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In the process of composing a tactful but firm note to the author telling her what I think of her masterpiece. It has to be tactful, since she seems to be highly sensitive. (She pulled the whole story down when someone criticized her dialogue. This to me seems irrational, since she clearly didn't edit much else, and if this is better dialogue, I'd hate to see the old version.)

Anyway, thanks for the advice. Pads, while I agree that it could possibly be done, I personally don't have the time to help her rescue the stupid thing, and it's certainly not a parody. If she wants rescuing, she can find someone else.

Oh, and yep, my prospective agents want to be in DBS. Currently working on profiles for them so that I'll have something to post when my month is up. Looking forward to working with you.

--anamia

You know, I had the same reaction. -grins- And I too shall leave it to someone else. I'm afraid Jack Hardness would be a bit too much for my poor gutter-brain to take and still be considered mildly functional. -sigh-

--anamia

Hi. I've got a small question to ask. I started writing my agent profile, for when I ask permission, and was wondering--What type of writing sample do I need to inclued? Can it be a short story about the Agent or the Agent's recruitment story, or anything completely unrelated to the PPC?
Heheh. Just wondering, cause I'm stuck at home with a mega bout of the flu and have nothing else to do.
-Honu_Wahine

I think others can add some, but the basics are:
- I believe the rule is only one OFU per fandom. But you could always ask the author(s) of that OFU if you can contribute or carry on.
- nope. We Protect the Plot Continuum. In original badfic, the badfic is the Plot Continuum.
- yes. Occasionally boarders put minis they've rescued from badfic up for adoption.
- according to the wiki: you comment here

BWAHAHAHA! Considering the character it is a mini of, my dirty mind finds it terribly funny. ^_^; Are you sure it wasn't a deliberate misspelling? It seems like the kind of thing badfic writers would do.

I should be terrified to adopt him, so someone else can have the pleasure honor.

~Neshomeh

I'll do my best to help, of course, though I have to say that I don't feel overly qualified, for exactly the same reason that I seconded the request in the first place.

Tortall's Raven Armory? Ooh! -looks at pretty daggers-

-sigh- Badfics hurt. I can never finish them, since they tend to make me whimper like a small child and/or want to commit homicide. Hence the reason I came here. -grins-

Thanks for the welcome!
--anamia

These have all been answered, but I think they're important for other newbies, anyway.

- Can someone start an OFU if one has already been made?
- Are we allowed to PPC original badfic?
- How can we adopt minis?
- How do we get our RC number added to the list?

(Sorry about this being so late...)
Welcome to the PPC! Here's a dagger set from the Raven Armory and a bottle of Bleeprin! (I hope that badfic didn't hurt too much to read. I can't bring myself to finish any of them at all. I just get to about the first or second chapter and my brain won't let me read any further.)

Yes, I know another one, short one this time: Tasmin and Emma save Jack from his uncanonical rock star daughter who may or may not have been a real person.

I've also found a mini-reaper in that fic. Anyone want to adopt: Captain Jack Hardness?

Yay, someone's fangirling one of my agents.

You'll probably be pleased to know that there is a story arc in the badfic that I have chosen to ignore completely. Things were bad enough without it.

In case you'd like to do some additional hair pulling: in this arc, Abby and McGee are married, but currently separated because McGee slept with another woman. One who looked like the Sue, or was Jeanne (Tony didn't want to do the undercover mission).

It IS a good idea if all of us here on the Board step up and collaborate. If I start a History of the PPC Page, will you guys help fill it in? Sometimes I get the feeling that most of us prefer to wait for Someone Else to do things. *points at Current Events page and, in fact, this very thread*

As for Crashing Down, it's hard to find because hS prefers to keep it that way until he's done with it. The last I heard he was almost done, but since his laptop died, who knows?

~Neshomeh

Neuralyzer - No, I don't think it would work in that instance. You'd probably have to take the character to FicPsych.

Suvian healing - You could play it either way, I think. There are no hard and fast rules about what the canon fixes when the Sue is gone. In some stories it's almost everything, in others it's less. I guess it depends on how severe you think the Suefluence is.

Severely - Um... I have no idea. But if it were, it might be interested to meet Severe the mini-Aragog. Also, Severelys sounds like a Suvian name if you shift the emphasis to the third E.

Deadpool - Based on the little I know, it would make sense for him to be aware of fanfic and the PPC. And I'm not sure that's a good thing for us. He's a bit scary. O.o

~Neshomeh

Which is not what my sentence meant at all, passive voice or no.

Blargh! Mer! Gflurgh! Cthulhu ftaghn Rlyeh etc. etc.

~Neshomeh, who is certain she missed some Elder Evil Apostrophes in there...

The Neuralysers. As I understand it, they require the character being neuralysed to actually see the little blinky-light, which is why sunglasses protect us from their effects, so how can one neuralyse a character who, in this version of canon, may or may not actually have EYES?
Suvian healing. Would a character who was badly wounded for purposes of hurt-comfort, then healed using completely wrong methods by a Sue, require proper treatment by Medical? Or would the Sue’s healing work? Would the wounds disappear when the canon snapped back into place? (She goes digging around in the bullet holes, arg arg arg…)
Severelys. In the badfic "Possessed" by Ascafennasiel, there is a line which goes “Pippin shrugged, staring at the severely.” If “severely” was a noun, do you agree that it would be a sort of spiky steel kitten? Wouldn’t “Shrike” be a good name for that kitten? And can I keep it? It’s cute.
Also, Zotz would like to know if Deadpool should be added to the list of characters who are aware of the PPC- since he’s aware he’s living in a comic, he should be able to tell if he’s in a fanfiction too, right? Not that I’ve ever seen a fic featuring him, but that might just be because I don’t read the right sort of fanfic…
And now the badfic.
The Day I Became Mew » reviews
Natasha makes a wish. Universe answers but in a most humorous way. Does Natasha have what it takes to be a Legendary? Who will she meet along the way? What trouble could she possibly get into? Original Character!

The author has another fic called “To Be A Ringwraith Or To Be a Queen”… that fic is mine. This one is a horrible self-insert Sue. At least she has relatively good spelling and grammar. Vaguely good spelling and grammar. And she isn’t just messing with Mew. Please, kill it, someone! Gaaaah!

...that I need to start watching NCIS again. Amazing show.

Poor Tony. I used to hate him when I first started watching the show, but he's grown on me a heck of a lot since then. ALSO KATE WHY? I didn't even recognise her as Kate. I had to blink at the name for ages to convince myself that this was not a random OC who'd been shoved into the office. And McGee seems to have been turned into a walking plot device. What did he ever do to deserve that?

And... you know what, if I point out everything that annoyed me about the badfic we'd be here all day. You've already done an excellent job of putting together a charge list. :]

...

WHY IS A TWO-YEAR-OLD READING DEEP SIX.

Okay, that was the last thing, I swear. But good lord, there is so much bad in this fic. And I'm only halfway through the mission as I post this comment.

In conclusion, I fangirl Tamsin's arsenic tangent.

Thanks! Here's a chocolate bar for helping. *hands over some chocolate*

~Xanthia B.

But no, it'd be "the man, being as he was a squirrel, frolicked". When they mean seeing as, because seeing as means since, dammit!

No idea what voice it is. Will have to ponder that. It's a weird one, grammatically.

Oh, yeah, about that crossover fic, apparently metmorphmagus!harry inherited half of hogwarts and the bank vaults of all 4 founders. And he already knows voldemort is called tom riddle

I've seen and heard being that, too.

What the hell is wrong with since or because, I ask you? Are these new expressions mutations of them, or are they just out of style?

... To reel back my ire and think about it calmly, I suppose there is a place for being as in some kind of metaphorical construct. "The man, being as a squirrel, frolicked merrily in the orchard." Or something. But I'm sure it could be done better even in that case. Is it passive voice? It sounds like passive voice; but I've always had trouble distinguishing it, so I'm not sure.

~Neshomeh

yeah, I wish there was a way to edit posts. It's 3,985

That's more than three and nine hundred eighty-five thousandths of a word.

Ooo, Nesh, darling, can I use that as a springboard for a discussion?

I keep seeing being as.

Does it make you want to eviscerate people, or is that just me?

Seen as is... grammatically horrible. Being as is... I can't even think through how it's meant to work. But is crops up everywhere. Why?

In that case I have this One Piece fanfic. 3.985 words and counting.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5593724/1/TheDarkestOcean