For fuck's sake, fandomsecrets. Stop posting secret after secret of questions/statements/comments on whether Robert Downey Junior was raped in prison or not. It's getting kind of creepy.

...Yeah. I've been reading fandomsecrets again ( Read more... )

Dear mouth-breathing moron who wrote the anti-movie Spock secret in today's fandomsecrets.

It is generally considered sexist and insulting to call a man 'pussywhipped' for whatever reason.

No, seriously.

It is.

I don't care if you don't seem to think you're insulting Uhura with that comment because you find her badass. Clearly she's not badass enough to ( Read more... )

Nabbed from fandomrants, here's something for everyone tired of the Uhura bashing in the new Star Trek fandom:


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A really stupid defense for a technical critique of a storyline or literary work, any piece of literary work, is: "That's how real life works, though." If someone complains that the death scene was anticlimactic, or the pacing seemed rushed, the correct response is not: "in real life, there is no pacing." Why? Because we're not talking about real ( Read more... )

I don't believe that a writer should hate any of the characters that they write. This goes for fan fiction and regular fiction, mind you. It seeps into their writing and pollutes the image of the character until it's as though the narrative is smacking us repeatedly over the head, saying: "I, the author, find this character to be a useless waste of ( Read more... )

I love it when people call characters wimps, when the characters whose skills they're bashing can still kick their asses.

There's a stupid concept in fighting fandoms in which people decide a character's worth by their ability to kick ass in combat, and tend to write off noncombatant as useless. No matter how awesome their other skills are. I often ( Read more... )