Board Thread:Fanon Wiki Proposals/@comment-5277627-20190606013813/@comment-37501836-20190606213112

I am gonna oppose all opposers.

1. (As noted above, I feel a requirement to introduce the characters should be in place. Also speaking from experience, I feel this requirement helps the writer think of different characteristics for the character that they might not have thought of before. I had this one flat character that I just couldn't think of anything for them to do/be/have and with the 50 word count it helped "inspire" me so to say to think of something interesting that I feel really helped with the story.) Well, congrats to you. I was on the edge of quitting my season because of profiles, in the end, I asked Uke to them, do you know the darn problem. I couldn't get myself to write that because I never understood it. And for Djibouti, my bios mean nothing because I change the character and what about that.

2. (I hate writing profiles as much as anyone but theyre really necessary. bios are really helpful for getting a first impression on castaways and its great for giving readers a feel of each castaway before the season even starts. if you cant get yourself to write at least a 50 word summary of each contestant, you probably wont have the drive to actually write the season.) I can somewhat say okay, but still would you think staying up hours thinking about what to write is gonna make it any better. I've seen Kenya go without one and MANY think it is great.

3.(The other people who voted Oppose above said it better than I ever could. I will stress that it's important we emphasize that bios can be short, not super huge.) I can agree, although, Uke your bios are good, but they are huge and I can assume thinking about it is even more time consuming then 1 episode. A cast of 16 and 14 episode, which is greater the cast, so Nexus your telling me writing bios is hurting you then inspiring you. Your darn right.

4.(With there being rules to set in place to make the stories realistic and have it read and feel like an actual Survivor story, I think as mentioned above even the real show releases cast profiles before the actual season, and it gets the community involved in some ways to have them predict boot order and potential discussion for some pre-season hype. Even for smaller fanons I feel it can get an audience more connected to a fanon with getting to know characters and already developing opinions and thoughts before the season starts so you already have faves to root for.) In every other Survivor Fanon their is nobody has this rule yet this one has it. I can tell alot of people alot of problems but what does this do, the voting history is more descriptive then the goodamn bio now. Yet, we need to write because we can't "start" a fanon without because of what.

5. (It's something every fanon must get through. It's good incentive to keep a fanon actually going, people who get their first glimpse at the tediousness that is making the castaway pages are more prepared for the longevity and commitment a fanon is. You don't get as many cancelled systems with the current system then what would be a newbie's paradise to make a season then drop it.) Yyaku, think about Lunar Temple, you know the winner, the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th boot and everything else, okay, now pin point the gameplay, is it fun, I enjoy just doing that and that gives me "commitment". I started Foreign bad, and you know it was rough because I was like what to do, you know, nobody said anything and bios kept butting me in the face like a mas____ butt. I had my commitment on my own and I grew off that, on episode 10 I think I stopped caring what you all are saying I started imagine what I was thinking and do you know that, that was a great experience itself.

6. (I truly like the idea of profiles since they are making each fanon more realistic and it can show the readers the castaways character more since some might get overshadowed in the season.) Sorry, Jake, we talked about this at chat, okay, some people get overshadowed and I agree with that, but Andrew Jones is one and I liked who I did it. I'm only opposing bios to be mandatory, some people get to do what they feel. I overshadow someone but they tend to not get voted out that episode unless in some cases with Leo and Wade. You have 20 people it's okay to overshadow some, their bios aren't anything better you know, you read it and you only go away with nothing, I understand I player by it's gameplay, game description and voting history, I don't need a godamn bio.

7. (While profiles are a pain to write, they do give information about the castaway that people should know about before they read the fanon.) Like I said what info does it give if nothing reflects the players gameplay.

8. (As a lot of people who have been on chat with me before know, I absolutely dread writing bios. That said, they're necessary, I mean, when developing my characters, I refer back to the bios. If you can't write a fifty word bio, can you really get through a season? The paragraph above is already 50 words long.) Well, if it isn't a law then i'll show you how far I can go, in the Revamped Foreign Islands, I don't use the bios, sorry Uke, I just give everybody a trait and I go from there. Guess Missy's.

9. (For me, personally, as a writer, I hate writing profiles for my characters. And like it's not really a thing out of laziness or whatever, it's just that it is daunting for me. Now, people say "Just write 50 words it's not a big deal" I just can't do that. I don't feel this way about others' writing (I'd love to be able to be able to do how like Waffle does with his), it's just I feel for my own writing that if it's not perfect to me or big enough, I feel like I haven't put in enough effort or that it's not good enough. My perfectionism just sorta jumps out, which is why it takes me forever to write profiles and why I probably will never finish a fanon. It's just never going to be good to me, and that's something I need to work on. With that said, I agree with what pretty much above has said. I don't need to go into specifics since I feel anything else I could say would be redundant on the matter regarding why. However, I do have more to say. I think that in cases like Aleks where it's not motivation or laziness but an actual mental disorder like OCD that inhibits the writing process, then I feel exceptions should be made regarding profiles. If seasons can be written fine without them, but the opposite is true, and it's the cause of somthing out of the author's control, then again, I think exceptions should be made.) I need to say credits for writing alot. I'm just saying it's annoying and people should have the right to do what they want. I live in America and everyone knows the first amandment. Yes, to build a society you need rules but you can't have the rules govern the people and when it's that the people have to fight and thanks to Tangle I'm fighting. I didn't notice Aleks has OCD he is very good at his job and he is a dad, he works hard and do you know how much his job + OCD + the rule to write bios are. Cut Aleks some slack, and yeah their should be expections but you know then you can't force people to do everything. Nobody wants to get banned but nobody wants to write bios, if I keep going my brain is gone.