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NEQU COMPLAINS: You're so plastic and that's tragic
a year ago
AO3 Story Tags: Transformation, techno-corruption, [girls with extra plumbing].
Me: Neat!
Actual Story: The transformations are completely offscreen, and the "corruption" is "the protagonist shows up and uses pheromones and hypno to instantly brainwash everyone". Super easy, not even an inconvenience.
Actual Story: Literally one person offers any significant bit of resistance to her corruption. Offscreen. You just get the highlights.
Actual Story: Also, there's ain't any [girls with extra plumbing].
Actual Story: Not one.
Me: Hello, Ministry of Business? I'd like to report false advertising.
Also, there's some awkward topical issue™ references, and very awkward quotes from a popular anime that was 15 years old when the story was posted. Heck, even the sequel OVA was a decade old.*
And the story is set centuries from now.
Classic online fiction issue. Someone gets a little too-self indulgent with their, um, self-indulgence. You see it in fanfics all the time. References are the same as actual good writing, no matter what Tarantino does.
This isn't even the first time I've found a wasted potential TF story, and thought "...I could do it better."**
I bet I could even leave the topical™ stuff, references and power fantasy in. Just...turn down the volume.
"Didn't you write a story about NFTs?"
Yes, and that was extremely tongue in cheek. Not po-faced.
*There was a tie-in promotional animation that came out about the same time as this story, but the story only references the original anime.
Plus some other self-contradiction.
** I actually have two stories with very similar themes outlined in my head. And at least two already written.
Me: Neat!
Actual Story: The transformations are completely offscreen, and the "corruption" is "the protagonist shows up and uses pheromones and hypno to instantly brainwash everyone". Super easy, not even an inconvenience.
Actual Story: Literally one person offers any significant bit of resistance to her corruption. Offscreen. You just get the highlights.
Actual Story: Also, there's ain't any [girls with extra plumbing].
Actual Story: Not one.
Me: Hello, Ministry of Business? I'd like to report false advertising.
Also, there's some awkward topical issue™ references, and very awkward quotes from a popular anime that was 15 years old when the story was posted. Heck, even the sequel OVA was a decade old.*
And the story is set centuries from now.
Classic online fiction issue. Someone gets a little too-self indulgent with their, um, self-indulgence. You see it in fanfics all the time. References are the same as actual good writing, no matter what Tarantino does.
This isn't even the first time I've found a wasted potential TF story, and thought "...I could do it better."**
I bet I could even leave the topical™ stuff, references and power fantasy in. Just...turn down the volume.
"Didn't you write a story about NFTs?"
Yes, and that was extremely tongue in cheek. Not po-faced.
*There was a tie-in promotional animation that came out about the same time as this story, but the story only references the original anime.
Plus some other self-contradiction.
** I actually have two stories with very similar themes outlined in my head. And at least two already written.
