What are your fan fiction gripes?

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

  1. Acey

    Acey hand extended, waiting for a shake

    That just reads like a shitpost somehow.
     
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  2. Maya

    Maya smug_anime_girl.jpg

    Huh. I didn't know exaggerating/adding on to Harry's abuse was a fandom cliche, though I do know a lot of fics focus a lot more on the effects it had on Harry than Rowling did, but..... wow.
     
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  3. Starcrossedsky

    Starcrossedsky Burn and Refine

    It's explicit that Dudley's crew beat him up, yeah. I want to say in the beginning of book 3, but it could honestly be anywhere between 2-5. I'm pretty sure it's not 1 because I reread that way more recently than I did any of the others, and Dudley lets up on him after the Dementor attack in 5 and is downright pleasant in their last exchange in 7.
     
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  4. LadyNighteyes

    LadyNighteyes Wicked Witch of the Radiant Historia Fandom

    Yeah, I knew Dudley got better. And if I remember right he was too scared of Harry to mess with him TOO directly after the Aunt Marge thing even before the Dementors. I just couldn't remember how far his torment went in the early books, because I'm not sure I've reread them in most of ten years.
     
  5. Starcrossedsky

    Starcrossedsky Burn and Refine

    Book 1 definitely makes mention of extreme bullying, though iirc it isn't given a specific source in relation to Dudley and Company. But there's made mention of a time Harry was being bullied and teleported himself up to the school roof, so...
     
  6. LadyNighteyes

    LadyNighteyes Wicked Witch of the Radiant Historia Fandom

    Yeah, Harry's definitely been through Some Crap. Which is where this all started with the fanfiction gripes, really- fic authors decide it's not enough because he's not being raped or hospitalized.
     
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  7. ChelG

    ChelG Well-Known Member

    Now we're back to that one I complained about here earlier where Petunia kicks him hard enough to break his ankle, he runs a long distance on said broken ankle, works a shift in customer service, sleeps a night, goes to work the next day, walks all the way to Malfoy Manor, and then the author suddenly decides she also stabbed him at the same time she kicked him and only at this point do his wounds start bleeding.

    EDIT: Here it is, and the above is the least stupid part of it.
     
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  8. spockandawe

    spockandawe soft and woolen and writhing with curiosity

    All I want is some quality Optimus Prime/Starscream pitch loving

    Is that so much to ask for?

    But then that one fic had the delightful amnesia romance plot that took a sharp left into that upsetting breakup+returning-to-your-abuser ending, Consequence was quality but way more focused on plot than on shipping, and Delicacy went a little too shmoopy and also threw forced breeding and literal baby eating at me (which I was unironically into, but still). Most of what's left seems to be kinda... sex slavery and/or noncon flavored. I'm not opposed, but that's not really what I'm after. I get the sinking feeling I'm not going to find what I'm looking for on ao3, and I'll have to write it myself, which means I won't get to enjoy it as a reader, blaggghhhhh

    Oh, but on topic for this thread. Transformers turn into vehicles, for the most part. They have vehicle parts. Little touches like engines revving or thrusters turning on to indicate arousal or anger or whatever is fine and fun. Now, there are tasteful limits to this. Something like... ambulance sirens turning on, that's kinda silly and I need some good writing to frame right if you want me to take it seriously. Which has happened! But okay,

    a tailpipe is not an appropriate catch-all term for robot asshole

    Okay, first of all, not all of these guys don't even have tailpipes. Megatron turns into a gun. Now I'm just stuck here visualizing someone just....... born without an asshole. A butt, only with skin covering the spot where their asshole should have been. Just smooth crack, all the way down.

    But even for the others, one, a tailpipe is pretty dang rigid. Thinking about sticking your junk up inside that doesn't seem all that ideal. And two, the entire purpose of a tailpipe is to sit right out there in the open. So when a vehicle is driving, it's expelling exhaust from its exhaust. I am now thinking about robot farts. Hot. But also, you can, like. See tailpipes. On normal everyday car-shaped alt modes. That is this robot's asshole and part of their colon, just.... hanging out there for the world to see. All the time. I am now looking at the hole that someone used to have sex with this robot. If I touch this vehicle's tailpipe, I am fingering robot asshole.

    I really, really wanted to get into this fic, but I think I need to lower my taking-it-seriously standards and try again
     
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  9. Aondeug

    Aondeug Cringe Annoying Ass Female Lobster

    There was a mention of their favorite game being Harry Hunting and no one wanted to get in the way of Dudley's gang. In chapter 3 of book 1. In chapter 2 before that mention is made of Piers Polkiss being the one that holds people's arms back as Dudley punches them. While this isn't explicitly a mention of them beating the shit out of Harry as a group in book 1 it is a heavy implication that they at least tried.
     
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  10. Aondeug

    Aondeug Cringe Annoying Ass Female Lobster

    The exact quotes

    "Piers was a scrawny boy with a face like a rat. He was usually the one who held people's arms behind their backs while Dudley him them." (25)

    "Harry was glad school was over, but there was no escaping Dudley's gang, who visited the house every single day. Piers, Dennis, Malcom, and Gordon were all big and stupid, but as Dudley was the biggest and stupidest of the lot, he was the leader. The rest of them were quite happy to join in Dudley's favorite sport: Harry Hunting." (31)

    Also I misremembered the no one wanting to mess with Dudley's gang mention is book 3 specifically.

    The mentions of a specific moment of his bullying was chapter 4 or 5 I believe but I'll have to look it up.

    Was chapter 4 yeap.

    "Now that he came to think about it...every odd thing that had ever made his aunt and uncle furious with him had happened when he, Harry, hand been upset or angry...chased by Dudley's gang, he had somehow found himself out of their reach... ...and the very last time Dudley had hit him, hadn't he got his revenge without even realizing it?"

    The chimney thing was 2 and specifically mentions that it was to avoid the gang: Dudley's gang had been chasing him as usual when, as much to Harry's surprise as anyone else's, there he was sitting on the chimney.
     
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  11. mizushimo

    mizushimo the greatest hits

    Can I just find one explicit fic where Drift isn't tied up, rendered helpless or extremely submissive? I get that his character edges him in the direction of being a sub but a little variety would be nice. /petty gripe
     
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  12. cleverThylacine

    cleverThylacine cuddles for the weird and the fierce

    Well of course they had to figure that out.

    Gems don't eat, they have to figure out how to do that.

    Gems also do not reproduce sexually. Ergo...
     
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  13. Fucker

    Fucker Well-Known Member

    "He chuckled"
    "Yelp"

    Any overly purple prosy stuff
    Skinny "popular" 19 year old boys who are super anime and conveyed as being troubled and dark with no actual troublesomness or darkness aside for angsting and a superiority complex

    Seme/uke yaoi

    When people miswrite topics such as abuse ands its ovbious they did No research

    WRITTEN ACCENTS damnn fun fact: trying to imitate a foregein persons accent for no reason is bad, doing it in text is horrendus

    Making trans men regardless of their in canon demeanor or size into wimpy, submissive bois with curves and babys first overdramatizised yet completely stereotypically and probably offensive portayal of transition

    Same goes for anyone afab tbh

    While i dont mind fluffy AUs or depictions of horrible characters in a nuanced complex manner, only referring to them as "smol precious child who do no wrong" is just.. No they are terrible and henious also ple a s e

    I literally cant read about 16-21 year old high school drama kings please please i beg you st op its angsty and stupid and honestly i have a personal seething hatred for those type of characters

    Since i basically dont have the attention to read if ever, aswell as not a native speaker, overly complex prose bugs me
    (I actually prefer more greyish prose with strong dialoge and characters to move the story, but thats just me)
     
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  14. furrylatula

    furrylatula a pissed off homestuck girl

    remind me never to look for portula fanfics again

    i went hunting the other night blindly thinking there was going to be the same amount of portula fanfics as, say, cronkri fanfiction bc theyve both got the same amount of canon interaction yknow?

    BOY /HOWDY/ WAS I SORELY MISTAKEN!!!!

    there was.........THREE PAGES of portula fanfiction and it was ALMOST ALL G RATED AND RED QUADRANT

    AND THE ONE BLACK FIC I FOUND HAD NO IDEA HOW THE QUADRANT WORKED

    AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
     
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  15. LadyNighteyes

    LadyNighteyes Wicked Witch of the Radiant Historia Fandom

    there are three pages of fic total in my primary fandom and I wrote >1/5 of it ::::::'))))))
     
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  16. turtleDove

    turtleDove Well-Known Member

    Oh no. (That reminds me, once more, that there's a dearth of good Sollux/Rose anything, not much good pale Sollux/Terezi that I could find, and the only decent Rose/Vriska fic I recall is, afair, written by Roach. Which is terribly Unfair because dammit, what I apparently need more of in life is pale Rose/Vriska where Rose helps Vriska get her shit unfucked, or possibly ashen Rose/Vriska, with the third leaf being "everyone else". Alternately, Rose and Vriska being terrible, terrifying disasters together. And "write it yourself" doesn't work too well when I'm already stuck on writing a post-war Hermione/Draco fic b/c I got shipteased with that once and went "wait, why can't they hook up if they're managing to get along okay post-war?" Also, I need to have some idea for a plot, and for Rose/Vriska, I got nothin'.)
     
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  17. KarrinBlue

    KarrinBlue Magical Girl Intern

    I assume you already read Vienna game and the one where rose and Sollux have a horrorterror adventure?
     
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  18. Codeless

    Codeless Cheshire Cat

    You wouldn´t have a link to that second one would you? <.<
     
  19. emythos

    emythos Lipstick Hoarding Dragon

    fics that drop in 'headcanons' that are wildly different from canon without any warning, and proceed to treat it likes it's canon
    why
     
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  20. OtherCat

    OtherCat a being of mysterious happenstance

    I think it might be this one. Scarlet and Bible Black by paraTactician
     
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