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I'm assuming you're referring to this trope, wherein a character utilizes excessively formal speech patterns? I'm not sure why you would need a translator, or what you mean by that.

Insofar as agents having this, my agent Carlisle Cressington definitely had that in earlier missions. I've decided that I don't like it so much, and given him more natural speech patterns as I've written him--characterization marches on, after all!

--Ls

So, for anyone that doesn't know, around March, we have the PPC Boarder Shipfic Fest, in which we write silly fics featuring various Boarders. Opt-in here if you want to participate.

The Shipfic thread should take place on the T-Board, to minimize the clutter on here.

--Ls is opting in, as long as it doesn't go beyond platonic fluff

Can you maybe do some sort of community interaction besides just these vague one-sentence writing posts? Writing is not all the PPC is.

--Ls

I have contacted some other authors via Discord, but for you specifically, the only way to communicate is through Board post; you don't have a clickable email. (I also just wanted to make it so anyone could see it.)

I'll be happy to delete the older images of yours, and anyone else who wants me to do so.

I'm not sure I want to automatically assume that deleting images is the answer; some of the authors I've talked to over Discord very much did not want their older agent images deleted, and I think deleting images without asking would be much worse than simply adding them to pages. At the very least, one doesn't need to be an admin to remove an image from a page.

--Ls

(Here is a merger progress tracker.)

So perhaps when that's done, we bring it up again? Hopefully that will be soon.

--Ls

For example, in that list I can see the old SubetaHQ versions of Sergio, Nikki and Corolla's images - they're still there only because I had no ability to delete them when I uploaded their replacement ones. They're not forgotten, just obsoleted - in fact, you can delete them.

If there are relevant Agent pages to the unused images, we can assume that situations like mine are actually more likely than the author uploading the image and then forgetting to add it to the page - especially if the page itself features more recent ones, on in the page history the iimage was unlinkedb by the agent's author themselves. While it can count as an "archive" of sorts, I believe that adding the old ones as a gallery would actually go against the wishes of the original author in most cases.

I'm planning to write an agent who speaks in it but I'm not sure if I should. (ps. does anyone have any translators for it, my brain is starting to hurt from trying to figure it out myself)

I know that I just made a thread on the Board and all but we did say we would reopen the discussion in March and I'm rather anxious to move wikis for personal reasons. I really have nothing to say other than it's a good idea. Fandom's a bit of a mess now and the recent censorship poses a problem and their rules on non-notable real people are frankly idiotic and dumb and and and and...

So, let's get the ball rolling, if we want to, of course.

Sorry I never posted on these before, thoughts were all over the place for a while but like, all the imagery and the feelings of tension and struggle and pushing through and whatnot is just so cool

It's a really unique POV and I'm interested in seeing how it all turns out!

I mean, who doesn't want a quirky steampunk tailor? He could have mechanical arms that do needlework and stuff. {= D

~Neshomeh

It's a "reposting old missions" project, similar to Huinesoron's PPC+20 posts, and getting new eyes on old stories is hardly a bad thing. Plus, the bottom of the Board currently still reaches back to January, so we still have a month's worth of topics visible on the front page.

—doctorlit, letting the Spice flow, where "the Spice" is a euphemism for discussion topics

I've had the idea that, in the earliest days of HQ, when there were fewer agents, and maybe less available/reliable disguise technology, maybe HQ had a tailor? Obviously, a lot of missions require a species change, but for an agent team that focused on a small number of continua, and who were already of a correct species, maybe having a costume set for each agent would allow for blending in across multiple missions, without needing to use (and wear out) technology? I know it's purely speculative, since nowadays the disguise generator and DORKs are more standard, but it might be a fun detail for anyone who fills in more details from the Lofty Skies era. (And consider this permission for anyone doing so to use the concept, if they like.)

My personal vision was that the tailor's room was run by a very large man (because the little old lady who first popped into my head felt too much a dull stereotype), assisted by three non-speaking Neverland fairies. I won't hold anyone using the concept to this, though; if nothing else, the tailor likely needs a weekend, so there's presumably space for at least one other tailor to occupy the role, as well!

—doctorlit, thinking way outside his own characters' timeline for some reason

I prefer looking at the PPC through a Watsonian lens, and however we dirty Doyles categorize stuff out in the real world, doesn't affect much in-universe. I think it's more important for a badfic to be legendary to the agents who are assigned to it, affecting them emotionally, becoming a part of their history, etc. ("Daughter of Desire" is hardly a well-known story, but look how important Huinesoron made it to Dafydd's overall storyline . . .)

—doctorlit, legendarily bad at time management

As I’ve said on the Jenni/Jacques series, I don’t really have any emotional response to . . . gonna say “flirty stuff,” so I sorry I don’t have much to say regarding checks notes the primary focus of this story. But! I did appreciate the disguise generator war as a very amusing gag. (Not one I would want to be part of myself, as my . . . torso is not appropriate for public viewing, but.) If nothing else, it shows that Dafydd and Constance are comfortable enough with each other to, well, cause some wardrobe sabotage. And the nice thing about the wide variety of settings Disney likes to adapt is that gave you quite a variety of costumes/species to play around with. (There’s Fantasia fic? Seriously?) I was especially amused by Constance Uno-reversing Dafydd’s merfolk disguise, as well as the fake-out in the final story after referencing Ajy and Acacia’s invisible mission. I also appreciate Thanduril becoming the adult in the room, and preventing the agents from escalating the disguise war too far. Tough love from the little fire demon! And probably a tough fix for DoSAT afterwards!

Poor Steve and Selene; they really got third-wheeled into the background by this romance, didn’t they? Hopefully they had plenty of adventures of their own going on, and didn’t get stuck in their RCs alone too much. Unless, of course, that’s what they preferred!

Heh. Of course Dafydd would appreciate Fantasia for its musical focus! And I love that each chapter is named for a musical track from the series’s original installment!

Other minor likes on my part:
-Dafydd drinking literal dew from a mountain (but which mountain!?)
-Hades having enough willpower to break out of the fic for the extremely important purpose of criticizing the appearance of a peer
-foreshadowing Disney’s eventual adaptation of “The Snow Queen” into Frozen

New words you taught me:
-lilo: it’s the “windex” of inflatable mattresses!
-kinchin, sort of: Wiktionary’s quote selection indicates that I’ve already encountered this in Oliver Twist, but I didn’t pick it up enough from there to recognize it here.

And a few typos:
The agents strolled through the undefined fix-space until they found a more solid area.
I’m betting that’s an autocorrect from “fic-space”?

"It's a bit worse than slightly legs!"
Is . . . is that an autocorrect of “sightly”? Legs are a bit out of my wheelhouse . . .

"We're supposed to have a mission, Constance said dazedly.
The closing quotation mark was rendered invisible by the broken disguise generator . . .

—doctorlit doesn’t have any legs of his own, and no one here can contradict that (Tomash, Neshomeh, Phobos, Iximaz, GMA, and Thoth, don’t say anything!)

So, one thing I've noticed about the wiki is that we have (or at least had) a good number of unused files, so one thing I've been going on a wiki-editing spree with is adding unused agent files to their pages, that is; giving agent pages duplicate images from different sources (say, one from Tektek and one from Recolor.me). I do hope that I've not stepped on any toes by doing so; I was assuming that most people don't know or care about the fancy gallery code, and of course, you need admin privileges to delete files.

If you want to check to see if I've edited your agent pages, a look through my edit history might help.

If I have added images in error and want me to revert, or you want to see something deleted, please reply here, email me, or tell me so on Discord.

--Ls

I'd like to get around to expanding on hS' One Stop Plot Shop idea sometime soon. The potential is there, and investigating what the in-universe PPC does with goodfic just interests me.

--Ls

In the future at least, it's almost always better to avoid overcrowding the front page with new threads.

Of course, depending on how quickly you make your way through Fox's missions, you might end up reading one of mine, too--if we can get that cowrite done in a reasonable amount of time. :0

--Ls, who has decided to adopt kA's Not Angry (tm)

There's only a few on this list I haven't heard of before, so it seems like you've got good candidates here. I'm not invested one way or the other, though.

Except maybe for "A Tangled Web." I agree with hS that we should include that one for historical value. Also, finding it was one of my finer archivist moments, if I do say so myself. {= )

~Neshomeh

S/h ideation warning.