Given the matter in the original material? Yes, actually.
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Re: First ketchup! by
on 2008-08-15 19:31:00 UTC
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First ketchup! by
on 2008-08-15 19:28:00 UTC
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Welcome! I give you...a shrubbery!
You can find fic for anything. The question is, do you want to?
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* nod * by
on 2008-08-15 19:16:00 UTC
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It would be rather traumatic, wouldn't it, troll or not? There would be much Bleeprin required.
Actually, she just introduced herself. * points up * The Mad Hattie. I figure she's got a great sense of humor, so she can get a feel for mission writing before diving into the deep end. She'd be giving input, and maybe get an Agent cameo to get a feel for it all.
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Comment Virginity Take! by
on 2008-08-15 19:13:00 UTC
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Hiiiiiiii. It's about bloody time you joined. Have a spork and some duct tape. Nice to have you on the crew. And I can't *believe* you included Okami :P (FUNBALLLLL!)
I'll leave the more informational and business-like stuff to those who usully do it (Cassie, etc.). Yay for joining!
SealRat
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Hi PPC. This is a hopeful speaking. by
on 2008-08-15 19:07:00 UTC
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...it's very strange to be posting a message that isn't in characte- OH HAI.
As might be surmised by my ridiculous subject, I'm a new person who is hoping to join and assist the PPC. I was drawn in after reading Chatvert's work, which happened a while after she said I should join. At least, I think she said that.
Well, about me. Or, more importantly, my views on fanfiction. I'm a real stick in the mud when it comes to canon. Simply put, if it's not canon or in character, I generally dislike it. Exceptions of course are when something is really well written, with evidence and a strong basis for any non-canon material or OoCness that might exist.
Which is why I can rant on all day about why AxB is wrong because A would not have anything romantic to do with B in canon, yada yada yada doesn't work blah blah no support for it yackity yack let's get cookies.
I have a really odd view upon slash. In my head slash implies a non-canonical pairing, and as stated above, I heavily dislike that. But I can tolerate it, so long as it's not in one of my favorite canons. I don't LIKE it, but it won't scar me.
Mary-Sues. Not going to say much besides that they annoy me to no end and that I'm really paranoid about any of my OC's being Sues, to the point where I actually slammed them through the Litmus Test just to make sure.
...I look this over and think great, it's tl;dr and I'm not even DONE.
Fast-Forward through all the rest to... My Fandoms!
I've... got quite a few fandoms. And there's a priority thing for them in my brain, that really dictates just how much OoC I can handle without raging. I've actually developed a much higher tolerance level than I used to, up to the point that the only fandom that I will fiercely defend with the smallest provocation is Kingdom Hearts. Yes, THAT Kingdom Hearts. It's half Disney, for crying out loud! Other fandoms I like are Get Backers, Death Note, Invader Zim, Okami (Giant funball of doooooom), D. Gray-man, Fullmetal Alchemist, Pirates of the Caribbean, and pretty much every Disney movie that came out in the 90's.
I'm hoping that I'll be reading fics around those fandoms, and I'm aware that Kingdom Hearts is a victim particularly of Sues and really bad OoCness (Organization XIII smut? ...it just doesn't work. There is NOTHING in canon that could allow it to work. No emotions = no love, no pleasure, why would they waste their time?). I also seek to find the really bad ones, and I want to kill them. I want to kill them with FIRE. I want to cleanse the world of badfic! I shall FIND the worst, and I shall DESTROY it for the sake of SOCIETY!! I shall-- *dragged away*
*coughs* So yeah. That's me in a nutshell.
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Re: Welcomes, Val! by
on 2008-08-15 18:57:00 UTC
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But...wouldn't the Sues just be too OMG PERFECT for the pebbles to touch them?
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Welcomes, Val! by
on 2008-08-15 18:50:00 UTC
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Of course, I know you already, but welcome to the Board!
I present you with your very own bag of pebbles for throwing at Sues and a Random Shiny Object for gazing at.
I shall refrain from going on too much, as I can get over-enthusiastic in my greetings, but I am sure that people will be along shortly to give you the usual links and newbie-presents.
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Kingdom Hearts crap by
on 2008-08-15 18:43:00 UTC
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I recently deleted some entries from the Unclaimed Badfic section of the Wiki because it wasn't brought up here. They're actually my particular stories, which can be found at:
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4300069/1/
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4390189/1/
I'd like to think that I carefully constructed the stories. I wrote all ~25,000 and ~30,000 respective words before publishing anything and did several proofreading passes by both myself and other people. I also paid careful attention to detail to avoid a lot of pitfalls and pretty specifically synthesized one key character as a parody of Mary Sue (as in... an anvil to the head blatant parody) while betraying the whole underlying mechanic that makes the character type offensive. I certainly didn't just type it all out after earing a scoop of sugar and post it as is.
However, I'm a good sport and I won't deny that the stories are, by and large, dull and uninteresting (if carefully written). Being brought up at the PPC Wiki gave me an idea for a particular story, though. What if instead of just another perfunctory assassination, the PPC as a whole has to deal with a particularly intelligent, self-aware, genre savvy, and very dangerous individual bent on destroying them? It would obviously end with the PPC's victory (status quo is god, after all), but for the story, I'll need some C-list fodder. Agents to be killed/injured/stranded in the middle of nowhere/brainwashed/turned into sharks/etc. It would be a several story deal and overlap with other fanfiction assignments. Anyone have any interest in this?
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Jumping in with both feet! by
on 2008-08-15 18:41:00 UTC
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I figured, after being introduced to a member, "why the crap not?" and posted. I'm mainly into old stuff; Nuku Nuku, the old Slayers stuff (haven't seen Revolution yet), Heinlein's writings (good luck finding 'fic in THAT 'verse), and so on, but I can fake it with pretty much anything. To get things started off right, I also offer the assembled a collection of Blatant Gary Stu that is only made worse for how well-written it is.
http://zeus.cwes.net/~yar/fanfic/ornstead.html
I do rather hope that this goes over well, but if it doesn't I suppose I lose nothing that I already had.
- Val
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Mission Plug! by
on 2008-08-15 18:35:00 UTC
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The first mission of Agent Rouge and Michel Javert, Department of Bad Slash, set before Michel meets Maria. Betaed by Chatvert.
http://agent-tomato.livejournal.com/14496.html
http://agent-tomato.livejournal.com/14836.html
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*headdesk* by
on 2008-08-15 16:34:00 UTC
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Every time I see it, I click it. And every time, I wind up hitting my head on something. Ugh. It's hard to believe someone might be writing it seriously.
The hacking is... okay, I guess; kinda interesting. But I'd also be very, very interested to see the trauma inflicted upon the poor Agents who have to kill it.
And, mind if I ask who the lucky person you're planning to collaborate with is?
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You knowÂ… by
on 2008-08-15 16:28:00 UTC
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…Shakespeare badfic makes the Bard spin in his grave, right? And when anyone makes Shakespeare spin in his grave that's moving his bones, right?
Excellent mission. I gather that the Sue has "twenty trenchéd gashes in her head/The least a death to glitter?"
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Very nice. : ) by
on 2008-08-15 16:27:00 UTC
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And I think it was plenty funny. Poor Agent Glass... at least the mission went off mostly hitch-less.
...but wow. Sues for Shakespeare. That almost hurts my head.
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I like it! by
on 2008-08-15 11:16:00 UTC
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How dare a Sue mess with Shakespeare like that? And her backstory was so ... dumb ...
Not that you expect much better from a Sue, of course. Nice work!
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Duuuude, I had a mission! by
on 2008-08-15 09:19:00 UTC
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http://www.freewebs.com/ppc23/prequelmissionlog1.htm
Actually, I've decided to work on the "Prequels," the adventures of Agent Glass in the English Classics continuum, when she had no partner and little contact with HQ. First one of those is up, the disposal of Morgain, who wants to relieve Don Pedro of "Much Ado About Nothing" of his bachelorhood. Suggestions for improvement are welcome, as I don't think it turned out very funny... But it's done! Huzzah!
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Question About Claiming a Certain Fic by
on 2008-08-15 05:35:00 UTC
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I'm sure a number of people have read the Harry Potter fic 'My Immortal.' It got hacked by someone, as it was quite obviously a troll. I'm interested in taking this nd working on it with a soon-to-be PPCer, but I'm not sure if I should, or just leave it there with the glory of being hacked untouched.
Anyone got any ideas? It's a pretty bad fic, with droves of minis, but the hacking is just...just. See the conundrum?
(Link for anyone who wants to see: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2828044/1/My_Immortal . Hacking is in chapter 39.)
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I remember you! by
on 2008-08-15 01:44:00 UTC
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Don't know if you remember me, but I definitely remember you being on the Board. High-five, old-timer!
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Inquiring Minds Want To Know by
on 2008-08-15 01:19:00 UTC
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Also - should Le Jai bring a cardboard sign? Y/N?
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Vancouver Gathering - 15th August by
on 2008-08-15 01:17:00 UTC
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Can anyone remember the exact details for this - i.e what time we're supposed to be meeting?
Also, who's coming?
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Um. by
on 2008-08-14 22:07:00 UTC
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It's cool if LotR isn't your bag, but comparing the classic foundation of an entire genre of literature to common songfic is not going to sit well with many people here. Just so you know.
The following isn't personal, it's just me tangentially explaining what I think.
Language and thought are connected. There was a time when speech took as long as it needed to say what was meant, before TV and the Internet came and thoughts were reduced to sound bytes and then became as stunted as the contents of the average text message. Maybe there's no room for lyricism in modern language, but I, for one, think that's an unfortunate loss. How do you learn to think in beautiful language if you never experience it? What can we say about the contents of our thoughts if we can't express them with some finesse?
I'm not saying that all language should be flowery and poetic, because that gets annoying, but there's a big difference between a songficcer inserting lines of pop songs into their writing because they thought it would be cool, and Tolkien inventing a little rhyme because, for that moment in the story, it said exactly what he meant it to say. That's part of what makes a great writer, after all: The ability to impart great meaning with a few carefully chosen words.
I'm going to get off the soapbox, but I close with a quote from Charles de Lint's "The Conjure Man," which sums up what good writing is all about:
"The stories are just stories--they entertain, they make one laugh or cry--but if they have any worth, they carry within them a deeper resonance that remains long after the final page is turned, or the storyteller has come to the end of his or her tale. Both aspects of the story are necessary for it to have any worth."
~Neshomeh