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| 12:52am 08/11/2009 |
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mood:  sleepy music: sound machine in room
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Dear yuri writer,
Bazillion waxed =/= Brazillian waxed especially if it only refers to one body part, . That is all. |
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| Just... no. |
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| 02:58pm 08/11/2009 |
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Dear Sir,
Three words does not equal a story. When your story is shorter than your summary, you have done something wrong. You get nothing, you lose, good day sir. |
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| Nicknames |
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| 10:04pm 07/11/2009 |
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In NCIS, Tony and Gibbs don't really have nicknames. They have never been called "T" and "J". They probably won't be nicknamed that, even in fics.
And while Abby is his favorite, Gibbs would not let him call her that. I just can't see him liking it.
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| Another epithet rant. |
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| 06:15pm 07/11/2009 |
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mood:  cranky
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Dear various Leverage fanficcers,
I don't care if the most recent ad campaign for the show gives the characters "titles" -- "Parker: the thief," "Sophie: the grifter," and so on. It doesn't mean you have to use those "titles" as epithets in your fics. (IMO they're stupid oversimplifications anyway.) They're not real "titles" and the characters don't use them for each other, so it jolts me right out of an otherwise engrossing story.
No love, just annoyance,
Rose Cat
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| Hey, Girl |
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| 12:24am 08/11/2009 |
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YMMV, I guess?
This is about fandom writer's everywhere.
Fanfiction writer's are mostly women and a high percentage of those are teen or younger, so I understand that refering to a female character as a girl is pretty normal for a lot of them to say in real life
BUT
it throws me a bit when I read an ADULT WOMAN being refered to as a girl. (By adult men in quite a few cases too)
It's not even a rare occurrence either, but across the fandom board.
I'm almost guaranteed to find that (often a group of adult) women/woman will be called "the girls/those girls/that girl/the girl" by another character (usually male).
It's just... bah...
What's wrong with being a grown and matured woman?
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| 01:13am 08/11/2009 |
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He gave a grateful (A/N: That’s spelt right, just so you know. Yeah, it confused me too. I was like why is it that grate instead of the other great? It’d make more sense…but then this is the English language) smile[...]
You are now topping my most-useless-A/N-EVER-list.
And now I'm tempted to do a grate/great pun. Obviously I need to go to bed already. |
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| Multi-Fandom Characterization Rant |
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| 03:57pm 07/11/2009 |
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Okay, you don't have to like the heroes of any given story, and you're perfectly free to write fic that displays their more unlovely characteristics. But could we please at least make a token effort at staying true to their canon characterization? Sirius Black is an irrational bully, but he's not a traitor. Rodney McKay is an arrogant misanthrope, but he's rarely cruel. Mac Taylor is stiff-necked and overly concerned with rules, but he's neither stupid nor bad at his job. Dean Winchester can be a flippant jerk, but he's almost never selfish, especially when it comes to Sam (in fact, he'd sell his soul to save his brother. Oh, wait....)
Focusing on a character's negative traits is fine. Inventing negative traits that don't exist in canon--or that go directly against canon characterization--just makes you look like an idiot. You don't need to justify your dislike of a character by making up flaws that don't make any sense for them. You're allowed to just not like them. With the caveat that not everyone is going to agree with you, and that's okay. Variety is a good thing, people.
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| 08:19pm 07/11/2009 |
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Tell me, dear author, whose fic I have not read because it has no summary, if you list your fic as: Type: Straight -- which I was presuming meant non-slash until I noticed it was followed by casts: Ohmiya, the rest of Arashi members [...], as well as having a slash pairing in the pairing tag, I'm going to be a little confused. I mean, don't get me wrong, friendship fic is awesome. I love friendship fic, but really. I like being not!confused a whole lot more.
Of course, Ohmiya SK has come to mean the Ohno Satoshi - Ninomiya Kazunari combo far beyond the 'we're dating/have broken up' tales that the two would spin (comedy skits that the pairing name was created for aside), but as a general whole, a pairing of the non-friendship variety is going to expected. Since Taka and Yuuji are a horribly ignored aspect of OMSK.
Would it really, really hurt to rethink your more than confusing header and aim for a little bit of clarity? A summary would be great, but cohesion is a great first step.
Edit: HTML formatting |
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| 06:52pm 07/11/2009 |
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I don't care if it's intended to be a mindless smutfic. I don't care if the original canon doesn't have even a vague mention of anything remotely sexual. Nor do I care if it's an original character who did it. This character was a member of a set of characters famous for being good guys and following strict codes of honour despite suffering from beserk rages. These characters kill their defeated enemies, or on occasion let them go if they're sure they won't pose a future danger. They don't rape them!
Note to self: writing.com is a bad place to look for fanfic. Also must rethink friend's insistence that I should try writing porn to show people how it's done, because even if I do blush at writing so much as a kiss scene, I couldn't possibly do any worse than 90% of fandom. |
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| A new rotation of sporkers, tackling Luke Skywalker's supposed in-laws |
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| 12:26pm 07/11/2009 |
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mood:  blah music: "Four Minutes, Thirty-Three Seconds" -- John Cage
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Story or Series Title: Cruel Trick of Fate
Fandom: Lord of the Jedi
CulpritAuthor's Name: TDWidow
Full Names: Obi-Wan Kenobi, Aragorn son of Arathorn
Full Species: Edain
Hair Color (Include Adjectives): Like in canon, I presume
Eye Color (Include Adjectives): Like in canon, I presume
Unusual Markings/Colorations: I presume they both have scars from the battles they've been in.
Special Possessions: Aragorn has a uterus
Annoying Origin: Unknown, Arathorn II and Gilraen
Annoying Connections to Canon Characters: Claim to be two of them, are Mara Skywalker's parents.
Annoying Special Abilities: In addition to the mpreg, there's the matter of Obi-Wan taking Arwen's place in Aragorn's heart
Other Annoying Traits: 0o9iuihjnbhgh6tftrfcc dxfdre4
( The summary )
( Crash Landing )
( In Karningul ) |
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| Gen fic today |
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| 09:07pm 07/11/2009 |
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It’s new fic. It’s using our fandom’s classic trope so this is somehow understandable. But your story is trite. The plot is sucks, by OOC mostly. And stupidity.
Character A lost trust of Character B. Being brilliant and doing incredibly important work, A wouldn’t lose his sleep and ability to think during the day because of it. He wouldn’t stop eating and wouldn’t lose his wish for Nobel Prize even if you, dear author, think otherwise. Because, you know, A still has very important job, he doesn’t want to make mistakes by being exhausted and he’s generally too busy for long remorse.
A won’t be asking other people to teach him «fly in the straight line» and show him how to shoot a gun right just to please B and earn his trust back. For the most part because A learnt it year ago from the same unfortunate B!
And while I’m still on it, please, dear author, don’t make A stupid in addition to his behavior of 13-year-old-girl-seeking-approval-from-her-parents.
Please note, that I didn’t want to offend any 12-year-old girls on purpose.
EDIT due to mixed up english words. Please feel free to point out other mistakes to me ;). |
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| Dear DCU Fandom |
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| 11:47am 07/11/2009 |
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mood:  confused
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When your fic features Lois Lane as a domestic housewife that cooks breakfast for her husband and watches the kids all day, I become very alarmed, and hit the back button. I don't care if your fic is set in a continuity I'm not as familiar with, I'm pretty sure that Stepford!Lois is OOC everywhere.
ETA: Unless it is supposed to be creepy and other characters treat it as such, of course. |
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| Life With Derek |
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| 10:57am 07/11/2009 |
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If Derek Venturi wanted to be with Casey because he's in love with her, he would not be secretly plotting against her ex-boyfriends.
He also wouldn't poison and kill Sam. His and Casey's relationship was over a long time ago, and besides, Derek and Sam are friends. Derek may not do well in school, but I can't see him putting his super secret plans on the computer so Casey can accidentally find them when he breaks her laptop.
And really, why is Casey even with Derek in the first place and why hasn't she gone to the police? She even confronted Derek about killing Sam! She has proof on Derek's computer that he's done these things, and she's pretending to be happy with him?
And biology fail here: You cannot find out that you're pregnant one day after having sex! It's impossible!
Edit: To fix a typo.
Edit 2: Found another typo. |
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| You fail. |
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| 11:40pm 06/11/2009 |
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Dear Specific Author,
Ron is not going to equate Harry with Draco Malfoy if Harry knows something about the wizarding world Ron doesn't. He is not going to start calling Harry by his last name, and saying "Potter wasn't even that good in school!"
Ron can be jealous of Harry, and he can be a prat about it sometimes, but overall he is very loyal to Harry.
Nor does he particularly strike me as the type of person who refers to himself in the third person while ranting about how great he will become. That's more Voldemort's territory.
Love,
A person who thought you were doing a decent job of characterizing Ron before this left-field lunacy.
Dear Authors-In-General,
Harry/Ron fics do not require Hermione to be demonized. Stop making her out to be a crazy person out to destroy everyone's happiness. These are the two people she cares most about, you know!
Same for any other pairings up of the trio.
Love,
Somebody who likes her slash and her Hermione fic. |
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| This might be a very YMMV but... |
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| 12:30am 07/11/2009 |
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mood: aggravated
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The fic started out really good. Well written, tugged at the heartstrings, I was all ready to love it to pieces. It had a pretty common scenario where Naruto has to take down Sasuke, for the village’s sake. And I could see Naruto doing this. What I can’t see Naruto doing? After smashing Sasuke’s body, grabbing him by the hair and cutting his head off. Then slamming the head face first into the dirt and jamming a kunai through it.
I get it, the author doesn’t like Sasuke…but Naruto does. I just can't see him mutilating Sasuke's corpse like that. Killing him to protect the village? Yes. Cutting off the head and then jamming a kunai threw through* the skull of the guy he said was a brother to him? Not so much.
ETA* I can't proofread on Vicodin apparently. -_-
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| [how very... uninformative] |
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| 07:00pm 06/11/2009 |
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mood: aggravated
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Chapter 2 is up! There are definitely spoilers so watch out! Please review! Oh pretty please!
Well, okay, here's what I know about your fic: what fandom it's for (due to the section it's in), the characters (due to the tags), and that it's two chapters long so far. I also know that you would like reviews and that your story contains spoilers.
But I know nothing concerning the plot. I was fairly sure that a summary was supposed to provide that. The only plot-related things I know are from tags rather than your summary. Bad author. No cookie. I don't even know what section of the source material these spoilers are for! Endgame? Halfway through? Something found out in the first five minutes but that it quite shocking?
This is like summarizing a book with the following: "There are words! There is more than one chapter! Someone dies! Oh, and the characters are named Gary and Matthew! Please read! Oh pretty please!" |
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