In which a YnM suethor turns up on AO3

[matrixrefugee]

Or, When I was looking for new YnM fic, I did not mean the following...

I suspect I may be in reflexive biting mode due to a rough week full of unplowed sidewalks, crabby customers and a malfunctioning laptop. Otherwise I probably wouldn't be bitching about this. I should also remind myself that even Sue-thors have the right to post their stuff where people can read it, and they're likely running to AO3 to avoid the predations of the Grammar Einsatzgruppen who were getting fics on FF.N deleted en masse (I haven't been back to that site since I moved all the fics I wanted to save, and I'm leery some of my work may have fallen victim to their scorched-earth policy. Anyone heard anything more about those freaks?). However, people like myself reserve the right to cringe at it.

It's got all the capital sins of Sue-thor ficcage: Posting a page of gobbledy-goop as a placeholder before posting the actual fic? Check (The moment I saw that, I knew we were in for a bumpy ride). Misspelled title? Check. "I suck at summaries"-ness in the summary? Check. Lack of proofreading? Check. Character descriptions that read like Mary Sue RP character sheets? And they're smack in the middle of the first chapter? Check. Whiplash-inducing POV shifts? Check-a-rooney. Dialogue where you can't tell who's talking? Check. Mary Sue character who shares part of the poster's username? Check, goddammit. Warnings in the middle of the fic? Checkity. Mary Sue who's a result of a preternatural clown orgy? Check, by Enma! Misuse of the tag system that borders on abuse? Check (The main Mary Sue is named Sakura, which is the name of the heroine of Cardcaptor Sakura, thus it tags this as a false positive for a CCS-YnM crossover. It would be better if she'd tagged this as having an Original Female Character)

Comments

[northernwalker]

When the title or the summary are misspelled, I hit the back button at lightspeed. It's just so much easier on my sanity.

[matrixrefugee.livejournal.com]

I think I must be a bit of a masochist, since I did try to read it, but I couldn't get past the first chapter. o.o

[northernwalker]

Well, some days you just want to know how bad the trainwreck really is.

I Think I Might Know Who You're Talking:

[noizchild.livejournal.com]

She's been posting on two fic sites I post at. She is a fan of the Ghost Doll Series. Is the main OC's name Sakura AllaTenshi de Buranshe?

Re: I Think I Might Know Who You're Talking:

[matrixrefugee.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's her. I'm trying not to be too harsh here (anyone who's written anything has written stuff that's decidedly the work of an apprentice writer), but man... o.o

Re: I Think I Might Know Who You're Talking:

[noizchild.livejournal.com]

Ironically, the title, summary, and the character's name is a little bit better on the other site she posts at.

Ref replying with one of her 20 RP accounts..

[regency-twihard.livejournal.com]

(And said character, Catherine Morland from "Northanger Abbey", is currently chatting with our Hisoka...)

Heh... I suspect she accidentally uploaded what I call a "cruddy rough draft" (and rough drafts are often cruddy, whether you're Jill
Fanfic Writer or a professional like Neil Gaiman) onto AO3

[dame_grise]

The Whatsahoozits on FF.net?

[silvereyedphage.livejournal.com]

http://matrixrefugee.livejournal.com/603803.html <<---posted about them here. Basically, a bunch of Grammar Nazis decided to start reporting fics en masse if the grammar wasn't up to their standards, and they were earmarking slash fics by default.

[dame_grise]

Thanks for the update then. My fic is on AO3, so even if they found something objectionable, it's safe.

[dame-bellatrix.livejournal.com]

FF.net has prohibited any form of automated abuse reports. They've added image verification to the reporting form.

[matrixrefugee.livejournal.com]

Yaaay! Best news I've had all week, and this makes me less edgy about posting to FF.N (though there again, most of my recent ficcage has been Very Short Stuff which I feel a little odd about posting on there)

[dame-bellatrix.livejournal.com]

Recently I also feel more comfortable being at AO3. Sometimes it's so exhaustive being at FFN cause there's so many troublemaking adolescents =.=;;

And yeah, I like AO3 tag system, although they didn't have language tag yet, just language category.

[matrixrefugee.livejournal.com]

I post to FF.N mostly because I've gotten the most reviews there, but I hear you about the troublemaking teenagers on there. It's one of many reasons that I'm glad that a friend of mine point me at AO3.

[dame-bellatrix.livejournal.com]

Fortunately, YnM fandom is pretty peaceful. But not mainstream fandom, let alone in my language category. Gosh, those teens don't even think before do anything =.=;;

AO3 grows quite fast, doesn't it?