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And then we'll feed it to a troll just for lulz.

But marble is not that hard... you take a hammer and chisle to marble and marble loses. So really if you're armed with a BFB with the tip covered with aggregated diamond nanorods then you'd have a dead meyerpire.

And if it takes more then one shot (unlikely but plausible) to take them down get a modified automatic machine gun and enough of those BFB, along with lighter fluid and some matches... I'll have to test it out but it might just work.

They're not made of diamonds, silly, there's diamonds buried in the surface of their skin. Which is made of marble.

That last one is painful to look at. I'm going to assume it is a troll for the sake of my sanity.

Oh and don't forget the mirror and the wet cat. No one escapes the wet cat alive, not even a meyerpire, or 'diamonds'.

speaking of which why would diamonds need to feed on blood? and if they are made of diamonds why aren't they see-through? And if they are 'diamond' are they susceptible to aggregated diamond nanorods(an allotrope of carbon first synthesized in 2005)?

Lovely to see you around, hS! Merry Christmas and other winter holiday greetings, in case we don't see you again till after.

Sounds like fun, count me in! Just let me get my baseball bat and some mace just in case he tries anything funny.

We hear he is a stalkerish schiz-
O if ever a schizo there was!
If ever O ever a stalker there was
This sparkly jerk is one because....

In these cases, you need to look at how long it is since the fic was updated. If it's a year or more, it's probably safe to assume that the author has abandoned it and won't be coming back.

You can PPC an incomplete fic. In most cases those missions would also end up with a dead Sue.

I don't think there is a point in going back into a fic if the author continues it, unless they explicitly resurrect the Sue you killed and their story becomes a critique of your mission, like your mission was a critique of their story. That could get confusing.

So, yes to your last question/suggestion.

And you don't tell the author to stop, you give them pointers how to improve their story. PPC-ers don't actually police the fandom. So, unlike the police, we can't tell authors whether or not they can or cannot continue down the road they are traveling on.

An honour and squeeage... first time anyone's had that response to me. *flattered*

Did... did he just combine Sonic with Halo? Not to mention the fact that he spelled "Covenant" wrong.
This gives me rage of the powered armor variety!

Just by those basic descriptions I can tell these won't be fun.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5065499/1/ShadowGoGetHer

"Arriana, a vixen with a jean sweater that ends near her midriff and showing under her black tank top with matching baggy jeans and black sneakers with green highlights."

<a href="http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5386835/1/BehindtheScenes">http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5386835/1/BehindtheScenes

"This is a story in which it is behind the scenes of Sonic X. This contains Sonadow, SonBlur and SonBluradow. the last two you will learn about later Also contains incest."

<a href="http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5426944/1/HedgehogWarriorTheSpartanHedgehog">http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5426944/1/HedgehogWarriorTheSpartan_Hedgehog

"Somy the Hedgehog,the son of Sonic the Hedgehog, has to kill all the commmunists on the Cauvnent planet like his dad did to the Cauvnents before and make President Master Chief proud of him and avendge their deaths!"

Its plot was a bit too 'aliens are better than you', but, a.) it's essentially a film about Native Americans being kicked off their land, so of course they're going to be shown in a better light, and b.) the plot is secondary to this movie's true goal, which was essentially to create an inhabited moon from scratch and show it off. And in that respect, it succeeds.

We're off to whack a creepy schizophrenic stalker! the creepiest schizophrenic stalker of all! (bar few!) [to the tune of 'we're off to see the wizard']

SQUEE!!! *ahem* excuse my brief lapse of self-control there and let me go whack myself over the head a few times. Preferably with a nice thick volume of "Common Sense and where to find it: By Mr. Ed" s'cuse me for a minute here...

but really, oh. my. flying. spaghetti. monster. I just barely read the PPC gathering of York in 2008 and let me say its an honour.

But really Hello, and thank you for welcoming me to the board and the shiny object.

~Bryn

what do you do if the BadFic you're about to go into isn't finished? Do you tell the author to stop? And then if they don't stop say stop again?

Or do you just do the mission and then return to it if s/he/it continues the BadFic afterwards?

Or if you've killed the 'Sue do you just let it go once you've done the original mission and leave it at that.

just a minor confusion.

~Bryn

No, not even...
You know what? Let's go beat Edward Cullen with heavy objects and meep at him.

Welcome to the Board! *gleeful wave*

Have a bag of pebbles and a Random Shiny Object! Good for throwing at Sues or staring at.

Hope you have fun here! =D

(Don't mind me, I'm hyper.)

Have a pair of identical phones.

Interesting conversation. For myself, I can see your point, in that fanfic is a work of fiction coming from the ficcer's imagination, and in that sense, there should be no limit to it. If you want to create a new character and call her "Luna Lovegood", what's to stop you? That freedom is part of what's so awesome about writing.

However, even in the sphere of original fiction, there are restrictions on this freedom. Principally, the reader. A storyteller has to be able to pull the reader into the story. The reader has to feel that it's real, for the time that she is reading. That's hard to do if the reader can't suspend her sense of disbelief about the whole thing. That's why many readers of fanfic insist on things like characterization and setting consistent with canon. I hate to start reading a fanfic, expecting the characters and setting that I grew to love in the original, only to find a strange world populated with people I don't recognize. It breaks the spell. Of course, this doesn't bother everyone, any more than shoddy characterization and weak plotting bothers everyone who reads a book or watches a movie. But we don't lower our standards for them to the lowest common denominator.

But I have a question: You said you came here because you were "interested." Interested in what? You may cite opinion, but the violations Neshomeh cited are standard for the PPC. They were decided upon way back when the PPC started, and we, as a community, have decided to work by them. They are not merely her opinion, but all of ours. So my question is, have you come here because you are interested in the PPC as a community and story-universe, or have you come here because you are interested in criticizing our standards for fanfiction?

Hello again. {= )

As I was saying, a lot of the things I've said are kinda the general consensus hereabouts. You might want to have a look at the FAQ: For Other People on our Wiki. Its tone is often snarky, but that's because we're used to dealing with people who aren't good sports and we get a little impatient. Please forgive us. It does, however, thoroughly answer the questions we've encountered over the years.

As for WHY we have these opinions, let me try another analogy:

Many, many people have compared writing to giving birth, and one famous male author (whose name I cannot for the life of me come up with) said something to the effect that writing is the closest men can come to bearing a child. So, consider that an author's work is like their child; their characters are their children. Lots of authors are good enough to let other aspiring authors play with their children, because they know it's a good way for the aspiring authors to learn. That's fanfic.

Now, is it right for the fanfic writers to do anything they can think of to someone else's children just because they can? Is it right to ignore the way the child was brought up and to try to force them to become something else, whether it's right for them or not? I don't think so. Some authors don't think so, either--that's why they don't allow fanfic of their works. The ones that do are trusting us to play nicely with their children, and as an aspiring author myself, I respect that.

So, that's why I feel the way I do. It's a matter of respect for the original author, whose pure creative genius created the world they're graciously allowing us to play in. Their house, their rules; have fun, but don't break anything; and so forth.

~Neshomeh

So I'm safe from that rule. Mwahahahaha!