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starzafandomblog) wrote2007-05-15 07:25 pm
starzafandomblog) wrote2007-05-15 07:25 pm
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Zelda (!?) fic
I've returned! This time around, the fandom is one I've only seeped my toes in on and off, but been a big lurker since the Prodigy boards back 15 odd years ago.
Unfortuantely, most fic I find is trash, and since Zelda is a huge fandom (Spamming over 10 games and a few cartoon series), it's not surprising you find a lot of bad fic.
The irony of this fic is that I liked it when I read it when it was still on FF.net, but when I read it today, I wanted to smack myself for EVER liking it.
Series: The Legend of Zelda: OoT
Title: Sehnsucht
Author: The Unnamed Author
Genre:waahmublance drama Angst/Romance
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Angst, violence, suicide, more angst, explict sex, more angst, more suicide...
Couple (if applicable): Link/Zelda, past Link/Malon, some hinted Link/Saria
Plot: 4/10 - Honestly, there really isn't a big plot to this, just side stuff which is all waahngst from a character in the story. Really, it's just a big 'cwymoren00b!' feast that just went WAY past melodrama and into 'wtfbbq' land. If I thought the last story I reviewed was too dramatic, this story manages to make the SO3 fic seem very tame with angst.
Okay, we start off with Link boo hoo crying and trying to kill himself. Yep, sadly, in MANY fanfics, Link turns from this courageous hero to a whining self-pity ball of mess, which makes me want to vomit in my trash can. How the hell does a hero who looked death in the eye go to being a whiny emo brat??? But lo and behold, by a stroke of luck, the King and Princess of Hyrule manage to ride by and save Link at the last minute! Link manages to recover from his angst under the 'divine healing' powers of Zelda. Urgh...
The Ruto side story is stupid, pointless, and could've been cut out completely. But we can't have our angst without more suicidal moments, can we?
Then there's the batshit insane psycho prince storyline. Urgh, just urgh, another pointless angsty rollercoaster just to throw Zelda and Link into.
In the end, Zelda and Link elope, run off to the forest for their 'truluv' affair, abandoning the kingdom they tried to save from Ganondorf. Meanwhile, said King dies, cue political drama. Pretty much, Hyrule ends up imploding on itself.
Okay, so Zelda and Link save Hyrule from Ganondorf, only to have it destroyed on the inside because they felt giving the finger to it was better since they got treated by shit. Give me a fucking break, and I don't mean a kitkat bar either.
Basically, the story is a big drama angst feast, one after the other. Be prepared to drown in angst.
Writing: 8/10 - What baffles me is the writing itself is actually pretty good. If the format of the site doesn't kill you, that is. But otherwise, the story is fairly well written, despite the angst ridden crap that's in it. It's a shame, this author has talent in this department, but not in the plot or characterization department.
Characterization: 2/10 - All of the characters suffer from the 'omgANGST' sydrome. It's hard to characterize Link, because, face it, Nintendo made it so you sort of become Link in the game. He has a core personality, like fighting to protect something, he's courageous (Which is a duh!), he's kind to most people he meets, expert swordsman, etc. That's about it you can tell canonly unless you go by the cartoon timeline, which this story doesn't.
But in this story, Link sort of loses his core personality traits and instead turns into a 'woeisME!' angst monkey.
Zelda suffers from the angst too, her hatred for her father mainly, and her 'ohsoROUGH' life as a princess. While she has her tough moments, she's more there as a symbol to save Link from his 'ohsoangstpast', losing what flare she had.
Negativities: Too much angst to fill an ocean, OOCness, no really existant plotline
Summary: Link tries to commit suicide, he's saved by Zelda, and both try to cope with their 'omgANGST!'
Overall - 4.6/10 - The angst really destroys this story, big time. The author definitely has talent in the writing department, but the angst after angst waahmbulance destroys what could be a good piece. Stay away unless you really honest to god like melodramatic stories.
Unfortuantely, most fic I find is trash, and since Zelda is a huge fandom (Spamming over 10 games and a few cartoon series), it's not surprising you find a lot of bad fic.
The irony of this fic is that I liked it when I read it when it was still on FF.net, but when I read it today, I wanted to smack myself for EVER liking it.
Series: The Legend of Zelda: OoT
Title: Sehnsucht
Author: The Unnamed Author
Genre:
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Angst, violence, suicide, more angst, explict sex, more angst, more suicide...
Couple (if applicable): Link/Zelda, past Link/Malon, some hinted Link/Saria
Plot: 4/10 - Honestly, there really isn't a big plot to this, just side stuff which is all waahngst from a character in the story. Really, it's just a big 'cwymoren00b!' feast that just went WAY past melodrama and into 'wtfbbq' land. If I thought the last story I reviewed was too dramatic, this story manages to make the SO3 fic seem very tame with angst.
Okay, we start off with Link boo hoo crying and trying to kill himself. Yep, sadly, in MANY fanfics, Link turns from this courageous hero to a whining self-pity ball of mess, which makes me want to vomit in my trash can. How the hell does a hero who looked death in the eye go to being a whiny emo brat??? But lo and behold, by a stroke of luck, the King and Princess of Hyrule manage to ride by and save Link at the last minute! Link manages to recover from his angst under the 'divine healing' powers of Zelda. Urgh...
The Ruto side story is stupid, pointless, and could've been cut out completely. But we can't have our angst without more suicidal moments, can we?
Then there's the batshit insane psycho prince storyline. Urgh, just urgh, another pointless angsty rollercoaster just to throw Zelda and Link into.
In the end, Zelda and Link elope, run off to the forest for their 'truluv' affair, abandoning the kingdom they tried to save from Ganondorf. Meanwhile, said King dies, cue political drama. Pretty much, Hyrule ends up imploding on itself.
Okay, so Zelda and Link save Hyrule from Ganondorf, only to have it destroyed on the inside because they felt giving the finger to it was better since they got treated by shit. Give me a fucking break, and I don't mean a kitkat bar either.
Basically, the story is a big drama angst feast, one after the other. Be prepared to drown in angst.
Writing: 8/10 - What baffles me is the writing itself is actually pretty good. If the format of the site doesn't kill you, that is. But otherwise, the story is fairly well written, despite the angst ridden crap that's in it. It's a shame, this author has talent in this department, but not in the plot or characterization department.
Characterization: 2/10 - All of the characters suffer from the 'omgANGST' sydrome. It's hard to characterize Link, because, face it, Nintendo made it so you sort of become Link in the game. He has a core personality, like fighting to protect something, he's courageous (Which is a duh!), he's kind to most people he meets, expert swordsman, etc. That's about it you can tell canonly unless you go by the cartoon timeline, which this story doesn't.
But in this story, Link sort of loses his core personality traits and instead turns into a 'woeisME!' angst monkey.
Zelda suffers from the angst too, her hatred for her father mainly, and her 'ohsoROUGH' life as a princess. While she has her tough moments, she's more there as a symbol to save Link from his 'ohsoangstpast', losing what flare she had.
Negativities: Too much angst to fill an ocean, OOCness, no really existant plotline
Summary: Link tries to commit suicide, he's saved by Zelda, and both try to cope with their 'omgANGST!'
Overall - 4.6/10 - The angst really destroys this story, big time. The author definitely has talent in the writing department, but the angst after angst waahmbulance destroys what could be a good piece. Stay away unless you really honest to god like melodramatic stories.
Ha ha
(Anonymous) 2008-04-12 05:33 am (UTC)(link)Yes, at one time I was a stupid emo git in high school, before emo was even popular, and I wrote this festering pile of wangsty shit when. I tried reading it some years later, but I couldn't because I kept cringing too hard at all the purple prose and awful angst I had vomited forth onto the internet.
But really, I have no excuse for writing this garbage. None. In fact, I wished you would have torn it up with LESS mercy than you did, and assigned it a score of -50/10.
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(Anonymous) 2009-03-31 07:07 am (UTC)(link)Perhaps you recall the website Godawful Fanfiction.net, where members posted links to particularly awful fanfics. Well, guess what I did? I registered on their forums (under a different user name than my author name, of course), and then, perhaps as a way of atoning for the awfulness that is Sehnsucht, posted it in the GAFF forums. And man did I ever fucking TEAR IT TO PIECES! That story is to me what the Star Was Holiday Special is to George Lucas. If I could hunt down and eradicate every trace of it, I would. I deleted it off fanfiction.net and had it pulled from every site that hosted it, all except kasuto.net who never responded to my pleas to have it removed.
However, some time I ago I saw my godawful story reappear on ff.net. The author posted some lengthy story about how she had written years ago, lost it, then found it again through the Internet Archive. Obviously she plagiarized it (why would you plagiarize garbage...?) and naturally I had no desire to claim my authorship of it. Hell, she could HAVE my godawful fic if she wanted to.
Yes, I have written a few Zelda stories recently. They are currently on ff.net...but I think I'll keep my pen name a secret. I don't want to risk ever being associated with Sehnsucht ever again. Look up "Old Shame" on tvtropes.org...that story is mine.
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Although I do think it's kinda funny someone plagiarized it. >.>