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Not sure I'll be checking it out, but if you end up reading it I'd be mildly interested to hear what you think.

~Z

I'm somewhat familiar with the Artemis Fowl series; but I've never heard of this sequel series. Is it any good? The only thing I remember happening recently in relation to Artemis Fowl is the (apparently) terrible movie.

--Ls

And sometimes I'm wrong and I have to eat crow. ^_^;

So I started reading the Das Sporking MST, which is really entertaining since the sporker clearly knows the Sentai genre and how film works in general. Makes it so even someone less familiar with the genre, like me, can keep up. Many well-placed references to other pop culture stuff, too. ^_^

But my point is, having done that, I've learned that in chapter four, the main villain of Scanranger ("Blackorg," lol) claims to have wiped out the villains from the original Power Rangers, which—oops—does technically set Scanranger in the same universe.

Technically.

If you even believe Blackorg, which I don't. As the riffers point out, he's not fit to shine Rita Repulsa's shoes. {= P Plus, if he defeated the Alliance of Evil but not the Power Rangers (he says he'll be the first to eliminate a pesky five-member group when he gets the Scanrangers!), where exactly are they now? They couldn't get from California to New Jersey because...? It's one of many plotholes you could drive a giant mecha through.

But I think the connection is so tenuous it's not enough to justify calling this a Power Rangers fanfic, since it has absolutely zero other shared elements, at least as of chapter six. An experienced PPCer could maybe make a Bad Parody mission of it, but personally I wouldn't bother.

Just read the MST. That's the best sporking format for this, IMO, and it's already been done quite well. {= )

~Neshomeh

Heyo again,

I just learned that Eoin Colfer started writing a spinoff series of Artemis Fowl in 2019. Since this is still the only community I know of that's also read Artemis Fowl, I'm wondering if anyone's been aware of that and if so, how is it?

This is not a missionable work. Cursory research tells me this was written in homage to Super Sentai and/or in spite for Power Rangers, but it's a completely original take on the genre. Whoever put it on the Unclaimed Badfic list shouldn't have.

Do not mission this; do not base a Permission request on this.

Furthermore, please spend more time developing your own judgement. In order to write good missions, you'll need to be able to identify what makes a fanfic bad (and whether or not it would make a good mission even if it is), explain why when asked, and demonstrate how that manifests in-universe in an entertaining way. You will also need to be willing to do research when you encounter uncertainty.

Take the advice you've already been given and slow down. Read more missions to find out how the PPC works and see how other people have interpreted badfics. By all means, also ask questions, but do so with the aim of developing your reading and writing skills, not as a shortcut to Permission. Rushing it will only end in disappointment.

~Neshomeh

-ission requests (and yes what little I've can bear to read is terrible and all OCs)

If it's just misfiled original fiction, you can't Claim it. Unless you mean that all the characters in the canon world are OCs? That would be missionable, if the story didn't make sense in the world, or was just badly written.

Also, what do you mean by Permission request "add-on"? Is that just a Permission request? Or are you doing something more than that?

--Ls

But noted. And I am working on the permission request add-on.

So I was able to find the badfic, and hoo boy is that long. 130k words? Yeesh. I tried to read some of it, but I just had absolutely no clue what was going on with it. No idea who any of the characters were, or what was going on, or how inaccurate it was. The SPaG wasn't bad enough for me to pick up on that, either. Sorry, dude.

You don't have to read the whole badfic to mission it (after getting Permission, of course), nor must the mission include the entire badfic. If you'd prefer, maybe choose a shorter badfic for your first mission.

--Ls

And thankfully, none of the charges involve Power Rangers itself. I’m also currently working on the supplement to go with my permission request.

Do you want us to read through and find charges in the badfic itself, like an MST or something? Are you trying to write a mission for the fic? Because I would caution against that without Permission, and you don't even need to mission an entire badfic anyway.

I, again, am no Power Rangers expert, and probably can't help that much with going over the fic, but I would like a little clarification as to what you were trying to say.

--Ls

It turns out Eiga Sentai Scanranger is way longer than I was expecting, and I need help finding the charge worthy moments in it, so any and all help will be greatly appreciated

It must be, to be able to use the disguise generator in the first place. And then he gives himself the ability to use thought-speech during missions, to be able to interact with characters. Clever cat!

—doctorlit disguises himself as a functioning human being whenever he leaves the house

I dig the chapter opening here, with the back-and-forth between Polixenes articles and dialogue from background students. Moves time forward, moves plot forward, shows how a rumor only grows, and how Umbridge is inevitably going to catch wind of the Debate Association. Hm. Without Dumbledore’s name on the list in this timeline, he won’t be able to take the blame for the group on himself. But it’s also going to make Umbridge sound really stupid when she tries to tell the Ministry, “The students are engaging in an illicit—” checks notes “—debate club! They can’t modulate the key then not debate with me!” Let’s get Skeeter to do something useful for once, and write a smear piece about Umbridge being terrified of students discussing topics!

Man, the conversation in Dumbledore’s office takes SUCH a turn! I was expecting Cormac’s parents to be all worried and sad, but then Madam McLaggen just starts dunking on her son, like it’s Cormac’s fault he got lost (I mean, it kind of is, but not really?) And then she starts dunking on her husband, and then on her brother/in-law, and then on Umbridge . . . (You wrote Umbridge chastising someone for homophobic comments? Stop making me feel conflicted, Lily!) She pretty much dunks on everyone in the room, and some people who aren’t even there, and feels no fear or shame. Maybe she should be playing Quidditch, what with all the goals she keeps scoring. What a lady! Absolute fire in her soul! I’m definitely never getting married!

Now . . . now Umbridge banning Harry from Quidditch “for life.” She can’t actually do that, right? Like, through the end of his school career, sure, she clearly has that authority. But she can’t like, block Harry from pursuing the career of his choice after he enters the employed adult world, right? Right?

“Naturally, this lends an extra air of mystery to the whole Dinner, along with speculations about what sort of alliances may be brokered within the hallowed halls of Lindenhill…”
♪No one really knows how the game is played, the art of the trade, how the sausage gets made . . . ♪

I was going to say something about how nice it was that Qiu appreciated Harry’s occasional talks so much, and that they were helping her get through her mourning over Cedric. But uh. By the end of the chapter, it becomes clear she’s actually quite a bit more into Harry than I realized? (Dang my asexuality causing me to read ordinary friendship into all interactions!) So she’s not actually handling the mourning process as healthily as I thought last chapter . . . It’s almost as though allowing underage people to enter magically binding contracts that also brainwash them is like, bad or something? Who could have foreseen this?! Have the Ministry employees who work in the Love Room been informed of this?!?! (Oh, ye gods, I actually forgot the Love Room exists until I started typing this paragraph. The one in canon is uncomfortable enough; I am abjectly terrified to know how the Bonding culture in this timeline has warped it. But I’m getting way off track . . .) Also, I’ve got to say, after mulling over it at work throughout today: I’m not real impressed with Marietta! She keeps saying she’s trying to protect Qiu, but it feels more like she’s trying to protect the rules. Qiu clearly needed emotional support way before the designated mourning period ended. Maybe, if she had been able to have normal interactions with Harry right away, and they both deconstructed their trauma over Cedric’s murder together, Qiu’s desperation for comfort wouldn’t have built up to the point where she threw herself into Harry’s arms, in a way that Harry can’t say “no” to without hurting her feelings further. And for that matter, Marietta has arms of her own; she should have been noticing how lonely Qiu was becoming long before it reached this point. Hug your friend, Marietta! Your friend who is sad needs hugs! You are some kind of garbage friend, Marietta!

Man, Harry just can’t listen. Severina said to stay away, and he follows and eavesdrops. I’m worried his finding out, and forewarning Sirius, will prove to have made the situation worse, somehow. On the other hand, it was fun seeing Severina and Lily in that class together as kids, and I’m hoping that discussion they had together means Lily has knowledge of the cure available on-hand. Honestly, I would have assumed the poisoning was pre-rehearsed and Lily was just acting, except Harry seemed to be feeling a poison’s effects during his bond dream. And speaking of the dream, the whole nightmare/bond vision sequence was excellently written, and also I’m extremely amused that Harry is so subconsciously cued in to the attraction between Ron and Hermione that they’re just a couple by default in his dream!

The new words you taught me today: “couturier” and “sky-clad,” neither of which I’m ever likely to need to use!

Harry looked, too, and saw her watching a game of go between Qiu and Ron over by the fire.
I’m not sure if it matters, but everywhere else, you used a capital “G” for the game’s name?

—doctorlit loves Draco and Love working to help Luna keep her . . . self!

Link here!

--Ls

Unless you're planning to?

I mean, I suppose I could ask Barid and Brightbeard, but they're not very helpful.

Barid: "See? I been tellin' you all dese years I'm an excellent multitasker! It's about time I be recognized for me genius!"

Brightbeard: *deep sigh* "Aye, and I been tellin' ye that's just a fancy word fer failin' at multiple things at once. Ye're nae a multitasker. Ye're not e'en a multitusker."

Barid: *gasp* "Words can hurt, mon."

So yeah, I don't know if it's necessary, but no objection if this is something you're planning to use.

~Neshomeh

I could see an Animorphs character interpreting that in brackets or something. I assume that's what this is?

--Ls

...the Animorphs reference was there the whole time! Think of how Tanner's been speaking this whole trip!

I notice they don't have a title yet, so I propose calling them Multitaskers.

Oh my gosh, I love this outcome! Making Kaito do some simple manual labor is a perfect way to knock his narcissism down a few pegs, and hopefully see himself more as Tanner’s equal. It’s also an excellent subversion of Kaito’s expectation that he would be punished violently for failing a mission. The Sunflower Official’s minimal dialogue contributes well to that, too. Such a simple way to say, “you’re fired!”

Hey, are those Animorphs thought speech for the SO’s mental communication? Nice reference!

This line:
“You’re joining us in a job more important than mission work¹ and waaaaaay harder to screw up.”
has an extra superscript with no accompanying footnote.

—doctorlit laughs at Ego’s misery; time for an honest day’s work at last!

Shpx April.