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(and I will Totally, Definitely, 100% For Sure have Ch. 2 of the YW/Animorphs crossover ready for betaing Soon - I'm, like, 75% of the way done with it, going a few sentences at a time)

Alt rock isn't particularly my genre, so I'm sorry I don't have more to say than that. Definitely enjoyed the experience, though. Thanks!

~Neshomeh

They've pretty much all been pretty. I just wanted to say something. {= )

Also, I like the idea of a library haunting someone. Some kinda Brigadoon situation where it manifests periodically, centered on one poor, confused soul who doesn't know what they're in for... yeah.

~Neshomeh

I mean, have you seen my track record? "Titting about doing nothing for literal years" pretty well describes my writing habits. Especially when it comes to, say, big Legendaries that have been on my docket for over a decade that it could be considered fairly rude to keep putting off due more or less to cowardice. {= P (It'll happen eventually. I've done work on it as recently as this year, I swear.)

Anyway, this has been a dren year. I haven't checked, but I'm betting I could count the number of missions published on one hand, maybe two. Pretty sure that's not a coincidence. I think we can all safely forgive ourselves and try to move on, yeah?

~Neshomeh

Oh, this is beautiful. Apparently the hobbits are all over five feet tall now? She's made Aragorn excuse me, Aragon 6'6"!

And her horse—the photo of which is something I'm pretty sure I tore out of a calendar and put on my wall as a kid—she gives its height in feet and inches, too. Converted into hands, 6'9" is a massive 20 hands and 1 inch if we're measuring at the withers, like we ought to be. For reference, the tallest horse ever was 21 hands and 2.5 inches, and the tallest horse living in 2010 was 20 hands and 2.75 inches. It's just about plausible for a shire or a belgian, but since the horse pictured is a friesian, no way. Also, just look at the scale we're talking about here. No way you're gonna be riding around Middle-earth on that with anything like stealth, and forget comfort. {X D

Yes, I was one of those girls who was super-into horses, why do you ask?

~Neshomeh thought shire horses were the coolest. Possibly in part because they were called "shire."

Have you looked at that character bio/rundown/thing for the lead Suvian? Amongst her weapends [sic] is, and I'm not making this up: throwing stares. Not stars. Stares.

Just glorious. I can't wait to see a mini-Balrog and POV toddle through Arda watching the antics of a very sparkly POV and her mini-Balrog handlers. I am champing at the bit!

So that's what happens when POV is changed that way.

I thought it was only for when POV was integrated with a paragraph of text or something, not offset.

Now I kinda wanna pov, but Predicon might not play well with another mini.

~Kittyauthor, who has learned two things today, is panic-writing a page and a three-to-four page essays and doing chem homework, as well as adding more badfic to their list and planning a badfic where O'Ryan gets his voice stolen by a Sue.

(PS: I really need to get back to writing those essays.)

... but my mind immediately jumped to "a mission where the agents are a pov and a mini". So my initial thought was the Avengers Minitiative, but Midguard can talk, so where's the fun in that? Ditto with a Courtyard Team mission, which would have to be a Pack/Army teamup: the wolves are just too chatty.

No, what we'd need would be an excuse for a mini-Balrog (classic, expressive with their roars, but don't talk like mini-Aragogs) to team up with the General or Skulduggery P.O.V.. I could probably swing that, actually; I'd just need an excuse for Kaitlyn and Selene to get stuck somehow, and Elberath or Thanduril to go help them out.

For ideal comedy value, it would also need to be what I think you mean: the main character is a first person '[Name] POV', and the second lead is a mini. Bonus points if there's also a General POV, meaning the General keeps popping up to berate Skulduggery.

...

That's a tall ask, isn't it?

hS, definitely not going FFn trawling

IMMEDIATE EDIT: There's no General POV, but this looks perfect. Aragon is a main character, and both he and Legoals get their own pet POVs. At one point the OC main character gets her own mini.

Cadence the mini-Discord was a recurring speaking part who snarked at the agents. Writing them was really fun!

My personal take is that it can be fun to make minis have more of a speaking part, especially when you're deep in the weeds of a really weird badfic. Technically, I think most minis are meant to go "zub zub" or "shneebs" or "what do you mean I can't dip my bacon in bouillabaisse this is workplace discrimination you'll be hearing from the union about this", but as with everything in the PPC, we'll let things slide a bit if it's well-written and funny. Canon-friendliness and good writing is better than canon-slavish-adherence and dull writing any day, and that goes for us as well. =]

Also now I wanna see a mission to a badfic involving a pov and a mini. I want that very, very much.

snrf.

i'm not on any watchlists and you can't prove it

But yeah, I'd say more about this nonsense, but I can't in good conscience mission anything until I get my big double-header collab done. And that requires me to actually, like, write. Which has been tricky lately. Good job I'm not working on it with one of the people I respect most in the entire community, huh? Wasting their time for literal years while I tit about doing nothing would be deeply disrespectful so I'm glad I'm not doing that! That'd be awful!

[checks notes]

oh.

uh oh.

i uh.

i'll be going back to that collab now.

"Don't be silly," they told me. "The library can't be haunted."

I shook my head in despair. I knew what they were thinking of: our cheerful local library, with its bright children's section, computerised catalogues, and more bestsellers than you could shake a pen at. It was the least haunted-looking building imaginable.

And it was nothing like the library I meant: the one with shelves that filled the space, stacked high with coverless books, ethereally-lit colonnades marching from doorless wall to doorless wall.

"That's not what I said," I told them. "I said the library is haunting me."

(Bibliothek im Reformierten Kollegium, Debrecen, Hungary)

hS

Since we have various now folks below, and since the Discond invite has been taken off the wiki due to our resident troll, ... what's the process for letting the new folks into the chat?

I'm just in this for the entertaining thought experiment. {= )

The format definitely sounds like more trouble than it's worth. I wonder if it counts more as a bad role-play than a bad fanfiction... but, if the authors say it's a fic, then I'd have no qualms about holding it to the standards of one.

If anyone does decide they really want to mission this thing, I'd be happy to consult on matters of what's okay and what works, since it sounds very tricky.

~Neshomeh

The fic is Crossover Chaos by Elwynn James and Jessica McKinney, but this is more coming from Elwynn's side of things (Jessica's side is more balanced in terms of powers). You may know it as the "Fanboy and Chum Chum trounce around Equestria with Kyle's wand" fic, the "Mission: Magic! Werewolf Socks" fic, or even the "Thirsty Kyle Carrozza Roger Rabbit-style RPF" fic. (I still argue it would be more then ineligible to spork because there's more then one Real Person in the fic, but they've mostly gone by the wayside except for Valo, who is very clearly FuMP musician The Great Luke Ski with godly metafictional powers and a different name... If you can find a way to spork it, that'd be fine, be aware it's also in an unusual format (Deviantart comments section) and half the fanfic is missing due to Deviantart's move to Eclipse, so it might prove difficult.)

The first question every new librarian at Alexandria asks is, "Why is the library so tall?" The shelves are all standard height, the topmost books in easy arm's reach; but the ceiling is high overhead, the slender columns that support it looking impossibly stretched. "It's such a waste of space," they say. "Why didn't they just add a second floor?"

That question lasts until their first night shift; until the first time they step through the doors and see the ghostly stacks of the ancients, the burned and lost scrolls of two thousand years of Libraries of Alexandria.

And when the rest of the librarians return in the morning, the new initiate always has the same question for them: "Why is the library so short?"

(Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt)

"Nope! I'm outta here. Coming with, Kitty?"

To go along with what Neshomeh said about "cowardly agent," if an agent was truely afraid, they probably could run out of range or something and portal back, as long as they weren't thinking of using portaling as a weapon.

Which leads to the whole "anything is a weapon as long as you think it is" and "if it isn't thought to be a weapon, it isn't" thought trains. Which then leads to a question: Is something a weapon to the enemy if the person against them thinks it is or is it of the enemy thinks it is? Or both?

And what about "accidentally getting out of sight long enough to not be considered a threat?" Would someone completely and utterly afraid be a threat to the enemy? Could they escape if they weren't a threat?

Or, perhaps the enemy just blocks any electronic items.

But, unless the Words say something along the lines of "and all agents were killed" or the agents brought enough attention to themselves, would they not be affected?

~Kittyauthor, who wants to help mission this

Well, we could try the method used by Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. in an episode of the latest season (that I've seen): make sure nobody near the action knows the whole plan so that it looks like they're just running around doing random nonsense until it suddenly comes together at the last second. May require convoluted time-travel shenanigans. If it works on a super-intelligent AI that can literally see all of history and all future probabilities, it should work on anybody.

Or, to avoid the use of (agents') cleverness at all, we could try the kind of gormlessness owned by the likes of Rincewind or Ciaphas Cain: send in someone so cowardly and bumbling that the narrative Powers That Be can't resist making them look like Big Damn Heroes for the lulz. I like this idea—it makes the bad guy look silly without making the PPC look OP. And they could have a banana, too. ^_^

~Neshomeh

"So, how do we beat this thing?" Kaito asked.

"That's simple! We... uh..." Tanner screwed his face up in concentration. "uh... I've got nothing. Could you please try to think of something?"

"Well, I'll try." Kaito contemplated the Stu's various powers. Fire lasers, thunderbolts, radioactive sword summoning... He tried to think of a power that could counter every power the Stu had, but every power he could think of would just be countered by another power. He thought of the biggest, most powerful weapon he could, but it still wouldn't be enough.

Meanwhile, Tanner was poking at the knot in his brain. It wasn't a usual knot, the one he usually got when he got his panties in a twist. It felt artificial, like there was some antimemetic anomaly that was actively blocking his thought process.

"Well, we can't use a weapon, because his aura negates all PPC weapons." Kaito said.

The two agents spent the next few minutes in thought until Tanner realized why they were so unusually dry of ideas.

"Wait, Kaito, do you think cleverness might count as a weapon?"

... Rowan (er, sorry. The mini is named Rowen) as a mini is just... snickers

(This is referencing a Scythe fic I wanna mission.)

a big kiss!! our tonuges battled for domiance and it was so hawt.

we went back to school and I showed off the ring. Hermoin and Ginny were sper jealous but i jsut laughed at their dumb faces. But then............ dumbumdoor appeared!! and he took the ring bc he was jealous too!

"u will nveer unite the mermands and dragans!!1one"!!