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Fanfiction's Worst Reviews

Discussion in 'Fanfic Discussion' started by Moridin, Jul 7, 2010.

  1. LouisDabout

    LouisDabout Squib

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    Wow makes me glad my worst moment was mistaking an author's characterization as promoting rape as an alright event...
     
  2. BTT

    BTT Viol̀e͜n̛t͝ D̶e͡li͡g҉h̛t҉s̀ ~ Prestige ~

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    What? Elaborate.
     
  3. ScottPress

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    Got this review for one of my stories recently:

    Wat.
     
  4. Bramastra

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    I'm going to put forth the conspiracy theory that they were under the influence of drugs because In one of the lines it says: "M I hi" or: "am I high".
     
  5. FloreatCastellum

    FloreatCastellum First Year

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    An old review now, but I just found it again and thought I'd share. For context, a minor aspect of this chapter was Ginny's pet, Arnold, being left behind when they fle the Burrow at short notice.

    Thanks for sharing, reviewer.
     
  6. Armani

    Armani Second Year

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    Oh, excuse me, I did not realize that this was a book. My apologies. And this does not help me in the least. Thank you for wasting ten seconds of my life.
    This is one of the reviews on my story on FFN and it annoyed the heck out of me.
     
  7. LouisDabout

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    I don't remember the story itself but I believe it was a Harry Potter crossover... mm. What do you want me to elaborate on?
     
  8. Republic

    Republic The Snow Queen –§ Prestigious §– DLP Supporter

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    My story Contractual Invalidation has certainly been polarizing. The FFnet denizens especially seem to be of several minds about it.

    This was a review on the latest chapter posted there, 3.5:

    I really hope that the guy is joking. Either that, or he's 12 and growing up on fanfiction- never a good thing to do.
     
  9. Download

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    I initially passed up your story because post-Hogwarts fics have never interested me but now I've got to go and take a look so I can understand that rambling.

    ---------- Post automerged at 19:32 ---------- Previous post was at 19:28 ----------

    Took a look at the reviewer's profile page. He apparently thinks women who are "16 to 17" having previous sexual partners is an "overused plot idea".

    I'm going with stupid.
     
  10. Glimmervoid

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    Not sure if reviewer is drunk or spy using fanfiction reviews to pass coded messages.
     
  11. Anarchy

    Anarchy Half-Blood Prince DLP Supporter

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    That review is really impressive. It's always amusing when people attach their own narrative to a story, reading stuff that's not actually there. I don't get how that guy is confused about Daphne not being a "Ice Queen", considering you never use that phrase once to describe her.
     
  12. Republic

    Republic The Snow Queen –§ Prestigious §– DLP Supporter

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    I found Syed's older brother:

     
  13. ScottPress

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    To be fair, "acid blood bitch" isn't a bad description of Daphne.
     
  14. Joe

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    This one gave me a good chuckle. Review this week for An Unfound Door:

    [​IMG]

    Too bad, indeed.
     
  15. TheWiseTomato

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    The actual fuck.
     
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    It makes me want to spite people who demand trigger warnings.
     
  17. Odran

    Odran Fourth Champion

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    What does "capitalistic greed" have anything to do with chapter warnings?

    You literally wrote that for free.
     
  18. Dareth

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    The thing that drives me absolutely up the wall is when I'm checking out fics to decide on what to read next and so I turn to the reviews. Honestly, one really scathing, well-written review will usually turn me off reading a fic. So I'll go looking to see if there are any. Then, naturally, there's six pages of two or three people leaving like three word reviews on every single chapter. "Great chapter" "excited for next chapter" "ooh awesome chapter" for pages and pages at a time. Seriously? I wondered how some fics get thousands of reviews until I saw that. So annoying.
     
  19. Sorrows

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    I got this one, even though I am pretty sure there is a line in the story that says 'they are not friends.'

    Because of course, one must not let their 'bias' have them diviate from canon when writing fanfiction o_O
     
  20. Peter North

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    Oops wrong thread.
     
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