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musical agents, or is it more hot D.O.R.K.S. ?

who throws it on to someone else, who discards it when they get bored with it and someone else picks it up and passes it to someone else ad infinitum?

Sounds good to me.

I get this with reviewers - why do people care whether or not they're the first to review, or comment, or report? I just don't get it.

(And don't feel obliged to answer - that was mainly rhetorical.)

I think Lux is being unfairly abused, though. She isn't the only agent crazy enough to mess around with a random DORKS.

If we wanted to descend into the truly ridiculous, we could have the thing handed off multiple times:

"Oh, that? Yeah, I had it, but after I poked it a few times and it didn't do what I wanted, I threw it at a random passer-by for laughs. Dunno where it is now."

"DORKS? Yeah, some jerk threw it at me. Didn't seem to work, so I dropped it in the Fountain of Bleepka."

"I thought I saw a really nice sword in the Fountain of Bleepka, but when I picked it up, it was just a DORKS. So I left it in the cafeteria."

Et cetera, et cetera.

~Neshomeh

It's always plotholes when Sue-stuff gets involved.

I thought there might have been some interaction between the DORKS and the contaminated portal device, too, since they were both contaminated at the same source. Like I said, if someone tried hooking the portal device up to the main network, that's an easy connection between it and the portals/plotholes HQ is made of. Once the entire portal/plothole network of HQ is exposed, everyone is exposed.

That way, we still need the DORKS to fix it--it's just that we also need the DORKS to talk to the portal to talk to the network. Does that make sense?

~Neshomeh

also making it up.

okay, narrative comedy it is. that works.

Although there seems to be a temporary delay, caused by us spurning missions in favour of the epic Poignant Pevensie Porn saga. Whoops.

And once the punishment's done, Trojie and Pads will be returning to HQ just in time for the genderbending incident...

Given that C&D had no PPC technology with them (although apparently they did have a portal generator of some sort, unless the door they came in through is local), introducing the flashpatch as a source wouldn't solve any problems, and would just mean we were chasing the wrong bit of tech for the entire story. So it's easier to keep it as the DORKS and just assume it's Narrative Comedy at work.

hS

Equal parts amusing and squicky, as always. Fun read, I can only imagine the punishment is going to get worse from here, haha.

Traumatizing Gingi Amano... That would certainly lead to Nightmare Fuel Unleaded for the culprit, if he/she is caught.

Hahahahaha! But it is! The only way to stop it is if you come to my evil lair, perferably in some skintight costume that enhances your female attributes, in order to steal the secret Book of Retcons from my not-so secret vault oviously designed for an easy ambush! And no, I haven't read the Evil Overlord List. Why do you ask?

Darths and Droids is excellent, isn't it? I love how they've explained the Death Star plans away.

"Jar-Jar, you're a genius!"

I wanted to suggest it was a troll first.

You'll probably just send them to Trojie. Hmm... that reminds me that I still need to compile all the information I ended up with in a useful way so Trojie can help me out.

"I just dive into a fic headfirst - reading other people's (often uninformed and ill-thought-out) opinions just interferes with my ability to judge a fic on its own merit (or lack thereof.)"

I flick between reading the fic first and reading the reviews first. Sometimes, reading the reviews inspires me to read the fic, if only to understand what the hell the reviewers are babbling about.

"If the reviews are good at AFF, it's likely to be more smut, less plot."

Except with said Tomb Raider fic, where it had a lot of good reviews, but neither smut nor much plot (obviously, given that Lara died at the end of each chapter).

"If there's more 'omg, best story evar' and 'Dracos sooooo~oo hot!' than 'Well, this is good, but you should really work on these three points...' then I find that it's usually a pointless story."

Hmm... I'm not so sure that's a good rule of thumb. There are so many idiots on FF that I've had my fair share of those reviews, yet my beta readers come from here, so they can't be that pointless.

"If both types seem to be outweighed by the flames and otherwise negative responses, then it's dually not worth reading."

Or the author pissed off the author of a Suefic and the Suethor whined about it and got a load of counter-flames by her army of rabid readers. A friend had to delete her story once because she got hit by a load of those.

That's vaguely disturbing. Also, those types apparently don't care much about Miyano's personal happiness. Of course, those are just the foolishly foolish thoughts of foolish foolhardy fanbrats and their foolishly foolish over-obsessiveness. Foolish fools.

(Cookie to anyone who catches the random reference here.)

"I've seen utter dreck given rave reviews, simply for being 'hot'"

Or, worse, descriptions of how hard it made the reviewer climax. *shudders*

Wow, it's been a while. Anyway, mission's up and involves one snaperrifle! Enjoy!

http://agentsara.livejournal.com/12212.html

Actually, that's what I planned: the main focus is on Starscream's attempt to (alternatively) dangle hope for a peaceful future in front of Prime, while at the same time guilting Prime into the deal (which involves Edith keeping Alvin) by turning Prime's 'talking points' back at him.

Themes like choice and freedom will be bandied about by Starscream, with him basically saying that if Prime cannot apply those words to Edith keeping her son, then they are the hollow words of a fool... a fool, coincidentally, who would care more for the same Government who tortured one of his soldiers than for the fate of his own species.

There is also, of course, some human stuff, but that's more along the line Miles trying to come to terms with exactly what role he wants to play. He wants to help Edith... but beyond that, in terms of re-starting a relationship with her or even the thought of being a family unit with his offsprng and genetomate; those are wild dreams, secret dreams. Plus dealing with the adoptive parents in an appropriate way, but I'm working on that.

Chuck in some more Robot stuff with Frenzy, Lazerwing, the Earthbots and a little slapstick and Sitcom-ery... we'll see where this planned series takes me.

He would. in an interlude, Drake does seem to know Lux. Mainyl that he doesn't get what she wants him to do.

DRake woudl do that. He is clueless and naive.

and as for the flashpatch thing, was just trying to think of various ways or theories for it to be spread. but it is the dorks, i guess. although why it did it, and effected all agents past and present, i have no clue. Sure that hS has a good reason though.

(It's more.)

That said, I find it incredibly amusing and often quite thoughtful. I've read through the whole archive, and am considering another archive binge. What's really hooked me is Darths & Droids, by the same people, which continues in the footsteps of DM of the Rings by having Star Wars as a role-playing game.

But if something-over-2000 updates scares you, don't follow the link to mezzacotta. As nearly as I can tell, it has something for every day since January 1, 9,999,999,999,999 B.C. Yes, over ten trillion years in the past. Most of them (that I've seen; I'm not that crazy) are completely senseless, just two heads on independent dialogue tracks. (Mezzacotta, incidentally, is apparently an Italian rendering of the phrase "half-baked".)

both old and new. I read one with a half sister of the new micheal knight, and KARR is back, and as a good guy. was unable to really read it, but would like someone else to take a look. I'm already screaming bloody murder, but i could be wrong.'

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4088121/1/YoullGetUsedToIt

Maybe a little Sue-y, but if you make sure to concentrate on the giant robots rather than the humans it should be cool. Of course, I'm no expert on Transformers canon. I saw the Bay movie, but not from a fannish perspective. I only went because I was promised giant robots blowing stuff up and I just can't resist that.