Yomi
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Post by Yomi on Aug 28, 2003 10:04:47 GMT -5
;D Excuse me while I laugh...but would 'I' really be stupid enough to actually bust my own cover by saying that?
Here I am explaining and re-explaining myself although many readers probably already know the difference! I am so boring! yay!
That was from Change me by treegurl. Frankly, I know I'm boring but it has never particularly worried me if I'm going to be able to charge $800 an hour in the future. Furthermore, that's a confession I got out of it and it's up on my profile now, so case closed.
*shrug* thought it was going to be harder than this....and as to the last flame at masami's A Girl's Diary - it left out the fullstop. I never leave out a full stop, thank you.
Yomi
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Post by Yomi on Aug 26, 2003 10:21:45 GMT -5
I think it's okay if you want to make them look pathetic It kinda makes me look arrogant I'll admit - but hey, I've taken on the name of a thousand year old youkai who owned a third of maikai and defeated Yuusuke and lived to own bragging rights. My alter ego is the lord of the dead with his own underworld and minions and total control over the souls. In the Saint Seiya context, I have 108 specters at my command as well as two gods at my side as well PLUS I reside in the Elysian - paradise. I guess I'm just having too much fun role playing. G'night. Yomi
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Post by Yomi on Aug 26, 2003 9:54:43 GMT -5
I don't know what to say... apparently, 'I' struck again on masami's fic yesterday...and the strange thing is, I think I'm developing a perverse delight out of making the impersonator look like a fool...every time it makes a flame that I discover, I automatically make a follow up in which I belittle its pathetic attempts to imitate me.
Oh no...hope it's not another compulsive obsessive habit developing here...
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Post by Yomi on Aug 25, 2003 1:36:58 GMT -5
I've been involved in some slugfests which makes page 9 of this thread look like the epitome of civility. Granted, we just witnessed a lot of hypothesis, scrutiny of possible motives, profiling Yumiko, but it was hardly... perhaps 'brutal' is the word that describes it. Back in the days of Diablo II, everyone had a flamethrower strapped to their back and anything that moved was fair game. You guys just had the luxury of getting into a good crowd In retrospect, I don't think flamers are bad because they are intended to hurt or be discouraging to the author. Flamers are bad because then they start little flame wars and squabblings in the review page between the flamer and ardent supporters of the fic. Gives me a headache, and I'd prefer it if people diverted their efforts to finding points to improve on in the fic rather than to come up with creative names to call the flamer. Got to work on my own fics now. Yomi
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Post by Yomi on Aug 25, 2003 1:14:57 GMT -5
Oh gosh, I didn't mean to upset or offend you or anything, but it's just that all the authors here seem to write CCS fics or even if they don't, they still know about CCS. Is this supposed to be a general anime forum then?
Nice meeting you too fungiwoman-san.
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Post by Yomi on Aug 25, 2003 0:58:43 GMT -5
fungiwoman: if you write hxh fics, join the ML because I try to review all fics there. I see that this is more of a CCS forum, which I unfortunately don't know anything about (except for the fact that it has cute girls with magical powers?), so I don't think I can be of any help at all.
I won't be here for long (thanks for the warm reception though) because I was aghast when I found out that azile was Liz - she usually goes by a different name on the internet. I didn't want her to think badly of people here just as I don't want people here to think badly of her, so I registered to sort things out.
Righto - cheerio peoples.
Yomi
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Post by Yomi on Aug 25, 2003 0:27:38 GMT -5
Nah - not dying, just overly quiet ever since Cherrie became unwell coupled with her mounting school pressures. In fact, just about everyone has school pressures so fics, much less reviews, have died down to a trickle.
To keep it alive, write everything that you want to say and send it to the group. Usually, after a review, there are a couple more emails back and forth discussing certain points. For example - if you didn't agree with something or you're asking for ways in which your idea could be expressed without sounding contrived and whatnot - just post a message and that'll start up a discussion. Reading and reviewing is fun. Participate! ;D
Yomi
Btw, did you have trouble reading the word document or anything? the font and borders and colours all ok?
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Post by Yomi on Aug 25, 2003 0:19:14 GMT -5
Aiya! Why'd it have to come to this?! I can see where Liz is coming from and she's given me a glimpse of her great mooting spirit yet again, but I've already made her promise to not post here again on the threat that I'm not going to lend her my YYH DVDs ( ) Yumiko: She was just saying that because of your fight with my alter ego, you had a motive to write the flame. But I've shown Liz the other flame that was supposedly written by me, so she's promised not going to say anything else. Hey, at least she believes that you didn't write that flame. I've also decided to get rid of it - it was starting to brew up some nasty feelings so better take out the trash before the stink ruins everything. Do you have anything to say about my review of your fic at the HxH Mailing List? If you've made changes/editions to your fic since, again, please drop a note at the group and help to keep it alive. Yomi ps - Jaze = Jason?! Not in a million years! - that guy would look at the number of words in my fic and demand that he be paid to make comments on it. And besides, he's too old for anime and fanfics, though I admit it does sound a bit like him. Might pass a note on to him tonight to find out.
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Post by Yomi on Aug 24, 2003 20:10:20 GMT -5
ELIZA?! What are you doing here! Argh - lemme deal with my own problems ok? God damnit, I saw this kind of stuff happening when I decided to let my alter ego take over my website, so don't think I'm a helpless sitting duck.
Sorry Fibby, Yumiko. Liz is one of my friends at Uni who has only recently caught onto Hunter x Hunter and subsequently, its fanfiction. We do the same course and all, so if she's starting to sound like a paranoid lawyer like I do half the time, it's because we've both been tainted. In the future, I'll no longer be able to write fics, only dry jargon that a select few in society can understand. Whoop dee doo.
None the less, I appreciate your concern Liz, but I think you have it wrong. That's why I'm going to clear this up since I've been given more circumstantial evidence than you have to consider. I've found one flame from the imposter already but unfortunately for him, he did not inherit my propensity to be wordy and my inability to get to the point in five words. Furthermore, I've set myself strict guidelines in my website and I've got a list of reviews to show how I really flame. They all demonstrate that I go for the substance of the story and am very specific, not to mention that I don't fail to give explanations for statements like: you have a MS.
That being the case, since I've also be targetted, the likelihood that the unsigned Yumiko1 is an imposter has been considerably heightened. I've also made a note of warning on my profile - in case anyone should want to track 'me' down to wreak vengeance. I suggest you do the same as well Yumiko - it doesn't hurt to put it up. Now I'm waiting for the list of fanfics that 'I' have flamed so that I can send a personal note to the authors to patch things up and sort out the misunderstandings.
Take care peoples.
Yomi
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Post by Yomi on Sept 2, 2003 8:51:31 GMT -5
My only objection is that people say script fics are good because it carries humor well.
I accept that.
But prose stories can be just as humorous, if not more.
So what is the point of script fics then if their strongest feature cannot compare with prose?
So how or where then is a script fic better than a story written in prose?
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Post by Yomi on Sept 2, 2003 6:17:08 GMT -5
Here is where someone tries to cover all the bases in an argument. So you're saying script is better than paragraphs when it comes to amusement, but paragraphs are still better?! I'm not "attacking" you Yumiko; I just want to know what you're trying to say here. Yeah - people say that script fics are good for humor. Accepted, BUT how do you explain why THIS story: www.fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=1319494is so damn hilarious but doesn't NEED to be in script form then? So if prose stories (aka fics with sentences and paragraphs) can be so ultra funny (I'm sure Fibby's example is excellent as well), then exactly WHAT pros are there to script writing? It seems like prose can be EVEN FUNNIER than script fics - so you tell me, what other good points are there in script fics that prose fics don't have? I can't argue with you on the Chinese fic point anymore. The script fics that I have read smacks of utter laziness as do the English ones. I usually only read the HisoxIllumi Chinese fics and I only thank the external forces that they mostly happen to be in prose. My favourite author is Semon - read his fics and weep: anayu.hp.infoseek.co.jp/fic/yy2/unrelated1.htmlanayu.hp.infoseek.co.jp/fic/yy9/nowforever.htmlThe ability to render me depressed for days with the fic has made me rever him (?) utterly. He's a bloody good author - so show me one of these really funny chinese script fics then - I'd love to see what you find is a good script fic and whether it is really what you're cutting it out to be. Yomi
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Post by Yomi on Sept 2, 2003 6:06:03 GMT -5
Hmm...that's a way I haven't looked at script fics before. Do you mean to say that you look at whether the story is good? And you think that a plot can be better executed in script form rather than prose? Gladly like to hear you elaborate on that. You don't understand what objective means. I'm dealing in fact. I'm looking at whether a script fic is actually, factually, a good piece of writing. I'm also looking at whether the format is capable of expressing a real story, considering factors such as: detail, expression, movement, scenes, emotions. If you're still reading this, what I mean to say is script fics which DO include these factors are VERY CLOSE to becoming prose fics - they just need to get rid of the brackets and string up the sentences. YOUR example however, is an example of a bad piece of writing - which is still a bad piece of writing irrespective of your precious POV. masami: just read the fic! so it's got some cursing in it, ok...maybe not everyone finds Harry saying certain foul things funny...but it was just an example of a fic which could easily have been in script format but is in prose which is ultra hilarious. I don't think so - I've just had too much time to sit around reading articles on writing (articles by published authors Yumiko - I'm sure their 'POVs' mean more than the fangirls at ff.net who think that grammar and spelling is not pre-requisite to good writing) fanfics and fics in general. I don't think your writing is inferior to me or anything. What gave you that idea?! Yomi
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Post by Yomi on Sept 1, 2003 7:44:17 GMT -5
I will say this for the very last time. Please READ this before you make any comments. I'm looking at script fics objectively - something which you are UNABLE to do because you have an emotional attachment to script fics which doesn't allow you to TRULY consider and weigh the negative aspects accordingly. A Script fic which 'provides a good laugh', but is devastatingly lacking in all other departments - is a crap fic. I'm glad you like it, but it will be a crap fic. And like I said - prose fics can provide a 'good laugh' as well, so why does it have to be script? Because the author is crappy. This is one of the most hilarious HP fics I've read - it's crazy, it's insane, the characters are OOC, it barely has a plot - but it's prose! www.fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=1319494Read it and weep. Yomi
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Post by Yomi on Sept 1, 2003 4:01:03 GMT -5
That's what you said. No I did not understand what you were trying to say because first you're talking about script writing, then you're talking about how your Chinese is better than your English and I don't see how the two sentences together make any sense. Are you saying that I wouldn't know a script fic was bad because my Chinese isn't good enough, or are you saying that you thought you might have given bad examples because your English wasn't good enough?
Either way - if a chinese script fic sucks, it's English counterpart will do no better - regardless of whether it's your first or second language. First or second language shouldn't even have been a consideration in the first place - that's just an excuse for crappy spelling and bad grammar and no plot.
Excuse me. I had to laugh. Craziest logic I've ever seen that I don't know whether it's just a really bad excuse or just crazy logic. Have it your way - I really couldn't care less now.
Got to ponder on new fic.
Yomi
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Post by Yomi on Aug 31, 2003 5:54:29 GMT -5
Sorry Yomi I never read posts properly hehe, don't take it personally. Cuz ur posts are always in paragraphs ^^;; and me...I got weird eyes who can't read paragraphs properly, so I usually put spaces between the things I type, or highlight it when I read. Hmm...I write my reviews for your fics in paragraphs, in fact, anything I do is in paragraphs - no wonder I always get the feeling that I always have to repeat myself when I talk to you. Does this mean that I shouldn't bother reviewing your fics anymore? Because I don't think I'll be able to get my thoughts down into one line, and I really don't want to waste my time on a review that I know the author won't fully read. Yes I agree with the scrit writing with Chinese. Since it is my first Language, I'm much better at it than English.???WTH? Sorry - from the translation you gave, I don't see what you're trying to say here. Even if you turned it into Chinese, the script version still[/u] wasn't funny. And I was saying that even if I (for gods sakes PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU RESPOND) was to write a fic in CHINESE, I STILL WON'T write a SCRIPT FIC. The script example - whether it be English OR Chinese - is merely composed of sound effects - there is NOTHING VISUAL about it, hence not funny. Forget it. Like Silva Sun, you have an emotional attachment to script fics as she does with Pierce, hence you wouldn't have anything substantive to say. Yomi PS - if you can't read paragraphs, how on earth did you even get through books like HP? Y
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