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 Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 11:14 pm
I don't mind fanfictions, as I know that sometimes it's so much simpler to use already created characters and put them in a situation. I don't even mind the slight change in personality to match the story.
However, what I do highly disapprove of it the lack of plot, bad grammar and spelling and, overall, being very lazy with a story. I've read great summaries of brillaint ideas only to find one half a page of terribly typed out story. It's absolutely disgraceful!
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Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 10:27 am
I know. I love a good fanfiction that can take the characters and go, "here is something that should have happened, but we didn't see." It's awful when I'm all excited to read something like that, then I get a harsh reminder that a lot of fanfiction is painfully ameteur.
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Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 11:36 am
I'm very picky when it comes to fanfiction.
I hate Alternate Universe fics, they're so frustrating.
Also, if you must make a character come back to life, do so in a plausible manner.
Something that actually could've happend.
Don't just say 'After dissappearing for months so-and-so has come back.'
D<
Annoying.
But fanfiction is my guilty pleasure; I read what few, delicious novel-length fics there are out there.
If I don't get my update every two weeks, I think I might implode.
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Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 9:35 pm
DevonyEvony Woo, it's been awhile. sweatdrop Anyhow! Doesn't it annoy the living daylights out of you when you read some fanfiction? The authors warp the characters to suit their story and ignore important details. I was just thinking about it and was wondering what you guys think. I hate fanfiction (maybe not hate but it's close to it), mainly because of the reason mentioned above. It annoys me intensely when authors warp characters.
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Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 4:00 pm
Argh. I hate poorly written fanfiction. gonk
My least favorite things...
Poor spelling and horrible grammar. It's so obnoxious when a somewhat interesting story doesn't come to fruition because the writer couldn't bother to use spell check.
Self-inserts and worse. Recently I was on an LotRs kick and I swear, at least 80% featured a Mary Sue. It was quite depressing. gonk
Poor characterization. I despise this. Having a character OOC on occasion does make sense, if it's an AU for example, but they still need to have motives and such. They can't just randomly decide to hate all their friends and go hang out with the enemy for no frickin' reason. Personally, I notice a lot of poor characterization in slash fic. Orientation change aside, just because they're gay doesn't mean they're also girls. And the majority of slash fics also treat the woman in them really poorly. They're always portrayed as crazy, stalker like exes. Seriously, it's annoying. scream
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Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 4:51 pm
One rare find that I really like is a completely non-canon, off-the-wall pairing that's written so the match is totally plausible. For you Kenshin fans, someone once hypothetically mentioned a Saito/Misao pairing as a challenge, just to see how that would work (assuming both characters remained in-character). I don't see good ones often, but I love them for the way they explore character depth and personality.Nesting Comments Self-inserts and worse. Recently I was on an LotRs kick and I swear, at least 80% featured a Mary Sue. It was quite depressing. gonk
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Romantic Conversationalist
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Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 10:06 pm
If you want non-canon, somewhat off the wall pairings, there's some awesome Raven/Jinx pairings from Teen Titans out there (if you don't mind slash, that is).
Bad grammar doesn't bother me too much, and unimaginative OCs I don't mind. Don't tell anyone... but if I like the idea behind a story, but it has weak OCs or the personality of the canon characters is off, I kind of pirate the story and make my own revisions to it whee
Of course, I don't publish it anywhere. That would be rude AND plagiarism, and that's just not cool.
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Posted: Sat Jan 30, 2010 3:31 am
...birds creep over tin roofs, like criminals with tap shoes...
I Hear ThunderI get shivers down my spine when a friend tries to recommend fan fiction to me.
I just see it as a little bit sad to focus your writing around something someone else created. When you can make something of your own.
Theres a difference of being inspired, and stealing.
I dont see it as bad lending environments or worlds, as those are bigger concepts, but when it comes to characters, it just feels wrong to me.
And slash just makes me writhe, i have nothing agains homosexuals, i have nothing against hothot gay stories. But when someone takes Harry Potter and makes him smex Draco Malfoy, theres just something inside me that dies a little D:
Have a few friends that were all gooey over Legolas a few years back, and read every fanfiction there was about LotR, and is now claiming to know everything about the books and the events, even thou they haven't even touched the books. That also annoy the living daylights out of me.
/ducks from bashing
But Theres No Rain
...stain the glass with windows, extortionate and cold stare...
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Romantic Conversationalist
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Posted: Sat Jan 30, 2010 3:11 pm
Hm, that's an interesting take, Tebasile. I can see where you're coming from.
To respectfully add to the dialog, I would say that I see well-written and well-conceived fanfiction as an honor to the original creators, just as I see fanart. Though I'm not published, if I were I think it would be the pinnacle of flattery if I saw someone writing fanfiction about something I had originally created.
Some of the fanfiction I've read is so incredibly well done that I hope the writers have indeed also created something original and shared it with the world. To think that sincerely good writers invest their time and skills in paying homage to another's work is a great compliment to the creator, in my opinion.
When I personally write fanfiction, whether or not I post it online for others, I do so because the original piece of art (be it a book or a film) has so moved and inspired me that I want to explore it more. In my mind, there isn't so much difference between writing fanfiction that explores characterizations or "off-stage" events alluded to in the original, and writing a non-fiction essay about the same things. I've done both, and though they are obviously different means of analysis, essentially (for me) they're both ways of looking deeply at a work that I've come to love.
[Edit] Of course, when it's just an excuse to slap an unrealistic pairing together and write smut... that's another story. sweatdrop I can't say I see that as flattery at all...
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Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 1:19 pm
...birds creep over tin roofs, like criminals with tap shoes...
I Hear ThunderWhen you say it like that, it doesn't sound to bad.
And i think i have to pressure myself to kill a prejudice i have, of fanfiction writers being sexually frustrated (and slightly fan-crazed) teenage girls.
And they say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery ;D
To write as a continuation of a character in which world that character belongs, because you are to inspired to not to. That sounds more like the author made a really good job catching you as a reader.
Its when someone takes characters, as if the books they have read, and movies they have seen, is just a library of available characters, already developed and with background stories, to fiddle with however they want. That it makes me sad.
But Theres No Rain
...stain the glass with windows, extortionate and cold stare...
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Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 4:01 pm
I written a few fan-fiction when i was 14-17. mostly they been about anime that i watched.
http://www.fanfiction.net/~tisumie
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Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 10:02 am
To expand on Fairgrass's point: I know of at least one fanfic write who has used fanfic as a practice ground to writing original works. She was so good that none of the original characters she worked into the story were Mary Sues, but as solid as the characters from the show.
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