Are We There Yet?

So glad another sound-and-fury WIKTT kafuffle has died down. Even a moderator can't stop a flurry of Fanfiction.net related hysteria. Christ on crutches. Who cares?

(Full disclosure: I am not, nor have I ever been, a member of ff.net)

What Fanfiction.net may well be good for is smaller fandoms, a centralized place where one can go to read a grouping of fics from all over. When it comes to humongous fandoms like Harry Potter and Tolkien, centralization is OVERRATED and IMO, utterly unnecessary. And what both of them have in common at ff.net is that, because there is no quality-control of any kind, the sections are pretty much useless to the reader who wants to browse for good fics s/he didn't already know about. By the time you find anything readable, you will already have lost your eyesight surfing through pages and pages of illiterate Mary Sues, redundant Mary Sue parodies, horrifically spelled blasphemies, and stupid songfics based on the Top 40 hits of early-21st-Century (what Age are we in?) Muggles, which have no legitimate place in either world. Feh.

So who cares if their unannounced NC-17 purge and arbitrary story removals are rude? Why mess with it at all? Sure, the review system is convenient. (It's also convenient for moronic teen flamers). And why tie up discussions on independent fic groups whining about it? The fic groups themselves are a place to post and comment on stories, yes? So post 'em there, where you've at least got a focused audience that you know already likes the general type of fic you're writing?

OK, rant over.

In the interest of fairness, here's some fic recs from ff.net. Both are funny. Don't forget to click Ad Blocker!

Hogwarts Faculty Not-Romance-Exactly!

In LOTR fandom, lame Mary Sue parodies have become every bit as ubiquitous and tedious as Mary Sue stories proper.

This is a glorious exception, written by someone who's actually read the friggin' books. (Besides I am always happy to support a fellow pervy wraith fancier)

Now off to work some more on my own fics, and persuade the Kitty-Boy that he really does want to go with me to see Blind Guardian.

Are We There Yet?

So glad another sound-and-fury WIKTT kafuffle has died down. Even a moderator can't stop a flurry of Fanfiction.net related hysteria. Christ on crutches. Who cares?

(Full disclosure: I am not, nor have I ever been, a member of ff.net)

What Fanfiction.net may well be good for is smaller fandoms, a centralized place where one can go to read a grouping of fics from all over. When it comes to humongous fandoms like Harry Potter and Tolkien, centralization is OVERRATED and IMO, utterly unnecessary. And what both of them have in common at ff.net is that, because there is no quality-control of any kind, the sections are pretty much useless to the reader who wants to browse for good fics s/he didn't already know about. By the time you find anything readable, you will already have lost your eyesight surfing through pages and pages of illiterate Mary Sues, redundant Mary Sue parodies, horrifically spelled blasphemies, and stupid songfics based on the Top 40 hits of early-21st-Century (what Age are we in?) Muggles, which have no legitimate place in either world. Feh.

So who cares if their unannounced NC-17 purge and arbitrary story removals are rude? Why mess with it at all? Sure, the review system is convenient. (It's also convenient for moronic teen flamers). And why tie up discussions on independent fic groups whining about it? The fic groups themselves are a place to post and comment on stories, yes? So post 'em there, where you've at least got a focused audience that you know already likes the general type of fic you're writing?

OK, rant over.

In the interest of fairness, here's some fic recs from ff.net. Both are funny. Don't forget to click Ad Blocker!

Hogwarts Faculty Not-Romance-Exactly!

In LOTR fandom, lame Mary Sue parodies have become every bit as ubiquitous and tedious as Mary Sue stories proper.

This is a glorious exception, written by someone who's actually read the friggin' books. (Besides I am always happy to support a fellow pervy wraith fancier)

Now off to work some more on my own fics, and persuade the Kitty-Boy that he really does want to go with me to see Blind Guardian.