Blergh....

Oct. 23rd, 2004 11:23 am
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The next time I look like I'm going to agree to something that I think will take me a day and somehow eats up most of a week, will someone please hit me on the head.

And I am never going to search The Pit for Trigun fics again. Never. Not for any good cause.

That is all.

Date: 2004-10-23 11:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] darthhellokitty.livejournal.com
must... not... laugh... hysterically...

Bitten by voles, were we?

Date: 2004-10-23 11:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tiggymalvern.livejournal.com
I had to read so much crap! Even just reading summaries and first paragraphs from anything vaguely promising.

Date: 2004-10-23 11:39 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] permetaform
It's not so hard if you judge by summaries alone...

come to think of it, me and angsty should start a C2 community for decent trigun fic, no?

Date: 2004-10-23 11:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tiggymalvern.livejournal.com
It would be such a service if someone could accumulate the list of half-decent Trigun fics in one place. Not like it'll be hard - there's maybe fifty of them....

The summaries help a lot, yeah, but even discarding most at that stage, I want 6 hours of my life back, right now. The problem is I was looking for gen recs - I've done the trawl for yaoi before, but I didn't recall anything in the way of non-sexual good character fics. Now I know why. It's 'cos there aren't any. I put myself through all that in vain. *sulk*

Date: 2004-10-23 12:03 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] permetaform
ahhh, for reflections_2?

Date: 2004-10-23 12:04 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] permetaform
oh! ::peers at your icon:: I never imagined you with red hair...

Date: 2004-10-23 12:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tiggymalvern.livejournal.com
Yeah, the [livejournal.com profile] reflections_2 thing. Amazing how long it takes searching through eps for quotes, ripping DVDs for screencaps. But then I always do underestimate these things.

The hair's completely the wrong shade of red, and the style's not great either. They only had 2 choices for frizzy curls, everything else was straight hair *sniff*.

Date: 2004-10-23 12:31 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] permetaform
::pets:: yeah, brownish-black hair over here, but I was always too lazy to make one of those face icons for myself...
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Date: 2004-10-23 12:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tiggymalvern.livejournal.com
It didn't even take a fic - just reading the summaries and the first paras of the ones that weren't obviously misspelled or Mary Sues was enough to kill me....

Date: 2004-10-23 12:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mistressrenet.livejournal.com
What's a C2 Community? But yes, you should.

Date: 2004-10-23 12:30 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] permetaform
like this:
http://www.fanfiction.net/c2/6557/0/1/

...that I made for various fics with 5 and 8

Date: 2004-10-23 01:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] andmydog.livejournal.com
Just noticed, in the ffn C2 rules:

Archive can only hold stories from the focus category rated G through PG13.

Grrr.

Date: 2004-10-23 01:21 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] permetaform
yeah...annoying, but you see what they're trying to do. I actually don't mind it much because it encourages deeper and more creative writing to get around it instead of 1 billion "tab A into slot B"...

Date: 2004-10-23 01:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tiggymalvern.livejournal.com
I know what you mean, but... it just strikes me as crazy that they'll host R fics, but won't let you rec them. And kind of frustrating, too. I'm perfectly happy reading shippy fics that stop at the kissing stage, but not exclusively - after I read a few in a row like that, I just want some hot sex, dammit!

Date: 2004-10-23 01:36 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] permetaform
heh, true that. but then again, it's also why LJ is a lovely place =D

Date: 2004-10-23 07:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mistressrenet.livejournal.com
Just when I thought I couldn't think less of ff.net, they surprise me...

Date: 2004-10-23 07:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mistressrenet.livejournal.com
I got a 404. But I've gotten the idea now.

Date: 2004-10-23 07:13 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] permetaform
o.0;;; ::goes to check and fix links::
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Date: 2004-10-23 02:04 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] permetaform
hmmm, the rating limit might prove a bother. Do you have a ff.n account? You need to in order to become staff...I'll set it up, and from there's it's easy:

once I sign you up at staff the drop down menu for "review this fic" (you're signed in) has a "add to C2" option. You click on that, click go, select the C2 community you're part of and it's added to the main list. =)

Date: 2004-10-23 02:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] andmydog.livejournal.com
So, selection is based entirely on the comm's owner's discretion? Is it subject to approval by the other authors / comm members? And can the comm mod pick any fic, or does the author have to be a part of the comm?
(/Mad curiosity)

Feh. The C2 description on ffn might've been written by a tech-savvy four-year-old...
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Date: 2004-10-23 02:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tiggymalvern.livejournal.com
Damn, Angsty on a power trip - there's a very scary thing!
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Date: 2004-10-23 04:05 pm (UTC)

Date: 2004-10-23 06:20 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] permetaform
well, it's assumed that the owner and staff are communicating and the staff helps fill the comm, and any fic is ok as long as it's below pg-13
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Date: 2004-10-23 06:01 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] permetaform
twistedpaper04

heh, or even just link them to an LJ post and lure people to lj? =D

Date: 2004-10-23 06:25 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] permetaform
I'll make it now...what's your ff.n account?
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Date: 2004-10-24 02:09 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] permetaform
I say both, because I always do love a good fic with subtext, and shouldn't het and yaoi play nice? =D
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Date: 2004-10-24 02:26 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] permetaform
::nods:: I'm game. this is me btw:

http://www.fanfiction.net/u/485373/

Date: 2004-10-23 06:27 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] permetaform
ahh, damn. you can be manager of only one community, you're gonna havta create it, but it's not hard...

Date: 2004-10-23 12:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] arafel.livejournal.com
It's all hideous, isn't it? I guess the inspiration isn't there... and you can't post the good stuff at FF.net any more, besides.

Date: 2004-10-23 12:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tiggymalvern.livejournal.com
That's why I went there in desperation - AFF wouldn't have fitted the bill *grin*. I was specifically looking for charcter-based gen recs.

There isn't any decent gen in this fandom, I have concluded.
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Date: 2004-10-23 12:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] arafel.livejournal.com
*wry grin* Not that we as a group have helped much, since I think among our *cough* clique, we've written about 30% of the Trismut out there.

Date: 2004-10-23 01:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] andmydog.livejournal.com
S'right! *preens* And it's good smut, too!

Damn, Tiggy. You perused VOLELAND(tm) for gen fics?
I've done that. It hurt.


C2? Might be a good idea, if for no other reason than the poor fanbrats what search the Pit for good fics would find off-site recs to the real shit.

And now I'm having 'Nam-style flashbacks to the plethora of Suethors I waded through afore I found you all... *shudder*

Date: 2004-10-24 01:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tiggymalvern.livejournal.com
Ooooh, shiny new icon! :-)

Yeah, the Suethors. I don't think I've ever inhabited a fandom which had quite so many of them....

Date: 2004-10-23 01:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tiggymalvern.livejournal.com
Hey, I'm not bitching about the proliferation of smut, not really *grin*. I'm just more used to being in fandoms where there actually was some gen around. I never realised that the gen is almost exclusively teenage girl self-insertion until I went looking!

Date: 2004-10-23 07:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mistressrenet.livejournal.com
I think that's a big part of it. And I think people who post fics to get attention (er, more than the rest of us do) will post at FF.net to see how many reviews they get, etc...

Date: 2004-10-23 01:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] -fortune-cookie.livejournal.com
Aqualung . . . gahhhh . . . coolness!

Date: 2004-10-23 02:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tiggymalvern.livejournal.com
*grin* I do like the music thing in LJ - you can get to be so nosey about what people like listening to!

Date: 2004-10-31 06:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] yma2.livejournal.com
Yeah, FFN more or less sucks. The strange thing is this... FFN is the BIGGEST resource of Fanfiction, right? This means that you get a whole load of 13 year olds who can hardly write at all, swamping out all else. Which in itself is annoying because, in the same way that FFN attracts some truely dreadful stuff, you occasionally get a little gem amongst the dust. I'll have a look there later myself, if you like, see if I can spot anything useful. I'm sure I've seen a couple of goodish Vash characterisation fics, but for the life of me I can't recall what they're called.
It's hard though, you know, because Vash is SUCH a difficult character to write! Seriously, I know that I can't write him well. (OK, I can bet bye, but only just...) So really, finding very good Vash fics was always going to be a bit of a challenge.
BTW... may i join the O2 group? I could do with some good fanfic recommendations...
...
Pleas?

Date: 2004-11-01 07:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tiggymalvern.livejournal.com
FFN is too painful. It needs a 13 year old girl filter, then the few good fics wouldn't get lost *sigh*.

The C2 community is nothing to do with me, it just took over this LJ entry briefly (read 'Tiggy is far too lazy to actually volunteer to do something that would involve long term effort'). The way I understand it, anyone can read the recs in a group, you only have to be officially a member to include your own reviews. You should hit up [livejournal.com profile] angstymcgoth or [livejournal.com profile] permetaform to see if the comm actually happened and what its status is re recs.

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