“This reads like fanfiction (it feels like it was written by a preteen, and most of such things posted publicly are fanfic)”
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“This reads like fanfiction (it has a focus on character and relationships, like the style of a lot of modern fanfic)”
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“This reads like fanfiction (it keeps referencing people and events with the assumption that the audience is already familiar with them, like how fanfic doesn’t need to rehash the source material)”
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Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Original Characters
Additional Tags: Fairy Tale Style, Framing device - Sometime in the Old Republic, Fairy Tale Elements, Musing on the nature of the Force, Science Fantasy, mostly based on personal thinking about the force and the dark side, and Luke’s speech about the Force in The Last Jedi
Summary:
And old tale, passed down through generations in the Jedi Order.
A thinking piece on heroes and the dark side.
(I got weirdly inspired. Thanks @garnetrena and @pingou7 for their help on it)
Chapters: 9/9
Fandom: Shoujo Kakumei Utena | Revolutionary Girl Utena
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Relationships: Himemiya Anthy/Tenjou Utena
Characters: Himemiya Anthy, Shinohara Wakaba, Tenjou Utena
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Anthy looks for Utena, Fairy Tale Elements, Mysticism, Eldritch Elements, Angst with a Happy Ending, Eventual Fluff, Hurt/Comfort, tw blood, TW Spiders, Wizards, Chronic Pain, Wakaba appreciation
Summary:
The world is big, and the realms beyond it even more so. Somewhere in this expanse lies Utena. And Anthy will find her.
They have a date, after all.
Going for a wierd, eldritch/mystic vibe. The RGU world is weird anyways.
Some further suggestions from the notes:
“This reads like fanfiction (it’s a love story for the ages as long as you can overlook that the author keeps misspelling ‘you're’)”
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“This reads like fanfiction (you can tell the author was having a blast writing this and now so do you reading it)”
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“This reads like fanfiction (the author is clearly info-dumping about a very niche hobby of theirs that they’re passionate about)”
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“This reads like fanfiction (the characters keep getting put in increasingly weirder situations which you’d normally only find in fanfic)”
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“This reads like fanfiction (the author felt the need to rehash the characters from when they were first introduced instead of after several years’ worth of character growth)”
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“This reads like fanfiction (it feels like it had no editor)”
“This reads like fanfiction (I’m pretty sure I can identify the filed off serial numbers)”
hi so game changer was literally a stucky hockey AU anyway how is your day going
Oh, itβs both better and worse than that!
Youβve heard of filing off the fanfic serial numbers, now get ready for creating fraudulent serial numbers for original fiction.
me: so it feels a little bit like fanfic, but it's actually... not?
spouse: it feels a little bit like fanfic because it did a summer abroad in Ao3. it came back to tradpub with an accent!
Anonymous asked:
I wish more video games gave Black character light palms.
Maybe we should be demanding better attention to detail from mainstream media instead of yelling at each other for not writing enough fanfic.
olderthannetfic answered:
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imagine the following:
the central character(s) of the most recent fanfic you completed are summoned into your room, in the physical and mental state they were in at the end of your fanfic. they are made fully aware of the following:
- they are a fictional character
- whatever happened to them in canon was the result of their original author's writing.
- whatever happened to them in your fanfic was the result of your writing.
And yet people suffer bullies, abuse, are poor and never become batshit mass murderers. Yet white guys not only are given a pass, they are lionized for it.
I didn’t see the movie, but it looks like it’s doing the “one bad day can turn your life to lunacy” thing.
But here’s the thing : when that idea was presented in The Killing Joke…
IT WAS IMMEDIATLY DECONSTRUCTED. The Joker gets punched in the face, called a crybaby, and is pointed out that he ISN’T the first asshat to realise “life is meaningless”, that it doesn’t justify ANYTHING, and that he’s just a prick. That everyone goes through tough shit.
Christ, Moore is out there writing “stop being nihilistic dicks” (the Comedian in Watchmen was also a big deconstruction of the “life’s a joke so I’m an asshole”) and y’all making movies praising nihilistic dicks.
I’d like everyone to see this
{Credit to amalasrosa on Twitter}
#real #not to be salty but this is what ive been saying#like everyone out here really still acting like fanfic isnt really writing#like its subpar and like it cant be good and have amazing lines#even fanfic writers treat it like its LESS and like theyre PLAY writing and not actually writing#like friend buddy ican ASSURE YOU that fanfic is every bit as real and good as writing from books#the only difference between fic and actual books is that books go through several stages of processing and editing and filtering#and are worked on by professionals who studied the craft of editing#while fanfiction cuts that filtering and everyone gets a chance to be heard and to be read#and instead of editors we have peer editing and reviewing#dont be fucking tricked by the mass notion that anything that young girls and queer people are interested in is immediately bad and subpar#bc it is fucking not #i will FIGHT for it #fanfiction (tags by @crossroadswrite bacause they add so much to this post)
The real irony is there is plenty of fanfiction that goes through more rigorous editing than some published fiction. So the difference in quality between fanfiction and “professional writing” is totally arbitrary and made up. Except that some things that are more expensive are worse.
Fanfic has really raised my standards for what constitutes good writing.
We should keep this train going and share good fanfic quotes.








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