I've had invariant thoughts about an Avatar one, but while I know a good chunk about the canon there I'm not as familiar with the fanon as I'd like. That, and I doubt I could keep up the relative regularity an OFU requires.

Plus, I'm blatantly biased against most of the fanon I do know about.

that is perfectly normal

Is anyone else getting the Christmas/general holidays bug? It usually hits me in July, but it's a little early this year.

I'm listening to 'Santa Baby' and 'All I Want for Christmas' nonstop.

Am I going totally crazy?

Mmmm... Can't decide, there are just so many good kinds of cake. Maybe cherry cheesecake...no, German Chocolate... Ooh, I'm getting cavities just thinking about that.

I wonder if anyone has done one for the Disney Universe. That would be buckets of fun, getting to yell at all the purists of original fairytales. The only time you actually get to legitimately do it!

Would Torchwood be included with Dr. Who?

of Star Wars and Doctor Who. They current don't exist (unless I've somehow missed them), and they are fairly important fandoms. If we have one for Bourne, we certainly need ones for these much larger canons...

Is anyone else interested in writing these OFUs?

I thought the Star Wars one could be the Caridia Academy/the Jedi Temple. Who could be the Gallifrey Time Lord Academy, complete with Untempered Schism (played for laughs).

"Some become inspired, writing epic tales of adventure. Some run away and focus on drabbles. Others go mad, writing crack-fic and slash."

*has been watching too much Season 3*

In remembering that only TWO of my characters in the past seven/eight years have ever dipped as low as 19 years old. Seriously, with one exception (a group RP that required the ages be set at high school levels), that's as low as I've ever gone.

That counts my PPC characters so far, by the way, and totals to about ten or eleven different guys in total (but always guys. I'm a guy, it makes sense to write what I know).

1) That's a bit cramped for a bunch of (most likely psychotic) agents and a "dysfunctional" individual. I guess if it's a bit RC or one of those connecting-room RCs, it'd be okay.

3) Make sure there's a reason for this "Fred the Plover". It'd kinda be... not good... if there was just this random thing that existed simply for the lulz.

4) We have a "no torture" rule? Since when?! Why do people never tell me these things?! How on earth are we supposed to enforce that?

6) Probably.

7) Winged cats are probably the least odd of the oddities in the PPC Headquarters.

8) Well, Hercules would definitely kick its arse, and Perseus could probably turn the thing into stone with Medusa's disembodied head. But I think Theseus'd be biting off a bit more than he could chew, and unless Odysseus can find a way to make it drunk, he'd be outta luck.

9) Because Chinese people are awesome, that's why.

Now don:t we feal ancient! I can:t wait until I start my B-Day party thread. It is going to be a masqurade!

Leto

May you make it to 1/2 of a century!

Have an otter plushie! And some cake! :-D

Pie >>>>>>> cake

I am sometimes worried by all those heavily sexualized Mary Sues (slim, big breasts, revealing clothes) who are self-inserts of 14-year-old Suethors with no first-hand romantic experience. For characters who are supposed to be perfect, Sues often lack a particular power: that of escaping the patriarchal mindset of our society. Sure, sexual emancipation of women is one of the things feminists have long fought for, and I fully support it. But some Sues are insults to the whole female gender, and it grieves me to know how young and influenceable the Suethors who created them usually are.

The rest of the agents are such complete nutcases (this probably has to do with the fact that they are headvoices) that they need a 24/7 psych person on call. The tech stuff is what he does to amuse himself when the others are elsewhere, and is very useful given the amount of jabbing things with sporks that goes on. Basically, it's a perpetual disaster zone, and having a tech/psych person already there saves an immense amount of travel time.

I come bearing Convenient Cake! It conveniently becomes whatever flavour and texture the consumer likes best.

1: Why would a tech/psych person be in an RC? They work in their own departments. If they just come to the RC to sleep (*coughcough*), then sure, but I doubt they would be stationed there; they wouldn't have any work to do.

#2: I think many agents offhandedly mention having been in an OFU before reforming and becoming an agent. I don't think you actually need to as the OFU Co-ordinator, but politeness is good.

#3: You'd have to explain it somehow; if it came from a badfic in which this actually happened and somehow was dragged into HQ, sure. If the gift-plover you recieved from Tawaki ran into a particularly malicious plot hole and was thrown into a never-ending time loop, it should be fine. However be aware that 'PPC' does not equal 'just for laughs madness'; there are some limits, and generally the funniest things are those that are created by mistake in a badfic, not thought up by an agent.

#4: Yeah, torture. Sorry. But once it's dead, go right ahead. Would make a nice little carpet.

#7: Similar to #3 - why? Or more precisely, where did it come from? If there's a canonverse that has winged cats and you can refer to your agents having been there on a mission, sure. If there was a badfic in which a cat was given wings (either intentionally or by some tech error), sure. But don't do things just because you can; the humour probably won't last very long.

#8: There would be many, many songs about him.


:)

Happy 25th Birthday to you! -Sings horribly off tune and hands you cake-

Though personally, I think my DMS flashpatch and bloody daggers speak for themselves ;)

Happy birthday to me! I have officially seen a quarter of a century as of 10am today.

You can be as late as you want if you give me things like that. Now, to skulk in the corner of my headvoice's Lab of Sadism and plot evil plots...
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I just got kicked out of the Lab. I will take my evil plotting elsewhere.

Wanna know how to make a Mary Sue?

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There's your guide.

1) Only if you a) have Permission (:P) and b) don't think they'll actually kill each other at being so cramped. It's not generally done. I think there is precedent for interconnecting RCs though, so you could have them in a couple that have doors to each other.

2) Ask the author of the OFU you want them to have gone to.

3) Is there any plot significance to it? Or are you just playing for cheap laughs? Cheap laughs are all good, but it helps if they're there for a reason.

4) I would say it counted as torture.

5) Go check the List of RCs on the Wiki.

6) If you really feel the need.

7) For who? You'd have to be very careful it didn't just turn into a gratuitious Cute Animal Friend.

8) You'd get chargrilled Greek Hero. Unless it was Heracles or Achilles, in which case I'd say that would have to go to the judges.

9) Because the kind of food Chinese restaurants serve is not traditionally considered breakfast food and because even the famously hard-working people who run Chinese restaurants deserve some time at home - given Chinese restaurants are typically open very late 7 days a week, can you blame them for wanting to be home in the mornings?

Given that all of these people are my headvoices, have distinct personalities, and will basically be writing themselves, I'm not too worried about character development. About Fred the Plover... actually, you're partly responsible for his existence. You said that plovers taste good with barbecue sauce, and I decided that my plover would be named Fred, but then couldn't decide whether or not to eat him. This culminated in the decision to essentially do both, and have Fred the Plover as I described him. I ask if I can include him because my head is a very strange place.