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Ania
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 Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2003 6:04 pm Post subject: Fanfiction.net |
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Am I the only one who is getting tired with Fanfiction.net? I just spent two hours scrolling through page after page of the same Mary-Sues and slash, it is SO comforting to know that there is a decent sight on the whole darn internet.
I just selected 'Romance' and 'Legolas' and got mortal princesses marrying Legolas on every other fic, can't people think anything else up?? |
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JennnLee
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Location: Orlando, FL
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| Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2003 7:12 pm Post subject: |
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Sure we can! Just take a read through the stories here. Quite a few original takes on Legolas. And Aragorn, and Eomer, and Frodo, and...  |
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Isabeau
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| Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2003 10:15 am Post subject: Re: Fanfiction.net |
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| Ania wrote: | Am I the only one who is getting tired with Fanfiction.net? I just spent two hours scrolling through page after page of the same Mary-Sues and slash, it is SO comforting to know that there is a decent sight on the whole darn internet.
I just selected 'Romance' and 'Legolas' and got mortal princesses marrying Legolas on every other fic, can't people think anything else up?? |
After that luscious movie scene with him in the blue silk? Probably not for a while!
Truthfully, the situation there is going to get worse before it gets better. People who were posters on the LOTR section before the movies talk about how there were nowhere near as many squee fangirl stories because there was nothing to squee about. The total fics archived were in the hundreds, not the thousands, and the quality as a whole was much higher, because the only people who were writing LOTR fanfic at that point were people who loved the books, and (presumably) had read them.
I'm hoping in a year or so, when all the movie-hype goes away, that the fangirls will find a new interest and what will be left will be the core of older, dedicated writers--and the new ones who came via the movie route and stayed to play with us. Nothing against movie fic, you understand, I've read some good stuff.
I still post there, and I get reviews there, which indicates to me that there are still souls out there wading through the trash to read the fics that aren't Legomances. But I agree that it's a hard and thankless job lately to find them. |
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Ania
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| Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2003 10:49 am Post subject: |
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| I know, I posted there before the moviehype as well and the content was SO much higher, I have waded through and found some decent quality fics written with an understanding of Tolkien's work, but far fewer than I would hope. |
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