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WIP Obsurum Fabula by Ami3vaYah3Dyn -M-

Discussion in 'Trash Bin' started by ῆ₢ςřǒ ₩ӧᶅḟ, May 23, 2011.

  1. Mercenary

    Mercenary Snake Eater

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    Coupled with this,

    the story title(which appears to be the author trying sound clever but just coming off stupid.), and the author's NAME(Excessive Capitalization and numbers)


    Nope.avi.


    Related: Obsurum Fabula. Obsurum appears to mean "explaining the obscure by means of more obscure" and Fabula: "a series of story events not yet rearranged into a plot"

    In other words the author apparently picked some random words out of a latin dictionary
     
  2. ninjacom

    ninjacom First Year

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    There isn't a whole lot of stuff that I can add that hasn't already been said. Shitty characterization of Harry drags this story down into the mud.

    1.5/5 rounded down to 1/5

    The extra 0.5 for decent grammar and for being able to string together a coherent sentence, but not nearly enough for me to rate it higher than 1.
     
  3. Blaise

    Blaise Golden Patronus

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    OP: how the fuck do you log in with that user name ?
     
  4. KrzaQ

    KrzaQ Denarii Host DLP Supporter

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    Updated: Still lame. Harry cleverly shows his hand to Evildore.
     
  5. azrael

    azrael Professor

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    I assume he lets cookies take care of it (I do that and my name isn't exactly complicated)
     
  6. KrzaQ

    KrzaQ Denarii Host DLP Supporter

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    Doesn't VBulletin have different fields for account name and displayed name?
     
  7. happilyeverafter

    happilyeverafter Sixth Year

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    This is the kind of shit I would have loved to have read when I was about thirteen. To be honest, the writing isn't that bad in the last chapter, but pretty bad at the beginning. However the plot is pretty generic to Dark!Harry fics.

    1/5
     
  8. dr4ehead

    dr4ehead Squib

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    The name calling really detracts from the story; Harry is supposed to be mature and sarcastic but then he spouts these insipid names. From Dumbles, to Dumbly-dor, to Dumblestiltskin it's just tiresome. Without the multitudes of names it would be more believable that Harry is mature; name calling makes him seem childish.

    It's readable and while that is a step up from many other stories, it doesn't change that this is just not a very good story.

    2/5