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You have greatly overestimated my writing prowess. [17 Nov 2008|07:08pm] rennyn_alerothi (If this doesn't belong here, I'll move it.) Dear Friend/Fellow Fanfiction-writer, Listen. I know you like my works of fanfiction. I know I should be flattered that you consider me to be "well-read, with an encyclopedia for a brain." That said - no, I will not research or write your fic for you. There are two excellent tools I would like to refer you to in this case; Google and Wikipedia. They are your friends. They have served me quite well in the past, and I am certain that they can also be of great help to you as well. No, arguments of "BUT UR SO WELL-READ AND SMRT!" won't float here. See, I do not have one thing that you really need in this case, which is a working knowledge of the French Language. No matter how SMRT you think I am, I have not yet had the opportunity to learn French, and I doubt I shall do so just to help you write your fanfiction. I'd like to for my own personal edification, but I'll get around to it in my own time, thank you very much. SMRT =/= polyglot. Sorry. Another point that I would like to make is that a lot of the knowledge that you consider to be so encyclopedia-like in nature has come from researching my own fanfic. There were times when I needed to know just what phosphorus ammunition rounds do to the human body (it isn't pretty) or what the major constellations were called in ancient Mesopotamia. Again, I'd like to refer you to Wikipedia and Google. It's where I learned all this stuff. I'm not trying to be a douche. This isn't information that I'm "withholding from you just to be mean." I really don't know French. I also think you're mistaking actual work, time, and effort for actual intelligence. Trust me, I could really use an upgrade in that respect. 21 comments|post comment

[10 Nov 2008|09:28am] coffeebun [ mood | annoyed ] Dear friend, It's not about rabid het shippers, it's about rabid shippers, period. You think her het pairings make no sense/aren't canonically plausible? I can honestly same the same for your slash pairings. It's hypocritical of you to think your ships are better or closer to canon than hers just because it's slash. Sure, the male characters have more interaction with each other (it's a SHONEN MANGA after all), but please, implying your pairings are more "correct"? Haha, no. Please get over yourself. No love, Me 8 comments|post comment

[06 Nov 2008|10:40am] harrylovesron [ mood | cranky ] Dear Internet, Just because I RP in one game and like it a lot doesn't mean I'm suddenly going to want to join every single game that's thrust in front of me. No, I don't care if my favorite character/the one I write best is available and wanted. I'm quite happy in the one I'm in and am really not interested in any others, thanks. Also, on behalf of a friend, "No, thank you" is also not secret code for "Keep bugging me and going on about How I'd Like It If I Just Gave It A Chance". Best, HlR 1 comment|post comment

/violin [16 Oct 2008|09:14pm] loki [ mood | Bitter ] ( lol world of warcraft rpeez ) 13 comments|post comment

[16 Oct 2008|06:08pm] atreyu Oh, hon, you did not. Look, I get the whole 'sheltered' thing. I do! I was there once too. Slash was definitely not my thing in those tender teenage years, but thankfully the internet was kind enough to let me mellow to the point where I no longer give a damn. I was warned you had a problem with slash, yaoi, whatever, and hey, that's understandable being sheltered and all. Color me surprised when getting to know you, I find you love KH yaoi and all sorts of shonen-ai a lot. Oookay, that's not what I was expecting, but whatever. Maybe you got over it before you met me? But then you decide to flip your shit when a joke - a joke - about Lord of the Rings being a gay analogy appears. Heaven forbid people talk about homosexuality in real life like it's no big deal (hint, sunshine; it isn't). Seriously, your homophobia is showing and it sure as hell ain't pretty. You don't get to draw a line between two-dimensional people, and people who happen to like their own gender. You're no longer a teenager, you don't get excuses, not when it comes to being bigoted about people. 54 comments|post comment

[16 Oct 2008|06:26am] dottiness [ mood | Mystified ] You know, it's A-OK to disagree with me. Really, it's fine! I don't mind at all, I assure you, and I actually consider myself a fairly decent person when it comes to arguments. I'll admit that in the comment you disagreed with, I got a bit carried away, but it was in the heat of the moment and I was hardly the only one getting caught up in it. But you couldn't say it in public? You had to track down my personal LJ, which I admit isn't that hard to find, it's true. And instead of leaving me a comment on this site -- where I made the one you disagreed with -- you sent me a PM on LJ? Is that productive? I understand the need to blow off some steam, and I really do understand that you disagreed with me. But this is more than disagreement. It's outright childish name-calling, and you didn't even have the spine to do it where I made the original comment, or even where anyone could see your disagreement? I have to wonder if any of the other commenters on that post got the same treatment, or if I got singled out for some reason beyond my imagination. By the way, I don't even like children, and I never called anyone a "freetard." You could at least stop putting words in my mouth, if you're going to disagree with me even privately. I'm sorry you feel so persecuted in your opinion that you can't disagree with me in public, but really, telling me to "go moo some more" and acting like I don't know children can be little jerks is actually quite uncalled for, thanks. Although I suppose I shouldn't be taking you seriously at all, if you're talking about masturbating to the expression on someone's face as they slowly are ripped apart. EDIT: Original comment was made in this thread. Screencap of PM graciously provided by the person who sent it. RETURN OF THE EDIT: PMer appears to be trolling comments in the original post, now. Sorry to anyone else who doesn't want to have to deal with it. 33 comments|post comment

Argh [13 Oct 2008|12:46pm] anonyrat Dearest Gaming Fandom: We were all sad when Gary Gygax died. Everyone knew his name, and he pretty much started our hobby, so we all owe him an enormous debt. That said, where the HELL do you get off, bashing editions of D&D you don't like by claiming "Gary would have hated it"? Yes, "Gary", as though you were his fucking friend. Of COURSE 'Gary' would have hated it. Of COURSE he hated new versions of D&D. He made D&D his way the first time, and he is damn well entitled to his opinion of anything that came after. I am also entitled to mine, which are as follows: 1) I like the new version of D&D. 2) You are a mouthbreathing assclown for name-dropping a recently dead guy in order to score a few cheap points in a retarded edition war on the internet, on a forum where some of the man's real-life friends post. This KEEPS FUCKING HAPPENING and I am FUCKING SICK OF IT. I wish I could go back in time and retroactively beat the living hell out of everyone I saw at GenCon wearing a "4th Edition Killed Gary" t-shirt. 27 comments|post comment

[07 Oct 2008|02:49am] ceteramisto [ mood | enraged ] I have this slightly weird hobby of going to fanfiction.net and reading writer profiles.  Generally, I'm mildly amused with occasional moments of being pleasantly surprised when I find out that someone else likes one of my rare fandoms.  However, this last time I came across something in a profile that makes me want to reach through the screen and strangle someone: "I wish people would stop writing gay/ lesbo stories on FanFiction. Jeez, if you hate them enough to make them gay don't watch/read it at all then!" There are so many things wrong with that statement, I don't even know where to begin.  Right now I'm too enraged  to go into all the specific wrong. 24 comments|post comment

AMV makers, I am calling you out. [06 Oct 2008|12:07pm] kylenne [ mood | *thud* ] Look, I know it's really hard to come up with good songs to make vids to, most of the good ones have been done to death already. And hell, sometimes a song just really fits a show and you've gotta use it. It's very possible to make a good vid out of a song other people have made vids with. But for the love of Ceiling Cat, I am demanding you cease and desist with the Mortal Kombat vids. Please. I don't care if it's the original version, the Utah Saints mix, or the MK3/4 one that named damn near all of MK's 40 billion characters, just give it a fucking rest already. It is neither cute, nor original, and I've seen maybe three in about 10 years that didn't suck. One was a Sailor Moon vid from around 1996. There are many other catchy, fast-paced techno songs that would be awesome to use for an action video. Please use them. This also goes for anything involving Evanescence. I'm looking at you, Final Fantasy fandom. SHIT IS NOT DEEP, sry2say. Please go on Pandora.com and expand your musical palette. signed, kyl, who is starting to think YouTube is the AMV equivalent of the Pit of Voles. PS: While I'm at it, you pretentious douches with the minute long (!) production marks before your vids? You are not Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, or Peter Jackson. You are not making Citizen Kane. You're a nerd splicing clips from Japanese cartoons to shitty nu metal songs. Adjust your ego accordingly, kthx. 102 comments|post comment

[06 Oct 2008|08:08am] stupid_fangirl Dear stupid idiot, English is not your first language is not execute for spamming/trolling board/forum. From someone who use English as her 3rd language. post comment

[30 Sep 2008|10:15pm] iwanttobeasleep Dear Internet Asshats, The defense of "It's just something we do around friends!" when you say something bigoted doesn't work WHEN YOU'RE IN PUBLIC! Yes, fancy that, the Internet is public. The presence of your friend doesn't suddenly make it a joke among friends. Nor does the defense of "I wouldn't say it in front of [oppressed minority]!" work when you have no way of knowing if those screen names are black, gay women who just finished converting to Judaism, or idiot frat boys like yourself. And finally, using bigoted words in public is not being fun and "friendly". There is nothing friendly about potentially offending people during their fun time. Thanks, The woman you assumed was a man 29 comments|post comment

I'm glad you understand English so wel...now understand this [29 Sep 2008|03:25pm] feloniousfeline [ mood | unimpressed and unamused ] Hey there, opinionated person in my fandom. Opinions are great. I have them, you have them, lots of people have them. The neato-torpedo thing about forums is that we can discuss our opinions and get to see how everyone thinks. It's all very shiny in a perfect internet world. Opinions are not right or wrong; there are just varying degrees on a spectrum spanning from well informed to ignorant bliss. People are going to disagree with you and that's okay. That's what makes the discussion interesting. And an interesting discussion hinges on presenting your opinions in a respectful manner. This last part, I suggest you duct tape yourself to as you don't seem to understand it. You present your opinions in an incredibly condescending way, your replies to anyone disagreeing with you are scathing, rude, demanding, condescending, snotty, and barely within the etiquette rules of the board, and if someone dares to be as rude to you as you are them, you call it trolling. There is no way I could possibly agree with you publicly because I don't want to be a douche by association. Your post count doesn't impress me. It just means you're a very prolific twat. And your hate on the show doesn't make you edgy. It makes you look like a bitter twat with too much time on your hands. For the love of everyone you come in contact with, take up another hobby. I hear juggling chainsaws is very popular. 26 comments|post comment

My fannish rage, let me show you it. [29 Sep 2008|04:35pm] seiberwing I realize the Transformers fandom is not the most enlightened of groups but this sort of thing just pisses me off. Putting aside the fact that The Gay is not allowed in the TF:Mosaic project (with, apparently, exceptions made for humor), I find it rather insulting to continually insinuate that the sudden discovery that the object of your lusts is actually a male is horrifying. Double points if they turn around and start hitting on you. It's an incredibly stale joke that has overtones of homophobia that I'm just not comfortable with. Note the comments below the comic as well--this situation is regarded as awkward or just flat-out wrong. There's even a few "robots in disguise indeed!" crossdresser jokes thrown in for good measure. Does that mean the writer and artist of this comic are homophobic? Not necessarily. They're just going with a lowest common denominator joke, much like like the guy who did the Erector penis size joke last week. But stop for a moment and think about exactly why it's funny. You have one or more males participating in a manly heterosexual activity, lusting over or trying to attract a female (the stereotypical catcalling "headlights or gtfo" thing is canon for the Constructicons, btw, although so far they've only hit on inanimate cars). Then the "trap" is exposed, revealing that the male(s) have actually been participating in a homosexual activity by catcalling another male. This is found to be hilarious to the audience and humiliating to the male(s) involved. I'm not sure if it even works the same way for a reverse-trap, a female mistaken for a male by another female, but if it is the degree of humiliation is far less. ...am I overreacting here or is this legitimate? I realize the fandom's male dominated but they don't have to be dickheads about this. (Crossposted to my LJ.) EDIT: Seems the ones responsible have posted in their thoughts on the comic. Josh van Reyk, writer: Definitely not the case here. I just thought it would be funny if the Constructicons were hitting on a car, that; A) Was actually a Transformer, and B) Was a male Transformer. Those good ‘ole boys would surely freak-out if that ever happened. The Stunticons are just giving them a little grief, there are no hidden under-tones here. Apologies if anyone took offence to this, it certainly wasn’t intended. Ninjha, artist: Definitely! After reading all the comments and stuff, we had no idea this would be so controversial. Even while drawing it I thought of it as just a gag. I made sure the guns were powering up and stuff. The Stunticons were just supposed to scare them off, THATS IT. There is no reading into this, no hidden message, it is what you see. Yes, well, while I see an alternative explanation that the Stunticon's violent approach could have been the trigger as opposed to their revealed gender, Mr. van Reyk seems to indicate otherwise. I honestly can't be arsed to go in and argue with them, but I'd say the intent on the writer's part is pretty obvious. Accidental gay is terrifying. 47 comments|post comment

[24 Sep 2008|10:49pm] keleri Oh, DevianTART. Where else can I see people completely flipping the fuck out over something like a new appliance not working, as if this was some kind of nightmare occurence like a robbery or a house fire? And then! BONUS RACISM. Jesus. Stay at home for a few more years. You know that thing you got when you bought the appliance? That piece of paper with the numbers on it? Adults use it to exchange a defective or otherwise unsatisfactory product for a new one or--wait for this--get their money back. Chill out. post comment

LOL RPG modding. [19 Sep 2008|11:22am] lucky13 Dear RPG co-mod, Look. This is a single fandom game. That application that I begged you all night to let me reject? That was for the main character of the series. It doesn't matter that you thought the player was nice. It doesn't matter that you're paranoid about not getting enough applicants in our middling-sized fandom. If you accept mediocre players, especially for the main character, you are going to get a mediocre game. If you accept players who are given several hours of 1-on-1 mod assistance in revising their writing but still don't understand, say, how to use apostrophes or commas or how to capitalize properly, you will end up with a game full of players who can't write. I don't have the patience to hold people's hands every time they post, and you might think you do, but as the more experienced mod, please take my advice that you'll get sick of it faster than you think. This is what the application process is for -- to make sure that we and our playerbase, who don't want to have to deal with mediocre characters either, are all getting someone we can live with. If I'd known that with every single application we were going to have a night of drama in which you befriended the applicant and decided their app was the Only Possible App For That Character, I never would have suggested we start this game together. Yes, our fandom is not that big, but this is the main character. Have patience. Every single character slot doesn't have to be filled in a night -- it might take a week or two weeks or even two months, but someone else will come along, and I promise you, they will be better. 5 comments|post comment

MECHA IS SERIOUS BUSINESS (Or "Spiral Power? I liked it better when it was Getter Rays") [17 Sep 2008|05:15am] clawshrimpy I am having a hard time discussing the fandoms I like because I do, admittedly, have a tendency to get defensive and hostile. (I am a autistic male in his early twenties.) but, when you get attacked and flamed on discussion forums like I do, it's some times hard to deal with. I am a fan of Mecha, some Real Robot, but mostly of the Super Robot variety.   ( Gets pretty long. ) I know I shouldn't worry what people say about me on the internet, but am I really being the jerk here? and I fully admit I have problems with adapting to new things. 47 comments|post comment

Bigoted assholes on online games work my last nerve [15 Sep 2008|09:11pm] kylenne [ mood | *Snarl* ] Hey, you random asshole on a World of Warcraft board I've been lurking on? The one who thinks you are zomg so h4rdk0r3 because you're one of those power mad assholes who berates casual players for not being h4rdk0r3 enough and is oh so above the "care bear" discussion on the board? You know, I don't get involved in these debates, because the game is about having fun, and I was ready to ignore your obvious gloating and ploys for attention as being above "those other little gamer girls who don't care about raiding" (which is what your post all but said). Whatever. But then you had to show your ass Camille Paglia style, and say why you just don't understand why people whine about gender harassment in the game, and you hate that we're so "politically correct", and that your guild thinks "racism is acceptable as long as it's funny". Oh ho, now I know just who the fuck you are and what I'm dealing with. It's obvious that you're one of the female frat boy wannabes that just loves to crack a good N***** joke or boast loudly about how you're not like those "uptight feminazis" in order to look cool and edgy and prove you're one of the (white, hetero) boys. You Palinite trailbreaker you. Well, fuck you, Lady Fuckwit of Bitchassistan. It was inbred straight-out-of-Deliverance pea-brained bigots like you that made me stop playing Quake online all those years ago, and made me stop playing Diablo (and then Diablo 2), and nearly made me stop mudding, or playing any sort of online game whatsoever because I was GOD DAMN FUCKING TIRED of the constant reminder that I am not in fact a hetero white boy and thus am not welcome in the gamer treehouse unless I don't rock their privilege boat by objecting to slurs and hate masquerading as humor. Thank the gods my first exposure to WoW was through my boyfriend and other mature adults with a sense of human decency (and a sense of humor developed past pre-school level), and not you and your troglodytic tribe of Murloc humpers because I probably would have quit that too. Yes, I report when my female toons are sexually harrassed, yes I report when I see people named "Uglyblkguy" running around, yes I report people who "joke" about black chicks being epic sluts and how we all want them on chat. This does not make me a candy ass care bear who thinks life should be sunshine and rainbows. This makes me a queer woman of color who puts up with enough gender, racial (and sexual orientation) related bullshit in my day to day life that I will be fucking damned if I have to put up with that shit in my escapist fantasy world that I roll in FOR FUN, let alone pay $15 a month for the, ahem, privilege. Unpack your god damn knapsack. And if I EVER see your trifling, punk ass on my server you can best believe my PVP flag's going up and you're getting a few dozen blizzards up said trifling, punk ass. 'Cause that's how this "care bear" rolls. 52 comments|post comment

Another icon rant, sorry. [09 Sep 2008|08:55am] braisinhussy Making icons of your own cosplay? Super. Making icons of your own cosplay and offering them up for use by others? Fine. Making icons of someone else's cosplay after first asking/receiving permission and crediting the cosplayer accordingly? A-okay. Making icons of someone else's cosplay without asking permission, giving no credit (unless you count "Well i found the photos on a website, but I've lost the link, sorry" as credit), and then insisting on your own credit? NOT COOL. (I never thought that I'd be the kind of person to get enraged over icons. What has the internet done to me?) 7 comments|post comment

Reality vs. Fiction - Some of us do see the line there. [30 Aug 2008|12:56pm] judyhazeleyes [ mood | Murderous ] [ music | worst - nightmare ] Okay, I predominantly write in RPS fandom, which makes this a pretty pressing issue, but I've seen this in fictional fandoms as well, and the emperorsteele wank made me feel the need to reiterate this: NOT ALL OF US THINK THE PEOPLE WE WRITE ABOUT ARE REALLY HAVING SEX. IT IS NOT ABOUT THAT. Yeah, there are tinhats. There's crazy in every corner of the interwebs. But it isn't about someone really being gay and buttsexing their best friend/enemy/tentacle monster. It's about imagining the 'what ifs' that we find interesting or titillating and writing them to share with other people who find them the same way. Repeat: fic does not say "this person is gay" or even "this person could be gay", it says "what if they were gay?" For that matter, WE ARE NOT AFFECTING YOUR CANON BY DREAMING UP OUR OWN. Boys don't magically start having sex with one another in the pages of your favourite manga because we like to write scenarios in which they do. Ballplayers aren't gonna bring a whole new meaning to the words 'high and tight' because someone writes them doing so. We're not (all) delusional here. These aren't always reflections of what we think is real, or even what we think should be real, and they're not too likely to impact your enjoyment of said fandom object whatsoever. So for the love of God, WHAT IS THE PROBLEM?! *breathes* 8 comments|post comment

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*) 60 comments|post comment

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