Percyness quality guidelines.
Mar. 22nd, 2006 08:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icarusOver the last several months I've received stories at Percyness: The Percy Weasley Archive that were of questionable quality.
Many of them were completely unbeta'd and written with the care you'd put into sketching a fic on the back of a cocktail napkin. Some had formatting so strange the story was unreadable. I'm not speaking to the person who uploaded their story as a solid block of text.
I've struggled with some truly bad poetry. Other stories were borderline. They seemed to be beta'd, but consisted of minimalist verbal tags floating in a sea of nothing, or epithets overused to a point that it seemed dozens of people occupied the bed and not just two. There were excellent characterisations of Percy with all other characters as cardboard cut-outs dancing around him.
It has stretched my original policy of "accept everything if it's at least beta'd" to the breaking point.
I didn't want to be the arbiter of taste. But neither do I want to host an archive of stories no one would want to read. Where does one draw the line?
What do you think? What do you want in an archive?
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Many of them were completely unbeta'd and written with the care you'd put into sketching a fic on the back of a cocktail napkin. Some had formatting so strange the story was unreadable. I'm not speaking to the person who uploaded their story as a solid block of text.
I've struggled with some truly bad poetry. Other stories were borderline. They seemed to be beta'd, but consisted of minimalist verbal tags floating in a sea of nothing, or epithets overused to a point that it seemed dozens of people occupied the bed and not just two. There were excellent characterisations of Percy with all other characters as cardboard cut-outs dancing around him.
It has stretched my original policy of "accept everything if it's at least beta'd" to the breaking point.
I didn't want to be the arbiter of taste. But neither do I want to host an archive of stories no one would want to read. Where does one draw the line?
What do you think? What do you want in an archive?
[Poll #695887]
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Date: 2006-03-22 06:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-22 06:28 pm (UTC)You've noticed, huh? It really slows things down in the submission process.
I hope I don't get banned from the archive for not writing anything decent in a long time
I can't imagine anyone being banned from the archive. :)
Icarus
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Date: 2006-03-22 06:31 pm (UTC)Yeah and it's a problem in Finnish fanfiction too. It's a pain to read unbeta'ed stories. That goes to every language and fandom, actually. And I'm sure it's a pain for those who have to read through all the fics before letting them into the archive.
I can't imagine anyone being banned from the archive. :)
Now that's good to hear :) I'll try my best to write as much as Percy fanfiction as possible ;)
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Date: 2006-03-22 06:48 pm (UTC)The wealthy woman, "widowed" with her husband in Azkeban, cynically looking for "company." The young ambitious Ministry employee, well-mannered enough to be presentable, to take her coat and hold the door. Foolish enough to be seen with her in public, ignoring the "crass innuendo."
"Mrs Malfoy is a lady," and he tells himself that he's merely being polite, chivalrous. It's difficult to see such a beautiful women of her standing treated like she's guilty of her husband's sins.
*shivers*
Icarus
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Date: 2006-03-22 06:52 pm (UTC)Yeah, I know. One of the few Percy/Woman pairings I support. I just thought about it.. they ship Percy with the Malfoy men, so why not the Malfoy woman once in a while.
I got interested while I was thinking about after OotP possibilities with Lucius/Percy and I thought that Narcissa would be lonely and so on. That's how it started, actually.