7th Year Train Ride

Hello Again! 
The other night, my friend and I were poking through the dark depths of ff.net in order to find stories to mock.  It was there that we came across an out-of-canon Aboosive!James fic so disturbing, that I decided to write a letter from dear Prongs, to the fangirls. Here is the result. Hope you all enjoy! 
Oh, and sorry about the random below post. My computer was having a seizure :) 

Hello Everyone! 
I love this communtiy. I also love Lily Evans. However, there are so many terrible stories about her, that I've completely given up on finding good Marauder fics.  But I was very bored, so I started thinking about how amusing it would be if Lily were to write to the fangirls. 
Here is the result. Enjoy! If no one is amused, I at least managed to amuse myself :) 
Warning: There are a just a few Book 7 spoilers, so DO NOT READ if you don't want to know.

We've been working on it a LOT, and we recruited some new sporkers as well!
So, sporking with me are:

x_racheelia_x , rubber_glove , xxoh_yeah , and oreoclouds029 .

Original sporking HERE, Story HERE.



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Hey! I'm new to all of this, I joined a little while ago so I could read some of these stories for a laugh. I honestly thought I would feel too bad to rant about a story but this was just a little too much even for me. Its called My Girl by Gina2 (fanfiction.net) I was looking for a nice Lily/James fic but this was definitely NOT IT!

All I can say is that my (ATTEMPTS) at L/J fanfiction never ends up here!!!

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/365517/1/

Well, hello there! I haven't posted on this community in such a long time, which is not acceptable. As a co-mod, I should be ashamed of myself *hangs head*. But! (I like the use of the exclamation mark there) this does not mean that I have forgotten my hatred of all bad fics! I most definitely still despise them with a burning passion.

I have a sporking here. It's a horribly bad story, and this is the first chapter of three that I am going to spork. I'm assuming that it's an AU, and AU stories have a perfect right to wag their own tails, but when one is as bad as this, the authors should just be mutilated. Thank you to cgn  for the help she gave me, throwing in quite a few of her own additions. You'll know which ones she wrote, they're the ones that you'll laugh at.

Here's the linky-link to the actual story: This makes me want to vomit

And now, for the spork!

Righto. I'm Rosie; it's my first time posting here. Wooo.

Anyways, Nora oreoclouds029 and I did this sporking ages ago, only I lost it on my computer.

BUT HUZZAH! I HAVE FOUND IT AGAIN.

Warning: Much obscenity and perviness

Enjoy!

( Sporking )

EDIT- The original story: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2956547/1/

*Waves* Hello, all, I’m Laura. I just found this community a few weeks ago, realized I knew a whole bunch of the members, decided it was undignified to lurk, and joined. Hurrah.

Yesterday, I was poking through the dark depths of FFN, when I came across a rather fantastic waste of bandwidth, spectacular only in the fact that it’s virtually indistinguishable from 95% of the other stories there. What can I say? I decided to have some fun. So here you are: a sort-of-but-not-really-MST of a (we’ll call it a story, shall we?) story with the delightful title of Journey to the Past, written by Lily Evans Wannabe. Kudos to her. I have no idea if this will amuse you at all, but I certainly managed to amuse myself.

( Neither do we, Lily Evans. Neither do we. )

Her summary: Lily Evans is head girl and has to deal with the one and only James Potter. Will she be able to survive? Will he keep his cool?

My summary: Pandemonium reigns on the Hogwarts express! Lily is bitchslapped by an OC! Remus has a book! There is a distinct lack of punctuation!

The post that I made way back when said I’d be ranting about diary fics, and that one is in the works, but inspiration struck today, and thus I will be ranting about a different topic.

I’m sure this will infringe on some other people’s rants, but today I’m going to discuss Alternate Universe stories involving Lily and James.

( Please have your tickets ready to present to the conductor, and if you spot a Plank, help yourself to the knitting needles under your seat. )

I’m calling this an essay, because, to me, a rant is more spur-of-the-moment and angry. I’ve given a lot of thought to this subject and I ended up writing this, wanting to fight some of the clichés that have somehow wormed their way into the L/J fanfiction and made people accept them as canon, when they most obviously aren’t. Also dealing with Dark!fic, which is often thought of as horrible mutation of the canon universe – but is it really?

I hope you’ll find it interesting. Feel free to comment. (Warning: REALLY long.)

See ya,
Anna.

P.S.: EDITED to add the point about the Head Tower/dormitory.

( Dealing with canon in the Lily/James relationship )

Just a quick note to let you know the community has a needlerific new layout. (Yes, those are actually my knitting needles. Not my favorite ones, but they'll suffice.) There's a new matching icon to go with it. Huzzah! 7th Year now has a symbol - the needles and the spork. How exciting!

Coming rants:
-wrenifer is going to rant about Peter
-cgn is going to rant about diary fics
-prettiermusings is going to rant about the similarity of MWPP plots
-oreoclouds029 is going to rant about misplaced characters
-pumaful is making a How-To Sue® guide
-meringue_kiss is going to rant about Sirius and Remus "conveniently" hooking up with Lily's friends
-annabtg is writing an essay about the relationship between Lily and James
-underthepen is writing about canon!impossible characterizations of Remus and Peter
-queenofhearts17 is writing a rant about annoying Original Characters
- Wow, I know other people have them planned, but I can't remember who's doing what. Drop me a comment if you've got something in the works.

HA! (I just had to take the liberty of writing a disclaimer for this author that I’m about to subject you to.)
I just discovered your group, and I love it, it’s so cathartic. So I thought I’d just invite myself to join.
And since I’m still a bit behind the times I thought that I just have to comment on the whole ball think. Because I think that if I see one more ball fic I shall kill myself- or the author. And the people who give them encouraging reviews.
DON’T ENCOURAGE THEM PEOPLE. HUNT THEM DOWN!!!
They make me ashamed of my one OTP.

Anyway, these people don’t want an L/J fic; they want a Hilary Duff movie.

Most of them are probably much too young to have been through the actual event which is the high school formal. And thus don’t realize that the whole experience has way more to do with painful shoes than it does with *OMG! Finding your tru luve!*

Well I think most of what can be said about ball fics has been said- so without further ado, I must present you with… Outward Appearances (which was sadly recommended to me).

http://www.fictionalley.org/authors/jubilee/OA01.html

Sad isn't it? Lily is insecure and addicted to... drunken masquerade dance orgies. Which apparently no one has any problem with. *coughdumbledorecough* And she'd never recognise James, ever, especially not with his "insanely clever" mask. I would say more, but I couldn't bring myself to finish the story.

By the way, this thread has given me the awful paranoia that I am infact a plank. *quickly runs away to reread my fic*

Hello, everyone! cgn here with a quick message.

First of all, huzzah! We've been getting a lot of new posts lately. This is fantastic! Keep up the rants! :D

Secondly, ghostofbambi and I have made posts moderated. Don't let this deter you from posting, though. I think we've approved almost all the requests so far. If your post has been rejected, it's for one of a few reasons.

1) You didn't actually say anything. Make the post worth the space.

2) Really short introductions. We love when people introduce themselves, but please have some sort of rant to go with it, or at least a link to a particular story you can't stand.

3) Your spelling or capitalization were atrocious. We don't expect a lot of this, but this is a community, and proper spelling, grammar, punctuation, etc. (i.e. chatspeak makes me want to needle myself), so it's only polite to attempt this. We understand that everyone makes mistakes and that nobody's perfect, but please try to at least make an effort.

4) No lj-cut. If you have a bit of a lengthy rant, save everyone's Friends pages by putting the majority of the rant under an lj-cut. Tutorial can be found here.

I can't think of any other reason at the moment, so if your post was rejected, feel free to fix it and resubmit. :)


As a side note, Sarah has been planning out a long, detailed rant on Sirius, while I've been plotting out a rant on diary fics. (Oh, the irony!) Look forward to those sometime in the future, and keep up the canon rape prevention!

-cgn

Ok if someone here writes this story I'm really really sorry. But I have been reading this story over at UR.org and it just pisses me off. Please read it and tell me what you think. Its called The Snogging Game here is the link. http://unknowableroom.org/902/1

Please let me know what you think.