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effervescible) wrote2004-05-23 08:58 pm
effervescible) wrote2004-05-23 08:58 pm
Bitch bitch bitchity-bitch
A brief pointer on what's good to put in an ffnet review and what makes you look like an ass.
Yes. Please do continue. ^^ If you were so original as to write this where it was Vash who did this to Meryl rather than Knives, I will officially put you on my favorites list ^^
Now, that first bit is just fine. It's the last sentence that pisses me off. First off, ducks, like it's any great shakes to be on your favorites list. I suppose I should make that a general "you", since it annoys me when anyone does that. Why do they do that? It seems...really arrogant to me, and a tad manipulative--or an attempt to be so. Reviews are good, reviews are great, but I don't look to them for guidance on how a story is going to go, nor do I think others should. If you don't even have your main plot worked out without help, odds are it's not a very good fic anyway.
Note also: asking to finish someone else's fic, or asking them to finish yours, is also pretty goddamned tacky. Jusy sayin'.
Okay, also? Wanting a warm, caring pacifist to rape one of his friends without believable fic to explain it well (which this particular fic does not have) is not being original. It's being so far off the canon as to make it somewhere near Pluto. Occam's razor, folks. I may think Knives is a virgin, but he is a hell of a lot more likely to end up a rapist than Vash is.
So you don't like a pairing. Fine. So you wish there were more fics that you liked instead of that pairing. Hello, welcome to my world when I joined the fandom. Great. But asking authors you don't know (on multiple occasions) is poor etiquette and makes you look like an ass.
Yes. Please do continue. ^^ If you were so original as to write this where it was Vash who did this to Meryl rather than Knives, I will officially put you on my favorites list ^^
Now, that first bit is just fine. It's the last sentence that pisses me off. First off, ducks, like it's any great shakes to be on your favorites list. I suppose I should make that a general "you", since it annoys me when anyone does that. Why do they do that? It seems...really arrogant to me, and a tad manipulative--or an attempt to be so. Reviews are good, reviews are great, but I don't look to them for guidance on how a story is going to go, nor do I think others should. If you don't even have your main plot worked out without help, odds are it's not a very good fic anyway.
Note also: asking to finish someone else's fic, or asking them to finish yours, is also pretty goddamned tacky. Jusy sayin'.
Okay, also? Wanting a warm, caring pacifist to rape one of his friends without believable fic to explain it well (which this particular fic does not have) is not being original. It's being so far off the canon as to make it somewhere near Pluto. Occam's razor, folks. I may think Knives is a virgin, but he is a hell of a lot more likely to end up a rapist than Vash is.
So you don't like a pairing. Fine. So you wish there were more fics that you liked instead of that pairing. Hello, welcome to my world when I joined the fandom. Great. But asking authors you don't know (on multiple occasions) is poor etiquette and makes you look like an ass.
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I'm sad to say, I can actually see that. She'd be all drunk and trampy, and he wouldn't be able to pull that "I'm passed out" thing he pulled with those hookers, because she wouldn't give up.
As for that last part, I got a review almost like that when I made Knives a virgin in my fic, except she was sure it was Legato. Who is pretty damned X-Files himself, if you ask me.
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"Meryl Stryfe, Bernardelli Super-Tramp"
Or maybe I'll just write an AU where she's a succubus and Vash is her (un)willing prey.
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There's probably a doujinshi with thatI've seen worse fic ideas.no subject
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KTHNX.