Episode 230: Forever and Always
If you want to be taken seriously, go off and form your own teen hero team. Then you can have all sorts of adventures and save the world and die horrible, horrible deaths so that the adults will acknowledge you as their equals
When you think
Transformers
fanfic, you naturally assume that it’s going to be about
long-winded boring cliché
anime villains drippy teenage girls with superpowers. Because certainly
that’s what this fic is all about, and let me tell you now, it doesn’t hold
back on the details. Our hero Grace manages to take time out from her exciting life
of wangst, self-pity and locker combinations to get zapped by a Cybernet Space
Cube and gain the power to levitate iPhones. Armed with this unique gift, she does
the most logical thing that anyone would do – take a walk through the desert to
the bad side of town in the middle of her night with her two best friends (even
if one of them doesn’t seem to exist). Oh sure, there might be some giant alien
robots that turn into cars in there, but you won’t care as you’ll want to know
what colour her folder is! So come on in and roll your eyes in derision at the
fic!
Riffers: Rebecca Bartley, Natasha Isavia, Matt Simmons and Rick R. Mortis
Written by: Rick R
I like how the author tries to write about an underprivileged but they're too privileged to realize iPhones aren't some basic resources everyone gets like water from the sky. She also despite living in a communal house gets her own room.
ReplyDeleteI suspect the author knows nothing about what life in an orphanage whatsoever. I further suspect that Grace's "I am an orphan" thing was a cheap ploy for sympathy and/or an excuse for wangst.
DeleteDead parents are cool or something
Right up there with bow-ties and fezzes.
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