In one of my recent posts I made a reference to OOC (out of character) behavior in fic. I realize this is a personal opinion thing, but some character interpretations/behaviors just hit my berserk button, which makes me hit the back button and then find a wall to scream obscenities at ( Read more... )

I am a shipper. I am not ashamed of this and never will be you can't make me nyah nyah nyah. However I am a bizarre critter who likes a bit of plot and character development to go along with the Twu Wub Foreverz OMG ( Read more... )

Hats, silly ones, wear them, etc. I am starting this at midnight because I am doing something very stupid which I am certain we'll regret:

Free post!

Well, free so long as it's Tin Man (canon, fanon, fandom, fic) related. Um. May I gently request civility?

I am so on the ball. SILLY HATS, whoopee. *takes off adorable pom-pom'd ski cap, rummages for topics*

Tudor! No, wait, I mean... TUTOR! Or whatever his actual name is ( Read more... )

For those of you who don't know, metafandom and various wank comms that shall remain nameless are currently lousy with discussion about anonymous memes.  For reasons unknown even to myself, this has led me upon a spiderweb of link trails that eventually sent me scrolling through badly photoshopped images on fandomsecrets for about forty five minutes I'll never get back.

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( Musing on gender in Tin Man )

So I've noticed in fandom Ahamo is typically portrayed as a draft dodging hippie and up until a few minutes ago I agreed. Why I agreed I don't really know. There is really no basis for it that I can see other then his long hair and that's not really enough to go on ( Read more... )

The proper use of grammar is practically nonexistent on the internet, especially if one spends the majority of his or her time surfing on any site other than one belonging to a major news organization or an institution of higher learning.  This trend began as a decline in spelling accuracy.  That decline led to a rapid erosion of grammatical ( Read more... )

Okay, okay.  I'll start.

*ahem*

The effort required to draw DG back from the jaws of Mary Suedome is, in fact, worthwhile.

Discuss.

ETA: Okay.  So in rehabilitating Our Plucky Heroine, what area would you focus on?  Which aspect of her personality or situation do you feel got short shrift in the series and want to see developed further?