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As long as it stays in the door. If it and the door decide to separate it can be useless. Something of which I am reminded when someone gets stuck in the bathroom.

Also a good, heavy, doorknob in a pillow case works as well as a brick.

Believe me, it's useful. How so, you ask? Well, it opens doors. Other than that, I'm not sure.

;p Nice to meet you!

I thought it was a good-humoured jibe. But this still being a text-only way of communicating, intonation can always be misinterpreted.

I love hot chocolate. Especially when mixed with coffee and topped with whipped cream.

I'm currently in the middle of Robertson Davies's collection of short stories (wonderful parody ghost stories set at Massey College), High Spirits. I am otherwise between books, but next on my list is Unexpected Magic, a Diana Wynne Jones short story collection. I've been kind of on a short stories spree this year. I also have Anathem, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, and The Hunger Games sitting around; I may go for Anathem next, if I feel up to it. My mom's been telling me The Hunger Games is really good, but I can't quite convince myself of this, and until I do I probably won't pick it up.

Also on a Charles de Lint spree — the last few books I've read (all in the last week) included his Dingo, Forests of the Heart, and Little (grrl) Lost, Neil Gaiman's Smoke and Mirrors collection, and Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union.

But. Let me take a minute to talk about how amazing Charles de Lint is. Question: how amazing is Charles de Lint? Answer: super-amazing. Think Neil Gaiman, but slightly more optimistic, and with a huge and varied knowledge of mythology. If you have not heard of him, definitely check him out.

I bring you welcome and greetings and a nice rock I found. I'm going to have to pick up some more if I keep giving them away like this. If you're interested, I've got a bit of House Roac hot chocolate, too, that I've been saving for a special occasion.

Welcome and regards,
Lleu Llaw Gyffes

If you would take her at her word, here are some things that you could suggest:

It would be nice if the 'walking trees' were just background dressing, and the 'screams from the lower parts of the building' are eliminated. As for the 'neuralizors', ask her to use darts filled with Amnesia Potion instead. As for the CAD-like scanners, change them into visors that allow the wearer to see Sue Auras.

Mostly Agatha Christie right now. The books are quick and interesting and that's really all I have time for what with work and all. I would really like to finish For Whom the Bell Tolls and How Green was my Valley by the end of the summer, but who knows whether that will happen.

But yeah, I'll do it.

Also, second the above nominations for Makari and Ansela! Especially if it means I'm off the hook.

because others have been added.

I've found myself not looking at missions as much lately (being blocked from The Pit might have had a bit to do with that, but eh), and focusing more on character development. Though I have to admit, a lot of it's been stuff like "Meet Your Character" interviews, which can be fantastic for finding out about them and how to write in their voice, but isn't necessarily of interest to anyone else.

My most recent and favourite works of character development, ironically, haven't even been developing my characters so much as introducing them - my spinoff co-written with Lycaenion, which was started because of the RPs I was doing with her which were killing her Agent Teek's chances at getting a better-rounded personality. Weirdly, I grew fond enough of Teek to offer her one of my lot as a partner in place of the guy who regularly sent her into howling rages, and the rest, as they say, is history.

I love character development pieces, and have written a handful for several of my Agents' backstories, but I do get a nagging sense of guilt at times that I should be writing missions if I'm gonna do PPC-related stuff, because that's what people wanna see.

...I think what I was trying to say was that I agree with your points. XD I ramble at inappropriate times.

It might be interesting if PPC agents met your anti-Sue society. And would probably give the Multiverse Theory buffs a great deal more to theorize about... :)

I'll take the mini-Balrog for the Adoptions Agency unless somebody else wants to take him. Aw, he's a cute little galaxy-travelling mini. And he even has his own fireproof towel!

I like interludes. A lot. I don't know if you'd get a lot of feedback on them, in general, but I'll read them and comment. Character development is a good thing--especially in such a cool world as the PPC.

Honestly, I've noticed lately that no one is getting very many comments on missions or stories of any sort that are posted. I can't speak for everyone else, but getting comments, even if they don't amount to anything other than "I read this" is really encouraging to me.

I know not every Department or style of spin-off is for everyone, but as long as we're on community issues and making people feel like they are a part of the community, I feel like we should, as a community, work a bit more toward supporting people who are producing PPC stories--whether the stories are dealing with Bad Slash, Mary Sues, strange cross-overs, strange AU's, PPC history, character development of our agents, or any other crazy PPC thing somebody dreams up.

Name: Kaiko Aozora/Eclectus (I go by both)
Gender: Female
Nationality: (Regretfully) American
Fandoms: Hikaru no Go, Death Note, Miyazaki, Valdemar, HP, LotR, Angelic Layer, Fullmetal Alchemist, D.Gray-Man, Narnia,
Hobbies: Drawing, writing (fanfic and original--I've been shifting towards original lately); disgusting everyone who follows female gender stereotypes (EW, she touched a BUG!); webcomics, commiserating with like-minded people, animanga
Likes: Well-done mild romance (although unfortunately, yaoi has put me off MxM); animals, concrit, manga, reading, webcomics, fantasy, sci-fi, STEAMPUNK Dislikes: M-fic (Slash or het), prejudice, 'phobes, willful ignorance (especially of the political and scientific variety), stupid people, people who enjoy klling (one meme that does not deserve to survive), badly done romance, disturbing pairings, bad writing (especially SPAG-deficient writing); "It's fanfic, I don't need to use logic!" (Yes, someone actually gave me this argument)
Other: Kaiko Aozora's my nick in the Pit.

Just a note--since I don't have permission yet, "Fandoms" is just fandoms I read. The animanga ones are surprisingly limited, since I'm keeping myself to ones I've finished. ^.^;

When I was reading through the quotes I was wondering whether Areaph was sharing because a) yay, we are not the only 'evil' Sue slaying / badfic mocking organisation out there; or b) this other organisation should be mocked for bad SGaP.

The Wonderland novels were the only "pair" I could think of. I didn't catch the Dodo reference in your name, though.

Before I knew the PPC, I liked to write little adventures going around resolving horrible fandom issues and battling Mary Sues. Except in my stuff Mary Sues took more of a 'hive-mind aspects of a single Eldrich Abomination' feel to them. In fact, I still like to write them, and I'll be writing one with the help of a friend that actually includes PPC themes and stuff in it.

I think wanting to kill Sues is pretty commonplace...

Idk about stealing the idea, though... *shrug*

"Sue Slaying" and "Killed Badfic", and this is where I found the first PPC named results:
"Sue Slaying: At the bottom of the 4th page.
"killed badfic": First result.
"Badfic Killing": Once again first result.

My point being that a basic "Sue Slaying" search (the most likely search) wouldn't really bring us up unless the searcher has a longer attention span than most googlers.

Although I agree that a polite note might be helpful.

Welcome! Hope you enjoy your stay.

Please take my meagre offerings of honey mead, Bleeprin (definitely a PPC must) and some chocolate bars to get you through the day x

... but wasn't sure whether to release them because of them not being mission-related - they deal a bit with Agent Foxglove's less-cheerful-than-she-claims past and Agent Laburnum's psychological problems and gender identity issues, and while I may think it's fun to torment the girls, I wasn't sure if it would make people uncomfortable since they don't consist of squishing Sues in a humorous manner. I also have some bits of bonding between the agents and the M-kids, which is more funny, but since I couldn't find a mission to fit it into I wasn't sure if people would want to see it. Would people like to see stuff like that? Character development is fun.

Even the Bad Slash stuff I spork tends to involve a character replacement that needs killing, just because that's what I know how to do. I should probably find some more that won't involve a Sue-splatting ... My last one which didn't involve Sue splatting was quite fun, so it could work fine.

Sorry, the last time I bothered with Yaoi was in the Yu-Gi-Oh section.

The tweens. Oh god the tweens.

I do recognize that there is plenty of good yaoi. Unfortunately, never in the sections I read/like... The Legend of Zelda section. Oh man.