What are you thinking RIGHT NOW?

[Tsuki]

Feeling really left out tonight .

[Ninaroja]

You know I wasn't going to do fanfic but after you guys started talking about ff.net I now know that I will never do fanfic. You guys would totally rip my grammar and atrocious sentences apart

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Step One: find person in my grade who loves disney movies (check)
Step Two: Become semi-friends with them (check)
Step Three: Talk to them on facebook (check)
Step Four: Tell them TLK is the your favorite Disney movie (to do)
Step Five: Tell them that TLK is actually your favorite movie ever (to do)
Step Six: Tell them you are go to a forum dedicated to this movie (to do)
Step Seven: If they like TLK, tell them to join the forum
Step Eight: ???
Step Nine: Profit

wish me luck, Im goin in!!

Good luck!! If they match your sexual preference then step 8 is marriage


And @Haraka: I came close to that

[S1mb4 D4 L10n]

Good luck!! If they match your sexual preference then step 8 is marriage

She actually does! She's actually really really nice too. So if this goes according to plan I totally know who my life partner is.

[Ninaroja]

^SOUL MATE Jeepers, my future significant other had better be a Disney-nut like I am or they'll probably find life with me highly irritating

[Gemini]

^ I remember there were robots called Kate and Amanda that only posted the same reviews on every story in the TLK section: "Please please post more" and "please post chapter *x + 1* soon and hurry". Very annoying when you're hoping for a detailed review.

I do too, except once 'kate' actually said more than that. Here's the review.

Please put up chapter 6 and hurry and i had a idea that maybe nala or zira could find a abandoned infant male cub and nala brings the cub back to pride rock and mufasa and sarabi adopt the cub as their own that way there will still be a future king of pride rock and everyone will be happy again including mufasa i just hope you like my idea

Umm, yeah. I'll totally just scrap the ending that I had in mind for my most successful story for something cliche like that. Sounds legit.

Any and all crappy TLK fics all lack one thing in common: PACING

i.e. "Samba was walkin wit Mustafa wow dad what ar we gona do today , i dont no semba i havet decide yet . help dad im slipping simbe was sliding down a rock slope , hold on semba il save you masa ran down teh sloppe after his sun. - END CHAPTER - plez r&r be nicee dis my 1st fanfic for tlk oh and i dont one tlk disney doez. "

Yep. Oh, and can't forget the TLK III scenarios. It's the worst in those (though I've only read a few). For those who've literally never been on FFn before (because anyone who has knows what I'm talking about), they all look something like this.

"The Lion King IV: AFTER Teh Begginning
Summary: Afta Kouv and kira are married theyre is a great piece in the land but after they have three cubbies Mary Sue 1 Mary sue 2 and Mary Sue 3 [often given weird non-TLK-sounding names like "Sunset" or "Moonfur" or weird crap like that] then theyres sibling jealousy and will they make it? plus theirs an OLD ENEMY COMING FOR REVERNEGR OMG THE DRAMA. R&R plz first fic."

Then there's like a million chapters about the cubs interacting and no real story, or (like you said) a bunch of stuff that happens in like two sentences and makes no sense and often involves TLKII-esque retconning. Like in one I read the hyenas kidnapped this cub and like nobody even looked for them and the cub just went along with it and ended up attacking like her whole family because OMG TEH HEYANS TREAT ME BETTER. And I think Kovu died after getting bit in the shoulder like once. lolol Logic.

^ Essentially, yes. >.> Seriously, I've gotten more than one PM with something along the lines of "hey can you write an x-chaptered lion king fanfic for me?" (x being something ridiculous and completely unreasonable, like 40 or 60) in the subject title. And then they go into detail with this long and usually-cliche plot involving one of their OCs interacting with the main characters and yeah, it's a complete crapstorm. So I have to politely tell them no. I mean, some people offer me ideas for stories, and I'm okay with taking that into account or doing it if it seems interesting (Trampled started that way), but I'm honestly not going to spend forever writing about your OC for you; you can do it yourself. Not to mention it takes me like 2 years to do something good that has 40 chapters in it, even in the best of circumstances, so it's not like you're asking me for just a few hours of my time. Making a new story is a huge undertaking for me, and it's one I take very seriously. People need to understand that.

*rant over*

I've gotten requests in the past too. I have accepted one but God knows when I will get round to writing it

But here is the story of by far the most disturbing request I have ever recieved:

RVDLegsTrish: Can ya write a Disney scen for me? M please! about.....er...nursing?

Me: I don't understand, could you give me some more details?

RVDLegsTrish: Could you go to youtube and type in "Attack of the min pin puppies"

*looks up video in question*

Basically after that (the original PMs seem to have gone missing) I was still confused so asked the user what they meant. In short, they wanted me to write a story about the 101 dalmatian puppies attacking Perdita and suckling from her - very graphic, very sexual, very disturbing were some of the things they specified.

After that I think I had to shut down my computer and take a walk:

I'm with Haraka on this one. I also got a request to write an M-rated story with Timon and Uncle Max, but I'm 99% sure the person was just trolling me since I specifically mentioned that I thought that pairing was weird in my profile (and yes, there is at least one story that ships them, if I remember). So I told the person off and they never responded. XD

I did accept one of those non-M-rated requests, like those I mentioned, once (why, I will never know), but like I said they wanted like sixty chapters about their OC. I stopped after like three chapters because it wasn't really something I wanted to write about. Not to mention they didn't even bother to R&R or respond to my PMs after like the first chapter. Ugh.

PS I think I found my new fave smiley. This pretty much sums up a typical day looking at FFn for me now. lol

[Ninaroja]

^ I got a request for a "70 chapter TLK story" and I was just like "wat"

It was a pretty stupid request also - luckily some other unlucky sod ended up accepting it instead.

[S1mb4 D4 L10n]

HOW DO YOU GUYS WRITE 60 CHAPTERS! I can't write two full pages for English without falling into short term depression

Seriously though that takes some real perseverance.

[Gemini]

^ I got a request for a "70 chapter TLK story" and I was just like "wat"

It was a pretty stupid request also - luckily some other unlucky sod ended up accepting it instead.

^ I feel the pain. xD lol Like the first time you take it as a compliment that they think you could write the story well but after the second or third time you take it more as 'hai im lazy pls waste time on this pls'.

As of now, I only accept requests if the person sending it is someone who I know is capable of writing, but wants to see how I would handle it and is giving me plenty of room to create for myself and make it my own story. Not to mention that the idea has to interest me. Trampled started that way (someone I knew asked what would happen if Simba died instead of Mufasa), and Thus Always started that way (someone I knew asked what would happen if Mufasa was a tyrant and Scar was popular). They both interested me so I ended up doing both. As of now, though, I don't think I've really seriously done any others. I mean, like I said, 40 chapters represents like two years of investment for me, so if I don't like it and I don't think other people will like it, I'm not going to bother.

HOW DO YOU GUYS WRITE 60 CHAPTERS! I can't write two full pages for English without falling into short term depression

Seriously though that takes some real perseverance.

I dunno, really. xD My longest story is going on 50 chapters/about 200,000 words without ANs (for those that don't know, that's 400 pages with the default 1.15-spacing and size 11 Calibri font) and it'll be 2.5 years old on the 29th. I'm so excited. But yeah, tbh, I was really only expecting it to go for maybe 30k words, or about 10-15 chapters, when I started, and I didn't have a whole lot planned out back then. I guess when you really like a story your imagination gets going and next thing you know it's huge and you're proud of it and it's incredibly important to you.

But yeah, it does take a lot of perseverance. I've never finished a story, but I think this one should be done pretty soon.

[S1mb4 D4 L10n]

^^ 200,000 words! Are you planning to be an Author?

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I really don't wanna study right now

[Gemini]

^^ 200,000 words! Are you planning to be an Author?

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I really don't wanna study right now

Definitely! I think I have what it takes and it's something I love to do, so why not? In fact, as of now, I'm set up to have a piece of my poetry published in about December. I'm super psyched.

And I know how you feel. I have summer homework I should be doing, but I haven't touched it yet.