Ford's FF reviews

Here are my FF reviews, no particular order or preference, I was however quite picky when reading FF. I wasn't going to read anything with bad grammar or poor spelling, or anything that made me cringe lol.

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#1 Days of Our Lives


I feel rather mixed about this FF.

The characterisation in it is excellent, you can hear all of the characters if you've seen the show before and you know how they sound, but there is no story.

I wish I were joking, but there is almost no story involved what so ever.

The characters build something, it falls down, the end. I have probably given everyone a better understanding of the stories plot than the story itself.

I wasn't a fan of the multiple breaks in continuum of the story, 5 in total, which added to the confusion in the story. The other problem I had was the drastic use of paragraph breaks between sentences, every line is divided by a break like their own tiny paragraph island, it does not help with the flow of the story.



#2 Two Passing Ships

I actually quite liked this story. It had several failings, uneeded references to the original text and I don’t think the writer actually realised the implications of the original text for the main character, so it was a little inaccurate, those were the 2 big things for me.


It was well written though, easy to follow and had all of the relevant grammar and punctuation. Personally I would have worked on the dialogue a little more, it felt a little wooden to me.

The good points for this story were that it sounded somewhat like it was written by Neil Gaimen and the emotional turmoil felt by the new character is very reminiscent of American Gods.

#3 Miss Susan's Hogswatch

This FF is in fact a poem. A very well written poem detailing a Hogswatch eve on The Disc when Susan Sto Helit, the grand daughter of death, stands in for the Hogfather, Discworld's version of Father Christmas, after he is shaken from his task.


The writer is obviously a fan with multiple tie ins to other texts involving both Susan and The Hogfather.

The poem is astounding, a few times the rhyme slips, but over all it is nearly perfect. The formatting involved is very good, one stanza is posed almost identically to the last.


The story is very Pratchett like and I thought was an interesting way to bring two characters who had met back together. I would say anyone who enjoys Terry Pratchett's work will appreciate this poem.

#4 Grim Tales

'Grim Tales' is an ongoing comic series by comic set in the Cartoon Network universe centering around ‘Grim Adventures’. It takes place about 20 years after the cartoon series, Mandy has grown up, married Grim, and has 2 children, Mini Mandy and Grim Jr.

The story revolves mainly around the children and how their lives and adventures unravel the stability of the underworld.

I am a huge fan of the artists work, his pages are always of an extremely high quality and his fan following shows how consumable it is, and Grim Tales is no exception. The story is detailed, drawing heavily on it's source material while expressing the creators own story telling flair, it is one of my favourite fan fictions.

#5 Deadpool b Dialogue

I am a huge fan of Deadpool, I have been since I started reading his comics as a kid. I loved his crossover with Cable, the universes silliest character coupled with the most serious, was amazing and he is the reason I know about the 4th wall and what breaking it means.

This brief dialogue between the character and an unnamed party is a fairly good example of how the character is in the comic books.

Personally I believe that the sillyness is a bit too drawn out, the character is unhinged but there is no break for reality as their usually is in the comic and Deadpool breaks the fourth wall, which he is renowned for, several times too many for my liking, but that doesn't stop it from being a solid piece of work.