Being in as many fandoms as I've been and as long as I've had, a random thought just came to me that the Harry Potter fandom is kind of a bootcamp when it comes to other fandoms.

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Ever remember an old fanfic that you read and enjoyed and try to find it to reread it, only to discover that the author has erased it from the Internet? For usually these reasons:

1)      The author is no longer in the fandom

2)      The author is trying to rewrite the fanfic and so has erased the old version

3)      The author just doesn’t like the ( Read more... )

Note: I know that most of these myths came about before the Ancient Greeks had an established writing system. This anachronism, as well as the anachronistic dialogue, is purely here for the purposes of the parody.
( How the Greeks were the original crack!ship writers )

Here’s a minor complaint to fanfic writers: If you’re advertising your fanfic as a crossover showdown between two characters from different fandoms, don’t make one of the characters such a pushover!

It’s one thing if it’s a spitefic and the entire point is to write another character showing up a character that you don’t like. But when the premise of ( Read more... )

“Whatever happened to the fantasy of a man who cares enough about you to…oh, I don’t know…respect you?” - Katrina Passick Lumden, http://katastrophiccuriosity.blogspot.com/2012/08/fifty-shades-of-bad-writing-those-of.html
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I’m not a frequent visitor to TV Tropes. I’ve heard that it’s insanely addictive and that one can be lost for hours looking up tropes, so I’ve tried to resist the temptation. However, I see people reference tropes all the time on the Internet, and very often these tropes handily provide labels to the problems that I frequently have with fiction. ( Read more... )

"Metzengerstein"

Let’s see, what do I have now?

All of my father’s estates and possessions are now mine, including, of course, Castle Metzengerstein, where I have lived all my life. It is a grand building, great and immense. It unfortunately has the precarious position of being very close to the castle of my family’s rivals, the Berlifitzings, but I ( Read more... )