OMG this place is full of stupid.
The internet is pissing me off lately--or maybe more specifically, the people who use it (not y'all, don't worry, lol--you guys are made of awesome).
For example, whose idea was it to give brainless, bitchy little pre-teens access to fanfiction.net reviews? I'm serious. There should be an intelligence test before you can hit that handy little "Submit Review" button. When I specifically say on my profile that if you can't spell and you want to try to tell me how to write, I WILL LAUGH AT YOU, I don't think this is a sign to send me not one, but two long, mindless reviews. Seriously. I will never be able to get back the brain cells I lost while skimming them.
Look, I love constructive criticism--thrive on it, in fact, because that's how I become a better writer. Telling me that a comparison I made between Harry Potter and Sam Winchester's situations (this story is a SPN/HP crossover) is "dull and pointless and stupid and OMG OMG OMG I HATE IT...but yeah good story"....that's really not helpful, especially when I WROTE IT A YEAR AGO, where I repeatedly mentioned I had not seen the second season of SPN, and therefore that is why I would have no knowledge of how it ended. Seriously, this chick named Suzy left me an endless review on the second chapter about how retarded I was, using little to no grammar and spelling every other word wrong. In the next chapter, she then went on to tell me I had nauseated her by having Dean make an offhand observation that Ginny was pretty.
Was the problem that Dean, at 27 in the story, would have been over ten years older than Ginny (a point I could actually understand)? No, of course not. This idiot's problem was, in fact, Ginny. She spent probably TWO PAGES worth of a review on ff.net (that's a LOOOONG review) despairing about how horrible Ginny was. Here, in fact, is a direct quote: "he would never think that ginny the annying mary sue character was hot, she isn't, not even remotly, she is an annoying mary sue, i mean one moment she is just some background hp fan girl, the next sheis paired with the main character, veeryone loves her she's aparently 'fiesty' yeah right and supposidly attractive (i'm not buying it) and very powerful,and she happens to be the only book fictional character that i hate this much, it's really rather obvious why and dont't think that it's strange that i am goign on about how much i hate her it's just you did the only thing there ithat could completely ruin this story, such a little and stupid thing but i don't want to read any more of it, sorry but i don't the idea is just so damn horrfying, and i'm not kidding and sorry but it's a pity apart from saying the harry and sam thing was similar and that they could be like the same or just like each other or the same cases, saying dean thinks ginny is hot and wantts to or would sleep with her, was the only thing that's totally messed up this story, it's that horible, and i don't think that i'm the only one thinkin it."
Ok, apart from the fact that I never said Dean wanted to sleep with Ginny (o_O), seriously sweetheart, are you mentally deficient? If it bothers you that much, please DO close your browser and stop wasting time sending me idiotic feedback. I spent about five minutes laughing my ass off at this. It pisses me off, because seriously, constructive criticism is one thing, but trolling or flaming or whatever the hell this counts as? Is really kinda insulting.
Also, Ginny hate is one of my biggest HP fandom pet peeves, unless someone has a legitimate reason for not liking her. I am so sick of hearing about how how she has no pupose other than bearing Harry's kids, or how she goes from being shy to whoa having opinions about things (how awful, a girl who actualy thinks for herself), or how she's such a whore for dating half the school (aka, for having two boyfriends before Harry) and OMG she's a girl and good at Quidditch and pretty and dates Harry, that's sooooooo Mary Sue-ish! Ginny is in no way even close to being a favorite character of mine, but oh, come on. GIVE IT A REST. She was a shy little girl who grew up and learned that there was more to life than obsessing over Harry Potter. She dated two guys, and while it's mentioned she's pretty, it's not like she's the most popular girl at school. She's good at Quidditch, but hello, she's not the only girl on the team--hell, Angelina Johnson, a girl, was Captain in the fifth book!
I think the problem most fangirls have with Ginny is that she ends up with Harry. *rolls eyes* It's one thing to not like H/G because you don't think the characters work well together, but to hate it just because "OMG Ginny is teh suck!" is absolutely ridiculous.
I have the same issue with Cho haters who harp on her for being "a crybaby"--ok, so if your boyfriend died, you would be a little ray of sunshine ASAP? It would take you no time to recover? You would never express any emotion at all, maybe? Once again, the only reason half the Cho haters don't like her is because she ended up with Harry. It's really kind of pathetic. If you don't like her for a good reason, fine, whatever. At least you have functioning brain cells.
...*cough* Ok, I'm being bitchy now. Sorryyyy, these people just grate on my last nerve. I know it's not that big of a deal, and pre-pubescent little fangirls will be pre-pubescent little fangirls and you really can't blame them for being shallow littlle drama queens, but.....GRRRR. I think I'm disabling anonymous reviews. I always thought it was lame/elitist to do so, but now I understand--most flamers are anon so that you can't message them back a piece of your mind. Probably because they know they're stupid. Heh heh heh.
Phew. Yay ranting at strangers! That was actually kinda fun. =)
Hmph, onto more interesting things. I saw Wicked yesterday, and HOLY CRAP WHAT A SHOW. It was completely amazing--I laughed, I cried, I squeed. I'd been wanting to see it since freshman year and getting to watch it yesterday was pathetically a kind of dream come true. I loved it--the songs, the acting, the special effects, the costumes...it all came together perfectly. I want to be in that show so BAD. Seriously, it makes me want to be on Broadway again...if only I had enough talent to make it. I have a decent voice (my acting is stronger) but I doubt it would get me too far. *sigh* Ah well, everyone needs a silly dream, huh?
Bleh, I really should go study for math and econ--I have both those finals on Friday, and I'm worried about passing. *stresses* It's so damn hot here, like almost one hundred (that's crazy for Upstate), and the school has no A/C....me+heat+final=...well, I don't know, but it's not anything good.
Ok, ok. I'm studying! I SWEAR. *hides*