Rant 3: Summaries and Character summaries.

Rants of an AFF Girl

 

I always go fanfic hunting, and some catch my eyes for a few reasons. One of them is THE SUMMARY.

 

Some summaries are just LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT, then you read it and realize that you''ve just been trolled. 

Some summaries are just horrible, but the fanfic itself is incredible.

And other summaries just GIVE AWAY the whole story. Like, thanks dude.

Ex: Hyorin is a pretty, cute, athletic, and smart girl who attends Woolim High. She meets (how much guys are in infinite?) 7 kingkas. (names), and L is a bastard. Blabla. They then fall in love. They go on a couple of dates. They get married. They have kids. THE END. Okay, that's not how it is, but sometimes. that's what I feel like I'm reading. I could even read a summary, and feel like I just read the whole fic. 

 

Character summaries are one of my biggest pet peeves EVAR.

 

(insert pic of usually an ullzang)

KIM, SARANG. (WTF kinda name is Sarang)

Pretty, cute, bubbly, adorable, loves to read, innocent.

 

(insert pic of some male idol)

L.JOE, A.K.A Lee Byunghun

Cold, arrogant, strong, only is nice to friends and to people he is close with. (which is usually nobody, BUT YOU)

 

I mean guys, when we read, we're suppose to learn about how the character is like. You can't just describe it to us. YOU JUST RUINED THE PICTURE I HAD IN MY MIND. *sigh*. I understand if you just include like a mini backstory, but that's the only stuff I want to see in a chara summary. But really, we shouldn't have one cause we"ll read it in the fic anyways. I know these are just FANFICS, not a serious novel, but WHHHYYYYY?!? An author creates an image in the mind, and talk while you listen. They are not suppose to just give it to you or draw it out. 

 

AND I ABSOLUTELY HATE HATE HATE when the author puts:

"Likes L.Joe"

'" Likes Sarang."

Like okay. We didn't really need to know that. WE COULDA JUST READ IT. BUT THANKS FOR LETTING ME KNOW.

And then they put.

 " Heechul likes Yuri."

" Yuri likes Heechul."

" Mimi likes Tom."

" Tom likes Mimi.

But why can't we have:

" Barbie likes Ken."

" BUT KEN DOES NOT LIKE BARBIE. HE LIKES CLOE FROM BRATZ."

 

But you know, everyone has to like someone, who likes them back. 

 

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JKNewsandDavidSo #1
Chapter 5: lOLOL Bro most of the time people who are reading the story are like the underage fans or those who only read the popular ones xD Man I remember back then when I thought Goddess was the bomb and now I look back and I'm just like, "Nope." I mean it's an ok storyline (Esp Dear diary, Woohyun's a Jerk and The Dull One" But everything is SOOO CLICHE!!!!

I was just watching some random fanfic trailers and I came across one that caught my eye, "TWO FACED" I clicked on it and the trailer D ! The resources they used was pretty grainy and all the words only came on for like 1-2 seconds and the majority of it were covered by black clouds -_- I checked the comment section and all I see is, "OMG YOU DON'T KNOW HOW GOOD THIS STORY IS!" or "GREAT TRAILER AUTHOR-NIM(Ugh cringe)" I checked out the story link and the first thing I noticed is that it was a Wattpad story -_- No offense but the majority of Kpop writers on there is like 10-15 yr olds who can't write for and has like the worst grammar ever. I sighed and clicked on. Guess what? It . Like there was no details and if there was it would be so vague and I had no insight on what was happening and stuff. Regarding your last chapter, she DOESN'T FREAKIN USE PARAGRAPHS FOR EVERY DIALOGUE AND I'M LIKE WHY?!?!? You wanna know one more thing? It was a story, oh my god I like cringed. I stopped before I finished the first chapter. TBH the people in the comment section has no idea what they're talking about or either has never seen GOOD writing before. Like do you even read books?
Melone
#2
Chapter 15: if the readers complain about the small fonts, then they should know that aff had provided the "make readable" for absolutely nothing.
OfficialBestfriend #3
Chapter 15: heheh , I read all your rants. I agree with you especially with fonts, I don't like small fonts and when I read , I really enlarge the letters , because I feel lazy when the letters are small.
jongup-mooned-me
#4
Chapter 15: I think it's just extremely funny that I agree with 99% of this hahaha xD
jongup-mooned-me
#5
Chapter 15: I think it's just extremely funny that I agree with 99% of this hahaha xD
jongup-mooned-me
#6
Chapter 15: I think it's just extremely funny that I agree with 99% of this hahaha xD
liurinyu
#7
Chapter 15: yeah yeah your example above surely annoying to read XD
liurinyu
#8
Chapter 14: at first, i thought it was real that you really described your fanfic in the way that you rant at haha
liurinyu
#9
Chapter 14: it's so funny that you even use one of your fanfic to give us the example about the pointless pictures lol