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Its a case of a writer thinking they know more about the series than the author does. People have rejected J.K. Rowling's canon of Harry Potter because they wanted Harry to end up with Hermione. Of course this is still unacceptable, and we're here to point out how wrong people are about these things, in a comical fashion so feel free friend.

Oh, and also: Link?

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You're welcome to join our Chatroom if you like, we have a sizable crowd in there right now. :D

Feel free to read everything on the wiki if you have not already, especially everything under the PPC Intro Pages sidebar.

This is especially important to new fanfic readers. I stumbled into some awful stuff before I figured out what was between the lines on the summaries. Even now, I much appreciate a nice bold, in the summary, warning for things like shipping, slash, and various things that can be considered squicky.

I really like the slash warnings to be obvious, because my favorite stories are friendship stories between characters frequently slashed.

...you find a tiny nose and strap the guard on over said nose. It protects the nose from blunt objects, at the price of being able to breathe. Through the nose, anyway.

Excuse me while I hug her and make weird cooing sounds...

*pokes at the nose guard* How does it work?

I'm going to keep away from this issue from now on; her opinion isn't important enough to me to spend any more time on it. I don't have trouble sleeping because I've PPCd some badfics, and that's all I really care about.

Thanks for the free weapon!

I tried abandoning my sanity before, but it came back. Maybe next time I should sic my cats on it.

But perhaps I should phrase myself better: Letting this issue go may not be the right thing to, in terms of high morals and the like, but I think it's probably the wisest thing to if we want to keep everything generally happy around here.

(Of course, if you think you can change my opinion, you're welcome to try to change it, but do bear in mind that I don't want changed, and that's a hard barrier to overcome.)

That last one I didn't follow up on, only expressed interest and ultimately dropped it.

Plat did the banning. He banned the Mibbit widget.

Anything involving chat- or leetspeak makes me cringe, as does obvious misspellings. ALLCAPS are also out. As for actual content, I severely dislike anything that says something of the lines of 'wait and see' or rhetorical questions such as 'will they or won't they?'

Interestingly, I don't mind listed pairings. And please, please give spoiler or squick warnings, authors.

Welcome to the board, newbie. Have a lead-filled baseball: it's good for beaning 'Sues and partners in the head, and it also makes an excellent paperweight.
So... just, welcome to the board. Don't defend a 'Sue (just mock them. . .mocking is good. mocking is your friend!), be courteous, and abandon your sanity. You won't need it, and you probably won't miss it. (Not here, anyways.)
-HW

We're nice to everyone here, save the sues and those filthy nerf herders.

I kid the nerf herders.

Have an uncomfortably small nose guard.

(NOTE: most of these are for summaries on ff.net, which are 48 words)
Things that make me go "huh?" in reviews are:
- not being able to polish 48 words to perfection
- stating that your story isn't a Mary-Sue/her XY counterpart
- announcing a pairing in the summary (and really, do any of these stories need badly written romance?)
- bad grammar
- bad spelling
- asking for reviews (I think that's just tacky in a summary)
- asking questions in the summary that are never answered later (a la "Hogan's Daughter" by Beanacre0)
-putting in a website blurb
---putting in a website blurb that has nothing to do with your story (and yes, I have seen this done a few times)
- casually dismissing canon
. . .
and I'm going to stop before I crash the website . . .
I'm rather rabid about summaries, good or bad. What can I say (blame Tirathon here, it's a bad habit I got from her)?
-H_W

I would like to request permission to write for the PPC. I have a writing sample here, showing how one of my agents joined the PPC. I would also like to request RC #421, though I can change it if that one is taken. Before I talk about my agents, I would like to ask about the proper procedire for adopting a Mini-Rayquaza, specifically one of Miah's finds, Swaula Deen. If this Mini is already taken, don't worry. If it still needs to be caught, I can wait. It does, however, have a bit of a role in future storylines.

Agent Randall
Randall comes from something else I'm writing (the wiki's here, but there's hardly any pages in it so far), having fallen through a plothole into the depths of HQ. He was rescued by and partnered with Agent Alexis in the DoMS. Before joining, Randall was called Ardolf and lived in a small mostly-medieval town, in a world where magic is common—Randall was one of very few people without any magic. He enjoyed drawing and was bitten by a werewolf after one of his pictures kept him in a neighboring forest for too long. His condition allows him to heal more quickly and be a bit stronger than most people, but it also increases his "animal" feelings, making his anger, fear, etc. almost uncontrollable. He is still working on redirecting these feelings so he is less violent, but, for the most part, he now accepts his inner wolf.

Agent Alexis Green
Alexis comes from a fictional manga-based Pokémon badfic, and was a character replacement for Green, who only played a minor part in the story. The agents who tackled the fic did not find her kill-worthy, and instead recruited her. She was placed in the DoMS, and not much of her story is known until recently. She found Randall wandering around HQ and took him to the Marquis de Sod, believing that anyone who wore clothes in such disrepair couldn't be a Sue. She was then partnered with him, as her last partner had "left". She still enjoys her home continuum, and hopes to eventually get a Mini-Rayquaza.

Hello everybody. I have been reading PPC missions for a long time now, and finally decided to come out of lurkerhood. Please treat me kindly.

or cry
It's a fairly well written LOTR fic, grammatically and linguistically speaking... but... It's just the willful, and quite frankly (IMHO) unjustified dismissal of most of the relevant canon. And fer cryin' out loud - the authors have even read the damn series. AND THEY DISMISS THEM OUT OF HAND IN THE ...ING AUTHOR'S NOTE!
And then there's the Legomance in there. Just on general principle I despise Legomance (and Legolas in general, but that's just the movie version of him); oh, and apparently, Tolkien got everything about the elves wrong, don't'cha know? Apparently elves can have divorces, have multiple partners (provided they're mortal of course [odd...]), and all the elvish language that Tolkien spent so long creating is also apparently wrong. *GRRrraggh!*
*headsplode* Can I scream now and hunt down the author duo, or am I overreacting?
-foaming at the mouth, HW

Like you, I enjoy author's notes at the beginning and/or end of a chapter--as long as they are at least partly relevant. Talking about some completely unrelated story or event is not what should go there. Talking about something that happened which inspired the story/chapter, and going into how it compares with the written version is interesting. Giving world background information (in original fiction) or little known facts that tie into what we have just/are going to read is great. In-text authors notes, however, just needlessly interrupt the action. If it is a note about a certain usage of a word, it can easily be referenced at the beginning or end, without breaking the flow. In my story for the March madness, for example, I refer to several people as "servants". We think of something different now than what I was intending, so I put a note at the stating that, in the story, they have more independence than what we now associate with the word.

Things that make me go huh?

"Not a Mary Sue!!"
Misspelling or misusing any words.
Chatspeak.
Giving info on other stories or life events
Saying 'this isn't a summary' or 'I suck at summaries'
* Just in anyway completely replacing the summary with something else.*
Insulting the canon characters gets me every time.

I am pretty forgiving of grammar errors, because my own grammar isn't great. However, if the grammar is so bad in the summary that I am cringing, it is usually a cause for backing away--not always, if it otherwise sounds like it could be intriguing, I might go ahead and give it a try.