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Still pissed off. Reckon I'll direct my rage fannishly for the moment, since I totally get a free cancer pass. Sources of rage to exploit.
1. Callum Keith Rennie. Sure, he seems like a lovely dude and I've enjoyed many of his performances. But, if you are me, and almost entirely uninterested in him beyond occasionally enjoying his work, media fandom's obsession with the guy is annoying as fuck. And he's in everything that was ever made, so it's not like there's any place to escape it. Since many of my nearest and dearest friends are afflicted with this bizzare ailment, and I don't want to get rid of them, I feel the best solution is to set CKR on fire. Or push him off a cliff. I'm not picky. I'll even go for humane euthanasia if you don't try and stop me. Then we can all get on with the business of appreciating Far Superior Canadians.
2. Twitter. Again an absolutely baffling phenomenon engaged in by people who I adore beyond reason leaving me with the conviction that the proper solution here is to blow up the twitter servers with enough C4 that they never return. You'll get over it.
3. The vast majority of Torchwood fic SUCKS. It's BAD. And not even funny bad like that one with the space winnebago. Boring bad. That is, when it's not bashing Gwen for daring to have a vagina. I have wasted hours, no days, no months of my life on the search for good Torchwood fic, hours I can't get back. I resent that if I end up kicking it I will not get those hours back for more entertaining pursuits like clipping my toenails.
4. Shipwars and the like. What are you all? TWO? Knock it the fuck off. Your favorite pairing, character, actor are not special. Sorry. No, not even if you think they have canon basis. Not even if they do have canon basis. They are special to you, and that's awesome and all, but no one else is under any obligation to feel the same. Obsessively hating on characters, pairings, and actors and/or being mean, dismissive, or disrespectful to the people that love them is the equally shit side of the same coin. I realize this makes my 1. point up there hypocritical, but fuck you I have cancer. I'll set CKR on fire if I want to.
5. Graphic banners for vids should be outlawed. Mostly because, while several talented vidders use them, they are often the very pretty FALSE ADVERTISING for the absolute crap vid to follow. If you can spend that much time in Photoshop learning to blend, you can learn to cut on a damn beat. Also, I find them pointless even on very good vids, since the visual information I'm looking for should be in the vid. A nice short summary will do nicely, thank you.
6. Speaking of crap vids and crap fic, look, if you don't care to learn how to do these things properly, and you are having fun, more power to you. Go forth and fling form and standards to the wind and produce as much unwatchable or unreadable crap as your 4 a.m. sugar high allows. Have a good giggle with your friends. But for the love of Hugh, don't defend it by claiming it's just your style, and whine about how those awful meanies who actually, you know, want to learn a craft, are horrible people for pointing out that objective standards do exist. You're lazy, this kind of work bores you. Embrace it as a lifestyle choice. We'll all be happier for it.
I'm sure I have more things that piss me off, but I'm supposed to eat my nutritionally approved dinner right now. Feel free to rant away about anything that pisses you off in comments.
1. Callum Keith Rennie. Sure, he seems like a lovely dude and I've enjoyed many of his performances. But, if you are me, and almost entirely uninterested in him beyond occasionally enjoying his work, media fandom's obsession with the guy is annoying as fuck. And he's in everything that was ever made, so it's not like there's any place to escape it. Since many of my nearest and dearest friends are afflicted with this bizzare ailment, and I don't want to get rid of them, I feel the best solution is to set CKR on fire. Or push him off a cliff. I'm not picky. I'll even go for humane euthanasia if you don't try and stop me. Then we can all get on with the business of appreciating Far Superior Canadians.
2. Twitter. Again an absolutely baffling phenomenon engaged in by people who I adore beyond reason leaving me with the conviction that the proper solution here is to blow up the twitter servers with enough C4 that they never return. You'll get over it.
3. The vast majority of Torchwood fic SUCKS. It's BAD. And not even funny bad like that one with the space winnebago. Boring bad. That is, when it's not bashing Gwen for daring to have a vagina. I have wasted hours, no days, no months of my life on the search for good Torchwood fic, hours I can't get back. I resent that if I end up kicking it I will not get those hours back for more entertaining pursuits like clipping my toenails.
4. Shipwars and the like. What are you all? TWO? Knock it the fuck off. Your favorite pairing, character, actor are not special. Sorry. No, not even if you think they have canon basis. Not even if they do have canon basis. They are special to you, and that's awesome and all, but no one else is under any obligation to feel the same. Obsessively hating on characters, pairings, and actors and/or being mean, dismissive, or disrespectful to the people that love them is the equally shit side of the same coin. I realize this makes my 1. point up there hypocritical, but fuck you I have cancer. I'll set CKR on fire if I want to.
5. Graphic banners for vids should be outlawed. Mostly because, while several talented vidders use them, they are often the very pretty FALSE ADVERTISING for the absolute crap vid to follow. If you can spend that much time in Photoshop learning to blend, you can learn to cut on a damn beat. Also, I find them pointless even on very good vids, since the visual information I'm looking for should be in the vid. A nice short summary will do nicely, thank you.
6. Speaking of crap vids and crap fic, look, if you don't care to learn how to do these things properly, and you are having fun, more power to you. Go forth and fling form and standards to the wind and produce as much unwatchable or unreadable crap as your 4 a.m. sugar high allows. Have a good giggle with your friends. But for the love of Hugh, don't defend it by claiming it's just your style, and whine about how those awful meanies who actually, you know, want to learn a craft, are horrible people for pointing out that objective standards do exist. You're lazy, this kind of work bores you. Embrace it as a lifestyle choice. We'll all be happier for it.
I'm sure I have more things that piss me off, but I'm supposed to eat my nutritionally approved dinner right now. Feel free to rant away about anything that pisses you off in comments.