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Welcome. Here's a tall ship.

Pretty much all continua are under protection. Star Wars is a popular example, as are Stargate and other SF universes. Fantasy universes too (Pern, Valdemar, ASoIaF, WoT, SoT, Eragon... and yes even Twilight), as well as TV shows (House, CSI...) and even RPF (actorfic, bandslash, etc.).
I just joined and haven't asked for permission yet, but personally I'll be protecting Star Wars, Star Trek, Stargate Atlantis, Watchmen, some fantasy universes, House MD, Numb3rs and U2.

Er, sorry about that...Anyway, hi! Welcome to the Board. Please deposit your sanity in the provided receptacle. *holds out bucket marked "Warg fodder"* We don't tend to have much use for things like that here. Also, have some hugs and a thermos full of chai tea. Use them well!
How the Board works? It works like this. People post topics and other people reply to them. Eventually, old topics are pushed off the page to make room for new ones; for this reason, we tend to frown on making truckloads of new topics. That's how the Board literally works, but perhaps you were asking for an explanation of how the Boarders work? Well, most of us are completely insane. (See first paragraph.) We're usually very happy when there are newbies- you will likely be presented with lots and lots of virtual gifties. We natter on about a lot of random stuff and help each other with writing. It's fun!
List of continuums under protection...hurm. It would probably be easier to list all continuums not under protection, but I don't have a complete list of those either. What I do know is that, although Twit-lit, also known as Twilight, has lots and lots of Mary Sues and badfic written about it, I've never seen a PPC mission for it, except when it is crossed-over with another continuum. I can't speak for the rest of the Boarders, but I personally don't like said book. If you do, I won't hold it against you. (Ooh, that reminds me- Have a can of patent Sparklevamp repellent!)
Someone will probably come along and give you shiny links to things which will help explain more stuff to you, and they'll know how to use hyperlinks, so it will be prettier than if I just gave you links. Signing off...
-Mad Maudlin

Hi there, I'm kinda new here... y'know, in case the title didn't give that away... I've been reading the original PPC series, and might look into writing a few of my own, but... er...

...I'm sorry, could someone please explain how this board works? I was expecting a more traditional sort of forum '>_>

Also, is there a list anyway of all the 'continuums' under protection (ie LotR, Disc and Harry Potter being the obvious ones from the original PPC series, but what others?)

Just a minor nitpicky point, Sedri dear - it's TARDISes, because since when did we pluralise with apostrophes?

At least this one didn't have a talking blood-drinking sword or unintentionally make the hero sound like a paedophile ...

And since Slaanesh would just turn her into a minion, I think one of the C'tan should do the trick. After all, Life Force is a delicacy for them. What do you think?

Missions can contain as much swearing as you like. After all, you can rate them for language. Still often better not to do overdo it, mind.

That probably wasn't the ideal thing to start reading in the morning. Writing like that makes my inner grammar-stickler collapse motionless.

In the mission I'm working on, I've kept it to "hell," "damn," and...well, what would have been a Cluster F Bomb if it hadn't actually been a Cluster GD Bomb.  If anyone needs me to tone it down further, let me know.

Well, say that to my agent who absolutely wants a TARDIS...

I wonder if capitalization is always grammar, though. Sometimes caps or no caps can differentiate between two different things rather than just indicating the function of one thing. For example, Earth is not the same thing as earth. I'd call that a matter of spelling, because the first character marks each word as distinct from the other. On the other hand, the word "on" at the beginning of this sentence carries the same meaning with a lowercase "o," so the capitalization serves the strictly grammatical purpose of marking the first word of the sentence.

It may be different in different languages, too. I know that all nouns are always capitalized in German, so in that case it's definitely linked to grammar.

It's an interesting question.

~Neshomeh

Make sure she knows YOU didn't write it.

This kind of fic would probably make my English teacher succumb to the Bloodwrath. According to him, if you can't even use spell check or punctuation correctly, you don't deserve to be taken seriously as a writer. But I think the PPC has established that many, many times.

Make it go away! Ah! I know! I will send the link to my English teacher and see what she thinks of it. should be interesting.

I think it falls under grammar. But yes, indeed, you're right. :P

There are no capital letters in "legolas by laura."

^_~

~Neshomeh

I suspect that RCs continue to be favored because a) they are traditional, b) they make for better story points, and c) they can't make the agent pair seem overpowered.

The main differences between TARDIS and RC are that the TARDIS is mobile in space and time and much, much bigger on the inside than it looks from the outside. The RC, on the other hand, is fixed in time (though it's HQ time, which is rather flexible) and space--you can't take it into the fic with you and bop around in it like you can with a TARDIS. RCs are also notoriously tiny, though some are better-designed than others. It just depends.

The thing is--and I'm revealing my bias here--a TARDIS pretty much eliminates the need for some of the usual PPC tech, like a portal device, and it also means that the agents don't run around through the story on their own legs, whatever shape those legs happen to be at the time. In doing so, it also eliminates many possibilities for an interesting (and funny) mission. If the agents can just sit comfortably in their TARDIS and watch what's going on around them, what fun is that?

That said, no one is going to stop you from putting your agents in a TARDIS if you want to when you have Permission... but it will make me sad if you do.

~Neshomeh, stodgy old traditionalist.

The sentence structure (or lack thereof) of this fic reminds me of Legolas by Laura.

Kill. It.

http://www.fanfiction.net/r/3952344/

I was very polite. He doesn't sound unintelligent; just reluctant to learn from critique. {= P Oh well.

Anyway, I don't think it's been PPC'd. Have fun with the run-on sentences and the lack of punctuation in general.

~Neshomeh

Also, just for historical irony purposes, yesterday marked the 15th anniversary of the start of the Rwanda Genocide. Rather appropriate, really.

I sold one in the local sci-fi/fantasy con's art auction once. I have also made a rat creature (from the comic series "Bone") and a Balrog. Helen Wheels calls him "mini-Bobby" and I have no idea why.

The woman he viscously raped and enslaved?
Ha ha ha ha...

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3952344/1/Enough

Has this fic been PPC'd yet? I know one of this guy's other fanfics got taken care of by Agents Redd and Jill Greenleaf, and yet another of his stories was MST'd by Lycaenion, but I want to do this one.

'Cause nobody's posted.

...here are some more characters who play major roles in Chliever and Winston's stories:

The Floating Hyacinth: Chliever and Winston's Head of Department, so of course he shows up occasionally. At one point, he sends them on a punishment mission to the entire works of Starjeffry.

Agent Grendel de Bry: The self-proclaimed "Morally-ambiguous head of genetics and regeneration" for the Medical Department. He's responsible for all tanks in HQ, such as the regeneration tanks and the Floating Hyacinth's tank. He enjoys randomly breaking into bouts of evil laughter, wearing horrible-smelling latex gloves, and generally looking and acting a lot like Professor Hojo.

The Insane Canon: This (canonically) insane canon character is saved from a squickfic by Chliever and Winston, is sent to Medical for treatment, and subsequently escapes, ultimately moving in with Chliever and Winston despite their protests. Who this is is a pretty big spoiler for the early missions, so I won't tell you just yet, but I am well-versed in this person's native canon and thus should be able to write them fairly well.

Chliever's Dumbass Brothers-in-law: Algort the Contaminator, Pustol the Mortifier, and Burt the Stealer of One Sock from Each Pair respectively. These three get dumped by the Warp into the RC and immediately make with the mooching. They'll appear from mission three onward.

Chliever's Nerglings: Chliever has thirteen adorable Nerglings back home. Most of his paycheck gets sent to them. They may move into the RC later on, I'm not sure yet.

Agent Michel Javert: If Tomato will let me use him, I've got a big role planned for him later on.

EPC: Yep, I'm planning to do a Mirror Multiverse story. Features appearances by the mirror Dr. Fitzgerald and Bashir Hologram, the latter of who's identity is... disturbing, to say the least.

I don't think I misinterpreted anything, but as long as no offense was meant, it doesn't matter. :)