Just got a very back-handed compliment on something I wrote. Which feels like a shitty thing to complain about, as if I'm all "Where is the extolling of my virtues?" but it's *fanfic*...it's not like I'm going to make it up later in video rights...without the occasional compliment, it's like one hand clapping. I mean, Fay liked it. Which is totally good enough. But still, nothing about that made you laugh, or anything? But I guess she's not really about the fandom, just about one of the characters.

Oh, lordie. I made a public post very politely asking podfic readers not to record over music because it makes it hard to follow the story when you do that.

I've been accused of "entitled" behavior.

Which, of course, is far worse than being ableist.

MERF. Fans! Why so craxy!

Pulling attitude, expecting to hear the story, demanding of people who are sacrificing to make you happy. Okay, not to make you happy, because you can't hear the story, but you know what they mean.

Yes, my elaborate discussion in three quarters of the post of how much I appreciate the time and effort people put into making podfic clearly indicates my entitled attitude.

Because as you know, I never contribute anything to fandom. Being a leech the way I am.

Oy.

Well, I'm entitled too. Entitled not to raise my normal frustration levels by even trying to listen to something I find difficult to decipher. And I'm entitled to call the people who think recording two concurrent streams of audible words a daring and innovative way to present a story poopyheads.

I made a public post very politely asking podfic readers not to record over music because it makes it hard to follow the story when you do that.

Yes. There is a REASON why professional audiobook recorders don't pull that stunt.

I just love how so many people are all about championing or being aware of the rights and needs of various groups--until it means having to address their own actions. Feh.

Well, I do feel rather entitled to read something written for pleasure without being aggravated. And that has come up in relation to me and ableism because I hate most "outsider" art written with what proponents call "non-traditional" spelling. I mean, yes, occasionally a piece comes out of the slush with such raw energy that you don't care that the writer spells like a LOLCat but mostly I don't think those things are worth it, no matter the number of institutions the writer got sprung from. I have been accused of wanting to censor people for implying that reading stuff like that is a pain in my editorial ass. For a job I don't get paid for. I mean, it's not that I don't understand functioning at long odds...hello? And the occasional spelling error doesn't bother me that much, but wanting to read prose not directly lifted from one's craxyhouse journal does not make me a tool of The Man. Ok, I feel better now.(I love that KOTH where Peggy gets marketed as an outsider artist.) Also shocked that the person didn't say "I'm sorry, Consuela. I thought the music set the mood really well, but I didn't think it would be distracting."

Ugh, I was really enjoying a lengthy fanfic story last night, and then about 7,000 words in the Contrivance Fairy escaped from the closet where she'd apparently been bound and gagged and threw all the good characterization and reasonable progression of plot out the window. I was left wondering if a different author took over writing the second part.

Ah, the dreaded 7K mark. Frankly, that is about the point (plus or minus 3K) where you can't just coast on "wouldn't it be cool if?" and have to start thinking about your plot.

Which is the problem I'm having right now: I have an apocabigbang crossover that is supposed to clock in at over 10K words, and I've only got about 1500 down. I need to think and write instead of just write. It's HAAAARD.

t whines

Haha, Matt. I just hit that point at the 8500 word mark in the fic I'm writing. The MacGuffin, sometimes she is necessary. Or, sometimes, just plain fun to insert into the story, whether something comes of it or not. But, since it's a plot device I'm stealing straight from JJ Abrams, I feel pre-emptively vindicated for using it.

I just hope my beta reader doesn't strangle me.