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Strategic Tea posted:This is art I remember this thing coming up in the US election thread a couple years ago, and from the excerpts it looked like an amazing story, just not in the way the author intended. It's a glorious, terrible trainwreck, a story you can't help but be entertained by.
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# ? May 26, 2024 08:32 |
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I reccommmend that everyone read the part where Bill Clinton is eating at McDonalds and then kills a succubus with a shotgun. Pure art.
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# ? Sep 20, 2014 19:51 |
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Fast Eddie sighed as he drew his katana...
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# ? Sep 20, 2014 20:15 |
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So are all presidents just action heroes then?
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# ? Sep 20, 2014 21:01 |
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Don't forget book three was canceled because the forum posts the other books had been written in were compiled into single files and hosted off the forum site.
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# ? Sep 20, 2014 21:03 |
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I would read a thread devoted to this wonderful piece of fiction. E: VVVVV if you post it, I will come Swan Oat fucked around with this message at 21:24 on Sep 20, 2014 |
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Nintendo Kid posted:Don't forget book three was canceled because the forum posts the other books had been written in were compiled into single files and hosted off the forum site. And that the fallout from that caused SDN to turn on the author and drive him out, to the point even mentioning Salvation War stuff is banned over there - in fact, Stuart kinda got run off the internet in general, except his own little forum where all new registrations are shut down so he never has to hear criticism or new ideas. Swan Oat posted:I would read a thread devoted to this wonderful piece of fiction. A Let's Read? A mock thread about it here on PYF?
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# ? Sep 20, 2014 21:21 |
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Speaking of wonderful pieces of fiction: a Frozen fanfic!quote:/r9k/Elsa is Suffering is a Modern AU fanfic based on Frozen, written by Fiction Press Dot Com author AnonElsa. The fanfic follows Elsa and her struggles with day-to-day life, she spends most of her time online, locked away in her bedroom. As well as not being able to cope with normal social situations, she also finds herself having romantic feelings towards her little sister, Anna.
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# ? Sep 20, 2014 22:50 |
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Flesnolk posted:A Let's Read? A mock thread about it here on PYF? BlueDude posted:Speaking of wonderful pieces of fiction: a Frozen fanfic!
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# ? Sep 21, 2014 00:29 |
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Y'know, since I have no shame (and enjoy badly-written stories as long as they meet some nebulous standards of mine), I decided to look up Frozen fanfiction on FF.net, ranked by the number of Favourites. The entire front page is Elsa/Anna 'romance'.
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# ? Sep 21, 2014 00:49 |
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I'm not implying that guy lifted this idea but it reminds me of the evil Emperor from Final Fantasy II (a game I'm playing right now). After he's killed by the rebellion, his soul goes to Hell, where he murders Satan and takes over. Then, after he's killed again in Pandemonium, his soul goes to Heaven, he murders God, and takes over. The game was originally released in the 80s so the Emperor looks like David Bowie from Labyrinth:
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# ? Sep 21, 2014 00:57 |
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ungulateman posted:Y'know, since I have no shame (and enjoy badly-written stories as long as they meet some nebulous standards of mine), I decided to look up Frozen fanfiction on FF.net, ranked by the number of Favourites. By any chance, have you tried the site's Supernatural section? As for content, here's yet another incestous Frozen fanfic page. (I'm not running this into the ground, honest!) quote:The Cameo: (If you're wondering, Edna Mode was that short lady from The Incredibles who designed superhero outfits and refused to put capes on them for safety risks.) I like how the page is basically saying "This is great because this character is exactly the same from their original series!", not realizing this was likely born out of lazy writing more than anything. quote:* Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: Anna (redhead) and Elsa (blonde) are the fic's main characters, with Megara (brunette) spending the most time in focus after them. This trope is played with, though. Elsa and Megara's only connection is their feelings for Anna, and the three of them have only been together in one room once so far. Ew. quote:Fainting: Elsa literally collapses in a swoon upon seeing Anna in a gorgeous ballgown. Yes, "fainting" is a trope. Just fainting. quote:Porn Stash: Downplayed: Elsa doesn't have a "stash" as such, but she does make sure to avoid showing Anna the more "risqué" books she's read while showing her the family library. Yet another example of how tropers take anything they can find and slap a trope on it. (And that's not getting into how... icky this is.) Let's check out the YMMV page: quote:Crowning Moment of Heartwarming: Deserves a page of its own. Snowflake is famous amongst fans for its sheer levels of WAFF. Oh gently caress you. How hosed up does somebody have to be to consider incest "heartwarming"? (For the record, "WAFF" is a dumb fandom acronym for "Warm and Fuzzy Feelings" - the thing that makes stupid Internet nerds type "d'aww" and other such things:) quote:Security Blanket: Elsa's braid functions as this. When nervous, she holds on to it, and sometimes uses it to cover her mouth (nearly killing Anna with cuteness in the process).
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# ? Sep 21, 2014 01:08 |
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Venusian Weasel posted:I remember this thing coming up in the US election thread a couple years ago, and from the excerpts it looked like an amazing story, just not in the way the author intended. It's a glorious, terrible trainwreck, a story you can't help but be entertained by. I loved the part where the author states (not muses if, outright states) that a country engaging in self-defense against a clearly announced military invasion is committing a warcrime according to the UN-charta (which is why the UN needs to be abolished).
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# ? Sep 21, 2014 01:31 |
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Re: The Salvation War, I do like a description from this review thread, "antitheist gun porn". It's a story for people who masturbate to the iron chariots verse from the Bible. Put me down as another who'd be up for a Let's Mock thread. I was on the board when it was being written, but not involved enough to give any good background or gossip beyond "dude who loves him some nukes writes story about nuking Christianity". Content: Baker School Blitz, BBC's Sherlock reimagined as a high school. This can only end well. Highlights include Jim Moriarty being a nymphomaniac(satyriac?) who seriously crushes on his teacher. It's debatable, but the fact that he's described as wanting to play Lolita to his teacher's Humbert Humbert is really creepy because a) teacher/student romance is always trouble and b) as much as tropers may insist otherwise, Lolita didn't seduce HH, it was the other way round.
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# ? Sep 21, 2014 01:51 |
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I'm going to read around before I make it, figure out how to tackle the thing and its author. The first book alone is 85/87 chapters, which makes it pretty daunting, and I am a little worried about if there's enough material on Slade himself, especially since all this went down years ago. It's interesting stuff to talk about in a way though, so the thread's definitely going to happen sooner rather than later. Edit: Also, I'm not sure if this would belong more in PYF with the other mocks or Book Barn since highlighting the series itself Let's Read style would be an important part. Flesnolk fucked around with this message at 03:13 on Sep 21, 2014 |
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Flesnolk posted:Edit: Also, I'm not sure if this would belong more in PYF with the other mocks or Book Barn since highlighting the series itself Let's Read style would be an important part.
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# ? Sep 21, 2014 03:29 |
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He wrote it as one and intended to vanity publish it, but you're right, I was way overthinking it.
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# ? Sep 21, 2014 03:54 |
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Ninjasaurus posted:I'm not implying that guy lifted this idea but it reminds me of the evil Emperor from Final Fantasy II (a game I'm playing right now). After he's killed by the rebellion, his soul goes to Hell, where he murders Satan and takes over. Then, after he's killed again in Pandemonium, his soul goes to Heaven, he murders God, and takes over. I know this. I hate myself and I want to die.
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# ? Sep 21, 2014 04:27 |
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Soulcleaver posted:There's a trope for that! Several, actually! I didn't know the specific trope(s) for that scenario but since it's a Final Fantasy game of course it'd be listed under both of those. Like a Badass out of Hell: Took Over posted:In Final Fantasy II, killing the Emperor the first time doesn't particularly help, he takes over Hell and returns to Earth, raising Hell's capital from the earth to serve as his new base. In the remakes, it turns out this is the "evil side" of his soul doing the work - the "good side" ascends to Heaven and takes over that, too. Rage Against the Heavens posted:In Final Fantasy II after the Emperor is killed, his dark half goes to hell and takes over, but his light half goes to Heaven and... takes that over too. Yeah, this guy is so evil his good side somehow managed to overthrow God. Badass much? I like how the Heaven trope has spoilers (not used here because who gives a poo poo) but the Hell trope doesn't because tropers are inconsistent and sloppy. Also, I bet that these tropes are repeated in slightly different variations at least a dozen times on the Final Fantasy II trope page. This is something I've noticed: listing something that happened under one trope isn't enough. It always has to receive as many mentions as possible across as many tropes as possible, no matter how redundant.
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# ? Sep 21, 2014 05:21 |
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Soulcleaver posted:I hate myself and I want to die. There's a trope for that too.
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# ? Sep 21, 2014 05:22 |
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ungulateman posted:The entire front page is Elsa/Anna 'romance'. Considering the 'prince' character in the story turned out to be evil, and the plot is resolved by an 'act of love' between the sisters, is this really surprising that all the usual minds who do this stuff immediately jumped right to 'Surely they want to gently caress'?
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# ? Sep 21, 2014 05:49 |
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Cornwind Evil posted:Considering the 'prince' character in the story turned out to be evil, and the plot is resolved by an 'act of love' between the sisters, is this really surprising that all the usual minds who do this stuff immediately jumped right to 'Surely they want to gently caress'? No, but I am usually reasonably convinced that fanfiction is not all that bad and that people who read it have bad standards, not bad taste. Seeing that the vast majority of people who want to read fanfiction of a recent Disney princess movie also want to see the main characters bone each other kinda washes off that veneer of reasonableness. I'm just not cut out for fictitious lesbian incest is what I'm saying.
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# ? Sep 21, 2014 06:41 |
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ungulateman posted:No, but I am usually reasonably convinced that fanfiction is not all that bad and that people who read it have bad standards, not bad taste. Seeing that the vast majority of people who want to read fanfiction of a recent Disney princess movie also want to see the main characters bone each other kinda washes off that veneer of reasonableness. Yes because fictitious lesbian ponies are obviously much more reasonable and respectable Kim Possible fanfic time posted:Maternal Instinct is the beginning of an entire universe of stories, and one of the most widely celebrated Kim Possible fanfics out there. Written by Blackbird, writer of growing popularity among the Kim Possible and The Batman fandoms, who also borrows a few elements from popular writer NoDrogs. The stories are imaginative, the dialogue is always a treat to read, and the series is all around well-written and consistently entertaining.
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# ? Sep 21, 2014 07:11 |
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Lottery of Babylon posted:Yes because fictitious lesbian ponies are obviously much more reasonable and respectable ungulateman will Never Live It Down, will he?
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# ? Sep 21, 2014 08:00 |
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Lottery of Babylon posted:Yes because fictitious lesbian ponies are obviously much more reasonable and respectable I'm going to have to put my foot down and say "Yes. Yes, they are." At least ponyfuckers aren't, by definition, supporting acts of rape.
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# ? Sep 21, 2014 08:23 |
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LaughMyselfTo posted:I'm going to have to put my foot down and say "Yes. Yes, they are." At least ponyfuckers aren't, by definition, supporting acts of rape. Yep that was definitely a rhetorical statement worth replying to seriously.
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# ? Sep 21, 2014 08:35 |
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LaughMyselfTo posted:I'm going to have to put my foot down and say "Yes. Yes, they are." At least ponyfuckers aren't, by definition, supporting acts of rape. On what planet is bestiality less disgusting than incest? Pretty sure horses can't give informed consent, either.
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# ? Sep 21, 2014 09:16 |
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LaughMyselfTo posted:I'm going to have to put my foot down You know you don't have to, right You know you don't have to die on the hill of "horsefuckers aren't so bad", right Ninjasaurus posted:ungulateman will Never Live It Down, will he? Not as long as every other post he makes is "Why won't you goons stop discriminating against the noble art of the fanfic?" he won't. Never Live It Down posted:My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic no Video Games posted:Zelda is known for being kidnapped constantly, and apparently every game is based on this concept. This is not the case. Admittedly, Zelda has been rescued in several games, she is often depicted as being able to take care of herself. An example is The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and you actually discover late in the game that she was the awesome ninja dude that has been fighting evil and bossing you around for half the game. Zelda HAS been kidnapped, enchanted, turned to stone and whatnot for half of the game, but the other half was spent kicking rear end. Video Games posted:Zoe Quinn, the creator of Depression Quest, has been looked down upon by many people on the internet, mostly people in the gaming community, thanks to her involvement in the Gamergate scandal. Though the Gamergate people has mostly moved on and stopped talking about her as the main vocal point, she is still the person who people will mention first when trying to explain how the whole Gamergate issue started because of her actions. Kinda like how people bring up Gavrilo Princip When talking about World War 1. Live Action TV posted:Gilligan is so infamous for "always" accidentally ruining the Castaways' plans to get off the island that Just Eat Gilligan became a meme and then a trope. But a dedicated fan decided to watch every episode and make note of the number of episodes the castaways tried to get off the island and the number of those episodes where their plans were ruined by Gilligan. It turns out Gilligan bungles their plans in exactly 17 episodes. Which is still a lot, but it's less than half of the number of episodes the Castaways tried to escape, 37. More importantly, there were 98 episode total. So Gilligan botched the Castaways rescue/escape attempts less than half the time they tried and in only a little more than a sixth of all episodes. How many escape attempts does he need to ruin before we're "allowed" to associate him with ruined escapes? If you were trapped on a desert island with someone, he wouldn't get a chance to foil seventeen different escape attempts because you'd have killed him after like the fourth. Real Life posted:Oliver Cromwell has had his legacy irreparably tainted by his actions in Ireland. For those who don't know Irish history, this is sort of like saying that Hitler has had his legacy irreparably tainted by his actions in Auschwitz. Real Life posted:Apartheid in general. It's been joked that you can sum up South Africa's fiction as "Here's why Apartheid sucked." In conclusion: but unironically Lottery of Babylon fucked around with this message at 10:00 on Sep 21, 2014 |
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quote:Derpy Hooves is nothing but this trope. A five-second shot has a pony with Fish Eyes in the background, and the fans create an entire character based on her. She was part of a group interested in having some muffins when they were served to a group of ponies (the word "muffins" matches the lipsynching of at least one, possibly two other ponies), and everyone went with it; her toy's box even features muffins. She drops a bunch of things on Twilight, and she's The Klutz. And don't even start on when her appearance in "The Last Roundup" was edited to remove her being called by name and changed her voice and eyes; absolutely nobody involved — including several people not involved — have been allowed to live it down, with death threats thrown around left and right. I have no idea what this is supposed to be saying. quote:Pinkie Pie being a sadistic serial killer who may or may not have severe childhood trauma, based on her Sanity Slippage in "Party of One", compounded by a certain infamous fanfic. Never mind that in the episode she was, at most, bipolar and manic depressive, which are many times more likely to result in self-harm than any violent tendencies. I've never seen this show but something tells me it does not portray cartoon ponies with mental disorders. quote:Twilight will never live down her Sanity Slippage (noticing a pattern?) in "Lesson Zero". In fairness, it was terrifying. However, not only did Twilight have some basis for Sanity Slippage in "Swarm of the Century", but she did it again in "It's About Time". Furthermore, she is slowly learning to control it as of "Games Ponies Play". The fans have spoken about her mental health, and the writers are listening. Tropers are terrified of a cartoon pony's "Sanity Slippage". Since they are so apt at hyperbole, exaggeration and making GBS threads their pants in general, I'd kind of like to see the scene to which this is referring. And the writers are seriously taking feedback from a bunch of spergs about the mental health of these ponies? Jesus Christ. quote:The episode "Feeling Pinkie Keen", in which writer Dave Polski worded the ending so badly that it turned a perfectly acceptable "Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it doesn't exist" moral into sounding more like "Science Is Wrong and you should just accept that things work the way they do without trying to understand it". Before "The Mysterious Mare Do Well" this was the episode that was negatively spoken about constantly, although later it was finally able to be Lived Down. Tropers/Bronies make it sound like My Little Pony is no longer made for six year old girls but I have a feeling that's still the target demographic, which makes them reading all these stupid meanings into the show pretty funny. Also, if something has been Lived Down, then what the gently caress is it doing in the Never Live It Down section? quote:Princess Cadance dropped the ball and went right down to the Scrappy status she had been rescued from for not inviting Spike, one of the key figures in saving the very empire she rules, to the preparations for the Equestria Games. Notably, she did eventually Live It Down in the episode "Equestria Games", where she invited Spike to light the torch at the opening ceremony - and later the fireworks at the closing ceremony, giving up her own place to do so. Princess Cadance didn't invite Spike to help prepare for the Esquestia Games?! What a bitch! Off to the Scrappy Heap she goes!! Again, I see this is another instance of Lived It Down so this poo poo needs to be removed from the trope page. quote:Similar to a certain superhero, Angel Bunny will never live down the domestic violence he inflicted on Fluttershy in Putting Your Hoof Down. He has never been seen doing this before or since, and has occasionally been shown comforting Fluttershy at her lowest moments, but the viewers will forever remember him as "the rear end in a top hat who slapped Fluttershy and kicked her out of her own house over a cherry", and even demonize him in fanfics for this. Way to trivialize domestic violence you stupid fucks.
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# ? Sep 21, 2014 11:19 |
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Tunicate posted:This thing apparently quote:Friendly Tickle Torture: The Doctor gets attacked by a bunch of Dalek's who want to do this one loop.
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# ? Sep 21, 2014 11:48 |
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Like I said, tropers have to list the same thing in as many tropes as possible in order to clutter up the site.
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# ? Sep 21, 2014 11:54 |
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Lottery of Babylon posted:Someone translate this from internet gamer misogynist speak into English please. "Things gamers won't shut up about : 1) Zoe Quinn 2) whining about people saying gamers won't shut up about Zoe Quinn"
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# ? Sep 21, 2014 13:38 |
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Besesoth posted:"Things gamers won't shut up about : 3) whining about how SJW's are ruining the internet with their heretical concepts like "Tolerance" and "Respect for a fellow person"
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# ? Sep 21, 2014 14:14 |
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The Sin of Onan posted:On what planet is bestiality less disgusting than incest? Pretty sure horses can't give informed consent, either. What if a horse fucks you of its own volition?
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# ? Sep 21, 2014 14:17 |
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ANIME MONSTROSITY posted:What if a horse fucks you of its own volition? You mock, but dolphin rape is an actual thing. Never trust an animal that smiles all the time.
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# ? Sep 21, 2014 15:06 |
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hank hill got raped by a dolphin
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# ? Sep 21, 2014 15:07 |
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is that why come he have no buttocks
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Lottery of Babylon posted:Someone translate this from internet gamer misogynist speak into English please. Quinn's ex posted a list of dirty laundry about their relationship, including allegations that she slept around with other guys, one of whom happened to be a contributor to Kotaku. Gamers being the rabid misogynists they are, they dogpiled on her and claimed she was one of the main reasons for the corruption of gaming journalism*. Yes, this is all exactly as pathetic as it sounds. Highlights since then include Quinn posting IRC logs from 4chan that proved it was all a set-up (with channers then posting them in their entirety to try discrediting her ), right-wing blogs trying to get in on the action to sway gamers over to their POV, and some movement to have a mass exodus from 4chan. *Side note: the guy she was alleged to have slept with never wrote any reviews for her game.
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# ? Sep 21, 2014 18:05 |
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I have opinions on Quinn but I don't want to derail things any further. Instead, let's look at some tropes for Tomodachi Life: The Nightmare Fuel page posted:* Some of the more WTF-tier dreams can fall into this. None of these things are scary. Like, at all. Same page posted:A Mii's desperate cries of "I need to eat something! Anything!" can trigger people who are afraid of starvation, or just worried that they're neglecting that Mii. If you haven't played this game, every line of dialogue is spoken by a text-to-speech program. It doesn't sound "desperate" at all. Let's check out the Awesome page: quote:A meta one: Nintendo apologized for not including same-sex marriages and promised they would be included in the next Tomodachi game, so as to be more inclusive to everybody. Tropers think obvious PR moves are "awesome". Great.
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Regalingualius posted:Quinn's ex posted a list of dirty laundry about their relationship, including allegations that she slept around with other guys, one of whom happened to be a contributor to Kotaku. Gamers being the rabid misogynists they are, they dogpiled on her and claimed she was one of the main reasons for the corruption of gaming journalism*. It's more complicated then that. The vast majority of people in the Gamergate movement were against the small minority doing bad things, and the 4channers themselves made it a goal to police people who went to far, and there's good evidence she faked being hacked along with at least a part of the hate.
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