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After (After, #1)
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After blurb reveal:
Hardin? Seriously? You couldn't be bothered to make it an entirely different name from Harry?
I think I just wet myself laughing.
Pre-review: One Direction fanfiction got published and movie rights have been sold.
http://www.sugarscape.com/main-topics...
I'm sincerely happy for the author, but SERIOUSLY?
With his tousled brown hair, cocky British accent, tattoos, and lip ring, Hardin is cute and different from what she’s used to.
Hardin? Seriously? You couldn't be bothered to make it an entirely different name from Harry?
He’ll call her beautiful, then insist he isn’t the one for her and disappear again and again. Despite the reckless way he treats her, Tessa is compelled to dig deeper and find the real Hardin beneath all his lies. He pushes her away again and again, yet every time she pushes back, he only pulls her in deeper.
Tessa already has the perfect boyfriend. So why is she trying so hard to overcome her own hurt pride and Hardin’s prejudice about nice girls like her?
Unless… could this be love?
I think I just wet myself laughing.
Pre-review: One Direction fanfiction got published and movie rights have been sold.
http://www.sugarscape.com/main-topics...
I'm sincerely happy for the author, but SERIOUSLY?
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Jun 09, 2014 05:47AM
I...don't think I fully understand how you can publish something like One Direction fanfic? I mean...they're real people, and wouldn't that also be a copyright issue? I mean... maybe I'm overthinking it.
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I hear they're changing the names when it gets published, but I agree. These are real people and it's just weird.
Why should it? That piece of shit made money so why should the publishers spent any effort on it?
Plus One Direction is so popular that fans will buy it to make more than enough money.
Plus One Direction is so popular that fans will buy it to make more than enough money.
That would be too interesting of a concept, having One Direction fans stage a war againts all non OD-Fans.
Silja wrote: "You know... at least it isn't 'The Axe Killer Harry Styles' :'D Yup, that fanfic exists. Poor damaged serial killer who only needs loooove :D
I've only read the first book of the After-trilogy and..."
I read non-fan fiction that had exactly that damaged serial killer stuff... and it had... some success.
I've only read the first book of the After-trilogy and..."
I read non-fan fiction that had exactly that damaged serial killer stuff... and it had... some success.
The books I am talking about are the Lost Shifter series by Stephenie Hecht. Her leopard shifter Shane was an assassin and apparently she was serious when she had characters talk how he used to bring the heads of his victims as gifts or use their intestines for
She never shows that guy doing this but we are constantly reminded. And apparently that is the most popular character because... I don't know. It is pretty sick.
Silja wrote: "haha I just looked it up... dat cover, though. Sounds like pretty cheap gay porn for women. Doesn't sound like something an actual gay person would enjoy. :P "
I would not even count on most women enjoying this either, I think it caters to the kind that are the most susceptible for the "he just needs a hug" trope.
I would not even count on most women enjoying this either, I think it caters to the kind that are the most susceptible for the "he just needs a hug" trope.
From your quotes this Harry Hardin sounds like an ass, now I feel sorry for the 1D guy in real life.
Mizuki wrote: "From your quotes this Harry Hardin sounds like an ass, now I feel sorry for the 1D guy in real life."
Ditto.
Ditto.
Natalie wrote: "Mizuki wrote: "From your quotes this Harry Hardin sounds like an ass, now I feel sorry for the 1D guy in real life."
Ditto."
I saw that some fans of 1D have concern over how this After series would affect Harry Styleh's image. LOL
Ditto."
I saw that some fans of 1D have concern over how this After series would affect Harry Styleh's image. LOL
Well considered how often people cannot differentiate between fictional characters and real live counterparts this could be a legitimate concern.
Andre wrote: "Well considered how often people cannot differentiate between fictional characters and real live counterparts this could be a legitimate concern."
Yes it is. =__=
Yes it is. =__=
Andre wrote: "Sadly it is."
And as a fanfic writer, I really don't like Real People Based fanfics get published
And as a fanfic writer, I really don't like Real People Based fanfics get published
Silja wrote: "I would actually go as far at to call the whole 'publishing After'-thing sort of a violation on Harry's person. If he decides to sue I wouldn't bat an eye.
The only thing I can hope for is that th..."
He should sue, but sadly, I don't think he will. The 1D boys' image is built upon romantic availability, and their management pretty much has them in a chokehold. It's like why the guy from N'Sync didn't come out as gay during the band's heyday.
The only thing I can hope for is that th..."
He should sue, but sadly, I don't think he will. The 1D boys' image is built upon romantic availability, and their management pretty much has them in a chokehold. It's like why the guy from N'Sync didn't come out as gay during the band's heyday.
The guy named Lance Bass is gay and came out later. Actually a few more boyband members are gay, one of the reasons why there is so much speculation and slashing for KPop bands and 1D:
Lance Bass talks One Direction and Jason Collins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6TD2...
Lance Bass talks One Direction and Jason Collins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6TD2...
well, they should think a bit more about allowing gay boyband members to come out, they might gain some more gay fans or yaoi fangirls as a result.
I saw it in Asda a few days ago. You know what it says on the cover? "There is only one direction". "Wattpad sensation". Doesn't really matter whether she changed the names or not.
Mizuki wrote: "Andre wrote: "Sadly it is."
And as a fanfic writer, I really don't like Real People Based fanfics get published"
Same. Gives me creeps. And from what I've read from fans it shows Harry in the worst light.
And as a fanfic writer, I really don't like Real People Based fanfics get published"
Same. Gives me creeps. And from what I've read from fans it shows Harry in the worst light.
TheOracle wrote: "Mizuki wrote: "Andre wrote: "Sadly it is."
And as a fanfic writer, I really don't like Real People Based fanfics get published"
Same. Gives me creeps. And from what I've read from fans it shows H..."
*nod nods* I wrote my favorite band artists into serial killers and madmen among other things in my RPB fanfics too, but would I dare to get them published? No.
And as a fanfic writer, I really don't like Real People Based fanfics get published"
Same. Gives me creeps. And from what I've read from fans it shows H..."
*nod nods* I wrote my favorite band artists into serial killers and madmen among other things in my RPB fanfics too, but would I dare to get them published? No.
They want to cash in on the fanbase pure and simple, luckily I am immune against such tactis... and not a fan of either.
It is real, I found it as a family name and a name of several places.
It is also allegedly a boys name meaning "valley of the hares", but I found that the meaning of the family name as well, and is a variant of the old English Harden.
It is also allegedly a boys name meaning "valley of the hares", but I found that the meaning of the family name as well, and is a variant of the old English Harden.
.·:*¨ × Shannon♥Loving Tomas Vrbada Like Woe × ¨*: wrote: "He's a bad boy but his name is Hardin? Sheesh, Todd couldn't have chosen a better name?"
Cause he gets hard all the time. :P
Cause he gets hard all the time. :P
The only thing that is good about this book is that the guy (so far from all of the books I've read) a guy main character actually love classics.