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Post by leafonthebreeze on Jun 16, 2008 18:48:33 GMT
What's the marriage rule?
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Post by Sai on Jun 16, 2008 20:43:55 GMT
Witches and wizards having to marry and create children with magical powers because the population is dwindling and there are so many problems with the incest going on whis the Purebloods, yada yada yada. The government basically forces Hermione to marry Snape (more often then not it's because someone else wanted her like Malfoy to use her as bait to Harry, blah blah), where they fall in love and reproduce. I can give you a hundred fics with this same plot.
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Post by leafonthebreeze on Jun 16, 2008 20:59:48 GMT
Eesh. Lame idea is lame... Wonder where it originated from?
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Post by Pen Against Sword on Jun 17, 2008 0:38:49 GMT
It's called the Marriage Law Challenge, actually, and it originated from a forum/web-group called WIKTT (When I Kissed the Teacher). They have a challenge section where people post challenges and responses to said challenges, and one sap created the Marriage Law, which is STILL spouting fics to this day.
To tell you the truth, I think it is absolutely done to death, but when the challenge was first put up, it got some really awesome responses. I've read a LOT of good MLC fics.
It's a good thing that is relegated to mainly the Harry Potter fandom.
So, new commandment!
Marriage and Pregnancy plot devices are done to death. Try something new. If you MUST do them, get creative.
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Post by Sai on Jun 17, 2008 1:24:36 GMT
New Commandment: Do not have your story change around the sex (a male turned into a female, or a female turned male) of a character simply so that you don't feel guilty for writing SLASH. This tends to destroy the character's personalities worse than if it was just plain slash. Really, must Cloud be turned into a female who wears tight clothes, short skirts, and have sex with Sephiroth in the third paragraph? Must Reno be turned into a prostitute female, who falls in love with Rufus, nearly dies, then they get together to create cruel little babies? Leave their sex alone-- there are not many people who can change around the sex of a character without destroying it.
Sorry. I was reading a story and then bam! Gender switch. If you want to write about characters being together, then write them the way they were created.
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Post by T. Costa on Jun 17, 2008 2:55:55 GMT
The Marriage Law Challenge in the HP fandom was a good challenge. The problem is that, of course, it spawned 2349834579234 really bad fics and about 10 good ones. The 10 good ones are amazing, of course.
And then there are people who read the challenge, tossed the rules out the window, and used the plot device of an enforced marriage in ways the challenge had never intended and made a really good story out of it. I have a lot of those that I enjoy (including a 200+ chapter monstrosity that just keeps getting more and more intriguing).
Obviously, the MLC is almost exclusively within the GrangerSnape fandom of HP, since it originated on When I Kissed The Teacher. However, I agree with Pen's suggestion of FFVII commandment number whatever: If you're writing a challenge fic, be innovative. I don't want to read a rehash of the same 2349834579234 MLC stories before - I want something new and exciting.
(And Pen, I tried my hand at GrangerSnape exactly once. Cally says it's good but I'm still not comfortable enough with it to post it anywhere, hah. I'm ridiculously obsessed with that pairing. Hannah says it's because every girl has a teacher fantasy, but I never did so I dunno what the deal is here. O.o)
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Post by Sai on Apr 11, 2009 17:07:03 GMT
Hi, Loveless. I'm sure someone would be willing to give you an opinion, however, if you could move your post over to this place: genesisawards.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=fanfiction&action=display&thread=490where it would be more suited, I think you'd get more attention. This is the Commandments thread (essentially where we rant about stupid stuff that annoys us in FFVII fan fiction.) Your story's plot would probably get mroe attention in the above link. Thank you, and have a great day! :3 Sai
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Post by kajnrig on Apr 12, 2009 5:08:15 GMT
This is the Cammandments thread (essentially where we rant about stupid stuff that annoys us in FFVII fan fiction. 1.) ...isn't that sort of the same point of the Pet Peeves thread? 2.) FFVII fanfiction? Then what's with the Harry Potter talk not two posts above yours? Double And to address the real reason why I wanted to reply: Who says a Red XIII/anyone fic is a no-no (see first post)? It just seems wrong to keep him out of the romantic mix just because he's... well, a dogcatthing. I mean, there are worse pairings. Like Vincent/Shelke guilt-jailbait-sex... But maybe that's just because I'm me. Anyway. Carry on.
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Post by Moira Rose on Apr 12, 2009 11:23:02 GMT
I do agree with you Kaj. There's a new element of creativity if Red is added to the romance pool, something a lot of writers are too chicken/too n00b/too grossed-out/too immature to write. Guilty am I.
Oh yes, I have one commandment that I got from this awful fic I read. I think it's pretty universal.
It's okay if you want to write in present tense. It really is. But please, PLEASE don't do it sporadically, where every alternate paragraph you forget that you're SUPPOSED to be writing in present and WHAMBAMCRASH it changes to past for NO APPARENT REASON (an apparent reason being flashbacks/memories/etc.). It burns, it does.
Another one...
Don't use flashbacks as your only way to push the plot forward. I've seen it done wrong so many times, especially when there is tense confusion (argh no pun intended) and it becomes so awkward and painful to read italics so often.
RAWRGH.
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Post by Hope on Apr 13, 2009 21:37:00 GMT
Oooh I so agree with that first one. Nyah! Tense switching! It's just so awful to read. (whisper, whisper) ... and you're never guilty of it Moira... not at all. (whisper, whisper) Only joking. I admire your experimentation. I am boring and have never written a story in anything other than past tense.
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