was being particularly affected at all. Apart from all the mini-style typos, the glimpses we get of the original fic aren't particularly damning at all.

I'm still fond of Rich's low-key personality and drive, though. Think how much calmer the U.S. would be if more folks had his "only when it's important" work ethic . . . Oh, and here we have the "blend in with the fic setting" strategy for disguise choice stated explicitly, as opposed to Jay and Acacia's "make the murder logical in canon" style. Honestly, I feel like both are valid, depending on the circumstances of a given mission.

—doctorlit would complain about that pizza, but it wouldn't really mean anything, because doctorlit doesn't like ANY toppings on pizza