Author Topic: Flounced Fics (Twilight fanfiction) (Read 281244 times)

Matron · « **on:** January 14, 2013, 04:02 PM »

Ok folks, list em here. Fics that you have flounced, and why you flounced them. Help keep others apprised of the good, the bad, and the badly edited.

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Illusionofhappiness · « **Reply #501 on:** April 29, 2013, 06:41 AM »

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I'd flounce that just from the spelling mistakes in the summary

Bella is coming from a bad marriage that haunts her. After recieveing her Masters in Psychology she begins to embrace her submissive nature, she fines herself drawn to Edward's Dominating charater. He wants to help her fine a place of peace at his feet.

Isn't that awful. I have gotten so used to bad spelling that I didn't even notice that in the summary. I will never overlook bad grammar or txt speak but obviously I have learnt to look past spelling mistakes like those.

avag · « **Reply #502 on:** April 29, 2013, 09:09 AM »

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We don't do word counts here. So it's really weird for me when people talk about it. I have no idea if a million words is too much or not.

A million words is about 1500 pages - that is Word document pages (no double spacing) and not normal book pages. It would probably triple the page count to put it into book size pages.

Emancipation Proclamation by Kharizzmatik was close to that.

deranged_dreamer · « **Reply #503 on:** April 29, 2013, 09:11 AM »

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A million words is about 1500 pages - that is Word document pages (no double spacing) and not normal book pages. It would probably triple the page count to put it into book size pages.

Emancipation Proclamation by Kharizzmatik was close to that.

I still haven't read that.

Maggie · « **Reply #504 on:** April 29, 2013, 09:16 AM »

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I still haven't read that.

It's really good. I didn't dare go near it until I bought an e-reader though.
If you do, make sure you have lots of tissues nearby

laurendeplume · « **Reply #505 on:** April 29, 2013, 11:38 AM »

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I still haven't read that.

I don't think you'll like it. I didn't like it all that much, if I'm honest.

Chilibabe · « **Reply #506 on:** April 29, 2013, 01:06 PM »

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I don't think you'll like it. I didn't like it all that much, if I'm honest.

EP is on my "I saved it because I'm a greedy hoarder but I'll probably never read it" pile, right next to Fifty...

Ellachanted · « **Reply #507 on:** April 29, 2013, 06:46 PM »

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EP is on my "I saved it because I'm a greedy hoarder but I'll probably never read it" pile, right next to Fifty...

Now see I liked Fifty. But then I like CEOward. I've yet to read a Mafiaward beyond the first chapter. So EP is on the "I save everything and maybe I'll read it someday .....maybe"

ficfangirl · « **Reply #508 on:** May 01, 2013, 10:46 PM »

I think I read/skimmed about 70 chapters of Diamond in the Rough. I keep track of it, but it will take me a while to get back to it. When a story has as many SPaG errors as that one, I go a little crazy reading it because of the editing process in my head. Skimming keeps me from getting too frustrated. I'm really surprised the story is still going, though. I have to admit I only skimmed Emancipation Proclamation. Every chapter was so long and it was fairly repetitive. I don't really feel like I missed anything by just skimming. Skimming is my equivalent to flouncing, since I'm incapable of flouncing.

Illusionofhappiness · « **Reply #509 on:** May 01, 2013, 11:18 PM »

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I think I read/skimmed about 70 chapters of Diamond in the Rough. I keep track of it, but it will take me a while to get back to it. When a story has as many SPaG errors as that one, I go a little crazy reading it because of the editing process in my head. Skimming keeps me from getting too frustrated. I'm really surprised the story is still going, though. I have to admit I only skimmed Emancipation Proclamation. Every chapter was so long and it was fairly repetitive. I don't really feel like I missed anything by just skimming. Skimming is my equivalent to flouncing, since I'm incapable of flouncing.

I have started doing the same. I have skipped massive chunks of stories. I think I've tried to read Emancipation Proclamation about ten times. I am determined to get through it all, one day.

griddy · « **Reply #510 on:** May 09, 2013, 09:18 AM »

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I've yet to read a Mafiaward beyond the first chapter. "

I know!

So many mafiawards are really just douchebags with a gun, written by tween girls who have no clue what they're talking about. Usually anything involving Edward as a 'mafia prince' or Bella as a 'mafia princess' has been written by someone who has watched more episodes of Jersey Shore than actual number of books read.

CEOwards seem to fair a little better in the 'so bad it but it hurts so good' department. I don't know... maybe because the writers are old enough to hold down a job, so they have a bit more insight into the inner workings of wanting what is bad for you.

I haven't read EP because a trusted friend told me the writer "milks the melodrama", which my issue with "The Red Line". I might still read EP because I quite liked "Pinky Swear." IDK IDK... only way to find out is to read it.... but it's soooo long!

The only mafiaward I have read and like was cherry.blossomz "With the Lights Out", but that was more about ....

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"With the Lights Out" doesn't really get into Edward's illicit activities as a hired gun, but it does delve into Carlisle's dirty work. I not only liked it for the angst-de-slowburn-UST, but it was clear the author wasn't trying to romanticize (i.e. excuse) crimelord's Carlisle's reason d'etre. The ending was dark, not tragic (ExB happens), but not happy-happy-joy-joy either... so be warned.

I actually liked it better for the ending. Rather than make everything perfect, it was a bit ambiguous, casting a problematic light on crime families, where even if you 'win', you don't.

aliceinangst · « **Reply #511 on:** May 09, 2013, 07:18 PM »

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I flounced The Red Line by WinndSinger and Harkham`s Case by Scarlettplay recently.
Reason: both are overly dramatic and so totally unbelieveable and unrealistic that I just couldn't do it. The ideas are good in both stories and parts are well-written, but both authors go totally overboard and that destroys everything.

The Red Line was a fave..... until he went back. Then it went down hill fast. And I even tortured myself with Coloring Outside the Lines, the sequel. It. Was. Bad. *shudder*

ajamm · « **Reply #512 on:** May 12, 2013, 07:59 AM »

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The Red Line was a fave..... until he went back. Then it went down hill fast. And I even tortured myself with Coloring Outside the Lines, the sequel. It. Was. Bad. *shudder*

Why bad ? was it just unnecessary or was it just badly written ?

yassa · « **Reply #513 on:** May 13, 2013, 04:03 PM »

I totally agree that The Red Line is ok and in parts really good until Edward goes back. I mean, I have some issues about a lot of things they do in bed during their two weeks since it is so very obvious that Edward has been sexually abused in a horrible way, and even though he is the one pushing Bella, it feels like she is abusing him too by allowing him to. She lets him continue in a situation that is, for him, inseperably connected with abuse, without any emotional distance to said abuse to experience her fantasies, which left a horrible taste in my mouth. And I hate that she calls their interviews "therapy". She is clearly in no way qualified as a therapist (yet), nor has he agreed to therapy (just interviews!!), and it is so unethical that it is totally UN-BELIEVEABLE that she has sex with someone whom she considers as her patient. But when he goes back, it looses all sense of reality and believeability.

Because I was so dissapointed with the way it ended, I didn`t bother with the sequel. I`d like to know why you find it so bad, because otherwise, I might be tempted to try it anyway someday when I am bored out of my mind..

deranged_dreamer · « **Reply #514 on:** May 15, 2013, 05:37 PM »

Love is Strange
Author: MarieCarro PM
What do you do when you find out that your best friend is in love with you? What if you'd known that person for ten years? Will you tell them that you know or pretend like everything's normal? AH Warning: Mentioning of underage drinking, suicide, and cheating. Pre-written and edited. Fast updates :-)
Follow/FavoriteRated: Fiction M - English - Friendship/Romance - Bella & Edward - Chapters: 25 - Words: 93,953 - Reviews: 434 - Favs: 201 - Follows: 335 - Updated: 05-14-13 - Published: 04-09-11 - id: 6891096

Just flounced this. Maybe I didn't give it a fair chance.

S. · « **Reply #515 on:** May 16, 2013, 01:17 AM »

Blindingly Beautiful by BottledCoke
Bella's been blind since she was little. Edward is the next heir to Cullen INC but to take over he has to get married and have a heir in 5 years or less. He meets Bella at Jaspers party and makes her a deal she can't refuse. ExB, JxA, AU/AH, Lemons.

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Stupid is not enough to describe this story. This story is infantile. Written as if by a child in elementary school. And she needs beta ASAP.

S. · « **Reply #516 on:** May 16, 2013, 01:18 AM »

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Love is Strange
Author: MarieCarro PM
What do you do when you find out that your best friend is in love with you? What if you'd known that person for ten years? Will you tell them that you know or pretend like everything's normal? AH Warning: Mentioning of underage drinking, suicide, and cheating. Pre-written and edited. Fast updates :-)
Follow/FavoriteRated: Fiction M - English - Friendship/Romance - Bella & Edward - Chapters: 25 - Words: 93,953 - Reviews: 434 - Favs: 201 - Follows: 335 - Updated: 05-14-13 - Published: 04-09-11 - id: 6891096

Just flounced this. Maybe I didn't give it a fair chance.

Thanks for warning. I wanted to read it.

deranged_dreamer · « **Reply #517 on:** May 16, 2013, 05:28 AM »

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Thanks for warning. I wanted to read it.

I was in a weird mood yesterday. Maybe you should check it out anyway.
Se is 19yo and From Norway, I think.
I couldn't get into it.

But I also skipped this fic, read the first couple of chapters and the last one:

It's Real Life
Author: xXTailoredDreamsXx PM
Bella never thought she'd meet a man who could make her want everything she'd been running from most of her life. What will happen when a self professed friends w/ benefits pro meets a self proclaimed recovering manwhore while the cameras are rolling?
Follow/FavoriteRated: Fiction M - English - Drama/Romance - Bella & Edward - Chapters: 25 - Words: 249,320 - Reviews: 1,008 - Favs: 380 - Follows: 504 - Updated: 05-13-13 - Published: 11-30-10 - id: 6518240

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This one is not even that bad. But I'm tired of

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I'm pmsing.

deranged_dreamer · « **Reply #518 on:** May 16, 2013, 05:33 PM »

It Isn't Over Yet
Author: reyes139 PM
Everything they said, everything they did, everything I saw was about him and his memory. He left me. Yet here I stand eight years later, still drowning in his memory and the destruction he left behind. B/E promised HEA
Follow/FavoriteRated: Fiction M - English - Angst/Romance - Bella & Edward - Chapters: 23 - Words: 55,721 - Reviews: 1,161 - Favs: 548 - Follows: 761 - Updated: 05-16-13 - Published: 09-08-11 - id: 7364667

This Edward is awful. No way he should be forgiven.
It read like a soap opera.
Also

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deranged_dreamer · « **Reply #519 on:** May 21, 2013, 05:27 AM »

This started as an ok fic, interesting plot. Now every new chapter there is some kind of new breakdown. How many plots and subplots that end up with someone getting shot, heart attacks, getting hit by a car, runway kid, drug dealers, panic attacks, PTSD, more than one kid outside of marriage. And so many tantrums. Even the grandparents have tantrums. Each chapter has a different character on a screaming match. It turned into a bad soap opera.

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The Lost Son
Author: InkJess PM
Edward didn't know that when he lost his mother, he'd gain a father he didn't know about. Carlisle didn't know he had another son. What happens when an Edward comes to live with a family he's never known? What about past choices? Will they come to haunt him? Who can help Edward adjust to his new life? Maybe a brown hair, brown eyed girl? ExB : OOC/AU
Follow/FavoriteRated: Fiction M - English - Drama/Angst - Edward & Bella - Chapters: 57 - Words: 115,352 - Reviews: 3,072 - Favs: 726 - Follows: 1,170 - Updated: 05-20-13 - Published: 01-14-13 - id: 8908690

Onefinefanfic · « **Reply #520 on:** May 21, 2013, 10:54 AM »

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I was in a weird mood yesterday. Maybe you should check it out anyway.
Se is 19yo and From Norway, I think.
I couldn't get into it.

But I also skipped this fic, read the first couple of chapters and the last one:

It's Real Life
Author: xXTailoredDreamsXx PM
Bella never thought she'd meet a man who could make her want everything she'd been running from most of her life. What will happen when a self professed friends w/ benefits pro meets a self proclaimed recovering manwhore while the cameras are rolling?
Follow/FavoriteRated: Fiction M - English - Drama/Romance - Bella & Edward - Chapters: 25 - Words: 249,320 - Reviews: 1,008 - Favs: 380 - Follows: 504 - Updated: 05-13-13 - Published: 11-30-10 - id: 6518240

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This one is not even that bad. But I'm tired of
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I'm pmsing.

I normally lurk on this site but I saw this and had to leave my first comment. It's Real Life is currently one of my favorite WIP's and I just don't agree that there's too much sex without meaning. The sex is very much a part of the story, and there's certainly a story there beyond the sex. If you don't like lemons I get it and respect that but never once is Edward and Bella just sitting around eating popcorn and they look at each other then start humping like wild dogs, ha! There's always a realistic reason for them to end up with their clothes off that fits with the moment in the story. Maybe give it another try when you're not pms'ing?

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