I should probably unsubscribe from fanfictionrants ...

[blamebrampton]

In breaking news, someone said something silly on the internet. Full story at nine.

I just had to physically restrain myself from replying to a very nice person who had written a well-worded rant complaining that people writing Star Wars fics continually give the characters stupid dialogue and idiotic reasoning skills.

My response: 'Surely that's canon?' would not have contributed meaningfully to the conversation.

Bedtime, life is chaos, deadline filled with madness. Back to the world shortly with news about fire recovery and HP10K and more ...

Comments

[pingrid.livejournal.com]

Ha! Most DEFinitely canon! :D There should also be instructions that all fics should be read with a certain stiffness and lack of passion.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

And in an assumed accent!

[pingrid.livejournal.com]

Absolutely! No one is allowed to speak in a manner that could be mistaken for natural.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

At least a load of Australian and New Zealand film folk made enough to live on for a few years ...

[salixbabylon.livejournal.com]

Perhaps not constructive but I certainly share your sentiment. And this from someone who has written in that fandom. ;)

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Poor George Lucas ... he is a very good producer, if only he didn;t want to be a writer, too.

[leela-cat.livejournal.com]

But it is canon, and fanfic is supposed to fix as well as extend canon.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

That is a good point!

[norton-gale.livejournal.com]

Have I ever told you about G and his reliance on the "Jedi Mind Trick?" :D

[potteresque_ire]

He knows it? Can he teach me? :D

[norton-gale.livejournal.com]

Basically, you just say something so convincingly that the other person believes it. Unfortunately I don't think it works on me,as I'm naturally skeptical and questioning. ;)

[potteresque_ire]

Definitely true in professional setting though, I'd say. Add some pretty Excel presentation and it can become the word of God!! :D

[norton-gale.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, and Powerpoint slides with pretty graphs!

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Every now and then, G cracks me up.

[norton-gale.livejournal.com]

Have I ever told you about his seventh-grade invention of Xeroxeus, the Greek god of plagiarism (Roman name Mimeo)? That is one of my favorite G stories.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Ooh! That's very very good, he should be rightly proud.

[norton-gale.livejournal.com]

His teacher wrongfully accused him of copying a presentation from a children's magazine, so when it came time to dress up like a Greek god and tell the god's story, he chose to assume the identity of "Xeroxeus."

As the myth goes, Xeroxeus was created by Hephaestus in response to a challenge by the mighty Zeus, who claimed to be the only god capable of generating others. Though Hephaestus eventually met the challenge, he was not the cleverest or most creative of the immortals, and the god he forged, Xeroxeus, was modeled on different parts of other gods, Frankenstein-like.

The temple of Xeroxeus is long gone, but it is said to be a copy of other Greek temples. Xeroxeus only achieved minor status in Greece, but Mimeo, his Roman counterpart, was a major deity - because the Romans copied so much from the Greeks. ;)

[potteresque_ire]

Fanfictionrants have very interesting posts... the rants are sometimes about the funniest and craziest things but certainly a few posters are quite aggressive :D. Definitely not a writing discussion platform, I'd say :D

[alisanne.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I used to watch FFrants but I had to leave. They made me too upset and it's a VERY active community, so they spammed my FLIST big time. :/

[uminohikari.livejournal.com]

Well, fics are also supposed to improve upon canon in some people's views?

[ant-queen.livejournal.com]

http://xkcd.com/386/

[drgaellon]

No, probably not, because the ranter is unlikely to stop and think rationally about your statement... regardless of its unerring accuracy. Star Wars is canonized in sci-fi fandom because it was FIRST, not because it was especially GOOD, especially in light of (1) later works in its own universe (can you say "Jar-Jar Binks"? I knew you could) and (2) later works in the broader category which have surpassed it.

[meredyth-13.livejournal.com]

Totally canon - so says a very OLD SW fan.

*dusts off buns*

[grey-hunter.livejournal.com]

Do not want... (although that's not quite canon)

But I'll never forget the universal and a little embarrassed laughter in the cinema during ep. II. when Anakin Skywalker was standing on the balcony, showing off his sexy bow legs and said, "I dreamt of my mother" (or something similar, at any rate), following right behind that sweaty and moan-y shot of him in bed...

I think, if I posted at fanficrants, it'd be about the fandoms in which even the best authors have attrocious spelling. But then I'd realise that I've actually only seen two fandoms where good spelling was standard rather than an anomaly. *sigh*

[bryoneybrynn.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm way behind on commnets but this made me laugh. It IS canon! It IS!!!