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Much as I hate to think it, anyone who tried would probably have little difficulty linking out internet lives to our real names. I hate that. Webcomics would probably get less attention than fanfic, though, so you might not have the same issues. I'm not sure. I'd err on the safe side, wherepossible.

*wanders off grumbling*

You'll need it to catch up on your sleep in random places.

Welcome! *shakes hand* Always good to see new people, particularly enthusiastic ones. I obviously don't need to give you any links, but may I suggest you read the wiki's "Permission" article, if you haven't already? Saves a lot of confusion.

That said... well, actually, I haven't much more to say. I like your little intro there, and Cal sounds like he'd be quite a lot of fun to read, particularly when his bravado fails to kill the Sue (or whatever sort of mission you're planning to do).

So yes, welcome! Thanks for coming. :)

Heh, thank you for the whisk, and yay for randomness. I already have the link to the wiki, by the way: it's by the PPC wiki that I accessed this forum. And I found PPC by the TV Tropes Wiki (I've been a hopeless TV Tropes junkie for quite a while now, though I'm not a troper).

I'm somewhat busy, so it may be a few weeks before I get anything in in any case, but what would you say to images in... distinctly unrealistic styles? Specifically, that of The Order of the Stick? I can do that pretty well, at least for fairly standard-shaped people (as opposed to, for instance, insectoids or multi-headed creatures), but I worry that it wouldn't fit with other submissions or the tone of specific sections.

Welcome to the PPC! I'll let July give you links to the wiki and whatnot, as that's her thing, but in the meantime have an egg whisk! It's shiny, gold-plated, and whisks not only eggs but spambots and author wraiths! Use it for good and not evil.

In a thunderous crash, the front doors of the PPC headquarters flung open. The receptionist looked up. A rain-soaked young man had just made an overdramatic entrance and was now theatrically striding toward her across the lobby. He wore a grey trenchcoat too large for his light frame and an old fedora hat of the same color. A black eyepatch covered the wannabe pulp detective's right eye.

"Welcome to the PPC," the receptionist said absently, typing at her computer.

"I wish to speak with someone high up," said the newcomer in a tone that was presumably intended to be commanding.

Needless to say, the receptionist was unimpressed.
"You'll speak with me, kid," she replied acidly. "What are you here for?"

The man was taken aback, but quickly regained some of his composure.
"Do the Protectors hire? I believe I may be your man," he stated self-importantly.

"Mmm'kay. What's your name?"

"I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you." He sounded smug.

The receptionist rolled her eyes, grabbed her phone and dialed a number.
"Security? Could you please escort some asshole out of the lobby?"

"Ooookay, I'll show you," the man said hurriedly. "Here's my ID." He handed her his Canadian health insurance card.

"Security, you still there? Forget it, that'll be alright," the receptionist said in the speaker. She took the man's card and examined it. A smirk formed on her lips. "THAT's your name? Calvin Percival Baudette?"

"Shhh, not so loud," the young man whispered, wincing. "I prefer to be called Cal."

"...Yeah, that's... understandable," she agreed, visibly making tremendous efforts not to laugh. "So what's your background and experience, Cal?"

Cal made a halfway decent attempt at a cold, businesslike tone.
"I've served for six years in the FBI, two years in the CIA and one very long day at CTU Los Angeles. I've been decorated for my involvement in the Gulf War, where I led a squadron of six F-16's. I have a degree in computer science and another in engineering, and I—"

"According to your ID, you're only twenty," she interrupted.

"...Oh yeah, that. Ah, um... Well, it's a long story but—"

She rapped impatiently on her desk.
"Just say it. No experience?"

"No experience," Cal confessed reluctantly. "But I'm adaptable, I promise."

The receptionist's gaze went to the man's eyepatch.
"List your disabilities," she said.

"I have no disa— oh, the eyepatch? I don't need it, really, both my eyes are fine. But it DOES make me look totally badass, don't you think?" He removed it and stuffed it in one of his pockets.

"Fill out these forms," the receptionist said with mild annoyance, handing Cal a thick pile of variously colored papers. "Then bring them to the human resources office, if you can find it. They're so desperate for personnel that even you might stand a chance of getting hired."


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Hey all. My name is Gabriel (age 20), and I live in Canada (province of Québec). I recently discovered the Protectors of the Plot Continuum, and to me it already looks awesome — I love metafiction. As I type this I have read only four stories out of the Original Series' twenty-five, but I already get the idea and I cannot wait to begin. I hope to be able to write my own missions in a few weeks at the most. For this I have created Agent Cal, an incompetent and overenthusiastic young agent who takes himself VERY seriously (maybe I will give him a sidekick later). I will operate mainly in Middle-Earth, the Potterverse and the Caribbean, since those three settings are plagued by mind-boggling amounts of badfic and an infestation of Mary Sues, but I will not limit myself to those if I find a bad enough fic in another fandom with which I am familiar.

Feedback on my writing would be greatly appreciated: I do not want to disgrace the great work started by Jay and Acacia. Note however that my English is not perfect (my first language is French), so be tolerant.

Thank you.

I've been wondering about starting a webcomic lately. On the other hand, I really want to be a published writer someday. If I did a webcomic and my online work got popular, would it be likely to have repercussions if I tried to get "officially" published? I ask because of the fanfic thing, since TM quit the PPC when she got some work published. Would it be "safe" if I used a pen-name for my "real" published work, or is that not necessary?

I'm going to be doing some scenery etc because I can do that, whereas I FAIL at figures :)

I'm good at drawing figures, but scenery and landscapes make me FAIL. Utterly.

Remind me to do character sheets of Drake and Naomi for kitsune106, I think he wanted me to do some.

... that Pokemon biology might be out of even Trojie's league, guys.

and if you *can't* manage, we understand :)

I'm incredibly busy. I was going to reply to this once I'd actually read the script, but haven't had a chance to do that yet, much less pull out descriptions needed for enviromental drawings (which is what I'm best at). So I'll try, but no promises.

The fic was like 'awful, awful, awful, awful OMG HILARIOUS UNINTENTIONAL BATHOS!'

...if I save some of those pics to my harddrive in the shiny new MOVIE ART folder for reference for when we send things to animators?

... and colour pictures way back at the beginning of my gallery, so you can work on them from those: http://chelonianmobile.deviantart.com/

...but I'll try.

No sorry. I don't know those. ^^;