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• Blød: Yes, it's like Bleep mixed with the Space Wolves' own special brew. Agent!Thoth's preferred alcohol substitute, because it's one of the few bleeproducts that works on him (for much the same reason he can get drunk off the original beverage).

• Klatchian Bloffee: ...Don't.

• Blot: Yeah, it's Bleep and Splot. For those who feel no need to be comprehensible. Guaranteed never to explode because Alcohol wouldn't survive it.

• Blah: Bleep and Klah! Sure, why not.

Any of the liquid Bleepstuffs (Bleepto-Dismal, Bleepesteem, Bleepka, etc.) would easily mix with seltzer. I suppose you could dissolve solid Bleeprin in it, too, but I don't know why you'd want to. ^_~

~Neshomeh

I'm pretty the rule about inventing new things for the setting is just "Don't invent something that'll make an already existing thing obsolete" and Bleepzer would only expand the variety of Bleeproducts, so it should be fine.

I had an idea for Bleep mixed with seltzer (or Bleepzer if you will).

Newbie feedback is very helpful here, and yours was detailed and informative. Thanks for jumping in!

Also, I don't think I greeted you before, so welcome! Have some fresh Canon Cookies. {= D

~Neshomeh

Maybe even the first one. (Edit: I have now done this.)

I've also repeated some of the most important rules in the Constitution to be sure they aren't missed; I'll check and see if there are others that would be good to add.

Thanks for the feedback!

~Neshomeh

I think it might be a good idea to put more emphasis on the Constitution? Just to make it clear that it's Very Important. Other than that, looks great! Thanks so much for doing the writeup!

Seconding what clairvoyant said.

The rules are clear and easy to understand and the style guide includes helpful information I wouldn't have considered otherwise, like British versus American spelling. From a newbie's perspective it's helpful and well formatted!

PPC Wiki Rules

Most of this stuff used to be on a page called Help:Editing, but that now redirects to Fandom's Community Central. Since Fandom requires rules to be clearly posted to keep admins from banning people with no justification, I've finally gotten around to making this new page.

So, what do you think? Does that cover everything important? Make sense? Seem fair?

~Neshomeh

… the fire was a metaphor for blood 😂

Wisdom Library's page Padma, Padmā, Pādma § Languages § Sanskrit dictionary provides the following:

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary
Padma (पद्म).—(paduma) , m. or nt., ... (5) nt., also m., name of a hell (= Pali Paduma; compare Mahāpadma): Divyāvadāna 67.23; 138.8; Avadāna-śataka i.4.9 etc.; it is cold according to Mahāvyutpatti 4935; Dharmasaṃgraha 122, but hot (at least sufferers are boiled there) in Śikṣāsamuccaya 75.8, where (and in 10) the spelling is Padumo, n. sg., tho in prose!;

So, there you go! Varying mythology confirmed. If you tug the thread some more, I'm sure you can find a reference to fire somewhere, too. {= )

~Neshomeh

Any religion accretes variants as it spreads, and the Hindu/Buddhist complex of religions and myths has been spreading longer than most.

Christian Hell actually has exactly the same situation: the Bible mostly describes it as a sort of null-space, folk Christianity has it as a fiery pit filled with torturer-demons, Dante's Inferno gives it multiple levels with states of torture (but no torturer), the bottom of which is frozen...

On your specific question, Wikipedia is spectacularly useless. Are they two of the 14 Buddhist hells? Two of the 8 Hindu cold hells? Are they Lokas, or maybe beautiful Patalas? Or are they actually parts of Diyu, and not Buddhist or Hindu, but Chinese mythology?

It looks like Hell Screen is Japanese; given the number of Japanese Buddhist schools, I'd be amazed if you couldn't find someone to teach that Padma and Mahāpadma are on fire.

hS

There's a description that reads "the infernal flames of Padma and Mahāpadma were rolling as though swallowing even mountains of spears and forests of swords" (紅蓮大紅蓮の猛火が剣山刀樹も爛れるかと思ふ程渦を巻いて居りました). Thing is, Padma and Mahāpadma – two levels of Buddhist Hell – are cold; anyone condemned to them will be chilled so bad they bleed profusely like red lotus flowers, hence the levels' names. Is the description above a blunder on the author's part or is this some fancy metaphor?

Meaning: why does an author quarantine their continuum? They're protecting something, whether it's their ideas or their money or both. The intent is to stop outsiders getting in.

What we want to do here is sort of the opposite of that—yeah, we want to stop the fic dragging stuff from other continua in, but to do that, we really want to stop the influence of the fic from getting out. Maybe whatever it is that we're setting up has to be reflected on the fic from places outside of it, probably the canons most heavily affected.

I'd reckon that's how the shield on FanFicVerse works, too. The effect is reflected on it from Headquarters in some way. Therefore, powered by DoDAEG. Possibly the effect itself is even generated by DoDAEG, tapping into the power of authors to protect their creations that most of them never bothered to use?

Walt Disney must be kept FAR away from this system; he'd drain the whole thing. {X D

But, maybe it's not just dead authors, seeing as we, the Boarders, certainly contribute to the FFVerse shield, right? Maybe that's not common knowledge around Headquarters, but it's never been a secret that some PPC agents have authors, though. Even if most of them prefer not to think too hard about it. {= )

... Okay, now I'm imagining Agent Neshomeh being approached by the DES and/or DoDAEG or someone being like, "Look, we know you're an explicit author insert. We need to borrow you for a little while so we can tap into the protective energies authors can exert over their IPs in order to stop this monster fic from breaking the multiverse. It won't hurt, promise."

Agent Neshomeh: "Uhhhh—"

"Great! Come along."

"Wait! I gotta talk to my partner first!"

"Oh, Civilian Phobos? Yes, he hasn't been an active author in these parts for a long time, but every little bit helps."

"That's not what I—!" /sigh/ "Okay, I'll ask him, but I don't think he'll be very keen... He's already got one, you see..."

Anyway, my point was that a node in HQ could be used in support of the nodes in the main continua affected by STWWX. It's not directly draining the energy that powers HQ, since that comes from the authors' spinning, and even though it's still not practical to do this for every bad fic, even the really bad ones (prolly 'cause dead authors have limited reserves of IP-protective powers?), this one is worth the cost.

I hope this barely coherent ramble helps someone else answer the question of what setting up the network would actually look like from node to node. ^_^;

~Neshomeh

It's so important for young minds to be able to work with words, especially with so many of our children going into the "business of words" when they get older. Although I did hear the spies who inspected some of the childrens' stories that slipped through from before found them more amusing than anything else!

Nonetheless, we got you a thank-you card.

shoves a gigantic greeting card through whatever space this conversation is taking place in

I apologize for the size, but all the children insisted on signing it.

All of them.

—doctorlit

Specifically about the chángshān seen in this character design from a Chinese game – note how the black one has clasps going down the left side of the garb rather than the right. Does this carry any connotations similar to closing a kimono right-over-left?

Specifically, the Mission-Writing Guide § What Kind of Things Can I PPC? and the Real Person Fic pages. I guess it hadn't come up often enough to bother before, IDK.

If there's anywhere else that needs an update or correction, please let me know!

~Neshomeh

Here is another piece of Insane LotR Stuff for you!

Lord Of The Rhymes

Please enjoy ent-water responsibly.

RPF is creepy. It doesn't magically stop being creepy just because we're the ones doing it.

Hey there, welcome! Feel free to poke around the Wiki, but I wouldn't recommend doing what I did and start out by reading the Legendary missions. If you do, then you'll just want to read the badfics themselves, and that way lies madness. And also great missions, but mostly madness.

Yes, missions to some band fics were done in the past. However, since then, we decided as a community that if it's creepy for fanfic writers to presume to know the inner character and private lives of real people, it's creepy for us to do it, too—especially since we'd be presuming to know better than others about people we don't actually know. Hence, no more RPF missions.

That doesn't mean we can't touch any fic that so much as mentions a real person, and it's different when the person in question is a historical figure rather than a living person, but the point is always to exercise discretion and good taste. This sets our works apart from those we criticize.

~Neshomeh

Here's an invite! https://discord.gg/89tcdR3PUm

The author decided to tack on an RPF element later on out of spite. The mission does not plan to touch on the RPF element except to send the affected people back to World One.