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[griping about people ranting on fic] I've been sick enough that I was too dead to vent about this but someone else reminded me about it so hahah here we go.
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all fanfic by default is never going to be as good as properly published original works!
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Complaining that "otherwise good fic" does not fit your oh-so-high standard of not using epithets is stupidly nitpicky when no one is getting paid for this!
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go buy and read a real book and complain about those having epithets instead!
moontouched
thou payest not my sub and all that
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Just
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giving up on a fic you say is "otherwise good" because the writer dared to indicate a character by their hair color
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Is incredibly stupidly picky.
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god I also find people who complain about that stuff is so needlessly nitpicky? like they saw people complain about ~fic tropes once
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and then they decided that every usage is bad, always
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writing rules don't work like that in the first place! you probably wouldn't even notice if it was used a couple times in a full-length professionally published work!!
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Narration isn't real thoughts! Even in the first person!
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Especially going "would you think about this person by their hair color instead of their name?"
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Yes! people do in fact do that!
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And this is how nicknames happen!
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One of my cousins is "Rojo" because he grows a red beard!
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Clearly we are thinking about him as the "redhaired one" for him to end up explicitly labelled such.
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LMAO RIGHT!!!! it's normal! and a normal indicator!
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redheaded people being called "red" as a nickname is VERY COMMON actually
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We regularly evaluate people as being older or younger than oneself or others we know!
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Epithets happen in fiction because they're a shortcut to how we think!
doll's eyes 👁️
the little red-heades girl
doll's eyes 👁️
Actual kings got called that!
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To make it clear how ridiculous this is, I'm still in Naruto hell. This person is complaining about fanfic for a series that was originally intended for middle school aged children not holding up to published traditional literature standards.
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They have also had some interesting takes before this like saying that unless the names have specifically gendered parts to them, most Japanese names are perfectly unisex when I said one name was more actively gendered than the rest in a set.
doll's eyes 👁️
I... don't think that's true...
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It isn't.
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Even names that are 'unisex' usually tend to favor one gender over another and this was one where it's very much the case.
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(The name being Hinata.)
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But mostly it's just...
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Go read real books if you're going to be this picky!
ᴇʟɪsᴀsᴜᴇ 💉
yeah like.... I personally don't like to use epithets but you know what I won't do? complain about them on the free fanfic I read for free by a person who wrote it for free
ᴇʟɪsᴀsᴜᴇ 💉
and why leave criticism when it's not specifically requested lol that's just rude
sᴡᴀᴍᴘᴄᴀᴛ ғᴇᴠᴇʀ
this person sounds like a real peach at parties
July, July
Oh no, lol, this was a whole blasting rant at a whole subreddit, which makes it more in "seriously entitled and clueless" rather than specifically rude to a single person.
sᴡᴀᴍᴘᴄᴀᴛ ғᴇᴠᴇʀ
oof
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Especially since uh... God this makes me feel horribly egotistic but I'm definitely one of the best writers on that whole sub.
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ᴇʟɪsᴀsᴜᴇ 💉
: Yeah. Like, if I went full do your drafting and polishing, I'd barely have any in my fics at all, but I am not putting that amount of effort in for something I'm writing for fun!
ᴇʟɪsᴀsᴜᴇ 💉
yeah!!! it's just for fun?!?! you can do whatever you want and put in as much or little effort as you want
July, July
no one is getting paid here, including the betas!