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Welcome to the Board! *Vulcan salute* I hereby present you with a bag of pebbles and a Random Shiny Object, and join in your hopes for mutual getting-along-ness.

Although, as the others have said, we want to keep all PPC writings low on the serious-ness scale, we don't require every discussion here on the Board to be silly. We don't want things to get too gritty or gloomy and we will put our collective foot down if threads get too angry or start hurting someone's feelings, but that doesn't mean we can't have serious discussions. You might like them. Please at least lurk around for a while and see what you think.

If not... well, thanks for dropping in.

An over powered character can be use to drive the plot, but only if they are not the main character, otherwise the story becomes boring usually. Having them as a single enemy against a team works well.

Yeah, I do tend to make some pretty funky titles sometimes. |D Sorry~!

Of course it is. The issue is making the Mary Sue so minor or inconspicuous that Willing Suspension of Disbelief allows the readers to enjoy the story despite the presence of a Mary Sue.

On one hand, I WANT to say that even if a character is absurdly overpowered, if she's in a story that does not play up her overpowered-ness and make her the driving force of the plot-- if she exists in the background only or in no more limelight than any other characters... yes.

BUT...

One of the big things that makes a Mary Sue a Mary Sue is that she sucks the plot up into her. So if a character that overpowered exists without really compromising the story's direction, then she sort of ceases to be a Mary Sue and turns into merely an absurdly strong character...

So no.

If a Mary Sue is in Goodfic, she ceases to be a Mary Sue if her quality matches the goodfic. If not, then the goodfic ceases to be goodfic-- ruined by the appearance of the Sue...

Or at least I think so. I could be totally wrong, though...

Is it possibly for a Mary Sue to be in a good story when said story is not mocking or deconstructing the concept of a Mary Sue?

BTW, when I saw the title, I thought you were reporting a badfic.

My first fanfic was a riveting two-chapter (never completed, of course) tale about inexplicable time travel, people owning deities, failed revelations, one of my ost hated Fandom Stock Plotlines ever, severe canon OOCism (of a character I would later use correctly, no less!) and inexplicable cool names like Neos, Risen, and Raine. I lived with this fine beast for about a year, until - after improving considerably as a writer - I started work on another fic, including that OOC guy I was talking about earlier. Remembering the fic I wrote earlier, I fished it out of the depths of a forum and read through what I had.

My reaction: "I... stunk."

The characters who still had some hope for redemption were used later, but in typical old-character fashion, twisted and warped in various tragic and sadistic ways.

It's always nice to see a new face! Please enjoy this set of false mustaches as a welcoming gift.

I have a drinking game if a fic introduces a charater with "She was the most beutiful girl in the world" or variations. Each time the character is refered to as pretty or somesuch after that I down a shot of whiskey, I don't finish a lot of fics like this.

Hi, everyone!
I'm Giratina, resident newbie to this place. I've been writing and reviewing fanfiction for various fandoms since around 2008, and by the looks of this place I think we can get along well. :D (Some of you may recognize me as the owner of one ridiculously oversized Pokémon fanon universe which goes by the name of Arceus' Archives... you probably don't, though. XD)

Shall we collect our favourite lines and sequences from badfics? Not necessarily ones we've sporked personally, just anything funny.

I think the winner in my eyes will forever be Dumbledore's infamous entrance in My Immortal: "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING YOU MOTHERFUKERS!" The fight scene in "legolas by laura" is a close runner-up, where the hobbits appear out of nowhere for no reason "and then the dark lord said 'oh no'". Then there's Leif's CAPSLOCK O' RAGE at Arnold in "soulless shell", 2D's random OVEREMPHASISED!! babblings in my last Bad Slash mission ... the list goes on.

Have a smoothie and a test tube full of Anti-Matter!

Welcome to the Board! Please deposit your sanity in the provided receptacle. *indicates bucket marked "Warg Fodder"* You shan't need it here. Also, here is software to help you learn to speak 1337.

I think it came from reading a lot of fic MSTings, then I looked back at some my old fics and realized they were, well, crap.

I haven't put any new fics up for a while, but I'm still working on improving my works.

I found myself jut making noises when I though about this. Closest I can type it would be "spuhh waaaa peah GAH".

I'm not sure whether I was a Suethor or not. I think I think I actually went in the other direction as far as bad writing goes (too bland). I found out that Sue's were bad about 2 years ago from an article at an RPG site. I think I started to write betterly about 1 year or so ago, but by then I already knew not to make Sues.

She just believes that Harry Potter is an epic larger than any one author (including J.K. Rowling) and therefore every author's interpretation is valid. Yes, in this author's mind, this is actually CANON.

One of the very few authors at least as unpleasant as the Sue.

These are cool! I hope you'll be making more--the OMWF one sounds funny. My condolences regarding your laptop and throat.

Fair winds!

Now you can throw BBQs.

Alright. I guess this just isn't the community for me, so, yeah....I might see you around, might not.

*pokes*

As Barid explained, yes, the PPC is for entertainment, and we have no desire to be anything else. Just because something has the potential to be something else doesn't mean you should make it so. Fertilizer, for example, has to potential to be an explosive--but then it can't make your plants grow, and also you could go to jail for blowing stuff up.

If you want to write totally serious stories, that's cool; just leave the PPC out of it, thanks. {= )

Also as Barid said, you're welcome to hang around the Board either way, but we have a list of things that we ask (read: politely insist) all newcomers read when they join up. These are them:

* The Original PPC Series, which is our canon and sets the tone for the whole thing.

The Board:
* The Board Constitution
* The FAQ: For the Board

The Wiki:
* We have our very own PPC Wiki
* The very-important-to-read-before-requesting-Permission Permission article
* Our Guide To The PPC, which further explains the humor thing
* The Mission Writing Guide
* The Slash-Sporking Guide
* The FAQ: For Newbies.
If you want to edit the wiki, make sure to read the editing tutorial, which includes notes about style and etiquette.

And finally, but very usefully,
* The List of Everything PPC

And that should do. Welcome!

~Neshomeh