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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2020-04-05 04:03 pm

[ SECRET POST #4839 ]


⌈ Secret Post #4839 ⌋

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Re: What makes you mock a fic?

(Anonymous) 2020-04-05 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't really mock fic, I just nope on out of there if there's something I don't like. Of course there's bad/mediocre fic out there, lots of it, but there are also authors who pour their hearts and souls into that same fic and I feel for them getting mocked for it, you know?

I think of The Eye of Argon, a notoriously bad* fantasy story written in the early 1970s and circulated ever since as a source of lolz. The author was (I think) 14 years old when he wrote it and had intended it to be a serious work, but said he stopped writing when his story became a big joke. Idk why nobody sat down with that kid and helped him out, at least said look you don't have to cram half a thesaurus into every sentence. He would've improved and who knows what else he could've done. But he stopped writing altogether because people made fun of it, and that's just sad to me.


*It's actually...very bad. It's full of all sorts of grammatical mistakes and horrible purple prose using incorrect words, and is on the internet to read if you Google.

Re: What makes you mock a fic?

(Anonymous) 2020-04-06 09:34 am (UTC)(link)
That is sad, like the poor kid didn't have a chance. It sucks because if he was using thesaurus' and gave a shit about what he was writing he'd probably mature into a good author. Too bad he wasn't given the chance.