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Congratulations on surviving so far!

...I realise that was probably not the most cheerful comment. But seriously, happy birthday and have fun being an adult!

*presents you with a large bag of pebbles, a basket of Bleeprin-berries and your own sling*

Hope you have a great day!

I had a lot of fun reading that, especially when the volunteer agents were brought in. Nice and quirky, just how I like them. Anyhow, that fic must have been a real headache to read, and I don't envy you at all. Crossovers get my back up at the best of times, but when you throw Sues into the mix too... *shudders* not fun.

And I look forward to reading your agents' next mission!

I can take another voice or two. I can also send over some screams.

Does this mean you're going to start heading to bed with a cup of cocoa at 9pm and being attracted to people over sixty? Good luck with that. Still, there's beer now, so it's not all bad. Happy birthday. :D

It seems a little off to go around wasting good OCs so I'd have to agree with the other posters. If they're really good or it interests you, look into recruting them. Otherwise, I think it would be safe to leave them alone without killing them.

Thanks, I'll look through them soon, probably today.

I was more using them as examples, but I really was curious to see how departments that weren't necessarily involved in Sue-killing (though I know those two do kill them sometimes) worked, and even though I've seen DOGA and Bad Slash work a couple times I've never seen a DIC mission. It was very interesting to read though. Heh, three Sues, that must've been annoying to deal with.

Hope you have/ are having an awesome time of it. Here's to your newfound adulthood ;)

Here, have a loon!

Rather reminds me of Eragon, really, especially with the completely undeserved hype.

And that thing is, I become an adult! Announcing my birthday, Artic Blade turns 18 tomorrow morning! (45 minutes where I am)

I don't see why you can't just leave them. We're perfectly happy to have goodfic so why not?

hS's DOGA site.

If the OC's are good, they can be recruited(there's precedent for doing so). As for Non-OC devices, I remember someont telling me they just meld into the local canon.

I've heard it's very little like the book. I'm probably going to go see it when the fuss dies down a bit, though. I'm actually kind of excited. Is it perverse that I kind of look forward to doing some Twilight missions?

But I have read the book. It is fanfiction. The main character is textbook Sue and her love interest is a terrifying stalker portrayed as the Perfect Guy. The plot is treated as a necessary evil by the author, much more attention is paid to the love interest's changing eye colour and scary good looks. Oh, and of course the main character who is so selfless and beautiful and modest and kind while still being a total brat, treating her friends like crap and deliberatly making her life harder for herself so that she can angst.

Yes it is a form of canon, so we have a duty to protect it, but there is nothing the movie can do for Twilight that the book hasn't already done. Actually, considering what I've heard, the movie should be signifigantly better than the book (this is not hard) so it might even be good for the fandom.

*hopes no one here actually likes Twilight because that could make things awkward.*

The movie for Twilight is coming out tonight. Judging by all the hype at my school, I can predict there will be quite the fanfiction deluge afterwards. And going by the LotR example, I predict many a Mary Sue.
How is the Twilight fandom going to cope? Will we need to establish an OFU? Who is going to watch the movie?
*hides in bomb shelter*

*does the Dance of One Small and Petty Victory in the Face of Myriad Transgressions*

And, of course, this means I now have a legitimate reason to bitch at people who persist in writing "worshiped". Truly, it is a good day.

According to the CMS: "If a regular verb ends in a single vowel before a consonant, the consonant is doubled before taking the present or past form's ending."

So, once and for all, it's portal-portalling-portalled.

*goes to edit her missions*

~Neshomeh

Oh, those sneaky gerunds! Google suggests that portal is a perfectly legitimate verb these days, however, what with its in connection with internet portals. Have to disagree with you on which looks better, but then, I tend to be a bit of a fascist when it comes to British English spellings, and as mentioned recently, we double letters a lot.

Good to know I'm probably not erroneously using "to whit".

I suspect one of these days Trojie will force me to read Pern. But my reading will be tainted with memories of the badfic, in much the same way as I can now never watch the Land Before Time. And I suspect I'll be expecting Pratchettesque satire where none is to be found, what with the dragonriders in The Colour of Magic. Alas.

Aww, don't hate Pern because of bad writing. Even the author isn't the greatest ever, but it's just such a cool world, with really cool characters in it.

... Eww.

I believe I checked "to wit" vs. "to whit" on Merriam-Webster, and I went with the American spelling because I am American.

As for "portaled" vs. "portalled," neither one is actually a word as far as I know, so all I can say is that I think the former looks better. I don't remember learning a rule for this sort of thing, but if I ever find a definitive answer, I'll let you know (and revise my work if I have to).

~Neshomeh

I Haven't been here in quite a while, but I came back for advise: If you kill a Sue, how much of the created fanon elements of the story must you destroy on the way out?

An example is this series of stories from the Disney's Gargoyles fandom

http://fanfic.gargoyles-fans.org/author.php?author=Amy%2BK.%2BCyrway%2B%2528Artemis%2BPrime%2529&sortorder=DESC

The stories open with the introduction of a horrendus Mary sue, but along the way, many other original characters make appearences, most of which I truly enjoy. These include an old fling of Petros Xanatos (defacto matriarch of a clan of young adults, one elder and an aged watchbeast), friends of Clan Winslow, and an enigmatic figure that has ties to the gargoyle Brooklyn.

In short, would it be possible to just off the Sue and leave everyone else to thir fanon devices?