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  1. samkar
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    Your pet peeves in fanfiction

    I agree with the reviewer. Any kind of pulp american culture insertion is anathema to me in a HP universe story. Nothing kills the mood faster than "An American or a Canadian at Hogwarts" because there's no hook for some mysterious magical background supporting the atmosphere. Exceptions are american natives with some kind of nature theme or it's a crossover scenario.
    Post by: samkar, Mar 23, 2012 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
  2. samkar
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    Your pet peeves in fanfiction

    How about Harry going back in time to curse Molly sterile before she could get Ginny?
    Post by: samkar, Mar 12, 2012 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
  3. samkar
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    Your pet peeves in fanfiction

    My impression of turkey is that it's an oligarchy like almost everywhere else with the difference that it's more visible there with the big companies in the hand of a few families and the military/secret services as the national control mechanism to keep this clan/family cesspool stable.
    Post by: samkar, Mar 12, 2012 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
  4. samkar
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    Your pet peeves in fanfiction

    I think a good do-over story needs a new level of mystery involved to really be fresh. Like Riddle's agenda only being a part of a bigger picture. I think there's still enough unexplored mystery how Riddle as an orphan without any resources managed to get his hand on quality informations and training.
    Post by: samkar, Mar 10, 2012 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
  5. samkar
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    Your pet peeves in fanfiction

    That's not exactly correct. She has 2-3 bigger scenes in OOTP with Harry(After the visit to Arthur and at easter sharing the egg+organizing the twin help,train) where JKR tried to show her character but it's not really enough in the huge book to make some relationship believable. The scene with Luna was longer and emotionally deeper. Greengrass and almost any other girl besides Hermione,Luna,Ginny and perhaps Bones/Abott/Bulstrode are non entities. The only reason she stands out is the...
    Post by: samkar, Mar 9, 2012 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
  6. samkar
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    Your pet peeves in fanfiction

    But that is no justification for bashing so the whole argument to "justify" why people bash characters is completely misguided.
    Post by: samkar, Mar 8, 2012 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
  7. samkar
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    Your pet peeves in fanfiction

    "Thank you for Smoking" was quite cool. ---------- Post automerged at 23:00 ---------- Previous post was at 22:55 ---------- I disagree with the argument that because Dumbledore might not have Harry's best interest in mind is a reason to bash the character. Bashing is no legitimate tool in a text story.
    Post by: samkar, Mar 8, 2012 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
  8. samkar
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    Your pet peeves in fanfiction

    No, it doesn't because bashing is the ignorance/shortcut of valid motivations. Dumbledore had a lot valid (conflicting) motivations from his point of view to do what he did but these motivations are obviously not really in the interest of Harry. That's what life is about struggling through conflicting motivations and text as a means to describe reality is a powerful tool to do it without that. While the idea of bashing must have been fueled by the comic scene where generic characters in...
    Post by: samkar, Mar 8, 2012 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
  9. samkar
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    Your pet peeves in fanfiction

    Playing the obliviate game with Umbridge could make a nice story.
    Post by: samkar, Feb 20, 2012 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
  10. samkar
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    Your pet peeves in fanfiction

    Stories based on Reptilia28's challenge. The idea to introduce some death/guardian/god characters as writer self inserts is braindead and kills any immersion.
    Post by: samkar, Feb 13, 2012 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
  11. samkar
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    Your pet peeves in fanfiction

    Right, but it creates the atmosphere of the world and defines its soul. Too bad too many fixme writers never figured out this constant and destroy what makes HarryPotter so fascinating. P.S. Well, even in our world you should never really ask questions about economics because it breaks down its fairy tale too:sherlock:
    Post by: samkar, Jan 29, 2012 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
  12. samkar
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    Your pet peeves in fanfiction

    You aren't?
    Post by: samkar, Jan 28, 2012 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
  13. samkar
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    Your pet peeves in fanfiction

    They didn't see Buckbeak being killed but that is a minor problem. IMHO JKR invented an impossible paradox where Harry saved himself and Sirius from the Dementors. How can anybody save himself after being "dead" through the Dementor's kiss. The typical paradox is where somebody goes back in time where he either removes his own existence or the reason he goes back in time. IMHO JKR completely lost her marbles there.
    Post by: samkar, Jan 27, 2012 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
  14. samkar
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    Your pet peeves in fanfiction

    As bad as blushing and writing in diaries instead of journals.
    Post by: samkar, Jan 8, 2012 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
  15. samkar
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    Your pet peeves in fanfiction

    True, too bad just afterwards starts the worst disappointment of the whole series.
    Post by: samkar, Dec 14, 2011 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
  16. samkar
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    Your pet peeves in fanfiction

    Well, living in a cupboard under the stairs is pretty close to where Kreacher sleeps. The common themes are there.
    Post by: samkar, Dec 3, 2011 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    Your pet peeves in fanfiction

    One of my pet peeves is reading warnings about "spankings" in a summary. Does this warning make any sense? Does the writer want to warn the reader that this story is about some kind of spanking fetish? Or is this some kind of code I'm not familiar with?
    Post by: samkar, Oct 25, 2011 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
  18. samkar
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    Your pet peeves in fanfiction

    I thought Harry Potter and the Balm of Time was descent.
    Post by: samkar, Aug 28, 2011 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
  19. samkar
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    Your pet peeves in fanfiction

    Your pet peeve should be bad harmony writers.
    Post by: samkar, Aug 27, 2011 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
  20. samkar
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    Your pet peeves in fanfiction

    It is funny:-)
    Post by: samkar, Aug 24, 2011 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
  21. samkar
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    Your pet peeves in fanfiction

    Can't follow your logic here. Under realistic terms I would prefer to have both at hand especially because any gun is faster than the wand/spell/mind interface. There is also the surprise and mass kill factor. The problem with guns in the HP world is that it's rarely done tasteful where it doesn't kill the HP magic atmosphere as the ultimate problem solver. I liked its appliance in Bungle in the Jungle for example.
    Post by: samkar, Aug 21, 2011 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    Your pet peeves in fanfiction

    Dan as "The Dentist" could be a Dexter like sociopathic serial killer teaching Harry how to deal with his problems:-)
    Post by: samkar, Aug 10, 2011 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
  23. samkar
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    Your pet peeves in fanfiction

    On the surface that Taboo thing was a nice idea but it would be the perfect way to organize some ambushes and decimate Riddle's forces easily until he could adapt. I've only read one fic where this approach was used though.
    Post by: samkar, Aug 9, 2011 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
  24. samkar
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    Your pet peeves in fanfiction

    Blood Bound is the only worthwhile story I know.
    Post by: samkar, Jul 28, 2011 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
  25. samkar
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    Your pet peeves in fanfiction

    Really? I don't like such inside jokes not for the benefit of the character but for the reader playing with an assumed cliche.
    Post by: samkar, May 30, 2011 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    Your pet peeves in fanfiction

    I think there are writers like Submarauder for instance where you have doubts about their "intelligence" because you assume they write like you think a good writer should proceed but completely fail in doing so. But I think these people aren't able to create fresh/new/logical plots and characters because they approach the story writing process completely different. These people see stories and character behaviors like textures/patterns and what they do in their work is just permute...
    Post by: samkar, May 21, 2011 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    Your pet peeves in fanfiction

    I regard flashbacks as story planning f*ckups the way they are mostly used. Some writers have the pretentious assumption that flashbacks add atmosphere but it's the exact opposite at least for me. They feel like driving over a speed bumper.
    Post by: samkar, May 19, 2011 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
  28. samkar
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    Your pet peeves in fanfiction

    Personally I think the problem isn't really how rich he is but how crappy writers use it as an exercise to torture the reader with painful owns this and that shit list. Let's not forget the usual magical attribute info dump cliche:facepalm A tasteful writer would just skip over these details with maybe a hint of an emotional feedback from Harry when he realizes he won't expect money problems. Though sometimes if the limited resources are used because you want to make it a part of the...
    Post by: samkar, Apr 19, 2011 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
  29. samkar
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    Your pet peeves in fanfiction

    That's all speculation. We only know Snape's memory which shows his interpretation of one scene which we don't even know if that was true or not. In the year afterwards Dumbledore showed Harry a manipulated memory so they are possible. Another thing we also heard from Remus or Sirius I think that Snape knew more about Dark Arts than people leaving Hogwarts. If that's true then people would have seeing him using them I suppose. We can now speculate on what Snape and his Slytherin friends did...
    Post by: samkar, Apr 15, 2011 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    Your pet peeves in fanfiction

    I think it's really difficult to judge these things without knowing the full story. We only know what happened, we don't truly know what caused Sirius to do it. We don't know the climate at the school, we only know that around that time there was a war outside the school and a lot people died. That this wouldn't have an impact on the inside is extremely unlikely. And Sirius surely knew who the DE families were through his family. Well, somebody who tortured people into madness doesn't...
    Post by: samkar, Apr 15, 2011 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
  31. samkar
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    Your pet peeves in fanfiction

    I see Darth Marrs as the counter part to the so called Harmony writers, mostly older married men, writing really corny contrived ship!fics which are beyond painful to read. I fully agree with you that Darth Marrs's major problem besides his ship focus is lifeless detached characterizing. People in his story just feel like scenery.
    Post by: samkar, Apr 12, 2011 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
  32. samkar
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    Your pet peeves in fanfiction

    I share your pain. Any kind of Harry using some ipod, mobile, playing xbox,360/ps3 or having some big plasma screen is an auto fail. I never got the idea why people need to adjust the timeline to write crossovers with Stargate where I can't even define a timeline according to the TV show. Which leads me to my dislike of most of the HP/Stargate crossovers which only purpose seems to be to retell the boring TV episodes with Harry in them without really influencing the story. As if the...
    Post by: samkar, Apr 1, 2011 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
  33. samkar
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    Your pet peeves in fanfiction

    >11. Prongslet/Pup/Cub. It can get really annoying without a context but I have no problem with Sirius using it to annoy Harry for the fun of it because that would fit the character's profile. So it depends on the right timing and not overdoing it. About wands, here I'm divided. It can get really annoying to read yet another custom wand paragraph but if it's well told, and there are a few writers which put some effort in it, then I have no problem reading it. From a logical perspective...
    Post by: samkar, Feb 18, 2011 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    Your pet peeves in fanfiction

    The funny thing is that Su Li doesn't even exist in the books. I think belleradh's "Snakecharmer" had a good setting here with giving these characters a depth. Too bad that story is probably dead.
    Post by: samkar, Feb 16, 2011 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
  35. samkar
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    Your pet peeves in fanfiction

    Well, besides the self insertion Mary Sue putting down her phantasy of carrying Harry Potter's baby, Harry in this story is also a Gary Stu of epic proportions. All the characters in this "Gary+Mary train 14..18 year old kids to fight a secret war while at school under Dumbledore's thumb" are just bland and boring. I never cared about anybody of them. There were a few good scenes in it, especially the fate of Narcissa, but ultimately it always felt contrived and convoluted because the...
    Post by: samkar, Feb 5, 2011 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
  36. samkar
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    Your pet peeves in fanfiction

    I agree, it annoyed me too. I think such elements are mostly used because the writer has a creative problem and just selects some often used story plot patterns. You can always insert some Quiddich game, nightmares, hospital visits to fill up your chapters with drivel. Granted, him seeing some psychologist might make sense in the situation but not everything which is logical is attractive to read. There are reasons people usually don't put every toilet visit into the story, nevertheless...
    Post by: samkar, Feb 1, 2011 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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