Comments | katekat1010: Sunday night

katekat1010

Sunday night

Dec 06, 2015 21:57

People have horrible taste.

I know because I read the fanfiction they recommend. And it's true that my tolerance for shitty fanfic has lessened the more fanfiction I've read (there's a great Japanese grammatical expression for this as a verb ... yomerebayomeruhōdo or roughly if you read, you read too much though it can be used in a positive sense ( Read more... )

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xenodike December 7 2015, 09:21:15 UTC

That's the trouble with fanfiction. The more you read the more sensitive you become to bad writing, and there's so much of it. I can't even look at my early fanfiction I'm so embarrassed. Lol. But fortunatly there's still a lot of good stories out there, you just have to sort through a lot of bad ones to find them.

katekat1010 December 8 2015, 06:25:39 UTC

exactly! (and omg i can't look at mine either) the fun part was that this fic came from someone's rec list, which i just had to eventually abandon. my favorite thing about fandom though - there's always more out there ;)

thismaz December 8 2015, 06:06:58 UTC

my tolerance for shitty fanfic has lessened the more fanfiction I've read
Reading fanfic has turned me into a real grammar critic *g* In a new fandom, I still start off inhaling everything I find, but after a while...
The nice thing about AO3 is that I can search by number of kudos or comments, which is not a 100% guarantee of quality, but does help.

katekat1010 December 8 2015, 06:30:11 UTC

I have grudges about so many things - grammar, spelling, good summaries, too many epithets! but you're right, the nice thing is that there's a way to find a modicum of competence via A03 (though competence and quality are not necessarily the same either). The trouble I have with kudos sometimes is if someone has posted a chaptered fic it will get so many more than a one-shot - i tend to sort by bookmarks, but those are often some of the most indulgent fics (you know, maybe short on characterization but great on h/c or something). I'm actually fascinated by the way A03 kind of shows certain trends in fandom's desires (but then also doesn't accurately reflect them in other ways). (sorry that veered left conversation-wise)