Firefly Fanfiction: What Are Your Pet-Peeves?
POSTED BY: Xeyra
UPDATED: Friday, November 30, 2012 02:57
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Originally posted by PhoenixRose:
The line is "He believed her, made a face." So it's completely third-person, not just relating to herself.
Yeah, that bothers me, too. Forgot to mention that one. Anyone consistantly referring to her as "girl" actually bothers me, not just she herself. I don't stop readin the fic based just on that, but it does bother me because it doesn't happen that much. The only one to call her "girl" tends to be Jayne, and even he doesn't overdo it.
My bad. I edited my post before I saw your post. But yes, I went and found the right quote and fixed it. But I agree with you. It's annoying when people over use a phrase, word, or idea that was funny or interesting the first time we saw it but gets old once you hear it again and again in someone's fanfiction.
"Is it bad that what she said made perfect
sense to me?"
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I don't read a lot of fanfic because of:
a) grammar grammar grammar. If it's unreadable, it's --- unreadable, gorramit! And
b) I don't like to take the chance of stumbling on slash et al. I've created plenty of my own psychological scars, don't need someone else creating them for me too. And
c) characters not acting like the characters we know from the series/movie. What's the point?
I don't mind the pregnant Zoe thing as long as it fits and takes into account the problems she's facing. The possibility of pregnancy was mentioned in HoG and it lets us keep a bit of Wash post BDM so what the heck. Also, "family" ships crop up quite a bit in SF. Plus, I wrote one (a great one if I say so myself! 
) so 
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Hobbes: How come we play war and not peace?
Calvin: Too few role models.
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Well developed character "point of view" is the essence of any fiction worth reading.
When a writer achieves this, either through dialog or narration, they have my attention.
I'm used to reading student rough drafts/sloppy copies so grammer and punctuation don't hinder my enjoyment.
Things that I don't like in this verse are;
Rehashes of other story lines- Read and then get creative
M/R pairing - Come on guys, that's a Dad surviving
his daughter's teen years with her "behind the wheel", in a pilot's seat! Let's draw a line.
Inara's screaming or excessive chatter(she did neither in the series or the BDM) She was weepy in the comic books, but that was her transition time.
Other than that please do keep writing someone will read....Thanks!
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Main peeve
(Mal/Simon, Mal/River). Sorry guys, but i just feel it wouldn't happen. Also the whole "This is Kaylee/River/Inara and Simon/Jayne/Mal having full blown Sex in every graphical detail." Er...I really don't want to know 
(besides the reader can imagine it in more detail, if they want to 
)
and yes, the whole 80 chapter adventures. Its. Not. War. And. gorram. Peace. guys. 20 then yes, possibly i'll try and find the beginning, but 80!! 
Okay..i'm feeling kind of like a meany for being so harsh, but there are many things I do like and not all fanfics with these are bad..
(and remeber, if you don't like it, just skip over...there's always someone else who will )
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Hi
Just wanted to chime in to say I agree with almost every issue raised here but wanted to add one more that's not been mentioned.
The long, meandering pointless fic. You know the ones, they go on for chapters and chapters with everyday sweet stuff going on. No matter how well written or how much witty banter there is, if some major plot development doesn't turn up I get bored and wander off. It also annoys me when it's very clear that someone hasn't bothered to plan out a story beofre writing (sometimes they even say - I don't know where to go from here), to me that's just lazy. A good story has to have a beginning a middle and an end!
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Originally posted by EmmaRigby:
annoys me when it's very clear that someone hasn't bothered to plan out a story beofre writing (sometimes they even say - I don't know where to go from here), to me that's just lazy. A good story has to have a beginning a middle and an end!
Heh, that's why I haven't posted any extended fic at this point. I'm one of those "figure it out as I go" writers, so it would have to be completed and edited before I posted it here. If I did the chapter by chapter thing some folk can do, I would get lost. Longer fics are hard. I've had some false starts; verse plots kinda work differently than most (least they should). So I'm just doing some character exploration, which has been well-recieved. Hopefully at some point I'll have an actual story with a beginning, middle and end
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One summer.
One mission.
One legion of Browncoats.
Starting June 23rd, we aim to misbehave.
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Rayne fic, every time. Not just an age issue (big GSR fan on another 'ship, and I love Laurie King's Mary Russell books) - I can't see Jayne being attracted to crazy little girls. (Then, I have my own take on what Jayne likes - shameless fic plug )
Also, sloppy writing. I am ready to defend my own use of present tense and dodgy grammar on the grounds of dramatic tension and characterization - yadda, yadda - but these l'il boxes of bits have spell checkers. You can even default 'em to Brit or US. And plots - plots are nice.
Pregnant Zoe I can almost live with, but Firefly;TNG is disturbing, particularly, I'm afraid, the Live!Wash ones. Man was last seen impersonating a kebab, people.
And I can't get on with slash/fic. The characters were not written that way originally.
Hoo, boy, you started me off on one here. Best sidle off and continue my own epic - 35,000 words and counting. Does this make it one of the monsters?
SpaceAnJL
"Many suffer from the incurable disease of writing, and it becomes chronic in their sick minds" Juvenal
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Oh yea definetly EMMARIGBY.
Also I'm not too found of it when people post tiny small chapters for their story. Either they don't have the story planned out and are just posting whenever they manage to get an idea into some paragraphs. Or, they have alot done and are posting in small doses to get more reviews or have it be seen more since its being posted every single day. I mean, come on, just put things together in one long chapter with a beginning, middle, and end and have just a good number of well written, polished chapters instead of 100 smally crappy ones that just end abruptly everytime with some huge, unneccesary cliffhangers. I think its okay to have a long series where each chapter is like an episode with its own plot but also a building overall plot that connects the entire series (like you're having a season of Firefly episodes), but not to have one single story drawn out in lots of tiny chapters. That's just sloppy.
Also, AU (alternate universe) fics and crossovers don't happen for me. "Mal and Inara meet as High School students in the year 2006." Yuck. And, "Firefly meets... Harry Potter. River falls in love with Harry and a love triangle between Ron/Kaylee/Simon. What will happen?" Oh god, I hope I'm not giving anyone ideas.
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"Is it bad that what she said made perfect
sense to me?"
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Yuck. And, "Firefly meets... Harry Potter. River falls in love with Harry and a love triangle between Ron/Kaylee/Simon. What will happen?" Oh god, I hope I'm not giving anyone ideas.
HA! Oh I can see it now! Voldemort starts monologuing and Mal just walks up and shoots him dead! Who needs the phone book-sized novels, huh? I find myself inspired if only because it's so over-the-top I can't stop laughing (though that might be due to the late hour)...
I don't have pet-peeves about Firefly fanfics...or any fanfics in general. I just skip over the ones that don't seem appealing to me. Poor grammar in general gets on my nerves, but that's true whether I'm reading fanfics or reading an article. Not that I'm perfect or anything. I mean I feel like bashing my head against the wall when I make a stupid mistake.
"Knew it...probably...saw them cops...and...turned...tail..."
"Can't...sentence...properly."
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Originally posted by Squid:
I'm not too found of it when people post tiny small chapters for their story. Either they don't have the story planned out and are just posting whenever they manage to get an idea into some paragraphs. Or, they have alot done and are posting in small doses to get more reviews or have it be seen more since its being posted every single day. I mean, come on, just put things together in one long chapter with a beginning, middle, and end and have just a good number of well written, polished chapters instead of 100 smally crappy ones that just end abruptly everytime with some huge, unneccesary cliffhangers. I think its okay to have a long series where each chapter is like an episode with its own plot but also a building overall plot that connects the entire series (like you're having a season of Firefly episodes), but not to have one single story drawn out in lots of tiny chapters. That's just sloppy.
Also, AU (alternate universe) fics and crossovers don't happen for me. "Mal and Inara meet as High School students in the year 2006." Yuck. And, "Firefly meets... Harry Potter. River falls in love with Harry and a love triangle between Ron/Kaylee/Simon. What will happen?" Oh god, I hope I'm not giving anyone ideas.
Tiny chapters are a problem, I agree. Sometimes they get cut off, though. I don't know what the length limit is, but one of the stories I read recently had to cut up the last chapter because of size restriction. But there are some chapters in storylines that are obviously shorter than whatever the restriction, so yeah, that can be annoying. Unless the next chapter is already up
I don't really do crossovers, either. Not just because I'm not all that embroiled in pop culture and as such wouldn't really get it (though I have been a Harry Potter fan for many years) but because a lot of times they don't mesh well. I suppose they can, and little homages or allusions can be fun (read a story where there was a very brief cameo by Angel, which was kind of amusing) but all these stories take place in different universes with different realities, so, y'know. And I've never read an AU story. I kinda get the fantasy element, but mostly I just wonder what the point is.
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One summer.
One mission.
One legion of Browncoats.
Starting June 23rd, we aim to misbehave.
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