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]

Yeah, most of my fanfic friends who write super angsty stuff use it to work out stuff IRL life. I think most people have gotten better about understanding that. Certainly as long as you warn for all the fucked up shit in the fic and put it behind a cut I don't see why anyone should bitch about what you write overall (unless it's something just horrible and innapropriate like the person who wrote a fic using the shooting/bombing in Oslo) because, hello, you're not forcing them to read it and you warned for it.

When are you leaving for Korea? How long are you going? I know it's going to be crazy with all the kids and the long flight but dude, I think it sounds fun! I mean, it will be stressful I imagine but still fun. Or maybe that's my prejudiced opinion as someone who loves traveling.

[sulkygeek.livejournal.com]

I just like stirring the turd-- it's fun for me.

We leave tomorrow morning! We'll be in Korea for 2 weeks-- we're staying with various family members. I'm a little worried because I'll see my brother, his wife and their new baby (I told you that my brother and sister-in-law were deported back to Korea, right?) But we'll see.

After that, we're going to be in LA for four days to visit with my family, then we come back.

And then in Septmeber, Jen is moving into her dorm at UCI! I'm driving her down. God save us.

[sulkygeek.livejournal.com]

and I'm really hoping the kids will sleep through most of the flight. I feel really bad for anyone who sits near us if they don't go to sleep, because oh my God, they never shut the fuck up

[dreiser.livejournal.com]

No! I didn't know that. Wow. Yeah, I can see how that might be awkward/bad with Jen and James.

Haha, I just read your comment about the kids. I always get stuck on flights with noisy/active/kick my seat kids. The powers of iPod and various technology to keep you busy work wonders on long flights for beleaguered passengers.

Is Jen an undecided major? It's so fucking sad, dude, I was taking classes at community college and now I'm thinking of transferring to get another Bachelors and then going even further. Oh god. All the money. All the studying. I can't even believe I'm considering it but I feel like I need to just because I'm not happy with my current situation over all in work and I want a new career direction and you sort of need education to do that. Plus if I don't do it now I won't have much time in said new career.

As it is, I might be looking at being done by my early forties which leaves, what? Like 20 something years of new job employment? Ugh. I hate being directionless in my career. It sucks hard.