NOTE: This isn't the actual review yet. Just a foreword. The review will be made when I've completed reading the last two chapters of the second fic, although I still prioritize drawing before writing so it may take a while.
When I finally stopped lurking around and decided to show up the world what I had been doing for 11 years, it didn't take long before I met some people who wanted to showcase their works to me. However, instead of artwork I was greeted with huge-ass documents, telling spicy stories of famous toon characters. I said to myself, "I wonder if I should start reading fan fiction again".
Back in '99 and '00, I used to be a regular at a South Park fan site called Mr. Hat's Hell-Hole, where I used to read quite a few fics, often written by teenage girls. I used to enjoy these stories, although now that I think of it they were pretty much OC-ridden garbage (anyone remember the red-haired female cousin of Kyle's, who was basically a Rule 63 version of Eric Cartman and also a witch? Yeah, the fics were that bad... I wonder what her name was). I eventually lost my interest in 2001 when the quality of the fics started dropping (yes, that actually was possible) and I got past "The Stupid Age" and realized how awful the overall writing was.
During the following years I joined SWEF. During frequent checks to see if Shabby Blue had posted new artwork, I eventually had a peek at the fan fiction they were offering. There were some pretty nice lemons that contrasted the lenghty South Park fics by not telling a big story but rather delivering well-written hardcore sex scenes. A lot of the stories depicted rape scenes and sexual domination (but not actual BSDM). I eventually got tired of them too after the trend started to shift towards writing longer, more epic stories with lots of OCs and the stories started to become carbon copies of each other. This was in 2004 or so and after that, I've avoided written fan fiction.
Until last summer, that is.
The majority of the fics I was recently offered to read were MLaaTR fics, although there's also one big TFOP fic which is still incomplete. I went through some of these fics and... well, let's just say that overall I'd still like to stick to rather making fun of cliché-ridden fan stories than reading them. There was one fic so horrifyingly bad it almost succeeded in making me give up my noble attempt to start reading fan fics again for the third time - and that's the fic I happened to read first. I'm not giving out the name of the fic nor who wrote it out of courteousity but I have to mention that there are many others that dislike it and they silently addressed their sympathies to me after I read that damn thing.
However, I won't be reviewing this monstrousity. I'm here to showcase the best two fics of the bunch. Stay tuned for a double review of Toonspew's My Life as a Teenage Von Neumann Device and Sadarax's Alien Urges and Affections - When Misty Fell for Shell (chapters 1 to 9)!
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