Fanfiction Horrors

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I can't decide which tag is the worst.

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The fact that one of ArchiveOfOurOwn's main tags is apparently 'rape' is a bit disturbing.
 
Piga Dgrifm said:
The fact that one of ArchiveOfOurOwn's main tags is apparently 'rape' is a bit disturbing.
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"Rape/Non-Con" is one of the content warning tags. I suppose that would help a lot for people that don't want to see that shit, if AO3 actually allowed you to blacklist tags. The only way to do so that I know of is to download a third party extension on Google Chrome.
 
So this isn't "horrible," exactly, but one subgenre of fanfic I just don't get is the totally mundane AU for a fantastic setting. The most common forms of this are "high school drama" and "falling in love in a cafe" but there are plenty of other kinds as well and they all have nothing in common with the source material besides character names. The fact that there are people who find Captain America and Iron Man beating back a Skrull invasion to be less interesting than people named "Tony Stark" and "Steve Rogers" making out in a coffee shop is bizarre to me.
 
Pinball Lizard said:
So this isn't "horrible," exactly, but one subgenre of fanfic I just don't get is the totally mundane AU for a fantastic setting. The most common forms of this are "high school drama" and "falling in love in a cafe" but there are plenty of other kinds as well and they all have nothing in common with the source material besides character names. The fact that there are people who find Captain America and Iron Man beating back a Skrull invasion to be less interesting than people named "Tony Stark" and "Steve Rogers" making out in a coffee shop is bizarre to me.
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There's probably a good reason why those AUs are often boring. The setting helps a lot in these stories, and to change something like magical politically enhanced lands ala Westeros or Middle Earth for boring suburbia is kinda unappealing, and then for the characters to go through the same cliches we've seen in every romantic comedy movie...

Personally these AUs have always been boring to me. I don't get why are they so popular in fandoms.

Jester said:
It could be worse:

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Why do AO3 writers feel the need to put so many fucking tags? Wouldn't a few just serve you? Content warning, characters/fandom/ship, the genre, a few plot points, but nothing else? You'd be spoiling your own story that way.
 
The more tags there are, the worse the story will be. It is Law.
 
friedshrimp said:
Personally these AUs have always been boring to me. I don't get why are they so popular in fandoms.
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My guess, at least with high school fics, are because the writers tend to be dumb teenagers who are trying to insert themselves into the character or the character into their life using the only medium they know about, autistically assuming that their time in high school is interesting.

The other ones just make no sense and are terrible.
 
friedshrimp said:
Why do AO3 writers feel the need to put so many fucking tags? Wouldn't a few just serve you? Content warning, characters/fandom/ship, the genre, a few plot points, but nothing else? You'd be spoiling your own story that way.
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I find excessive use of tags in general to be really, really annoying.

I mean I get it, you want your shit to be seen, but come on. It's obnoxious. Brief power leveling, but I'm reminded of the Danganronpa faggots back in the height of its popularity who would tag their shitty art with every single tag under the sun just for a little bit more exposure. I remember many folks in the Gundam tag (myself included) were irritated because there was Gundam Tanaka shit in our robot tag.

Just choose a few key important tags and be done with it. Geez.
 
Why do they think every aspect of their story needs to be tagged?
 
Piga Dgrifm said:
Why do they think every aspect of their story needs to be tagged?
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So that people looking for a certain aspect or character will be able to find the fic more easily. However, people tagging every single minute thing can get very irritating, since the tag gets cluttered up by fics that only barely contain that tag. Overtagging is frowned upon, but people do it anyway. It can get really frustrating, really fast. If I want to read a story that contains werewolves, then fics tagged "werewolves but not really" will still show up in the search whether I want them to or not.

I really, really wish there was a tag limit or something on AO3.
 
69 kudos...

I dunno if those are ironic kudos, or if people genuinely thought that was a good story.
 
I have seen Hell.
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http://archiveofourown.org/works/1757769/

Never understood the whole Alpha/Omega bullshit. Never understood Real Person Fics. Both are fucking creepy, the former being actually rapey (not the bs SJW definition) and the latter treating real life people like fictional characters. This mixes the two and I'm probably masochistic enough to read it, just to see how bad it gets.
 
TiredConlanger said:
I have seen Hell.
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http://archiveofourown.org/works/1757769/

Never understood the whole Alpha/Omega bullshit. Never understood Real Person Fics. Both are fucking creepy, the former being actually rapey (not the bs SJW definition) and the latter treating real life people like fictional characters. This mixes the two and I'm probably masochistic enough to read it, just to see how bad it gets.
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Omegas and Alphas are alternate sexes, each with a male and female form. Alphas impregnate and dominate. Omegas get pregnant and obey. Knots are a redesign of the male anatomy. The biological function of male-based sexes or female-based sexes is whatever makes the author wet. Everything I know about omegaverse is from summaries, so I might not be accurate.
 
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