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Pet Peeves v.7

Discussion in 'Fanfic Discussion' started by Dark Syaoran, Jan 31, 2013.

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  1. Joe's Nemesis

    Joe's Nemesis High Score: 2,058 ~ Prestige ~

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    Why? 'Cause hanging out with a gay person makes you gay?
     
  2. Warlocke

    Warlocke Fourth Champion

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    It's how they do their recruiting! :nyan: :ph34r: :nyan:
     
  3. Rache

    Rache Headmaster

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    Majority of Dark!Harry fics where Harry is always gay and so are Voldemort, Draco, Snape or Lucius.

    The mysterious connection always eludes me.
     
  4. Peace

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    Fleur's family being rich/politically powerful in pretty much every fic I've read where she plays more than a bit role.
     
  5. Glimmervoid

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    Well, Fleur's dad is described as "nowhere near as attractive as his wife; he was a head shorter and extremely plumb, with a little, pointed black beard." While her mum is a "beautiful blonde woman in long, leaf green robes".

    He has to have something going for him. Maybe he's got a really great personality?
     
  6. Andrela

    Andrela Plot Bunny DLP Supporter

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    Yeah, because true love does not exist. Especially in the Harry Potter universe.
     
  7. chrnno

    chrnno High Inquisitor

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    Yeah whatever you may think of it this is an universe that soul mates and soul bounds are canon.:rolleyes:
     
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  8. Saot

    Saot Groundskeeper

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    No they aren't.

    I think you've been reading too much terrible fanfiction.
     
  9. chrnno

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    I suppose the joke wasn't so obvious that I didn't have to add a :rolleyes:.

    That said they are, in fact, canon. Harry/Ginny, Ron/Hermione, James/Lily, Arthur/Molly where the marriage is perfect and amazing, Ginny and James before either had even entered puberty and Ron/Hermione barely into it and the last all it took was a crush/use of a love potion and then they lived perfectly well.

    As for soul bounds, Voldemort and Harry are linked by souls therefore a soul bound.
     
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  10. TMNTurtwig

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    Except you know, Fleur is described as being well-versed in cleaning and household charms as well as marrying a Weasley. Both are things that people from affluent/politically powerful families are unlikely to do.
     
  11. Joe's Nemesis

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    I think it comes from people thinking that "Delacour" just HAS to mean that her father is the modern day version of royalty in some way.

    Personally, I think it's crap. It's why I wrote the father as being a step below the equivalent of the head of DMLE, but in a department that is more background legal/intelligence type work, and made the family upper middle class, which I think goes just about exactly right with that level of power in a government.

    ---------- Post automerged at 08:27 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:22 PM ----------

    Well versed in cleaning charms? According to Hat, that's because Beauxbatons has a mandatory etiquette class.

    When it comes to things magic, always trust Hat. :sherlock:
     
  12. Alexx

    Alexx Card Captored and buttsecksed

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    Teenage girls inserting themselves into Harry. Its creepy as fuck I can understand if they insert themselves into Ginny or Hermione why the fuck do you insert yourself into a guy and then have him fucked by Snape and Malfoy and then have Snape call him Lily? This is disturbing.
     
  13. TMNTurtwig

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    I thought you were saying your pet peeve was dick girls. Since it wasn't, I'm just going to go on record and say that that is my pet peeve. At least in Harry Potter. Izma/Champion OTP.
     
  14. Alexx

    Alexx Card Captored and buttsecksed

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    I'm goddamn tired of all the dark and independant Harry story where he's got 756529856852562415426985 galleons at his disposal and in 2 months gets to the point where he goes to 'humiliate' Dumbledore. I mean FFS! The man's 160, I think he can handle some prick with an ego-boost without experience and Harry being so 'smart' and 'independant' and 'powerful' in those fics should see that!
     
  15. enembee

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    Ya, I no rite?! I mean RLY?!
     
  16. Hero of Stupidity

    Hero of Stupidity Villain of Sensibility ~ Prestige ~ DLP Supporter

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    Sew burn. TTLy.
     
  17. Invictus

    Invictus Master of Death

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    Using fanon charecteristics like they are canon. To slash fans, specially those who use Snape. You are retarded, and you parents should have euthanized you. Dumbledore doesn't count, stories where he is straight are the ones that are weird.

    Harry being the Great and Benevolent White Man, and goblins and house elfs choose him as a leader because he is so good to us. He is not the whitey messiah to magical beings. Please usw tha Savior's Complex you love and create a cult. With other retards like you, so all of you can commit suicide and make this world a better place. Darwin Style.
     
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  18. Damask

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    This one is a bit odd... but I really hate it when people include "no slash" in the summary. When I'm not using people's Favorite lists to find potentially interesting stories/authors, I use Filtered Fanfiction and I tend to filter out the word "slash". So, if any het fic has anything with the word "slash" in the summary, the search engine skips over it even though the actual content might be what I am looking for. It's rather ironically self-defeating.
     
  19. Evon

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    It goes both ways. Slash has now become so common in the HP fandom that most authors don't lab their stories as slash. I actually look for 'no slash' in a summary just so I know for sure that the story I just clicked on won't turn out to be a slash fic halfway through.

    Either way you do it; avoiding slash fic garbage is impossible. Half the time het fics turn out horribly bad do to teenage writers attempting to write about something they know very little about.
     
  20. Joe's Nemesis

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    Then it's not actually slash.
     
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