Oh, the poor BBF listmoms.
I want to buy them all stiff drinks. Damn.
So, yeah. I've hit the point where I can't stop laughing. Oh, poor list moms, I do not envy them the dealing with this crap.
Lorne: Once the word spreads you beat up an innocent old man, well, the truly terrible will think twice before going toe-to-toe with our Avenging Angel. Spike: Yes. The geriatric community will be soiling their nappies when they hear you're on the case. Bravo.
'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
Fan Fiction: Writers, Readers, and Enablers
This thread is for fanfic recs, links, and discussion, but not for actual posting of fanfic.
P.M. Marc - Feb 10, 2003 10:44:48 pm PST #3523 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Lyra Jane - Feb 11, 2003 6:54:19 am PST #3524 of 10000
Up with the sun
It's STILL going on? I tend to let the digests pile up until I have time to go thru and bookmark stuff I want to read, and I thought when I got thru Sunday's digest that people should be winding down.
Tho the "anything with Buffy or Angel that is not B/A is bad and not canon" person is pretty funny.
askye - Feb 11, 2003 6:59:59 am PST #3525 of 10000
Thrive to spite them
I'm still reading in digest form, I think it's really weird.
I did run across this website once that was militantly B/A and didn't look like it had been updated since Season 2. Except that the email address was something like "dierileydie@whatever.com".
Their definition of "shipper" was someone who believes in Buffy and Angel forever. That's it. Just Buffy and Angel, if you don't believe in them then you aren't a true shipper.
I worry about people like that.
Dana - Feb 11, 2003 7:35:00 am PST #3526 of 10000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
My dear god, it's the "but who will protect the newbies?!?" argument. Now I really feel like a BOFQ.
amyth - Feb 11, 2003 7:36:52 am PST #3527 of 10000
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
Protect the newbies from...?
Dana - Feb 11, 2003 7:39:32 am PST #3528 of 10000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
From the terrible bitter people who live only to criticize the newbies' work in public and therefore crush their burgeoning talent.
I'm being flip. It's one of the enduring arguments of fandom. Do people have the right to criticize publicly-posted stories, where they should do so, what rights the author should have, "if you can't say something nice...", etc, etc.
The first big fannish meltdown I ever saw was over this topic, way back in '98.
amyth - Feb 11, 2003 7:43:14 am PST #3529 of 10000
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
Ah. Gotcha. Thanks.
Sorta the whole, "This is my first fic. Pleez be nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" thing.
P.M. Marc - Feb 11, 2003 9:02:37 am PST #3530 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
From the terrible bitter people who live only to criticize the newbies' work in public and therefore crush their burgeoning talent.
You know why I started and couldn't stop laughing? The twisty knickers person in this case, the one saying that CRIT IS BAD is the same mofo who suggested using the word "blackball".
I didn't say "please, may your rear end avoid the swinging portal as you exit". I was good.
I'm too NEW at this to feel like a BOFQ.
amyth - Feb 11, 2003 9:06:08 am PST #3531 of 10000
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
I'm tempted to subscribe at this late date just to watch the train wreck in action, but it seems like an awful lot of effort to catch up at this point.
P.M. Marc - Feb 11, 2003 9:10:20 am PST #3532 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
It's like having the WWF or Joe Millionaire in my inbox. IFG.
The cool side effect has been that people have been rec'ing goofy ass shit, so lots of funny, funny NON Spuffy. Whee!