So the fandom etiquette topics most likely to elicit massive drama in the scanlation community (and really every other) have gotta be appreciation and attribution. Attribution-crediting people's work-is pretty logical and everyone agrees it's important, and it only gets messy 'cause of the he said/she said involved when someone claims theft. ( Read more... )

Instead of going off on a tangent at the places that sparked this rant, I'll do it here. Yet another "liking Naruto makes you an idiot" post, coupled with a whole bunch of "only idiots like HP" comments on slashdot.

So, liking HP/Naruto/Bleach/Avatar (those seem to be the usual suspects) does not make a person a moron; on the contrary it shows they ( Read more... )

Posted somewhere else, but it fits here.

I saw the thing about the book today and I was like "oh, okay, cool" but I'm not so very psyched about it. Still haven't reserved a copy and honestly probably won't. I'll just go buy it where ever I happen to be. Uch, I'll have classes then. Will have to balance that with reading HP, just like I did with HBP ( Read more... )

Checked out the Eureka 7 fics at ff.net. Actually presently surprised by the fact that, judging from the summaries, most of them seem to be sort of canon compliant, in a really generic sort of way. The parody even picks up on some of the problems in the canon. Yeah, the fics kind of forget about most of the characters in the anime, and generally ( Read more... )

My lj time has gotten so low that lately I'm not sure if I'm checking my user info to see if I was friended or defriended, or which I would prefer. I don't defriend if someone doesn't drop me first, but I feel guilty when I can't check things. *shrugs* If you've been meaning to drop me, now would be a good time to do it.

It's funny, everyone was ( Read more... )

If I hear anyone besmirch the good name of teenagers by saying that any fandom trainwreck is a teenager, unless said trainwreck really is a teenager, I'm smacking them.

Listen up, once and for all:
Almost every person in fandom who a lot of us wish would just get out is in the 20+ crowd, usually in the 30+ crowd.

Just to make this clear, this ( Read more... )

I've now deleted parts of this post like 20 times.

I'm just staring at all the MsScribe stuff, and wondering why everyone is into something that seemed to happen three years ago. No holier than thou attitude or whatever nonsense from me, cause normally this is so my speed it's scary. I watch all the fandom trainwrecks, though I try to be polite ( Read more... )

Separating out cause I do wanna post this, but it really shouldn't share space with the last post.

Ok so insanely long debate on whether the birds were vindictive. I said no, (not sure why, and I sort of changed my position oh well) the other side said yes, back and forth. And I open HBP today, to look up something else, and of course canon ( Read more... )