Five Things I Hate About Fanfiction

Before we get into any of this hypocritical shit...

Merry Christmas!

And to non-Christians and anyone else who chooses not to celebrate Christmas...

Happy New Year... Which is Next Week...

Okay, here is my Christmas Gift to you... Getting to hear me rant! I know, amazing gift, right? Now, let's get started. Just so you know, this is just about Fanfiction in general. It doesn't apply to all Fanfics.

1. Infrequent Updates

Updating....

Alright, I know that unlike me, people actually do have lives outside of FanFiction and whatever else they do online. I get that. It's just that when a fic hasn't been updated in months and months, when I go to read the latest chapter, I've forgotten what had happened in the previous chapter or the entire story up to that point. It's cool that you have other things going on in your life other than sitting in your room alone and writing FanFiction (Really, I envy you.) but when you finally do update a fic, please at least put a summery of the previous chapter at the beginning.

2. Abandoned Fics

Yes, I really am that sick of a puppy.

You ever come across a good fanfic that has like ten or eleven chapters and it looks like the author is going to continue it and you follow it, but then it never gets updated? That happens to me frequently. Look, if you're going to discontinue a fanfic, at least leave a message at the end of your fic, or on your profile, or just delete the fic entirely. Don't just leave people hanging for no reason!

3. Undeserving Fics Getting All the Reviews

When you search "undeserving" on Yahoo! Images, you either get a lot of emo crap like this or bible quotes against a sunset gradient.

Seriously! The most cliched and poorly written shit on that site gets tons of reviews while the fics that are actually good and well-written only get a few. Like this one fic that I find really good, "Of Heart's Locks and Heart's Keys" by Sylph Dancer only has forty-four reviews. (As of December Twenty-fifth, Twenty-thirteen at One-forty A.M.) Forty-four! There are fics on this website that have been on there for less time and have less chapters that have two times that amount. Alright, I better shut up before I start something with someone and end up having to put my foot in my mouth. 

4. Self-insertion 

This is the only non-porn image I could find when searching self-insertion.

Okay, I am guilty of this myself, but I know where to draw the line and the line is when you create an OC of yourself and have that OC give a cannon-character a BJ. You have some serious mental problems if you're crossing that line. 

5. Copy-and-paste Fics

 ...Can I Sniff the Paste?

Copy and paste fics are fics that someone copied, changed a little bit, then published it claiming it to be their own work. This annoys me mostly because it makes the page cluttered with the same fic over and over again and pushes fics that are actually original off the page. Please, just stop doing it. 

Well, it is now two-oh-one and I am going to go to bed because I have presents to open in the morning. But first, as an even better Christmas present, here's a picture by vachuu on deviantART that makes me smile every time I see it. 

:)