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If I thought any professional did their job *solely* for money, yes, I would criticise them. A professional has, or should have other motivations as well. Standards. Competence. Public service.

yrs, a social worker who regularly works an extra day a week over my pay, because I'm a professional and my clients matter.

me too!!! I thought I was the only one who did this. sometimes I misuse certain grammar points for stylistic purposes, too. and I'm an english major...

Oh, me too. I would gladly commission fanfics for the same reason.

The closest I've ever come is to 'buy' a fic offer as part of fundraisers for charity. In both cases it wasn't as happy an experience as I'd hoped, though, as the writers didn't love their prompts and complained about it on their f'lists (which I could see). One eventually wrote a fabulous fic for her prompt; the other didn't even try, but wrote a story on a topic she liked better. Fifty per cent isn't a bad payoff overall, but hearing the complaints... well, let's just say I'm leery of doing it again. Next time I'll just contribute to the charity and skip the fandom part.

I don't know what the solution is :-(

You mean, with booze? :p

Why do you think people with 9-5 jobs aren't asked to do stuff for free, and/or vastly beneath the value of their actual work?

We are. All the damn time. Reality, check it.

It's called Maka Maka

Oh for goodness' sake. US size 14-16 is BIG.

Then what's the point of making the secret? "I DON'T LIKE A THING." "Why don't you like the thing?" "I JUST DON'T. STOP INTERROGATING ME." If you didn't want people to ask questions why'd you come out into the open to yell about it? I always assumed the point of this community was to have a discussion about things that bother you without having to come out in public about it with your name and everything.

Eh. I just hope Jurassic Park 4, as shitty as it is likely to be, makes it to the cinemas.

COME ON JP. YOU CAN DO IT. LIMP TO THE CINEMAS.

Then the average person is overweight. And if we are talking about the US, then, well, yes.

Oh, for God's sake. Many of the people above are talking about what they paid when it involved fundraising for a cause.

I once paid $100 for a fanfic, but that was largely because I wanted to be generous towards a cause I cared passionately about.

When it's a fundraiser, people often open their hearts and wallets well beyond what is "sensible". That doesn't mean we'd all be willing (or able) to slap down $100 every time we want a custom-written fanfic.

Like in this art, for example! SFW

I'm not a huge fan of genderswap (I only really like it in art), and Stiles is wearing a little too much make-up for my tastes, but it's still hot as fuck!

I don't think the OP is "only" interested in the money, but... at least you know that if someone buys your fic, it's because they actively enjoy your writing enough to part with some dosh. That's a high tribute in this society.

Fandom culture is pretty crap at voicing appreciation of fan writers these days. Even a drive-by anonymous kudos is considered something they should be grateful for.

So yeah, I totally get it.

I'm not 'getting my undies in a bunch', kthanks. I don't even have a dog in this fight, I was just trying to find a reason why people are saying there's whitewashing.
If they want to make a Godzilla movie with a white cast then they're gonna have to make it work. They could change the setting and have the monster attack a white populated city, for example.

Are you accusing me of sending you that message? I can assure you I had nothing to do with that.

They're just so squishy and pretty to look at. *checks self out in the mirror* And they're not so big as to give me back problems. Only downside is bra costs and they appear to attract men if I advertise them.

Squishy squish though.

Missis Stilinski! Wonderful. *tear*

Cricket's pretty popular here, especially around christmas when the boxing day match against england is played. We have a fierce rivalry with the brits and play a competition against them every year called the ashes. Whoever wins gets bragging rights for the next year.

Send an email to abuse@tumblr.com

The staff is actually really prompt about getting back about stuff like this too.

Honeybun, YOU say problematic shit all the time. Don't believe me? Record your conversations for a week. Seriously, the hypocrisy and self-aggrandizing of tumblr SJWs is a pox on activism everywhere. People can be activists and not be perfect. That doesn't mean their activism isn't valid, or that they don't actually turn the world into a better place.

So fed up with tumblr activism, srsly. Yeah, you go on language policing people instead of actually getting your ass out there. Because this whole "checking your privilege" and "problematic language" shit is actually the lowest setting of activism there is.

I'm actually not interested in genderswap unless it involves genderbending men into women (and leaving the women as is). All that Disney genderswap going around tumblr, and I'm like "where's all the femslash?"

Edited 2014-03-05 08:40 (UTC)

Another Aussie here who wanted to answer your Qs:

- Re: snow, depends on the place, as the user above said. But Canberra is not one of the places that snows - it has snowed thrice here in the last two and a half decades. (Canberra is the capital city of Australia for those who don't know)

Re: kangaroos, I have personally never heard of anyone owning one (besides Vanilla Ice, weirdly). But if you live near bushland it's not unheard of them to hang out in your back garden. One came into ours once, and hid nervously in the back corner until night when it escaped again.

Re: deadly animals, you get used to it, promise.

Re: I have used and heard Sheila to refer to a woman in everyday conversation as many times as I have heard bonzer, true blue, fair dinkum, dinky di, cobber and ridgy didge. By which I mean I use all of those phrases in every sentence I speak aloud.

Re: video, I feel like this is a fair representation of the Aussie soap. Fry and Laurie would have been parodying Neighbours and/or Home and Away, which have both been on for yonks (heh, aussie slang) and both of which are popular in the UK for reasons unknown to either country. But feel free to judge for yourself:
Neighbours 90s intro: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGLEO-oqkDE
Home and Away 80s/90s intro: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IzdV0gJS3U
(Warning for aggressive 90s fashion and hair and terrible, terrible earworms)

Re: Americans vs Canadians, Canadians have mounties. No competition, sorry.

Re: Aussie history, I can't recommend any history books personally, but you could start at this page compiled by the National Library of Australia of good online resources about Aust. history and go from there: http://www.nla.gov.au/australiana/australian-history-selected-websites

Re: Aussie literature, the user above listed some classic Aussie children's literature - to which I would add The Adventures of Blinky Bill, Dot and the Kangaroo and Midnight. In terms of adult literature, you couldn't go wrong with starting with Tim Winton, who basically is modern aussie lit. in a lot of ways. Cloudstreet is his epic, but he has a lot of shorter books too - I quite enjoyed Breathe, personally. For early 20th century, try My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin. I would also recommend checking out the verse of Banjo Patterson vs Henry Lawson for the ultra classic colonial Australian lit experience - then follow it up with come Oodgeroo Noonuccal for a modern, indigenous perspective and palate cleanser. (Banjo Patterson wrote Waltzing Matilda, the unofficial Australian anthem, fyi.)

Re: travelling after school, the user above talked about schoolies, which is the week after the final high school/college (Year 12) exams, where lots of school leavers go to the gold coast to party and get drunk. I didn't do it, don't know anyone who did, but it definitely happens and there are always news articles about x number of accidents or arrests during it. However, I think you might actually be referring to people taking a 'gap' year between year 12 and their first year of university to work and/or travel, which is pretty common. I did it myself.

Re: fashion, rule of thumb is that Australian fashion is usually a season behind international trends - but that's changing with the internet. I wouldn't say out fashion is that different from, say, general UK or American fashion trends. A lot of people I know buy their clothes from ASOS.com, and similar sites, if that helps. We probably wear thongs more in summer?

Re: Aussie food, 'Australian' food is based on a lot of good old stodgy UK recipes, as you would expect from a colony. Hence the meat pie, Sunday roasts etc. Big emphasis on meat, and bbqs, though an Aussie cliche, are popular. The Pavlova is an all Aussie dessert. We also make use of lots of good quality fresh meat/produce, hence the cliche of seafood in summer (though I'm talking from the east coast perspective - it's hard to get fresh, affordable produce in central Australia for obvs reasons, which is a problem). Oh, and you will never find a gathering of people without a sausage sizzle nearby.

Re: NZ - sort of :) We def have a similar sibling country squabbling relationship. But I think politically we're actually a lot closer than you guys - Australians and New Zealanders can actually live and work indefinitely in the other country. A lot of New Zealanders move to Australia because there are more work opportunities.

Re: gay marriage, Not yet :( The ACT (Australian Capital Territory, the territory where Canberra is) has tried a few times, mostly recently last year - the High Court threw the act out after a week on the grounds that the ACT can't legislate against Federal law. Which sucks :(

Re: LGBT community: I'm not, but I have a few friends who are gay and know a few people who are trans and who are involved in the community. I'm from a pretty left wing/liberal city, but from my outside perspective the community seems generally friendly - the main complaints I've heard are just that it's small, so everyone knows everyone's business.

Re: urban legends, Yowies are like Australian Big Foot, and are based on Aboriginal myths. Bunyips are another Aboriginal mythical creature, usually said to live in water holes or billabongs. Apparently Australia also has one of the highest numbers of UFO sightings in the world. But other than that, most unique Aussie scary stories are originally true - red backs under the toilet seat, true if you're in the bush :( Serial killer who picked on backpackers, true :( Drop bears, true :( If you want to read a fictional creepy Australian story that a lot of people think is true, try Picnic at Hanging Rock (or find the movie). It's understated but very unnerving.

SORRY FOR THE TL;DR I HAVE TOO MUCH TIME ON MY HANDS :(:(:(:

Yeah I won't read genderswap fic. I can enjoy artwork for it, but if it's a fandom I'm actually into-into, I don't even really like that.

I am going to expand on the excellent information above to say that the only places it really snows are in the snowy mountains and parts of tasmania. Other parts of southern Australia may get a day or 2 of snow but it is never heavy and ends up as just a lot of slush. You could never build a snowman out of it or anything. Winter over here is basically just rain and cold. It can get around zero degrees Celsius at night but is usually warmer than that during the day.

Also that video is a pretty accurate depiction of an aussie soap. No lies.

Australian here: No I do not like cricket. But I am definitely the odd one out on that one.

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