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"If there are other magical elements, it's more fantasy."

There are other magical creatures and random magic, so yes. It's also got some sci-fi in.

"There are numerous fiction communities there."

You mean like Deletrius, but for actual fics rather than sporks? I thought Deletrius only had the last twenty or so things posted, though. So isn't that a bad idea if you're looking for readers?

Thanks for the help, but I've since decided that it was fantasy. Supernatural is probably only ghosts etc, isn’t it?

Sorry that I couldn’t give a better explanation before, but my time at the library was almost up and I was about to get booted off the computer because of it. Anyway, here's the plot outline. It's still only a draft and could potentially change at any time. It's met with mixed comments from the few I've shown it to so far. I've also just recently changed a few things, so if something doesn't make any sense, call me out on it.

The year on Earth is 22?? (unsure of exact year. Probably the latter part of the century). Kyle Redfield, Europe’s stealthiest burglar, has been a thorn in the side of the police for over fifteen years. When a strange woman arrives at his door, bloodied and beaten, he feels a strange urge to take her in rather than send her to a hospital. As he nurses her back to health, he hacks into police files and finds no mention of the woman ever existing.

Demanding answers, Mala tells him that the worlds of magic and science used to be one, but split apart centuries before because of an unknown cataclysm/someone who wanted to separate them (haven’t decided). So far, so cliché. But don’t worry. I try to put an original spin on all clichés.

During the time they were separated, the magical world, Orlornu, faced a deadly danger and so the Circle was created, a ruling council with absolute power composed of a male and a female of every race: elf, nymph, troll, pixie, ogre, vampire and more. The Circle managed to save Orlornu from destruction, but the power they wielded began to corrupt them. Within a century, they had almost total control of Orlornu, but they wanted more.

Some of the rebels who refused the Circle’s rule attempted to fight back, but most fled through discovered rifts in reality and arrived on Earth in the early 20th century. Since then, the rebels have slowly tried to convince humans of the coming fight while the Circle’s minions hunted each of them down. While the rebel’s numbers were slowly whittled down to less than a hundred, the Circle’s power somehow continued to grow. Now, as their invasion force numbers into the millions, they have almost enough power to start to directly affect Earth and cause chaos throughout the planet: alter human minds on an immense scale to tie them up in massive, senseless wars; alter Earth’s geography to cause volcanic eruptions under major cities or even, if they so chose, burn away the atmosphere entirely.

Kyle refuses to believe her at first, thinking her to be a crazy woman who somehow escaped the government’s records. But when Mala is attacked by the ogre who caused her so much damage before, he starts to realise the truth of what she said. But will he be able to fight against the magic slowly polluting the world?

The answer is obviously yes as he’s the main character. I just nicked part of this off of a blurb I once wrote for it. It was riddled with clichés like that. Try this one: “If he wants to survive, he must fight for everything he believes in before it is destroyed by everything he doesn’t believe in.” Clichéd or what? Sounds like a B-movie.

But anyway, the magic is sort of undefined. If you want to do something, you can do it, as long as you have the power and the will to do it. It seems like a deux ex machine, but the Circle are the ones with the real power, not the good guys. All of the races have magic with the possible exception of vampires and the like. They might have something else. Cloaking and disguising spells are the easiest, which is how everyone moves around Earth without detection. Fire magic is the most commonly used as it’s one of the easiest things to summon and control.

This leads to the only way to detect a cloaked/disguised person: infrared (also the title of the series). Under an infrared detector, the person shows up as pure white because of the energy of the fire magic inside them. They can contain it inside them so that they don’t burn anyone they touch (though their skin always feels hot), but they can’t control it enough to appear as anything other than white on infrared. On a related note, exactly what temperature is white on an infrared scanner? Because I may need to change this slightly if it’s stupidly hot.

Yes, I know this sounds so dreadful that I should probably just give up now, but a) it sounds far, far better in my head and b) I just want to give it a try anyway. But any other helpful hints?

If they're the only magical element in an otherwise realistic setting, I'd say Supernatural. If there are other magical elements, it's more fantasy.

Myself, I'd use LiveJournal. There are numerous fiction communities there. You might not get as many reviews as you would on FictionPress, but the overall quality of your fellow posters is much higher.

Sounds interesting. I look forward to seeing what you do with it.

You really don't have to do that. For the most part, most of the ideas in the PPC are just thrown out there with small details, which means everyone can elaborate on them at a later point or change this or that. Though I suppose it'd be useful for a Wiki page.

And I so hate you for being able to write essays *Glares at his English teacher and mutters darkly*

If they were, in fact, supernatural, or other elements in the story pushed it into the supernatural, that might be different. As in, if you actually were using the Norse roots. But if you're not, then I'd say probably fantasy.

http://www.fictionpress.com/ is FictionPress's website. I don't know about where else to post original fiction, but I'm kind of afraid of that website because of the ties which link them to the Pit.

1. I will not introduce Sylar to the Master.
   --Or the Joker
   --Or Stewie Griffin
   --Or any other homicidal psychotic bent on world domination
   
   814. I will not claim Ianto Jones is Alfred Pennyworth's long lost son.
   --Even if it makes sense.

Though I have to feel sorry for the PPC Agents, having so many enemies... the DIS/Black Cats, the LMSF, the Mirror Multiverse, the CSC...

Okay, so not many enemies, but big mean nasty ones.

Go ahead with the cult. I'd like to see how the PPC cope with this new threat.

That's pretty dedicated, to me at least. I normally just type down whatever I can think of and then edit the result so it's vaguely readable. :P

You don't need to delete it, even if people don't agree. Being able to write essays is a pretty useful skill, and if you're proud of it, there's no need to banish it from your computer. If this is met with disapproval, which it hasn't so far, I'd keep the essay privately. I've got a load of WIPs which I could never show to the public, but that I often work on anyway.

I've got an original fiction in the works and I'm a bit confused.

Would elves (though they're not Tolkien rip-offs like usual) be Supernatural or Fantasy genre. Because they do have roots in the supernatural.

Also, what's FictionPress's website? Or is there something better?

Sorry for double post. >

Welcome back to the board! :D

I'd send a copy of the essay I'm forming about them to you, but it's still a text document, ready to be deleted when the first sign of disapproval comes.

The CSC usually sends cultists into the city to ambush people and force them to read bad squickfic, putting them into a coma. However, they're not above a bit of vandalism at times, especially when it comes to buisnesses like the Tour Prend Pion. They also dress in lavander, the better to traumatize agents.

• any Tolkien dragon.
  - any Narnian dragon
  - any dragon from A Song Of Ice And Fire
  - Temeraire (toooooooo late!)
  - Trogdor
  as the outcome will most likely be incineration of the former and extreme annoyance on the part of the latter.

Welcome back to the board! :D

characters being transported to the time of the Newsboy strike and then treat the events as depicted in the film Newsies as the way things really happened?

That one might be tricky enough: it's for a fandom that essentially has the function of the CRD: if history goes wrong they set it right (which explains my gripe with treating a work of fiction as the right set of events).

Other question: where would minor chronogical hickups fall under? Hickups as someone mentioning being run over by a car (with combustion engine) in 1775, or a historical figure mentioned as being (yet not shown) to be in location A, while in reality he was in location B. Is that CRD worthy, or are those case this handled by the regular DMS of Floater agents?

But I have to agree it's not nice. i do have a sore spot against people who take other people's stories, and then act like they're the ones who've been wronged. Bad experiences in the past is all I'm gonna say.
Plus, there's just something about this guy that offends every one of my morals. It bugs me, but since WC has reported that he's taken twelve stories down, I'll knock my impulsive side out and let it listen to the reasonable one.

*Sighs* Am I still allowed to throw pebbles? Me and Sedri were having such a lovely game.

1. I will not mention cross-pollination around any of the Flowers.
   810. I will not allow King Leonidas and Davy Crockett to meet.
   811. I will not allow Zorro and Robin Hood to meet.
   -Even though that would be so many degrees of awesomeness.
   812. I will not tell anyone that they are the Banana King.
   -Nor will I tell them to put a banana in their ear.
   -Nor will I force them to go on a journey to "Candy Mountain".
   -In fact, Charlie the Unicorn reenactments of any sort are strictly forbidden.
   

Lurkage is all well and good, but welcome back to the active life. Witty sarcasm and odd opinions rarely hurt anyone. And then only if they're written on a stone and thrown at them.

The comment on the thread above was only about badfic writers - I have enough of THEM. I can never have enough PPCers! Sending the questions now - thanks!

On encountering any vampire, banshee, werewolf or undead agent I will not scream, "Back un-holy beast of the night!" at them.

-Nor will I atempt to ward them off with garlic, crucifixes, mirrors, pigs etc.