I'm sure most of us have read a fic from a certain fandom, with a certain pairing, and thought it was rather good. Then, the next time we look for other fics with that fandom and pairing, we find another, and it seems pretty good as well. Then another, and another... but by the fourth or fifth one, you begin to realize... THEY'RE ALL THE SAME! :headbanger:
Now, I haven't read that very much lately from other than here, so I don't remember what other series it might apply to, but my particularly on-the-brain beef at the moment is with Inuyasha canon couple fics.
Now, I'm an Inuyasha fan, though I understand it's lost favor since its conception due to Rumiko Takahashi's penchant for repeating herself; I've only seen up to episode 24, so there's still some novelty at this point.
I must've read, over the past year or three, ten or twenty Inu/Kag fics of various quality and length. It's a pairing I like, and the series has interesting and amusing characters. But the overwhelming majority of those happen in the exact same manner; they get in trouble, confession, screw like minks, mating marks, wedding, eeeeeeetttttccccceeeetttteeeerrrrraaaaa...
WHY!? Why can't anyone come up with a more interesting and original idea and write it well!? Honestly!
I'm thinking about doing it myself, and I have an idea, but it's lemonish, so if I post it, it'll be over there... I may not, but here's the basis... by somewhat of a dues ex machina method, Tentacle Demon Kagome.
So, someone else, please, point out another, and lets see if we can't start reforming made-of-cliche fics!
C'mon, somebody toss out a cliche!
Now, I haven't read that very much lately from other than here, so I don't remember what other series it might apply to, but my particularly on-the-brain beef at the moment is with Inuyasha canon couple fics.
Now, I'm an Inuyasha fan, though I understand it's lost favor since its conception due to Rumiko Takahashi's penchant for repeating herself; I've only seen up to episode 24, so there's still some novelty at this point.
I must've read, over the past year or three, ten or twenty Inu/Kag fics of various quality and length. It's a pairing I like, and the series has interesting and amusing characters. But the overwhelming majority of those happen in the exact same manner; they get in trouble, confession, screw like minks, mating marks, wedding, eeeeeeetttttccccceeeetttteeeerrrrraaaaa...
WHY!? Why can't anyone come up with a more interesting and original idea and write it well!? Honestly!
I'm thinking about doing it myself, and I have an idea, but it's lemonish, so if I post it, it'll be over there... I may not, but here's the basis... by somewhat of a dues ex machina method, Tentacle Demon Kagome.
So, someone else, please, point out another, and lets see if we can't start reforming made-of-cliche fics!
C'mon, somebody toss out a cliche!