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I was originally drawn to the PPC's wiki by the humor I found on the TVTropes page. Through the wiki, and the stories I discovered via said wiki, I discovered a community of genuinely cool people who enjoyed writing humorous and occasionally serious stories parodying some of the worst fanfic out there. Not out of any desire to be malicious, but rather for humor's sake, and to make those badfic slightly more tolerable. Anyone who says that the PPC is a group of bullies has obviously never bothered to get to know the members, or payed close attention to the wiki. After all, the other thing the PPC is about is helping people write better. That's why we have a whole chain of beta-readers, and why we're willing to give tips to fanfic writers outside of the PPC to help them write better. Because that's what the PPC does. They mock badfic, but they're not mean about it. They're always willing to help those who want it to write better.

As a side note, I really do hope that Trojie and Pads continue to write new PPC stories. It may sound a little silly, but I kind of look up to you two, and hope to be as good of a writer as you two are one day. You guys are also part of the reason why I'm planning on focusing more on badslash once I get around to requesting permission.

Granted, not as many people seem to find it as easy to spork bad slash, but I'm fairly confident in saying that in the community, at least, bad slash missions are generally dearly loved, hence your fame. I personally keep meaning to try to find a new fic for my Bad Slashers, or a crossover, because I'm getting a little tired of seeing Sue-missions everywhere I turn.

In short, I think you're right. We're not just a Sue-sporking community, we're a community for mocking bad writing of all kinds and (just as importantly) celebrating good. Bring back the PPC's beloved diversity!

So we notice someone's spotted Pads calls herself inactive on the wiki, and Trojie's not been around for a while. We feel it’s time for an explanation of our absence. May it be thought-provoking.

Basically, we don't feel terribly comfortable here any more.

Pads has got, on one side, people touting us as amazing and legendary to newcomers, but on the other, a crapload of people constantly failing to realise there's more to the PPC than just "See Sue. Chase Sue. Kill Sue." It’s confusing, and fairly disheartening.

Trojie, meanwhile, got damned uncomfortable (and seriously considered dropping out of the PPC entirely) when we were accused, as a group, of bullying. But all of the accusations, and all of the rebuttals, focused on the DMS. Where was Trojie's place in that? She felt very much like she was unable to even participate in the debate, because the debate was all about the morals of killing Sues, even when it was supposedly framed in terms of mocking fic in general.

We're a diverse group of people, and while a lot of people here do just focus on Sues, there's more to the PPC than that. But sometimes it's hard to find that out - everyone from TVTropes to UrbanDictionary has us down as nothing more than Sue-slayers.

We’ve a lot of fics on our To Kill list, and we’ve plans for them. We’re looking forward to writing them, whenever the hell Pads’s sanity decides to come back and Trojie’s education stops kicking her in the arse. We’d kind of like to feel welcome and included enough to be able to release such missions, whenever they turn up.

We’ve a lot of mpreg missions on our list too. We’d like to be able to release them to a community that recognises the implications of that cardinal rule: Your Kink Is Not My Kink. As it stands, when people can claim mpreg is the product of diseased infant minds and no one here stands up to say otherwise, Agents Oscar and Iza would be better off retiring.

So we're wondering, it's been a long time since TOS and the Constitution of this Board were written, and the PPC has grown since then - could it be time to hash out a somewhat more inclusive general statement of intent? One that states that “we mock badfic”, rather than just “we kill Sues”?

To us, the PPC is a place to espouse good fanfic writing practices; to have a laugh at bad fanfic writing practices; to practise our own writing in a shared setting; and to have fun, no matter what kind of fic one likes or dislikes.

What is the PPC to you?

... I'm writing an mpreg story, and I'm considerably older than twelve. Just a point.

Organizing the wiki list would still be very useful.

...to masquerading as the critically acclaimed NiGhT-fIrE-wOlF, who shall hopefully return next year with the next installment in her saga. (Providing, of course, that I'm not too busy at university, and that Teek and Crelmos don't find out about this and have aneurysms.)

This was my first Badfic Game and I'm delighted to have participated. It's such joyfully brain-destroying fun. Hopefully we can all outdo ourselves next year!

I wonder if trolls make good carrion. (I'm willing to join the Accipidridae temporarily for the sake of troll disposal.)

In the mean time, I have a Taser... -tases troll repeatedly-

Mostly because I wasn't around for this last year so I had no idea what was going on and was too lazy to figure it out. Also I was at the Grand Canyon for most of the week, so I didn't actually find out about it til Monday.

I'll probably do this next year, though.

*wields Handbook as a blunt object and goes after troll*

It's interesting that they use the same subject line. It must be trying to communicate with us. I saw Contact last night, so I vote that it's an alien.
But... it's going about it the wrong way! No math, nothing friendly. So... let's see, what's my best troll-killing weapon? I think... a dictionary! One of the giant ones that sits on a table for people to look in. If I can lift it high enough, I'll drop it on the troll's head.

...but I was Rae365. That was definitely a fun little exercise. Hats off to everyone!

Maybe next time I'll contribute.

I just couldn't bring myself to write anything bad enough... Is it self-esteem problems when you write something and don't think you can make it awful enough to use as lulz?

I made it up when I was an idiot who actually wanted to be a troll. Thankfully, the phase was over in a week.

Listed under the sub-Department of Rare fandoms are missions in the following fandoms, plus the number of fics on FFnet:

A-Team == 821, but about 1867 on another archive. Many stories are on both.
MacGyver == 264, half of which are drables by one person or one Sue by another person
MASH == 2158
Hogan's Heroes == 932
NCIS == 19933 (so not rare; I got involved in this fandom because someone asked me)
Stargate Atlantis == 16043 (same)

And one Star Trek fic. (I believe the now broken link also lead to at least one Star Trek fic).

Darths and Droids :D

You forgot the punchline, so I'll throw it in.
doctorlit (to anyone listening): "Hey, wanna buy some deathsticks?"

Must be serious then. I'll pack a Stig.

I was Ellintyra Lloysinthayr, an alias I've used since 2008. She's not normally so inflammatory as she was this year, but I apologise to anyone she flamed.

(It's so much FUN, though. XD)

*bashes repeatedly with a string bag full of tinned cat food*

I know I didn't get a lot done this year, but there's always next year - right?

Well done, everyone!

hS

Clever :)

I see what you mean, Calista, but if the main issue here is keeping track of missions, then I don't see why we need to make changes to the internal PPC structure; lists can be kept any way you like, without changing what our agents call themselves.

And besides, I like July's point - the PPC will be organised the day that the Flowers spontaneously give us all a raise ;p