Online gaming rant and question [17 Oct 2010|02:02am] sisterelwood [ mood | Murderous ] ( cut for rant that is definitely NSFW ) And now for the question - Do any of you play Pirates of the Caribbean Online and, if so, are you a member of a guild? I'm looking for a new one that doesn't involve me being harassed and stalked into being someone's 'girlfriend'. 6 comments|post comment

Homework? What's that? [04 Oct 2010|01:09pm] seiberwing So. You are trying to address the unfortunate trope of women in anime/manga getting power and then going crazy from it, implying that women are too weak to hold on to power and should stay in the kitchen. Yes, this trope is unfortunate. However, when you start using characters from Ace Attorney as examples, either misinterpreting their characters or pulling things completely out of nowhere (Franziska stops prosecuting after admitting her love for Edgeworth, the HELL?) I'm going to step in and correct you. And when your only reply to my complaint is that you'd already admitted a mild error relating to Franziska (by which I mean a gross mischaracterization that makes me wonder if you've even played the games) and that all I'm doing is nitpicking your comments, then I'm going to nitpick it further out of mere annoyance. ( Heavy spoilers for the Phoenix Arc, mild spoilers for Investigations, and slander of my homegirl Fran. ) It's very annoying to see a bunch of strong women trashed like this, especially when they make up half the list of examples of female characters laid low because of their attempts to gain power. It's not nitpicking if you're blatantly wrong on everything. 21 comments|post comment

Something that came to me out of the blue [16 Sep 2010|08:04pm] sarajayechan [ mood | Dramatic ] Dear fandom at large, Shipping some incest/slap slap kiss/slash/femslash/May-December/interspecies/etc type of pairings =/= being obligated to embrace them all. A fan who ships Sokka/Katara is not a hypocrite if Zuko/Azula squicks them. You can ship Hector/Eliwood without feeling obligated to ship Kent/Sain or Lyn/Florina. Being grossed out by Brian/Lois doesn't mean a person is no longer allowed to ship Bowser/Peach or Bowser/Mario. And yeah, I know there IS hypocrisy in such contradictions; people might say "this incest couple is fine but this one is icky" for some shallow reasons, claim Ranma/Akane "will never work out" while praising the glory of Keitaro/Naru in the same breath, squee over Shuichi clinging to Yuki while going "ewww icky!" over Miaka and Tamahome. But that's not ALWAYS the case with people who ship one pairing of a certain type and squirm over another. In short: Not all pairings of a certain type are the same. Including incest. 12 comments|post comment

Homos have precious childhood memories too [12 Sep 2010|02:05am] anonyrat Suggesting that a (never even vaguely identified as straight) male character might possibly reciprocate his (canon gay) best friend's (canon) crush is not any of the following things: 1) Destroying your childhood 2) Revolting to the point that you are in danger of vomiting 3) A personal affront to you, the creator, or the character in question I don't give a fuck if you don't like yaoi or whatever, but if you fly into a flailing rage because someone interprets canon as more gay than you do, then yes, you're a fuckhead. Congratulations. Also, it's amazing how literally the exact same lines are sweet and cute when applied to a boy and a girl, but gross and perverted and destroying your damn fragile childhood when applied to two boys. Of course it goes without saying that we're talking about stuff that is as G-rated as it is humanly possible to be and still be identifiable as romance. I could see the logic in having a strong reaction to smut in a fandom you loved as a kid -- not that I personally care about porn in beloved childhood fandoms (hell, I've read some decent smut in plenty of them), but I could see it. However, if you think a picture of two boys sharing a blanket and drinking tea is the height of debauchery, either you're a homophobe or you REALLY need to get out more. I know which one I have my money on. This is especially appalling when the creator of the canon has gone on record saying that he added a gay character because he wanted to portray a normal world, and a normal world will have gay kids in it. That statement continues to fill me with warm and fuzzy feelings every time I think about it, because I'm queer and I had a fucking childhood too, but unlike yours I didn't see myself represented in every single book, movie, and video game I touched, so that statement? That's like a one-in-a-thousand precious memory for me. You know what destroys MY childhood quicker than the purplest piece of depraved dicks-in-every-orifice pornography the internet can vomit up? BIGOTS. Sorry about the length of the rant...it's been a long time coming. 45 comments|post comment

not funny. [21 Aug 2010|10:25am] keri [ mood | GRRRRRR ] Okay, so I know that the community I'm ranting about is kind of made for people who are obsessive and/or compulsive about lists and correct data and having everything Just Right. That means there are going to be jokes and comments about OCD, since a lot of what appeals to people of this community might come across as OCD-type things to people who don't give a shit. But, seriously, folks? It's getting old and Very Unfunny. The first time I saw the "CDO is like OCD, but better: it's alphabetical, like it should be" "joke", I thought it was dumb, but made sense for people who don't really know about OCD except for media depictions. But people keep using that joke. And it is not funny. It's not funny the same way the "dog = god" dyslexia "joke" isn't funny. It trivializes a very real disorder and creates misunderstandings of what it really is. Also? It doesn't fucking make any sense. Why "should" an acronym be in alphabetical order? if you unpack it, the word-order doesn't work, and besides, not everyone with OCD insists on absolutely fucking everything being in alphabetical order, even if there is a preference to shove every little thing into some arbitrary ranking or order, because there is an understanding that language doesn't work that way. Mostly, though, I'm sick of seeing this "joke" all the time, when it's not funny, and it's kind of insulting, and people keep persisting in using it, even after other people spoke up and said "please don't" the first few times it came up. Someone has even created a little graphic for it, because they trot it out so many times. This isn't really something serious enough to wank about at said community, and waste everyone's time, but I really needed to bitch about it today. :/ Maybe I'm a bit sensitive because of all the "jokes" I already hear too much of, about my gender or sexuality or asperger's syndrome or hobbies or just about every other aspect of my life (it seems, some days), and now this OCD one is just too much. I don't know, but it's irritating the hell out of me. 52 comments|post comment

[17 Jul 2010|05:44pm] harrylovesron [ mood | *thud* ] People, it's okay to dislike Castle. But it's NOT okay to whine about how it's beneath Nathan Fillion to do such a show, how it's crap and he needs to quit simply because it is not Firefly. Heaven forfend he do something to pay the bills, something by all indications he is enjoying the hell out of doing, just because it is not Firefly or connected to Joss Whedon in any way. And I say this as someone who adores both series. 35 comments|post comment

My second kink-meme-related-race-complaint. Total coincidence, I swear. [14 Jul 2010|11:48pm] seiberwing Oh, for Gant's sake. Yes, but Japan is perfectly capable of drawing people who look Japanese. They chose to portray "themselves" as un-Asian. Where do I even begin with these two sentences? It's rather notable in the wake of the racebending scandal around the The Last Airbender where that same argument was used to annoyingly bad ends, but in the Phoenix Wright fandom it is even stupider. The Ace Attorney series was made in Japan, by Japanese people, and originally set in Japan. This isn't even (just) a racism issue, this is a 'how stupid are you' issue. Good grief. I mean, let's look at some of these un-Asian people. ( Cut for pictures. ) For additional interest, I dug up an interview with one of the localizers for Justice For All. Lost: Conversely, what sorts of stuff do you add to give the Phoenix Wright dialogue a bit more of a Western flavor? Can you give an example of that? JH: I think what makes the dialogue more Western are things like colloquial phrases, sayings, and even the odd reference to a Western movie or show. The dialogue for the most part, in my opinion, is not really country-specific, so I think what lends the feeling of where a game takes place are the little things, such as Maya liking hamburgers instead of ramen, and using American law terms, such as “pleading the 5th”. Also, the inclusion of characters of different races makes it feel more like America to me, since Japan is pretty homogeneous. Bolding mine. The bulk of the Ace Attorney characters were drawn, originally, as Asian. They're not all Asian in the localization and some of them aren't even from countries that actually exist, but they weren't drawn specifically un-Asian. How you could so badly miss that in a series where Japanese-style spirit mediums are core to the plot is completely beyond me. 34 comments|post comment

Ahh, I love the smell of fresh internalized misogyny in the morning [26 Jun 2010|03:45am] squeakthemouse Oh Criminal Minds fandom, and you were doing so well last week. Ever since the news broke that CBS was letting AJ Cook go and reducing Paget Brewster's episode count, you've rallied to save our ladies and show how much you appreciate them. Sadly but not wholly unexpectedly, our efforts were for naught. But admirable nonetheless. But of course, with such a unifying and rallying fandom movement comes the inevitable backlash. And the backlash is just as full of fail as I had imagined it would be. ( CBS is totally not sexist, you guys! ) 67 comments|post comment

GDI TF fandom. [07 Jun 2010|12:49am] alana Which one of these things is most unbelievable?: - A race of mechanical squidfaces whose bodies vary wildly depending on their profession, from bipedal to floating tentacled five-faced things - A pool that can turn robots into mermaids with robot feet - A giant orange robot that turns into a planet to eat other planets - The vast majority of a character's body mass disappearing offscreen whenever it is inconvenient - Three-story-tall robots compressing into normal-sized boomboxes and cassette players, which can subsequently be picked up and carried by humans - DRAGONS! and magical time travel! - Someone being so insane he drives a planet mad - Some robots being pink and/or having higher voices Hint: IT IS NOT THE LAST ONE. 38 comments|post comment

Priorities, people. [29 May 2010|12:00pm] weaselistic So, the Criminal Minds finale aired, and you're excited to check out the fandom discussions, because the episode focused on one of your favourite characters and his issues, and it feels like high time that the show did something new with it...? ( Spoilers ) 121 comments|post comment

Oh Mega Man fans, you are not unique [18 May 2010|02:47pm] ashu [ mood | Catty ] Really, you're not. ( （╯‵□′）╯︵┴─┴ ) Okay tangent done there, I got off track. Just... Fandom, please. You can act like your pairings are hot shit when you're not treading the same goddamn road as a hundred other people have already done. heck, I'm not even pissed about the ships, I ship them myself! It's the acting like shipping it makes you some great gift to the fandom for shipping it (hint: Most of the people who dislike the yaoi in the fandom? are the male fans or the spriters, which tends to be the same thing half the time). Or yanno, when you roleplayers can give me Metal Man/Protoman or MegamixProtoman/MegamixShadowman and not make either character into a yaoi stereotype/trope. 73 comments|post comment

Not posted to fanficrants, because I predict it would not end well. [17 May 2010|08:11pm] seiberwing A little background--in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney there is a notoriously FoYay pair of actors who play the main characters on dueling children's shows. One (Matt Engarde) is white, while the other (Juan Corrida) is Hispanic. In canon they both had past relationships with Celeste Inpax, relationships which ended pretty badly because they're both kinda jerks. That is fine. This, a prompt made on the PW kink meme, is less fine. Matt and Celeste are a happily married couple. ... Or maybe not. Juan is their hired hand who takes care of the garden and various other jobs. I think you know what kind of "other jobs" I mean. Do you really not see why casting the Hispanic guy as the hired help is a little problematic? 34 comments|post comment

I've had it with these motherfucking plagarists on the motherfucking internet! [15 May 2010|01:44am] atalantapendrag [ mood | *Snarl* ] Back in April of 2005, I posted a bit of fluff called 50 Things I Am Not Allowed To Do At Hogwarts. People liked it. Icons were made. People commented with their own contributions, which I arranged into appendices so they wouldn't languish unread. For shits and giggles, a friend and I made some stuff for CafePress, marked at base price, and a few people even bought them. It got passed around and Metaquoted and it was all a bit bewildering; the fic I write generally vanishes without a trace. The height of surreal was meeting someone IRL and having my own work recced to me! Because of the nature of the piece, it doesn't surprise me that it gets forwarded around as an anonymous piece. But a fucking shitload of people post it as their own. On Fanfiction.net, on fucking YouTube, Gaia Online, Facebook, MySpace... Final straw tonight was this. Some fucking news portal site is attributing it to someone else! Seriously. Seriously. I'm not any sort of BNF, I never will be. This is the only truly popular thing I've ever written. But apparently it's too much to ask for people to refrain from taking credit for what I and my contributors wrote. I mean, jeez, it's not like I invented the concept, make up your own damn list. 11 comments|post comment

well, aren't you special [12 May 2010|01:19am] eleutheria [ mood | Grouchy ] Let me get this straight. You come into a fannish space that includes a fanworks community (which has a ton of fanfic on it, and of which you are a member) and fanfiction contests, and you tell fanfic writers that we're "lazy" and we're thieves for daring to write fanfic of the precious, precious author's precious characters. Then you make a post with a completely OT cartoon telling us to "lighten up", when you're the only one flinging insults. I tell you that I have a hard time "ligtening up" when you're calling me a lazy thief. And your response is to correct my grammar, chastise me for my being affected by your shitty comment, and slap me with a tone argument: "You waived the right to politeness with the tone of your comment, so I'm afraid this response is the best I can muster, manners-wise, when it comes to you." After telling me that the needs of profic writers and their wonderful editors (of which you happen to be one) trump the needs and rights and feelings of fanfic writers. Perhaps, if you feel such a huge need to clutch your pearls at the horrible infringement of the rights of the creator of the series we're both fanning, you might just want to take your obnoxious, pretentious, hypocritical ass the hell out of a fanworks community. You clearly don't respect or understand its culture, nor do you respect its members, and I have no earthly idea WTF you're doing here. 16 comments|post comment

How to make and lose friends in two easy steps! [21 Apr 2010|11:20pm] alana How to make new fandom friends: Squee with them in a post about HOW AWESOME a shared fandom is, agreeing on how awesome all the characters are and how badass the spunky ninja sidekick is! How to lose them: Post to your journal about how your cousin is a nigger. Then explain how it is just a joke and you don't MEAN it. I mean, what the fuck. 11 comments|post comment

[16 Apr 2010|07:54am] alana Person 1: Yes, we get it, you like Supernatural. Like, a lot. And I do not mind this! Because, while I don't watch the show, it seems pretty fun and the fandom is... well, the fandom is craycraymccrazytastic, but still. That doesn't mean that you should post to your LJ five times in an hour about it. You post more than Fanficrants. Jesus, have you never heard of ETAs? What's worse, you constantly post huge macros that only your fellow SPN fans care about, or even understand. Gah. Cuts! Have you never heard of them, either! Person 2: Coming onto my personal journal and telling me that my taste in fiction makes you barf does not endear me to you. Like, at all. Like, I am super-open about my affection for giant robot slash, inter(sapient)species romance, and crazy is-it-actually-slash-if-one-of-them-doesn't-technically-exist. The hell are you doing on my journal? 56 comments|post comment

Final FAIL XIII [21 Mar 2010|03:14pm] sadisticferret Is it really too much to ask that one be able to do a search for Sazh fanart without coming across racist shit on the first goddamn page? For fuck's sake, people. 24 comments|post comment

lazy people are lazy [21 Mar 2010|09:27am] microclimate Dear Lost fandom, ( cut for length and spoilers ) 22 comments|post comment

Bloodbending Your Way To A Better Sex Life! [20 Mar 2010|06:05pm] dontgiveahoot [ mood | OMGWTF ] Crossposted from LJ's fanficrants and fanficrants Dear Avatar fanauthor: While having Katara use Bloodbending to spice up her sex life is certainly an approach to smutfic I haven't seen before, I think perhaps you need to keep some things in mind. ( Cut for crazy, dubcon and general brainbleach rquirements. ) No love, me. 23 comments|post comment

[10 Feb 2010|12:41am] amaresu Dear Fanwork Creators, When posting in a multi-fandom comm can you please tell me what fandom your thing is for? It may be just the thing I've been looking for all day, but if you don't tell me what it is I'll never know. What can it hurt to slap a fandom label on your header? At worst you don't get any more people looking at it, but at best you get a lot of people that would've just scrolled on by stopping to look. Shouldn't this just be common sense? 10 comments|post comment

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