1. If you wish to make an argument and also would to preface with a disclaimer that you are not talking about x, or that you understand y ( Read more... )

I hoped it would continue and it did! I almost fell over laughing. http://community.livejournal.com/fanficrants/9822564.html?thread=310456164#t310456164

I saw this post come up this morning. I thought: "OK, it's not horribly bad; it looks like the OP, after some comments, could see why this is offensive and maybe it'll be okay!" This is the text of the OP's post, in case it gets taken down.

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I was looking through fanficrants , because it's interesting and I like fandom (fell out of it awhile ago, but still enjoy reading the occasional fic) and then I come across this post.

It's going to be a lengthy post, because I think I need to refute several points, and while zie is undoubtedly a troll, I'm really, really angry about this. (In the end, I ( Read more... )

I'm goggling at the wank that's being rehashed over at ffrantsrants (the place to rant about fanficrants ) and oh my God, I can't believe they're back again. There's simply no words to describe it. Holy cow, I thought they'd left for good--apparently not.

fandom_wank has a good round up, and so does sf_drama  (sorry, no link). I can't believe it. Here's one of the first posts in ( Read more... )

18 is not a magical number.

My legal studies teacher joked (with a dead-straight face, too) that the morning that we turned eighteen, a light bulb would go off in our heads and we'd know everything. Judging from how things are set up in Canada and the US, apparently eighteen is the year in which all the worldly knowledge that's missing in children ( Read more... )

Heh heh. Um.

While some people may not be exactly up on their history (I point you to a giggle-worthy fanficrants  post, where the OP ran across someone writing a Tudor character texting on a cellphone [and it wasn't crackfic, apparently]) let me tell you, there are some people who are.

For instance, though 9/11 was nearly ten years ago,  jokes about it are in ( Read more... )

Ew, this post. Not sure how the OP's going to react to my comment, but here is my rantier take.

Whenever anyone says anything about aliens, I get twitchy, because the idea of "alien" means--well--"alien". Unknown, maybe frighteningly so, out of our depth, perhaps unimaginably different, shocking, repulsive maybe, just downright strange.

The reason ( Read more... )

If you think you know something (that is unfortunately wrong) you're not going to go research it. Truly. If you think that loam is a gritty sort of sand, you're not going to look it up! You are under the (mistaken) impression you're right, so you just add the word in where silt might be better.

Some of these facts are not well known. Would someone ( Read more... )

I have slowly been making my way through Racefail 09, of last year. And it is disgusting that I find on fanficrants the same arguments, the same excuses and "I'M NOT RACIST STOP PICKING ON ME" attitudes that were hashed and rehashed last year brought up all over again.

Here is one statement that I found enlightening. "There ARE no races [swear] (at least that ( Read more... )