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I'm just a new user that found the Protectors of the Plot Continuum through the TVtropes wiki, read a number of stories, and really found the concept of dealing horrible pain to poorly written fanfiction characters entertaining. Probably not bad practice for someone hoping to get into writing again after a relatively long time out of it. I've read The Original Series, the Board Constitution, a good portion of Laburnum's work, some of the wiki, and the works of a few other PPCers. I'm currently working through IndeMaat and the Pads/Trojie works where I can find them. Is there anything recommended or mandated that I should aim for next?

As for continuum I'm familiar with: Redwall, the Vorkosigan Saga, Discworld, the Pokemon Special manga and the games, Kino's Journey, Wolf's Rain, Soul Eater, Ghost In the Shell, and a few others. There are some Star Wars and Star Trek fics out there deserving of a good spork or six, although canon is a bit loose there. I've read the LotR trilogy and a couple surrounding books, but never managed to get through the Silmarillion, so I probably am missing a lot of jokes on that.

Very happy to meet you all, and good luck with everything.

Pretty good, though I don't know the canon.

Are the font changes deliberate? It's a bit... jarring for the font to change from one paragraph to the next.

As for the cuts... are you posting using the rich text editor? That's the usual culprit for effing up a cut in such a way. I don't know how to fix it if you are, besides going into the HTML editor and completely stripping all coding and manually coding everything.

Nicely done; you worked in that bit about Sam's Sueish traits vanishing upon notice quite well, if a bit subtely.

There's one thing I must mention, and which you were probably unaware of (I really must finish that Newbie FAQ soon): canon characters will always remain under the Sue's influence until she is dead, and you had Hogan walk off without trying to help her. It's not too big a deal this time since the author apparently didn't write him as liking her very much, aside from going a bit parental, but next time be aware that one of the main problems for most agents is making the kill covertly, or restraining the canon characters until the Sue is dead.

Other than that, not bad. Congratulations on your first mission.

It is very nice even though I had no clue there was a 'Hogan's Heroes' thing but I like. And the Sue was bad. But the ice pick was a nice touch.

I've completed my first mission in the PPC, and my agents are already developing issues. Ah well.
http://agentsams.livejournal.com/
That's the link to my livejournal for the PPC. Um, there was an issue with the cuts in my journal, and there are three that go to the mission. If anyone knows how to get rid of them, could you let me know, please?
-Honu_Wahine

Eeeeeee! A mini-me! Heheh. Sorry 'bout that. My name's got an underscore in it though.
My first thought on coming out of Avatar(in real 3D, no less) was "Quarritch got shot!" And I even invented a dance to go with repeated chanting of the above quote. I got a lot of strange looks.
The best part of the movie was the fact that Cameron hired a team of linguists to make the Na'Vi language(rumor has it, there's a dictionary in the works)... I want to learn Na'vi now.
BtB, I started a second mission in this fandom, and the mini just happend to be an adorable little mini-Turok. It's so cute...!
Honu_Wahine

I mean, the special effects were gorgeous, but the plot was pretty cliched and predictable. And then there are the Unfortunate Implications, like that Jake is one hell of a Mighty Whitey. It wouldn't have been so bad if Jake hadn't been the one to ride the really badass lizard and unite the tribes and marry the chief's daughter, but as it is ...

I'm surprised that there hasn't been a long discussion about this -- I'll put it down to the fact that it's only been out a few weeks and everyone probably hasn't seen it yet.

I know Honu Wahine started an Avatar thread, but it got bumped off the page long ago, and I was so amazed by this movie that I decided to break my lurker-dom to see what your reactions were.

So, to whoever has seen it: What was your first thought, coming out of the theater? Did anyone see it in 3D?

And to those who didn't see it: Please do, on the big screen, in 3D if possible. Because it's that awesome. Comment on the trailer, if you will.

(Anticipated SPOILERS in comments.)

It's a fanfic with a hell of a lot of Sues, including Aragorn's daughters and Sauron's twin daughter and son. One Sue is named "Carinther" and another "Lutheniol," which makes me think she's ripping off The Silmarillion for names.

Here it is.

If no one has claimed it, I'm taking it. It's been to long since I did a mission.

Poor guys, swapping bodies can't be pleasant. I gotta draw that one some day ...

I liked it too. You're never a bad person just for liking something.

Unless it's Nazis, of course, but that's beside the point.

It would be silly for me not to, as you've repeatedly told me off for using 'being as'.

*hangs head*

I have no idea where it came from or what it means, it just ... gets used.

if this was a reality, and not a fiction-verse started by Jay and Acacia and upheld by a bunch of writers (that's us!) today.

The thing is, in order for there to be a PPC-wide disaster, even one started by an immense accident, someone has to write it. In order for one misplaced CAD or DORKS to happen, someone has to 1) write their agents into doing so, 2) write the events that follow, and 3) write the entire disaster, and resolution, start to finish.

Immense multiverse-wide canonical breakdowns happen because we make them happen. Not simply because they could, and, in a reality like this, probably would.

That said, someday it would be an awesome idea.

Don't really recall, though.

I remember one mission that mentioned that exorcisms are pretty much just improvised by the agents doing them. So I don't think it really matters what you do, as long as you have a source of canon and significant yelling.

There's an awesome exorcism scene in the book "The Monster Club", which I nicked one line for in an old mission. I should borrow some more of it.

My favourite bit in the exorcisms I've done was probably the bit where they stabbed Ferahgo and Klitch's Author-Wraith with the belltower from a Build Your Own Redwall Abbey :)

Knowing Timelord biology (or at least the fact that it's messed up) I'm not entirely sure of the Neuralyzer would even work on him. Then again, he'd probably understand the PPC and everything else, so he'd either pretend to not remember or just come to an agreement not to mention it again.

Heck, I can imagine that.
"Hey, Doctor, look at the-"
"Yes, the pretty lights. I know."

I've only used GDocs once before, so I didn't really remember how it worked.

I'm currently compiling everything I can find in order to make thie FAQ, and will be posting a draft for the article for comments and critique as soon as it's ready. Trojie's helping me, but I second Neshomeh - ANYTHING you guys think needs to be included in here, please mention it. Please. I was a newbie more than two years ago, and I've forgotten a lot of the questions I had then.

And no worries; I, at least, wasn't thinking about actually writing it. PPC is much more fun when people are doing proper missions, and if it takes more time off for its own emergencies then think of the poor fandoms! It's an interesting intellectual challenge, though.

--anamia

I'll paraphrase ;)