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Mystery Sox Theatre 3000

Feb 22, 2008 15:17

I was once a fanfiction author. Back in my heyday, I used to write for anime and video game canons (and later the Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell, a resident of Chatham, Massachusetts), but I realized that working on something original was far more fulfilling and fun, so I stopped writing it for the most part. I also was sick and tired of Mary ( Read more... )

internet: crack, baseball: jacoby ellsbury, baseball slash, baseball: jonathan papelbon, writing: msting, baseball: clay buchholz, parody

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piney61 February 22 2008, 20:52:01 UTC

Ahh yes, fanfiction. The Mary Sues that ensue. I used to do fanfiction wayyy back when. They all sucked. Horribly. So I'm putting that part of my life on the backburner. I do write here and there, but it's all like the type that it's like "Don't take this seriously" and it's so ridiculous that it can't be true. Good times, good times. AKA I specialize in intentional crackfics.
I await the day of the first Jacoby/Mary Sue fic I find. I will laugh at them as they have an extremely long name like that and have like purple/blue/pink hair and rainbow colored eyes or some shit.

Oh and when you MST it, you need ot have Clay and Jacoby there to be teased retlentlessly. A Jed n' Justin Production!

1863_project February 22 2008, 20:59:52 UTC

That was exactly what I had in mind. I had actually written this conversation in my head earlier today (complete with Jacoby constantly interrupting and Clay freaking out) that started with Jed inquiring if Justin's dad could go to Massachusetts and marry Jacoby and Clay and ended with Chris Carter (a human biology major at Stanford) talking about getting their DNA and cloning them a kid (who would be really fast and would have a high arm slot). Justin then suggested that the kid's first word wouldn't be "mama" or "dada" but rather "taco." (I disturb myself.)

The more I look back on my old fanfiction, the more I realize it sucked. I'm pretty much sticking with the original fiction thing from now on - although if I feel like indulging in crackfic, I don't hesitate. It can be fun sometimes...

piney61 February 22 2008, 21:07:38 UTC

Basically have Justin and Jed talking about the wedding plans and all while Jacoby and Clay are just like *hides faces, plotting doom on Yahoo!Sports writer* and then fangirls sending Clay some hatemail.

Oh and Papelbon should interrupt and be like "I HEARD SOMETHING ABOUT A WEDDING! CAN I BE THE FLOWER GIRL?!"

Dude, I think about these random thoughts all the time. It's how I come up with soem of the material I write

1863_project February 22 2008, 21:15:10 UTC

The Jonathan bit killed me. I now have a mental image of him in this little pink dress with a basket of flowers, and he's tossing the flowers around and skipping down the aisle...He'll have to have a crown of flowers, too.

Jed would totally demand to be best man. Although that leaves the maid of honor slot open...

The Jacoby/Random Pink Hat shippers will be so annoyed. Awww, too bad.

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meril February 23 2008, 06:15:07 UTC

I just gotta say that you two above? A+++++ the thread would be even more amusing than the fic.

(also, I did my time writing anime fic, mostly a lot of f/f fics, and now I'm also off in original-land.)

1863_project February 23 2008, 07:47:13 UTC

I highly doubt either of us would ever be able to top the thread. I don't even think anyone on earth would be able to do something with the thread. (After all, it's insanely difficult to read the end bits.)

Original-land is a much happier place, I think. You've got more control over who you work with (i.e. your cast - I'm particularly "close" to mine) and you get to be more creative.

muffin_shark October 20 2008, 17:52:15 UTC

You don't even need to read the romance novels to mock them.....my mom's a huge reader of romance novels and to tease her, I like to pick them up, read the back and (as reading) change the story line in a totally mocking way. They're extremely silly, and basically the same plot. I think there's a romance novel outline that all authors follow.

There is one good one called "Dreaming" which is extremely funny and has I think two sex scenes in it, which is a nice change from most romance novels, which are nothing BUT sex and pathetic swooning heroines, who almost always start off the story hating the hero. Like I said, cliched outline for every book.

muffin_shark October 20 2008, 17:53:28 UTC

PS- I wrote for ff.net, too, though I still do write. NEVER marysues, tho, I hate those. Even tho I've moved on to writing my own work, I just can't get away from the fanfic....I get too annoyed when stories don't go the way I'd like them to. Sad, but true.