Discussion Fan Fic Pet Peeves?

Just got FAIRLY annoyed. Last night, I posted a link to this very random Harry Potter character quiz on Facebook and this guy who took photos at the local Star Wars event earlier this month appears out of nowhere to 'splain me. The discussion eventually turns into him telling me why fanfic sucks, in poor, broken English that's barely readable (but OMG, he's so cool!). He said that 80% of us are "SJWs who ruin it for everybody", denied the sole idea that there is good stuff, thinks that all fanfiction is focused on 'ships only and that, unlike cosplayers, we don't put any effort in it.

I think I want to sai cha.

 

This is more of a trope pet peeve but . . . *sigh* Soulmate AUs/Worlds where you see the world in monochrome until you meet your Soulmate. How the heck would a world like that work if you can't see color until after you meet your Soulmate? It's stupid!

On the upside, you could wear clashing colors and unless the people around you have met their Soulmate they won't know that the colors don't match. On the downside, good luck telling a King Snake apart for a Coral Snake.

 

Well, I was very guilty of that.
It was done. It was huge and had eaten up months of silly obsession.
It was never meant to be the beast it became.
And I just wanted it gone out of my head.

But no one was going to read 10,000+ words in one sitting. I know.

 

Main problem in other stories? Definitely unoriginality (I know, its a bit unfair because we're talking about Fan-Fics) but I always think to myself: why repeat what has already been done? You have the chance to make something entirely new, so use it... or at least don't blatantly rip off something else.

Though the biggest failure on my part is, that I always think up cool scenarios, scenes and character interactions, but they'll only turn up much later in the storyline. A dozen chapters down the line, while I'm still writing the prologue. With that, its often like I have my eyes on the horizon instead of right in front of me.

 

Take Harry Potter for example. I've read several fics where they add a sibling for Harry or OC in general and the story they do is almost 100% the same. A few chapters in is fine. Several years in? Nope.

 

gg

 

I have seen him do some other debatable things, which is the reason that I don't want to bother.

 

Let. The Record. Show. @Ewok Poet --- that fanfiction is REASON #1-100 why I still ADORE SW as much as I do! It's not just my head canon that's been affected. My heart and soul as well. etc. And that's even before we get into the indescribably well-etched OCs.

 

I get peeved at myself for thinking up about 200 stories and only 20 of them ever seeing the light of day...and of those, only 10 are ever finished. Also...rewrite-itis. I keep wanting to go back and 'fix' everything when it was loved and respected the first time around. I understand George Lucas' compulsion to keep tinkering long after the fact...luckily I don't have a horde of angry fans coming after me.

 

^I totally get the re-write-itis. It's usually only small things that probably no one but me notices, but it seems bound to happen after every post. But "Writing is re-writing" as they say.

 

My current FFPP is...

...me. I left only three comments in June, only seven in May and it's like my mind went blank around the end of April. I did write two stories...or maybe I didn't?! I don't even know. Either way, I need to be more active. This is ridiculous.

 

One of my fanfic peeves, which I'm sure I have mentioned before in this thread, has resurfaced in the form of the Star Wars Fan Awards, which was announced today and which opens for submissions on July 18. The categories are videos (short or long), photos, and visual art—note which category is conspicuously absent. Yes, I know there are "legal considerations" and the like—but why do those legal considerations apparently not apply to the visual arts, too? It would be nice to see the official folks give a hat tip to fanfic; certainly there's a way they can do that without feeling any obligation to accept it as canon, or without the bugaboo of "they'll think we got the idea from so-and-so."

(Steps down from soapbox—and this is one of the few issues you will ever see me "soapbox" about here. )

 

This has always bothered me. One is in visual form, the other in written form---the same legal considerations should apply. I'm not sure if comic SW artists are actually allowed to view fanart though (I'm guessing yes?)

 

It could just be that visual works tend to be more generally appealing and quicker to process. I don't really blame them for limiting it.

 

Logs in.

41 notifications. Some of them could be calling me out because I've been a slacker.

Anxiety kicks in.

Just...don't. I already go through self-blame too much.

#epproblems #petpeeves #neverforget

 

Here’s one that isn’t calling you out except to say that I’m glad to see you here, EP.

 

Well, I know that I do not have the creativity and imagination to create purely my own stuff; that's why I base everything in existing universes, environments, fandoms.

Faux "target audiences" are a peeve. The "if you do this, I will be there" demographic, and then no sign of them when you fulfil that.

I'm confused how some people claim to get lots of notifications, eg. EP above; while alerts are known to expire after a few days.

 

It’s quite possible to get a large number of alerts, especially if multiple posts in a long story thread are being liked by a reader. It’s happened to me before too.

 

They do expire, but I noticed that when I check in after a long time away from the boards the notifications will indicate I have 5 alerts but when I click on the alert tab nothing shows up because they have since expired.

 

I had all 45 right there, available to read. None was missing.

Never teach a fish to swim.

 

Since the previous post was not about a pet peeve...

#56676789: No descriptions in thread names.

 

One of my personal FFPP is when your Muse would rather work on new fics than your ongoing projects and won't fully cooperate and won't focus on the here and now.

I talked for hours with my sister about a potential crossover and we discussed what Era the fic would fit the best in despite a PT Era originally being the character they were going to meet and interact with first and I realized during it that would need a lot of brainstorming, planning and possible sectioned into parts that detail what's happening to A Group, B Group, C Group and this other character. But then my sister and i always discuss fan fiction when we talk

 

#76789908089 Letting interpersonal conflicts which I don't even want to bring up with people who offended me last month impact the way I deal with everything here. I can't talk about what I learned to love dearly? Okidoki, no cookie for you. I wasn't even doing this on purpose, but looks like my mildly negativistic traits are of the subconscious kind.

I can't fly without wings. Nobody of my kind can.