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  1. Abhorsen

    Pet Peeves in Fanfiction

    Use the search engine on DarkLordPotter forums. It's much better than the search engine on FFN.
  2. Abhorsen

    Pet Peeves in Fanfiction

    Yup. It's the same when they have long descriptions of what people are wearing.
  3. Abhorsen

    Pet Peeves in Fanfiction

    So my pet peeve is generic-ing characters. I'm reading these Killing Eve fics, where one of the main characters is very distinctively a childish, obsessive psychopath. Yet fanfic writers just writer her as a killer. Or in AU's, they sometimes lose even that. At that point, why are you even...
  4. Abhorsen

    Pet Peeves in Fanfiction

    You missed The Dreaming, by Asynca, which looks at Aboriginal myths. It's a sequel, though, so you might have to read that first (I forget how important that is). And the first one (The Camera Loves You) is a reimagining of the original Tomb Raider plot (which is the same as Anniversary), so...
  5. Abhorsen

    Pet Peeves in Fanfiction

    Sometimes this can be okay, but rarely. There is a particularly good Mass Effect fic that basically was written with the intention of being perfectly canon, up to the point of trying to use the same dialogue. The catch? They had Shepard be a sociopath that the Alliance blackmailed (they found...
  6. Abhorsen

    Pet Peeves in Fanfiction

    If the characters are distinctive enough, this can be fine. For example, there is a crossover between ASOIAF and the Great British Bake Off that manages to mostly stick true to the characters, while modernizing them to make sense (it's hilarious, I can't recommend it enough). For Harry Potter, I...
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