Random Pithy Feedback Advice
I LIVE! ... kinda.
You know, it's really kind of stupid to critique/feedback people when you have fundamentally different notions of what a series is trying to do and who the characters are. It's not necessarily stupid to read fic where you know you don't agree with the author's personal sense of characterization, because they can be enjoyable nonetheless, but if you know that basically Author X and you just have a totally different conception of who, say, Snape* is and what it's logical/reasonable for him to do, there's really no point in commenting and saying you find him OOC in Fic Y. This is why I read a heck of a lot more than I feedback, unfortunately; mostly because I've found that most things that aren't out and out grammar/syntax/spelling issues are, well, simply matters of taste, and I know my own too well to assume that anyone else is really interested in adapting to them, or that they're anything but arbitrary.
Just sayin'.
Actually, come to think of it, a lot of points of grammar are also fundamentally matters of taste. A case in point: the common (over/mis)use of adverbs, and certain sentence constructs that, while widely accepted and use, are not in point of fact technically sentences at all.
In conclusion, monkey, and Dear Random Flucuations Of the Universe, please don't let my sweetie be 'transitioned out of the company'.
* And by Snape, I mean Roy Mustang.
You know, it's really kind of stupid to critique/feedback people when you have fundamentally different notions of what a series is trying to do and who the characters are. It's not necessarily stupid to read fic where you know you don't agree with the author's personal sense of characterization, because they can be enjoyable nonetheless, but if you know that basically Author X and you just have a totally different conception of who, say, Snape* is and what it's logical/reasonable for him to do, there's really no point in commenting and saying you find him OOC in Fic Y. This is why I read a heck of a lot more than I feedback, unfortunately; mostly because I've found that most things that aren't out and out grammar/syntax/spelling issues are, well, simply matters of taste, and I know my own too well to assume that anyone else is really interested in adapting to them, or that they're anything but arbitrary.
Just sayin'.
Actually, come to think of it, a lot of points of grammar are also fundamentally matters of taste. A case in point: the common (over/mis)use of adverbs, and certain sentence constructs that, while widely accepted and use, are not in point of fact technically sentences at all.
In conclusion, monkey, and Dear Random Flucuations Of the Universe, please don't let my sweetie be 'transitioned out of the company'.
* And by Snape, I mean Roy Mustang.