Things That Annoy You in Fanfiction

[qwertyfatcat]

OCs can work if done well imo. There was a Love Hina fanfiction I read a while back with an OC as one of the main characters, and he felt good to read. What an OC needs to do is not try to surpass the main cast, but be able to work with them and the world they are in. If the canon cast can work with the OC and not just the other way around, then that's a good thing.

Also, limits. OCs need limits or people will feel they are overpowered and are Mary Sues. I don't mean simple limits like how a female mary sue is only at her strongest for three minutes in a fight or can only use her power 10 times in her life or something like that, but something that prevents her/him from being the most powerful being in existence. Sometimes a weakness that a weaker character/characters can take advantage of in a fight to overcome them, or a weakness in they're personality that isn't easily overcome.

[Phearo]

What would be your stance then to all OC fanfiction? Where the only thing present is the lore, mechanics, and writing?

[Cherry Lover]

Well, if someone likes the lore enough to want to write a story based around it with OCs, then IMO that is fine, but it doesn't interest me at all, to be honest.

[SINIB]

What would be your stance then to all OC fanfiction? Where the only thing present is the lore, mechanics, and writing?

If it's well written fuck yeah.

[Elf]

I am annoyed and saddened by the lack of Archer/EMIYA centric lemons.

[Cherry Lover]

Yeah, I feel the same about Sakura-centric ones. They're pretty rare.

[Elf]

Yeah, I feel the same about Sakura-centric ones. They're pretty rare.

There are a lot of Sakura related doujins though.

[SINIB]

Not fanfics. And kotori is a stain.

[Cherry Lover]

Yeah, I feel the same about Sakura-centric ones. They're pretty rare.

There are a lot of Sakura related doujins though.

Not all that many, especially not translated ones.

[Elf]

Trip Spider's done a bunch though, and several of them are translated.

The art's decent and it's always fluffy, happy consensual sex.

[Cherry Lover]

Trip Spider's done a bunch though, and several of them are translated.

True, but that's about it.

The art's decent and it's always fluffy, happy consensual sex.

Lol, but when it comes to porn, I'm not really after "fluffy, happy consensual sex".

[lantzblades]

@Elf, CL

working to fix that, need betaing time though. Seriously mountains of both if I could get mike to have time or others added to the cause.

I'm annoyed at the lack of discussion about fanfics in general. It's all read and done, no consideration of the little things.

[Cherry Lover]

@Elf, CL

working to fix that, need betaing time though. Seriously mountains of both if I could get mike to have time or others added to the cause.

Really? I don't recall you mentioning all that much stuff. One or two things that I'm working on prequels to, but not that much you're close to finishing.

I'm annoyed at the lack of discussion about fanfics in general. It's all read and done, no consideration of the little things.

What do you mean?

[lantzblades]

Because I haven't been able to write in the last few weeks because of moving, hordes of family and company coming over, not to mention my other grandma passing away. Otherwise I'd be forty fics ahead most of which star Archer, Sakura, Rider and Akiha to some extent.

I mean that people skim fics and bitch about what they don't like or otherwise praise it once and keep silent. There's no actual discussion.

[Cherry Lover]

Because I haven't been able to write in the last few weeks because of moving, hordes of family and company coming over, not to mention my other grandma passing away. Otherwise I'd be forty fics ahead most of which star Archer, Sakura, Rider and Akiha to some extent.

Hmm, I see.

Which fics do you mean? You've not mentioned most of these to me....

I mean that people skim fics and bitch about what they don't like or otherwise praise it once and keep silent. There's no actual discussion.

Well, honestly, there's rarely all that much to discuss in detail. Also, people are lazy, so unless they're really invested in it, they likely won't bother going into detailed discussions.