odds and ends

[krazykitkat]

Was watching the story on the DNC on the late news last night and mum said, "The two Johns. Are they anything like the two Ronnies?"
*not sure how many of the USers know the Two Ronnies*

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As soon as you turn on the radio/stereo/tv, CJ starts whistling and chattering away.
And they love corn on the cob.

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Where the fuck do all these fanfic authors (I shudder to use that expression in relation to them) get the idea that Jed desperately wanted/wants a son?
And as for the trainwreck from that idiot that I've had run-ins with...her characters are unrecognisable, the storyline is so far off the rails...and yet she has others praising her and wanting more?
It eludes me.

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[spectralsoul.livejournal.com]

It eludes me to?

Thankgod she's not on LJ.

[roguetailkinker.livejournal.com]

I've shuddered at some of the crap that's passed as fanfiction. (I won't even get started about the atrocious CSI fic I read a week ago.)

I guess there's just tasteless gits in every group, and they all provide an apprecitive audience for each other's scrawlings. *shrugs*

[mcgarrylust.livejournal.com]

I've had a run-in or two with the darling 'writer' you've mentioned, and I know of a few others who feel the same as I do - my skin crawls when something from her appears in my inbox and inevitably I have the urge to throw something at my screen.

I make an effort to read everything, though her stories are lost on me. I read this latest one out thanks to that train-wreck mentality that seems to strike me so early in the morning and it was atrocious. Not even just bad, but atrocious. Still, I can usually get through 'bad' fic and shrug it off as 'just not my tastes' but when the author so clearly thinks they're Shakespeare incarnate I get tempermental.

Anyway, just wanted to let you know that you're definitely not alone (and as evidenced, there are many more of us who feel repulsion by her fic) and those people who praise her talents...well, look at the source of the praise and you'll understand. ;)

mcgarrylust
(mamc031282 on list)

[nevanvonearaisa.livejournal.com]

Which idiot? *looks worried* I haven't written anything lately.

[pixiesio.livejournal.com]

Two Ronnies. *giggle*

As for fic authors who get praised when not really deserving it? I see that constantly, and the people who do the praising haven't read anything good enough to compare against it. That or they're so starved for any fic that they'll praise even the bad writers to have more. ;P

[soft-lite.livejournal.com]

No idea who the two Ronnies are. But the two Johns makes me think of the kind that get arrested on Law & Order SVU. LOL!

The only possible canon source for Jed wanting a son is that ridiculous tell-all book that some WH reporter wrote - which brought about that hilarious scene in which CJ read a quote about Jed's underwear and we see them exchange those priceless expressions!

*sighs* Is there more garbage on the list today? Now I'm dreading going there... As for the praise she gets, my guesses are 1) she writes fluff and that's what people like and/or 2) a bunch of them signed onto the list because they were ALREADY her friends and that's why they give feedback to no one but her.

Just my personal opinion...

[michellek.livejournal.com]

This is that craptastic thing on the CJ/Jed list, right? Bleh. I don't know why she gets feedback, but it hurts me. My eyes, my feelings, my sense of self. (Okay, maybe I'm overstating it, but I can't understand why *good* writers I know mention receiving little to no feedback, and she's getting several on list replies. Eludes me, it does.)