What are your fan fiction gripes?

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

  1. keltka

    keltka the green and brown one

    it's still a really...complicated and tricky subject and labeling things "hawaiian" right off the bat does ignore a massive amount of bad blood, colonialism, and history

    I figured they were from hawaii! the local variety of pidgin got its start in the sugarcane plantations and carried forward (with additions and adaptations) to current day. both my parents speak in the dialect to varying degrees, but it does get used in local media a lot for jokes about intimidation, so yeah, I can see how/where it would be an issue for someone


    absolutely yes there's a hawaii regional accent but because it's not specific to native hawaiians...anyway yeah it's a whole Thing back home
     
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  2. Acey

    Acey hand extended, waiting for a shake

    Can we drop the subject, please? This is getting uncomfortably close to you getting upset about the existence of my mom’s trauma from my interpretation, and I know that’s probably not intentional at all and that I’m probably being a jerk here, but it’s really messing me up right now.

    I’m sorry.

    EDIT: To clarify, it has nothing to do with media in her case. It’s a PTSD trigger. I think that’s what’s bothering me here, and I know that’s not your intent, but yeah.
     
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  3. keltka

    keltka the green and brown one

    that's definitely not what I meant, holy crap I'm sorry it came off like that. very willing to drop it—I was trying to say that "yeah, the accent I think you're talking about sometimes gets used in media for intimidation/aggression, so I can see how it would play even worse into trauma", while also trying to make the point that from hawaii and hawaiian are two separate things that get shoved together a lot in ways that hurt native hawaiians
    your mom's accent-related trauma is all kinds of valid, no matter what it's caused by
     
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  4. jacktrash

    jacktrash spherical sockbox

    what else would you call a regional accent from hawaii other than hawaiian? i'm not being a dick, i legit don't understand

    fake edit: oops ok dropping subject, only posting this bc it'll give me the sperg twitchies if i delete
     
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  5. Acey

    Acey hand extended, waiting for a shake

    I’m sorry. I’ll shut up. I misinterpreted.
     
  6. keltka

    keltka the green and brown one

    dude, we were communicating past each other and we're both sorry, you don't need to shut up
    I'm replying to the questions in a different thread and the subject is 100% dropped! back to regularly scheduled fanfiction gripes for all
     
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  7. jacktrash

    jacktrash spherical sockbox

    not exactly a gripe, more like tea i guess, but have any other avengers fans noticed that basically every single post-endgame fic is a fixit? literally no one is willing to write in that canon.

    maniac tea.gif <- the tea in question
     
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  8. keltka

    keltka the green and brown one

    oh that's how you know fandom isn't ready to forgive the canon yet
    oh man that's hilarious
     
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  9. keltka

    keltka the green and brown one

    whenever there's a story where, for one reason or another, multiverses are involved, how come people have to get so up in arms over who gets the "main" name
    like dude, holy shit
    this is your time to shine
    get the stupid nickname of your dreams! IT'S A FANFIC BASED ON A COMIC ABOUT HOCKEY PLAYERS FOR CHRISSAKES YALL HAVE TERRIBLE NICKNAMING SENSE AND LOVE IT
     
  10. jacktrash

    jacktrash spherical sockbox

    is there an explanation of 'who gets the main name' that i would understand if i don't know hockey rpf?
     
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  11. keltka

    keltka the green and brown one

    I swear I'm talking about OMG Check Please! not hockey RPF

    also it was mainly at "well I'VE been calling him other kent" "you can't do that I've been calling THIS one other kent!" "okay well one can have the first name and one can have the last name" like Y'ALL COME ON



    EDIT: nothing against hockey RPF! it just hits several specific squicks for me, unfortunately
     
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  12. idiomie

    idiomie I, A Shark Apologist

    wait when did omgcp get multiverses

    how behind am i
     
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  13. keltka

    keltka the green and brown one

    NO NO IT WAS A FANFIC I SWEAR
    exact quote: It's a fanfic based on a comic about hockey players


    EDIT: although if you wanna count ngozi's side art, there's technically a universe where kent and chowder swapped bodies—
     
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  14. jacktrash

    jacktrash spherical sockbox

    oops i saw 'fanfic about hockey players' and missed the 'comic' part, my bad! that'll teach me to forum while most of my attention is on bug youtube :P
     
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  15. keltka

    keltka the green and brown one

    you're very valid bugtube is probably a hole akin to a trap spider's web
    it's also technically about pie and tiny southern former figure skaters
     
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  16. jacktrash

    jacktrash spherical sockbox



    this is my new fandom

    who ships hades w dionysus, i'm team Didn't Try/Tripping Balls and i'm writing a fic where they fly out the window settle in suburban manila and have beautiful grubs tw: mpreggs
     
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  17. ChelG

    ChelG Well-Known Member

    This sounds kind of like the problem I've had with Homestuck smushed-timeline-everyone-exists-together fanfic ideas where I don't want one half of the cast to have the same first names as the other half. With some of the characters I can extract a different shortening of a name, e.g. "Roxanne" becomes Roxy (player) and Anne (Mom), but that doesn't work for names like "Dave".
     
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  18. KingStarscream

    KingStarscream watch_dogs walking advertisement

    Lord almighty.

    Well, maybe the summary isn't a giant red flag and it's actually worth a damn. Let's see whether or not this incredibly witty, well written, clever, and non-cliche fic lives up to the hype, I guess!
    Thrilling.

    Okay, it's fine to write mediocre fic, it's fine to not enjoy mediocre fic, but for the love of god, if you're going to write mediocre fic then don't fill your summary with a screed on how your mediocre fic is Superior (tm) to the filthy yaoiz all these people on AO3 write.
     
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  19. garden

    garden lucid dreamer

    yikes

    also AO3 allows original fic soooo...... bruh. why.
     
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  20. KingStarscream

    KingStarscream watch_dogs walking advertisement

    I WISH I KNEW

    edit: And for anyone wondering what fandom, those incredibly dynamic and engaging lines of dialogue were supposed to be Sokka and Zuko.
     
    Last edited: Sep 24, 2019
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