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My Agents are coming to the party. Expect hilarity to ensue.

Whoo!! I'm back!
After four months of no connection to the net... *weeps*
Finally!
Most have probably forgotten me... I turned up beginning of January, and lost all connection midst of February. *ahem*
Reintroduction:
Big fan of the PPC in general, the Original Series, DOGA and DTE in particular.
I originate from Cologne, Germany, am a female univerity student, 18 year sold and love LotR; thus I came across fanfiction, found the German translation of OFUM, then read the English original, stumbled across a mention of the PPC and was immediately hooked.
Haven't had time yet to catch up on everything that happened, but I am so glad to finally be back!
*hugs everyone in reach*

I think I'll throw a party to celebrate my reconnection to the awesomeness that is the PPC!
*begins busying herself*

Sorry, I was told that we should always make requests to the LJ list. Apologies for my fail.

Exactly what sort of information do you want more of?

Oh, if comics count, there's a whole website I know of that does comic fanfic.

As I was aware, both is common courtesy, since some people on the board might have already called the RC number but haven't had it put on the RC List.

People tend to use "author-wraith" and "Sue-wraith" interchangeably, but IMO, any time you get a canon character acting like a Sue, it's a Sue-wraith. (The term "slash-dwimmerlaik" is also used.) So, it still works. {= )

~Neshomeh

Basically every other request is made here on the Board. I see the logic of using the LJ RC list, but still...

Cake and pie. Omnomnomnom...

They go to the RC List, which is here.

http://community.livejournal.com/the_ppc/21812.html

We kill those too, and those are essentially Suethors... Although I suppose that, since Bad Slash Authors are deliberately mucking with canon without being taken advantage of by a Sue, they're more guilty than Suethors.

Well, like I said, I'm still barely any distance into it (8/51), so it could get worse, but thanks for clearing that up for me :)

If she's not a Sue yet, (which I'm not sure I believe, being that she fell from the stars) then it is not yet a Suefic. I would say that if everyone is in character and it is not badly written, then it isn't a target yet.

In the PPC we don't worry about every badfic, or even every Suefic, because a lot of it could be made good by a simple beta. We only PPC the worst of the worst, not the kinda bad.

Keep reading and if it gets worse, we can talk.

Also, I'm not much a fan of 5D's but I was a fan of the original Yu-Gi-Oh! and I play the card game, so if you eventually write a mission in that universe, I can probably help with a beta.

I don't know how popular 5Ds and shows and Children's Card Games in general are here, but I was browsing FF and found this: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5192774/1/Yugioh5DsLegacyoftheStarPrincess

Everyone seems to be in character and it's not that badly written, so my only real complaint is the horrible things done to the (IMO) awesome background of the original series.

I'm not that far through it, so more Sue-Signs may show up, but apart from the character's origin (fell from the stars and something about "purity"), she's not a Sue yet.
I'm wondering if this is enough to qualify as an "Acceptable Target".
I'm not that far through it, so more Sue-Signs may show up, but apart from the character's origin (fell from the stars and something about "purity"), she's not a Sue yet.

I would agree with you. It is pretty bad...and I can't even figure out where the first comic is.

Also, just because you are a newbie doesn't mean you can't recognize badfic when you see it. Don't sell yourself short. Newbie is a state of mind. The fastest way to stop being a newbie is to stop thinking of yourself as one.

I'm off before I start getting even more philosophical.
-Barid

But then, I'm just a newbie. Someone with more experience should answer this... Just givin' my own two cents.

Late, but what the heck. Also, quarter of a century old? I think I'm gonna be a fifth a century old in December, myself, haha.

It's not a singular fic, but it's a weird and ghastly mixture of bad sprite comic and badfic (though the writing is worse than the sprite stuff), the worst of both worlds. It's called "Simon Quest Zero", there's supposed to be some kind of prequel to it in the author's gallery, but I don't want to trudge through all his stuff just to find it. I haven't finished with this 'fic', but what I've seen is enough to say it's bad, I think.

Of course, it's good for a laugh anyway.

http://belmondo4447.deviantart.com/gallery/#Simon-Quest-Zero

In summary: An implausible crossover involving Castlevania and Mega Man, mainly, with characters from all over each series' respective timelines, but multiple other continuities appear from Pokemon to Zelda. The main focus of the plot involves one of the most crackiest crossover ships I have ever seen - Simon freakn' Belmont and Leviathan from Mega Man Zero. No, seriously. Plus, they have kids. Note that the female of the pairing is a Reploid, a very advanced robot, but a robot nontheless. Canon defilement up the wazoo, along with bad grammar and spelling and just bad writing overall. On the visual side, not much to charge for, aside from bad speech bubbles (even in MS Paint, one can easily do better). Oh, yeah, and particular part adds songfic to the list.

tl;dr: Badly-done crossover pairing fic that's crackier than crack and combines bad sprite comics with normal badfic. I'll give a better impression when I finish looking at the whole thing.

Also, Evil!Soma Cruz makes me grumble, but that's not really a charge.

But I just thought of something--since we're a badfic-sporking group, shouldn't our pages on series have lists of frequently-occurring phenomena, particularly those that are prone to turning into badfic? Major Lust Objects, overpopular pairings, that sort of thing. I'ono, it just seems like a good idea to me.

Actually, I like the differences. The problem with anime vs. manga is that the plots are exactly the same, so after a while, watching the anime gets boring (or reading the manga--I usually read the manga first, though). With FMA, it's two different plots, although they're both equally FMA, so the anime is still interesting even though I've already read the manga.

...Did that make sense? I hope it did.

And to the other part of the message, sure! ^^

Would either or both of you care to add some information about the manga to our Wiki page on FMA? I've only seen the anime, so that's all I could write about when I made it. (Of course, that's probably all most FMA badficcers have seen, too, but you never know.)

That said, I understand that Arakawa deliberately chose for the anime to diverge from the manga plot-wise. Does that make the differences more forgivable?

~Neshomeh