Comments | asthenie_vd: Random: A Sporking, part I

asthenie_vd

Random: A Sporking, part I

Jul 02, 2014 21:27

Welcome, welcome, all of you lost souls. Join me for an evening of creepy tales of woe.

I wanted to do another sporking, and it was either this novel, or one that I actually like. But failte_aoife and nessaniel insisted I do this one first:

This entry is the first of many to spork a novel that is actually Hornblower (TV!canon) slash fic with the serial numbers ( Read more... )

sporking, books, fandom: hornblower, wtf stuff, review-ish, age of sail

Comments 2

nessaniel July 3 2014, 08:45:54 UTC

It could have been a play, Archer thought
This is where my brain took a sharp turn left and NOPED out of this mess at the speed of greased lightning. Wow. I mean it's kinda obvious that the author didn't even try, WOW. O__O How did this ever get published, seriously, the plagiarism issues you mentioned are probably really valid? This is 1:1 dialogue from the script, how did people miss that?

“Mr. Archer,” Smith went on, “your father the Earl will I suddenly got warflashbacks to the movie!Malfoys, don't ask why. At least I am now able to laugh while I wade through this obvious mess of a book ( ... )

asthenie_vd July 3 2014, 10:40:36 UTC

I only read excerpts of the fic version to compare the character's backstories, but I don't think a lot of it had been subjected to a re-write before being published. And yeah, the stolen dialogue is the worst! Think about P2P fanfic what you like, but outright plagiarism IS unethical.

I suddenly got warflashbacks to the movie!Malfoys, don't ask why
*lol* XD

Yup, the length surely would have made it quite a famous fic. And 2000 was still the early days of fandom for Hornblower.

But dear God, fandom, calm down, there is more to him than the fact that his butt has a hole to insert things into. DDDx ahahahahahaha! XD You hit the nail on the head though. Fanon!Archie's problem isn't, that he gets sexually abused (which you can very well argue is basically canon), fanon!Archie's problem is, that this too often ends up his only purpose. Aaand if that is also the defining feature of his character that gets transported into modern AU's, um, that definitely sucks. D ( ... )