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When I was first introduced to this... thing, I enjoyed it for what I thought it was, a parody that poked fun at genre tropes and didn't at all take itself seriously. This was when it was about 30-40% finished. As time went on and he kept posting more chapters, my perception of it slowly transformed until the point of me hatereading through the end just because I wanted to finish what I started and see if the payoff was at all worth all the lovely build up. It wasn't. The thing is, I've read a lot of mediocre to lovely fanfiction, and I hate this even worse than those. A lot of the poo poo is unabashedly proud of itself for what it is, and the author isn't afraid to just vomit garbage onto the internet and reap the rewards of a legion of preteen wankers who enjoy the stuff. Yud is a different story though, he takes himself super seriously and thinks his poo poo is a work of scientific masterpiece, and has whipped up a fanbase of frenzied lunatics who worship the ground he walks on. It's completely baffling that it's been as successful as it is, but here we are. And the fact that it's terrible even for fanfiction is just ridiculous. Out of the probably thousands of pieces of fanfiction I've forced myself to read over the past decade, there is only a single one that actually stands on its own merits as a story, and that's more because it's not really fanfiction at all and is instead a completely original story where some of the protagonists share names with anime lesbians but bear no actual resemblance to said characters or setting or plot. Basically gently caress fanfiction, and gently caress myself for still reading it sometimes.
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Curvature of Earth posted:Eh, the New Testament wasn't that great. Suddenly the Jews don't matter anymore? God needs his flesh-and-blood son (where did that come from!?) to die for some reason? What happened to the pile of rules God spent two whole books laying out? Did they even read the source material? I laughed harder at this than I've laughed at anything in an extremely long time, so thanks for that. What I was referring to was this, which is basically historical fiction of the Roman empire and the rise of Caesar with anime stickers on it. I like it because I loving love Rome, but it's also really well-written, even considering that it's fanfiction.
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Jul 6, 2015 04:31
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The Nazis would have won!
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Jul 13, 2015 02:50
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Hahahah what the gently caress Is this some kind of parody of awful stereotypes or what?
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Jul 15, 2015 17:33
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anilEhilated posted:These two are literally the same thing. 
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Jul 16, 2015 15:22
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There isn't enough  for this.
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Aug 5, 2015 13:28
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Prince of the Dark Kingdom, if you want a random example of that. I dunno if I'd call it "good", but it's a good example of hugely-lengthy HP fanfiction that's better than Big Yud. It's 1.2 million words and not finished, but hey.
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Aug 30, 2015 04:32
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I think 'yet' is the operative word there, unfortunately. But yeah that poo poo is loving terrifying.
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Aug 30, 2015 17:12
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Zonekeeper posted:Yud's characterization of Transfiguration never really fit to me. While "Turning something into something else and back again" would certainly be considered highly dangerous by anyone scientific, in the main series it's mostly portrayed as harmless up until you get to the advanced stuff, and even then the harmful stuff seemed to be fixable for the most part. The way this fanfic characterizes it, Krum's partial transfiguration into a shark was the single riskiest move made during the triwizard tournament yet that was treated as well thought out but imperfectly done, and a group of teenagers managed to work out becoming animagi all on their own with no apparent ill effects. It's solely so he can set up Harry's bullshit superpower that he ends up killing Voldemort with
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Sep 1, 2015 13:46
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"Transfiguration" isn't a single thing, it's a collection of a bunch of different charms with different effects that are all related to changing things. Some are temporary, some are permanent.
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Sep 4, 2015 22:48
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He probably read the first dozen chapters without analyzing it too deeply like most of us did and thought it was great. The soul crushing reality will set in with time.
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Sep 13, 2015 16:28
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I think you misunderstood that bit. The powers were given by the alien to the human race like they'd been given to countless other races before, for the purposes of gathering data on them that the alien could incorporate into itself as a form of evolution. The dead one was harvested by Cauldron to give powers artificially by the same mechanism. It's really not any better of an explanation, to be fair.  But I liked Worm for the character development and fun power usage and worldbuilding. The background plot wasn't really relevant for me. I do agree that it peaked not long after Leviathan, but I think it was consistently good until the Behemoth bit and the timeskip, where it fell off a lot. Still one of my favorite pieces of literature.
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Sep 14, 2015 02:55
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It's great and amazing. Probably the best intentionally-humorous short story I've ever read.
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Sep 16, 2015 23:40
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It's the type of cliche that would have turned up in the type of books Eliezarry reads, I guess?
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Sep 25, 2015 05:14
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A hell of a lot of people died during Voldemort's murder spree so the current student population being low seems reasonable. Then again if there were only 40 students per year the stadiums at quidditch events wouldn't be nearly as full as they are in the movies, even including the professors.
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Sep 29, 2015 19:45
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I mean, you kind of do have to be an unrepentantly evil motherfucker to completely and utterly deprive someone of their free will such that you can impose your own on them.
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Oct 2, 2015 05:26
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Yeah, yeah it is.
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Oct 2, 2015 14:26
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Yeah even in the later books it isn't said much. That's 100% a fanfiction thing, because the community is super incestuous.
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Oct 2, 2015 19:32
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I think there's something to be said for that, everything being morally grey and mostly disagreeable. It's entirely up to the reader to take away from that what they agree with, though it doesn't work at all in this case. A better writer could pull it off.
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Oct 20, 2015 15:30
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The Iron Rose posted:Oooh boy. In no particular order: And here I thought I'd have free time this month.
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Nov 9, 2015 07:35
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Prince of the Dark Kingdom is pretty solid, albeit with the caveat that English is a second language for the author. It's also long as heck, but covers all seven books and breaks up rather nicely. Oh also I finished Renegade Cause and wow did that have a lot of awful rapey poo poo in it. I mean, it wasn't bad otherwise but you can't really just ignore that.
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Nov 18, 2015 05:22
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divabot posted:Panacea Quest   
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Dec 24, 2015 18:28
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If we're going no holds barred with the fanfic discussion, I'm gonna recommend Inter Nos, which is essentially Roman historical fiction with a thin veneer of anime lesbians covering it to attract a wider audience. The protagonists are from Mai Hime but really it covers like a dozen major works just in the primary cast and has a lot of minor characters from anything and everything you can think of. It's very good but can be dense at times, particularly during the parts where large-scale battle or preparations for said battles are not happening in the forefront, and is obscenely long at just over a million words and not yet finished. Senatorial politicking is absolutely the best part of the story, and a lot of the characters have been adapted well for what it is. I'm probably not great at selling it, but I can confidently say it's one of the most well-written pieces of fiction I've read in my life, and I'm a very prolific reader. It also does the Worm thing where the protagonist will be doing some insanely hosed up poo poo that is described totally normally from their perspective, because they are insane. Fajita Queen fucked around with this message at 06:15 on Dec 28, 2015 |
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Dec 28, 2015 06:13
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Massive loving spoilers on why the potions book thing matters: Dumbledore read a series of prophecies that required his manipulating Lily into getting Petunia to marry what's-his-face, among many many other things, so Harry would grow up in the exact set of circumstances to avert destruction of humanity by his own hands. Yes, it's a whole bunch of contrived bullshit.
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Jan 12, 2016 03:00
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The device that measures the number of queefs by left handed women in france is a monty python thing, I believe.
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Jan 14, 2016 17:42
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Quirrel being Voldemort, Harry being a copy of Voldemort, and Harry's special power being partial transfiguration were all planned from the beginning. Details definitely not so much, but those three major plot points never changed.
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Jan 18, 2016 05:16
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chrisoya posted:He won't even be in the top ten worst people trying to spam the Hugos this year. He's even a better writer than some of the Puppy trash that got nominated last time around. Yep. divabot posted:Pounded In The Butt By My Own Girl with Red Tidday Up and White Tidday Down Corrupted by the Internet who is the Summoned Hero?! by Roko's Tinglisk 
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Jan 30, 2016 20:08
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Pretty sure he used an illusion to make it look like he set fire to a chicken. Harry's reaction there and subsequent mistrust of him was necessary for THE PLOT so Dumbledore engineered it, or something.
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Mar 7, 2016 06:37
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Come on now, I doubt it's possible for anyone to have been as dumb as Big Yud.
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Mar 11, 2016 18:18
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divabot posted:You know, you really should read I got about three sentences in before my eyes kind of glazed over and I began imagining dudes standing on top of rockets hitting themselves in the head with hammers.
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Mar 18, 2016 05:52
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Cavelcade posted:This is a site designed to compete with fanfiction.net! AO3 already does that more and better than anything MIRI comes up with ever could.
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Mar 19, 2016 23:37
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The hell is that
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Apr 8, 2016 20:46
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He "knows" that Dumbledore values him too highly to allow anything actually bad to happen to him in Hogwarts, because he accidentally guessed that there was a prophecy concerning him and McGonagall gave it away. Also probably a bit of that, yeah.
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Apr 12, 2016 16:21
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Nah he actually does get some pretty serious consequences for misusing the Time Turner, though they get worked around or something.
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Apr 28, 2016 15:14
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Added Space posted:The "consequences" are that he gets to keep it, and a mildly effective lock is added. He takes a major blow to his pride and ego from the one person he holds any respect for other than Quirrel. It's a consequence in Yud terms.
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Apr 28, 2016 18:30
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divabot posted:David Severa: Selections from my forthcoming Harry Potter and the Methods of Neoreaction What does it say about us that we really really want this?
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Jun 4, 2016 07:55
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The play is somehow worse than this. How the gently caress, Jo
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Jun 11, 2016 19:49
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I don't not believe that, but still, goddamn. That script almost gave me an aneurysm.
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Jun 12, 2016 01:47
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Don't time turners have a fairly short usage restriction anyway? How are the kids going back in time over a decade with one? I'm heavily leaning towards JKR trolling us on this one.
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Accidental Animagus is right up your alley then. As well as The Arithmancer by the same author, though that's Hermione-focused.
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