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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.

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 :)

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.

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 ;)

There'll be a draft up here for comments and alterations as soon as it's ready.

Let me add, though, that another major part of that article is going to be about Emergencies/Crises and how we've had quite enough of them already. A while ago - before any of you three joined, I believe - we had an influx of "OOO wouldn't this make a great emergency?" ideas and our Permission Givers had to put their collective foot down on the notion. Please remember, the PPC is about comedy and our neverending, possibly futile struggle to deal with badfic - not epic-scale dramas. Besides, the Narrative Laws of Comedy and the Ironic Over-Power have too much fun tormenting us with tedium ;p

I hope it's coherent :)

I've used plotholes both of the sink type and the tunnel type, i.e. the latter had an entrance and an exit. That exit, however, lead to somewhere else in the fic.

I can't imagine a Sue created plothole could lead to the PPC. That would require the Sue having prior knowledge of the PPC.

is pretty damn stupid. He'd fall for the neuralyzer trick. If he had been written in character he'd probably figure it out, but if he were written in character there probably wouldn't be any agents in the story in the first place.