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I didn't get to read all those books during English because our teachers screwed up in attempts to reorganize the the curriculum. We read in total of 4 books during the entire school year. The end result is one item in the gradebook, and the finals wasn't even graded.

My birthday is December 2.

I like reading quite a lot, so I actually enjoy most of the required stuff.

And less we forget

The Golden Carp

One of my friend's says London Calling is the Clash's best album when clearly it's Combat Rock.

Fellow old people back me up on this.

Sorry, London Calling's the best.

Has anyone else had that feeling when you're reading/watching something and you think "This is awesome!", but later when you think about it after you realize "that was actually pretty terrible."

Avatar.

It was gorgeous, but then the minute I got out of the theatre all the plotholes just started hitting me in the face.

This happens to me with a lot of the books I read.

After Earth.

It had so much potential.

Pretty much everything I've ever disliked, I liked while engaging with it the first time.

I even thought the first Percy Jackson movie was okay the first time I saw it. The first Percy Jackson movie!

Every time, before I write a fan work, I mentally write its trope page so I don't fall into any cliches. I have never written a fan work since becoming a troper.

I keep thinking to write something, but it never gets past the idea stage.

Fascinating; you've managed to encompass my entire existence in a single sentence.

@SmartGirl: That doesn't seem like a good thing to do, to be honest. You're mentally trying to categorise and pigeonhole everything you write, it sounds like. Tropes are just storytelling tools, they're not bad or good. A good story should be greater than the sum of its parts, not just a list of tropes you make to yourself.

Don't be afraid of falling into cliches. Just write what comes naturally to you. If you overthink it you'll start to back yourself into a corner.

edited 21st Apr '15 7:20:37 PM by WonderSquid

I make sure I hit every trope in this pile of stuff I am working on. Black hole powered time travel? Yeah it is there.

Why did my obsession suddenly shift from Randy Savage to Katy Perry? Other than the bright colors and all, there's no connection. Like, at all.

Dad made me a website and got me a book on HTML coding.

I hated programming in school. I thought I conveyed that. Didn't care so much for web design either.

It's mostly his attempt to get me to start networking so that somebody else will want to hire me and I can make enough money to finally leave this house, but I really doubt it's going to happen...I'm not the kind of guy to showcase myself.

What I'd rather do is apply somewhere that my skills are appreciated, the company remains relevant and I can make enough money to live alone.

...I almost want to work at Google, cataloging websites or something.

Though they're in California and I want to live in Hawaii, or somewhere by the beach...how juvenile is this line of thinking?

I still want to work for NASA. You are not the most naive here.

Deciding a path in life is infuriating. I'm staying at home as long as I can to plot out a course for myself. I either stay in this town and try to make the best of it, or work until I save up enough to move, maybe to a bigger city in my state, or over west where I want to be back by the Pacific...

Just somewhere that I feel I belong. My dad left Hawaii years ago for some reason unknown to me but I just want to go back.

I still gotta ask him why he ever left.

To add to what Wonder Squid says - there's a reason why Narm Charm as a reaction exists. It's basically there because we know it's cliche and done to death, but sometimes it's so well done that it works as a result.

Those same works usually just run with it and play it for all its worth. Hell, some works are appreciated because they run with the cliche but do so without the annoyances, and it WORKS.

The only fanfics I've ever written were

1. a wish fulfillment self insert with a slightly Mary Sue-ish protagonist and OOC, OOC everywhere
2. a badly written one with (according to FFN criticism) huge holes in the nonexistent plot.

edited 21st Apr '15 10:21:18 PM by SmartGirl333

I've never written fanfic. Unless being in a Pokémon RP counts.

If you're worried about Sues, I'm gonna leave this here.

It's true that these things are far from perfect (for instance if you run characters like Dr. Manhattan through he gets scored as a Sue just because he's so ridiculously broken), so my advice to you would to be to just run potential characters thorugh like they're normal humans. Ignore things like powers and appearance and stuff and for the most part focus on how they interact with the characters around them, how they're expected to be perceived by the audience, and how the characters react to them. That's the biggest problem area with Sues — everyone is supposed to love them/hate them (villain sues are a thing too) and the reader is never told why other than "you just are okay?".

edited 21st Apr '15 10:28:24 PM by WonderSquid

No, she was a normal human, just exactly me at the time but compelling more respect than a 10-year-old girl would in real life. It was a fic where she went to Springfield through an alternate universe machine invented by her Absent-Minded Professor uncle "Beeble" (communicating with him through a "inter-dimensional phone" also of his invention) and fixes all the flaws in the Simpsons world that allow for actual plot in episodes, with a tacked-on plot (something about the machine breaking). I wrote it before I had any idea what fanfic was, so I thought that it could actually get published.

edited 22nd Apr '15 12:59:43 AM by SmartGirl333