jackichijouji on the joys of fanfic (original) (raw)

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Ah yes... the place where fanfic goes to die.

LOL. That's hilarious.

(I love Tales of Symphonia)

Good ToS fan fiction? Oxymoron much? You'd need to be feelin' more than lucky to find anything worth reading for that fandom.

I guess. I only read fic for it at the Pit before I decided I didn't like it anymore. ^_^;

um... I'm not entirely sure I understand what you said but I dis/agree (-)108.63%

I was attempting to come up with a clever analogy, buy I can't get past "FanFiction.net : ToS fanfic:: MySpace :" I have no idea what to compare it to.

Three years as a ToS fic writer and reader, and I'd rather have a colonoscopy courtesy of Edward Scissorhands than put any of my work or read anyone else's on FF.net. (And not only because FF.net is particularly hostile to the slash writers in the ToS fandom, either, though that is a big part of it.)

Are you a slash writer, and if so what pairings (Yes i like off topic stuff)

*giggles* Did you forget that you know me, niffe? I'm LJ friends with meowzy_chan and am one of the moderators at see_this_star, which you are a member of.

...But since you asked, I write K/L and K/Y and occasionally M/K.

Forgive me >>

If I don't talk to people regularly I forget about them...

Anyways, written anything recently?

Actually, no, I haven't. My urge to write has been satisfied by RP. Perhaps I should get back into it. *ponders*

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Nope, Blake's 7. Same crappy budget as the Daleks, and the same creator (Terry Nation), and the same BBC budget and wobbly sets. Just a lot more doom, gloom, and subtext.

You know, I once made a trip to FF.net because I was in one of those masochistic moods. I discovered that in a favorite fandom of mine, there is a huge amount of badly-written AU, and also a lot of body-swapping and gender-switching, and a lot of fic in which the personalities of main characters are raped, eaten, half digested, and regurgiated into Microsoft Word.

But only on FF.net. I've not seen this crap anywhere else.

I swear to god, it is literally a pit of death.

My introduction to fanfic was when I got interested in LOTR after watching the movie a few gajillion times. I decided to look for fanfic, and looked at the LOTR stuff on ff.net. Alphabetically. By author.

I got as far as the "E"s before deciding that whatever I'd done in a past life to deserve such punishment couldn't possibly be as bad as all that, and that I'd more than atoned.

You...you read LOTR fanfic. On FF.net. Oh my god.

Do you need a hug?

Yeah... I once in a while find a good fic from someone and go, 'There must be more like this out there!'

That lasts all of two seconds before my eyes try to commit suicide and I'm left blind for like three minutes

I discovered that in a favorite fandom of mine, there is a huge amount of badly-written AU, and also a lot of body-swapping and gender-switching, and a lot of fic in which the personalities of main characters are raped, eaten, half digested, and regurgiated into Microsoft Word.

Let me guess - CSI.

One Piece, actually. I never read any fanfic for CSI when I was into it. I pretty much just watched it for the cases, so.

But if that is what it is like you have no idea how glad I am that I never did.

Primarily, this is because FF.Net is A) a major clearinghouse and B) has no review board. *Which tends to come from A.* Therefore, anybody can post any fanfic they want up there without regards to quality. Hence, the vast amount of lousy crud.

However, FF.Net has one major advantage from this that no other fic site has-- you can put fics for ANY FANDOM YOU WANT up. I've got a Vor-Tech fanfic up there, for Pete's sake! I can't even FIND a bloody Vor-Tech fanfic archive! And this way, people actually run across that fic and read it. Even ones who don't know what Vor-Tech is.

So basically? To use FF.Net, I suggest either a LOT of patience *and a high tolerance for typos* or finding a writer you know you like, and networking outward via their recommendations pages. That's what I do, most of the time...

Oh, I do have an account there. I just...usually don't venture out into the waters, as it were. And I do have like, two writers I've found that I like, so that's good.

Yeah, I write for Guyver. Not many fanfic archives for that, not that I've found, anyway.

This seems like a good thread for a GIC. :D

God, FF.net. I swear, the Rent fandom there isn't all that awful...

FF.net is a fun place, I think, especially if you write just for fun.

I can't think of anyplace else where I could write my Chrono Trigger stories and still get any attention or readers.

The site itself has so many technical problems, I wouldn't be surprised if it spontaneously combusted. lol As far as the writers go, there are some good ones there *shock/gasp/faint*, but it's so hard wading through all the crap. I prefer to stay away from any stories where the summary contains any obvious grammar or spelling mistakes. That's usually a dead giveaway. lol