despair for humanity and stories that are ALMOST good

[cimorene]

man, it's really too bad when someone has a great plot and apparently a perfectly adequate grip of character motivation and just can't write dialogue. the result is inevitably, at best, what could have been a good story. if only she'd gotten a co-writer or something! i feel genuinely saddened by those potentially good stories. i feel they are wasted on their writers - i mean, i'm aware someone else could use the idea, but still. waste!

sort of like by the moron i encountered earlier today who obviously didn't know the meaning of "respectively", which (somewhat atypically, but not, like, extremely atypically) reduced me to incoherence. and genuinely saddened me, i mean - although  more in a "despair for humanity" way than a "why aren't you embarrassed to post this with dialogue like that?" way. (but seriously, what even prompts you to want to use a construction like the "__ and __ respectively" construction if you don't know what it means? nnnrghh)

or hey, speaking of despair for humanity! the diana k williams wank (new variation on Nice Girls - oh wait, i mean, same old variation on it). you might have heard about how if you can't say something nice you shouldn't say anything at all, but you might not have heard that gone are the days when a man would automatically stand up because a woman entered the room, which is intimately related to how fandom is seething with rudeness because kids these days just don't get their mouths washed out with soap often enough. or have the door held for them, or something. oh, and also that a Nice Girl is only rude if she thinks she was rude to you, and not if you think she was, but a Mean Girl is rude when the Nice Girls say she is. that all kept me entertained for a while this morning despite being, well, just as infuriating (because even if the morons don't get the point, seeing it delivered explicitly and logically to them by someone else makes me feel better).

Comments

[copracat]

what even prompts you to want to use a construction like the "__ and __ respectively" construction if you don't know what it means?

Not a human being but a parrot? The perils of reading a lot without ever grasping of the tools of comprehension?

that a Nice Girl is only rude if she thinks she was rude to you, and not if you think she was, but a Mean Girl is rude when the Nice Girls say she is

I think I've now been around fandom long enough that that makes sense, oh dear.

And also wow, I read that post when it was linked and was feeling calm enough to click away and forget it. I think that such posts often make me grumpy because they show the poster is a bit out of touch with human nature. Do you actually know any people, I wonder?

[elfiepike.livejournal.com]

Not a human being but a parrot?

i think i shall make this into my new personal universe. someone says something that makes no sense? they are a parrot! yessss.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

:O ... does this theory extend to fanfiction?

because i think there could potentially be whole fandoms populated entirely by parrots. *image*

[elfiepike.livejournal.com]

of course. i actually have employed this theory many times since its conception. it is totally useful.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

i have the most wonderful image of a fandom full of parrots pecking at computer keyboards now. which is easily enough to make up for the fact that i tried to read the original post just now when before i had only read the comments. ow, my eyes.

the scary thing is that she clearly knows some people at least who share her views, because they can be seen in the comments demonstrating extraordinary levels of thick-headedness.