You're safe. Until I find myself skipping your posts for months on end and can't for the life of me figure out why we friended each other in the first place, I won't cut you. There are a number of people in the latter category, but they don't post much and hence I don't find myself skipping their entries, so they were also left alone.
Subliterate writing, huh? I'd have to see the context, but I expect I was being snarky and pretentious again. There's a lot of truly apalling fanfic out there, in the Buffy fandom no less than the Harry Potter one, seemingly written by kids who really should be paying more attention in class than attempting to write smut. That's probably what I meant. I assumed the quotient of such writing would be higher in a "children's book" fandom, and I have been humbled to realize my error. That said, there are fics that I bail on within the first paragraph or two, due to mangled grammar/ spelling/ punctuation/ characterization. Can't point you to any examples, as I tend to find something else to scour my brain with immediately afterwards. But ff.net has more than its share of examples.
Thanks for the prayers. I don't ask, or pray as often as I should, but this has been a weird couple of months.
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Date: 2007-12-19 02:22 am (UTC)Subliterate writing, huh? I'd have to see the context, but I expect I was being snarky and pretentious again. There's a lot of truly apalling fanfic out there, in the Buffy fandom no less than the Harry Potter one, seemingly written by kids who really should be paying more attention in class than attempting to write smut. That's probably what I meant. I assumed the quotient of such writing would be higher in a "children's book" fandom, and I have been humbled to realize my error. That said, there are fics that I bail on within the first paragraph or two, due to mangled grammar/ spelling/ punctuation/ characterization. Can't point you to any examples, as I tend to find something else to scour my brain with immediately afterwards. But ff.net has more than its share of examples.
Thanks for the prayers. I don't ask, or pray as often as I should, but this has been a weird couple of months.