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[bubosquared]

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I'm trying to be calm and all, but waaaaah! Could someone please teach ff.net some grammar? Who did this? Who?

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[kezzyau.livejournal.com]

LOL. That sounds like something that's been translated by google from Chinese.

You know how you told me that Harry Potter is easy to find on ff.net? Well, I'm not a fanfic Nazi and I'm usually pretty tolerant of fumbles in things like grammar and spelling and yet I avoid that site like the bubonic plague!

Maybe it was just the fandoms I was reading in, or maybe it was just dumb luck in the fics I picked to read, but from my experience the stuff at ff.net is proof why sites like CABS exist.

Bad grammar, atrocious spelling, getting the *main characters'* names wrong, ludricrous plots, poor characterisation (have they actually *seen* the show?), hetting (dear Lord!), the itsy-bitsy totally pointless two-paragraph fic ... tbc?; name any fanfic sin, it's there. I haven't spent a *lot* of time on ff.net, but what time I have was like fanfic purgatory. So, no, not looking in ff.net for HP. :-/

Having ranted like that, I'm sure there are fine writers and some great fic on ff.net. I just haven't stumbled on any of it.

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[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Ah, well, I didn't say it was easy to find good HPfic. ^_____^

I would recc you some stuff, except well. I've been out of the actual fandom for ages, and honestly, you're better off relying on others' reccs.