JarlaxleBaenre
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I don't see the appeal in fanfiction. If you're writing with your own characters, put forth the effort to make it your own project.
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First of all, I wanted to thank @Poison_Ivy for reminding me that this fic exists. When I first heard it years ago, I nearly died from laughing so hard.
Just a few minutes ago, I nearly died again.
Listen/ read at your own peril: HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Just a few minutes ago, I nearly died again.
Listen/ read at your own peril: HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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The author is a personal lolcow as well, but this fic was extremely, well, it kind of showed what kind of person the author, who for a while was one of the few sentai bloggers out there, really is. I've interacted with him via facebook, I'll talk about him in the personal lolcow forum when I feel it's safe enough to do so.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7206007/1/Super_Sentai_VS_Power_Rangers_The_Epic_Crossover
Also, I can't read the fic. It has a pairing I despise, yet the author loves shilling it because he sees the guy as him, and wants to fuck the chick.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7206007/1/Super_Sentai_VS_Power_Rangers_The_Epic_Crossover
Also, I can't read the fic. It has a pairing I despise, yet the author loves shilling it because he sees the guy as him, and wants to fuck the chick.
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The only appeal I can think of is making an OC who could become the OC Mary Sue waifu of any character. Since some OC's are self-inserts, fan-fiction could, in its own way, be some sort of power-fantasy or something along those lines.
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I was never a serious writer, so more fanfiction served as a way to write for fun without having to spend too much time developing a world. I did a handful of original works for NaNoWriMo, but none of them had very well-developed worlds and that's why I preferred to just use my own characters in a pre-existing world, since I wasn't really planning on being a full-time writer.
On a different note, I did several dramatic readings of what appears to be an MLP troll fanfic. You can find them here. (The Hamtaro videos that will probably show up as related videos are part of a nostalgic LP I did for another forum.)
On a different note, I did several dramatic readings of what appears to be an MLP troll fanfic. You can find them here. (The Hamtaro videos that will probably show up as related videos are part of a nostalgic LP I did for another forum.)
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Yeah. I can see the appeal if it's fans doing awesome fan-stuff, but I always have to say that if you're serious about writing, even as a hobby, then it doesn't hurt to start thinking of completely original content. Fan fic writers are essentially always in the shadow of the original creators. Not a bad thing if they really realise where they stand from legal point of view, of course, but there are *ahem* lolcows who think they're truly super-original innovators of the franchise and they'll be totally hired by the company to write that stuff one day because they're just that good *cough*Sonichu*cough*.
It's just worth noting that there are a lot of people out there who are doing worldbuilding either as a hobby on its own or as a part of their own writing projects, and many are happy to let other people base their stories on those settings. There's a bunch of collaborative writing projects that seem quite happy to let people base their stories on those works too (one of the things often tossed around is the SCP Foundation, for example.) So fan fiction isn't strictly speaking the only option any more.
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If you think about it, the biggest movie hits lately are nothing more than "fanfiction." Except movie people call them "adaptations." Look at all the superhero movies, for example.
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For me the appeal comes in completing an unfinished story. The series I write for left off on a cliff hanger and there's no indication it will ever be picked up again, so I'm trying to bring it to a satisfying conclusion. It's fun. I do have a few OCs but they're not the main focus of the story and are mainly there for support.
That said, as a member of FFN, I have read a lot of horrible fanfiction stories. Lemme see if I can dig some up for you guys.
The Stallion in the Library - An MLP fic with a horrible Gary Stu OC. He makes Pinkie Pie cry and seems to be a soap box for the author's irrational hatred of the character. I never made it very far but his conversation with Pinkie in the second chapter is pretty cringe worthy.
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My Immortal was the height of FanFiction. Nothing else will ever fail quite so spectacularly.
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Fan fiction is also appealing for those wishing to expand upon something. The Elder Scrolls has a lot if in-game history but there are lots of events and locations you never really get to visit. The invasion of the Empire over Black Marsh comes to mind, as does the Khajit defense of Elysewere against the Bosmeri invaders. The games definitely have a growing preference toward the Imperials (and as an extension the Nords) and that's kind of sad. Well written fan fiction continues the story for the races the devs don't seem to really care for. The Argonians are basically a race for everyone to shit on and rarely get development beyond 'they are scaled swamp negros who peddle drugs and steal from you'. The only true development they ever get is from the books about them.
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I think Khajiit's fit the drug peddler thing since they got magical cocaine known as moon sugar. The one thing they do share with Argonians is that they are basically furries so really, I think they'd get hated by other races as well besides the Argonians.
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The Khajiit and Argonians have a symbiotic relationship. The Khajiit produce moon sugar and the refined skooma, Argonians use caravans that are funded by the Empire coming out of Black Marsh to funnel the drug outward.
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I think I dated the girl that wrote that. I mean, how else would I explain her crazy?
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It's good practice, IMO. A lot of fanfiction writers start very young, and making up new stories for old characters or settings can help you learn the rudiments of constructing a plot. I started writing fic at thirteen, and most of those legendary 1,000,000 bad words were written out by the time I started working on original stuff.
And now that easy self-publishing is a thing, fanfiction helps keep writers' first terrible stories safely penned up on ff.net instead of possibly reaching and scarring a wider public. The mess that is Fifty Shades of Grey should serve as a warning of what kind of beasts fanfic can keep contained ...
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Abraham Lincoln : Ninja Fuck Master is a book.
I think the battle to keep horrible stories away from the wider public has already been lost.
Picklechu
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FF.net is a major source of hilarious things. I haven't been on for at least a year, so I haven't been paying attention to some of my favorite lolcows. I can't remember what it was called, but I was most recently reading a Buffy the Vampire Slayer "story" in which a weeaboo Mary Sue who is a witch and the Slater moves to Sunnydale, goes to school, fights vampires, and cries.
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