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I don't watch Glee regularly, but that's true. The easiest way to make it clear whether a moment is comedy or not without changing anything in-universe is the soundtrack. One of the things I love about bad movies (I'm thinking Manos: The Hands of Fate) is situationally-inappropriate music — I happen to think Manos has a nice-sounding soundtrack, but it's definitely not the right soundtrack for Manos.

After the Sunset (A-Team, TV) in which the agents find out that there is a thin line between having fun and abuse, when having fun means turning a strong female character into a mindless puppet.

it's similar to a roleplay, every autor has an Author Avatar (originally they were self-inserts, but later they became independent characters) and is written as a roundrobin.
It features characters from "La bambina della Sesta Luna" (an Italian book, the story started on the author's forum), Detective Conan, Card Captor Sakura, Harry Potter, and a lot of cameo appearance. The last chapters are quite decent (if chapters is the right name, by now they are 161 with leght between 1/3 of a page and a couple pages), but at the beginning it was a complete mess. In fact, its name is "Mai Dire Fine" (literally "Never Say End", quite appropriate) but we call it "Thriller Polpettonico" (roughly "poutpourry thriller", where thriller was used wityh the meaning of "action and suspance" and "polpettonico"... for all remaining)

It's the home continuum of the detective and rally car driver Sergio Turbo, alias the Third Turbo and the one from which Agent Sergio Turbo (Sixth Turbo) was cloned.

So, yes. In this story Sakura breaks up with Shaoran and now it's Third!Sergio's girlfriend. And this is the reason behind Sakura being Sixth!Sergio's LO. And why I had to put all those things around this story to prevend a dangerous collpasing of tons of canon.

The food fight was a spur-of-the-moment thing that I decided one night. I turned to Nesh and said something along the lines of "You know, I think it is about time for a food fight on the board." And then I instigated one to the best of my abilities.

The epilogue section with the food fight was because it was still fresh in my mind and I decided that it would be good to use it. So yeah, no planning involved at all.

Glad you liked the mission. Tune in next time. Same Troll time, same Troll channel.

So, I was thinking about how there don't seem to be a lot of lesbians in fiction (most LGBT-centric stories are about gay guys, not girls) and even fewer in fantasy. "Even fewer" meaning that I can think of a couple of Tamora Pierce subplots and Miranda Lo's Ash, which sucked. And I could go on a long rant about this but

I don't know much at all about the canons involved, but I really enjoyed this mission. That was an impressive amount of work!

Anyway, greatly enjoyed it. Very nice mission, and welcome back Suicide and Diocletian!

I love the way you worked the Board activities into the mission. How long had you all been planning this food fight?

I think the sheer absurdity of the situations, plus things like framing the shots and the nature of the special effects and the background music and so forth, might make it clear that things weren't serious. Sort of like, if there are any other Glee viewers here, you can pretty much always tell what moments are dramatic and what are comedic - the same signals for comedy would work in the PPC.

Also, I'm not sure there's anything wrong with getting attached to the characters and world. I'm kind of fond of a lot of agents, not just mine but other peoples'.

He also pulls the "play song x while reading this passasge" copout twice. And one chapter is nothing but the characters singing along.

Also, Conor rips off the Joker. A lot. In including that toy gun the joker uses that pops out a flag, then impales the target with the flag.

How would we go about distinguishing possessed canons from look alike replacements? And what kind of rating would this have? Would it have to be restricted to the non-NSFW, non-NC-17 targets? Would it be only Sues?

They author actually said that? The only type of fic that can get away with "like Ocelot from MGS3" is a parody fic. That's like describing someone as looking like Insert-Celebrity-Here...

My agents (if they are granted permission) should both be played by myself. I think I can pull off 6'7" northern English male and 4'10" London english female. Well it would make a good talking point anyway.

That sounds fun, actually. More like an ongoing role-play than a story, maybe.

Good luck with the book part. {= )

That's interesting. It certainly fits him, though according to the Harry Potter Lexicon, Rowling chose "Dumbledore" because it's an old word for bumblebee, and she imagines him walking around humming to himself. Not quite silent. (Guess I was wrong about it being a nonsense word.)

~Neshomeh

Since it is a sort of "writing gym" it doesn't have an end, there are many arc, every one with its plot. Currently, it has something like 200+ pages.

However, we are planning to use the Original Characters and some of the plot in an original fiction, or maybe in a book.

And, yes. In Italy Albus Dumbledore is known as Silente. It's mainly to give a meaning in Italian, "silente" means "silent", but usually is used with the meaning of "silent and wise"

I was wondering what T_M meant by being back. As well as the location of the mission that Diocletain and Suicide went missing out of.^^,

For the authors, I think the Wiki might be helpful - that's how I figured out what you were referencing. And the other possibility is that people might be thinking that you've been the one writing Diocletain and Suicide.

Then we could have some fun with textures and quality. I always pictured Suefics as sort of like those awful Poser fanarts--maybe technically detailed, but lifeless, hollow-eyed, and doll-like. Putting a real actor (or at least a very well-done CGI motion-capture of a real actor) alongside one of these monstrosities would hit the Uncanny Valley hard. Provided it's lampshaded by the agents or something, so the audience knows it's intentionally bad.

I will fix that misspelling. I only heard it spoken and didn't bother to look it up. Whoops.

I thought "dwimmerlaik" was particularly appropriate to the situation, given its original use and Arthas being what he is. Though, come to think of it, it's probably lucky that our agents aren't powerful enough to truly exorcise him of his canonical evil. That would have been really awkward. O.o

You have Barid to thank for the "wrong target" and the flirty dragon. The dragonhawk was a conjoined effort, I think, that came naturally out of discussions about character classes and attributes. Not to mention the fact that we talked about Ilraen's pet enough in the course of the mission. It was our Chekov's dragonhawk gun. {= )

The sign predated Agent Barid, but he certainly justifies its continued existence...

Glad you enjoyed. {= )

~Neshomeh

Ours got finished. How about yours? {; p

Also... Albus Silente? Is that Albus Dumbledore's name in the Italian translation?

I never understand it when names get "translated", unless it would actually mean something weird or offensive in the other language. But what could Dumbledore possibly mean? As far as I know it's a nonsense word.

~Neshomeh

I see, I see. Perhaps that's what is tricking everyone else, too. Well, anyway, yes: our guest author is Tungsten_Monk, who is back. At least until certain unfinished business is seen to. Muahaha. *eg*

And yeah, the lack of author-naming is currently a flaw in the Lost Tales archive. The trouble is that sometimes I don't know who the author was, or if there were two, or if they just went by their agent's name, and suchlike. But still, I should fix that.

~Neshomeh

At first I thought you were the one who wrote Agents Suicide and Diocletain, mainly cause the preserved archive doesn't have TM down as the author.

Not to mention that I was gone when TM retired, and I could've sworn I've seen the name floating around the posting board for some reason.

Eeee! Is T_M back?

You're all right. I just like Liv Tyler. She was excellent as Arwen. Who could be Luthien, by the way?

(not a lawyer)
Given that, as you say, it's about the fan treatment of published work, it might fall under a fair use clause, but we'd probably need permission from the copyright owners of all the canons involved, as we are using their things.

As for distinguishing the Suefic from reality, perhaps we could have a slight gaussian blur over everything in the Suefic apart from the agents? That might get hard on the eyes after a while, though, since it would mean that almost everything on the screen would look slightly out of focus all the time the agents were on missions.

I am in a group of FIVE people and co-write a... thing that would drive an entire department mad. It's a mega-crossover that started as a parody, but evolved into a more serious story.However, I was 14 when we begun, and the others even younger (one as 9), so it's quite a bad-witten thing at the beginning, but now we write better (it was our "writing gym", we used it to improve). It has a double Creativity Shield and it is placed in an AU, just to avoid troubles, since there are too much things that would cause troubles to canons. Just a small list: Sakura and Li from Card Captor Sakura break up (and that erases Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle from existance), it's revealed that Voldemort was good while Albus Silente and Harry Potter evil, and a lot of things that usually would be charges. However, we are trying to save the good original plot and characters for an original story.

Not to make us seem like attention whores, but... No reaction to the ending at all? Really? I thought people would be a lot more excited. Are you all THAT new, that this holds no significance for you? Or did we really screw up and make it not a surprise and/or interesting at all? O.o

~Neshomeh, pleased at the positive responses (thanks for commenting!), but very confused.