The stupid...it burns...

[farla]

Wanted to make sure everyone starts off the month on the right foot - namely, aware that human stupidity is limitless.

There are a total of twelve spelling errors in the summaries on the Just In page for pokemon, and a number more grammatical errors and misspelled names.

There's a mary sue 'parody' story, Doom to the Mary Sue!. As we all know, if you write a deliberately bad story, that's a parody and it magically makes it good. In other news, if you deliberately set forest fires, they stop being destructive and deadly and become clever, ironic artistic comments about regular forest fires.

There's also Scorned where, yet again, the most desired test subject for scientists to turn into a superweapon is a young girl.

There's the craptastic effort of Guitarprincess, Two perfect women For Dumbutt Levander, where she decides pokemon category is the correct place to put a song about how much her friend likes his girlfriend and Paris Hilton. Because I certainly care a great deal about that. Don't you?

And then comes a real treat - the utterly not a mary sue Karisa Mako in Today an Angel Died. The first two chapters involve mindblowing amounts of wangst, but the third chapter trumps it all - Karisa, having run away from home at thirteen and now a sixteen year old with hair reaching down her back and high heels, requests the song Are You Happy Now? and dedicates it to her family (all of whom just so happen to be listening right that moment), then sings a verse with an incredibly beautiful voice("He thought she sounded good just talking, but singing? She sounded as close as possible for a human to sound like a chorus of angels, or at least Xan thought so. He spent most of his time listening to music so he had heard a lot of voices, including up coming music stars, but this? He had never heard anyone with a voice like that."). Her sister, Officer Jenny, is reduced to tears by the song and feels so horribly bad about how she treated Karisa, while her MEAN EVIL PARENTS get angry at her for pulling this.

But that's not all, folks! The category can and does get worse. Check out CelestialTime93's story, Pokemon Generation 1: A Forgotten Reletive. Back in April I reviewed it to mention the title was misspelled. Noticing it again with the title still there, I checked out the reviews, then, because such stupidity tends to be author-instigated, checked the story and found:
"Also, I just got a really, really bad flame from one of the people who reviewed, and, no offence, but, report for abusing if you want but, "You could've at least spelled the title right." I mean, what the hell does that mean? I mean, I know I spelled relative wrong, but, still, I'm not much of a speller! After all, I'm korean! You can't blame me for spelling errors! I'm only a beginner writer! I only began writing last year! You gotta cut some slack for me y'know! And also, if I get any more insults of my grammar, writing, nor anything that insults my writing (like book one of "Before Anything") then I am gonna accept NO MORE FLAMES! Either cut me some slack, or I'm gonna ban flames from ever being written in the reviews of my stories! Got that? In otherwords, I hope you enjoyed this chapter and nothing else bad will be said about the story NOR the title."

I'm sure there are very good reasons why I shouldn't kill off the entire human race right now...but I can't seem to think of any.

Comments

[farla.livejournal.com]

I've seen it, but I only skimmed the first chapter before getting too bored (one of the standard openings for a real world/pokemon cross. Getting sucked into the game is even more common than pokemon being invented in the future. And they *always* mention the screen flash as the last line.) I'll check it out again.

And yeah, that's a sue, of the common dragon trainer and canon knower subset. I'm not sure if there's ever been a real world/pokemon story that doesn't involve a sue, though.