The PPC Posting Board - Latest posts

... learn to put on a subtle Welsh accent as well? I mean, he already does English and Scottish, what more do you want?

On the other hand: I endorse this wholeheartedly. But who gets to play his various women? :P

(Also also: Ehehehehe)

hS

They are rare — he has never met one outside his family. Did I imply somewhere that they're common? If so, I didn't mean to.

Is that Roger seems to know that being a werewolf is strange. Does that mean they're pretty rare in his world? If they're common, why does he equate being a werewolf with going into fictional stories and killing fanfic characters?
It's picky, but it's the sort of thing I always notice. Sorry. I think your agents are great and I'm pretty sure you'll get permission.

Oh, now this opens possibilities... *evil mode*

I can see why it's possible. The "best" badficcers don't need many chapters to drive us crazy. Even a one-shot will do. Ain't that right, laura-who-gave-us-legolas?

Oh, you shameless self-promoting little monster, you!

No, seriously, I'm glad about the help. It'll make things so much easier.

Bye!

Glad to hear it, because that same thing happens to me too.

I really like it. There were a couple of minor missing punctuation marks, but other than that I really quite enjoyed it. You've got interesting and developed Agents, and the sample piece was quite engaging. I like your writing style, and I hope you do get Permission.

G'luck!

My agents:

Name: Surhat Roac sw Caun (Surhat)
Species: human
Home Continuum: my NaNoWriMo novel for the coming november
Department: Department of Floaters
Background: Surhat sw Caun, a minor apprentice wizard, was drawn out of his home continuum during a fight to prevent power-hungry master wizards from breaking the boundaries between worlds, and he was deposited in the middle of headquarters, unable to return to his home continuum. As a result, he has a strong dislike of those who meddle with reality, whether they be Mary Sues or slash-spirits. He is occasionally arrogant, as befits a young member of House Roac, and is prone to daydreaming, but he makes an effort to be personable. He is a stickler for spelling, as he believes it to be one of the things that most erodes the walls between worlds. He does not, however, have a very wide knowledge of World One canons. Somehow, despite being forbidden from re-entering his home continuum, he manages to keep himself supplied with his family's cocoa powder for making hot chocolate.
Skills: minor spellcasting abilities (I've got a list of the D&D 3.5 spells that is roughly equivalent to what he knows, if anyone cares deeply; it's only eighteen spells), was taught to use a knife and fire a bow when he was younger, but had not used those skills in at least five years until his recent recruitment
Weapons: knowledge; also a House Roac knife, an old family heirloom, which he carries but rarely uses if he can avoid it. His magic is not really suitable for combat.
Appearance: Surhat's home is high in the mountains of the north — he and his family are all Scandinavian in appearance, blond-haired and blue-eyed. Their chocolate is grown in greenhouses maintained by magic. Surhat's eyes are a particularly dark blue, and his hair has darkened somewhat since has been spending more time inside headquarters. Despite its apparent impracticality, he does not feel comfortable unless he is wearing a scholar's robe over his PPC uniform. He claims he can hide things in the sleeves, but he has not had the opportunity to demonstrate this as yet.

Name: Roger Walters
Species: werewolf
Home Continuum: Earth, Not World One
Department: Department of Floaters
Background: Roger Walters's world is very much like World One, save that it contains werewolves. And some other things, but they are tales for another time. Since this is Not Your Average Modern Fantasy, Roger's world's particular form of lycanthropy imposes a variety of vulnerabilities on the human forms of those with its curse: being burned by metals; poisoned, balked, or otherwise influenced by various herbs; etc. Roger has always been an avid reader of everything and occasional writer of fanfic. At some point when he was exploring his grandparents' house, he found a door that opened into a response center. He picked up the PPC Manual sitting on the floor therein, read it through, and knew he had found his calling. He somehow made his way to Personnel and got himself hired, with a few days off before he officially went on duty to sort out his Not World One affairs. Quoth his sister, incredulously: "You're going to save fictional worlds from bad fanfiction?" Quoth Roger, sarcastically: "This from the girl who turns into a wolf at the full moon." Quoth his parents, resignedly: "Call us when you get the chance, then."
Skills: plant identification (occasionally vital for his survival), knowledge of a wide range of fandoms (some of which do not exist in World One). In theory, he could learn to voluntarily transform into a hybrid man-wolf state, but without a teacher it is unlikely he will develop this skill, as he is not (currently) aware that it is possible.
Weapons: although he keeps meaning to find someone to teach him some basic combat skills, Roger's current preferred weapon is punching people in the face. It's worked OK so far.
Appearance: brown hair, blue eyes, wears jeans and a t-shirt more or less every day, usually carrying a book. Due to his vulnerability to metal, Roger always wears gloves to avoid burning himself while, for example, opening a door. Interestingly, these vulnerabilities seem to disappear when he is in a disguise generated by PPC machinery. From moonrise to moonset on the night of the full moon, he becomes an ordinary gray wolf, losing all awareness of his human self. Generally he is locked up at these times.

My theory is that Surhat's patience and slight age advantage will balance out Roger's tendency to rush into things (as evidenced by his recruitment by the PPC); by the same token, Roger's knowledge of a wide range of canons will balance out the fact that Surhat had not heard of any of the canons the PPC works in until he arrived in HQ, though he has now read some of the most popular book canons.

The story I intend to kill: I think I'll start with To live, serve a purpose, and die alone
"let's go to meat her"
"No-one knows or cares about how I'm feelings!"

Writing sample option #3 (there are two other samples on the site if anyone's inclined to look at them): Roger Walters's Job Interview
I don't really have any fanfic to show off (unless you read Klingon, as mentioned a few days ago), except insofar as the two PPC stories on the Livejournal count.

*Eating Cookie*

And I have a living and breathing translator. xD

No apology needed. ^^ I was just teasing. I don't like disrespecting works even if I don't like them. But, it is true that sometimes I can't help but have fun with it.

Thanks~ I will do that. Hahaha...

*Salutes*

Will do try then! :D

Yay for candy!~ And Sonic screwdriver!

If you're worried I will use it to take over the world, Iw on't do that. ^^

Not really. My brother just showed me a fic about something really weird, so I can't help it. xD

I wouldn't mind being part elephant though. An Elephant never forgets, right? I'd kill for that kind of memory. Maybe then I can remember where I always leave my celphone.

Is it a bad thing that I am smiley?

Teach me to comment a day after reading. I knew that. >.>

Yay!

~Neshomeh

Here's a bag of candy and a sonic screwdriver! Please use them responsibly.

No, what you are doing is not plagiarism. Plagiarism is taking someone else's work and calling it your own. One line is not plagiarism and even if it was, you are crediting the source, so no worries.

To tell you the truth, I do much the same thing. There is a saying, "Imitation is the highest form of flattery." That is all you are doing in this case; imitating the source. It is done all the time, and not a bad thing.

Happy writing,
Barid

Sometimes, when I'm writing, I recall a really cool line I've heard in something else that's appropriate to the situation I'm currently writing, and so I put in a similar (but never identical) line. Occasionally I don't even realize I'm doing it. When I do realize, I generally go back and credit the source.

Does this count as plagiarism?

...to have enough canon breaking elements in a couple of chapters to justify killing it. It isn't so much the actual word count, as the content.

I've done at least one story that was less than 1000 words, but still managed to have enough in it to kill it. I've done one that was over 25,000 words that I had to send my agents through the entire thing to get that final charge. Well, it was actually killable by about 15,000 words, but it had major charges at the very end, too.

All this HTML stuff has been really hard for me, but I have the links down finally.

Replace the [] with in the following.

[a href="your url here"] your text here [/a>]

Like this:

[a href="http://miah-arthur.livejournal.com/"] Shameless plugging of my PPC stuff [/a]


Shameless plugging of my PPC stuff

We can evolve into great PPcers together!
I was afraid the board was dead too, so yay for a reply!

Good point. I'll stick with the ff.net classification, just to be safe. Thanks.