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I am truly honoured! I shall treat my zombie minions with the love they deserve. Helping to take over the world sounds fun! I did have a plan involving evil penguins once, but that went slightly pear-shaped... If anyone asks, Iceland never existed in the first place =D

...in fact, I may just 'forget' to take it back if I ever leave.

Wow, laser and sword! I am much obliged to you :D *Attempts to lift Martin's sword and fails miserably* Ah, doesn't look like there's much chance of me causing any damage. Yet.

*applause applause*

I'd say that the 'crossover' episode between DS9 and TOS shouldn't be ignored.


Also! Join the chatroom if you can spare some time. :D?

Because you like zombies, I offer you the position as a Captain in the Army of the Undead Zombies. Accept and you can help conquer the world (starting with Iceland). :D

Congratulations on getting your internet connection back.

I can help with Voyager, and most of The Next Generation, as well as provide a hand at beta-reading if you'd like. I'm not so good at movie-verse TNG stuff after Insurrection, though.

Hi Nesh :)

Unfortunately I am not 'back' in any useful sense of the word, and probably won't be for another week thanks to my lack of computer access, but I can help you with Trekkie-ness once I am; I own everything except the 60s Kirk series on DVD and have a pretty good memory for details. Otherwise, I suggest you go to Memory Alpha - most episodes are described in excruciating detail over there.

:)

Welcome to the insanity! Shortly you may see somebody with a bucket labeled "Warg Fodder" that asks you deposit your sanity there. Do so. It is the best place for your sanity during your stay here.

As long as I have your attention, have a softnose laser and a DeSued Martin Sword Carbon Copy (DMSCC, not to be confused with the Department of Mary Sues,). Please don't blast/chop off your or someone else's head, as we are short on Agents at the moment.

Thank you, and watch out for the plotholes.
XD

*Is poked* Ooh, thanks. I'll stick that on my bumper as soon as I have one!

Nice to meet you too =D Pebbles shall be useful indeed! Thank you!

No reason to needlessly complicate things (unless it would be funny). Most of the time, the canon reverts back to normal when the Sue is dead.

~Neshomeh, who has not seen Avatar yet.

*poke*

Welcome! Have a bumper sticker! It says "My Agent sporked your Mary-Sue." Enjoy. {= )

~Neshomeh

Not that I was completely gone, but still. We have our internet back! Yay!

This means, Pads, that I AM now going to be poking you regularly until that beta-reading gets done. *pokepokepoke*

Also, I am working on an interlude that involves Nume forcing Ilraen to sit through ridiculous amounts of the Star Trek original series (and some Voyager, and possibly some Next Gen), so if there are any experts who know what things happen in which episodes and could point out some that deserve comment, I'd appreciate it. I know the first season of Voyager fairly well, but that's only because I have it on disc. The same does not apply for the others, of which I have only seen bits and pieces at random.

This is what I get for having a Trekkie character without being one myself.

~Neshomeh

Hello there. Lovely to meetcha, and welcome to the PPC. I approve muchly of your fandoms, though I only know LOTR and Redwall to any coherent degree.

Here, have a welcome gift. A bag of pebbles and a Random Shiny Object. May they be very useful.

Sorry, Trojie--didn't mean to step on your toes! You posted while I was writing mine.

But yeah, I did pick up on those technical issues too. A beta should clear them up, though. I also recommend reading your writing aloud to yourself. Yes, it's weird. Yes, you'll feel silly. But you will also notice any misplaced punctuation and any phrases that just generally sound weird.

~Neshomeh

I really enjoyed your writing sample. I was hooked from the first paragraph, which doesn't happen very often. I wanted to find out what was going on... but then, the entire point was that some things have and need no explanation. Very clever. *g* There are several small errors throughout--misplaced commas, typos, a few awkward phrases--but nothing that can't be overcome.

The green-eyed woman reminds me of my character, Jenni, before she settled down in her own original continuum. The description matches, and she was always hopping in and out of worlds like that. *g*

So, go, join the ranks of the proud, the few, the Bad Slashers. Good luck!

~Neshomeh

Thank you! And, thanks for pointing that out *Kicks self* That's especially annoying, as apostrophes in the wrong places are normally something I hate too. Wasn't thinking (as usual), haha!

Always wanted one of these so I could pretend to be a pirate!

Having skimmed your agent bios - you say Sarah used to be in DTE and 'speaks perfectly', well, um, your commas are all over the place and I picked up a couple of spelling mistakes.

I'll read it through properly later (I'm just about to go to a meeting) but it looks promising, other than the technical issues which of course can be fixed with a nice, thorough beta job :)

- Trojie, flexing her new PG muscles

Welcome! Delighted to have you! Please accept this gift of a sparkly rock.

Sorry to bring this up, but if I don't someone else will. In your post, you said, "(Not that there's much of a fandom for it or it's sequels)." That should be for it or its sequels, as it's a posessive, not a contraction. Again, sorry. That's just one of my pet peeves.

Still, nitpicking aside, welcome! Hope you have a long and happy stay with us.

--anamia

p.s. Off your trolley is completely fine. In fact, it's basically nornal, if anything can be said to be normal. -grins-

*poke*

May I ask what you found to hate about Serenity? I mean, I know it's not what anyone had in mind for the end of the show, but I though it did its job pretty well.

Another McCaffrey fan, eh? Cool. I think I've read about 90-95% of her work, myself. My favorites are Pern and the Freedom series, followed by Petaybee (though not the newest ones about the kids, which I haven't read) and the Talents series, especially the earlier books. I really don't like Acorna. It was all right at first, but the series went downhill after McCaffrey switched co-authors. Acorna turned into a huge canon Sue. Also not a huge fan of the Crystal Singer series. Way, WAY too much time spent on the booze sub-plot.

What are your feelings about Todd's work? I liked Dragon's Kin, but I thought Dragonsblood sucked awfully, and I haven't gotten up the courage to try the other ones.

I believe I have the only Pernese agent in the PPC, so I will take this opportunity to shamelessly plug the stories in which he appears:

DIC RC #999, Mission 3: Harry Potter and the Dragonriders of Pern, in which he is recruited.

FicPsych: Gestalt Therapy, in which lots of important things happen, many of which include him.

Coming soon is his first actual mission as an agent, which will appear at DMS RC #1110 as soon as it's out of beta. That's also where you'll find his profile (which is also on the Wiki).

If you're interested in good Pern fic, I'd recommend Astrokath's work. I don't blame you for being cautious, though. There is an awful lot of tripe in the fandom. {= P

I also agree that it's pretty much impossible to write decent House episode!fic unless you actually have some kind of degree in medicine. I consider myself fairly well educated about that sort of thing--always got As in Bio, Anatomy & Physiology, and even Epidemiology--but even knowing the liberties taken by the show, I still wouldn't attempt it. ... I tried role-playing as House once, and even though it was a crack crossover RP, I was still biting my nails and feeling woefully under-prepared despite doing research the whole time. {= P So, yeah.

Anyway! Welcome to the Board! ^_^

~Neshomeh

First random gift!

Hiya, it's another newbie!

I found the PPC through some aimless web surfing and subsequently laughed my way through the original series and a few other missions, then found the wiki. It seemed right up my street - after all, who wouldn't love the chance to use as much violence as they like in disposing of a Sue? Mwahaha... So, I thought I'd introduce myself, and maybe be able to write a mission or two of my own one day (that is, if I can whip any of the characters hiding in my brain into shape!)

I'm into rather a lot of fandoms, but the ones I'm most obsessed with at the moment are LotR, Doctor Who, Larklight by Philip Reeve (Not that there's much of a fandom for it or it's sequels), and the Bartimaeus Trilogy, which is pretty much made of awesome. Oh, and Redwall :D

I also like zombies rather a lot. And living history. Not usually together, but that would be interesting! You may have noticed I'm a little off my trolley, but that seems to be fine here!

Well, that was a long intro. Apologies =D

I, anamia, do hereby officially request permission to join the PPC. I vow to uphold canon and to destroy badfic, to abhore Mary Sues and to apreciate good writing. I promise to do the Duty to the best of my ability and not be swayed by foolish prejudices. I understand that, in joining the PPC I have sworn away my sanity, social life, and future career, and do willingly give these things up. I swear to be as good an agent as I find it within my power to be, and I wish to join the ranks of those who fight tirelessly against badfic in order to make canon a safer place.
So I speak, so I intend,
--anamia

Agents
Agent Sarah Vym
Age: 22
Species: Human
Gender: female
Partner: Agent Elaina Thyme
Home Continuum: Real World
Department: Department of Bad Slash, Harry Potter division
Fandom(s): Harry Potter, Earth’s Children, Twilight (emergencies only)
Lust Object(s): Draco Malfoy
Appearance: Of medium height and more than average weight. She has brown hair reaching halfway down her back which gets unbearably bushy and puffy in times of humidity or when it’s in a bad temper and which she hates. She has brown eyes and wears glasses. Sarah’s clothes are loose-fitting, and she carries a black shoulderbag with her on missions that contains the mission essentials, as well as ibuprofen, bleeprin, her iPod, and reading material. She has also been known to carry at various times rolls of duct tape in various outlandish colors including plaid, hot pink, and, at least once wilver. Please don’t ask about that. She tends to get testy when questions about her duct tape preferences. She also always has at least one matchbox on her person, though she does not smoke and is forbidden from lighting candles inside HQ (and outside of HQ, for that matter).
Personality: Sarah is short tempered and has few qualms in showing this to those she knows. Around strangers she tends to be reserved and taciturn, leading to the common assumption that she is incapable of experiencing emotions. She was, at one point, dragged into FicPsych to examine this, but her feelings for her Lust Object, Draco Malfoy, made it clear that she did indeed have most of the same emotions as others. The only one she still has trouble with is regret, and the SO has kept her out of the DMS because he fears that she might kill a cannon character who pissed her off.
However, as though to counter this public lack of emotional exuberance, Sarah is also a self-proclaimed fangirl and has very few problems admitting this. While at first this caused problems between Sarah and her partner, they have since worked this out, and Elaina has learned to tolerate Sarah’s tendency to ramble on about how adorable Draco Malfoy looks with any number of other men and boys. Her saving grace is that her fics are generally judged to be of decent quality, and are thus left alone.
Sarah is a grammar nazi and will correct everyone else’s grammar obsessively, much to their annoyance. She herself speaks perfectly, and she is well aware of this. She started her career at PPC in the Department of Technical Errors, before being transferred to DBS when she threatened to kill an author due to exceedingly poor grasp of the English language. She swears often and loudly, usually by invoking the name of various deities, whether real, fictional, or of her own creation.

Agent Elaina Thyme
Age: 23
Species: Human
Gender: female
Partner: Agent Sarah Vym
Home Continuum: Real World
Department: Department of Bad Slash, Harry Potter division
Fandom(s): Harry Potter, Gundam Wing, Yugioh,
Lust Object(s): Sirius Black, Seto Kaiba
Appearance: Elaina is short and curvy, with black hair which she keeps in braids and dark brown skin. Her eyes too are black. She likes to wear eccentric jewelry, which she removes on missions, and has her ears pierced several times. She carries a backpack with her on missions containing her exorcism supplies, a stiletto just in case, reading material, bleeprin and bleepka, and any gadgets she needs. She also has possession of the Remote Activator, since Sarah tends to be absent minded and forget it places, which is bad.
Personality: Elaina is more balanced then her partner, and presents basically the same personality to everyone she meets: confident almost to the point of being cocky, friendly, and rather snarky when she’s annoyed. She has never been dragged down to FicPsych, much to her delight, and lacks the homicidal urges that characterize many of the other PPC agents, including her partner. She carries her stiletto just in case, but has never yet had to actually use it.
Elaina, as the more levelheaded of the pair, is most often loaned out to other departments, usually the Department of Implausible Crossovers. She would much rather work in DBS, as she prefers exorcisms to neuralyzing, but will, of course, do what she is asked to do. After all, Elaina does want to keep her job. She was rather traumatized when her previous Partner, Agent Daphne Flamewright defected from PPC to stay in a Harry Potter fic and become Lucius Malfoy’s sex toy. Daphne was later removed by force from the fic and sent to be an inpatient at FicPsych, but Elaina is still fairly scarred by the whole thing, and is mistrustful of any new partner. She and Sarah clashed originally, but have since learned to get along and even respect each others’ skills.
Elaina has an obsession with blood, especially her own, and the extend of this fascination can scare even her. Her method of coping with badfic is to bite into herself until she bleeds, a habit which disgusts and disturbs her partner. Elaina is starting to get concerned about this, but has decided that, really, it’s no worse than the obsession some of her fellow agents have with bleeprin-derived products and probably healthier as well. She’s also a masochist, actually preferring the more disgusting, appalling fics. Sarah is of the opinion that she is utterly, completely insane, and Elaina has to agree. Still, it does not seem to have hurt her too much thus far.

Writing sample
Justification

I missed the last one, and I'll have to miss this one too. -sigh- I will try my very, absolute hardest to make it to next week's, though. -nods earnestly- Really!

--anamia

Welcome! I offer you a sparkly rock. I hope your time here is long and enjoyable.

--anamia