"I'm not celebrating theft, thanks."
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Amberlee - You're quite correct in the trends going either overly critical or lame duck. However, I personally find I can handle lame duck a lot better. I don't have to read the fics put out, especially if the majority is garbage. And writing in such a fandom is infinitely easier. If the majority of fics is bad, can mine be that much worse anyway? But overly critical makes it hard on writers. When a fandom falls into this trap, a writer has to have every freaking i dotted and t crossed. And nevermind the fact that you're putting canon characters in a non-canon situation, where it's impossible to predict how they'll react, you as a writer had better make damn sure they stay in character.
Which confuses the hell out of me when this kind of attitude comes from a yaoi group. HelLO? If it's not a shounen-ai/shoujo series to begin with, then anything yaoi is going to be non-canon, period. Yes, we can infer that something was going on between, say, Braska and Auron in FFX, but it's not stated explicitly in the game itself, so any stories writing them as a pair is automatically a non-canon story, period.
What truly irks me about this type of behavior is that people who complain are using their perception to determine what is right and wrong. If I were to have a PWP with Sora and Riku, and person A doesn't like it because they're just mid-teens (yeah, like teens that age aren't having sex), they say the fic is wrong, bad, etc, just because it disturbs their delicate senses. Personally, I don't like death fics. Does it make all death fics bad? Well now it depends on what your audience is, because if they're anything like the people I've encountered, it just may very well be.
As for the Mary/Gary S/tue explosion, all i can think is that it's a bunch of teens who finally got to see it on local TV. You know the type, they claim a character is theirs (i.e. soulbond, though I don't see that term too much anymore), and they're basically writing out their daydream. All well and good, but if they could be less blatant about it, or share it amongst their private circle of friends so the rest of us don't get hurt by the sheer wrongness of writing.
It's okay to daydream, I do it all the time. It's okay to wish we were perfect/sassy/beautiful/et cetera. But I wish these particular writers would broaden their horizon a bit. That, or quit reading those Harlequin romance books.
Now those... those are dangerous.
Okay, I'm rambling off. In short, Lame Duck is bad if you're a reader, Overly Critical is worse if you're a writer.
On a totally unrelated note. (I've been doing that a lot lately.) I want to know what IDIOT came up with the idea to celebrate summer holidays by having your face stuck in a pit of fire?
And I'm not celebrating today. All those saying I'm unpatriotic can kiss off. This land was stolen, thank you, as were my ancestors. When the native people of this land get it back, and the contract about 40 acres and a mule is honored, then maybe I'll celebrate it.
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