[a, miscellany] we follow them like fools

[bantha_fodder]

bitchy thought for the day: is, my first fanfic, be kind! code for, don't tell me i suck or i might cry and never have the courage to write again?

non-bitchy continuation of that: and if it IS, then shouldn't we not be telling anyone they suck? let me try again. newbie or not, if someone's fic sucks, shouldn't we be saying, well, this bit was okay, but this bit needs work? instead, we keep quiet if something sucks, or we bitch about it under locks, but we never do anything about it. but then, is it our responsibility to do anything about it at all? perhaps we should all be like thumper. you know, from bambi.

omg, i made a comment in someone's fic today, about how i liked it but it needed work. i'm not going to name her in case she doesn't want to be named, but this (the above) comment is totally not about you! i swear! it was prompted by something else. oh, now i sound like (more of) a bitch (than usual).

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i got home a short while ago. i worked this morning (omg i worked on a saturday, after working a full working week! I AM CLEARLY MALAYSIAN), then meandered off to archery, where C and i bucked the trend and shot target rather than clout. plus, we got to bitch and gossip, which is always fun. anyway, that explains why i haven't done any of the things i said i'd do today, and i'm about to cook dinner and go out so they're not going to get done today at all, so sorry if you're one of those people. i really am sorry!

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links:
fic rec: Pink Dreams, by Kanna-Ophelia. it's a fic about barbie. OMG. seriously. i love it.
for teh koala (maaaaaate): Chris Eccleston talking about the Muppets.
this makes me want to write chloe and lex like WOAH. i'm definitely having a chloe/lex thing at the moment.

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(cooper hawkes is hot)

ETA: BLUE GOO EPISODE!

ETA2: omg. O. M. G. It's been ten years since I last watched S:AAB, and watching the blue goo episode freaked me out. Kathe, you can HAVE nathan and this episode. it was freaking hard work watching this.

Comments

[koalathebear.livejournal.com]

我喜欢可是长一点儿吧！！　

给你可爱的歌.可能你已经知道了:

情非得已，

他和她的故事.

koalathebear ;)

[bantha-fodder.livejournal.com]

太慢儿OMG. *twiddles thumbs*

how do we say 'koalathebear' in chinese?

[koalathebear.livejournal.com]

2 ways

考拉

and this way (to which you will voice objections no doubt)

树袋熊

Hee hee.

I wonder why it's slow. I get a lot of my Chinese mp3s from here: http://mp3.baidu.com/ so maybe there's a faster link. Both songs are cute.

[gobsmackit.livejournal.com]

See, I like that the Barbie fic writer clearly has a sense of humor about it all. But, um. She still has an...impressive knowledge of Barbie "lore."

I find all of the capitalized Hers and Shes quite funny.

[mnemo-syne.livejournal.com]

I'm just mean enough to think "how about I don't read it at all, then?" when people put "first fic, be kind." It doesn't necessarily mean 'no constructive criticism,' but it just irritates me. As a reader, I don't need to know that. It makes me cranky.

[indigo419.livejournal.com]

er... perhaps I shouldn't be here, I wandered over from galacticanews in part because I enjoy reading your (bantha_fodder's) fic and other things you have to say.

Since I'm here anyway - as a first-time fic poster I thought I'd just say - I thought long and hard about whether to indicate that I hadn't done this before. I looked in various archives and was comforted to come across other people's posts where they said it was their first time - and their stories didn't suck! So for me it was just a way to say: I'm thrilled to have worked up the courage to post something. Maybe someone else will be encouraged down the line. I definitely did want (specific, concrete, critical) feedback, otherwise I wouldn't have posted. (and not too many of my friends watch BSG, who else would I get to review my fic??)

That said, when I post comments I do try to be kind, and balance the critique with a compliment. Just me, perhaps too cumbersome for others, and maybe unnecessary for good friends. And if the writer's style is not to my liking at all I just don't comment, I figure we have completely different tastes.

OK, done now. Pulling head out of room. bantha, thank you for the work you do pulling galacticanews together, I've found some wonderful reads that way. And guess what, my next fic won't be my first any more! :0)

[bantha-fodder.livejournal.com]

It's not the 'first time' that I was commenting on: it was the 'be kind' aspect of it. And saying 'be kind' sort of (to me) indicates one doesn't want crit - that's why people say 'crit accepted' or whatever. Not that that's the best thing. I mean, I think we SHOULD be kind when giving crit, and that we should always give crit if it's required, but, uh, even when solicited, I've been burned before. People asking for crit and getting snipping when they receive it, and such.

Hi! You should totally talk in random LJs. It's what I do! I worry it makes me look like a nosy parker, but then I'm like, WHATEVER!

[indigo419.livejournal.com]

it was the 'be kind' aspect of it
I realized that, which is why I didn't put that in my note. (I thought it, but took it out because I realized it was disingenuous to post fic and then not want feedback.) actually I said:

my first fic! (or ficlet) unbeta'd, feel free to comment.

not trying to be defensive... I would appreciate it if someone said "Hey so-and-so died, why is he still in your fic?" or "Kara would never call him 'baby'." that would mean to me that they thought my fic was still salvageable.

but, uh, even when solicited, I've been burned before. People asking for crit and getting snipping when they receive it, and such.
well then you totally have a right to be snarky!! :D