I feel cheery again

[farla]

Hey look it's DarkPersian's fanfic again.

I was curious what the third version would look like - had DP decided a full rewrite was in fact necessary? Reading on, the answer appears to be along the lines of "Hell no! I's awesome."

I have to give credit to the forumgoers for steadily jumping on the sueishness, though. I'm impressed enough by the magnitude and overall articulativeness to overlook the "I know she's totally not a sue, of course, but it maybe looks kinda slightly like one here by accident I'm sure" phrasing some of them used, and even the "LOL Lisa's unrealistic and frankly bizarre obsession with math is so funny and realistic!" bit. (Thank god Dragonfree took that part on, though.) The reviews just go and go and go! Fight sueishness, forum posters I mostly don't recognize! Fight!

Honestly, it makes me tempted to go play there. But I don't have a new sockpuppet fanfic ready... (I'd go as somebody else and post my existing fanfic, but I sense that wouldn't work for more than five seconds.)

(And when is Bleachmonster Alchemist updating? Dammit I wanna see the fireworks already!)

Comments

[negrek.livejournal.com]

In its semi-defense, I think that thread was created long before anyone at Serebii really ripped into the 'fic, so it was more or less a "rewrite" based primarily on "U r teh aw3somez1!!" reviews. I too was amused by all the, "Well, I know you walk on water and everything so you couldn't have created a Sue, but..." reviews as well.

(And when is Bleachmonster Alchemist updating? Dammit I wanna see the fireworks already!)

Once a week, supposedly. So that would make the next update Thursday. I'm not sure if I should hope for a lack of reviews to drive her to update more frequently (only one person reviewed the first chapter), or whether deals should be made to spam up the thread with happy reviews in order to encourage her to post more, faster.

[actonthat.livejournal.com]

Well, as per my understanding, DP is 'reutnring' to SPPf because so many people are 'begging' for it to come back. Raise your hands if you didn't see that coming.

And I vote Negrek's Plan B.

Not sure if I accidentally posted this as a reply to Negrek. Sorry if so.

[farla.livejournal.com]

This can only end lolariously.

[farla.livejournal.com]

Gah, no, it just missed it! She posted Lisa's appearance about a week before the sueishness debacle. T_T So disappointing.

I'm not sure if I should hope for a lack of reviews to drive her to update more frequently (only one person reviewed the first chapter), or whether deals should be made to spam up the thread with happy reviews in order to encourage her to post more, faster.

I'd advise reviewing along the lines of "I don't know, this might be good but I can't tell until I read more" with a side of "I have a short attention span and if you don't post soon I'm gone forever."

[negrek.livejournal.com]

D: I'm so worried of someone recognizing me, though! My Internet Pokémon Fanfiction Reviewer Cred, where shall it all go?!

On a totally different note, have you seen that whole exchange between Jax and Lord94 on PC? She posted the crappy emo poetry that resulted, but the original exchange starts about here, if you're interested.

[farla.livejournal.com]

I'd say get a sock, but we know how well that'd work out...

You might get away with it if you just review to say you're curious where it's going and want to it to update - after all, prologues are notoriously bad for predicting how the rest of the story will turn out.

(Actually, come to think of it, while that sort of prologue hugely misleading, it's always in the same way, so perhaps it's really not misleading?)

And that link...it's just beautiful. Truly.

[actonthat.livejournal.com]

In my experience, reviewers with notorious 'Cred' tend to attract other reviewers to a thread. So *you* don't even have to necessaryily give a gushy rveiew. If you (or I for that matter) just posted, people would come in curious as to whether or not TEH DRAMAZ ensued, and the readership would go up.

And that link made my day.

[farla.livejournal.com]

Good point. Since that's something I do myself, I really should have considered that.

(So, in that case...probably, nobody notorious for drama should review right now, because rubberneckers are a vital part of the later fireworky drama, and if they see boring comments from the person in the thread, they won't check it out the next time.)

[ember-reignited.livejournal.com]

Oh, I vaguely remember her! I think she's the only person I've ever seen use the sentence "You're one of THEM!" and not be joking about it.

[farla.livejournal.com]

The worst part was, normally people say I'm the ringleader of TMEM. Now I'm just "one of"? She demoted me!

(And while I admit I don't really deserve ringleader status most of the time, come on, pokemon abuse? I totally deserve ringleader-level blame for that one!)

[negrek.livejournal.com]

Didn't Yami Ryu once say that you were "one of Act's posse?" I was just like, "Wait, isn't Act one of Farla's posse?"

Except I don't know that she would have said "posse." I don't think her vocabulary's that great.

[actonthat.livejournal.com]

She complained about 'Act and here lackies.' I was thrilled for two reasons:

1. She thought I had lackeys lolzzz.
2. I actually *am* the lackey.

[purplekitte.livejournal.com]

“Hmmmm… If I take the third derivative of the beta function and substitute sufficiently large primes for x and y…”

Ah, I too put together math words into sentences that accomplish nothing of any mathematical uses, but not when I'm actually trying to make a character sound smart (Not that readers could reasonably be expected to know one way or another, I acknowledge). If her defense, there is nothing logically wrong with that sentence; there is no "then" to follow the "if", so it's just a fragment and one could theoretically pretend something worthwhile could possible follow that.

The rest of the story, of course... Ah, the joys of life.

[farla.livejournal.com]

What I find so stupid is that she's basically mouthing basic math concepts. A child math genius shouldn't be doing math that's recognizable to your average student, so it's like reading a second grader's story about a genius math high schooler with the line "So if I multiply two and two and then divide by..." It basically comes off as "doing math willingly" = math lover, without regards to what kind of math they're doing.

(Also - I'm pretty sure that's nonsense babble, just because I can't make heads or tails of it. Why is it important to use prime numbers? Why would you be substituting "sufficiently large" anything for variables, especially two at once? And since primes are indivisible numbers, there aren't too many "sufficiently large" examples. (Additionally, if she's solving the problem, she should be saying something more like "large enough", not "sufficiently large") Since we don't know what she's supposedly doing, it's possible that there is some situation that involves substitution of two variables where it matters they're primes, but it comes off as trying to cram as many math related words into the sentence under the assumption that readers will assume the problem is on their end.

Math is not my specialty, but I'm pretty good at recognizing bullshitting.)

[purplekitte.livejournal.com]

Large prime numbers (100+ digits) matter for one thing in life: hacking. Does the beta function have functions in real life? Yes. Do they involve data incoding by prime numbers? Not to my knowledge.

Heh, it's just funny. There's my opinion of the story as a human being, not just a mathematician, but that goes without saying.

[actonthat.livejournal.com]

I recognized that as BS too, but because I don't take calc couldn't call her out for a specific reason, so she just kind of ignored the comment. But, having friends in calc, I can assure you that it's nonsense.

[zeroxorer.livejournal.com]

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