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zelda_queen

The Legend Of Rah And The Muggles: Chapter Fifteen - The Lantern Lights

Jun 04, 2010 11:58

ZeldaQueen: This is it, dear viewers. This is it. The last chapter of The Legend of Rah and the Muggles. And dear God, did Stouffer ever manage to squeeze some idiocy in there! Well, no time like the present. Let us conclude the actual story, before moving on to the extras.

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suethor: nancy stouffer, fic: the legend of rah and the muggles, the lantern lights, chapter 15

Comments 14

southerngaelic June 4 2010, 18:17:57 UTC

And might I also add: BULL. FUCKING. SHIT.

GOOD DAY, STOUFFER!

*sets the Muggles on fire*

zelda_queen June 4 2010, 19:07:35 UTC

Well said! :D

*pulls out marshmallows*

das_mervin June 4 2010, 19:00:55 UTC

Dear God. That was the most pointless story ever.

zelda_queen June 4 2010, 19:06:47 UTC

I know. All I kept thinking was "Twilight had more action than this". Heck, My Inner Life had more action!

aikaterini June 5 2010, 00:51:34 UTC

The only thing that would justify the use of the fireflies is if they were magically immortal. Hey, in this world of lakes that taste like lemonade and human beings that are three feet tall, that wouldn't be that far-fetched, would it?

I can't believe that this is the final chapter. I repeat: *What* legend? What is the point of this story? Why is Rah even in the title? He doesn't even *do* anything! The only one who actually does anything is Zyn!

Zyn really deserves a better book. He really does. He should join up with Leah, ditch the "gangster" accent, get his health back as well as a makeover, and get his own story. Someone should write a crossover AU fic with the two of them. It would be a heck of a lot better than this tripe.

zelda_queen June 5 2010, 01:08:34 UTC

I'd believe that, except that we're never told the fireflies are immortal. It would have taken Stouffer all of two sentences. -_-

The only justification I can think of is that the whole "Legend" aspect is supposed to be a descriptor of the entire series, like "The Lord of the Rings" or "His Dark Materials". Except that, as has been pointed out, it's just bad writing to rely so heavily on sequels for something to make sense. Presumably Rah would go off and do something else, but I dunno...

Word on that. She's a butt-kicking werewolf, he's a hot-tempered nobleman, together they fight crime!

anonymous December 30 2010, 06:20:00 UTC

This entire book is basically just one Shoot the Shaggy Dog story after another. If Stouffer honestly thinks she has reason to sue Rowling for similarities between Harry Potter and some coloring book she drew in the eighties, I saw we're completely justified in organizing a class-action lawsuit against Nancy Stouffer for committing high-scale genocide against our brain cells.

zelda_queen December 31 2010, 01:58:03 UTC

I'd agree, except there's no point. Between the vast number of people who suffered brain damage from reading this, we'd win about two cents apiece.

anonymous January 5 2011, 00:17:33 UTC

Probably. Also, I wasn't going to mention this at first, but shouldn't Rah have been closer to thirty by the end of the book? I wish Stouffer had illustrated that part; a thirty-year-old man, probably with muscles and a good deal of facial hair (judging by the way Stouffer described him and the fact that he was dormant for a while, respectively) being coddled in the arms of a mutated babylike humanoid who is a fraction of his size.

zelda_queen January 5 2011, 03:16:56 UTC

I think Stouffer plain forgot how old the brothers were supposed to be. That's the only way to explain why they keep acting like whiny children.

anonymous June 20 2011, 05:19:02 UTC

I hate to admit it, given that this story sounds reprehensibly awful, but I think that an actual writer could turn the barebones of this story (particularly the whole 'evil overlord is essentially terrified of his own shadow' part) into an adorable children's tale. Of course, the EBIL brother would eventually see through the ruse and be redeemed, and the Jesus brother would have to actually do something for a change (having the lanterns be his idea would be a great start), and most of the cast would have to get the axe, but after that...

zelda_queen June 21 2011, 06:20:16 UTC

Yeah, I could see a lot of the plot elements working, but I have no idea what Stouffer thought would happen going the way she did. I mean, a rescue mission in a book is always fun, yeah. A rescue mission where the protagonist is unconscious and the villains are dirt-stupid? Not so much...

Does make me wonder how it would have gone if someone with the actual ability to plot wrote it.