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It's metallic and twice as long as your arm. Very useful weapon.

Always good to see a new face :)

Hello! Have a seventeen foot long, multicolored, wool, knit scarf (curly wig not included), and a bag of jelly babies.

Please use them IRresponsibly!

Have a container of exotic matter. It has negative gravity. Remember to keep it away from wormholes...

No, Implausible Crossovers don't have to have a Mary Sue; nor does bad slash; nor do fics targeted by SIELU or the Department of Technical Errors. In general, if it's bad writing and it's a fanfic, the PPC can target it. Even trollfics and bad parody have a department. The PPC started out with Mary Sues, of course, but there are more sources of wild, uncontrolled, continuum-destroying plotholes than just the usual glittery girls and their drooling, squeeing, glomping fangirl ways. :)

If you still have some of your old badfic, incidentally, you could PPC your own stories once you get permission to write spinoffs. Some of us have done that.

She's being possessed by Candi the sk8ter g1rl!

Welcome, Newbie! Have some chocolate, and enjoy your stay here!

May it inspire you to new heights.

I think it should be a fish, considering that most of my fandoms don't use polearms of that sort as weapons. I've always thought of those fish as vicious, though, so perhaps it could be a weapon of its own, especially if I took it into the Redwall universe.

This strange object can be either a polearm or a carnivorous freshwater fish, depending on which you want it to be!

People can go pretty quickly from being a newbie to regular, I guess. I like more modern things, mostly the 20th century, though I had a really great class about Native North American history, so I'm interested in that, too. Not much about Aztecs.

Thank you, I've always wanted a cat.

D&D, where alignments started, uses an absolute morality system--that is, if someone's evil, they're always evil, no matter on who is looking at them. That has an interesting social impact, especially with the reality of afterlives in the picture (evil people are basically hoping to end up on top of the heap). Motivations do play into alignment; but alignment isn't a matter of perspective.

Now, you can create a world in which alignments are relative; but then you'd have to re-define "evil" as "something I don't like" and "good" as "something I like", which is an altogether different thing from the concepts of good or evil themselves; so in those worlds you'd be better off saying that good and evil simply don't exist than tangling yourself up in semantics.

I've seen it mentioned on TvTropes several times; don't know where it is to be found or if it's fully reliable, though.

I'd have to take a look at the A/V Division, but if it'll fit, that would be awesome.

I'm a newbie with a passion for writing, myself. Heh, I end up welcoming another newbie within such a short time after coming here. But anyway. When it comes to my fanfiction, I really like both canon characters and OCs, though I don't mind doing a fic without one or the other. Improving my writing skills is also something I want to achieve as well.

Also, you're a history buff (well, you're a college history student, so...)? Haha, me too! I'm most interested in the Aztecs and Elizabethan England, personally.

In any case, welcome to the board, fellow newbie!

Here, have a pet cat. You may name her whatever you wish.

Regrettably, it's rather early in the morning, but I'll try and make something coherant.

I'm highly unsure about good online RPing communities, but VERGE and AGS... The latter I certainly know about, mainly because of the Chzo Mythos (one of Yahtzee's game series - yes, THAT Yahtzee), though I haven't used it properly at all. I think I might've heard of VERGE, but I never took a proper look at it in any case.

Also, bladed yo-yo? Well, might come in handy in an Earthbound continumm, that's for sure. Sweet.

Nice! Thanks!

If I could get an artist to help out, maybe. :)

As I mentioned, good work! Excellent mission, and awesome kill method. I imagine the Karma Charger got to that sue.

Please enjoy this silk headband as a welcoming gift.

While I'm not a PG, I think you've got great agents there, and the they seem fun from the sample.

Personally, while I do agree in general general basis in regards to the whole 'semi-moratorium on new departments', I don't think the idea of a bad songfic department is a bad one, and could be interesting; it's just a matter of what others think.

That said, I do think that as a 'badfic' type there are enough out there that it could be relevant (as much as anything here is) and a possible department on its own, with no need to be put under Floaters or be an aspect of the A/V Division.

In my opinion, alignment is very dependent on one's perspective. Some people may think they're doing good, but are actually causing more harm, and likewise an "evil" character might actually be doing more good than bad. It all depends on how you see yourself, and how others see you, as well as your actions, which are even more important. If you end up killing a bunch of (insert sentient species here), of course they're going to think you're evil, you just slaughtered them! Likewise, if you help them out instead, they're going to like you more and percieve you as "good".

That's my two (insert fictional currency here) on the thought.

Do DoSAT agents have permission to kill badfic? It seems like the collecting of the badfic would be a different department from the killing of it. Kind of like the difference between DMS and DMSE&R.

I kind of do like the idea of a whole new department, especially if there's a newly promoted Flower to go with it. Earlier, in the discussion about Medical, there was talk of the potential comedy of that situation, and I can see it being played out well here.

Interesting thought: if you don't want to create a new department, songfics could go into DIC. After all, they are taking two different canons and mashing them together, often very badly. I don't know if songs lacking music videos are technically their own canon, but coping with songfics could involve sending the canons back to their own world and making certain the lyrics aren't mangled, etc.

I also think that either just A/V or DoSAT proper might want to find a way to modify glopsnerch to work against songfics. From what I've read, they're deafening.

Oh, and by the way, I do like your introductory piece, Italian for Grandma. The bit about Ken being from a comic book background made me laugh. Good luck getting Permission!

--anamia

Hallo!


Welcome to the board. ^^

There's no problem with taking your time to get into the PPC before you dive head first in asking for permission and stuff; generally, we love it when you wait beyond the initial suggested month to get used to everything and everyone here.

If you haven't seen it yet, we have a wiki here . You might be interested in the pages under the "PPC Intro Pages" section, such as the Guide to the PPC, and the FAQ: For Newbies which will answer a lot of your questions. ^^

We've also got a chatroom here which you are welcome to join if you're interested in chatting with a few of us in moderately almost real time. (This is an open invite to anyone else interested, as well).

All in all, again, welcome, hope you enjoy your time here, and try to not spam the board with multiple posts if there's stuff you're wondering about.