I once started reading a fic about zombie necrophilia incest rape with BDSM where Lucius Malfoy forced Draco to do disgusing things to his dead (as written) mother.. I did not finish reading that one because I was too busy vomiting.
And still not as sick as the Lucius/Draco snuff slash that Topless Robot sprang on me one Fan Fiction Friday involving incestuous necrophilia, scat and skull fucking.
I mostly try to stay away from Fan Fiction Friday because it's always icky, but I would still occasionally check it out until I saw that one. That one was the deal breaker for me. I haven't read a Fan Fiction Friday since then.
...That is, in fact, actually worse than the Dumbledore/Snape/Harry mess that ended up being I discovered the meaning of the term "mpreg".
......I was much happier with my life before I knew the meaning of the term "mpreg."
Thank you, Harry Potter fans! (Also thank you, too, morbid curiosity)
I used to write fanfic back in the day (bad, out of character fanfics...but I'll toot my own horn on grammar and word flow). I was about 14 when I started.
I was also about as nerdy/anti-social/anxiety ridden as they come (think 'almost' Marigold).
Yet even I knew that you couldn't just write 'and it was sexy' at the end of something. How old is Marigold, again? Did she graduate high-school? Who, past the age of 16, thinks you can write like that? Honestly, I still know some people who write fanfics (even in their 20's) and none of them would think this sounded legit.
I think I'm mostly sad because I wanted to like Marigold, but this kind of paints her as a fangirl idiot (idiot being the key word here). And you know what? That would be fine...if she were in her teens.
Edit: And is anyone else tired of the 'nutsack-hamster face' the characters keep making? :3 <------nutsack
You can like someone despite their being a fangirl idiot.
And some people just fuckin'
do not know how to write. I have edited for these people--I know. You tell them things, they go and "work on it", they come back with
the same shit in a different order with maybe a few small tweaks or more detail here and there. Whatever the problem was, though? Is
still there. These people graduated high school with 3.5s at the lowest, and are in their 20s, and they just do not have the chops to do the writing thing, especially not creatively.
If Marigirl actually does have potential, and Tai wasn't just sparing her feelings, I
think the problem is she probably has trouble describing action. She sees it in her head just fine, and in her head it's playing out, so she assumes the reader knows what she's thinking. She also is
not writing something she knows
anything about beyond Internet sources, and those ain't necessarily good.
She may be very good with dialogue and setting! She may even be good at coming up with plot for the characters! ...but she may need a creative writing class like right fucking now.