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Try Library of the Damned, a Fanfiction MST site I've written some guest riffs for! I've only been a regular commenter/guest riffer for less than a year, but it's a small-ish community of snarky people, who I respect highly. It's also got some good examples of how to write a MST, although it's probably not all that great for a PPC MST. Well, maybe Erttheking's MSTs, since those are in script format, and maybe a few of my earlier guest riffs.

Here's the link!

https://literarytravesty.wordpress.com

Have a towel, a slice of wonder bread, a babel fish, and a small glass fishbowl!

Most mstings I've seen are in script format, though on YouTube there are some videos with commentary over them.

I'd be happy to share examples if nobody minds.

. . . at least among MSTs written by PPCers. Some seem to be written like the viewers are watching an acting-out of the fic in some way, maybe with subtitles, or possibly just being able to see the Words in the theater. Others just seem to have the fic's literal words scrolling up the screen.

I don't actually have any examples to post for you, because I generally don't pay much attention to MSts. Sorry!

—doctorlit, more of a prose guy

Are the Words subtitled in while Mike and the Bots watch the fic happen with visuals?

Welcome to the PPC! Here is a piece of cake-flavoured chocolate which definitely has no harmful effects whatsoever.

Have a box of Comrade Crunch – the official, Kremlin-certified Cereal of Communism!

And on top o' that, have sum red-hot Texan Apple Pies, now with added arrogance! For The American In Us All (except inferior races)™!

Welcome to the Board! Here, have some chocolate and enjoy your stay!

And don't worry, we don't bite... much.

Have two cents, so you can put them into discussions later!

(Also, the accounts feature on the Board is really finicky, it's better to just put your name into "Author" every time, sadly)

People will post open calls you can respond to or might ask you to beta if you get to know them better.

If people find that you're good at providing feedback, on grammar, canon, plot, structure, or anything else that makea a piece better, then people will be more likely to ask you to beta in the future.

Have a self-updating hard copy of the List of Things I Am Not Allowed To Do in the PPC!

I'm also somewhat interested in learning to become a beta reader- is there a procedure akin to Permission?

Hello! I'm Cicada. It's nice to meet you all! I like Percy Jackson, Tamora Pierce books, and Holly Black's Modern Faerie Tales. I also read some of the Legend of Drizzt when I was young, and then tried rereading it recently. So, I figured hanging out with the PPC would be a good form of repentance.
I hope this was an ok introduction. Nice to meet you all!

he had started his spring over one of the cracks that had erupted with bugs earlier. Now, a burst of dust spewed upwards from the crack, and the lion started, shaking his mane and sneezing. Immediately, shelf fungus of a sickly yellow color began growing across the lion's fur.

"Oh, ew!" yelled Wilma. "That's super nasty-looking!"

As the lion's face became covered in growths, he made chuffing noises and tried to rub them fungi off with a front paw, which itself became covered. He clumsily began staggering around, making spores drift off him to the ground. He nearly trampled a trio of plovers, which began pipping in panic as they, too, became hosts to the shelf fungus.

"Oh, jeeze," said Anne. As she ran for the dice, she yelled out to the room, "Everybody, stay away from those mushroomy animals!" She rolled while muttering, "Gotta tell the grown-ups these things, otherwise they get themselves hurt . . ."

Five and three. The orange piece slid forward eight, and the smoky ball said:

Soil spills, creatures flee, tree trunks crash
The sky is dry, yet water arrives in a flash

[Purple: 21. (Yellow: 11) Orange: 22. (Teal: 17). Purple up.]

—doctorlit apologizes for deus ex machin-ing the lion, but he doesn't think we stood much of a chance against an adult big cat with the cast we have assembled . . .

Thanks for the feedback!

Your point about there being, effectively, two stories in there has me wondering what it would be like to revisit the interlude at some point in the future and show all those moments that I think got lost in the rush of enthusiasm to make them an official agent pair and get them into missions.

Maybe there's a version with two parts, one that has an angel and a demon bumping into one another and hesitantly deciding that there isn't really much of a reason to smite one another now that the Apocalypse has been averted, and getting to know one another as they go and see the sights, before ending on them finding a portal. The second, introducing them to this strange new world and having each of them come to grips with the fact that their partner and once sworn enemy is really the only island of familiarity they have in this sea of weirdness.

I think that might be fun.

But, since we're here at this point in the story, I think we'll play up that dynamic of opposites that makes them so interesting to write (and hopefully fun to read).

And it looks like Ix has gone back to get the typo, so I've managed to avoid having to do anything helpful once again. Hooray!

—Aegis

I think you had a point about the two seeming to get used to each other too quickly, but while Aegis and I were writing, we were also trying to go for "unfamiliar world with unfamiliar rules, cling to the familiar thing". Naturally, once they get over the initial shock, certain, er, rivalries might be making a comeback. We're already a good chunk of a way into their first mission together and they're already squabbling. :P

Zaphoriel would definitely be quite confused by the question, at least until he starts checking out their home canon. He'd probably laugh the second time he heard it.

The general idea behind the decor was that it belonged to a Sith agent once upon a time who got sent home with their memory wiped because it turned out they were not, in fact, reformed. But that's really just a background detail that probably won't be expanded on.

I'll take a look for the typo in a bit. :)

And now I'm doing the other thing, on my phone, from a train, so I apologize for any errors.

Generally, I like it! Interestingly, I feel like there were two stories here, one about the two characters touring Earth and one about them joining the PPC. I would have liked to read more of the first one, because that sounds fun. I also think giving them a little more time to become familiar with each other and settle into the dynamic they'll have as agents might have been beneficial, because I get the sense that the camaraderie of the writers has bled over into the characters, making them just a bit too comfortable and open with each other just a bit too quickly for the cultural(?) gulf between them.

On the other hand, I could be projecting, because I know I'm guilty of doing that myself. ^_^;

Anyway, I like the concept, taking odd couple partners to a natural extreme--or what would be an extreme with an angel and a demon from just about any other world. With these two being Pratchett-flavored, I reckon they'll do better than they expect in HQ.

... And now I'm trying to imagine the look on Zaphoriel's face the first time someone asks if she knew the Great God Pterry. This gives me many and varied feels.

I did spot a typo toward the end, "me" instead of "we," but I'm not sure exactly where. One of Zaphoriel's lines, I think.

Oh, out of curiosity, what is the inspiration for the decor in their RC? I thought that was cool, and it's always nice to give a nod to the PPC's turnover. Gives it depth. And, is the lingering evil anything specific?

~Neshomeh

You and I are the same age!