Chaotic Symbolism said:
I'm sorry, I know its crack, but the entire thing is just too fucked up. The moment he wrote about MAKIE talking to Poison Ivy about the time the Joker disected a pregnant women just to explain where babies came from. I stopped reading it. That wasn't funny. None of this story is very funny.
Words cannot begin to described how bloody retarted I feel this thing is.
I also know Overmaster is a fanboy of The Joker. If what I heard was true he apparently got very upset when people on this one forum discussed Batman killing the Joker. He pretty much worships the psycho (okay that is bit of exaggeration, but still...). I get the Joker is a great villain, but having him adopt 3-A and raise them to be his demented daughters is just messed up.
This is just a fic where I'm very glad to support "Don't Like, Don't Read".
Considering I killed him off myself in a very undignified manner in
Eternal Comedy, no, I don't worship him. I don't worship anyone, fictional or not. However, I
am annoyed by the constant fanboy whining of several people who don't let the 'Batman should kill him alreadyyyyyy!' topic go, especially when that universe is full of others who could do it without ruining Batman's moral set (regardless on if you agree with it or not).
Since being messed up was half of the whole point of the fanfic, well, I'm glad to have succeeded up there. As for the other half, being funny while doing it, that depends on everyone's particular brand of sense of humor, so... (shrugs).
I was sad. It started out with so much potential for being kinky pron, then turned into a depressing character deconstruction angstfest about 2/3 of the way through. Boner killer for sure.
Again, and this comes from someone who pitched in with help for it, it's not a thing for everyone, either. Trust me, I was there with Darkenning through the creative proccess and I can give testimony of the care and effort he put into it. It truly was a labor of love for him, and I think it shows in the craft itself. Of course, anyone is free to find the subject matter itself odious, but his intention never was to merely titillate for the sake of itself.
I do think, as I stated in the FF.Net reviews for the My Hime sequel, the deconstruction went too far by then, as the Negima characters aren't recognizable as themselves by then. It's not even a matter of how depraved they became, but how unpleasant they became over time, and how the original Negima spirit was completely lost by then. But I can't say it was because of a lack of effort on his part- his vision and me simply happened to diverge widely at that point. Most likely, his is far more realistic in that regard, but I don't think Negima lends itself too well to realistic exhaustive deconstructions. When you do that, the basic premise falls apart, since it's as unrealistic as they come, and works better with a happy measure of Bellisario's Maxim.