Subject: *applause*
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Posted on: 2011-06-18 06:05:00 UTC
That is very well done.
Subject: *applause*
Author:
Posted on: 2011-06-18 06:05:00 UTC
That is very well done.
In this episode, we join Pam Ritchie as she and Traditional!Vampire, Modern!Vampire, Monster!Vampire, Unnamed!Vampire and FanFiction!Vampire anonymously discuss the problems of their respective plots, settings and storylines.
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Heh. Awesome piece, dude. Loved the "Git Off Mah Lawn!" attitude of Traditional!Vampire, and Cullen Modern!Vampire's attitude. Very cool.
Howdy, thanks!
One thing that inspired me to write Modern!Vampire was the way I write metafiction itself - the characters treat their roles in fiction as day jobs, but their jobs are to act out their own roles inside their story, almost like a Reality TV documentary show. So the question is, what happens when a character reads the end result? I figured it might be something like an actor watching his own movie, and of course if the role was really bad, they might not like it. So that's where I got the ideas for those two clowns.
Since Modern!Vampire and FanFiction!Vampire are applied across a very, very wide spectrum of fiction, I left their descriptions intentionally vague, as well as left out the other characters' names to preserve the generic feeling of the characters and make it easier for the audience to insert or attach their own meanings to them. Definitely a stab at Twilight though!
Glad you liked it.
That was funny. I have a friend who writes original fiction about Modern!Vampires. I'll send her the link.
Thanks! I'd be interested in hearing how she reacts!
Excellent job! FanFiction!Vampire is definitely my favourite, poor thing.
And you know the worst thing? There's actually a small minority of unscrupulous publishers that WILL publish fanfic (for a large cost paid up front, of course). It says a lot about their standards when you consider the fact that they will willingly publish a book called (I'm not kidding) "The Vagina Ass of Lucifer Niggerbastard", which appears to be a random mixture of expletives strung together with no logic at all.
I just had to go look it up, didn't I?
I mean what on earth possessed the guy to write something with that title? I... words fail me.
I'm going to go out on a limb and assume the author was a 13-year old boy who assumed saying a bunch of bad words in a written work would make him seem edgy and mature. Clearly, it did not work.
Technically, Lulu actually took it down; he just put it back up in the cookbook section, knowing that they wouldn't bother checking it. Also by him (I don't remember his name and I don't care to remember it) include such fine works of literature as "Robo... and the Rug Niggers of Afrofaggotstan", "Dairy Stain and the ... of Cthulhu", and "... Me In The Ass: A Love Story". Every one of these is as incoherent and profane as you could possibly imagine. If he's trying to shock anyone, he's doing a terrible job.
The ellipsis aren't there in the real titles, obviously. It's just the Board's software censoring some of the more vulgar parts of the titles automatically. I'll leave you to figure out what expletive is meant to go in each title.
Wonderful! I'm not sure which one was my favorite. Modern!Vampire and FanFiction!Vampire were both great.
That is very well done.