[08 Jun 2009|11:06pm] arionhunter ""Yes, that must be it. Tell me, Fujino-san, if the public clearly enjoys my music, despite knowing my sexual orientation, what makes you think shame and disgrace will come to your family? Think about it this way: charts show around 87% of Japan is open-minded to homosexuality. If there is something anti-gay, they tend to stay away from whatever that is. This has also been proven. Right now, your company is number one in the amount of sales made. 92% of the population in Japan come to your products first. If that 87% were to find out you were anti-gay, how much do you think your profits will plummet?" (I have no idea if this is true. I'm making it all up. XD)" This is not cute. It is INFURIATING. There is The Fucking Google. Hell, there is The Fucking Wikipedia, if you feel like skipping Step 1 in the Google chain and going straight to the source. Please make use of either of these options, lest I take a bat to your hands. Bonus Rant: I did not read your fic to get a fucking lecture about Why We Need To Love The Queers. As an official, card-carrying Queer, my sole interest is not in your politics but reading mocking your fic. I am not going to sit through your page-long, teenager-righteous, OOC "I Will Survive" speech. I am going to briefly sneer at it and go back to looking for bad!porn with dissolving vaginas. 14 comments|post comment

[22 May 2009|10:34pm] thoms [ mood | Homicidal ] Okay. So you kids like your RPF. That's all well and good and dandy, I like me some RPF too. But where I get pissed right the fuck off is when your little fic community is full of fics of a really implausible pairing, and every single fic includes a line about how the male half of the pairing's wife of nearly 9 years is a "crazy bitch." Usually enumerated by an actress known to be one of the classiest in the business, which just seems so out of character. Also, to write him cheating on said wife... just no. (Literally. Every. Fic.) Of course, seeing wank reports about various fandoms, I know that the real-life significant others of people who get in the way of their beloved ships often make fen froth and kermitflail, but this is such a small fandom, with a lot of not-as-well known people, I don't know why I assumed this one would be different. It's disappointing to say the least. Guess I'll have to stick to the outskirts of the fandom once again, cause I don't want to get the crazy on me. 27 comments|post comment

[25 Apr 2009|01:51pm] charamei Dear idiots at the BBC: Hendry vs Ding was always going to be the most popular match on during the past few days, and probably the most exciting. Who decided to put it on a red button channel rather than the terrestrial? And then, once it turned out that it was, in fact, the most exciting match of the tournament thus far, who decided to put the rugby on the same red button channel, thus taking it off-air again? How can you complain that snooker is losing popularity and yet not show the exciting bits? Didn't the fact that: a) It was Hendry vs Ding, and b) They were level-pegging the whole way through the match give you any hint at all? I understand that a lot of people like rugby - but why couldn't you have cut it into the other match? To add insult to injury, one of the commentators added during the last two minutes that he hoped the red button viewers had enjoyed the match. No. Because you weren't showing the match, you were showing the flaming RUGBY! (John Parrott, Willie Thorne, I don't blame you. You can't have known this was happening.) And it's not even up on iPlayer. Well, the highlights are, but not the whole match... GAH. Hopefully the nice person on YouTube with the English recording will hurry up and upload his copy. 3 comments|post comment

Dear fans of everything: [06 Apr 2009|09:42pm] phosfate When you comment on f_w to explain that "We're not all crazy" like whoever's mentioned in the post, you are missing the point of the comm. We are all crazy. Just like that. You included. You are not a better person if you happen to find incest, slash, het, gen, children's shows, comics, or customized teddy bears beyond the pale. You are merely different. And you're crazy. Own up already. Your pal, Ann 43 comments|post comment

Dear specific Fandomsecrets troll: [05 Apr 2009|04:54pm] rennyn_alerothi WE GET IT. You think that the film version of this particular comic is the most misogynistic piece of crap ever to hit the big screen. WE GOT IT THE FIRST TIME YOU POSTED SECRETS ABOUT IT. One a day is a bit much, but THREE TO FOUR A DAY IS OVER THE TOP. Please get a new hobby. Feel free to pick up a copy of the graphic novel that the movie was based on on your way out of the fandom, since it looks like you might not have read it in the first place. Or if you did, it doesn't look like you understood it at all. ^_^ *composes self* *gets down from soapbox* *mops up sploodge.* *removes fandomsecrets from "watched communities" list.* 95 comments|post comment

[05 Apr 2009|03:06pm] microclimate Dear special snowflakes, omigosh, you're so right! It's TERRIBLE when people criticize your theories! I mean, don't they know? They're THEORIES! Look it up in the dictionary. Have you, you mean curs? Good. Now you know what a THEORY is! Since the dawn of time and the advent of theories, no one has ever poked holes in them, critiqued them, debated them -- nobody but the meanest of mean and nasty deviants! They refused to appreciate theories for the special, precious grains of thought that they were. And what a depressing state we live in, when scientists, philosophers, think tanks and the like make their money and fame off of tearing apart these underappreciated gems we call theories. I relate to you. I really do. When someone comes along and tells you your theory about that continuity error being a super secret clue is kind of stupid, a piece of me dies. Out of sympathy. For you. When someone comes along and asks how that character who's interacted with so many people and is one of the bodies that makes up the number "6" and asks, hold up, how the fuck is that possible, how could this hoax you propose go on for so long without anyone saying "Yo, this person you think exists? Doesn't", I can't sleep at night. I'm too busy crying. Who do these bastards think they are, engaging you in a debate? They should GTFO and take their Earth logic meanness with them! Don't they know this is Sparta LOST, where people have the self-made delusion are encouraged to overanalyze look deeply into every aspect of the show? My goodness! What will these scum think of next? That Benjamin Linus is a middle-aged, Caucasian male with brown hair and light blue eyes? Ha! You, you brave souls who dare to think, you know better! You know he's really a sweet little girl from the Dominican Republic who Sayid was trying to build that school for! So I salute you. So I say go on theorizing, keep on trucking, defy the dogs who bay and snap at you with their "DUDE WTF"s and "this makes no sense"s and "actually your statement is contradicted by canon"s! Keep on theorizing for the sake of theorizing, because you and I both know that the showrunners are on our side and would never, ever make fun of a theory. Yours truly, A concerned fan 12 comments|post comment

dear condescending fans [05 Apr 2009|07:17am] eleutheria [ mood | Peeved ] I get that our show is very likely to be cancelled, and in the face of that, you're defensive about loving the show. I get that. But this narrative that this show is some kind of high art that only the smart and educated can understand, and that you're some kind of drooling moron if you don't appreciate the meandering navel-gazing wastes of episodes in the middle of the season artful, masterful way the writers wove this season's plots is really fucking annoying. I'm glad that your "MFA-in-writing" told you how special and carefully contextual all the hidden, coded messages in the season were, but a lot of people disliked them and thought it was so much wasted space and angsting emo-teenager-ness and plots that could have been done in half the time and been infinitely more tolerable. So many people, in fact, that the show is teetering on the brink of cancellation heaven. So you rely on calling all those irritated fans idiots, and say how other, more popular shows are a "chancre" on society (yes, SPN and 24 fans, your show is for idiots and it's ruining the world, didn't you know?, and go on about how this show is the next "Mad Men" and the writer is "just like Whedon" (I swear, if I hear it compared to The Wire, I'm going to start punching people). Look, I and a lot of other people like what they're doing with it now, but think it's too little, too late. That's a valid opinion, even if it's not yours, and people who hold it aren't stupid or less educated than you. Get over yourselves. Also, people can like whichever characters they want and dislike whichever characters they want without getting your permission in advance. Because some people are angry at their favorite character getting offed and no longer care about the show doesn't make them "irrational". The title character is your favorite. That's great. But people are perfectly within their rights not to like her, or the way the show portrays her. Yes, you can be a fan of a show and not glom onto some parts of it. Really. Again, get the hell over yourselves. 31 comments|post comment

You got your girl cooties on my paperback industry! [02 Apr 2009|12:40pm] anonyrat Ok, look. You're fantasy fans. Big fantasy fans. All those books you love and read over and over again until they fall apart and think are totally amazing? People look down on you for reading them. Other readers of genre fiction look down on you. If you have never heard a self-righteous scifi fan who thinks his undergraduate physics degree means he understands everything IMPORTANT about the universe go off on how dumb fantasy is, you're a very lucky person. Because I've heard it. A lot of my fantasy fan friends -- hell, a lot of my friends who are fantasy authors -- have had their reading and even their writing dismissed out of hand because of its genre. You know how their criticisms are usually based on ignorance of the genre? You know how it makes you mad when a bunch of people who don't know what they're talking about say that all fantasy is THIS or THAT, when there's really so much more to it? You know how a lot of times, if you scratch the surface of their complaints, it seems more and more like the big problem with fantasy is that it has a large female readership? Why the HELL do you turn around and inflict that genre-wanking bullshit on readers of romance novels? Whenever you make fun of 'dumb plots' that are apparently endemic to a genre of books you have never even touched, you sound just like that arrogant hard-SF guy. Right down to the sexism. So stop it. 31 comments|post comment

[22 Mar 2009|09:54pm] sandglass If we're okay to operate under the principle that using "gay" to mean bad is unacceptable, why am I suddenly oversensitive for wanting it to be just as unacceptable to use ladies/girls/women to mean bad? It's the same fucking thing. I know nobody means it to be sexist, but I shouldn't have to explain that to people who can craft a good argument to why using gay as an insult is hurtful even if you don't mean it to be. 49 comments|post comment

hurdadurdledur. [12 Mar 2009|08:53am] ecchaniz0r [ mood | *Snarl* ] Hey, you? Yeah - you, chuckles. What the fuck made you think that a thread discussing the myriad ways in which authors show asses and have issues - one in which there had been, up 'til that point, none of this disparagement shit, and one in a very well-thought-out post in re: Racefail, to boot - was the right place to go "Butbutbutbutbut I don't see any sexism or misogyny or problematic material in Alan Moore's works!" and heavily imply that anyone who did see it was just looking for something to get offended about? What the actual, seafaring, candy-coated FUCK made you think that was the right time or the right place!? SERIOUSLY. Flossing christ. Is it that hard to STOP AND THINK A SECOND. Even I, with my attention deficit and impulse control, can manage to stop and think about shit - and yes, sometimes one DOES have to stop and think about shit! I sincerely hope that you remain ignored and unengaged because frankly? You lost the war before you fired a single ROUND, child. Your position is nothing but a losing one, even if you think you've won, because 'you're just IMAGINING IT!' is a copout lazy bullshit claim full of fail and lose. Jesus H., you're stupid. You get the punchy!Six icon. I can't do this anymore, man, I need tea before I start to throw shit. 58 comments|post comment

[28 Feb 2009|06:15am] urpletastic Dear fandom - defuse: remove fuse from (explosive); (fig.) reduce likelihood of trouble arising from  (crisis etc.) diffuse: disperse or be dispersed from a centre; (be) spread widely When it's anger, you might just get away with it; when it's a bomb, not so much. Please to be learning the difference. 28 comments|post comment

[18 Feb 2009|02:15pm] coffeebun [ mood | *Snarl* ] Dear people who apparently can't be bothered to google, Videogame faqs and walkthroughs exist for a reason. Use them. No love, Me. 19 comments|post comment

Sexual insensitivity is insensitive [14 Feb 2009|10:29pm] stella_polaris [ mood | Bitter ] [ music | Franz Ferdinand - This Boy ] DEAR SGA FANDOM. It's *still* not funny when you magically de-age two female characters and one male character, and then have the girls check the unconscious male's genitals out for shits and giggles. It's also a little skeevy when you write half the middle-aged female population as lusting over the teenaged male. Yes, I know the show had a bad habit of drawing "humour" from having McKay get mocked by his friends, but this is not a way to endear your readers. Unless you can keep the scene funny if you switch the genders of the characters, you really, really shouldn't resort to this type of "humour". And in case you don't get it, let me spell it out. Having a boy check out an unconsious girl's genitals is not funny. Having a group of middle-aged men openly lust after a teenaged girl isn't funny either. Stop being such a goddamned douchebag. (WHY does the fandom let people get away with shit like this? Why is it okay to write scenes like this when it's about a male character, when we all know we'd be up in arms about it if it was a female character?) 29 comments|post comment

I'd have had this up earlier, but the server was robusting. [12 Feb 2009|05:19pm] seiberwing Snagged this link off a comment on shortpacked and I have to admit, it's bothering me a little bit. Here's the disclaimer. Imagine if you will. Girls that get just as upset as you do when that boss battle just isn't going well and you you've been hacking away at the bastard for hours! A Girl that can counter your obscure science fiction movie reference with one of her own. A Girl who can hand you your ass at Mario Kart. A Girl that, when you suggest watching a movie, will choose that kung fu flick or something rife with gun violence and explosions hands down every time. A Girl who thinks your obsession with giant robots is perfectly normal. A Girl who thinks sword fights are sexy. A Girl with opinions about console games. A Girl who spends more time in the graphic novel section of Barnes and Nobel than you do. A Girl who owns her own RPG dice...and thinks they're pretty. They're out there. Fangirls. Thats right lads, hands off your joysticks...We bring the best (and sometimes the worst) of our favorite fandoms to you with a refreshing (sometimes terrifying) female perspective. I'm all for girls transcending traditional gender roles through fandom, but they make it out like this somehow makes them unique. On LJ alone there's dozens of comms for all of the above and I'm betting more than half of them are female dominated. I'm not even getting into the whole capital letter on Girl thing because I have no idea what that's about, but it bugs me anyway. A small disclaimer on your personal nature and identity is the norm for most bloggers, but I prefer action movies to romantic comedies, think sword fights are intensely sexy and usually full of lovely sexual tension, get pissed off at that one boss that I can't seem to beat (I hate you Metroid: Fusion spider boss, I hate you so fucking much), and I'm pretty certain the girls writing the blog don't even know the depths of giant robot obsession that I have descended to. None of this makes me special. In the ranks of girl geeks, I'm actually pretty mediocre. If you're going to make your gender a selling point, I want to see you bring something new to the table instead of going "hey, boys! We like what you do and think you're cool, do you like us now?". I took a quick skim of the content on the first page (after getting past the formatting and font, which is nigh unreadable), and bar a few offhanded references to their gender and a bit of gushing over Twilight, the entire thing could just have easily been written by a guy. There is no "female perspective", or at least not one that's noticeably female, there's just yet another fan perspective on which video games are good and how Frank Miller has lost his whore-loving mind. Girl-wonder.org, this is not. I'm not even sure it's girl_gamers or scans_daily. Definitely not mecha_erotica, although I don't think that's the kind of fangirling they're looking for. It's just gender-neutral commenting, and I'm not sure why they think that's a bad thing. Ladies? I'm sorry, but you're not the geekiest girls I know. Not by a long shot. 102 comments|post comment

Astro Boy's Caucasian Makeover [06 Jan 2009|12:25am] jrandomlurker Note: This rant and the linked article refer to the upcoming Astro Boy CGI movie. If you are at all familiar with the source material, you will probably be offended by this article. Also, I hope none of you out there are big on Science Ninja Team Gatchaman, as Imagi promises that since "it is not as well known as Astro Boy, the project, about five super-powered teens fighting monsters, is open to interpretation. 'We’re kind of making up our own version based on the original 1970s cartoon.' " http://www.star-ecentral.com/news/story.asp?file=/2009/1/4/movies/2871865&sec=movies At the risk of pushing this into i_wank territory, WHAT THE FUCK. I mean, seriously. WHAT THE FUCK are you people thinking? You did not just seriously say that you want to make Astro 'less feminine' because he has large eyes and, oh no, EYELASHES? He's a FREAKING 6-year-old-analogue ROBOT. What, are you worried about robo-pedophiles or something? It's not like he has tiny little robot-boy nipples to put pasties over, or a tiny little robot e-peen to cover up. You did not just seriously argue with the goddamn Tezuka estate about the size of his ASS. You did not just seriously say that you didn't MEAN to make a legendary Japanese iconic character look "American" but that it just kinda happened. Just plain fucking NO. A huge bag of no. (edit to fix URL) 25 comments|post comment

Bad placement of subtitles [05 Jan 2009|01:57am] aeka Dear Fansubbers, I appreciate all the hard work that you put into subbing anime and other international titles not available in the English language. But for the love of god! Please use common sense when you decide to get creative and place text on random spots of the fucking screen. While I don't have a problem with a line of text appearing occasionally on top to translate signs or to briefly explain certain phrases unique to that language, I don't however want a whole freaken paragraph that covers up half of the characters' faces, while at the same time translating their dialogue at the bottom of the screen. If you must write a full explanation for a particular idiom, or a particular event in the story, please DO so at the beginning of the episode before the actual opening credits start. Do you have ANY idea how it annoying it is to see a paragraph of text over a character's face JUST to be able explain a reference that you noticed early on? It's not only distracting, but if I'm reading a paragraph of text on the screen, I'm not seeing the action that's taking place, nor reading the dialogue that's being said. I can notice events for myself without you having to point them out to me, and if I missed a reference to something, it's very unlikely that I'll give a damn. I just want to watch the damned show. Another thing bothers me: please, please, PLEASE! Keep the subtitles at the bottom of the screen? I don't think it's asking too much to not want my eyes to have to follow a trail of text appearing on different sides of the screen at random times. That's also really annoying and really distracting. I'd like to be able to focus as much on the action as possible rather than the actual text thank you. Sincerely, A Lover of Foreign Entertainment 15 comments|post comment

Ultimatum #2 : A question.. [25 Dec 2008|11:37am] makeshyft [ mood | *Snarl* ] What. The Fuggin. HELL!!? No, seriously, what the fuggin' hell!? WHAT. HELL. FUGGIN'. THE! There are so many not right things that I can't even give spoilers. But seriously, at exactly what point did they just decide to write this whole mess off as a crapstorm and just roll with it? This, this honestly makes me long for the tasteful and sane days of "Thor:Vikings". It makes Didio seem sane and reasonable by comparison. This.. this is to comic book writing what Hostess Fruit Pie ads were to comic book writing. ... Seriously, what the fuggin' hell? Discuss. 26 comments|post comment

You know what? I'm gonna go with Fuck You for 900, Alex. [11 Dec 2008|09:29am] arionhunter The first thing out of the Avatar casting wank that has really made me want to choke someone: "Look, one reason why produces try for predominately white casts, is because they know that a lot theaters in the Midwest and Southeast view predominately white films, they know those movies sell incredibly well in those areas." No, no, no. Contrary to popular opinion, everyone who lives below the Mason-Dixon is not more inclined toward whiteness. Please to be getting your head out of your ass. Dammit, this is why fandom can't have nice things, clearly. 36 comments|post comment

Come to think of it, just find/replace for your fandom of choice here. [10 Dec 2008|10:58pm] dawnswalker [ mood | Nosy ] Dear Ace Attorney fans, I know that characters in the Ace Attorney games do frequently turn out to be more (or less) than what they first appear to be. I know that the series' writers do sometimes throw in plot twists that blow everything we thought we knew about the cases, characters, and overall plot out of the water. I know that those same writers have a tendency to give at least vaguely sympathetic motives and/or backstories to most of the villains of the series. So yes, a few of them can actually come across as Just Misunderstood in some way or another. I even know that there are quite a few characters whose positions on the Wheel of Morality are a bit more sketchy than Capcom would have us believe, whether they're supposed to be good characters or bad. Why hello there, famous Apollo Justice fandom example. ( OBJECTION! Are those AJ spoilers too?! ) And if all else fails, can't you just stop worrying and learn to love the "AU" tag? 10 comments|post comment

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

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