Things Fanfic Must Stop Doing - A series of arrogant rants and grumpy mutterings. - Rant #8

That's right, I'm not done with these yet. Today I poke fun at shows I don't like while I also let loose a fiery string of expletives about:

( Fiery Strings of Expletives )

Things Fanfic Must Stop Doing - A series of arrogant rants and grumpy mutterings. - Rant #7Today is a topic that most of my regular readers are no doubt quite familiar with. Some of them may even accuse me of falling victim to this particular evil. The shades of gray are much more difficult on this one, which is really two topics blended together ( Read more... )

Things Fanfic Must Stop Doing - A series of arrogant rants and grumpy mutterings. - Rant #6

Before I start on today's rant, I have this to say:

Fanfiction, stop using ellipses until you learn how to use them properly.I just thought it bore repeating/slightly-altering/stressing. I stand firm by my stance that fanfiction abuses ellipses and doesn't ( Read more... )

Things Fanfic Must Stop Doing - A series of arrogant rants and grumpy mutterings. - Rant #5

I have mentioned this one many times in the past, I believe. It seems like it should be very obvious, but I'll post it anyway:

( Flood of Ellipses )

Things Fanfic Must Stop Doing - A series of arrogant rants and grumpy mutterings. - Rant #4Today marks the first rant that concerns actual content choices, and not just technical style. I suspect this one may lead to more people being mad at me, so I'm quite cheerful about the whole thing ( Read more... )

Things Fanfic Must Stop Doing - A series of arrogant rants and grumpy mutterings. - Rant #3

I should have known that being all complainy would be the only thing that could get me to make daily entries here. Why have I been cursed with the ability to whine so incessantly?

Today we look at something a little less glaringly awful than The Burly ( Read more... )

Things Fanfic Must Stop Doing - A series of arrogant rants and grumpy mutterings. - Rant #2

Hot on the heels of my first rant is its closely related cousin, who was mentioned several times in the comments of the Burly Detective rant.

( Said - It's good. )

Things Fanfic Must Stop Doing - A series (probably) of arrogant rants and grumpy mutterings.Fanfiction gets a bad rap. It's not respected by most people, including a large majority of the authors who write it. The standards of fiction that would normally be applied to novels and short stories are often completely disregarded by the fanfiction ( Read more... )