a blog full of serious criticism of great literature
Previous taglines:"ramblings of a geeky teenager", "a blog full of super terrific horrible things", "a bloog bout haf worlds which is like Invader Zen", "a blog run by Da Barke Lord Skepkitty, and also by the Death Dealers".
The Half-World is a blog primarily for Fan FicMSTs run by theskepkitty, aka Control Brain Lillias on Operation Head Pigeons. It comprises of awful fanfictions from fandoms such as Invader Zim, Twilight, Harry Potter, and Portal; as well as various other posts (some of which are MSTs in their own right, though not of FanFics). The site, which was started in September 2010 but didn't post any MSTs or attract much attention until early 2011, is quickly expanding and now has over 150 chapters of MSTs.She has MSTed these stories: *
Grant: I feel that this is time to introduce a catch phrase; I mean, Skepkitty has “The plot thickens”. Hm… ”The plot takes a U-turn”… ”The plot hits a fork in the road”…perhaps I should just stick with “Fuck it”
The fanfics in this book are owned by their respective writers, and neither Skepkitty, Meadow, or RingmasterJ5 claim any of them as their own. "Friday" and "My Jeans" are copyright Ark Music Factory, 2011. The two full-page ads featured here are the property of Richard W. Wetherill. "Invader Zim" is copyright Viacom. "Harry Potter" is copyright J. K. Rowling. "Twilight" is copyright Stephanie Meyer.
Justified, as an e-book is only one step away from a published book, which could earn money.
Horrible Fanfiction #1 begins with "No, I didn't write it, okay?".
However, one MST gives this: (From Teen Fortress 2)
[...] THEN I REMBERED THE BLOOG BOUT HAF WORLDS WAS LIKE INVADER ZEN SO I PUT GAS IN TO SEE HOW SHE LICKS SAYIN STUFF BOUT YUR CHARS LIKE HOW SHE SAID SCOT MOLEST/RAPED KATTY!)
I like the idea that Gaz is somehow “my” character.
"Still a better love story/fanfic than Love Knows No Race."
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: A comment on Zim Born Again, noting that Zim was literally born again, not converted to Christianity, has led MarissaTheWriter into writing a fanfic "Invader Zim: Born Again Christian". It was promptly MSTed.
Orwellian Retcon: While usually against changes in her published MSTs when a mistake is pointed out, in the MST of Chapter 7 of Teen Fortress 2 Skepkitty actually did that.
As a general rule, if the mistake is a minor one it's corrected. If the mistake was a bigger part of the MST a note is added.
no no no no no no THIS ISN’T HAPPENING no no no no THE AUTHOR DID NOT JUST IMPLY THAT ZIM AND DIB ARE BROTHERS AND THE CHILDREN OF THE ALMIGHTY TALLEST no no no no no no no no no NO FUCKING NO
Reference Overdosed: Basically every post is like this, but particularly the MSTs of "Grazie the Beautiful New Girl" and "Half Irkens" due to Skepkitty playing through both Portal and Portal 2 at the time.
And "WELL, THIS AMAZING PLAN CAN'T POSSIBLY FAIL."
Symbol Swearing: For a while, but then Skepkitty gave up; mainly because the FanFics she was MSTing tended to use more language/mature content (My Immortal, for example), and thus the posts were going to be NSFW anyway.
Dumbldore yelled at them but they didn’t stop. All of a sudden…… a terrible man with red eyes and no nose flew in on his broomstick. He had no nose and was wearing a gray robe.
Wait, so did he have a nose?
(From Grazie the Beautiful New Girl)
“A diary…” I was walking home from Skool when I tripped over the Diary.
Well, now we know where Grazie is from. She’s from the Department of Redundancy Department.
(From Teen Fortress 2)
This is the new studant hes new.
The new student is new? No points for guessing that all these guys passed their Redundancy classes of redundancy. They probably got A’s.
There's also a blog post about Fandom Specific Plots in Invader Zimhere, as well as a blog post about Invader Zim pairings here, and blog posts about pairings and overused plots in Portal are being worked on.
“Hallo, mein Name ist Grazie, ich freue mich darauf, Sie kennen zu allen! Ach ja, und Frau Bitter ist ein horribe Lehrer und hat keine Ahnung, was ich sage, so HA! Toodles!”
According to Babelfish, that means: “Hello, my name is Grazie, I looks forward to it, you knows to all! Oh, and Mrs. Bitter is not a horrible teacher and has notion, which I say, so HA! Toodles!” I would suspect that what she meant is “Hello, my name is Grazie, I look forward to meeting you all! Oh, and Ms. Bitters is a horrible teacher and has no idea what I’m saying, so HA! Toodles!” I can’t explain the “Toodles!”
Skepkitty had to be told what "kami" means, because she didn't know that. *
It's Japanese for "God" or "deity"
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Incest Is Relative: Love Knows No Race practically runs on incest. Red/Purple, then Zim/Dib (Red and Purple's kids), and then Purple/Sek (Zim and Dib's kid).
Though, Zim/Dib is actually incest (in the fic, as they're twins), Ho Yay (complete with M Preg) andFoe Yay (in the canon) in one place.
Allow me to rant here: you should never base a character on yourself. It just sets you up for viewing the character as you, rather than as a tool with which to write a story, and then you become attached and don’t want to make anything bad happen to the character because that’s you, and you also don’t want to show the character’s bad side because you’d like to present yourself in the best light, and before you know it you’ve turned your character into a Sue.
UpsidePickle: All in all, incest, incest COMBO x2!!, incest TO THE SECOND POWER.
Ur Example: Love Knows No Race was actually written in 2002, inciting Skepkitty to point something out...
I was going to suggest that Marissa try to get a part in this, but then I realized that this story was written in 2002. Since it’s such an old Zimfic, maybe, instead of just borrowing every Zimfic cliché in the book, the author helped invent those clichés, which makes it worse in a way.
Which also makes it older than My Immortal, which by The Half-World's present day (2012) had become a badfic classic.
Though really, all these two have in common are the name and the author.
Be warned: the site’s title may be “the (other) half-world”, but it’s quite a bit different from this half-world, and if you follow me you’ll have to put up with a lot of fangirl behavior.
One of Us: Skepkitty constantly references this site and has her own Troper page.
And she helps edit this page sometimes. *
But she didn't write the above, promise.
She also, once her My Immortal MST got to the "Hajimemashite gurl." part, almost directly quoted TV Tropes on the matter.
Word Salad Title: The title comes from a phrase in Skepkitty's family:
The site is called “The Half-World” because whenever I space out (a very, very common occurrence), my mom will try and snap me out of it by saying “You’re staring into the half-world.” I found the name appropriate for a site that’s full of the kind of things I think about when I’m spacing out.
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