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  1. EVERYTHING THAT'S WRONG WITH THE MENTAL HOSPITAL AU FIC
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  3. it's 3 am and i have an essay due. don't care, this shit is so bad it deserves an autism rant
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  5. -This is obviously not Japan. The author has made no attempt to even convince us it's Japan, and yet everyone is Japanese and there's the obligatory Japanese custom tossed here and there. It's obviously an American mental hospital.
  6. -This is also not Ouma. This is a caricature of what the author thinks a CSA victim looks like. This is a mentally 10 year old that constantly cries, breaks down and has extreme dependency issues. Ouma, the V3 character, would deal with abuse in his past much, much differently. The author is obsessed with depicting mental illness/the affects of abuse "correctly" that any characterization Ouma has or how he would deal with a past like this is thrown under the table in the name of avoiding the dreaded Problematic label.
  7. -The author cannot decide if Kiibo is a robot or a human in a robot suit. He acts and feels exactly like a human save for the gratuitous "oh I'm am AI BTW" line. He also flip flops back and forth between hating Ouma and loving him, and it's never clear exactly when he crossed from the latter to the former and not good enough reason is given for him to not have bailed out from day one after Ouma's extreme mental issues were revealed
  8. -It goes without saying that Kiibo is not Kiibo either. Once again, in the name of avoiding the Problematic Label, Kiibo is a saint that's almost always patient with Ouma's shit, and when he isn't, he's quick to rattle off "dealing with abuse victim 101" facts stolen from a psychology 101 lecture to cover for his mistake.
  9. -That "listing off facts" aspect of the fic in order to show how ~knowledgeable~ the author is about psychology/mental hospitals/hospitalization/dealing with abuse victims makes the fic come across as preachy, out of character and a textbook lecture on these issues instead of the characters dealing with these problems as they would based on their own experiences/opinions. It's really jarring and brings the reader out of what little story there is. This is a problem in a lot of tumblr-based fics but it's really, really obvious here.
  10. -Dialogue is incredibly repetitive. Ouma makes a delusional statement about the government/police/DICE, Kiibo gently proves it wrong, Ouma has a breakdown/crying spell, Kiibo wonders why. It happens over and over again and it gets boring as fuck without deviations from the formula.
  11. -If the author is intending us to get tired of Ouma crying, good, they at least did that right. If not, he cries enough to where if you took a shot each time he did you'd be dead by chapter 2.
  12. -Any sense of mystery is completely killed by the author spoonfeeding details, like the whole "Ouma is Seji" thing. I guess the one thing the author is right about is that the audience wouldn't be perceptive enough to connect the dots on their own.
  13. -A hospital volunteer should not be Ouma's primary caretaker. A mental health professional should. A psychology student should know that.
  14. -Including other V3 characters is fine. Gratuitously assigning them mental illnesses is comical at best and just stupid/fishing for brownie points at worst.
  15. -Kiibo should've been fired or reassigned the moment Ouma started taking a sexual interest in him. This last chapter has Kiibo accepting the idea of a romantic relationship with him. The issues with that should be fucking obvious.
  16. -If Ouma was homeless, clearly delusional and had fucking knife scars all over his body as well as oozing genital warts, how the fuck did no one notice the obvious signs of sexual abuse in a health check when he was admitted to the hospital? How did it take until Kiibo, a goddamn volunteer, researched this shit on his own to find out that he was a sex abuse victim?
  17. -Taking someone to court Does Not Work That Way
  18. -Speaking of genital warts, JESUS CHRIST YOU DON'T NEED TO DESCRIBE UNTREATED STDS IN DETAIL THAT MANAGES TO BE BOTH CLINICAL AND GURO, WHY
  19. -I DON'T NEED TO KNOW THE DETAILS OF SURGERY TO CORRECT ANAL FISSURES EITHER, HOLY FUCK. ALLUSIONS ARE YOUR FRIEND.
  20. -Detailed descriptions of childhood sexual assault. It's described like a paragraph out of a psychology textbook and it's jarring as fuck with how disturbing the content is. There are ways to write this that can evoke horror and sadness in the reader without making it feel gratuitous/obligatory.
  21. -Ouma's realization of his sexual abuse goes back and forth in such a way that comes across as the author forgetting what he's come to realize rather than actual mental backsliding on the character's part.
  22. -STOP TALKING ABOUT WHAT GOES INTO OUMA'S VEGAN MEALS, NO ONE CARES
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  24. there's more but i'm so tired and i don't want to reread it again to find things i'm mad about. god.
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