Recent content by JX Valentine

Something to keep in mind: when you're in a writing community online -- a fanfiction community especially -- we are all writers. The people who frequent communities aren't grouped into two separate categories of reviewers and writers, and because of that, reviewers aren't out-of-touch with the...

Mind if I point out something here as politely as I can? You rip into people for not reviewing (by complaining that writers just want to know what people think but get nothing in terms of feedback), but a couple of sentences later, you accuse reviewers of attacking writers. If you want more...

Sooooo... the kind of person who would find the Saw movies scary. No problem. In that case, you'll find the Keter objects more interesting after all. Many of them deal with terrible things done to the human body. 813, for example, involves an electronic parasite jamming itself into the eyes...

Without giving in to egotism (although I'm very, very fond of writing horror apparently), try The SCP Foundation. There's hundreds of entries, and given the fact that I have no idea what actually scares you (whether you're a psychological horror fan, a person who gets a rise out of an image...

*le bow* Thank you! Also, I have to admit, I wasn't planning on writing much more in this universe, but I'm sort of tempted to do so now to cover incidents involving different SEs. And that's the only non-spoiler-riffic thing I can say right now! :D So here's a spoiler tag~!

So what I've decided to do is something that will probably break everything ever. The following is my entry to the SWC, but it comes in two flavors. The flavor behind the spoiler is the one I submitted to the judges as-is, perfectly preserved so Dragonfree's crit makes sense to anyone who kept...

I did too, but that's all I can say about that.

Just submitted an entry myself. Because I totally am not ninjaing or anything right now.

...'Kay. Well, yes, but it's not the only element to a romantic fic. Just like a mystery fic, an action fic, and even a comedy fic might have elements of different genres, so does romance fic. A good romance fic manages to have a little something for everyone -- a little bit of action, a...

Actually, I understood perfectly. I was saying to the both of you that these kinds of situations only happen in a fraction of all shipping fics and that when they do happen, it's not necessarily because the author wants to live vicariously through their character. If they wanted to do that...

...Or, you know, we could just like the idea of two characters hooking up. :/ I mean, there is such a thing as romance written by aromantic, asexual, or wrong-orientation authors. Most of the best male/male slash fic I've read, for example, was written by completely heterosexual girls...

Welcome to a place that isn't FFNet? FFNet is only a tiny portion of this fandom's fanfic, so writing a generalization that fails to specify that you mean one site's shipping fic won't get people to agree with you. Like I said, there's a lot of shipping fic on places like LJ, and it's not...

Just so we're all on the same page, you know that "slash fic" is generally defined as "fic that's about two characters of the same gender in a sexual or romantic relationship," right? That's why we all dogpiled you for mentioning slash fic authors -- because not only does it pretty much insult...

Not to mention that if I'm reading his post correctly, he's implying that slash fic authors are incapable of writing happy endings, develop characters properly, and handle romance well. Which, uh, is actually the opposite of what slash writers in this fandom do. I mean, just look at the top...

When posting a fic to a forum -- any forum -- you should put all of the chapters for the same fic in the same thread. Look at the other long fics on this forum for a template. This is for courtesy more than anything else; posting each chapter in a different thread not only forces readers to...