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And that could be your Agent too.

Since it's been agreed on that missions are generally close together, it'd be kind of impossibly to write out each and every one of them. If that was the case, then it would take a year to write the missions they do in a week. If I do make references to these unwritten missions, I'll do it in the form of a Noodle Incident.

Well, for me (at the moment anyways), I basically started out my missions in late 2009 HST, but beyond that, the timeline's a bit up in the air. Of course, with current events (Lee lost somewhere between 'Verses and Ian back at HQ), I've got to stick with a somewhat strict sequence of events.

And yes, I do plan on getting a mission or two out soon; a combo of writer's block and RL have ganged up on me, but I'm trying to get at least one mission out before school starts back up again on the 21st.

My first few missions were written before we started keeping track of the actual passage of time, so they flow together without bothering much about any time or lack thereof in-between. That changed when I caught up to the events of 2008: it pinpointed my agents on a specific timeline, and I had to take that into account when I paired them up with Barid's agents. Therefore, over a year passed for them between the end of Ilraen's journal-interlude and that double-mission.

So basically, unless something specifically relative to something else happens in a story, I'm not too worried about how much time passes between one and the next. It IS Headquarters, after all. It can always be fudged if need be. {= )

~Neshomeh

Sorry, I was just wondering what the badfic was, because I never heard of or read any fics that involved a pineapple...? (Is prepared if it's NSFW or NSFB).

I am the 9th Mage that controls water then, am-i-right?

Sorry if I'm posting this here (Doesn't want to bury topics), but I have some questions...

1. Where can I post my writing samples and other types of writing?

2. I know that I need to wait a month until I am able to ask for permission, but is it okay if I can think about what my agents will be like until then?

3. Like I said, I have trouble keeping the characters in-character as much as possible, so if I accidently get the characters, say, Harry Potter OOC, can somebody look this over?

...there are usually long intervals between my missions, unless one obviously picks up right/soon after another. For example, a few hours elapse between Weapon of Atlantis and The Joker's Destini, while six months elapse between TJD and The Legacy of Rust.

I know I only have two missions out at the moment, but I like to have them one right after the other. It helps me to keep the narrative flow of the characters' stories. I don't particularly care when things get finished in the real world, as long as the stories I am telling fit together in a good way.

The suggestion still stands, at least. I had the right idea but used the wrong words.

I'm not so sure all of those should be counted as irony, per se. A Potterverse Sue can be killed with a Potterverse spell simply because it's the easiest method of execution that doesn't warp canon further - ironic would be if the Sue had invented a ridiculous new spell and that was used ti kill her. That would be something unusual for agents, too. Regardless, I don't think any of this would necessarily qualify as "cool" or "unusual". But maybe I'm just being too blasé.

It's a bit too continuum specific, as Sedri mentioned in her post. That's why I didn't post my full idea for the mirror (that it should have a goatee in it). I think we should shoot for something a little more general.

From the Suefic: The man offered her his hand and she placed hers in his. He gently pulled her onto the dance floor as a simple waltz was beginning to play. Our fingers laced, Bianca rested a hand on his shoulder, and the man one on her hip.

Looks like someone got a little too deep into her own fantasy, there.

Permission Granted. One thing, though...does your female agent have to be named Charlie? It's going to be confusing, especially since once your PPC is on the Complete List of PPC Fiction, it will be titled after its starring agents. Just a suggestion.

Or maybe I'm just having unpleasant flashbacks.

~Araeph

I also like the mirror for its more direct symbolism, but it would be a rather hard thing to embroider on a flash patch - unless you want agents to actually have small mirrors on their shoulders, which may or may not be a Good Idea.

I also like the sperm whale and bowl of petunias ;) (Though in all fairness, maybe that should be just for DIAU agents that work in Hitchhiker's fics, as it's rather fandom-specific, and no other flash patch that I know of has something from a particular fandom on it.)

I'm curious: When you write your missions, do you write them as taking place one directly after another, or do you allow room for something else to happen in between if you so choose?

I ask because it's been months - maybe a whole year - since I've written for Agent Sedri, and events that have a date stamp (the 2008 Mary Sue invasion, or when Iza was reassigned in January last year) don't match up with the narrative of my missions. Of course, I could simply blame it on the unstable nature of time in HQ, but I'm thinking that I'd rather make some unspecific comments about how Sedri has been doing other missions in between, perhaps leaving room to write missions set during that time at a later date.

There's no right or wrong, I'm sure, but I'm curious; how do all of you do it?

I'm not asking you to hurry if you did, but I would like to check I sent them correctly.

Sounds nice and easy to me, then again I have been making flash patches so I am a tad bit bias towards simple symbols.

People get "Improbable (AUs)" and "Implausible (Crossovers)" mixed up all the time. {= )

(And then there's also the Department of Improbabilities...)

~Neshomeh

A cracked mirror, perhaps? It's bad luck, and it portrays the crudiness of improbable crossovers! *is then shot for explaining the joke*

But it's not a Pidgeon. It's Pidgin. >.

Besides, that still doesn't change the fact that this was only possibly written for the bad Sherlock/Watson, and the zombies was only second place in importance to the "plot" compared to that illogical pairing.

Ouch, you'd think that when Suthors see their stories being made fun of, they would throw a fit about it or something similar. Anyway, thank you for another link to the same story.

You ought to copy this into the corresponding Wiki-page. Seriously. A veritable flood of information like this should be made available for all to see.

Now, at least, I feel I know exactly what 'cool and unusual punishment' is supposed to be. THANK you!