What are your fan fiction gripes?

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

  1. spockandawe

    spockandawe soft and woolen and writhing with curiosity

    For a moment, I really, really hoped this was also a crossover with Oz, but it looks like glynda goodwitch is a rwby character. My hopes were only high for a moment, but now they are crushed. Anakin could have been the mechanics-loving guy who gave the tin man his metal body :(

    And double uncharitable:
    And let me guess, Tailgate sat there and passively took all the dicks she was offered because that is what women do. Ughhhh. Now I just want to write Tailgate pegging the everloving hell out of Cyclonus and Whirl. While Cyclonus and Whirl make out and officially Touch Dicks. It takes a special kind of no-homo to take some m/m/m threesome porn and remove all the gay from it :T
     
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  2. emythos

    emythos Lipstick Hoarding Dragon

    why does yang get so many bad author fucking stories
    why
    there are so many AWFUL rwby oc stories and like basically no good ones
    and it's all "super cool dude author self insert fucks inexplicably wimpy yang or/and weiss"
     
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  3. spockandawe

    spockandawe soft and woolen and writhing with curiosity

    You know, there was so much everything happening in that story blurb that I totally missed the beauty of the one singular tag that is
     
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  4. unknownanonymous

    unknownanonymous i am inimitable, i am an original|18+

    omfg i think this thread (or the badfic one) has seen that fic before

    the tag feels very familar
     
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  5. LadyNighteyes

    LadyNighteyes Wicked Witch of the Radiant Historia Fandom

    I feel like that fic got quoted at some point in either this thread or the badfic thread and I was all "this is why you use commas" until it turned out they literally did mean all of those descriptors on one character.
     
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  6. unknownanonymous

    unknownanonymous i am inimitable, i am an original|18+

    and whaddya know?
    this fic is a legend
     
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  7. peripheral

    peripheral Stacy's Dad Is Also Pretty Rad

    I've already introduced you to Rising Dawn, AKA That One Good Self-Insert fic, right?
     
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  8. Verily

    Verily surprised Xue Yang peddler

    Aargh poor Yang why do they do this to you.

    She is the awesome older sister of the main character. Whatever the opposite of petty is, that's Yang. She's outgoing, brave, driven, and optimistic. She tends towards supportive of her loved ones more than protective, because she respects their needs, abilities, and autonomy. In a fight she's one of those regrettably rare female brawlers. She could totally kick your ass.
     
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  9. emythos

    emythos Lipstick Hoarding Dragon

    yes, and thank you so much. i needed something to cleanse my brain of all the awful ones.
    presumably because she has boobs and shows slightly more skin.
     
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  10. Verily

    Verily surprised Xue Yang peddler

    Ah yes, the two foremost sins of a female character: boobs and cleavage.
     
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  11. peripheral

    peripheral Stacy's Dad Is Also Pretty Rad

    this reminds me
    EVERYONE READ RISING DAWN BY CUCHULAINN X19
     
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  12. emythos

    emythos Lipstick Hoarding Dragon

    the best way to get really shitty oc fic based around you
     
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  13. Aya-non

    Aya-non Well-Known Member

    @peripheral, put that in the fanfic recs thread, maybe, too, so people looking for recs can find it?
     
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  14. palindromordnilap

    palindromordnilap Well-Known Member

    Oh gods I know that fic. It's known as "Spider-Stu in Remnant" to the PPC and the summary is actually completely unrelated to the fic.
    YES THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED. Click the links lower down this thread and it's mentioned a bit later.
     
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  15. palindromordnilap

    palindromordnilap Well-Known Member

  16. spockandawe

    spockandawe soft and woolen and writhing with curiosity

    Final piece of anecdata, because I think/hope the conversation has officially Ceased, but the person who's been asking questions about transformers smut actually predates valve/spike xeno altogether. They said that they were used to wireplay being the only xeno in the mix, and that valve/spike xeno was just starting to emerge as they drifted away from the fandom scene (and now I'm curious about when in the timeline plug and play emerged as the third main xeno flavor). So I don't have a good handle on the dates for those sorts of fan culture shifts, but I'm betting they were around for the geocities era, maybe the early-early ff.net stuff.
     
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  17. applechime

    applechime "well, you know, a very — a very crunchy person."

    so i don't know if this counts as a gripe necessarily but i am like 90% sure that this one author is uh. artificially inflating their kudos count??? like HALF A DOZEN of their stories appeared on the front page of TF fics sorted by kudos out of nowhere, their work is extremely mediocre, and 1700 OUT OF THEIR 1750ish KUDOS ARE FROM GUESTS........

    :psyduck:
     
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  18. KingStarscream

    KingStarscream watch_dogs walking advertisement

    Thaaaaat seems sketchy as hell, wtf.
     
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  19. applechime

    applechime "well, you know, a very — a very crunchy person."

    some mediocre 9k human-centric BAYVERSE kidfic is now the most kudosed transformers fic on ao3 :psyduck::psyduck::psyduck::psyduck::psyduck:
     
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  20. spockandawe

    spockandawe soft and woolen and writhing with curiosity

    That is extremely mediocre. And all of their fics seem to clear that rough numeric mark. Is that in violation of the ao3 terms of service? Because this is CHEATING and I'm going to report them :P
     
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