wee cute fanfiction rant
(From wank_report, and I know nothing about the fandom but some things are universal.)

A fanfic is posted on a community dedicated to some anime pairing or other. It contains gay pr0n and a lot of descriptions like 'Pondering violet found playful emerald' and 'Satiated violet found burning emerald'.

Nobody has a problem with the gay pr0n, but a few people take exception to the writing.

The first thread is actually fairly cordial, if long-winded. We do learn that the author has 'a very stylist way of writing.'

The second thread, which continues here, heats up a bit, especially when chaosd jumps back in:

Violet eyes opened and shifted between seas of emerald.
It's very good you included this sentence in your example, as everything else in the two paras pales before it. I'll try to explain, being honest.

Sane reader's reaction would be between "disregarding" and "grabbing for an ice pack", depending on the overall fic quality and number of times the ficauthor brought it up before. Because over the years anime!fandomness exists, this turn of language's been used for everything, floor-wiping included. It's been parodied so much that a sufficiently uncaffeinated author out of his/her pre-teens won't ever think of using it in a somewhat serious piece.


And the author explains herself, sort of:

There were three words I could think of (granted, I didn't go searching through a theasaurus or anything): purple, violet, and amethyst. I picked violet. The reasons for this are:

1) Purple is not technically a color. It is not in the spectrum. I, personally, do not like the word purple. It reminds me of bruises.

2) One of the defintions of purple is "marked by profanity" not a place I wanted to go.

3) Amethyst -- that gives the wrong connection to "emerald". I didn't want to do the gem thing.

4) Violet is in the spectrum; thus, it is in the rainbow.

5) Violet is a type of flower.

6) Violet connects the two ways Hakkai (in this fic) sees Sanzo's eyes. As part of the rainbow and as wet wildflowers.


The author actually manages to keep things fairly civil, but don't worry, her 'friends' jump in to inform everybody that everybody critiquing the story is just jealous, and also that she has more fangirls than the other people and therefore is right.

Small and cute, like a tempest in a (violet) teacup.