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angelgazing) wrote2005-08-18 09:26 pm
angelgazing) wrote2005-08-18 09:26 pm
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all across the alien nation
Arg. Am avoiding packing like whoa. So.
Random Things That Annoy Me In Fic Which I Would Like To Outlaw, Given The Opportunity, And Make Punishable By Public Stoning:
1) Boys talking about their feelings. Yeah, seriously. Stop it. You know why? Because they don't do it. No, really, they don't. Maybe it's just a redneck American thing, that anyone with a penis is taught to not show emotion. I don't care, really. It just stands that they do not stand there and talk about how they feel. If you can make it work? You've got my respect.
2) Lover. This word when used seriously? No. It makes me think of Will Ferrel. "Lov-ah" And that's just squicky. No one wants to be thinking of Will Ferrel in the middle of a Harry/Draco fic. Furthermore: There's the POV issue to contend with, because let me tell you something, unless House is being, well, House and a snarktastic pain in the ass, he would never, ever, ever think of Wilson or Chase or who the hell ever, as lover. It pains me to read.
3) Random use of random names. I know it's hard sometimes, I know that it's boring to type the same name over and over and over again. I know what it is to have a flaring distaste for pronouns and proper nouns. I know that the English language has kind of fucked the slash writers a little bit. But stop with the random name game thing. Please, please, I beg of you stop this, and House fandom, I'm especially looking at you. House is House, sometimes, House is Greg, but rarely. I suspect around his parents or something, and okay, so I've refused to have anything to do with the Sela Ward episodes, but I like my version better anyway. Wilson is always Wilson, except when he's being twelve and having a baseball star sign an autograph to Jimmy, and maybe to his wife, or normal people, he is James. Either way, nothing hurts me more than reading a paragraph with House and Wilson and House and James and Wilson and Greg. Pick one and stick with it. Nicknames hurt me, and I can't think of House as Greg for anything, but I'll take it, if you'll just stop using it randomly, because the other way just makes it sound like there are four people there instead of two.
4. Boys who cry like girls. Remember what I said up there at number one? Yeah, this is the same basic concept. Boys do not cry at the drop of a hat. You know what makes men cry, usually? Death. From time to time, birth, if they kid is theirs. I'm not saying there's not room for a few tears now and then. I'm saying that Harry Potter didn't cry when his godfather died, so chances are he's not going to burt into tears because Draco doesn't love him. So stop making him weep like a girl every chance you get. And as it turns out, I don't care that Draco crying is now canon or whatever. He's always been written like a little girl.
I leave it at four not because I don't have more, but because it's almost time for The Daily Show and I figure I've pissed enough people off. So let me just go ahead and say that the usual disclaimers do apply. All my opinion, you is a general term, and better people than I have done it all and done it well.
Random Things That Annoy Me In Fic Which I Would Like To Outlaw, Given The Opportunity, And Make Punishable By Public Stoning:
1) Boys talking about their feelings. Yeah, seriously. Stop it. You know why? Because they don't do it. No, really, they don't. Maybe it's just a redneck American thing, that anyone with a penis is taught to not show emotion. I don't care, really. It just stands that they do not stand there and talk about how they feel. If you can make it work? You've got my respect.
2) Lover. This word when used seriously? No. It makes me think of Will Ferrel. "Lov-ah" And that's just squicky. No one wants to be thinking of Will Ferrel in the middle of a Harry/Draco fic. Furthermore: There's the POV issue to contend with, because let me tell you something, unless House is being, well, House and a snarktastic pain in the ass, he would never, ever, ever think of Wilson or Chase or who the hell ever, as lover. It pains me to read.
3) Random use of random names. I know it's hard sometimes, I know that it's boring to type the same name over and over and over again. I know what it is to have a flaring distaste for pronouns and proper nouns. I know that the English language has kind of fucked the slash writers a little bit. But stop with the random name game thing. Please, please, I beg of you stop this, and House fandom, I'm especially looking at you. House is House, sometimes, House is Greg, but rarely. I suspect around his parents or something, and okay, so I've refused to have anything to do with the Sela Ward episodes, but I like my version better anyway. Wilson is always Wilson, except when he's being twelve and having a baseball star sign an autograph to Jimmy, and maybe to his wife, or normal people, he is James. Either way, nothing hurts me more than reading a paragraph with House and Wilson and House and James and Wilson and Greg. Pick one and stick with it. Nicknames hurt me, and I can't think of House as Greg for anything, but I'll take it, if you'll just stop using it randomly, because the other way just makes it sound like there are four people there instead of two.
4. Boys who cry like girls. Remember what I said up there at number one? Yeah, this is the same basic concept. Boys do not cry at the drop of a hat. You know what makes men cry, usually? Death. From time to time, birth, if they kid is theirs. I'm not saying there's not room for a few tears now and then. I'm saying that Harry Potter didn't cry when his godfather died, so chances are he's not going to burt into tears because Draco doesn't love him. So stop making him weep like a girl every chance you get. And as it turns out, I don't care that Draco crying is now canon or whatever. He's always been written like a little girl.
I leave it at four not because I don't have more, but because it's almost time for The Daily Show and I figure I've pissed enough people off. So let me just go ahead and say that the usual disclaimers do apply. All my opinion, you is a general term, and better people than I have done it all and done it well.
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I kid! I kid!
Thing is, I've got four brothers, and I've yet to see them honestly talk about jack shit that's got to do with an emotion without a fight. Though to be fair my family does fight a lot. It's how we burn calories. Anyway, so maybe it's just an environment thing, but really, I've not met a man or boy who is really into sitting down and telling you how they feel.
::hides from you::
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I also have a brother who won´t ever speak about his feelings, except for one or two moments when he actually did (he´s fifteen... I think... yeah, fifteen). It may be that the men I know are the exceptions of the rule, but the thing is I don´t think it´s a matter of being boy or girl, I think it has everything to do with the nature of the person. For example, you won´t ever hear me speaking about what I´m feeling, to no-one. Ever. And I´m a girl. My best male friend can´t be more clear about what his feelings are, and doesn´t have the slightest problem in saying them aloud.
Again, it´s the nature :P
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But yeah, a lot of it is nature, I agree with you there. Because while I'll accept Sirius at the bottom of the stairs in the middle of the night drunk off his arse and swearing his love for the world to hear, I'd never buy the same from Remus. Hell, you can do anything you please if you can make it work for the characters. ::shrugs::