Inside Insanity

Thursday, June 26, 2003

Apparently people actually visit this page. o_o; While the idea of someone finding me interesting is rather odd, I feel that I should point out that I probably won't be blogging in the future. I've moved over to livejournal and I doubt I can produce enough interesting babble to fill this blog and that. So, if you're interested in reading more of my ever-so-non-witty commentary head over there. It's be nice to get some post-replies. -_-
posted by Kristyn 9:53 AM

Thursday, May 22, 2003

I need more Pretty Face manga. >_> <_< Seriously. *glares at Streamload* Appear, scanlated manga! I said appear! In Aute's inbox! Appear! Please? *sigh*
posted by Kristyn 3:32 AM

Friday, May 16, 2003

Note to everyone on my campus: Standing outside dorm halls yelling makes you seem like a complete dumbass. Please, stop it. And smokers? I hate you and wish you would die. Or, at least, stop standing around talking incredibly loudly to the person two feet away from you at 3 am. Apparently, the cigarettes have damaged your brains as well as your lungs. It may seem petty but, y'know, some of us like to SLEEP and can't do that with you faking orgasms outside. If you absolutely must stand around most nights of the week, try something we call a 'conversational tone'. The person you are talking to is probably not hard of hearing. Think, people. I know it's a lot to ask, but try. It's bad enough I have to deal with all the idiots in my Univ classes. Let me keep some respect for humanity before I become a social worker. I'll lose it soon enough then.
Be quiet or, at least, be loud indoors. Bothering one floor isn't nearly as bad as bothering an entire building. Common sense is your friend.
posted by Kristyn 7:41 PM

Yet another sign that humans haven't really evolved from monkeys: Someone wanted to see a Harry Potter and Naruto cross-over fic enough to post in their blog about it. HP and Naruto. A more cracked crossover pairing I haven't seen since...well, since I took a brief, scared look at the crossover section of fanfiction.net, actually. Which's now down, since I want to read a Naruto fic really badly and can't find any online. -_- Of course, I can barely find any fanfiction online, since I use Google as my search engine and whenever I search for fics I have to sort through about 5 pages of blogs, all of them just some random fangirl babbling about what series and characters she likes. Yay. That's when I give up, since I know that, when I do manage to find fanfics, I'll have to sort through many more pages just to find fics that aren't badly written. Sometimes that makes me wish ff.net still had NC-17 fics up. Then I remember someone wrote NC-17 Calvin and Hobbes fanfiction. That...that's not even wrong. That's far past wrong. Even the idea is soul-searingly horrible. But, anyway, back to my original point. What's wrong with fans? Why on earth would you want Harry Potter, a fun children's book using lots of magic written in a very condescending manner, to be crossed with Naruto, a bloody, death-filled, demon-filled world where Harry would be dead, or posessed, before he could finish saying a spell? Two completely different styles of stories that won't combine well. Unless you just dump them into bad!fanfic style, where you drain all characters of personality and differences. Like nearly every AU or 'this story is set 10/20/however-many years in the future' story in existence. But that would be, well, bad...
That reminds me... Once, a long time ago, I was reading through a seemingly endless 'blahblah years in the future' Naruto fanfic on ff.net and it demonstrated exactly why I hate the genre. The older characters were either unchanged (Naruto), made into a pathetic whiner to their wife but never to the person they're bitching about(Sasuke), or barely there (Hinata & Sakura). I should have known it would be horrible since it was 30+ chapters long and no chapter was more than 2 or 3 pages in Word. Disturbingly large numbers of chapters and chapters sizes under 5 or so pages in Word are just below bad spelling and grammar as indicators of bad fanfiction. The point of an AU or future fic is taking the characters and working them into the setting without destroying their personality. Future fics have the added pain bonus of requiring new characters, the children. Children are very hard to write well since, well, kids are stupid. They're immature and lack knowledge but, since they're usually being written by someone of the same age, end up turning into super geniuses all the adults pale in comparison to. *coughcoughMarrisaPicardcoughyesIlikeStarTrekcough* Plus the fic I was reading made Lee's son incompetent and whiney. Death to the author! And Sasuke's son was obviously supposed to be a younger version of him, only without a brain and with overactive hormones. And Naruto bred a Mary Sue, complete with the requisite horribly, horribly tragic past! (tm) that really isn't so bad after all and is just an excuse for everyone to say 'it's amazing MS got over it so completely since before the fic she was so traumatized but now she's totally fine because writing emotionally scarred characters is really hard'. In short: Future fics rarely work because the fanfic authors aren't as good as the original series creator and they have to try and adapt the story. Very bad. AU fics are bad because, face it, most of the time they're just an excuse for a Mary Sue or to turn the chara into a teenybopper who listens to N'sync or Nirvana. Scary. Very scary.
Well, I'm off to try and find good One Piece fanfiction. Anything decent with lots of Zoro should do. And to see if I can't get the HP-Naru crossover girl to share her drugs with me. Seems like she has the good stuff.
posted by Kristyn 7:36 PM

Tuesday, May 13, 2003

I just had a very disturbing random moment. I was reading a MST on a site that used 'gai' instead of 'gay'. Never question fangirls, we may explain.I've recently been slogging through my Naruto fic and am just now at a scene with Kakashi and Gai. I wonder why some fansubbers like changing Gai's name to Guy? Anway...I'm in a Naruto mindset, like I've been pretty much since I first watched it, except when I watch One Piece. In my Naruto mindset I never, EVER want to see the phrase 'all the characters were suddenly fucking gai.' That produced the most horrible mental image ever, since that one of Furuba's Akito skipping in a flowery dress singing 'I feel pretty'. It's just wrong. Absolutely wrong. Thank god I wasn't drinking my soda when I read that, I've already lost one keyboard to Dr. Pepper this month. -_-
posted by Kristyn 3:23 PM

Wednesday, May 07, 2003

After reading fanfiction.net fanfics and non-ff.net fanfics I've determined that there are two classes of fanfic authors out there. One group, generally regarded as preferable and more intelligent, uses grammar and spelling. You can recognize these authors not only by the correct use of apostrophes and punctuation, though comma use varies even among grammarians, and the fact they spell words right even if spell check doesn't catch them, but that you can give their story to a university English teacher and they can read through it without screaming in pain. Plus, they avoid run on sentences like the last one. Then there are those who use grammer and speeling, who believe that correct spelling is what spell check is for and that you can replace a word with any offering from the thesaurus. Since, of course, if the words weren't exactly the same they wouldn't be listed, right? These authors make up the majority of the posters at ff.net and if you give one of these 'works' to an English teacher you may actually make them cry. Certainly, they will wonder what they've done to deserve being subjected to such a mutilation of the English language. However, many seem to enjoy this style. (Extremely biased editorial comment: 'Many' here seems to be synonymous with 'morons'). There wouldn't be so many butt-kissing reviews of grammer using fics at ff.net if there wasn't.
Ultimately, the question is which category an author falls in. Do you want to use grammar and possibly win accolades from the oft-harsh intelligentsia of fanfic readers? Be warned, if you do, that many fanfic readers hold fan fiction at even higher standards than they do original works. After all, you don't have to come up with the characters or worlds, so that leaves you more energy for perfecting your style, no? Or, on the other hand, do you want to use grammer and never have to worry about that ever-annoying proofreading thing? True, much of the fan fiction community will look down on you as an undereducated or middle-school fangirl (or fanboy, perhaps, but in the fanfic circles I move [stealthily] in, authors are usually considered fangirls until mentioned otherwise. Yaoi tends to be gender biased, after all) but you'll never feel a sense of shame for your works (unless you graduate to the grammar class later, in which case you want all your grammer work to be easily buried and never seen again). You may even have a giant horde of fierce fans who will gladly tear apart anyone who condemns your lack of technical ability. You will be the boy band of fanfic authors.
Just don't let your English teachers see your work. It so disrupts the class schedule when a teacher drops dead of a stress-induced heart attack mid-semester, after all.
posted by Kristyn 3:08 PM

Monday, May 05, 2003

Streamload 2.0, now suckier than ever. Does anyone actually prefer this version to the old one? I'm pissed because they got rid of the option I like. I want 10 gigs of downloads a month. I don't want 15, that's too much, but I don't want just 5. I get some of my fansubs that way and when you're downloading 170-200 mb files, those gigs add up FAST. Add onto it the fact I've been getting myself hooked on new series and trying to get all I can... gah. @_@ If you add the evil that is new streamload, with the pure and spiteful evil that is my LAN and Internet Explorer... God, I hate the internet sometimes.
posted by Kristyn 3:18 PM

Thursday, April 24, 2003

The problem with having anime calendars is that, since they're Japanese, they don't have American holidays on them and I can never remember the date of anything. Which means I would've forgotten about mothers day if I hadn't been reminded...Very bad of me. I may not have much money to get gifts, but I should at least remember. Even if it is just an artificial creation by a company.
posted by Kristyn 12:41 PM