I Must Be Part Masochist
Jul. 31st, 2007 08:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
evaine_ljLooking for a chuckle, I headed over to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fuckyou_fandom thanks to a post by looking_spiffy. I don't know why I do this to myself. Sporking, anon or otherwise, truly gets under my skin in the worst way. But that's for another rant.
Today's rant? People, if you're going to criticise authors, no matter how bad they may be, you'd look a fuck of a lot more credible if you knew where the "shift" key was on your keyboard as well as learning to spell, punctuate and NOT use fucking chat-speak! I'm sorry... I can't take anyone who does chat-speak seriously. It screams ignorance (in the true sense of the word) to me. And when people who profess to be writers use it, be they amateur or not, it just makes it that much worse. Where's the pride in your OWN words? In my honest opinion, you are no better than the people you're flaming. I mean, Jesus Christ on a pogo stick, people! It's as if you're criticising someone's new haircut while your own snarl of matted locks haven't been washed in 3 weeks. Quite possibly the would-be writers you're calling out (behind a veil of anonymity) are the worst things fandom has ever seen, but your opinions carry no weight with me because your writing is just as awful.
Yes, I'm old, cranky and anal... and my fucking feet hurt!
fuckyou_fandom thanks to a post by looking_spiffy. I don't know why I do this to myself. Sporking, anon or otherwise, truly gets under my skin in the worst way. But that's for another rant.Today's rant? People, if you're going to criticise authors, no matter how bad they may be, you'd look a fuck of a lot more credible if you knew where the "shift" key was on your keyboard as well as learning to spell, punctuate and NOT use fucking chat-speak! I'm sorry... I can't take anyone who does chat-speak seriously. It screams ignorance (in the true sense of the word) to me. And when people who profess to be writers use it, be they amateur or not, it just makes it that much worse. Where's the pride in your OWN words? In my honest opinion, you are no better than the people you're flaming. I mean, Jesus Christ on a pogo stick, people! It's as if you're criticising someone's new haircut while your own snarl of matted locks haven't been washed in 3 weeks. Quite possibly the would-be writers you're calling out (behind a veil of anonymity) are the worst things fandom has ever seen, but your opinions carry no weight with me because your writing is just as awful.
Yes, I'm old, cranky and anal... and my fucking feet hurt!
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on 2007-08-02 12:29 pm (UTC)But I wanted to say - I didn't by ANY means do more than skim the original comments, it was rare that I threaded to read all the responses. God, I felt like I was in high school - or middle school - most of the time. *LOL*
And I didn't get to watch the results show - being here at the motel, I have no way to tape and watch something else or do my favorite TV-watching thing of time-shifting, so I had to make a choice between Big Brother (yes, I'm addicted to that too) and the results show. Seeing as I can find out the results online, that's what I do. I was THRILLED to see that finally Martha Joy was sent packing! No more Celine Dionish clones left! YAY!!!!