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I'm not really an American-picker, for the most part. Though, I am something of a teeth-grinder and non-commenter when military stuff is screwed up. Not that I comment because I screw military stuff up so I keep my mouth shut.

Anyway. Despite our overweening love of all things automobile, the United States of America does have trains. We have a huge and well used railroad system that hauls millions of tons of freight every single day. Cities have freight yards where goods are off-loaded and on-loaded. Intermodal freight systems are very popular on our railways. We even have *gasp* passenger trains that run across the entire country, length, breadth, and slantwise. It may not be popular or normalized in the media, but trains do exist in the US of A and we do make prodigious use of them. All Americans know what trains are and that we have them because in every part of America there are train tracks. We even use the expression "They grew up on the wrong side of the tracks." That refers to the train tracks, not animal tracks or some other thing. Even completely moronic, uneducated Americans will know what a train is and what train tracks are for. A reasonably educated American, say a CSI character, will not be completely shocked and totally surprised to find that Las Vegas has train tracks running through it. Nor will he be shocked and surprised to discover that working trains actually use said tracks.

Very nitpicky, and may be YMMV, but if a teacher were to call a student "eye candy," there may be some sexual harrassment issues. Also, I'm not really sure why a teacher would assign an essay to compare Dickens and Shakespeare. Unless, of course, they're covering the entire span of British literature in one week. Generally, when I was in high school, you'd be assigned two authors from similar periods, or who wrote similar genres, to compare and contrast, not two random British writers. It's kind of like me saying "Write an essay comparing Stephen Sondheim and Louisa May Alcott." Not wrong, just... random.
Also, when it's considered "mild-character bashing" to have a slightly annoying but harmless character rape someone, you need to change your perception filters ;)
Oh, and Kurt's still not a girl (ETA: insert random Glee rant) and Ianto's more than capable of defending himself when Jack's not dragging him into potentially hazardous situations without any gear. Just saying.

I'm allowed to like the mainstream pairings in my fandom.

No, seriously. There's no need to call my mainstream pairing "stupid cliche bishie yaoi bullshit" to my face.

I know this has been done to death but come on now. If the guy keeps saying no and variations of the same, then it is not dub-con, it is NON-CON. It doesn't matter if the guy has a thing for forceful guys or rough sex. Nothing in his words or behavior even implied 'yes,' and no, getting turned on does not count. Unless it's playing, generally with a safe word, no means no. Please, stop insisting it was only dub-con. Now I'm a little freaked out by you.

When did we decide that Nightcrawler can't pronounce the word "You"?  I know he has a strong accent, but his problem is mostly with W and TH sounds, from what I can recall.  What's with this trend of having him say "vou" or "zou"? 

I've confirmed that he doesn't do that in X-Men Evolution, and while I don't have the movies or the comics to check, I'm pretty sure he doesn't do it there, either.  And most of the fanfics I've seen that do this have been in the animated fandom.

So where is this coming from?

I like this whole 'posting a shiny new longfic all at once' deal, but, uh, if you're gonna post it in chapters, do you have some sort of moral objection to posting it on your journal so that you only have to make one post to the comm?

Pairing: HohenheimxTrisha
Rating: PG-13
25 one sentence fics
includes ideas/moments from the manga such as the family portrait and Hohenheim's past

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Dear NCIS writer,

McGee already has a sister. Her name is Sarah. She was once accused of murder. You didn't have to give him a completely different sister named Gemma who was is also accused of murder.  A murder that's looking to be the same one that Sarah was accused of. It doesn't make any sense to do that.

I had recently watched a classic movie and came to remember how much I loved it as a child. I thought the movie had lots of fic potential, and went looking for stories based on it.

There were very few things of interest, but one fic caught my eye. It was a sort of "what-if" scenario taking place in the middle of the movie, and basically an excuse for the author's OC to take in the main character and adopt him as a son. I thought it was a cute idea, and while the bulk of the fic was a repeat of things that happened earlier in the movie, I don't mind that sort of thing. It was angsty and melodramatic and I lapped it up like candy because I honestly like that sort of thing. But...

( To understand this fic, you have to read another fic based on completely different fandom you don't even like! TEEHEE~! )

I'm not going to read this book series just so I can understand one dinky little fic for a completely different movie. I enjoyed your story and would like to know more, but if you don't care enough to explain who your OC is within the fic, then why should I care enough to go through your archive to learn more? If you don't think he's worth the effort, then nor do I.

Please, for the love of whatever you value most, WARN FOR INCEST! Several fics in a row with unwarned for incest and no pairings listed in the summary. Is it really so hard to select 'Incest' from the warnings list? Honestly? You managed to get all the way down to yaoi, after all, so it's not like it was extra effort.

Also, specific author, warning for scat and watersports would have been appreciated. I nearly lost my breakfast when I came across it in graphic detail, smack dab in the middle of your fic.

( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. )

The Master isn't a woobie.* He isn't suddenly gonna decide that he really, really cares about everyone and wants to help Earth. Oh, he might *SAY* it, but he's not gonna actually believe it (barring, of course, some weird alien influence).

The Master's not going to be reformed by the power of the Doctor's love (or by the Healing Cock). No, really. He might become slightly less... maniacal, but he's not gonna suddenly be good and all "Let's save the world!! Whee!" (Unless, of course, it was a giant mindfuck, of which I completely approve).

Also, the Doctor's not suddenly gonna become more evil than the Master just because they're fucking. No, really. That's not the way it works.

It is possible to write Master/Doctor fic without making the Doctor evil as hell or making the Master sweet and caring and not-evil.

And I'm *pretty* sure that if the Master started acting like that, the Doctor would get very suspicious and start trying to figure out what his motive was.


*Granted, I haven't seen any Classic Who eps with the Master in it, but for the purposes of this rant, I'm talking about the one in the new series (since I was searching for Ten/Master fic).

Not actually fic, but since the part I'm complaining about is written, I figured I'd put it here. On a vid post I recently saw this:

Summary: a couple of songs combined with some scenes. Fun!

I believe that this summmary could be used for any vid of any kind in any fandom. As such, it doesn't tell me much about yours. I know coming up with summaries for vids is difficult, but could you maybe pull a line or two of lyrics? Is it THAT difficult to come up with a summary that is more than a generic definition of a fanvid?

Is putting in:

thisissupposedtobeaspacebutfanfictionnetissoretardedsoimputtingthisinstead

as a line break really necessary?

(other examples include yeahawkwardspacebuticantthinkofanythingelse and howdyoulikeitsofaryeahthisanotherspace. Paraphrased, of course, but you get the freakin' gist)

I suppose it isn't as bad as 'iamaline', because of the sheer length. But no, not much better at all.

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Dear Specific Author,

Hi there! Your fic was actually pretty good. The buildup of the UST, the reactions to the boys' feelings, it was all nice and rather realistic. Cookies for that!

BUT here's the thing. Your MC's are 16-year-old boys, both virgins. Not just regarding anything involving things being inserted somewhere else, but completely innocent, never having done more than kissing. Considering this, in addition to the UST buildup of several months, how will their first time will proceed?

( Cut for talk of Ye Olde Buttsex )

No matter how much you want it to be, the correct answer is, in fact, NOT 'e'.

(And in case you didn't realise, that wonderful snippet of text between the quotation marks was a direct quote.)

You owe me a tablecloth since I promptly sprayed Coke on mine while reading that,
Andy

Alright, hypothetical situation here. Harry goes back in time to save his parents, ends up in October 28th, 1980 (that's three days before Voldie shows up for tea and crumpets). Lets disregard the whole "going back in time" part of the affair and concentrate in the following situation: Harry walks up to the cottage in Godric's Hollow (lets even ignore that it shouldn't be that easy), where he conveniently appeared, and knocks on the door. How should James and Lily react?

A) Hex first, ask questions later
B) Send a message to whoever they have decided should know the secret (i.e., necessarily at least Peter, I'd expect Sirius and/or Dumbledore, too), then hex first, ask questions later.
C) James: "Are you a selling anything? 'Cause I don't intend to buy whatever it is."
D) Lily: "James, is that one of your relatives? He looks a lot like you."
E) "Sure, come on in, stranger that looks surprisingly like me and almost called my wife "Mum". We have cookies! And a baby!"

Keep in mind that James and Lily are hiding from Voldemort under a Fidelius charm.

If you answered A or B, have a cookie! They're chocolate chip :) If you chose C, D, E or a combination of those three choices, please step away from your keyboard and refrain from posting what you write until you've gotten into the habit of actually using your noggin for something else than growing hair.