And, for example, in people where I see intelligence and bravery, someone else sees pretension and arrogance.
Yeah, same here. A particularly nasty troll flamed one of my good friends, and I'm still pissed, even though it wasn't directed at me. The assumptions people make, just because someone expresses an opinion is what pisses me off about fandom. And one thing I'm especially annoyed with lately in the SW fandom is how expression of an opinion, a peeve, or a rant somehow equals being pretentious. It makes my face go desky.
I can read variations on fic, but I have a fairly narrow threshold of what I feel is 'in-character' and if it doesn't feel in-character, I'm not interested in reading it, because I want to read about these characters that I love, not some random people who happen to have their names.
Word. I've been turned off from well-written fics before, because I wtf'ing all through the characterization and dialogue. Characterization is the most important thing to me. You can fuck up how to spell the Death Star, and I'll get over it. If you fuck up Obi-Wan or Anakin, I'm out. Granted, it's all in my head, and I'm not saying right -- but it's all subjective perception.
Well, the whole 'friendship' thing is something that I'm still working on, to be honest.
Luckily, my friendship with the girl I crushed on was completely not physical, so i didn't have your confusion. I had that with my ex, because we were very tactile and very emotionally intense (like Anakin/Obi-Wan co-dependent intense, complete with nasty break-up -- had I a lightsaber, she so would have been delimbed). I'm not normally a tactile person, either, so if you have me being cuddly, J. is going to be one confused bunny.
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Date: 2005-08-29 08:52 pm (UTC)Yeah, same here. A particularly nasty troll flamed one of my good friends, and I'm still pissed, even though it wasn't directed at me. The assumptions people make, just because someone expresses an opinion is what pisses me off about fandom. And one thing I'm especially annoyed with lately in the SW fandom is how expression of an opinion, a peeve, or a rant somehow equals being pretentious. It makes my face go desky.
I can read variations on fic, but I have a fairly narrow threshold of what I feel is 'in-character' and if it doesn't feel in-character, I'm not interested in reading it, because I want to read about these characters that I love, not some random people who happen to have their names.
Word. I've been turned off from well-written fics before, because I wtf'ing all through the characterization and dialogue. Characterization is the most important thing to me. You can fuck up how to spell the Death Star, and I'll get over it. If you fuck up Obi-Wan or Anakin, I'm out. Granted, it's all in my head, and I'm not saying right -- but it's all subjective perception.
Well, the whole 'friendship' thing is something that I'm still working on, to be honest.
Luckily, my friendship with the girl I crushed on was completely not physical, so i didn't have your confusion. I had that with my ex, because we were very tactile and very emotionally intense (like Anakin/Obi-Wan co-dependent intense, complete with nasty break-up -- had I a lightsaber, she so would have been delimbed). I'm not normally a tactile person, either, so if you have me being cuddly, J. is going to be one confused bunny.