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It's not linked atm? But the text looks linky and acts linky without sending me anywhere. Huh.

-kA

Looking at the formatting, I'm pretty confident this is a three-way co-write between Jay, Acy, and Lux. Lux and Sean's actions are separated out a bit too nearly in the intro for it to just be J&A (but equally, they tend to share lines, so I don't think they were two authors).

This is definitely the story that establishes Lux's reputation as an airhead nympho. And, er, what is up with this sequence?

Luxury came strolling out of the woods, riding on Sean's shoulders.

I've always assumed it's a moderately dirty scene, but this readthrough I've noticed two things:

1/ Lux is wearing a skirt later, oh lawks, but,

2/ Lux is strolling? What? Are her feet somehow on the ground?

Still on the subject of Lux: she reads the Words of the mission, which Acacia doesn't know how to do (and describes it as 'reading minds'). If we accept the notion that Lux is from the Shipverse, can she do that because the PPC isn't her world, so she can perceive its Words while its 'natives' can't?

The Department of Bad Slash as a concept is fleshed out slightly in ways that... really didn't stick. The Slashers don't wear disguises, and Acy implies that they might operate by seducing canons away from their uncanonical relationships. Which might be quite funny to read, actually, provided Rule of Funny was solidly in place.

Is this the mission that introduces the torture ban? I don't remember it coming up before.

And we have the mention of the spinoffs! Archi, KazraGirl, and Black Katana get mentioned; it looks like Acacia missed mulberry. It must have been a real thrill to start your spinoff and have the Original Assassins mention you in an A/N. :)

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Warnings for BL2, mild language, and some mildly NSFW jokes.

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I already said it was WhatThe-worthy in that thread 🤣

I forget if I ever said, but I actually looked at it. The writing is bloody awful, but there IS an explanation for the incest and resulting pregnancy: two adolescents who were never taught what sex is hanging out and discovering things that felt good together and only finding out the consequences when it was too late. It's actually pretty plausible. Research shows that comprehensive sex education correlates negatively with teen pregnancy. If you don't really understand what you're doing, what's to stop you from doing it?

That doesn't make the story good, but it does serve to show yet again that subject matter cannot be the sole determiner of quality, whether you like the subject matter or not.

~Neshomeh

P.S. Since the writing mechanics and style choices (if you can call them that) are the worst things about it, maybe it's a case for the DTE! It would be nice to see them again. {= D

... is that his own story is lost. It was called "Agents R and... Another R", and was posted by Robyn on FFn in April. It was presumably taken down during the Takedown a month later, but we really don't know - and nobody is around who remembers anything about it. It's very sad.

I didn't actually remember that I'd pilfered him for Crashing Down, heh. He only gets a mention in dialogue, so not enough for me to call it an adoption.

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That Encanto… thing probably qualifies as WhatThe too.

All the slots have been filled - thank you for signing up! I'll try to work on the actual Hunger Games bit and hopefully have it out by the end of the week. Thanks again, and-

Um. Hold up, I need a good one-liner to close off. Hmm.

Oh! May the odds ever be in your favor! That's a good one.

-OrangeFox

Kokoro (こころ): Four feet tall, extremely muscular, intelligent and analytical but can appear somewhat detached from reality. (She claims to be emotionally distancing herself to protect herself from badfic.) Along with her partner Hiromi, she protects the long-suffering childrens' cartoons from the horrors of weird Youtube clickbait for kids. I think. The department creation proposal still has to go through Personell...

Home continuum: My Hero Academia. As a result...

Quirk: Flatland - she can decrease the local space-time curvature, allowing her to weaken gravity and weather the effects of spacetime distortions better than most.

Weapon of choice: Her fists usually suffice.

Hiromi: Partner of Kokoro. Is a human-shaped cyborg called a Humagear, originally created to work in a processing plant before reaching singularity, becoming sentient, and attempting to start a union. Was put down for this act of malfunctioning, and luckily got spirited away to the PPC before the setting's villains could get their hands on him. Unlike most Humagears, he does not have a humanlike outer layer as a political statement -- he also had his hands modified to give his fingers three joints instead of two.

Home continuum: Kamen Rider Zero-One. Can't tap into any of that setting's power system, though, as IIRC it depends on some satellites that he's too far away from. Has tried to slap together a way to use it anyway, to negative results.

Weapon of choice: Spears, then swords. Terrible ranged fighter.

Wiki says he has another mission with Robyn and NytBloomer, and that he was in Crashing Down, but not much past the 00s, I'm guessing. Maybe he works in the Arboretum

Though, as ever, which department a mission gets sent to depends on what the mission writer wants to do. You can justify basically anything - if all else fails, someone in Intelligence clearly just messed up.

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What if (borrowing a slightly adapted concept from DC, especially seen in Legends of Tomorrow, and building a little on your post and I think Lily's as well), each badfic is an attempted change that, given the chance, could set in and stay? And enough of them, built up, destabilize the canon? That's already a thing--agents go in to keep the canon from being damaged by setting things back to normal.

If we consider each fanfic to be kind of like either a split off timeline/neighboring alternate universe, if it's goodfic, or acting like a change to the timeline that needs time before it settles in enough to stay (at which point it has consequences)...or, I suppose, for symmetry: the goodfic splits/AUs often occupy almost the same space, and don't cause damage because they don't break the rules of the canon; meanwhile, the badfic splits/AUs do, so if enough of them build up, they can have a detrimental effect? Just a thought, but it's closest to what I always had vaguely in mind, and I think it makes enough sense of how there can be so many versions of the same events and yet they almost never collide.

~Z

Part of the delay was me waiting for folks to double-check my work, but the relevant folks have been busy lately so I just went and pulled the trigger on all this.

Most of the downtime wasn't actually directly related to the search change, but more a result of "hold on, we're running an OS version that's four years old at this point, I should do something about that while I'm here".

After the first long gap (for a given value of 'long'), the Assassins are back with:

Children of the Earth

With the date nicely confirmed by Acacia announcing it on Entmoot. Sadly there is no record of the badfic, other than the title and the author (Silver15, but not the current FFn user by that name).

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That's going to make searching a whole lot easier, and thanks for getting it done so smoothly.

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