I remember the abstinence plot! And how Denmark started going crazy and began knitting a lot. I remember I tried knitting once, I couldn't get it. I am so terrible with crafts/working with my hands, I don't even know what to tell you. But anyways, RPing! Well, actually, I don't have much to say on RPing cause I don't do it myself, so I don't know much about it being "controlled" and how that feels. It doesn't seem as bad now. . .?
Things are so nice and calm when the Euroanons are on. You notice there's never any wank when they're on, eh? I really prefer when those "Ask A ____ Anon" topics come up when the Euro/Asiananons are on, cause you usually end up learning quite a bit from them. eaojoeato I nearly fell out of my seat when I saw that we had a Swiss anon ♥ I still have yet to find anyone from Austria on the internet, though.
Oh, I know that. Talking doesn't always do much, change pretty much always comes from the person, and I think most people can attest to that. Not to mention that you're right when you say that modelling what you think is the best works a lot better than blabbering on about it. Half the time when you are lectured, you're being lectured by someone who doesn't actually live by what they're saying (sup, a large amount of religious people?), and in such cases, it's hard to see why you should bother listening to them. Also, usually the folks that people look up to for inspiration aren't people who lectured them either so. . . there we have it.
I don't get being smug about it either. It's sort of petty and I just want to be all. . . really, have you got nothing else to be proud about? :| (rude as that may be) Most of the hostility towards US/UK, I do think, comes from the fact that there's just an overwhelming amount of it, and less because people think that FrUK or America/Russia is ~the truth and the way~ Oi, not sure if I've said this before or not, but you know what irritates me? When people say to stop grumbling over the popularity of one pairing, and they say that if you want more for another pairing, you just have to go and write/draw some of it yourself, and it's as simple as that. That's. . . not even the same thing. By saying that it's practically implying that the people who ship a popular pairing are the only people who are going and making fan works for their pairing. Ahh I dunno, I think the percentage of fans who actually go and contribute US/UK or FrUK is probably not all that much different from people who contribute to France/Russia or America/Lithuania.
(Sarpedon/Glaukos - I even wrote "fanfiction" about them, once, for a school assignment) Not going to lie, I adore those "fanfiction" assignments. Was this something you did during undergrad?
Usually, I just feel less need to go and search out stuff for canon-ships, even if I like the said ship, cause chances are I already get enough of it in canon. I noticed that's probably why I also have problems shipping popular ships as well, just because there's already so much of it I don't feel the need to look for it, think about it, all that. I'm just so used to having to break my neck to find fic, I guess. (oddly enough, even the "popular" nordic ships don't even have that much fic going for them. I mean, given the size of the fandom and all. The main comm has over 20,000 members, for crying out loud. Though with the influx of crap going through there, I don't think most people are that active of watchers, cause in other big fandoms I've been in with not as many members, posts tended to get a lot more comments)
To ask someone to continue writing fic, especially when the last update came a few years ago, it's just silly. I mean, it's logical to assume that they've moved on. I've come across wonderful fics that stopped being updated years ago a few too many times, but I don't see why I should bother the writer about something they're not interested in anymore. It's a bummer, yeah, but life moves on. I'm always sort of worried when I comment to someone's fic, cause I'm not exactly sure where the line between putting pressure on the writer to continue, and encouraging the writer to continue actually is.
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Date: 2009-11-11 07:42 pm (UTC)Things are so nice and calm when the Euroanons are on. You notice there's never any wank when they're on, eh? I really prefer when those "Ask A ____ Anon" topics come up when the Euro/Asiananons are on, cause you usually end up learning quite a bit from them. eaojoeato I nearly fell out of my seat when I saw that we had a Swiss anon ♥ I still have yet to find anyone from Austria on the internet, though.
Oh, I know that. Talking doesn't always do much, change pretty much always comes from the person, and I think most people can attest to that. Not to mention that you're right when you say that modelling what you think is the best works a lot better than blabbering on about it. Half the time when you are lectured, you're being lectured by someone who doesn't actually live by what they're saying (sup, a large amount of religious people?), and in such cases, it's hard to see why you should bother listening to them. Also, usually the folks that people look up to for inspiration aren't people who lectured them either so. . . there we have it.
I don't get being smug about it either. It's sort of petty and I just want to be all. . . really, have you got nothing else to be proud about? :| (rude as that may be) Most of the hostility towards US/UK, I do think, comes from the fact that there's just an overwhelming amount of it, and less because people think that FrUK or America/Russia is ~the truth and the way~ Oi, not sure if I've said this before or not, but you know what irritates me? When people say to stop grumbling over the popularity of one pairing, and they say that if you want more for another pairing, you just have to go and write/draw some of it yourself, and it's as simple as that. That's. . . not even the same thing. By saying that it's practically implying that the people who ship a popular pairing are the only people who are going and making fan works for their pairing. Ahh I dunno, I think the percentage of fans who actually go and contribute US/UK or FrUK is probably not all that much different from people who contribute to France/Russia or America/Lithuania.
(Sarpedon/Glaukos - I even wrote "fanfiction" about them, once, for a school assignment)
Not going to lie, I adore those "fanfiction" assignments. Was this something you did during undergrad?
Usually, I just feel less need to go and search out stuff for canon-ships, even if I like the said ship, cause chances are I already get enough of it in canon. I noticed that's probably why I also have problems shipping popular ships as well, just because there's already so much of it I don't feel the need to look for it, think about it, all that. I'm just so used to having to break my neck to find fic, I guess. (oddly enough, even the "popular" nordic ships don't even have that much fic going for them. I mean, given the size of the fandom and all. The main comm has over 20,000 members, for crying out loud. Though with the influx of crap going through there, I don't think most people are that active of watchers, cause in other big fandoms I've been in with not as many members, posts tended to get a lot more comments)
To ask someone to continue writing fic, especially when the last update came a few years ago, it's just silly. I mean, it's logical to assume that they've moved on. I've come across wonderful fics that stopped being updated years ago a few too many times, but I don't see why I should bother the writer about something they're not interested in anymore. It's a bummer, yeah, but life moves on. I'm always sort of worried when I comment to someone's fic, cause I'm not exactly sure where the line between putting pressure on the writer to continue, and encouraging the writer to continue actually is.