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Peeves of fan-fiction

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by Sword of Elisha, Feb 13, 2008.

  1. Dark Belra

    Dark Belra Minister of Magic

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    Good old Limerick, Whats the latest kill count over there.
     
  2. BrewBreaker

    BrewBreaker First Year

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    I hate the stories where Harry all of a sudden becomes all powerful and all-knowing and instead of him being a student, Dumbledore brings him back as a fucking Professor, and 999 times out of 1000 he's the DADA Professor. It also seems that these stories include the ability for Harry's 14/15 year old girlfriend unfettered access to his rooms.

    I also hate the stories where out of no where Neville, Luna, or someone else all of a sudden become Harry's best friend.
     
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  3. Dark Belra

    Dark Belra Minister of Magic

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    Oh, I hate those too. They are pretty funny when he teaches divination instead of the crappy Defence teacher. Most of these have, thankfully, only been AU, and make sense as to why he got hired.

    What about when he owns a whole school which attends.
     
  4. Solomon

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    I don't get that. What the hell made them think that Luna is a seer? She's just weird. Weird and hot.

    ...Most of my peeves are simple things, like grammar. One of the more common ones is dialogue in the middle of a paragraph. I'm not sure why people do that, but it annoys the hell out of me; dialogue goes at the beginning or end of the paragraph, not in the middle!

    Other than that...not much. Nothing that I can just mention offhand here, at least.
     
  5. Andro

    Andro Master of Death DLP Supporter

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    I dislike it when Harry's too busy to tackle important matters, but has enough time for Quidditch.
     
  6. Helltanz98

    Helltanz98 Professor

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    Yes most true, damned fangirls.
    Slash in general, the only fag in the series is Dumbledore, which was a stupid move by Rowling in my opinion, hell DH sucked balls.
    Any thing involving the serious use of love, or fertility potions, especially if Harry forgives the person.
     
  7. The Doctor

    The Doctor Unspeakable

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    Especially Slytherins. Y'know, a Dark Harry doesn't have to look in just Slytherin House for allies. Pisses me off.

    Edit: It's also possible for Harry to be Dark and not fucking Daphne Greengrass. Just sayin'.
     
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  8. Helltanz98

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    okay this is probably a little in the water, but in Naruto Fanfiction not every shinobi reads Jiraiya's perverted book, its annoying that writers use this constantly.
    Also the use of names for OCs that are stupid or culturely incorrect, giving a anglosaxon white male a Japanese name, because it sounds cool.
     
  9. Kenshkrix

    Kenshkrix DA Member DLP Supporter

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    The only thing that can actually make a story entirely unreadable to me is if they can't spell words longer than 5 letters, or don't make new paragraphs for speech. This is simply because I literally cannot read it.
    My threshold for withstanding stupidity is incredibly high, which is unfortunate most of the time.
    My only real peeve in stories that isn't related to the specifics of the English language is characterization. If you can't write decent characterization, You should not be trying to write. Most bad stories are because of bad characterization.
     
  10. Verminard

    Verminard Seventh Year

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    Another one is any that refers to Draco as the Prince of Slytherin.
     
  11. Philly Homer

    Philly Homer What you call elephant cum I call mouthwash

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    I fucking resent that shit. The only one who has the legitimate right to that title is Tom Marvolo Riddle not Draco fucking Malfoy, who is an insult to most Slytherins.

    Blasphemy! :p
     
  12. Memory King

    Memory King Order Member DLP Supporter

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    Alright, here below are some of my dislikes.

    When Fate and Time are actual OCs. That's just retarded, in my humble opinion.

    Fated romance, when two characters are prophesied to be soul mates till the end of time. Totally removes all the conflict from the relationship.

    Complete turnaround in character behaviour, with no explanations given. It takes all the realism away from the stories in question.

    Stupid main characters, overly abusive Dursleys and Twin-Who-lived stories.

    When AU writers don't actually change any important events, I would just reread the books if I wanted everything to happen the same as in canon.

    A/Ns in the middle of chapters, they destroy the reading flow completely.

    Incompetent villains, badly executed plans, stupid plot devices.

    Redeemed!Snape, Redeemed!Malfoys, Severitus, Glorified!Draco, most cross-gen pairins not involving Harry, etc, etc.

    That's probably all from me, at least for now.
     
  13. Helltanz98

    Helltanz98 Professor

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    Haha, yeah I tried that last one its on fanfiction, it seems to have sadly gathered a dedicated fanbase, other wise I would have deleted it by now.
     
  14. Rehio

    Rehio Bad Dragon ~ Prestige ~ DLP Supporter

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    Well duh, he can be fucking Blaise Zabini too. Or both at once.
     
  15. Helltanz98

    Helltanz98 Professor

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    Yeah Blaise makes a better girl, than a guy, Rowling keeps trying to catering to the minority and the idiots it pisses me off.
     
  16. The Doctor

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    I think she tried to please all of her fanbase, and ended up alienating more than a few. DLP is living proof of that.;)

    Oh noes, is that Harem!Harry I can smell?
     
  17. Helltanz98

    Helltanz98 Professor

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    Yep most of them are very poorly written, contrary to what is written in fanfiction, it isn't very realistic.
     
  18. Seratin

    Seratin Proudmander –§ Prestigious §– DLP Supporter

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    Harry/Ginny soulbond mind link......in other words "Meaning of one" the only positive thing about that fic is that Harry and Ginny haven't started reproducing.
     
  19. Helltanz98

    Helltanz98 Professor

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    Kill Gin slut, NOWWW!!!
    Buffy Crossovers are annoying, and generally shit, and I hate Xander, and any story based off S3 Halloween.
     
  20. Kerrus

    Kerrus DA Member

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    Admittedly there /are/ some good buffy xovers. Some. Most of them are utter pants though.

    Another peeve of mine is Harry having multiple Animagus forms, and then being some grand mythological animal. For the love of pants, stick to one form. I've yet to see a non Servitius fic where Harry turns into something normal like a cat, and not "OMG, he's a dragon/phoenix/dementor/taurrasque"
     
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