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Always nice to have new boarders ;)

Anyway, you are either much braver than I am, or your brain has a lack of mental nerves. I have enough trouble getting through the missions tackling legendary badfic (and no, it's not that I'm interested in the "story", it's that I'm interested in the agent).

If you are intent on reading those stories, take a bladed yo-yo. It might help you keep your mind off the worst parts--especially during the learning phase. Yes, that does mean that it is possible to use the yo-yo without slicing your hand apart. Practice and you'll probably master it.

I commented on it having random information about unrelated stories that had been deleted, and having the same horrible grammar that afflicted the rest of the story.

I didn't go past the fourth chapter, but if I had, I probably would have commented on the fact that the entire fifth chapter was an Author's Note.

I was mostly referring to grammar and spelling, but either point applies. I probably shouldn't have used the word "universal" - there are pleanty of exceptions.

The vast majority of Twilight goodfics I've seen, though, are the ones that focus on characters other than the leads - usually the vampire family. I read the books a while ago just to keep everyone from nagging me about whether I loved or hated them, and the honest answer is that I wouldn't read any of them again, but I will read the good fanfic. Odd.

Anyway, I can link you to some good ones too, if you like.

I'm going to agree with everyone who said that Boosette has a misconception of misogyny, Mary Sues, female empowerment, and the PPC. She probably didn't look into these things much further than the basic definitions. She does have a point about bullying the Suethors, though. The PPC does have to make sure that we don't start insulting the Suethor in that sort of way. That problem isn't very common, though, so there wasn't much of a reason for Boosette to bring it up as if it were a plague. I also don't like that she neglected to mention that the PPC pretty much fits the same age group as fanfiction authors. And that many of us are female. And that there are male Suethors, too.
What really ticked me off is the fact that she seemed to imply that the PPC hates characters like Keladry of Mindelan. Keladry is my favorite character! I even like Daine, the true canon Sue of the Tortall books. (Watch out for cursing from this point on.) She's basically calling me a misogynistic, cold hearted, bullying bitch for disliking bad fanfiction, which isn't too far from the truth, except for the misogynistic and bullying parts. Still...
I'm not sure why Boosette went off and wrote this essay/rant. I mean, I'm pretty sure she's the same Boosette from the Goldenlake forum. That Boosette is highly opinionated, yes, but she hasn't gone off in an essay-long, meandering rant on that forum. She didn't even rail me for being a PPC agent when I blatantly made it known there from the very beginning. I sure hope she doesn't try to glean support from the Goldenlake community, though. People already think I'm insane there, and this wouldn't make matters better. I'm trying to make the PPC look positive to the Tortall fans, not negative.
Anyway, this was a very interesting essay. Thanks for linking it.

People on this 'Board have called Alanna, from the Lioness Quartet, a Sue, and she's a well-rounded canon character if ever there was one.

It mostly irks me with the battletech novels, which have an alarming tendency to jump into the middle of battles, without always giving a clear idea of which regiments are participating or why the battle is important for several pages. Frankly, the heading is just a neat thing to have even when the story is strictly linear.

Welcome to the PPC! Here's a dagger set from the Raven Armory and a bottle of bleeprin. I'm trying to avoid the more disturbing bad fanfic myself, but I think you'll find many if you stick around here long enough. Just check the threads that bemoan a fandom (or five) for the awful badfics that have been created.

Welcome to the PPC! Here's a sabre from the Raven Armory and a bottle of bleeprin. Beware of the legendary bad fanfics, beware!

Nothing simpler. Just change the text color for each character. Divide 256 by the number of characters, add the result to the rr, to the gg, and to the bb of the previous character's color, and round to the nearest integer.

4. Love's Cost » by Nejimistress reviews
The goddess of love and destiny, Freya, gives Toothless a week to show Hiccup his love. But will it come at a cost too high?
How to Train Your Dragon - Rated: T - English - Romance/Adventure - Chapters: 2 - Words: 2,404 - Reviews: 16 - Updated: 4-12-10 - Published: 4-9-10 - Toothless & Hiccup

*disappears*

Sorry.

...gonna do it, but don't let that stop you.

I think the use of that heading depends very much on how much it jumps around, but the style that demands it also fits those kinds of battles... signature style of yours? (*feels mildly Sherlockian*).

I don't know, but I guess it really depends on the egregiousness. If they're insulting people, I'd say go for it; ditto the infamous Bryan thing. Stuff like emoticons or general attitudes is maybe unnecessary, though, especially since it's an informal area of the thing where those things aren't really inappropriate. In-text notes, I personally would feel free to snap at the placement, but make it clear that the issue was the placement, not the content. Bottom line: Ask "Am I insulting the author's writing/sense of where to put notes or am I insulting the author?" Just my guesses, though.

It'll make things faster.

"Beautiful as a winter rose." Winter roses are brittle and thorny. That comment is surprisingly appropriate. Gah.

"And I look forward to ones that will come, because LOVE WILL NEVER DIE."

Sounds horrifyingly similar to a published feat of ultra-badfic I despise. The cliches are a-spawnin'!

*retch*

Reading through the author note now. Inner ear is ringing considerably, and that's only from *reading* the frakkin' thing. Have come across this gem:

"I was NEVER angry with the reviewers not liking the story, it’s how they handled themselves when leaving me the reviews. Getting riled up, ranting and raving, screaming and spitting nails over this story is what has caused me to get upset, not the fact that they didn’t like it."

This is coming from somebody who just posted a twenty-line rant against negative reviewers, COMPLETELY IN ALL CAPS? And she calls US immature.

I must be a masochist...I'm going back to it after this. *gaaaaaaaggg...*

Also, I like starting sections with the following

Date
Time
Location

Then again, I'm also one of those weird people who likes to know what is going on in large-scale battles instead of entering in the middle and only talking about what the main character sees.

...who regularly flames Mary Sues, I'm guessing I'm the one she imagines when she talks about the PPC. All of her points seem fairly invalid when she starts by equating Mary Sues with all strong female characters. Because that's just wrong. There's nothing feminist about bad writing, even if it is glorifying women. Mary Sue isn't applied to strong women, just badly written strong women who aren't part of a regular continuity. I write strong female characters all the time. Hell, I love strong women. That's why this pisses me off so much.

Some of us down in the anti-sporking-essay thread were just saying how we need to watch our language in missions when it comes to making personal statements about badfic writers, since we're NOT actually trying to be bullies and hurt people. This sort of thing--actually wishing death on another human being?--probably falls under the same moratorium.

~Neshomeh

Admitting that we have our faults certainly isn't the same as saying the essay's author got it right. I think that's one of those logical fallacies, though I couldn't name it. {= P

As for the second part... I guess I'd have to see them, but offhand I'd say that finding Author's Notes annoying is no more offensive than finding bad writing annoying. It's just a question of phrasing: are you railing against the content of the note, or the presence of the note? If the latter, you're fine. If the former, is it because it's irrelevant and takes you out of the story, or because you disagree with it on a personal level? The first is probably okay; the second, maybe not so much.

~Neshomeh, handing out lots of pennies in pairs today.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/99964-New-X-Com-Shooter-Coming-From-BioShock-2-Studio

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I suppose it will be better than enforcer, but still. They really should have just done something in the style of the originals.

Thanks. I feel validated, now; doubly so because I'd thought of that excuse and discarded it for similar reasons.

Have a large welcoming cake (empty of Agent Lux, I checked.)