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Fuck you, Bakuman. [28 Aug 2008|05:01am] el Because MEN HAVE DREAMS THAT WOMEN JUST CAN'T UNDERSTAND! <3<3<3 And we girls ALL dream of getting married, and forever being GRACEFUL AND CUTE! Ooh, and just forget all those pesky worries like grades (EW!!) because BEING TOO SMART ISN'T CUTE, right?? <3<3<3<3 *STABSTABSTABSTABSTAB* (Why have I seen some girls laughing along with this statement? WHY? *CRIES*) 55 comments|post comment

[27 Aug 2008|01:33pm] coffeebun [ mood | aggravated ] Dear project manager, You're a friend of mine, and you know that. And I know you have it rough these days. However, that is not going to stop me from pointing out all the bs you've managed to come up with. Yes, I do realize people have real lives (I have a job! I KNOW!) and that shit happens. And I know bugging people after a deadline is due is tough. But dude. WE'VE BEEN DELAYED FOR THREE MONTHS, and our project has been ongoing since November of LAST YEAR, and it's supposed to be due in MAY. If you're just going to let everyone slide, why even bother with a fucking deadline? And as the leader, YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE THE ONE DOING ALL THIS SHIT ON TIME. Don't fucking extend the deadline because you suddenly can't make it when the only reason you have is ~*~procrastination~*~ when some of us did manage to finish on time even with school and jobs, when you... didn't have those. And don't you think it's just a little embarrassing that we had to delay the release date when we already had PAID pre-orders? "But it's just fandom! We're only supposed to be doing this for fun!" I agree, it's supposed to be for fun. But does that mean we don't need deadlines anymore? Not even when you've already been given several months to work on it? And don't you think things change, even a little, when you get a lot of people involved? It's a huge, ambitious first project. I know. But a little perspective, here? I offered help several times. I was denied all those times. Then it turned out you can't make it in time, after all. Did you ask for help? No. I asked repeatedly if the most important part of the project was done yet a month ago. You avoided the question, avoided me, then asked one of the members to do it less than a week before the final deadline. Seriously, what? What if she had refused? Then we'll have to delay it even MORE, and that's just. Ugh. So now, I'm the bitch because I should be GRATEFUL!!ichi!1niisan!1!! that it's done, instead of being irritated since we could have organized this a lot better. I AM glad it's done. However, if you're starting another project, I am definitely not joining unless if you manage to straighten yourself out, or if you find someone else who's willing to straighten YOU out. Love, Me. post comment

I MUST have REASONABLE reason to hate someone's favorite character? [26 Aug 2008|10:59pm] stupid_fangirl Well, from my POV; those topic of "Who you like/hate and reason why you like/hate him/her?" should be dropped or banned from discussion. Because it causes more problems than actives the decent discussion without wank of people get defensive "OMG HOW DARE U LIKE/HATE HIM/HER". Yes, I replied the topic that I hate a female character A. Reason? To me she is annoying. And many of fic that turn her sue horrify me. Comment replied of what I said; "She is annoying isn't reasonable reason of why you hate her. It's unfair to hate her base on bad fic." I go WUT? After reading reply 3 times. 1. Because of she is your favorite doesn't mean she is not in my hate list. And not all people must like her as you like. 2. Like, dislike, hate is kinda personal feeling. Like taste people have different of taste. I hate pink, do I have to tell you why and must be reasonable at all? 3. As I said, first that character annoys me. The sue fic just make me more dislike her. I don't base all my hate on bad fic in the first place. 4. Please don't try to convince me to like her. Because it'll turn to opposite result if you annoy me enough. I won't magically turn 180 degrees to like her suddenly for the "reasonable reason" either. 7 comments|post comment

Freaking great. [24 Aug 2008|11:01pm] stupid_fangirl [ mood | Bitch Slapped ] Yes, I know I promise to upload the EP up after I can get it subbed by subbing team. (Who are very friendly to me <3) Yes, I fucking know and download the said release already. But you know what? 1. I'm not the member of sub team. 2. I have life other than watching and uploading anime. Work 40+hours/week + 5 hours of Japanese class. Ya know. And with the ridiculous deadline coming, I can't focus over anime and fandom for sure. 3. My network is PITA. DL and UL rate turn to 0.0 kb/s after 9 PM. Which is the most of time I'm in front of my com. I'll do it as fast as I can but since you are NOT asking  me nicely, maybe next month or month after it if I have a good mood and TIME to do. *go and take chill pills* MOAR RANT: Dear Ms./Mr. doujinshi thief, Sorry to burst your ball. But you STOLE the scans from another website and the actual scaner who donated it to the said website CALLED you for it. Deleting LJ entries and comments does not make you magically not being called for STEALING. And now you are whining on your site (which full of stuffs you stole). You are blood fail as that girl who fucking plagiarized a fic by just renaming all name with another and being caught red hand. Then went the lame of "I got permission". 8 comments|post comment

IC =/= OOC. Seriously. [10 Aug 2008|08:23pm] ecchaniz0r [ mood | *thud* ] I'm kind of amazed by the number of doofii who seriously think that RP'ed character traits mirror the character traits of the player. Oh god, whine whine, Pup C is in a suspect and not wholly healthy relationship with Pup X, their players must be deviants - they even acknowledge that it's suspect! Scream! Panic! Flame! RELEASE THE HOUNDS. By that 'logic', anyone who plays Beyond Birthday, Hannibal Lecter, the Joker or Vicious should be under SWAT surveillance in case of sudden ludicrous homicidal mania. Why are people so dim? I'm not my PCs. I do not possess a keyblade and pipes like Billy Zane, a sword longer than I am tall and silver hair down to my ass, the ability to turn into bats and out-sass any given Belmont, or eeeeeerie poweeeerrrrssssss of any sort. This should be obvious. (This falls into the same category as 'just because X is a fic kink I like does not mean I would do X in real life'; the BDSM kinks I read, for example, are a lot more hot-fudge-with-pralines than anything I'd actually do IRL.) ETA: 'cos fakename pointed out an important thing that my brain didn't locate! On the other hand, it is just as annoying when someone claims that they're just playing their characters if they've chosen arbitrarily to make them all jackasses, or it's extremely clear that they're cut-pasting a bunch of their trains, likes and dislikes onto a character and using them as a canon-sue or stand-in for themselves? 12 comments|post comment

Oh, that Batman thing [27 Jul 2008|03:48am] delineated ( Cut for potential spoilage ) 53 comments|post comment

[24 Jul 2008|06:07pm] iwanttobeasleep ( Dear people bitching about Dr. Horrible, (spoilers, obviously) ) 31 comments|post comment

[07 Jul 2008|05:47pm] braisinhussy Dear a fandom: Please, PLEASE stop using Japanese fanart for icons. You are causing artists to start password-locking their sites. And that's annoying for all of us. I don't know if this is the case, not really being into icons at all, but is it common practice to take fanart (without asking permission), cut it down to 100x100 (even though there is a blurb on the artist's page asking that it not be altered), and then ask for credit when you post them (without offering a link back to the original creator)? Yes, it's fanart, and attaching the term "ownership" might be kind of ridiculous, but are icons really this important? 100x100 squares over -any- artwork? Maybe if you just ask permission- write and say, "Hi! I love your artwork. Would it be all right if I made icons out of SUCH_AND_SUCH.JPG?" I have a feeling a lot of this could be fixed if you'd just show some common courtesy. Even if you ask clumsily in Babelfish'd Japanese. ETA: And now you've got icons of Japanese cosplayers from said series? EVEN BETTER. 16 comments|post comment

How can you justify yourself? [30 Jun 2008|11:25pm] mosquitolarva [ mood | Righteous ] For a while now now I've seen you post, advertising your zines for download.  For a while now I've held my tongue because you're a BNF in the fandom, plus I pretty much mostly lurk and no one knows me from jack.  Well screw that.  How can you justify selling downloads of zines for eight dollars a pop?  Its pure profit, plain and simple.  The whole point of paying for zines is that a) you don't make a profit and b) the buyer is getting something physical that they have to pay for because the physical thing actually incurs a cost on the part of the seller.   But what you sell in downloads are PDF files.  Nothing more.  And getting snippy when I emailed you a while back and asked where the eight dollars was going, given the lack of printing costs and other reasonable expenses facing honest zine publishers?  Not helping your cause.  You shouldn't get paid to edit a zine, it's not a job, its a hobby.    Using the money to pay for software?  I don't charge people to read my stories (not that anyone would pay for them) to pay for my computer or internet access, because that would be infringing on the intellectual property rights of the people who created the stuff in the first place because that would mean I was making money from fanfiction.   (Oh yeah, and much of this goes for you too, other writer, who now has 'exclusive' stories which are available for download at $5 per 'e-book'.) And what really pisses me off?  Authors I really like are being published by you.  And that makes me not want to read their stories anymore.   Because either they're getting a cut of the profit, or they are being complicit in something which goes against the spirit of fandom. <sigh> Stop ruining my fun, I don't read that email list to get righteously indignant every time you post. 25 comments|post comment

Your fauxpology does not make it okay. [20 Jun 2008|05:38pm] j_crew_guy I don't care if you "sincerely apologize" for using "ignorant slut" and "whore" to describe female characters on the show. It's not funny, as was your intent. It's stupid, offensive, misogynist and shows a disturbing lack of creativity. Bitch about the show all you want, but for the love of God, stop calling female characters "whore" and "slut". The use of those terms to describe the female characters doesn't even make any sense. I'd like to read what you have to say about the episode, but if you're going to be a lazy jerkwad and use "slut" and "whore" to describe female characters, then perhaps I'll just skip your posts. 21 comments|post comment

AAAGH. [19 May 2008|11:31pm] seiberwing Dear Transformers: Animated fandom: STOP. POSTING. SPOILERS. I realize there's been pictures and screencaps and clips of the season finale floating around for a while now, but some of us would like to have a few surprises for when it actually happens. At least post a goddamn warning or something. I"m having to dodge half the fancomms just to stay pure. 8 comments|post comment

Blowing off a little steam. [16 May 2008|12:42am] hallidae For god's sake, would it kill you to say something to me? If I comment in your journal, we chat like we're old buddies, but it seems like you never acknowledge me otherwise. If I give you an idea, you never credit me. If you give me an idea (and I always credit you), you never comment on the results. And I know you have to have seen the posts somewhere on your f-list, because you're perfectly happy to babble on about people who've come before and after me. I've given up asking you about it, because you always tell me that nothing's wrong, you were just distracted/busy/whatever... Then you still never look at whatever the finished thing in question was. And you ignore the next one or don't credit me again. And you still act like everything's sunshine and roses, even though I'm seriously getting the feeling of being excluded. Should I just stop crediting you? Is that what you want? To give you an opening so you can justifiably be pissed and cut me off, instead of looking like a bitch by doing it while I'm still being nice? 3 comments|post comment

A Nausea That Borders on Violence: Why Twilight is a Cancerous Sore on the Face of Literature [14 May 2008|09:53pm] lynstraine [ mood | *Snarl* ] Yeah, I know, everyone's throwing their hat into the anti-Twilight ring lately, but I HAD TO GET THIS OUT.  Originally, it was on my LJ, but I thought it was appropriate to this space because not all (or even most) of my FL has read/heard of these books. ( YOUR TWEEN SERIES IS BAD AND YOU SHOULD FEEL BAD. ) 100 comments|post comment

Yeesh, and I thought I had thin skin. [12 May 2008|09:44pm] iwanttobeasleep *sigh* Look, people have different tastes in things, be it music, TV, art, comics, whatever. Just because someone has different taste than you doesn't mean they suck. If someone likes band X, which you dislike, and they also happen to dislike a bunch of other bands you deem shit? That doesn't mean that their taste sucks, or that Band X sucks by association. Sometimes people actually do like things that are all around bad, and sometimes they like things despite having flaws. ( Furthermore. . . ) 7 comments|post comment

Little things annoy me. [29 Apr 2008|06:21pm] pokecheck How's this, instead of typing up a whole post complete with pictures and whatnot and then ending the whole thing with "if this is not allowed, please feel free to delete!" as if you're somehow being incredibly magnanimous about the inevitable indignity of a deleted post, why don't you: 1. Read the community rules. 2. Browse the community to see what kind of posts are there and how they are received. 3. Contact a moderator if you still have questions. 4. Delete or edit your own post if you still manage to break the rules. 5. Apologize. Does this annoy anyone else? 25 comments|post comment

[23 Apr 2008|09:26am] hallidae ::snarl:: Two weeks, goddammit. Is it so much to ask that you not harass me for fics every waking hour during Dead Week and Finals? For God's sake, I'm swamped.. And yes, I might take a few minutes here and there to comment on posts and in forums for the sake of avoiding fixative fumes for a bit, but that's hardly plopping down and churning out 1,000+ words on your fucking beck and call. I've written one fic this week, as someone's birthday present, and I'm not writing any more until my last assignment is turned in. Screw off and let me finish the fuckton of studio projects I have sitting on my plate. 3 comments|post comment

yes,I mock your doctorites [22 Apr 2008|01:18pm] squeakthemouse [ mood | Caffeinated ] I'm having a hard time deciding what's lamer, the fact that you're seriously bringing up a weeks-old post again to revive an old argument I'd quite frankly forgotten about, or the fact that you really seem to believe your Internet PhDs are the sole justification of your fandom opinion. You seriously are telling me that a) everything all us plebes (read: everyone but you) knows about the Middle Ages is wrong and all my arguments are "survey course bullshit?" Fuck off. I am a graduate student who's studied medieval scholarship extensively. Furthermore, my father's actually had his medieval scholarship published and has a degree from an actual University (as in, not the same one where Internet Lawyers get their law degrees). I showed him your post, and he said--and I quote--"I need to know what institution this guy supposedly went to, so I can warn everyone away from it." I'm sorry I ever responded to your wankbaity post, because if I knew you were going to bury me under a mound of pedantic spooge for my belief that *gasp* you don't need 5 degrees from Crackerjack University to know that some elements are just out of place in a medieval fantasy 'verse, I'd have spent my time surfing ohnotheydidnt for intelligent discussion instead. Furthermore, if I were you, I'd be more concerned with the fact that you are rude, wankbaity, and profane, after I went out of my way to be tactful and said I was fine with agreeing to disagree, than your whole "my doctorite is bigger than yours!" moronitude. *gets towel* ETA: the "doctorites" thing was purposeful misspelling, referring to this wank. 16 comments|post comment

Dear I'm such a SPECIAL fan Fans [16 Apr 2008|04:56pm] anarchicq [ mood | Hormonal ] I was watching Inside the Actor's Studio a few weeks ago and Hugh Laurie was the guest. The time came for audience questions and up stood the stereotypical fangirl: Rotund, frizzy hair, full of giggles. She asked the following. "Do you think House belongs with-...will end up with Cameron, Cuddy, or -dare I say it- Wilson? *giggle!!!!*" That's a quote, by the way. And then she went on and on about 'the web sites on the internet' and how 'popular' the pairing was. (For those of you that want to know, Laurie said that any and all three are possible because it's human nature to want companionship.) Look, I agree that it's nice to to have some sort of confirmation about a character's sexuality or relationships (Like Depp saying Jack Sparrow is Bisexual), but come on. You are not daring or progressive for shipping something homosexual. Really, you're not. Stop thinking you're some sort of revolutionary. Dear Entitled fans, You do not own the works you're a fan of, alright? No, Harry Potter is NOT public domain. You do not know the story/characters/world better than Jo does. Jo didn't "Quit" anything. She told the story from beginning to end. Or do you just Quit dinner when there's nothing left on your plate? Quitter! How can you not see that the whole Lexicon thing can potentially fuck us all over? You get mad that LJ takes away your precious smut? At least we're still allowed to make it. Fun fact: I'm not even a fan of Harry Potter and I ship nothing in House. 29 comments|post comment

[16 Apr 2008|12:02am] keri Okay, so I know you're probably a SAHM with little to no post high school education and you've probably never really had a reason to write much, but newsflash: lol is not a form of punctuation. Yeah, that commercial on tv where the family is playing Scrabble using texting words like ROFL? People don't actually write like that on the internets, unless they're idiots or doing it ironically, not that we can even expect you to know what the word 'ironic' actually means. Context uses a doll for visual reference at the hair salon: My dd and I went to get our hair done. so I had her bring 28h with her. she went to get her hair cut. and I took 28h with me . I told the girl I want the same hair color as her lol she was like ok. and all the girls were looking and I am like yes I know I have a doll and I want the same color hair. well after she was done I was so happy. I was really . I was not sure how it was going to turn out lol but I love it. and it looks the same color. I have to let if grow out and then I might get the same hair cut lol . my dd wants to take kit next time and get her hair cut lol I am sure they will think we are nuts time we get done lol. Sadly, this particular AG collecting board is intended for adults, but 90% of the teenagers use better writing and grammar than this woman! (lol) (PS: I just realized another hilarious yet eye-stabbing part of this woman's post: she titled the thread "Well the doll came with me?" - because everyone needs to know to read that in Cher Horowitz's voice.) 27 comments|post comment

this is not the community you're looking for [15 Apr 2008|09:39pm] squeakytoy Dear fan of character A, In case you haven't noticed, this is a community about character B. It is not the place to go on about how awesome A is, to show off all your icons of A, and say how you don't like character X who has replaced A. It is a community about character B. Please take your icons and your chatter and your fannish sacrosanctity (no-one must ever use A's office ever again, it is a holy shrine to the memory of A!) and GTFO of my community about B. This is not the community you're looking for. *grumbles* 1 comment|post comment

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