If you have to warn for OOC, you're doing it wrong.

Medium: Television
Fandom: The Daily Show/The Colbert Report
Subject: Jon/"Stephen"
Title: I Like You (Too Much)
Warnings: Emotional abuse

The full arc of a highly dysfunctional relationship, in two parts. In which Jon gets put through the emotional wringer, but cares too much about Stephen (and, for a time, too little about himself) to do anything but keep coming back for more.

This half is Jon's POV. The songs are numbered so that you can either listen to the two mixes separately, or throw them together in one folder and let the views alternate throughout the story.



( I've lost count of the times I'd given up on you - but you make such a beautiful wreck, you do )


Medium: Television
Fandom: The Daily Show/The Colbert Report
Subject: Jon/"Stephen"
Title: I Hate You (Don't Leave)
Warnings: Emotional abuse, angst

And this half is Stephen's POV. In which Stephen is an emotional live wire, swinging between violent anger and and desperate neediness, and unable to stop hurting Jon in the process.



( You're my perfect little punching bag, and I need you - I'm sorry )

Just so you know, telling me, "I'm a popular poster on BRPS! If you post about me you're going to get the shit flamed out of you! Waah, waah! No one ever posts about me there, I do the posting!" is not going to get you brownie points with me. I'm sorry, you're still bad. I'm sure BRPS isn't your personal army either.

Basically, this person was talking about her shiny sparkly vampire oc (of the Sookie Stackhouse fandom) and then laughing at other ocs and bragging about how she posts bios (on this LJ site) and shit all the time and omgiawd she's so pop-u-lar. She got super butthurt when another person gently told her that her profile could use some tweaking and there was always room for improvement. She then threatened to post links to our DA's/other art sites and get members of BRPS to flame us, basically..

I don't even.. wat

Hey, guys?

Stop saying that your characters want to rape my character. No, really. Stop.

If you want our characters to get it on, that’s one thing. There’s no age of consent in this world, so it doesn’t matter that he’s 14. There is, however, the fact that he is totally not mentally ready for sex. Which has been expressed, both IC and OOC, on multiple occasions. But whatever. I don’t mind anyone going “Oh, he’s so cute, he and my girl should get it on.”

But this whole rape thing? There might not be an age of consent in this world, and these people might not have a law against murder. But you’d better believe that if anyone actually raped this kid, that person would have at least five very angry, very pissed off, very powerful people extracting vengeance upon your character. Not because the pup is mine, or because it's you, but because rape doesn't fly with these people. Also: joking about rape is not funny, it’s not cute, and it’s not witty. Stop.

One thing that I constantly run into that would make mine and my rp partner's lives so much easier is if people would take the time to simply reread posts. Instead of coming to tag a scene and only rereading what I have posted to them, if only they would look even one post further back and reread their own post that I replied to. (I personally reread my own tag and the reply I've gotten every time[further back if I'm coming back to a scene the next day, etc], so I can keep up with a good, consistent flow in all of my scenes)

See what happens is people, especially if things get a wee bit tense, is they come back to a scene, read my tag, and give me a knee-jerk response. Well that helps no one if their off the cuff response directly contradicts something their character just said. What this does is a) makes their characters look stupid. b) makes their characters look shithouse rat insane. c) often leads to everyone thinking their characters are irrational, inconsistent bastards who make no sense whatsoever, and probably should be avoided in the future. d) my characters often think they're being lied to--and poorly at that.

The worst part is being made to feel like I'm the d-bag for having the decency to pay attention in the first place, and keep continuity within a single scene. So, if you, dear readers, find yourself in a position where you feel like you aren't sure what's going on, a scene's going out of control, etc--do yourself a favor and try re-reading before you reply. It might help.

The problem with phonetic accents (other than being difficult to read) is that they are all exactly the same. A Cockney accent is spelled the same way as a Southern American accent is spelled the same way as a pirate's accent. It's all very confusing.

An argument can be made for its use in written canons; if done well, differing speech patterns can help with characterisation (though it is not, in and of itself, characterisation) but in fanfic of visual and audio canons it's distracting and makes it difficult (for me, at least) to call up the character's actual voice, because I'm too busy sounding out the often-wrong phonetics.

A comment I received today on my archive post... (bold is me)

You'r a good writer. Thank you Why do you waste you'r time writing stupid and plotless sex fics? Because I like writing smut. And they're not completely plotless, thank you very much. They'r just pointless and uncharacterized pieces of trash that you probably wank to while writing. People seem to like those 'pointless' fics, and I'm sure if they were OOC someone (like my beautiful characterisation expert) would have told me so by now. Put you'r dick down Can't. Don't have one.: You could spend you'r time more productivly writing decent long fics with a proper plot and characterization. Why the capital after the colon? Is that an American English thing? And if you bothered to look at the archive post you just commented on, you'd see that I do have a plotty, chaptered WIP with absolutely no smut warnings on.

You'r spelling is atrocius though. Pot. Kettle. Black Why dpo you put so many u's and s's in you'r fics? Er... because they're necessary. Because that's the way I spell. Because I write out names like Toushirou and Jyuushirou in the long form. What do you think you are, English? Yes, actually, I am English. Fandom belongs to Americans, idiot. That's the first I heard of it.

Stop wasting you'r time with crappy Japanese cartoons and comics as well. Oh, so now you're telling me what to write. Sorry, but I'll stay in anime and manga fandoms, thank you very much. They'r all about sex, sex, tentacle rape and sex. Someone's only seen hentai or heard the Fundie arguments against Japanese entertainment. They'r boring, pointless and unAmerican. That's your opinion, pal. And if they're so 'unAmerican', why do some series' get dubbed or translated? Answer me that! I see you like Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis. So what? Write more for them and abandom the Japanese crap, and that Harry Potter trash as well. I've written a total of three stories for the Stargateverse that I've stuck on my fic journal, and I have no intention to write more. I like my current fandoms, and have no intention of leaving them right now. English writers can't do anything right. So Tolkien, Philip Pullman, Charles Dickens, Catherine Cookson, the Brontë sisters, Shakespeare, Terry Pratchett and Brian Jacques are all awful writers then? Good to know. I'll avoid them from now on. /sarcasm.

Dear you (and you and you?),

Thanks for reviewing! Honestly, the ship is big but not too big, I'm relatively unknown over at the Pit, and the kink I wrote for this particular fiction was breathplay (which is a kink avoided by a lot of people). So, you don't have an account, and left an anon message; but whatever. I don't judge you (that hard); leaving an anon message never bothered me.

But the thing is, I got three anon messages, all "16 hours ago" for the same one-shot. They read:

1) G[...]: so exciting, kakashi  was captain, it`s so interesting. don`t you want to continue?
2) Se[...]: wow, kakashi and iruka "pirate" !? that`s amazing, but no sequel?
3) Sa[...]: oh it`s so HOT, hot couple. i hope you will continue and write a sequel for this, please.

Um, unless the world is playing tricks on me, this all sounds a lot alike. Now, I appreciate your love and support and hell, I was thinking about a sequel, but I do not appreciate a troll. Nor do I appreciate wank. I do not appreciate your "gentle insistence" for a sequel because your underhanded OMG-HAWT-THX is the kind of stuff that wtf is made of. I now blame you for the delay to any further work I had planned on doing.

Dear HP fandom,

( A D/Hr shipping rant.. )

So.  To end the year, I tried a bit of drabbles.  Tried for fluff too... but I don't think I accomplished it.

100 words each.  IT KILLED ME. 
I wanted to write to my verbose content; but perhaps this gave me more discipline and made me more succinct?  NAH. Doubt it! Haha! 
In fact, I kinda cheated, because these three are read together for a complete picture. 

Here's wishing a Happy New Year to everyone!


Pairing: Kuchiki Byakuya/ Abarai Renji
Rating:  G
Spoilers: None
Summary: a day in the life...

ByaRen Drabbles

To player who is inactive. Three strikes, and you are out.

You have been very inactive for quite a few months. Lets talk about.... 3 to 4?. You post about maybe once, or even twice a month if I'm lucky. At the beginning, you were so excited, but it seems you have faded in interest. If that's true, I'm so fine with it. Sad, but fine.

You've failed the activity check without a hiatus up, I'm sorry. I've given you opportunities to have logs, I've set up things for you to play that you've little or never replied to, and every time you blow me off just a bit more. If you're gonna be disinterested... please just tell me. We can help each other, and maybe revive the spark that looks as if it has been snuffed out.

When we finally give you the boot, please do not call me a cunt. Or a bitch. Or tell me that I'm a heartless motherfucker who you hope burns in hell. Because you think I never cared about you, or your life, or your problems, or the things I've never heard about till now because we've never ventured into that sort of conversation. And that I suck for never getting you logs or helping you RP. That me kicking you is me trying to make a circle jerk between me, the co-mod, and our two friends.

I tried really hard this time to help you out, and now I feel I have the right to bash your face in with a brick.

This is why I hate being a moderator...

Edit due to grammar fail. As always

I'm astounded by the number of fail in Friday the 13th fic. I don't know why; maybe some part of my soul that hasn't been completely stripped of hope and love by various fandoms managed to survive after all. But why, WHY, is practically all Friday the 13th fic plagued by bad grammar, bad spelling, and bad Mary-Sues, or worse, all three? I know I'm a horror fan, but not even I can take this.

If you want to make Jason fall in love with your OC, can you at least account for the fact that your pretty little thing is falling in love with a deformed, retarded, and traumatized lich with serious mommy issues, a huge aversion to sex, and a pathological desire to kill and defile post-pubescents? I'm sure there's someone out there who fetishizes rotting psychopaths, and could potentially deal with the various mental and emotional discrepencies that would be present in such a relationship, but they don't act like your OC.

Dear person who mentally scarred me when I was eleven and just getting into the fanfic scene:
( Cut for gory, disturbing, and NWS content. )
The really sad thing is I think this fic got taken down, and now I'm twenty, I miss it.

Dear Harry Potter Writer,

If you don't want people to comment on your spelling and grammatical errors, then please do us all a favor and not write anything at all.

No Love at ALL,

Me

( Read more... )

 

Look, I understand Wincest is super popular in Supernatural fandom, and you may or may not know that I do write Sam/Dean and John/Dean (and even John/Dean/Sam). But Sam and Dean being in the same room twice doesn't make it incest. Nor does Sam falling asleep on Dean while they're watching tv. Given that the main character of the fic is Jess, you'd think she'd kind of freak out if she thought that little scene was incestuous, given that (at that point in the fic) she was Sam's girlfriend.

There was absolutely no thought of Wincest in my mind when I wrote that fic. Sam/Jess, yes. Dean/Jess, yes. No Sam/Dean. Not even any homosexuality at all.

If you want to read my fic and see Wincest in it, well, they're your slash goggles. But that doesn't mean I have to warn for it.

Let me get one thing straight out. Yes I know this is a personal thing, yes I know that loads of others probably feel differently, but this is fanficrants, not fanfic reasonable complaints ;-)

I've utterly and completely had to give up on Smallville crossovers.

Now I like Smallville, I even like Chloe, but...

I can no longer read Smallville crossovers with Chloe in them as the main character, which is pretty much all of them.

I probably wouldn't be half as annoyed if at least half of them had Clark in a major role, or you know, any other role than as a supporting character in Chloe's story. Or the guy too stupid to give Chloe a chance...

Why is it so hard to find a Smallville crossover that actually features the show's main character? By now if I see a crossover with Chloe's name in the pairings list, I instantly turn back.

Partly because of the over saturation of Chloe crossovers, and partly because despite 99,9999% of all Smallville crossovers featuring Chloe Sullivan, not even half of them show the actual Chloe instead of Chloe Sue, little miss perfect, instantly beloved by any and all. (the same problem I have with Xander-crossovers in Buffy-fandom)

I get wingfic is a huge kink, especially in this fandom, but angels in Supernatural? DO NOT HAVE WINGS.

At least not blatant, feathery wings. They might have metaphorical wings (Cas's wing shadows, Raphael's lightning wings) that could be something bleeding over from their true forms (and their true forms probably do have wings, as evidenced by the wing burn marks left on the ground when they die), but as they appear in canon while residing in a vessel? None. If Castiel was shedding feathers every which way, we probably would have seen it by now.

...Given I'm only on the fringe of this fandom, I'm probably going to come to find out there's a legitimate reason for why this keeps happening in fic, but it kinda aggravates me and makes me wonder where people are getting this from?

Oi. If a character is sick, pregnant, injured, or for whatever reason, is in the hospital or seeking medical advice but is still considered sane, the doctor on staff will not go behind his or her back to contact their significant other, especially in occasions where said significant other and your hospitalized character are on the outs and there is a danger of mistreatment or abuse. Nor will they spill medical secrets to their family or coworkers, no matter how close or how important a secret it might be.

See, beyond the moral issues of advising someone of another person's medical issues without their consent, yanking into the situation someone that your injured party has no expressed no desire to see and actually appears rather anxious about having to confront causes them stress. Stress on a body in these cases is typically avoided to the best of the doctor's ability. That pesky "first do no harm" rule, yes?

Similarly, and I'm no medical expert here, but I'm thinking it's probably pretty unlikely that a doctor will force a character to go home with another, just because of a concussion or illness or whatever. Seems to me that they'd keep them hospitalized until they could take care of themselves if there is no one else available.

I'm sure this trope can be pulled off with skill and finesse, but I've yet to see it happen. I know it makes it a lot easier to facilitate your romance if the injured character is given no alternative but to be forced to spend time with their partner or if the choice to own up to a medical issue is removed from them, but it's still a really bad idea and, for this ranter at least, comes across as far more creepy and non-con-esque than romantic or touching. Just think about it for a moment. What would your reaction be if that choice was taken from you?

This rant is brought to you by one too many bad fic, by the teacher rant a few posts below, and the number 7.

ETA: I'm referring here to modern day stories set primarily in the States, since I'm unfamiliar with laws and regulations in other areas. Just to clarify. :)