Why it's freaking hard to write/find a satisfying puzzleshipping story (in my preference anyway)

[saitoki]

Well, since I'm writing this in my journal, so I'm talking about my biased personal preference in a "satisfiying puzzleshipping story", so please don't take offense if my kink is not your kink. Normally when I think about an epic story, the first thing come to my mind is PLOT. PWP and character monologue over a certain event could be entertaining

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[saitoki]

Same go for me, I'm desperate too. If I stick with all the things above to find puzzleshipping, the number of fics get out from that filtering would be single digit. But sometime clicking all fics that marked Yami/Yugi could turn out disastrous. For example:

-Saitoki open Yugioh page on FFN
-Saitoki found puzzleshipping
-Saitoki click and found fic with so horrible spelling even someone who is as bad at English as her had to wince.
-Saitoki click the back button.
-Saitoki found another puzzleshipping
-This one has better spelling but the story is so nonsense and fragmented, each chapter is a cliche drama event that are not connected to each other at all.
-Saitoki click the back button again.
-Saitoki found another puzzleshipping again.
-This one seem to be well written, so she start reading it.
-Saitoki comes back and read all the bad puzzleshipping she skipped to forget the depressing Yugi torture fic she hasjust read.

..Yeah, something like that.

Yep, I drew those fanart. I feel this post would make people push the back button if there is nothing to distract them from those longgg paragrap. I liked the one Atem threaten Yugi with a knife for some reason. XD

[kiuolo]

I feel your pain SO MUCH! I think the only difference is that I just suck it up and read the cliché fanfiction right away, usually no matter how bad the person's spelling or grammar is. xD I can be a very shameless, desperate person when it comes to fanfiction about my OTP. Hahaha. Unless it's really bad, in which case I do have to backbutton for the sake of my sanity. *sobs*

You really drew them? Geeze, I keep thinking your art can't possibly get more pretty, and then you prove me wrong! Seriously, I can't get over how pretty the soft coloring you did was in these pictures. The one where Atem is holding a knife to Yugi's throat was my favorite one, too, actually. x3 I think I just about drove myself crazy thinking of the situations in which Atem would hold a knife to Yugi's throat. But ahhhh, I can't help myself~! ^q^ Your pictures make me such a happy fangirl.

[saitoki]

Actually I only back button when it's too bad. With the spelling i mentioned, it's not just genuine miss spell (if so I would be a total hypocrite), but it's like one or two mistake per sentence, make it look almost intentional(and they are totally one could be fixed by a simple spell check, seriously x_X).And about cliché , I don't mean every cliché, I do like to read well written one. But these story with overused drama like pregnant, abusive ex,cheating.. just make me push the back button fast. And the particular one I called fragmented and nonsense is like this: in the previous chapter, those two was confessing their undying love(even though they have just known each other for like four days), then in the next, each of them go have sex with their ex, and none of them minded, and then their ex shoot them with a gun. Drama much? (I'm not making it up, I swear x_X ) Each chapter is like 800 word long max and they don't make much sense. And there are more and more stories like that recently. But what bugged me the most is their LONG list of review, and they are all PRAISES, not even one critic!

Then there is a fic that is very detailed, very well planned, each chapter from 6-9k words long, the author updated it weekly, basically one of the most well written fic recently. And you guess what? It get like 3-6 reviews per chapter, mine included (yes, it's good enough for someone as lazy as me actually write a review; and heck, I'm even planning to draw an epic fanart for her fic, if it mean encouraging her). I could rant about this forever, and by the god, if that is the reading standard of MAJORITY, then I'm fearing for the sanity of humanity.

If you wanna see Atem threatening Yugi, go read The time thief by Raina1 on FFN. It's one hell of a well written time travel fics, but sadly not finished.