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A fourteen-year-old African-American boy walks into a store and asks the white lady behind the counter, "Hey, babe, what's up?"
A few days later he is found dead, having been beaten to death and dumped in a river. His body is almost unrecognizable.

More here. Warning: pictures are INCREDIBLY disturbing. I almost threw up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Till

Definitely should have been fiction. This sounds like something a tyrant in some sort of novel would do to a rebellious peasant or a courtier getting too involved with a lady he likes. Not part of American history.

That wasn't in his autobiography... Maybe I should read it again to double-check.

of a British spy who slept with the German ambassador during WWII or something...the details are blurry...
Anyways, the two had an affair, he'd tell her stuff that's going on, and she'd report them back. After the war, though, the two got married.

And there was also that Russian spy who was found out by a hollow nickel and a overly curious paper boy.

I was more concerned about people thinking my question was stupid than being offended by me even asking, though. :P Still, I appreciate the help, I was at a loss about that. Anyway, while I'm on the issue of questions, do you or anyone else know where the Mirror Multiverse or Macrovirus epidemic stories are? I'd be interested in reading them, but I don't know where to find them and didn't see them on the PPC fiction list. I don't need the original Mary Sue invasion RP, because the movie script's pretty much word for word what happened, but I've always been curious about just what happened in those others.

It even sounds like the title of a book or something.

The story: a bunch of ridiculously intelligent scientists get together in various locations across the country, each site working on a piece of a secret project for the government according to the specifications of a theory laid down years ago. Nobody really knows what it's all about... until the government bombs Japan.

Scary stuff.

~Neshomeh

Two palaeontologists who started as friends, even naming species after each other ... and then became rivals. Even enemies. These guys used to bribe quarry owners to spy and attempted to blow up each other's fossil localities. In the process of chasing each other up and down the country in an attempt to be the better palaeontologist, they discovered between them almost every dinosaur you could call 'famous'.

And the other ones were mostly discovered by Gideon Mantell. And his story would have made fantastic fiction; a poor country doctor became so consumed by his passion for fossils and geology that he lost his wife, his children, his home, his job ... and ended up making an enemy of Richard Owen, who plagiarised his work, had him refused membership of learned societies ... and when Mantell finally died, got possession of the poor man's twisted spine as an anatomical curiosity, because Owen was in charge of a museum. Oh, and he wrote a very nasty bitchy anonymous obituary for Mantell as well. Of course, it bit him in the arse because his behaviour to Mantell was so despicable that he lost his own position at the various learned societies ...

Radio, radio control, wireless electricity, AC power, the Niagara Falls generating station, death rays in a couple different flavors... the guy was incredible.

Those are some pretty eggs. Probably cost fortunes, too. x.X Plural.

Hmm... I can't think of much off the top of my head, though there's undoubtedly tens of thousands of examples out there. But did you know, it used to be fairly commonplace for ballerinas to essentially spontaneously combust?

No joke. Back when they used fire for stage lighting, most dancers doused their costumes in fire-retardent liquid (I don't remember exactly what) because, well, get too close and it's up in flames. However, some dancers ignored this because it made their costumes look "dingy," or something to that effect.

You can guess what happened the next time they danced too close to the lights.

Also, IMO, the amount of things Windows will choose to crash over is almost comical.

Wow Tawaki, that operation is probably one of the coolest things I've heard about in a long while, thanks for sharing ^^

An absurdly creative writer and officer in the Royal Air Force is sent by the British government to investigate America's feelings prior to their involvement in World War II. He accomplishes this by seducing every woman rumored to be anti-British and gathering information from them. In addition, his writings earn him the adoration of the First Lady and her children.

Said writer was Roald Dahl, who along with Noel Coward and Ian Fleming worked as a spy for the British government. It would have made an awesome novel.

Adolf Hitler carried one king-size idiot ball after another! He even, on D-Day, refused to dispatch tanks, assuming Normandy was a cover target!

Speaking of cover targets, there was the whole affair of the man who never was. That's a weird plot device, used in the real world! And once again, the big bad -- and his generals -- fell for it completely!

So I was browsing Wikipedia the other day when I ran across the article on the Fabergé eggs. After reading the article and the various things linked from it, I had two thoughts.

1/ Some of those eggs are really beautiful.

2/ This should have been fiction.

Seriously. The story goes like this: the Tsar of Russia loves his wife so much that every year, for Easter, he gives her a horrifyingly expensive egg crafted by the finest jeweller in the land. Each one is unique, and each has an exquisitely crafted surprise inside it. When he dies, his son continues the tradition, giving them not only to his own wife, but also to his father's widow -- every year, without fail, another two eggs, another two surprises, and all of them stunning.

There is no way that sort of thing happens in real life. It's the kind of thing you put into a book to demonstrate how kind and generous your king is; it shouldn't have actually happened.

I'm sure it's not the only example, though. So who else has some random historical trivia that Should Have Been Fiction? What would you never believe if you read it in a novel -- but it actually happened that way? I'm sure we've all got something.

hS, trying to start a thread

I'm gonna rec Ciceqi's Mascotverse (FFVII, currently mostly pre-game, pretty much AU- not Crisis Core compliant, for one-, Sephiroth/Zack/Cloud/Aeris in different combinations), Chibirisu-chan's Wark With Me, Kid (FFVII, pre-game, quite possibly not Crisis Core compliant, vaguely Sephiroth/Zack/Cloud), and The Shape of His Heart by Gabi-hime (FFX, during the game, Auron/Rikku, more or less).

I'd also suggest having a look round No True Pair and maybe Fictunes, see if there's anything you like.

The community has been strangely inactive. (I admit I am part of the problem. I seak out badfic rather than goodfic).

It's here, if you are interested: http://community.livejournal.com/fanficfeedback/profile

The way I've understood it is that you ask permission to write/post ppc missions. You do not ask for permission on specific agents. Meaning, you do not have to reapply for permission if you decide to start working with a different agent, or introduce cameo agents in your stories.

The writing sample is to show you have a decent enough grasp of grammar and punctuation as to not embarrass the PPC. You don't need permission for the actual content of the writing sample (well, perhaps you would if you want to use other people's agents in that writing sample, but I don't think your question was about that.).

Hey, sorry if this bothers you lot, I've just been wondering about something so I thought I'd ask. I hope it doesn't seem too stupid. Permission isn't needed for (out of lack of a better term) "NPC" agents, is it? Agents that are named or whatever and interacted with, but aren't actually the agents you write missions with, strictly background characters? I'm asking that partly because while I don't think it's needed I'm also not sure and thus curious about if it's the case, but also because part of my writing sample involves one of my agents interacting with one of the mentioned "NPC" type agents, and I'd be in a good bit of trouble if it turns out that's not allowed. Just one of those cases where I'm a bit confused about it and want to know for sure where the policy stands. I thought Permission was only needed for your main agents and the missions, but if I'm wrong (and this doesn't seem to be covered on the wiki page) I thought I should ask. Thanks for your time.

Besides, video hosting takes a lot of bandwidth. I'd much rather make a proper forum website than try and hack together a youtube clone.

I'm sure he'll dispatch the Sue exactly as it deserves, and either way these missions are always a fun read. Yeah though, I can't wait to see this particular one dead, the fic almost makes me glad Heath Ledger isn't around to see it, he'd probably die from embarassment. Sorry it took so long to reply to this, I've been a bit busy.

Have you checked out the Legendary Goodfic page on the Wiki?
It can be found here.

I've been thinking, maybe we should start an archive for goodfic. I'm guessing most people here enjoy fanfiction--that's why we go through so much effort to spork badfic. But it would be nice to have a place of refuge where we can relax and look at some goodfic.

I definitely have contributions to make to this list, but I've got homework right now, so I'll drop by later today to put up some links.

However, they could have raped my childhood, if I were a few years younger*. Have fun!

*In fact, they could be raping someone else's childhood right now.

Personal squicks, even illegality, come second to what is canonical for that fandom. I'm squicked by slash and find incest mildly nauseating, but if it's canonical, then there's nothing that we, as PPCers, can do about it.

If not, of course, BURN THEIR SORRY BODIES.

*cough* That said, even if is canon and you can't charge for the incest itself, you could - I'm sure - find a number of nit-picky things to get them for instead.

no matter what the canon or genre, share them please. So much badfic is linked here, that it can sometimes be hard to remember that goodfic does actually exist. Share the love for your favourite fics.

Yeah, I've played the game a few times, enough to be fairly familiar with it. You also suggested the fact that he was so OOC affected his fighting abilities, but I still think he's lucky he didn't get skewered. :P Still, it was a fun read.

It's always easier to spot other people's mistakes than your own - if it's your own your brain reads what you meant to write rather than what you actually wrote. And I'll happily keep pointing out errors should I spot any. :)

The spelling rule, in British English at least, is that words ending in L double it in the past tense. Happens with other letters too, like the P in worship. A lot of the time American English seems to stick with just the single letter. Google's only got a few relevant hits before it descends into what looks like Portuguese to me, so I'm guessing in this case it has to be double-L. (I'd be totally lost without google.)