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Jan. 26th, 2005 11:00 pmEdit: Well, she says she's going to rewrite some parts, so maybe I misjudged her. I'll have to see which parts she changes before I'm certain, but this looks more positive that I thought.
Edit2: Never mind, seems she just fixed the spelling of 'decision' in the summary and left the story unaltered. Yay for my predictive abilities, boo for humanity.
I just reviewed a story, Unmei (it means fate or destiny in Japanese, as the author kindly informs us. Keleri, maybe you should update your list of evil to include destiny references in trendy languages) by Ikena.
The story's author notes, aside from the DESTINY IN TEH KAWAII JAPANESE LANGUAGE thing, contain a couple other 'warning signs'. The summary is: Kaye’s a loud mouthed 16 year old who recently moved into ‘Dullsville’. However, when she makes the desion to become a trainer, she gets more then she bargained for… so we hit the Loudmouthed!Sue and Attitude!Sue cliches immediately, as well as the OMGTEEN!Sue. However, the author does say there will be no Japanese words in the story itself, which is a good, good thing. The author also says this is her second attempt at a pokemon fanfic ('attempt' is never a good word) and later says This is about my…erm…sixth attempt on starting a FF involving Kaye. I'm sure there must be cases where writing about the same character in six different stories, across fandom lines (since this is only her second pokemon story) does not portend a sue. Actually, no, it's always a sue. Oh, and This is an OCxOC fic. Danger, danger Will Robinson! ::shudder:: If the author needs to announce their character's getting into a relationship like that, it means it's going to be something pretty horrific.
And, as nearly definite proof I'm going to be made to regret giving the review, she also says Please, no flames, I would like ways to improve my story. at the bottom. Those who ask for concrit like it the least.
Anyway, her profile rather amuses me. I think it's gotten trendy to say you don't like mary sues, much like it used to be trendy to say that any flames you got would be used to for X. Here's her list of dislikes:
Illiterates
Mary/Gary Sues
Dresses
Skirts
Singing
Pop Music
School
CHATSPEAK!
Yaoi/Yuri
So she's a Goodwriter!Anti-girly!Homophobic!Nonconformist!Elitist!author. Yeah. She says she's 'older than ten', so she's probably eleven. (Ten is such an arbitrary number, especially when thirteen's the minimum age for the site)
Anyway, preserved for posterity is the ( review )
No particular reason for showing that, I just felt that I put too much effort into it for it to be deleted when she decides her sixth attempt has failed and moves on to the seventh. Besides, if I collect enough reviews I'll ultimately be able to just link people here and stop writing them.
Edit2: Never mind, seems she just fixed the spelling of 'decision' in the summary and left the story unaltered. Yay for my predictive abilities, boo for humanity.
I just reviewed a story, Unmei (it means fate or destiny in Japanese, as the author kindly informs us. Keleri, maybe you should update your list of evil to include destiny references in trendy languages) by Ikena.
The story's author notes, aside from the DESTINY IN TEH KAWAII JAPANESE LANGUAGE thing, contain a couple other 'warning signs'. The summary is: Kaye’s a loud mouthed 16 year old who recently moved into ‘Dullsville’. However, when she makes the desion to become a trainer, she gets more then she bargained for… so we hit the Loudmouthed!Sue and Attitude!Sue cliches immediately, as well as the OMGTEEN!Sue. However, the author does say there will be no Japanese words in the story itself, which is a good, good thing. The author also says this is her second attempt at a pokemon fanfic ('attempt' is never a good word) and later says This is about my…erm…sixth attempt on starting a FF involving Kaye. I'm sure there must be cases where writing about the same character in six different stories, across fandom lines (since this is only her second pokemon story) does not portend a sue. Actually, no, it's always a sue. Oh, and This is an OCxOC fic. Danger, danger Will Robinson! ::shudder:: If the author needs to announce their character's getting into a relationship like that, it means it's going to be something pretty horrific.
And, as nearly definite proof I'm going to be made to regret giving the review, she also says Please, no flames, I would like ways to improve my story. at the bottom. Those who ask for concrit like it the least.
Anyway, her profile rather amuses me. I think it's gotten trendy to say you don't like mary sues, much like it used to be trendy to say that any flames you got would be used to for X. Here's her list of dislikes:
Illiterates
Mary/Gary Sues
Dresses
Skirts
Singing
Pop Music
School
CHATSPEAK!
Yaoi/Yuri
So she's a Goodwriter!Anti-girly!Homophobic!Nonconformist!Elitist!author. Yeah. She says she's 'older than ten', so she's probably eleven. (Ten is such an arbitrary number, especially when thirteen's the minimum age for the site)
Anyway, preserved for posterity is the ( review )
No particular reason for showing that, I just felt that I put too much effort into it for it to be deleted when she decides her sixth attempt has failed and moves on to the seventh. Besides, if I collect enough reviews I'll ultimately be able to just link people here and stop writing them.
