The One Thing I Hate About Fanfiction

Or... Maybe two. But for the time being, I'll try to keep it on only one of them. The one I will write about is basically when you are looking for a good story. A summary of a story catches your attention and so you start reading. It even has all your favourite characters from the fandom. 

And so you read, one chapter after another and then BAM! Suddenly, there are pairings in the story. And the pairings are completely what you don't like. For example, in my case, I'm not a big fan of heterosexual pairings. I prefer yaoi or slash. But admittedly, there are a handfull exceptions to the rule, but that is beside the point. The point is, that I think, that pairings, if the story contains them, should always be written in the summary. Or at least if it's slash, fem-slash or hetero. 

I'll give you an exmple of what I think it should not be like. 

I recently read this great story. It had amazing idea, combining Bleach and Naruto in what I think is at least relatively original way. But! There was nothing about the pairings in the summary or any of the author's notes in the chapters. So I was collosally dissapointed when Ichigo is paired with Orihime and Naruto with Hinata. 

Nothing against those girls, but I just can't get over certain pairings. 

One of them being anything involving Orihime because I simply don't like her. So I gues my previous statement that I have nothing against them, is null and void. 

Another character that I can't stand with one single exception, is Ginny Weasley. The only exception is in Batsutousai's stories Abandon and Reclaim where she's at least not paired up with Harry. I'm all for Ginny bashing, but like I said, in this one case, I have nothing against her.

And the last character that I enjoy reading when they bash her, is Tea (Anzu) from Yu-Gi-Oh! I just can't help it. She seems like such a bitch! And again, you can have amazing stories, but the moment Yugi is paired with her, I stop reading regardless of how amazing the story is...

And that's why I think these things should be mentioned in the summaries. Simply because then some of us won't be waisting our times with stories that turn out to be not to our liking. 

The worst, though, is when you manage to read almost the whole story only for it to have a pairing you detest in the last five chapters... In situations like this I feel like strangling the author. Because the stories I usually read, are above 100k words and it makes me feel like I just waisted SO MUCH TIME!

So a shout out to all the authors of fanfiction: Please, put the pairings in the summaries! Or at least leave a note wether it is slash, fem-slash or hetero! Or if it doesn't have pairings at all, write that in the summary too!

Okay, I'm sorry, if I just offended someone, but it really drives me crazy when I'm reading a great story only for it to be ruined by a pairing I hate!

Now, I decided to mentione the other thing regarding fanfictoin that I hate. It is genderbending. Mainly from male to female! Gah! All the promising stories I had to stop reading simply because I can't get over genderbending! 

Just yesterday! I've read a story. It was from the Assassin's Creed fandom. It focused on Ezio and how the others called him a she. At first, I thought it was simply because the author decided to make him more feminine, because I think that he could pull it off. But no! He was completely made into she. And there was nothing about it in the summary. And becuase I don't always read the author's notes, I overlooked the warnings where it was written. And only near the end, I managed to put two nad two together... 

Annoying...

What is it with people and genderbending! 

I mean, I managed to accept MPREG stories and it no longer so much as faze me, but I don't think I will ever be able to get over genderbend. Simply because I prefer the characters in their male bodies. Because then there's more slash going around.

I mean, if you want to put Harry together with I don't know who.. Let's go with Lucius for this example. It means you want them together regardless of the gender of either of them! So WHY THE HELL DO YOU HAVE TO CHANGE THE GENDER?!

IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE!!!

So if anyone is reading this, explain to me what is so great about genderbending! Thanks.

~AnnElfwind

Wreck-It-Ralph

Hello again, my dear readers. 

I know I've been away for a while. Well, not really away, but not writing anything. It has a really easy explanation. I didn't know what to write. Apart from some papers for school. But that was necessary and not fun at all!

But now I'm back with a post.

I don't really know how far back it was that I saw the movie for the first time, but I don't think it was more than a month. The movie I'm talking about, is Wreck-It-Ralph. It is an animated Disney movie that depicts what videogame characters do after the arcade is closed. The main focus is on the bad guy from the game Fix-It Felix jr. The character is named Ralph and is a professional wrecker. 

And what he breaks, Felix fixes. 

But the problem is, that Ralph is fed up with being the bad guy. He wants to be one of the good guys, or nicelanders, as they are called inside his game. So he barges in when the nicelanders and Felix are having an aniversary party. Of course, it doesn't work the way he would have wanted, but the nicelanders told him that if he got a medal, he could live with them in the penthouse. 

So Ralph sets out on an adventure to get him a medal. And after meeting a soldier from the Hero's duty game, he decides that it would be easy to get the medal from that game. 

But abandoning your own game means going turbo, like a character from a game from a long time ago, that decided to take over another game when it became more popular than his own. But this action put both the games out of order. 

And therefore, while Ralph is getting his medal, his own game is put out of order. At least temporarly. 

Ralph manages to get his medal, but then he crashes a shuttle craft in another game. This one called Suger Rush, which is a pink filled go cart game.

His medal ends up on one of the candy trees and while trying to get it, he meets a little girl. The girls is named Vanellope and she manages to get to the medal before him. And then she uses it to enter her name into a race because she wants to be a real racer. At first, Ralph is mad at her, but then they decide to team up to get her a real racing cart. 

This friendship gets temporarly undone when king Candy, the ruler of Sugar Rush, gives Ralph the medal back for smashing Vanellope's cart. 

And in the meantime, the shuttle that Ralph crashed, contained a cybug, which is a kind of virus from Hero's Duty, that know only eat, kill and multiply. The female captain from Hero's Duty knows this and decides to follow it to SR to kill it before it can lay it's eggs. She is acompanied by Felix himself who is trying to find Ralph in order to save their game. 

Then, Felix falls for the captainess, gets thrown into a dungeon, Ralph gets him out, Felix fixes the go cart for Vanellope, the race happens, it is unveiled that king Candy is in fact Turbo and that the bug multiplied.

Suger Rush is almost destroyed, but Ralph manages to save the day by creating a make-shift beacon which is the only way to get rid of the bugs. Suger Rush is saved when Vanellope crosses the finish line and it is then revveiled that she is the rightful ruler of Suger Rush and that Turbo tried to delete her code and thus forcing her to be a glitch. 

But in the end, all is well, Ralph is liked by the nicelanders, Felix marries the female captain and Vanellope recreates Suger Rush to be a constitutional democracy and becomes the president.

The movie is really good and I really love the animation. Also, it shows that nothing is black and white and that even good guys can be bad, like Turbo, who started as a good guy. And that a bad guy can actually save the day. 

I know the movie is targeted to younger audience, but I really think that it's not bad and worth giving it a try. But that's just me because lately, I found myself watching a lot of different animated disney movies. 

What do you think? Have you seen the movie? If yes, what do you think about it? If not, did I spoil it for you too much? Please, forgive me, if so.

~AnnElfwind