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Post by melodypottersnape on Sept 17, 2013 20:34:12 GMT -5
I find it creepy and invasion of their privacy
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Post by Kitty279 on Sept 18, 2013 0:23:40 GMT -5
It is, though I admit that in the beginning I did read a few, because it was the first archive I found. One or two weren't so bad, at least from my inexperienced POV back then, but some definitely creepy. But I like the ones with the fictional people better, and it feels less like you are invading their lifes.
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Post by RandomPasserby on Sept 19, 2013 7:04:57 GMT -5
I have problems with RPF because chances are it's OOC. Also because I can write whatever I want about a fictional character, they aren't ever going to read it. Celebrities are on the internet as well and the idea of them reading some of the stuff that's written about them makes me shudder.
Regarding that list of children. Does the author realise it takes 9-10 months for babies to happen? I mean, they don't just appear.
Yes you can have a baby a year but that is horrendously bad for your body, given the amount of resources which are diverted to keeping the foetus alive. Even with magic healing, that's exhausting. Especially with 3 sets of twins and one set of triplets.
Look at the Weasleys. Most of them (barring Bill & Charlie and Ron & Ginny) have a two year gap between them.
How do you even spend time with your kids when you're either pregnant or have just had a kid?
Although that might just be my huge DNW reaction to the idea of small children entirely. Babies scare me.
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Post by physicssquid on Sept 19, 2013 7:29:53 GMT -5
The Weasleys:
Bill:- 29th Nov 1970
Charlie:- 12th Dec 1972
Percy:- 22nd Aug 1976
Fred & George:- 1st Apr 1978
Ron:- 1st Mar 1980
Ginny: 11th Aug 1981
The gaps are (approx.):-
Bill-Charlie; 2yrs 2 weeks,
Charlie-Percy; 3 1/2 yrs,
Percy-Twins; 1 1/2 yrs,
Twins-Ron; nearly 2 yrs
and
Ron-Ginny; nearly 1 1/2 yrs
And those gaps are quite reasonable, since Molly can spend time with all her children before having the next one. I can't imagine anyone, least of all Lily and James, wanting to have a child every year. Women aren't baby-factories.
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Post by RandomPasserby on Sept 19, 2013 8:55:41 GMT -5
Also, some of those names. They're very modern (and I don't think some of them are names) in the sense that normal vowels are replaced with 'y', 'k' is substituted for 'c' etc etc (I say this as somebody who has a comparatively strange name before it was normal-ish)
One more author who forgets that PoA took place in 1993. That Harry was born in 1980. That James and Lily were born in 1960.
Seriously though, who names their kid 'Araya'? 'Carliana Zavenna' (do either of those names actually mean anything?).
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Post by Miss Wings on Sept 19, 2013 10:48:28 GMT -5
What about Ravenna? *shudders*
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Post by physicssquid on Sept 19, 2013 11:01:36 GMT -5
Weird names would be excusable if the parents were trying to continue a family tradition, for example the Blacks with their habit of naming people after constellations and myths, but not for children of James and Lily.
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Post by Kitty279 on Sept 19, 2013 11:16:15 GMT -5
Ouch, if any of the LotR actors did ever read some of the stories written about them, they'd probably question the sanity of the internet fandom!
Lately saw a summary where the female Harry was obviously named Lorelai ... *whimpers*
There are lots of people who just move the whole story a decade or so into the future. Or, if they use the proper dates, they ignore the fact that Harry could *not* go to school in 1991 with a MP3-player and a laptop and all that stuff.
Araya? If the results of my Google search are anything to go by, that seems to be a Thai word. Why would the Potters name their children that way? The magical world seems to be more into older names, for the most part, not the hypermodern ones.
Carliana sounds like a contraction of Carla and Liana. Never saw that name before. And Zavenna? No, all that reminds me of is Ravenna, which is a town in Italy.
The magical world has some strange names, yes, but I believe for most you could find an old explanation or example. Besides, I believe it only lately got fashionable to name children as exotic as possible. The parent's aren't the one that get laughed at and teased about the names for the rest of their lifes, after all. So that's another reason why it seems out of place to do that in the early 80's.
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Post by Miss Wings on Sept 19, 2013 11:23:12 GMT -5
What ever happened to Alexander, Sebastian, Christian, Robert, Lizzie, Emma, Sarah, Lucy?
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Post by Miss Wings on Sept 20, 2013 9:54:52 GMT -5
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Post by Kitty279 on Sept 20, 2013 13:25:27 GMT -5
Not fashionable enough for these who always think they need the newest of the newest and the most outrageous stuff so they get noticed? But I believe it's somewhat natural that they change.
While I can't say for sure how it's in the English speaking countries, I know here some once popular names now are seen as old-fashioned and barely used any more, while new names came up. Though some of the old ones now are coming back big time. But with many names, you could often even guess which generation the people probably are, because they were so popular at one time. I remember a class where we were about 35 or 36 people, and we had half a dozen names that were represented at least two, mostly three times, two even four times! Normally we didn't use last names among ourselves, but back then it was a necessity to add them, because we kept losing track of who we were talking about otherwise. But I notice that I don't see these names with the youths now.
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Post by RandomPasserby on Sept 25, 2013 13:39:09 GMT -5
And now they've added two more Why on earth is 'rollerblading' on the PE curriculum? Seriously? Also they don't seem to realise that football means football in the UK? American football is rare and called American football. |
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Post by Miss Wings on Sept 26, 2013 5:14:49 GMT -5
Oh dammit, I wish I'd never checked it out now. Burn my eyes out with bleach, anyone? Pleaseee, Oh wait I'm allergic to that aren't I? Where's my gun?
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Post by Kitty279 on Sept 26, 2013 5:48:46 GMT -5
See, that's why you need to remember the 'back' button much earlier. I'd have stopped reading looong ago. You must have somewhat masochistic tendencies that you got that far  |
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Post by RandomPasserby on Sept 26, 2013 8:52:27 GMT -5
It sounds ridiculous but my god the number of pets.
If you have 21 children, why on earth would you let them have a pet or two each?
21 children, 31 pets. That sounds like hell.
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Post by Miss Wings on Sept 26, 2013 10:01:15 GMT -5
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Post by Kitty279 on Sept 26, 2013 11:11:33 GMT -5
It sounds ridiculous but my god the number of pets. If you have 21 children, why on earth would you let them have a pet or two each? 21 children, 31 pets. That sounds like hell. Argh. Forget the pets, that number of children is completely ridiculous! Didn't even get that far. Prizes for gardening at four? Puh-leeze. Though I think in some cases they still exist, they are just not the rule any more. Besides, the author mentioned in the AN that it was written when they were in sixth grade, so they probably don't know it. |
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Post by blackroses77 on Sept 26, 2013 11:29:29 GMT -5
Uhg! There is just so much wrong with that story, I didn't make it past the first chapter and even that I couldn't handle more than just skimming through after the second paragraph. There are still some places were arranged marriages happen though and if the author was categorizing it as an AU then the story having arranged marriages in a modern setting could work. True and their profile says they are just 14 now so I guess it's understandable, I know I cringe and want to hide from the embarrassment whenever I have the misfortune of coming across something I wrote at that age. |
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Post by Kitty279 on Sept 26, 2013 13:39:44 GMT -5
When I did read some stories I wrote at that age later on, I was rolling my eyes a lot about my own stupidity. So I'd cut the author some slack for the age, we all have started small, no one could write a nobel prize worthy story at 14. It's not something I'd read, but I guess other 14-year-olds would like it.
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Post by RandomPasserby on Sept 26, 2013 13:44:10 GMT -5
Unfortunately, you're wrong. They do. They're not legally enforceable - at least not in Britain - but too many girls will be forced to marry somebody against their will. Depending on the country, they may be forced to marry somebody who is two or three times their age. I'm cracking up more at the fact the Dursleys created a gay betrothal. I don't know, I just see Vernon as the sort of guy who would be a total homophobe because he's not attracted to men so nobody should be (I've heard that line of bullshit before). What's worrying me though is this I'm half tempted to make sure she's actually asking them first. I don't care if credit was given or not, if she didn't ask first that's plagiarism. |
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Post by Kitty279 on Sept 26, 2013 15:41:08 GMT -5
I'm cracking up more at the fact the Dursleys created a gay betrothal. I don't know, I just see Vernon as the sort of guy who would be a total homophobe because he's not attracted to men so nobody should be (I've heard that line of bullshit before). Being gay is not normal, and Vernon and Petunia are living in the delusion that they are normal citizen and hate everything 'anormal'. So, if that betrothal is actually a gay one, that's rather unbelievable. |
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Post by melodypottersnape on Sept 26, 2013 20:29:17 GMT -5
This is sort of off topic but I would like your opinion.
If you asked someone to be your beta a few weeks ago and you haven't heard from them since you sent your chapters what would you do? I've sent PMs to ask them some things but I've yet to receive an answer. Not only that but sometime in the last few hours they have changed their user name so I know they're online and okay. They also have a poll asking if people would miss them if they went on hiatus.
Do I keep PMing? I don't want to be a nuisance to them, but I don't know if they have decided to not beta my stuff. Especially since they are talking about leaving for a while.
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Post by blackroses77 on Sept 26, 2013 22:57:22 GMT -5
If they aren't responding to you and they are thinking of going on hiatus then most likely they don't want to beta anymore, although it's pretty rude of them to not even let you know they can't help you anymore. You could try PMing them one more time to let them know that if you don't get a response from them you'll have to look for another beta.
You know what, I will never understand how human minds work, at the age of 14 I could read something and know whether it was something well written or if it was rubbish and yet for some reason what I wrote sounded good to me o.O when clearly it fell in the rubbish column. This seems to be the case with just about everyone I've talked to when it comes to what they wrote as a kid, the knowing what was well written or not except when it came to their own work, it's like something got lost in translation inside our brains.
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Post by melodypottersnape on Sept 26, 2013 23:30:04 GMT -5
I feel like banging my head against a wall sometimes when I reread what I've written. It's like as soon as I start typing I loose all spelling knowledge I have.
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Post by Kitty279 on Sept 27, 2013 1:16:14 GMT -5
This is sort of off topic but I would like your opinion. If you asked someone to be your beta a few weeks ago and you haven't heard from them since you sent your chapters what would you do? I've sent PMs to ask them some things but I've yet to receive an answer. Not only that but sometime in the last few hours they have changed their user name so I know they're online and okay. They also have a poll asking if people would miss them if they went on hiatus. Do I keep PMing? I don't want to be a nuisance to them, but I don't know if they have decided to not beta my stuff. Especially since they are talking about leaving for a while. You can try once again, but I'd not get my hopes up under these circumstances. Though I have to say, I find it to be very bad manners, if not downright rude, to agree to beta your work, then do nothing for weeks, ignore you and then announce to go on hiatus. That person should be ashamed. I'd offer to help, but as English isn't my first language, I can only catch the spelling mistakes, but don't trust my own grammar enough to judge other's, as I only catch the really obvious mistakes. You know what, I will never understand how human minds work, at the age of 14 I could read something and know whether it was something well written or if it was rubbish and yet for some reason what I wrote sounded good to me o.O when clearly it fell in the rubbish column. This seems to be the case with just about everyone I've talked to when it comes to what they wrote as a kid, the knowing what was well written or not except when it came to their own work, it's like something got lost in translation inside our brains. So true! Thinking back, I wasn't an exception to that rule, either. Humankind is rather strange sometimes, isn't it? |
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Post by physicssquid on Sept 27, 2013 12:38:14 GMT -5
Are reviewers idiots?
I've just had a review from someone who said;-
I thought it was fairly obvious, with the original book text in bold, and the rest plain.
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Post by Miss Wings on Sept 27, 2013 13:00:40 GMT -5
I have to agree, that is one idiotical reviewer..
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Post by blackroses77 on Sept 27, 2013 14:22:24 GMT -5
If they truly couldn't tell the difference between the parts in bold from the other parts they most likely have an eyesight problem or they were just being ridiculous.
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Post by Kitty279 on Sept 27, 2013 14:34:25 GMT -5
Seems to be another one of these reviews where you wonder if they did read the same story as you did.
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Post by blackroses77 on Sept 27, 2013 22:44:59 GMT -5
Yep sometimes we are extremely strange creatures that make no sense.
You know I wonder if that's true, a couple of times I've had a mini panic attack thinking I wrote a review and posted it to the wrong story (thankfully this has yet to be the case) since sometimes I don't have time to review when I read the actual chapter so I will have several stories that I need to be reviewed and then when I get a spare moment I pull them all up at once, seriously I never have less than ten tabs open at any given time, and start sending off reviews. Maybe some of those crazy reviews that don't seem to fit the story had been mixed up and where actually meant for a different story.
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