Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Help with a locked page.
, started by billybobfred on Nov 1st 2010 at 4:05:14 PM
The REAL author of My Immortal has been found.
One, it was a troll fic:
https://rosechristo1.tumblr.com/post/165099991799/are-you-ever-going-to-finish-my-immortal-by-the
Two, how people found her :
https://rosechristo1.tumblr.com/post/164919419319/im-sorry-if-this-is-a-touchy-subject-and-if-it
And three, her reactions to it being public knowledge now:
https://rosechristo1.tumblr.com/post/164991145354/it-sucks-that-people-figured-out-who-you-are-bc
https://rosechristo1.tumblr.com/post/164988733359/do-you-know-what-the-title-of-your-memoir-will-be
https://rosechristo1.tumblr.com/post/164986924529/whats-it-like-knowing-that-my-immortal-is
https://rosechristo1.tumblr.com/post/164986770524/im-kinda-disappointed-that-the-my-immortal
https://rosechristo1.tumblr.com/post/164958933584/did-you-really-write-my-immortal-or-is-that-just
https://rosechristo1.tumblr.com/post/164958021879/hello-im-really-sorry-about-u-being-outed-before
Yup, posted the same thing myself just a bit ago. We really need to get a Mod/Admin in here to update the article.
Side Note: It's a testament to her own elusiveness that even with this flood of evidence Rose has provided more than a few people are CONVINCED she's not "Tara".
I'll believe they found the real Tara, but "it was a Troll Fic" reeks of Parody Retcon and I don't believe that for a second.
It was briefly discussed in ATT.
Rose Christo disappeared back into obscurity as quickly as she appeared, with her memoirs being pulled from publication and her identity as "Tara" being seriously questioned.
https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/10/9/16428248/my-immortal-still-a-mystery-rose-christo-fake
Yep, I believe we all sort of heard about that when it came out and yeah we're not editing this on the basis of that.
In support of the idea that it was a Troll Fic, there's the fact that occasionally "Tara" uses a name which is completely wrong yet spelled correctly or almost correctly, like "Azerbaijan" or "Abkhazian" instead of "Azkaban" or "Tom Bombodil" instead of "Tom Riddle".
If Tara were truly as uninformed as her writing makes her seem, what are the chances that she would have heard of Azerbaijan or Abkhazia, much less be able to spell them? And Tom Bombadil is a character from "The Lord of the Rings", but only the novel — he's not mentioned in the films. It's hard to believe that Tara (the writing persona) would have read "The Lord of the Rings."
Ivagu
Can we change the picture on the main page?
Because I found an official cover on Amazon:
Queen of the gods
Can someone add Ghost Of You? Seems to be widely sought after by fans of the original, thought I could help.
Write an Avesta of my own.
: The Musical
“Out of Character: Nearly everyone. Ironically, averted with McGonagall, who appears once to yell at Ebony and Draco for having sex.” The part about McGonagall is inaccurate. She shows up many chapters later to help Snape tie up Ebony, Draco, and Vampire so he can kill/torture/“rap” them or whatever.
Edited by ProgenyExMachina
Can we rephrase the text of the Genre Launch entry? Imho it's quite distasteful to use cancer as a metaphor, and goes against the lighthearted spirit of the site.
I refer to this part: "Despite FF.net's valiant efforts to preserve the wellbeing and sanity of the overall populace, this new trend where good and decent writers produce worse fiction than the worst writers has proven to be a rather deadly and resilient cancer."
Okay so, this time it looks to be for real
Should we update the article to include this new information?
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Apparently the real Tara Gillespie has emerged. From everything I've read, this is seemingly legitimate. Mystery solved?
http://taragillespie.tumblr.com
A wee bit many impostors so far, seems like,
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
True, but everything this blog has said has had a ring of truth to it; the stories about Raven all seem to be believable and correlate with the story as well.
According to a fictionpress account that seems likely to be Tara's, which the owner updated just this month to say a few words (mostly "no, I'm not Lani Sarem"), she is on tumblr but she uses her real name over there, and said real name isn't Tara. If you believe the fictionpress account is real, then the tumblr account is a very elaborate fake. Still, both claims are convincing enough that I'm actually willing to believe one of them might be real. 2017 is wild.
Sorry to resurrect this old discussion and I know we have lots of those "Oh here's the REAL Tara"..but this happened:
https://www.dailydot.com/parsec/my-immortal-fanfic-2017-update/
Possibly add Bungled Suicide to the tropes list, since Ebony and her friends attempt suicide numerous times throughout the fic and fail either because a) they get distracted, b) weird vampire powers or c) Unexplained Recovery
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The place to ask for is here.
The page seems to have automatically renamed itself since that link to The Web Series was added.
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Fixed it.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Fixed again. Check the headline if there are more issues.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
I wish that I could correct the dates that Voldemort attended Hogwarts. It's not "canonically, the 1940s." Tom Marvolo Riddle was born 31 December 1926, and, like Hermione, started attending when he was a year older than everyone else. So he attended from September 1938 to June 1945. Yes, he attended Hogwarts in 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944 and 1945, but 1938 and 1939 don't qualify as the Forties no matter how you look at it.
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Feel free to ask here.
Can we give an example of what My Immortal guessed correctly about the seventh book? You know, for the people like myself who don't want to actually read the thing for the sake of mental stability, but are still curious. I still haven't been able to find an article saying what the noodle incident was.
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Harry was Voldemort's Horcrux and he did commit suicide in a sense. He Got Better.
Edited by RhymeBeat The Crystal Caverns A bird's gotta sing.
Ah, thank you for clearing it up. That really is a long shot for some one as boneheaded as the supposed Tara to get lucky. Makes you wonder...
I know a ton of people, myself included, who had that same speculation between books six and seven...what I'm wondering is, if she'd only seen the movies, how did she know about Horcruxes at all? The sixth one definitely hadn't come out yet.
At one point, Tara actually started reading the books... So she claims
Should a page be made for the webseries adaptation? And if so, how should the page be named? (they called it "(My) Immortal" to show that they weren't an official adaptation, but I'm not sure what's the policy around here)
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Well, if it's named WebVideo.My Immortal, it should go there.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Why is "Giftedly Bad" here? I'm against this being a non-YMMV trope at all, but it especially doesn't fit here because Tara doesn't have any other notable works, and if she did, it would be more appropriate for her own page.
NonFictionFantasy
Underneath "Author Avatar" there's a bullet that says Tara once described Ebony's hairstyle and then told readers to email her if they wanted to see the picture. If I remember correctly, she was describing one of Amy Lee's hairstyles and probably meant a picture of Amy Lee, not of herself.
A Most Sovereign Lady
I don't know what disturbs me more. The fact this has a page, or the fact people had to read it to give it a page. I pity whoever did, with all my soul.
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How about the fact that this page has 21,442 inbound links? (This makes it almost four times as popular as The Lord of the Rings, though that one has more wicks.)
That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.
Looks like Fan Fiction deleted it again. Anyone know where, if anywhere, it can still be found?
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I asked for a Wikia link this time. Let's see if it stays up better.
Edited by 91.125.235.103 That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.
Here's a few other places hosting the story.
http://todd-gilesbie.deviantart.com/gallery/37583188
https://encyclopediadramatica.es/My_Immortal/Chapter1-11
Trope: Trolling Author.
Apparently a man named Todd Gilesbie on Deviant Art claims to be the trolling author. Tara could indeed be a Lemony Snicket. http://todd-gilesbie.deviantart.com/ The Youtube videos are likely unrelated trolls trying to cash in on the joke.
According to Encyclopedia Dramatica, this guy would hardly be the first to claim it, but he's not on Dramatica's My Immortal page section of fakes & imposters, also this guy has been sticking to this claim for over a year.
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Outside of whether or not Todd is the real Tara.....
Tara claims to be Dyslexic. Real Dyslexics tend to use the correct letters & scramble them as well as scramble the order the words go in, they also misspell the word the same way every time. This story's text is misspelt intentionally. It seems likely if you look at the spellings & remember how letters are laid out on a standard keyboard, like "how did you mess that up? Those two letters aren't even near eachother."
Tara is also the textbook definition of a "poser" & is clearly mocking everything she claims to be a fan of. Also claims to hate Hillary Duff, yet lets it slip that she watches her movies.
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: The Musical
Tumblr informed me that this fic passes the Bechdel Test. (Enoby and B'loody Mary discuss how Willow that fucking poser got expuld. There may be others.) I never noticed that, and now I am amused.
Intelligensmosópor-jogi aktivista
The end is nigh! It got a WEBSERIES! https://www.youtube.com/user/MyImmortalWebSeries (And it's kind of funny...)
Raxis
Add Wiki Rule to the main page:
http://myimmortal.wikia.com/wiki/My_Immortal_Wiki
Yes, it has one. let us all weep.
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Actually, entries about The Wiki Rule go on Trivia pages, and that subpage isn't locked here. I've added it for you.
That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.
Thunderchin
Bootmii
Isn't Thirty Hs the Spear Counterpart?
Edited by 640k GENERATION 20: The first time you see this, copy it into your sig on any forum and add 1 to the generation. Social experiment.
''A Seducer of Gravity''
Since the page is locked, can somebody who has access to it add in two extra "counterpart" fanfics on the list given in the description? The other two would be FaCe ThE StRaNgE and Naruto Veangance Revelaitons.
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I agree. The Portal counterpat version of this is "IT'S MY LIFE!"...
I wish I wasn't so shy so I could talk to you face to face.
Breaking News:
http://todd-gilesbie.deviantart.com/
Is the author of 'My Immortal'. So, it was a troll all a long. Not to mention a /guy/.
http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1413070/XXXmidnitegoffXXX was also updated to reflect this.
I'd add this info myself but I could do it no justice...
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Is it possible to be sure? I mean, depending on how widespread this person becomes it could well be worth mentioning, but I personally am going to take it with a handful of salt.
That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.
Don't believe it. Sorry.
Over the years, My Immortal has had so many people come out and say they created it, and that account itself has been hacked on several occasions.
On top of that, "midnitegoff" isn't even Tara's original account - that's xxxbloodyrists666xxx. Though in fairness, that account was also hacked several times. If this person really wanted to prove they were a troll behind it all, they SHOULD'VE updated bloodytearz666 (Raven's unhacked account)... which they didn't.
So yeah, I'm pretty sure this guy is just trying to ride on the coattails of MI's fame and get his work out there. However, if he has any independent evidence to prove it, the burden of proof is on him. And boy, is it a big one.
Edited by Hammerhead Little fish, big fish, swimmin' in the water, come back here and give me my daughter...
You know, I get that whether or not My Immortal is actually just a prank or not is a Riddle for the Ages, but then you'd have to subscribe to a crap-ton of other crazy theories:
- The author is apparently at a skill level so poor that she types in a Funetik Aksent.
- Spelling errors often cum out to form Accidental Innuendo, such as "Cornelio Fuck".
- Alternatively, certain words are misspelled in such a way that they take on another kind of double meaning...which is straight-up narm. ie: "I screamed passively while Darko had an eructation" (eructation - burping).
- The author is a troll and decided to make a Harry Potter Fan Fic so bad it set a precedent. Thus she purposely filled it with spelling errors, Funetik Aksent, Accidental Innuendo as a result of the above mentioned, and pretended to have an IQ of room temperature.
One Less Lonely Gurl , the infamous Spongebob trollfic found here http://www.onelesslonelygurlfanfic.blogspot.com/
...should be added as the preppy, Spongebob equivalent of My Immortal. Not to mention, the fic itself is full of shoutouts to MI.
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I do exist.
The Repost got deleted and re-uploaded. The new repost is here; could someone add it?: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8170735/1/My_Immortal_REPOST_rereupload
And I think it got deleted again. The best remaining one I could find is here: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6200297/1/My_Immortal
In uffish thought
The link to the story is dead for me — ff.net says no story with that ID exists. I know where to find another copy, so should I change the link to that?
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^Yes.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Could someone add "[[hottip:*:chewing]]" after the fourth instance of the word "masticating", please? Thanks.
Edited by OmegaMetroid Thus speaks the Omega Metroid! ...Or something like that.
The article at the moment claims, at What Happened to the Mouse?, that Professor Mc Gonagall's last appearance is rather early. She actually has a short appearance in the final chapter - maybe it should say "speaking appearance"?
Educomix: "Good. I'll make toast."
Yep. I did with regular Coca-Cola, along with my friend and my brother, who did it with Dr. Pepper and Sprite respectively.
I made it the furthest (chapter 32) before I just couldn't go any further without risking serious Type 1 Diabetes. My friend Ben made it to chapter 24 before his parents came for him. From what I'm told, he went to chapter 29 before giving up when he got home. My brother was determined to beat me, but he passed out at Chapter 28.
Qui odoratus est qui fecit.
Dragoon Paladin
Hey, guys. I'm doing a MST 3 K of this wonderful story. This link leads to the first part. http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5948484/11/Mystery_Science_Theater_1000
Are these things from YMMV true?
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: Voldemortserum. Note that all the main characters use real life drugs with no negative consequences whatsoever. And Dumbledore condones smoking pot in school at the very least. Then again, they may not be smoking pot at all — just cigarettes that they think are pot.
- They're also Immune to Drugs, as the story never says anything about anybody actually getting high, or in fact feeling anything at all.
- I Am Not Shazam: She at one point refers to the band HIM, but in the same sentence then uses it lowercase. She tends to be pretty good on capitalizing band names, so it looks like she meant to refer to the singer Ville Valo.
- Poe's Law: Ask three people whether this is a parody and you'll get four answers. It doesn't help that, if it is a parody, it's the stealth variety, and as such doubly vulnerable to this.
Mah boi!
If anyone can edit the article, should we add Half Life Full Life Consequences to the list of similar fanfics?
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I have the same opinion, along with putting Doom Repercussions Of Evil up on the list.
Holy shit, there's a biblical version. http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5263209/1/Heavenly_High. I'm not even a religious person and STILL think this is blasphemy.
You know, the descent of this fanfic into an unreadable mess is made even "funnier" when you consider the fact that it was caused by Tara's former translator committing suicide.
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What translator? Where, exactly, are you getting your information? As I understand it, it didn't "descend" into an unreadable mess since that's kind of where it started.
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Raven didn't commit suicide, she and Tara got into an argument and that resulted in Raven refusing to beta after 15 chapters.
Raven being dead was mentioned in the third Author's Note to the My Immortal sequel Wake Me Up Inside. This user originally posted it in 2008, before copping to being a troll; so it most likely didn't happen, if Raven was even real to begin with.
Might want to add Did Not Do The Research - in MI, Tara managed to get the names of Filch and Mrs Norris the wrong way round - calling Filch 'Mr Norris' and Mrs Norris 'Filch'.
Not to mention the MILLION. OTHER. EXAMPLES.
The Other Troper
Need a mod to either delete the "Genre Launch" entry, or change the trope line to Genre Popularizer.
I'm on the internet. My arguments are invalid.
Reality Is Unrealistic: Just this morning, it started snowing and raining at the same time. No seriously, it did!
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Um. this is terrifying for me to admit... but... i had never heard of MCR untill i read this fanfic. so, i looked up one of their songs on youtube, and was pleasantly suprised to find that they were a LOT better than the story here. well. not that thats hard. but. im rambling.
thank you, Tara.
- gulp* that was harder to type than i expected. but, yes. new fave band, so, i guess some good has come of this fic after all.
- shudders*
Not sure if this is Tara Gilesbie, but according to a few people this person might be her. Reading through this and My Immortal, the style seems similar. But you guys know her stuff better. Is this a real deal or not?
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7471728/1/This_Is_How_I_Disappear
I have an issue with the long list of "recommendations" at the end of the main text. While My Immortal is held as a benchmark for extremely poor fanfiction, the count of examples should qualify it as a Genre Launch. It should be moved into an index or something similar.
Pantheon Busybody
In chapter 37, the one confusing sentence appears to be from Willow's POV, since she was in that scene as well.
[[VideoGame/PuyoPuyo Cosine!]]
The archived discussion somehow lost the part where I got annoyed at people who were putting the image back and getting the article re-locked. End result: A thread on Image Pickin'
. If you think this article needs an image, start by going there.
That link is dead, but does anybody know who originally posted the infamous Dumbledore image? They helped save my life, and I'd like to get to tell them.
Dragoon Paladin
I recently added a riffing of the first seven chapters to my Shadow Hearts Mystery Science Theater 3000 Fanfic. Here's a link: [1] Some advice would be nice.
Zukos Adventure should be put there as the Avatar: the Last Airbender counterpart.
I'd just like to say that making a Back to the Future cameo during a time travel scene (if done right) has serious Crowning Moment of Awesome potential.
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To bad it was done in My Immortal, where the size of the "tim" machine wasn't even correct.
There is a parody of this fan fiction for the Portal 2 franchise, called "ITS MY LIFE!"
Original: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7037708/1/ITS_MY_LIFE
Backup: http://pastebin.com/E8kLy9yh
I think the "may or may not" link in the sentence "The story may or may not be the work of a Troll." Should link to Poe's Law instead.
Evil Giraffe, MD
I made a big bowl of popcorn before watching a movie, and happened to start reading this article while the popcorn was popping.
Now the it is all gone, and I didn't even notice it disappearing because this was so entertaining.
To everyone who worked on this page: thank you.
Time to read the actual fanfic.
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-Salutes- May the force be with you.
I'm alive and less annoying than ever before.
Has anyone tried translating Taraese? I've done the first ten chapters in an attempt to make it legible and get rid of the plotholes. It's not because I hate the lulz, I just want to see what could be going through her mind (passively = passionately, apparently; I have no idea how I figured it out), and find out what the plot is, exactly. So far, the grammar isn't actually that bad; just a LOT of costume porn. I'm afraid of getting to sporking the spiked heroin cabaret, though. That'll be hard.
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You kind of answered your own question. "Has anyone tried this? I have." Anyway, I'm entertaining the idea of doing something similar for the infamous Translation Train Wreck of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, though. Although in that case, I'd be attempting to make the story coherent while pretending it has nothing to do with Star Wars.
Wrestler, bodybuilder. No hopes, no dreams.
A few people have. Here's one. Also, I never realized the "Passionately" thing until now.
''A Seducer of Gravity''
I was recently reading over this article, and the fanfic itself, and noticed something. What the hell happened to Justin? Many of you might be asking "who's Justin?" which would be understandable since it seems so many people forget about him, but he's there- in the first few sentences, no less! In the first AN, she [Tara] says this: "Justin ur da luv of my deprzzing life u rok 2! MCR ROX!". Considering the fact that Justin *is never mentioned again*, and given the fact that Tara just LOVES telling her readers random things currently happening in her life (which, of all people, you think would involve Justin) I feel like he warrants a major mention under What Happened to the Mouse? or even perhaps, his own entry on the page under Chuck Cunningham Syndrome. I ask this simply because the page is locked (which is VERY frustrating to a My Immortal fanboy such as myself), in hopes somebody will do it for me.
Oh, also, Encylopaedia Dramatica recently noted that a fanfiction.net user posted this "confession" to writing it. It seems hard to believe, especially considering that they deleted that confession soon after, and, as of right now have deleted their account too. Is this notable enough to be mentioned here?
Haha, good eye. I never really paid much attention to the Justin thing myself. Maybe try and contact one of the mods directly?
PS: Figured I'd look at your profile for the lulz. Nice music taste. *is a music slut as well* :-D
I think I may try that. I also noticed this gem in chapter 42's (the next to penultimate chapter) author's note: "fangz 4 da help wiv facts, medusa u rok!!!111" who. the. FUCK. is "Medusa"?
o and fangz 4 da complament 2 my musik tast. if ppl dont like da music i lik den tey can shoot tha fuck up cuz der jst stupid preps and can fuk off ok!!!!!!111111!11!!11!!!1
Edited by Hammerhead Little fish, big fish, swimmin' in the water, come back here and give me my daughter...
Justin is mentioned once more, in the A/N for chapter 25: AN: stop flaming ok if u dnot den il tel Justin 2 bet u up!1111
I can't believe I know that, but there you go. Might still count for some trope or another though, as he only reappeared once, and only a little over halfway through.
Man, I'm a My Immortal fan and even I didn't know that. But like you said; it's still very What-Happened-to-the-Mouse-ey
Another What Happened to the Mouse? moment, though happens during chapter 16's Author's Note: "fangz 2 britney5655 4 techin muh japnese!" (Chapter 16 was the chapter were Raven and Tara briefly disownded each other, and the chapter where all the Gratuitous Japanese started to show up.)
Also, does anybody know anything about this supposed quiz Tara once posted? (Referenced in part of Chapter 17's author's note "u kin tel weder ur a prep or not by ma quiz itz on ma hompage. if ur not den u rok. if u r den FOOOOOK UFFFFFFFFFF!")
Edited by Hammerhead Little fish, big fish, swimmin' in the water, come back here and give me my daughter...
Anachronism Stew, since Tara keeps forgetting the story it meant to be set in the nineties (e.g. My Chemical Romance was formed in 2001)
Recluse extraordinare.
Okay, so the My Immortal rehost site seems to have gone down. Not sure how permanent this is, but still, could a mod please tweak the article to reflect this? The only other rehost I know of is on Encyclopedia Dramatica, unfortunately...
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Not very permanent, apparently; it's been up for at least the past few days. :)
I wish I could've seen the reviews for the fic's original publication, before it got deleted.
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: The Musical
One commenter on the pottersues sporking shared this little confession:
"Ok... so I guess it's about time I finally set things straight. What a better day to pick then April Fool's, don't you think? I've just managed to pull off the scheme of the year. I tricked most of you (that is to say the idiots) into thinking this story was for REAL! Ha ha, not. I've been dropping ANVIL sized hints throughout the whole story, and to tell you the truth, I thought this fic wouldn't last a week. But you all caught on! Congratulations, you are all officially idiots. But hey, I don't mind, I had a good laugh out of all the reviews, especially the flames, and the ones offering constructive criticism... sorry, but all you people just wasted hours of time, for nothing! Ah, I love being a troll. ...
Sincerely, wishing you a lovely April Fool's Day, Tara"
This post was from back when the fic was still on FFN. Is there any way (geddit, like Gerard) to prove that this note existed? The post doesn't specify whether it was part of a chapter, or on her profile for one day, or what. I'm dying to know for sure whether this was real (although it probably can't be disproven, so here's hoping it did happen and that someone, somewhere, has a screenie).
This frankly doesn't make sense to me. Why would Tara put this message somewhere, and then take it down? And why would its existence remain so obscure for so long?
Just wondering, is there any trope that refers to unusual applications for a person's junk? I'm referring to the line "Sorious cocked on da door" from Chapter 34 and wondered if there was a relevant trope that could go in his entry on the character page.
the Ephemeral
I would like to add that this includes Switching P.O.V., but the page is locked.
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It also has Auto Erotica as well, but as you mentioned the page is locked, and heaven forbid someone unlocks it so we can edit the page again.
Why has no one mentioned the caramel at all? It's a Brick Joke of epic proportions!
look above you. see that spam? if this was unlocked, the spam would return with a vengeance. That stuff isn't funny. This is coming from someone who enjoys reading the So Bad It's Horrible pages, that's not funny. this will probably stay locked, and should stay locked.
(To 99.246.247.226) No it should not stay locked. The bad examples can be deleted but we should be allowed to have the page back
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Pretty much what Blob Pink Dragon said, people want to add tropes to the page, and other people can clean up the so called natter when it appears, but no one can do that until the page is unlocked.
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There is actually an article Fail O Suckyname. Could someone fix the Awesome McCoolname entry? As it is it looks...rather bad, with a red link to the nonexistent article Mc Coolname.
Where would one put a dramatic reading? Links can be found on this page
It doesn't link to Starkit's Prophecy. Admin, please capitalize the k in Kit
Isn't it a good idea to delete some tropes from My Immortal's main page? Many tropes there are also mentioned on the character sheet. I think deleting some tropes on the main page will result in a much more organized page.
Tony Branston
There are a few suggestions I would live to make for the current lead, mostly because the revisions, while less wordy, took away some useful context. First, for the opening sentence:
Once upon a time, a person known as Tara Gilesbie created a Fan Fiction that re-defined the meaning of 'bad.' My Immortal is that fanfic.
"A person" was just a closing of a long-running joke of insulting Gilesbie with suggestions on her species. May I instead recommend this:
My Immortal, by Tara Gilesbie, is a Harry Potter fanfiction that set the gold standard for all subsequent badfics.
I'm tempted to pipe So Bad, It's Good here, because I can't imagine not finding a single funny thing in this.
As you can see, this might just be the most polarizing fanfiction ever written for Harry Potter, or anything else.
Just scrap this line. It was originally a joke, but the context was lost when the struck out comments of "best" and "worst" were deleted.
Noteworthy on this Wiki for being the source of, Trope Namer and Most Triumphant (or scary) Example for Draco In Leather Pants.
This too. The trope namer was The Draco Trilogy.
For The Legend Of Zelda version, see My Inner Life, and you'll get Gannon Banned if you compare it to The Legend Of Zelda CDI Games.
The last bit of this sentence sounds ridiculous without its original follow-up "Those games are fucking epic." Consider scrapping it.
I may come back with more suggestions for the rest of the article, but really, next time a purge is done, Fast Eddie needs to find someone to double-check the remains.
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For that matter,
For the Warrior Cats version, see Starkits Prophecy.
That's a redlink, though I'm not sure whether that's because we decided to get rid of it or because it belongs in the Fanfic/ namespace. Either way, needs fixing.
she her hers hOI!!! i'm tempe
"Beyond The Impossible: How bad can Tara's spelling get? The strongest case one could make for this being a parody is that no one could possibly make that many typos."
My friends, you have not spent nearly enough time reading the new submission listings on fanfiction.net if you believe that. I seen numerous fics with literally a typo every 2-3 words (and left mean reviews). That doesn't count all the punctuation, grammar, and capitalization errors. It's quite clear that literacy is not a requirement for writing fanfic. Hell, just pick a fandom's new submissions list and read the summaries for a few pages!
[[VideoGame/PuyoPuyo Cosine!]]
Wait, why is this locked again? Last time I could at least point to a few edits in the history and say "you see that, that thing, stop doing it, grow up etc", but this time, I have no idea what happened.
This is pretty much just for clarification, as I dislike not knowing.
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- So Bad You Keep Reading Because Your Brain Refuses To Accept That Anything This Bad Could Possibly Exist
- Reading this fanfic is like activating a machine that fires cement blocks at your forehead. Each time you hit the "next chapter" button, the impact nearly knocks you from your seat and threatens to turn your brain into chunky salsa. Yet you keep pushing that button, partly out of the knowledge that (assuming you survive) you can only emerge stronger after this ordeal, partly out of respect for the twisted craftsmanship behind the hideous construct, and partly out of the mistaken belief that the next cement block couldn't possibly hurt as bad as the last one.
- IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS
- That, or you keep pushing it due to excessive brain damage.
- This Troper thinks it's the most awesome thing ever created.
- This is delicious badfic. OM NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM.
- *Looks at constant, unending spam above that was the norm for the page, commits suicide.*
- Reading this fanfic is like activating a machine that fires cement blocks at your forehead. Each time you hit the "next chapter" button, the impact nearly knocks you from your seat and threatens to turn your brain into chunky salsa. Yet you keep pushing that button, partly out of the knowledge that (assuming you survive) you can only emerge stronger after this ordeal, partly out of respect for the twisted craftsmanship behind the hideous construct, and partly out of the mistaken belief that the next cement block couldn't possibly hurt as bad as the last one.
This page was a spam target and it was just too much of a pain in the ass to deal with about two dozen /b/tards adding shit per day.
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Oh, fine, whatever. I was considering adding an example of How Do I Used Tense, but I don't want to bait the /b/tards. Oh, and if someone has editing power, this fic was not the source of Draco in Leather Pants.
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Choir Girl
The Draco Trilogy was the Trope Namer for Draco in Leather Pants, wasn't it?
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Yes, it was.
There is a fine line between recklessness and courage — Paul McCartney
I think this one really put it over the fence, though. The Draco Trilogy only had Draco in Leather Pants for one scene, if I'm not mistaken.
It was one scene that became something of a meme, and the trend of putting Draco in Leather Pants (literally and metaphorically) was already in full swing when Tara came along.
Additionally, I believe TDT predates MI by about five years. I suppose it could mean that's how TV Tropes found out about it but it seems somewhat unlikely.
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I'm getting a new computer soon, and hope to get back to a more regular schedule then. My old computer died and the even older laptop I'm using till I replace it isn't up to the job of video editing. Thanks for the interest. :)
Snipped this:
- One of Tara's "Favorite Authors" on FF is none other than XXXmidnitegoffXXX, who is known for making intentional badfics and was the author of the spoof Wake Me Up Inside which many thought was the true sequel. Why would Tara favor someone who mocked her fic and hates "Mary Sues"? Because Tara's obviously a troller.
- Or because Tara got a few years older and saw how fuckawful her story was.
- One of Tara's "Favorite Authors" on FF is none other than XXXmidnitegoffXXX, who is known for making intentional badfics and was the author of the spoof Wake Me Up Inside which many thought was the true sequel. Why would Tara favor someone who mocked her fic and hates "Mary Sues"? Because Tara's obviously a troller.
because Tara's account has been hacked into at least 3 times, possibly more. We have no idea if it was Tara who added that troll to her favorites list.
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Lonely Soul
I love the tone of this entry, it reads like an appalled sociologist is trying to make sense of it for a university project or something :-)
Field Primus
Hmm, how to split the examples properly between Rouge Angles of Satin and You Keep Using That Word? I'm pretty sure "passively" (meaning "passionately") goes in the latter, and simple spelling errors that inadvertently cause unrelated words go in the former, but those that have likely been shifted by the spell-checker... not sure, especially since someone pointed out that it's unlikely the fic has ever seen the touch of a spell-checker.
Only the curious have, if they live, a tale worth telling at all.
The article should really list A Team Firing rather Than Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy, as the latter is specifically for mooks.
Also, Catchphrase should be changed to Character Catchphrase, as the former is a disambiguation page.