Fanfiction Horrors

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Wattpad used to be a good place to find original fiction.

Now it's mostly stories about self-inserts getting fucked by members of boybands.
 
Piga Dgrifm said:
Wattpad used to be a good place to find original fiction.

Now it's mostly stories about self-inserts getting fucked by members of boybands.
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Glad I left that place.

Fanfiction.net isn't entirely bad. It is just loaded with crap. There are some good fanfics. They just get burried under the shitty ones. That or certain sections that are aimed at kids are full of trolls. Or you get shitty, fetish fanfics that make no sense. Points if they are crossovers. Not many people nowadays give anyone criticism on something poorly written.

My beef with FF.net is when people put TL;DR info on their profiles. Keep it short and sweet, not have me scroll down your fucking profile to read garbage of randomness.

Some sections that are small can be full of shit. The Project X Zone section is one case, yet one story stands out from the rest by being written better than turning it into a "Pooh's Adventure" type fanfic by adding new characters and copying the game's script.

Funfact: FF.net use to be good at handling reports and content that was against the TOS. They removed Script fics, interactive and plagiarised fanfics. Now, I think they either get clogged with reports nowadays.
 
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Piga Dgrifm said:
Wattpad used to be a good place to find original fiction.

Now it's mostly stories about self-inserts getting fucked by members of boybands.
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I looked into Wattpad just because you said this and it's like opening a musty old treasure chest of horny teen girl fantasies, all so sparkly and obnoxious that they're hard to look at. It feels weirdly nostalgic. It all looks like garbage but it's that kind of graphic-design-is-my-passion LiveJournal garbage that I don't see as much anymore.

I think Tumblr has desensitized me because just being a girl who wants to fuck the cute boy band members just seems so... quaint.
 
I found some really nice fanfics via TV Tropes' recommondations. It's kinda my go to solution nowadays if I want to read some; but I only do this from time to time.
 
Puar said:
Glad I left that place.

Fanfiction.net isn't entirely bad. It is just loaded with crap. There are some good fanfics. They just get burried under the shitty ones. That or certain sections that are aimed at kids are full of trolls. Or you get shitty, fetish fanfics that make no sense. Points if they are crossovers. Not many people nowadays give anyone criticism on something poorly written.

My beef with FF.net is when people put TL;DR info on their profiles. Keep it short and sweet, not have me scroll down your fucking profile to read garbage of randomness.

Some sections that are small can be full of shit. The Project X Zone section is one case, yet one story stands out from the rest by being written better than turning it into a "Pooh's Adventure" type fanfic by adding new characters and copying the game's script.

Funfact: FF.net use to be good at handling reports and content that was against the TOS. They removed Script fics, interactive and plagiarised fanfics. Now, I think they either get clogged with reports nowadays.
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The problem I have with crossovers (other than the fact that most of them are shit) is that what they crossover with is completely retarded, like crossing over two completely random things that have nothing in common. Like Fallout Equestria, or Pooh's Adventures for example. Unless you're writing a trollfic, doing a random crossover is just asinine, imo.

Now if you crossed over, I don't know, The Lord of The Rings with Elder Scrolls, that would make a little more sense because both of them are high fantasy.
 
IBleedCoffee2121 said:
The problem I have with crossovers (other than the fact that most of them are shit) is that what they crossover with is completely exceptional, like crossing over two completely random things that have nothing in common. Like Fallout Equestria, or Pooh's Adventures for example. Unless you're writing a trollfic, doing a random crossover is just asinine, imo.

Now if you crossed over, I don't know, The Lord of The Rings with Elder Scrolls, that would make a little more sense because both of them are high fantasy.
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Crossovers make sense if they are handled well and mould well. Which why most crossovers fail. Like that Kirby and Gumby one or the messy PXZ fanfics that don't know the game's lore.

Something like GI. Joe and Transformers can work, since it has been done before. I think why most fail is due to people clash too many elements together and just think it makes sense to them. Hell, Tales of and possibly Soul Calibur, Tekken or Final Fantasy can work. Throwing shit like Sonic or Mario in a Project X Zone fanfic or plagiarizing the game's script is not. Considering most western spergs bitch that their precious blue hedgehog isn't in a Japanese game where the content is all about tits, ass and obscure game characters.

I assume Tekken and Soul Calibur can work, considering a character was a guest in the second game.
 
Sometimes really stupid crossovers can work if they aren't played completely straight, and if the author writes them as they are: ridiculous. It's when they take themselves too seriously like Fallout: Equestria that they fail.
 
fishercat said:
Sometimes really stupid crossovers can work if they aren't played completely straight, and if the author writes them as they are: ridiculous. It's when they take themselves too seriously like Fallout: Equestria that they fail.
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Tails Gets Trolled is a modern masterpiece and I will not hear otherwise.
 
Kartoffel said:
I found some really nice fanfics via TV Tropes' recommondations. It's kinda my go to solution nowadays if I want to read some; but I only do this from time to time.
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I found some shittastically bad ones on there too, and some of the recs are funny because they read like the author trying to justify why their bad ideas are worth reading. My favorite being this one where the recommender literally tried to explain away why I should read a fanfiction where the main characters were overshadowed by OC-donut-steelz. Sure, I might read a story with original cast members set in that universe, but no way in fuck like that.

It's still where I sift for stuff that has a shitton of stories though, since the cropping helps.
 
Archive of Our Own is sometimes a pretty good place to find things. There's a tagging system, so if you want to look for certain kinds of stories in particular, you just have to enter that into the filter. Of course, there's a lot of shit, too. The shit just tends to be less unholy.

Edit: A couple hours after I posted this, I went poking around a ship tag there and found two abdl fics, one of which involved two thirty-somethings with characters half their age. Fml.
 
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Adamska said:
I found some shittastically bad ones on there too, and some of the recs are funny because they read like the author trying to justify why their bad ideas are worth reading. My favorite being this one where the recommender literally tried to explain away why I should read a fanfiction where the main characters were overshadowed by OC-donut-steelz. Sure, I might read a story with original cast members set in that universe, but no way in fuck like that.

It's still where I sift for stuff that has a shitton of stories though, since the cropping helps.
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Most of the recs I have seen, this counts for the Final Fantasy and Soul Calibur sections were ship fics. Most OC fanfics are a turn off to me. Since 99% of them are vapid and the same.
 
It seems weird that the three main fic sites often seem used by different people. /sperging ahead/

Archive of Our Own, I suppose more "sophisticated"/grown up users like it, but also this site is littered with tumblrism so often you find things like "fic where Batman is a black trans woman that's it that's the story" and honestly dealing with it on tumblr is hard enough...

FF.Net used to be the go to back in the day, but the most competent writers either left for AO3 or stopped writing and the site was overtaken by kids and man children and all sorts of weirdos.

Wattpad just seems to be the teen girl's hideout. Lots of self-insert, shipping crap...Like I heard about the original stuff published there but it seems gone nowadays.
 
I think self publishing has mostly moved to Amazon if it's original, or can be scrubbed up to look that way. Might as well make a buck, right?

Dear god are there some bad ones in the Kindle section. So many pieces with godawful grammer/editing that they make FF.net look good.
 
neverendingmidi said:
I think self publishing has mostly moved to Amazon if it's original, or can be scrubbed up to look that way. Might as well make a buck, right?

Dear god are there some bad ones in the Kindle section. So many pieces with godawful grammer/editing that they make FF.net look good.
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Most vanity press and self published stories tend to be horrible. Most of these places don't even bother proof reading. Someone could just get something published and all they wrote was "SEX!" over and over again. Even places such as Fiction Press has some gems of badly written material.

Some examples.

https://www.fictionpress.com/s/3250996/1/Changes-for-Samantha
https://www.fictionpress.com/s/3230402/1/Buster-Hardings-The-Sad-News
 
Hypodermic Johnny said:
>Armitage

...one, that is an autistic as fuck name. Two, does General Hux even HAVE a canonical first name in the movie?
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Well, I can answer that. In the recently published novel "Aftermath: Life Debt" (by Chuck Wendig), Hux's first name is mentioned by his father, one of the surviving imperial officers. The book takes place about one year after Return of the Jedi.

Back on topic--

I've noticed that Furries don't seem to have a fanfiction site to share their written horrors with the world. I guess they prefer to draw their repulsive fantasies, or throw money at other people to commission the porn.
 
Too Many Crooks said:
I've noticed that Furries don't seem to have a fanfiction site to share their written horrors with the world. I guess they prefer to draw their repulsive fantasies, or throw money at other people to commission the porn.
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Actually, there are some that write on occasion; the difference is, since fanfiction that isn't tied to a major fandom isn't as popular (since fanfiction itself tends to be less shareable/popular than art as a whole); it isn't as frequently seen or shared outside of common furry havens. But if you dig around long enough on any of them, especially Furaffinity, SoFurry, or Tumblr, you're definitely going to uncover some horrors.

The best place to look and get immediate results? Try anything Pokemon-related.
 
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