In which a YnM suethor turns up on AO3
Jan. 29th, 2011 03:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
matrixrefugeeOr, 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)
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)
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Date: 2011-01-31 09:35 pm (UTC)