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Mary Sues: Officially Sanctioned by British TV Writers

Ladies and gentlemen of this fine community, I have harrowing news for us all. The common Mary Sue is now invading the TV. She will soon be broadcast to British television audiences in a brand new series, titled Lost in Austen to be shown on Saturday nights.

And if it's not bad enough, they're messing with a national treasure. One of the greatest books to come out of England's green and pleasant land.

Oh yes, she's about to rape Pride and Prejudice.

The basic premise is: an "ordinary girl", fed up with her life, gets pulled into the world of Pride and Prejudice and starts messing up the world of the canon characters. Unapologetically. Only she is the key to the world of Elizabeth Bennet: there's a hole in her wall that leads right to another world!

*sharpens knives*

*and teeth*

*and toenails*

Whaddaya say we get a mob together?

...I'll just lean back and watch your pain, if you don't mind. *sips on drink* I do so enjoy the screams of students.

Personally, I guess I don't like it because it requires the admin and all the mods to be trustworthy. If someone out to get us got mod powers, or for that matter, if there was ever a nasty debate involving a moderator, there'd be no accountability at all - the moderator involved could edit whatever she pleased, and nobody would have solid proof of who had done it. (Not even the admin - that's one of the limitations of the system.)

I prefer the "break glass in case of fire" approach to admin powers - they really should only be used when there's an obvious need - spammers, trolls who wouldn't go away when asked nicely, and so on. As long as discussions stay civil (and we've got a great track record when it comes to that), we shouldn't need admin intervention at all.

I mean, I kinda like it but the idea of the PPC Secret Service is just scary. It'll be like the DIS only hopefully not.

"Sanctuary of Arda" ? It seems abandoned, but the story is here: http://www.fictionalley.org/authors/keiran_halcyon/SOA.html

I'd be no help with your second question, though. It's been a while since I read LotR.

I'm quite sure I've read a Narnia OFU before. Is it completely inactive?

(And I quite agree; the poor Narnians...)

(I voted in it. Would you let me know when you close it? I'd like to see the results.)

Plus I love that flashpatch imagery! ;p

Personally I don't see a problem as long as you can keep updating both of them semi-regularly.

While I'm still working on the Good Omens OFU, I agree with you that Narnia NEEDS one. And if you need a hand in any capacity, I'm so there.

And if you don't need a hand, may I be the first to put my hand up to enrol?

...given I've sent it twice :)

I'll send it to Cassie and get her to forward it to you and we'll see if we have any more luck that way, yeah?

-Trojie, cursing gmail and its magical ability to eat emails.

Please send to just t the doctor @ gmail . com (without the spaces, of course). Won't be able to get it done quick, but will do it soon...

I've looking for a reasonably well-written yet still utterly cr*p badfic that I once saw. It's a Harry Potter/Lord of the Rings crossover with (I believe) a bit of Dragonball Z lumped in. It involves Harry getting booted into Middle-Earth and randomly becoming Harold the Black, the sixth Istari (or something, I really can't remember much).

I believe the title was 'BLANK BLANK Arda'. Can anyone point me?

Question: Arda means 'Middle-Earth' in Sindarin, right? *is probably very wrong*

It has twelve thousand reviews? That's gone up by six thousand since the last time I saw it. What the hell happened? Did it eat the fans of another fandom or something?

Narnia desperately needs one.

It's a good idea for the PGs and any potential Mods to be kept seperate. Absolute power will corrupt absolutely, as the saying goes.
Rather, why don't we keep the Moderators a secret? We hold the vote, etc, or rather, Techno-Dann does, deleting everyone's vote as they come in. Once done, he tallies the votes, and the selected Moderator would gain their position, and be notified, with no-one else knowing the result.
That way, if a Moderator tries to lord it over people, they can have their position removed because no-one is meant to know who it is. If they reveal it, then a new Moderator is chosen.

The PPC Secret Service, or something like that. Techno-Dnan acts as the visible head *Coughs* Target *Coughs*, while the other one works behind the scenes.

The spambot itself? Not really. The person running the spambot? Certainly. Then they'd have an unstoppable spambot.

These people have not handed in their lines yet.

No pressure at all, people, these posts I make are just nudges to your memories. And a kind of guarantee that Trojie and I haven't forgotten about it either. So no need to run round apologising. As usual, contact either of us if you have questions, but send your lines to Trojie.

Ansela
Artic Blade
BattleHamster
BeetleFire (insanegrrl got the wrong script and has sent in those lines)
Chatvert
Crystal
Elcalion
Fichunter
Fynn
insanegrrl
Jai
just_theDoctor
Laburnum
Leto Haven (hasn't sent Lucien lines yet, and has only sent .aups)
lynxihez
Oozaru Angel
Paddlebrains
Pigeonarmy (hasn't handed in Archer/Sabbat lines)
Platinumyo
Rohirric Monkey
wingnut

I just thought I'd raise my voice in agreement with the majority.

We don't need mods. The PPC is run on the grounds of modding ourselves and each other. What we do need is an admin to fix the technical problems. As others have said, Techno-Dann is our most internet-savvy person, and has been handling the problem since day one. If we do need to vote, I'm going with him.

If he decides to retire or something, we can decide on a new admin then.