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That would be deeply weird to me, but... there's a whole generation of people who grew up with the Jackson films (LotR, at least), much as many early PPCers grew up with Tolkien's books. So, like... could we end up with future PPCers complaining about how the Amazon series messes up Jacksonverse canon?

Check out this article on Fandom (which is how I found out about the series) and tell me the inclusion of a clip of Haldir's death and a section headed "Peter Jackson Had the Right Balance" doesn't kinda look like nascent Jackson purism.

Or tell me something else, if something else catches your eye...

~Neshomeh

I'll probably drop a line sooner or later. Since this thread died down a bit I was focusing on my Star Forge characters. But I may be starting a BH or JK on Malgus soon.

All three of these fics (Only a Mere Florist, What the Butterflies Said, When Stars Fall and Cats Cry) are good stuff and will give you feels.

- Tomash

So canon should be closely observed. No Hobbit Trilogy canon rapes.
I expected the Silmarillion, though.

I'd only be able to read it if you put it on the board, or if it was on a google doc that anyone could access. I only have a school email account and I don't want to use it for board stuff.

I don't think I knew Elanor was French. Neato!

And, well, I'm still here. I was just late to the party (as usual) with TYH, so I didn't make it into the original crop. {= )

~Neshomeh

Apparently this is a thing, and their contract says they have to be in production within two years. They hope to make the first season by 2021.

What we (think we) know: This will not be a retelling of the War of the Ring. Peter Jackson covered that (and he may be involved in this production to some degree). Instead, we'll be delving more into material from the Appendices. Season one is reported to revolve around a young Aragorn.

I have to say, I am so down for that. I'm leery about getting excited for anything LotR after the terrible adaptations we've had most recently, but... Look, my fondest wish as a young fangirl was to join up with Aragorn and go tramping around the wilds of Middle-earth on Ranger adventures and learn woodcraft and healing and stuff. You could not offer me any better bait to entice me to another Middle-earth franchise.

I really hope they don't screw it up.

Either way, of course, I anticipate a young, likely hot Aragorn spawning a whole new crop of Sues...

~Neshomeh

Sonichu's been regarded as off-limits basically forever, for the precise reason that it's nearly impossible to separate from its author and we do not attack authors. Especially not ones believed to be mentally challenged.

Normally you could make the argument that a fictionalized version of the author is not the same as the actual author and therefore this is as fair a target as any self-insert Suvian, but it's not worth it. Aside from the matter of scruples (which should be reason enough), there's also the fact that Sonichu is a beast, and it's a comic, so you'd have to be more insane than usual to want to take it on AND have a phenomenal level of dedication to pull it off. Trust someone who's been here over a decade: it weren't never gonna happen.

Anyway, scruples is also why no one would take over Despatch-type missions. Anything to do with real people is no longer in the PPC's jurisdiction, period.

And before anyone goes "what about historical figures that appear in fiction?", yes, that's usually different. Especially when the figure in question is long dead.

~Neshomeh

One last hurrah. Go out with a bang. Sonichu must die.

But who will handle the missions Despatch undertakes? Floaters?

Shoot a message at mattcipher94@gmail.com MoonMoon!

Well, that's... kind of depressing, actually. Huh.

Anyway: yes! That story remains once-and-future canon, and doesn't need rewriting; it's not perfect, but I'm still pretty fond of it.

But, to mark the occasion, I will offer a sequel of sorts, set... well, now, but keeping to the spirit of Ten Years Hence. So:

Ten Years Now

"Bonjour, maman!"

"AWWWWW! Elibabef, I was going to say it!"

"Now, now, girls." Elanor held her hands out placatingly. "Don't welcome me home by fighting, mes petites."

Mary's face hovered on the edge of crumpling. "But I! Wanted! To say it!"

Elanor smiled and knelt down in front of her black-haired daughter. "Then do. Or have you forgotten the words?"

Mary's incipient tears transformed into a scowl. "I neber forget," she said firmly. "Bon drawer, mum-on."

Elanor worked hard to keep her amusement from her face. "Very good; we'll make a French girl of you yet." Straightening, she walked over to Mortic and looked down at the baby in his arms. "And how about you, Mark?" she asked. "Anything to say to me?"

The not-so-little-anymore boy beamed at the sight of her. "Mmmm!" he babbled. "Mmmm!"

"There, you see?" Mort made a face that was at once exhausted and triumphant. "I've been coaching him all day, just so he could say maman to you when you got back."

"That's very sweet," Elanor said, patting her husband's cheek. "But I don't think 'Mmmm' counts."

"You question me?" Mort pulled back, frowning. "Me, who has seen nations rise and fall, yea, and the very mountains shift beneath-?"

"Stop exaggerating, o Mortic of the Order; it makes you look like a goose." Elanor took the baby from Mort's arms and smiled down at him. "And maman has been working hard, oui, she has; she has no patience for Daddy Goose."

"Mmmm!" Mark said again, reaching one fist up to grab at Elanor's blonde hair. "Mmmm!"

"Sorry, El." Mort rose from his seat, gesturing for his wife to take it. "So how was the mission?"

"Pas mal," Elanor said vaguely, watching Mark's face. "It was good to see the team again; there's not many of us who work in French slash, so we used to be pretty close."

"Are you thinking of transferring back?" Mort leant on the arm of the chair, shooting a quick, quietening look at Elisabeth and Mary as their noise level rose. "I thought you liked the Nursery."

"I do, I do." Elanor smiled up at him. "Fear not, this was just a one-time thing. But it's always nice to see old friends."

"I suppose so," Mort mused. He reached down to tweak his wife's hair away from their son's fingers. "And, you know if you do decide to move back, I'll-"

"Mmmm!" Mark stretched out for the stolen hair, his brow furrowing in concentration. "Mmmm!"

"Mmmmaman," Elanor said, taking his hand in hers. "Come on, mon petit - say maman."

"Mmmm," Mark replied, squeezing her finger. "Mmmm-"

"I think he's still too young," Mortic began.

"-mmmum!" Mark looked startled, as if trying to squint at his own mouth, and hiccupped. "Mmum! Mmmum-um-um-um-um-um-um!"

"Mark said Mum!" Elisabeth ran over, dragging her sister by one hand. "Mummy, mummy, did you hear, he said mum!"

"Mum!" Mary repeated, beaming from ear to ear. "Go on, Mawk - say mummy!"

"Mum-um-um-um-um," Mark said solemnly. Then, abruptly, his cheeks puffed up, and he burst into tears.

"Oh, Mark..." Elanor looked up at her husband and held the squawling infant out. "Can you take him?"

"Of course, my heart." Mortic scooped the baby up and rocked him gently. "Come on, little one, it's all right..."

"It's not that all right," Elanor muttered, scowling down at the floor. "Three babies, and not one of them said it in French first? Honestly, I don't know why I even bother...!"

hS

Or rather, the interquels, I think they are - and then among the 'inspired by's, there's the spin-off where Carmela and Darcy meet!

Cartoon Network has been good enough to put the whole series online!

Sorry for giving things away for you, though . . .

—doctorlit, still smugly satisfied with owning the complete series on DVD

"And happy new year." She took a few small meat-filled rolls and stuck them on her plate.

Hey there! I've got a Permission application that I'm drafting at the moment. I'm looking for betas. I've got one already (the awesome twistedwindowpane), but I'd feel a little more confident with multiple perspectives :D

Re. the game, I don't know, but my instinct is that if it's not out and out plagiarism, it probably counts as a canon, much as we might wish it otherwise. Two-bit movie studios get away with this crap all the time; I don't see why it would be different for games.

As for recruiting canons, just because someone did a thing in the past doesn't mean it was a good idea. Sometimes we learn from our mistakes and stop doing things. {= )

Which reminds me: you were asking about Despatch in a previous thread. I could write this down there, but eh, I'm here now.

So, the short answer is no, no one has done anything with Despatch in a very long time. The thing is, Despatch is tricky because it ostensibly deals with real people (self-inserted authors), and thus its missions would have to be handled with extreme delicacy. It's complicated.

Personally, I wouldn't object to seeing Despatch disbanded. Trans-dimensional Hopping and Snatching aren't bad concepts as they refer to the antics of fictional characters, but as such, they're already covered by the DIC and/or DMS. Despatch was always a bit redundant, and since the in-universe idea was that it split off from the DIC at a time of departmental growth, it would make sense for it to close at a time of departmental shrinkage. I think retconning it to have happened around 2006 (when the Lichen got bumped from the Board of Department Heads) or 2008 (when the Department of Author Correspondence was officially shut down) would make sense.

That's my headcanon, anyway.

~Neshomeh

Today I read an article about a project that National Public Radio (NPR) is doing, that encourages people to interview others with different political views and submit the results. The questions, however, were all almost completely apolitical, as the focus was building empathy and bonds, not proving who was right or wrong.

So I thought to myself, why not do it with writing?

Boarders, I challenge you to find a badficcer in your life (whether IRL or online) and interview them about things that aren't about what counts as good or bad writing, but rather have to do with writing, reading, and life in general.

Things like:
- "What inspired you to start writing?"
- "What are you setting out to do when you write fanfic?" (Keep your thoughts to yourself about whether or not they achieve this goal.)
- "Have you read anything that impacted you in a particular way?"
- "What's your advice to other writers out there?"

This could turn out pretty good or pretty humorous. Let's give it a try.

-Twistey

Thanks for the assessment. My dad introduced me to the show a while back, and when I heard about the reboot, I was excited, but also a little worried. It's good to know that they not only stayed true to the spirit of the original (I'll have to assess Ashi myself because I happen to not be asexual), but also expand upon it. Where can I find the new season?

-Twistey

It might screw up their flamethrowers, but nothing else, really.

*To the decoys* You three, hover your way over there.

-Twistey

Although,

1. The agent who was supposed to adopt her (who I'm probably going to write once I have Permission) was the former partner of a civilian in HQ (who tried to be an agent and failed) that I created (and also am still going to write) and who existed in the present, so that's what made it TYH.

2. "Formally published." No, not really. It was an Android game. I have witnessed that the App Store and the Android store(s) are very, very lax about the quality of apps that they let on. Actually, I don't even know if it was being sold on an official Android store. It was on apkpure.com, which I'm not even sure is legitimate. Also, y'all've recruited canons before due to extraordinary circumstances. But I understand the argument.

-Twistey
In case you're wondering, here is the ripoff:
https://apkpure.com/lichtspeer-adventure/com.lichtspeer.astroneer.starman
And here is the ripped-off game's official Google Play store page, for comparison:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.noodlecake.lichtspeer&hl=en_US

Stars, Rain, Sun, Moon brings Nita into SHIELD after the events of Avengers and has her around during the plot of Winter Soldier (and so the fic has spoilers for both films, and minor ones for most of the Young Wizards books). The overall plot of the MCU doesn't change because of this, but we do get a lot of interesting exploration of how both Nite and friends and the Avengers (and their respective universes) would interact (I can't say much more, for fear of spoiling the fic).

- Tomash

Cracked versions of course, but those were it.