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If there is missioned RPF on the wiki I haven't seen it. But as of present, we don't mission RPF. Period.

And that infamous AO3-glitching fic is also a band-crossover.

https://youtu.be/kAkdrCxBo3A

They wrote this song, and they've requested I plug it where I can! Artist name of Wren Snowball, and if you enjoyed it, spread the word!

There was no sound booth to record because of the 'rona, but for a first song I think it's a damn banger :) It's a great song, all complications taken into effect and all—I know it will sound a bit staticky, but I really think it's worth checking out.

Lyrics below, just in case since this is a new song (also, tried formatting, to little avail):

Red skies in the morning Shepard’s warning Red skies at night Shepard’s delight

A slice of heavenly red To take away the blues But what would you do If you were in my shoes

Every day is different You gotta take it as it comes But there’s beauty in variety There’s beauty in the sun

Red skies in the morning Shepard’s warning Red skies at night Shepard’s delight

But even the sunrise With all of its beauty Has its darkness That leaves it shrouded in mystery

Blood red and wisps of black Blend together beautifully Light and dark Work together in perfect harmony

Red skies in the morning Shepard’s warning Red skies at night Shepard’s delight

Red skies in the morning Shepard’s warning Red skies at night Shepard’s delight

Red skies in the morning Shepard’s warning Red skies at night Shepard’s delight

(Sent a request for formatting help since this seems to not be wanting to work with me, but yeah. Check it out!)

Welcome to the PPC! I'm guessing you've already read through the Original Series, but if you haven't yet, that's a must-read!

The Discord has been semi-locked thanks to a very persistent troll who likes to slip in and make things difficult for everyone, so the Wiki page is sadly a bit outdated in that we need mods to approve of newbies to the server. I've pinged them and hopefully you'll get a link soon. :)

Glad to have you with us, and again—welcome! I hope you enjoy your stay here.

'Cause I've got hilariously bad BTS crossovers for y'all!

The canon being crossed over with is Onmyōji (2016 mobile game by NetEase). While I'll leave the possible inaccuracies and goofs from the K-Pop side to more knowledgeable folks, the Onmyōji canon fails are pretty glaring to me throughout.

To Master Seimei, the greatest and wisest Onmyoji in all of Nippon, the protector of Kyoto, adviser to emperors and governors of Heian, and last but most importantly, our most trusted companion and ally,

C'mon, how hard is it to say Japan? That aside, Japan would be known as Wa to people from China and Korea in that period. Seimei in this canon is not an advisor to anyone and isn't directly involved with royalty and nobility; he works independently, and people come to his house whenever there are supernatural problems for his help. The one more involved with the nobles and royals would be Hiromasa.

Hoseok is cheery as always, despite being the vessel of Lord Enma, and being the ruler of Death, he always try his best to brighten up the mood whenever we were feeling down or caught ourselves in a tight situation, all the while guiding lost and wondering souls to the Underworld.

Enma is a lady in this continuum, and she doesn't guide lost and wandering souls to the afterlife herself. Onitsukai demons under her command do that, case in point Mujō brothers. Also, where the heck is Hangan? Enma already has a "vessel" canonically, and he would be it.

Muramasa, the infamous Demon Blade, Devourer of souls, unrivalled in swordsmanship, took the form of a sweet-looking boy

Muramasa lived in the 1500s.

And that was just a tiny sample of other glaring goofs I found.

Fortunately for you, not many pages are about particular badfic, and you'll be good when it comes to knowing how the PPC works.

I wonder how many people have even read the entire wiki. Or how they'd know unless they explicitly set out to do so.

Fellow gamer over here. Feel free to have a donut 🍩

It's always great to meet new people.

Have a mini snek!

Glad to have you here. For your newbie gift, have a stuffed narwhal and a carved wooden spork!

Hello there everyone! Feel free to call me Clairvoyant. I'm a big fan of video games, namely Ace Attorney, Professor Layton, Hades, and Legend of Zelda. My current goal? To read through every single wiki page, as much mental suffering it may bring me. I'm excited to hang around and to get to know you all a little better. Quick question - the discord link on the wiki seems to be broken. Would someone mind linking the invite please? See you around!

I think they were the first thing we actually got working on the physical side of DAS. There was pressure from Upstairs to start with something useful for missions, but from sociological perspective, it was probably inevitable that we took care of the children first.

They're fairly simply combination of gag-based and placebo tech, as I recall. We wanted to prevent ACE, so they're built around... I'm not sure what the Norte word is, it's device that you hide up your sleeve to cheat at cards. We filled it with clippings from canons where characters named Ace get in trouble - there's some Doctor Who, some old Batman, the Pet Detective, and so on. So it's Ace trap.

The lights and humming are the placebo-tech: they're there to show the kids that it's safe to make fan-works there without worrying about affecting the Word Worlds. You know how it works - the more you believe something will (or in this case, won't) happen, the more it does (or doesn't).

Which says something interesting about fanfic as a whole, doesn't it? It means that deep down, all those fanwriters actually believe they can change the real canon characters by their art. There is paper in that...

... which I can't write, because I'm stuck doing physics, thank you very much Flowering Leek.

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The part that most rubs me the wrong way is when the Kriosian ambassador tells Sisko to let the four guys do whatever they want because it's important for their development to get a wide variety of experiences before bonding with someone, and Sisko pretty much just goes along with it. In fairness, the fic DOES say the guys are heavily guarded and it's all tightly controlled, but then it also says "They were given tours of the station and all the delights of the promenade, where they flirted and seduced like mad" and "Alone in their room, they were asked select three women to mate with per day." UM, excuse me, did the rest of the station consent to this? Dax does, fine, great, but what about the rest?

But, giving it the benefit of the doubt and assuming that anyone they actually slept with was into it? The rest of the story doesn't bother me much. Responding to your concerns particularly:

1. That's explained as being potentially harmful to the four empaths who are at a delicate stage of social development. I don't know if that's canon, but it seems plausible.

2. I haven't seen that episode (at least not recently enough to remember), but it doesn't matter, because "I think it's stupid" isn't an objective criticism. Why would that be inconsistent with canon, and why is that a bad thing in this case? I rather liked that the fic gave them a connection without making them insta-super-speshul-soulmates-4evar. It gives the empath guys some agency, and it made for a fairly touching ending, IMO.

3. To be fair, pretty much anything is gross when the Grand Nagus does it. {= P And, more seriously, sneezing yourself is not the same as seeing someone else sneeze, whether you're into it or not. A good sneeze can feel great, and a bad one or a whole bunch in a row can be awful. A cat sneezing a few times in a row can be adorable, and a cat flinging snot everywhere can be nasty (not to mention a cause for medical concern). These things are subjective, dependent on circumstances, and not mutually exclusive.

4. Catchphrase? She says it three times. Arguably two too many for a fic that short, but it's hardly a criminal offense.

5. "Everyone pressuring Kira" looks like just Dax recommending the experience and Golu hitting on her to me. Even if you count Dax multiple times 'cause of the extra personalities, that's far from "everyone," and it's not much pressure, either. (What I actually question is Kira not sticking to her guns and turning the guy down despite being turned on. Kira is not short on willpower.)

6. ... Okay, yeah, that's a bit cringey. But it's also a fair rendering of how the word would come out with a stuffy nose, and it's only once, so, eh.

Another factor to consider is that this was written for a prompt, and generally speaking we give prompt-fic a pass. Not always, because the author still made choices about how to interpret the prompt—and in this case they admit to writing it quickly and posting without bothering much about quality, so I might in fact make an exception here—but still, anything included specifically to fill the prompt would have to be given some slack.

Finally, on a completely arbitrary note, this line from Bashir made me laugh:

> "Ah, I'm so bloody jealous..." he sighed. He wished he was gay.

{X D Julian, don't you know there are plenty of Bashir/Garak shippers who are pretty sure you are at least bi? Kinda wonder if that line was a deliberate nod to that bit of fandom. (FYI, I am in that bit of fandom. One of my few actual ships. ^_^ )

TL;DR: I think there are enough questionable choices here that it could make for an entertaining spork if it were done with a light heart, but I don't think it's bad enough to get angry about.

~Neshomeh

PS. Amusingly, golu means "wisdom" in Sindarin; I remember this from the SIELU flash patch. /snrk/

Disclaimer: I know that YKINMK. You don't need to remind me. In fact, that's partly why I'm here.

Y'see, being a Trekkie, I kind of want more Star Trek missions in the PPC, and I remembered this story I found a few years ago. While the main reason I have for hating it is because they gave one of my favourite characters a kink, I tried to be objective and think to myself, "Would I still consider this story bad, discounting my aversion to kinks?". And I concluded that yes, I would, but I'm aware of my bias, so I need some other people to determine if it's bad. Here it is here: http://web.archive.org/web/20070608192457/http://sfarchive.beastlet.com/authors/superimmunegirl/heartsdesire.html

Reasons for thinking it's a badfic:

1. Benjamin Sisko seems uncharacteristically stupid, in that he doesn't just do the obvious and put the three OCs in status.

2. Speaking of the OCs, the main one, Golu, shows signs of being a Gary Stu. He's part of a species (admittedly canonical) that changes to be a "perfect mate" and manages to make a strong attachment to Kira without permanently "bonding" with her, which goes against canon (it's the species from the TNG episode "The Perfect Mate"). He even responds to Kira when she's nowhere near him, which I think is stupid.

3. They specifically gave Kira a "thing" about sneezing, which canon suggests she doesn't have-- in one episode, when the Grand Nagus sneezes, Kira looks like she's about to puke, and when she's sneezing due to her pregnancy, she hates it.

4. They made "By the prophets!" Kira's catchphrase, even though she never said it in the show.

5. Everyone pressures Kira into sleeping with Golu.

6. Due to trying to make Golu sound congested, "major" is spelt as "Bajor", which is the name of Kira's homeworld!

I don't ship them (I thought a sibling dynamic between them was a much more interesting writing choice than a romantic dynamic), but the art looks like a pretty good, cute anime-style drawing to me. This person has some talent!

~Neshomeh

It's really nice getting to write Ix and Charlotte reaching a certain happiness together, and I'm glad everyone else seems to enjoy reading it, too.

As for the goddess thing, I can take another look at it, though I was more going for the joke of Sues being so predictable that the agents were able to twig as soon as one floated the idea. It seems like it fell flat, though, so I'll take another look.

Thanks for the typos catches! (And I do know it's supposed to be an apostrophe, not an opening quote—it looks like my computer auto-changed it to opening quotes, which is annoying.)

Thanks again!

I couldn't think of any cake puns, but I offer browser cookies

It's on the Wayback Machine though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otvO797QGdA

So if you don't speak Russian (well or at all) and want to know what they're saying.

With apologies to Commander Shepard, you told me that Frodo volunteered!