Comments | ianam1983: In which ianam sporks a badfic.

ianam1983

In which ianam sporks a badfic.

Aug 19, 2010 23:44

For the good folks over at tf_afts . Because you guys are awesome. And this is how I show my love, for I am a twisted soul.

( I bring you Chapter 2 of Stolen Virtue by Sinead. )

Comments 31

niyazi_a August 20 2010, 04:14:23 UTC

I....uhhhhh.....

Wow. I'm not a huge BW fan and *I* was at constant WINCE during this story for Dinobot! I can't imagine how you, as a Dinobot-fan made it through alive!

All I remember is: obsessive blanket pulling, inappropriate katana cleaning, and HAIR?!?!

Also Dinobot *crying* which...oh dear god. *reaches for whiskey*

(Your commentary was hilarious, though. Without which, I would not have survived this fic. Or wanted to go on living afterwards.)

discord2chaos August 20 2010, 05:10:39 UTC

I don't know weather to cry or lol, but I did reach for the alcohol twice cause seriously Dinobot and black hair in the same sentence deserves at least a shot or two, and maybe ritual suicide in sympathy.

pirsquar August 20 2010, 05:31:40 UTC

The only way I could see Dinobot and "glossy, black hair" in the same room is if it were referring to some emo-kid that he'd just scalped.

synaltern August 20 2010, 05:17:56 UTC

"Not all. He rolled for Dexterity and dodged a few."

ilu <3

"JUST BECAUSE." - Primus

Awesomeness. I want that on a t-shirt.

I'll pretend the rest of that...fic...doesn't exist, mkay?

xxsomeoneelsexx August 20 2010, 11:49:10 UTC

I'm so glad the commentary was there. I nearly splorfled my drink.

Er, twice it refers to OCs as "the authors," am I to presume that the author just inserted herself and a bunch of her friends into the story? (And gave them all super hunting/swordsmanship powers?) o_o

Also:

Rattrap points at wildlife and it obediently runs off to get killed. Sweet. Too bad that doesn't work on Predacons.
I dunno about that, I bet it'd work on Waspinator. :B

ianam1983 August 20 2010, 18:33:43 UTC

That's exactly what she did. Not all of them were consulted beforehand, either, and none had a hand in writing their own portrayals in the fic. I guess it wasn't so bad when this was just on BWInt and just about everybody there knew everybody anyway, but once she posted it on the Uber-Pit, that went straight to hell. Enjoy your immortalization on the Internet, guys!

xxsomeoneelsexx August 20 2010, 20:42:39 UTC

D: I, er, uhhhhh, wow.

anon_decepticon August 20 2010, 12:23:03 UTC

LOL, brilliant. Your commentary perfectly echoed the one in my brain - every time I read something that triggered that record-scratching noise in my head, in the next line there you were, snarking on it. XD (The deer-pointing was especially hilarious ( ... )

ianam1983 August 20 2010, 18:43:07 UTC

I read that chapter! It was brutal, but well done. Shattering common fanfiction myth-tropes is always a worthy cause.

I'm tackling the subject of rape in my own fic currently, which is tricky because it involves culture shock and Values Dissonance as well in this case. I'm trying to dispel as many myths and cliches as I can. Thanks to Sinead, I've now got a scene in mind for later that headbutts with the whole bonding-to-save-a-Spark thing: Rhinox pointing out that it would not work, because bonding is TREMENDOUSLY STRESSFUL and is the last thing you want to do to an already damaged Spark. And he says that precisely because someone who's read a few too many bad Cybertronian romances suggests it.

(Hair because apparently they're not robots under all that metal. Or something. I dunno, she never explains it, any more than she explains how a bunch of author avatars wound up in the BW universe or why they're all expert hunters and fighters.)