The Theory of Conceptual Justice
My brej, I come here today to share with you the Theory of Conceptual Justice, something I have been thinking about and developing of late. I feel my soon-to-be philosopher brej, ninja_sheep, will appreciate this theory, and may in fact have some philosophy to add to it
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Actually, it's not, entirely. It's me talking about life in general and online life in particular, without reference to any specific community/fandom as a whole. Note that I started with an example about the ideas of "femininity" and "masculinity", which I don't think you could relate back to the fandom even if you really stretched hard.
ninja_sheep's comments about Jalan were her own, not mine, and while I may agree with her philosophy on this subject, it has nothing really to do with the Theory of Conceptual Justice as I was speaking about it in my post.
DONT LIKE IT, DONT READ IT.
Oh, I don't, for the most part, which is why this post really had nothing to do with that. I don't really get how you'd automatically conclude that this post had to do with the CI fandom, especially the slash fandom in particular, but I just want to point out that it isn't really about that at all.
One point that you did make that does apply to my theory is the idea of "good writers" and whether or not I choose to get worked up about them. I choose to get riled up over bad writing because part of how I make my living and my personal course of study in life is all about teaching good writing, so bad writing makes my heart and soul ache. That's one of my personal pet peeves and to judge me by saying, "OMG, if you don't like bad writing, don't read it!" is, IMHO, conceptually unjust.
I feel like you don't even like ANYTHING on that community, except maybe Krock but since it's mostly dominated with Shacob/Jalan and the occassional Therena, it would make sense if you just stopped reading.
Well, I don't even read a good 80% (minimum) of the stuff on the community already, because I read so much bad writing in its heyday that I gave up on it. However, the fact that I don't like most of it has very little to do with my pairing and a lot to do with the fact that I don't think most people who post are very good writers. For example, I fully appreciate and recognize the fact that marrasia is a very good writer in terms of writing technique; I just don't read a lot of her writing because it is Jalan and I know Jalan makes me rage-y.
Finally, since you only "somewhat scanned this", I think making an immediate assumption on what I was posting about based on ninja_sheep's comments and a quick scan wasn't entirely fair on your part. Would you think it fair of me if I "somewhat scanned" one of your posts and then immediately jumped to conclusions about it?
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(one thing about bad writing and your comment is that instead of just aching over people who don't write well, why don't you offer constructive criticism to help them GET better? if it's what you do for a living than you could offer pointers to them on how to improve).
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First of all, most fic writers get extremely pissy over criticism of any kind, and I have found this through several years of being involved in various fic communities. "Feedback" usually = "GUSH OVER MY STORY!!1one!" and anything else gets you labelled a troll.
Second of all, do you really think that if I went into someone's story on ci_slash, especially a Jalan story, and offered writing tips, that the person would take me seriously at all? They'd just be like, "Oh, it's one of those crazy Krock people trying to diss Jalan fic!" and be an Ignoring Ignorer about it.
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