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"Well-fed?" Kaitlyn pushed off the console with both feet, setting her Galactic Tyrant-brand Executive Pivoting Helium-Cushioned Mobile Throne of Glory rolling across the floor. "You've got red on you," she said, pointing as the chair came to a halt in front of the vampire.
I have a little brother a little bit on the 'all about me' mindset needing a birthday gift soon, where can I find one of these?

"He's still a mini-Sparklewolf," Selene said. "Be honest - out of a pack of mini-Capitoline Wolves, Children of the Night, Sparklewolves and non-mini snow wolves, which would you expect to-?"
I unfortunately know Twilight, but what about the other fandoms involved here?

"Mm… vaguely." Selene frowned as she crossed the room. "It's got undead in it - that's why I know it. And wizards, I think."
Okay, important question... What about fighting zombie hordes in this setting?

"I hope so." Kaitlyn ducked down and fished through the cupboard under the console. "Where's the… aha." She flourished a battered looking smartphone and pointed it at the screen. "Computer: upload canon database."

Selene blinked. "Does that work?"

"Nope!" Kaitlyn tapped on the phone, working through the transfer process. "But it was fun. Have you set the disguises yet?"
That sound over there was the hope of many agents gruesomely dying, you monster.

I stood in front of my 1954 Bentley R-Type continental one of the 208 ever made. It housed a Six cylinder, 4.5-litre engine. I loved my car but not as much as I loved my partner and sidekick.
Still not cooler than the Metallicar.

Kaitlyn rolled her eyes. "Not that." She pointed at the dog-sized creature crouched next to the car. "That!"
Dog? Kill it with fire!

Selene checked the Words. "It's a POV," she said. "One of the capitalised ones. Look, it's spotted, because the fic uses periods in the-"

"It's adorable!" Kaitlyn hissed. "It's like a giant floofy hedgehog, it's amazing!" She knelt down and held out her arms to the POV. "C'mere, lovely, come to Kaitlyn."
False alarm.

Selene waved one hand in the direction of the two protagonists. "Skulduggery and Valkyrie. He thinks she's pretty. He's also a walking skeleton."

"Huh." Kaitlyn studied the couple. "Seems likely to put a damper on their love life."
Not if you believe some badficcers, or Undertales fans. Or Warm Bodies fans.

Selene gave the flock of rabbit-sized POVs a distinctly dubious look, which they returned from under their winged helmets. "POV valkyries," she muttered. "Just perfect."
What does the POVs' Valhalla look like?

"Don't look at me," the vampire said. "That's General P.O.V; I'm pretty sure it outranks you, even if," a milder dislocation swept across them, one that felt distinctly unsure of itself, "even if you've been named twice now."
Duck, they're preparing armies to take over the PPC. To arms agents, it's them or us!

"That's called biting," her partner said. "It's like kissing, only there's a winner."
Mandos must have some PTSD about this time she went in his Halls for Dafydd... And Kaitlyn must just love Belkar.

"Don't steal lines, you'll get us reported for plagiarism." Selene looked across the vaguely-defined space - the fic couldn't decide whether it was still supposed to be on the pier - to where Skulduggery ("Not you," she muttered to the POV) was attempting to get through an entire song in a single breath. "And that's why you don't drop a line like 'I sang Me And Mrs Jones. our song.' in the middle of a paragraph."
Where did that former line come from, please?

"And I'm talking to Cute Animal Friends." The vampire rubbed her forehead with one hand. "What would Dafydd think of me?"
Tell him they're Happy Tree Friends, and you're waiting for their death for more blood... What? They always come back.

"I am," Kaitlyn said, holding up an armful of valkyrie POVs for her inspection. "The general is getting the skulduggery POV under control, so I'm keeping track of the valkyries. I think there's more of them now; it's hard to count when they're all so incredibly cuddly."
Remember, more than three is a charge.

"Keep them under control, please, I'm going to be busy." She beamed at her partner, nodded. "Right: go."
Fool, you're letting him build up an army!

"... sure, but they're also a charge."
Especially the big ones. Seriously, what does these critters eat?

"But accurate." Selene got to her feet, ignoring Skulduggery P.O.V headbutting her leg. "This entire chapter is incredibly generic; it doesn't tell you anything about the characters we're watching. I mean, they're down there endlessly discussing their breakfast - what sort of person would write a fanfic about pancakes?"
...Meyer?

"... so then Kayleigh leapt out in front of Gunner, yelling 'Tackle!', but he dodged past her and went for Merelette again. And that was when Meg Thornton - the Meg Thornton! - appeared out of thin air in front of him. 'I am a servant of the Lightning Bolt', she proclaimed, 'wielder of the Right of Despatch; the Dark Uncanon will not avail you, Gunner the Suvian!' And Gunner just recoiled, and Selene dove in-"

"Kaitlyn, what are you doing?"

Kaitlyn looked up from the circle of POVs, who were staring up at her open-mouthed. "I'm just filling the General and his tribe in on how the mission ended," she said. "I feel bad that they had to miss out."
Just think about how we feel for missing on that too.

Standing next to roman the mini-Capitoline Wolf, Selene tilted her head in bewilderment. "But… none of that happened," she said. "Kayleigh and Salamander were off dealing with Tanith's baby, and Despatch weren't even there - we wouldn't call them in for an Implausible Crossover."
Go away, party pooper! Crazy epic won't be sullied by petty muddy reality!

Selene nodded slowly. "It does have the advantage of being what happened."
And the overwhelming disadvantage of being–

"But it's so boring!" Kaitlyn tossed her hair dramatically, then turned back to her audience.
That.

Speaking of reality,... harsh but fair concrit. Just writing happy feelings without actual justification and development just cheapens it all. Not that the caharacters going through the grinder won't have opinions about this... But though love is a thing too, I guess.

But since the discussion that sparked from it is interesting... I'll roll with it.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to playing a PPC game.

There's an FtP thread, and you have what you need.

We should play Fill the Plothole with these. This is quality material.

... Janelle Shane over at AIWeirdness/LewisAndQuark? She specialises in letting neural networks be weird. Classic posts include having them generate April Fool's Day pranks ("Put marbles in the hand soap dispenser."), christmas carols ("run, run Rudolf the new born King"), and Harry Potter fanfic summaries ("Hermione and Draco get stuck in a potion, which might have turned out to be the best change in the world.").

hS

And hS, too!

Seems that the most posts I ever made was a relatively-moderate-amount as a newbie.
I'm a real strong-silent type like that, I suppose.

... like you have a serious complex about zdimensia.

Please understand that her behaviour, and our response to it, is not a normal part of the community. She is the only time it has happened; Kanun willing, she's the only time it will happen.

You really should stop assuming we're going to treat you like you're her.

hS

The appropriate thing to do if multiple people tell you what you're doing is unwanted is to a) stop it, b) apologize, and c) fix the problem if possible and make sure not to do it again.

Grasp that, and you'll be fine.

~Neshomeh

I haven't read any of the fics yet. Not sure if I want to. But I read all the summaries and tags and yup. That was an Experience.

So you probably must tell hS what you want deleted; I don’t know who else could do it on the Plort Wiki.

To be sure that nothing links to the page you want deleted, you may type into the Search field

Special:WhatLinksHere/:Pagename

where Pagename is the name of the page you want deleted. Links should be removed before a page is deleted.

HG

That said, alcohol is overrated... You should rather enjoy this black-hole chocolate cake with red berries coating.

But then again, we're all very like-minded people here.

I hate stories that are in-your-face political or moral. Don't care who it's coming from, I hate Captain Planet just as much as I hate BibleMan. Or, well, I don't really show my hate for these things in a straightforward manner; I think it could be more described as "loving to hate" them. For instance, I love to make fun of Captain Planet. This is also the case with anything that's poorly written, hence why I can't stop churning out joke Mary Sues and badficcer avatars for the next Badfic Games. So yeah, love and hate rolled into one.

-Twistey

I'm completely calm, thanks for being concerned.

I'm also not going to explain myself. I'm not convinced that trying to explain myself about a matter such as this wouldn't make me sound like zdimensia, especially now that I'm a repeat offender about the subject.

-Twistey

And that may be what my coder friend is most familiar with anyway. I'll have to bring up the idea to him when he joins.

-Twistey

But only within the Wolfenstein franchise is he represented (via Huinesoron's rushed attempt to fix the LoD without deleting him.)

Honestly, I actually don't remember canon characters being represented in any Plort stuff. Looking back, I should've known this was a risky gambit. The only reason I didn't kill him earlier was the little fantasies of giving Twyla someone to yell at.

So how does one delete a page on the wiki?

-Twistey

...but I would also rather like to not have Hitler there.

Either way, It should be full of twisty little passages, all alike, circling back on one another to represent the circularity of the revision process.

Many great crusades have been lost in the foothills of Reev'shun...

If you can think of it, humanity has done it, no matter how ridiculous or insane or horrible or unlikely it seems.

Here's some proof if you're not convinced (WARNING: ALL FICS NSFW):
https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Harry%20Potter*s*Dolores%20Umbridge/works

Not sure if this qualifies as throwing out Umbridge's crimes, but honestly, after checking this list, my faith in humanity dropped like a ton of bricks.

All of the coastal 'mountain' lines are cliffs. My original idea was that Konti-Nyuum is mostly raised up above sea-level, with only river-mouths and a few wider sections (notably the north coast from Borrd to De'endee) at sea level.

Which doesn't mean there can't be an actual mountainous ridge along that part of the coast, of course! ^_^ Reeveshun Ridge is perfectly acceptable.

'Bay [of] Tarr' is 'Beta', pronounced in this case 'bay-ta' rather than 'bee-ta'.

hS

The chain of hills or low mountains running along the southern coast of the Riding from the border between Barony Juliette and Barony Hieronymus to the Auriantym Chain is currently nameless on the map and was provisionally named "Coastal Ridge (which may deserve a better name)" in the New Tales of Hieronymus.

I think that its actual name should reference the cycle of beta reading, editing, beta reading and editing again, until the story is fit to be published. How would this be expressed in English and translated to Plortish? "Reeveshun Ridge"?

Also, what does the "Bay of Tarr" reference?

Also also, I created a page for the river Jid'ryv using the wrong type of apostrophe. (That’s what I get for copy-pasting from a spell-checking word processor.) It is now a redirection page that shouldn’t be linked anywhere and may be deleted.

HG