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So I'm a huge nerd, right? I have been since birth I figure. I'm not blaming my parents. I think it was genetic, like my being a big homo. Being a huge nerd I've been ensconced in fandom for years and years. Sadly, I've written fanfic since I was sixteen and dude, my early fanfic it sucked so hard. The first one was a big enough piece of shite I've had it wiped from the interwebs.
Or so I hope.
Now that we've established my nerd xp is 100+ lets move onto my need for a rant. The same things that irritated me as a horrible baby dyke fanfic writer at sixteen still irritate me now as a slightly improved middle aged dyke fanfic writer at thirty.
1. Self entitled demands.
2. Fanfic review ransom.
The first is why I started this post. For some godforsaken reason I'm posting my All My Children fanfic on fanfiction.net. Something I might change my mind about later tonight and overall that place is pure dredge for feedback but I figured, what the fuck, how many places can you really post an All My Children slash fic anyway? I get minimal reviews and they're the usual, update soon, nice fic, and then I post a new chapter and get this.
please continue with greater frequency
For some reason my initial reaction on seeing this is pure annoyance. I immediately want to click reply and type, "No." Which is bitchy of me and in character because, you know, I'm a bitch but even with the please added in there for what I'm assuming is some measure of politeness I found it just really demanding and self entitled. I never like to get the standard update sooner pleas because I tend to be a fairly slow writer overall and the more I get those on dying projects the slower they make me write out of some perverse form of reverse psychology when it comes to me sitting my ass down in front of my various computers to type out my dinky thoughts.
The second is my biggest hate on about fanfic writers. I hate hate hate when they demand feedback or OMGIWONTFINISHTHEFIC! Stop being such babies and just write the fucking story or post saying you don't feel like finishing it. I have no aspirations or delusions of being a published writer one day. This is a hobby for me and since it's a hobby I'm writing for myself. Yeah, I like feedback and yeah, I really love constructive criticism when people tell me why I suck and how to improve such as my habit of writing flowery ass prose and having rambling long sentences. Something I try to fix but dear god, it's hard and someone needs to spank me when I write it to make me stop.
Okay, that sounds kinky.
Moving on! I like feedback too but doesn't feedback lose all its worth when you're only getting it to appease your ego? It's not genuine and it's not coming from a place of real interest on the reader's part. It's just petting your baby id and making you feel warm and fuzzy about yourself. I'm sorry, I rather get that random review pointing out my weird grammar errors than the one that says, "Itz gr8! rite more!"
End rant.
And now I feel sort of bad about being irritated about that review but I still dislike fanfiction.net. Why must I post on a place that is such a pit of dreck? I'm a fandom masochist, that's why. It's how I continue to watch a show that Ilene Chaiken produces despite its steady descent into poopy caca.
Or so I hope.
Now that we've established my nerd xp is 100+ lets move onto my need for a rant. The same things that irritated me as a horrible baby dyke fanfic writer at sixteen still irritate me now as a slightly improved middle aged dyke fanfic writer at thirty.
1. Self entitled demands.
2. Fanfic review ransom.
The first is why I started this post. For some godforsaken reason I'm posting my All My Children fanfic on fanfiction.net. Something I might change my mind about later tonight and overall that place is pure dredge for feedback but I figured, what the fuck, how many places can you really post an All My Children slash fic anyway? I get minimal reviews and they're the usual, update soon, nice fic, and then I post a new chapter and get this.
please continue with greater frequency
For some reason my initial reaction on seeing this is pure annoyance. I immediately want to click reply and type, "No." Which is bitchy of me and in character because, you know, I'm a bitch but even with the please added in there for what I'm assuming is some measure of politeness I found it just really demanding and self entitled. I never like to get the standard update sooner pleas because I tend to be a fairly slow writer overall and the more I get those on dying projects the slower they make me write out of some perverse form of reverse psychology when it comes to me sitting my ass down in front of my various computers to type out my dinky thoughts.
The second is my biggest hate on about fanfic writers. I hate hate hate when they demand feedback or OMGIWONTFINISHTHEFIC! Stop being such babies and just write the fucking story or post saying you don't feel like finishing it. I have no aspirations or delusions of being a published writer one day. This is a hobby for me and since it's a hobby I'm writing for myself. Yeah, I like feedback and yeah, I really love constructive criticism when people tell me why I suck and how to improve such as my habit of writing flowery ass prose and having rambling long sentences. Something I try to fix but dear god, it's hard and someone needs to spank me when I write it to make me stop.
Okay, that sounds kinky.
Moving on! I like feedback too but doesn't feedback lose all its worth when you're only getting it to appease your ego? It's not genuine and it's not coming from a place of real interest on the reader's part. It's just petting your baby id and making you feel warm and fuzzy about yourself. I'm sorry, I rather get that random review pointing out my weird grammar errors than the one that says, "Itz gr8! rite more!"
End rant.
And now I feel sort of bad about being irritated about that review but I still dislike fanfiction.net. Why must I post on a place that is such a pit of dreck? I'm a fandom masochist, that's why. It's how I continue to watch a show that Ilene Chaiken produces despite its steady descent into poopy caca.
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I love the Muppets. Watch their new Christmas special December 17th! It will be filled with the funny. And I sort of wanted Big Bird cooked too. They didn't have all the clips of that special but I remember Swedish Chef trying so hard on various occasions to trap Big Bird and cook him.
Interesting . . .