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It's been slim pickins' on the DA section of FF.net, and I just felt like expressing my distaste at the ridiculous cliches that litter the place:
1. A new, original story featuring a brand new female lead character that is Alec's -- Who do you think you're kidding? It's not fanfic, it's self-insertion into the story to have fantasy sex with Jensen Ackles that most sane people won't care to read.
2. Logan was a evil, mustache twirling villain cliche (I mean this for the extreme cases) -- What show were you watching? Yes, he could be a jerk sometimes but he was hardly evil. Just because you prefer Alec, that didn't make Logan evil and to twist alliances like that is a sign of pitiful writing and observation skills. It also foretells that none of the characters will stay in character, as you obviously are too busy skewing things toward your perception rather than being true to the show.
3. Alec as the martyr, Max as the wicked witch -- Again, were we watching the same show? Alec wasn't a saint, and he betrayed Max several times at the beginning of the show, it wasn't until after Rachel's death did he slowly become more caring. Max wasn't wrong in distrusting him for a long time, it was justified.
4. Alec was the best thing to come around since cheese -- There's nothing Super!Alec can't do! He delivers babies, he saves Max from Logan, he runs Terminal City, he secretly ran all of Manticore back in the day, he's the cure to the Coming or his sperm is. The only thing he can't do is fly, but I'm sure someone will rectify that one of these days. Seriously people? He was the jerk, the bad boy who didn't give a damn about anyone but himself and was slowly starting to become less selfish when the show ended. The author is just writing Alec the way she wanted him to be, rather than who he was.
5. Copying an original story that's already been done and writing it again in really bad grammar and style -- it happens, sometimes you read a story over and over again until it gets imbedded into your head and you write a fanfic that sounds like a hundred other fanfics, except it's the ones who get pissed over why they aren't getting rave reviews that make me laugh. You need to bring something fresh to the table, because no one wants cold, three week old pizza.
6. The general horrible writers on Fanfiction.net that I regularly ignore because they fancy themselves to be good writers and refuse to improve on their blatantly awful writing style, poor grammar, and all around pathetic attempts at being taken seriously. I admit that my writing could use improvement, and why does everyone who reviews them pretend that the writing is passable? I mean for christ's sake, I've seen whole paragraphs without commas and periods that no one pointed out.
1. A new, original story featuring a brand new female lead character that is Alec's -- Who do you think you're kidding? It's not fanfic, it's self-insertion into the story to have fantasy sex with Jensen Ackles that most sane people won't care to read.
2. Logan was a evil, mustache twirling villain cliche (I mean this for the extreme cases) -- What show were you watching? Yes, he could be a jerk sometimes but he was hardly evil. Just because you prefer Alec, that didn't make Logan evil and to twist alliances like that is a sign of pitiful writing and observation skills. It also foretells that none of the characters will stay in character, as you obviously are too busy skewing things toward your perception rather than being true to the show.
3. Alec as the martyr, Max as the wicked witch -- Again, were we watching the same show? Alec wasn't a saint, and he betrayed Max several times at the beginning of the show, it wasn't until after Rachel's death did he slowly become more caring. Max wasn't wrong in distrusting him for a long time, it was justified.
4. Alec was the best thing to come around since cheese -- There's nothing Super!Alec can't do! He delivers babies, he saves Max from Logan, he runs Terminal City, he secretly ran all of Manticore back in the day, he's the cure to the Coming or his sperm is. The only thing he can't do is fly, but I'm sure someone will rectify that one of these days. Seriously people? He was the jerk, the bad boy who didn't give a damn about anyone but himself and was slowly starting to become less selfish when the show ended. The author is just writing Alec the way she wanted him to be, rather than who he was.
5. Copying an original story that's already been done and writing it again in really bad grammar and style -- it happens, sometimes you read a story over and over again until it gets imbedded into your head and you write a fanfic that sounds like a hundred other fanfics, except it's the ones who get pissed over why they aren't getting rave reviews that make me laugh. You need to bring something fresh to the table, because no one wants cold, three week old pizza.
6. The general horrible writers on Fanfiction.net that I regularly ignore because they fancy themselves to be good writers and refuse to improve on their blatantly awful writing style, poor grammar, and all around pathetic attempts at being taken seriously. I admit that my writing could use improvement, and why does everyone who reviews them pretend that the writing is passable? I mean for christ's sake, I've seen whole paragraphs without commas and periods that no one pointed out.