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I'd be more than happy to spend a while online being interviewed.

... or are his rules for writing pinched blatantly from Mark Twain's 'The Literary Offences of Fenimore-Cooper?'

Fail.

... we all know that Shipfics are a special case.

In that case I shall simply volunteer Agent Trojie and her trusty Fender Jaguar.

You're right, it is confusing, to the extent that I can't remember which character is which. I hate that.

I can't promise anything permanent, owing to the chaotic nature of HQ, missions interfering, and the likelihood of the musicians staging a revolt if they're pushed too hard. But if Leto's madkeen enough to give it a shot, I won't stop him.

"Hear them squeal" is is his motto. The audience or the musicians?

Having both there at the same time might cause the fabric of the multiverse to collapse, though.

Firstly, many thanks to everyone who has volunteered. *hugs* I love you guys.

To make a long story short, I did real-time interviews with four people today, and found that it took about three hours per person. (At one point I had three different windows open in two programs, and was going a little mad.) Obviously, this is not a good thing - I don't want to ask that much time of any of you. So it looks like direct interviews aren't going to work.

This is annoying; I wanted to do it real-time so that I could drop questions that had already been answered or obviously didn't apply to said person, and - more importantly - so that if a particularly interesting answer was given, or a new angle came up that I hadn't considered (which happened at least three times already), we could pursue that particular train of thought, which isn't so easy via email.

Sorry, I ramble. In short, unless you happen to have three hours to spare when you see me online, I think we ought to go with emailing. I'd appreciate it if I could ask a few questions afterwards, if something comes up, but if not, no worries.

I'll send out the questions in the morning (it's getting late now) - if anyone volunteers after that, no worries; I'll just send it again.

Thanks again, all. The interviews so far have been fantastic and if this keeps up, my only problem will be getting through all the data before my essay is due!

That's a very strange thing. Very strange. I think I'll take the Suethors over this. Or maybe Resident Evil X.

Weird.

But thanks (?) for explaining it, I suppose. But what's a copypasta? Chain mail thing?

The PPC Movie, "There WIll Be Glitter", is the story of the Sue Invasion. The lovely Trojanhorse and I have been working on a soundtrack for it, though they all consist of songs that have been made already. I can see the Agens getting hold of the film and deciding to make their own soundtrack.

Though a musical sounds hilarious...

Oh dammit, you've given me plotbunnies! Curse you! As if I didn't have enough to deal with already! Now I have ideas for a stage musical of the Invasion!

My agents may not be particularly gifted with instruments (though feel free to make them attempt to play some anyway), but they do sing.

Cassie's voice... is actually rather good. She used to sing soprano in her school/college choir and one of her most annoying habits is singing randomly around the RC and on missions. When Nat sings, she goes for enthusiasm over actually hitting the right notes, but if kicked into shape she'd not be that bad either. Tyler... just no. He might be able to cope with an instrument, but he can't carry a tune in a bucket. And once I (finally) get my next two agents sorted out, you can drag them in too.

There are no words for this situation. Really.

I might have to do a bit of research, see if I can turn up any very similar stories. After all, he as good as says that he's been copy-pasting... wonder if permission was asked for this "research." Probably not.

I like how he puts the words 'theft' and 'plagiarism' in quotes.

Also, 'libel' doesn't go plural like that, as far as I know.

...my brain wants to go curl up and die in a corner now.

He is a meglomaniac and loves a challange. This sounds like a good place for him, in that it will be alot of fun.

Oh, favourite pieces of music: anything in 15-16 time and over 100 pages in length. "Hear them squeal" is is his motto.

rosemary_21@hotmail.co.uk

There's a lowlife on FFN who has been posting plagiarized stories by other people as his own. At least one is from someone I know, who is NOT happy about this. This story is from a story in German on FFN.

His profile is interesting in other ways, too, most notably for the threats he makes against anyone who calls him on his plagiarism. I got a real laugh out of him saying "...I will ensure that you never return to this site again" like he's some kind of FFN authority. If the FFN staff finds out about him (and actually shows more signs of life than the average brick) he'll be banz0red so hard his head will spin.

Very nice! I like seeing Sith with actual personalities, too...though that might just be a side-affect of reading too many Star Wars fics.

Have fun here!

Restarted with slightly different spider settings. :-/ Greedy little bugger decided to eat all of gnu.org while it was at it. Sometimes this thing has a very hard time comprehending the idea of limits.

...it's when somebody starts the PPC Interpretive Dance Group that I'll get worried.

It's strange, I thought we'd be swamped with violins - and yet Murtagh is the first. Titus is welcome too.

Agent Trojie would like to volunteer her skills on the guitar. She can play acoustic or electric.

Boarder!Trojie can also play the bagpipes, if that's any use...

My spider is at this very moment sucking up the whole PPC wiki. It collects it as the generated HTML pages, of course, not the underlying data, but in the event that July's export or later import fails, at least we'll have the content -- though we might need a fair bit of cutting and pasting to get some of it back where it belongs.

I wish I could do more, but I can't think of anything else I can do without blowing my anonymity. Given that my hobby is whacking spoiled fanbrats with a clue-by-four, I'd rather make it as hard as possible for them to retaliate with anything more than angry words.

Mission #25.