Well that at least makes sense in a YOI badfic context! File that more or less under Asian media then I guess. Now the list isn't even funny, just racist.
someone just posted a cartoon conspiracy clickbaity thing in the fairly oddparents section on ffn and i don't think it's even a fic based on a cartoon conspiracy, it's just a cartoon conspiracy
It's pretty dang pervasive. Asgore has managed to avoid it somehow (being very old and not technologically inclined), and then there's Papyrus...
YOI Badfic Friend informs me that they just burst into real-life giggles over an a/b/o fic where adult alphas literally puff out their chests and growl at each other. In actual gripes, the same fic apparently had elementary school!Victor being both a highly skilled skater and "ahead in his schoolwork and skipping grades." Friend was like "do they not know what usually happens to high-caliber athletes' educations" and I was like "AHAHAHAHAHA author has definitely not skipped a grade." So let's summarize that as "throwing random accomplishments on a character to make them look good, even if this is totally nonsensical."
yeah, but the dogi couple being weaboos (and using anime terms for Official Guard Business) still feels weird
It's from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. A... let's go with 'character' had a tendency to shout ORA ORA ORA over and over again while punching dudes.
Man. If I suspect something is a reference, and it's not a Homestuck reference, then Jojo is a good bet.
Why don't more AUs just transport the characters from their real time, place, and setting into the context where the writer wants to set their story? I would actually be fine reading a fic where Jean Valjean and Javert ran a coffee shop or a record company or what the fuck ever - what inspires my deep ennui and ire is that the characters in these fics are *not actually* the characters I'm currently obsessing over/in love with/am fascinated by, because they haven't lived the lives which made them who they are. They're not grappling with the events and personal issues which I want to see them confront in fanfiction because in the AU none of that shit even happened. I would much rather deal with the implausibility of an alien time vortex, magical/spiritual mechanism, witness protection program, etc to explain the setting jump than lose the entire reason I came to read fic in the first place. Also, you might get to depict culture shock, like a character reacting to airplanes and movies for the first time. That's sweet.
Speaking purely from a personal perspective re: my own fics, I find that it's fun to like...come up with plausible parallels to canon events for an AU setting, if it's one with significantly different logic and lore from the source material. And sometimes direct transplants really don't work for certain settings.
Same as @Acey, for me. Also I find stories in general where people get transported from their own worlds to ours really set off my secondhand embarrassment and I just end up cringing. I can see why you would like it the other way around, though!
YOI Badfic Friend is reading Star Trek: Voyager fanfic and complaining because the author has apparently decided that Starfleet, the textually utopian organization which has explicitly and canonically gotten past standard human prejudices, would not let someone be in command while taking antidepressants and would not let someone who has recently been severely injured give a speech while sitting down. Author is also trying to write medical whump while having clearly not looked up one single anything medical- they've got someone needing to have a heart transplant because of a "bacterial infection," and at one point the person has a blocked artery from the volume of bacteria. We were like "do you have any idea how super, super dead they'd be?"
