"I don't usually read long fan fics"

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And then I read this, which helped my mood a teensy bit. Especially their third point.

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I really love when someone is a bad communicator, but the problem is not really that they’re a bad writer and didn’t make their point clear but actually that I’m just too stupid to understand their vague writing . Yeah, I got into what I will politely describe as a “discussion” over on a fandom board where I got my ass handed to me because the ( Read more... )

So I really shouldn’t give a rat’s ass about this, because it’s the comics and not the movies, and I haven’t really been following the comics. Except that wow, this is a BAD IDEA.

The news hit the web yesterday that in the new reboot of the comic, it will be revealed that Captain America has been an agent of Hydra all along. alphafemale1 posted “Screw you ( Read more... )

I was surfing around on Tumblr and reading a couple of people who interest me (but who post way too much stuff for me to want to follow them) and I stumbled across a link to what is probably the most ridiculous fanwork I’ve ever seen ( Read more... )

OMG, over on Tumblr a freelance editor shared one of their worst horror stories from editing erotic fiction. It’s bad vampire fiction. And whoa, is it bad. So bad I needed to save it here for when I need a reminder that my own writing doesn’t suck. Er, sorry bout that. I didn’t see that pun ‘till it was too late to stop it ( Read more... )

Via Marion over on Facebook, an interesting discussion of canon and fandom:

…the point I want to make is: when you (as creator/producer) don’t understand what it is your own fans see in your product, you’re liable to wind up creating (for yourself and your fans) a tremendous amount of heartache ( Read more... )

So, my new obsession is Killjoys, which aired as a 10 episode summer season here in the SciFi channel (I refuse to acknowledge their ridiculous new spelling…). The premise is pretty much “intergalactic bounty hunters” with various family issues thrown in. Our heroes’ job title is “Killjoy” and they work for the RAC (Recovery and Apprehension ( Read more... )

So my new fandom is new. Like brand spanking new. Ten weeks old new. And there are already 33 fanfics for it over on A03 ( Read more... )

One of my friends posted a photo over on Facebook about the "Heroes of Cosplay." Maybe you've seen it. The top of the image is three sexy women in various costumes, the bottom of the image is four male super heroes (and one female fairy) visiting kids in hospitals. The implication being that the women are vain and superficial, and that the men ( Read more... )