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Agent Joseph might needed some but Agent Centurio can't eat nor drink bleach products. He needed a special gun to erase the mind scarring. Besides, he doesn't care about mpreg but logic errors and language abuse can short him out.

So, we all remember how much we loved 'Don't Panic', the fanfic that took a cliche storyline and made it good? Well, for those of you who are into Animaniacs, I found a fic that's pretty much Animaniacs' answer to Wicked. While hunting for badfic, no less.

At first glance, it seems like your run of the mill, Pin-the-tragic-backstory-on-the-canon-character fanfic, but it's not. It manages to take that overused plotline and prove to the fans that it can be pulled off WELL. I was kind of jaded at first when I got to the part with the abusive parents, but I was pleasantly surprised.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3703685/1/Family

What I like about this fic is that the characters are all fleshed out. And I mean ALL of them; even the aforementioned abusive parents. They're not just mindless, screaming dummies whose only purpose is to pound it into the readers' heads that the main characters' lives are horrible and we should feel sorry for them and wrap them in blankets and cuddle them. They feel like real people who would actually exist in the real world. Even one of the most despicable characters in the fic is portrayed as an actual person, and not like... like Uncle Vernon in "A Sad Story".

Another thing I like about it is the fact that the author managed to change the canon to suit her purposes, without actually changing anything, if that makes any sense at all. It's a good read, and you don't really have to know anything about Animaniacs to understand what's going on; knowledge of the canon just makes it marginally more fun.

It's waaaay darker than the canon, without a doubt. But then, so was Wicked. The difference here is that this fic is less complicated. It's very well thought out, and the only thing I might complain about it is that it's really, really long, and it's still unfinished. I haven't even gotten to the latest chapter yet.

All in all, even though it seems deceptively cliche near the beginning, it's not. It's well worth the read.

There's even a Blazing Saddles reference at one point. Blink and you'll miss it!

Set aside some Bleeprin for your poor agents, Sneezier. They're going to need it.

Killing 'Sues isn't a matter of "let's be bloodthirsty because we're sociopathic." (Well, mostly it isn't. Some agents are a bit... okay, a lot... sociopathic.) It's more like the lesser of two evils: If the Sue is allowed to stay in the continuum, she will literally destroy the continuum, along with all the characters living in it. Recruiting a full-blown Sue is also out: Since the PPC itself is a continuum, a Mary Sue in the PPC may not just begin to unravel HQ, but will have access to almost every continuum out there. The implications are obvious--take them out or the multiverse dies.

What happens if Sues get free rein: http://nath-ppc.livejournal.com/544.html

Most Sues employ mind control and brainwashing to control canon characters, so it's not like they're innocent. They're more like the personification of canon distortion than anything else, though they're sometimes portrayed as being a little like a viral infection (think zombies or vampires), as they can occasionally turn non-Sues into Sues by sheer influence.

Some PPC fics have explored the reality of having to kill Sues. Not every agent is a gung-ho 'Sue killer.

Kitty Callahan, for example, only managed to kill the Sue in question because her partner was in danger: http://wizkit.livejournal.com/524.html

And from the perspective of the 'Sues: http://ppc.wikia.com/wiki/Suedom

Yes. It is terrifying to be a PPC agent. Why do you think they develop such a sarcastic sense of humor? For the most part, though, it's only about as terrifying as being a soldier going to war (which is extremely terrifying, but something that people do every day, so you can't say it's unrealistic)--and done for about the same reason: Love of canon worlds. Hating to see them torn apart.

Almost universally, PPC agents are volunteers. They're hardly paid, so it's not like there's economic pressure to stay; they could probably, if they liked, just stay in the next continuum they were sent to visit. Overwhelmingly, they've made the choice to risk it, take their average life/sanity expectancy of one year, and actually make a difference.

Think about it: If all this were real; if all the books and movies you loved were real worlds; if there were billions and trillions of sentient creatures that needed protecting from the reality-warping powers of what might as well be eldritch abominations in the shape of ridiculously beautiful teenage girls--well, would it really be so highly illogical to set out to risk it and make a year's worth of difference? In general--and as weird as it sounds--PPC agents are probably happy with their jobs, when they aren't shoveling down Bleepka or fighting for their lives.

The Flowers do have an ulterior motive. It's called "stopping the multiverse from turning inside out and becoming utterly uninhabitable". It's a matter of common goals: The Flowers want to have a habitable universe; the PPC agents want to protect their favorite worlds. When you have a common goal, you might as well team up.

Um, and yes. You are taking things way too seriously. The PPC is meant to be humor. It has a dark side; but the dark side, I think, makes the humor all the better. If you've got a near-100% chance of going nuts or dying, it makes quite a lot of sense to say screw it and laugh in the face of everything you encounter. It's just a matter of perspective. Once you know your days are numbered, you set out to enjoy every second--including the crazy hilarity of things like fangirls who accidentally cause Legolas's eyeballs to acquire sentience of their own and fly around the room...

Your idea is that if you're in a bad situation, the only logical response is to go angst and say "Oh, woe is me! All is lost!"... but why? It's just as logical to acknowledge that your bad situation sucks, and either set out to solve the problem, or else make the best possible life you can regardless.

We're all in the same situation, you know. We're all going to die, and some of us will go nuts beforehand, temporarily or for good. Whether it's a matter of one year or seventy, that's the universal human problem. How we deal with it can define our lives... But I'm getting existential. Let's go back to herding Mini-Balrogs and exorcising badslash demons, shall we?

I only have one more question now. It's about time I asked this one, because it's been bugging me ever since I first joined this. Before anyone asks, I'm not trying to offend anyone with this, I'm just stating how I understand things.

Why are there all these rather dark, sinister things and implications concealed behind a mask of silly and funny if I'm not allowed to explore them? Are you all willingly ignoring it, or am I the one at fault here, letting it drag me down and cloud how I see the PPC?

Take, for instance, the missions themselves. Every single day, perhaps less, agents are forced to commit horrible acts, mercilessly killing just to stay alive. The exorcists fare better on the morality scale due to not killing nearly as much, but there's still the fact that both are only treating the symptoms and not the problem itself (I'll let you interpret that line yourselves).

And that's not even getting on an individual level. Think, just for a moment, how utterly terrifying it would be to actually be an agent. First of all, you yourself would probably have little combat experience, be not exactly the most fit physically, and would rather be off doing something else. Training is basically being handed a weapon, and being told to try not to die. Your partner or partners, if they aren't as scared as you are, will probably be highly erratic, completely incapable of cheering you up due to lack of sympathy, and insane to boot.

So, let's say you get that far without breaking down into a gibbering wreck of what was once a perfectly normal person, and you're about to go on your first mission with (Insert partner's name here). If you're potentially lucky enough to get someone who has former experience in the work, you'll probably get instructed on how to use the technology, but if not, too bad for you, it'll be a goddarned miracle for you to even get halfway through the mission, yet alone complete it. Don't even think about free time afterwords, either, because the Ironic Over-Power is sure to smite you!

Now. Let's say you've completed several missions, have got the hang of it and made friends with your partner. If you've made it this far, congratulations! You're now completely out of your mind, if not dead already! If you somehow manage to reach retirement, nobody's going to accept you back home, or anywhere for that matter, they'll think you're absolutely nuts. At this point, you might as well be the PPC's property, a tool for them to use and nothing more. For all they care, you're just going to keep doing your job in the name of a faceless goal that doesn't even seem to go anywhere. For all you know, it's just to amuse the higher-ups in some kind of sadistic show for them.

Oh, and before you say that I'm taking things too seriously, I haven't laughed once at anything PPC related. If it's so funny, where's the jokes? where's the hilarity and silliness that is so integral to the PPC's spirit? Am I blind to it? Do I sympathize with fictional characters far too much to see it?

Because all I see is this descent into madness and subsequent death/locking up, and there's nothing funny about that... I feel like I'm missing out on something...

That or we knock them unconcious as we exorcise them. Like say, a hammer with KH DVD cases strapped onto it?

Sorry I misunderstood you.

I'd like to take a look, if you can direct me. Could be funny :)

Look here, though you might also want some elements from here. The trick would be making it funny enough to be worthwhile, though it also would depend on how much your agent would enjoy something like this.

...but they are still close enough to be confusing. And if you think "slant" is an odd word, try "skew".

That was a clue in the quick crossword in the Grauniad yesterday. I forget the clue's precise wording, but it was referring to that symbol, and the answer was four letters beginning with h. Might not be universal, but that's certainly its English name.

What.

Mario mpreg. What.

Aye.

Late o clock it was though.

When digging around "The Pit" to find a goodfic to pass the time, I found this.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4418854/1/LuigiandPeasleysSummerBlossom

Title: Luigi and Peasley's Summer Blossom

Summary: A Mario mpreg I did out of boredom. Luigi's pregnant. Who's the father? Prince Peasley! What will happen? Will it turn out okay?

What in gundarium's ghost is this?! Not only Luigi's the victim, this fic have have a Mary Sue (*three more appeared in later chapters), a canon character was killed, and some of them OOC.

What boils my blood is that the Mario series is one of my favorites so am I enraged. Consider this mine when I get permission. This is personal.

...but I'm trying to improve. It's just that I have a minor case of autism which sucks so I have to rely on betas very often.

Here's another funny thing, place a small magnet on Centurio's head and he'll sing songs.

...I can do something funny with them.

-The agent is goofing around in the mecha.
-If mecha has a chameleon circuit any related stealth device, it tends to be faulty. This leads to amusing situations like shifting from the classic Zaku II to the modern Sutherland.
-Ejection systems can go off at unexpected times.
-They can fall apart.
-Thrusters can short out in mid-flight then crash.
-The auto-pilot can be uncooperative.

"How in the world do we herd the entire KH cast through a portal without getting ourselves in serious (albeit hilarious) trouble?" And to that, I have no answer...

It's lolariously good--and proves that Harry Potter can never have a normal vacation like every other wizard/witch/person on planet earth. It also reminds me of a movie I saw once, but can't, for the life of me, remember.
Make A Wish is the story of a non-canon vacation that Harry took after the fifth book, when he decided to live just once before he had to face down Voldemort. In the process of his vacation he **Spoiler Alert** discovers a Crumpl-horned Snorkac in Holland, defeats several Death Eater Squads, destroys a bit of private property, confuses the hell out of every magical European law enforcement agency, and develops an incredible following among the aforementioned law enforcement agents. And he has no idea that he's done so.
Umm, I do apologize for making a new post, but I didn't spot a goodfic report on this page. Oh, and the only complaint I have about the story is that the formatting and some of the punctuation makes it a bit annoying to read. But it's still a good read, all the same.
-Honu_Wahine

I think someone asked this somewhere else, but I don't remember where or if there was an answer. I ask because knowing this might help us to help you better with the grammatical issues. {= )

I also like the agents, by the way. I don't think too many continua leave large magnets lying around, but I can imagine how awkward it would be if that happened. ^_^

~Neshomeh

I was asking if it was okay to get serious for a minute, drag the Sues to the area in question, and say "THIS. IS. A. BIG. DEAL." I was not suggesting that it be trivialized.

The question to ask, though, is: would it be funny? In most cases, something like a mech (or a TARDIS or a Sun Crusher) would be too ostentatious to be useful to a stealth-dependent PPC Agent, but if you can find a way to make it work for humor in a mission, it's totally possible.

~Neshomeh

It's about vehicles. Aside from the TARDIS and the Sun Crusher, does the PPC has any kind of mecha such as AMP Suits, Knightmare Frames, or Mobile Suits?

And send a crack team of Agents, ones with strong hearts, strong wills, and strong senses of humor.

The number sign slants forward; sharps generally slant upward. So do flats, come to think of it. They're like an upward-slanted "b".

Slant is an odd word.

Slant. Slant slant slant.

Ha ha.

~Neshomeh, having one of those moments with words.

Just for the record, further research reveals that both Firefox's spell-checker and my word processor's agree that "imposter" is not standard even in America, even if it is listed as an alternative spelling in the dictionary--and the "alternative" part means just that: an option, not the first choice. For my money (two cents), I think we can call that incident a big misunderstanding and put it to bed.

However, in general I will agree that correcting for country is unnecessary. Miah's argument above for articles about canon things makes sense, and I see that it can be extended to PPC things as well. I certainly don't want to see hS's "Reorganisation" spelled with a Z, whether you pronounce it zee or zed. {= P

In short, you've won me over, and I will add that note to my tutorial. {= )

~Neshomeh