Authors, Part 1
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farlaSo last time the problem was that it seemed unrepresentative to just post the crazy PMs, so I started trying to list the sane to give them credit, only it was hard to be consistent because there's such a range, and anyway it took way too long.
This year, I'm just going to post the PMs. Those who are crazy will be known by the fruits of their ramblings, and the prose of the sane shall mark them as as our respected kin.
Name: Evoim3
Profile: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2307782/
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Subject: re: Your review to Pokemon Trainers
A response to your review at http://www.fanfiction.net/r/5860493/
no, once you read the first chapter you will understand, it will explain that
pokemon trainers i nthis world not only can train pokemon but can use their
own type in battle with the dark trainers-if you can wait patiently for an
hour or two then you will understand. Btw no im not going wastre my time
writing out numbers as words -_-
So, basically what you'd expect.
Name: StarPixles8809
Profile: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1906388/
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Subject: thank you
thank you for you're review on Shooting Stars, and I promise to do everything
you said to help me become a better writer.
()()
(^-^)
((")(")happy Easter, Farla.
-Star
Name: Aj the Psychic
Profile: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2308514/
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Subject: re: Your review to Child's Play
A response to your review at http://www.fanfiction.net/r/5861718/
Just a friendly FYI, you repeated a sentence [And if you're breaking up a
sentence in the middle, it's "Hi. This," he said, "is it." And if
you're
breaking up a sentence in the middle, it's "Hi. This," he said, "is
it."].
Also, i don't think i understand what you mean by "sues" since i am not
familiar with the lingo of this site. Secondly, i should have explained the
"studying" part better. The answer to your question is that they don't care,
they already know why (or at least have a good theory). And last of all, i
agree, i need to improve the dialogue by a lot and I'm sorry you find it
boring.
Thank you for your time
That one's interesting. I wonder how it happened.
Title: Cripples
Chapter: 1
Story URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5860821/1/
Author URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1754542/
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Thank you for the review. You made quite a few good points. The only thing I
disagreed with was the capitalization issue. I'm pretty sure it was meant to
be capitalized.
However, everything else makes sense. I didn't think this through as well as I
thought. I will certainly be changing things due to your critique. Once I've
done so, I'd be honored if you would come back and read it again. Good
reviewers are hard to come by here.
As you can see, I apparently managed to breach the walls of the universe and connect to bizarro-FFN for a while, and read the stories of sane and reasonable authors.
Name: RedHerring1290
Profile: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2224462/
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Subject: An overview of a pitiful review
Dear Farla,
I'm a good friend with the author of Silver's Kiss and the new sequel,
Silver's Star, which you recently wrote a review for. As a friend I feel
obliged to point out the follies in your madness. All you did was insult a
single aspect of the story's grammar over and over again. You're only other
criticism was that it was boring and had nothing really to do with pokemon.
Maybe you didn't read the first author's note, but it was sequel. Did you even
bother to read the first story? Do you even know who Silver is?
First things first; you criticized the grammar for most of the review. What's
wrong with criticizing grammar? Nothing at all. However, you couldn't find any
obvious mistakes so you focused on a set of obscure rules that few people pay
attention to or even notice. This results in a long, pointless, review that
does nothing but confuse the reader. Instead of nitpicking over whether or not
such and such has a comma or this and that should be separate sentences, you
should have focused on whether or not the story flowed smoothly which in this
case it pulled off without a hitch.
Next, let's discuss you're lack of common sense. It is Common Sense to read
the first story in a series before reading the second. It is Common Sense to
realize that just because a story moves slowly doesn't mean it was boring. It
is Common Sense (to Pokemon fans at least) that Silver is not only a major
character in several of the Pokemon games, but in some of the magna as well.
To say that this story has nothing to do with Pokemon is absurd. Did you even
catch the reference to the Almia region or to the Pokemon Rangers? How can you
claim this has nothing to do with Pokemon if you don't even have the slightest
recognition of those names? Furthermore, how can you even call yourself a fan?
Upon final review of your review, I find it pointless and against the very
ethics set up by this site. A review is meant to point out legitimate errors
within a story or writing style in order to help that author become a better
writer and to congratulate that person when he or she does well. Where's
your sense of fairness? You failed to mention a single good quality and you
didn't even have the respect to flame. At least you can understand a flame.
My final judgment is that you posses a mental illness known as pigheadedness.
I prescribe a dose of reality supplemented with a dash of decency.
Yours truly,
RedHerring1290
PS. If you don't provide an adequate response, I'll just assume that
I've won the argument. There isn't any fun in that, so please give it your
best shot.
Unfortunately, it turned out to be the universe's April Fools.
Bonus crazy can be found on their profile, which opens:
Hello my name is... Oh yeah, my pen name is RedHerring1290, but you already knew that...
IRREGARDLESS!! I'm male, 17 years old, currently not in a relationship, and do not want to be. Females are an abyss of emotion that slowly but surely swallow your sense of individuality and ability to think rationally. Sort of like Sirens sucking out the souls of unfortunate sailors, or Liberals using the courts to take our Constitutional rights away, but I digress...
So yeah.
On the brighter side I'm already getting cool reviews again. This time it's a set on Ice. It's quite possibly a total coincidence, but still.
Also, dragcave has recently upgraded to batshit wankery. If you've ever thought authors were unbelievably thin-skinned and whiny? Look upon that thread and know that we fanficcers got off lightly.
This year, I'm just going to post the PMs. Those who are crazy will be known by the fruits of their ramblings, and the prose of the sane shall mark them as as our respected kin.
Name: Evoim3
Profile: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2307782/
--------------------
Subject: re: Your review to Pokemon Trainers
A response to your review at http://www.fanfiction.net/r/5860493/
no, once you read the first chapter you will understand, it will explain that
pokemon trainers i nthis world not only can train pokemon but can use their
own type in battle with the dark trainers-if you can wait patiently for an
hour or two then you will understand. Btw no im not going wastre my time
writing out numbers as words -_-
So, basically what you'd expect.
Name: StarPixles8809
Profile: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1906388/
--------------------
Subject: thank you
thank you for you're review on Shooting Stars, and I promise to do everything
you said to help me become a better writer.
()()
(^-^)
((")(")happy Easter, Farla.
-Star
Name: Aj the Psychic
Profile: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2308514/
--------------------
Subject: re: Your review to Child's Play
A response to your review at http://www.fanfiction.net/r/5861718/
Just a friendly FYI, you repeated a sentence [And if you're breaking up a
sentence in the middle, it's "Hi. This," he said, "is it." And if
you're
breaking up a sentence in the middle, it's "Hi. This," he said, "is
it."].
Also, i don't think i understand what you mean by "sues" since i am not
familiar with the lingo of this site. Secondly, i should have explained the
"studying" part better. The answer to your question is that they don't care,
they already know why (or at least have a good theory). And last of all, i
agree, i need to improve the dialogue by a lot and I'm sorry you find it
boring.
Thank you for your time
That one's interesting. I wonder how it happened.
Title: Cripples
Chapter: 1
Story URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5860821/1/
Author URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1754542/
--------------------
Thank you for the review. You made quite a few good points. The only thing I
disagreed with was the capitalization issue. I'm pretty sure it was meant to
be capitalized.
However, everything else makes sense. I didn't think this through as well as I
thought. I will certainly be changing things due to your critique. Once I've
done so, I'd be honored if you would come back and read it again. Good
reviewers are hard to come by here.
As you can see, I apparently managed to breach the walls of the universe and connect to bizarro-FFN for a while, and read the stories of sane and reasonable authors.
Name: RedHerring1290
Profile: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2224462/
--------------------
Subject: An overview of a pitiful review
Dear Farla,
I'm a good friend with the author of Silver's Kiss and the new sequel,
Silver's Star, which you recently wrote a review for. As a friend I feel
obliged to point out the follies in your madness. All you did was insult a
single aspect of the story's grammar over and over again. You're only other
criticism was that it was boring and had nothing really to do with pokemon.
Maybe you didn't read the first author's note, but it was sequel. Did you even
bother to read the first story? Do you even know who Silver is?
First things first; you criticized the grammar for most of the review. What's
wrong with criticizing grammar? Nothing at all. However, you couldn't find any
obvious mistakes so you focused on a set of obscure rules that few people pay
attention to or even notice. This results in a long, pointless, review that
does nothing but confuse the reader. Instead of nitpicking over whether or not
such and such has a comma or this and that should be separate sentences, you
should have focused on whether or not the story flowed smoothly which in this
case it pulled off without a hitch.
Next, let's discuss you're lack of common sense. It is Common Sense to read
the first story in a series before reading the second. It is Common Sense to
realize that just because a story moves slowly doesn't mean it was boring. It
is Common Sense (to Pokemon fans at least) that Silver is not only a major
character in several of the Pokemon games, but in some of the magna as well.
To say that this story has nothing to do with Pokemon is absurd. Did you even
catch the reference to the Almia region or to the Pokemon Rangers? How can you
claim this has nothing to do with Pokemon if you don't even have the slightest
recognition of those names? Furthermore, how can you even call yourself a fan?
Upon final review of your review, I find it pointless and against the very
ethics set up by this site. A review is meant to point out legitimate errors
within a story or writing style in order to help that author become a better
writer and to congratulate that person when he or she does well. Where's
your sense of fairness? You failed to mention a single good quality and you
didn't even have the respect to flame. At least you can understand a flame.
My final judgment is that you posses a mental illness known as pigheadedness.
I prescribe a dose of reality supplemented with a dash of decency.
Yours truly,
RedHerring1290
PS. If you don't provide an adequate response, I'll just assume that
I've won the argument. There isn't any fun in that, so please give it your
best shot.
Unfortunately, it turned out to be the universe's April Fools.
Bonus crazy can be found on their profile, which opens:
Hello my name is... Oh yeah, my pen name is RedHerring1290, but you already knew that...
IRREGARDLESS!! I'm male, 17 years old, currently not in a relationship, and do not want to be. Females are an abyss of emotion that slowly but surely swallow your sense of individuality and ability to think rationally. Sort of like Sirens sucking out the souls of unfortunate sailors, or Liberals using the courts to take our Constitutional rights away, but I digress...
So yeah.
On the brighter side I'm already getting cool reviews again. This time it's a set on Ice. It's quite possibly a total coincidence, but still.
Also, dragcave has recently upgraded to batshit wankery. If you've ever thought authors were unbelievably thin-skinned and whiny? Look upon that thread and know that we fanficcers got off lightly.
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Date: 2010-04-03 04:59 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2010-04-04 04:31 am (UTC)I like the implication here that YOU are being disrespectful because HE doesn't understand your review.
All of that stuff about individuality and rational thought swallowed down an abyss of female emotion loses a little power when you're defending a Silver/Sue romance fic...seriously
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