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Fanfic richer or poorer?
THETA:
No, creativity can't be taught, but it can be encouraged. I think any advanced placement (AP, IB, college prep, ect) classes are pretty good about working with sentence structure and analytical skills as well as sentence coherency and paragraph cohesion. Normal classes on the other hand scares me. Every other week or so my english teacher has us revise the papers from his normal classes and it is just aweful. Okay, regular 9th graders who use "I was happy, lol." i could almost stand, but with some of those 12th grade papers i was glad to find someone who could have a complete sentence, much less one that actually had an understandable thesis. Bleck.
Matrix Refugee (formerly Morraeon):
--- Quote from: THETA on March 19, 2008, 04:29:21 AM ---
Of course, many abuse these privileges. There should be like, rules to posting fanficiton.
1) No, you and your friends may not pose as the 10th, 11th, and 12th walkers of the fellowship.
2) No, you may not indulge in written fantasies of falling in love with any of the fellowship members.
3) Get your f*ckin' homophones right. Its/it's, their/there/they're, too/to ect.
4) Get your spelling right. I don't care if english isn't your first language or if you're just a retard. When you write crap like "He was sihlent" for silent, somewhere someone dies.
5) No, you may not marry Harry Potter
6) And no, you may not have sex with Harry Potter either.
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I'm going to add a few ("Matrix" series fandom):
7) No, you cannot fall in love with Neo; if you try, Trinity will kill you.
8 ) No, you are not "TEH REEL WUN!111111", there is only *one* One per iteration. You are not it.
8a) Matrix Online Corrollary: Don't try and claim your character is the next One if you consistently throw the canon out the window because you think it's "too restricting".
9) No, you cannot have a threesome with the Twins; they would as soon kill you as look at you.
10) What subtext between Smith and Neo? where?
11) No, the Merovingian is not going to try to seduce you if you're underage. He survived three versions of the Matrix and six cycles of the One by *NOT* trawling high school enrollment records looking for Mary Sues.
12) There are other Exiles besides vampires and werewolves. Most of them are common garden humanoids.
13) NO! Emphatically *NO*: Agent Smith, or any other Agent is *NOT* going to fall in love with you, either.
14) There is only one female Agent, and that is Agent Pace. Last I knew, she had a thing for Ghost, and also, she's not really that cuddly, either.
I'd like to do a list of rules for imaginary bad TDF fanfiction, but someone would pull a Ms. Gard on me and since I'm already having a bad day, I don't want to make it worse for myself.
MonaLS:
Sorry for sounding ignorant, but what is slash?
MatthewD44:
Theta, it doesn't surprise me at all about writing skills in regular English classes.. try having a class of 8th graders just write me a simple observation and I end up with at least half of the class not forming complete thoughts... and I am not going anywhere near handwriting problems..
THETA:
--- Quote from: MonaLS on March 20, 2008, 05:17:06 AM ---Sorry for sounding ignorant, but what is slash?
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Be thankful for your naivety. However, i would love to awake you from your Matrix (thank you Morraeon for the reference), so here. Slash is either A, random pairings between characters that are not canon (already established in the story's universe) and then involving them in some kind of romantic liason (usually in a rather provocative fashion). For example if i were to take the Harry Potter series and be like, "OMFG Hermoine/Draco forever!!!!1111". Slash's second skin is B, gay relationships between characters, so keeping with the Harry Potter theme here, slash B would be along the lines of Harry/Draco, Remus/Sirius, ect. Revel or cringe in your newfound knowledge.
--- Quote from: Matthew D on March 20, 2008, 05:24:27 AM ---Theta, it doesn't surprise me at all about writing skills in regular English classes.. try having a class of 8th graders just write me a simple observation and I end up with at least half of the class not forming complete thoughts... and I am not going anywhere near handwriting problems..
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Lol, thankfully when i was an eigth grader all three years ago, i was in a GATE english class, so by that time we were writing essays on To Kill a Mockingbird and The Giver (how good they were, i have no idea). Well, Matthew D, here's to hoping that in the next few years laptops will replace notebooks and all you'll ever have to see is typed nonsense.
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