Well, not really an aftermath. Perhaps a summary?
What did I do yesterday to celebrate the 4th of July (and Cap's birthday)? Nothing. It was just a normal Saturday for me. Well, sorta.
We, as in the family, used to go to the Hollywood Bowl with people from our parish church to celebrate, but no one else in my family likes to go anymore. I kind of really like it actually. It's fun to go to those sort of events and connect with other people, especially on a holiday such as July 4th. I mean, we're all countrymen. :) And dude, the LA Philharmonic is awesome. Pure awesome-ness.
That and there are fireworks at the end. I didn't see any fireworks yesterday! T-T I heard illegal fireworks being set off, but I didn't see any. How sad, right? No live music and no fireworks. What a crappy 4th of July. Okay, not so much. Any day that I can spend reading fanfiction and eating to my heart's content is a pretty damn good day, if I say so myself.
I didn't even leave the house yesterday. I was going to go to Universal Studios but I was like... I don't want to deal with the traffic and the people going out. The traffic on the 101 is always so damn horrible.
We did have a family (of sorts since my sister was working) lunch. Then, everyone was off to do their own thing. Literally.
I started to watch Dune (the 2000 version) and got through 2 cds (of 3). I bought it on an impulse because I thought I remembered one of my cinema teachers talking about it. So, I went into it knowing absolutely nothing.
I hate that freaking DVD just for the fact that the sound level for the actor's voices are so fucking low while the sound effects are loud. As in really loud. I was listening at sound=50 (I watch my movies around 35 normally okay) and I still couldn't hear what they were saying. I was so fucking pissed off because there wasn't even subtitles. What dvd doesn't have subtitles!?! And then, I was going deaf whenever a plane flew by or something. Shit. Annoyed doesn't even begin to cover it. But I muscled through it and got super pissed off when they started whispering in some parts.
I'm waiting until next Saturday to finish it because Saturdays are movie nights and that thing's an hour and a half long - I should be doing other stuff with that time, but I'm thinking I'm going to try to finish it today but only if I finish some work first.
Anyway, me being me I immediately checked if there's fanfiction because the potential is awesome. It is. It's a really small (and from what I've seen, dead) fandom. There's only like 6 pages of fanfiction for it (for comparison purposes, I think the Phantom of the Opera fandom is medium(to small)-sized - filled with crazies of course, and the movie helped a lot with infusing the fandom with youngings - has 306 pages of fanfiction; while Harry Potter is what I consider is freaking huge fandom with 10,645 pages of fanfiction. Each page has 25 fics, and those are only the fics that aren't M rated, so those numbers might not be accurate. But just so you know. Dune fandom=small, tiny).
And I don't like them (the fans). Of course I didn't check all the fics, but I read a fic and checked the reviews (which is how I usually gauge how nice a fandom is - I know that's not the most accurate, but really though, it's helpful to see what kind of responses you get from people). The story I read had seven reviews and only one of them was 'good' (using that term very lightly). I mean, these reviewers got on the writer like no one's business - they left flames (knowingly).
It was a pretty bad fic but dude. Let's give examples:
This might be one of the worst things i've ever read. I am disgusted. [...] Personally, i think the site makers should go through the stories and weed out the stupid ones, like this one. I have one real question to end this review: What in the name of God's green earth were you thinking?! (oh yeah, P.S.) SPELL CHECK IS YOUR FRIEND!Err... right... How can I put this nicely? This is horrible. I swear to God, I didn't think it could get worse after the first line but it did. Horrible. Maybe I shouldn't even review is just that the shock is compelling me to do so. Reading the other two reviews, I have to agree this is a complete insult to Frank Herbert's creation, to the fans and the actors portraying the characters. [...] Plus, you write something that's three paragraphs long and with lack of logic. EwPrepare to be flamed into next week. WTF is wrong with you?!?![...] I'm sorry, that's just wrong. Like, insanely wrong. And disgusting. And I won't even start talking about the misspellings and typos. I highly recommend that if you are intent on writing more Dune fanfiction that you make it of both a higher caliber and a higher appealment rating. This is just... disturbing.You're disgusting.Okay, and sometimes people use the [...] in quotes to take things out of context. Nope, context remains the same; in fact, I might have just made them nicer by taking those bits out.
Now tell me, would you like to join this fandom? Elitist sonsofbitches who don't know what constructive criticism is. I was so freaking annoyed when I saw that. I mean really.
oh, and here's a review someone left on another fic they'd written:
This is good? I nearly puked reading this. Then I read the Dune fanfic. I puked. And hemmorhaged. And my guts went spilling fantastically over the keyboard.At least the other three reviews were nicer.
I understand, deeply understand that there will be flamers out there in every fandom. I know. You can't stop jackassery. It's impossible, especially online jackassery. I'm prone to it myself sometimes - though I've never left a flame ever in my life. That's just rude. I wank (which is also rude but I don't do it to fanfiction) but I don't flame. I've been flamed but never like that where it's consecutive people and a vast majority of the reviews.
You know, maybe the writer was a troll, but still, does it warrant that kind of response? I don't even know how to begin with how 'disgusted' I am with that fandom. Sure, a select few people shouldn't represent the whole but that's an impressive cutout and it's my first impression. No good there. And I was sort of excited to join the fandom (maybe revive it with some stuff), but screw that.
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