Random #21

[rodo]

☞ Before I forget it a fourth time: Many thanks to the anonymous person who gifted me with a paid DW account. I am incredibly grateful that I can edit comments again. I always manage to make a mistake, even if the damn thing is only three words long. Thank you!

☞ The Archive Roadmap needs to die a slow and painful death. It is evil, pure and utter evil. Betaing the translation was rather enlightening, though. The English language sucks. If you want to explain something very precisely, it just isn't the best option. German, on the other hand, is a rather precise language. Which leads to an insane amount of problems when translating. Gender is just one of those problems.

☞ Sometimes, the German fandom is really slow at picking things up. It took the Diana Gabaldon controversy about two weeks to reach ff.de. The strange part: A significant amount of fanwriters there a) want to be published some day and b) intend to be anti-fanfic when they are. I really, really don't get that attitude.

☞ Reading material in case you need something to be angry at. It's a ffrantsrants post about something more or less unimportant, but for some reason, people think using Hitler icons is A OK, even after being told that mockery and Hitler only go together when Hitler is the one being mocked. I'm desensitized and rather apathetic towards "grammar nazi", but I fully understand why it's NOT FUNNY. Giving "feminazi" as another example why it's okay to use "nazi" this way? NOT FUNNY EITHER!

☞ And now something NOTFUNNY that's actually funny.

Comments

[jaaaarne]

Actually, I can kind of relate to the "OMG what are you doing to my babies" part. I used to feel the same kind of jealousy when people had written about my favourite rare pairings. Sounds stupid in itself, but still. :) It's just this feeling that they're mine, all mine and nobody has the right to touch them, because nobody will know them and love them the way I do.

I don't know where this feeling comes from, and I certainly don't allow it to take over me, but it is always there, hovering in the shadows. That's probably the reason why I subconsciously choose the characters nobody else is interested in. :) That guarantees the jealousy monster to stay quiet and satisfied. The moment a character or a pairing becomes mainstream I start drifting away from them. I no longer feel they're mine. Most times it's one hell of a painful breakup, because I do love these characters and miss them badly. :/

So yeah, I really get the "OMG what are you doing to my babies" part. It's an angsty and a painful thing, and it's very strong. Still, it doesn't excuse hypocrisy. I just don't have any moral right to call someone a thief as long as I give people a reason to call me the same back. You either play by the rules, or you stop calling others out on not doing it.

[rodo]

I can relate to that too, not so much for fanfic characters because I often stick to popular characters and pairings and see what others do to them all the time, but I do write originals as well.

A feeling is a feeling and it's legitimate, but I expect people to use their minds before they react to such a thing. Yeah, if someone took my characters and did something ugly to them, it really wouldn't feel nice. I don't have to like it either. But that doesn't mean that other people shouldn't do something I don't like. I'm not the definite moral authority on anything, after all.

You either play by the rules, or you stop calling others out on not doing it.

That's pretty much it.