Fanfiction Lounge Page 438

Started by ^^NICK^^ v.2.0 September 6th, 2003 7:57 PM
  • 882237 views
  • 15269 replies

Giratina ♀

what's your sign?

Female
Seen July 23rd, 2013
Posted July 22nd, 2013
1,439 posts
15.1 Years
My laptop is the computer I use all the time. This means I use it for all computer-ing purposes: Word, iTunes, Firefox, IE on occasion, Paint for spriting...

What is your grammatical pet peeve? (I assume everyone has one grammar mistake that they just don't like seeing).

I shouldn't be answering this either, but my one grammar pet peeve is when people fail to use the S-Apostrophe Rule. You know, when nouns ending in S get an 's (example: Alexis's, Jonas's, etc.) instead of the proper method, which is S-apostrophe (Alexis', Jonas', etc.). It just drives me nuts.

JX Valentine

Your aquatic overlord

Female
Harassing Bill
Seen August 19th, 2020
Posted December 8th, 2012
3,276 posts
19 Years
Yeah, I could respond to the laptop talk, but I'm a girl who really doesn't have to worry about outside junk. *thumbs up*

What is your grammatical pet peeve? (I assume everyone has one grammar mistake that they just don't like seeing).
I'm an all-around grammar nazi, so there's a lot of small things that make me twitch. However, in fics, the one thing I hate pointing out is anything that's a comma error because I have to do it all the flipping time. I mean, come on, guys. Didn't anyone ever teach you how to use that thing? It's not that difficult to remember.

Also, to Giratinasaur: Actually, both ways are grammatically correct. The logic behind putting an 's at the end of a word that already ends with S is that the noun is technically singular as it is. Thus, putting an apostrophe and nothing else at the end of it implies that there's more than one Alexis, which there isn't.

In fact, attaching an apostrophe and S to the end of a singular noun that already ends with the letter is preferred in American MLA format.
Professional ninja. May or may not actually be back. Here for the snark and banter at most.

Need some light reading?
Anima Ex Machina (Chapter 20 now available)
The Leaf Green Incident (SWC 2012 winner)
Braid (Creepypasta apparently)
Domain | Dreamwidth | Twitter

Miz en Scène

Everybody's connected

Male
The Wired
Seen 2 Days Ago
Posted August 30th, 2016
1,645 posts
14.7 Years
I'm an all-around grammar nazi, so there's a lot of small things that make me twitch. However, in fics, the one thing I hate pointing out is anything that's a comma error because I have to do it all the flipping time. I mean, come on, guys. Didn't anyone ever teach you how to use that thing? It's not that difficult to remember.
*shivers nervously* Many mistakes in my fic? Well actually, I was never properly taught how to use a comma. So now I'm learning it. Oh yeah, I'm going to be absent two days from now so Val Sensei, should I patiently await my fic till Monday (GMT+8) or do I have a better chance posting in two weeks time? I'm not trying to be pushy but I'm getting tired checking my mailbox.
» Fiction «
Havisham
SWC 2011
» Fanfiction «
The Rainbow Chasers
SWC 2016 (1st Place)
——
The Promise I Made to You
SWC 2012 (2nd Place)
——
The Best
Pokecreepypasta Entry 2010
——
Using Firefox and see a scrollbar?
Tell me so I can fix it! (Hopefully)
» TBD «

Want a fanfic review?
Just ask me!

Got a review from me?
Pay it forward!
Drop a comment or a review on someone else's fic. I'm sure they'll appreciate it!

JX Valentine

Your aquatic overlord

Female
Harassing Bill
Seen August 19th, 2020
Posted December 8th, 2012
3,276 posts
19 Years
*shivers nervously* Many mistakes in my fic? Well actually, I was never properly taught how to use a comma. So now I'm learning it. Oh yeah, I'm going to be absent two days from now so Val Sensei, should I patiently await my fic till Monday (GMT+8) or do I have a better chance posting in two weeks time? I'm not trying to be pushy but I'm getting tired checking my mailbox.
I finished it the other day, oddly enough, but real-life stuff got to me (including a temporary loss of internet). It should be in your inbox soon. I'm just going back over my notes one more time.

Also, there's going to be some notes about logic. If you'd like to discuss how to work them out, feel free to e-mail me.
Professional ninja. May or may not actually be back. Here for the snark and banter at most.

Need some light reading?
Anima Ex Machina (Chapter 20 now available)
The Leaf Green Incident (SWC 2012 winner)
Braid (Creepypasta apparently)
Domain | Dreamwidth | Twitter
Age 34
Female
Karnac (in RL, The UK)
Seen March 14th, 2010
Posted February 8th, 2010
761 posts
14.7 Years
What is your grammatical pet peeve? (I assume everyone has one grammar mistake that they just don't like seeing).

Your. You're.

Your a cow. *My a cow what?*

You're coat. *I'm a what now?*

It makes my eyes, ears and throat hurt. I know in my younger days I didn't know the difference, but now that I do, it's my huge peeve.




Friend Code

A Darker Day

Team Destiny



Theme

Female
In my dreams.
Seen December 13th, 2016
Posted October 30th, 2011
444 posts
14.3 Years
Wow, I hardly ever have to read two whole pages to get to the current conversation. You guys were sure busy.

What is your grammatical pet peeve? (I assume everyone has one grammar mistake that they just don't like seeing).
Substituting ‘thru’ for ‘through’. It didn’t bother me at first, but now I’m seeing it pretty much everywhere. It just makes me want to strangle something sometimes. <_<
"After being saddled with two ten-year-old brats and being sent out on her long overdue Pokemon journey, she can’t help but wonder… is it worth it?"

Bay

She/They
Dani California
Seen 7 Hours Ago
Posted 8 Hours Ago
6,347 posts
17 Years
I used to have a laptop, but it got old and broken now. :( Now at the moment I'm using the family desktop and I'm cool with it. Most of the time whether I'm using my laptop or the desktop I use it for Firefox, homework, fic writing, and listening to music.

On the laptop and heat thing, I'm not sure if that's true. If so, then I'm glad I'm a girl. XD;
Miles Edgeworth
Foul Play [On Hiatus]
Age 30
Male
Northern Virginia
Seen 1 Week Ago
Posted May 26th, 2018
1,184 posts
15.2 Years
Well, my genitalia haven't shriveled and fallen off yet, so I'll just assume that my laptop's safe.


Sadly, my computer won't come with word unless I pay an extra two hundred bucks for windows 07
In that case, you should get OpenOffice. It's like Word except it's free.
Old, Janky Fics
[url-inline="showthread.php?t=146381"]Gary Stu's Unpredictable Adventure[/url-inline]
Complete and FULL of lame jokes
[url-inline="showthread.php?t=127518"]Kanto: The Disputed Frontier[/url-inline]
Canceled
(Now with MST3K'd chapter 1!)
Chapter Fics
[url-inline="showthread.php?t=406057"]Roving Degenerates with Dangerous Pets[/url-inline]
Canceled
[url-inline="showthread.php?t=387471"]Will Somebody Stop These Kids?[/url-inline]
Complete
[url-inline="showthread.php?p=9293373"]Digimon Campaign[/url-inline]
Complete
One-Shot Fics
[url-inline="showthread.php?t=404864"]Wild Horses in Winter[/url-inline]
2017
[url-inline="showthread.php?t=385011"]Hubris Island[/url-inline]
A&D Collab 2016
[url-inline="showthread.php?p=7449808"]Giovanni Destroys the World and Everything in It[/url-inline]
2012
Small Writing Contest
[url-inline="showthread.php?t=193500"]2009[/url-inline], [url-inline="showthread.php?t=230366"]2010[/url-inline], [url-inline="showthread.php?t=258543"]2011[/url-inline] (1st), [url-inline="showthread.php?t=305055"]2013[/url-inline] (1st), [url-inline="showthread.php?t=332174"]2014[/url-inline] (1st), [url-inline="showthread.php?t=374329"]2016[/url-inline] (2nd), [url-inline="showthread.php?t=400230"]2017[/url-inline] (1st)
Family (kind of?): [url-inline="member.php?u=25615"]Strange person who calls me strange names[/url-inline]
Seen December 26th, 2009
Posted December 24th, 2009
319 posts
13.8 Years
In that case, you should get OpenOffice. It's like Word except it's free.
I was going to, but for some reason I don't like it as much as word.

Well, it never catches my grammar mistakes like fragment sentences like word does. It just bugs me.
Pair: pairless
Family: none
I also probably wouldn't be your pair/family member unless I know you :O Shocking!
Age 34
Female
Karnac (in RL, The UK)
Seen March 14th, 2010
Posted February 8th, 2010
761 posts
14.7 Years
I was going to, but for some reason I don't like it as much as word.

Well, it never catches my grammar mistakes like fragment sentences like word does. It just bugs me.
I like it more than Word. Mainly because it spells long words for you, which is the best thing since sliced bread when you have to write words like 'microorganisms', 'centrifugation' and 'polymerase chain reaction' more than 30 times in a 10,000 word dissertation.

Me? Lazy? Never. *teehee*




Friend Code

A Darker Day

Team Destiny



Theme

Misheard Whisper

I also happen to be a model.

Age 28
He/They
Nimbasa Gym
Seen October 3rd, 2022
Posted September 27th, 2022
3,488 posts
14.3 Years
*pant pant* Made it to the end! On the laptop heat thing, mine lives on a wooden breakfast tray. It has ever since the first afternoon I got it, when I sat it on my bed all afternoon, hammering away at it like lol. It overheated and died temporarily. So the tray helps. It often overheats if I play Age of Empires for too long, but it's mostly the keyboard that gets hot. so its hard to type my cheat codes

On another note, has anyone read Questionable Content? It's nowhere near as dodgy as the name suggests (at least up to #308, where I'm at), but it is pretty darn funny.
Star Performer
~latest chapter: 11~
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Champion's Legacy
~on hiatus~
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
New Game
~the classic~
Age 36
Seen 26 Minutes Ago
Posted 3 Days Ago
I had a laptop. In fact, my two previous computers were laptops, since I was in school and needed to cart around a computer with me for some unknown reason. (Seriously. I never used the things at my college unless it was in-between classes and I went online to kill time.)

Right now, though, I have a desktop. I prefer them because they're faster, have more hard drive space, are easier to upgrade, and don't overheat on your lap, setting your pants on fire.

And like .Ozymandias, I prefer OpenOffice because I'm lazy and like having big words spelled out for me as I'm typing.

Also, Sparkling Dragon, I've Questionable Content saved under my "Crap to be read" favorites folder in Firefox, so I do plan on reading it at some point.

Avatar credit: Fairy

Venia Silente

Inspectious. Good for napping.

Male
on the second floor's nest
Seen 1 Day Ago
Posted 2 Days Ago
1,177 posts
14.6 Years
Darn I should be here more often. I feel sometimes I leave for a while, come back, and we all have free energy and quantum teleportation technology.


What is your grammatical pet peeve? (I assume everyone has one grammar mistake that they just don't like seeing).
Incorrect use of commas.
They're · Their · There, among others.
People who use "what" as a substitute for pretty much any wh-question (when, why, who, whom, whose, ...).
Also, although they're gramatically correct, I can do nothing but shiver upon those weird tense constructs for double "to-be"s and mixed past-future. Things like "had been being built" or "will have been eaten". Don't know why...


Now, I shall be fair and answer my own question (from soooooooooooooooo long befooooooooooooooooore...):
Does your culture's iconography (as in: set of cultural, religious, social or economical symbols) play a role in your writing? If so, what symbols and/or meanings do you explore?

I personally try not to let social and religious iconography slip into my work, but won't loose a night's sleep because of it. I still like to make use of some things that are simpler but deeper in meaning and that are more representative of the concept of a global culture. Like that currency often wears the face of a famous person or building, or the concept of hunting with the tribe as a rie of passage, for example.

The reason why I was asking this was to discern, to a point, how comfortable people felt while letting real-world history and culture slip into the Pokémon world, which if I am not mistaken several authors look at as a cultural sponge whee you can toss a boy with a Japanese name who hunts lizard in his spare time in the same three-houses town than a girl with an Ukranian name who likes to eat marshmallows.
Go figure.

What level of involvement do you have with your characters?
High enough. I feel for them sometimes. I see them in a "it would be cool if they were actually here" fashion. I kinda support icomeanon6's view:
From my point of view, being friends with your characters is like being friends with your right arm.
(... 3 pages later ...)

Laptops and Desktops
I have... no, rather, my family has an Olidata machine that is, by today's standard, ancient: a laptop from 2005. Despite being treated like dirt by my sister and like slave by me (who ran Debian and a network simulation and inspection system on it), it has held up until now. I prefer laptops due to the "take your job with you" approach, because with a laptop you take not only your stuff, but also your workflow and work style: how you like your placement of windows and applications, what music to listen, and so on. However, I am more comfortale with desktop because I 1) can't afford a laptop right now and 2) need a machine that I can tinker and mess up with every once in a while.

I like very very much to see people who appreciate OpenOffice. It is my personal and industry-standard office package. Now if only the Draw component was better and it had some Visio-like labeling capabilities...

*pant pant* Made it to the end! On the laptop heat thing, mine lives on a wooden breakfast tray. It has ever since the first afternoon I got it, when I sat it on my bed all afternoon, hammering away at it like lol. It overheated and died temporarily. So the tray helps. It often overheats if I play Age of Empires for too long, but it's mostly the keyboard that gets hot. so its hard to type my cheat codes
There's a "nocd" "fix" for the game, you know... ;)

And other than that, if you have enough space you're probably better off playing the game from an ISO image due to the energy consumption of the tray.
Venia Silente - Consulting WorldbuilderSocial·🐘ⓜ · · Direct·
Looking for background art.
[World] The Suocéverse «Thread» «Wiki»

Fic stuff~
SWC Selections
: Playfield : As They Were : Simpler than Magic : Beyond Today :

Other Releases
: FF&W Library : Stories : AO3 :

The Meta Journey!
Nidoran : Carnivine : Trapinch


Misheard Whisper

I also happen to be a model.

Age 28
He/They
Nimbasa Gym
Seen October 3rd, 2022
Posted September 27th, 2022
3,488 posts
14.3 Years
What is your grammatical pet peeve? (I assume everyone has one grammar mistake that they just don't like seeing).
I personally try not to let social and religious iconography slip into my work, but won't loose a night's sleep because of it.
^There's another one. Sorry, solovino, but I just had to pull you up on that one. Loose =/= lose, people.

And I prefer to play games from disc for some reason. It feels more authentic. *is goody-good that won't let friend hack an Arceus for them*
Star Performer
~latest chapter: 11~
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Champion's Legacy
~on hiatus~
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
New Game
~the classic~

Venia Silente

Inspectious. Good for napping.

Male
on the second floor's nest
Seen 1 Day Ago
Posted 2 Days Ago
1,177 posts
14.6 Years
Lulz, I'll immediately reinstall Debian from scratch with myspell 5!

Seriously, I can't believe that one slipped by.

I would play my games from disc too, but given that I already imaged them, what's the point? I have the CD tray for holding coffee mugs.
Venia Silente - Consulting WorldbuilderSocial·🐘ⓜ · · Direct·
Looking for background art.
[World] The Suocéverse «Thread» «Wiki»

Fic stuff~
SWC Selections
: Playfield : As They Were : Simpler than Magic : Beyond Today :

Other Releases
: FF&W Library : Stories : AO3 :

The Meta Journey!
Nidoran : Carnivine : Trapinch


Age 27
Male
Best City OCE
Seen October 18th, 2021
Posted April 1st, 2013
5,978 posts
15.1 Years
I absolutely abhor it when someone says "your" instead of "you're" or "to" instead of "too".

It really, really, reads badly.

Oh, that and "writeing" or "snipeing". With the "e".

That and any phrase involving "cups" and "girl".

Jax, I require some brain bleach.
Everything ends,
and that's always sad.
But everything begins again, too,
and that's always happy.

Misheard Whisper

I also happen to be a model.

Age 28
He/They
Nimbasa Gym
Seen October 3rd, 2022
Posted September 27th, 2022
3,488 posts
14.3 Years
That video looks disgusting, and I haven't even watched it. I don't want to; I get the feeling it will taint my pure adolescent mind beyond recovery.

There was an amusing comic on xkcd about that, actually. But may I link you to this one, as well? It describes my life philosophy perfectly. ^_^
Star Performer
~latest chapter: 11~
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Champion's Legacy
~on hiatus~
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
New Game
~the classic~

Misheard Whisper

I also happen to be a model.

Age 28
He/They
Nimbasa Gym
Seen October 3rd, 2022
Posted September 27th, 2022
3,488 posts
14.3 Years
That's a definite relief. From what I've heard, I don't think my delicate mental composition could stand the horror.
Star Performer
~latest chapter: 11~
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Champion's Legacy
~on hiatus~
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
New Game
~the classic~

Venia Silente

Inspectious. Good for napping.

Male
on the second floor's nest
Seen 1 Day Ago
Posted 2 Days Ago
1,177 posts
14.6 Years
There was an amusing comic on xkcd about that, actually. But may I link you to this one, as well? It describes my life philosophy perfectly. ^_^

...because of the Alt-Text? ;)
XKCD is pure win.

Thank Arceus I've kept myself far from those internet fads such as <x> girls <y> cups, or the worst lolcats such as "relevant to my interests". Most of the time they're most disgusting than any combination of fun and interesting.

Oh, that and "writeing" or "snipeing". With the "e".
And "Pokemon", with the "e", too! :\
Venia Silente - Consulting WorldbuilderSocial·🐘ⓜ · · Direct·
Looking for background art.
[World] The Suocéverse «Thread» «Wiki»

Fic stuff~
SWC Selections
: Playfield : As They Were : Simpler than Magic : Beyond Today :

Other Releases
: FF&W Library : Stories : AO3 :

The Meta Journey!
Nidoran : Carnivine : Trapinch


Misheard Whisper

I also happen to be a model.

Age 28
He/They
Nimbasa Gym
Seen October 3rd, 2022
Posted September 27th, 2022
3,488 posts
14.3 Years
Either way, I'm not watching it.

And solovino, what about all those people and their poke'mon fanfics? Graaaaah! *mercilessly bashes own head against wall before hunting down poke'mon fanfic authors to do the same to them for the rest of eternity* I really need to get out more.
Star Performer
~latest chapter: 11~
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Champion's Legacy
~on hiatus~
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
New Game
~the classic~
Age 27
Male
Best City OCE
Seen October 18th, 2021
Posted April 1st, 2013
5,978 posts
15.1 Years
Either way, I'm not watching it.
Neither am I, heesh.

And I hate Poke'mon too! YOU DON'T SEE THAT IN THE GAMES OR THE ANIME OR THE MANGA OR WHEREVER ELSE WHY DO YOU THINK YOU CAN DO THAT AH?!
Everything ends,
and that's always sad.
But everything begins again, too,
and that's always happy.

Misheard Whisper

I also happen to be a model.

Age 28
He/They
Nimbasa Gym
Seen October 3rd, 2022
Posted September 27th, 2022
3,488 posts
14.3 Years
I'd rather they just left the accent out entirely. In casual posting, I just say Pokemon. In fanfiction, I always have the accent, as my AutoCorrect is set to do that when I type 'pokemon'. But really, if people can't be arsed doing that, they should just leave the damn accent out anyway, instead of trying to prove their inferior intelligence to the world at large by substituting a substandard piece of punctuation that really has no place in the middle of a word that's not a) a contraction, or b) the name of an elf or similar character.
Star Performer
~latest chapter: 11~
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Champion's Legacy
~on hiatus~
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
New Game
~the classic~