Scary things.

[seiberwing]

Not as if I was going to see it before, as it looked moronic, but Will Ferrell slash is simply not my cup of energon.

I'd like to know where my self-esteem went; it's taken a bit of a vacation and left me wonderng if everyone is secretly annoyed by me for one reason or another. This is a rather unhappy feeling and results in far too many anxiety dreams and the need to apologize for every single thing I've ever said or done.

Also, get a life already, girl. Was it not bad enough that you ended up on i_wank?

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[seiberwing.livejournal.com]

That is, technically, not true. Oasis posted a link to her Ultra Magnus/Rodimus Prime fic from aff.net, and I posted back that I thought it was more stupid and OOC than funny. But yes, people need to learn to take crits. I know I have.

I don't think we were sticky enough for her, though...

I think that's why I like Jive's attitude on things. She draws sticky stuff but is courteous enough to mark them and doesn't mind that some of us think it's silly. And in return, we show her the "don't like, don't look at" courtesy befitting such a civil board as ours. Plus her Prowl/Lambos stuff is hot.

[nightwind69.livejournal.com]

Oh. Well, OK, then you did say something "bad," though I would still contend that you didn't say anything about her, but rather about her work. Bottom line is, if you put your stuff on the Internet, particularly if it's not "mainstream," you are bound to take heat for it and you are fair game. If you can't deal with that, don't post your stuff. People are as free to not like something and say that they don't like it as they are to like something and say that they like it, after all. And, like I said, as far as I can tell, you're criticizing her WORK, not her. That's nothing but fair and, as I said, should be completely expected.

I think that's why I like Jive's attitude on things. She draws sticky stuff but is courteous enough to mark them and doesn't mind that some of us think it's silly. And in return, we show her the "don't like, don't look at" courtesy befitting such a civil board as ours.

Well, usually civil, anyway... :)

And yes, I, too, appreciate Jive's atttitude, and I told her so recently. I mean, nowhere in the Haven does it say that you can't post sticky stuff. But it used to be in the rules that you're supposed to indicate the content level of whatever you posted in the Haven, and a "sticky" notice is, IMO, only courteous. Particularly so with art. When Mommimus mentioned looking at the board with her kids looking over her shoulder, it really brought home to me the need for such labels. Many of the folks in the Haven have kids, after all... Unfortunately, the rules got lost in one of the ezBoard crashes. Need to recreate and post them up again, indeed. :)

Anyway, I really don't see the need for "warfare" between the two factions here. I personally can't imagine robots with human parts, but if others want to indulge in it, I'm certainly not going to fuss about it. On the other hand, they could at least keep the characters...well, in character. If you're doing something as far out as robots-with-penises-and-breasts and want to be taken somewhat seriously, then I think keeping all the other elements of their character intact is a very important thing. So, I think commenting on the OOCness of a given character in a stickyfic is completely legitimate and something that the author might want to take to heart...

On the other hand, a lot of these people write this stuff simply to get themselves (and their loyal readership, I s'pose) off, so perhaps ICness isn't uppermost in their minds, y'know? :)

*shudders at Prowl/Lambos.* :)

[seiberwing.livejournal.com]

If you can't deal with that, don't post your stuff. People are as free to not like something and say that they don't like it as they are to like something and say that they like it, after all. And, like I said, as far as I can tell, you're criticizing her WORK, not her. That's nothing but fair and, as I said, should be completely expected.


Seriously. When it starts getting personal, that obviously crosses the line. And I never did that. My main opposition was not the stickyness (which at this point, I've learned to let slide), but the total OOC characters. If you want to do that, just write original characters and give them the traits you were attributing to the canon characters.

[nightwind69.livejournal.com]

Oh! And I friended ya. :) Sorry I haven't done so until now. For some strange reason, I tend to think that you and Sweetfires are the same person, and since I friended Sweetfires, I guess I thought I had friended you, too. Duh. :)