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I am also autistic, and glad to have you here! ;)

While we don't really have fandoms in common (I have knowledge of a few SCP entries, but apart from certain memes and side stories I don't recall much), I look forward to what you may write. :>

Basically, if you're a fan of the Tale of the Five books, uh, GO GET THEM NOW.

Also: MYSTERIOUS NEWS COMING NEXT WEEK.

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

Hello, and welcome aBoard! For your newbie gift, take this plate of freshly-made SPaGhetti!

If you haven't yet read them, may I point you towards the Original Series and the Constitution? They're pretty much the only required reading around these parts. Another useful resource you might use is

Greetings, people/animals/potted plants/sentient hydrogen molecules of PPC. This is going to be my first post on The Board, and I'll be looking forward to joining this community. I initially heard of the PPC through TVTropes (oddly enough), and I lurked on the PPC wiki for a while before deciding to make an introductory post here. I have Asperger's Syndrome, a mild form of Autism, so I'm usually really bad at social interaction.

I'm in a lot of fandoms (and I mean a lot of fandoms), but the ones I'm mainly involved in at the current time are the SCP Foundation, Nintendo, and Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. Keep in mind that my interests change over time, and my involvement with the fandom of any piece of media is directly proportional to my interest in said media at the time.

I also have a tendency to spout out meaningless and stupid memes. Lots and lots of memes.

So I've been bingewatching Systems We Love (this link probably won't be of interest to you if you're not technical, sorry). Not all of then are winners: computer people aren't always the most amazing speakers (but speaking of computer people who are amazing speakers, everyone, even the nontechnical types, should go watch this. I have never laughed so hard at an ostensibly technical talk. This has nothing to do with the rest of this discussion, I just think this talk is really funny).

Anyways, inspired by that, I'm making this thread for everyone to post about something they love. Something that makes them really passionate. Share it, explain to us why you love it. Really make us feel the love (not like that. No. Stop. Ewww).

I'll post a response myself once I'm not on my phone.

For the younger folks unaware, there was a TV show back in the 1980s called St. Elsewhere. There was a little boy on the show, and in the very last scene of the very last episode, a pan-out on the (hospital, I think?) was suddenly shaken around, and we learn that the entire series had taken place inside a snow globe belonging to the real version of that boy, who had autism, and all the characters and events of that show were things he imagined while looking at it.

But TV executives like crossovers as much as we fanfic writers do, and thanks to actors guest starring across other shows, a whole lot of television series are connected to St. Elsewhere, which means they are also part of that autism-powered snow globe dream. There's a list current as of 2016, where we find that the PPC is also part of that boy's dream, thanks to our forays into the Buffyverse, Battlestar Galactica, CSI, the Whoniverse, Firefly, General Hospital, Heroes, M*A*S*H, NCIS, Star Trek, Stargate, Supernatural, Warehouse 13, and The X-Files.

So: does that mean all the other universes the PPC has entered are also part of the snow globe dream? And since so many recruits come from World One . . .

—doctorlit, intentionally ridiculous

Neither of the agents are from Pokemon, but that's where the Omanyte is! Nautilus is a semi-fic blip in a MAJOR way, while Peri is the result of a (hypothetical so far) Young Wizards mission with an in-fic exorcised Power!Sue. (No, Peri's not the Sue; he just internalized a LOT of glitter during the process. Detoxifying him was... a trial.)

And the HTML markers are fairly simple - as long as you remember to close them, they'll work! The one I use for the whispering is < small > < /small > (spaces added so you can see the format, of course!) Other possibilities include italics (< i > < /i >), bold (< b > < /b >), and strikethrough (< strike > < /strike >).

Since you’ve commented on my last three prompts, it’s about time I returned the favour.

I really enjoyed this - I like the small font for whispering (not something I’d use myself, as my HTML isn’t great!)

I don’t know the agents or fandoms, so I’m not really sure what an Omanyte actually is, but it’s still amusing.

And yeah, prompt two probably was a little easy. But my brain wasn’t working that well at the time!

*e

Poor Rosie.

Good thing they're not Agents, though - because if by 'going home' it meant seeing it in a badfic, they wouldn't be able to see Kiera! Let alone save her.

I wish them the best. ^^

"Now, staaay."

"Omanyte!"

"Hahah! No, no, you stay. Go on, girl, staaay?"

"O-man-YTE!"

"Good girl!"

It was dark in the RC, and for the moment Peri preferred it that way - it was better than having to watch Nautilus overplay the caretaker role.

Just listening to the cooing was bad enough, given his headache.

"Some of us are still recovering. Can you please keep it down?" He hissed, trying not to add to his own pain.

"Oh! Sorry, Peri." The other man amended - given his color and height, it was hard to pick him out at the other end of the darkened RC, so he was stuck working from voice alone. Nautilus had lowered his volume, but it still felt like it wasn't enough.

"Now, see if you like eating this..." There was a pause.

"PLEH!" Something small and oddly shiny in the minimal lighting flew all the way across the response center - on Peri's arms.

"Gah!" he reacted, flinching, and the unsteadiness of the world around him suddenly grew worse. Quickly moving the pillow he was resting on to being on top of him, he closed his eyes and tried to focus on breathing.

It was supposed to have been a normal mission in the Pokémon continuum - a whole host of minis and other typos, a main character who was both barely a rounded personality and a textbook Black Hole Sue, and at one point an inexplicable My Little Pony cameo.

If Nautilus had wanted a pet, he should have kept one of the minis - but instead, they'd found an Omanyte, and the other agent refused to pass up the second-degree pun.

Back in the present, Peri removed the pillow once he felt like he'd regained some control - a sign that it was okay for Nautilus to approach, now.

"Sorry about all of that," he said quietly, as Peri peeled the rejected - seaweed? Really? - off his own dark skin.

"Probably should keep him in the bathroom or something..."

"If you're going to keep him, we'd need to fit an aquarium in here," Peri retorted.

"I'm not saying you can't keep him, just- I've heard stories."

Nautilus shrugged, grinning wryly.

"Hey, if it better reflects his natural habitat.."

"Have you even named her?" Peri sat all the way up now, looking over with suspicion.

"I was thinking it'd have to be a word we don't use normally, so - Curlicue?"

"Omanyte!"

Peri hit Nautilus with the pillow.

Rosie smiled. She was finally going to where she wanted to be. Maybe she could finally find Kiera again.

“Tell me,” said Clara, “why do you want to do this?”

Rosie shrugged. “You know why. It’s where I grew up. We have to do something!”

“There’s something more than that, isn’t there?”

Rosie quite often thought that Clara was far too perceptive. This was definitely one of those times.

“Maybe…” she said slowly. “What makes you think that?”


“Well, since you arrived you’ve been going on about it, all the time, for five years. There’s got to be something more, because from what I’ve heard it wasn’t exactly the best place ever.”

Rosie was silent.

“Come on! Spit it out!”

“Fine,” said Rosie sharply, trying to work out how best to phrase this. “The day before I arrived, I went to see this play with some friends. Thing is, it was technically illegal, and…” She tried not to think of Imogen. That memory was too painful. “There was a raid, and the government came, and my friend… her name was Kiera – her name is Kiera.”

Kiera wasn’t dead. At least, Rosie didn’t think she was, and she was determined not to.

“She… she wanted to help us escape… so she got herself caught instead. I’ve been feeling bad ever since.” Now she had begun, she might as well reveal the whole thing. “The person who told the government… was my other friend. Imogen.”

Clara nodded. “And now you want to save your friend?”

“If she’s still… still around to be saved. It’s been five years, but I’ve got to try. I know she would have done the same for me.”




Note: if you read my prompt from a month ago, then yes, this is the same Clara.

Well, let's get straight into the prompts.

Prompt 1: One of your characters gets a pet

Prompt 2: One of your characters reveals a secret

Go mad with them (maybe not literally), let's see what you come up with.

Novastorme

It's been a while since I've watched Doctor Who, but I know that it's hard to make a costume look like actual clothes. I've spent much fruitless time trying to figure out what makes the "patina of the real." Maybe I should eat more fruit.

I like the first one with the coattails billowing in the wind.

Also, both of you look very nice in your costumes.