Firefly Fanfiction: What Are Your Pet-Peeves?
POSTED BY: Xeyra
UPDATED: Friday, November 30, 2012 02:57
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Okay, I totally agree with everything in the above post. I'm the kind of fangirl that doesn't take well to fanfic. It tends to muck up my insides just a bit too much. If Joss didn't write it, I usually don't want anything to do with it. Not that people aren't creative, and good writers, but fanfics just bring to mind a deep, dark place I don't want anything to do with. As far as slash goes; well, I had a bad experience with a Mulder/Skinner and I'm scarred for life. So as far as Rayne goes, and Miver, and whatever else someone could come up with, I'm just not feeling it. It all bothers me on one level or another. Just some worse than others. Oh and thanks for putting Tamcest in my head. I'm going to have nightmares about that.
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Originally posted by RMMC:
Critiquing etiquette.
(1)If you're going to comment on someone's fic, sign in or at least give your name at the end of your review.
(2)If you have a criticism, word it politely.
(3)For every criticism, you should also point out something that was well done.
(4)If you think its something you could do better, and say so, then put your money where your mouth is and do so. Then be prepared to take comments for and against in kind.
RMMC
Right on! I HATE criticisms of fanfic because you don't like the pairing. No one is forcing you to read a fanfic. Read the summary and stay clear of any pairing or type (ie slash) you don't like. Also, if you don't like a writers style, but others do, don't flame them or write harsh criticism. Show your dislike by not reading it. If no onereads your fic, you may not continue posting.
I may seem thin-skinned, but i don't like hyper-critical comments. If you really don't like it, say so briefly and please don't make it personal.
I really think some comments are so nasty that they should never be psoted. So go easy.
Okay - flame me. I dare you...
Humbug
"You know what the first rule of flying is?... Love. You can learn all the math in the 'verse, but you take a boat in the air you don't love, she'll shake you off just as sure as the turning of worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down, tells you she's hurting 'fore she keens. Makes her a home." Mal, BDM
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Originally posted by Humbug:
Right on! I HATE criticisms of fanfic because you don't like the pairing. No one is forcing you to read a fanfic. Read the summary and stay clear of any pairing or type (ie slash) you don't like. Also, if you don't like a writers style, but others do, don't flame them or write harsh criticism. Show your dislike by not reading it. If no onereads your fic, you may not continue posting.
I may seem thin-skinned, but i don't like hyper-critical comments. If you really don't like it, say so briefly and please don't make it personal.
I really think some comments are so nasty that they should never be psoted. So go easy.
Okay - flame me. I dare you...
No flames, I promise.
I'm fairly thin-skinned myself. Looking at that (wow! May!) I should have made a number 5:
(5) Critiquing should never be on a personal level. Anything you wish to point out as a possible/probable issue should be objective issues such as, but not limited to:
a.) Grammar mistakes
b.) Editing errors (I've seen unintentional oopsies of folks forgetting to remove remarks from their betas)
c.) Spelling mistakes
d.) Incorrect word choices (I'm not talking about homonyms, but someone using a word that doesn't mean what they thought it did)
e.) If something sounds 'off' such as dialogue.
In all cases, if you're going to take the time to point out anything you feel isn't right please follow three rules:
a) Be kind Word it politely. Anything less makes you look like the back end of a beast of burden.
b) Show what would be correct in its place.
c.) Explain your reasoning, if possible.
You should never critique for personal biases, such as not liking slash, character death, religous viewpoints, etc. Those have no business in a critique. The purpose of critiquing is to help the authors better themselves at their craft, not to have stories tailor-made for your personal tastes. If you want that, see rule # 4 above.
Hmmm...I thought about eliminating rule #1 since there's no more anonymous reviews allowed, but it's good to keep it in mind when posting on other sites, so I'll let it stand.
Oh. I got a bit wordy again.
Sorry about that, folks.********
RMMC
"Those grenades?"
"Captain don't want 'em."
"Jayne, we're robbing the place, we're not occupying it."
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In general :
~I don't like crossovers
~I don't like it when fics don't stay in their rating category
~I hate hate hate overly wussy Wash. A sweet, sarcastic Wash is nice, a Wash that acts like overly hormonal emo 14 year old girl...not so much.
~I don't like fics that don't warn me of squicks or slash beforehand.
Knitter of Cunning Jayne Hats
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Originally posted by RMMC:
No flames, I promise.
Looking at that (wow! May!) I should have made a number 5:
(5) Critiquing should never be on a personal level. Anything you wish to point out as a possible/probable issue should be objective issues such as, but not limited to:
a.) Grammar mistakes
b.) Editing errors (I've seen unintentional oopsies of folks forgetting to remove remarks from their betas)
c.) Spelling mistakes
d.) Incorrect word choices (I'm not talking about homonyms, but someone using a word that doesn't mean what they thought it did)
e.) If something sounds 'off' such as dialogue.
On this note, when I see spelling, editing, grammatical, etc errors, I usually send the person a PM instead of leaving it as feedback. I prefer to talk about just the story when I feedback, and the little technical things that can be edited out don't matter as much (unless there are a whole lot of them).
One time, however, before I implemented this policy, I had a writer bitch me out because I left feedback about leaving a comment about a typo in their feedback, because it couldn't be erased once they fixed the error. Yeesh, people can be so techy
~Jimi
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Oh, someone brought this thread back to life. Thank you! :)
I have a new pet-peeve, which I've come across recently and is really annoying to me: River refering to Mal as 'Captain Daddy'.
I know this seems to be a fandom term that stemmed from the episode Safe, as some people believe she is referring to Mal when she says 'daddy will come', but does she have to call Mal 'captain daddy' to his face in fanfic when she never does use that term at all in the series/movie/comic book? Not that I remember, at least.
Moreover, Mal doesn't even blink when she says that. No one does. Seems to be as ingrained a thing as River always referring to herself in third person or as 'the girl'...
If someone points me to a single instance in the official 'verse where she calls Mal 'Captain Daddy' (might have missed something, one never knows), I'll stop being annoyed and accept it. Otherwise, I just don't understand it. Why does she have to refer to him like that? Only as a joke, please, if at all.
Sorry, I'm somewhat vocal with my pet-peeves. Not my intention to insult anyone.
"People tell you things all the time, without talking. The way they move, the way they aren't talking." - River Tam
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Wow, I'm glad to see I'm not alone in the 'verse.
Many of the peeves already listed above I agree with. The biggest ones:
Grammar out of control. (I can deal with an occasional misspelling, but how hard is it to read back over what you just wrote?)
Everybody paired off like Noah's Ark.
Non-cannon actions or relationships - especially slash relationships between characters who were clearly hetero in the show.
Mary Sues.
I don't mind OCs IF they don't overshadow the original characters.
Babies? If the story makes a point of dealing with all the complications a child would bring, I can handle ONE. More than that is just not plausible. (Unless they're twins - ooh, THAT would be an awful mess on board, wouldn't it?)
Dragoness
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Quote:
Originally posted by Xeyra:
I have a new pet-peeve, which I've come across recently and is really annoying to me: River refering to Mal as 'Captain Daddy'.
I know I've already voiced my opinion on this (more than once) and I'm going to being annoying soon (already?) but I have another angle to take...
Imagine the end of OiS, River drifting down to be caught by Mal on the outside of Serenity, and then saying:
"Permission to come aboard, Captain Daddy?"
If anyone can actually picture that without shudders of wrongness, well... I'm out of arguments.
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Being Late. I just can't stand setting something up for a certain time, people commiting to that timeframe and still being late. It seriously eats at me.
"Six men came to kill me one time. The best of 'em carried this. It's a Killhan full-bore autolock, customized trigger, double cartridge, thorough-gage. This is my very favorite gun."
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My pet peeve? Glad you asked!
My pet peeve about Firefly fan fiction is that it is all being written to fill a void left by a television series that has been killed in its infancy, rather than complementing an ongoing, vibrant television show that is still being written by Joss Whedon and others of Whedon's choice.
Yeah, I know, this adds nothing to the discussion, but it is my peeve.
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