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[15 Nov 2009|04:13pm] |
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Why do people think that a man calling his love interest "kitten", "sugar", "babe", "baby" or any other endearing truck-driver-esque nickname is the height of sexiness? To me it just sounds trashy. Especially if it's absolutely OOC for the character to do so, as he's Brittish, upper-class and terribly snooty.
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[15 Nov 2009|12:12am] |
Character A gives Character B some DVDs and says they (A and B, not the DVDs) are made for each other, just like Han and Leia. Very nice. Except the story is set around 1976.
DVDs hadn't been invented yet.
Theatrical films were only just beginning to be released on video. There was a limited selection and they were expensive. Hard as it is to believe, there was a time when people did not own all of their favorite movies and watched them whenever they liked. They had to wait for them to be shown on TV. Horrible, I know. My parents still have nightmares about it.
Star Wars hadn't been released yet. Even if the story takes place a year later than I've guessed, only the first one had been released, it wasn't on video, and the Han/Leia relationship didn't exist yet. (I'm sure some people 'shipped Han/Leia from the beginning, but Character A was clearly trying to give examples of established couples, not his personal, not-yet-canon OTPs).
It's such a brief, minor scene, but it completely threw me out of the story. I don't expect authors to do in-depth research on the history of home video, but at least know what technologies were available and the release dates of any movies referenced.
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| That Word You Use, I Don't Think It Mean What You Think It Means |
[15 Nov 2009|01:49pm] |
Dear Fanfic Writers, Yes, Even You Otherwise Good Ones,
There are a few words that I regularly see used wrongly, mostly past tense words.
Examples I've see Lately:
Lied
This word is not past tense for resting on a horizontal surface. The correct past tense is "Lay".
It is past tense for telling something that is not the truth.
Drug
This is not past tense for "drag". The correct word for that is "dragged".
"Drug" is however the correct word of chemicals of medical and recreational purposes, used as a noun, and the correct verb for the usage of such chemicals in the present tense.
Glew
WTF? This is now not even a legitimate word! As such it is also not the past tense for "glow" - the correct word for that is "glowed".
Now I do not profess to being an expert of grammar, but I know enough to know these and suspect there are plenty of other mistakes of a similar nature that regularly happen.
I beg the fanfic world to try to remember these examples and heed any similar cases - or find a beta reader who understands them.
Cross-posted to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) wrongworddammit.
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| May I please have a word, Bleach fans? |
[15 Nov 2009|02:58am] |
Specifically the writers of Cero Espada OCs/Ichigo-turned-Cero-Espada fics.
( Cut for manga spoilers. )
ETA:
Kira would not show mercy to an enemy that begged for their life. No, really, he wouldn't. "A warrior does not beg for his life." Does that ring any bells, dear fanbrat? Remember what happened to the last person to beg Kira to spare them? He isn't your kind and fluffy bundle of mercy, not if you're an Arrancar or a traitor. Really, he isn't. So please, can we see less of that?
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| MOD NUDGE, AND ICON-SHARING POST |
[14 Nov 2009|08:54pm] |
HEY THAR, CAPSLOCKERS! OVER 2,000 MEMBERS HERE (HOLY SHIT!), SO NOW MIGHT BE A GOOD TIME TO BRUSH UP ON WHAT WE'RE HERE FOR, AND POINT NEW EL-JAYERS TO SOME THINGS WORTH POINTING TO. FIRST UP, THE COMMUNITY PROFILE, WHERE THE RULES GUIDELINES CAN BE READ IN FULL. THERE ARE ALSO SOME GREAT LINKS THERE, WHICH MIGHT GET OVERLOOKED, SO PLZ TAKE THE TIME TO CHECK THEM OUT, ESPECIALLY IF UR NEW:
- A GUIDE TO CAPSLOCKING PRETTY MUCH SUMS IT ALL UP, EVEN THOUGH THE BIT ABOUT PENANCE IS DIFFERENT NOW. (MOAR ON THAT IN THE NEXT LINK)
- THIS MODPOST CLEARS UP THE PENANCE ISSUE AND ALSO HAS SOME GREAT LINKS TO OTHER BLEACH COMMS THAT SOME OF Y'ALL MIGHT NOT BE AWARE EXIST.
- AFTER THAT, ARE YOU STILL WONDERING IF UR DOIN' IT RITE? CHECK THE TAGS!
THIS POST IS NOT MEANT TO SINGLE ANYONE OUT, ONLY TO ASSIST THE NEW PEOPLE AND SERVE AS A FRIENDLY REMINDER TO THE REST OF US. WE LOVE ENTHUSIASM HERE, BUT WE'RE TRYING TO KEEP IT LULZY FOR EVERYONE.
NOW TO MAKE THIS TL;DR WORTH SOMETHING, HOW ABOUT POSTING YOUR FAVORITE, SHARABLE, CAPSLOCKY BLEACH ICONS HERE? WE HAVEN'T HAD A COLLECTIVE ICON-SHARING POST IN AGES. I WILL START ( HERE )
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[14 Nov 2009|08:00pm] |
hello, how are you doing? sorry to bother you but if you have some time can
you please try to read and review these Jyu Oh Sei, matantei loki ragnarok,
drakengard, vampire knight, and sailor moon x-overs stories?
Sure I've got time. Plenty of time. It's just that I don't want to spend it reading stories in fandoms I've never heard of. Especially when they're recced to me by someone I've also never heard of. (Who doesn't know what the shift key's for.)
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| All in the same fic too. |
[14 Nov 2009|04:07pm] |
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Attention Bleach Fandom:
Mayuri Kurotsuchi is not a woobie.
Thank you.
And on another note, romance doesn't have to be all about sex. Sure a lot of real-life relationships are about sex, and many romances depend on a healthy sex-life, but a lot of people will generally agree that sex isn't the end-all-be-all of a relationship. And for that small percentage of people out there, sex just isn't that important. Period.
Asexuality in terms of non-reproduction interaction, is where the individual has no interest in sex or sexual attraction. This isn't to say that an asexual person can't have a romantic relationship, nor that they can't engage in sex for the benefit of thier partner, but that it just doesn't interest them.
However, asexual or not, having Mayuri Kurotsuchi gleefully skipping out on his duties to the Institute to make-out with the in-story love interest. Then cheerfully going on (in mercifully skant) details about how much sex they've had is out of character, no matter what your reviewers tell you.
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| Author's Notes are not your friends. |
[14 Nov 2009|08:20pm] |
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Dear author,
I was enjoying your new chapter and rather excited, as it's the first one you've posted in over six months. Then you did this:
“I only need another two inches, come on —” (A/N THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID! sorry, I hate putting A/Ns in the middle... but I'm obsessed with that sentence right now. You might think I'm immature. You'd be right. Lol.)
If you hate putting author's notes in the middle of chapters, don't do it. There is nothing in that note that pertains to the story or anything the reader needs to know.
Sincerely,
I'll continue reading, but I'm wary now
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| FRIENDING MEME 2009 |
[14 Nov 2009|11:20pm] |
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Fill out the following form and post it in response to this entry. Receive comments. Check out others' answers and start a little conversation, comment, comment, comment and.. find friends !
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Please use (copy+paste) the following mask :) Questions are bold.
Looking forward to reading your introductions and answers! Happy meet-ing and friend-ing!
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| ... Oh I don't even-?! |
[14 Nov 2009|09:43pm] |
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Lalala, reading a nice little Inuyasha fan fic. It is not a crossover and follows Kagome in the modern era, and just so happens to mention contemporary television shows.
Please tell me, dear author, that you did not just make Kagome call the women on Desperate Housewives sluts.
Because, quite frankly, she calls people pervert all the time, but I have yet to see her sink to the level of gendered insults.
And to make things worse, you could have skipped the whole TV show exchange and the story would be the same, because all I got out of that is that Kagome thinks Heroes is better than Desperate Housewives because the titular housewives are sluts.
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| I apologize if this has been ranted about before. |
[14 Nov 2009|05:56pm] |
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Hey guys. I know Cloud is a bit of a runt. He's still kind of small when he's injected with Jenova cells, and cadet!Cloud is not the most buffed up muscular guy even in the army. It's even been stated canonically several times that he was not the most impressive guy with rippling abs, especially as a cadet.
That being said, just because he's not as muscular as supersoldiers Zack and Sephiroth does not automatically put him in the "pretty" and "delicate" category. Despite not being buffed to the max, I can't really see him with porcelein skin or delicate lips or skinny delicate arms. Believe me, even without Jenova cells, he still won't look like an undernourished pretty boy because contrary to popular belief, he still has to go through training as a cadet. He can also hold a gun. A hugeass, ridiculous gun. And can carry it through snowy mountains. Better than the Turks and almost as well as Zack. This takes muscle. Therefore, he is not as delicate as you think. So please stop using that term to describe him every. Fucking. Time.
TL;DR: If I see the word "delicate doll" to describe him one more time, I'm going to seriously scream at the computer screen. And throw something. And possibly accidentally cause a kitten to die. So please think of the kittens and stop using that term.
EDIT: To clarify myself further, yes, I do think he's very pretty and he's 50% of the reason I'm in this fandom. I think the problem comes when his beauty is overemphasized within a fanfic to the point where he might as well be a woman, and it takes over his characterization to the point where it becomes OOC. I think the main problem for me is that Cloud is often described as physically delicate, and for me a "delicate doll" implies a character that has never experienced the world and is sheltered, aside from being pretty. I've very rarely seen Sephiroth or Vincent or any other number of reasonably pretty men (read: basically 80% of FF7 depending on your tastes) being described in this way, and the word "delicate doll" within these fanfics is often associated with ridiculous emotional and physical fragility, crying, a mysterious lack of physical prowess Cloud usually has, and the like (I know Cloud is emotionally fragile, just... not in that way). Commenters who said so are right about me focusing on one thing, but that's mostly because it correlates with another thing too often. I apologize for not clarifying enough what my main problem is, and I apologize further for mistaking certain characterizations for bad writing.
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