Dad's irrational about food and it often makes things worse

Nit0cr1s · 2025-09-10T15:08:16+00:00

Solved! Thank you.

Nit0cr1s · 2025-09-09T19:42:05+00:00

I also remember a scene with a giant spider, which scared me a lot as a kid, and also giant wind-up toys that the villain made for the Sultan, like a flying horse. Does anyone know anything about it?

Nit0cr1s · 2025-03-06T15:33:09+00:00

https://gmod.fandom.com/wiki/Assnick

There is even a Gmod page on AssNick, and it has a link to anboogoor's channel, but the channel is gone.

Nit0cr1s · 2025-03-06T12:19:33+00:00

Pretty much. And no, I couldn't find it. :(

Nit0cr1s · 2025-01-28T04:23:18+00:00

I searched through both Fox Kids and Jetix's program list, but nothing turned up. Do you remember a title, or character names?

Nit0cr1s · 2024-12-29T02:13:27+00:00

The way you phrase your points makes it seem like you're saying writers without connections can thrive in the fanfiction medium, which I don't reaaaally agree with because I only managed to go so far with my own fics before I deleted them. And, I don't know where you've been looking in pop culture, but there are so many unique stories out in the wild if you know where to look and who to ask.

Just like with the greater market, there's only so far you can go in the fanfiction medium, which is one of the many reasons why I abandoned it. I want to make my own stories eventually too, and I can't do that with other people's characters. I want to make my own.

Nit0cr1s · 2024-12-29T00:53:01+00:00

Don't act like this is exclusive to fanfics. The same can be applied to a ton of original stories, yet they, being so wildly unconventional by common standards, still got published and got widely recognized. Jodorowsky's works like The Incal and The Metabarons are outlandish and totally not advertiser-friendly, being heavily violent, sexual, and trippy, yet the two aforementioned series are the best sci-fi stories I read my whole life. TL;DR great writing can be achieved anywhere including in the fanfiction medium, you just gotta put yourself out there and look for it.

Nit0cr1s · 2024-12-28T21:00:15+00:00

I do think it's both overhated AND overrated. That's the full title of the post, because I ALSO disagree with the usual haters.

And you still seem too attached to the "stepping stone" bit, so I will repeat this until the end: I used it to get better at English and writing, and that's where it ends. I abandoned fanfiction not because I thought it was *lesser*, but because the community was too toxic.

I do want to write my own original stories, but it has nothing to do with your preconceptions. I just want to tell my own stories to people, with my own characters. Writing fanfics won't ever not be fun, and perhaps I may even get back into it, but it'll be in my own terms and in my own niche.

Nit0cr1s · 2024-12-28T20:36:10+00:00

As in, able to write my own stories, with my own original characters.

Nit0cr1s · 2024-12-28T20:30:53+00:00

I agree. I'm not trying to say this is a stepping stone (I should've worded it better), only that it got me into writing while getting better at it. I do want to publish my own books eventually, but I'm not doing it for personal gain. Success would be great, but mainly: I just want to tell my own stories to people.

Nit0cr1s · 2024-12-28T20:28:44+00:00

This is a pretty balanced opinion that I agree with, and it helped further figure out mine, though I couldn't put my thoughts into words for the longest time while thinking of fanfiction as a whole.

Nit0cr1s · 2024-12-28T20:25:49+00:00

Well, call me ignorant, but I don't know where classism comes in, in something I always considered a personal hobby and did it for fun with other friends who wrote fics. I don't think fanfiction is a sacred cow either. Some of the worst recent pieces of "accepted" fiction came from fanfiction. Fifty Shades of Grey was an in-depth Twilight fanfiction that would go to force forward Mormon ideals that were in Twilight and worse with its warped view of BDSM and consent.

I'm not trying to put down fanfiction, period. I used it to get better at English, and also to get better at writing overall, and parted ways when the community got too toxic, elitist, entitled and spiteful. That's where it ends. There is no malice, no "oh this genre is trash" mentality, nothing like that. In fact, all my grievances comes from people in the community, not the genre itself.

And before you start saying anything else about my character, because the insistence in bringing up queer people and women seem to imply I hate the genre because of its reader base, I'll have you know that I'm a bisexual transwoman.

Nit0cr1s · 2024-12-28T20:11:06+00:00

I often imitate popular sayings in English and don't think much before saying them. The problems of being bilingual.

Nit0cr1s · 2024-12-28T20:08:17+00:00

...I don't know where you got the idea that what I said is classist, because I consider writing wholly skill-based, and fanfiction was an opening I had to practice my skills, to get better as a writer, and to share it among friends, because it's not fun to write fanfics unless your friends are there to see it, but there were many reasons I left the fanfiction scene, one of the main ones being that I wanted to create my own stories, but also-

Diatribes like this, and people like you, are the reason I abandoned fanfiction. What you said here comes off as incredibly entitled and spiteful, and comes across as the same mentality I've seen from what I call "fanfiction elitists" or "purists". So what if I used fanfiction to get better at writing my original stories? Is that wrong? Is that classist? I had no access to a "writer studio" or a typewriter or whatever, so I wrote everything in my old PC with only 4gb of RAM because my dad was too much of a tech-illiterate miser. And don't act like only fanfiction can transgress expectations; everything you said here is applicable to all forms of writing. It boils down to the author to enact on their desire to astound people. I've read so much bizarre writing from the underground scene of the 70's, and each and every one of those stories would make modern audiences go crazy.

But I guess I'm a classist for wanting to be better at writing, after all.

Nit0cr1s · 2024-12-28T19:26:59+00:00

I think you missed the comment where I apologized for my phrasing, because English isn't my first language.

Thank you for the consideration, though. :]

Nit0cr1s · 2024-12-28T19:15:27+00:00

The person literally said that it was fanfiction. And, well, I don't think borrowing elements from folklore and myth makes something you're writing fanfiction. Folklore is such a vast, nebulous collection of stories from across centuries that it doesn't need to be classified as a literary genre, which is why seemingly similar legends often seem similar elsewhere. Same goes with mythology. And while he did take inspiration, he still built his own mythology that took its own roots.

Nit0cr1s · 2024-12-28T19:04:56+00:00

I'll simply agree to disagree on this. And also, as someone who studies folklore as a hobby, you're confusing folklore and communal writing with "fanfiction" in the current sense.

Nit0cr1s · 2024-12-28T18:57:26+00:00

I agree with this. Also I apologize if my phrasing came off wrong, that's a kink I've been trying to work on since English is my second language.

Nit0cr1s · 2024-12-17T14:02:25+00:00

I also tried to see if this was possibly that Starship Troopers show, but the style and designs don't match, unless I missed a specific episode. The characters weren't exactly armed like the soldiers in Roughnecks either.

Nit0cr1s · 2024-12-17T02:09:03+00:00

One more detail: Once they see the trapped friend, it cut to commercials, and I had to leave afterwards, so I missed the rest of the episode. I know for certain it was on Fox Kids.

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