The Pit & Me, A Fractious OTP
May. 13th, 2006 08:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
timepiececlockIn a mood of bitchy whatever today I changed my profile page at The Pit. I decided I'd kept what was up there as the same for more than two years, and really, I didn't feel like scrolling past so much anymore. I was sad to ditch the quotes, but I wanted to simplify. Streamline. So I decided to put down my essential opinions about ff.net in two neat sentences, bold, and follow with my favorite unidentified quote.
I think I was feeling oddly inspired by this picture (though I hadn't been to that particular site in a long time), combined with a general irritation at people who can't take critical reviews without their brains and sense of manners exploding. They just bug me. And hell, criticism is usually only about 10-15% of the reviews I leave when I'm reading fanfic.
So there it is. Simple, to the point, and not requiring any further explanation on my part, I hope. This way when I write a review complaining about bad rape fic or using Japanese suffixes for American cartoon characters, they can float their irritated asses over to my FF.Net account, observe my bio page, and know I really don't give a crap if I hurt their best friends' feelings and scared her away from fanfiction forever just because I pointed out that she has terrible dialogue.
So...yeah. Bitchy. Really don't know where that came from, since I haven't actually had that particular internet experience in at least a month.
Must be because I have to houseclean tonight. I hate housecleaning.
Edit:
You know what I'm going to do tomorrow night?
I'm going to make a scatterplot of my number of fics versus reviews. Then I'm going to use it as my userpicture at ff.net. Then I'll finally be able to point people somewhere when they threaten to stop writing if they don't get X number of reviews. I'll be like, "Talk to the scatterplot, not to the face."
I think I was feeling oddly inspired by this picture (though I hadn't been to that particular site in a long time), combined with a general irritation at people who can't take critical reviews without their brains and sense of manners exploding. They just bug me. And hell, criticism is usually only about 10-15% of the reviews I leave when I'm reading fanfic.
So there it is. Simple, to the point, and not requiring any further explanation on my part, I hope. This way when I write a review complaining about bad rape fic or using Japanese suffixes for American cartoon characters, they can float their irritated asses over to my FF.Net account, observe my bio page, and know I really don't give a crap if I hurt their best friends' feelings and scared her away from fanfiction forever just because I pointed out that she has terrible dialogue.
So...yeah. Bitchy. Really don't know where that came from, since I haven't actually had that particular internet experience in at least a month.
Must be because I have to houseclean tonight. I hate housecleaning.
Edit:
You know what I'm going to do tomorrow night?
I'm going to make a scatterplot of my number of fics versus reviews. Then I'm going to use it as my userpicture at ff.net. Then I'll finally be able to point people somewhere when they threaten to stop writing if they don't get X number of reviews. I'll be like, "Talk to the scatterplot, not to the face."
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Date: 2006-05-15 01:05 am (UTC)Well, by the tone of your review, you seemed angry. What with stating how you were taking her off your alert list and deciding to no longer review. But I get it now. Yes, irritation seems more logical. It's just that when I read this: Then I'll finally be able to point people somewhere when they threaten to stop writing if they don't get X number of reviews. I took that as a hint that you were still hung up about that little ordeal.
I used to be one of those fanbrats who wanted a certain amount of reviews and I hate myself for it. I no longer do that though, and I frown at anyone who does. I can't say I'm not a review whore though. Yes, I will keep writing despite the few reviews I may get, but reviews are a source of confidence to me, and also encouragement. However, I try to find confidence within myself because lately, reviews have become nothing but either mindless praise or mindless criticism. Never something that actually digs deep down inside the story and pulls out every essence of the reader's enjoyment. It's always the traditional "Update soon!!1!" thing. Very rarely do I get a review that goes far into detail and recaps certain moments of the story that the reader found most pleasurable or not so pleasurable. So yeah, I no longer really rely on reviews to give me confindence. I just push myself to keep going. I used to enjoy mindless praise, but not so much anymore.
Hey, I've got plenty of things that annoy me as well, and I'm not the sort of person to just bite my tongue and move on. And this gets me caught up in a lot of internet arguments a lot, which makes me feel twice as shitty.