What are your fan fiction gripes?

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

  1. palindromordnilap

    palindromordnilap Well-Known Member

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    uh
     
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  2. furrylatula

    furrylatula a pissed off homestuck girl

    from what i remember of supernatural

    didnt he get kicked out of heaven at some point

    this could be an au where it never happened
     
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  3. palindromordnilap

    palindromordnilap Well-Known Member

    It's also wingfic and creature fic so I guess it's supposed to mean "Sterotypical-Angel!Castiel".
     
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  4. palindromordnilap

    palindromordnilap Well-Known Member

    Okay.
    If you write something like this shit
    Not giving a link because the fic sucks.
    Then tag your fucking dubcon.
     
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  5. ChelG

    ChelG Well-Known Member

    People talking about astrology when they mean astronomy.
     
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  6. Wingyl

    Wingyl Allegedly Magic

    @ChelG if it's Discworld fic, then the two things are basically the same in-universe. I can't remember the exact wording but the reasoning is, the constellations shift drastically within a person's lifetime, so astrology is the study of constellations for them-you can tell when and where someone was born by their starsign, for example, because in 20 or so years time that constellation is gone.
     
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  7. ChelG

    ChelG Well-Known Member

    In the cases I mean, it isn't.
     
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  8. ChelG

    ChelG Well-Known Member

    Misogyny shoved randomly into slashfic, especially when no women even appeared onscreen and there was no reason to mention them, especially from female writers. I'm pretty sure portraying gay guys as misogynists by default counts as homophobia too; gay men aren't gay because women are disgusting. They may or may not be repelled by DFAB genitals because they're gay, but ones the (mostly female because it's fanfic) readers are supposed to sympathise with shouldn't dwell on it or be portrayed as justified in doing so, and most gay guys aren't repelled by the mere presence of women.
     
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  9. valenstyne

    valenstyne Went out for cigarettes, never came back

    "Hello," he stated.
    "Goodbye," she conveyed.
    "STOP USING SYNONYMS FOR 'SAID' WHEN YOU MEAN 'SAID' THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH 'SAID'," I screamed.
     
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  10. Aondeug

    Aondeug Cringe Annoying Ass Female Lobster

    "I know right," I ejaculated.
     
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  11. valenstyne

    valenstyne Went out for cigarettes, never came back

    "…I can't believe I forgot about that one," I signaled with my semaphore flags.
     
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  12. artistformerlyknownasdave

    artistformerlyknownasdave revenge of ricky schrödinger

    just ran into a fic last night that was like.

    "blah blah blah" Pouncival the brown and white patched tom with a large brown patch over one side of his face said

    "yes blah blah" agreed admetus the older patchwork tabby with white brown and red fur

    no punctuation in the random snippets of description, either. just. suddenly describing characters you really ought to be familiar with if you're reading fic, in one big run-on
     
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  13. roach

    roach hump rumpus professional

  14. valenstyne

    valenstyne Went out for cigarettes, never came back

    Jesus H. Macy.
     
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  15. ChelG

    ChelG Well-Known Member

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  16. valenstyne

    valenstyne Went out for cigarettes, never came back

    That's amazing.
     
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  17. ChelG

    ChelG Well-Known Member

    Pretty sure it was an intentional troll as that was also the one in which Jasper Cullen has sex with a talking panda, but it was very good at getting those little WTF moments in alongside the giant WTF moments. I can't help but picture a plimple as being a small animal reminiscent of Poliwag.
     
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  18. ChelG

    ChelG Well-Known Member

    Oh, related gripe; contradictory adverbs. If "plimpled" means a kind of speaking, how can it be done "mutely"?
     
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  19. Aondeug

    Aondeug Cringe Annoying Ass Female Lobster

    "Just let me do a thing", I say, inccorrectly placing my punctuation marks.
     
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  20. valenstyne

    valenstyne Went out for cigarettes, never came back

    So, referring to a character as "the taller man" when you could just use his name is annoying. Referring to him as "the taller", noun not present, is baffling.

    eta: I thought maybe it was an accident, but nope, he's also called "the younger".
     
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