Post by Xicrog on Apr 17, 2008 15:38:11 GMT -5
So, I've noticed my writing tends to have an unfortunate tendency to basically be the same(ish) plot line over and over again. Also, I update infrequently. So, in the interest of saving time for you, the reader, I have decided to conveniently summarize my entire collection of fanstories!
This Abridged Version of Xicrog's Fanstories inspired by Books-a-Minute (on the Rinkworks site.)
Protagonists: Hello, we’re really the bad guys, but you’re not supposed to know that yet!
The Entire World: Protagonists, you suck and we hate you.
Protagonists: *angst*
God: I should probably be doing something about this, but I’m not.
MEANWHILE, in the PRESENT.
Main Character: For being an oppressed minority, life isn’t all that bad!
Life: *throws many LEMONS at the main character. FROZEN ROCK-SOLID LEMONS.*
Main Character: …Okay, I kind of have to leave my formerly idyllic life now lest I be buried beneath a mountain of frozen lemons that are not lemonade-quality.
Main Character’s Steadfast Friend and/or Tutor: I’ll go with you and be an interesting foil to your personality, and also act as your balancer.
Random Being(s) the MC Just Met: You have absolutely no reason to trust me, but I’ll travel with you too!
Main Character: Uh, okay.
They go TRAVELLING, gathering OTHER TRAVELLING COMPANIONS who are most likely COMPLETELY CRAZY and learning about their BORDERLINE DYSTOPIC WORLD, and it is both EPIC and SOMEWHAT DEPRESSING.
Main Character: I’m going to proselytize about how the world is a cruel place now.
He or she DOES for SEVERAL PARAGRAPHS.
Main Character: I feel much better now.
Author: I do too.
Reader: *snaps awake* What?
Antagonist: AH-HAH! I have found you, Main Character! And now…I shall vanquish your evil from the world. Because, you know…YOU’RE THE BAD GUY.
Main Character: I’M NOT EVIL, I’M JUST MORALLY GREY. DDDDDDD8
The Protagonists RUN AWAY to do MORALLY GREY THINGS and DISCOVER GOD and possibly even STEAL THINGS FOR GREAT JUSTICE and there MAY OR MAY NOT be POLYANDRY involved.
Antagonist: I have you now, Main Character! And this time I brought GREAT POWER to kill you with!
Main Character: Antagonist, don’t you realize that power corrupts? It says so in Generic Thinly Veiled Bible-ish Religion Book! Now, you are the true villain.
Antagonist: I AM THE HERO BECAUSE PEOPLE SAY I AM.
The Antagonist WINS and things become EVEN MORE DEPRESSING.
Protagonists: *angst*
God: *hops out of a machine* Look, a Deus Ex Machina that was only vaguely hinted at before!
Protagonists: Wow, thanks God!
The Protagonists use the DEUS EX MACHINA to kill the ANTAGONIST but then there is a TWIST ENDING so NOBODY really lives HAPPILY EVER AFTER.
THE END
This Abridged Version of Xicrog's Fanstories inspired by Books-a-Minute (on the Rinkworks site.)
Protagonists: Hello, we’re really the bad guys, but you’re not supposed to know that yet!
The Entire World: Protagonists, you suck and we hate you.
Protagonists: *angst*
God: I should probably be doing something about this, but I’m not.
MEANWHILE, in the PRESENT.
Main Character: For being an oppressed minority, life isn’t all that bad!
Life: *throws many LEMONS at the main character. FROZEN ROCK-SOLID LEMONS.*
Main Character: …Okay, I kind of have to leave my formerly idyllic life now lest I be buried beneath a mountain of frozen lemons that are not lemonade-quality.
Main Character’s Steadfast Friend and/or Tutor: I’ll go with you and be an interesting foil to your personality, and also act as your balancer.
Random Being(s) the MC Just Met: You have absolutely no reason to trust me, but I’ll travel with you too!
Main Character: Uh, okay.
They go TRAVELLING, gathering OTHER TRAVELLING COMPANIONS who are most likely COMPLETELY CRAZY and learning about their BORDERLINE DYSTOPIC WORLD, and it is both EPIC and SOMEWHAT DEPRESSING.
Main Character: I’m going to proselytize about how the world is a cruel place now.
He or she DOES for SEVERAL PARAGRAPHS.
Main Character: I feel much better now.
Author: I do too.
Reader: *snaps awake* What?
Antagonist: AH-HAH! I have found you, Main Character! And now…I shall vanquish your evil from the world. Because, you know…YOU’RE THE BAD GUY.
Main Character: I’M NOT EVIL, I’M JUST MORALLY GREY. DDDDDDD8
The Protagonists RUN AWAY to do MORALLY GREY THINGS and DISCOVER GOD and possibly even STEAL THINGS FOR GREAT JUSTICE and there MAY OR MAY NOT be POLYANDRY involved.
Antagonist: I have you now, Main Character! And this time I brought GREAT POWER to kill you with!
Main Character: Antagonist, don’t you realize that power corrupts? It says so in Generic Thinly Veiled Bible-ish Religion Book! Now, you are the true villain.
Antagonist: I AM THE HERO BECAUSE PEOPLE SAY I AM.
The Antagonist WINS and things become EVEN MORE DEPRESSING.
Protagonists: *angst*
God: *hops out of a machine* Look, a Deus Ex Machina that was only vaguely hinted at before!
Protagonists: Wow, thanks God!
The Protagonists use the DEUS EX MACHINA to kill the ANTAGONIST but then there is a TWIST ENDING so NOBODY really lives HAPPILY EVER AFTER.
THE END
