Doctor Who horror

Subject: Doctor Who horror
Author: moonchild
Posted on: 2009-09-09 22:22:00 UTC

Albeit it unintentionally -- I was simply looking into some normal, sane fanfiction for a break -- I stumbled upon this atrocious thing. The summary alone made me need to find out how bad it truly was, so, unfortunately, I did. I got there and I couldn't bring myself to actually read the bloody thing. I skimmed it -- especially after the first words of the author's note:

Hello anyone bothering to read this
you should know 2 things
#1
I’m an awful writer and simply bored, hence I am writing this story
#2
spelling and grammar shall be deplorable in this story, get over it and go away if you can’t take the thousand or so mistakes

C&P'd perfectly, I promise. The spacing is crap. There's no differentiation between story and AN other than the fact that it is a new chapter. There's practically more AN than story -- in the first chapter.

Oh, and I haven't even gotten to the worst part yet.

It claims to have been beta'd.

Who would -- who would claim -- who would claim to have beta'd something of this caliber?

It only appears to get worse. In the second chapter, the disclaimer for all sorts of lovely things gets completely disproved by the author... directly after making the claim to said warning. And and and... *cries*

*looks back up at everything* That's quite a rant on the horrors of this fic. Can someone please go and fix the 13 chapters of horror??

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Doctor Who horror by moonchild on 2009-09-09 22:22:00 UTC

Re: Doctor Who horror by Ugolino on 2009-10-15 22:30:00 UTC Reply

Found it earlier, had it on list of badfic. As you said, it is quite bad.
pssst! by Pads on 2009-09-09 23:57:00 UTC Reply

Just so you know, we have a bit of a thing about double posts here on the Board. There's a limited amount of threads can be on any one page, so a lot of new threads in a row pushes things off the first page and onto the next. This, as you can imagine, increases the chances of things getting missed, so we like to try and condense things into one post if we're starting a new thread. Or, if we've started a thread and then have something else to say, we stick it in the thread that's already there (under a suitable title, of course, so people can easily spot it's something new).

(Don't worry too much though - most of us have done this at some point.)

Will follow the link when sober, but surely someone using "hence" accurately should be literate enough for spelling? That author's note bodes.

oh, yeah, duh by moonchild on 2009-09-10 01:27:00 UTC Reply

I shoulda thought about that. Sorry, am quite out of it. I blame it on having had multiple syllabuses (syllabi?) read to me today, even though they were sitting in front of me...

Oh, and that wasn't even the whole AN, that was just the bit before the disclaimer...