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zeroplusalpha: Not to stoke the flames of debate here, but...I may be being naive in asking, but how is it even possible to write a Freudian slip any other way than deliberately?
She also uses 'ejaculate' in its other academically correct sense. I can't quote it off the top of my head, but somebody says something and then Snape says something else, "ejaculating menacingly". An ejaculation is an emotional outburst/utterance or a strenuous interjection. There are other similar cases, but I only remember this one in any detail. If this isn't accidental, then not only is the author not illiterate, he/she is quite well-educated. Or least possesses a more sophisticated vocabulary than is commonly attributed to him/her.
ama.rhyme: He guys, so you know, My Immortal is back on fanfiction.net!(cue insane laughter)I'm not sure how long, or how long it's going to last, but apperently X Hot N Heavy Goffz 666 X is tara's new account with her bf. I personally don't believe so as when uploading her story again, it included the hacked chapter, but the lulzy reviews are going to grow again! they added a sequal too, written in tara's style so i have a new theroy: Tara's account was never hacked, but she only pertended to because she was a troll all this time! She just took a break because 44 chapters of that has got to hurt the brain cells. but that would probably be better for wild mass guessing, if they have it for MI. Inkblot: Is the article getting too mean? It's starting to sound like an inferior version of ED's article. Also, Tara did not write  that Twilight fic. Read the writer's profile, which basically says "I'm not Tara, but thanks for the compliment."
Anonymous Mc Cartneyfan: This fic will never land in Fan Fic Recommendations. Who in his right mind would recommend this fic? (I found it nigh-unreadable.) If it's already there, I apologize to whoever put it there... But this fic is notorious, so I see no reason to cut this page.
Looney Toons: While I cannot speak for the other Cut Masters, I am not intending to delete this section. I will leave the cut list entries up for at least a week or two more to encourage further discussion, though, to see if consensus changes. Inkblot: I agree. While this fic is very popular, it is most certainly not something one would recommend reading.
, anyway? I've heard it said that an incident involving "Girls Aloud" got all M-rated things banned from the site, but I searched the terms and can't the right clause, except for the whole "we reserve the right to remove anything for any reason."
Ethereal Mutation: The rules make a pretty big point out of stories having to be legible. This part is only visible if you make an account and try to post a story, though. In the "Writer's Etiquette" section, the rules are (emphasis mine):
and prepare to facepalm.
Ethereal Mutation: We should probably put something on the main page that tells people to stop claiming that these "sequels" by imitators are the real thing. I don't even need to take any classes in textual analysis to see that they aren't. Inkblot: Out of all the parodies of My Immortal, this is probably the one most likely written by Tara. It's the only one to claim it's by Tara and have a forum (which Tara also had), and what kind of troll would mourn Raven's death, or copy Tara's style so perfectly? Also, I have to give Tara credit for one thing: She's one of the few people who understand what "Good Riddance" by Green Day is actually about. SpiriTsunami: No, it isn't. It's an exaggeration of Tara's style. I read the original, and it was hilarious; it felt like it was meant as a parody. The sequel, on the other hand, is just painful. I couldn't even get through it, it was so bad. The author profile, and their "favorites" (consisting only of one fave story, the original My Immortal, and one fave author, the account it was posted with), seems to support the idea that it's a joke account set up by a particularly dedicated fan of the original. Inkblot: Back in May, Tara made a post on the reviews for My Immortal that her account was hacked and she would try to get it back. Maybe she gave up and made a new account. Also, Tara's writing declined throughout the first book. Since about 16 months passed between Tara's account being hacked and Tara starting a new account, maybe her writing continued to decline during that time. Of course, both of these are just guesses and there's no way to tell whether this account belongs to Tara. SpiriTsunami: Actually, she admitted that she wasn't the real Tara. Sabre Justice: As an alternative to MS Ting, instead download the 'Bork Bork Bork' language pack for Firefox and read the fanfic. It will change your life. fleb: By 'parody fics,' does that mean troll stories for other series? Because I just got linked to a Fosters Home For Imaginary Friends "goffik"...thing, and the flames, they rage. [1] (ETA: ...Well now that's been taken down.)
SpiriTsunami: I don't know. Maybe. This fiction couldn't have possibly been written SpiriTsunami: I've spent far more time than any sane man should researching the bizarre phenomenon that is Tara Gilesbie and have uncovered a "Tara-verse" that is too interesting to delete. I recommend keeping this page around. There have been too many knockoffs, imitators and impostors for this to just go away. "Tara Gilesbie", even if she isn't a real person (which is what I believe), is a notable figure on the internet, and if anything, there needs to be an expansion of this page to take into account all of this fallout. It has Canon, or maybe Fanon, and the opportunity for debates is rich. Wascally Wabbit: Soooo....If So Bad Its Horrible is to be banished to the Darth Wiki, what shall we do with this? fleb: So Bad Its Horrible was an unstoppable cancer of Complaining About Shows You Dont Like. This is just a So Bad Its Good fanfic, which fits fine here in the Fan Fic/ namespace. If anything, a My Immortal Darth Wiki page should be a parody singing its praises. Inkblot: Seconded. fleb: ...Well now I'm torn. Sugar Wiki would be all for positive gushing, but Darth Wiki would still be receptive to the nonsensical angst, self-mutilation and "Stanism"... Shay Guy: Have Darth Wiki gush and use Sugar Wiki for a politely worded description and Constructive Criticism. Inkblot: The Drinking Game is getting too large. If there´s that many rules, of course nobody will make it to the halfway mark. Ethereal Mutation: Pretty much, yeah. It's sort of becoming a "Plot Tumor" all its own. Mystery Man 23: Could anyone be so nice as to seek out the "hacker" chapter of this story? Thanks. Inkblot: Does anyone know where I can contact the author of the MI website? Trouser Wearing Barbarian: A lot of the people editing this page don't seem to get that it's a parody. Inkblot: Unless Tara comes out and admits it, there's no way to tell if it's a parody. And saying "it's too awful to be serious" isn't good enough. But I tried to remove some of the Natter. Trouser Wearing Barbarian: Tara doesn't come out an admit it because the "Tara" persona is part of the joke. I've read plenty of bad fanfics, and "My Immortal" is a very, very obvious parody of them, and not just because "it's too awful to be serious." Bad spelling in itself, for instance, would not be evidence that the story is a parody. The fact that the story often contains multiple mispellings of the same name in one sentence and constantly spells the Mary Sue lead character's name wrong while simultaneously spelling larger, more complicated words correctly, on the other hand, reeks of parody. Having a few bad fanfic clichés is one thing, but using almost every bad fanfic cliché in existance, making them even more ridiculous than usual, and doing it in a consistently hilarious manner screams "parody." Turning the characters into teenage pseudo-goth Possession Sues is normal badfic fare, but Dumbledore wearing a robe with Avril Lavigne on it is an obvious parody of the former. And so on and so forth. Yes, many people take "My Immortal" at face value, but a lot of people also think that Landover Baptist is for real. Are readers so clueless that they need to see a "THIS IS A JOKE" disclaimer to realise that this story is intended humorously? fleb: It's not about being clueless. Consider the fact that Jack Chick is dead-fucking-serious. Even when he says that gluons aren't real, because Jesus holds atoms together. The danger of declaring anything Stealth Parody is that there is always a chance, however remote, that an author is being completely serious, barring Word Of God otherwise. Inkblot: I think Tara admitted she had dyslexia. Fermatprime: I'm with Trouser Wearing Barbarian. I've been involved in enough Internet trolling in my time that I can recognize some things as pretty obvious trolling hallmarks - the "Is it good?" at the end of Chapter 1, and the "BTW preps stop flaming ma story ok!" at the beginning of Chapter 2 <i>scream</i> troll, since even a fanfic as despicably bad as MI (and the first chapter was not as terrible as the rest, although it is still gut-bustingly bad) would almost certainly not get bad reviews that soon without someone closely involved spreading it around. Occams Razor, essentially, is what it is; the simplest explanation for the inconsistencies is that it's a troll. Inkblot: Tara spread it around by posting it on the IMDB forums. And what about her perfectly ordinary Quizilla account? I mean, does this look like the work of a troll?
OneofFive: There was also a profile on FF.net for Raven, which had two stories posted. Both were much better than Tara's and quite long. I doubt a troll would go to such lengths to sustain her persona.
Trouser Wearing Barbarian: I'm not saying that Tara and Raven aren't real people, just that "My Immortal" is intentionally bad, and that saying "this is supposed to be hilariously awful" upfront would detract from the humor. And it's not like troll writers never try to spread their work around.
fleb: Don't think anyone's arguing she's definitely not a troll for those reasons. I'm arguing we don't know for sure she's a troll. She probably is. Like Shay Guy said in his edit summary, the article shouldn't take a stance.
Inkblot: Her Quizilla account is still active, which must mean she's still around. One of us should ask her. And I agree, the article should not take a stance either way for now.
Catdrake: Shouldn't this also have Draco In Leather Pants, since this is where it's from? I remember reading that article, and it matches the reference that story makes almost perfectly.
Totz the Plaid: I'm assuming that it's a troll for the simple reason that it is all but impossible for a story to be this insane without clear intent. It is meticulously horrid, rarely is a name spelled the same way twice in a row, for example, and the vocabulary is almost impossibly vast (though the more intelligent words are invariably mispelled) for the idiot character played by the real author. Consider also that the first 38 'chapters' were posted within an 18 day period before the account was hacked and the author claims not only to have been hospitalized TWICE for attempted suicide through the slitting of her wrists (which would take place over the course of more than 18 days in real time) but to ALSO have taken a vacation to Transylvania. There is also the fact that most of the bands referenced were either passe or completely ignored by the goff [sic] crowd at the time (in fact some, such as Good Charlotte were spurned viciously by them and accepted wildly by the preps and poseurs). In short: my theory is that the real life Raven WAS "Tara".
Inkblot: I'd like to change my position. If David Gonterman is So Bad Its Horrible, then Tara is definitely a troll.
Broken Chaos: Two words: Tom Bombadil. There is no way someone as illiterate as the author is supposed to be could even accidentally get that name in there.
Totz the Plaid: Does anyone challenge me to either a) create a comprehensive list of every error in the story (which I'm approximating will be at least three times the length of the story itself) or b) rewrite the entire thing to remove every single error in it (and add an actual ending)? OneofFive: I wholeheartedly support a list of errors. If you were to remove them, it wouldn't be a re-write - It'd just be another Crack Fic :) Malchus: Just for sheer lulz, I had one of my English professors look at the spelling errors in his fic. He concluded that the errors are not the usual spelling errors frequently committed by someone with poor knowledge of English or by someone prone to typos. While some do take that appearance, most seem to be done on purpose. An example would be "spshcial" for special (Chapter 17). A more believable error due to lack of spelling knowledge would've been something along the lines of "speshal" or even "speshul." Both alternatives are spelled along more phonetic lines, which is usually how those who don't know how to spell a word initially try to spell it. The use of "sh" in place of "e" also suggests that this is not a typo, considering the positions of the letters in question on the standard qwerty keyboard. Basically, he says this is quite likely a Stealth Parody. Take that as you will. Nettik: This fic really hammers home that Frued Was Rite. The author can't spell her own character's name, but she somehow spells "sexual intercourse" and "erection" correctly... Hmm. Great Pikmin Fan: I don't remember any "bll ofda furchar" and I read all of the fic. Can someone please tell me what chapter it is in? Inkblot: It's apparently from the unofficial sequel. We should probably delete that line from the article. Inkblot: Snipped:
MaesterTonberry: Moved from main page
Ashki: Must...make...movie...in Hollywood Mogul of this... Allik: I just read the article & Character sheet, you guys maybe fucking exaggerating this shit no way in Hell it can be that bad I mean I was fucking cracking up but this seems too crazy to be that bad
(random passer-by): It's derivative, I know, but I couldn't resist: The crystal ball crackered: "NO, ENOBY, YOU ARE THE DEMENTORS." And then Enoby was a frog. |
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