Using glasses of water as an abstracted analogy to tell the story of *sfaj.
Thinky Thought #1: I Don’t Believe in “OOC” A while ago, I opined that there was no such thing as a Mary Sue. It’s kinda buried in the post (which is more about roleplaying), but my point there was that I thought the term “Mary Sue” was — rather than being a thing in and [...]
Why is doing what you like — rather than what other people like — such a threatening idea? Well, that’s a bit vague, isn’t it? You could apply that one pretty much anywhere; I’ve personally had arguments along those lines about everything from webdesign to life in general, so let’s narrow the field. Why is [...]
So here’s the deal: I was reading fic recently and in my irritation at bad writing came up with the following list of four things that really annoy me. Watch in awe as I attempt to explain why, as well as offer potentially helpful exercises for you (and me) to train yourselves (and myself) out [...]
I decided yesterday that my bugbear in fanfic is a simple thing. There are a lot of things that I don’t like — everything from bad writing to RPS — but there’s only one thing that really gets my back up enough for me to bother to sit down and write a vehement log post [...]
So the other day I was cruising around Fandom Wank, lookin’ for lulz, when I came across this post. In a nutshell, it’s someone lulzing over a ‘professional’ author’s diatribe against fanfiction. I should just point out before we begin that this guy’s main claim to fame is writing Monk and Diagnosis Murder tie-in books. [...]
Dee takes on Furc’s bad RPers. And loses. But, well, has fun trying.
So there I was the other day, basking in the anti-para lulz at the Golden Tether, listening to some utterly incomprehensible roleplay at the bar, when it occurred to me that maybe it’s not enough to just be anti something after all. I mean, anyone can define themselves by what they aren’t, but it takes [...]
Dee’s advice on character creation.
On the uselessness of so-called ‘para rp’.
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