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[14 Jan 2012|12:08am] hydriotaphia Who sets up a kinkmeme without having any idea of how to run it? The code of conduct was all spiffy and shiny, and I appreciate having it, but seriously, if the first comment on the site is 'where do the prompts and fills go?' then you're missing an important part. 2 comments|post comment

Oh beta wherefore art thou (like this?) [04 Jan 2012|08:40pm] gerorin [ music | Adele - Hometown Glory ] The woes of changing betas :( It's exceptionally hard to find betas in some fandoms than others (especially if you're a no-name fan). J-rock is one of them. My old one is busy with RL, so I tried and found a new one. I barely know my new beta but she volunteered and she seems nice. Well. She *is* nice. But since I told her I'm ESL (actually it's ETL) she seems to go from talking to me normally to seemingly wanting to hold my hand and talk to me with small words. It's frustrating. English being my third language is a fact, but it says nothing about how long I've used the language and how comfortable I am with it. I still make stupid mistakes with the language, but to tell you the truth, when it comes to writing I'm most comfortable with English than I am with my second or even my first one. I really don't want to say anything to offend her about this, because frankly I should be grateful that somebody took the time to check for grammatical errors that might escaped me. And I am grateful, but when she questioned my use of 'dissipated' because she thinks "it's too much of a big word, I think I should warn you about using them, 'cause it makes you sound pretentious. Why not use 'disappeared'?", to say that I was flummoxed discombobulated confused by that was an understatement. Especially because in this alternate universe that's highly IC. (and what's wrong with 'suffusing'?) Love and frustration, Gero And while I'm in the topic of J-Rock: Fandom, just because the band you like makes louder music, doesn't make other bands 'instantly shit' just because they're not as loud. Really. Variety isn't always bad. *grumbles how when she first got into the fandom, hide was still alive and those kids know nothing about climbing up mountains in the snow both ways to get to buy 'Final Act' and should really stop whining* 42 comments|post comment

I Know, I Know... [13 Dec 2011|02:30pm] the__ivorytower Dear Certain ex-WoW Player, I know. I *know*. You don't like Cataclysm. We get it. You spent the early months of Cataclysm sucking the fun out of it for me because every time you posted, regardless of why, you always had to get your digs in about how terrible this expansion was. I liked parts of this expansion. Less and less of it, as time went by, but I still did, and at every point when I felt like it wasn't so bad, there you were to whine about how much you missed Wrath. Well, guess what? I miss Warcraft III. I want Warcraft IV like a wanting thing. I want all of the stupid lore from this expansion and last expansion to just go away. But I can't get that. You can't go back to Wrath. Let's all just take a deep breath and stop constantly bringing it up at every given opportunity, in the most passive-aggressive ways possible. Signed, Me (And it's either this or make a highly sarcastic reply to their post, sorry guys.) 52 comments|post comment

Female lead? WAH, THAT'S BULLYING THE MALE LEAD. [09 Dec 2011|04:43pm] littleshebear [ mood | Fan-Tabulous ] Dear Fringe Fan-Person, So you love Joshua Jackson, that's great. Really, that's just dandy, I'm happy for you but do you have to express that love for him by constantly bashing Anna Torv? Is it really necessary to big up Joshua Jackson by calling her a bad actress, complaining about her "ugly face," and going on and on about how stupid she is? Yes, the fandom focuses on her a lot but that doesn't mean we "hate," Josh, it doesn't mean we ignore or devalue him and it certainly doesn't mean we're "bullying" him (bullying? Really? Most of us have never met the guy). Having a woman in the traditional action hero role and having her save the guy from time to time doesn't mean that his character is worthless (how dare that uppity woman have agency and take charge, I mean, how DARE she?). If we do focus on her, there's a good reason for that: SHE'S THE MAIN FUCKING CHARACTER. The others are important, of course, but at its core, this is HER hero's journey, it's about HER discovering the secrets of her past, HER coming into her power, HER saving the world. If you can't handle the idea of a show with a female lead, kindly bugger off and focus your attention on one of the other kabillion shows or movies out there that focus on the menz. No love, Me and probably just about everyone else who follows the Anna Torv tag on tumblr. 24 comments|post comment

It's time for a change of venue. [29 Nov 2011|07:01am] judyhazeleyes [ mood | Fixin' for a fight ] AGH, WHY DO NEW RP GAMES EVEN BOTHER OPENING AT LJ ANYMORE?! It is now the glitchiest site I've ever had the displeasure of using, and I use Plurk on a regular basis, so that's saying something. I can understand not wanting to ship an old game somewhere else because of history and convenience, but for a new game, you have options now. Insanejournal only glitches for about 15 seconds at a time these days, and then it's back up on its feet. And it gives you a shitton of icons, so you don't have to pay for the privelige of the site dicking you around. I get that those kinds of journaling sites might seem risky after so many have collapsed in the past, but the payoff of (supposed) security just isn't enough to outweigh the annoyances. Dreamwidth has the code issue (and I don't know how they feel about RPs), but I see codes floating around the internet like flyers dropped from an airplane whenever LJ does something stupid, so they're not that hard to come by. Some people are even RPing on Tumblr, although I'll never really get that, because I'll never really get Tumblr. BUT IT'S ANOTHER OPTION. Asgard, you sound wonderful, and I am deeply excited to app to you. But getting my character journal up and running this morning has been about as pleasant as a root canal without freezing, and if the site keeps being this terrible, I may not stay long. Next time, take the game elsewhere and I'll be right with you. EDIT: Apparently the recent glitchiness is another DDoS attack, so that's what I get for getting my sick, cranky rant on without checking the facts. I thought it was still issues around that last disastrous software update. As you were, everyone, the fail is all mine here. 60 comments|post comment

She's more awesome than you anyway. [29 Jun 2011|07:25am] seiberwing It's not cool to police someone's sexual orientation. If they say they're bisexual, you shouldn't go through their entire known sexual/romantic history and everything they've said to prove they're not bisexual and thus a total poser in the gay rights movement. Yes, even if they're Lady Gaga. If she came out as bisexual in order to be sensational she's been subtle about it, and even if she had (and she would hardly be the first) it's still not cool to police anyone's sexuality. Okay? It's her business. So don't do that. 39 comments|post comment

[27 Jun 2011|05:55am] female_fanboy Hey, small but very vocal sect of the Tiger & Bunny fandom. You know the whole recent shitfit you're throwing over Karina/Blue Rose having a crush on Kotetsu/Wild Tiger? Knock it the fuck off Teenage girls are allowed to have crushes. Yes, even on dorky-but-smokin' single father superheroes. What do you think the entire fanbase has been doing all this time? And, yes, he can still have his gloriously slashtastic bromance with Barnaby while she crushes on him. Fuck that's exactly what he's been doing since episode 7 (what, you just noticed she had a crush on him now? Boy are you late to the party). Karina's crush has done nothing to stop the bridal-carrying, hand holding, and drunken midnight parties where one of them winds up with his shirt off. It's probably not going to start now. So remember: hating on characters for totally asinine reasons? 44 comments|post comment

[25 Jun 2011|05:20pm] thoms [ mood | *Snarl* ] Okay, truly I get that you're hurt by the fact that the biggest site in the fandom rejected your fic. I understand that. It must suck. But given the site inquestion, they must get hundreds of fic submissions a day. That's why they had to set up a team of pre-readers. Perhaps, just perhaps, the fic you were submitting really wasn't as good as you say. Perhaps, just perhaps, there were just too many errors. Whatever. Could you please just, I dunno... let it go? We don't need a reminder everytime you comment a post of how terrible and wrong said site is, how mean and terrible the people there are. Even in a fandom devoted to "love and tolerance," there sometimes has to be someone being firm, and someone who has to say shit people don't want to hear. I'm sorry your fic was rejected, you say rudely, but it's time to put your big girl britches on a deal with it. 4 comments|post comment

help me, f_rant, you're my only hope [25 May 2011|07:40pm] cmdr_zoom How do you deal when a friend - a long-time RL friend, even - thinks that a certain notorious wanker is just the most amazing person ever and keeps saying so in their journal? Do you bring up this person's past misbehavior (in a comment or private message), or just stay politely silent? (Heck, maybe they know already and don't care.) How do you stay friends with someone who idolizes someone you find odious... or do you? EDIT: Thanks, everyone. I guess I'll just keep quiet and try to let it go. 14 comments|post comment

gross [03 Apr 2011|12:57am] keri ( Might be triggering? Dunno. It's a very short rant/complaint about a creepy anime fan. ) 7 comments|post comment

[31 Mar 2011|02:06pm] alana So I was trying to find a source for something someone said about Elisa Maza from Gargoyles, and stumbled across this: i just i just can't even Look I know Disney has its problems and that the princesses are not always as feminist as one could wish, but way to both be factually inaccurate and dismiss any positive messages, dude! ( Rantin' ) 197 comments|post comment

Because I don't know where else to post a PSA to the entire Internet [18 Mar 2011|07:22pm] fryingpanofdoom [ mood | ahAHahAaaHHAaAaAhHAahAHah!!!!! ] [ music | a potato is singing sweet, sweet lullabies to me ] I must say, I am truly astonished. I had no idea that so many people here were members of royalty. And what liberal monarchs too, to offer control of your kingdoms to so many subjects! It was as if the word ‘rein’ never existed! Perhaps the idiosyncrasies of my low-born, working class background are showing. How should a peasant as hideously revolting as me expect so many kings and queens to be familiar with the business of rearing horses or driving carriages? A monarchy of my own devising would be marvelously interesting indeed if I reigned in my horses as some of you people here seem to do. I imagine that is the reason no one can seem to use their keyboard properly. It must be very dark, wet and full of distressingly squashy noises where you are. -a pencil topper 47 comments|post comment

A very short RP rant. [05 Mar 2011|11:12am] judyhazeleyes [ mood | Catty ] Call me crazy with the Earth logic, but - If you (general 'you') complain about not having enough interaction with other characters, and then virtually all of your posts are locked/closed to characters your pup is already close with? YOU MIGHT BE THE PROBLEM. Just saying. post comment

Dear Being Human UK Fandom: No, Just No [28 Feb 2011|06:53pm] violetsquirrel ( Cut for length and spoilers for 3x05 ) 32 comments|post comment

But I'm a published author! [07 Feb 2011|02:15pm] life_on_mars So, this latest fun and games as reported on <A HREF = "http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/1269225.html"><b>fandom_wank</b></A> made me think: Why the everliving f*ck do some people think that saying "I'm a published author" trumps all other arguments?  It seems to assume that the other people in the argument <i>aren't</i> published authors - never a safe bet on JF or LJ - and that it confers some kind of automatic intellectual superiority.  Well, I've seen published work (fiction and non-fiction) that quite frankly I wouldn't use to clean my shoes with, by people who are scarcely the intellectual superior of the average cheese sandwich ... and I have no doubt most of us here could say the same. I know that in academia being 'published' is a serious matter and considered a professional milestone, but in the rest of the world is it actually such a big deal?  When you see some of the crap that <i>does</i> get published, maybe <i>not</i> being published is a more accurate marker of status?  And I for one reject the assumption that everyone in any given LJ or JF community is a failed author desperate to be published and actively resenting the success of anyone who is. Plus, what defines a 'published author'?  A few magazine articles, a short story here or there, a self-published novel, an idiot's guide to grooming your Pekinese, the screenplay for the latest blockbuster movie?  Authors of all of these could rightly claim to have been published; are we to assume they are all intellectually superior to those who simply don't choose to spend their time that way? I honestly can't understand why anybody still believes that they can pull out this card as if it was a gold-plated ace and everybody else will automatically accept that they know what they're talking about on all subjects and defer to their every pronouncement.  In fact, it has precisely the opposite effect on me; it shows me that they're not self-aware enough to realise that their wondrous achievement of published author status, whatever form it may take, is impressive only to them - and that's when I start to pity them for their incredible naivety and wonder if I have a spare bridge anywhere I can sell them. Well, there you have it.  I feel a lot better now.  It was either splurge it all here or steam until the top of my head flew off, and it's hell getting the dents out of the ceiling.  If you have been, thanks for listening! 11 comments|post comment

Dear frequent poster, [05 Feb 2011|01:54am] wankismyfandom [ mood | irritated ] When over 75% of the posts in a given community since January 1 are yours, perhaps you should take a break for a while. This goes quintuple if everything you post is unfunny in a community people read for lulz. Your personal hobby-horse is monopolising a comm I used to enjoy. tl;dr: STOP POSTING 4 comments|post comment

Pop idol group RPS is SRS BSNS. [03 Feb 2011|04:21pm] tokaikko Tons of us in the fandom for this non-fictional idol group ship certain members together. There’s almost no English language fanfiction for this fandom, so it mostly consists of us squeeing over pictures of the members we ship together and professing our love for the pairings. This has worked for us for years already. We were happy. Then fans of a new pairing came along, one that involves one member of one of the most popular pairings among both domestic and foreign fans and another member of the group. Okay, cool, people are allowed to ship whatever they want; ship and let ship, right? Well apparently, that doesn’t make sense to you guys, the shippers of the original popular pairing. Not that the other side is guiltless. There are shippers of the new pairing who will bash one of the members of the original pairing in her fans’ territory, unprovoked, and that’s not cool. But you guys are making yourselves look crazier by the day. It makes you seriously mad that one half of your ship is spending more time with another member of the group, now, and that other members of the group are jokingly calling them a couple in blog entries. It makes you so mad that you’re doing two things. You’re putting together posts and screencaps to serve as “evidence” that the half of your ship involved in both pairs loves your girl more than the other girl. And you’re bashing the other girl. Okay. This fandom involves real people. Lots of us ship pairs, but I don’t think any of the rest of us take our pairings as seriously as you guys. Most of us don’t actually care if they’re dating in real life. I mean, RPS is the kind of thing you really can’t take too seriously without crossing some kind of batshit line. We’re just content to collect pictures of them looking cute together. But you guys are so jealous that one half of your ship is spending more time with someone else that you’re calling for the other girl to leave the group. You’re claiming that you dislike her for reasons that have more to do with her personality, but the rest of us can’t seem to see any of these traits in her that you’re pointing out. Moreover, if anyone says anything bad about the half of your ship that most of you are the most crazy about, you’ll attack them, but you can bash other girls - like the other woman in this “love triangle” - all you want. Have you ever thought that she might be important to other fans, just like your girls are to you? I just find it insane how far you’re taking your rage over an RPS ship. They’re REAL PEOPLE. They’re pop idols who have to keep their private lives private. Even if they are somehow actually dating, you’ll probably never know that. And regardless, who they date is none of your business. What if the new ship is actually dating IRL, because they’re actually in love with each other? Would you hate the “other woman” then? tl;dr: I miss the days when my non-fictional pop idol fandom didn’t have ship wars. 2 comments|post comment

May I see your employees' badge, please? [11 Jan 2011|09:21pm] tez Dear certain overzealous fans of a certain videogame franchise: Speculation about new details is one of our favorite hobbies right now. The company is stringing us along and having WAY too much fun doing it, so we're having a great time guessing who and what is coming next. Here's the thing, though. It's guessing. Yes. Guessing. That means you don't know what will or won't happen any more than I do. The only entity who actually knows what's fact and what's speculation is the company itself, and until I see you fork out photo proof of employment at that company -- which I know damn well you don't have -- then I'm going to be forced to conclude you're talking out of your ass. We're all guessing. All of us. That means everyone else's guesses are just as valid as yours. So could you please shut the fuck up about what WILL or WON'T happen? You don't know any more than any of the rest of us, so stop presenting yourselves as almighty authorities. Christ. Can't we all have fun guessing without anyone trying to be more right than everyone else? No love whatsoever, Tez Not to mention that one of your pieces of 'evidence' as to why X item won't happen was never officially announced anyway so even THAT is speculation... 11 comments|post comment

1/2 Rant, 1/2 Rec [09 Jan 2011|08:11pm] keleri Dear Ryan Sohmer: This is how you write a fantasy webcomic that actually treats its female characters like people and not vehicles for the male author's characters' desires. By the way, it also manages to be funny and epic without breaking its own rules and spiraling into meandering, Robert Jordan-like plots. Considering dropping you like Dominic Deegan, Keleri 28 comments|post comment

Hypocritical slash fans make me sad inside [20 Nov 2010|07:19pm] sennet [ mood | GRRRRRR ] All right, I have put up with your incessant whining about how eeeeeeeeeeveryone writes your fave character as gay homg how can they do that don't they see how very heterosexual he is? I have put up with this for MONTHS. While it gets a little tired, I can see where you're coming from. It annoys me when you rail on people who play him otherwise mirrored to canon, but whatever. Everyone has their little ticks. No, what's cheesed me off is that you actually do ship him with one of the other male characters. Pretty hard. Just for the porn. But you want IC porn. But no. They're all doing it wrong. Only you can do it right. Eat a steaming bowl of dicks. You have no right to say your largely subjective opinion is any more correct than someone else's, especially when you spend so much time complaining about them only to do basically the exact same thing. 38 comments|post comment

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