Creator Backlash/Fan Works
Examples of Creator Backlash in Fan Works include:
- Post's reposting of his popular Teen Titans epic, "These Black Eyes", begins with this summary- "Noir, an incredibly overpowered Gary Stu, joins the animated Teen Titans. During his tenure with the heroic youngsters, many grammatical errors are made, many gross atrocities of the first-person narrative are committed, and a bunch of bloody drama is spilt in the name of lifeless nerdiness. Act One consists of his beating up the Titans and the Titans loving him for it. Act Two consists of predictable villains coming back to battle the Titans in a huge cataclysm of page length and sound effects. Act Three shall never again see the Internet because it sucks major donkey rectum. This has not been edited, but it has been preserved--not so much by me but by those few generous (depraved?) souls who felt this fic needed to stay in existence."
- He deleted his earlier X-Men: Evolution fanfic, Between the Walls, for similar reasons. He never reposted it.
- Since becoming a published writer, Cassandra Claire has disavowed The Draco Trilogy and
it's no longer officially available.here it is. - Many writers have written a Lemon story, and come to hate it, as it becomes more reviewed, written and popular than any of their other works.
- Greg X, one of the staff members of The Gargoyles Saga has, on several occasions, publicly disowned his TGS work. Many of his issues stem from story structure, to characterization (ask him how he feels about what TGS did to Demona some time), and too many fan-created characters who no one but their fan creator had an interest in. That, and he just prefers Greg Weisman's plans and comics. A very diplomatically written blog post can be found here detailing how he feels.
- After completing the series and moving on to webcomics, Cassie "Alohilani" Thomas has several times affirmed her [dead link] dislike [dead link] of Both Syllables. Despite this, she still gets asked about it, to her great displeasure [dead link].
- With thousands of reviews and numerous people saving docs of Fierce Deity's The Legend of Zelda fanfic series, you'd think that he'd be heartened. Nope, he wants nobody to ever mention those "pieces of crap" ever again, despite the latter story, "Eternal Ark" being reasonably written with an engaging plot and interesting original characters.
- The Open Door by Academia Nut was abrupty declared dead despite its large fanbase on Stardestroyer and FF.net, mostly due to the author losing interest his own own story.
- FF.Net and FIMFiction.net author Meowth Rocket/Meowth's Toon Dragon is known for his A New Face in Ponyville story, considered one of the better 'Human In Equestria' stories, as well as some decent Pokemon and Sonic stories and the famous Payback from a Pipe family guy fic. He's also written a couple stories that he considered so bad he purposely refused to transfer them over to his harddrive, all but erasing their existence forever.
- Mark "Togashi Gaijin" Shurtleff was the author of several very well-written and even innovative crossover fics in the early 2000s, most notably Relatively Absent, an utterly original and stunningly crafted but sadly incomplete take on the tired Fuku Fic idea. However, in 2009 he abandoned fan fiction with a sudden and unexpected vehemence, wiping out all copies of his works everywhere he could reach and contacting anyone attempting to repost them to demand they cease. Years later, he is apparently still watching the Web and pouncing on anyone reposting his stories. These days the only way to get a copy of anything he wrote is to know someone who knows someone who has one they're willing to share.
- A staple of Mary Sue Hunter fics. When a targeted Sue is not an OC, it is almost always a character donated by another author who acknowledges that the character is a Sue.
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