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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. :)

Something can't be both "minor" and a general umbrella. But either/or...?

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...

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.

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.

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

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.

Well, I'm not familiar with the fandom, so ahve no idea how someone with those "powers" could be beaten.

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?

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.

OC stands for original character. If there's a Sue, there's an OC.

I suppose that's possible. I hope not, though - how on earth would you handle a Naruto-verse Kyuubi Sue?

Isn't there a Department for Out Of Character Hobbits? Or something along those lines.

There's also Angst, if that's the direction that the OOCness is going in.

If there's any romance at all and it's not slash, it could still fall into the Department of Bad Het. Then there's the Department of Technical Errors if it's full of spelling mistakes. Do we have a Department of Characterisation, or something along those lines? When in doubt, call on the Floaters.

I probably would. But I'm not a very nice person. XD

If you've tried to help her and she hasn't accepted that help, then that just makes her worse. At least some of the others might be doing it because they're ignorant. Unless you're wanting to PPC one of her fics simply because she annoyed you, rather than because it genuinely needs dealing with.

It depends on whether you can handle the follow through as well. If it's going to make you feel guilty then perhaps it's not worth it.

Just my $0.02. I'm obviously a newb who's opinion isn't that important, but I hope it's helpful. ;)

I think it depends on your interpretation. If the characters are so OOC that they may have been replaced by other people, and these other people seem Mary Sues (or at least one of them), then the DMS could still handle it. It's a case of character replacement. Look for plotholes where the canons may be hiding and then charge and kill the Sues.

Oh, and floaters seem to handle pretty much anything.

Who deals with a fic where there are no non-bit part OCs, and it's not a crossover or bad slash, but all the canon characters are horrifically OOC?

What are you going to use those random Nethackish items for?

It was a good thought -- besides, how's she going to learn if someone does it all for her? I never learned things that way. : |

Anyway, IMO, it would be at least somewhat petty to PPC any of her 'fics. You've a good rule of thumb there, methinks. PPCing something of hers seems to me almost like giving up on her ability to improve and change, and if we all did that, well, no one would get anywhere. >.>

Well, that's just my take on it. ^^;

I left a review for a story on my forum and then the author came along and asked if I wanted to beta read her story. I was "yay, this person appreciates tough love". I accepted her request, but did tell her I did not like to beta for grammar and punctuation.

It turned out she was pretty bad at punctuating dialogue. Rather than correcting all the errors, I thought I would explain her about the rules and let her fix the errors herself (and send the fic back to me for checking over any missed punctuation). The idea was that she would learn how to punctuate so that future chapters would have less errors in them.

This person turned out to be a bit of an idiot. That she didn't apply the rules is her choice, but she also did not remove my comments from the document. She uploaded a chapter that opens with my suggestions on how to improve her punctuation as a sort of author's note.

we've recently fallen out over a little addition I had made to my original review.

Now, would it be very petty of me to PPC one of her other fics?
Or should I just follow that rule of thumb I've followed so far: if I've beta read them (or they've shown in another way they are willing to consider advice someone has given them) I should not PPC them?

Finally, someone else!

Mini-ligers. Excellent. *grin* Wanna beta for me? My usual beta's a bit swamped by school. ^^;

Tiny Dists would be hilariously awesome, but... um. How shall I put this. They would drive people absolutely crazy. Or me, at least. :P

Want one of the minis?

Happy birthday.

have a guide book on combat sporks, and a list of ways to kill sues.

The ways of cake are strange.