Comments | thefourthvine: [Rant]: Professional Writers vs. The People Who Love Their Work, Round Umpty-Snout

thefourthvine

[Rant]: Professional Writers vs. The People Who Love Their Work, Round Umpty-Snout

May 09, 2010 17:25

(I realize right now fandom is rightly and deeply upset about a whole other issue. I live in the past, okay? But I know for a fact that this particular one is comin' around again, so. Also, warning: possible triggers ( Read more... )

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gweneiriol May 10 2010, 02:20:55 UTC

I agree with you 3000% on this post.

Tho, when I read this Holy Fuck My Eyes My Eyes I See the Reaper Coming for Meeeeeee I was giggling SO hard! *tries not to think of those fics as flashbacks are hell*

thefourthvine May 12 2010, 04:11:30 UTC

Yikes. I am sorry to have caused any flashbacks, because - yeah, I have a few scars of my own, there. (AIEEEE NOOOOO MUST THINK OF SOMETHING ELSE.)

Thank you!

sallymn May 10 2010, 02:27:31 UTC

so is most published fiction. (Anyone who wants to refute that has to read ten books selected by me first.) Never mind books... I'll make 'em read women's magazine short stories or those little Western/war booklets you can buy (there was an Australian writer who swore she was told she was too good for the westerns, and had to dumb down to make sales). It won't take more than a day before they're begging for mercy...

thefourthvine May 12 2010, 04:13:34 UTC

Oh, man, have you read Gun in Cheek and Son of Gun in Cheek and Six Gun in Cheek? They're compilations of the worst horrors of the pulp era, and - maaaaaaaan. They simultaneously make you laugh your ass off and claw your eyes out. It's awesome.

I particularly like Six Gun in Cheek, which is about westerns. Awesome. Seriously.

sallymn May 12 2010, 05:42:34 UTC

I think I must, I really must, thank you !!!

I collect old children's literature, the more highminded and didactic and utterly appalling the better (and the thought of the fanfic about some of that curdles the brain :)

I've always found the idea that the author knows best - or even knows what they're doing a lot of the time - extremely perplexing...

athenejen May 10 2010, 02:33:46 UTC

I do not have hearts big enough for how I feel about this post.

thefourthvine May 13 2010, 05:01:33 UTC

Awww, thank you. *beams and blushes*

mizsharmae May 10 2010, 02:34:45 UTC

\O/ You perfectly expressed pretty much exactly what I've been thinking regarding this whole situation. Brava and thank you!

thefourthvine May 13 2010, 05:02:32 UTC

Oh, thank you! I'm glad to know others were thinking it, too.

WORD! cattraine May 10 2010, 02:34:49 UTC

*claps*

Re: WORD! thefourthvine May 13 2010, 05:03:07 UTC

Thank you!