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Pokemon Fanfiction Academy
Jul. 27th, 2004 08:35 amContinuing on the 'oh god my fandom oh god' line, today I see we have a Pokemon Fanfiction Academy story up. This is now the second to appear (the first seems to have vanished). And, following in the path of the first one, a quick look at the author's profile and stories leads me to ask, "Why the hell should I listen to you?" The first author had a 'children of canon characters inexplicably given Japanese names'. The new author…I'll let her profile speak for itself.
Hello all this is LadyUmbra speaking err typing.
I am a lover of anime and base most of my fanfics off them but have been lured by my muses into writng for a few book series as well.
Fandoms I write in:Inu-Yasha,Harry Potter,Gundam Wing,Vision of Escaflowne ,Yu-Gi-Oh,pokemon,DBZ,Animorphs
Great punctuation there, LadyUmbra. Love the use of commas. Bonus points for the muse reference which makes half the experienced authors run in fear. The fact that 'pokemon' is the only fandom you don't care about enough to capitalize adds that delightful touch of irony to the idea of you writing a Fanfiction Academy story. And you also managed to misspell 'writing'!
What stories does this author write? A Gundam Wing/X-Men crossover (she actually uses the hated 'orbs' to refer to eyes ::shudder::), and the ridiculous story of a ditto being told by its trainer to become a pokemon master in her place. The ditto-story isn't that badly written, but its lack of reliable characterization, rampant errors, and continually contrived events ruins it. And is she experienced? Hell no. She's been on Fanfiction.net for about three months. She wrote her first pokemon story last month.
But back to the Fanfiction Academy story. It claims to have been beta'd by DF. The number of spelling mistakes alone frightens me. Here is the first sentence: "This story is an offical spin- off of Miss Cams OFUM ." Miss Cam seems to have very low standards. We have a misspelling, two inappropriate spaces, and a lack of an apostrophe, all in the first sentence.
It goes downhill from there.
The story contains all kinds of problems. Aside from the mechanical, which I think I've harped on enough for you to get the idea, there's also, well, "It was going to be hard enough keeping the students from breaking out into random matches over shippings ,english vs japanese and manga vs anime. neither Red nor Ash was going to be much of a role model if they were doing it themselves. The fact was that the two had been fighting since they'd met when Umbra had assembled the characters to staff the school."
Red and Ash…fighting. Way to butcher characterization there, 'lil author. Okay, they like pokemon battles, but they also make friends with everyone in a hundred yard radius. And they don't keep fighting. They fight ONCE.
Also, for those of you in the pokemon category, how many arguments do you see about English vs Japanese? Hm…none? Occasionally you'll have someone using the Japanese names and very rarely there will be a story that says in the author notes it was based on something they saw in a Japanese episode. That's all. Half the writers don't even know manga exists, and those that do don't, to my knowledge, get into fights over manga being more important than anime (possibly because there are what, seven separate manga timelines? I think we can all accept that there isn't one single correct canon). The closest the category gets to arguments are over 'ships, and even there I don't see flamewars erupting in stories about different pairings. So the author is just making things up to have her story on.
You know what a Fanfiction Academy needs to address in the pokemon category? The lack of canon, the sues, the ignorance of what they're writing about and the AUTHORS WHO THINK NOTHING OF WRITING UNSPELLCHECKED CRAP AND POSTING IT.
I'm almost tempted to submit a character just to have a better seat for the trainwreak. I'm also almost tempted to email Miss Cam to ask what the hell she was thinking. Tempted…tempted…yes, I think I will.
Hello all this is LadyUmbra speaking err typing.
I am a lover of anime and base most of my fanfics off them but have been lured by my muses into writng for a few book series as well.
Fandoms I write in:Inu-Yasha,Harry Potter,Gundam Wing,Vision of Escaflowne ,Yu-Gi-Oh,pokemon,DBZ,Animorphs
Great punctuation there, LadyUmbra. Love the use of commas. Bonus points for the muse reference which makes half the experienced authors run in fear. The fact that 'pokemon' is the only fandom you don't care about enough to capitalize adds that delightful touch of irony to the idea of you writing a Fanfiction Academy story. And you also managed to misspell 'writing'!
What stories does this author write? A Gundam Wing/X-Men crossover (she actually uses the hated 'orbs' to refer to eyes ::shudder::), and the ridiculous story of a ditto being told by its trainer to become a pokemon master in her place. The ditto-story isn't that badly written, but its lack of reliable characterization, rampant errors, and continually contrived events ruins it. And is she experienced? Hell no. She's been on Fanfiction.net for about three months. She wrote her first pokemon story last month.
But back to the Fanfiction Academy story. It claims to have been beta'd by DF. The number of spelling mistakes alone frightens me. Here is the first sentence: "This story is an offical spin- off of Miss Cams OFUM ." Miss Cam seems to have very low standards. We have a misspelling, two inappropriate spaces, and a lack of an apostrophe, all in the first sentence.
It goes downhill from there.
The story contains all kinds of problems. Aside from the mechanical, which I think I've harped on enough for you to get the idea, there's also, well, "It was going to be hard enough keeping the students from breaking out into random matches over shippings ,english vs japanese and manga vs anime. neither Red nor Ash was going to be much of a role model if they were doing it themselves. The fact was that the two had been fighting since they'd met when Umbra had assembled the characters to staff the school."
Red and Ash…fighting. Way to butcher characterization there, 'lil author. Okay, they like pokemon battles, but they also make friends with everyone in a hundred yard radius. And they don't keep fighting. They fight ONCE.
Also, for those of you in the pokemon category, how many arguments do you see about English vs Japanese? Hm…none? Occasionally you'll have someone using the Japanese names and very rarely there will be a story that says in the author notes it was based on something they saw in a Japanese episode. That's all. Half the writers don't even know manga exists, and those that do don't, to my knowledge, get into fights over manga being more important than anime (possibly because there are what, seven separate manga timelines? I think we can all accept that there isn't one single correct canon). The closest the category gets to arguments are over 'ships, and even there I don't see flamewars erupting in stories about different pairings. So the author is just making things up to have her story on.
You know what a Fanfiction Academy needs to address in the pokemon category? The lack of canon, the sues, the ignorance of what they're writing about and the AUTHORS WHO THINK NOTHING OF WRITING UNSPELLCHECKED CRAP AND POSTING IT.
I'm almost tempted to submit a character just to have a better seat for the trainwreak. I'm also almost tempted to email Miss Cam to ask what the hell she was thinking. Tempted…tempted…yes, I think I will.
