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Old October 13th, 2009, 09:04 AM
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Can you please elaborate more what you meant by this
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As long as no-one writes anything like Seraph/Thing That Should Not Be, I'm quite interested.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slash_fiction

Thus my preference to avoid the area.
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Old October 13th, 2009, 09:36 AM
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Given that you write fanfiction, that doesn't surprise me.

I don't see how you can call me biased. Every piece of fan fiction I have come across is terrible. Fan fiction is widely regarded as being terrible by people whose opinions I respect. If making any experiential subjective judgement equates to biased, well gee, we're all biased.

Thanks for the plug of fanfiction.net but 'you'd be surprised by the quality of some stuff' from a stranger doesn't really sell it to me.
Hmmm, perhaps biased was not the word I wanted to say. Yes we could all be branded as biased if given the situation you just mentioned. My point is, to call and brand all fanfiction as terrible doesn't seem to be right.

Well anyways thanks for telling me your opinion here sombre. Every person's opinion is always necessary whether one is writing a fanfic or a novel. I do appreciate it. ^_^

Btw, I've searched the forum and I was able to find this.

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showt...ght=fanfiction

This is a thread that discusses about the history of dominions and this is exactly what I had in mind. To tell the tales of people in the dom3-verse in a manner that may be in a form of historical fact or passed on Legends...

@ GregStorm

Wow...

That genre never entered my mind ahahahahahaha...

Anyways thanks for telling me greg and I assure you, that would never happened.

Although there are the female amazons.... hehehehehe
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Old October 13th, 2009, 10:07 AM

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Fan fiction falls under Sturgeon's Law.

Actually without a selection mechanism to cull out the worst stuff, it's probably even worse than that. That doesn't mean there isn't good stuff out there, it's just that you have to wade through the slush pile to find it.
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Old October 13th, 2009, 11:09 AM

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There's actually a whole world of dominions fan fiction you may not be aware of.

Here are some stories.

nutranurse (writing for abyssia)
Dawn of Abysia

Seon (writing for Pythium)
The coming of Celes
A bored assassin
A conversation with Dain the Sage
What does it feel to be a god?
Dain, Celes and Origami
The boy
The bear

T_F (writing for Shinuyama)
Shizen's founding speech
Shizen pondering over godhood
Bres's journal
Zenran
Meirei o okurima****a.

Kyzarc Fotjage (writing for TienChi (but calling it ashnoc))
Three brothers
Looking for Kathnesjac
Aara
Vodka
Kyzarc's travels; Flight; Monks
Invasion and aftermath
Kyzarc’s Travels: Reunited

Immaculate (Mictlan Ho!)
A slave story
Jalixt's return to Machaka
Blood
The relics of the Jungle Councillor
Acceptance is not submission
A battle ritual
Galleons

Darksaber1 (writing for Vanheim)
Lord Thordai the Thunder
The Vanir tome of creation
Secrets
Spies
The Aesir-Vanir war
The death of the Aesir
Changes
Midgard public service announcements
Raising star
Wake

Vertinari118 (writing for Jutenheim)
Magni's ancient glory

Diamondeye (writing for marrignon)
The Great Inquisitor



Hope you enjoy...
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Old October 13th, 2009, 11:57 AM
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Keep going Raven013!

Personally I cant help but fiction this game as Im playing it. Im more RPGer than PvPer. Some of the AARs here are close to FanFiction. Ive always been all for it. Ive even pressed for some to consider publishing. Id particularly like to see something that lays out the games actions, and then presents it in story form. Kindofa combination fiction and tutorial.

IN VERY GENERAL TERMS...
Part of what you will run into is that the RPGers seem to tend towards solo play. The huge sales, and traffic on other forums, seems to say there are many of them out there but they rarely have a reason to create a login and haunt this forum. While the MPers do in order to easier create and join MP games. Some people tend to be more a fan of the games mechanics (Johans excellent work) and others more toward the games fiction (Kristoffers learned contributions). Reading thru posts here you can easily get an impression of who is who. Particularly when they discuss the reasons for their choices of pretenders.

As for fanfiction in general, there isnt really an argument here. Everyones opinion seems equally true. FanFiction is yet another example of the growth of CrowdSourcing on the Internet (which I make my living off of). FanFiction, YouTube, CafePress, WikiPedia, theFUMP, Google, or for that matter forums like this. They tend to be great examples of the Pareto Principle. Mostly crap. But that doesnt mean it should stop. We cant find the good 20% without wading thru the 80%.

Edit: @theJeff thanks for Sturgeon's Law. Pareto is more in the business/marketing world but I will keep SL in my toolbox for some uses.

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Can you please elaborate more what you meant by this
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As long as no-one writes anything like Seraph/Thing That Should Not Be, I'm quite interested.
much appreciated...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slash_fiction

Thus my preference to avoid the area.
I'd like a mulligan, where I don't follow that link.

Please?

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It's relatively tame, though may fall into the TMI category.

Technically, I believe Seraph/Thing That Should Not Be would not actually be Slash, as I don't really think the TTSNB can be assigned a gender.
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Default Re: To Write Dominion Fanfiction

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slash_fiction

Thus my preference to avoid the area.
another good article, from the wiki dedicated to fandom and fanwank

http://wiki.fandomwank.com/index.php/Slash

one of my favorite wikis in the www.
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Old October 13th, 2009, 08:21 PM
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Just make sure that somehow you include Optimus Prime, Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock, KITT, and at least one scene involving tentacles doing...something...
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Old October 13th, 2009, 08:24 PM
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Can we not dwell on this? It's suppose to be a family-friendly forum (well, at least I think so).

Not that I mind.
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