An Introduction

I’m Dr. Killjoy, and this is an MSTing weblog, where me and an online friend of mine find and comment on the worst fics imaginable.

I’m actually somewhat of a newcomer to the Mystery Science Theater 3000 scene - I only really started watching the show on Youtube about a year ago - but I quickly fell in love with it and now own several episodes on DVD. I also discovered the practice of MSTing literature and fanfics online.

I’m also a longtime member of fanfiction.net. I tried to contribute, but wasn’t satisfied with the quality of my work, so I took almost all of it down recently. Trust me, you aren’t missing much. More importantly, however, I look through the site and notice massive amounts of astoundingly bad fics. It seems like 9 out of 10 entries are either flat, unconvincing, cliché-ridden action fics or romance/shipping fics that are written by people who are obsessed with the idea of TRUE LOVE, yet completely fail to grasp what it’s really about. Sturgeon’s Law indeed.

Those fics, for the most part, merit nothing more than an eye roll and a click of the browser’s “back” button. Once in awhile, though, a fic comes along that’s so astoundingly bad it makes the overwhelming amounts of garbage on FFNet seem like masterpieces by comparison. These fics don’t just deserve being ignored, nor do they deserve simply a bad review. No, there works are so mistake-ridden that they deserve nothing short of being completely dismantled, every line being mercilessly ridiculed. That is why an online friend of mine and I decided to do this - because we found horrible fanfics that were begging for an MSTing, but were sadly ignored.

I could go on, but this introduction is getting too damn long already. Odds are you don’t care about my interests, and if you do, they’ll reveal themselves over time through my commentary. So I’ll take this chance to let my MSTing partner (who will be using a forest green font, while I will be using brick red) introduce himself.

Hello o-o; I'm Zelda407, and like Dr. Killjoy said, thanks for visiting. For even more future reference Green > Red forever kthx XP.

Anyway, I'm new to this as well. Really, I'm just here to stop Dr. Killjoy from losing all his sanity. I haven't really watched/read much MST related material, but I'll try to keep up ^^; .

I'm also stealing Killjoy's format if you haven't noticed. Anyway, I'm not much of a writer, which you can probably tell by the grammatical errors in this introduction. (As per my grammar Nazi tendencies, I corrected those when I uploaded this.)

Anyway, I'll cut off my introduction here, so sit back, grab a soda/beer/glass of chocolate milk, and enjoy as you slowly go insane.

Of course, it doesn’t matter what you get to drink as you sit down to read the MSTings. Everyone ends up reaching for the alcohol sooner or later =P

Anyway, it’s time to get on with the MSTing. I didn’t want this blog to go up without any riffing, so I went ahead and made the first session before ever creating it - if you’re reading this and the first session isn’t up yet, I’m probably uploading it right now. Once you see the fic I’ve got lined up, you’ll see why I had to enlist Zelda407’s help, and why I’m gonna owe him after this is all over.

By the way, consider this a fair warning: There’s a lot of stuff on this blog, whether from the original fics or our riffs, that’s gonna be NWS. We're gonna try to avoid sex fics for the sake of our own sanity, but there'll still be some swearing.