Re: Fanfic Pet Peeves -- Better Buffy Fics

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Date Posted: 13:59:00 07/11/02 Thu
Author: Majin Gojira
Subject: Re: Fanfic Pet Peeves
In reply to: Martha 's message, "Fanfic Pet Peeves" on 21:07:49 06/24/02 Mon

Well, here's some of my pet peeves - like anyone actually cares :D

1) Gratuitous Faith Kills or GFTs for short. Can't stand um. Especially when it's treated as an aside litte thing. "Oh, she was beaten to death in prison", or other such rubbish. Can't stand it.

2) Misuse of Monsters - I CAN'T FIND ANY FICS THAT ACTUALLY FOCUS ON THE SCOOBIES FIGHTING A SINGLE MONSTER! THEY NEVER GET THERE DUES!

3) Gratuitous Power up of a Character from BtVS - Example: "Immortal Anyone (Especially Buffy)", "(Insert Actual Super-Power Here) Xander"

4) Bringing Faith Back into the fold, then having her fall to the sidelines again. People, THAT IS WHAT DROVE HER INSANE IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!!

5) Buffy being completely outmatched by other characters in a crossover and have no logical reasoning behind it. IE: Buffy being beaten by a fresh immortal. I can see her being beaten by Hercules or Godzilla, but not a Forever Knight Vampire.

6) Done to Death Buffy Crossovers: X-Files, Highlander, Roswell...

7) Fluffy B/S...and B/S in General(if the main focus of the story is this) - I still can't see why people want to promote an abusive relationship or make it appear as it is not as such. WILL SOMEONE EXPLAIN TO ME WHY THERE'S SO MUCH BS IN THE WORLD!!!??? (I also have a thing against reunighting BA at this point in time)

As you can see, I'm a very choosy reader.

Hmm...this is all off the top of my head as well...there might be more, but I can't think of any.

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[> [> Re: Fanfic Pet Peeves -- Werrf, 14:03:13 07/15/02 Mon

These really aren't fair, but...well, for the sake of completeness :-)

1) The word 'pants'. I KNOW it's perfectly valid. I KNOW there's nothing really wrong with it. It's just that in Britain, 'pants' means strictly 'underpants'. Never trousers. So it just throws me out. Doesn't mean everyone should change to suit me at all...just gets me, that's all.

2) This one's actually more legitimate in fanfic than in episodes, but it still bugs me. The use of apocalyptic, can't-be-avoided prophecies. You just KNOW that they'll be dodged somehow. There are, however, occasional changes to the tune in fanfic, where it isn't dodged, but it's still a big gripe. The same goes for combat-to-the-death - how often do we see good characters kill their enemy in cold blood?

That's all for now.

Toodle Pip,

Werrf

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