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I am so over the behaviour of 15-20 year old characters in historical settings being attributed to 'being a teenager'. From the OED, the first use of that word in English is 1913! It took several decades to become as popular as it is! Your feudal lordling, your Ancient China/Rome/Greece characters do not have that concept in the way you are using it!

Many of these characters are adults. Not very experienced adults, possibly quite reckless adults, but still adults.

(the amount of capslock ranting I have taken out of this while writing is truly remarkable. It turns out I am so annoyed by this stupidly frustrating detail that I could easily have made the entire rant in capslock)

germankitty

I have no words, so I'm saying it with icons:

Someone over at AO3 has begun posting a "readable version" of "My Immortal".

Current Mood: indescribable

quillsshadow

Shined is not a word! The word is shone!
Edit: I have been reminded that shined is a word. Its not the word most people mean, but it is a word. Thanks, pensnest

kari_izumi

Dear Every Single Person On This Reblog Chain (since OP will have hidden my post by the time I posted this):
( How are we still doing this about )

It cost $0 to close a browser and find something else to read and treat people with respect.

No love,
Me

autobotscoutriella

I realize we don't all have the exact same definitions of certain content warnings, especially when it comes to the nuances of what exactly dubcon means...

( cut for non-graphic discussion of sexual assault )

Current Mood: shaky

quillsshadow

This writer is - okay. I stopped reading their fics for a bit. I forgot why. I started (re?)reading their collection of ficlets. There was one I actually kind of liked... until I read their reply to a comment, where they came up with a backstory for it.

(Relevant info: in canon, my fave is their fave's brother.)

The backstory for their AU ficlet that I liked: the characters are all game AIs, and canon was a testing ground for how they worked. The test was successful, so the characters all had their memories wiped and were transported into a new game, given roles that were meant as the equivalent of peaceful retirements. Their fave was made the boss of a worthless dungeon (I have no idea why they chose that as his retirement, BTW). Their fave was aware that he/it was an AI, and assumed any feelings that something was missing were due to that knowledge, unaware he was missing his brother.

My fave didn't know he was an AI. My fave felt something missing and searched hard enough to accidentally repair his deleted memories, my fave travelled through the game looking for his brother, finding all his old friends/acquaintances one by one and reminding them of who they used to be, and was losing hope when he finally heard of this dungeon...

I don't think it's only favouritism that has me saying I would rather read almost any scene from my fave's journey, instead of reading about the writer's (amnesiac) fave reading a newspaper before a stranger bursts into his dungeon and hugs him while shouting his name.

Just - why bother creating a plot centred around my fave with no real role for their fave, if they're only going to focus on their fave anyway?

autobotscoutriella

Transformers fandom, I love you, I really do, and you have some fantastic fic out there. I do enjoy searching through the tags, because it's a good bet that no matter how obscure the character/ship/plot is, someone has written it somewhere.

However.

Could we please, maybe, reconsider prominently tagging fics with a character who appears in one line out of a fifty-chapter fic (which does not appear to be on track to suddenly swerve to focus on him)? I understand wanting to make sure you have all the necessary tags, I really do, but I'm pretty sure if a character is barely in the background for all of a sentence, you don't need to put his character tag in the very first row of ten rows of tags. He's a fairly minor character as it is, so I don't expect a ton of fic, but it makes me very sad when it looks like I've found a long fic focusing on him and then it's not.

archdemonblood

I know that some people find it cute when non-native English speakers mess up, and that’s fine, but I wish it was acknowleffed more that this is fanon. I can’t think of a single time in canon when he’s shown speaking anything other than perfect English. He can apparently even do a convincing American accent. So weird when people suddenly start talking about him making mistakes or not understanding something someone said in English.

kari_izumi

Hi, folks.

This is my first comm post in....gosh, I can't even remember how long. Probably well before I joined the Navy and that was before iPad was a thing.

But wow, it's sure cool to be back on an LJ-like place again...one whose culture of inclusion, and particularly that of the original FFR, I didn't appreciate nearly as much as I should have:

( Because boy, was i not only woefulli ignorant, but arrogant as fuck )

Here's what I'm coming to in all this, and I need to say it because it's been at least ten years overdue:

Thank you to all those who fought for everyone to be included in fandom.

Thank you to all those who set me and other useful idiots straight, and tried to educate us. You guys are the reason I did exactly that when I created my discourse sideblog.

Thank you for those who, when I tried justifying nasty behavior I'd received, because I didn't believe in being a hypocrite, told me I didn't deserve bashing like that over a stupid error (even one that I or one of my four betas should've picked up on before chapter 15, but...)

Thank you to the mod Theo_Harrison in particular. We had a bit of a dust-up at the FFRR once where you assumed I was being a bigot for enabling bad behavior. We eventually resolved it but it's a post I come back to and I show anytime anyone speaks over minorities (especially trans people like yourself IIRC) as an example of what not to do (ie, what I did, lol) and that we aren't done growing our minds until we're six feet under.

Thank you to every person who every single fanfic writer. Every last one of you, from the drabble writers to those who been 300k epics; from canon-compliant works to crack fics that turn characters into ducks for no reason other than the author could; from those who plot to those who writing off the cuff; for those who who wrote slash lemons in secret so that kids today can write their mlm G-rated domestic AUs in the open--and to actually have it be labeled G-rated and not bumped up for virture of being queer

And just know that if and when the Great Tumblr Migration wanders over here once that place shuts down for good and the antis try to come in here to pull the same ill informed bullshit I did, I will be here to defend every single last one of you and your right to write your stories in peace.

With all of the love,
One Grumpy Old Fandom Mom ( 😉)

taranais

Dear Pacific Rim fandom:

Hermann is GERMAN. Does his name not ring a massive german bell? HERMANN GOTTLIEB, for fuck's sake.

I can't go on reading the story when they write "the British man". I know it's a small detail, but I really get mad at it.

And not in a million years he would be up for sex in the lab, I mean, there are guts there. Guts from 100m tall monsters. Not a turn-on, especially for him. Also, he has a physical disability, please take that into consideration before making him vigorously top on top of Newton, that would be a tad uncomfortable. (although I don't think the canon took that into consideration because of those fucking ladders). And Burn Gorman himself said Hermann is uncomfortable with touching, so surprise kissing or groping are a no-no (as I think it would be for anyone).

One more thing: Newton is not muscular. Not even a little. He has a pronounced belly, not toned abs. Hermann isn't either. But of course your sexy man on man smut has to have muscular and able-bodied guys.

Just please keep characters in character. It's the least you should do.

lynnwriting69

You see, whenever I read stories, I always, always read the summary and the warnings. When I read the summary and warnings and all that jazz, I decide whether or not I want to read the story. Usually, even if I don't want to, I have to. One, because the site I go to to read stories(AO3, you guys know, you've been there or heard of it) has the summary, warnings and everything else you need to know about what you're reading is inside of the story, so you don't have to press the back button and read them. Two, because I don't want to read a story and see something I don't like when there was a clear warning about that particular thing. Sometimes I read stories with warnings in them, go down to the comments/reviews(Because I like doing so) and see someone complaining about the non-con/dub-con or incest/step-cest/pseudo-cest or the violence or whatever.

( Read more... )

Current Mood: irritated

etienneofthewestwind

So apparently you just found out one version of a fandom has decided to make a character adopted and wanted to write about another character's reaction. Fine. You decided to put a spoiler warning into your summary. Also would be fine if the alert didn't read "This is a character name devlopment. This is a spoiler." AFTER a summary that says character was not his fathers boy. And you titled the fic "Adopted".

I can't decide if you're a dumb ass who wants to spoil everyone who scrolls down that AO3 catagory or just dumb.

iceshade

"I'm claiming AU so that no one can flame if I write characters wrong"

Umm, no. That's not how it works.

femme_androgyne

Specific Anime Fandom:

I know that there's some disagreement about how to romanize certain characters' names, given that there are multiple valid spellings of them. However, what I don't get is why the hell you keep taking this one character's perfectly normal, real, 4-letter name which is pretty congruent, as is, with those of the other cast members, albeit from a different culture than most of them, and turning it into an 8-letter monstrosity that, as far as I can tell, is neither a real name nor a real word in any language that is even tangentially connected to any of the real languages or cultures the series borrows from. I wish you would stop. It would be really, really nice, in fact, if you would stop. Please.

melsheartsthings

Dear fic writers:

I know FULL WELL that Djaq is 1) what was called Saracen in the show's ~historical timeline (which is really whacked because of the show writers' less than stellar historical
accuracy but that's a rant for a different place or my own journal) but is now probably ~best called Palestinian? and 2) a woman. You DON'T need to use 'the Saracen woman' or the 'Saracen outlaw' as alternative descriptions for her. Yes, I am well of aware of instances in canon where her nationality is THE MOST interesting thing about her (i.e. how the Sheriff and Gisborne call her 'Hood's pet Saracen a handful of times) BUT among the GANG and the villagers, that would NOT be the most interesting thing about her. Nor is her gender. Please remember that the gang treated her in ninety-nine point nine respects as one of the lads. Much even says it BEST (in Season 1, Episode 10 "Peace? Off!" for those parties who are interested): "Apart from being a GIRL, Djaq's one of the LADS." He COULD have said, "Apart from bring a SARACEN, Djaq's one of the lads." BUT HE DIDN'T ! WHICH MEANS YOU SHOULDN'T MAKE HER NATIONALITY THE MOST IMPORTANT THING ABOUT HER! What you CAN do is call her BY NAME OR BY A CANON DESCRIPTION (i.e. "Hood's Pet Saracen" when the viewpoint character is Gisborne or the Sheriff) when the point of view character is someone who knows her or even of her (i.e. Daniel and the other boys in 'Child Hood', Season 2 Episode 3), and call her 'exotic' when the viewpoint character doesn't know who she is. In fact THIS (the viewpoint character doesn't (yet) know who Djaq is) IS THE ONLY TIME WHEN CALLING HER 'the SARACEN WOMAN' is probably ACTUALLY APPROPRIATE AT ALL! And for the matter of Post-S2 finale fics, where the focus is on her and Will together as a couple in the Holy Land? The one who would stand out in a crowd is NO LONGER DJAQ, it is NOW WILL! Please bear that in mind. Sure, I don't mind people being mistrustful of her AT FIRST BECAUSE SHE IS a Saracen but THAT SHOULD NOT BE THE ONE AND ONLY REASON they mistrust her. Perhaps because they don't understand her medical knowledge or something related to that? Aside from Matilda and the midwives because men just didn't deliver babies back then, it SIMPLY WASN'T DONE (cue Jack and Gus from Disney's Cinderella dancing around and singing 'It simply isn't done, it simply isn't done' at this point), I believe the healing arts at this time in Europe (and for ages and ages afterwards) was mainly a male-dominated 'career' track? So They would, naturally, wonder how a WOMAN knows as much as she does about healing and medicine.

FUCK THE 'Djaq's most important character point is that she is a Saracen and from the Holy Land!' Thing! Just FUCK IT!

Sick of 'the MOST INTERESTING/IMPORTANT THING ABOUT DJAQ IS THAT SHE IS A SARACEN' in fandom,
A pissed off reader/writer,
Mels

Current Mood: pissed off

femme_androgyne

I've seen this several times lately, which is why I have to rail on it a bit now, but it really isn't aimed at any one fandom or author, as I'm sure most of us can testify.

Yes, I realize that not everything a character says is indicative of the writer's feelings. I'd go so far as to say that most things they say aren't. However, when you randomly have a character ranting about something that's almost completely removed from their daily existence but far more present in yours*, it does kind of seem like you're putting your thoughts in their mouths. Also, derailing the story. I know it's usually pretty petty and not a hugely offensive or anything, but it's still annoying.

*I remember a Fullmetal Alchemist fic I once read, for example, where Edward Elric starts in on romance novel tropes for no adequately explained reason.

subluxate

If you refer to a character as "the black agent" when NO ONE ELSE has been referred to by an epithet, I'm going to back the fuck away immediately.

dhae_knight_1

I don't care how magical or shape-shifter'y og whatever your tigers are, tiger's don't purr. That's all.

subluxate

When there are typos in your author's notes, chapter title, and link to the fic (which is the first line or two of said fic), my hopes for the actual fic are going to be pretty damn low.

(Edited to add a word.)

pennie_dreadful

This happened a while ago, but it's been on my mind, and I'm still pissed off enough that I figured I needed to post about it and get it off my chest.

You know what's a real assholish thing to do? Write a bunch of (20+) Harry Potter drabbles, about half of which are crossovers with various other fandoms, post the lot as one big mulitchapter WIP on AO3, tag them with every single fandom you used, and spam those fandoms every time you update. Seriously. Not cool. I would be totally okay with just having the one (not even all that short) crossover posted by itself in the fandom I am most active in.

While I'm at it, let me mention that out of morbid curiosity I actually read most of those drabbles, even though my interest in Harry Potter is nonexistant, and holy goddamn motherfucking shit. Trigger warnings. Use them. I read fics with rape, child abuse/child prostitution, and father/son incest, just to name the more common triggers, and not a single one got a warning. The deathfic, however, that got a warning.

Thankfully a...tactful note got the author to remove all the other fandoms from the tags list, but the very fact that it happened still pisses me off. Not everybody likes or gives a shit about Harry Potter, and especially in a small fandom that doesn't get updates very frequently, no one wants to get their OMG new fic! hopes up only to have them immediately dashed on the rocks of WTF, this shit again?

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Ahistorical nitpick

Things the World Doesn't Need #2764

Announcement

Are you kidding me with this?

Hey look, a tags/warnings rant

My Fave is not Your Fave, but do you have to be so blatant about it?

A teeny tiny pet peeve

Gellert Grindelwald Speaks English

An Open Letter to Fandom

Rant

The summary and warnings exist. Read them.

Spoiler alert fail

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And I Love Him so Much Too

A wee Robin Hood BBC rant Re: Racism, 12th century style

Wherein characters are not mouthpieces

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Tigers don't purr

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