um...

[msdisdain]

Read this in its entirety if you dare. It is short, and embodies all that is wrong with allowing children to play on the Internet.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8203595/1/Love_and_food

Comments

[deathmallow]

Your What the Fic definitely beats mine. Wow. I can't even.

[msdisdain]

I thought maybe English was her second language, and felt bad for about 1.2 seconds - but no, I'm pretty sure it's not. I actually can't decide what the worst part of the story is, and that's saying something. It is officially the worst written piece of fic I have ever encountered.

[deathmallow]

I wondered about ESL too but it's just terrible even if there is a language barrier.

It's certainly up there. Though I think this one wins for sheer WTF UGH for me is this one:

http://wtffanfiction.tumblr.com/post/21845680390/fandom-the-hunger-games-3-years-after-the

I DO NOT EVEN KNOW WHAT FIC THIS IS BUT OH MY GOD.

[msdisdain]

HOLY. CRAP.

[deathmallow]

YEAH. THAT EXISTS.

[msdisdain]

(she is most likely 9 years old or something, which is also terrifying.)

[deathmallow]

(If she's 9 and reading THG that's kind of scary. Things like forced prostitution and death games are a little heavy for that age...)

[msdisdain]

Oh, I know 8 year olds who have read it. Do their parents listen to me? No. (I sell children's books for a living.)

[deathmallow]

This is why some people should not have children.

[msdisdain]

Well, I also feel the same way about my daughter's friends whose parents are reading them HP. My daughter is five.

[deathmallow]

Yeah, some kids I babysat back in the day were having it read to them as a bedtime story so I obliged.

The first few (SS/PS, CoS, maybe even PoA) could probably work since they're a bit lighter--golly gee whiz magic!, child hero with a destiny, defeating evil with the help of friends, etc.

But once you hit GoF, then it's definitely getting too dark and intense for young kids. I seriously can't imagine reading the latter four books to a young child. My reading level at five could have handled it easy, but my maturity level? Hell no.