Scarily enough...

"Mixed Signals"- A District 9 Fanfic by AdmiralSakai on 2013-10-23 01:42:00 UTC Reply

Just a quick little ficlet I banged out over fall break. It's a fake website from the District 9 universe, similar to the real-world "Bad Science" and similar blogs debunking every imaginable kind of nonsense.

Concrit, comments, questions, and unthinking praise welcome (in particular, if you have any idea how to get a .jpg or other imagefile into the "literature" of "fanfic" sections).

http://admiralsakai.deviantart.com/art/Mixed-Signals-A-District-9-Fanfic-408939047?gasubmitnew=10%253A1382488576

Interesting presentation there... by Herr Wozzeck on 2013-10-23 13:16:00 UTC Reply

...and thankfully, the presentation makes the fanfic.

I've sometimes wandered over to the comments sections of some more politically-inclined websites, and I do have to say that you hit it right on the nose in terms of the kinds of comments you might find there. Some of the comments were really crazy: in particular, I tended to roll my eyes at the religious idiot who completely misinterpreted one of the poleepkwan comments on choice as it refers to reproduction. I also loved how some of the less well-spelled comments come from the unintelligent people: as far as I'm concerned, that tends to happen quite a lot on these websites. So reading this comment track was great.

And overall, I think it tapped into the wonderful world-building that made District 9 such a great movie in the first place. It did a wonderful job of giving us a potential window into what the rest of the world might think, and it did so without hammering us in the face with a ton of exposition. That, good sir, is one of the hardest ways to build a world, and you hit every cue exactly right.

So overall, this was a really good fic. Well done!

I knew TheGoodWord would be a big part of the fic. by AdmiralSakai on 2013-10-23 19:53:00 UTC Reply

I feel kind of guilty about having so much fun writing posts by him (or her??), but I really did enjoy it. The writing style I kind of copied from both "The Prayer Warriors" and the dreaded Christian W. Chandler saga. It concerns me that I could find examples so easily!

Scarily enough... by Herr Wozzeck on 2013-10-23 20:02:00 UTC Reply

...I actually saw something on my Facebook feed a couple days ago that would surprise you. On my feed, I saw that a friend of mine had commented on a photo for a page I had never heard of. I perused through the comments looking for that, and you'd be shocked to find that in many ways, those comments were right on the money.

The name of the page, by the way? It was "Christians for Michelle Bachmann".

Yeah. People can be kinda scary sometimes.

(Also... Holy Christ, The Prayer Warriors. I managed to MST the first fic of that series. Never again.)