Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-6433273-20151012162920/@comment-53539-20151101121553

88.174.73.204 wrote: @Angel Emfrbl : Did you see my answer about askblogs on this thread ? If you don't want to answer it's fine, but if you're okay with that I would have liked to have a better understanding of your point of view. I'm copy-pasting it here. Again sorry if you saw it, especially since it's kind of a wall of text.

"First of all, every askbloggers I've seen are perfectly aware that Miku, and any VOCALOID for that matter (even though some of them have little backstories), is nothing but a cd with a face slapped on the box. Actually it seems to be one of the reasons they made an askblog in the first place : they wanted to share their headcanons.

Then why would it necessarily be a « subtle bad fanfic with nothing really behind it » ?

Lots of askbloggers seem to have put work on their headcanons and are aiming to make « their » character interesting and not 2D as you described it. Some of them even are open about it and take in account any (constructive) criticism about it. Of course it would be better if an askblog owner answered instead of me, since I am only assuming.

However, I do agree that sometimes (especially when interacting with somebody else) the situation will turn silly and/or weird. But I think it is only the result of improvising while not aiming to be serious at all. I saw someone describing it as « silly crack ». Now it happens more often on certain blogs than on others. But I've seen lots of « serious » stuffs too, where the mod seems to want to add « depth » to the character.

I don't want to start an argument, it's just that I would like to know what kind of stuffs you've came across and what is bad fanfic like for you. Also sorry if I sound aggressive I'm bad at wording. I think the words "no roleplaying" being spoken on the wikia were enough. The anon whose post it was about re-titled their blog and got a better response out of it. Several people responded to it.

You be the judge yourself about the matter, I shouldn't have to tell you Ask blogs are bad because they are often are. Ever heard of the fan made episode of MLP:FiM called "Double Rainboom". Watch that then "Tanks for the memories" and be the judge of poor handwriting. And if you really wnt it ore obivous... There is "Dusks Dawn". Bad fanfiction is anything poorly written, that ignores any head canons and focuses on 1 single trait or aspect of the character ignoring all the others that gives the depths. In short, you turn a 3D personality into a 2D one. Rules like "characters best trait pushed far enough because their worst" are ignored and the fans often do things like say "Applejacck would never lie", when in reality this is her conflict of her character.

Now ask yourself, if an Ask blog is based on a headcanon, what can go wrong? Long story short, when you have a character like Miku the answer is lots of things. The whole issue is flawed from the word "go" because you have to invent the character and stick with it. It opens the doors to all badly thought out fanfiction and problems poor writing can occur because she has no personality. The whole thing because nothing more then the asker using the image of the character to insert their own random nonsense while saving having to invent another character to act as the shell for their actions. In all the ask blogs I've come across, the closet I came to be "enjoyable" was a certaintublr Oliver ask blog, which was entertaining and the blogger warped Oliver to the situation needed at hand. But even then, itsstill fanfiction as Oliver is a voice and a picture only.

As I said, I didn't need to reply on this one. But in reality I was REALLY busy at the time and had a choice between replying to something I didn't want to reply to versus wiki editing I wanted to do. Just because you asked a question doesn't mean I'm forced to reply to it, I decided you should be able to work this one out by yourself without me telling you.