Subscribe and SAVE, give a gift subscription or get help with an existing subscription by clicking the links below each cover image.I'm a wannabe writer IRL, who is using fanfiction to hone his mediocre skills. And who has, apparently, managed to do five firsts on this website, as far as I can tell: the first Blake's. Mass Effect crossover (Short Change Heroes), the first Bio. Shock/Borderlands crossover (Opening the Cage), and the first Silent Hill/Metal Gear crossover (Dura Mater). Oh, and the very first crossover for A for Andromeda, one with Harry Potter called L for Luna, and the first crosssover for the Quatermass serials, with Doctor Who, known as Quatermass and the Doctor.
Not to mention the first crossover between Final Fantasy IX and Highschool Dx. D (Black Mage of Kuoh) and Final Fantasy VIII and Neon Genesis Evangelion (Anchor of Ultimecia). Yay, go me. Warning: my fanfics and their summaries will contain spoilers for the stories they are based on. You have been warned. I'm sorry to get on my high horse.. I am actually happy on said high horse, but I have a few pet peeves about some things I see in some stories. So, if you'll listen, I'll pontificate. Or rant, if you prefer. Bad spelling, punctuation, formatting and grammar: Well, goes without saying. Now, I don't mind occasional grammatical mistakes, but when it gets beyond a certain point, it distracts from what can be an otherwise really enjoyable story. There's more than a few fanfics I love that are hampered by that. Overly long sentences, no commas, zero punctuation (not Yahtzee- style).. Get your act together, and make sure that mistakes are minimal. Use a word processor program first, preferably one with a spellcheck, and also be careful about what homonyms you use and where. Don't know what a homonym is? Look it up. Signposting flashbacks: Of course you should make it clear somehow that you've gone back in time, but that's nothing some tinkering around with tenses and using italics can't help. This is a minor peeve, really, but it does get irritating. Signposting POV Changes: If you're writing in the third person, you don't need to do this. Just be clear who you are writing from the point of view of, unless the story dictates that you obscure this. If you're shifting POVs in a first person- style work, you're either insane, or inspired. If you're shifting between third person and first person, well.. Charles Dickens did it in Bleak House. Q.What is a subscription and what is it for? A.A Premium subscription allows you to enjoy additional benefits to the free service that Rapidgator.net offers. But keep in mind that, although he wrote many of his stories in instalments like you and I are doing on this site, he's on a whole different level to us. BTW, Bleak House contains one of my least favourite characters: I want to throttle Harold Skimpole. Bashing and Deconstruction: This may seem odd, as many of my favourite fanfics here include a significant amount of character bashing. Of course, just because a fanfic has bashing doesn't mean I automatically hate it. But I seem to see too much of it, and it seems to go hand in hand with deconstruction, along with what some people think is deconstruction (but is just making things arbitrarily darker and edgier). Taking, for example, the Harry Potter series, you see a lot, especially of Ron and Dumbledore. Yes, these characters have their faults. But I don't see as often as I should reconstruction, that is, taking these flaws, acknowledging them, and making these characters better despite these flaws. I have to wonder, when I see these bashing fics, whether the people who wrote them ever enjoyed reading Harry Potter in the first place, because if they did, they still seem to be taking a disturbing delight in taking the characters apart, and rather brutally. That being said, I wrote a number of fics with bashing (let the howls of 'Hypocrite!' commence). I hope they will be ahead of the pack, though. See Sins of the Father, Fall to Zenith, Verdant Magic, The Uncertainty Principle, and Esper Child below. Needlessly Detailed Description: Done right, this can be enjoyable. But being more laconic with your descriptions is better than painstakingly describing every single bloody detail. Like, for example, what someone is wearing, describing each and every item of clothing down to the stitching. Or, and this is a particular peeve of mine, the breast size of female characters. Don't use things like 'C- Cup' or 'D- Cup'. Try words like 'buxom', or 'well- endowed'. Going into details about such things is definitely TMI. And the less said about many a lemon in fanfic, the better. It's nice to be appreciated, but even so, being told to write more chapters will not make me write faster. I don't care how nice it is, either. I will update when I am ready, and not before. Please stop putting that in reviews. Complaints about my annotations and notes: It's how I write fanfiction. I have had enough of people complaining about them. And they're NOT going away any time soon. So put up, or shut up. Requests for Stories: While on occasion I have accepted requests, these are exceptions rather than rules. As with asking for credit at bars and places like that, do not ask in the first place, for refusal may offend. If by a remote chance your idea does inspire me, then I will give you due credit, but it's better not to ask in the first place. I also have some guilty pleasures, so to speak, with fanfic. Naruto fanfiction: I'm not much of a Naruto fan. I pretty much got bored with the manga upon reaching the Chunin Exams arc (though I've started again, and am now 1. And yet, there's something about some Naruto fanfics that draws me to them. I dunno why, some sort of je ne sais quoi that draws me to them. Some that are done well enough just draw me in. I wholeheartedly recommend, in particular, three of the stories in my favourites: The Dark Phoenix of Konoha, Misstep in the Right Direction, and True Potential. I also like some fics where either Kakashi or Anko adopt Naruto. It was partly these that inspired me to try my own hand at doing my own fic. BTW, is it me, or is Kakashi a more badass version of Owen from The Vicar of Dibley? You know, with all these excuses? Hmmm.. Highschool Dx. D fanfiction: The series is blatantly about fanservice. But what could be done when Issei focuses less on his perversion and more on being badass? There's so much potential to be explored in fanfic, the way I see it, to elevate it above the original. Bashing fics: Now, you might find this odd and even hypocritical, given the above rant. But I think that if the fic is either written well, or else extremely entertaining regardless, I can overlook, or even enjoy bashing. One of my all- time favourite fanfics, Bobmin. Saying No, is a gloriously hilarious bashing of Dumbledore, and many of the fics of sakurademonalchemist are entertaining, despite the heavy bashing. A good deconstruction, if done well, is a good thing. Just making it darker and edgier is moronic, as is turning various characters into cartoonish evil caricatures of what is canon. My fanfics so far..(NOTE: There's a special code I will be noting these with. I'm removing those codes for now. When I put a 'C' next to the story, it means it is completed. Finally, 'DA' means deleted and archived: the story itself has been deleted after being abandoned, but the existing chapters have been archived in The Cauldron)Harry Potter and the Cetra Heritage(C): A crossover between Final Fantasy VII and.. Harry is brought to the Planet by the Planet's deity, Minerva, and is found by Aerith as she prepares to use Holy. An adventure ensues where things change, and other things stay the same. As of May 2. 01. 6, it has its own TV Tropes page, along with the rest of the Cetra Heritage Saga! YAY! Birthday(C): Book 1. Cetra Heritage Saga. Harry's eleventh birthday party, with appearances by characters from Magical Britain. The next book of the series will be Harry Gainsborough and the Philosopher's Stone, as Harry will be officially adopted by Aerith and Elmyra. Harry Gainsborough and the Philosopher's Stone(C): Book 2 of the Cetra Heritage Saga. Harry Gainsborough heads to Hogwarts, along with Jenova and Aerith. Holiday: Book 2. 5 of the Cetra Heritage Saga. Harry had hoped for a quiet, nice holiday with his friends from Hogwarts. Unfortunately, between challenges from Rosso the Crimson of Deepground, and the mysterious Gilgamesh, his holiday will probably be more eventful than he would have liked.. The New Cetra Heritage: Imago (DA): An AU of Harry Potter and the Cetra Heritage, with an older and more cynical Harry, along with Luna, who has become a Jenova hybrid. Harry has won the battle against Voldemort, but the cost was too high. Bereft of family and friends, Harry's subsequent rampage of revenge leads to an imprisonment in Azkaban. But when Luna arrives to rescue him, she takes him to another world, where they encounter Aerith at the City of the Ancients. Can Harry rise from the ashes to become a hero once more? Or will he stumble and fall? Abandoned due to lack of interest. Existing chapters archived at The Cauldron, with the story deleted.. Vert the Emerald and the Cetra Heritage: Yet another variation on the Cetra Heritage Saga, but with a very different starting point. When he fell through the Veil, Harry was taken in by Shinra and experimented on, made part of Deepground. Harry Potter died screaming. In his place, Vert the Emerald, the Lifestreamer, was born. Years later, after demolishing Deepground and being confined, Vert finds an opportunity to escape in the form of Aerith. Escaping with his adopted sister Shelke and Aerith in tow, having awakened the latter's true Cetra powers, Vert helps out AVALANCHE in their quest to stop Shinra, and Sephiroth.. A Third Summoner(C): A crossover between Final Fantasy IX and Harry Potter. Harry, in this one, originated from Madain Sari, and his pregnant mother was sent to Earth during the Invincible's attack. His horn is removed, but Harry, after being pushed down a hole in a cave by Dudley, arrives back in Madain Sari, a year before the events of Final Fantasy IX.. Summoner Jane of Madain Sari gives birth to twin girls, but in a fit of compassion, gives one child to a woman from another world called Lily Potter.
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