448: Don’t Stop Believing – Chapter Two
Posted: May 11, 2013 Filed under: Don't Stop Believing, Dragon Ball Z | Tags: Anime, Baffle Blend, Dragon Ball Z, Friendship, Movie, Romance, Television 23 Comments »Title: Don’t Stop Believing
Author: Emineminems
Media: Television / Movie
Topic: Dragon Ball Z
Genre: Friendship / Romance
URL: Don’t Stop Believing – Chapter Two
Critiqued By Baffle Blend
Welcome, welcome, patrons. Baffle Blend here again. I’m not in a good mood today, so let’s skip the theatrics and let’s get this shit over with.
Last time on Don’t Stop Believing, Trunks and Pan left two OCs that had no reason to be there. Then they got onto a subway- sorry I totally mean train, where they then proceed to have no idea where they’re sitting. Then it’s mushy stuff for the rest of the chapter.
I expect no differences here.
444: Don’t Stop Believing – Chapter One
Posted: May 4, 2013 Filed under: Don't Stop Believing, Dragon Ball Z | Tags: Anime, Baffle Blend, Dragon Ball Z, Friendship, Movie, Romance, Television 15 Comments »Title: Don’t Stop Believing
Author: Emineminems
Media: Television / Movie
Topic: Dragon Ball Z
Genre: Friendship / Romance
URL: Don’t Stop Believing – Chapter One
Critiqued By Baffle Blend
Hello, fans of the Library. I, Baffle Blend, am also a fan of the library. And as a fan of the library, I-
*Siren blares*
*Click*
Shut up, DRD. If I’m going to be submitting a guest riff, I’m not going to be a copycat.
Anyway, I’m going to tackle a Dragon Ball Z fanfic by… “Emineminems”, and things already aren’t looking good. Just look at the summary.
434: A Look Through My Eyes – Oneshot
Posted: April 17, 2013 Filed under: A Look Through My Eyes, Chip and Dale's Rescue Rangers | Tags: Cartoon, Chip and Dale's Rescue Rangers, Drama, TacoMagic, Television 7 Comments »Title: A Look Through My Eyes
Author: lightening816
Media: Cartoon
Topic: Chip and Dale’s Rescue Rangers
Genre: Drama
URL: A Look Through My Eyes
Critiqued by TacoMagic
This week I’ve got a short, and really awful, Rescue Rangers oneshot fic. Since it’s so short, I thought I’d take the opportunity to turn the first bit of it into a workshop of sorts to give you, the readers, a glimpse at what the process at the library is. We’ll also get to see how quickly a Mary Sue can be established.
The first part of any riff is fic selection. For my part, I find that about 10% of fics I look at are of the correct level of awful to actually work on. The other 90% are either good, not bad enough, bad for the wrong reasons, or bad in the wrong way. Let me explain those last two. One of the fics I tend to steer away from are fics that are bad, but for the wrong reasons. Specifically, fics that are written in English by people who aren’t native English speakers. Now, these can be bad from a plot perspective, but it’s typically so difficult to separate this from my desire to nitpick all the mechanical issues, that I just as soon not do them. I’d rather make fun of a fic that’s bad on it’s own merits rather than harp on somebody who didn’t do so good translating.
The last kind are the ones like that ill-fated Cave Story fic I did. These tend to be full of racism, sexism, graphic violence, rape, and all other manner of foul crap that I’d rather not expose you all to. And let’s be honest, I don’t really want me to read it either.
417: Back Home Again – One Shot
Posted: March 20, 2013 Filed under: Back Home Again, Duck Tales | Tags: Cartoon, Duck Tales, TacoMagic, Television 12 Comments »Title: Back Home Again
Author: SharanMcQuack
Media: Cartoon
Topic: Duck Tales
Genre: None Listed
URL: Back Home Again
Critiqued by TacoMagic
Greetings, dear patrons. This week is the start of a foray into my deep pile of one-shots. I’ll be doing nothing but one-shots for the next several weeks in order to build up some momentum to tackle another large project. I’ve got several behemoths on my stack, it’s just a matter of picking one. In fact, I may just toss a bunch out there and let you, the patrons, decide what I should do.
But until then, strap in because we’re going on a wild ride through the lush jungle of singular fics. Read the rest of this entry »
348: A Baby to be Born Inside – Chapters 19 & 20
Posted: October 26, 2012 Filed under: A Baby to be Born Inside, Teen Titans | Tags: Comic Book, Comics, Ghostcat, Romance, Teen Titans, Television, Tragedy 5 Comments »Title: A Baby to be Born Inside
Author: Gothica 13
Media: Television
Topic: Teen Titans
Genre: Romance/Tragedy
URL: Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Critiqued by Ghostcat
Greetings and salutations, beautiful and/or handsome Patrons! We’ve reached my favorite part of the fic – the end! I will be so happy to see the back of this monster.
I’m going over my notes from the last chapters, but it mostly seems to be various profanities and the word “wrong” written over and over again. There’s also a partially eaten straight-jacket that I’m rather fuzzy about. (Must have been one of the skunks.) I do recall that there were a bachelor and bachelorette parties and then the wedding, after which Cyborg started yelling about how there was something wrong with one of the babies. I think that covers all of the basics.
Even though the author seems to have given up on crafting anything that resembles a cohesive narrative, there’s still two more chapters of this stuff to wade through. They are a bit longer than previous chapters, so much so that I thought about doing them singly, but I really don’t want to spend another week with this tripe so today’s riff is super-sized for your reading enjoyment.
:deep sigh:
Let’s get started.
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