So, I don't pretend to be an expert on anything. Not really anyways. I see good artwork, I'm like yay. I see bad artwork, I'm like yay, work on it.
When I see bad fanfiction, however, I just get hit with this sudden feeling of shame for some reason. AND ITS NOT EVEN MY STORY. What is UP with all the bad fanfiction out there people? Seriously? Jesus. The original character too man, but I'll get on that later.
For one, PLOT. Its like these people don't even know what it is. Or how to use it. "Oh, I have a susan and my character *******. They will fall madly in love while I pull in other characters that couldn't possibly exist in this story plotline!" Oh wait, what plot? Hur, my bad. Now, its not like I LIKE bashing peoples characters, I really don't. (Well, I do, but its certainly not going to be mentioned- Ah crap) But its like holy crap. No one thinks of plausible stories anymore. And the spelling errors...Oh God, the gramatical errors... *sob* Its like some prepubesent kid wants to get his jollies on but is too embarressed to spell out breast, so he says 'boobies'.
The orginal characters are hitting me too. Now, granted, I have my own character as well, and yeah. It is so very,very tempting to place them in the middle. But I'll be damned if I'm not going to give Reeve some weaknesses and just plain terrible personality issues. But some of the characters I run into..."And she fell into his arms gracfully" After being HIT BY A TRUCK.
Good god! No one on the face of the planet 'falls gracefully' after being hit my a truck! You puke blood, and have concussions, and broken bones! Now, I'm not gathering this information from any specific place, so don't bother trying to 'get me for blatent deimaging of a character' or whatever it is that the fangirls are using nowadays. Now, some of the characters have 'lightning fast reflexes' or whatever. Yeah. See this is what you do. You take a hat, write down all your favorite animals, and pick 3 from the many you placed in the hat. Psh, you picked a cheetah, don't like it? Well thats fine, try again.
AND THUS, FURRY PORNO EVOLVES.
Gah. Now, some characters an interesting. You know, part whatever, falls in love with mad scientist (I'll give you 3 guesses who) and huge alien attack. What a surprise. They fight, and hot mad sex times insue.
As for the emotional stand point of it all? Well, these are all mostly written by 16 year old girls, so how much can I expect, honestly? Big kids write about big kid problems.

This conversation was spurned from a friend at school during art class. I don't know why it entertained me so. But the subject was fanfiction and how god awful it was. My instructer listened to me the ENTIRE time, and was intrigued by the idea of people actually writing fanfiction and yadda yadda, so I enlightened him. AND IT WAS COOL. The entire time during class, just bashing some of the ideas I've come across. So I thought I'd share.
Yay. Now here's a cookie.