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[farla]

You know what's worse than stupid, fawning reviews to pieces of junk? Stupid, fawning pretend constructive criticism that's full of bad advice and complements to to a piece of junk.

I hate my fandom so much.

Comments

[farla.livejournal.com]

^^ You should have seen the reviews she used to leave. Let me paraphrase.

Wow! You are a very talented author. I only noticed a few very very minor things which aren't bad in any way but could be made even better. I have a site (insert url) that has tutorials on writing which would help you.

I saw about a dozen of these. Then she reviewed on of my stories with, to paraphrase, Wow! You are a very talented author. This story is a very good tutorial thing. I have a site (insert url for everyone reading the story's reviews) that has tutorials on writing so could I put this there?

I bitched at her in the next chapter, telling her I have an email and to stop plugging the site. It seems she has.

Did I mention the tutorials are horrible? There's one listing all the different words you can use instead of 'said', for example, and saying not to use 'said'. I can just see it now.

"Hello Professor!" Gary Stu ejaculated.

"Why hello Gary Stu," the professor growled.

"I'm here for my first pokemon," Gary Stu asked.

"Oh, come over to the table," the professor screeched.

"Wow!" Gary Stu whispered.

...it's advice from a not-very-good author to even worse authors. The blind leading the blind.

[katei3.livejournal.com]

::falls over in helpless laugher::

I can see it now :)


"Which one do you want?" the professor trumpeted.

"Hmm. Bulbasaur," Gary Stu testified.

"Sorry. We're out of Bulbasaur," the professor asseverated.

"Oh. Then Charmander," Gary Stu avouched.

"Sorry, we're out of that too," the professor caterwauled. "But here; have a Mewtwo."

"My heavens! Thank you!" Gary Stu stridulated.



hehe.

Oh yes, I've noticed her various plugs as well. And her site is... Well, it's dedicated to her OC. That should say something at least.

You actually read it? 0_0

[(Anonymous)]

What was she thinking? Blue font on a black background?
I literally had to highlight everything. Thank GOD ff.net doesn't let you use colored font and backgrounds or else we might have stories where Suethors make their OTs have flashy rainbow names or make their font a bright pink on a black background. TOTUHLI PXNK!!

Re: You actually read it? 0_0

[farla.livejournal.com]

Ever seen light yellow text over complex images? Makes her look almost sane.

FFN used to allow you to choose the color and size of the words. If you look far enough back you can actually find some, with varying levels of readability. If it hadn't been stopped we'd probably be getting light pick on white by now. We'd also probably have half the readers going blind.

[wintersheir]

"Hello Professor!" Gary Stu ejaculated.

xDDD

*ahem* Anyway...I seriously feel your pain. TopazSelfInsert makes me ill... I used to read her stuff until it finally made my brain explode. Oi.

[farla.livejournal.com]

Yeah. The sad part is that for the pokemon fandom, she's a competent author. After reading all the other stories where the author has no clue, someone who can at least narrate properly, even if it's about a boring character, is worshiped. Anyone looks good in comparison.