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Jan 20, 2013, 5:10:39 PM1/20/13
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I wouldn't say it's great, but there's MSNBC commentator Krystal Ball. And yes, that's the name her parents gave her.
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I went to shcool with a girl called Teresa Green.

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I went to shcool with a girl called Teresa Green.
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SA And obviously learned no spelling while I was there.

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It's because they treat it as people writing fic and fapping to the actors' image.
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Which is unfortunately how a lot of writers treat it, too.

"Who cares if my Tony Stark bears any resemblance to the one in canon? RDJ is hot and I like woobies!"

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I honestly don't know but it surely doesn't sound like a healthy behavior. When I participate in fandom, I do it to be happy not to become miserable like these people. They care too much about bunch of guys they probably will never meet. I do wonder what will happen when the show finally is over and most of the fandom moves on.

All the ugliness really came out during the PCA weekend.
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SPN is the only fandom I've ever heard about/engaged in where I was actually worried about the lives of some of the actors. I mean, anyone can have a crazy stalker, but it seems like a shared mania or something, and the odds of someone doing something awful just seem so much higher.

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Nono, you mistake me, writing about actors' roles are more like RPF. So Avengers fandom would be an RPF fandom.

I don't care about RPF one way or another, it's just weird where different people draw the line.
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"Nono, you mistake me, writing about actors' roles are more like RPF. So Avengers fandom would be an RPF fandom."

Mind = blown.

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Holy shit, anon, that was really well-written.
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+1

/severely, chronically depressed and anxious

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What's that one from?
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A Jeeves/Wooster fic, Bertie POV. I can't access the bookmark right now, but I can link it next post if you want?

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Can I join you in your disgust with J2 tinhats? Jesus Christ on a cracker I seriously don't want to believe that these people are not trolling. How do they even survive in real life?
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Yeah, the whole: well, even if they're not now, Jensen and Jared were totally in a relationship at some point in their lives! It's obvious! is annoying and I also am still annoyed with an anon here who insisted this, with part of the proof being that Jensen is bisexual. When pressed, said proof dwindled down to: well, everybody's a little bit bisexual, so there!

The best is when you're just casually talking about the show somewhere that's not a place you'd think to find them, so you're not prepared for sudden!tinhat.

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"Mitchell twins" for boobs.
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OH DEAR GOD WHAT

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"Oh I can't do that.", She said and put her arms around the brunette's perky waste.
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"Come on let's eat Grandpa." the taller brother expressed in a happy manner.

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Which is unfortunately how a lot of writers treat it, too.


"Who cares if my Tony Stark bears any resemblance to the one in canon? RDJ is hot and I like woobies!"
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To be fair. RDJ keeps acting like Tony Stark and vice versa.

There's a great RPF fic where RDJ has a break with reality and thinks he's Sherlock Holmes, but I think Tony Stark is more likely. *imagines RDJ trying to build a suit and failing and burning his hair off in the attempt*

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"drug" instead of "dragged" (weren't sardonicsmiley's fics full of that?) and "was sat" instead of "sat" (or "sat down" or maaaaybe "was seated"), ugh.
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Ah, I wasn't in that fandom - Star Gate something, right? Sounds like it would have been aggravating, though.

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SPN is the only fandom I've ever heard about/engaged in where I was actually worried about the lives of some of the actors. I mean, anyone can have a crazy stalker, but it seems like a shared mania or something, and the odds of someone doing something awful just seem so much higher.
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Yeah. If I were them, I'd be afraid to go outside without an bodyguard. Chances are that someone already had stalked these guys into their homes.

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OP: omg me too, you're totally right about them. <3
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<3 back to you, OP. :)

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I honestly don't know but it surely doesn't sound like a healthy behavior. When I participate in fandom, I do it to be happy not to become miserable like these people. They care too much about bunch of guys they probably will never meet. I do wonder what will happen when the show finally is over and most of the fandom moves on.

All the ugliness really came out during the PCA weekend.
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I almost hope the show doesn't come back for a ninth season, in part because I think it'd be healthier for everybody involved.

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Yeah, the whole: well, even if they're not now, Jensen and Jared were totally in a relationship at some point in their lives! It's obvious! is annoying and I also am still annoyed with an anon here who insisted this, with part of the proof being that Jensen is bisexual. When pressed, said proof dwindled down to: well, everybody's a little bit bisexual, so there!

The best is when you're just casually talking about the show somewhere that's not a place you'd think to find them, so you're not prepared for sudden!tinhat.
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Please, it's an obvious proof lol. It always comes down to this, it's their lives and they are free to do every little shit they want to do.

*shudders* it's scary.

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Presumably this is (one of?) the reasons AO3 has options to automatically hide/show additional tags.
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Yeah, knowing the details of the sex doesn't spoil me, but I'd still prefer to be surprised rather than to know exactly what's going to happen up front, so I usually hide tags.

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I almost hope the show doesn't come back for a ninth season, in part because I think it'd be healthier for everybody involved.
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Honestly yes. It'd better for everyone if Js moved on to another shows. Though question is would it stop them?

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"drug" instead of "dragged" (weren't sardonicsmiley's fics full of that?) and "was sat" instead of "sat" (or "sat down" or maaaaybe "was seated"), ugh.
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"Was sat" and "was stood" is a British English thing.

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Brought to you by my disgust with toxic J2 tinhats, homophobic anti-Wincesters, fans who wish for/delight in the death of (yet some more) women in canon, and Ship-warriors of every stripe:

Who are you appalled and/or ashamed to share a fandom with, nonnies?
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A person who's spreading their SJWism and trying to police one of the small fandoms I'm in. No, sorry, anyone who is able to watch even one episode of this show doesn't need a trigger warning for slurs, and people don't need to use your approved special tags just because you don't want to scroll through unrelated things that share the other ones. Also, I love this other ship, too, but I'm starting to hope they don't get a sex scene, just to piss you off. This show has yet to shy away from gay sex, it doesn't "need" to prove anything.

DA:O stans who have to go into every DA2 thread just to tl;dr about how much it sucks. We get it, you hate it! That's fine, just leave us alone.

Whoever thought it was a great idea to reboot Lara Croft as a vulnerable victim who needs the ~big, strong male~ behind the game-paddle to "help" and "protect" her deserves a special fuck you. I didn't mind so much when it happened to Aya, because there was an in-game reason, but this is now two strong female characters you've rebooted like this, SE, and it's getting a little squicky.

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If it's not just going to be cocks and dicks, would you rather it be red-hot rods or glistening towers? Tell us all!
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I have an abiding fondness for an old Silmarillion fanfic, Thingol/Maedhros, which refers to Maedhros's fire (cue various assorted metaphors on that theme), his jewels, Thingol's scepter, his sword, the King's Ire, the Door of Night, the Gate of Morning, the Encircling Sea...

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I went to shcool with a girl called Teresa Green.
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Maybe I'm extra thick today but I don't get the joke.:/

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Honestly yes. It'd better for everyone if Js moved on to another shows. Though question is would it stop them?
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I think it would slow them down, at least. I doubt it would stop the die-hards, but it couldn't hurt, I think? Especially if they got distracted by new fandoms.

They really are scary.

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Maybe I'm extra thick today but I don't get the joke.:/
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Trees are green. ;)

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I was a baseball fan for years and I mentally collected great names. Among my favorites were Atlee Hammaker (whose first name was Charlton) and Geronimo Berroa (sounds like poetry). I also saw, in person, the holder of one of the generally acknowledged best names in baseball history, Wonderful Terrific Mons III (who went by Wonder Mons).
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I am quite short, so way back when I followed basketball, my two favorite players were Spud Webb (5'7") and Muggsy Bogues (5'3".) Their delightful names were a bonus.

On the subject of cool-named athletes, everything about Satchel Paige exudes classic cool. If you've never heard of him, he was the first player from the Negro Leagues to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, and was also famous for memorable quotes:

http://www.satchelpaige.com/quote2.html

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Please, it's an obvious proof lol. It always comes down to this, it's their lives and they are free to do every little shit they want to do.

*shudders* it's scary.
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Relatedly, I have very mixed feelings about RPF, so the tinhats don't help me feel more comfortable with it or anything.

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"Oh I can't do that.", She said and put her arms around the brunette's perky waste.
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Genim moved closed to he's secret crush starring to the Alfas saphireblue eyes he got on his tows trying to reach the taller boys lips but Der didn't see him because know body ever saws Styles.

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Yeah, the whole: well, even if they're not now, Jensen and Jared were totally in a relationship at some point in their lives! It's obvious! is annoying and I also am still annoyed with an anon here who insisted this, with part of the proof being that Jensen is bisexual. When pressed, said proof dwindled down to: well, everybody's a little bit bisexual, so there!

The best is when you're just casually talking about the show somewhere that's not a place you'd think to find them, so you're not prepared for sudden!tinhat.
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an anon here who insisted this, with part of the proof being that Jensen is bisexual. When pressed, said proof dwindled down to: well, everybody's a little bit bisexual, so there!

I'm a totally different nonnie (I missed the whole "Jensen is bisexual" discussion), and I don't have *proof*, but I do have a former classmate who does behind-the-scenes stage theater and worked on the production of A few good men Jensen Ackles was in, and former classmate has a few good ~anecdotes about said production, and the cast members in it.

Just sayin'.

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Everybody else in the Simpson family tree has brown or blue hair, going back at least as far as both sets of grandparents, so how did Bart, Maggie and Lisa all end up being blond?
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They're blondes? I thought their hair was... skin colored?

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I think it would slow them down, at least. I doubt it would stop the die-hards, but it couldn't hurt, I think? Especially if they got distracted by new fandoms.

They really are scary.
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I guess so. Die-hards would do everything that they are together in that situation. The nice part in me feels sorry for the new fandoms though.

Wonder if it was the same for LOTR tinhats. I keep hearing about them.

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I think it would slow them down, at least. I doubt it would stop the die-hards, but it couldn't hurt, I think? Especially if they got distracted by new fandoms.

They really are scary.
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Yeah the true believers will keep at it but after the show ends, spn_gossip would eventually run out of steam.

tbh I'm more concerned about their wives. The tinhats hate them so viciously.

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All of the other CLAMP fans.

Yes, ALL of them.
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but... but... what did I do? :(

No joking asides, what's the grief exactly? I'm curious.

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Relatedly, I have very mixed feelings about RPF, so the tinhats don't help me feel more comfortable with it or anything.
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I'm fine with RPF as long as it's AU as I feel like people are just writing their own characters with using names and a few known traits. but it seriously feels wrong when it goes into tinhat territory.

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"Was sat" and "was stood" is a British English thing.
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Didn't we have this discussion before, saying that although it was more common in British English spoken usage, when written it could be considered a class marker/was seen as incorrect even in UK English?

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I'm fine with RPF as long as it's AU as I feel like people are just writing their own characters with using names and a few known traits. but it seriously feels wrong when it goes into tinhat territory.
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Yeah, that's where I run into trouble, too.

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Honestly, I want to see the fallout from canonically bi Stiles in a canonical relationship with a guy that isn't Derek.

But yes to everything you said.
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I might start watching Teen Wolf if that happened.

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I just stumbled across this today:
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It's true, there's a note at the end of each work about where the fic comes from, but still, this seems sketchy. Have people run across this before? Is it actually forbidden by AO3? I skimmed the terms of service, but all I could find was that you should avoid plagiarism by "properly attributing" other people's work.
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I know this post is dead and gone, but I thought I'd note here that I just refreshed the page and the stories are all gone, whether by sharingiscaring's hand or the AO3 mods, I don't know.


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To be fair. RDJ keeps acting like Tony Stark and vice versa.

There's a great RPF fic where RDJ has a break with reality and thinks he's Sherlock Holmes, but I think Tony Stark is more likely. *imagines RDJ trying to build a suit and failing and burning his hair off in the attempt*
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ayrt You make a compelling case that that wasn't the best example. :D

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Huh, so you're saying a MCU fic about Tony Stark would be RPF to you, if it described him looking like RDJ?

Where exactly is this part of the internet where this is RPF fic, I wanna know?! O_O
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DA

In Japanese fannish spaces. (By which I mean fans from Japan, not people who are fans of Japanese stuff.)

The three types of fic/art most likely to be hidden on secret sites where you have to answer a riddle to get access are live-action sources, RPF (in the English-language fandom sense of the word), and explicit material.

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Wasn't there something that could be done by the site admins via an abuse report? That seriously sucks and I would be hopping mad.
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Hi - just stopping in to let you know that the Abuse committee of the OTW just deleted all the illegally posted works and suspended the user.

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NA: I refuse to use the "underage" tag on AO3 until they change it to "under 18" as has apparently been in the cards. It seems to me that it would give a misleading impression of a fade-to-black fic implying two 17-year olds or a 17-year-old boy and an 18-year-old girl are going to get it on. It's not underage for the canon's country of origin, nor for where the canon is set, nor for the writer's country of origin and residence. I use "Choose Not To Warn" instead (the pairing names and the summary plus author's notes will still give readers enough information to judge).
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I never use the underage warning because a lot of people assume it means adult/minor. My fics usually are about people of the same age. If I think it's relevant I might put a "teenagers" tag on it, but usually only for fics where the characters are canonically not teens and this is a teen AU.

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ayrt You make a compelling case that that wasn't the best example. :D
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I hope she's going to file an abuse report too. What sharingiscaring has done is not OK.

And if sharing is supposedly caring, why only do this to one author? (It is only one author this has been done to, right? I didn't want to click on all the stories and give them hits.)
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FYI - Abuse got a shitload of complaints on this, and as of right now all the stories posted by SharingisCaring are down.

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The BBC Sherlock vs SHINee Sherlock tag war will always have a special place in my heart because I was in both and wow, all the awards for fandoms least likely to crossover and yet there we were.

I think it's part of what's feeding into the smushname/pairing name culture. Although sometimes I read posts and wonder if they just spelled a character's name wrong.
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BBC Sherlock fandom seems convinced that they own all rights to the name Sherlock (as well as other variations and anything related to Sherlock Holmes).

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Agreed that this is weird and sketchy and that the person shouldn't have done it, but I don't want to be too harsh on them. It doesn't look malicious to me, just like it didn't occur to them that this would be a bad idea. Hopefully when/if someone suggests that it is, they will take the stuff down.
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Maybe not malicious at first, but in one case an author specificially asked that their work be removed (I read the comment). Apparently nothing was done, and now I see all the works have been deleted. So, yay!

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an anon here who insisted this, with part of the proof being that Jensen is bisexual. When pressed, said proof dwindled down to: well, everybody's a little bit bisexual, so there!


I'm a totally different nonnie (I missed the whole "Jensen is bisexual" discussion), and I don't have *proof*, but I do have a former classmate who does behind-the-scenes stage theater and worked on the production of A few good men Jensen Ackles was in, and former classmate has a few good ~anecdotes about said production, and the cast members in it.

Just sayin'.
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Who were the cast members? What kind of anecdotes?

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The diagnostician sobbed helplessly in the intensivists' arms, the endocrinologist and the oncologist had mistreated him badly, the wombat and the endocrinologist's daughter were the only one who really understood how sensitive he truly was and what a great father he would be.
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WHAT?

How dare you imply that Saint Gregory might not be the most sensitive, sane, and awesomest parent ever? Or that Wilson and Cuddy aren't big meanie-faced meanies who caused all his problems with their cold, callous meanie-ness? You obviously are not paying ANY attention to canon.

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Somebody replied to a comment left by sunnycamehome2u (sunnycamehome2u) in a LiveJournal post. The comment they replied to was:
Mods do not, will not, and probably cannot verify anything about anyone who posts here. The limited use of IP is to deal with embeds and trolling- ie, making it easier to "kink shame the poop troll".

Even if we were to try to verify something, what would that tell you? No one knows who is behind an IP. No one knows what IP is what. I post from my house, my office, and my phone. That's 3 IPs for me alone.

Each anon should use their own judgement about the veracity of conversation, and remember that on an anon meme, no one knows you are actually an intelligent hedgehog who types very carefully on a mobile.

Or was that a Sherlock fic? Anyway, we aren't going to do or share anything with IP addresses.
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Not to mention that there are a couple nonnies with matching IPs: roommates, college students, that sort of thing. If you guys were always paying attention to IPs you'd probably conclude some of us were massively bipolar.


(Somewhere, an SJW screams.)

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That is easily the worst House fanfic I've ever read.
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nayrt (though I wish I was; this was a thing of horrible splendor)

If this is the worst House-fic you've seen, you may not have read much House-fic.

The fandom has produced some outstanding stuff, but when it's bad, it is very, very bad.

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Benedict Cumberbatch is fairly epic, but it's not the only great name around in RL. What are your favorites?
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Dick Pound.

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an anon here who insisted this, with part of the proof being that Jensen is bisexual. When pressed, said proof dwindled down to: well, everybody's a little bit bisexual, so there!


I'm a totally different nonnie (I missed the whole "Jensen is bisexual" discussion), and I don't have *proof*, but I do have a former classmate who does behind-the-scenes stage theater and worked on the production of A few good men Jensen Ackles was in, and former classmate has a few good ~anecdotes about said production, and the cast members in it.

Just sayin'.
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ayrt

I'd be curious to hear. I just looked it up and his girlfriend, now wife, attended every performance, so it would imply he didn't have a ton of time to do much, since she'd be staying with him while in Fort Worth for the five day run of the show, at least.

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I privately wonder how many people claiming concentration/depression problems or on meds suffer from self-discipline problems as the root of everything. A lot of the advice I see seems to be: set yourself a routine, have small goals, and build up from there. That just sounds like a need for self-discipline to me.
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I feel like this other comment, while not addressed directly at this comment, still addresses a lot of what's wrong about it.

http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/48090.html?thread=221254362#t221254362

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Titus Bramble. He is (was?) an English footballer in a not-so-famous team. I loved how the commentators would always use just surnames for most players but always his full name. It was the same with Ruel Fox. One name won't do!
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There's a triathlete named Hunter Kemper who also always gets the full name in commentary. Everyone else, just the surname, but Hunter Kemper is ALWAYS Hunter Kemper.

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Genim moved closed to he's secret crush starring to the Alfas saphireblue eyes he got on his tows trying to reach the taller boys lips but Der didn't see him because know body ever saws Styles.
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Eurgh, fanon name!

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"Oh I can't do that.", She said and put her arms around the brunette's perky waste.
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He suckled like a new-born calf seeking life-giving nourishment.

And I didn't even have to make that up, that's verbatim from a blowjob scene in a fic I read today. Ew.

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I've only seen Patrick Stewart in Star Trek.
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I've just been watching the film version of the RSC production of Hamlet, in which Stewart played Claudius/Ghost along with David Tennant as Hamlet. He's great.

http://video.pbs.org/video/1473795626

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Flatmemer here: This thread clashes so well with the "Re: My amazing social/grown up life - let me shove it in your face" thread.
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Err, what?

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ayrt

Relatedly, I have very mixed feelings about RPF, so the tinhats don't help me feel more comfortable with it or anything.
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The thing is, tinhats are not a subset of rpf fans. Tinhats and rpf fans are two groups that can overlap. I don't know about the J2 tinhats (and I know that in the One Direction fandom, for example, the tinhats do seem to be mostly rpf fans as well), but back in the LotRiPS days, the majority of Domlijah tinhatters were anti-rpf.


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Huh, I was reading this and thought, hmm, my last contribution to AMA totally fits this pattern. But I'm not MLnonnie, I swear.
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For an AMA it actually makes sense. That's kind of the structure by definition: you present your one to sentence of experience, and elaborate as people ask questions. I had the same thought about my thing I wouldn't admit unanon though. I wonder if anyone thinks I'm a troll.

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They're blondes? I thought their hair was... skin colored?
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There's a great meta moment in one episode where the panic because they can't figure out where their heads end and their hair begins.

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Didn't we have this discussion before, saying that although it was more common in British English spoken usage, when written it could be considered a class marker/was seen as incorrect even in UK English?
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sa

I looked up the old post and I was wrong: originally regional (Northern English) not class, now widespread.

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The thing is, tinhats are not a subset of rpf fans. Tinhats and rpf fans are two groups that can overlap. I don't know about the J2 tinhats (and I know that in the One Direction fandom, for example, the tinhats do seem to be mostly rpf fans as well), but back in the LotRiPS days, the majority of Domlijah tinhatters were anti-rpf.

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Totally anecdotal, I know, but whenever I've discovered someone is a J2 tinhat, I've also discovered they write J2 fic.

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1. That's fair enough, but I do - the relationship my OTPs have isn't realistic, I know that, and I don't expect it to be. It's a romantic fantasy. Suggesting that they ever might not want each other breaks that fantasy.

2. Yes, I am aware of that, and that's one of the major problems. If you put dub/non-con label on all stories with sex pollen etc, which to be fair you have to do because of trigger warnings, how do you distinguish between the kind of stories you like, but which I find upsetting and the stories I want to read, where they are carried away by circumstances, are happy that the other one is interested and go on to a permanent relationship?
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I think summaries and descriptions can help clarify things sometimes. For example, if I see a fic with the summary: "Sherlock's chemistry experiment results in some unexpected fun for him and John," I'm going to expect something different than if the summary says, "After a chemistry experiment goes wrong and leads to an uncomfortable experience, Sherlock and John must work through their conflicted feelings about what happened--and confront their burgeoning attraction," or if the summary says, "A strange chemical leads to a regrettable encounter between Sherlock and John. Once the drug-induced passion fades, their friendship faces an uncertain future as they try to cope with what happened."

The first summary would make me expect a fun, uncomplicated sex pollen fic where the characters have no reservations about what happened. The middle one would make me expect a fic where the awkwardness and consent issues are acknowledged, but the scenario still leads to a consensual, happy relationship. And the last one would make me expect a darker fic where the characters likely won't end up in a relationship.

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And the hill of Tuna.
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It's a good thing that's in the undying realms, or the stench would be awful.

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Well, I don't think they need separate dubcon or noncon warnings if they are labelled as sex pollen or fuck or die, since that is implied already.

But mostly you just sound really overly invested and defensive about your pairing. The fact that they are twu soulmates is entirely in your head and it's not up to other people to act as if that is always true.
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DA

I think the labels are also pretty important because some people aren't familiar with fandom trope names. Some fandoms don't have a tradition of sex pollen/fuck or die fics. While "fuck or die" is fairly clear, "sex pollen" is definitely more ambiguous.

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Sakura/Sasuke

Why, after all the water under that bridge?
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I don't, but this:

http://crunchysunrises.dreamwidth.org/56377.html?#cutid1

Because femdom and fucked up Sasuke rings all my bells.

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I was a baseball fan for years and I mentally collected great names. Among my favorites were Atlee Hammaker (whose first name was Charlton) and Geronimo Berroa (sounds like poetry). I also saw, in person, the holder of one of the generally acknowledged best names in baseball history, Wonderful Terrific Mons III (who went by Wonder Mons).
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Okay, all you baseball fans know the song "Van Lingle Mungo," right? It's a lounge song made up entirely of baseball players' names.

Yes, there was a player named Van Lingle Mungo.

Also, there was a time recently when both a Yuniesky and a Yuliesky were playing professionally: the former a Betancourt and the latter a Gourriel. (Both Cubans, I think.) Creative Spanish-language first names are always fun. Almost as fun as Coco Crisp.

Also, a relief pitcher named Olise Claiborne Meredith III (nicknamed Cla, and you pronounce that like Clay but heaven forfend he make it easy on you). Last I heard he was with San Diego, but he may have moved on by now.

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Quivering quims, Batman! If we can't free ourselves from the Femslasher's grasping velvet walls before the rush of copious moisture, we're done for!
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BWAHAHA! ILU, nonny! XD

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"Oh I can't do that.", She said and put her arms around the brunette's perky waste.
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The tall brunet leather pants salesman mewled with need and then broke the fierce battle between their lips. "Why would you kiss me? Why would anyone?" he sobbed softy, staring into the blonde man's piercing blue orbs, causing the other man who was a doctor to simply smirk and grab the taller man by his khaki-imprisoned bulge, making him blush bright red all over his entire body.

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You know how sometimes you look at other people's lives, and know that they are doing it wrong, but it's none of your business to say so? Here is the thread to get your annoying busybody thoughts off your chest.

I'll start: Dear facebook friend, Pouting and glaring at the camera does nothing for you. You have a lovely smile, why don't you try doing that instead?

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Dear friend,

Yes, I know you really really love him and that he really wants to be with you and have a family and all that.

But he's gay and you would both be so much happier if you guys split up and you got over him.

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Steve/Tony in general?
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NA

The whole 'they balance each other' thing for me applies for both MCU and 616. And in MCU they have that instant... well, they are not indifferent to each other. They pay attention to each other and I like the idea of them coming to understand each other after some time, but still have that friction.

And 616 has this whole... history behind them that I find really appealing. It has less friction, though.

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Not sure how many other Prince of Tennis people there are on the meme right now, but are there any TezuFuji shippers who can tell me what about them you like?
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I go from the manga, not anime, so not everything got animated. I always boggle at when people act like Tezuka and Fuji is as likely as Dan and Eiji hooking up, because it seemed really obvious to me that there was tension between them starting from the Fudomine matches. Little scenes like Fuji telling Tezuka that he wasn't going to get to play because Fuji was going to take down Mizuki showed that at some level, they really got each other--or in Fuji's case, thought they did. Each interaction with them felt very tense, and at the same point, it revealed a lot about them. Fuji wasn't just saying 'sorry, dude, you aren't playing'--he was telling Tezuka that he was going to play with all his power, that he was really going to get serious.

Fuji wears a mask and doesn't really reveal all of himself to everyone, but Tezuka saw through it, to him. He challenged Fuji in a way no one else had and pretty much tore his mask away and made him ship up.

It was the flashback in the rain in the Rikkaidai matches and the conclusion of Fuji vs Kirihara match that really clinched it for me from "I'm kind of interested in this" to "OTP forever." It was really Tezuka who inspired Fuji to be truly loyal to the team, to push himself to beyond what he really could do/ That was when the TezuFuji interactions started coming more frequently and you came to see that they really did have a weird little friendship all their own. It wasn't like Eiji or Fuji's silly, laughing friendship, or the loyalty and trust of Tezuka and Oishi's, but it was obvious to me at some level they were really important to each other, that it had a bit of rivalry, a bit of understanding, and a lot of Fuji seeing how far he could push Tezuka.

I multiship, but TezuFuji has always been the ship in Tenipuri for me. I feel like because Tezuka was so inaccessible, Fuji would never tire of him and move on because he could never get Tezuka as easily as he got everything else in his life. Tezuka provided a steadying force, he was someone who as before mentioned would challenge Fuji, never be afraid of him and who understood Fuji perhaps even better than Fuji understood himself. At the same time, Fuji could lighten Tezuka just ever so slightly, make him even smile for once, pull him into the rain and bring his whimsy to make Tezuka's life just a little wider than tennis and schoolwork and frowning.

I suppose a lot has to do with taste. People go on about so and so slapslapkiss pairing and I couldn't care less or see love in their bickering, but I really love friendship, devotion and pairs that contrast in complimentary ways, and Tezuka/Fuji hit those kinks hard for me. I also really, really love masked characters and when the persona starts to fall, especially if they start to drop it for the sake of trusting another person to really be themselves around them.


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I tried reading this to my FFA-er roommate and she literally clamped her hands over her ears and started flailing towards me with her elbows. Congrats on helping me commit roommate-torture. :D
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Oh nooooos! You've obviously outed your FFA-er roommate as *elbows* anon!

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I followed the link to the blogger dude going to Switzerland, and yeah, that was extremely cringeworthy. I'm not entirely sure I get the relevance in this context, though?

But I think a lot of this is about coming from different backgrounds. For someone like the blogger dude, who's actually scared to go to Switzerland (!) I can see that a cross-cultural relationship might take some serious work!
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Anon, the comment you replied to just said it was talking about "how different thought processes could be in different languages". Are you being dense on purpose, or can you just not help it?

Anyway, you seem to have a lot of issues regarding this, but I assure you people are allowed to have different needs, wants, priorities and attractions than you do, and it doesn't mean anything about your tastes.

People can want to not date or marry you without it meaning they're scared(!) and that's okay. They could just be thinking you're a dick or they could be not a fan of your culture in particular and hence want nothing to do it! And they're allowed to do that too!

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Any fics for Raymond Chandler's books at all?

Double points if they are angsty stories about Phillip Marlowe with happy endings.
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There are a few fics on AO3, if you haven't checked there yet? I think most of them were Yuletide offerings.

http://archiveofourown.org/tags/Philip%20Marlowe%20-%20Raymond%20Chandler/works

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The Princess Diaries 2 contains Catwoman, Captain Kirk, General Zod and Gimli.

/random
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*And* Mary Poppins. Or was Julie Andrews not in the sequel?

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Me too, me too! Literally, substitute nook for ipad and I could have written the whole comment myself.

Glad I'm not the only one, here! I had to cut myself off after two posts of really uncharacteristic and fairly embarrassing squealing in my journal. Otherwise, there'd be like three weeks' worth of entries about this fic, and everyone would have defriended me by this time.
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Now I wish I read your entries! I would love to talk about that fic, every little detail. :)

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"Oh I can't do that.", She said and put her arms around the brunette's perky waste.
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And then Naruto and Sasuke made sweet sweet love and teh evil pink bitch (an: i haet suckura she is so evil!!!!1 die u hoar!) kild herself because she couldn't stand to see her Saskay-kewn with an icky boy and the other rookies (an: rock lee has stoopid hair) all took turns shitting on her grave lol rate dis fic plz or i no rite moar :( :( :(.

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DA

So it just boils down to one side wants an opt-in model and the other side is a-ok with an opt-out model and never the twain shall meet.
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I don't see it as an opt-in/opt-out distinction at all though. Or, rather, I see the timing of the opt-in as vastly different.

You "opt-in" by submitting your work to an archive you don't have direct control over. By opting in at that point, you are agreeing that your work can be a part of that archive until you specifically remove it (or request that it be removed) which includes being a part of the archive through any changes in rules, T&Cs, web address, affiliation or merging with other archives, etc. You don't have to "opt-in" to each and every change the archive goes through, because you already opted-in. The only possible option left is the "out" option, so of course it's an opt-out model at that point. It can't not be.

You could have "opted-out" by not choosing to affiliate your work with an archive. The "out" option is still always there (remove your fic from the archive) but the archive owner is not responsible for reminding you of that option every day, or before any proposed change.

I think it is ludicrous to assume that an archive owner should re-alert every author to the fact that they can remove their fic from the archive before every single proposed change to the archive, and that is called an "opt-in" model. Bullshit. You're already in. If you didn't want to be in, you should have stayed out. If you no longer want to be in, it's your job to remove yourself. It's not that complicated.

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Honestly, I think the problem is that about a third of fandom thinks it's fine and a great idea because you're just moving the archives (including, apparently, the siterunners for the Smallville Slash Archive and 852 Prospect), another third thinks it's the most terrible idea ever, and the last third just doesn't give a shit.

This isn't really a matter of AO3 violating hardset fandom ethics so much as fandom itself not agreeing on what those ethics are.
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Yeah, I am much much happier with Open Doors moving the Smallville Archive, because then I could actually *edit* my fic, as opposed to having them there with no way to touch them at all (and no way to remove them, either, if that was what I wanted to do...)

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ayrt, Mostly because I think offering the opt-out prior to the move would make people a lot more accepting of the project. Giving people that kind of control would help to offset the wank and disagreement this topic always causes. And why would you have to code to move author by author, surely the archive could just delete the fic before the move. On newer archives, like the ones run on e-fic, it isn't such an issue because writers can always delete their own work, but on text based archives where the mods had the only posting access, there's absolutely no reason why there couldn't be a period between the announcement of the move, and the actual move, when people could ask for their fic to be taken down.
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AFAIK (as one of the authors with fic in the SSA), the reason an opt-out wasn't offered before it was moved was because it wasn't possible with the SSA code? one of the reasons they wanted to move the archive is because the archivist only had limited access, couldn't actually edit or delete the stories themselves, even. So moving everything over and then deleting what authors wanted to be deleted was the best way to do it without screwing up the SSA collection?

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Well, if an author has passed away, then presumably their wishes can't be known, so what's terrible about not re-archiving their work? In that case it would be more ethical not to re-archive.

Even if it's that they're AWOL, the pro opt-out side seems so big on personal responsibility, so if you're not keeping up with where your works are at and how they're doing, then that could be something that happens. Personal responsibility falls on the author.
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as a fic writer myself, one of the main reasons I put my fics in archives is because I DON'T want it deleted should something happen to me and I can't maintain a site anymore - I want it out there, I want it to be remembered! So I would be devastated if my fic was taken down because I wasn't able to ask for it to be kept up.

I know this isn't a view shared by everyone, but yeah, for me, one of the main points of archiving is to have my fic be preserved, even if I'm not able to do it myself; and so I'd personally see it as unethical or at least really irresponsible for an archivist to delete works an author gave to them for saving, because the author passed on.

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Thank you!

What laws regarding primary school placement are there?
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Basically, that you have a registered address within a specific district unless it's a private school (which are rare at that level here unless it's Church-based or in the capital). It's supposed to guarantee that the school reflects the demographics of the district, but in practice a lot of people fuck around with dummy adresses and the like to get their children into "good" schools/avoid "bad" schools.

My parents did similar fuckery with me and my sibling, too - for primary school we went to the school in our district (since it was "okay"), but for our two year middle school (where the same laws apply) they made us take Latin because you then had a lawful claim to another middle school which was better than the one in my district. Which in practice was entirely useless, because the middle school shared a building with an incredibly bad comprehensive, so despite 'split rooming' we still had stuff like used tampons glued to the toilet stalls, cigarette burns on the walls and furniture and pupils getting beaten up and robbed.

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Ayrt

Forsinket takk for rådene! Jeg har ganske riktig ikke bil, og ikke kan jeg kjøre, heller. /mangler life skills

Men å overtale noen til å kjøre meg, hadde jo ikke vært så dumt. Har du noen tilsvarende råd for billig overnatting i nord? Som fortrinnsvis ikke involverer ordet "telt"?
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Ungdomsherberger er nok det billigste der det finnes, ellers har de fleste plasser hytter til utleie (rorbuer, campinghytter osv), men der er det vanlig med familiepriser (for 5-8 personer). Sjekk opp på forhånd eller ring og spør på turistkontorer el. Plassene som ofte har turister har som oftest litt utvalg på tilbud. (Men det er lurt å ringe. Det som står på nett og i kataloger er ofte helt utdatert.)

Og enig, dropp teltet. Jeg var på teltferie i Lofoten én sommer, og det vi lærte var å sikre barduner og å fyre opp bål i regn. Nyttig i og for seg, men litt vel "for spesielt interesserte". Katta var heller ikke begeistret. *ler*

Sånn bortsett fra at du må være værbestandig, så er Lofoten et grassat vakkert sted. Anbefales på det varmeste! Jeg har vært der mange ganger siden og det er alltid flott.

Og btw: Her fikk vi den første snøen i dag, hurra! Skikkelig omvendt-vinter.

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If I read a fic by a friend, I might be more likely to kudos it even if I didn't totally love it than I would a fic by a total stranger, but I don't read fic by my friends that often because we don't always share fandoms and even when we do, our tastes don't necessarily overlap.

I wouldn't want to kudos something I hadn't read (even by a friend) because that feels like lying (I would feel that I was saying I had read the fic by kudosing it). (I guess I could do it anon, but that's too much trouble.)
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SA Oh, I read the fic I kudos, friend or not friend. -> Important stuff!

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NA
And so the maxim of "the Internet never forgets" was disproved.
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OP here...

Apparently. :/

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Hee. Thank you for the soothing pats, nonnie! *takes deep breath*

First of all, I have to say that the thing that makes it easy for me to recognise is the style. I work with text on a daily basis, so I suspect that some of the reason why her posts really flash like neon lights for me is because I'm so used to paying attention to linguistic and semantic style. I'll try to describe this as well as I can, and go from the general to the specific:

She turns up in high-traffic threads where it's possible to make extraordinary or unusual claims and have it seem natural in the context of the thread. She's particularly prone to turning up in Things You Wouldn't Admit Unanon and in Ask Me Anything.

She starts by making a claim about either being or having something unusual or extraordinary. The first post is always just a short line or two. When people do ask for more information, she'll usually provide a little bit more information of the curiosity-inducing sort. As soon as a couple of people are in the thread, she'll start responding with very long replies, usually 3-4 well-written paragraphs, and invites people to ask more if they have questions.

She is prone to paragraph usage, upbeat/friendly tones, and to introducing other characters in her narratives, to create dramatic tension and colour - it's usually someone she has a very close personal relationship with, and who provides some level of emotional conflict. She's been guilty of using smilies in the past, but has dropped it, presumably realising it made her too recognisable.

She does her research, but gets things wrong if you know what she's talking about, or, for that matter, do a little bit of research yourself. She is careful to choose experiences that few people on the meme are likely to have knowledge of personally, though.

Generally, her descriptions of her condition/experience read too much like "ideal" textbook examples, the sort of thing that is rarely replicated in real life. She's also prone to replicating narrative clichés that, again, rarely occur in real life.

...Oof, it's harder to explain this without using examples than I thought it would be.
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http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/48090.html?thread=220602074#t220602074

Now I'm eyeing this thread with extra suspicion.

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It's a Miss Manners rule of life--something like "Any sternly worded letter complaining about grammar or punctuation is bound to have at least four errors of its own."
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Also known as Muphry's Law.

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I know this post is dead and gone, but I thought I'd note here that I just refreshed the page and the stories are all gone, whether by sharingiscaring's hand or the AO3 mods, I don't know.

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By AO3, I reported it, and got an email saying I was one of many, and that the account was suspended for 90 days.

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Yeah, I remember something like that too. And something about him joining journalfen and f_w while he was underage?

OP, you might want to search sepiamagpie in the top right search bar.
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OP here - thank you for the tip! Haven't found anything further though but again, thanks for the suggestion.

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"White-trash" is a classist term, though.
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So how do you refer to people who live in trailer parks, date/are felons and revel in their ignorance of how not to be a fuckup?

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So how do you refer to people who live in trailer parks, date/are felons and revel in their ignorance of how not to be a fuckup?
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SA

The first two aren't automatically white-trash behavior IMO, it's more the "repeatedly and willfully makes the worst possible personal decisions and expresses no desire to improve" that makes somebody trashy. If they lived in a mansion and got their Mercedes repoed because they spent all their money on drugs, I'd still think they were a trashy fuckup. But white-trash fuckup-ness is just more prevalent in trailer parks and tends to lead to felony convictions, so...

(Why am I posting all this TL;DR when nobody's even reading this post anymore? IDK...)

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The diagnostician sobbed helplessly in the intensivists' arms, the endocrinologist and the oncologist had mistreated him badly, the wombat and the endocrinologist's daughter were the only one who really understood how sensitive he truly was and what a great father he would be.
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The wombat? Is this also an Aubrey/Maturin crossover?

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The wombat? Is this also an Aubrey/Maturin crossover?
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Nope, it's one of those examples of fandom taking one tiny, one-off incident and using it all the damn time. House once described Chase as "running like a scared wombat." Once. Cue fandom forever after referring to Chase/having other characters refer to him as "the wombat."

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http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/48090.html?thread=220602074#t220602074


Now I'm eyeing this thread with extra suspicion.
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DA

I found that one suspicious as well.

While I can't say I can identify Magdalene nonnie on sight, I remember thinking that when she was first telling her story getting the feeling that it was familiar, although I didn't connect it to the movie I'd seen years before until after someone else did.

Since then there have been certain posts that get my hackles up and Thunderdome High School is one of them

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I'm here wincing, because it feels like you've read a lot of "how to write well" things and still missed a lot of the point.

A few points on chaptering:

1. Chapters do have an 'ideal' length: something that can be comfortably read in one sitting. However, dependent on audience that's going to change. If you're targeting your book to YA, you're going to be wanting to make that a shorter wordcount; if you're aiming for particularly well-read adults, you'll be going for a longer one. However, nobody is going to be there with a yardstick measuring each chapter and going "Hmph, this chapter is only two thousand words where all the others were between four and five thousand; this writer is dreadful." Also, chaptering, like anything else, can be used for effect: a shorter chapter gives more dramatic punch, whereas a longer chapter can be used to sustain a feeling.

2. Chapters are supposed to ideally end with a hook, not a cliffhanger. A cliffhanger is a dramatic event that is paused before a comfortable resolution is achieved, making the reader/viewer desperate to find out "what happens next." A hook is any sort of event that makes the reader go, "Well I don't want to stop now." Cliffhangers are hooks, but not all hooks are cliffhangers.

An example of the difference:

Cliffhanger:

I'd killed the bad guy and saved the world. I good about everything, like I finally had my life on track--until the next day, when I found myself facing a flustered-looking doctor clutching a chart to his chest like a shield.

"You're pregnant," he said.

End Chapter

New Chapter

"But... that's not possible!" I exclaimed.

-----

Hook:

I'd killed the bad guy and saved the world. Everything was great and wonderful and I finally had my life on track.

That comfortable feeling lasted until the next day.

End Chapter

New Chapter

"But... that's not possible!" I exclaimed, staring at a flustered-looking doctor, who was clutching a chart to his chest like a shield. "I can't be pregnant!"

---

They're both equally effective in pulling the reader along to the next chapter, but the primary difference is drama. Cliffhangers have a much stronger impact, and should be used sparingly. Too many cliffhangers and your readers get annoyed and check out.

It's also not strictly necessary to always end on a hook. If the dramatic tension of what's going on is already enough to carry your reader, you don't need it, and short chapters almost never do.
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I completely missed this reply!

Oh dear. I was writing my question in a hurry and now I'm thinking that I used the word 'cliffhanger' a bit hastily. Looking at my outline, most of my chapters end either with dramatic tension or hooks. There's maybe one actual cliffhanger there and it's between the climax chapters so, um.

I think my actual question should've been just about chapter length. I don't read a lot of fic, so I wasn't sure if there's a convention to keep chapter length fairly even or not... so thanks for answering that for me as well! (Honestly, I'd rather write this fic as a long one-shot [20~25k], but since I made the mistake of posting the beginning while it was just a WIP, I'm going to have to go with chapters.)

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ayrt

Now I wish I read your entries! I would love to talk about that fic, every little detail. :)
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Subject: Re: Thank You Meme!
If you're still around, anon (how are we already done with post #179?), you could find my (locked) journal pretty easily, looking at the most recent kudos. I use the same handle on dw and lj. *coughs*

But I wouldn't want to raise your expectations about the squealing posts. I may or may not have resorted to a couple of gifs during the first one. That is what this fic has done to me.

It is REALLY nice to know I'm not alone in my fic-induced insanity.

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It was pointed out to me that one of my original character's names was only one letter different from "cocaine". I couldn't change it by that point.
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Subject: Re: Unfortunate character names
Was it the heroine?

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