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I was Burning Watier/Burning Visionary, writer of the longest fics on the site (and an obvious attention seeker).

...I was D4rkm0k. Easy to figure out given the OOC end notes. Had a lot of fun and hope to melt my brain again next year.

Where if it is yours, Do. If it is not yours, leave it to those whose it is to Do.

Since Doing where it is not Yours To Do makes people who are there tetchy because they would've liked to Do It Themselves And Not Have The Rug Pulled Out From Under Them.

It's traditional, we're used to it, not everything needs to be happily organised or make sense.


It's one of the running jokes about the PPC, that it IS woefully organised.

...I was Nillig-Rot. Fun fact, it's an anagram of 'trolling'. But seriously, that was just fun. We should do more things like that!

I decided early on to never (well, hardly ever) spell my new username the same way twice.

Although you probably could have guessed given her obsession with one of my Agents.

For the record, who was on Team Dafydd and who was Team Suicide?

Elcalion, unleashing his inner fangirl, which is a disturbing thought.

It's easier to organize missions if we have things listed by genre, and it's not so fragmented. The divisions of the sub-departments would be not much more than structures meant to make bookkeeping easier, for the PPC and for us.

but I was behind Satlie bisqut. Of course, adding ooc notes to the ends of my story and reviews probably didn't help. I had an awesome time, though I had to fight the urge to have a super-snarky "hacker" interrupt randomly during the story and poke fun at the Glodawful writing contained therein.

Well, folks, that's a week, and the 2010 FanficLand Game is over. I'd like to thank everyone who joined in; I, for one, had a great time. All the new chapters, bios, and reviews have been sent off to hS, and whenever he has time, they will be uploaded onto the FanficLand website for future 'enjoyment'.

Also, just for the fun of it, I'm interested in knowing just who was beind every one of the terrible but hillarious entries. No one's in any way obliged to respond, if you want to keep your alter-ego a secret, but most of us made aside comments with our 'real' names anyway, so please, speak up and claim credit for your atrocities. I'll start by shamefully confessing to being the author behind both the childish fangirl 'Lady Cyskia' and the rude, holier-than-thou grammar snob 'Honest Critic'. They were a great deal of fun to write.

Anyway, many thanks to all our FanficLand contributers:

Aeidhryn
Alice Alexandria
brandywine_baby89
Burning Watier / Burning Visionary
Canon Queen
D4rkm0k
Elintyra Lloysinthayr
HotUkuleleLover
JayBird
KawaiiKisses
MoggetsGur
NiGhT-fIrE-wOlF
Nillig-Rot
Rae365
Satlie bisqut
slasherchicsxx0930xxxx
The Dreaded Saltshaker
Veridienne

Out! Out! Go on, scat! *repeatedly beats the troll with the broom end*

I swear, just when you think you've gotten rid of the things, they come right back again! They're like ants! Or cockroaches! Or those darn stray cats that keep mating behind my garden fence.

But I think that because, as you say, the computer system keeps track of who can do what, there wouldn't therefore be any real reason to make a lot of subdivisions; my agents are in DMS Freelance and I'm quite happy to leave it that way.

Begone! Thine cat-on-keyboard chatter is not welcome here!

*repeatedly smacks Troll with a lamp*

Grscdyv, hdnb.

Y76b? Gbsyv, veeblznhsh bswhbg vez. Qwrtey gdh hxhsb sgw bxchbjs Strong Basftfy do.

Dfws wsggj teksoqp gqrts jh!

Translation:
Troll: Hey, anybody want to buy a death stick?
Me: You don't want to sell us death sticks. You want to go home, and rethink your life.

(I think it's safe to assume trolls are weak-minded enough to be force persuaded.)

Here, have this live grenade that's about to go off, I'm sure you'll enjoy it FAR more than an unspecific person/place/thing!

What, this again? I thought we'd taken care of this problem the last time. Hmm. I guess we're going to have to kill this one even more melodramatically than the last one.

*readies her pink eraser-firing bazooka gun*

Anyone else want to help kill this with me?

awbs nw toye ouxa

We have an Anime division; and that's an absolutely huge category.

I've only read one mission in which neither agent was familiar with the fandom (a DOA mission to Fullmetal Alchemist). It makes sense to assume that Upstairs catalogs all the agents' known fandoms--they catalog lust objects; quite probably this is done at the same time--and assigns missions to teams where one or both agents know the fandom. It's probably in the computer system somewhere. (The Agent wiki template also includes a Fandoms entry; we in the Real World keep track of them too.)

After all, Floaters, DMS-Freelance, and DBS-Freelance agents can't possibly know every continuum out there; and yet they could technically be given everything from Shakespeare to Teletubbies.

Putting agents into departments based on their favorite genres makes sense: If you're going into Star Wars and you've got to have a partner who doesn't know the canon, would you want someone who knows Star Trek and Animorphs, or someone who's only got experience in Sherlock Holmes and Pride and Prejudice? Group 'em by genre, and the agent who doesn't know the canon is more likely to actually be useful.

Agents with eclectic lists are probably going to be assigned to Floaters/Freelance. And agents who only know one canon (badfic recruits, especially) tend to get put wherever there are manpower shortages. And there are exceptions to every rule; this is HQ after all... But in general, I'd think that if you wanted to execute Sues, grouping by genre makes more sense because you'd know the rules of plot in that genre even if you didn't know the particular canon...

The problem I see here is one of practicality. Not all - few, in fact - agents are going to be knowledgeable about all those continua. For example, I (and therefore any agents I write) am familiar with Narnia, The Matrix, Phantom of the Opera and Pride and Prejudice (and others, but sticking to what's on your list for now). They can't simply be placed in any of the below divsions because they just don't know all the fandoms. They have to be restricted to continua they know. I don't think there's any way to class fandoms in such a way as to ensure that every agent who knows one of them will know all.

hoiw neatt! koooooliseess!

Group 1: Labyrinth-6001 (movies)
Legacy of Kain-1120 (videogames)
Pride and Prejudice-1359 (books)
Sci-fi/Steampunk-would cover multiple fandoms, but still probably a very low count
Shadowlands-0
Tamora Pierce-no section labeled as such, and I'm too lazy to track down each of her books.
Troy-877 (movies)
Valdemar/Mercedes Lackey-1017 (books)


Group 2: Bleach-43,464 (anime)(obviously I am out of touch with the popularity of anime fandoms, since this is in the top 25. I knew a lot of Boarders liked it, but I had no idea it was that popular!
The Matrix-3117 (movies)
Narnia-6670 (books)
Phantom of the Opera-9379 (books) 449 (movies) 174 (plays)
Wheel of Time-1030 (books)
X-Men-10,961 (movies) 9,762 (comics)

So aside from Bleach, only Narnia, Labyrinth, Phantom of the Opera, and X-Men are over 5,000 fics on FFnet. With only X-Men making it over 10,000.

Each of us pretty well knows our own fandoms and it would not be hard to take a peek at the total count when we look up a fic. Maybe the criteria could be based on 10,000 plus fics?

I know I saw once a Top 50 list for ffnet, but I have been looking for it and can't find it. The top 25 takes it down to barely above 20,000 (which number between comics and movies, X-Men is above).

I'm just throwing out suggestions for discussion.