Ooo, that series...

Tomorrow, When The War Began badfic by tabbycat on 2009-07-22 13:21:00 UTC Reply

And it's a Twilight crossover *sigh*

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5073655/1/TwilightTomorrowWhenTheWarBegan

I'm not even sure I can call it badfic...most of it is just copied, or at best paraphrased, from one of the two books. With half the names changed, for some inexplicable reason. It's not so much brain-breaking, as just depressing.

In brighter news, I hear there's a movie planned for TWTWB *does little happy dance* (Does anyone besides me actually read this series?) Though I guess that's going to mean a lot more badfic in the future, sad to say Oo

No canon experience, but... by Buta on 2009-07-27 10:22:00 UTC Reply

Just popping in to mention some Twilight/Pokemon crossover on the Pit. Exactly the same situation - copied Twilight with Pokemon character names.

Re: No canon experience, but... by tabbycat on 2009-07-31 13:59:00 UTC Reply

Yes, I've seen some other similar ones as well - from recollection, it was Sweeney Todd, with a list at the top of which characters were playing which parts (can't remember what the other canon was at the moment), and then just a copy-and-paste of the words. I cannot work out why people even bother writing this sort of thing - it just seems like an utter waste of time, to me.

Ooo, that series... by Sedri on 2009-07-23 07:31:00 UTC Reply

I had them all once, when I was about twelve. Read them once and then never again, and I only remember pieces. Still, I remember enough.

What a colourless, forced combination of stories. All it's doing is repeating the existing things word-for-word. It's practically plagerism.

...Reading further, it IS plagerism. I may not have touched that book in ten years but I recognise the narrative. THEIF. Lazy, pathetic theif.

I don't remember enough details about TWtWB to PPC it - I never liked it at all, really - but I wait impatiently for someone who does. Such blatant piracy offends me.

Re: Ooo, that series... by tabbycat on 2009-07-23 13:15:00 UTC Reply

Yep, complete and utter theft, word-for-word - makes you wonder why she even bothered.

I'm a big fan of the series (though each to their own, of course :) ), and I definitely know it well enough to PPC it, aside from the little matter of producing a writing sample and requesting Permission, which I have yet to get round to. What's the procedure in cases of outright plagarism, though? Since there's not really enough of a story (at least, an original one) to PPC. Most of it belongs to either Stephenie Meyer or John Marsden; though I suppose you could snark at the awkward way that the two stories have been jammed together.

(No, the scene with the car slipping on ice just does not work in Wirrawee in the middle of summer, no matter how well it suits Forks in wintertime).

I think... by Sedri on 2009-07-24 08:45:00 UTC Reply

That plagerism is less of a worry than the fact that she's so awkwardly forced the two worlds together. What you need is an Untangler - plagerism itself is just a (particularly important) charge.

I've read TWTWB. by BattleHamster on 2009-07-22 18:53:00 UTC Reply

It's great. I haven't been able to find the sequel anywhere, though.

Re: I've read TWTWB. by tabbycat on 2009-07-23 12:36:00 UTC Reply

Yay, another fan! :D Shame you can't find the sequel; I reckon it's better than the first book. I guess it depends on where you are, though - it's pretty easy to find here in New Zealand, but I don't know about overseas.