Subject: Re: Okay, whoa, wait...
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Posted on: 2012-11-15 16:44:00 UTC
Yeah, there's a funny little thing called a "green card", it's kind of necessary for citizenship in the States if you're from out of country?
So where's this chick's papers?
'Replacement Dash Attempts to Destroy My Little Pony' wasn't bad as far as grammar and punctuation went, either. That one still proved to be highly sporkable despite the lack of technical charges.
-shudders-
It's just a lot easier when the fic practically makes fun of itself with typos, malapropisms, and backward grammar. I personally prefer targets that make me giggle all on their own. *g*
This, on the other hand, is just irritating as far as I've seen.
~Neshomeh
Maybe it'd work for a newbie (or any agent, really) getting trained in LOTR character personalities?
This fic would be immensely sporkable if it were longer. For now, it's just laughable. It managed to knock Spock OOC to the point of being a character replacement in 422 words.
The summary: this is my 1st fic! Ples r&r. Jade Flower is promoted to USS Entepriz where she meets spok & kirc. what will hapen next? Read to see!
The link: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5105462/1/Jade-Flower
...but I believe Spok started laughing because it was the only way to express his rage at that point in the story. She replaced him in three sentences.
I run the OFU for Star Trek. Though if you happen to want to adopt him, after the year is done I'm sure that can be arranged.
Evil Suethor, making me mess up a character name...
*yawn* Really, author. If you're going to write a trollfic, at least try to be original. Even other trolls can't appreciate this one, judging by some of the reviews.
At least the bad spelling is plausible. I guess that's worth some points. And I did love the author's note in the second chapter. Classic Mary Sue denial. ^_^
~Neshomeh, observing again that all that is bad does not sparkle. Or something.
Another one?
Were they as ballsy as the one on Fanfiction.net who blatantly called her troll fic a My Immortal sequel?
That's painful to read. Oh, and summaries cause minis as well, so don't forget to pick up the USS Entepriz, too.
Owie, that spelling is bad.
'Jenes' is jeans? Really, author?
I need some bleepolate milk... -chugs-
... Wow. I guess I didn't need to know that Portal fics actually existed... I mean, I get that it vaguely ties in to some other game (Half-Life? I've only ever played Portal, though,) but I just don't know how people get some of these ideas. I probably don't want to know.
There's probably a lot of jokes in Portal that I'm not getting, but my approach to it has always been "hey, there's a first person game that doesn't require (much) shooting things and dying! I'm getting Myst flashbacks!"
"Also, GLaDOS and Wheatley are both humans."
Now, if it wasn't a Portal badfic, that might make for a cool Ghost In The Shell spinoff.
I'd tackle one of the DWxPMMM ones, but a) the current co-write isn't finished, and b) I've got my plate full with those YGO5Ds x MGLN ones.
Jesus, a vampire slayer? I can see that happening.
Before anybody starts in, I am a sworn Catholic. And I thoroughly enjoy poking fun at my own faith.
Especially when one of the Bible stories involves a prophet summoning FREAKING BEARS to maul a couple of naysayers.
It was Elisha, and he did that because some kids called him 'baldy' or something similar. (It's 2 Kings 2:23-24.)
There is a moratorium on doing missions involving the Bible. (And, I assume, the Quran and other religious texts, although it's never been brought up.)
Someone told me that when I found The Prayer Warriors (which was taken down from the Pit, BTW).
That sounds like the name of a Christian rock band that started out playing at church socials...
Harry James Potter is allied with Satan? Oh, my God...
(Totally with you on being horrified - Catholic, m'self.)
You've just given me an awful mental picture of one of them going after Nanoha or Fate. Or worse, VIVIO. Or, wait, worse than that - Olivie. Ugh.
Yeah, I really need to slow down when I'm ranting.
Proxy Girl (A Slender Man Love Story)
The website doesn't allow copypasta but boy oh boy I think I've found a new pit of voles...
Can we call it the pit of rats or?
I honestly don't get it. It seems like it's trying to come off like a teen girls' magazine (not bashing, but the quizzes and stuff seem like they could be found in a back issue of COSMOgirl,) and the summaries of the stories on there have SPAG and various errors out the wazoo... both the originals and the fanfiction.
It just seems like the overall site quality is consistently bad (at least from my brief overview.)
I vote we call it the circle of lemmings.
...for giggles and grins. I took the Star Trek ones, and the funny thing is, the quiz actually had the technobabble of Star Trek right WHILE having horrible SPaG. I've never seen that before. And I know Star Trek badfic.
I clicked on one because it looked Harry Potter related, and after asking me a lot of stupid questions, at least half of which were repeated at some point or another, it told me I was some Mary Sue-ish OC who is apparently Hermione's younger sister. The part that wierds me out the most though is the fact that it seems like nothing I clicked affected the result except saying which house I belonged to.
Here's a link if you're interested: http://www.quotev.com/quiz/2356140/Your-Harry-PotterHogwarts-Life/
...that on question five, it is impossible to choose a personality set that does not include 'kind'? That one makes me giggle.
But I wanna be an asshole! <:c>
The closest you get in this quiz is 'jerk with a secret kind side'.
So basically a ripoff Draco personality, only girlier, stupider, and Sue-ier.
If there isn't going to be any Darth Sidious meets Alucard and have a disgusting brainchild options, then I'm out.
Nobody else would be crazy enough to touch that!
But I wanna be an asshole! <:c>
...I have a feeling the creator just lined up her OCs, wrote questions based on their traits, and smushed them all into a quiz.
Zoey Granger needs to die she replaces Ginny and even though I'm not the biggest fan of Harry/Ginny WHAT RIGHT DOES THIS MARY SUE HAVE TO MESS - /restrained by Mochis
I kinda wish there was a format to sporking dumb quizzes.
To writing better fanfics. On that website. And it misspelt "grammar".
I'm just going to bang my head against the wall repeatedly or something.
How Not To Write A Story on Quizzaz. Because that's what this site used to be called. Yeah.
Bleeprin required for the amount of hypocriticalness.
I mean, I've seen worse SPaG. But there were definitely some amusing typos, like "Don't make your characters slutty or itchy!" And kind of defeated her point about going back and checking it over.
And if I had a quarter every time she said "like", despite her insistance that you shouldn't use it so much…
The poor characters... ignored because they were itchy and the author didn't want to write about them scratching. :D
The rant on Mary Sues.
Because she has one in her stories. I mean, wow.
NEWSFLASH: It is ridiculously hard to spot Sues when you write them yourself.
…because if I didn't laugh I'd cry for the future of humanity.
Now that's impressive.
I'll Bert you a fine to a dollar that you'd have sh*t luck finding something like that for, say, Naruto or some-such.
I say it should be parliamentary in nature.
It's only fair, I think.
All who wish to pass the vote, say "yea".
...Yea.
I look forward to seeing other badfics being hauled from its depths. From my cursory glance into the Sherlock fics there, there are lots and lots of boring Suefics that aren't worth PPCing because -yawn- been there, seen that.
...So far.
The Lituriture Adventures of Molly Smith
I think the worst part about this site is that it doesn't allow copypasta. Seriously. I don't want to type out any particular passage in the fic. It is that bad.
You actually have to read that other fic she mentions in the summary, Hunted to be able to get what the ... happens at the end of the first bit.
So basically it's a Suefic of a Suefic. Glee.
And yeah, I think I have this one lined up behind a Mycroft Sue I'm working on right now, but yes, toss me an email at lilywinterwood@gmail.com and let's get started. :I
This may not be a particularly good solution, but you can copy what you see in View Source. That comes with a crapton of code you'd have to weed out—possibly as much work as just typing out the text—but it's an option.
I'm... frankly boggled at the colors and fonts available. My eyes. They burn a little. O.o
~Neshomeh
Isn't there a shortcut key for selecting between one )? I swear there is, but I don't know much about html beyond the message board level.
The dreaded transdimensional hopper. And fail SPaG. And Sherlock getting a deduction wrong.
Please spork it. I love reading your missions.
Really, how much longer than me have you been here? You should know better by now.
I, however, dread opening that particular site you've linked. Oh, do I dread it.
If you were going to build a boyfriend, why would you want a virtual one? I don't even... I think it's Sturgeon's law for sure, but since Sturgeon was never that specific about where to find the 90%, I'm going to assume that this is part of the 90% of fanfic. Could be the meta-reason why ao3 is such comparatively high quality - it's the ten percent, but separated off of this site and it's ilk.
Real people fic abounds. Like I didn't already want to apply tacks to my own toes when seeing real people fic...
Build-a Boyfriend?
Oh good Lord...
http://www.quotev.com/story/1793858/Off-Limits-James-Potter-Love-Story/
Sirius' twin sister 'Brydie', yes, Brydie. Never heard of that constellation.
Surprisingly good spelling, but (context: she went to Beaxbatons because reasons):
"Girl's only did nothing for me! So I told my mum I'd run away if she didn't send me to Hogwarts, Sirius helped me with that one :) and now I'm at Hogwarts for fourth year! Should be exciting!"
... I'm sorry, what? Was I supposed to take that story SIRIUSLY?
(See what I did there?)
I can barely justify triple citizenship -- say a married couple, one German citizen and one French citizen, on holiday in the US when the baby decides it doesn't wanna wait nine months. (And odds are the kidlet would end up assigned to just one of the countries so he could get the paperwork to go home with Mommy and Daddy.) But quadruple citizenship? I'm not a lawyer, but I don't think it works that way.
Yeah, there's a funny little thing called a "green card", it's kind of necessary for citizenship in the States if you're from out of country?
So where's this chick's papers?
