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That is absolutely delicious. Just reading the description made my mouth water. XD;

Fixed the typos. To be honest... I've said it enough already, but the main difference here is basically contraindicating Cameron's official description of Earth, which some have pegged as the apocalypse scenario from the environmentalism of the 1970s (Cameron's Generation). If there's fusion, where does the air pollution come from? As the population increases and exploitation space expands, Earths value shifts from land and resources to the amount of food it can produce and the quality of life for it's inhabitants.

*devours cupcake* thanks. In response I offer you some of my homemade chocolate marshmallows, made with bleeprum and coconut.

And yes I do have a home made chocolate marshmallow with rum and coconut. Admittedly it took a few tries and some tweaking of the recipe to keep them from catching on fire.

I'm afraid I don't recognise your name. Are you new here? If so, it's generally considered polite to introduce yourself in a post before recommending fics, particularly if you don't include links. It makes you look like a troll and, since we've been harrassed by quite a few trolls and spambots lately, that makes us somewhat less than friendly about it. It would be much appreciated if you would please introduce yourself properly.

(Please don't be a troll, please don't be a troll, please don't be a troll...)

Why write a story for a fandom you don't like? It's almost certain to turn out badly.

I was also going to say that this means you don't necessarily have to have every detail worked out when you apply for Permission - too much information can be detrimental if you're not careful, but as long as you handle it wisely, it's a good thing :)

Well, the others have mostly covered it, so I'll just add that you don't always have to specify - my Agent Sedri, for example, definitely came from World One at some point, but has been a PPC agent for so long that her pre-PPC life is all but irrelevant. On the other hand, I'm getting quite bored with that storyline, so I may well go and flesh out her background a bit more - as you say, it helps a great deal to know that sort of thing.

...is probably another example of "OOCness for no reason other than to be the butt of jokes." Danny and Laura's last mission dealt with exactly that. Actually it's what inspired me to start asking these questions to begin with, because what they PPC'd was definitely bad parody--only I wasn't sure what exactly made it bad parody. Insulting the characters using dead-horse memes is probably a big red flag...

There will always be room for argument depending on a person's particular sense of humour, so I'd say the DBP would be restricted to the sort of thing that no one (in their right mind) would find funny - cheap jokes about death (or murder), OOCness for no reason other than to be the butt of jokes, and inane plot devices would all be flashing warnign signs in my book.

Regardless, this is why I stay away from parody fic in general. It's just too hard to judge "good" or "bad" without involving "what I like" and "what I hate".

A truly great fanfic is in its early genesis period. Go to fanfiction.net and look for the zero City saga by ZC Founders. A very well-crafted video game crossover saga set in our world, as... well, a great many things are happening (and are going to). Check it out. Spread the word.

Those sound delicious /and/ healthy. Truly you are a... something amazing among women.

I would totally track you down for those if I hadn't just gone back to Canada.

For one, March Madness went so well this year that I intend to do it again (although I probably won't offer drawings as prizes again, since at the rate I'm going I won't have this year's ones done yet >.>).

Also, sometime in December I like to challenge people to write PPC-themed parodies of holiday songs, so you've got that to look forward to. Most of them are archived here, though I haven't got last year's up yet and there are some really old ones I need to add, too. I'll get around to it when it comes time for the event.

We also observe the Glorious 25th of May, since three important events all fall on it; not to mention the 25th of March, which is the day the One Ring was destroyed. Why yes, we are a bunch of nerds, thank you!

Other things tend to happen semi-regularly, too, such as snow fights when the world turns winterish for the majority of us.

~Neshomeh

/takes random cupcake and noms
Why thank you. :D

Yum! *nomnomnom*

My Agent Miah followed Allison and Tasmin to HQ when they did a mission on the fic she was reading. (Actually, Miah is the avatar that I have used for years, and was originally a near Sue character in a story that I almost wrote. I read a mission by Indemaat, and followed her links back to the PPC.)

Agent Cali fell through a plot hole, and the story of his arrival is detailed in the first story I wrote for the PPC. Miah shot him with a tranquilizer dart, and dragged him through the halls of HQ wrapped in a sheet trying to get rid of him. :D

Agent Kelok was rescued from the first mission Miah and Cali did, when they decided that his only real crime was existing.

Agent Unger was another plot hole traveler. Kelok and Unger met as roommates in FicPsych.

They're recruited because their authors say they are.

There are two possible perspectives on who an Author is in the PPC. First possibility: Authors are people who can tap into parallel universes and write about them. That would mean the characters have free will, but their Author is basically spying on them through the power of imagination. Second possibility: An Author can actually create parallel universes. In that case, a character is like a sub-program running inside the mind of the Author...

In any event, most PPC agents from World One drop into HQ through plot holes. World One is special precisely because of its numerous plot holes and the many Authors who take advantage of them, writing anything from legendary epics like "Lord of the Rings" to legendary badfic.

So, yeah. They drop in through plot holes. A few have somewhat more elaborate recruitments; my agent, Jason, answered a classified ad for a custodial worker and found himself working at HQ Janitorial, but like most World One agents, he walked into HQ through a plot hole.

As the others have said, there are plenty of methods used to recruit new Agents. Some of the more common are:

- rescuing abused or ignored bit-characters.
- people stumbling into the PPC through plotholes, most often from World One but not infrequently from canon worlds.
- people outright applying for jobs at the PPC, and being brought in for interviews and inevitable hiring.

A less common, but still viable, method of recruitment is to have active Agents going home and recruiting friends or family.

I find that developing my Agents' backstories and personalities can help a lot with writing them. This questionnaire in particular has proven itself very handy, and I've used it for a good number of mine.

Hope all that helps.

You can always claim fics before you get Permission.

You can also use original fic for your Permission request piece. That's what I did.

And thankfully my current favorite is a relatively unknown folk/filk singer, so I doubt anyone who actually knows who she is would write bad Songfic... Though it would be amusing with certain of her songs, since it would be song!fic about fic!song...

Anyway. I'm caffeinated, so probably shouldn't speak right now.

I like it so far, but I can't tell exactly how different it is. My toddler decided to sing loudly through large chunks of this movie when we watched it, and we never got around to re-watching it before we had to return it.

I saw a few typos.

trying again everything not to cry again.

showing a band blue gold identical to the one she wore.

by offering to pay of the surgery when you get back.

Nine Inch Nails endures some pretty nasty misuse in songfics, and Gorillaz have their own problems (see my last-but-one Bad Slash mission), but the Decemberists remain untouched :) Voltaire and Emilie Autumn seem pretty safe too.

Organic, gluten-free, low-glycemic Buttermilk-Espresso chocolate cupcakes, with either bittersweet chocolate coconut icing, or bittersweet chocolate buttercreme icing, depending on your preference.

SO yeah, I made cupcakes today. Have some! *passes them out free-for-all style*

...But I can easily see that adding loads of depth and such to a story. I can't see any reason not to. I would myself, only I can't draw for crap. But if you can, vaya con dios, my friend!