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What are you doing right now?

Besides posting on here and replying to this thread. Original credit for this goes back to Fate and Nathan on MX.

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Permalink Reply by nathan_p on January 18, 2010 at 5:45am

Better yet, he gets whacked for no fucking reason... and her eminently hateable OCs don't.

Wasn't worth it. The other megalong fics I've tried to read had some reason for me to keep going, but even the promise of hilarity with Roland And His Accent isn't enough to get me through that ._. It's just so... eeergh.

Permalink Reply by nathan_p on January 18, 2010 at 5:50am

I tried to read a few of the later chapters and it turned all Fax and trippy and domestic. Which was D:

Roland shows up somewhere in the middle, most likely in the School (which they wind up in at some point, iirc, but I could be mixing it up with other badfic I've read). Because that's the only bit I honestly could not read because by that point I didn't care...

(I skipped around reading chapters that the reviews indicated might be interesting, but I've never read the whole fic through. Only the first, like, ten chapters. If that. Until Jeb got whacked.)

Permalink Reply by nathan_p on January 18, 2010 at 5:54am

I dabble in badfic from time to time (which reminds me that the girl whose Columbine fic I ripped on sent me a vicious PM... I need to answer that at some point). It can be a highly amusing pursuit, but you do need to... provide the antidote, I guess, in the form of really good fic or decent literature.

Otherwise your brain will melt out of your ears. The rabbit hole goes pretty deep, even in our pedestrian little fandom.

Permalink Reply by nathan_p on January 18, 2010 at 5:58am

Something bitchy and misspelled. I don't remember details. Although I do need to dig up the specific book I read so I can rub my "I live down the road from Columbine High School, bitch" / "I did fucking research, twat" in her face.

(Yes, it's a bit of a sensitive subject for me, what do you mean.)

I got in a hell of an argument with someone over their physically painful treatment of Roland's accent... oh, about a year and a half ago, I think. It was highly amusing.

*nodnod* I hear you.

Permalink Reply by nathan_p on January 18, 2010 at 6:04am

My theory (well, for RC especially) was pretty much:

1. Research.
2. D:
3. Fuck it.
4. Make shit up.

It's possible to do a spot-on stereotypical accent and make it hilarious and easy to read, but it isn't easy to write. That fic... made me physically nauseous, it was so bad.

Permalink Reply by nathan_p on January 18, 2010 at 4:25am

Yeah, word on this. Which is why I prefer to fight my way through writing my own sentences if I really have to use a different language.