How Fanfics Should Be Written; Squall

I have not read too much fanfiction in my day. I've browsed Kingdom Hearts fanfiction on a wiki related to the KHWiki, and I've read a few pieces some acquaintances of mine have written. One thing in common with almost all of them is that the story is not developed to a high standard, and many elements are left that any basic story should have. All of the effort put into the fanon, if any, is completely worthless when none of it is going toward establishing a good story that follows a diagram of how a story should be constructed.

This is why I cannot read fanfiction: I immediately start criticizing it and thinking of all the ways it could be better. Example, a fanfic being written by an acquaintance of mine's ending was told to me recently, and the whole thing is going to be have a terrible ending. The actually good fanfic is going to crash and burn.

On that note, 0.0000001% of all fanfiction is quality work. The other 99.9999999% is total weaboo/illogical/poorly written nonsense.

And so now, my readers, I introduce to you this fanfiction-writing guide, conceived by Tabbeh and I. Final Fantasy VIII is the base of this fanon, for familiarity and... well, FFVIII just is horrible and laughable in its own right.

Leaking Pipes and Pads + Marching Festival!

Well, it's been a day since my last forum post. Who knows, maybe this whole blog thing might get further than I expected.

It seems my writings have been leaking more than pipes in a cheap motel sink. My #FFWiki logs were leaked out earlier this week, and now someone managed to backtrack my user name (I think) to find this blog. And even better, it got spread all throughout my old channel. Lovely, isn't it? Well, since I don't want this blog to turn into the place to dig up DTN's secrets and statements to use against him, I'm going to take a page out of Hyperbole and a Half's book--or rather, blog--and add overly childish artwork. Hooray!

Scandalous Wiki

Let me begin this blog post by saying welcome to Rants from Beyond the Door. The need for an outlet of my emotions has led me to the creation of this blog, mostly brought on by the drama that occurs at the wiki I contribute to, as well as my stressful school life. Alright, now let's get to the serious stuff, if this is at all what could be called "serious."

I've learned that I'm not perfect in any respect. I can be rude, I've lied, and I'm responsible for many other things that I'm not particularly proud of. But I think that I started seeing how unforgiving and judgmental people can be this summer. The wiki I work at, the Kingdom Hearts Wiki, had an IRC channel. Finally, as a channel operator, I announced my departure from that channel in July, no longer able to deal with the idiocy, incompetency, ignorance of rules, and the flood of young'ins there. So I left, and went to a new channel just weeks later. This channel was the IRC channel of our neighbor wiki, the Final Fantasy Wiki. Very few users who tormented and abused me on my former channel dual-channeled here, so I felt safe. I knew the general community here, and it was a much more mature one. I was able to unwind here, and didn't feel like I was babysitting users as I had been.