Dear Fanloons:

There are cities in Japan besides Tokyo.

There are cities in the UK besides London. And, yes, these cities are quite modern. None, as far as I know, are fifteenth-century fiefdoms to this day.

Just so you know. I'm tired of having every fake English Sue come from London, London, London. What about Liverpool, or Newcastle, or Birmingham? Spice it up a little bit! And London has several little boroughs and districts, am I right? Which one did she come from? How has this affected her growing up? Background, please, besides "I thought it'd be cool if my Sue OC had an English accent, lolz!"

Regards,

Leiko

Okay, I'm probably one of five people in the world who even cares about this, but.

A few notes on Blueno:

1) Not stupid. Plays stupid on missions, but really is actually not. Even if you completely ignore everything about his actual characterization (of which there isn't much, I admit it), he's in Cipher Pol 9. He's an elite government-hired assassin. You have to be smart for that shit.

2) Probably not interested in fucking fourteen-year-old boys. You could make a case for it, I guess, but...just like, randomly wanting to screw a little boy? I don't buy it.

3) At no point would he have thought Lucci was "too scrawny" to be a CP9 agent. This is a kid who busted up five hundred trained soldiers and an unspecified but great amount of heavily armed pirates at age thirteen. If your story is taking place after this, and the one I'm talking about does...see 1. Blueno fucking knows better.

Also, Lucci doesn't blush.

Okay, I just had to say that.

ETA: Oh, and for the record, just because you have sex with a person a lot doesn't mean you automatically start to care for them. Maybe if you also, you know, actually get to know them, but if it's just the sex...there's no reason for you to just randomly fall in love with them.

From a just-posted review to one of my fics: Note:
Teen Titan's 'Robin' is Richard Grayson not Timothy Drake. This is in accordance to the continuity of the commic books, the show, and the general consensus of fans.

Um... Note: Teen Titans Robin has been Timothy Drake since 2003 according to comics continuity. And, if you look at ff.net, you will find that I placed my story (gasp!) in the comics section. You see, dear reviewer, besides "Teen Titans Go!" there is another TT comic with a somewhat different team.

Nice to know you polled enough fans to get a general consensus, though. Jerk.

I have learned many things from my observations -- how a blind man walks, and how sailor ties a knot -- performances I draw from my repertoire whenever I walk out in disguise. But some things I have learned require no makeup to employ. My brother Mycroft taught me to declaim with such authority that no one will gainsay me, and an undergroom of Lord Lillington's how to stop a runaway horse with no harm to the horse or myself. But when it comes to handling women -- ah, there the trick is simple indeed.

I just pretend my name is John Watson.

Well, what do you know. I actually liked that. I kept expecting the whole thing to go down the drain at any moment, but though it started to spiral once or twice, it never completely sank.

( Spoilers )

Bring on the Christmas special!

I haven't written for a while. I think I've had about five posts I almost wrote and then never actually posted.

Hope everyone having a holiday weekend had a good one. jlh and I went to see Gonzo, which was great--despite the fact that I left the theater COVERED IN BUTTER! (Which I will never stop complaining about.) Then we went to a nice place to eat where we got a nice floor show. A young man apparently out for his first beer picked a fight with a guy at the bar. He was thrown out in the middle of an impassioned speech about the Fourth of July and how we are all the Mets and what else do we really have except that? His friends dragged him out as best they could and the bartender led all of us (an international crowd) in a rousing farewell and good riddance. Yay!

What I've been reading while not posting is Don Quixote, which proves that ( fandom is always the same. )

Although it is kind of interesting how few answers you have to change to get this result instead:

Matrix boards...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/board/flat/110838797

Subject: Tom Cruise as Neo

mavrickisdangerous-1: I think that Reeves did a great job but it would been interesting to see how Cruise does in this

Gurning-Chimp: Hmmm.

Neo: [Jumps up in dentist chair on Nebuchanezzer] TRINITY LOVES ME! WOOOOOOO!

Pass.

**

heheh.

My name is Fia and I love mpreg.

Okay, a clause to that statement. I love mpreg in fandoms that can accommodate it, through use of magic, alien technologies, unique species quirks or wacky matriarchal parallel universes.

But when you're writing an otherwise 'normal' human pregnancy, notable only in that it is taking place in a male body due to one of the previous kinds of meddling (or something else I haven't listed that can be believed in the context of the fandom) please do a little research into what is 'normal' development in a human pregnancy.

I found out fairly easily, by asking my pregnant best friend, that a normal human fetus first shows signs of movement at 16-25 weeks, which is admittedly quite a wide range. If you don't have one of those at your disposal, you could also check with Wiki or possibly Google "stages of human fetal development" or similar. I'm just saying that your guy's baby probably isn't going to be flailing fit to freak out the physician at three months, is all.

It was a cute fic, for the most part, despite the author retconning some fairly important (I felt) character development (though it's possible the author has not seen the episode in question, which I doubt because they included spoilers for it in the story, complete with very specific spoiler warning.) It's not unusual; sadly most writers in this fandom tend to favor character stagnation over emotional growth in regards to this particular character. Also, I'm still trying to wrap my head around the phrase "more than harmless," meaning -- in context -- "potentially healthful."

In summation, another fairly good story by a good writer, which could have been great. Disappointing. (Also makes me wonder if I'm some kind of a freak for looking things up and asking questions when I'm not an expert -- which is most of the time -- and striving for accuracy whenever possible. I'm actually pretty easy; I would even have accepted a reason -- perhaps something hormonal -- why the baby was roughly a month ahead of itself developmentally.)

 

Dear Author, 

Cornelius Fudge has many failings as a person.

( Here are a few of them. )

However, even with these character flaws it stretches the imagination pantyhose-thin to accept that Cornelius Fudge would connive with Vernon Dursley to enslave, exploit, and sexually abuse Harry Potter for eleven years while keeping up the pretense that he froze on the doorstep of Number 4 Privet Drive on the night Dumbledore left him there.

( And that is only PART of the reason why I want to douse your fic with kerosene! )

ETA: Through all the other awful, I completely forgot to mention that it is a Winnie the Pooh cross-over.

Yes. I know.

I share your pain.

Am torn between sitting around online and refreshing Show the Colours some more, because people have been around but there seems to be very little posting (though Sharpie is! *waves*), or watching M&C with Matt, who suggested it. *CACKLES*

I have a new Stephen avatar for StC as well - the one I was using (same as icon) was too abstract and happy and good-looking - I now have this one, which I think captures Stephen's ugly, nerdy, bewildered, "odd-looking civilian in a rusty black coat" side far better, and that is what all the characters are seeing. Thoughts? I have a few more possibilities, but he is so very nerdy in this one. XD



I'm very excited about upcoming spyhat trip to Obidos though - I've already written the climax, because of course it wasn't going to go as simply as all that. *evil laugh* Poor Stephen. Poor Prideaux as well, actually.

Doctor Who: Donna! *sob* CAAN! *SOB* Stephen should be the new companion. Bunnies to this effect will not leave me alone.

Reaction post, spoilers likely in comments.

( Cut because I care )

Title: 'Venus in Furs'

Fandom:Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Characters: Angel, Willow, Drusilla
Song: Venus in Furs by the Velvet Underground
Length: 02:09
Type of file: WMV Zipped
Rating: PG13
Copyright: Property of Joss Whedon, 20th Century Fox
.Notes: My baby's got me locked up in chains.....Inspired by 'Venus in Furs'   this is a brief musing on the 'preferred torture puppy' and his two mistresses. Let's hope he remembers the safety word.  Anyone with a fear of excessive holy water spillage, finger bending and other such nastiness are hereby warned.   I edited the song greatly otherwise the squeaky violins from hell would have become torture in themselves.
Download:   Small 8mB Zipped or Bigger 16mB Zipped  here 
There may be streaming if I can get the audio in sync.

 feedback much appreciated

WHY IS THIS NOT HAPPENING WHERE I LIVE??!

*weeps*

(Also -- 25 years? Ouch.)

(cross posted to own journal)

Rant the First: I'm beginning to really, really dislike the phrase "if you don't like, don't read!" This is possibly because I'm mostly being told this by fanbrats as a response to my negative critiques/comments/reviews.

It could also be because the phrase...doesn't actually make the sense the writer intends. For instance, I know that if I use the phrase (which I didn't past my first few stories) it means "if you don't like [genre], then don't read [genre]." But when other writers (especially a poor one, or a popular one whose skill isn't all that great) uses the phrase, what they mean is "if you don't like [my writing] don't read [my writing] (and don't tell me about it!)" This is very frustrating, especially when the writer is requesting reviews/critique/comments. Because they're lying.

Rant the Second: So, there is this one fic and from the first chapter onward, there is a Sue who has essentially been inserted into the plot, completely replacing the actual canon character. And it's fairly obvious the reason the character was replaced was because she wanted there to be a romance between her Sue and the canon villain. (It's pretty much stated in the summary that there's going to be a romance between her Sue and the villain.)

People called her on it, and she tried at first to defend the Sue, stating that the Sue had "real emotional problems," and therefore was a full fledged, well rounded character. I point out to her that her Sue was in fact a Sue and would remain a Sue because of her Sue-like qualities such as the ability to make everyone act OOC and all the loving descriptions of her perfection, and the fact that she's replacing the character who was supposed to be there and wasn't. The writer decided to be unusually honest and stated that she didn't care if she was writing a Sue, but the second thing she wrote back seriously annoyed the heck out of me.

She stated that she LIKED the character who had been replaced by her Sue. To me, this makes no sense. Why would you completely remove the canon character from the fic and put your own in his place if you liked him? If I like a character, I write about him/her. If I don't like a character (or if I like a character and know I can't do him/her justice) he/she doesn't show up, or at most gets a cameo.