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CV12Hornet Cleans Out His Fanfiction Favorites List (Beware of Shit Taste)

Which list should I go through first?

  • Fanfiction.net

    Votes: 24 66.7%

  • FIMfiction.net

    Votes: 8 22.2%

  • Spacebattles

    Votes: 2 5.6%

  • Sufficient Velocity.

    Votes: 2 5.6%
  • Total voters
    36
  • Poll closed .
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Firehawk242 said:
Yoda? Prequel era, he's not precisely the most emotive.
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Oh yeah, Yoda, the guy who screeches like a fucking bat when he fights, has a sense of humor about everything, and who has a near heart attack when he feels hundreds of Jedi dying at once. That guy is the model of emotional suppression.

Also, "Obi Wan is kinda Dark Side," wtf. Obi Wan is literally the model Jedi. When by your standards 90% of Jedi shown onscreen (including all of their leaders! (someone like Mundi isn't even a character)) don't conform in any way to Jedi Orthodoxy, maybe you've made a mistake in your perception of what those beliefs are?
 
CV12Hornet said:
Okay, yeah, I kinda brought this on myself with touching upon this debate in the review, and I do like discussion on topics I touch on, but I've seen this book before. Its title is "Everyone dogpiles on Firehawk242 until I post the next review". So if everyone would kindly drop this and take it somewhere else, that'd be great.
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Understood Boss!
 
Firehawk242 said:
No, that's how you use the light side of the force. The light side is all about emotional suppression. The dark side is letting your emotions run wild. Neither is healthy for the human mind, it's just that one breeds quiet sociopathy while the other breeds loud psychopathy.

Obi-Wan's... odd. He's one of those Jedi who's walked a bit closer to the dark side than most. In fact he's something of a rebel by jedi standards, what with his falling on love, having grudge matches, and having to put up with Anakin's bullshit. Not nearly as much as Qui-Gon was, mind you, but still definitely not orthodox. Mace Windu is another who was a bit on the grey side, possibly even more than Obi-Wan. Ki Adi Mundi, however? Not so much. Yoda? Prequel era, he's not precisely the most emotive.
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Ser_Serendipity said:
Oh yeah, Yoda, the guy who screeches like a fucking bat when he fights, has a sense of humor about everything, and who has a near heart attack when he feels hundreds of Jedi dying at once. That guy is the model of emotional suppression.

Also, "Obi Wan is kinda Dark Side," wtf. Obi Wan is literally the model Jedi. When by your standards 90% of Jedi shown onscreen (including all of their leaders! (someone like Mundi isn't even a character)) don't conform in any way to Jedi Orthodoxy, maybe you've made a mistake in your perception of what those beliefs are?
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To make @Duncan Idaho's point more explicit:

COULD WE NOT, PLEASE​
 
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Timely Mishaps
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    • Timely Mishaps by Midnight Phantasma reviews
    The mind of fifteen-year-old Allen Walker stared at his thirteen-year-old reflection in distress. Curse the scientist messing around with Miranda's Time Record! Glancing at the passed out Cross with an empty wine bottle in hand with a tired sigh, Allen contemplated whether traveling with the General for another two years would be worth it… He bolted for the door…
    D.Gray-Man - Rated: T - English - Humor/Adventure - Chapters: 21 - Words: 134,000 - Reviews: 539 - Favs: 1,299 - Follows: 911 - Updated: Jul 14, 2015 - Published: Jul 14, 2013 - Allen Walker - Complete
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    Impressions before reading:
    Ah, D. Gray-Man. One of the more quirky manga to come out of the 2000s boom in shonen battle manga, the series has some similarities to Bleach but trades the clean Japanese aesthetic for gothic Victorian - oh, and is actually good. Regrettably, the series has been on and off hiatus due to author health right as the story took a turn to the complicated, and more importantly, it's really hard to find fanfic that isn't a yaoi shipfic.

    Review:

    This is me right now, on the left:


    Passive voice. Inconsistent tenses. Underdescription. Describing soccer as soccer when historically it should be called football. Redundancy and entirely too many adverbs. It all adds up to one supremely dry and boring read.

    Verdict:
     
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    • Aww, and I thought I'd get a rec for a D.Gray-man fanfic, Earl knows we need more of those. But then I saw the title, remembered reading it something like three years or so ago and finding it immensely boring too. Well, better luck next time, I suppose.

    Still, keep the good work, Hornet, only five years and a handful of months left to check out before you can switch to another site. Looking forward to many more good moments watching you shame yourself and then suffering your vindictive amusement while I die of blood pressure.

    Just keep on being awesome.
     
    CV12Hornet said:
    Passive voice. Inconsistent tenses. Underdescription. Describing soccer as soccer when historically it should be called football. Redundancy and entirely too many adverbs. It all adds up to one supremely dry and boring read.
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    To be fair, D. Gray Man is a Japanese manga, and they do call it Soccer not Football in Japan, or at least a transliteration of Soccer. And since the translations tend to happen in the US (or Canada) they retain calling it Soccer when translated.
     
    I'd need to check in with a british friend about soccer to see if the sport has always had that name or it was called football.

    AFAIK its an americanism to call soccer football.
     
    Duncan Idaho said:
    I'd need to check in with a british friend about soccer to see if the sport has always had that name or it was called football.

    AFAIK its an americanism to call soccer football.
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    My understanding is that it is the opposite- that most countries call it football, where america calls it soccer, hence 'American Football' when speaking of the sport Americans call football in a global context.
     
    The irony is that the formal name, Association Football, which is where we get soccer from, came from the English. :V Otoh they call it football.
     
    Except Canada does it too but no one ever notices Canada or the CFL (not even the Canadians!

    I think a bunch others countries / languages use Soccer or derivatives of it as well, but yes "only Americans" do.
     
    Regardless of whether football is used to talk about the game where you hit the ball with your foot or not, it should be called by its British name if it's Brits in Britain talking about it.
     
    Firehawk242 said:
    Other way around my friend. The US is the only nation in the world that calls the game Soccer.
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    I remember this argument from 10 years ago. -_-

    The answer is NO. We aren't.

    Now admittedly, I only recognize Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Korea, and Japan. The others are African/South American.

    I think the agreement was that the ex-British Empire countries all call it "Soccer" (or something phonetically in that ballpark) and the others were majorly influenced by the US/Japan into doing the same.
     
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    virtual_maniac said:
    I remember this argument from 10 years ago. -_-

    The answer is NO. We aren't.

    Now admittedly, I only recognize Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Korea, and Japan. The others are African/South American.

    I think the agreement was that the ex-British Empire countries all call it "Soccer" (or something phonetically in that ballpark) and the others were majorly influenced by the US/Japan into doing the same.
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    While I'm sure you find your meme funny, it's wrong.
     
    Tiroth said:
    While I'm sure you find your meme funny, it's wrong.
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    I see...

    The U.S., Canada, South Africa + the other country at the African tip, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand for Soccer using countries.

    And the SE Asian/Oceania island chains instead of South America.

    I don't actually know the non-major world country flags, so... If the flags are for the SE Asian island chains, the meme isn't wrong.

    Also, it was oddly accurate since from Tiroth's link:

    This may be because the term soccer in England was widely used until the 1970s, when it switched, in part, because it was viewed as an Americanism.
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    Okay, so we're not the only nation to call it soccer. My original point still stands. Soccer is an Americanism, not a Britishism.
     
    It's too bad that we can't resolve that debate by declaring that there is no "football", only "soccer" and "gridiron". It'd make things so much simpler.

    In other news, hi I just finished going through this thing from the beginning. Found a few new fics to look at, was reminded of others, was a little sad that a couple got delet. Looking forward to seeing what else comes up.
     
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    Into the Archives
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    • Into the Archives

    By: skygawker
    After hearing the legend of Darth Plagueis the Wise from Palpatine, Anakin decides that his best chance to save Padme is to break into the restricted Holocron Vault of the Temple Archives to search for information about Plagueis. Predictably, all does not go according to plan. Revenge of the Sith AU.
    Rated: Fiction T - English - Adventure/Angst - Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan K., Padmé Amidala - Chapters: 25 - Words: 110,667 - Reviews: 637 - Favs: 1,319 - Follows: 1,607 - Updated: Feb 10, 2016 - Published: Jul 27, 2013 - id: 9535587
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    Ah, I've been looking forward to this on. This is the one where Anakin derails Palpatine's plans by doing something stupid. It's also the one where Mace Windu falls to the Dark Side.

    Review:
    Whoops! No, this isn't the one where Mace Windu falls to the Dark Side. Which fic was that, I think I want to find it...

    Anyway, the first half of this fic is devoted to detailing how, precisely, Palpatine's plan derails. And it goes back to a common saying: Foolproof systems - and foolproof plans - often do not take into account the ingenuity of fools. Palpatine, as we know from canon, intended for Anakin to stew on the Tragedy of Darth Plagueis, with Obi-Wan in Utapau and not there to help him think. Except then Anakin gets the harebrained idea to break into the Holocron storage in the Jedi archives, which through a series of events (some instigated by Palpatine himself. Whoops!) ends up with Obi-Wan and Padme being present during the moment of Anakin's fall. The exact two people who could bring him back from the brink.

    At this point, oops is insufficient.

    The second half is dealing with the fallout, from Palpatine using Order 66 as a dead man's switch to the bureaucratic/financial trail Palpatine left behind to the remaining Separatists to the simple fact that Anakin actually briefly fell. As a result, he not only has to deal with a voice in his head whispering at him to Fall again, but he also acts more Dark Side. After the last Star Wars fic I read treated the Dark Side so casually, it's nice to see a fic deal with it like the addictive, self-destructive drug it is.

    Verdict: Keeper!
     
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    • CV12Hornet said:
    After the last Star Wars fic I read treated the Dark Side so casually, it's nice to see a fic deal with it like the addictive, self-destructive drug it is.
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    See, I never understood this and why people find it appealing. Darker emotions are part of everyday life, everybody has them and to actively prevent yourself from trying to feel them is really fucked up. I'm not sure what the long term results are from practically turning yourself into a sort of precision sociopath would be, but I can't imagine it would be great.

    The Idea that the force is more reflective of life with a balance being achieved by not being such an unbalanced person is much more in line with how most people live their lives and infinitely more appealing to most people. Or at the very least, that's my take on it.

    It's okay to be angry or sad... just don't be a dick about it. And if some assholes are crusading across the galaxy and genociding people... you don't have to turn the other cheek. It's okay to go cut them the fuck up with plasma swords.
     
    Can we please not get into the 'from my point of view the Dark Side is good/Light Side is bad' argument again? I have low expectations of it not going the way the last one did.
     
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