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A) I'm just awesome that way.

B) I had a whole list of Very Bad Ideas already, and I thought it was a pretty good one.

C) One of my friends can never leave scissors lying around after watching "The Hand". Apparently there's a scene where the title character (or rather, disembodied body part) takes a pair of scissors lying around on the countertop and kills someone with it. x]

1. Long enough to give an idea of your skill level and style, but not very long. A couple of pages, maybe?
   
   2. Missions take as long as it takes to gather enough charges to make a kill/exorcism or fix whatever needs fixing. Agents could return minutes after they left if they wanted to, but I would think that existing in two places at once tends to get stressful after awhile.
   
   3. If you're planning on getting stuff published, I wouldn't mention the PPC in it. First of all, the PPC is a borrowed idea. We're allowed to play with it online by the grace of its creators, but publishing and making money with it is another thing. Second, good luck explaining the PPC to your agent/editor/publisher. Short answer: no.
   
   ~Neshomeh

Possessed » by Ascafennasiel

While in the way to success of the fellowship, Legolas starts to act very odd. He starts being disloyal to his friends on and off, and seems to loose control of his mind and body. Whats happening to the elf?
Lord of the Rings - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Action/Adventure/Drama - Chapters: 2 - Words: 3,826 - Reviews: 8 - Updated: 1-2-03 - Published: 1-1-03

I don't usually go hunting for badfic, but I came across this looking for a fic with the same name surveyed in one of Architeuthis' Intelligence reports. (That one seems to be missing.) This fic... made me laugh. A lot. It contains a non-canon location, non-canon plant life, Unicorns, mini-Balrogs, and rampant OOCness. Should provide a fun little mission for someone, whether it be DOGA, DMF&F, or whatever.

~Neshomeh

...How did you think to specify that?

1. How long should Permission-seeking writing samples be?
   
   A bit theoretical:
   2. How long, in HQ time, do missions take -- as long as the fic, as long as the agents spend in the fic (not counting if they, say, skip over bits of time) or...? Theoretically, since portals can travel through time (at least in fics), couldn't they bring the agents back, say, ten minutes after the mission came in, no matter how long it took? Food for thought. :)
   
   And now something really theoretical and a bit strange:
   3. Let's say there's an author-writer-person writing an original story and s/he is aware of the PPC. Even though it's an original story, could the character join, perhaps in the Epilogue?
   Oh... I didn't word that very well. Basically, in an original story, could the canonical ending be that the character joins the PPC? (Obviously it would have to be credited &c, if this is even possible.)
   I say the canonical ending because I believe there are some original characters from works like that running around, but I think these tend to be AUs.
   Considerations: If the work ever gets published and acquires fanfic, can you imagine the effect on the Agent? *shudders*
   
   *C, who is inquisitive today.

Lawrie works, I suppose. My first instinct was to call you Five, though. (Imaginative!) And I can have fun with numbers. The '_redclawed' bit makes me think of the Warriors series, but the warrior(s) with the closest name(s) to yours met... hm... unhappy ends. I could call you Lawrie-claws, but that sort of defeats the purpose, as it is, in fact, quite long. Well... three syllables... I suppose it could work.
If you can follow the train of thought that leads me to ponder calling you Angie, you get a cookie. =)

Starving college students unite!

Oh, I've heard of Akira; I've just never watched it. I should. I think I saw it at the local Rogers recently, so it's something to look into. I asked a friend about Elfen Lied, actually, and received a BYOT warning...

And Princess Tutu. am a dancer; I was surprised at how much of it was pretty darn close to reality. Especially that pointe class in second season.

The soundtrack is pretty awesome, isn't it? n.n I recognized a lot of the pieces but couldn't name them all, which wound up driving me nuts. x.X

About Katekyo Hitman Reborn. Hm. Well, it's about a fairly average Japanese middle-schooler (I think. I believe he's... fourteen?) who really, really sucks at school and... pretty much everything. His nickname is 'no-good Tsuna,' which should tell you something. (Full name Tsunayoshi). Anyway, turns out this kid is one of the last remaining candidates for the new head of a fairly prominent Italian family.

Yes, it's a mafia family.

A tutor, who also happens to be one of the family's top hitmen, is sent to whip him into shape. This tutor also happens to look like a baby. Cue the weirdness.

It's actually enormously entertaining.

As in, rig up a speaker system so you can read out the charge list but he can't see where you are, and thus listens without having a target to aim at.

Yeah, I guess it is a mouthful. I used to go by Lawrence-chan but I was thinking of dropping it because of the fanbrat implications that "-chan" carries (it's an inside joke by the way involving the movie Gettysburg...yeah, it's a long story...). But you can call me Lawrence or Lawrie if you like. Or something else. I'm kinda interested in the nicknames you're thinking of.

In terms of Doctor Who, check out your local video store. Or, if you are a starving college student like me, there's this website called Sidereel.com where you should be able to get most if not all of the new seasons. Getting the old series is more difficult, but NuWho is as good a place to start as any.

I'm surprised you haven't heard of Akira--it's a classic. So go watch it. You are forbidden to call yourself an anime geek unless you've seen it. :P It's been a while since I've seen it myself, actually, but I read and reread the manga all the time until my brother took it with him to New Orleans. It's excellent stuff, if pretty disturbing sometimes. But it's disturbing for a reason! Trust me, I nearly majored in English! I'm all about analyzing the subtextual messages and stuff!!

But before you leap into Elfen Lied, you might wanna look it up on Wikipedia or something. It's...really gruesome. I mean, I liked it, though it was a good series, but the first few episodes were difficult to get through. And, well, its detractors claim that it's just about gratuitous violence and fanservice. I'd say there's a lot more to the show than that but I just thought you should know, it's kind of an acquired taste. You should definitely check out the opening sequence, though. It's gorgeous. I've never seen anything like it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKvZS3xe8zQ&feature=related

Oh Princess Tutu. I only finished watching you and I want to buy you and hold you forever. And figure out all those classical pieces that make up your soundtrack. I tried to show it to a friend, but he thought it was too girly for him. Yes, it's about ballerinas but it's AWESOME in so many ways!! Ah well. By the way, there's a really neat AMV on youtube that you should check out called Hold Me Now. I don't usually go for AMVs, but this one's pretty good. It was one of the things that got me into the series in the first place.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHZqxecCukg

Katekyo Hitman Reborn rings a bell, but I can't say I've ever seen it. What's it about?

We'll take it. I'm not standing for Glorfindel raping anyone, let alone someone he continually refers to as a child.

Full body-bind hex. Can't do diddly-squat if he can't move or speak.

'Course, if he's one of those annoying wordless casters, then you'll have to tranquilize him, not just paralyze him. Fortunately, there are drugs for that.

If it gets really desperate, I think the rules only stipulate that the Stu has to be alive when you charge him. They don't specify that he can't be bleeding from a major artery at the time.

~Neshomeh

And that's a funny comic. XD

~ Rath ~

"Rule 34: If it exists, there's porn of it." So yeah, bad idea mentioning it, sorry.

Trojie's been hankering for a nice noncon OOC Elven pornfic for months. Finally the multiverse provides, and it's a damned mpreg! I'll have a dekko when I get back from uni and see if we can face taking it on.

http://www.hello-cthulhu.com/?date=2003-11-30

It's very good, and the premise (Chtulthu* trapped in Sanrio world) actually works (in my opinion)!

*That's how you spell him, right?

Sneak up on him; open a portal underneath him, whatever. Just take him out of his continuum and into another where the laws of his continuum are not valid. Any place where Harry Potter has been established as fictional (Doctor Who, Buffy the Vampire Slayer) would do. In those worlds he would not be able to use his magic anymore.

Elaboration would spoil things, but I can say that by the time Tawaki and Dustin have the charges ready, there will be no time for an anonymous letter.

...consider it evidence for recruitment.

You thought about it, didn't you? :P
Also, you've probably invoked Rule 34 by this point. x.X I believe that's the one that applies, anyway.

On how he'll blast you into oblivion.

If physically, sneak up behind him and tranquilize. Restrain appropriately, and charge when he wakes.

If it's by some sort of magic... well, most continua have some sort of way of inhibiting their magic-users. Force inhibitors. Drugs. Stuff like that.

If he's developed a resistance to his native ones, either find the ones most similar to those from other continua, or find a group of friendlies (or an ex-Sue or Stu agent) who'll help you out. Highly unlikely that only one would be able to subdue him, though; Stu.

Er... um... write it out and send it to him anonymously? Then turn up the next day and blast him into oblivion from behind?

Yeah, I'm out of ideas now. ^_^;;

I'll leave my actual comments in reply to the story itself. Suffice to say that there are some bugs to be worked out. Don't give up, though. Not knowing about Permission isn't a crime. Ignoring it now that you do would be, though.

~Neshomeh, off to comment.

Either way, it's morbidly awesome. In a "I'm not sure whether it's so bad it's good, so bad it's bad, or just plain badass" way. Seriously, think about it. Prime badfic material there, but could also be comedy gold (pun not intended). And it'd change things up either way.

...Okay, on second thought I DON'T want to see Homer/Legolas or Lisa/Boromir or whatever the fanbrats would cook up. O_o

Is there any way to incapacitate him beforehand? If you can, find some way to render him unable to do said blasting before charging. Shooting out all four limbs (kneecaps and shoulders or elbows would be my bet) could do the trick, but I don't know the Stu in question. Other than that, maybe deceiving him, or simply use stealth. Remain undetected aside from voice until done charging, then just take him out from behind or in a blind spot.