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As soon as I'm sober, or as soon as Trojie's back from Auckland, whichever is first, we'll put together a post for the lj comm with links to all our missions. Is there a tagging system in place there?

Not our fault you crazy Americans use a comma instead of a period.

Ah. The SuePer powers. Yes. That was actually spawned from a review on one of my contributions to "The Mary Sue Experiments," which said that I had become the Self-Aware Mary-Sue. Yeah, when I was first thinking up my character, I wondered, "How would her powers work if they dissapeared every time someone noticed them?" And, that led to her noticing them and having them go poof as well.
On the "Q-or-a-Q-like-entity" angle... I was originally planning to do another MSE in the Star Trek continuum, but it never exactly took off, due to other circumstances. I'll try to fix 'er up when I start doing missions.
Oh, and thanks for that comment on Sidhe. Yeah, the eye-color was a bit unnecessary, wasn't it? He is going to be the most well-balanced, most exasperated half of the team...for the moment.
-Honu_Wahine

Welcome to the dedicated crazy! Help yourself to a venomous arthropod of your choice.

Yeah, I'm not a big fan of swearing either, in speech or in typing.

Eh. *I* think it's epic. Whether anyone else does is up to them. He keeps forgetting a hell of a lot of commas, but overall, the story's still really awesome. It took me about a month and half of trawling the load of crap in the Harry Potter archive on ff.net to find it... To steal someone's signature on DevArt-- "Finding a good fic is like looking for change in a sewer. You know it's there, but you have to go through a lot of crap to find it."
It doesn't have to have an article. It was just a random suggestion brought on by the anti-biotics. There's a nasty bug going around my hometown(so many kids are sick that the doctor told me to stay home unless I got bad cramps), and I've been taking a ton of drugs...
Meh. I'm whining, someone shoot me.
-Honu_Wahine

[cross-posted to theppc]

Okay, people, might I make a request? We have two livejournal communities (<a href="http://community.livejournal.com/theppc/">theppc and <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/ppchq/">ppchq) that exist soley for us, to share news and missions and whatnot, in a very simple and efficient manner.

Might I suggest that we actually start to use it?

I have no problem with all PPCers who have LiveJournals friending each other, but it drives me crazy to have filtered friends pages that are full of non-PPC-related posts concerning anything else that's happening in your lives - because, no offense meant, I don't know all of you that well, and I don't have time to sift through post after post looking for missions. A community would be a thousand times easier - that's why they exist.

I realise a lot of people (myself included) want to post missions on their own journals; fine, no worries. But how about making cross-posts to the PPC community(/ies) for missions and the like so that we actually do have a useable alert system for any new missions? It's really not that much extra work.

Besides, both <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/theppc/">theppc and <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/ppchq/">ppc_hq are looking kind of empty. Lonely, even; there are very few updates. Why don't we give them some life back? I'm going to start by making a master post for all my existing missions, so that there's some place other than my directory and our Wiki from which they can be found.

It would be very much appreciated if the rest of you could do the same, at least for all new missions.



(Also, on a more random note, why are there two different communities?)

I think I watched that show up through the Lost Galaxy season, which I still remember as having the best plot out of all of them. A lot of people teased me for watching it, including my MOM once! However, I was able to look past the fairly dorky special effects to the much better scripts and acting.

Also, Bulk and Skull are just the most perfect names for bullies ever.

Welcome to the madness, have a strangely sparkly sultana that was found lurking under a keyboard. Maybe it has some Sue repelling properties?

Sounds like what I'll be doing when I ask permission. I haven't written any fanfiction in YEARS so what I still have is kind of...yeah, not so good!

That should read...

Have an INTERESTING shaped lump of dust I found under the desk.

That should teach me not to type while trying to clean up my desk (at least I think there is a desk under here...)

Have a intresting shaped lump of dust I found under the desk.

Generally we only make wiki articles for goodfics so legendary that most everyone knows about and has already read them - the kind that come up in discussions or are referenced in puns or missions and which some people might need a wiki article or link to explain. After all, there's pleanty of goodfic around, and we can't make articles for all of them.

That said, it sounds interesting. When I have a week free, I'll take a look ;)

Okay, that's helpful, especially the names, but now I'll warn you not to go too far in the other direction - don't make Sam too speshul or powerful, or you will be denied Permission; if I'm reading this right and her Sue powers sputter out of existence the moment anyone notices (perhaps including Sam herself?), then that would be an interesting and potentially hillarious trait to write into your missions. If not, you'll need to change it - the Flowers don't allow any of their agents to have SuperSue powers.

Also, the ability to manipulate plotholes, time travelling, and being noticed by Q-or-a-Q-like-entity are all marks of that same 'speshulness' that tends to be the most common reason to deny Permission. You want her to be an ex-Sue, not a Sue Agent.

Sidhe, on the other hand, sounds like an excellent agent - not too crazy, not too sane, not too unusual. My only comment there would be that "green w/ gold flecks" is faintly Sue-ish description detail that we don't need.

That said, good luck :)

It's never nice to leave a Potential Mortal Enemy seething at an insult ;) Even if she was just trying to be polite herself, it show more maturity on her part than I would have expected. Ah, well. At least you had fun with your friends. :)

Hi there.

Yeah don't worry about the weirdness. I'm not used to it either. >.>

The only language I know apart from English is one I made up. And even then I somehow don't know all of it! DX

I think the early disagreements on the team started with Lost Galaxy The MMPR team were all friends before they were selected, and the replacements were generally accepted pretty quickly and easily. (In the show at least. Let's not get into the Kat vs Kimberly thing.) Then again, before Lost Galaxy the most team members replaced at once was four, and it tended to be the powers that changed rather than the team members.

As for the fic... it seems to be an SPD fic. Using a non-canon A-D squads. And all the rangers seem to be siblings or offspring of canonical Rangers, from MMPR to OO.

Okay, so it's just a tad AU. But the premise is good, and the writing is awesome. And, *egads*! There's a plot!
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2636963/1/HarryPotterandtheNightmaresofFuturesPast
Harry Potter and the Nightmares of Futures Past is a 38 chapter, 371,189 word re-write of the entire Harry Potter series. The turn-off point for the story is that the Golden Trio, instead of going to Godric's Hollow for a Hrocrux/information, they go somewhere else. Then Voldemort...*SPOILER ALERT* massacres every living being in Hogwarts, in an event known as the Hogwarts Massacre. Anyways, the war drags on for another ten or twenty years, until Harry the elder comes up with a spell to send his soul/memory/magic back in time, so that he can fix things, and make everything right this time around.
It's definitely worth the week or so of reading it'll take to get through all of it. Think there could be an article in the making for it?
-HonuWahine

The most I saw of power rangers was when it was before a show I wanted to watch so I'd have to watch the last 2-3 minutes while waiting for animanics or the angry beavers (awesome shows, by the way).

But the fans got really obsessive. I had to buy a birthday gift for my cousin and I thought 'ah-ha! Power rangers!'. I still have the scar where a kid bit me to get the red action figure.

It helps if they're in the context of the canon. I can actually see a reconciliation between Harry and Petunia, but it would take some doing. It would be interesting and I've seen it done very well, but not instant bonding. -sigh-

You missed very little by not reading the first except possibly the opportunity to drink rather too much bleepka. I read through chapter 7 and needed rather a lot. And I don't drink.

Ooh, that's a good description of it. Marshmallows. I'll have to remember that. It sounds like a fairly decent charge as well. 'Turning the story into a marshmallow.'

I too like to write happy endings, and I like to read them. But there's a difference between happy and gag-inducing.

--anamia

Hello and welcome to the PPC message board! Have some chocolate and enjoy your stay!

And don't feel bad about not knowing Klingon; I don't know much of it myself, or any other language other than English for that matter, only bits and pieces. I don't have the memory, patience, or attention span to learn another language...

No, she didn't throw a fit. She thanked me for my positive advice and said that no one had done it constructively before. That actually makes me wonder if she really understood what I was saying. Because nothing I said about her story was positive. At all. Tactful, yes. Polite, of course. But positive? No. What I said, and I quote, is: "Concerning Guardian: I've started reading it. I don't know what you're looking for in terms of comments from me, but I'll tell you right away that it's not looking likely that I'll finish. No offense meant, but it's not the kind of story I like. You've written Harry into a fairly catastrophic Mary Sue, and I can't see a good way to fix that without drastically and completely changing the entire story around. It could be done, but I'm not sure either of us have the time it would take to give it such a complete makeover. I know that I, unfortunately, don't."

This to me does not sound especially positive. It's a rejection letter, or so I thought...

Of course, I did go on to give her tips as to how to improve her writing, so maybe that's what she meant. But teaching someone about the uses of punctuation within quotation marks is hardly positive. (Apparently no one else has mentioned the lack. That makes me wince. Something like, "Where in the name of all that's holy are we" Harry asked, should not be ignored. -sigh-) And then I taught her my slash writing techniques, since she'd asked for them.

Oh well. I'll probably keep corresponding with her since it's the polite thing to do, but I'm not going to bother reading any of her stuff anymore. Though, I suppose I should be grateful, since her fic has been very entertaining. It gave my WriYe friends and I endless entertainment as we ripped it to shreds yesterday. -grins-

--anamia

I can give background on the basic idea of power rangers and more specific detail about a couple of the seasons.

Bronwyn, you're basically correct. -grins- At the beginning of every season there is the Evil Bad Guy Alien Person Thing who wants to take over the world. Good Guy Mentor Person selects a group of teenagers, sometimes based on their abilities and sometimes by accident and turns them into power rangers. Sometimes the new rangers have issues morphing their first time (forgetting words, somehow not magically knowing the gesture they need, etc.) but it always goes away after the first time. After that they never forget again. Once the team has formed, one of the first things they do is acquire zords, which are robots that they can ride and in which they fight. The shape of the zord depends on the theme of the team. (So, the Dino Thunder rangers have dinosaur zords, and the SPD team has police vehicles and so on). The zords are either given to them or freed from the forces of the Evil Bad Guy Alien Person. These zords can combine to form megazords, which the rangers use to fight aliens whom they've already defeated but which have been resurrected and blown up to GOdzilla-like proportions by the Evil Bad Guy Alien Person or his/her minions.

Basically, the theme of the shows are always the power of teamwork and perseverance. Traditionally the teams don't get along too well at first, but then bond as they realize that they can't survive without each other. It's all very sticky sweet and filled with in your face morals. As the show increases they all get power boosts until, by the end, they've become ridiculously strong. Of course, so has the enemy, so they still lose as often as they did before.

About getting their butts kicked: the best way to tell that they'll defeat the monster this episode is if they lose spectacularly to it early on. Sure sign that they will prevail. On the other hand, if they seem to be doing well, chances are it will be whisked away and saved for another episode, where it'll be stronger or some such thing.

Red is always a guy and always the leader, yes. Pink and yellow tend to be girls, and in Ninja Storm the sky blue ranger (just called blue in the show) is a girl.

Can't think of anything else, especially not having read the fic. What season of power rangers is it for, anyway?

Sorry for the essay. I like to be thorough and I get carried away at times.

--anamia

Okay, thanks Sedri.
My primary agent goes by "hey you," or "Sam," depending on how much trouble she's in, or how urgent the situation is.
Her SuePer powers are everything that a 'sue has in spades, as long as no one points out what she's doing. She runs experiments when she's not doing missions(often on her partner as well), to see if "Major Dad" was right, and you *can* actually get sloshed on soda pop.
Sam spent two years learning to manipulate plotholes(although it hasn't exactly worked out very well), after the 'fic she was in dumped her there for a vacation. She had just returned from a time-travel joyride with nine or ten other authors to 1943, and had just been debriefed by the CIA. Q, or someone pretending to be Q, dumped her in said plothole. What little sanity she had after spending time in close quarters with the cast of Hogan's Heroes quickly dissapeared after her two-year plothole exile.
My secondary agent:

Agent Sidhe
Species: Elf, a la Dragon Age
Age: On a technicality, still Jailbait(17).
Height: 5'5" Weight: 118 lbs
Hair: black, shoulder length braid
Eyes: green w/ gold flecks
Department: Department of Floaters
Division: none
Previous partner: none
Partner: SAMS(aka Sam)[adendum to first post, Sams's partner is Sidhe]
Weapon(s): saxe and a short knife; rapier; Mongolian recurved composite bow
Response Center: 1943
Fandoms: Dragon Age, Hogan's Heroes, Star Trek, X-Men, Warcraft and LOTR
Quirks/Other annoying habits:
Sidhe is a fairly well-balanced and grounded individual(at least when compared to his partner). He has a fondness for orange drinks, particularly orange juice. He lusts after elves, both male and female, and takes particular/personal offense when an author screws with said elves. When he isn't on missions, doing target practice, or assissting Sam with various bits of theft or other illegal activities, he is often found reading an original copy of "Le Morte D'Arthur" or the "Legacy of Aldenata" series by John Ringo. He finds human failures extremely hillarious, and likes to mock authors of badfic at every opportunity. When he's not doing one of the those activities, he's being used in the sodapop-can-get-you-sloshed experiment with Sam.

-Honu_Wahine

Eh... that's going to be a doozy. If I didn't have a mission already and very, very simplistic grasp of canon, I'd have done it.

But here is my basic understanding of canon:
the guys in colors fight the ugly monster dudes and always get their butt kicked until the last five minutes of the show, which is when the power rangers team up and pummel the monster thing.

Oh, and the red guy is the leader, but pink and yellow are girls. I think.