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I don't recognize it. I would laugh at it if I hadn't read the tvtropes page first.

a site to be able to view the material.

http://chr.nerdramblingz.com/?pageid=8

This is a link to Christian Humber Reloaded, one of the worst badfics in recent history (on par with My Immortal and Light and Dark: The Adventures of Dark Yagami). With a Gary Stu who's overpowered to the point that he could take on the Eye of Terror (twice), side characters who are no more than expendable cannon fooder for both sides; and absolutely no concern for canon at all, this is a monument to badfic history. Read it, if only for the unintended hilarity.

<a href="http://chr.nerdramblingz.com/?pageid=11">http://chr.nerdramblingz.com/?page_id=11

This 'autopsy' of said fic, created to salve the headaches of those who read it, should also help. And before I forget, there's also a webcomic, which I am linking here:

http://chr.nerdramblingz.com/?p=19

Enjoy! Or not, depending on your perferences.

A couple of funny satirical pieces about fanfiction that I found on deviantART:

http://madhatter91.deviantart.com/art/Fanfiction-Necessities-143943660

http://madhatter91.deviantart.com/art/The-10-Commandments-of-Fanfics-144556714

Yeah, rather late here. I'd been away from the boards when this was first posted due to certain difficulties that have left me with an extensive degree of paranoia, although I've gotten back in the habit of trusting my anti-virus systems to not be lying to me.

Have a dose of paranoia: there is currently a virus that will close open instances of task manager and the command prompt that can apparently delete the registry entry for safe mode.

Welcome back! ...Think I remember you, in a vague sort of way. Probably.

...bad with names. That's my excuse.

Anyway, have a towel and some bleepka! (The good stuff, made from gen-yoo-wine bleeprin and... well, it's best not to contemplate what else went into it, honestly.)

I don't think it's possible for me to have seen you on the boards- I started lurking only this summer, and made meself known only recently- but, hey, is that a reason not to chuck a present at you?

*chucks*

That would be a softnose laser, perfect for getting bit character Sues in the heart. Or gut. Or any other organ, for that matter. Hehehe. ;)

Hello, I don't believe we've met!

Ah, we have a way around the problem of deletion half-way through a mission too. Quite a lot of us these days embrace the holy might of google documents; one can simply copy and paste the whole fic into a document, and delete it as it gets turned into mission. If memory serves, Trojie and I started doing this after claiming a fic which was deleted before we got chance to work on it. But it was an utterly horrible Teatime/Susan travesty, and not even our usual badslash, so that's probably a good thing.

Incidentally, I'm having fun going through the Claimed Badfic list. Apparently we claimed a Tales of Symphonia fic with Lee Trynace. I... don't even know what that is. Remind me to interrogate Trojie about that when she gets back from Oamaru.

Reading the DCUP annals won't take you long. I was even better at procrastinating on my writing back then than I am now. XD

*waves enthusiastically* Merry meet and all that Tolkienesque stuff.

Good idea with the googling, although I just tried it and it failed me in this case. I remember the fics in question getting deleted from fanfiction.net, so maybe that was the only place they were hosted.

(It wouldn't be the only time I lost fics, either. I started PPCing a really dire Harry Potter fic one time, and I was but a chapter or so in when the author got called out on plagiarism and vamoosed along with the story. XD)

(That was some seriously clumsy plagiarism, too. She'd basically copy-pasted huge chunks of a James/Lily fic and changed their names to that of Harry and her 'Sue, but in some places she'd forgotten even to do that. And the chapters which were actually her own work stood out like a sore thumb. "Hey Harry, we haven't talked about my necromancer powers and mystical destiny for a couple of chapters! Let's do that now.")

Thank you kindly! :D

...or, more likely, I'm going a bit senile in my old age. XD

(You're a showman with a flare? Oh my craps, that mental image is just awesome.)

Heck, that's the most popular part. When we were making the posters we even promoted it from the small print to the banner heading.

Fortunately, a lot of ship names get re-used over the years (See, for example, USS Washington), so pulling names of modern ships (either with notable names or a distinguished career) would be perfectly valid.

The time has come, so I am asking for it.
I have many example of my writing, most of them on the Halo Fan Fiction Wikia. Here is the story that's gotten me the most good reviews.

One of my agent would be Agent Jiashu. The name is that of a friend of mine, and I plan on having his agent character mirror him as he is in reality: sarcastic, witty, and naive.

The other is Agent Jake. He's a young Orbital Drop Shock Trooper, but is still able to offer good advice and skill to Jiashu, especially during combat scenarios. He's young and sarcastic, much like Jiashu, but has been through several grueling battles against the Covenant. As these two agents will be taking on super-soldiers and incredibly large and powerful alien warriors I think they need all the help they can get.

Both agents would be assassins in the Department of Mary Sues. It would also appear that they would be the first Agents in the Halo Division.

The first mission I would do would be on this fanfic. It involves at least one Sue and, at the very minimum, a heavily influenced Spartan. I'm fairly certain she's a Sue, too, although someone more experienced might want to help me figure it out.

If you have any questions, please ask.

You see, TFTD is set in 2047-sometime prior to 2066.

Maybe grabbing a sub name off the list would suffice, since that seems like the sort of thing that might vanish during the First Alien War or the resource struggles afterwards.

US attack submarines come in three classes - the old workhorse Los Angeles class, the aborted Seawolf class, and the new Virginia class. The LA boats are named after cities (there's a lot of them, list here), the three commissioned Seawolves have no naming system (Seawolf, Connecticut, and Jimmy Carter), and the Virginias are named after states (list here), so depending on what you want, any name not on the above lists would work.

From a broader historical perspective, most attack subs before the LA class were named after fish, a tradition that stretches back to before world war two. When the LAs were comissioned, submarine tactics had changed to the point where they were considered important combat ships, and thus given names of cities (equivalent to traditional cruiser names), and now, they've taken over the traditionally battleship-only state names. So, depending on how old you want your boat to be, you could call her Seattle, Salem, Worcester, or Cleveland for an LA boat, Washington, Delaware, Oregon, or Arizona for a Virginia. Just note that with the Virginias, the Ohio-class ballistic missile subs were also named for states, so you'll want to check against the list. (Older ballistic missile subs were named for historical figures, so no need to worry about them.) For an older boat, it quickly gets hard to pick an unused name - there were a lot of WW2 subs.

Any takers?

People used to use fanfiction.net before the Original Series got kicked off. Nowadays, most people either build their own site with Freewebs or some other free webhosting service, or they use LiveJournal. The latter can publish to the PPC LJ group, which is here: http://community.livejournal.com/the_ppc/

Other than that, I guess you'd have to ask someone to host your stuff for you.

~Neshomeh

You see, I'm trying to write a TFTD fanfic, but am being stalled by my permanent and total inability to come up with names. In addition to names for characters, I'd also like a plausible-sounding US name for an attack submarine that is not already in use.

I was actually concentrating on the fact that Morgoth has a tea room.