Rant on FF.net

[jessnumbuh20]

OK. Being in a bad mood, I haveta get this out.

FF.net is driving me up the wall...normally it doesnt, but the KND section sickens me. Yes there are a handfull of GOOD quality KND fanfictions there BUT ITS SO HARD TO FIND THEM! They are burried under CRAP!

So lets define Crap.

Crap: Fanfics by people who dont know anything about the show, or what their talking about and its really really irks me.. and no not in the Zim way either!

So what makes a fanfic "Crap"? This is what (and theres TOO MANY on ff.net)

1. Inserting your own orginal characters is fine (The best KND Fanfic Iv EVER read has one) but.. you cant just incert them in and pretend that the reader knows everything about this person like you do. The random numbuhs just come out of NO WHERE and have no purpose. They are just...... there to confuse and annoy the reader!!!

2. Pairing Hoagie with Lizzie. GOD!! THIS RRRRREEEEEAAAALLLLYY ticks me off! Look just because they are both... big... dosnt mean they have anything to do with each other! And most of the time the reason Hoagie and Lizzie are paired is because Lizzie is the only remaining female on the show........ why does this make absolutly no sense to me? SO WHAT!??! So Lizzie is a girl and shes fat- THAT DOSNT MEAN SHES FOR HOAGIE!! ><!!!!! Again this right here is proof the author knows hardly anything of the show (if you ever written a Hoagie/Lizzie fic.. erm remember this is my opinion and dont bother explaining whatever reason you had for pairing them- I could care less)

3. ::Sigh:: I really hate the chapters thing that FF.net has because people are uploading paragraph (or less) long chapaters. Thats not a chapter. Espicially when they have like 23 of these "chapters".. why dont you just upload the fic sentence by sentence!??! Honestly.. if your going to upload the story in chapters.. atleast make them lengthy. Uploading only a paragraph at a time not only wastes webspace, but time and patients of the reader. (there are ALOT of these in the KND section)

4. Ok this is a happy rant right here because EVERYBODY does it, even IM guilty .. so no worries here if you've done this once or twice... but I find it more professional looking (and less confusing) is when you refur to the kids actually spell out the number IE: instead of Numbuh 4 - put Numbuh Four .. even if its long like instead of Numbuh 276, put Numbuh Two Seventy-Six. Heres why: If you actually spell it out it's refuring to as a name instead of just a number... and.. yeah its just more attractive. Again, this dosnt apply to just chatting- mostly just fanfics that your proud of and want to look good ;D

I think with the main problems being number 1 and 3... well again Im not shouting at any body in particular- ALOT of the KND fanfics have atleast one if nota ll of these annoyances - and little ones are fine.. but they get SO bad that it turns me away from reading them completely. I just wanted to point that out and see if anybody agreed.....

Once more.. Im not pointing anybody out- just the section out as a whole. dont hurt me.

[numbuheightbitstar]

You forgot one. And I sure hope the author who'se
story I'm about to bash isn't a member of this forum...

#666. Authors who don't know when to freaking
END a story, and pull a Yu-Gi-Oh where it starts out
good, and gets more and more lame as it goes on,
to the point where you wish you had never started
reading it in the first place.

#667. When the story changes it's nature midway
through, which also contributes to making one want
to stop reading. I'm going to be less lenient than
you and make it clear what fanfic I have in mind
while writing this. There was this fanfic where
something terrible happens to Numbuh Three, and
she goes through all sorts of mental trauma because
of it. At first I was interested, and the first time I
read it there were like four or five chapters up, and
by the last one she was recovering, and I thought
"Ah, so it comes to a close..." but then I came back
like a few weeks/months afterwards and he was
up to like Chapter Twelve, and I was like "What?"
and then the summary mentioned that Numbuh
Three quit the KND... at that point, I threw up my
hands and said "You know what, forget this.
The story's gotten stupid." It didn't at all help that
chapters went from being generally short to being
long, in an attempt to be "more detailed" but instead
became unruly and unfocused... one moment a
paragraph would focus on Kuki, the next on Wally,
etc. which made it unreadable because I was
spending more time trying to keep track of who'se
POV I was in than I was actually reading the story
(imagine being schizophrenic and you get the idea).

Again, at first the fic was good, however he should've
ended it, not kept it going. By keeping it going, he
killed it.
Kay, I'm done, and I seriously apologize if the
person who wrote the fanfic I just critically mauled
happens to be present at this board.

[NumbuhInfinity]

Agreed on Jess' points #1-3, especially #3. Though not all authors pair Hoagie with Lizzie. Then again you did say MOST so you're probably aware of that. If there is any assurance I don't have Hoagie/Lizzie in my fic series. I have Nigel/Lizzie instead. (Sorry if you're a Nigel/Abby fan but I like Nigel/Lizzie.) I'm neutral with #4 since I also used to do it like 1, 2, etc. But now I spell it out since it makes for easier reading.

Also agreed on James' two points, though I haven't seen too much #666. Then again I don't usually read KND stories whose summaries don't perk my interest, anyway.


There's one I'd like to add.

5. Random/Pointless/Extreme OOC/Chatroom-happy KND fics. You should know what they are.

[Stardrifter 8]

That's a lot of ranting there... I can see everyone's points on all the rants. I agree with some. What I would like to see is a few more stories that don't have pairings. Okay, it was cute at first, but... now stories seem to be repeating other stories. Most common thing: The kids have crushes, they reveal them, it's all cutesy.

It's getting old....

[numbuh610]

I never seen all that stuff going on FF.net. I'm not author. I'm a reader.

[Stardrifter 8]

Even as a reader, you should notice some of this. You may not mind it, though.

[numbuh610]

I used to like the 2/Lizzie thing but it got annoying. I like romance fics but not too many just the one that are not stupid.

[jessnumbuh20]

Stardrifter said:

That's a lot of ranting there... I can see everyone's points on all the rants. I agree with some. What I would like to see is a few more stories that don't have pairings. Okay, it was cute at first, but... now stories seem to be repeating other stories. Most common thing: The kids have crushes, they reveal them, it's all cutesy.

It's getting old....

Agreed.

[numbuheightbitstar]

Stardrifter said:

That's a lot of ranting there... I can see everyone's points on all the rants. I agree with some. What I would like to see is a few more stories that don't have pairings. Okay, it was cute at first, but... now stories seem to be repeating other stories. Most common thing: The kids have crushes, they reveal them, it's all cutesy.

It's getting old....

I dunno... cutesy works for some characters, but
not others. For Numbuh Three, for example... it's
just not Numbuh Three unless she's being cute.
Numbuh Five would be involved a bit more seriously.

[dc13]

To all,
I am an author on ff.net and I was wondering if you would check my KND story and see if it meets your standards.
If it doesn't, the I will resign from this forum and take the story down out of shame. I would not feel fit to call myself a fan.
It is called 'Hidden.' and is under the username DC13.
I warn you, one of them is a bit OOC, but thats how it's meant to be. ( I can't tell you who, it would ruin the surprise!)
I feel terrible and hope that I can be a better author by following your tips.
Yours,
DC13

[numbuheightbitstar]

DC13 said:

To all,
I am an author on ff.net and I was wondering if you would check my KND story and see if it meets your standards.
If it doesn't, the I will resign from this forum and take the story down out of shame. I would not feel fit to call myself a fan.
It is called 'Hidden.' and is under the username DC13.
I warn you, one of them is a bit OOC, but thats how it's meant to be. ( I can't tell you who, it would ruin the surprise!)
I feel terrible and hope that I can be a better author by following your tips.
Yours,
DC13

I liked it. I'm sure some of the others will too.

[dc13]

**Blushes.** Thanks Bitstar!