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In the first part of this inter-mission time for Mara and Isaiah, the intrepid PPCers tour the Official Fanfiction University of the Caribbean Islands, where fangirls learn, through pain, to be better authors. Tomorrow, I'll post the second half: the Sue smiting. Questions, comments, criticism welcome!
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( OFUCI )

The "You" fics are no more!

I'll repeat that. The "You" fics, which have plagued fans of Pirates of the Caribbean at fanfiction.net and which have, until now, comprised an estimate fifth to a third of all PotC fanfiction at the Pit of Voles, are banned in no uncertain terms.

July 27th -- FanFiction.Net Content Guidelines have been updated to ( Read more... )

Bwahaha. Yes, indeed, the time has come for the agents to tackle the Lord of the Rings fandom! Flee, flee for your lives!

Link:

http://www.misssandman.com/PPC/DTE4.htm

Summary: Drafted into LotR PPCing by a "Guess the Age of the Suethor" contest, the DTE agents have the... ( Read more... )

We're back! We'll givea full report on Trinidad as soon as we actually get out photographs back. For now, here's out latest PPCing job:

( Shay Leigh Turner, Part I )

If this link doesn't work, I'm smiting my computer.

I think that because my next section is really long, the computer won't upload it on LJ correctly. Here it is on nfiction.com! Don't ask me why the paragraphs are double spaced, because I don't know. However, comments and/or reviews would be much appreciated! Leave a comment  2 

Herodotus was a historian in Ancient Greece who wrote extensively about the history of Greece and its neighbors, especially concerning their wars with the Persians. With the new movie, Troy, being played in theaters, here's a bit of the Trojan War legend from a Greek perspective:

( The Greeks continue a long tradition of woman-stealing )

Okay, so there’s this Sue I ranted about a couple of entries earlier. You know, the one who stole Jack’s ship. I read the fic through, and discovered it was even more irritating than that: she stole Jack’s ship, along with many other pirate ships in the past, in order to teach “bigheaded” pirates a LESSON. I’ll now take this time to remind you ( Read more... )

I discovered a Mary Sue in the "Little Mermaid" fandom. Actually, it wasn't just one Sue. It was five or six. And it wasn't just a fanfic of a movie, but a fanfic of a comic book based on the movie. The Mary Sue is a self-insertion who replaces Ariel and rips off both movie and comic book ( Read more... )

Farewell, readers, friends, and Sue-ish victims ( Read more... )