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I just hope I can find internet access on my vacation.

~Neshomeh

*hugs stuffed otter and dodges confetti* Thanks!
*stores chocolate away for emergencies*

Just don't get sick =)

Is it okay if I briefly use Katrina in my writing sample? I wanted to depict the Abhorsen's reaction to arriving at the PPC HQ and the way she was handling all the information being thrown at her. Since the last scene in your mission involved Katrina dragging the Abhorsen off while babbling stuff about the PPC, I thought I might include bits where she explains things like the difference between an OC and a Sue and the fact that Ancelstierre is, technically speaking, fictional. She wouldn't play a major part--just a few sentences or so. But I just want to make sure you're okay with her usage before I post my entry.

Once it is all done, I am going to copy and paste them side by side so that I can make more sence of the plot (if there is even one).

Leto

Have some Conveient Cake - it tastes like whatever your favourite flavour is.

Yay, another December person! Have some Belgian chocolate and a stuffed otter! *throws confetti at*

And the reporter of the fic says "Justice has been served".

Good job!

I love your missions. They are always so funny (yet somehow extremely disturbing; I try to forget that people actually /write/ these fics).

Have something shiny and lots of cake (unless you don't like cake and then have something else instead...like pie!).

It's my birthday today! I'm so happy...:]
Except for the fact that there were tests at school today...

I wrote about a rather powerful mech in Error 48 a while back, but that's all that I've seen in the way of large weapons platforms, aside from the aforementioned Sun Crusher.

Zodfang, I have to confess, makes me laugh. So that's good. I note he's a bit redundant occasionally when he's talking ("Apparently dere aren’t exactly many of us ’ere, from wot I’s ’eard"), but that may or may not be a problem.

What might be a problem is that the story you want to PPC a) is very short and b) looks like a parody or troll. Still, technically those can fall to the Floaters, just like anything else can. It's your decision.

I'm going to call it permission granted, and then comment that I very much like the mentions of Mkellin. Hopefully soon you'll find out what happened to him...

hS

Now, if only I could actually see the dates without looking for five minutes for the next one. *headdesk*

I know just what you mean, because I have that same bad habit. Harry Potter isn't one of my fandoms, but I'll try my best to give decent advise anyways.

What I'm really wondering here is what you mean by "sexual servitude"--do you mean consensual bondage, someone being pressured into sex, or flat out rape? If it's the last two, you must make it squicky and disturbing. I get the impression that people usually write these fics as a fantasy, so they try to make it all sexy. But in real life, something like this would be horrible and unhappy and really, really disgusting. Well, you probably know this already. But I thought I'd say this just in case.

It's also worth considering what age these guys are. I generally squick out at underage fics that aren't "first love/experiments/fumbling into adulthood" sort of things. But more than a few teenage guys have drugged their girlfriend's glass in real life, so it's not inconcievable.

And leave out the filthy details. For one, we really, really, really don't need to see all the filthy and disgusting actions implied in such a situation. Also, by taking out the descriptions of sex, you leave everything up to the audience's imagination, which just ups the horror of the situation. And remember, in this story, you should be stressing the horror aspects. Try focusing on the thought process of the predator and/or victim instead.

If you must have them keep the situation a secret, give them a good emotional reason. A lot of people just come up with a wimpy excuse and move on. Don't do that. Make them think it through before deciding. Remember, there's NOTHING WRONG with the authorities finding out about the predator in the end; watching the predator get punished gives the audience a cathartic release after reading all of the disturbing bits earlier. Alternatively, you might have the girl decide that she cannot tell anyone about this situation, and therefore must take care of the predator herself, which could lead to some sort of cat-and-mouse game...I'm really getting a little too much into this, aren't I?

I guess what I'm trying to say is that Ginny and Hermione are strong, smart girls. They're both very capable witches, they're both strong-minded, and they definitely wouldn't just lie down and take it. They'd do something about the situation. Take out that struggle, and I think you'd be leaving out a major part of their character.

Okay, that's all I can think of at the moment. Hope this gives you some idea of what to do.

The PPC 2008 Advent Calender, if you missed it.

We're up to Day 18. Hopefully I can manage the rest of the time to Christmas without another new thread.

hS

Because I'm psychotic, I read the reviews to that fic. It looks like English, but the words make no sense. Why don't people ever listen to their reviews when they ask for the smegging things?

And I loved the Sue's death. You might call it Sue-icide. :P

Okay, I have this unfortunate habit of seeing bad fanfiction and thinking ‘I can do better’. That usually leads to me at least plotting a story along the same lines, but fortunately that’s generally as far as it goes. For instance, I have a Hermione/Snape romance in the works. Well, on the drawing board, because I’m still really struggling to work it into Canonical parameters without Snape surviving the Battle of Hogwarts, which is fairly clichéd and illogical.

However, in my searches for sporkable material on AFF (pretty much everything I encountered) I found numerous stories were the females of Harry Potter are forced into sexual servitude for whatever reason… *sigh* Yeah, you can see where this is going, can’t you?

While quite a bit of me wants to forget I ever considered the idea, the other part wants to see what it would be like if everyone was in character (the women generally spread their legs eagerly and/or it’s Harry or the like doing the domination) and it was written by someone with knowledge of “consequences”, whatever they are.

So yeah, this fic is still in a state of extreme limbo. For a start, it’s the in character part that worries me. Rather sensibly, JKR didn’t introduce any serial rapists into her fandom (with the exception of Lockhart according to some). I’ve already ruled out Snape and Malfoy for being, if not good guys, definitely not bad guys. Crabbe and Goyle are a bit too thick to plan anything of the magnitude that this fic would entail. So that leaves Blaise Zabini or an OC. Yeah, sorry to focus on the Slytherins, but they seem to be the likely culprits (though if I have an OC, a Ravenclaw would also be acceptable due to their intelligence).

The woman/women in question (I’m likely to limit it only to one though, for my sanity if nothing else) is/are probably going to be Hermione, Ginny or, pushing it here, Luna. This is simply because they’re the most characterised and an OC would lose a lot of impact for this role.

Ideas would be appreciated, for both attacker and victim identity and also for ideas on how the attacker gets the victim to comply, however reluctantly. I’m thinking blackmail of some sort, because the attacker may not be kind enough/smart enough to use Obliviate. Finally, graphic or totally gloss over the sections in question? *

Of course, an overwhelmingly negative reaction will also be appreciated and may get this idea out of my head once and for all. Whatever your comments are, thanks in advance.

* What are the boundaries between M and NC-17 for sexual content on FF.net? And is sex the only factor separating the two? It’s never been very clearly explained and I’m personally not sure if the admins themselves have a standardised set of rules given some of the fics I’ve encountered on FF alone. And if I ever post sexual scenes, because I have a couple of major ones planned since they’re plot-critical, I want to know if I’m going to get kicked off for it or if I can be safe under M.

... we've referred to a Nurse, an uncanonical Nac Mac Feegle; Moira Mac Feegle, if she's any use to you :) She's acting as ultrasound technician for Paddlebrains.

http://agenttrojie.livejournal.com/58586.html

In which Aragorn is a drunken underage whore. We did our best to clean it up, but really, there's only so much one can do with a series of loosely connected gratuitous sex scenes masquerading as a fic.

Whatever happened to Diana? It occurred to me that if she is, to quote the fic, "a sex fiend," and advises 17-year-old girls to have more sex than Agent Luxury and Jack Harkness combined, perhaps she might be willing to keep Lux...satisfied, shall we say. Well, if Diana swings that way. Just a thought, that's all.

Specifically, canon characters to have in FicPsych during the 2008 macrovirus epidemic and 'Sue invasion, and the reason they're there.

I'll take agents, too, if yours were in FicPsych or ended up there at some point.

Also, if you've used random bit character nurses who happen to have names already, I'd like to use them rather than make up a bunch more random bit character nurses.

~Neshomeh, trying to get a story together before her break is over.