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[farla]

The newest installment, this one answering the question of how they were going to keep complaining it isn't funny enough after hitting the author note saying that's not the point. Turns out parody means to tell many jokes, who knew? Also, the sporker's now figured out this is before gen five, although I don't think anyone's realized quite how much before it is.

We miss out on complaints about how the story of a kid getting a million cool pokemon for starting late is terrible, but the comments make up for it with their developing canon about my real views and statements I said at some point somewhere to their understanding. With luck, one of the commenters may even divine my true evil meaning even from the accepted chapter. Failing that, I'll just have to hope my newest fanfic provokes rage about my hypocrisy when I finally post it and ends up there as well.

Also Dragonfree attempted discussion under the impression they were reasoning folk. May she escape again with her sanity unscathed.

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[farla.livejournal.com]

It's good to have you back! And yeah, apparently this is one of those no it is you who are the sexism for thinking anything's wrong with a female character.

I'm really amazed too. I mean, I was looking at it a few months ago and thinking wow, I need to get rid of the stupid author notes, but now I want to go back in time and tell baby me that no, they need to be even longer.

I think it's specifically the pokemon fanfic crowd that are like this. The fanfic sporks seem to be held to a pretty low standard and really give off that "I'm not like the other writers" vibe. I was looking around at the other pokemon fics and there's stuff from her that opens with

The Ferris wheel rotated upwards higher and higher, finally reaching its peak at the top and then descending. Touko stared out the window, alone in the car. As she watched the whole of Unova increase and then decrease in size, she was brought back to the memory of the last time she was in that car.

She had ridden it with N, the person she despised the most.

Why, pray tell, do you despise N so much? I mean, I can see how he’d make you not-like his views, but to outwardly despise someone in his situation is a bit harsh.

To be frank, she hadn't hated him until she found out he was king of Team Plasma.

You may notice that a recurring theme in this story is how much Hilda hates everything about Team Plasma and thinks they’re monsters, all, it would seem, because that's What the Hero is Supposed to Do. (http://das-sporking.livejournal.com/266029.html)

So literally the next line it explains why she hates him, at which point the sporker starts going on about how the story failed to explain why it is a pokemon trainer would hate someone running an organization loudly saying pokemon training needs to be abolished and stealing people's pokemon to do so, and also assaulting pokemon on top of that. (And this despite hating me for saying anything that questions pokemon training!)

She hates something about the fanfic, therefore all must be mocked. This is the kind of attitude that killed the sporking communities. Once you do this, it's no longer about the fanfic actually being bad, it's just about how much you can make fun of. I think it's made a lot worse by the fact they won't link to to the original fanfic, so no one sees it without the commentary or the bits the sporker skips. I always saw that as an important check to this kind of thing.

[actonthat.livejournal.com]

Shh, I'm not really back yet. Technically no recreational computing for another week and a half.

Did you know silly women complaining about sexism are just overreacting? I sure didn't. Also, people who complain about the Elder Juniper leading his daughter around like a small child are just pissed that she "dared have a father who also was a Pokémon professor."

You know, Das was never really a feminist comm, but I have to say, I'm honestly shocked to see that left to its own devices, discourse will devolve into the "Don't get your panties in a bunch" crap that populates the rest of the internet, with a nice side of "women should be happy to be represented at all".

This is the reason moderation is a thing. I get that it's tough to mod a large comm, but how this wasn't the inevitable conclusion I'll never know.

[farla.livejournal.com]

I love how they won't shut up about her appearance while it is we who are demeaning women by objecting to the name.

[actonthat.livejournal.com]

I just... UGH. Sorry to keep spamming your inbox, but I have neither the patience or arm strength to deal with them right now, and I have to vent somehow:

Who the fuck in their right mind saw Cedric Juniper as anything other than a Big Strong Man to lead around the first female Professor because her ovaries prevented her from being involved in the story itself? I mean, couple the Ivy thing with the Juniper one and the fact that Gen V's female rival's plotline was for her to suck, give up, and go do something else... is he under the impression that this is all a big cosmic coincidence? And to top it off, we're talking about VIDEO GAME fandom here, at a time where the gaming community is repeatedly coming under fire for not-at-all-thinly-veiled attempts at alienating female fans... it's kind of a Big Thing right now.

And obviously, it's a guy. Just fucking obviously. As if anyone other than a hetero male would respond to an accusation of sexism by throwing their hands in the air and going, "WOMEN! UGH! Don't even know when they're being talked down to and when they're not!"

edit: God dammit, his ffNET profile explains so much. Motherfucker, this is why I can't tell anyone I'm Christian and favor states' rights!

[farla.livejournal.com]

And to top it off, we're talking about VIDEO GAME fandom here, at a time where the gaming community is repeatedly coming under fire for not-at-all-thinly-veiled attempts at alienating female fans... it's kind of a Big Thing right now.

Well, there's your answer, he already knows all the talking points for why those female characters are fine and the dumb girls are whining about absolutely nothing and are the real misogynists for not liking the characters.

Even in a discussion where apparently none of them were even there for Ivy's episode! His dick means he knows more on any subject than we do.

[actonthat.livejournal.com]

BUT FARLA THERE IS A TREE CALLED AN IVY TREE DUH WE'RE SUCH FOOLS. I'M SUCH A SILLY WIMMIN SOMETIMES I EVEN HEAR GALLOPING AND DON'T THINK IT'S ZEBRAS