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

But as soon as I've finished polishing that DMS mission, I'm finding me some Bad Slash/Het to kill.

I hope I'll have some time for writin's with my crazy schedule. My poor neglected agents will finally have the cobwebs dusted off. XD

Yeah, I saw the page about the factories, but it didn't tell me much about the Sues themselves.
Probably academic now, though; I think I'm going to switch and do a non-Sue, in tribute to Pads.

Because man there's a lot of that. (Someone who's been shot that many times shouldn't be walking! Arterial bleeding does not work that way! Wait, what's Haldir doing in Mordor?) And the ending of that could just be to patch up injuries and send everyone back to where they should be, maybe (but not necessarily) killing really objectionable and canon-breaking OCs.
Or would that fall under DAVD?

Don't go panicking. Go forth and have fun. Just because I'm not doesn't mean anyone else has to feel guilty.

And how the hell do you *quit* WoW? I'm still stuck in the sixteen-hours-a-day phase...

Okay, pressed the enter key too soon.

As an oldbie, I have never though of the PPC as 'hunt Sue, kill Sue.' I realize the PPC has sort of gone in that direction, but there are those of us here to try to point out to the newbies that there is more to the PPC.

I've read the missions you and Trojie wrote and noticed when you guys had stopped writing. I didn't think it necessary to point out though. I mean, wouldn't it be annoying if twenty or so people asked "OMG Why have you stopped writing?"

I'm sorry that you feel that most of us don't have lives and need to grow up. As someone who has been a member of the PPC for six years, I believe that I /do/ have a life and that my view on the PPC doesn't make me immature. Sure, there have been some new kids that have taken everything way out of context, but applying that to most of us just doesn't make sense to me.

Anyways, I'm sorry to see you go and I wish you luck (if you are still checking to see if anyone has replied).

-Gen

I will redouble my efforts to find a badslash fic worth sporking so that I can roll out my new agent. I may even write an interlude in one of the infastructure departments.

-Barid

It'll take a while for me to list all of the fandoms I enjoy, though the big ones right now include Soul Eater, Kingdom Hearts, Shaman King, Warriors, and other such 'children's' media. :D

And thanks for the links (even though I've read most of them from stalking other people's boards XD)~!

HOORAY MUDKIP

And yes, I'll probably have a few agents stalking around the Pokémon department. >3

I, for one, took your message in the "more than just killing stuff" thread to heart. That is why I teamed up with Neshomeh to spork a crossover. We did have killing in it, but it was a device used to draw attention to the fact that killing is not always the answer (and it was reversed later on).

I have been working on a new agent who will eventually end up in Floaters. I have plans for his first two missions, neither of which will involve killing a sue. I intend his first mission to be badslash as soon as I can find a fic worth sporking.

On another note: A lot of us are aware that the TOS needs a beta. Neshomeh is working diligently to beta the whole thing, but it is a long process, as you know. The need for a beta is one reason that I have not read the whole thing yet.

I suppose I should wrap this up before I begin to ramble.

There are those of us who are with you. We are working on helping to fix the problem, but it takes time. I hope that, at least, you will lurk for a while, see that something is being done, and come back before most of us are gone. But I won't try to stop you going, if that is what you have decided to do.

I wish you the best in whatever you do,
-Barid

You will be missed.

You and Trojie were the reason I got into the PPC in the first place. I'd noticed when you left. I'd been checking Trojie's Livejournal every day, hoping to find another mission there. I had been hoping that it was just school problems, or a hard time at work, or something else temporary. Occasionally, if I had forgotten to take my meds that day, I would worry that there had been a traffic accident or something equally scary. I will not beg you not to go, because it would be rather juvenile and I know it wouldn't work anyway. However, I will tell you that I hope that you will return someday.

Once I get Permission, I'm putting Agents in the DBS.

“Bastard!” I shouted angrily. I regretted saying it when I looked up cause I was looking into the pale white face of a gothic boy with spiky black hair with red streaks in it. He was wearing so much eyeliner that I was going down his face and he was wearing black lipstick. He didn’t have glasses anymore and now he was wearing red contact lenses just like Draco’s and there was no scar on his forhead anymore. He had a manly stubble on his chin. He had a sexy English accent. He looked exactly like Joel Madden. He was so sexy that my body went all hot when I saw him kind of like an erection only I’m a girl so I didn’t get one you sicko.

“I’m so sorry.” he said in a shy voice.

“That’s all right. What’s your name?” I questioned.

“My name’s Harry Potter, although most people call me Vampire these days.” he grumbled.

“Why?” I exclaimed.

“Because I love the taste of human blood.” he giggled.

“Well, I am a vampire.” I confessed.

“Really?” he whimpered.

“Yeah.” I roared.

We sat down to talk for a while. Then Draco came up behind me and told me he had a surprise for me so I went away with him.

I don't suggest opening it anywhere near anything that can burn, or on Earth at all.

As one of the newbies that is still in the process of licking boots, stuff like this worries me. I'm fairly sure the PPC exists not only because people are passionate about good writing on the internet, but also because it's... fun.

It depresses me just as much when someone ragequits a Massively Multiplayer Online game. Isn't this all being done for fun? Why get so angry about it?

I'm new, I do want to take down Mary Sues, and I can do it in a diverse way once I am able to get permission and stop licking boots. Or I think I will be able to. Stomping in here yelling that quality is at an all time suck and then putting the responsibility for bringing back quality as it pertains to one group of people on newbies like me... makes me nervous. Am I good enough to do that? I don't know.

It reminds me of the balancing struggles that lots of Massively Multiplayer Online games have about classes.

'My character class is weak and under-balanced and getting ignored. I hate the character class that is getting all of the attention. I am going to ragequit because of it, all the people who don't do what I do or see eye to eye need to get a life/grow up because MY FACTION IS RIGHT.'

I don't know who's right here. And really, as someone new here who has no idea what this debacle is about...

... It depresses me. I quit World of Warcraft and came to the PPC to get away from that kind of stuff. I don't want to see it here...

Pads, one of our older, wiser and better members, is gone because we've ignored our heritage for too long. She's not the first of our oldbies to have left because of the turns we've taken. We are not the Protectors of the Missions With Sues In. We are not the Sue-Slaying Society. We are not the Anti-Sue Gang.

We! Are! The PPC!

We're the Protectors of the ENTIRE Plot Continuum! We may have started with Sues, but even Jay and Acacia acknowledged the other Departments. Hell, they created the very foundations of several - Lux and Sean, our beloved Bad Slashers; The Marquis de Sod, our refreshingly sadistic Head of Personnel; Medical, our everlasting prop when someone's pratfallen; and of course, they spent time in the Department of Implausible Crossovers, with the Lichen that sounds like John Cleese.

And no, I know they didn't have a beta-reader. Neither did Miss Cam, and I will not pretend that their stories were perfect. The content was excellent, but as Pads said, HELL they could have used a lot of grammar work. Incidentally, that's something else I've noticed is slipping a fair bit lately.


Slightly overdone dramatics over, I'm laying down a challenge to the entire PPC. Submit at least one non-Sue-slaying mission or other PPC writing by Hallowe'en. Normally I'd have said the end of September, but given it's back-to-school time and generally end-of-the-summer stuff for a massive number of people, I'm giving this a two-month deadline.

If you have Agents in Departments other than the DMS, fantastic. If not, have Intel "accidentally" send them the wrong mission, or have the Marquis assign one as punishment for some minor misdemeanour. Find a crossover or a bad slashfic or anything at all, or write a non-mission piece - an interlude, perhaps. There are more than just the Action Departments, too; look at our huge range of Infrastructure Departments and the work that goes on behind the scenes. A "Day in the Life", perhaps? Anything you like, as long as it is not focused on a Sue.

And before you post it to the public, GET IT BETA-READ. Get it gamma- and delta-read, if necessary. This does not mean showing it to someone, asking them to comment, and then posting it as-is. It means getting someone (preferably somebody with a good knowledge of English and/or the fandom) to read it thoroughly, and mark or point out any mistakes, inconsistencies, typos or just plain great whacking goofs. Then you fix the errors, ask your beta to check it again just to make sure, and once they're satisfied, THEN you post.

The PPC has a little pool of excellent beta-readers (one less, sadly, with Pads's departure), and I'm offering my services as a beta to anyone who takes up the challenge and sends me their piece in good time. I may have trouble with fandoms I don't know, but I'll be as on-the-ball as possible with spelling and grammar etc. issues.

So come on, people! Don't let the Sues take over the PPC to the point they make us forget the rest of the fandom blunders that are out there. Bring back our diversity!

I've always thought it was more about writing quality, or at the least finding a balance, really. For example, hS and yourself have written serious stories for the PPC, though still including humour at times, and I don't see either of you being driven out of the community for it. :P

As I've said to others here, I sort of see it like the Discworld series, especially since Discworld was an influence on TOS; humour is a part of it, but there is the possibility of writing a more serious story for it as long as it doesn't get too gritty to fit the overall tone of the series.

The two aren't mutually exclusive, I don't think; it's more than possible to have both without breaking the story as long as you do it well. For example, the recently-finished Crashing Down story was rather serious, but there was humour in there at parts, where it wouldn't be out of place. Mitigation and all that is more important than adhering exclusively to one or the other, but that's probably just my opinion. Sorry for going on about it; I wasn't meaning to be rude, or to go into speech-mode.

I only read your LoTR and Harry Potter missions, as those are the only fandoms you did which I'm familiar with, but I do miss your stuff. Still, if you wanna leave, that's your choice.

I feel awful, now. I know you said not to, but really, with a farewell message like that it's hard to ignore a sense of guilt that we haven't put enough effort into recognising the status of the DBS. Even without the work of yourself and Trojie, the Department of Bad Slash is one of the oldest Departments, and you two made your mark on it like nobody else.

I love your work, and I held out hope for more missions in the miniature soap opera that is your spin-off, and I'll hold out hope that you'll come back some day. Until then, good luck, and you will be missed.

Fair winds!

Now you can throw BBQs.

I enjoyed them all greatly. They are why I decided to write my agents in the All-Purpose department instead of DMS, so I could take on sues, bad slash, bad het and crossovers.

...but forgot. Anyway, inauspicious beginning aside, here are the proposed solutions to this dilemma that I promised. Others can probably add more, but for the moment, here are my two cents:

-First, we should look for more badfics where killing isn't really necessary. Not just Slash (which squicks me out) but Het, Frienship, Family, Despatch, Crossover, and Platonic Hurt/Comfort (if such insist). We have an entire Multiverse of fics that we're ignoring just because there's no one worthy of shooting, chopping, or throwing into a Volcano.

An example of the sort of fic I was talking about is the Crossover one that was sporked by Barid and Neshomeh. While there was a killing in the mission, it was only to show how wrong an Agent can be sometimes, especially when he is unbalanced. Plus, it was undone eventually.

-Second, put more emphasis not just in the Department of Bad Slash, but also in the Division of Bad Het, which does exist, though it only has one mission. There will always be those of us that can't handle slashy subject matter (like me) but that doesn't mean that going down the path of the Blood Knight who only lives only to kill things.

If you'd always wanted to exorcise OOC Aragorn who falls in love with equally OOC Eowyn, then just ask if you can do so, instead of passing that fic by to kill the Flourescent Daugther of Elrond and Galadriel. She can wait, there are plenty of others intrested in taking her head as a thropy.

Okay, I've exhausted my brain just to come up with those ideas, but I'm sure that the one I came up with will go a long way towards what I'm trying. I hope that I've written my post well, and I give my sincere thanks towards those who read it. Thank you for your time.