105: Maybe my reading comprehension is shit today, but I don't understand this secret, either.
109: I've never been impressed with his voice before, but I think it's perfect and charming in Dr. Horrible.
111: I use PBs who look like my characters, often ignoring their personalities in the process (I draw my own references for Gaia, but for playing on Insane Journal, I'm not going to draw 100 different facial expressions). What's wrong with not knowing or caring about the history of the character when using the image, as long as you aren't playing that character?
118: Small fandom is SMALL.
120: I hate to say it, but I kind of agree.
130: There's plenty of yaoi like that. Check out your local bookstore. If you're talking about fanfiction, well... You're exactly right. Fanfiction used to be about telling stories beyond the work, but now it's mainly just smut. The era of drabbles and the rise of the "TL;DR" crowd killed long fiction, and it's impossible to write anything convincingly other than sex in the small word count required to be popular these days. As fandom became more convenient, it began to devolve.
133: They're supposed to be awesomely bad. Or just bad. They're Horrible Shirts. [I want one.]
136: If you think the people on the right invented cropping the of Zack's face for dramatic effect or the angsty, wispy heroine staring pensively at pretty, poignant words, or even using red boxes to contrast black and white scans... You're crazy. Yes, the icons on the left bear some (passing, in a lot of cases) resemblance to the ones on the right, but the ones on the right are not groundbreaking, original, or particularly noteworthy. Generic icons are generic, all around.
Icons don't have to have a set-in-stone style. The most talented of icon makers "bounce" from one style to another - icon makers who are one-trick ponies are soon forgotten. You say she's copying from other people, but those icons on the right are just simple crops or common techniques. You're reaching for a reason to hate this girl.
137: There's always the third one? [I do know how you feel - I was lost online for a long time after the third Star Wars came out. It gets better.]
147: If you can't hate Enterprise for hurting the Star Trek franchise, I fail to see how you'll be able to muster complaint against the new movie. Hopefully for J.J. Abrams, "cannon" will not be confused with the forward guns.
154: I fail to understand how this is fandom related, but "oh, okay."
164: I do, too. -__-;
174: This is very true.
not!secret 5: Because fanfiction is certainly never meant to do anything that isn't cannon. Absolutely.
not!fandom: Apparently not (though for some reason politics are A-OK, for some bizarre reason).
101, 102, 105, 109, 111, 118, 120, 130, 133, 136, 137, 147, 154, 164, 174, not!secret 5, not!fandom
102: What?
105: Maybe my reading comprehension is shit today, but I don't understand this secret, either.
109: I've never been impressed with his voice before, but I think it's perfect and charming in Dr. Horrible.
111: I use PBs who look like my characters, often ignoring their personalities in the process (I draw my own references for Gaia, but for playing on Insane Journal, I'm not going to draw 100 different facial expressions). What's wrong with not knowing or caring about the history of the character when using the image, as long as you aren't playing that character?
118: Small fandom is SMALL.
120: I hate to say it, but I kind of agree.
130: There's plenty of yaoi like that. Check out your local bookstore. If you're talking about fanfiction, well... You're exactly right. Fanfiction used to be about telling stories beyond the work, but now it's mainly just smut. The era of drabbles and the rise of the "TL;DR" crowd killed long fiction, and it's impossible to write anything convincingly other than sex in the small word count required to be popular these days. As fandom became more convenient, it began to devolve.
133: They're supposed to be awesomely bad. Or just bad. They're Horrible Shirts. [I want one.]
136: If you think the people on the right invented cropping the of Zack's face for dramatic effect or the angsty, wispy heroine staring pensively at pretty, poignant words, or even using red boxes to contrast black and white scans... You're crazy. Yes, the icons on the left bear some (passing, in a lot of cases) resemblance to the ones on the right, but the ones on the right are not groundbreaking, original, or particularly noteworthy. Generic icons are generic, all around.
Icons don't have to have a set-in-stone style. The most talented of icon makers "bounce" from one style to another - icon makers who are one-trick ponies are soon forgotten. You say she's copying from other people, but those icons on the right are just simple crops or common techniques. You're reaching for a reason to hate this girl.
137: There's always the third one? [I do know how you feel - I was lost online for a long time after the third Star Wars came out. It gets better.]
147: If you can't hate Enterprise for hurting the Star Trek franchise, I fail to see how you'll be able to muster complaint against the new movie. Hopefully for J.J. Abrams, "cannon" will not be confused with the forward guns.
154: I fail to understand how this is fandom related, but "oh, okay."
164: I do, too. -__-;
174: This is very true.
not!secret 5: Because fanfiction is certainly never meant to do anything that isn't cannon. Absolutely.
not!fandom: Apparently not (though for some reason politics are A-OK, for some bizarre reason).