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I'm just not overly vocal about it.

That's really good! I look forward to seeing the next one. {= )

~Neshomeh

I think using any of the "NSF_" tags could be misleading, given that they're meant as warnings for when you look at something, NSFB being the extreme form. As you say, not all legendary badfics are R+ rated.

"Aspiring Legendary Badfic" is... on the right track, but perhaps too easy to confuse with simple "Legenday Badfic". I'm not sure what else to suggest. In my other post I suggested "Godawful Badfic", but that's sort of stealing from the Godawful FanFic website, which is rather rude. Something similar, maybe?

After the Macrovirus Epidemic, the Mary Sue Invasion, and then the whole Big Brother/Key to Canon/Silver Gate thing in 2008, we all pretty much agreed that we'd had enough--"we" being the majority of active Boarders at the time.

If it ever IS just me making calls about anything, I expect you all to tell me so and make me go sit in a corner until my ego deflates. Seriously. {= p

~Neshomeh

...But now I can't find the article where you had said that so I may be confusing you with somebody else (or imagining the whole thing entirely)

Fire flowers, yes, but why use a gun when you can throw a Koopa shell at someone? Guaranteed hilarious. And how about hammers a la Hammer Bros.? Or feeding a Sue to a pipe-plant? Chucking her under a Thwomp? Lava is always good, but not very original.

I'm not really familiar with anything after Super Mario World (which was totally awesome), so I might be missing things, but my point is that there's a lot of room to be creative in Mario, and being creative is always a good choice.

Whatever you do, you probably have to be sure the Sue is out of lives before leaving.

~Neshomeh

Can I still create a Veterinary Ward?

I'm not sure why I would explode. If I did, though--if it was that bad--I hope I wouldn't be alone. {; p

~Neshomeh, who actually does read almost everything on the Board.

But that's because that's how I set up FicPsych, which is similar to Medical and even shares personnel sometimes. But then, I guess that was because it made sense at the time, so it works. {= )

Anyway, I also agree that it makes more sense for the nurses in Medical to just have specialties rather than to be segregated into divisions. I think that the majority of canon characters and agents are human, so it doesn't make sense to have personnel sitting in divisions where they probably wouldn't have much to do most of the time. They would just get drafted into the general staff anyway, so they might as well be unsegregated in the first place.

~Neshomeh

I'm making list here to see which weapon I can bring in the Mario Continuum. Correct me if I made mistakes.

-Guns: I'm sure they have guns but all of aren't lethal like real life ones. Snifits' masks count as a firearm.
-Energy Weapons: Yeah they have them.
-Flamethrowers: The snifits uses them with their masks, Bowser statues have them too.
-Fire: Fire Flowers.
-Swords: I've seen pirates wield them.
-Knives: Very rare if you ask me.

Nobody would bother reading the edits, because they wouldn't think to check a post twice for something new. Hardly anybody reads all the posts here anyways (I know I don't) so being able to edit means getting heard even less.

I don't really do sci-fi, so the high numbers of aliens in the PPC tend not to occur to me. If anyone else wants to explore the other ideas, it sounds cool to me.

I hate that this board doesn't have an edit function so I can just edit my post when I think of something else I wanted to say. :(

Here's some tech that could be useful for weird biology:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sector_General

Sector General is a sci-fi continuum where doctors who treat multiple alien patients get the knowledge (and personalities) of doctors who know those species downloaded into their brains. It tends to make the doctor a little loopy, but it's a life's work to learn the biology of one species, let alone several hundred.

If there's a veterinary division, would it make sense to have it handle all the "weird biology" cases? Vets have got to be really flexible as it is; if human-specialized doctors are handling all the human cases, then chances are if a three-legged Martian or a two-inch-high pixie shows up at Medical, it'd get shunted off to the veterinary division by default.

*There's precedent in Medical for non-Flower department heads, of course. But wouldn't it be more of a "division head" than a department head? Or you could just call them "wards", like in a hospital.

*Medical already handles at least a large minority of non-human patients--not just anthros and pets, but creatures with biology that's not even based on Earth-style biochemistry. One can assume they're pretty flexible that way.

*Doctors do tend to specialize; but when their overall field is already so broad, it may be that to them there's not all that much difference between two mammals--say, a cat and a human--when on the same day they may be treating a Taxxon or a velociraptor... or even more bizarre things, like energy creatures or two-dimensional beings.

I think thereneedn't necessarily be a specific division, though there could be. But there are almost certainly specialist doctors--doctors who specialize in humans (as they're the largest group), or doctors who specialize in unusual biologies, or doctors who specialize in specific problems like resurrecting canon characters or monitoring and managing the glitter levels of ex-Sue agents. And yeah, with all the anthro and pet characters--I think it's very likely that there exist one or more doctors who specialize in the biology of Earth and parallel-Earth animal and anthropomorphic animal characters.

If there are subdivisions in Medical, they could also be functional divisions: A ward for Agents; a ward for canon characters; a ward for contagious problems; a ward to isolate characters who, left to their own devices, would attempt to assimilate HQ or get glomped by every fangirl within a ten-mile radius; a ward for rescued mpreg babies to grow to full-term before being transferred to the nursery.

Probobly it'll need a Head Doctor/Nurse/Healer/Thingimabob, though. But I don't think we have Division Heads unless the Divisions themselves are very large, and I'm not sure we should allowed to pull Flowers into the PPC without any explanation of why they weren't there in the first place. Maybe a Flower could get promoted from a lower position, like a Janitor or that Daisy from the Fifth Anniversary. But on the other hand, he wouldn't really know how to head a Department...But on a random third hand, a newbie Department Head might be hilarious if written right. I can imagine it...It's trying to act all officious in front of the Agents, but it keeps forgetting things, and acting shy in front of the other Heads, and all the fangirlish Agents are trying so hard not to go 'squee' all over him...And now I want to make up a new Department just so I that'll happen. And I do, and we start arguing, and suddenly there's a random Emergency that comes from it, and this makes Neshomeh explodes...somehow...I dunno. I like Neshomeh, so I think I'm gonna stop talking now, yeah?

Kit and I have decided that, what with the influx of anthro and pet characters needing medical treatment, Medical needs a division devoted specifically to them. My question is whether this Division would require a separate Head of Department, and if so, should they be human or plant or what?

OK, so we're saying that "legendary badfic" means that it needs to have two qualifications: One, it's extremely, brain-breakingly bad; and two, it's very well-known, to the point that (for example) about 80% of the people in the given fandom have heard about it.

What about badfic that just has the "extremely, brain-breakingly bad" quality? This isn't your average everyday glittery Sue or improbable slash story; it's the kind that has people whacking their heads against the nearest hard object to try to get rid of the memory. But it's not well-known enough to make legendary badfic status. All of these would be taggable with "NSFB", just like legendary badfic. Not necessarily NSFW (legolas by laura isn't NSFW, for example); but just the sort of vileness that makes you wish bleeprin were real.

I think we need a third category, beyond just "badfic" and "legendary badfic"--one that just requires that anyone who's read the thing agrees that it's legendary badfic quality, just without the notoriety.

Maybe "Aspiring Legendary Badfic" could be archived along with the other unclaimed/claimed badfic, and tagged with "NSFB"..

I'm saying that I'm voting against. I was clarifying on my stance, which was slightly derived from yours in terms of reasoning, but not the same, since I'm actually voting against.

I can't stand to see Disney badfic. Glad to see someone else will be handling it once they get Permission.

...so I'm not late! Although sadly the lilac didn't seem to be blooming today.

Happy Glorious 25th, everyone.