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I mean, magic doesn't work in RL, but we don't kill HP sues because they use magic. We kill them because they ignore Canon.
If nightshade works in Canon, it's fine.
What's the fandom, and can I have a link to this story? It sounds hilarious.

Happy birthday!

The usual party is being held at the Cafeteria and the Infernal Trio is putting the place upside down.

ENGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE!!! (

Just saw it yesterday. Thought it was decent. Took too much off the original, though, and Mr. Miyagi is still awesomer than Jackie Chan.

So what d' y'all think of the remake? Good? Bad? How does it compare to the original? IMO, the original was way better, but I doubt everyone agrees.

And, since I'm thinking about it, how do we feel about spinoffs and remakes, like this? Do they fit into the canon? Do they alter the canon? Do they make their own canon? I'd say the first or last option.

...I honestly cannot tell. IIRC, I once stumbled across a Twilight crossover fic somewhere on FF.net whose author made a point of making their identity as a troll as brain-searingly obvious as possible.

With this fic, unfortunately, it's too difficult to tell at a glance. If it is a troll, they're being just subtle enough to raise questions. I'd say there's no way in the nine circles of Hell it could be serious, but since I've so far pointedly refused to read any of the badfics killed by the OS, I really wouldn't know for sure...

Happy Birthday!

I'd give it a fifty/fifty chance it's a troll, 50/50 that it's Bleepfic.

I follow the Marysues community over at LJ (a great source for missions, if I do say so myself), and came across this post. Out of morbid curiosity, I went over to ff.net and looked at the reviews for this... interesting 'fic. They're quite amusing, though most are rather vitriolic.

Tl;dr: Question: Is it a troll ala My Immortal, or just something that really needs to burn?

Okay, so we have an animated canon. In it, human biology does not work exactly the same way as it does in real life. For example, brain damage causes one's hair to turn blue, and the blue-haired guy's children inherited it even though it wasn't genetic; nobody thinks green skin is worthy of any sort of comment; the best way to bring someone out of a coma is to hit them with a car; and it's possible to survive drinking several bottles of rum per day for months on end. However, the characters do seem to react to consumption of various substances in a fairly similar way to normal humans, though to a far lesser extent; the aforementioned several-bottles-of-rum-per-day gets the drinker incredibly drunk but has yet to kill him, and another character is perpetually stoned on amounts of pain medication which also would probably kill a real human.

There is a fic in this fandom which, while pretty bad in other ways, featured a rescue scene which left me WTFing. See, the Sue suffers a gunshot wound. So, to save her, our heroes inject deadly nightshade into her. And it works. Instantly. To the point that the wound instantly closes up, she wakes from unconsciousness and is immediately able to sit up and talk.

Now, by normal standards, this fails. However, I'm not sure whether the aforementioned canonical oddities would affect the severity of the charge. They have yet to be able to do this in canon, and as I said, I'm pretty sure they react to substances in something resembling a logical way ("logical" by cartoon standards, but still, you can at least usually see where they got the idea). Anyone have any thoughts?

Also, I'm transferring my missions and MSTings off my personal website onto my new Dreamwidth blog: http://rc88.dreamwidth.org. It'll take me a while to get everything coded up and posted, but a couple things are up already. Missions won't be going down from my site for a while, but I thought I should tell people now.

Screwtape's New Secretary thebrokencradle (NSFW)
Toadpipe, Screwtape's secretary, comes to an unfortunate end. Screwtape is more than pleased with his new Secretary, who hails from the Second Circle of Hell. A series of encounters between Screwtape and Snaremouth.
Screwtape Letters - Rated: M - English - Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,641 - Published: 5-22-10 - Complete

My comment: My brain just divided by zero.

It's the main reason I don't read slash. Well, also because slash has a tendency to get graphic, and that just squicks me out. But it's one of the big reasons.

Romance is hard. A lot of people don't think it is, but romance is very, very hard to write in a plausible way. At least for me it is. Many of the people in the Pit think they can write romance, when they really can't and should never even be allowed near someone else's canon. But then again, that's what we're here for...

My personal pet peeve is when a young protagonist is arbitrarily paired with his/her father figure/mentor. Say, Luke Skywalker/Obi-wan Kenobi, or--I actually found a fic with this pairing the other day--Mr. Miyagi/Daniel. Eurgh. Not only is it squicky for age reasons, it destroys a perfectly good nonromantic relationship.

But even if a character doesn't have a love interest in canon, that doesn't mean they don't want romance ever. Life isn't divided into "asexual" and "sex-crazed," and although yeah, you can't make someone just ditch their canonical passion, that doesn't preclude the possibility of romance. The first example that comes to mind is Lightning from FFXIII, who has no real love interest and didn't have much of a life outside her military career, but defrosts over the story and could conceivably end up with somebody. On the other hand, if it's someone who can't feel or can't love, like Peter Pan, I am totally with you.

that Krisprolls turns 73 today. One more thing to party about.

Bad Slash usually includes Bad Het, as I remember, since they're very similar.

Well, I'm going to be in Improbable AU, so if you're in, say, Mary Sues, an AU badfic with a Mary Sue in it would be better done by collaboration.

Hmm... Surely it can't be any more dangerous than the other questionable pets I've been given. Certainly seems like it'll be the most useful.

Maybe that's it, since I didn't read the comic and all, but I hear it's a good comic so I'll have to check it out.

Ooh, chocolate. Want. *Omnomnom*

Hello and Welcome to the PPC Posting Board! Here, have some chocolate, won't you?

I don't think there's a more specific charge than OOCness, but OOCness alone can qualify something as a badfic, so I suppose that's an answer to your question.

In terms of missions, perhaps one of your agents could make a specific point of complaining about or taking missions that have this particular flaw (or, more likely, the Flowers send said agent on such missions just because it's sure to drive them mad)?

it's either bad slash or bad het, depending on who the other half of the badfic is.

Would be more interesting if the OC fancied the character and found her attempts of woowing him twarded by desinterest. But then the OC wouldn't be a Sue.

In some of my fandoms, established asexuals are always forced into romance, just because the Suethor fancies the actor, or thinks it would be 'really cute' if two characters got together. That does make it badfic in my opinion, because they are out of character - we have the Department of Bad Slash dealing with people turning heterosexual characters homosexual (amongst other things)so maybe that should be included in there?

It's kind of a pain to update after every request, especially now that so many new people are coming in.