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.)