Where we go to whine

There's a reason I read the last bit of a story first; it can save you the hassle of getting caught up in a shit story. Here's one such example:

“Why’d you have to leave?” he whispered, staring into the backyard but not
seeing anything.

“Because things fall apart.”

Spike froze when he heard her voice. He wanted to spin around and look at
her. He wanted to run to her, but he couldn’t. He was so afraid she wasn’t
real that he closed his eyes, frozen in place, before slowly turning to see
her leaning against the doorframe to the living room. He was speechless as
she continued.

“They fall apart so hard. You can't ever…put them back the way they were.”

“Buffy?” he whispered, tilting his head as she slowly pushed away from the
doorframe to approach him. “Are you okay?”

“I'm sorry, it's just…you know, it takes time,” she whispered, approaching
him. “You can't just…tell me you want me to be happy and that you love me
and still expect-“

Spike looked down at the floor feeling guilty. “I know.”

He longed to go to her, closing the distance that was separating them,
but he knew he couldn’t. She was here for a reason, and he wasn’t about to
scare her away.

“There's just so much to work through,” she said softly. “Trust has to be
built again, on both sides…”

Spike looked away, feeling his throat closing at what she was implying. He
slowly raised his eyes to hers as she continued.

“You have to learn if…if we're even the same people we were, if you can fit
in each other's lives. It's a long…important process, and…can we just skip
it?”

Spike’s eyes widened she came to stand in front of him.

“Can you just be kissing me now?”

A brief smile flashed on Spike’s face before his hands threaded through her
hair, pulling her lips to his in a passionate kiss, each letting tears
stream down their cheeks as their lips gave each other what they were
needing.

Sound familiar? The writer stole this from BtVS. But she didn't even use the proper characters. *groans* You can't just go stealing lines from other characters to write you damn story people!

~e!

note to phen: feel free to change security selection if you feel this should be f-locked

...but still something I don't want to post to my personal journal:

You know what I like? People who screen comments from people who aren't friends. Why do I like this? Because I can say pretty much whatever I like without having to worry about others seeing it. I'm quite comfy with one-on-one situations, but groups tend to terrify me. I'm not sure what the purpose of screening comments of all non-friends is, but it works out quite well for the shy people of the world.

~e! who has this terrible fear that she's going to post something meant for here to one of her other communities *shiver*

WARNING!!!!

This is a community set up specifically for us to rant about things we feel like we can't rant about elsewhere without offending others. It's a cathartic experience for us. Read at your own peril.

If you managed to find this at all, it was probably from a link in our user info. If you read this journal, and are offended, we don't want to hear about it, please! Again, you have been warned...we're not responsible if you choose to read anyway.

Awk! The warning entry isn't staying at the top since I played with the journal settings!

Oh, btw, look at it and see what you think. I normally don't like red themes, but this matches the user icon better! *is a dork*

Otherwise, I was thinking maybe thunderstorms?

*giggle* You know...moderators of communities probably shouldn't be commenting to (fairly polite) posts left in their communities with comments suggesting you should go kill yourself.

Just saying...

Ugh...since we're talking about feedback rants...

What's up with all this public whining for feedback?

"No one feedback my story! Does it suck?"

Dude...seriously. Things like that make me want to NOT feedback the fic ever.

Even if it is a good story. I've had stories that never got feedback either...but hey, if you're writing something for feedback, you shouldn't be writing it at all.




And ugh...remember when I talked to a certain someone who was unhappy because only like 10% of readers were feedbacking for a total of only like 20 comments per? Sheesh! I'd kill for feedback like that.

Do you know what sucks? People who write incendiary, public reviews of fanfiction. Know what sucks even more? Writers who write incendiary, public posts berating this behaviour.

This is the main reason I very rarely leave feedback. Anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of who I am can tell you that I'm extremely shy. I have a major panic-attack everytime I give someone I don't know a piece of feedback. Frankly, I'm terrified they won't like what I say; that I'll say something that goes outside their set "rules" that their feedbackers need to follow. There was a whole thread on someone's LJ. You can be quite sure that I will no longer review any of the fics written by the authors on the thread. Why? Because I would hate to accidentally over-steps my bounds and insult one of these fair writers, lest my good LJ name is raked through the mud.

Do most of these people have reason to complain? Certainly! However, if they are going to mention names, it should probably be done in private, or, at the very least, a friends-locked post. They were talking about bad reviewers scaring them off of writing. In the same respect, nasty comments about reviewers can scare off feedbackers, which, if one goes by the amount of begging for feedback one read, are in high demand.

True, most of these reviews went beyond what is acceptable for a public forum. Hell, most of them were very close to flaming and were therefore unsuitable for even a private forum. The problem is that this was a public LJ site flaming those (using their names) who had given them poor reviews (mostly on B/G eFiction). It seems to me that a lot of these people have never heard the phrase "two wrongs don't make a right." The only thing that has been acheived by this flaming session is that I will be sure to not give feedback to these authors.

~e!

Oh yeah...and EB? Feel free to pretty up the journal. I took it off the default because I just couldn't STAND it.

*growl* One of my icon communities is getting all hissy...the mod is going to ask everyone who doesn't post icons to become non-members and only "watch" the community.

Seriously, it's not as if I've ever posted, so I don't know what the problem is. Why do *I* have to be inconvienced by this?

I'll probably just stay a member anyway. *grr*

You know what I hate?

The fact that LJ still hasn't sent me the invite thingy... at least I'm now approved. But am I a mod? How the heck to I tell? Why, oh why can I not be embued with the brain of a Comp Sci Doctorate? *le sigh*

~e! who really needs a "bitch, bitch, bitch" icon or somesuch for posting here *grin*

Update: If the fact that I can delete this journal means anything, I'm guessing I have mod capabilities *grin*