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sorry i took so longggg some meanies tried to cancel my vid

its v long and i think ive made some improvements from last time uwu

hope u like it

oh also if ur in russia u cant watch it there bc of copyright

I think archiving them in a subdirectory on the Board would be nice if there's the space for it. I've also been using Squidge Images and Tumblr as hosting sites, but I would prefer to keep the pictures not that easily viewable by internet randos...

It's been widely reported that Discord has started doing some stuff to stop using folks from using Discord as a filehost for images. Specifically, you'll always be able to go look at an image in Discord, but if you open it up in your browser, that link will only work for 24 hours. This will apply retroactively.

There are (from a preliminary and very coarse query on the database) various Board posts that point at Discord images. I could go through and grab all said images (while I still can) and put together some sort of big list with thi link, which post I got it out of, and the image, which we could put ... somewhere.

Is this something we should do?

If so, any theories about where somewhere is? (A subdirectory of the Board is an option, or stashing them somewhere in case somebody asks)

Always appreciate you reading despite the romance stuff. {= ) The next installment has a mission in it, so you can look forward to that! ... Eventually!

And, uh, I'm with you on dating IRL. I guess other people enjoy the "twitterpated" phase with their hormones maxed out, but it will please me to never to go through that again. I'll just vicariously enjoy fictional chemistry that doesn't interfere with my ability to eat and sleep normally, thanks! ^_^

~Neshomeh

Cute! The back-and-forth of the dialogue, and all the little facial expressions . . . Very complex! I’m glad I don’t date! Actually, kind of intimidating!

I was amused Jacques thought Su’s name was a PPC name, rather than being from his original canon, but as his narration pointed out, it does fit right in! Also, that’s an interesting psychological tidbit that Jenni doesn’t like saying Su’s full name. Understandable, though. I also liked the bit about Jenni’s outlook grating against that of the Flowers, and the fact that she’s been trying to sway them behind the scenes a bit. Feels very in-character for her; after all, psychiatric care doesn’t just have to be after-the-fact!

—doctorlit feels embarrassed by this short comment, but, you, know, romance stuff

(edited because I hit enter too early, so very early)

(I've listed you as the current adopter; you'll have to switch it to the agent once you've introduced them!)

—doctorlit, getting around to things

Ah, yes, only a healthy and well-grounded society sees grown adults sending hate mail to 14-year-olds! Especially hate mail filled with acidic booby traps! Charming, mature bunch, these purebloods and pureblood sympathizers, every scalded child finger is well justified. (I do love the detail that some of the hate mail writers are so old-fashioned, they’re literally still using Olde English-esque spelling! Caught in the past, much?)

Oh my gosh, the end portion of this chapter is absolute peak Gryffindor Harry! “My friend might be in danger? Time to escape school and cross the country completely alone without telling anyone!” I absolutely love the interaction between Harry, Rose and Lily. Rose is right to be upset at them, but Lily is so supportive and protecting, and Harry feels so bad about what’s happening . . . it’s just a sweet, caring scene!

I see Skeeter has joined Alex Jones in shilling questionable products! There is so much to hate about the phrase, “Inheritance-Detecting Blood Test.” (Grug Goldensnout is a great wizarding world name, though!)

A missing word or so here:
Harry snuck past the towards the front door . . .

—doctorlit sees Professor Grubbly-Plank is also a Tolkien enthusiast, since she’s clearly LARPing as Gandalf at the Three Broomsticks

"Simple Melody" - Featuring two immortals comparing notes on immortality (CW for non-graphic discussion of bodily harm and death), angst, flirting, and more flirting.

• Read on Neshomeh's Archive
• Read on AO3

With this, J² have now dined, danced, and done the deed... just not in that order. Why should a pair of immortals do anything in the conventional way? ^_^

We know it's been a while, so you may want to refresh your memory by starting at the beginning of the installment. Or, if you're new to Like a Wink and a Smile, perhaps the beginning of the series!

We also know this sort of story isn't everyone's cup of tea, so even dropping a kudos or a note to say you've read it would be much appreciated. Cheers!

~Neshomeh and Zingenmir

(Edit: The first AO3 link was screwy; I borked the opening quotation mark.)

First of all if u even read the story you'd know it's not me. If u can't give concrit then u shouldn't review.

Second of all I didn't do anything to u, what are u on about??

(( So, uh, they really thought they were being very clever with their "OCs," huh? And Henry laughed in their faces, thinking he was only teasing because surely they didn't really think they were fooling anyone except Google, surely. Whoops. Looks like he's living up to his screen name after all. ^_^; ))

(( Of course, Henry also thinks he's being very clever with his "OC." He's certainly fooled himself. {= D ))

Harry deals with the fallout from... the Beetle. Warning for forced outing via tabloid media, pretty much.

youre a rubbish person and your story is rubbish a fire lizard wouldnt even like you i bet ourws would BITE you

you know what you did

((What he did was upset Daphne a little, so now he has to face the wrath of a nine year old whose first writing system has no capital letters. ^_^))

((Also I love how incomprehensible any of this will be unless you read the entire archive for this year in order.))

And certainly no extra sabotage via pilfered socks, absolutely not ;P

It's been fun writing a friendlier, more internationally-cooperative Triwizard Tournament! We'll see how this carries out into task three...

Ah yes, the beetle hath struck again! Stay tuned for the fallout!

I would like to include the following three mini-Origami figures – Hasan, riza and Gordy Kramer – as a yet-unnamed agent's adopted minis.

Title: The Mastersmith’s Apprentice

Author: The Half-blood Ponce

Summary: What does Agent Suicide do when a Pern mission almost goes horribly wrong?

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One day, Agent Suicide needed a partner for a mission. Agent Diocletian was being gross with her boyfriend, everyone else was busy, and his intern Henry Robinson couldn’t go because his mom wouldn’t let him. It was super annoying, but since they weren’t dating anymore, he couldn’t do anything about it.

He sent a message to the Flowers, and finally they wrote back that they were sending him a new recruit.

“Oh, great,” said Suicide. “Some idiot newbie I’ll have to train. Okay, fine.”

Soon, there was a knock at his door. When he opened it, there was a teenage boy standing outside. He looked pretty normal, which didn’t really mean anything, but at least he wasn’t a total Sue.

“You must be the kid they sent me,” said Suicide. “What’s your name?”

“Robert,” said the boy, “Robert McGillicuddy.”

“Okay, I’m gonna call you Bob. Is that cool, Bob?”

Robert shrugged. “I guess. So you’re Agent Suicide? I’ve heard all about you. It’s an honor to work with you.”

Suicide nodded. “Sucking up to your betters. Good life skill. Keep it up and I might just make a man out of you.” He invited Bob into the RC. “First of all, do you have gear in that backpack?”

Robert nodded. “Yes, they gave me a CAD, an RC, and everything. My parents gave me a lunch, too. They’re both agents,” he added.

“Oh, you’re a Headquarters brat?” said Suicide. “Great, then I shouldn’t have to tell you how this works. Ever killed anything before?”

Robert shook his head. “No, but I’ve trained a lot. I can shoot a bow and a gun, and I can tie really good knots.”

“You’ll do,” said Suicide approvingly. “Sadly, you probably won’t need to shoot anything, since we’re going to Pern. What do you know about it?”

“Everything,” said Robert, looking excited. “I’ve always wanted to see a dragon up close!”

“Well, Bob, it’s your lucky day,” said Suicide. “Don’t screw it up.”

They went through the portal and came out disguised as a mastersmith and his apprentice. Instead of “darning needles,” Suicide had a big smithing hammer and a belt knife. Robert had a belt knife and a punch for making holes in runner-shoes.

The fic was set in a Weyr, but it didn’t say which one, so it just looked generic. The Hatching was about to start.

“Typical,” said Suicide. “They always have to have a speshul dragon.”

“Looks like he gets a regular blue dragon, though,” said Robert.

“It looks that way, but the Sue is a girl who dressed as a boy to get Searched in the first place.”

“Oh. Why didn’t she just set the story after Mirrim Impressed Path? Or just be a boy?”

“Who knows.”

“Wait a minute, is this a crossover with Eragon?” Robert looked at the Words. “Her name is Erake. That’s like how Eragon is ‘dragon’ with an E instead of a D. And... uh-oh. If she Impresses, the dragon is going to give her magic powers! We have to stop her!”

“Wait, don’t get too close!” Suicide yelled, but it was too late.

Robert jumped onto the Hatching Sands and ran up to Erake. “Stop!” he said. “I know you’re a Mary Sue, and you can’t do this! I’m an agent of the PPC and I’m charging you with having a silly name, tricking the dragons into Searching you by wearing boy’s clothes—which totally wouldn’t fool them, by the way—and crossing Pern with Eragon just so you can have extra-speshul Sueper powers. The penalty is death.” Robert took his punch and put a hole in her head. She fell down.

Just then, the egg in front of her and Robert cracked open! The blue dragonet stumbled out, keening. For one moment, it looked at Robert, and Robert stared into its rainbow eyes. Oh no. This was why Suicide had told him to stop. If he Impressed, he would have to stay on Pern forever. He could never go home or be an agent again!

But then Erake died, and the blue dragonet couldn’t see Robert anymore. It went away to find another candidate (and didn’t give him any magic).

Robert sighed with relief. He and Suicide got Erake’s body and dropped it in Mount Garben during the eruption.

“You got lucky, Bob,” said Suicide. “If you had actually Impressed, either you’d be stuck here or I’d have to kill you for being a Gary Stu yourself.”

“I know,” said Robert. “Not gonna lie, though, it would be really, really cool to have a dragon.”

“That’s true,” said Suicide. Then he looked around, all shifty. “Tell you what, kid. Since you made your first kill today, that deserves a reward. And since we’re already on the Southern Continent, I bet we could find a fire-lizard clutch. No one would have to know.”

Robert stared at him. “You’d let me Impress a fire-lizard? Is that allowed?”

“Well, technically, yes as long as the Flowers don’t find out until it’s too late.” Suicide winked. “Come on, Bob, let’s go.”

THE END

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A/N: I don’t really write fanfic, but I had to write a short story with an OC in it for a class. It turned out okay I think, so I put it up here, but whatever.

Beta’d by my friend Mugglus Vulgaris. (It means the Common Or Garden-Variety Muggle, not anything gross, so you sickos who made fun of her had better keep your mouths shut or I’ll hex you. I MEAN IT. You know who you are.) She’s cool, go read her stuff if you don’t like mine.

(( I wasn't going to leave OOC notes, but I want it on the record that writing "RC" instead of "RA" was a genuine mistake I failed to notice until after I posted. It's staying in, of course. Hurrah for unforced errors! {X D ))

Corolla, who to be fair isn't human herself being an Unison Device from Lyrical Nanoha - she's basically a sentient technomagical construct. She did swear them off after discovering one of her partners is actually a reformed Gary Stu though, and in fact she can't even stand the smell now.

Said partner, Sergio, is the perfect example of how I used Suvian statuses and glitter myself: while he's pretty much reformed, he can relapse under extreme stress (as in, while going in berserk rage as it happened here) and one of the symptoms is indeed the reappearance of glitter inside his blood.

Corolla's theory on that was that since he had been pushing himself to the limit due to the various shenaningans of the Unraveled World, his body looked into a way to increase those limits - said relapse, implying that glitter is either the catalyst for the reality warping abilities, or a byproduct of it.

its just a coincidence that Tafydd, Nonstance, Thaphne, and Woleander sound A WHOLE LOT like Dafydd, Constance, Daphne, and Oleander?

Suuuuuuuuuuure. Whatever you say Not!Daphne and Not!Oleander. I totes believe you. Even the part about not having a mom lollolol.

You know what, I'm gonna show this story to my friend Danfin. I bet he;ll like it hahaha. What do u think?

I definitely had "Theory" and "Spectrum" in the back of my mind, and see also Sueicosis and Vambiolaria.

Sueicosis was introduced by Elcalion in "An Announcement From Medical" in April 2006. It's a disease caused by the inhalation of Sue glitter that leaves one predisposed to fangirl/fanboy behavior and possibly full Suedom, though the latter was couched as speculation.

Notably, Elcalion says that the idea came up "in reply to speculation about the damage eating a Mary Sue might do to the agent." So, yeah, people have had concerns about that going way back, too.

Even in the original substance list, it's noted that Sue Soufflé is "for those PPCers who do not consider Sues to be of the same species as they are, or who really don’t care that much about cannibalism" and that it should not be consumed by anyone allergic to glitter. The description of Water (processed Sue-blood + caffeine) says it's "for the vampiric or just plain dementedly ticked-off agent," and mentions that it's one of the least popular drinks in the General Store. Neither of these was ever considered a good idea. {= )

Then there's Vambiolaria, which featured in The Hogwarts Fanfiction Academy chapters 11-13, published in October 2002 (per earliest review dates). It has nothing to do with glitter, but it does turn the afflicted person into a Mary Sue, and HFA may be among the earliest works to suggest that Suedom could be an acquired affliction. And then Vambiolaria and Sue glitter were later explicitly combined as a weapon by none other than Lily Winterwood in 2010 and 2011, for the invasions of IAHF.

~Neshomeh, globally right-brain processing for the win.

as well as The Suvian Proteome, when I was creating the Spectrum of Suvian Species. But yeah, it's always been a bit silly/creepy that some agents directly consume Sue meat and blood, though I always got the sense that it was like... restricted to background character agents who'd just fully lost it. Maybe it's like getting prion disease...

One advantage of having an archive on Google Docs is you can just search it. ^_^ Most of the earliest mentions of "glitter" have nothing to do with Suvians (one is literally "All that is gold does not glitter"), but here's some of the highlights:

• Protectors of the Plot Discontinuum 2, May 2002 - first appearance of "glitter" in the Grand Archive! I think it's just glitter-glitter, though: "Mary and Sue jumped up, make-up, teddy bears, and faux-fur and glitter flying everywhere."
• The DAVD Files, Oct & Nov 2002 - Dour K uses "glittery" portals three times (plus someone's eyes glitter).
• JAAKSONS, Mar 2003 - "Remarkably, Sues didn’t bleed when killed; they only let off small puffs of glitter." This is probably the origin of the idea.
• JAAKSONs 3, Jul 2003 - "Nenya looked at the bottle [of bleeprin] as if it were a container of Mary Sue glitter." Nenya and Rosie really went for this idea.
• DoSAT, Dec 2003 - "little piles of glitter where the NASTY fangirls had been killed." - Delta Juliette seems to have been the first person to pick the concept up.
• Ode to Bleeprin, Dec 2003 - "Oh Bleeprin, you magical pill! / You easily cure every fanfiction ill, / From sweet Mary Sue, all covered in glitter / To Pippin and Gandalf, slashily a-twitter."

Glancing through the hits for 2004... in April Agent Quen talks about "Glitter, a major component of the blood of Mary Sues", while in July Agent Melanin Butterfly described her ex-Suvianness as causing "Glitter everywhere. Glitter on whatever I touch. Glitter on whoever I shake hands with. Glitter whenever I bleed. I think there's even glitter woven into my hair. I exhale glitter." I think both of those were Nenya's agents actually. ^_^ It comes up in the PPC Handbook which Nenya wrote, too.

Also in the handbook, and listed by me as dating to Jan 2004, is the Substance List, which includes both Sue Souffle and Water. So it looks like you're right: glitter was a foodstuff before it was a cause of Suedom.

I actually wonder if glitter only became part of the cause of Suedom with the Scientific Theory of Suvian Origins, which looks to be from early 2008. I know we didn't use it in The Reorganisation, when we were literally creating Suvians; and the Training Academy of Mary Sues from the same era doesn't infect its students with it either.

If it's any consolation, I think Sue Souffle and Water were always meant to be creepy and weird. Remember: "We're evil. Miss Cam is evil. This is just sad."

hS

These are actually completely original characters, I don't know HY you'd think they were just changed names, who would they even be changed form???

ye thats right and mom will never find out

What are you talking about we don't even have a mom.

((Smooth, Daphne, really smooth.))

Well, this is the beginning of an arc…

I like the idea that agents can just go do a job for a while! It’s too easy for me to picture them in their RCs all the time, always waiting for the console to announce a mission. But it’s good to show them getting out of the RC, and out of HQ, and doing other activities, too! I’ll have to remember that . . . if I ever get back to writing . . . Oh, and I love that Inasuke’s minis are also getting in on the act with their own little maid outifits!

This is the first time I’ve heard the oppasho legend; it’s a cool story/character!

Did, uh. Did Kaguya get poisoned at the end, there?

—doctorlit leaves one last review on the Board before his very short Disneyland vacation begins

Welcome to New Cal's first (or probably first) maid café, where our jolly quartet take up temporary part-time work to raise money for a vacation.

P.S: recolor.me has no maid headdress, even in "if I had all the items" mode. If one ever comes out, the avatars will be updated accordingly.

Various PPC authors have had various ideas at various times over the years. My recollection is that the idea of Glitter being the cause of Suvian-ness (as opposed to a by-product of it, I guess?) is a later addition to the lore than the idea of BL2. It's also possible the two ideas evolved by side, and the former won out because it offers an avenue to make Suvians redeemable, and that's what we prefer these days. If you can de-Glitter them, they can be fixed!

'Course that's not always possible; some characters are so undeveloped there's nothing left without the Glitter. But I digress.

The point is, the PPC is the creation of many people with little to no obligation toward internal consistency with anything other than TOS. Some inconsistencies are to be expected.

The good news is, there's still little to no obligation toward internal consistency with anything other than TOS. It's nice to try—what's the point of writing in a shared universe if everyone plays by themself in their own corner of the sandbox?—but everyone is quite free to ignore any details they don't like.

For instance, I don't care one whit about collecting povs, so you won't see me mentioning them. {= )

It IS fun to try to make sense of the contradictions, though. ^_^

~Neshomeh