Firefly Fanfiction: What Are Your Pet-Peeves?
POSTED BY: Xeyra
UPDATED: Friday, November 30, 2012 02:57
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And if you are going to insist on Zoe having a baby, then for the love of Joss don't give it frickin' blue eyes. Brown is dominant and hers are very very brown. Lighter skin, lighter hair, bit more believable. Maybe even hazel eyes. Not blue, though, that just bugs me.
I know I should probably just leave this alone, and more than half the people reading this will probably not care, but I just started the genetics unit in my bioligy class, and if I let this go it will bug me all day.
Yes, brown is the dominant traight, but that doesn't mean that Wash's kid would have brown eyes. If Zoe's genes were heterozygous( had the dominant and recessive trait for eye color. also a great word to know if your playing scrable), which is very possible, and Wash has to have homozygous resesive (only the recessive genes for eye color, another good scrable word). Since the characteristics are inherited independently, with no regard for dominance, there is actualy a 1/4 chance that Wash and Zoe's child would have blue eyes.
Sorry, but I just had to correct that. (If a didn't, I wouldn't be an anoying highschool student, now would I)
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Good scientific insight to the eyes. I learned about that a ways back, but I rarely remember it lol.
Pet peeves... I'm probably the wrong person to be in here posting on it since I know my fics fall into a few of these catgories, but I have peeves too.
Simple stuff, can't stand slash, not big on smut (I like it when there's something left for the imagination... IMO it just reads a bit more tasteful, but hey that's me). I won't read slash at all and as for the smut, if it's just a smal portion of the story I'll skip over it. For some strange reason, J/R and M/R tend to be very unsettling, although I will tolerate it sometimes just because I started reading and I will be determined to finish the fic. Mary Sues are probably another really big pet peeve, because I want to read about Joss' characters and not someone elses..
But with that said I have two original characters myself, and on top of it one of them pulled a Mary Sue in my fic Stang and saved the day so I sound like the world's biggest hypocrite right now lol. Still, I like to think that the characters I created have a purpose :)
As for my grammer, I know it's not perfect, and I check and re-check my stories over and over to keep them as correct as possible. However I don't have a beta and I doubt I will for awhile. In the other fandom I write, I used to have a beta and we had been parnters a long time. But a few months back on one of my fics she didn't like the way it was going and abandoned me. Then when I continued on without her into controverisal waters, she flamed my feedback, then hacked into the webmasters account and deleted my entire account. Which wiped out all of my fics, plus my status in the top 5 writers list. So yeah, little wary right now (I put my account back up there but I have yet to actually add to any stories) and that whole 'for the love of god get a beta' really doesn't work for me right now.
I digress, I doubt anyone really wants to hear me yammer 
Ash
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Aside from the general bad grammar, bad characterization, bad plot (poorly thought out or not thought out at all), and space incest, I have just one pet peeve (and it's my biggest one, too):
Mal/Zoe
I think I'd rather take a fanfic riddled with errors (one giant paragraph for the whole story, no notions of spelling and grammar, and downright crude descriptions) that centers around a Book and girls orgy before Mal/Zoe. It is only out of a morbid curiosity that I read one story surrounding this pairing, and I don't think I'll be doing that again. I feel that it is so glaringly obvious that their relationship is platonic; explore the idea all you want, but please try not to take it too seriously. Romance between these two, in my opinion, is antithetical to the very basics of Firefly.
I apologize if that was harsh. However, that is my stance.
"A witty saying proves nothing." Voltaire
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My biggest Pet-Peev is acutally all Fan Fic's which are about the crew of Serenity, though I'm fine if they pop up in the fan fic every now and then but I always feel a tad disappointed at fan fic's with our Big Damn Crew since the quality of the writing will never compare to Tim Minear's or even Joss's since Tim Minear wrote the best episodes in my opinion. Though there are a few entertaining ones about our BDC but not many.
I love fan fics which are about made-up characters, its more interesting then, and you don't have to try to mimic any character's personality, cause its your character
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Originally posted by MacQyver:
Since the characteristics are inherited independently, with no regard for dominance, there is actualy a 1/4 chance that Wash and Zoe's child would have blue eyes.
Sorry, but I just had to correct that. (If a didn't, I wouldn't be an anoying highschool student, now would I)
It's STILL incredibly annoying, though.
Everyone has the babies having blue eyes (beyond the new-born blueness, I mean.) Everyone has the characters imagining their babies with the blue eyes their partner might have.
It's as if brown eyes are stigmatized or some such. It's such a cliche! Be bold, people. The baby will still be special enough with the less rare eye color.
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Quote:LOL! It's like a Mary Sue baby! Can't the poor kid have a chance to be well rounded? Comes right out of the womb idealized...
Originally posted by AgentRouka:
It's as if brown eyes are stigmatized or some such. It's such a cliche! Be bold, people. The baby will still be special enough with the less rare eye color.
Edit: Must add another peeve: Doesn't it seem like River is calling Simon a *boob* in like every other fic? I like to think the FF writers would have come up with new words for her to use. I wish fic writers would too!
I guess the more general peeve is writers recycling lines from the series over and over again, instead of coming up with new things. Um... new things that aren't "cappy daddy" LOL!
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Oh, wow, talk about resurrecting threads! :)
I have a couple more pet-peeves worth mentioning while I'm here.
I have a problem with fics that disregard some continuity. Granted, Joss himself did it when he had Simon break River out from the Academy for the movie, which makes for some interesting fan wank theories, but that's different than having, for example, a AU fic before OiS where everyone seems to know River is psychic without giving an alternate explanation on how it was discovered (since, in canon, it's only 'discovered' by Mal in OiS).
Also, why the heck do people insist on having Mal refer to River as Albatross Pre-BDM? People, Albatross was a reference the Operative made that Mal took to. It didn't even exist Pre-BDM. So don't go have Mal call River that in pre-movie stories!
Okay, shutting up now.
"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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Originally posted by mal4prez:
LOL! It's like a Mary Sue baby! Can't the poor kid have a chance to be well rounded? Comes right out of the womb idealized...
Indeedy!
Fanfic babies are also often miraculously silent and sleep whenever conversation needs to take place - or when they are crying they aren't, say, actually holding their parents' attention, they just provide dramatic background noise for the parent's stressed pain.
No fanfic parent is ever caught talking about rashes or leaky diapers or the paining combination of breastfeeding and teething. New parents are notoriously awful to be around because they talk about nothing else. I want to see everyone avoiding the parents because of these things!
Another pet peeve: Anything that has River actually enjoying her fighting skills and getting all sensually deceptive Jayne-esque about it all. It may be a powerful image, but it's not really the girl we see in show and movie.
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I pretty much avoid fan fiction, and I won't touch "slash fiction" with a bargepole. If I want to read some Firefly fan fiction, it would constitute a good episode story, and be well written.
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Originally posted by angieh:Quote:
Originally posted by Darkfly:
I love fan fics which are about made-up characters,
its more interesting then,
and you don't have to try to mimic any character's personality,
cause its your character
If the characters are from ones own mind then how can you call them fanfiction?
I believe that would simply be called reading a book.
SNIP
It is still fanfiction because it is placed in another person's already created Intellectual Property.
I don't want to see amateur writers trying to re-write characters
who are who they are because of the guiding hand of their original creators.
I personally have lamented many times on boards and in articles I have written, including
http://www.fanfilmfollies.com/featured/firefly-fan-films-on-fan-film-f
ollies
that people are always mimicking the show rather than expanding the 'verse.
There are many other Firefly ‘verse stories to tell.
Story arcs exploring the reach and machinations of Blue Sun,
tales of Companions and politics, cops and robbers,
dissatisfactions within the Alliance;
the Firefly ‘verse is rich with story ideas
beyond a simple “peril-of-the-week-for-the-crew”.
I don't mind a canon character being a peripheral character,
but I prefer the main character and their development/ journey
to be an original creation.
I also have NO interest in "dead Wash" stories.
In my mind, the crew put Wash in River's cryo-box to take him home for burial. Along the way, they are informed by Simon that the same medical tech that produced Tracy's hopped up internal organs ("million credit meat" in Tracy's words) are accessible at Government research facilities. Using a bit of improvisation and Book's ident card, they sneak Wash in place of a politico who bumped a deserving recipient (ala PA's governor Casey who bumped everybody down the list for his transplant). Alliance bashing, witty dialog and some gunplay ensues. The Firefly 'verse returns to normal.
In my mind, Wash lives. I feel so strongly about his place in the Firefly dynamic that if no more Firefly can come after Serenity without dead Wash, I'd rather it end at Serenity and allow me to finish it out in my own mind in a way that makes me happy.
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