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stunt_muppet at 10:09am on 28/07/2009 under doctor who, fandom, fanfics, meta blather, neat stuff in the comments, rants, things i want to write, why did i sign up for a ficathon, writing
stunt_muppet at 10:09am on 28/07/2009 under doctor who, fandom, fanfics, meta blather, neat stuff in the comments, rants, things i want to write, why did i sign up for a ficathon, writing1. It really does irritate me when people start the whole "ew, cosplayers are freaks/cosplay is creepy" meme. I know a lot of cosplayers; I've cosplayed myself, once, though it wasn't very good; I'd still like to do it someday (I'd be girl!Five). Dressing up as a character doesn't mean you think you are them or whatever; dressing up as a character and acting in character still doesn't mean you think you are them. It's just fun. People have fun in different ways; for some people, dressing up is fun. Put your judgement away, it's yucky.
But what irritates me more is when the people who call cosplayers freaks ARE POSTING ON AN ANONYMOUS INTERNET FANDOM MESSAGE BOARD. Let me clarify: the single-fandom equivalent of 4chan.
POT. KETTLE. BLACK.
2. In non-meme-related thoughts, it also irritates me when I finally find new fic for a pairing I love that gets, oh, maybe two or three new fics a year? And I start reading it and it's funny and hot and plays with a fanfic cliche that I like and so far so good -
- and then it breaks out one of my biggest fanfic pet peeves. In this case, epithets.
*headdesks* No, no, no, fanfic writer! You were doing so well! And I want to like this fic, I really do, but when you call your characters "the Gallifreyan" and "the scientist" and "the Earther" (?) instead of just using their names I just can't! It would have been so easy to fix! You were so close!
Yeah. I hate it when that happens. I kind of want to mention it to the author in my comment, since it'd be such an easy thing to fix and it'd make the fic so much better, but I don't know how this author feels about concrit and the Who fandom has already had one big screaming tantrum about concrit; I don't want to wind up in the middle of another. Not that I think this author is that delicate (I'm sure she isn't) but you know how it is.
3. Less ranty note: I have developed a mysterious craving for Three/Brigadier post-Inferno fics wherein the Doctor seeks some sort of comfort or reassurance from the Brig after what he saw in the parallel world (because I know he walked it off by the end of the serial, but if it's showing up as one of the things that scares him the worst in The Mind of Evil, it has to have affected him more than he let on, symbolism and control issues notwithstanding). I can kind of imagine him wanting the reassurance that the Brigadier he knows could never be the Brigade Leader, not in this universe; that possibility of who he could be had been negated and would never come back. Especially given the uneasy dynamic between the two of them, where despite the Doctor being the intellectual and technical superior he is still dependant on the Brig's good graces because if the Brig turns him away he has few other places to go, and no other resources to try to get the TARDIS repaired. Having the Brig as a potentially threatening figure would be especially troubling in that instance, methinks.
Of course, since both the Doctor and the Brigadier are about as capable of expressing their emotions as a sand dollar is at doing multivariable calculus, it ends up being mostly awkward and halting and unspoken and roundabout and very little if anything actually gets resolved. Entire conversations are held using naught but uncomfortable points of ellipsis.
I really don't know why I want this, given that I don't even like hurt/comfort as a genreokay actually I do a little bit but I pretend that I don't because I know I shouldn't since the express purpose of hurt/comfort is to provide a cheap emotional fix and it's most often derivative and unsatisfying and I just have no taste at all, I'll just put that out there and that scenario is nothing if not glorified hurt/comfort. But I want it. Kind of want to write it, but mostly I want to read it because the absolute last thing I need is another writing project.
4. SPEAKING OF WRITING PROJECTS. I transcribed all the various bits and pieces of my Remix from my notebook and cell phone onto a single document, and guess whose fic is now a total of 850 words? \o/ Apparently I had written more than I thought I had. Granted, the actual story isn't near finished yet, but at least I don't have to stress as much over making my word count. That I should be able to do.
*dances*
And now I must go back to work.
But what irritates me more is when the people who call cosplayers freaks ARE POSTING ON AN ANONYMOUS INTERNET FANDOM MESSAGE BOARD. Let me clarify: the single-fandom equivalent of 4chan.
POT. KETTLE. BLACK.
2. In non-meme-related thoughts, it also irritates me when I finally find new fic for a pairing I love that gets, oh, maybe two or three new fics a year? And I start reading it and it's funny and hot and plays with a fanfic cliche that I like and so far so good -
- and then it breaks out one of my biggest fanfic pet peeves. In this case, epithets.
*headdesks* No, no, no, fanfic writer! You were doing so well! And I want to like this fic, I really do, but when you call your characters "the Gallifreyan" and "the scientist" and "the Earther" (?) instead of just using their names I just can't! It would have been so easy to fix! You were so close!
Yeah. I hate it when that happens. I kind of want to mention it to the author in my comment, since it'd be such an easy thing to fix and it'd make the fic so much better, but I don't know how this author feels about concrit and the Who fandom has already had one big screaming tantrum about concrit; I don't want to wind up in the middle of another. Not that I think this author is that delicate (I'm sure she isn't) but you know how it is.
3. Less ranty note: I have developed a mysterious craving for Three/Brigadier post-Inferno fics wherein the Doctor seeks some sort of comfort or reassurance from the Brig after what he saw in the parallel world (because I know he walked it off by the end of the serial, but if it's showing up as one of the things that scares him the worst in The Mind of Evil, it has to have affected him more than he let on, symbolism and control issues notwithstanding). I can kind of imagine him wanting the reassurance that the Brigadier he knows could never be the Brigade Leader, not in this universe; that possibility of who he could be had been negated and would never come back. Especially given the uneasy dynamic between the two of them, where despite the Doctor being the intellectual and technical superior he is still dependant on the Brig's good graces because if the Brig turns him away he has few other places to go, and no other resources to try to get the TARDIS repaired. Having the Brig as a potentially threatening figure would be especially troubling in that instance, methinks.
Of course, since both the Doctor and the Brigadier are about as capable of expressing their emotions as a sand dollar is at doing multivariable calculus, it ends up being mostly awkward and halting and unspoken and roundabout and very little if anything actually gets resolved. Entire conversations are held using naught but uncomfortable points of ellipsis.
I really don't know why I want this, given that I don't even like hurt/comfort as a genre
4. SPEAKING OF WRITING PROJECTS. I transcribed all the various bits and pieces of my Remix from my notebook and cell phone onto a single document, and guess whose fic is now a total of 850 words? \o/ Apparently I had written more than I thought I had. Granted, the actual story isn't near finished yet, but at least I don't have to stress as much over making my word count. That I should be able to do.
*dances*
And now I must go back to work.
sleepy
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