Line #51 WebVideo/TheFanFictionCritic


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2	[[caption-width-right:320:"I'm the [=FanFiction=] Critic, and this is what you do with a B.A. in English!"]]
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4	->''"In the future, if I happen to review your fanfiction, I'm not doing it to insult you; I'm making fun of your poor writing skills."''
5	-->-- '''Episode 1 "Disney Seven"'''
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7	''The [=FanFiction=] Critic'' is a former reviewer on Website/YouTube. Her forte was ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, bad fanfics. But not just any bad fanfics, no. She reviewed some of the worst fanfics out there, armed only with her [[DeadpanSnarker sarcasm]] and her never-ending fountain of {{Shout Out}}s to things much, much better than the things she reviewed.
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9	Her Website/YouTube channel has been closed. She used to have a blip.tv channel, but it has since been deleted.
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11	Not to be confused with WebVideo/TheFanficCritic, although the two of them are friends.
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14	!!The [=FanFiction=] Critic provides examples of the following tropes:
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16	* ActuallyPrettyFunny:
17	** In "Human Centipede Double Feature", she admits that "Centipede Crufts" would have been funny if the author clarified whether or not he intended it to be an InNameOnly creature feature about a guy entering a giant bug into a dog show. She gives it a D- instead of her usual F as a result.
18	** She admits that the opening line to "Oops-a-Daisy" was actually pretty good, as it really grabs the reader's attention (though she doesn't like that it's a sentence fragment).
19	* AuthorCatchphrase: Several reviewed fanfics have these to the point where she makes fun of it, especially "ne'er-do-wells" and "furry friends" in The Disney Seven.
20	-->'''Critic''': Stop saying "furry friends"! Because every time you do, I picture ''this''! (Shows picture from [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom Anthrocon]])
21	* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: During "Face the Strange," Shadow the Hedgehog hits on the Mary Sue, prompting the Fanfiction Critic to be repulsed and ask if they can ''please'' have something that's not bestiality. Unfortunately, the fic practically [[GilliganCut Gilligan Cuts]] into Dumbledore's incredibly out-of-character pedophilia.
22	* BerserkButton:
23	** Homophobia, see the review of ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brdR-dVa2mI&feature=related Face the Strange]]''.
24	** Most Mary Sue tropes.
25	** Run-on sentences really tick her off.
26	** As shown in the review of ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmD9v5Ll6ts Marie]]'', she doesn't take kindly to plagiarism.
27	** And, oddly enough, BreakingTheFourthWall, unless you're ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} or Series/{{Lovejoy}}, of course.
28	** She doesn't take kindly to writers who can't take criticism, as shown by some of her response videos.
29	* BigWordShout: Lets out a big "Why?" during her review of ''Fanfic/FaceTheStrange'' when [[WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas Jack Skellington]] makes an appearance.
30	* CaptainObviousAesop: {{Invoked\|Trope}} by the woman herself. The sheer depravity, stupidity, and ValuesDissonance of the writers she reviews occasionally forces her dispense one of these. Paraphrased.
31	-->'''Critic:''' Okay, let's just be clear, sweetie. If [[CreepyUncle your uncle is molesting you]], it [[CaptainObvious doesn't count as cheating on your boyfriend]].
32	* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: In episode 39, whilst reviewing ''Quasimodo and Marie's Baby'', pointing out all of the flaws in the author's description of Marie's pregnancy.
33	-->'''Critic:''' That's not what a craving is. A craving is when you wanna eat something specific -- for example, if you really wanna eat chocolate. Or spaghetti. Or chocolate-covered spaghetti.
34	* CatchPhrase:
35	** The page quote.
36	** "Oh NO!"
37	** I'd like to thank _____ for sending me this fanfiction. I'd also like to kick them in the shin, but we can't always get what we want, now can we?
38	** [Musical artist], play me out!
39	** ShowDontTell!
40	** insert PrecisionFStrike here [[TheSwearJar Clunk]]
41	** When reviewing something ''Franchise/HarryPotter''-related, "Oh, Harry Potter. What can really be said about?"
42	* CutenessOverload: Her reaction after finding pictures of cute hedgehogs in her review of "Sonic Fights Robotnik".
43	* DeadpanSnarker:
44	** In all of her reviews, though you can't really blame her.
45	** Diane, the text reader, acts like this in the review of several of her reviews.
46	* DrinkingGame: She often starts one up when a fic gets particularly bad, usually when she finds something incredibly repetitive or annoying about it (PurpleProse descriptions of a Mary Sue, run-on sentences, etc). She tells her viewers to join her if they want, but warns them not to drive and to have their hospital number on speed dial in case of alcohol poisoning.
47	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: She was gonna review good or bad fanfiction. RuleOfFunny nixed that.
48	* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: "The [=FanFiction=] Critic', obviously, mostly due to the fact that it's part of how she introduces herself at the start of every video. Her real name is Linnie, which generally only her online friends and hardcore die-hard fans call her.
49	* ForScience: In the introduction of episode 43, 'Film/TheHumanCentipede Double Feature', she says this word-for-word whilst explaining the premise.
50	-->'''Critic:''' It was a shocking horror film about an evil German scientist who wanted to join three people togther, ass to mouth, for the sheer purpose of- um... hang on a minute, it was 'cause he wanted... because of, um... it was... um... h-he did it for... science? Oh hell, do people even need reasons for doing anything anymore?
51	* HenpeckedHusband: Discussed in her review of a bad fanfic of ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959''. She shows an example from "Time Enough At Last" and takes pity on the husband in question.
52	-->'''Fanfiction Critic:''' ''Why'' would you marry [[EvilMatriarch that]]? Just why?
53	* HeroicBSOD:
54	** After reviewing her own fanfic, which follows onto the beginning of her review of ''FanFic/BackToTheFrollo'', where she's plastered/recovering from a hangover.
55	** The beginning of the second ''Film/TheHumanCentipede'' fic.
56	* INeedAFreakingDrink:
57	** During her review of ''FanFic/LegolasByLaura''.
58	--->'''Critic:''' [[ShoutOut It's five-O'-clock somewhere]], right?
59	** Reappears in several subsequent reviews, usually of particularly heinous fanfics. She often makes a DrinkingGame out of it when there's something repetitive and annoying, encouraging her viewers to join in but to also have their hospital on speed dial, and not to drive.
60	** The Mary Sue in [[FanFic/ForbidenFruitTheTempationOfEdwardCullen Forbidden Fruit]] is so ridiculous that she eventually just comes back from Diane's reading already draining her flask.
61	* TheLongList: In one review, she gives a list of [[WarGod warrior goddesses]] (complete with pictures) to comment on how she always saw nice, fluffy IncorruptiblePurePureness goddesses in fanfic and actual mythology wasn't like that. Sometimes her explaining what's wrong with a fanfic can go into this territory as well, because most of the stuff she reviews, well, ''does'' have a lot of things wrong with it.
62	** In her review of "Sonic Fights Robotnik", she starts off by listing every art form that the ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' franchise has managed to dominate, concluding by saying that she wouldn't be surprised if the series was eventually adapted into a [[TheMovie full-length feature film]][[note]]the OVA doesn't technically count[[/note]].
63	* NoodleIncident: In her review of the ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}''/''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'' crossover "Something in the Eyes", she does something offscreen that apparently gets her banned from her local church. The only detail we get is that it involved [[CelebCrush David Bowie]].
64	* OldShame: [[invoked]] [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Fanfiction Critc Reviews Her Own Fanfiction]]. [[http://underdog.hhgerbilry.com/stories/notso.txt This Fic in Question]].
65	* OlderThanTheyLook: Even though she says in every episode that she has a B.A. in English, people frequently mistake her for a teenager due to her youthful appearance. She's actually twenty-seven.
66	* OrphanedSeries: It's starting to appear this way since she hasn't updated in over a year. Confirmed on [[https://twitter.com/The_Linnie_G/status/382311000835629057 Twitter.]]
67	* PerverseSexualLust: Has this for [[Film/{{Labyrinth}} Jareth]].
68	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Done on multiple occasions, most notably with "FanFic/FaceTheStrange" and "FanFic/BackToTheFrollo," where she calls the writers out on their homophobia and misogyny.
69	* TheRival: Whenever she sends a bad movie to ''WebVideo/TheyMadeMeWatchThis'', he sends her a bad fic.
70	* RunningGag:
71	** The Cube of Profanity becomes this in some reviews.
72	** In Episode 18, referring to the illustrations of [[Franchise/HarryPotter girl!Harry,]] [[GenderBender girl!Ron,]] etc. "You can never un-see that. ''Ever''."
73	** Every time the stuffed wolf plush appears, it has a different name (examples include Smoopykins, Mister Snickerdoodle, Fluffykins, and Grumpytumpkins).
74	** When reviewing ''If I Was Your Nazi'', because she's never played ''Kingdom Hearts'', her inability to distinguish between the two characters named Riku/Rikku becomes one (not helped by how ''nobody'' has characterization here).
75	** Playing "Twilight Time" by The Platters whenever she reviews bad ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' fanfiction.
76	* SanitySlippage: During the worst of her reviews, she edges into this.
77	* ScrubbingOffTheTrauma: A rare humorous version. She feels dirtied by quoting a racist fanfic and begins scrubbing her mouth with a toothbrush. Overlaps with ShowerOfAngst below.
78	* SitcomArchNemesis: Has one in the form of [[WebVideo/TheyMadeMeWatchThis Detroit]].
79	* ShoutOut: All of her reviews include several.
80	* ShowerOfAngst: [=FanFiction=] Critic had to keep on taking showers because she was reading a fic involving Bella Swan getting raped by Edward Cullen and Bella was okay with it. Later parodied, as she leaps up for showers repeatedly over the course of a single review. Eventually, she has a toothbrushing of angst after quoting a racist fanfiction, claiming it made her mouth "feel dirty."
81	* SnarkyNonHumanSidekick: Diane the text reader in the review of "[[Film/{{Titanic\|1997}} Seven Years Later]]"
82	* SpecialEffectsFailure: In-universe, the Fanfiction ''Devil's Horns''.
83	-->'''Critic:''' They look like {{steampunk}} goggles painted red.\
84	'''Devil:''' They're just filed down like in ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}''!\
85	'''Critic:''' Oh, [[OffTheShelfFX the costume store was out of horns]]?
86	* TheSwearJar: She uses the Cube of Profanity. She mentions in one episode that once it fills up, all the money will be donated to the Red Cross.
87	* ToThePain: Her descriptions of what she'd like to do with the author of FanFic/BackToTheFrollo get vivid, especially when she dresses up as "The Fanfiction Devil" and begins describing the center of Fanfiction Hell. It's a running trend during the worst of her reviews.
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