Proof, again, that a having a platform does not a good fic make.

Gah!

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Oh, god... I made it to bit about Xander being in Vegas with Anya and Giles. What the fuck?!?

And the problem was that it was almost well-written, I mean not *excellent*, but the cadences of speech kept promising that this person would give me a light and enjoyable read with the occasional nice line, all with decent technique. But then it kept being really bad.

Or maybe I was just sick when I read it.

Delirious with fever, most likely.

Oh, dear.

Proof, again, that a having a platform does not a good fic make.

It came to me in my inbox, and Paul finally told me to stop ranting about it because "It was bad, deal!"

But, I had serious "dude, you so don't understand these characters" moments along with the "platform fic bad" moments.

Oh, of course, wrod! The problem with platform fic itself is that it flattens and caricatureizes the characters [say that three times fast! & I'm pretty sure I spelled it wrong, too] to suit its chosen message until the entire thing is just a travesty of a piece of writing.

See, if you have to write it, you should at least choose a character that suits your platform.

And make the circumstances realistic. IJS.

But, you shouldn't write it, cause, well, bad.

Sometimes I lament the fact that I haven't developed a really big god-complex.

I'm just saying.