Things that I'm enjoying today:
Passive-aggressive fandom peeps. :D
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAY
Seriously, the non-verbal agreement that you're only welcome to leave feedback if you LIKED the fanwork in question DRIVES ME NUTS. I guess not everybody can be as awesome as me, who encourage each and every one of you to come to my journal and tell me to fuck off. :D
In all seriousness I don't feel the need to tell people to fuck off just because they can't write their way out of a bag. I just wish I had the freedom of posting once in a while, 'hey, great effort but this fic did nothing for me'. I'm NOT going to do that, however. I'm not about to barge into a person's journal and take a huge dump on their comments section; and by 'huge dump' I mean, 'express my honest opinion' because you and I know that's all a honest opinion amounts to when it's not the puppies-and-rainbows comm-approved party line.
Okay, that was unnecessarily bitchy. I didn't enjoy the fic, in fact, it made me twitchy, but I guess when you read a fic that really pisses you off you have one of two options: you either ignore internet protocol which dictates that a person's site/journal is their own house where you are a guest and you ought to be polite, or you go against your best interest and spell out why the fic pissed you off so much. The second one, however, does not have a place in polite fandom society. So you're a) reduced to bitch about it to your friends, which DNW or b) post a general post on your journal, your house, blowing off steam.
I guess I have spent waayyy too much time in internet communities that didn't give a fuck - however, now that those comms seem to have lost themselves to tediousness and the backroom politicking that went against everything they were about I'm left to find my own place in the interwebz again, and boy is that hard. [/drama]
I'm not cut out to walk on eggshells all the time, I guess. I don't wish to offend but I do like to challenge, and I do want to be challenged. That's what makes it _worth_ it to connect with other people. Squee fests are fine and dandy for a moment or two but after a while they get boring. It's SO MUCH MORE INTERESTING when people have dissenting opinions and, you know, are capable of talking through them like mature human beings instead of retreading, bitching to their friends about 'haters' and 'negativity'. Boy, those people must be incredibly sheltered.
And don't get me started with the old nanny saying 'if you have nothing nice to say, don't say anything'. BITCH, PLEASE, I'm 21. I've graduated from kindergarten a loooong time ago. I guess that life lesson is useful if you want to create a world of bliss ninnies where no one is motivated to, you know, actually progress.
And because I'm tired of being a bitch (nah, not really) here's a gif of David Tennant and a kitten.
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAY
Seriously, the non-verbal agreement that you're only welcome to leave feedback if you LIKED the fanwork in question DRIVES ME NUTS. I guess not everybody can be as awesome as me, who encourage each and every one of you to come to my journal and tell me to fuck off. :D
In all seriousness I don't feel the need to tell people to fuck off just because they can't write their way out of a bag. I just wish I had the freedom of posting once in a while, 'hey, great effort but this fic did nothing for me'. I'm NOT going to do that, however. I'm not about to barge into a person's journal and take a huge dump on their comments section; and by 'huge dump' I mean, 'express my honest opinion' because you and I know that's all a honest opinion amounts to when it's not the puppies-and-rainbows comm-approved party line.
Okay, that was unnecessarily bitchy. I didn't enjoy the fic, in fact, it made me twitchy, but I guess when you read a fic that really pisses you off you have one of two options: you either ignore internet protocol which dictates that a person's site/journal is their own house where you are a guest and you ought to be polite, or you go against your best interest and spell out why the fic pissed you off so much. The second one, however, does not have a place in polite fandom society. So you're a) reduced to bitch about it to your friends, which DNW or b) post a general post on your journal, your house, blowing off steam.
I guess I have spent waayyy too much time in internet communities that didn't give a fuck - however, now that those comms seem to have lost themselves to tediousness and the backroom politicking that went against everything they were about I'm left to find my own place in the interwebz again, and boy is that hard. [/drama]
I'm not cut out to walk on eggshells all the time, I guess. I don't wish to offend but I do like to challenge, and I do want to be challenged. That's what makes it _worth_ it to connect with other people. Squee fests are fine and dandy for a moment or two but after a while they get boring. It's SO MUCH MORE INTERESTING when people have dissenting opinions and, you know, are capable of talking through them like mature human beings instead of retreading, bitching to their friends about 'haters' and 'negativity'. Boy, those people must be incredibly sheltered.
And don't get me started with the old nanny saying 'if you have nothing nice to say, don't say anything'. BITCH, PLEASE, I'm 21. I've graduated from kindergarten a loooong time ago. I guess that life lesson is useful if you want to create a world of bliss ninnies where no one is motivated to, you know, actually progress.
And because I'm tired of being a bitch (nah, not really) here's a gif of David Tennant and a kitten.