Categories: just-life
Date: 18 January 2005 15:44:18
I find that you can tell just how bored I am by what I write. The more inane the subject the more despirate I am to find something to occupy my mind. It's the dangers of writing up a thesis for as long as I have, everything seems more interesting than the actual work!!!
Hence I'm here grumbling about the quality of Fanfiction on the net. For no more reason than (and please forgive me) because I was bored I went to some of my regular hunting grounds for some Harry Potter fanfiction. After checking three sites give up.
I can't understand why some people can take charactors with established MO's and then for the purpose of their stories (which are somehow following on from the books) complealty change how everyone acts.... If you are going to have your story set in this world and with essentially brand new charactors, why not use new charactors?? How can you say that you love how JK writes the books and then change it all??
A case in point is with a friend of mine, who shall remain nameless, who loves SS/HG stories (for those of you who don't know how this works, that's Servius Snape and Hermione Granger, as a couple) though I suspect that this has more to do with the fact that in real life she just likes Alan Rickman who plays the greasy haired potions master. I, on the other hand, can't stand them. Mainly because the pairing is truely illogical. Even when they set the story ten-fifteen years after she's left school.
Illogical along the lines that who are evil (like Draco) suddenly become good, oh and then get together with one of our main charactors...... it's sad and depressing.
But why continue on looking then I hear you cry!!! Why not write your own fanfiction to show them how it's done??? Well, I still look as you do get some truely amazing stories, including one that had even me in tears, and I have made a start on writing my own. I got a few chapters in till I realised that I would have to come up with a song for the Sorting Hat to sing....... Ahhhhh, therein lies a problem.......
Of course, it is not all bad news, just checking the BBCi I'm glad to report that yet again Wales is not a country, nor part of the UK. That makes it the second time in three months that Wales has ceased to exist...... whoops!!
I also think that yesterday was simply so good that today was going to be hard pushed to be as fun..... I don't know what it was but everything was good!!!!
Now I feel that I have taken up enough of your good time (if you've managed to get this far), I did warn you that I tend to ramble.......
have fun ya'll and thanks to those who commented after yesterday. I wasn't expecting it and it was most pleasing!!! :)