Post by jessnumbuh20 on Aug 30, 2003 0:29:40 GMT
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.
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.