Nevanna's Forest of Stories

The first stories that I ever wrote in the X-Men universe (most of which I never posted anywhere, though a few of them contain characters and ideas that eventually appeared in my more visible projects) were so painfully awkward that I wouldn't even want to try MST-ing them. I'm not just talking about silly plots, awkward writing, or shabby characterization (though, yes to all of the above); I'm talking about stories that missed the point of the source material and its characters so completely that they bordered on the offensive. I was going for "subversive," I think, but I ended up in kind of a hateful place, and I'm really glad that I didn't stay there.

Also, the phrase "the greater good" turned up a lot in those stories - usually sarcastically or derisively, but it still cracks me up now.