Rann's Ranting Place

It's time for another edition of "Look at all the sucky stuff this fandom offers on Fanfiction.net!"
On today's episode of LAATSSTFOOFF.net, we have what is probably a mostly forgotten fandom of a cartoon that, despite it trying to open your mouth and shove learning down your throat with nothing approaching subtlety, still stands the test of time and is pretty durned entertaining... Where On Earth Is Carmen Sandiego?
The series was, of course, based on the series of clue-finding games, starring the brother and sister team of Zack and Ivy as they teleported around the globe trying to catch cunning (and really hot) criminal and ex-agent, Carmen Sandiego. (She's a hot redhead in parachuting gear. He's her skater-boy younger brother. Together, they fight crime!)
Interestingly enough, despite the series not lasting terribly long and being about a decade or so old, it has 71 fanfics up on Fanfiction.net, a surprising number that not even some of the more established/current fandoms match. So, let's take a look at just how hard some of these are going to suck, just by looking at the summaries, shall we?

( Click to find your disgust, detectives... )

So, there you have it. For all its obscurity, the Where On Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? fanfic section manages to have pretty much every single last one of the bad fanfic cliches generally attributed to mega-fandoms such as Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter. All it's missing is some yaoi and mpreg, and I'm sure someone's probably working on those.
This is me, signing off to go curl up in bed and tremble until the bad feeling goes away... the mean fics tried to hurt me, mommy... waaaah... ;.;

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