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Have a pet cat. You may name him whatever you wish.

...my agents just got recruited on a "Yeah, you'll do." basis.
Seriously, the PPC is always understaffed. There doesn't really need to be a reason.

*eats* Sugar? Didthathavesugarinit? Nowimhigh!

as of right now they are not. I do have some skill sewing and at some point in time when I have more that five dollars spare cash I plan to make them. Until then they will just realistic photoshopped patches of denim.

The Stu Agent in my intro, Agent Argent, is an alter ego of Agent Silver. I admit the names they have are way too obvious.

I had another idea involving a ability and knowledge stealing Stu, but I wanted got show the idea to more experienced PPC writers first.

Two new missions.

Cleaning This Gun A-Team series. Tasmin and Allison prevent Face from walking into a possible ambush, and from behaving totally OOC. Non-Sue killing mission. I wasn't planning on participating in the challenge set by Cassie, but then I came across this fic and decided that the OOC in it needed to be fixed.

A Team 2 A-Team Movie. Allison is confronted with a Sue in a new fandom and the absence of her long time partner.

I've got two agents, and they were recruited each in a different way. The first one, Sergio Turbo, was intended to be the main character of an original fiction that got cancelled, and so he joined PPC in order to have something to do and avoid to disapppar. Corolla, instead, got recruited by Sergio, that officially found her in a badfinc still alive when she was supposed to have died with some other background characters. Officially, because in fact that badfic does not exist (however, if I find a suitable one, I can use it as a sort of flashback)

Bad parody is what you have when you don't have good parody.

What would you expect to see in a good parody? Probably the characters in character acting out the fandom cliches. I once read a parody where the characters seemed to be more or less aware of the cliches. Or at least, they asked each other about them. "Why do you always sing that song?" "We don't know any other songs."

Humor is subjective. And there will always be people that think a bad parody is the funniest thing ever, and a good parody dull.

You here a sound. It was faint at first, just at the edge of one's hearing, but as the wind kicked up, the sound came in clearer, louder: a screeching, grinding wail, rhythmically pulsing like the beat of a human heart. A light appeared, shimmering in time, and with every pulse grew brighter. Then, with a clunk and a whir, a large blur police box solidified, the wail petering off into a gentle sub-sonic hum. The Door on the side of the police box opens and a tall thin man pops out.

"Hello, I'm the Doctor." To the uneducated observer, the tall thin man looked like some kind of crazed old-fashioned professor, with his tweed jacket and suspenders and bow-tie, but he was too young to be a professor, his hair hair coiffed in some kind of pompadour. His eyes gave away what he was. Eyes that had seen empires rise and fall, galaxies come into being, stars being born. Eyes that had seen everything, eyes that were looking confused.

"Oh, I am terribly sorry sir, I seem to have wandered into here by mistake. Here, have a bag of jelly beans and I'll be going." And with those words the man popped back into his box and, in a method similar to its arrival only reversed, the police box vanishes. And as the last waves of sound fade a blond man in a black duster comes around a corner an walks up to you with a black backpack in hand.

"Here, catch." He says, tossing you the bag. "It's a bag of holding containing two generic guns, two generic swords, 4 generic knives, and 13 shuriken. Have fun and try not to maim anyone." and with that he walks off.

Have a gun. Useful for killing Sues, persistant Author-Wraiths, and threatening mad people here at the PPC.

Don't feed it Sues. Gneric Meat would do.

*hands a cupcake and a Pidgin*

Here, have a cupcake! They're gluten-free, low-glycemic, corn-free, highly caffeinated, chocolaty, and come with either buttercreme or german chocolate shredded coconut frosting! I made them this morning and have pleanty to go around!

*looks dubiously at the Pidgin in the other hand*

And that's a Pidgin. They're really really useful if you want to translate something a Sue/Fanbrat has said into something that you might be able to understand... And they can learn that language... And... Please take one, they're reproducing in my RC and I don't know what to do with them all...




Please?

I'm a lurker of the internet itself, and thought that I should talk in the wiki. Anyway, I'm just a human being who loves reading fiction, often listens to music, and sometimes wouldn't mind reading a good book (Sorry, I'm not generally the type to give out my information all at once).

I like reading stories (and currently working on one myself), but I don't mind fanfiction. However though, it seems that I usually come across ones by fangirls, sadly, so I only see not stories, but their wet dreams and fantasies in text. Looking up the PPC, however, it seems that I'm not the only one bothered by this (and it feels good to know that). Anyway, I hope to get well acquainted here.

I just didn't want to bury the topics on here deep into the back pages of this site: I'm just not used to this layout, that's all (but hey, you gotta try new things)

More than two years late, I realise that I confused two characters by the name of "Mara" here - when I first mentioned the name, upthread, I was referring to Mara of the Acoma, from the Feist/Wurts Empire series. The second time, in the second post, I must have been befuddled, because I was talking about Mara Jade from the Star Wars EU. Heh.

Well, I imagine no one will notice this now, nor care, since this thread is so old that no one will ever see the update. Still, I wanted to say it. :)

I'll takt the bittersweet chocolate buttercream icing.

Some of us have no idea who you are. Did you make an introduction thread? We would love to get to know you and that would be a great first step. Tell us a little about yourself.

If you make an intro thread, you will likely be showered with gifts and also given information that is crucial to your survival in this crazy internet that we live in.

-Barid

Is it okay if I have one, even though everybody barely knows me?

I just don't get these type fangirls: I mean, I pay no mind to them lusting after fictional characters because, after all, they're fictional, so (despite what some of those fangirls say) they're not real. However, these fangirls go after these guys such as this Orlando Bloom dude here. For all we know, some of these guys could be happily dating or married, some of these guys victims that wouldn't put "romance" on the top of their prorities, and some of these guys being just plain nuts.

Overall, fangirls writing fanfiction about their fantasies with real-life people= very, very, very extremely creepy.

Have you done Nanowrimo? If that counts I've written something like six or seven novels. The Nanowrimo.org site itself and the forum has some good resources, especially regarding world-building and research (though the former probably doesn't matter to you).

It's tricky, I usually write genre fiction, to advise you on non-fiction.

Or are you just dropping in? Generally we prefer it if fanfics are only advertised by regular members of our Board, though of course we're always ready to welcome new fans of the PPC. Out of curosity, how did you come to find us?

(And for the record, I'm a woman; a large number of Boarders are female. Just so you know :) )

Is it just me, or fangirls writing mary-sue fics where they dream up their fantasies about Real-Life people creepy to you?

I find cheap shots at characters and plot put me off. Plainly insulting the continuum or the original author also shows little effort.

I can say that a good parody tells the reader something about the original piece in a way that criticism might. Then I suppose a bad parody would not take the author's intent into account and, as I noted above, just take cheap shots of everything. It needs to get to the heart of the original piece, and then dissect it for better or worse. And if it doesn't do that...then in my opinion, it's a bad parody.

Mind, this is the opinion of one who hasn't read much parody at all.

Please excuse me, gentlemen. I guess it was fairly rude to post without introduction. I am JMP, and I happened to stumble upon the ZC Saga during a foray through FF.net and decided it to post it here, where I was aware fanfic advertisement was accepted. again, pardon my lack of courtesy.