Post by tessa on Dec 7, 2006 22:50:30 GMT -5
I'm randomly browsing mm.org's forums and found this:
forum.mediaminer.org/index.php?t=msg&th=28956&start=0&
That's the whole thread that developed. The part I want to share is Razor's first post:
forum.mediaminer.org/index.php?t=msg&th=28956&start=0&
That's the whole thread that developed. The part I want to share is Razor's first post:
Laws of Fanfiction
1 - Anyone can be a writer. It doesn't matter if your definition of English is "j00r l4ngu4g3 1s s1ll3h!"
2 - Writing about one single world is boring. If you're going to write, your very first fic MUST be a Harry Potter/X-Men/Sailor Moon/Pokemon/Naruto/InuYasha/37 other worlds.
3 - If anyone says your fic is bad, tear'em a new one.
4 - If anyone says your review is bad, tear'em a new one.
5 - "OMG WRIT MOR!" is the most valuable advice anyone can ever give you. Treasure such reviews with your heart.
6 - MSTing is vile, wrong and only written by those that are insane and devoid of all moral. Hence why they always dissect fics as pure and correct as ShippouxKagome or AshxProf. Oak.
7 - Any female/male character whose love interest is shared by you, must always be turned into a bitchy, whinny, unstandable shadow of what s/he was in the original world.
8 - If a guy/girl does as much as smile at one of his/her siblings, there's one hundred and fifty chances they'll end up having sex in fanfiction.
9 - Two guys/girls that are always ready to cut each other's throat, in the very bottom of their beings, love each other madly.
10- Rape turns women into better human beings. Rapers are just doing them a favor.
11- True MSTers always ask before dissecting a fic. Only the evil, stupid and demented pseudo-writers that know nothing about MSTing will go and do it without a signed permission.
12- If the anime's about a group of walking muscle masses tearing each other apart, it can easily be turned into a tale of romance, friendship and love.
13- All female characters are bisexual. All male characters with a canon girlfriend are really homosexual, otherwise they're bisexual. *Edit: Lord Archive's fault, not mine.
14- WRITING YOUR WHOLE FIC IN CAPS IS ALLOWED AND ENCOURAGED. AND USING MULTIPLE EXCLAMATION MARKS TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!
15- Words like alltogether are to often mispeled, butt its okay too do so.
16- Evil beings that died in the original show will always come back. Over and over. If your whole fic can be summed up as "X comes back from the death to fight for the nth time" then you're a great writer.
17- Scriptfics that have more descriptivity than the average prose fics are STILL useless pieces of dirt, just because they're scriptfics.
18- The only purpose of writing is to get reviews. Personal improvement or fun have nothing to do with it. Nothing at all.
19- Using words that don't mean what everyone thinks they do is sophisticated.
20- Writers are all plagiarists. So go and copy every good fic you see word by word, you'll be doing the community a favor.
21- Fanfiction is a paid work. So you better spit out a fic a day, or else!
22- Research is your enemy. Who cares how the "Tesuiga" is spelled anyways?
23- You must switch favorites at least once every two months. And when asked about your former favorite, your answer must always be "Fics about that? That's so last month!"
24- Turn your brain off before you start writing. That way, your stories will be excellent.
25- Fanon is the only version you must consider when writing. If it happened in the original, it's not worth taking into consideration.
26- Any character can be paired up with any character. It doesn't mind if one of them's 900 years older than the other, if one's the other's parent/sibling, or if they're from animes as different as Fruits Basket and Urotsukidoji.
27- You may create perfect, flawless, unbeatable characters who everyone inside the fic will love (even the bad guys and girls.) If anyone tells you that's called a "Mary Sue," laugh in their face and keep on writing.
28- When reading someone else's fic, any and all OCs found, no matter how full of flaws, normal or even dull they are, are Mary Sues/Gary Stues.
29- You may write about a dub and pretend you're writing about the original, or write about a movie and pretend it's the same thing as the book it's based upon, and of course, you will ignore the 340 different X-Men storylines published, and use facts from all of them where possible.
30- Golden rule: If someone wrote a bad fic before, it can always be written worse than s/he did. Find the worst fic you can, and rewrite it, enhancing all it's bad points: The world will be forever in debt with you.
1 - Anyone can be a writer. It doesn't matter if your definition of English is "j00r l4ngu4g3 1s s1ll3h!"
2 - Writing about one single world is boring. If you're going to write, your very first fic MUST be a Harry Potter/X-Men/Sailor Moon/Pokemon/Naruto/InuYasha/37 other worlds.
3 - If anyone says your fic is bad, tear'em a new one.
4 - If anyone says your review is bad, tear'em a new one.
5 - "OMG WRIT MOR!" is the most valuable advice anyone can ever give you. Treasure such reviews with your heart.
6 - MSTing is vile, wrong and only written by those that are insane and devoid of all moral. Hence why they always dissect fics as pure and correct as ShippouxKagome or AshxProf. Oak.
7 - Any female/male character whose love interest is shared by you, must always be turned into a bitchy, whinny, unstandable shadow of what s/he was in the original world.
8 - If a guy/girl does as much as smile at one of his/her siblings, there's one hundred and fifty chances they'll end up having sex in fanfiction.
9 - Two guys/girls that are always ready to cut each other's throat, in the very bottom of their beings, love each other madly.
10- Rape turns women into better human beings. Rapers are just doing them a favor.
11- True MSTers always ask before dissecting a fic. Only the evil, stupid and demented pseudo-writers that know nothing about MSTing will go and do it without a signed permission.
12- If the anime's about a group of walking muscle masses tearing each other apart, it can easily be turned into a tale of romance, friendship and love.
13- All female characters are bisexual. All male characters with a canon girlfriend are really homosexual, otherwise they're bisexual. *Edit: Lord Archive's fault, not mine.
14- WRITING YOUR WHOLE FIC IN CAPS IS ALLOWED AND ENCOURAGED. AND USING MULTIPLE EXCLAMATION MARKS TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!
15- Words like alltogether are to often mispeled, butt its okay too do so.
16- Evil beings that died in the original show will always come back. Over and over. If your whole fic can be summed up as "X comes back from the death to fight for the nth time" then you're a great writer.
17- Scriptfics that have more descriptivity than the average prose fics are STILL useless pieces of dirt, just because they're scriptfics.
18- The only purpose of writing is to get reviews. Personal improvement or fun have nothing to do with it. Nothing at all.
19- Using words that don't mean what everyone thinks they do is sophisticated.
20- Writers are all plagiarists. So go and copy every good fic you see word by word, you'll be doing the community a favor.
21- Fanfiction is a paid work. So you better spit out a fic a day, or else!
22- Research is your enemy. Who cares how the "Tesuiga" is spelled anyways?
23- You must switch favorites at least once every two months. And when asked about your former favorite, your answer must always be "Fics about that? That's so last month!"
24- Turn your brain off before you start writing. That way, your stories will be excellent.
25- Fanon is the only version you must consider when writing. If it happened in the original, it's not worth taking into consideration.
26- Any character can be paired up with any character. It doesn't mind if one of them's 900 years older than the other, if one's the other's parent/sibling, or if they're from animes as different as Fruits Basket and Urotsukidoji.
27- You may create perfect, flawless, unbeatable characters who everyone inside the fic will love (even the bad guys and girls.) If anyone tells you that's called a "Mary Sue," laugh in their face and keep on writing.
28- When reading someone else's fic, any and all OCs found, no matter how full of flaws, normal or even dull they are, are Mary Sues/Gary Stues.
29- You may write about a dub and pretend you're writing about the original, or write about a movie and pretend it's the same thing as the book it's based upon, and of course, you will ignore the 340 different X-Men storylines published, and use facts from all of them where possible.
30- Golden rule: If someone wrote a bad fic before, it can always be written worse than s/he did. Find the worst fic you can, and rewrite it, enhancing all it's bad points: The world will be forever in debt with you.