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10th June 2003
: Hell hath no fury like a Redemptionista scorned
Um, people?
James Marsters is an actor. Spike is a character. Apparently, James Marsters has no right to share his interpretation of the character he's played for the past six years, especially if it doesn't jibe with those of the hundreds of fans who shelled out good money to see him.
"Why can't he say a single positive thing about the character that the audience he's surrounded by LOVES? People have traveled all this distance because we love this character. The reason James is getting paid to show up at this convention is because people love the character. The reason Spike was ever brought back as a regular was because we love the character. Where the hell does he get off INSULTING us and tell us we're WRONG for loving the character?"
After attending the BuffyCon last month in Chicago -- which included completely inappropriate questions from both preteen girls and middle-aged women (who should have known better) -- I completely understand James wanting to put some distance between himself, his character, and the fans. But being interpreted as condescending to a large crowd probably isn't the best way to do that.
Um, people?
James Marsters is an actor. Spike is a character. Apparently, James Marsters has no right to share his interpretation of the character he's played for the past six years, especially if it doesn't jibe with those of the hundreds of fans who shelled out good money to see him.
"Why can't he say a single positive thing about the character that the audience he's surrounded by LOVES? People have traveled all this distance because we love this character. The reason James is getting paid to show up at this convention is because people love the character. The reason Spike was ever brought back as a regular was because we love the character. Where the hell does he get off INSULTING us and tell us we're WRONG for loving the character?"
After attending the BuffyCon last month in Chicago -- which included completely inappropriate questions from both preteen girls and middle-aged women (who should have known better) -- I completely understand James wanting to put some distance between himself, his character, and the fans. But being interpreted as condescending to a large crowd probably isn't the best way to do that.
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: Hell hath no fury like a Crystalis fan scorned
So, it all started when a website I write for and sort of co-run started up a feature to last us through the month while a new format and layout is being set up, the Top 25 Rad NES Games. We got a lot of guest people to help it out, including J. Parish of ToastyFrog fame. Parish put up a link to our site on his front page a couple days before the feature started.
Now, the list of how rad these 25 games were was from a poll one of the site's writers took to make some page for his programming class final. In that list, Crystalis managed to make it to #24. Then, on one of the ToastyFrog boards, a guy nicknamed Spram wrote a DIATRIBE about how much Crystalis ruled, and how much we sucked for putting it so low on the list:
( Cut for your chewing pleasure. )
So, it all started when a website I write for and sort of co-run started up a feature to last us through the month while a new format and layout is being set up, the Top 25 Rad NES Games. We got a lot of guest people to help it out, including J. Parish of ToastyFrog fame. Parish put up a link to our site on his front page a couple days before the feature started.
Now, the list of how rad these 25 games were was from a poll one of the site's writers took to make some page for his programming class final. In that list, Crystalis managed to make it to #24. Then, on one of the ToastyFrog boards, a guy nicknamed Spram wrote a DIATRIBE about how much Crystalis ruled, and how much we sucked for putting it so low on the list:
( Cut for your chewing pleasure. )
: "You only like my fic because you're a moron! Give me reviews!"
Though I bore witness to much of this wank, the tale truly belongs to a friend of mine. In her words:
(edited because for some reason the links are all wonky, thus some c&p'ing might be necessary)
Take My Hand (http://fanfiction.net/read.php?stor
Then she tried her hand at original characters. Meryl brought home her boyfriend/fiancee/father of her unborn child, Vash, to meet the family Stryfe. Meryl is also in her late 20’s/early 30’s by this point, so her older brothers would be mid-to-late 30’s. They act like they’re five. They call the stranger in their house a loser, and, upon finding out their sister is pregnant, say that they hope it gets their family’s good looks by adding, “Hope it doesn’t look like him. Fucking ugly baby.”
It really threw the cute fluffiness of the story off that these two characters were so contrived. I put in my review that they didn’t act their age at all. She replied not through email (which I left with review), but in her author’s notes of the next chapter. She asked to be introduced to these fine men that act their ages.
I sent her an email (http://www.livejournal.com/users/fadin
The kicker follows. She wonders why she’s received so many reviews, because it “has no plot.”
“It's just a mound of mindless drivel that I put together because my sister bet me ten bucks I could never write a lime scene. So you guys sit there and talk about something like "Hmm...I think this is a very well written story, and it's very in character, but honestly, do brothers act that way? And where's his jacket?" and you wonder why Jade and I laugh? It's a joke, do you get it? This fic is probably the least well planned piece of random fluff that I've pulled out of my ass ever, and you guys are gobbling it up! It's FUNNY!
Silly me. If someone wanted to pay me $10 to write a lime scene, I’d write PWP (“Complimentary”</a> is a fine fic you can see at AdultFanFiction.Net) and be done with it, not a 13-chapter (still going strong) fluff that has already had its mediocre sex scene.
The following chapter had not one, but two author’s notes. A strange feat when you consider that there’s only one author to the story. The first note was by her beta friend, and was directed only to me. The second note was by Teresa, the author herself. I wish I had saved it, because she’s deleted it and put something apologetic in its place.
Her attitude can best be described as snide, and echoed the above sentiment from her email. She felt betrayed by her readers - they weren’t being honest with her! If they were honest, someone would have told her how much the story sucked. But nooooo, all they did was compliment her tale and say that they enjoyed it. How is it that none of them saw there was no plot? TMH is obviously the worst story ever posted to FFN and they gobble it up! Haven’t they noticed it sucks? Haven’t they noticed it’s pointless? It almost feels like it isn’t worth continuing...sigh...
She certainly got honesty. Reviews telling her what a spoiled kid she was poured in. Only then did she change the author’s notes. She only wanted some honesty. She had so many good reviews, she didn’t think people were even reading the story, and that hurt to know that a story she worked so hard on wasn’t getting honest reviews, and people were only telling her nice things. Poor thing.
But wait! If she only wanted honesty, why did she make fun of reviews she didn’t like or understand? And if she thought TMH was just crap and was laughing at us for “gobbling it up” then why did she want honest reviews? Why should she care?
All sorts of logical arguments with her are impossible. It’d be like leaving a review that said “Duck season!” just to see if her author’s notes would insist “Rabbit season!”
Though I bore witness to much of this wank, the tale truly belongs to a friend of mine. In her words:
(edited because for some reason the links are all wonky, thus some c&p'ing might be necessary)
Take My Hand (http://fanfiction.net/read.php?stor
Then she tried her hand at original characters. Meryl brought home her boyfriend/fiancee/father of her unborn child, Vash, to meet the family Stryfe. Meryl is also in her late 20’s/early 30’s by this point, so her older brothers would be mid-to-late 30’s. They act like they’re five. They call the stranger in their house a loser, and, upon finding out their sister is pregnant, say that they hope it gets their family’s good looks by adding, “Hope it doesn’t look like him. Fucking ugly baby.”
It really threw the cute fluffiness of the story off that these two characters were so contrived. I put in my review that they didn’t act their age at all. She replied not through email (which I left with review), but in her author’s notes of the next chapter. She asked to be introduced to these fine men that act their ages.
I sent her an email (http://www.livejournal.com/users/fadin
The kicker follows. She wonders why she’s received so many reviews, because it “has no plot.”
“It's just a mound of mindless drivel that I put together because my sister bet me ten bucks I could never write a lime scene. So you guys sit there and talk about something like "Hmm...I think this is a very well written story, and it's very in character, but honestly, do brothers act that way? And where's his jacket?" and you wonder why Jade and I laugh? It's a joke, do you get it? This fic is probably the least well planned piece of random fluff that I've pulled out of my ass ever, and you guys are gobbling it up! It's FUNNY!
Silly me. If someone wanted to pay me $10 to write a lime scene, I’d write PWP (
The following chapter had not one, but two author’s notes. A strange feat when you consider that there’s only one author to the story. The first note was by her beta friend, and was directed only to me. The second note was by Teresa, the author herself. I wish I had saved it, because she’s deleted it and put something apologetic in its place.
Her attitude can best be described as snide, and echoed the above sentiment from her email. She felt betrayed by her readers - they weren’t being honest with her! If they were honest, someone would have told her how much the story sucked. But nooooo, all they did was compliment her tale and say that they enjoyed it. How is it that none of them saw there was no plot? TMH is obviously the worst story ever posted to FFN and they gobble it up! Haven’t they noticed it sucks? Haven’t they noticed it’s pointless? It almost feels like it isn’t worth continuing...sigh...
She certainly got honesty. Reviews telling her what a spoiled kid she was poured in. Only then did she change the author’s notes. She only wanted some honesty. She had so many good reviews, she didn’t think people were even reading the story, and that hurt to know that a story she worked so hard on wasn’t getting honest reviews, and people were only telling her nice things. Poor thing.
But wait! If she only wanted honesty, why did she make fun of reviews she didn’t like or understand? And if she thought TMH was just crap and was laughing at us for “gobbling it up” then why did she want honest reviews? Why should she care?
All sorts of logical arguments with her are impossible. It’d be like leaving a review that said “Duck season!” just to see if her author’s notes would insist “Rabbit season!”
Current Mood: Candy-Coated