Remember, your characters have to make sense. Or you will loose your Audiance. Reality is under no such constraint -- Fic's Law IT's THE LAW!!! Deal with it!!! Then we find: Even worse, your John McCain is completely OOC. That man's a war hero, he's not going to suddenly, I don't know, campaign with a fake plumber or something, just to make your character look better. Even more ridiculous...

http://community.livejournal.com/fanficrants/7506354.html Apparently wearing lolita and being younger than someone you're dating makes you a slut and the person dating you a pedophile. Even if you're twenty. Look, I hate Mary Sues as much as the next person and Loli is a stupid name for a girl, but this just ticked me off like woah. Especially when the OP deleted a comment I made pointing out that...

From fanficrants , via metaquotes , beautifully written by mistress_siana : Dear America, please stop it. Your OMC, Obama, is the worst Sue I've seen in a long time. Your WIP has been going on for a while now, with frequent updates, but so far, we haven't seen a single flaw. Coolest guy in town, funny, smart as a particularly smart whip, easily catches the eye of every...

Commentary on our President-elect from a fanfic perspective . (I'm really glad that Canada is the forum moderator, though.)

I hung out at fanficrants some. This was funny.

Hahahaha! Clicky, clicky! I will post more soon about 14theditch 's visit to my writing group tomorrow. Night!

Speaking of the President-Elect, this post is made of win. Also, my students turned in their topics for the argumentative paper on Friday, along with the side they're taking. Monday, I'm telling them they're actually arguing the other side. [cue maniacal laughter]. Classes for next semester: poetry workshop YA fiction workshop research and publication ....I have a fanastic life. Well, not my love...

So true. And it makes my academic brain glee over the way fanfiction has given us an entirely new vocabulary with which to describe the world.

razorzknight  comments on a post in fanficrants  with the following: "When I was your age, we had to screw under the falling snow! And orgasms were uphill, too! And instead of condoms, we used hollowed sticks! And..." *Falls asleep and snores, mumbling incoherently.* Context is  here . Also, QWP.

So, apparently it didn't work very well adding stuff to the same entry over and over, so I'm deleting that old one ("Recommended reading"), and replacing it with this one. I intend to post recs once a month, if for no other reason than to have something to post, as I don't write much. This entry consists mostly of the same links that the "Recommended reading" entry did, but I've added some links....