Exactly how many Tracy sisters stories are there? How many lost/abandoned/stolen/missing-at-birth Tracy daughters or Tracy twins stories? It's a cliche that has been done to death. It should be left buried.
The fandom has its genuine writers, the ones who strive to make the characters real, who agonise over every sentence. They give us delightfully rich and satisfying stories, and yet so often we are handed a plate of scraps and what is worse is that readers are gradually becoming content with those paltry offerings in which self-insertion Mary Sues fill every page.
I have given up writing critiques for Thunderbirds. The last one that I did, in which I carefully (in a PM!) explained to a writer how to use speech marks, and the necessity of capital letters at the beginning of a sentence was met with stony silence and not even a thank you. (although the writer took the 'suggested version' that I gave her as an example, and promptly used it in her story!)
Enough.
I look at the names of some authors and sigh. I don't even bother reading the reviews now, let alone the actual stories. I cannot stand those patronising 'Great chapter, please update.' reviews that are utterly meaningless. It's about time there was some honesty on ffnet and perhaps some real policing so that stories that blatantly break the rules are deleted. And perhaps some writers would finally learn to use a spell checker. Or a full stop. Or heaven forbid - capital letters for proper nouns. You never know, one or two might actually learn how to spell the names correctly.
As for the adverts? No Comment.
And that is my rant over for the day. Easter holidays now. I can get on and write.