If you want to know something that really sets me off, it's fanfiction communities.  More specifically, fanfiction communities where people rant about how bad other fanfiction writers are writing.  I'm thinking of a specific community here.  In theory it's a good idea to have a community like this, because you are going to come across some bad ( Read more... )

So I'm doing a bad job of staying away from this one particular fanfiction community because I have this crazy idea that maybe someday all the rants will be about genuine problems and not "I didn't like what you wrote and you're a bad writer!"  It's too much to hope for, but I'm sometimes ridiculously optimistic.  This brings me to the newest thing ( Read more... )

Okay, I have really, really had it with this one particular fanfiction community.  Every once in a while you come across a new rant that is well thought out and not all about "Yay, let's bash everyone that isn't me!"  More often than not, you come across the same old same old and any good point you may have made flies out the window because you ( Read more... )

Okay, so I was reading stuff on a LiveJournal community (will not say which one because it's big and popular and everyone would chase after me with knives and other sharp things if they knew I was ranting about them) that made me want to punch my fist through a wall ( Read more... )

I was checking the NaNo forums today (which is not new, I do that every day) and I came across the answer about fanfiction someone else had been screaming about in their own journal. Basically, person had been saying that they are against NaNoWriMo because they felt like the mods aren't doing anything for fanfiction writers ( Read more... )