Sure, I'll take one. And I can beta if you need me, as well.
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Always wanted a liger. by
on 2009-01-23 16:48:00 UTC
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The amazing thing is by
on 2009-01-23 16:48:00 UTC
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She has looked through the document before uploading it. None of my in-text comments made it into the posted chapter (except for a few instances of bold text which I had used to mark my changes). She had just left the notes on the top of the story. Perhaps she scroled past them thinking they were her own notes. They're gone now, after I reminded her of them a third time during our falling out.
She didn't delete the author's note at the end that I'm her new betareader. Hmm.
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I'll give a link to the author's profile by
on 2009-01-23 16:41:00 UTC
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Doctor's Gal 1792.
The story I betead was the fifth chapter of "Before the Worst". Incidentally, in her request to me she mentioned that her other beta had abondoned her. There may be something of a patern there.
The story I would be interested in PPCing is "The Lost Daughter". It has an interesting premise, but in my opinion the author screws it up by having the lost daughter and her dad bonding from the moment they meet. Which I feel unlikely since (a) the dad thought she died 100 years previously, and (b) she is now working for an organisation he hates. Also, around chapter seven or eight, the author introduces a friend of hers as bit character.
Those two stories are both Torchwood. The author has also written a few others (that might be Sue worthy, I haven't checked) in that fandom. A few stories in Doctor Who (among others one where she retells the story of "Titanic" with 10 and Rose in the roles of Jack and Rose; that's got to be good).
And some stories for Titanic and Enchanted.
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"Click friend and enter"... sounds like fun. (nm) by
on 2009-01-23 16:19:00 UTC
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Re: I've always thought it was rather more complete by
on 2009-01-23 15:36:00 UTC
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You know, I was actually thinking about the PPC Agents in question...
Incidentally, how are normal Agents supposed to take care of Sues that are Jedi/god-mode without using diguises with such powers?
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No, that was the Character Protection Agency (nm) by
on 2009-01-23 15:18:00 UTC
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*snorts* by
on 2009-01-23 10:51:00 UTC
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I've encountered this type of person before. You beta their Word doc or whatever, send it back with comments in or out of the fic and they immediately post the chapter without even checking them. At least people can now see what a fool she is that she hasn't even deleted your in-fic comments.
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Sounds like a good alternative. (nm) by
on 2009-01-23 10:34:00 UTC
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This: by
on 2009-01-23 09:39:00 UTC
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http://www.nethack.org/
The spork wasn't in the game, but its stats and the other objects I got from here.
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I've always thought it was rather more complete by
on 2009-01-23 07:35:00 UTC
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than some here seem to think. I refer you to the PPC Agents who had to permanently change into Elves, because a time distortion meant humans would have instantly died of old age.
I think the change is pretty complete.
One of my future plans kind of depends very, very much on this, so the fact that hS has already given the Jay and Acacia example helps a great deal.
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Eh. by
on 2009-01-23 01:25:00 UTC
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I'm not personally a big fan of that trick, to be honest. However, I think it's possible to make an argument for how it could work. One possibility is that a disguise generator hooked up to a TARDIS has enough oomph to enact a permanent change on the subject's own morphic field. Another is that a Time Lord's regeneration is powerful enough in itself that it can extend beyond the morphic field of the disguise to include that of the subject. Someone could probably come up with more possibilities.
Anyway, my explanation of disguises is just my explanation. It's not The Way Things Are unless everyone decides it it.
~Neshomeh
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...Nethackish? (nm) by
on 2009-01-23 00:37:00 UTC
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*hands you cake* I've been thinking about some of those. by
on 2009-01-23 00:33:00 UTC
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But I shall not tell you them, for people would steal!
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But wouldn't the turning into a Time Lord trick contradict by
on 2009-01-22 23:25:00 UTC
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that? After all, the regenerations would be considered "a change in nature"...
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II'd err on the side of caution... by
on 2009-01-22 21:18:00 UTC
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Which means not PPCing the work yourself. It's too easy for her to find it, and that'll just make things worse; the last thing you want is her throwing a fit at you personally.
I'd say toss it out for another PPCer to pick up and wash your hands of her work. It'll keep her from being wounded - perhaps far more deeply than if you were a random stranger - and preserve your reputation. Someone around here will deal with it. :)
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*head-desk* Silly me. by
on 2009-01-22 21:15:00 UTC
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Something can't be both "minor" and a general umbrella. But either/or...?
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Collateral damage? by
on 2009-01-22 21:14:00 UTC
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Wouldn't it be restored when canon snaps back-canons are unable to die before their appointed time despite anything up to and beyond decapitation and boiling-? I ask because using an MDD device from the Enderverse might be interesting...
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Perhaps there should be a minor department for these cases? by
on 2009-01-22 21:14:00 UTC
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Something very general, perhaps to which everything else is sort of a sub-set?
Or floaters. Floaters tend to go by continuum rather than subject, so they're always an option.
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Re: By cheating, of course. :P by
on 2009-01-22 21:08:00 UTC
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I suppose the original could be found and let the two of them duke it out, as the replacement, if we decide it is a replacement, has been stated to be theoretically able to die whereas the original is canonically immortal. That might involve unacceptable amounts of collateral though.
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By cheating, of course. :P by
on 2009-01-22 20:07:00 UTC
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And probably, if there isn't a method in-canon, by importing something useful from out of canon and throwing logic at it. For instance: imprison said replacement in a stasis field, which stops time from passing inside it. Throw into the nearest black hole. Return to HQ for cookies and whatever.
And that's just off the top of my head.
hS
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Give us the link to the story by
on 2009-01-22 19:41:00 UTC
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Show us the link and if the rest of the PPC Hive Mind agrees, someone will probably PPC it. Alternatively, one of us might try to take over your role in supervising her fics, seeing as how you two have fallen out. She has shown some willingness to revise her stories, which is more than most Suethors, so I'd go easy on her for a little while longer--see if we can't bring her back to the straight and narrow.
What's the fandom, by the way? If it's one of mine, I'd be willing to look her over.
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Re: That would be the OC by
on 2009-01-22 18:45:00 UTC
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I am aware. I'm asking that if Kyuubi was in fact replaced, how on earth would the Agents manage to take out the Sue replacement of a raw embodiment of chakra and malevolence?
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Your thoughts on the matter count as much... by
on 2009-01-22 17:04:00 UTC
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as the next boarder's.
Well, the fic genuinely needs dealing with. One of my first thoughts when she asked me to beta was "dang, now I can't PPC her stuff anymore". There's a Sue (and an imported friend), there's more people out of character than you can wave a stick at (because in this fandom they might shoot you if you do), there's historical inaccuracies and the plot has holes.
It's just, the author already thinks I'm out to get her, so this might gave me even more of a bad rep.
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That would be the OC by
on 2009-01-22 16:58:00 UTC
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OC stands for original character. If there's a Sue, there's an OC.