Subject: Bravo!
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Posted on: 2014-12-01 23:33:00 UTC
I was wondering when this would be up! The source material was just...ugh. Perfect spork material, and you handled it admirably. Keep it up!
Subject: Bravo!
Author:
Posted on: 2014-12-01 23:33:00 UTC
I was wondering when this would be up! The source material was just...ugh. Perfect spork material, and you handled it admirably. Keep it up!
A Stint Into WhatThe, which is short but nonetheless in need of sporking.
Thanks a lot to Hieronymus Graubart and Darkotas for beta reading! I'm unfortunately getting kicked off the computer after this, but I really wanted to get it out. So I'll update the Wiki tomorrow after school, if that's okay.
Oh, wow. That was hilarious, Iximaz. Very enjoyable to read, and the ending...wow.
Well done!
~DF
What really frustrated me when I read this nightmare of a wish-fulfilling "story" is the waste of good ideas.
Although he still loves Ginny, Harry has to marry another woman, because (insert believable magical reason that cannot easily be overcome here); how will Harry, Ginny and the OC deal with this? But the Sue had to remove any potential conflict by pretending that Ginny cheated on Harry, and she is probably under the illusion that she doesn’t still need to come up with a good reason for this marriage when Harry is single again.
James survived Lily’s death and still doesn’t look like the jerk he appeared to be in Severus Snape’s memory because (insert plausible escape story here); how does he cope with the loss, and how will his survival influence Harry’s life? But the Sue just wanted Harry’s daddy back and removed at least half of his redeeming qualities by not telling us the back story.
Sirius had a pregnant wife, or a wife and a small child, when he volunteered to be the Secret Keeper; how did his daring actions affect his family? (Alternatively, Sirius found love when he was on the hunt for Wormtail, it depends on how old his son is supposed to be.) But the Sue just wanted to make Sirius happy after resurrecting him for no apprehensible reason. (Her main story could easily be told without involving Sirius, and without involving James.)
Since he couldn’t find any other place to live in, Remus moved in with his best friend’s son; the Dursleys are not amused when he tries to take in his uncanonical daughter. But the Sue became distracted before she could be introduced to the landlord.
The forbidden love between a Metamorphmagus and a Quileute tribe person creates a shape shifter of capabilities never seen before; can she integrate in either society? This Twilight crossover is farfetched, but it is still more plausible than making Teddy Tonks female, old enough to marry Harry, able to metamorph into a big guy twice her weight and capable of transforming into cats of any size. Being something like the American third cousin once removed of Remus Lupin’s canonical wife (there has to be another Metamorphmagus in her family) would still be sufficient to meet Harry and become involved into the main plot.
Instead of all the plausible potential conflicts we get
• the Sue staring down Dudley for a perceived insult, when she should be glad that somebody already realized that she has to be Harry’s girlfriend and future wife;
• some random gangsters who don’t look like Death Eaters trying to torture Harry’s whereabouts out of James and Sirius when Harry isn’t actually difficult to find;
• and a potentially evil stepmother-to-be coming out of the blue to take the Sue to the hospital when she should be capable to go there on her own
Gaah, I’m overanalyzing this mess, and that’s far less funny than your mission.
HG
I think this version is much better than my first draft thanks to your concrit.
Anyway, wow, looking at all those ideas... The squandered potential makes me want to cry.
When the Sue turned into the "Loin," I almost laughed out loud in the middle of class, which is a good sign.
Well. You found yourself an interesting little fic there, didn'tcha?
Firstly, I love this sentence:
It looked vaguely like a street, if someone described a street to a blind man so he could draw said street with a broken pencil held in his non-dominant fist before proceeding to erase his work.
This is now officially my favorite description of generic, un-described fic space ever.
And I guess I semi-agree with others that this one got a little MST-like, but really, the fic speaks for itself, so that was probably the most efficient way to write this. ("Ha ha, I'm the daughter of a werewolf and my name is 'wolves' spelled backwards, and I turn into CAAAAAATS.")
And I love no, that's the wrong word for this situation. I . . . am amused by the way you made the "loin" thing look like it was just a one-of joke, but then spring it on the agents later in the worst possibly way. You handled it in a simple, discreet way that was simultaneously hilarious and horrifying.
So good work dealing with something unusually bizarre!
Like I said, I really had no idea how to convey the bizarreness of the fic without it coming off like an MST. The next one isn't nearly as bizarre, though it is very creepy with Edwardlike!Harry.
"Ha ha, I'm the daughter of a werewolf and my name is 'wolves' spelled backwards, and I turn into CAAAAAATS."
I snorted milk out my nose. Thanks for making my day. :D
And the loin thing is now infamous among my IRL friends. It's definitely my favorite part about the mission.
"I'm not that good of a writter [sic], some stories may not make sense to some of you but it does for me, my friends and family that's all I care about. I see it this way you don't like you don't need to read. Yes I can be rude but only if your rude with me. So that's all I have so far."
--Her profile. All of this is so very classic stereotypical Suethor I don't know if that trollfic comment is too far off. The mission was much more fun.
But that would probably be not such a good idea.
Anyway, glad you enjoyed the mission! :D
As you've probably realised, it's best to avoid even the appearance of targeting the author - even if all their fics absolutely deserve killing.
hS
This reminds me of that one trollfic my Floaters team tackled for their second mission together. Yeesh.
I didn't read this particular fic prior to reading the mission, and I'm glad for that now. The 'Loin!Sue' near the end was my favorite part. XD
When you browse older fanfics, you can find some horrifying stuff lost to memory. Of course, I didn't find any minis in my fic.
Anyway! For our upcoming collab, do you have a particular fic in mind? I checked out Cori Falls' stories and my god I wanted to jump off a bridge. Also, do you have anything in particular you wanted to do for the interlude?
Apologies for taking so long to reply, I've been under the weather recently and research is becoming heavy near the end of term.
Anyway, yeah, I feel you on the old fics and stuff. Which reminds me - the Cori Falls fics I wish to tackle are the two about the Articuno for the first act, "How James Got His Mojo Back" as a worse example for the second act, and maybe partway through New Directions for the third act before the agents step in. We may end up doing a lot of scene-cutting and singling out the worst parts, of course - these fics are often ridiculously long, even without the urple prose. We can continue this discussion via e-mail, since I also plan to PM you the bio for my new trainee for evaluation as well.
And I've already set up the first part of the interlude. We should be good to go from there!
Excellent work, Iximaz! *head-pat*
Also, Neshomeh, if you're reading this, how do I get permission to edit the front page of the wiki?
And you don't need permission to edit the front page. As long as you're logged in you should be able to. But I said I'll take care of it today, so don't worry about it.
There's no "edit" button on the front page, and when I click "View source", even though I'm logged in, it acts like I'm not and says the page is locked to prevent anonymous editing. Is there anything you know of that I can do to fix this? (I'm trying to add my mission to "latest story releases.")
It's happened to me before, and Desdendelle had to edit it for me.
Hey, oldbies! Any idea why it keeps happening?
There's a delay before new accounts are allowed to edit protected pages, to prevent people from creating accounts just to spam things. I forget how long; just keep checking back, I guess.
~Neshomeh
(And thus we see where the department gets its name. ^_^)
That was one of those badfics that doesn't even try to be a fic - just bad. Your style here is very MST-y - I can't remember whether it was in your previous missions, I'm afraid - which... well, I'm generally fairly solidly against extensive quoting, but in this case it's almost justified. That's because it's not so much the events that are bad here - not until that final section, anyway - but just the writing as a whole.
And yeah, Mirg made me laugh. :D
hS
But for the life of me, I couldn't figure out how to convey the fic's WUT-ness without doing so.
And thanks :3
Just from your sporking, it's clear that this badfic deserved all zero reviews that it got on FFN.
I pray that it never gets a single one.
About the mission itself, though:
First of all, what happened to the bit characters? It seems that the Sue created quite a few. (Destiny, Sirius JR/Sirius Jr) Don't those usually get disposed of as well?
Secondly, a rare double error.
“What, you’re not gonna charge for the Pluralpostophe?” Randa asked.
First of all, a spelling error: you forgot an R; I believe your portmanteau was meant to be spelled "pluralpostrophe."
Second, the technical term for an apostrophe being used before a pluralizing S is "greengrocer's apostrophe." I don't know if you didn't know that before or were just trying to be funny, but as they say,
Either way, good mission, and hopefully someone comes up with some solution for poor Rina before she starts going flamethrower-crazy!
But yeah, I was trying to be funny. I'll go back and fix it when I have access to a computer (I'm using my phone now).
As for the bit characters and 'canon' characters, I figured the canon was so warped the story had actually broken off and was acting as its own little microcanon. Once the Sue was killed, so was the entire 'world'. Without her keeping it together, it just failed.and I don't torture Rina because she's my agent nope
You did a good job handling what was an incredibly broken story, and the bit with the Sue's final form made me chuckle. Nice work, Iximaz. Very well - and deservedly - sporked.
I still think the misspelled lion was the best part.
Your spork was wonderful. As wonderful as it can be in the circumstances.
OH BY ALL THE SPIRITS OF CANON WHY THIS MONSTROSITY WHY
Great, now I've contracted the CAPSLOCK OF RAGE from it. Well, it's more like a Capslock of Horror, under these circumstances.
So much horrible why
>_
WHAT THE-?!
Don't try reading the original badfic. It hurts. Actually, stay away from that author. The rest of her stories are just as bad.
The fic was just that bad in a way that didn't hit the funny button.
Somehow this was more NSFB for me than *My Immortal* was. The sorts of badfics that reach Legendary Badfic status amuse me with their Mini creation and verb confusion, but somehow this didn't trip either the "oh, this is is bad, but kinda funny" or the "oh, wow, this is horrible and so horrible it's funny" sensors. It just was... bad. Your spork was funny, definitely, but the fic just hit that WTF button in between the hilaribads.
Is my brain just broken or something? Or is this just a sign that I need Bleeprin? ;)
(Seriously, this is one out of three or so badfics I've had this reaction to. And none of them were Legendary Badfics. I have no idea.)
(...yes, I've read multiple Legendary Badfics. They're amusing. But my brain just saw this one and went NOPE not doing this.)
I was wondering when this would be up! The source material was just...ugh. Perfect spork material, and you handled it admirably. Keep it up!