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I like The PPC and the annoyingly long subtitle that really only wastes time but provides a handy distraction so that we may steal your money. It has a ring to it, don't you think? :P

...Eric Flint's 1632 series.
He takes the very best fanfic for his previous novel in the series and incorporates it into the plot of the next. he also has it published AS CANON!
He also allows people to download his books freely without cost.
http://www.baen.com/library/


Just click "The books" on the left side panel.
Neat huh?
Also an alternate list.
http://www.webscription.net/c-1-free-library.aspx

The part where you're making it just those three.

We have a list of the names offered up for consideration. With complete impartiality, I am posting all 58 of them. Please vote for your favourite one. And only one, please.

1. The Dreaded Demonic Macrovirus of Mary!
2. MacroSue
3. Malodorous Mary Sues + Macrovirus!
4. The Emergency
5. When Sues Attack and Flowers Get Naughty
6. Two Zero Zero Eight Attack
7. The End is Nigh!
8. The Graph of Doom [[In response to the Catastrophe Theory Graph]]
9. PPC: Guardians
10. PPC: the Movie!
11. The PPC and the annoyingly long subtitle that really only wastes time but provides a handy distraction so that we may steal your money.
12. Operation PPC: Protectors of the Plot Continuum
13. PPC: Mary-Sues, Viruses and Flowers, oh my!
14. The Catastrophe Theory
15. PPC .vs. the Mary-Sue
16. The Final Stand
17. Double Trouble: The 08 Invasions
18. The Yarrow's Revenge
19. Pestilence, Death, and War
20. The Hardships of a Year
21. Invasions and Emergencies Overcome
22. PPC: Now and Forever
23. Agents Survive!
24. Invader Sue!
25. PPC Strikes Back
26. PPC: The Sue Menace
27. PPC Endgame
28. March of the PPC
29. PPC Survivors [[this one sounds like it would make a great series]]
30. Invasion of the PPC: Archives that should be lost but we found
31. Science Fiction Double Feature [[we fall loosely into sci-fi, right? ^_^; ]]
32. HQ Horror Picture Show [[perhaps gives a nod to the various artistic styles likely to be involved as well as the previous suggestion.]]
33. What Alice Saw [[...through the looking-glass. Mirror Multiverse reference.]]
34. On the Flip Side [[refers to the Mirror Multiverse again]]
35. My Side, Your Side!
36. Life is Not So Beautiful
37. The Stress, The Sues, and I (Or: "Stress, Sues, and I")
38. Agents of the Multiverse
39. Mission: Mostly Impossible
40. The Multiverse Missions
41. Disaster in the Word Worlds
42. Protecting the Plot Continuum (with or without subtitles such as "The Mary-Sue Invasion", et cetera)
43. PPC: The Year Of Living Dangerously
44. PPC Fiction
45. PPC Confidential
46. Citizen Sue
47. Apocalypse Shortly After Dinnertime
48. The Usual Agents
49. The Protectors of the Plot Continuum: The Fellowship of the Plot Continuum
50. There Will Be Glitter
51. No Country For New Sues
52. Stranger Than Fanfiction
53. PPC: Big Damn Heroes
54. Bugs, 'Sues, and Steel
55. Urple Days and Wilver Nights
56. The Battle for Canon
57. Oh, Canon, Wherefore Art Thou?
58. Canon Wars

((And a Thousande Elephants!)) - we could append this to just about any title, I think.

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Linkies!

Remove Heist the Porcupine, The Foot Kestrel and "of course the unforgettable" Max Ranger and make them a trio in a new story! The story opens on them surrounded by an army of robot ninjas in an empty desert, and they flashback to how they got into this mess - revealing an epic journey to find The Sword of Abull-Kabar across the land of Anarchronis, and save it from "a gazillion-jillion" years of ultimate darkness.

That's all I've got so far. Sounds awesome, no?

There was an essay written a couple of years ago about us for a uni paper. I have been tring to find it, but I have lost the link.

Any one else have it?

Leto

I suppose that I mostly felt I needed your consent before deciding to do something like this. I don't particularly fear that we're all going to be dragged into court, but in my experience, it's always better to ask.

So thanks, all of you. And yes, I'll definitely keep you lot involved in it; you probably won't be able to shut me up after I finish it - I'll be too happy. You'll certainly get a link, Tomato. ;)

In direct response to Nesh and Pads: No, I don't particularly care if my professors give me strange looks, because if nothing else, I'll be remembered as someone who's passionate about writing and precision. And I like this one; he seems quite open-minded - actually, in the first class he told us that since he has to read about twenty thousand words at the end of semester, we'll get better marks if we're interesting. He certainly thought it had potential when I gave a very brief sketch of fanfiction a few weeks ago. Besides, that's why we have a very early session devoted entirely to topic approval.

Ah, I ramble. I suppose I'm just relieved. Thank you, guys.

(Of course, if anyone has more to say, don't let the finality of the above line stop you. I'm always interested.)

Tawaki and Tadkeeta's honeymoon is interrupted by a Potter Sue. Note: Has some Agent nudity and an off-camera sexual encounter, but nothing explicit.

Oh, well. You gave me a puppy in return. SO worth it. *huggles the puppy*

Bleepolate cake for both of you. *glomps you both*

~Zoe~

I wanna write it tooooo!

I WANT TO WRITE THAT CHARACTER.

...is that they don't actually check up on these things. If it's one particular module of your course, the odds of whoever's teaching you taking a dramatic interest, seeing what's happening, and pulling a load of lawyers on fandom's head in the name of creativity are minimal. If you were, for example, basing a Phd on a fanfictiony topic that relied heavily on the PPC, you'd be drawing a little more attention, but even then, the prospects of negative legal impact are slim; the greater worry would be having a tutor who objected in some way and thus marked you down. And if you're concentrating on the phenomena aspect rather than anything else peculiar to the fanfiction world, as a paper it works, and there would also be little basis that I can see for problems with your tutor.

And certainly, if you're choosing the PPC and related phenomena, your surveys and whatnot should be thrown this way.

Your agents have a great dynamic, and your writing is solid. Definitely a good first mission.

April would like to know if Crebaina has had any problem with the disguise generator and Aeron. The generator in RC 1701 tends to squish Fitch into April's shoulder.

I don't remember who, but there have been a couple of people who have done surveys and such on the Board for school projects.

As I see it, the only real question is, do you care if your professors know what you do in your spare time?

~Neshomeh

The final was on a subculture of our choice; I devoted a paragraph to fanfiction. I think it's entirely plausible, as long as you back everything up with data and you have your professor's blessing.

We will want to be seeing this essay. It sounds cool.

I say go for it!

The first sentence is just OMGWTFO.o;;.

There are certain things that make for bad inspiration. Dreams are usually on that list. This would be another thing.

I'm just glad it doesn't seem to have anything to do with PotO. Though I only looked at the first chapter.

~Neshomeh, scared to go further.

and so as I see it it's a legit topic for an essay. The police aren't going to break in here with the thumbscrews and yell 'put down the novels!' after reading your essay :)
I'm also reasonably certain that other people have talked about the PPC in school/uni projects before and it has been fine.

I'm all for it. What do others think?

Why is it that they can make the author's notes look halfway decent, upping our hopes, only to dash them with the first lines of the story?

Hi, all - I need some advice.

For a paper I'm currently taking at uni, the semester's major project is a long essay on a non-fiction subject of our choice. I know it sounds ridiculous, but I think I can make fanfiction as a community phenomena my subject - which, quite frankly, would make my day, because of all the topic ideasI've had so far, it's the only one that really sparks my interest.

In the course of researching I would be doing a lot of research, including surveys, which I may offer to everyone here, if you're interested in helping, but my main issue at the moment is whether or not it would be wise to talk, however briefly, about the PPC in a rather offical essay. I'm going to write a section on the legality of fanfic itself, and defend it, but Tungsten Monk's recent withdrawal has made me cautious; I don't want to get anyone, including myself, in trouble, and the PPC is a much smaller and more specific group than fanfic writers in general.

So I ask you; is it wise?

I'm pitching the idea to my professor in a day or so, and nothing's final yet anyway, but I'd like your opinions on the matter.

Thanks in advance,

- Sedri

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2670720/1/DonJuanTriumphant

Worst choice of character name ever?