Three months later….(why do I refuse to actually end this?)
PS: let's just pretend Wayne Brady still has his show, because dammit! I wrote this a long time ago and it made sense!
The audience claps ( full of fanfic authors, because Len keeps her promises J ) and cheers.
"Okay thank you very much. And now what I know you've all been waiting for. They're the newest thing on the music scene with their hit album Hybrid Theory. Here they are, performing their new rendition of 'Step Up', LINKIN PARK!!!" Wayne Brady claps and cheers along with the audience. The camera goes to the stage where the band appears. Mike and Chester walk out, mics in hand.
"Hey wassup everyone! Mr. Hahn if you will please…." Mike says. The beginning starts and Mike and Chester begin pacing around.
"Watch as the page loads
Mentally screwed up, mixed media slang banging in your boom box.
Literal violence, lyrical stylists in a time when game crossovers were childish.
You can't temp me with fics that are empty.
Doing clichés doesn't make you a great one.
With your lack of skill and creativity, I think you're done.
And a great one in your faves just for notoriety.
I heard that some of you have been getting help with your fiction.
You're not a great one if you're taking someone's diction.
Writing #54 fics doesn't make you unique.
Cuz I've seen a lot of those and they're beginning to reek!
But now they're getting all mixed and slashed up all after a fast review, and the material isn't beau.
So what's it come down to? None of it's real, you wanna be a great one you gotta study the skill.
"Who can write a fic like this?
Bring it to you every time like this?
Who can write a fic like this?
Step, step up, step, step up."
"So you log online and write yourself a new identity but in reality you don't have the creative energy.
With a tendency to make them predictable.
Makes it sound like Top Forty's fictional equal.
And your beta staff completely miss it
And all the others are flamein' it for not being legitimate.
So in a forum you can't hack it react with whack shit
And get smacked with verbal lash whips.
Get your ass kicked my fabulous fic catalyst.
It's taken decades for authors to establish this.
So if you're new to fanfiction then welcome if you're serious
But not on the boards, leave that to the experienced.
(computerized voice) Using waves of skill, the true great one paralyzes their opponent, leaving them open to flames…..
Who can write a fic like this?
Bring it to you every time like this?
Who can write a fic like this?
Step, step, up, step, step up."
Who can write a fic like this?
Bring it to you every time like this?
Who can write a fic like this?
Step, step, up, step, step up.
(computerized voice) After years of painstaking research by the world's leading fic scientists, we here at fanfiction.net have instituted a reliable flame system. For actual movement of this through code and space in order to attack or neutralize the fictional structure of the actual story, the question must be asked…
Who can write a fic like this?
Bring it to you every time like this?
Who can write a fic like this?
Step, step, up, step, step up."
Who can write a fic like this?
Bring it to you every time like this?
Who can write a fic like this?
Step, step, up, step, step up." Mr. Hahn does his thing and the audience erupts into cheers.
"Thank you! PEACE OUT!!!" Chester screams into the mic. They begin to file offstage.
"WAIIIIIIT! Let's do an Herbal Essence Commercial!" Lenalaye runs onto the stage and yells after them.
"Run for it guys!" Mike drops the mic and they all dash out.
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I was waiting for an opportunity to fic that song…..
Ahem. Well, I finally finished it. The story has been told! So why am I writing this?
Well, to anyone who cares anymore, this will be last fic. I am retiring now from my life at fanfiction.net. I've written over 60 fics and been here since January 14, 2001. I feel proud….
I also want to thank you, the audience. For being my support, my joy, and my teachers. When I came to fanfiction.net, my writing it was…..well….let's just say I wasn't the brightest bulb on the tree in that area. I was frustrated in trying to write my own stories to point where I was near depression. But ah, I was then told by some friends about this magickal website….and with my first ever fic "New World, Old Problem" in the Animorphs category, my training began.
Of course, I eventually erased that story and attempted others like "The Drode Chronicles" and "Ethereal Darkness" [ in the now dead Linkin Park category]. Each failure brought me new lessons. Heck, like you saw in chpt 14, I never thought I could write humor and well, I did! This was very satisfying for me and I only wished that I had come around to finishing it sooner and not loosing all those who had been so faithful to me before. Alas, the animorphs series finished, so many categories have been erased, life has become more fast-paced, friends grew distant, I have nothing really left here…
I have learned what I could and I am forever thankful. I will miss the community and the utter glee I got from reading reviews, spending so many hours at the website. I will remember the music videos, the poems, the odd little stories I came up with.I want to thank all those who I have lost touch with but who provided great strength for me, like Akisis, Momo Claus, EllimistGirl, Gem Stoned, Jade Mishima, Jicklet, Danel, Air Wolf, Hazel N. Mitchell, Rach*, and anyone else I might have missed. I'm sorry it didn't last.
I also want to thank Amethyst [ at least I think that was the name…] who wrote the fic about the Yeerk [ aura, was that its name?] who befriended Ax. That was the one very first fics I ever read and I loved it to death and it made me want to write my own. Also to Rb [ who I believe wrote the very first fic I read which was an Everworld music video to a Savage Garden song, its been awhile, I could be wrong….], who inspired me to write my own music videos.
Eh, enough of this gloom! I'm off to try writing my own novels and short stories. I'm gonna kick back and read some other fics every now and then. Try and take the lessons I learned and apply them. So I guess this is Lenalaye signing off saying "So long and thanks for all the fics!"
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
[ you too Wingstar, I'm glad you liked this!]
( check out 'Omniscience', I put a preview for this fic there!]
------- Lenalaye
------ Odrin too!