Authors, Part Two

[farla]

Name: Anti-Heart
Profile: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2641305/
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Subject: re: Your review to Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Halo Wings

A response to your review at http://www.fanfiction.net/r/6614420/

Thank you for your feedback, it'll be of great help to me in future chapters.
^^

My capatilizing of the Pokémon species is a habit of mine, so I'll be sure to
double check my work for any of those upper case letters that don't belong.
:)

And as for dialogue, I was actually unaware that I had been typing it
incorrectly all this time. So this is immensely helpful.

Name: CherryKitten13
Profile: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2061613/
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Subject: re: Your review to Inside Out and Upside Down

Thank you for your review. I found it helpful.

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You have received a private message from:

Name: WhatHappenedToSilver
Profile: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2679634/
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Subject: re: Your review to What Happened To Silver

Thank you for the advice. But I'm basing this fanfic off of the storyline from
Gold, Silver, && Crystal. In the game, Gold comes back to find that Silver
stole a Pokemon from Elm's lab. So my story is a twist, where Gold persuades
him not to take it, just to recieve it.
&& sorry! ^.^; I'll stop doing this "&&" from now on.

Title: Pokemon Ranger: Ruins of Techa
Chapter: 1
Story URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6616078/1/
Author URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2487249/
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Thanks for your review!
Sorry about all of the capitalization mistakes...:P

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You have received a reply from the author, Kballkdball, regarding the review
you posted for:

Title: Maggie: Surfer, Coordinator, Legend In The Making
Chapter: 1
Story URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6615195/1/
Author URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2021920/
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I finished this chapter either New Year's Eve or New Year's day. I can't even
remember. I AM WORKING on a chapter that wasn't published with me half-asleep.
It's going to be much longer than the original, you just have to be PATIENT.

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Name: Jon Enriquez
Profile: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2677725/
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Subject: re: Your review to Stranger Than Fiction: Book One

A response to your review at http://www.fanfiction.net/r/6615418/

Yes I was well aware it was against the rules, however if you had just waited
another half hour, my story was posted just after you wrote your review, so I
apologize for my mistake.

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Name: Naranne
Profile: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1774434/
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Subject: re: Your review to Dear Diary

A response to your review at http://www.fanfiction.net/r/6616123/

Thank-you for your comments, and I am genuinely sorry that the content of this
fic offended you. But then, you might say that if I were genuinely sorry that
it offended someone, I never would have written it in the first place. And if
you were to say that, you'd probably have a very good point. This fic began as
a quick bit of stress relief, and none of it has been edited extensively --
or, heck, even given more than a skim read for grammar. It was written
completely on the fly. However, I'll also let it be known right now that I'm
not going to try and pick a fight, despite how you've kind of mixed criticism
with flames.

The point about capitalisation of pokemon/Pokemon is an interesting one,
because no, whilst I wouldn't capitalise animal or mouse or dragon, I've
always viewed Pokemon slightly differently. This might be in error, but here
is my reasoning. (It's probably also a bad habit.) Pokemon is not in the
strictest sense a proper noun, but I think the reason why I have fallen into
capitalising it is that we see it a lot AS a proper noun, even where it isn't.
I'm rambling, sorry. In short, this is something I'll have to go back and have
a look at, and determine exactly where I should keep those capitals. Thank-you
for pointing it out. Even though it should have been obvious.

As far as the period joke goes, for one, I couldn't remember whether I could
make the site use strike-out (can I?), so it didn't come off quite as
intended. Doesn't change the content, though, so as to that: I am female, and
I act like a right total bitch on my period, and I don't think that it is that
big an issue that it needs to be censored out. I think that were it said by a
male character it would carry entirely different weight and connotations, but
said by Misty it is almost a family in-joke. It's like me calling another
European a wog, versus a totally Anglo-Saxon person calling a European a wog.
I understand that it can still offend, but it's that fine line that people
choose to continually tread in fiction with these sorts of things. Call me
politically incorrect, but I'm still going to choose to walk it and leave that
line in.

Right. "I have long held the suspicion that James was not completely straight"
is an entirely different thing. Or perhaps a highly amplified and much more
sensitive version of the period joke issue. And I am definitely well aware of
the fact that dressing like a girl does not make you gay. Nor does dressing
like a guy make you a lesbian. That's like saying you have to be gay to be a
hairdresser, or, you know, gay to work in costuming. My personal opinion that
James might be gay, or bi, is not based on the fact that he wears girls
clothing. I toy with the idea that Ash might be gay, or Brock might be gay,
and you know what: with those characters, there isn't the same issue, because
of the way they are portrayed. They don't appear stereotypically "gay" so in
toying with those ideas, you don't run the same risk of being labelled
homophobic as with James. James is portrayed in certain parts of the anime as
a very stereotypically camp/gay character, and really, if you get right down
to it, that can be seen as homophobic as well. And yes, someone could
constantly say shit about Jessie wearing male outfits and how it's obviously a
sign she's a lesbian, but that would be the ONLY sign, and it wouldn't exactly
be what you'd call accurate. If I'm going to explore a character's sexuality
properly, I'm not going to base a sexual identity crisis or what have you on a
stupid reason like that.

I'm not trying to say that what I've written doesn't have the chance to
offend, or that it doesn't need changing and revising, but I felt as though
you were labelling ME homophobic, and so I felt I had to establish where I was
coming from, even if my fic dealt with the issue in a bad way. Because you're
right, being gay and wearing girls clothing are not the same thing, and upon
reflection it certainly sounds like that's what I'm insinuating in my fic. Nor
does listening to Gaga make you gay. Just the same as listening to death metal
doesn't guarantee you're straight.

So please, don't try and patronise me. Although, to be fair, this fic probably
makes me sound like I need patronising. I hope that I have established that I
suffer from a bad case of "need to actually think about what I've written
before posting it", and I'd like to point out that I'm not homophobic in the
slightest. Sorry for the essay, but tearing something to shreds takes a lot
less words than explaining your stance on an issue like this.

Thanks for your compliment about how it was written, by the way. It's a good
thing that content is a lot easier to change than style. *grin*

I'm not quite sure whether to thank you for the flames mixed in with your
criticism, though. Hopefully I've made my position quite clear.

Naranne

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Comments

[charizamdc.livejournal.com]

Yes I was well aware it was against the rules, however if you had just waited another half hour, my story was posted just after you wrote your review, so I
apologize for my mistake.

Personally, I've really gotten into the habit of hitting F5 for half an hour before I review something. People say I'm wasting my time, but I've never had more fun!

[farla.livejournal.com]

Yeah, of defenses that's one of the more bizarre ones.