What are your fan fiction gripes?

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

  1. OnnaStik

    OnnaStik Relatively nice for a bloodthirsty mercenary

    Apology fics. I mean, I get wanting to see the way characters have treated each other addressed and all, but in practice it's all just... excessive groveling followed immediately by the saintly forgiveness of the wronged character (or "wronged", since a lot of these are about things that were, in context, fairly reasonable behavior) who incidentally is usually an agency-free cipher. Where's the drama? Where's the people who aren't comfortable with the words and try to apologize in the Language of Casseroles or its equivalent? Where's the hot mess of a character I know and love?
     
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  2. palindromordnilap

    palindromordnilap Well-Known Member

    I have recently seen a "[character] goes off their meds and their genocidal alternate personality takes over" fic. Why.
     
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  3. emythos

    emythos Lipstick Hoarding Dragon

    was the person writing it ripping off the gamzee thing
     
  4. palindromordnilap

    palindromordnilap Well-Known Member

    I doubt it, it was tagged "Multiple personality disorder" (:excalibur:) and was a Voltron fic.
     
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  5. LadyNighteyes

    LadyNighteyes Wicked Witch of the Radiant Historia Fandom

    :bigyikes:
     
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  6. KarrinBlue

    KarrinBlue Magical Girl Intern

    :ampora:
     
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  7. palindromordnilap

    palindromordnilap Well-Known Member

    Okay, I misremembered, it was "Dissociative Identity Disorder", which is... IDK, it is the more modern terminology, but that's not at all an accurate portrayal of it anyway.
    And the fic's called fucking Genocidio
     
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  8. garden

    garden lucid dreamer

    Am wondering if this fic is perhaps inspired by Dangan Ronpa? Either way it sounds shitty.
     
  9. palindromordnilap

    palindromordnilap Well-Known Member

    As far as I could read it (... One chapter), it kept referring to "DID meds". No. Just no.
     
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  10. furrylatula

    furrylatula a pissed off homestuck girl

    ao3 drafts are deleted after a month so if you had a lot of tags and didnt want to have to retype them when youre done with the fic it makes sense?
     
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  11. palindromordnilap

    palindromordnilap Well-Known Member

    This led to a trip through the "Dissociative identity disorder" tag on AO3 (Which also includes works tagged with "Multiple personalities disorder", apparently), and:
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    :bigyikes:
     
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  12. palindromordnilap

    palindromordnilap Well-Known Member

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    Oh, fuck off. (This is a band fandom, apparently?)
     
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  13. Kittenly

    Kittenly Just Squish That Cat!

    How long has that been happening? to be fair, my memory for these things are pretty terrible, but I'm pretty sure I had drafts saved for a lot longer than a month when I was rolling out one of my fics. It must have been longer because I kept forgetting to do it on time.
     
  14. furrylatula

    furrylatula a pissed off homestuck girl

    shrugs?? Screen Shot 2016-11-07 at 3.48.29 PM.png
     
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  15. palindromordnilap

    palindromordnilap Well-Known Member

    Somehow I've got a feeling it's really not.
     
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  16. LadyNighteyes

    LadyNighteyes Wicked Witch of the Radiant Historia Fandom

    That sounds offensively bad. Possibly so offensively bad it's funny, but offensively bad.
     
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  17. palindromordnilap

    palindromordnilap Well-Known Member

    One of the fics in the tag is a Hetalia fic, part of a series called "KIN SHIT". I'm... Kinda scared.
     
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  18. Astrodynamicist

    Astrodynamicist Adequate Potato Goblin

    i thiiiiink if you make edits to the draft and save it it resets the timer without having to publish anything. it's been a while since i've played with that though.

    the month time limit is def a thing though i have lost carefully entaggened placeholders that way
     
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  19. OtherCat

    OtherCat a being of mysterious happenstance

    Kid fics. Bad kid fics where the writer does not know how adoption/fostercare works. Kid fics where the writer does not know how to kid, and couldn't be bothered to grab some articles/books on child development. Twee and cutesy kid fics.

    Good kid fics when you can find them however, are gold.
     
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  20. artistformerlyknownasdave

    artistformerlyknownasdave revenge of ricky schrödinger

    davekat, but with kids! has been really popular lately and like, none of them do kids realistically ): the last time i read passable good kid fic it was UFUT, loophole and before i sleep
     
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