I'm not sure that's what she/he/it was saying ERL. Sounded moar like "I didn't mean to ruin your love of childhood shows through a snark/review of a creepy child fic." Not sure about what the part of the opinion means.

Shhhh. I'm baiting, and you'll scare the fish troll.

lol@this thread. Figures that it would be an open invitation for every lameass troll on this board. Lesson learned...

EileenK98 wrote:

I admit I, too, find myself disturbed by the mindset of a person who looks at a show about family and relationships and thinks, "You know what this needs? Caillou getting to hump a hot babysitter." I mean, we've seen worse, but this just makes me want to back away slowly from the toddler porn.

Thing is, I probably wouldn't find this nearly as irritating if the author didn't try to make it look like trollfic. If someone wants to write porn about a children's show, I'm certainly not going to stop them. Being that it's about a fictional child it's not illegal (or shouldn't be). I'd probably still dislike them on a personal level, but this is what fiction is for. But own your kinks. Don't try to pass it off as a shitty troll attempt, because it's shitty, and because it feels disingenuous and shameful.

The Unoriginal wrote:

As a rule of thumb, I check whether the letters involved in the typo are on adjacent keys. I tend to press two keys at once or slip, especially if my nails aren't trimmed properly. I also do check what I wrote, but wouldn't expect the same from a 13-years-old channelling the spirit of the Sugar High.

On my keyboard, there are two keys between y and e; that error was definitely intentional. That's probably a pretty good rule of thumb generally...then again, it's easy enough to keysmash and be intentionally clumsy. *shrug*

Sometimes if you're a fast typer you can hit keys that aren't right next to each other in mistakes. Or miss the spacebar. Or miss letters out. Or type words wrong without thinking, so they don't show. Or if you're tired, you might type words twice, and spellcheck needs to have word duplication set to catch it.

Regardless, spelling mistakes aren't funny. Even when they make different words, that's just Snark Bat.

Also, Fanfiction.net could really use a minimum word limit per chapter. Maybe it has one now but it could use raising. Still lower than a Drabble, of course, but there's a whole lot of 20 word chapters out there that they would do well to remove.

Amazingly, it WASN'T intentional. I only saw it afterwards and thought "Fuck, I'm not correcting it. I'm sure everybody knows what I mean." This is the attitude of most people who only give a cursory glance to their spelling. Or none at all.

Let's go with it! Snark Bat approves! And Snark Bat will never be caught, because Snark Bat flies under a spellcheck's radar!

Snark Bat should be our mascot. Wait, somebody said that already, didn't they?

Seconded, then.

Na-na-na-na-nananananananananana... SNARK BAT!

Friends, allow me to direct your attention to this piece of Earthbound fanfiction.

Quote:

jef an hiz dady go 2 prk! JAFF SAIZ HEYZ DADY LEts GO 2 PRK! DR ANDOntz WAZ LIK K! So THEY WEN AN JEF WANTd 2 Pla SWING BU HIS DADY SAIZ DATS STUpiD WHY R WE HEER? AN jAF SAID 2 PLY GAMS an dr andts waz like WAIT WHO R U? AND JEF Srtrd to cry an wet jhiz pantsz. Teh enz!

...yeah. Somehow I think they were simultaneously trying too hard and not trying hard enough.

What the fuck is this keyboard vomit? I can't even make any sense of that.

I don't know how people get away with posting crap like that, I really don't.

^On the internet, no one really cares.

I put way too much effort into my trollfics since the terrible ideas seem bad enough. Every so often, I might throw in a chapter that mimics a particular writer, but in general, I try to be coherent. Maybe I'm just trolling myself.