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King of your castle, baby
So, anyway, this was something that occured to me earlier today, and I'm not sure I'm even going to put it properly into words that will make sense.
I'm involved in a few communities where the point is to hold up a fic and mock it. And, inevitably, there comes a time when said communities are brought under fire because, OMG, we shouldn't mock, we should be HELPING these people who can't graps a spellcheck much less properly lay out a sentence or spell their main character's name correctly.
And I want to know: why? why do we have some sort of obligation to help them?
I seem to recall, in fact, people doing beta-duty for the likes of Maria Cline (*sniffle of nostalgia*) and their efforts being TOTALLY IGNORED by her. So, what makes these people who demand (and mock us for being OMG SO HIGH SCHOOL) think that if we did have an obligation to make them better writers that they'd improve anyway?
Not only that, but isn't it a little arrogant to demand that we help them? And I'd feel patronized if someone from a fic-mocking community wanted to help me 'make my story better'.
As a side-note, to the people who claim all we do all day is search tirelessly for bad fic just to mock it: wtf? Do you people truly believe we bother to waste time on this shit? I have much better things to do than that. But if I hit upon a fic that IS shitty, I feel no compunction to not post it.
In other news, I felt the need to make a list of the BSG pairings I've written so far:
Lee/Laura
Roslin/Adama
Kara/Lee
Kara/Six
Kara/Baltar
Dualla/Cally
Kara/Helo/Lee
Six/Tyrol
Gaeta/Baltar
Six/Baltar
Boomer/Helo
Boomer/Six/Boomer
Kara/Zak
Kara/Helo
Kara/Sam Carter
Kara/Leoben (as soon as I finish it)
...huh. It is kind of a lot. *pairing whore*
Also, I need to know if I should write a sequel to this: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2244385/1/ as someone gave me feedback that asked for more.
Hrm.
I'm involved in a few communities where the point is to hold up a fic and mock it. And, inevitably, there comes a time when said communities are brought under fire because, OMG, we shouldn't mock, we should be HELPING these people who can't graps a spellcheck much less properly lay out a sentence or spell their main character's name correctly.
And I want to know: why? why do we have some sort of obligation to help them?
I seem to recall, in fact, people doing beta-duty for the likes of Maria Cline (*sniffle of nostalgia*) and their efforts being TOTALLY IGNORED by her. So, what makes these people who demand (and mock us for being OMG SO HIGH SCHOOL) think that if we did have an obligation to make them better writers that they'd improve anyway?
Not only that, but isn't it a little arrogant to demand that we help them? And I'd feel patronized if someone from a fic-mocking community wanted to help me 'make my story better'.
As a side-note, to the people who claim all we do all day is search tirelessly for bad fic just to mock it: wtf? Do you people truly believe we bother to waste time on this shit? I have much better things to do than that. But if I hit upon a fic that IS shitty, I feel no compunction to not post it.
In other news, I felt the need to make a list of the BSG pairings I've written so far:
Lee/Laura
Roslin/Adama
Kara/Lee
Kara/Six
Kara/Baltar
Dualla/Cally
Kara/Helo/Lee
Six/Tyrol
Gaeta/Baltar
Six/Baltar
Boomer/Helo
Boomer/Six/Boomer
Kara/Zak
Kara/Helo
Kara/Sam Carter
Kara/Leoben (as soon as I finish it)
...huh. It is kind of a lot. *pairing whore*
Also, I need to know if I should write a sequel to this: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2244385/1/ as someone gave me feedback that asked for more.
Hrm.