It almost makes me want to cry. What in the hell is wrong with these people? It's as though they have no decency at all, destroying their own half-decent stories with utter bullshit. It's as though they have no understanding of how to write a proper story at all.... oh. right.

 

I for one am absolutely shocked that a story which has always been nothing but a collection of overused clichés introduced even more overused clichés.

 

Was egging on Malfoy in that scene in chapter one, hoping he'd kill Harry.

That's something of a bad sign.

 

(sigh) Fandom's dying.

Every fucking story reuses the same tropes and cliches; soul-bonds, Lord Potter, to name a few.

At least we (at DLP) try and create some original concepts and plot executions.

 

Every time. /snigger

 

I don't think it's as obvious to people outside the UK and Ireland where the phrase is used quite a lot. But yeah.

Every time.

 

Which house is the genderbender? Slytherin or Hufflepuff?

 

Actually found this rather interesting. Even Library-worthy.

Don't get it. I mean, yeah, the chapter was angsty, but I didn't find this Harry specifically unlikable. Malfoy, on the other hand, was. Unless you wanted him killed because that plot would be more awesome.

 

When people lack confidence and/or are angsting, I tend to have absolutely no sympathy for them. If you don't like yourself, why should I like you?

Just caught up on the Harry/Hermione/Fleur story. I think Seratin covered my feeling pretty well, but I also caught this:

Surely that's a double marriage.

 

I know the summary doesn't endear it you that much, but it was actually funny and made me lol irl which happens very rarely for fanfictions.

 

I thought Harry was merely very afraid/paranoid, didn't feel any self-hate.(Maybe the later chapters taint my view since I just read it in one go.) It was the very beginning of the story, too, so I could tolerate him not being totally awesome (yet). Maybe I simply don't mind the "lack of confidence" as much. Didn't hate Neville in HP canon, either.

EDIT:

Couldn't get into it. The humour was meh. And the story seems to be similar to LessWrong's MoR, just written with less talent. (And I didn't like that story that much).
2/5 for being readable and mildly funny.

 

It tries to be MoRish in the beginning, but a bit the author seems to realize that he doesn't actually know enough to pull that off and gives up on trying to pretend it's grounded in actual science, which is a significant improvement. It's still never really gets good, though. It's full of jokes that could be funny if they were better executed, but few of them are actually funny.

I think he was trying to emphasize that there's three marriages involved, but didn't quite think the sentence through well enough.

 

Tried it, it was okay, then it collapsed under its own weight.

 

This is actually a story with Harry Potter modeled after Dr. Stein from the manga Soul Eater. Not MOR-ish at all, even in the beginning.

Not to say it isn't a 2/5 story, but get it right if you're going to criticize.

 

I was willing to give it a chance, even with the phials/vials bit and the illogical conclusion about owl post based from the time it took for Hedwig to fly to Hermione's and back, as Hedwig has no doubt flown to Hermione's several times and knew the way, even if she hadn't exactly how to get to Hermione's house the first time, and there are other factors such as wind current, Hedwig's mental state, her physical state, and all jazz that that could affect her flight time.

When I got to the bit about the adrenaline, however, I decided that there was just too much stupidity to even bother with.

2/5, if only for the fact that the English language isn't abused to the point of the story being entirely unreadable.

 

I know this is a few days late, but as a polyamorous woman, good god am I tired of fanfiction writers consistently failing to understand what being polyamorous actually is.

Male wish fulfillment it ain't.



As for "In the Mind of a Scientist", I think I'd rate it a solid 2.5.

The sentence structure is awkward, the premise asinine, and the writing tired and repetitive.

 

Just read the whole thing.

It's silly, and doesn't make much sense.

But Harry becomes a mad scientist, and it is quite amusing. My only problem with it is that Harry is such a different character, he seems more like a transplant than a change.

It isn't outstanding, but if you have a spare few hours, I'd recommend giving it a go.

 

Most people have no actual experience with polyamorous relationships and they aren't even depicted in well-written fiction very often, so it should not be surprising that most people have no idea how they work. My knowledge of how they work IRL is almost entirely from E/N threads on SA, which is not exactly the most well-rounded source. A story about Harry moping around because his girlfriend doesn't have any time to spend with him because she's too busy with her girlfriend that doesn't like him could be amusing at first, but it'd get old fast.