Another one that I did a long disgusted review on was one where Ranma ended up with a cabbit as a cursed form... got involved with the shrine dwellers Ranma
was adapting and learning about his new form and abilities... then in a truely disturbing genre shift. The group was for some reason taking a group bath,
Ranma was a cabbit at that point, and RyoOkhi droped a toxicly odorific pheormone bomb that resulted in a pregnat cabbit, due to chemically driven, mind
controled, breeding frenzy... and suddenly Ranma is angsting about having been the one in the wrong and tormenting the poor cabbit. And now the cabbit who
raped him, the then not sensient animal was his honor bound tre fiance... and this made sense. Largely because the writer effectively declared sensience a
STD. Then Cabbits took over the universe with Washu helping and solved all the major issues in the universe with their humaniod forms and super powers.
*Shudder*
Shay Guy... that isn't what Epsilon meant. First off, bashing Umbridge is more or less impossible... without making her into something from Sesami Street.
Writing Umbridge as a hateful, foul, ugly, humanesqe thing that loves to torture kids for political reasons and sicks soul eating hoards of demons on
children. That would be staying in character for her. Unless a writer is taking ranks in antiwriting its near impossible to bash Umbridge with any skill as a
writer. Making Umbridge act as vile as Umbridge does in the books is not bashing.
Epsilon's thing against bashing is a matter of bashing being a giant ball of violation of the 'Show, Don't Tell' Rule of writing. It is NOT
bashing to spend 5-50 chapters documenting how events changed a character into what most people assume Sasuke Uchiha is like based on their fanfics. It IS
bashing to have the character end up a berely recognizable thing that bears their name. Having Sasuke end up as a near drooling retard that goes 'Durrr...
teach me that move that is mine as I've heard of it at all'.
For Epsilon the fact you openly HTAES a character is all the more reason to put great efforts into making them be fulling recognizable if they were named
'X'. If you hate a character it is your duty to spend as much time and effort as necessary to write that character and not a bad attempt at a
distorted parody of them. Don't hate characters, love to hate them. Bashing is stupid to him. Its a waste of effort. Its bad writing.
As a person who, a decade ago, first learned of Ranma 1/2 through fanfiction, read literally hundreds of fics, and then bought the first two seasons on
absurdly expensive video tapes. As a person who watched and enjoyed those tapes... but was utterly confused by who those fanfics were actually about half the
time. As a person who spent hours on end downloading enormous zips of image files of the Fanscan of the manga and got more confused. I have to agree with
him. Bashing is stupid. However, having characters that are vile or stupid or annoying act that way is not.
was adapting and learning about his new form and abilities... then in a truely disturbing genre shift. The group was for some reason taking a group bath,
Ranma was a cabbit at that point, and RyoOkhi droped a toxicly odorific pheormone bomb that resulted in a pregnat cabbit, due to chemically driven, mind
controled, breeding frenzy... and suddenly Ranma is angsting about having been the one in the wrong and tormenting the poor cabbit. And now the cabbit who
raped him, the then not sensient animal was his honor bound tre fiance... and this made sense. Largely because the writer effectively declared sensience a
STD. Then Cabbits took over the universe with Washu helping and solved all the major issues in the universe with their humaniod forms and super powers.
*Shudder*
Shay Guy... that isn't what Epsilon meant. First off, bashing Umbridge is more or less impossible... without making her into something from Sesami Street.
Writing Umbridge as a hateful, foul, ugly, humanesqe thing that loves to torture kids for political reasons and sicks soul eating hoards of demons on
children. That would be staying in character for her. Unless a writer is taking ranks in antiwriting its near impossible to bash Umbridge with any skill as a
writer. Making Umbridge act as vile as Umbridge does in the books is not bashing.
Epsilon's thing against bashing is a matter of bashing being a giant ball of violation of the 'Show, Don't Tell' Rule of writing. It is NOT
bashing to spend 5-50 chapters documenting how events changed a character into what most people assume Sasuke Uchiha is like based on their fanfics. It IS
bashing to have the character end up a berely recognizable thing that bears their name. Having Sasuke end up as a near drooling retard that goes 'Durrr...
teach me that move that is mine as I've heard of it at all'.
For Epsilon the fact you openly HTAES a character is all the more reason to put great efforts into making them be fulling recognizable if they were named
'X'. If you hate a character it is your duty to spend as much time and effort as necessary to write that character and not a bad attempt at a
distorted parody of them. Don't hate characters, love to hate them. Bashing is stupid to him. Its a waste of effort. Its bad writing.
As a person who, a decade ago, first learned of Ranma 1/2 through fanfiction, read literally hundreds of fics, and then bought the first two seasons on
absurdly expensive video tapes. As a person who watched and enjoyed those tapes... but was utterly confused by who those fanfics were actually about half the
time. As a person who spent hours on end downloading enormous zips of image files of the Fanscan of the manga and got more confused. I have to agree with
him. Bashing is stupid. However, having characters that are vile or stupid or annoying act that way is not.