fighting on the Internet is like special Olympics, no matter who wins, you're both retarded. Hahaha!! I have to remember that line, it's so true. I seldom read slash or fanfiction (this obsession with gay sex - I find it kind of disturbing in a lot of cases, I'm not sure why), but I've noticed that too. When I first got to LJ, there were several very good writers around, but they've all stopped writing. Instead, the quality of writing has dropped to a level that's below mediocre, at least as far as the Queer as Folk slash is concerned (which is really the only slash/fanfic I'm even familiar with). One writer in particular gets on my nuts - a woman who writes one story after the other, after the other, and one is more shitty than the one before it. She writes a lot of (very bad) sex scenes and for some reason she has a following that numbers in the hundreds! Despite her lousy writing, she's won a ton of awards and basically "rules" fandom right now - she's just all over the place, either with her lousy fic or her self-glorifying posts
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If I write crap, I want to hear it, so that I can get better and learn from my mistakes, that's why I always want honest feedback and not praise where it isn't warranted. That's my point exactly. But I assume many write only to be praised, and have no interest in that little detail called quality. Worse, some, when told that what they wrote is absurd, or that sex thing they described there is far for being either sexy, or/and physically possible, etc, they reply: "Well, it's supposed to be fiction"
Instead, the quality of writing has dropped to a level that's below mediocre, at least as far as the Queer as Folk slash is concerned That's exactly what happened to Rammstein slash fanfic also, so I guess QAF field is not a singular case. And, also, such bad writers get a lot of fans, and, as well, if you give them concrit you're accused of flaming or/and being a troll
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Don't worry about the length of the reply, it's good to see i'm not the only one frustrated by this stuff.
Nope, you're not, plenty of people are, they just don't mention it or say it openly, which is a shame. I haven't yet either, but I just know I will one of these days; when I'm fed up enough I can't keep my mouth shut anyway. :D
Yes, it's true, no one says it openly. More, some even praise these writers just to make them write more crap so they would have some good laughs on them.
I'm not going to tell you, she's free to write everything she wants as i hate people doing anything wrong or badly. Because i suppose someone shouldn't do anything is he or she can't, or at least do not boast to everyone. I know, i may be not perfect myself in everything i do, but i do not claim being perfect. But i admit that i should respect their right to do what they want...and it all starts to seem too difficult to me... And i also hate people braking the rules...so, people crossing the street on red traffic lights make me furious...=)) Mr.Sheep is a brave adventurer! I enjoyed the pics and the idea:0) By the way, when Mr.Sheep was born? And where?:0)
Yes, and I'm free to speak out my opinion about the crap she writes. What bothers me is that these people expect only to be praised, and wouldn't take constructive criticism, which means not telling them "you're writing sucks", but actually showing them what doesn't work in what they wrote, in order to correct it, the next time they write.
Mr Sheep was born in Germany. Or maybe in China, because everything is made there, these days:P The one in these pics was born in 2006 or so, the current Mr Sheep was born in 2008.
you had problems with flickr??? my god, I only have very graphic stuff posted there and I had no problem with that. actually, flickr is FULL of porn pics. I thought that was what flickr was for! maybe your stuff wasn't porny enough! hahaha
I didn't really spend much time on Flickr. but I don't get what their problem is. As you said, probably those drawn cats weren't the types of pussy they'd have liked in their site :P
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Instead, the quality of writing has dropped to a level that's below mediocre, at least as far as the Queer as Folk slash is concerned That's exactly what happened to Rammstein slash fanfic also, so I guess QAF field is not a singular case. And, also, such bad writers get a lot of fans, and, as well, if you give them concrit you're accused of flaming or/and being a troll ( ... )
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Nope, you're not, plenty of people are, they just don't mention it or say it openly, which is a shame. I haven't yet either, but I just know I will one of these days; when I'm fed up enough I can't keep my mouth shut anyway. :D
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And i also hate people braking the rules...so, people crossing the street on red traffic lights make me furious...=))
Mr.Sheep is a brave adventurer! I enjoyed the pics and the idea:0)
By the way, when Mr.Sheep was born? And where?:0)
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Mr Sheep was born in Germany. Or maybe in China, because everything is made there, these days:P The one in these pics was born in 2006 or so, the current Mr Sheep was born in 2008.
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