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Post by Kitty279 on Sept 28, 2013 1:11:35 GMT -5
That's thankfully something I don't have to worry about. When I can't review (i.e. because I was sneaking in at work to read, with many interruptions, and/or just in the coffee break), then I usually get the chapter out again at home, but only one at once, and I tend to read it over again to write a proper review, or at least skim over it to remind me what exactly I wanted to say. For usually I review by writing my thoughts down while reading, not start writing the review when I have finished the chapter. But you have a point, that may be the reason for at least some very strange reviews that don't seem to fit the story at all. Not so much these who just don't like the story, or praise a bad story to the skies, that's down to taste, but where the review goes against the facts. Ha, you have given me some hope for the sanity of humankind back  |
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Post by monkeymail on Sept 29, 2013 22:29:53 GMT -5
do you guys reckon that other than the books, legitimate sources for writing these stories (not just RTB) include the movies, potter wiki and pottermore? because i use them and a review reviewed and said they didn't think they were, mind you this is the same person that when i used the leviosa joke between Ron and Hermione said : "Actually what Hermione said was 'It's Wing-gar-dium Levi-o-sa, make the "gar" nice and long'"...because that's just as easy to quote as what she said the movie -_- (sarcasm). They are also the same person that doesn't like RTB fics and pretty much flamed every single chapter...and this is my new favorite pet peeve...
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Post by RandomPasserby on Sept 30, 2013 2:14:40 GMT -5
I admit, I use the Lexicon over Pottermore and I pretty much ignore the movies but I would agree that they're legitimate sources for some things.
If, on the other hand, you claim that the DE attack on the Burrow in HBP is canon then I will laugh at you. (General you rather than specific).
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Post by physicssquid on Sept 30, 2013 7:45:49 GMT -5
What I find annoying is when people claim that A Very Potter Musical and its sequels, are legitimate sources. I can understand when they think that scenes that were in the movies but weren't in the books, are canon, but not the musicals.
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Post by RandomPasserby on Sept 30, 2013 8:28:52 GMT -5
I totally agree.
As much as I enjoy AVPM and AVPS I find them quite problematic even when they're trying to be funny. The constant insulting of Hermione in AVPM is supposed to be funny (I think) but my first reaction on watching that is cringing.
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Post by physicssquid on Sept 30, 2013 13:29:20 GMT -5
The other thing that I find annoying, is when RtB writers have Ron and Harry eating Redvines, like in AVPM, despite the fact that as far as I am aware, Redvines are an American thing, while Harry Potter is British.
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Post by LoveIsLouder... on Oct 4, 2013 5:13:45 GMT -5
Monkeymail just curious if your story gets deleted and I will be gutted if it does since it's one of my favourites right now are you going to do a mailing list like emailing the story? I really hope it doesn't a few of my favourites already have.
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Post by monkeymail on Oct 6, 2013 21:24:00 GMT -5
Monkeymail just curious if your story gets deleted and I will be gutted if it does since it's one of my favourites right now are you going to do a mailing list like emailing the story? I really hope it doesn't a few of my favourites already have. I have it all posted here monkeymail-92.livejournal.com/580.html on Live Journal so you can read it there if it gets deleted...does that mean they've started deleting stories again? |
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Post by LoveIsLouder... on Oct 6, 2013 21:59:05 GMT -5
Awesome and must have two really awesome PJO RTB have gone
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Post by Kitty279 on Oct 7, 2013 15:24:53 GMT -5
Yep, there's a new purge underway. At least 7 of my favourites vanished, among them the two other RtB stories I absolutely loved *grumbles* Someone mentioned losing 30 of them from their favourites.
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Post by Miss Wings on Oct 7, 2013 15:52:34 GMT -5
I've just found the truth revealed on Wattpad, the Dorea Potter story.
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Post by physicssquid on Oct 8, 2013 8:57:48 GMT -5
New pet peeve.
Why do authors always have people ask what rifles and cannons are?
I would have thought that with the simple fact that the cannon was invented in China, well before the Statute of Secrecy, wouldn't the wizarding world know about gunpowder and projectile weaponry?
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Post by Kitty279 on Oct 8, 2013 10:51:46 GMT -5
What do you expect of people who have the characters not even understand what 'armed' is, even if they have a disarming spell?
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Post by physicssquid on Oct 8, 2013 11:37:03 GMT -5
Yeah, that bugs me too. I can understand when they make it seem like the characters are joking when they don't appear to understand, but given the fact that the English first used cannon during the battle of Crecy in 1346, and the Statute of Secrecy was signed in 1689, I would have thought that some enterprising wizards would have thought it a good idea to use cannons during at least one of the goblin rebellions, and therefore Binns would have mentioned such weaponry.
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Post by Kitty279 on Oct 8, 2013 11:44:44 GMT -5
Maybe Binns did mention it, but everyone slept through the lesson |
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Post by physicssquid on Oct 8, 2013 12:09:55 GMT -5
Good point.  |
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Post by Miss Wings on Oct 8, 2013 12:49:45 GMT -5
Personally I think that half of the RTB writers, or rather general HP writers haven't even read or watched HP.
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Post by Kitty279 on Oct 8, 2013 12:56:37 GMT -5
That would explain a lot - the Snape apologisers, or the collective inability to spell certain names right ... though I don't get how they can write a RtB without reading the book at the same time, or how do they do the comments?
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Post by Miss Wings on Oct 8, 2013 12:59:46 GMT -5
I think they only read fan fiction and so think that it's normal.
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Post by RandomPasserby on Oct 8, 2013 14:23:53 GMT -5
I have encountered people who are like 'I've never seen the source material but I've read the fanfic so I'm clearly qualified to write in the fandom'.
Never mind the quagmire of fanon.
I admit, I've read fanfic for things I haven't seen but a lot of that was stuff that was crossed over with stuff I had seen which was why I was reading it.
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Post by Kitty279 on Oct 8, 2013 14:43:10 GMT -5
And then there are these who write scathing reviews telling an author that what they had written goes against canon, because JKR said it was *so* - but what JKR assumedly said was in truth one of these 'fanon facts' that you find in most fanfics, but have no basis in canon whatsoever.
Not really a fan of crossovers, though I have tried a handful over the years. To really appreciate then, they do not only have to be written well, but you have to know both fandoms, because otherwise some of the stuff goes straight over your head, and sometimes you wonder where things came from. Of course, as long as you don't mind missing some references or wondering about this or that, it's probably not too bad.
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Post by RandomPasserby on Oct 8, 2013 15:04:04 GMT -5
I admit, I'm far more willing to ignore stuff if it's from an interview or otherwise. For example, according to one interview Fawkes has only been owned by Dumbledore. I plan on utterly ignoring that (mostly because I don't think you can 'own' a phoenix any more than you can 'own' a cat. They just sort of agree to share your space and eat your stuff and take over your life).
I've read some which didn't require any knowledge of one fandom (which happens when you watch a lot of crime shows, because they're easy to cross over without knowing anything about one fandom if it focuses on the crime show people).
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Post by Kitty279 on Oct 9, 2013 0:23:04 GMT -5
Same here. With some details JKR gave out beyond the books I didn't feel like they were fitting, or even a good explanation. You gave a good example. Who can own a phoenix? And besides, they are basically immortal, so why should they bind themselves to one person that isn't immortal, either? And why should Fawkes come to Harry's help just because he showed loyalty to Dumbledore - the same man who didn't do anything when the petrifications started and didn't appear as loyal to the school he was responsible for in my eyes?
Maybe that's where these stories come from where having a phoenix (familiar) is a proof for being light, and where Dumbledore used dark magic to bind Fawkes to himself, who knows.
Someone told me that Pottermore now gives the impression that there are different versions for Polyjuice Potions, that last much longer (and seem to be quicker to be made). Figures that Hermione chose the one that only lasts one hour, as well as Barty Crouch jr. What sense does that make? It contradicts canon.
Hm, yes, for that sort of crossover you probably don't need too much knowledge about the respective fandom.
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Post by LoveIsLouder... on Oct 10, 2013 19:39:10 GMT -5
Nooooooo Monkeymail they got you grrrrrr
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Post by monkeymail on Oct 11, 2013 0:10:36 GMT -5
Nooooooo Monkeymail they got you grrrrrr haha I know  I knew it would happen as soon as i posted that chapter last night don't worry though i'll have the chapter up on LJ soon  |
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Post by Kitty279 on Oct 11, 2013 0:20:59 GMT -5
Really wish they'd go after the stories with atrocious spelling and grammar instead *sigh* Just noticed your signature, and it made me laugh. Nice! |
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Post by monkeymail on Oct 11, 2013 7:32:11 GMT -5
Gotta love Dr Who quotes...especially if they are Matt Smith related...
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Post by monkeymail on Oct 11, 2013 21:30:44 GMT -5
Hey guys don't freak out if you see that my story has disappeared from LJ im reposting it!
New pet peeve...COPYRIGHT!! and then your story getting deleted because of it...why can't it be the bad ones with the cliches and gender benders and bad writing and no plot!! grrr!!
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Post by Kitty279 on Oct 12, 2013 0:45:49 GMT -5
Well, I understand the copyright problem, but not why it is enforced so ... selectively. Maybe the site admins can't spell themselves and don't even notice how bad some stories are?  |
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Post by blackroses77 on Oct 12, 2013 15:42:56 GMT -5
Well, I understand the copyright problem, but not why it is enforced so ... selectively. Maybe the site admins can't spell themselves and don't even notice how bad some stories are? It looks like they are starting to enforce it across the board as well as all other rule breaking stories such as 2nd person stories and chat script stories, at least anything that is brought to their attention anyway since it seems like there is a new purge going on at ffn. The CU is now having a 100% success rate of having every story they report being deleted, it truly was disheartening when I checked their clean sweep and stories in violation page and saw every single story they had listed as being deleted, that has never happened before in all the times I've checked those pages to see if a story I liked but could no longer find had fallen victim to them. |
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I knew it would happen as soon as i posted that chapter last night don't worry though i'll have the chapter up on LJ soon 
