#but upon rereading my heart just sunk for MC

[yourqueenb]

You have no idea how happy I am to see that other people like you don't like blades 2 as well. Like yes it was decent, but on the same level as book 1 in the LEAST.

And I agree, book 3 seems like an excuse to get fans off of their back about the writing. The finale felt extremely disappointing, compared to the thrill you could feel in book 1 end

Yeah, I’m still gonna play book 3 and (foolishly) hope that it’ll be better. But those hopes aren’t too high because book 2 was not a good set up for book 3 at all in my opinion. There’s so much going on. I don’t like that Valax is a part of our friend group now. However, the group dynamics were off long before that if I’m being real. Mal’s route was ruined for me.

When I was going through and deleting my screenshots the other day, I reread the “You slept through it scene” and just felt a renewed sense of hurt and anger at him and really all of our friends. Mal caught a lot of heat from me specifically because he’s my LI and the one who said such an awful thing. But honestly, the rest of the group essentially agreed with him by expanding on what he said (Imtura and Nia) or not saying anything at all (Tyril) and only getting on one accord to exclude MC.

And then on top of all of that, there are quite a few holes that really should be patched up. The plot was a mess for the majority of the story. Tbh it was almost giving Endless Summer because they were locking important information behind diamond scenes and in the lore tablets.

So all this to say that at this point in time, I no longer have faith that PB can handle complex storytelling. Their parent company and higher ups (unsurprisingly) only care about money. And the writers themselves are too lazy and too biased. Does that mean they can no longer write enjoyable stories? No, of course not. But I do think they need to rein it in and be a bit more realistic about what they can handle right now because there’s nothing wrong with a simpler book/plot that’s aware of what it’s trying to accomplish. And it’s clear that they were far too ambitious with Blades 2

[windschildfanfictionwriter]

What type of scenes make you want to reread them over and over again? What type of scenes makes you roll your eyes? What was the last scene or story that made you ugly cry?

What type of scenes make you want to reread them over and over again?

Reveals are big for me. I LOVE when the author has kept MC’s secret nice and safe for a good chunk of the book and THEN there is a dramatic reveal. I will reread that long after the sun has set.

BAMF moments featuring my favorite characters especially against a particularly vicious villain. There’s this scene in a fanfic from 15? Years ago between this kid and this homophobic and the kid is trying to get people to sign his petition for gay marriage so that he can be legally adopted and the interaction between him and the crowd is just so freaking cool. I’ve reread it probably a couple hundred times. Ron against the Puppet Master in Within These Walls. Absolutely great.

Camaraderie between characters. [Why I love ‘Within These Walls’ so much] and Order of the Phoenix. The Pendragon series in how Bobby and Mark and Courtney are just… there for each other. The Percy Jackson series for obvious reasons. Accidental Sorcerer. All amazing when it comes to the characters being there for each other.

Humor: I adore stories that have a humorous edge. Stories that don’t take themselves too seriously. ‘How to Save a Kingdom’ comes to mind. ‘Goblin Quest’ is another. Quirky Main protagonists. Like… can you imagine Harry Potter but from Luna Lovegood’s perspective? That would be the ultimate rewrite. 

 What type of scenes makes you roll your eyes?

Over dramatic beatings: When a character just has the shit beaten out of them and it’s like… a daily thing despite how they should clearly be in the hospital.

Cutting: Right off the bat we have a teen cutting themselves. No lead up. No flow. No going into how depression sunk in. Nope. No development. Just… an angsty teen cutting for no apparent fucking reason at all. Que the violin.

Romance out of nowhere: Can we have a sip of teenage stupidity? Here we go. No chemistry between them, no lead up. I guess its better to say that bad writing makes me roll my eyes? I need to know these characters before I feel the butterflies of them getting together or not getting together (which is already pretty darn hard for my ace heart anyways).

Suicide thoughts: This is such a serious thing that it bothers me a great deal with it’s done in a melodramatic light. When it appears more as a fad than a serious demonstration of depression.  

Scenes where the characters are in a group and they all sound the same.

Writing or movie scenes zeroing in on how much Ron eats. Like fuck man, he’s a growing teenage boy, is this necessary? Now here’s a kid whose bound to develop an eating disorder with all the judgement you guys thrust upon him. Damn.

Gender ‘Equality;’ Any show of a female or a male ‘power’ that has to put down the opposite sex in order to do it. A true demonstration of female or male strength comes from standing on their own merit, not making fun of, humiliating or putting down another person.

Characters who have clearly been changed to be the Author or for their needs rather than Cannon. I don’t really understand why someone would want to change a character instead of just creating their own or self-inserting. If you love these characters then why would you change them? For me, Fanfiction is about exploring the world itself or the characters in ‘what if’ situations. If I want to create an original character then I do. If I want to create a world all my own, then I do.

But to love a character so much only to destroy who they are? No. I really despise that and it always makes me roll my eyes when I see something like Draco suddenly flirting with a muggleborn or Hermione being portrayed as a victim of abuse (have you met Hermione? She would never allow herself to be treated that way!)

Another bit is stories written in first person point of view. If you are just starting out writing, please, avoid first-person point of view like the plague. You need to distance yourself from your characters when you are first writing otherwise it just sounds as if you are self-inserting instead of writing the character. I’ve only seen a handful of first-person fanfictions one of which involved a blind character and it was so brilliantly written that I am stunned by its writing every time I go back.

  What was the last scene or story that made you ugly cry?

It was a story from the Merlin Fandom: It was this great little one-shot about Merlin and his grandfather. Merlin, in the show, is well known to lose everything and everyone he loves one by one. By the season finale, you’re ready to throw down to get this boy some love. Well, the fandom is primarily made up of adults, so the writing is of much better quality than a lot of fandoms and this piece in particular really got to me. Merlin lost his parents and went to live with his grandfather, who was very old, and the story follows the two as they get closer and as the grandfather’s health begins to decline. As Merlin becomes a young man he starts to sell the library in the house and all the furniture in order to help pay for the medical bills. When the grandfather finally passes, it’s a few days before his eighteenth birthday, everything in the house (including the house itself) is gone and Merlin is left in a hospital with a small box and nothing else. I balled my eyes out so hard at this beautifully written scene, and it was made even better because it actually ended on a good note. With Arthur (King Arthur of Camelot), noticing the boy and feeling a tug to help. Arthur offers Merlin a place to stay and ends up saving Merlin in a way similar to how Merlin saved Arthur many times in the series. Absolutely breath taking one-shot.