March 21st, 2013

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I now have the spork of "How James Got His Mojo Back" all on one page.


Also, can you guys hit me if I ever try to go without <br/>s again?



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Six sporks are up at the Angelfire site.


It's MUCH easier to find the sporkings on there than LiveJournal, so take a look, if you like. I plan to gradually update the site to include all my sporks, so... remind me to do that every now and then.

*pause* Please tell me I was exaggerating in that one journal entry where I estimated my number of sporking posts at well over 100 (to put it mildly)? Please?

(*painfully winces* I would also like to apologize for being such a brat when I first started sporking. I actually had to edit the sporking of the first chapter of Angels and Devils to make it palatable. And... wow, some characterizations were different, weren't they?

 

...Did I swap the bodies of the characters and forget to mention it?! )O_O Um... That's... not exactly how they turned out later...)

guardians_song: A snark on if Cori Falls had been in the Fire Emblem fandom. (Cori Falls)

If Cori Falls had been in Twilight fandom...


 ...the stereotypical answer would be that she'd be a fervent Edward/Bella shipper. But this is selling Cori short. She did have a strong moral compass, though it was a completely bonkers one, and she had a pathological hatred for inconsiderate, arrogant, and/or self-centered people. That she ended up making Team Rocket precisely that was... probably a sign that something had gone haywire upstairs. But when she wasn't going batshit insane over her hatred for Ash, she was fairly consistent.

Where am I going with this? I'm pointing out that Cori was a militant friendshipper - oh, and while I'm at it, she had an utter infatuation with mystic spiritual powers and the idea of soulmates.

That's right. She'd be a Bella/Jacob BNF.

And she'd probably be a Big Name Anti-Fan, though she'd rapidly creep the other snarkers out. I somehow think Cori's WRH of New Moon would end with a live Edward delivered back to the Cullens in several pieces (since vampires can survive disembowelment, remember?). And she would throw the most EPIC shitfit come Breaking Dawn. It would make New Beginnings look moderate. And the sad thing is that she'd have halfway-decent justifications, since all vampires in Twilight canon either murder humans or tolerate murder as an alternative dietary choice... but then she'd hurl the werewolves right past several Moral Event Horizons and not even realize she was doing it. And then there would be some ritual to make Bella a werewolf, and ahaha I am so tempted to write a trollfic in this style as a tribute to Miss Falls. ...I am SO tempted.
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*irritation* Why do people assume resolution of a character's emotional problems = END OF STORY?


Good gad. You know, things happen to people who have had happy endings. Sometimes even dramatic things. You don't have to be betrayed by everyone around you and live out of a cardboard box and be going to therapy forty times a week to be a main character in an interesting plotline. And then these beacons of literary brilliance wonder why fiction is saturated with wangst, unresolved issues that could be ended in an hour if the characters just got hit with a bucket of icewater, and pointless character drama. That's what you're preaching as the formula to literary success, dunces.

*grumble* You know, Cori Falls's fics collapsed when she went off into WRH happyland, but that's because she had no plot other than character drama. Laurell K. Hamilton derailed her books into nothing but character drama, which is why everything has been stun-locked in sexwangstsex for the last dozen books or so. And Draco Veritas was the absolute worst Draco Trilogy fic because Voldemort's grand plan was LITERALLY TO CAUSE HARRY/HERMIONE RELATIONSHIP DRAMA. NO, I WILL NEVER GET OVER THAT.

Look, there's nothing wrong with character drama. It works! It can be good! But talking as though it's the only plot driver possible is utterly ridiculous. Even freaking creature!Harry fics off of fanfiction.net know better than that. "Hi. You have now been turned into a vaguely French lump of hair and effeminate sex appeal. Go forth and wallow in the heaps of gold in Black Vault #255 for a while, then get down to business."

Sure, characters can struggle because they're overcoming their own weaknesses. They can also struggle because they're getting the kitchen sink thrown at them, and even the most untouchable, centered person would get overwhelmed because just surviving that mess in one piece would tax human cognitive processes to their limit. Or they can struggle because they're aiming to do something that should be impossible, and the sheer strain of dashing through loophole after loophole, knowing that everything will go straight to blazes the moment they can't find a way around the next obstacle, is enough to drive not just the character, but the writer, nuts.

"Character drama" does not have to mean Lord of the Therapy Logs!
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guardians_song: Icon depiction of the sporker Richard. (Default)

Angelfire site is up to nine completed sporks.


I'll probably work on uploading oneshot-sporks, then do Angels and Devils, then start archiving LMM.

I'm amused, in a sad way, that some of the fics from 2007 no longer exist outside of my sporkings. I never exactly thought of MSTs as archives of internet history, but there you go...

In further adventures of Early Sporker Characterizations:
"*HEADELDERGOD* If I hadn't read the part of the Necronomicon detailing how the Old Ones beget children upon humanity, that thought would have utterly destroyed my sexual impulses. As is, as said part of the Necronomicon had previously destroyed my sexual impulses, I am simply utterly revolted. *HEADELDERGOD*"
I really don't remember making Richard asexual. *scratches head* ...The strange thing is that it still doesn't contradict anything written since then, since Roy's the pervert for the entire team. o_o

Richard also seriously showed the signs of a Sue-universe hangover early on - he's actually mellowed with time. Good gad, I'm stunned.

And Roy was a lot more arrogant and formal -
"Richard, I'm tired of telling you that you have to be naive to expect true modesty from Suethors. "
To be fair, I was actively trying to boot him out of his Gary Stu ways, so the evolution of his personality was intentional.
"Agreed. The gloves are off. All pretense of innocence is to be abandoned.  "
But Roy and Richard practically traded personalities. o_O Richard was much more hyperactive (and pissy) in the beginning, and Roy was much more arrogant and serious.
"These Sues are the worst. They bend all Hogwarts rules JUST so that they can have their way? *ugly frown* Only I get to bend all rules of sanity and nature to get my way. Let's see how she endures me. "
Although it's good to see Roy never had any sense of shame from the very start. :P


guardians_song: Icon depiction of the sporker Richard. (Default)

Aaad who comments the most on Dreamwidth?


Wow. Er. One person definitely peels away from the rest of the pack, that's for sure. O_o

Who comments the most on this journal? )
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