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...from the Multiverse Monitor.

I especially like Merry Christmas from Chiron Beta-Prime. Re: Your Brains and Skullcrusher Mountain are good, too, and of course Still Alive is epically awesome, but CBP is among my favorites.

Creepy Doll threatens to give me nightmares, but it's a small price to pay. I have my Vocaloids if it gets too bad.

Geeky songs FTW!

My first reaction when I see the word "aozora":

*bursts into song*

Ima kimi no me ni ippai no mirai
Subete o kagayakasu

Yowaki na hito wa kirai
Aozora uragiranai...

*runs off to look for Nadia fanfic in the Pit*

Only ten stories? I am disappoint.

Regards,
Lleu Llaw Gyffes

About the "I wish he were writing my life bit" — I can't speak to those particular books, yet. But I want that kind of magic in my life.

That is the biggest difference between him and Neil Gaiman, for me: they are superficially similar, and I like Neil Gaiman's writing, but I would hate to be stuck in one of his stories, for the most part, with a few exceptions.

That was more than two cents... but I half-agree; Jay and Acacia do have typos, just not that many. And I bet if they were still active and noticed the typos, they'd fix 'em. Anyhoo... are those thingummies CADs? I repeat what I said earlier- has anyone tried to contact the writer?

I wish Charles de Lint were writing my life. Think how awesomely magical it would be. Besides, every time I read his stuff he makes me believe absolutely in the stories. My favorites are Jack of Kinrowan and Drink down the Moon.

Here's a video our Doctor Who fans may enjoy (or, more likely, have already heard).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGqrrmZXtqg&videos=1MAc6o55ifw

...is having its own TVTropes page enough notoriety to be considered "legendary"?

In any event, it's definitely bleepfic. I could just feel my brain dying reading that thing. It is totally logic-missing.

As to be someday published, the fandom multiverse version of Aster Corbett is actually a self-insertion... of myself. I used to self-insert a lot (and I still do sometimes, but less annoyingly, rarely publicly, and for the rule of funny ONLY) but none of the stories were EVER finished, and Aster's character never even really gone into Mary Sue territory beyond the ability to pull limited mundane objects out of seeming-hammerspace because I never mentioned her having a bag.

She eventually fights her way back to her story's origin point (her house) only to find it's just a cheap copy and no one is, nor has ever been, nor ever will be, home. Understandably, she hates the 'real person' who wrote her (and forgot to write her!) and runs around killing Self Inserts and Mary Sues hating that she was almost one of those-- in all the wrong ways, of course, until she's picked up by an Intelligence agent or something.

OF COURSE NONE OF THIS IS EVER MENTIONED IN-DEPTH IN THE ACTUAL STORY I AM WRITING, AS THE NARRATIVE IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN MY OC'S BACKSTORY. AHAHAHA.

If you wrote that, I would totally read it. Just so you know. (It would explain so much about the Internet!)

To be entirely accurate, cocaine is a stimulant. And this... ah, thing's existence would be better explained by a strong hallucinogen, I think. LSD, perhaps? Peyote? My money is on the LSD, personally.

They do a lot of great stuff early on, but after the big break at 1:50, the remix falls apart.

I found one of the original mix. I think I agree with you. I like it better.

I think I prefer the original mix, though - the counter-melodies and richer sounds of this one around the 1:30ish mark are nifty, but then there's an awkward transition at 1:55 and then they're never really resolved - it's basically back to the original mix at 2:30.

*needs to stop being a music critic*

It's nifty, though, and the cinematography is very well done.

This is an awesomely geeky techno song that uses only snippets of dialogue from Portal.

It's not something universally recognized as horrible. It is, however, a shining example of bleepfic.

Also--Eclectus, I had to use that on the NSFB page. It's just so appropriate... exploding brains and all.

Depends on the fic. I've not seen one like this yet, but basically, you have to ask--is the character an idealized Mary Sue, or is she more of a silly fangirl having fun with the continuum?

So, if you have a "girl drops into middle earth" fic where the OC joins the fellowship, you're looking at a pretty typical Sue doing transdimensional hopping. These get sent to DMS and an assassination mission.

On the other hand, you have a self-insert doing transdimensional hopping, using the continuum as her playground. These kinds of stories are generally very silly and filled with references to how Hott the fangirl's LO is; the plot is likely to be replaced by things like introducing Legolas to the wonders of pizza or teaching Frodo how to play Tetris. There's a great deal of cultural contamination; but the OC is an avatar of the Author. These are generally little more than an author having some non-serious badly-written fun, in which case you neuralyze, put her back in her own world, and make heavy use of your Despatch kit. Oh, and send that fangirl to an OFU, ASAP.

An attempt at a serious story that results in a self-insert is usually a Mary Sue. Bad parody and bad humor are much more likely to be simple transdimensional hopping.

Check the missions from Despatch. They usually deal with transdimensional snatching, but hopping (i.e., an author avatar jumping to the canon world) is very similar.

In Real World terms, these are treated differently because you don't want to imply that you'd actually kill the author. When the author writes a self-insert that's meant to be them, rather than an idealized Sue version of them, you don't want to go and talk about putting arrows through their eyes. It's not polite.

As for being composed of Narm and Ham... you mean this isn't?

Hey, it even has a TV Tropes page:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThirtyHs

Anyway, I was just saying there were a few similarities between this fic and Eye of Argon. I never said they were the same.

I agree with your (slightly creepy) description...

BTW, what do we have to do to feature this as Legendary Badfic?

In my opinion, self-insertions are killable Mary Sues, while "Transdimensional hopping" requires the character to be aware that the world that surrounds it is not real (Which doesn't happen frequently), and they shouldn't be killed, because they belong somewhere else.
However, I seriously doubt that the character represents the author faithfully, so I guess a neuralization would be necessary.

Gyeh?! Gurgle--choke--BGAAAAAH!

My brain just broke.

The best way to describe this fic is "Michelangelo got high on cocaine and shrooms--simultaneously--then timetraveled into the future, still stoned out of his mind, where some fool showed him Star Wars and Harry Potter and got him even /more/ high on synthetic chemicals unavailable in his own time. Eye of Argon may or may not have been involved. The resulting combination caused his head to explode, and the disembodied brain matter coagulated into a consciousness that then possessed the Internet. The Internet being the Internet, the consciousness lost what coherence it had left and wrote the fanfiction."

...Wow. That almost sounded like something that would have been in the fic itself, minus cosmic Lovecraftian forces that bleed lasers and Tyrannosaur-bear hybrids on hovercrafts. With chainsaws for eyes.

Is it disturbing that I can even come up with this concept?