Here's a topic I'd like to see explored a bit:
What fanfic authors do you continue to (re)read and enjoy despite massive problems in their work? By which I mean anything from systematic inability to grasp spelling or grammar to author rants and imploding storylines?
Let me cite a couple of mine.
Skysaber. Absurd SI antics, effortless defanging of enemies, authorial rants appearing in the mouths of his characters like clockwork, stories that never get finished, and a combination of paranoia and thin skin that results in his abandoning the Net every couple years over some slight. But when he's on his game, he's pretty damned good and a lot of fun to read.
Fred Herriott, aka "Pyeknu" on FF.net. Melodrama, melodrama, melodrama. Long, rambling sentences that fill up entire paragraphs -- with multiple internal digressions -- and (frequent parentheticals), punctuated with EMPHASIZED words. An obsession with punishing every character he feels has sinned in canon against his protagonist, sometimes with long lectures delivered to them on how bad they were. An inability to write a story without inserting the Nendo-kata and his other original creations into their plots. Mary Sue-level powerups to his favorite characters, to the point that no matter how he escalates their opposition, they always triumph in a flash. But he has great ideas and despite their faults the stories are fun. (Except when they get a little too into the "punishing" thing.)
So, who do you hate to love?
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
What fanfic authors do you continue to (re)read and enjoy despite massive problems in their work? By which I mean anything from systematic inability to grasp spelling or grammar to author rants and imploding storylines?
Let me cite a couple of mine.
Skysaber. Absurd SI antics, effortless defanging of enemies, authorial rants appearing in the mouths of his characters like clockwork, stories that never get finished, and a combination of paranoia and thin skin that results in his abandoning the Net every couple years over some slight. But when he's on his game, he's pretty damned good and a lot of fun to read.
Fred Herriott, aka "Pyeknu" on FF.net. Melodrama, melodrama, melodrama. Long, rambling sentences that fill up entire paragraphs -- with multiple internal digressions -- and (frequent parentheticals), punctuated with EMPHASIZED words. An obsession with punishing every character he feels has sinned in canon against his protagonist, sometimes with long lectures delivered to them on how bad they were. An inability to write a story without inserting the Nendo-kata and his other original creations into their plots. Mary Sue-level powerups to his favorite characters, to the point that no matter how he escalates their opposition, they always triumph in a flash. But he has great ideas and despite their faults the stories are fun. (Except when they get a little too into the "punishing" thing.)
So, who do you hate to love?
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.