| (Started reading this fic due to the promise of my favorite pairing, stuck with it just to see exactly how awful it would get. Answer? Pretty darn awful! I joined this comm specifically to rant at it.)
Dear Author:
If you decide it would be a fun idea for the Doctor (Nine) to rape and abuse Rose under the influence of Sex Pollen (tm), I suppose that would be your business. However! The way to balance the scales is not to have Rose, under the influence of the same Sex Pollen (tm), later rape him right back, leading to confessions of love and giggly teen behavior as they head off into the sunset to raise the child conceived in the initial rape together.
Seriously. Not a great way of dealing with sexual trauma.
No Love,
Me | comments: 5 comments or Leave a comment   |
| Author,
I'm usually better behaved and less brutal, but now my brain hurts after you f...ed up one of my beloved pairings in a relatively obscure fandom where a good fic is worth its word count in gold pounds, and where I read *everything*, no matter how clumsy or OOC it is. No, really.
I hit the back button, but the brain damage remained.
( Terminology fail, biology fail, characterization fail )
Do some thinking before writing, all right? I heard that it doesn't hurt, even the first time. | | comments: 14 comments or Leave a comment |
| In this fandom, I have several pairings I like, but the most popular one is slash, and while I'm usually all for sweaty man-love, this one pairing fails to float my boat in a variety of ways.
But hey, each to their own, right?
Which is why I was thrilled to see you'd written A and B friendship fic.
"Woot!" I said to myself, "I like this author and I like characters A and B (As long as they keep their dicks to themselves...)"
Which brings me to my rant:
If your fic is entirely about character A having detailed sexual fantasies about B, then I don't think you can label your fic as 'friendship'...
(eta: as in there is probably less than a paragraph of a 2000 word fic that isn't a detailed PWP fantasy on the part of character A) | | comments: 15 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Time: | 10:29 pm | | Current Mood: | annoyed |
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| Dear juvenile authors,
please, leave the transcripts of chats you and one or more characters of your fic had, out of the posted chapter althogeter. It never was funny and it will never be.
And, when someone is too skinny don't refer to his/her bones as bird-like. It makes no sense whatsoever and I don't get the comparison anyway.
Thank you. | | comments: 13 comments or Leave a comment |
| I know, author, I know - you specifically said in your summary to forgive the spelling errors.
For some reason, my definition of "forgive" is "to mock," so here we are.
These are just a few of the words you managed to invent in your ficlet: Togheter. Offerd. Mumbeld. Liqiud. Aspleep. Virginty. Partens.
Really? Some of these sound like Pokemon names. I'm probably going to comment "write more!" just because errors like these make me giggle.
I choose you, Aspleep! | | comments: 24 comments or Leave a comment |
| 43000 / 50000 words. 86% done!
*points and grins*
And I'm about halfway done on the vid for Nicci's b-day. All should, hopefully, be done before I head off on Thursday morning ^___^
This entry had been crossposted to my DW, IJ and LJ accounts | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| When you talk about two or more people with a common last name, you don't make the name plural.
Ex.: Jack and Jill Smiths. <-- NO. | | comments: 5 comments or Leave a comment |
| Dear Office author, so you had Pam cheat on Jim with Ryan and got pregnant. She put off looking at the paternity test until the day of her wedding to Jim.
Why is so happy that Ryan is the father of the baby? And you can't tell me that Ryan would be happy about becoming a father.
Pam is also going to feel extremely guilty about this. Why exactly did she go through with the wedding to Jim after nearly running off with Ryan? And Jim still has no clue his new wife cheated on him and is most likely trying to pass the baby off as his!
And by the way, why exactly would Pam decide she might get an abortion if the baby is Ryan's after "Gossip" after Jim and everyone else already knows about the pregnancy?
Everyone is so out of character in this fic. | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
| I appreciate the reviews that I get, I really do, and try to reply to them all, but sometimes they are just baffling.
Chapeau! :-)
That was the entire review, and it means (according to all the online dictionaries I've looked at) hat. I am at a loss as to know what they mean, or how to respond to it. Does anybody know why somebody would leave such an odd comment? | | comments: 28 comments or Leave a comment |
| I encountered yet another fic located on a personal website. There’s no ratings put on it. No warnings. The summary consists in words «A lightweight take on a familiar theme: Oh, good, another alien rite».
I like «a lightweight» part best. Because what could be funnier than hinting in passing at drug-induced non-con, ha-ha…
Although, maybe I just don’t have a sense of humor. Again. *sighs sadly*
ETA: The hinting something related to strange alien rituals which involves drugs, lost of consciousness and body soreness in humor fic about sexual alien rituals is asking for further troubles. It's not very funny and sometimes it's triggering. Also, YMMV. | | comments: 60 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | Howard Shore: "H-1 Racer Plane" | | Time: | 11:32 am |
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| Hey, there. I see that you are an aesthete. That's cool. One of my coworkers called me that once, and it's fairly descriptive. With you, however, there's one small problem: you are writing a piece of fiction.
Is it really so hard to capitalize your words and create a header that gives me a good idea of what's in the story? I can't read minds, so I can't divine the intention behind your sparse header and caps-free story, but are you afraid your story won't be beautiful with caps? Are you afraid a summary that's more than "Jack watches. Juliet eats." will ruin the evocative atmosphere of your story?
Not that I have statistics on this, but I'm fairly certain your story can be evocative and beautiful with proper capitalization and a clear summary. Hell, I have read stories that are beautiful and evocative while containing all those nasty capital letters and summaries too long for ff.n. I have even read fan fiction that is beautiful and evocative with capital letters and detailed summaries. I'm just saying, it's possible. And that I don't appreciate clicking on something advertised as fan fiction that is, in reality, typography. Typography is great and sexy and wonderful but really, it's not a story.
And no, unless you're e.e. cummings or are serious about writing like him, don't throw e.e. cummings at me to excuse what dangerously looks like you approaching your story as window dressing first, story second. | | comments: 9 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | "Five Years", David Bowie | | Time: | 10:07 am |
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| Out of all Watchmen canons, people have already ranted most likely about people having Rorschach turn into a little pile of schmoop and Good Boyfriend once sexed up. However, it's just as weird for me when the person talking about his feelings and sharing deep burning personal secrets is Adrian Veidt. Yes, he does tend to monologue sometimes, but if he's telling you about his tortured childhood and his vision quest and his Alexander-fanboying and his epic plans, post-sex, you better be getting the hell out of that vivarium. He's good at keeping up pretenses and at keeping certain things private. Mary Sue afterglow does not justify this.
Especially weird when he's turning into this champion of frankness and honesty to Rorschach.
(Also, am I alone in thinking that finding out about the whole Karnak deal post-sex would be a major mood killer?) | | comments: 13 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | yi ke xin de ju li by fan wei qi | | Subject: | Just a question | | Time: | 11:26 pm |
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| To Jesus/Judas or Jesus/Satan slash writers...are you writing because you genuinely enjoy the couple and wanted to write a shall we say 'creative interpretation' of the Bible or are you just doing it to piss off the Fundies or all Christians in general in the Bible fandom?
PS: To clarify, I have nothing really against them writing this but what I would like to know is if this is a genuine kink or just a way to be 'blasphemous' for the sake of it. Admittedly I have read through the fics and I don't care that much as they were well-written, I'm just merely confused about the intentions. | | comments: 65 comments or Leave a comment |
| ...or thereabouts.
Just wanted to let you all know that I am still alive - if barely. Had a nice night with Nicci on Skype on Friday, enjoyed Merlin last night THIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIS much *grins*
And I'm trying to finish the nano before I go off to the UK on Thursday morning at the arse crack of dawn.
So. Yeah. I'm at 40.000 words now - and counting ^_^
Cheers everyone, I'll be getting back to writing then.
This entry had been crossposted to my DW, IJ and LJ accounts | | comments: 5 comments or Leave a comment |
| Um, I am not sure if this makes ANY sense, as it's half past three in the morning and I haven't written in forever. But! Fic!
1,485 words. F/K, post-CotW.
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