Inside Insanity

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