I wish to register a complaint! ...Oh, and notes on my past life as a fanfiction author. That, too.
I apologize for the real-life crap that's going to appear in this entry. I'm not much of a complainer and I try not to angst (I find angsting annoying), but I just want to get this off my chest.
When you mention something to someone you live with about what annoys you multiple times and they keep doing it, what should you do? I say this because my roommate keeps me up at night by leaving the lights on in our room so she can read despite the fact that I've said that I can't sleep unless it's pitch black. I've actually said it more than once, and she still does it, so I've offered to lend her my reading light. Every time I offer it to her, though, she declines and goes to bed; I almost wonder if I always make the offer too late.
I'm afraid to complain, though - I don't want to seem rude or anything. I have a feeling I'm being too lenient, but I'm afraid of being too firm. It's a really annoying Catch-22.
Enough of this real-life stuff, though. It's had me in a bad mood all day. Let's have fun with fictional baseball players. It turns out that right now, there are only four Oofuri fics on Fanfiction.net, and so far none of them appear to have Mary Sues involved in them. Hooray! I have had an anti-Sue agenda since I was in eighth grade, and Fanfiction.net is one of the best sources of Mary Sueism out there. Back on December 2nd, I did an experiment with the canon Eyeshield 21, a manga (and anime) series about, of all things, American football (which is catching on in Japan - you'd be surprised!). I decided to go to the front page of a canon which isn't as mainstream and looked for fics with Sues in them on the front page.
Pathetic, isn't it? If anything's ruining canon, it's Sues. If something is not in the canon, don't put it in unless it's a parody. It just doesn't work. Sues were the reason I stopped writing fanfiction - I used to be an author with a pretty good reputation in the canon I wrote for (which was actually the video game Super Smash Bros. Melee - don't ask), but I became disillusioned with fanfiction in general and I didn't really read it for a long time. I became focused on working on my original novel, Londinium, and forgot about writing and reading fanfiction for some time. I do occasionally go back and read a little bit when I become interested in a new canon, but for the most part that part of my life is behind me. That's not to say that I'm not interested in fandom anymore - I am, but I don't involve myself in it the way I used to.
A part of me feels like I grew out of fanfiction, but I know I haven't because I sometimes write non-Londinium drabbles if I get bored. I just don't publish them anymore because I feel like if I do any serious non-Londinium writing I'm wasting my time. The drabbles serve to entertain me, though - they're a bit of a guilty pleasure, I guess.
...and that turned into a bit of an introspective piece, too. Oops. I really wasn't trying to.
On that note, should I post the short drabble I wrote about Clay Buchholz beating Guitar Hero III? I wrote it when I was sitting around waiting for my oil to be changed at the Chevy dealership...if anyone's interested I'll consider putting it up.
EDIT: Yay, I finished the color test for my Spring Training picture! I decided the night before I left to return to college to draw a commemorative picture for Spring Training this year, and I selected Josh Beckett and Jonathan Papelbon as my subjects. I'm going to do a version in Photoshop, so this was just some experimentation with my markers and colored pencils so that I could select which colors to use. I'm pretty happy with these, so I'll probably do something similar to this in the final version.
Josh looks a bit pissed off about something. I seriously wonder what Jonathan said...any suggestions?
EDIT 2: Jed Lowrie and Justin Masterson were on Baseball Prospectus Radio - and they interviewed one another! Check it out here. (Major props to SoxProspects.com and David Laurila for providing the link.)
When you mention something to someone you live with about what annoys you multiple times and they keep doing it, what should you do? I say this because my roommate keeps me up at night by leaving the lights on in our room so she can read despite the fact that I've said that I can't sleep unless it's pitch black. I've actually said it more than once, and she still does it, so I've offered to lend her my reading light. Every time I offer it to her, though, she declines and goes to bed; I almost wonder if I always make the offer too late.
I'm afraid to complain, though - I don't want to seem rude or anything. I have a feeling I'm being too lenient, but I'm afraid of being too firm. It's a really annoying Catch-22.
Enough of this real-life stuff, though. It's had me in a bad mood all day. Let's have fun with fictional baseball players. It turns out that right now, there are only four Oofuri fics on Fanfiction.net, and so far none of them appear to have Mary Sues involved in them. Hooray! I have had an anti-Sue agenda since I was in eighth grade, and Fanfiction.net is one of the best sources of Mary Sueism out there. Back on December 2nd, I did an experiment with the canon Eyeshield 21, a manga (and anime) series about, of all things, American football (which is catching on in Japan - you'd be surprised!). I decided to go to the front page of a canon which isn't as mainstream and looked for fics with Sues in them on the front page.
Pathetic, isn't it? If anything's ruining canon, it's Sues. If something is not in the canon, don't put it in unless it's a parody. It just doesn't work. Sues were the reason I stopped writing fanfiction - I used to be an author with a pretty good reputation in the canon I wrote for (which was actually the video game Super Smash Bros. Melee - don't ask), but I became disillusioned with fanfiction in general and I didn't really read it for a long time. I became focused on working on my original novel, Londinium, and forgot about writing and reading fanfiction for some time. I do occasionally go back and read a little bit when I become interested in a new canon, but for the most part that part of my life is behind me. That's not to say that I'm not interested in fandom anymore - I am, but I don't involve myself in it the way I used to.
A part of me feels like I grew out of fanfiction, but I know I haven't because I sometimes write non-Londinium drabbles if I get bored. I just don't publish them anymore because I feel like if I do any serious non-Londinium writing I'm wasting my time. The drabbles serve to entertain me, though - they're a bit of a guilty pleasure, I guess.
...and that turned into a bit of an introspective piece, too. Oops. I really wasn't trying to.
On that note, should I post the short drabble I wrote about Clay Buchholz beating Guitar Hero III? I wrote it when I was sitting around waiting for my oil to be changed at the Chevy dealership...if anyone's interested I'll consider putting it up.
EDIT: Yay, I finished the color test for my Spring Training picture! I decided the night before I left to return to college to draw a commemorative picture for Spring Training this year, and I selected Josh Beckett and Jonathan Papelbon as my subjects. I'm going to do a version in Photoshop, so this was just some experimentation with my markers and colored pencils so that I could select which colors to use. I'm pretty happy with these, so I'll probably do something similar to this in the final version.
Josh looks a bit pissed off about something. I seriously wonder what Jonathan said...any suggestions?
EDIT 2: Jed Lowrie and Justin Masterson were on Baseball Prospectus Radio - and they interviewed one another! Check it out here. (Major props to SoxProspects.com and David Laurila for providing the link.)