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To SttQ: Sorry I sort of vanished there - I was waiting for Edward and then got jumped by a load of homework. Do you want to carry on over there?

First up, here's something all you over-squicked Bad Slashers might like. It's an intentional badfic called

Elementary Biology

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Next up, a piece of original fiction by Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw, called

Articulate Jim: A Search for Something

It may be my personal tastes talking, but how could you not love something that offers stuff like this?

"'Don't breathe a word of this to anyone,' she said warningly. 'This toilet seat is known only to us six. Myself, Horatio Scarlet, Penfold Lexington, Jam Lexington, Camp Gareth and Articulate Jim, whose real name is far too stupid for everyday use. From now on we will use the notes on this toilet seat and Gareth's arse to seek out the legendary Lost Golden City of El Dorado. From this day forth, we six shall be known as... The Fellowship of the Rim.'

Dramatic pause.

'That is so gay,' said Jam."

Or this:

"As for the woman herself, well, she was of course staggeringly beautiful to the degree that made one's eyes hurt. She was about five foot nine in height with bounteous quantities of blonde flowing hair. Physically perfect in every detail but one - her nose. It had clearly been, of course, perfect, but was now visibly slightly squashed. Rose's blows could be terrible ones, that I know well, and there's clearly only so much that the finest plastic surgeons money can buy can do."

Or this:

"Every evening just after dinner Scar and I would meet in the cargo holds and get ourselves completely rat-arsed. The fun part was that it felt like the first time every time; we usually became so blitzed we forgot the entire event."

Or, finally, this:

"Allow me to offer a little explanation here. Scar had spent a lifetime on pirate ships where grog and other beverages flowed like saliva from the mouth of a hungry dog in front of a pie shop. His liver had had an ultimatum - get used to it, or pack in. Fortunately for him it had chosen the former, but now if he went without alcohol for too long his highly evolved metabolism started to collapse, and he would often take drastic measures. When called upon Scar had a MacGyver-like ability to construct a still from virtually any resources, and had on more than one occasion resorted to concocting a brew fermented from human bone marrow.

So you can see how Rose and Gareth would be a little ill at ease on a ship containing Scar and a notable lack of intoxicating fluid."

Everyone likes a good couple of laughs, no? ;)

Welcome to the Board! Have some chocolate, won't you?

Chocolate cupcakes with chocolate icing! Thanks!

*Om nom nom nom...*

Seriously you can get them anywhere, now the Dominion have gone.

Ok you broke PPC rules but hey who doen't get into trouble now and again. As for the Sue, she was one of the most blatent I've seen.

Bittersweet chocolate coconut, please! Yum...

Why must badfic writers spoil good music? (In my own opinion, at least)

Granted, I've made this sort of mistake myself in the past... but I'm over that.

A-Team movie fic is for a large part slash, which isn't my thing. But there are a few Suefics around too.

Can't quite explain why Trent started talking differently. He's very susceptible to the way other people talk. When Allison and Tasmin first encountered him the boy barely spoke English. Half an hour in the company of Tasmin and most grammatical errors were ironed out of his speech pattern. But no one in the fic spoke like that. Perhaps it was a reflex: his brain was battling Suefluence by fighting the symptoms cause by a previous Sue's influence.

From your quote I don't necessarily derive that it is against the rules to disguise as a canon character. It could also be that the disguise generator can't handle requests that are that specific. Many years of technological development later...

Still, disguising as canon characters is only fun once in a while. Most of the time it would just draw attention to the agents because the Sue would see the canon character and the disguised agent. Even Sues with half a brain would find that suspicious.

Actually, caffeinated is the best time to do talking!

For that is the time of energy and valor!

With great justice!

Please enjoy this bucket full of Canadian coins as a welcoming gift.

I'm not sure if that counts as a Mini because I've never seen it in fic, but my sister was convinced for a while that Merry was in fact a girl, because his name sounds kind of like "Mary". (The difference is more distinct when it's said in our own accent, she was a preteen at the time, and she wasn't really paying attention to the movies.)

I was wondering when you'd end up doing missions to filmverse A-Team. What an odd Sue that was, though. I don't think I've ever seen one that blatantly going the superhero route, either. O.o

I like Trent. He seems a much more upbeat sort of person than Allison, which is good for contrast. I'm not entirely clear on why he talked like that when he tackled the Sue, though. I figure it's Suefluence of some sort, but why?

I also like the previous one, but don't get too set on disguising as canon characters. From TOS #14:

"Let's be Ents... or, or, or... or Maiar. Or Melkor! I can be Melkor, and you can be mini-Melkor. Or you can be Melkor and I can be Sauron. Or Ungoliant and Shelob!"

"I don't think we can be specific, named characters, Jay."

"Phoo." Jay slumped.

So, that's probably why it hasn't been explored more. Like most rules set by HQ, though, breaking it just once for fun isn't a lynching offense (especially since you carried it off well). Of course, the agents might hear about it later on... {= )

~Neshomeh

When I started writing Nume, I had no idea how he got here (the answer would've been "he just did, okay?"). Over time, though, he began to tell me about his former life, so I know now; not to mention lots of other things, such as his real name. Those details don't really come up in my PPC stories, because they aren't important to him anymore, but it is fun to find out about them. {= )

Writing badfic recruits like Ilraen and Derik is a different experience altogether, because there aren't those mysteries about them. I know everything there is to know about where they came from and what has happened to them so far, so the only question left for them is "what are you going to do now?" Ilraen has somehow managed to be fairly stable and is traveling down a path that will keep making him stronger; Derik, on the other hand, is quite liable to lose what's left of his mind, and I have no idea what he'll do next. It's a little challenging to write him. In a way it makes them more dynamic characters, because all of their developments are happening in the present, and yet they also start out shallower. Nume is deeper as a character, yet I didn't think he could develop much until the last mission. Up until then he was the straight man to Ilraen's fall guy, but now he's shown me a way to shake him up. It's going to be so much fun. *eg*

... Um, I got a little off-topic there. Hope you don't mind. ^_^;

~Neshomeh

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Fair winds!

You can throw BBQs now!

Elemarth looked around. "I don't see any more..." She jumped off her ypur and turned back to pat its nose. "Hopefully, we'll meet again, but not to fight spambots. Hey, Kyoki, here's the left-over explosives and cameras, and the pole. Now, back to relative sanity..."

Thank you!

Have a supply of Bleeprin for your next journey into fangirl world.

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