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Hi, and welcome to insanity the PPC. Here, have a telemarketer guard, and a tank of piranhas! (the links are just so you know what I'm talking about). Anyways, don't worry about what shreds of sanity you may have left--they'll go quickly enough here.
-Honu_Wahine

You wind it up, you let it go, the 'Sue goes SQEEE and the Chibi goes KABOOOM!

'Borg is short for cyborg, but also can mean a robot that looks like a human (Terminators, Replicants, etc). 'Bot is short for robot, but generally means anything robotic that isn't a 'borg (Daleks, Marvin, Robby, etc.)

I think we might already have a 'borg, but I'm reasonably sure we don't have any 'bots. In any case, there are no rules prohibiting the type of character you write, so long as you write said character well.

And you mean 'are there any robot agents'.

I'll just wait, no biggie.

Is there any robot agents? If not, I'm gonna introduce one when I get permission.

No, that was the first thing I checked and I'm a member of other communities with age restrictions.

I think it's best not to have anything to do with Sonichu at all. Between itself and its swarm of trolls, it has an unholy life of its own, and I think it's best not to get involved with that lot. They're not nice people.

Also, I thought we purged all mention of it from the wiki recently due to incessant nastiness about it. I'll have to double-check.

~Neshomeh

Link (I'm not going to be fancy, I don't need to increase the risk of screwing it up)

http://rc45.dreamwidth.org/profile

That aside, hello hello hello! Have a pair of pants with infinite-capacity pockets.

After you've been on the Board for about a month, you make a post paging the Permission Givers, including a writing sample and a profile of your agents. If the Permission Givers approve, you can then begin writing.

http://ppc.wikia.com/wiki/Permission

TVIA: Typical Video Game Invisible Arsenal, if you were wondering.

In the past, I sporked a few fics but those alone are not good enough to relieve my fever and cure for that is dead Sues.

So, all I need is permission and I'll dig up tombs for badfics.

Especially if you only link to a help site instead of listing the specific flaws with those particular characters. "You can't write" is harsh but isn't enough to (in my opinion) make something a flame, as long as you say "All your characters are Sues because of [blah blah blah blah that is reasonable]. "You deserve to die" is a) inaccurate based on simple bad writing, b) never okay ever, and c) would always make anything a flame.

There's a difference between saying "you suck" and "that story sucks".

There's also a difference between saying "that story sucks" and saying, "that story sucks; here's how you make it better."

Politeness is generally preferable, but it's not politeness that makes something not a flame. It's the general attitude. If you're trying to communicate or inform, then it's not a flame. If you're trying to insult someone or make them feel stupid, then it is.

Welcome! Here's your shiny new Frying Pan of DOOM^tm, as well as a few Very Important Links you need to look over (List snerched from my own elcome post) :

So, in relative order of sensible-reading-ness, there is...

* The Original PPC Series (A MUST read, and one I'm assuming you've already done, since you've gotten this far)

The Board:

* The Board Constitution
* The FAQ: For the Board

The Wiki:

* The PPC Wiki (which you've hopefully already seen)
* The very-important-to-read-before-requesting-Permission Permission article
* The Guide To The PPC
* The Mission Writing Guide
* The Slash-Sporking Guide
* The FAQ: For Newbies.

And finally, but very usefully,
* The List of Everything PPC

Enjoy!

Welcome, newbie! I gift you with a coxcomb. It's a sort of silly hat with Shakespearean lineage.

I think Trojie and Pads have marked their missions as adult content on LJ. If you have an LJ account, are you registered as under 18?

Welcome! Here's your very own Frying Pan of Doom^tm, useful for clocking 'Sues and 'Stus over the head, as well as cooking. Alton Brown would approve.

I figure someone'll fix it sooner or later. Meanwhile there's a lot of other stuff to read.

You already know the wiki, so you'll want to read the stuff on the left menu bar under "PPC Intro Pages". Includes general information, including board rules and such.

Have a geode! (It's a normal looking round gray rock, except that when you break it open there are quartz crystals inside.)

Welcome, newbie! I give you a coxcomb. It's a sort of silly hat, with Shakespearean lineage.

Nah.

That will be perfect as a scout for my agents.

Help yourself to a venomous arthropod!

Those links don't work for me either, but unfortunately, I'm not sure if they're available anywhere else...

Are you related to a certain dwarf?

Anyway, someone will be along the bag o' important links soon. In the meantime, enjoy this mecha-tarantula, which doubles as a wireless controller (just be careful not to grab the end with the mandibles).

I'm not going to bother to be nice.


1) Severely, and I mean severely out of character on the parts of multiple characters.

2) Spell-check and grammar-check and look at all the punctuation missing there and just what?

3) "Frodo said, being completely queer." This is not okay, and this is not cool. Homophobic insults are not funny. This shit doesn't fly even if you put wings and a propeller on it.

4) This is not what parody is. You could have very easily used the same idea and make something actually funny out of it or something. This is along the lines of Disaster Movie in terms of the thought and intelligence and care put into it.

5) This is counter to what the PPC is here for. We can't be 'oh, we concrit when we do this because we want to improve others and ourselves as writers' when we show the world that we do not give a damn for the writing process ourselves.

6) That fic would generally be called a trollfic. Trollfics are not funny or amusing or even hilarious. They're right around the same level of 'HEY WANT FREE PROZAC?' in your email box when people are trying to find something they're actually interested in finding something.

7) You had the choice and knowledge that you didn't have to put that up for public viewing, but you did anyways, and the fact that you acknowledge it sucks means that you know full well know better. :|

Fair winds! You'll get an occasion to practice!

Fair winds!

Ahoy, PPC! Newbie ineedbettername here. Wait, this isn't a naval setting? Pity, I wanted to practice my boarding and plundering skills.

*cough* Anyway, after reading TOS and wandering the wiki for a little bit (read: half an hour), I posted a badfic in the 'unclaimed' section and decided to join when SO mentioned it to me. I hope to have a long and prosperous career here at the PPC.

My question is thus: Does anyone here know an alternate site for Trojie and Paddlebrains' missions? I tried accessing them on the Livejournal links provided, but I received an HTTP 403 (forbidden) error.