Fandom Pet Peeves

[dreiser]

Do you guys have them? If so, what are they?



I really dislike people referring to their "muse" at length and how it won't allow them to write their fanfic. Bullshit. You have writers block. There's no damn muse. You're not in ancient Greece, so stop acting ridiculous. It's not cute.

And since I'm fixating a lot on AMC can I just say I hate hate hate HATE when people type out Bianca's nickname of Binks as "Binx"? There's no fucking x! It's spelled in the scripts with a k! And then when they do "Kinx" for the pormanteou awesome shipper name for Bianca/Kendall which is Kinks? That drives me crazier because it makes even less sense. Mostly I hate when random x's and z's are added into words for whatever attempt at coolness or hipster or just... ugh... god, don't use the x spelling. It's horrid.

What else? Metaphor sex in fanfics! I hate that. Just describe what's going on. Don't tell me about reaching peaks and touching soft globes and caressing mounds. Breasts. Pussy or cunt. Take your pick. Type that instead. At least if you do that I'll know what the hell is going on in the sex scene. I also dislike dirty talk in most porn because it's written horribly. Also, not everyone likes to talk dirty or even talk at all during sex it seems to be used a lot along with emotional sex crying. So odd.

I can't think of anything else. I'm sure there is more stuff because I can complain a lot when I'm in the mood but it slips my mind. Mostly I'm just in a daze from how fucking awesome Captain America was. Yay, Chris Evans, yay.

Comments

[dreiser.livejournal.com]

I dunno, I can never go for metaphor sex. It's never good, imho. But I just get irritated when I only get vague descriptions of what's going on in a sex scene just because if you're going to write sex, write sex, don't elude to it in an irritating manner. Anyway.

OOC is why I don't read AU fanfic mostly. It seems like AU is an excuse to write rampant OOC because, well, it's AU so there's no such thing as OOC then.

[jailbaitjello.livejournal.com]

Bah, that's not what I consider AU at all. I mean, take No Defense for You. Definitely not canon compliant, but I don't think the characters were OOC.

...Unless AU doesn't mean what I think it means...

[dreiser.livejournal.com]

Alternate Universe. I tend to think of fics that have... like, Shizuru and Natsuki inexplicably as pirates or whatever. Things like that. It's what I consider AU not fanfics that make changes to canon because, well, then all fanfic would be AU then since it all makes changes to canon, you know?

[jailbaitjello.livejournal.com]

Not really, I mean, a continuation fic could totally be in keeping with canon... just that it's a continuation. Or a "between the scenes" fic, which just fills in a missing piece rather than make a change to canon. Or a prequel fic.

[dreiser.livejournal.com]

I think we'll have to agree to disagree on this one.

To me, anything written by a fanfic writer (continuation or prequel) cannot be canon simply because it's written by a fanfic writer. They have no idea what the original creator had in mind. They're using their own ideas. And there's pretty much no chance a fanfic writer is going to do 100% what the original creator will had in mind for their own work. People can call their works canon because they follow as close to the original work as possible but it's not the original.

I don't mind fanfics calling themselves canon, that's fine, but in my mind, if you want to be technical (and I tend to be very detail oriented) the nature of it being a fanfic makes it slightly AU just because it's not a work from the original creator. Certainly, none of femslash I've written I would consider canon, especially when it involves characters never canonically said to be gay.

Anyway. Agree to disagree. That's my two cents.

[jailbaitjello.livejournal.com]

Actually, I totally agree with you there. Fanfic writers can't write canon. The best they can go is canon-compliant, to various degrees of success, haha.