The PPC Posting Board - Latest posts

I'm nominating them both and there's nothing they can do about it!

I'm currently reading the Dresden Files(well, rereading them) and am about to pick up Son of a Witch.

I just finished Halo: First Strike, Fool Moon, the Peshawar Lancers and Superior Saturday.

Peshawar Lancers - I'm a big S.M. Sterling fan, and a big steampunk fan, so when I found out that Sterling had written an alternate history story about a world that was stuck in the steam age due to a huge meteor storm in the 1800s, I was hooked. As with most of Sterling's books that I've read, it starts kind of slow, but it's well worth it if you stick with it.

The Dresden Files - Jim Butcher's Dresden files are really fun to read. A bit reminiscent of Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe stories, with magic and other fantasy elements thrown in. While I'll admit that there is the occasional plothole, however the writing is good enough and the stories are so fun that it's easy to over look some of those.

Halo: First Strike - Man, the Halo books do a much better job of explaining what's going on than the games do. First Strike is a nice one that bridges the gap between the first and second games and goes a ways in explaining why the Master Chief acts as distant as he does, and why Sgt. Johnson survived the Flood. It also gives some insight into the way the Covenant works, and where the Brutes were during the first game.

Superior Saturday - The sixth, and second-to-last book in the Keys to the Kingdom series by Garth Nix. It's a good story. Unfortunately, I don't remember much of the first five books, so I'll have to go back and reread those.

I don't know if I've done this before, Gen -- I probably have -- but I need to excitedly glomp you now.

Awesome.

Lesse here...

Name: Data Junkie, or Nifar. First name Raven. Yes, I know it's Sue-ish, hush. My parents are hippie gamers. >>
Gender: What, I can't make the "yes please" joke? Fine. Male.
Nationality: American. I'm a citizen of the city-state of Seattle at heart, though. Then again, I also live in the year 2073 at heart. >>
Fandoms: Whoverse, Shadowrun, D&D, L5R, the Drageara books, Transformers, Discworld, anything by Neil Gaiman, Whedonverse, True Blood (books and TV series), and a metric shit-ton of other stuff.
Hobbies: Reading the whole internet (or at least most of it), playing video games, board games, and RPGs, reading, watching TV, going to clubs and conventions.
Likes: Shadowrun, so-bad-it's-good fic, good writing and plot, friendly people, chocolate, bacon, listening to music, steampunkery, writing.
Dislikes: Bad writing that's not so-bad-it's-good, OOCness, non/dub-con, canon-rape, tweenage romance stories, chatspeak, people who think spelling and grammar is optional on the internet ignorance, bigotry and people who think having a learning disability means that you're sub-human.
Other: I can be found via LJ at DataPanda, or via email at pandagamerx@yahoo.com

Why are there so many highschool AUs? I wrote stories partly to get out of that mental location! I really don't understand why people keep trying to go back to it.

We don't necessarily need to hear that information, even. So long as you've got it, and you can see how it all works and fits in, and so long as it *does* all work and fit in... then you needn't worry, and you needn't seek permission to bring them in in such a way. So long as it works so far as you can see, and that comes across when you write them, we're all good.

Seriously...it was in the local ice cream shop, so I picked it up. It's called "Oracles of Delphi Keep," and you are hereby forewarned. The first chapter is about a baby girl named Theodosia (Theo for short), who was abandoned by her mother and left with a mysterious letter and a mysterious crystal pendant on a gold chain. A man left baby!Sue at an orphanage on a dark and stormy night, and a five-year old name Ian has an instant puppy love connection to her. (He names her; no one knows her real name.) She's blond and light-eyed, with an oval face, round cheeks, a "perfect little nub" of a nose, and did I mention she has a birthmark on her right shoulder in the shape of an eye?

Yes, that's all in the first chapter.

So, as you can imagine, once I'd read through it, I quickly put it down and read the latest issue of National Geographic instead. Before that, I read Tennyson's Idylls of the King (Arthurian legend in glorious blank verse), and before that, some prophecies from the Bible.

...that the answer to those questions is "yes". More information when I feel like I have enough of a presence to actually ask permission.

Regards,
Lleu Llaw Gyffes

In one sense, a literary character is as real as the second cousin you always hear about but have never met. A literary character will often be more real to you than that second cousin. And these characters are real enough and internally consistent enough; we might as well view them as actually real, except for one thing: they don't actually exist anywhere in the world that's physically accessible to us.

Our fictional characters are as real as anything else, philosophically speaking, they just happen to not physically exist...

sorry, 90 percent of is is 14 year olds wanting to see two of the same sets of plumbing get it on

mutter mutter grumble mutter

being misunderstood on the internet

You already are being.

(If that was a joke, kudos. If it wasn't, then your estimate needs revising. A good sixty per cent of the readable stuff is by women in their twenties who are more into angst and dynamics than actual bits.)

We all seem to be saying we like reading. So let's talk about that.

My In Progress books at the moment are:

The Two Towers - I galloped through FotR in January, and put TTT in my bag so it'd be to hand, and then somehow never sort of got on with it. Just got to the crossroads.

A Fortress of Grey Ice, by J V Jones - someone on my flist recced it because, and I quote, "dude, I think my elf analogues are gay". Loving the series so far.

Peter F Hamilton's The Dreaming Void. Started it on a train. Liked, didn't quite continue, read seventeen other books instead.

Figments of Reality by Jack Stewart and Ian Cohen. These guys are my glods. I always have one of theirs on the go.

I just told Ansela she'd been nominated for PG, and she coughed and spluttered and choked. She doesn't feel she's active enough to warrant such a role.

Loved the inclusion of Aquae Sulis and "Arcacia." That made me very happy and made Barid wonder what was wrong with me. ^_^

~Neshomeh

You like SCIENCE.

Your hobbies include SCIENCE.

Your dislikes include people who rape SCIENCE.

Let us not forget the almighty power of SCIENCE.

(By the way, my sister's dead chuffed that you like the femininine girl clothes taste she instilled in me. How does one stop spelling femininininininity?)

That is, VM, Ansela, and Makari. Depending, of course, on who actually accepts their nomination.

I also second Sedri. I am not dead, nor am I going anywhere, but sometimes I do like to do other things, y'know?

~Neshomeh

People besides Sedri and me can give the links. If you come upon a newbie intro and there are no links yet, it would be very helpful if you were to provide them. 'Cause, you know, sometimes we're not here. But the links are still very helpful and should be given.

~Neshomeh

Have you a reasonably worked out backstory for these agents? Is their transition from your unpublished fic to the PPC coherent and workable? If the answer to these questions is yes, then it's thunderbirds are go.

Just so you know, there is something to be said for the "leaving it for a week" idea. When you come back, even without a beta, you're likely to reread yourself and want to edit quite a lot. Don't be in such a hurry! Leave it to sit. The mission, and the audience, will still be here when you get back.

However, seeing as I've gotta spend the evening packing, I'm afraid patience is in order. Botheration.

The attributes given to vampires are biologically ridiculous, but if you take it as a fantasy world and discard the angst-ridden love story that covers 85% of the text, it's interesting. I like the other characters - Alice, Jasper, Carlisle. Just not the main ones.

To be honest, I knew I could never really hate it when I saw the first movie and watched seven vampires playing baseball. I'm not a sports fan, but that scene was great.

I'm surprised by how many people around here are Trek fans (though I suppose I shouldn't be), but Enterprise seems to get the short stick. Glad to know I'm not alone :)

Welcome! Welcome, welcome, welcome - it's nice to meet you.

I'm going to dive right in and hand over The Links, which are traditionally given to all newbies along with our assortment of odd and oft-useless gifts, but which seem to have been forgotten lately.

The Link, if you don't know, are the lot of 'Go Read This Now Please' urls that we throw at every newbie since they actually do give Useful Information. In relative order of sensible-reading-ness, they are:

* The Original PPC Series, which we assume you've already read.
* The List of Killed Badfic, which will direct you to a large number of non-Original PPC Missions.

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
* The Mission Writing Guide
* The Slash-Sporking Guide
* The FAQ: For Newbies.
When you are ready to edit the wiki, make sure to read Neshomeh's excellent editing tutorial.

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


Now that that's over, welcome! It's lovely to meet you, and don't worry - we don't bite. I look forward to getting to know you :)