Hey. I'm Spidershadow5. Call me Danny. I write stuff for kicks.

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I'm a big TV Troper. If you really like my stories, please consider adding them to the fanfic rec pages on TV tropes.

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Future Projects

Genesis (Five Nights at Freddy's): Every nightmare has a beginning. The darkness of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza is no exception. First part in the Fazbear's Legacy Trilogy.

Gifts and Curses (Avengers/Frozen): If something is given as a curse, can it create any real good in the world? The Avengers ponder the answer as they race against Hydra to protect a woman with incredible abilities and a shocking past.

Along Came a Spider (Amazing Spider-Man/Avengers Crossover): In the aftermath of the Lizard's attack on New York City, Nick Fury wants Spider-Man on Shield's payroll. However, in between keeping his promise to Captain Stacy, and investigating the mysteries surrounding Oscorp, his father, and the origin of his own powers, joining the Avengers may be the last thing on Spidey's mind.

War Across Existence (Super Smash Bros.): The fourth Super Smash Bros tournament starts out smoothly, until a newly formed legion led by Bowser, Ganondorf, and other rogues begins to systematically take down the heroes. With Tabuu dead, another has taken his place, one who has far more dangerous goals.

Kid Icarus: Awakening of Madness: Five years have passed since the fall of Hades. However, in his place, a powerful primordial force has returned, one which cannot die. Adding to the chaos is a mighty warrior, with a shocking link to Palutena.

Things in Fanfiction that Really Get on my Nerves

1. Grammar, spelling, and punctuation mistakes: Now, admittedly, this is a bit hypocritical. If you look in my stories, I'm sure you'll find mistakes I still haven't fixed. I only think it's bad if it's clear the author didn't even try. There are three easy steps that you can take to minimize them. First, spellcheck is your friend. Use it. Second, if you're not sure about any grammatical rules, there are plenty of websites that explain them. Third, beta readers are plentiful on this site. I'm sure somebody would be happy to help you with it.

2. "I suck at summaries": It's really not that hard to come up with a handful of sentences to explain the plot of the story without giving away any significant plot twists. I've never had this problem. Just try it, and it'll come to you naturally. Also, try to avoid sentences like "Will he/she defeat the dark lord?" It makes your story sound incredibly cliché from the get go.

3. Mary Sues and/or Obvious Author Avatars: Yes, everybody and their dog has said this already, but it bears repeating. Take a Mary Sue test. It's okay to use your personality in bits and pieces when creating original characters. However, a character should not be you. For this reason, I tend to avoid any story that has a character getting sucked into a video game/movie/tv show/etc, especially if they are paired with a canon character.

4. "Draco in Leather Pants": I LOATHE this trope. For those in the dark, according to TV tropes, this trope occurs when a character's antagonistic nature is downplayed, and the character is portrayed as a misunderstood and sad soul who only needs love to become a hero. You see the problem? The name originates from Harry Potter's Draco Malfoy, who is often painted as a misunderstood bad boy before he hooks up with Harry, Ginny, Hermione, and/or the author. My biggest problem with this is that it implies that a murderous psycho can be redeemed by love, and that just doesn't work in real life. Seriously, there are real life stories that talk about trying to fix an obviously unstable partner, and they almost always end horribly. If you want to redeem a villain, that's fine, as long as you go about it logically and intelligently. Don't reduce an interesting villain down to a cliché for smut. I'm going to rant here, but I've seen no character suffer from this more than Loki from the MCU. I like Loki because he has layers as a character. But in reality, Loki is a temperamental, murderous, greedy jackass who thinks he is entitled to everything he wants just because he was adopted. Odin is a terrible father, but seriously, that does not excuse his actions.

5. "Ron the Death Eater": This is the opposite of Draco in Leather Pants. Basically, in involves taking a character who is usually at least somewhat heroic, taking one of their flaws, and expanding it until it becomes their defining character trait. Sometimes, these characters didn't even have the flaws in canon, such as a normal character who becomes an alcoholic wife beater after the stories' events. In Harry Potter fanfics, this usually goes by having Hermione get with Draco for some reason, then Ron goes berserk and joins Voldemort, or some crap like that. As you can guess, this is frequently used to get an author's preferred pairing to happen. More on that later. Once again, this basically amounts to ruining perfectly good characters. If you don't like the character, you shouldn't express it like this.

6. "Die For Our Ship": This is the process of somehow removing one character from an established pairing, or a pairing that had one sign of it's existence, and removing them so that the author can create their preferred pairing. Often, this involves taking a character from the first pairing, and making them into an abusive partner, especially if they never showed any signs whatsoever of being abusive in canon, so another character can "rescue" the first from the relationship. Once again, this is blatant derailment of perfectly good characters. Yes, fanfiction allows us to change things, but I feel like this is just immature, and perpetuates the stereotype that fanfiction exists solely for the purpose of shipping (you give us a bad name, E. L. James!).

7. Taking a Franchise Where Shipping Really Doesn't Belong and Making it the Sole Focus of Thousands of Fanfics: I'm looking at you, Five Nights at Freddy's fandom. Seriously, they're robots possessed by the spirits of murdered children looking revenge against their killer. I don't think romance is really high on their list.

8. High School AU's: These are extremely overdone. Most of the time, they're cliche storms that are insulting to real high school students. I know fiction isn't supposed to be realistic, and fanfiction isn't by extension, but in reality, high school is the definition of hell hole, not a big giant party where if you're good, you're popular, you find your dream, and you find true love. The worst part is that it reduces amazing characters and worlds to teenage cliches. Thanks, High School Musical, you lying piece of crap.