*takes a deep breath* And this is why I deliberately keep myself as a fandom recluse (don't go to kotorfanmedia.com, don't go to kotorfanmedia). No exposure to whiny fanbrats, no exposure to godawful fanfic, and my health/sanity is all the better for it.
Heh... I understand completely. I have to say though that the mods on both sites are fantastic people. When trouble started brewing over on kfm (http://www.kotorfanmedia.com/) the mods backed me up, and have been amazingly cool about my reviews. They’ve tried to put a lid on all the nonsense, although since that blow up there has been another incident (over my review for the Morgana story linked below), which they quickly shut down. I suspect that there will be more in the future though, since the animosity seems to grow, and I simply refuse to stop leaving my reviews because some overly sensitive people are pissed off at me.
I've been informed that there is actually a group of writers who have been bitching to the mods about me, which is kind of hilarious really. The thing is that at least 80% of all my reviews are entirely positive, so I'm not sure where all this animosity is coming from, other than these people have no clue as to what constructive criticism really is. I’m not certain, but I think this review (http://kotorfanmedia.com/story/jiara/questions-of-character-chapter-6/) might be the review that started my anti-fan club (even though no one said anything at the time - I think this is the review that Lady Viola was referring to when she jumped in my shit over Caritas O’s story), because this author is extremely popular in both her writing and on the message boards. It has to be that review, because other than a negative review of a male Revan story (which I highly doubt any of these Carth fangirls read), all of my comments on kfm before the big blowup in Caritas O's story had been almost entirely positive (unless I'm forgetting something).
Oh, screw it. Can you link me to the worst offenders of OOC Canderous? Or OOC, period?
Most of the stuff I've read lately is actually pretty decent. I haven't seen many examples of OOC Canderous recently, since there don't seem to be a lot of fics with him in it. The biggest OOC offenders that I've seen lately are boneheaded Carth (http://kotorfanmedia.com/story/jiara/questions-of-character-chapter-1/) (because Carth would totally be stupid enough to give Revan a diamond ring from TELOS), and super forgiving Morgana (http://kotorfanmedia.com/story/jiara/the-gift/) (because, you know, that the afterlife makes everyone as forgiving as Jesus). Interestingly rose70 aka meraviglia has a wonderful version (http://www.livejournal.com/users/rose70/7924.html#cutid1) of Morgana and Carth having that kind of conversation that is far more realistic.
These fics are far from god awful... but they have some serious characterization issues. Actually, my comment for the Morgana fic spawned some silliness from a poster named Phantom who took offense and attacked me and my review. The author herself weighed in, and I could tell that she was extremely pissed off at me (which is actually kind of rare, since the authors are generally far more gracious than their readers are). The mods deleted both of their posts (which was kind of disappointing in a way, cause I found the sheer venom against me kinda funny) but left my review stand which I'm grateful for. The Morgana fic ended up winning the writing challenge, so I guess this shows how different my tastes are from everyone else.
Here is a far worse version of OCC Carth (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2382471/1/).
For some really awesome badfic, this monstrosity (http://kotorfanmedia.com/story/aaron-lightblade/aaron-lightblade-general-of-the-republic-verse-i/) is the worst story I've seen in a long time, and the author's comments to the reviews are hilariously pretentious.
So you won’t loose faith in humanity, I feel compelled to link Binary Star's story (http://kotorfanmedia.com/story/binary-star/before-the-dawn-part-1/) which is the best I've read in months.
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Heh... I understand completely. I have to say though that the mods on both sites are fantastic people. When trouble started brewing over on kfm (http://www.kotorfanmedia.com/) the mods backed me up, and have been amazingly cool about my reviews. They’ve tried to put a lid on all the nonsense, although since that blow up there has been another incident (over my review for the Morgana story linked below), which they quickly shut down. I suspect that there will be more in the future though, since the animosity seems to grow, and I simply refuse to stop leaving my reviews because some overly sensitive people are pissed off at me.
I've been informed that there is actually a group of writers who have been bitching to the mods about me, which is kind of hilarious really. The thing is that at least 80% of all my reviews are entirely positive, so I'm not sure where all this animosity is coming from, other than these people have no clue as to what constructive criticism really is. I’m not certain, but I think this review (http://kotorfanmedia.com/story/jiara/questions-of-character-chapter-6/) might be the review that started my anti-fan club (even though no one said anything at the time - I think this is the review that Lady Viola was referring to when she jumped in my shit over Caritas O’s story), because this author is extremely popular in both her writing and on the message boards. It has to be that review, because other than a negative review of a male Revan story (which I highly doubt any of these Carth fangirls read), all of my comments on kfm before the big blowup in Caritas O's story had been almost entirely positive (unless I'm forgetting something).
Oh, screw it. Can you link me to the worst offenders of OOC Canderous? Or OOC, period?
Most of the stuff I've read lately is actually pretty decent. I haven't seen many examples of OOC Canderous recently, since there don't seem to be a lot of fics with him in it. The biggest OOC offenders that I've seen lately are boneheaded Carth (http://kotorfanmedia.com/story/jiara/questions-of-character-chapter-1/) (because Carth would totally be stupid enough to give Revan a diamond ring from TELOS), and super forgiving Morgana (http://kotorfanmedia.com/story/jiara/the-gift/) (because, you know, that the afterlife makes everyone as forgiving as Jesus). Interestingly
These fics are far from god awful... but they have some serious characterization issues. Actually, my comment for the Morgana fic spawned some silliness from a poster named Phantom who took offense and attacked me and my review. The author herself weighed in, and I could tell that she was extremely pissed off at me (which is actually kind of rare, since the authors are generally far more gracious than their readers are). The mods deleted both of their posts (which was kind of disappointing in a way, cause I found the sheer venom against me kinda funny) but left my review stand which I'm grateful for. The Morgana fic ended up winning the writing challenge, so I guess this shows how different my tastes are from everyone else.
Here is a far worse version of OCC Carth (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2382471/1/).
For some really awesome badfic, this monstrosity (http://kotorfanmedia.com/story/aaron-lightblade/aaron-lightblade-general-of-the-republic-verse-i/) is the worst story I've seen in a long time, and the author's comments to the reviews are hilariously pretentious.
So you won’t loose faith in humanity, I feel compelled to link Binary Star's story (http://kotorfanmedia.com/story/binary-star/before-the-dawn-part-1/) which is the best I've read in months.