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Brokeback Mountain: Our Community's Common Bond => Brokeback Mountain Fan Fiction & Poetry => Topic started by: Lynne on November 08, 2008, 11:00:53 pm

Title: The Politics of Fan Fiction
Post by: Lynne on November 08, 2008, 11:00:53 pm
For those of us enjoying, slash, I ran across this on livejournal today and it made me laugh really hard!  :laugh: :laugh:

It's worth checking out the link and comments too.   ;)

http://community.livejournal.com/fanficrants/7474890.html

Dear America,

Please stop it. Your OMC, Obama, is the worst Sue I've seen in a long time. Your WIP has been going on for a while now, with frequent updates, but so far, we haven't seen a single flaw. Coolest guy in town, funny, smart as a particularly smart whip, easily catches the eye of every swing state, about to adopt a puppy... even rappers like him. Rappers! The world is a hostile place. Suspicious European governments aren't going to be excited to the point of dribbling on their shirts the moment he appears on their doorstep. 200,000 people in Berlin? Come on. That name alone. Seriously, what's with people and their love for unusual names? John and Bill are perfectly fine for a president. Or Milhous. Even worse, your John McCain is completely OOC. That man's a war hero, he's not going to suddenly, I don't know, campaign with a fake plumber or something, just to make your character look better. Even more ridiculous: al Qaeda endorsing McCain to show how awesome your Sue is. And I'm not even talking about Sarah Palin. The world doesn't work that way.

However, the worst thing is the puppy. Please, don't let him have a puppy. If that happens, the planet will spontaneously combust to be replaced by a big ball of fluff and sunshine. Seriously. Al Gore was bad enough--Oscar AND Nobel Prize, puh-lease--but at least he had the decency to lose the election. For the love of puppies, give us some flaws, something to work with, okay?

Lots of love,
Europe


(so sorry )


One of the comments:  "Hey, he's not posting the next chapter until he gets 270 reviews!"  ;D