I just want my fucking ship tags to be usable. Being an f/f shipper on this fucking website is hard enough without literally not being able to find fics where my ship is the focus because it is background lesbians for whatever the popular ships are.
@Aondeug have you tried the otp:true filter? It eliminates all works tagged with more than one ship - a pretty blunt instrument, but it at least gets rid of works where one's ship is a background ship. https://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/10851
Oh thank fucking god. I can kill every other ship. Which honestly I'd like to do anyway? When I'm looking for fic I EXCLUSIVELY want just my ship and nothing but. And usually just one shots at that.
That's one of my favorite ones. Because you know where it leads. I know where it leads. We all know where it leads. To the point where one questions why bother asking the question, and the answer is because it is a convention and also it provides yet another way to signal that this a shameless porn fic. There's just something about that that speaks to me. It's like the summaries of romance novels. We know what we're here for. Give it to us. I don't want high art, I want people getting dicked down in the same fifteen ways fanfic writers have been doing for ages.
Anyone else read "Help! My Story Has The Mary Sue Disease"? Because I've just been reading it and it has the best metaphor for a particular gripe: Spoiler: poop jokes
Making characters who could break up the main couple by hooking up with one of them act like douchebags to each other for no reason is annoying, but I understand why people do it. What baffles me is one particular writer who feels the need to make characters who are not remotely competition for the main ship act like douchebags to each other for no reason. It doesn't make the main ship look better for the other couple who were very much in love and were decent people in canon to suddenly betray each other on little prompting.
Come to think of it, I resent the implication that not being romantically compatible with someone means you'd betray them to possible death. I have no illusions about my ability to hold out but I'd like to think I'd put up slightly more of a fight than the characters did on behalf of anyone.
Also it's been a while since I saw the movies but I don't recall Jack Sparrow being an active sadist or having rage fits.
Smirk... is a word with CONNOTATIONS. It's great in the right context, but it doesn't fit if it just gets applied indiscriminately to any situation where 'this character did a smile but it was like a totally super cool smile and everyone could tell' If a character is prone to messing with people but has a very placid, calm demeanor and delivers his attitude very mildly with a polite smile, the way he smiles is not a SMIRK. You're killing me. It's not the first time this fic has done it, but this is supposed to be a dramatic death scene. He's all like 'unless any of you have secretly been a surgeon this whole time, i'm doomed, so you need to leave me here'. He's right, he's winning, he's accepting death without being upset, he's making jokes, but smirking is so perfectly wrong for this character that i put this very good fic down and have been dragging my feet about picking it up again. And like, this is just the time it happened most recently that stuck with me. But so many authors keep doing this. Smirk is more nuanced than 'smiling but totally cool', it casts an emotional tone over the whole exchange that can be as jarring as saying your hero 'whined' when telling his commanding officer this plan would never work. And that hasn't happened in this fic, or I'd be struggling MUCH worse, but aghhhhhhhh tone MATTERS
This isn't mine, I was going through Metaquotes trying to find a particular thing and found this, and I'm half expecting the anti crowd to pick up this habit:
I don't know if this is a gripe, per se, but I wanted to shout out to all those fic authors trying to make JoJo's Bizarre Adventure modern AUs. Shoving eight Joestars into a single generation is nightmarish at best, especially when the original story is so generational. You have a very difficult task and I respect that regardless of how well it turns out.
Okay so I'm on chapter 23/25 on a longfic fic I'm enjoying, and when I hit the next chapter button I get a 404 error because sometime in the last twenty minutes the author deleted the old fic so it can be rewritten. Which, yes it's not my fic and the author can do with it as they wish. But they could have waited another hour, come on! Updates are expected every two weeks, so that's gonna be, like, ...A year.
oh that is the worst. have you tried the wayback machine? or maybe if you sent them a heartfelt plea they would take pity on you and put the last two chapters back up for a minute?
This particular example isn't froma fanfic but it's a demonstration of a very annoying thing that happens a lot: How?
