What are your fan fiction gripes?

Discussion in 'Fan Town' started by OtherCat, Aug 27, 2016.

  1. LadyNighteyes

    LadyNighteyes Wicked Witch of the Radiant Historia Fandom

    There was a brief period between when I got far enough out of teenagerhood that I no longer accepted the assorted dumb opinions posted on TVtropes as canon without question and when I left the site entirely when I tried to remove the really impressively wrong ones.

    I gave up quickly.
     
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  2. aetherGeologist

    aetherGeologist Well-Known Member

    Please tell me this entry was written before Act 6
     
  3. Birdy

    Birdy so long

    Brainbent stalled long before Act 6 started, so it’s likely
     
  4. context-free anon

    context-free anon Well-Known Member

    act 6 isn't canon
     
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  5. Birdy

    Birdy so long

    In other news, people who write like, kinky slash fic for some fandom, and then change the names and sell it as erotica on the kindle market are...I don’t agree with the practice, but you gotta appreciate their fucking brass ones
     
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  6. KingStarscream

    KingStarscream watch_dogs walking advertisement

    I've run into it five or six times now and it never ceases to amaze. A couple of them are really interesting, because it wasn't an AU when they first wrote it and the level of edits and changes necessary to remove identifying features was fucking massive.
     
  7. Birdy

    Birdy so long

    Do I dare to ask
     
  8. KingStarscream

    KingStarscream watch_dogs walking advertisement

    TF2 Sniper/Spy fic that had to completely rework some of the major plot details when they cut out the respawn system and the cloning aspects for the original work version, because those would have been dead giveaways for the source.

    Also they changed the nationalities and written accents of the main two, which is more funny than anything else.
     
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  9. Birdy

    Birdy so long

    from what little I’ve seen the TF2 shipping community is fucking wild

    the one I was personally thinking of was this like, massively multiplayer crossover with characters from like five different games and anime, and it was a modern AU to begin with, but the author had put significant thought into worldbuilding this fictional city where everyone lived, there were fucking maps and shit

    there was also a lot of (unintended, I think) dubcon and...really uncomfortable writing about serious topics. the whole thing was deeply, deeply cursed and I’m a worse person for having read the little bit of it that I did
     
  10. ChelG

    ChelG Well-Known Member

    I'm sorely tempted to do that. I have a bunch of old Homestuck and Hetalia porn, it could work! I'm really curious about this massive crossover now.

    In other news, balancing how to write Bro in an AU where he doesn't have Cal's influence is tricky. I've got "still pretty awful to deal with, but not actually trying to be, now his behaviour at least makes some kind of sense, and the kids don't live in his space now so he can leave as many plush dicks lying around as he pleases". (Speaking of, has anyone taken into account in fic that foam is an awful material for a penetrating toy? Even if it has a solid core so it would work for that purpose at all, I hope it's easily disinfected.)
     
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  11. ChelG

    ChelG Well-Known Member

    I just abruptly remembered the existence of legolas by laura and now I'm going to be giggling too much to sleep.
     
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  12. LadyNighteyes

    LadyNighteyes Wicked Witch of the Radiant Historia Fandom

    AND THEN LAURA-
     
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  13. Saro

    Saro Where is wizard hut

    Me: I'm just gonna read this fic and enjoy it and not worry about the little details
    Brain: * edits fic extensively while reading *
    Me: well I guess fuck that idea
     
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  14. Lizardlicks

    Lizardlicks Friendly Neighborhood Lizard

    i honestly want to take the one dragonstuck thing I wrote for a drone season fill and rework it to be ofic. It would be fun, a sexy fantasy romp with supernaturally powerful female lead and her dragon companion/lover solving mysteries and shit.
     
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  15. Codeless

    Codeless Cheshire Cat

    (mostly for posts higher up, not yours) Personally I don´t think it´sabad thing to take something originally inspired by someone elses work, and remove the parts that arent yours to make your own thing. Id consider it quite different from taking a lot of someones work and filing off the serial number.
     
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  16. tinyhydra

    tinyhydra a dingus

    I'm super disappointed by post TLJ fic wherein Kylo Ren being Supreme Leader goes super smoothly for him. Like, the position he's starting from is, he ostensibly got beat to shit once again by Rey, only this time she was outnumbered and in the heart of the Supremacy, surrounded by capable warriors and two arguably more powerful and definitely better trained Force users. And he lost, and everyone died, including their Supreme Leader, but Kylo survived. What are the FO supposed to take away from that? Treachery or weakness or what? And then he assumes control, and the very first thing he does is publicly lose his shit and order his entire army to stop what they're doing and shoot literally every weapon they have at one guy, who turns out to be a projection, which everyone knows because they watched their brand new leader fight a goddamned hologram. And lose. And let the people they were trying to kill get away.

    He's not off to a great start is what I'm saying, and I wish people wouldn't just brush that off in favor of making him like competent and shit. My son is a fucking disaster and he's bad at most things. I'm interested in seeing him become not that, but that is a process I wanna see, not just *poof* look, now he's good at stuff and people respect him.
     
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  17. LadyNighteyes

    LadyNighteyes Wicked Witch of the Radiant Historia Fandom

    Yeeeah. The basis of his power in the first place is "I can choke you with my magic space wizard powers, so do what I say," but he can't personally force-choke the entire organization. If he doesn't get some strategic, tactical, and political skills stat, people who do have those skills and resent a manchild trying to tell them what to do by by brute force are going to very carefully arrange things to wall him out of being able to do things they don't like until they can eventually manage to set up a scheme to torpedo his ship.
     
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  18. artistformerlyknownasdave

    artistformerlyknownasdave revenge of ricky schrödinger

    reading a fic summary, as you do
    wh
    wh......
     
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  19. emythos

    emythos Lipstick Hoarding Dragon

    let the crab screm
     
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  20. Codeless

    Codeless Cheshire Cat

    Honestly i could imagine Nepeta actually not having an indoor voice setting either, but hers is excuberance rather than anger a lot of the time. (Since she lived alone she would have no reason to speak at all while hunting. I doubt it would do Pounce more good than bodylanguage)
     
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