Livejournal Questions

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This actually has nothing to do with the recent drama.

I have a confession to make. I'm a genius. But I'm really tragically stupid also.


-how to put on a header. And why everyone can figure it out but me.
-what a DDoS attack is. Looked it up on Wikipedia. Still really don't understand.
-where everyone gets the equipment to do all the icons and everything they do. Seems to me that stuff costs a fortune.
-how to write short fanfic.
-who Rodney is.
-Henry Jenkins.
-GIP.
-how NOT to hotlink some images. I can do it if the image is in a format Photobucket will upload, otherwise I don't understand.
-how people keep up with their flists.
-how people keep up with stuff like which new cat macro is funniest.
-how anyone keeps up with anything.
-why seraphcelene can't be here RIGHT NOW, I dunno, making pie with me.
-how people find out people are talking about them when said people are not talking to them. It's not that I don't like gossip. It's that I don't understand it. I literally seem to have trouble paying attention to anything not aimed straight at me with a missile launcher.
-why I like Harry/Draco.
-flangst.
-how people not being able to post really isn't connected to the Great Strikethrough.
-how to play most online videos, or dl the equipment.
-birthdays.
-why I didn't find a plane ticket to NYC for an earlier day so I could watch DB with a2zmom.
-Spike.
-betas.
-most emoticons.
-who Jo is.
-what Due South is.


In other news, The Sound of Music in Sparta. (link courtesy imnotacommittee.)

Comments

[tkp.livejournal.com]

post you made some time back that I read when I was going through some of your links. About concrit. I am hesitant to give that kind of f/b because I would usually tend to think "who am I to impose my personal vision?"

I agree, when it comes to concrit. But beta'ing is different. I think a beta should be someone who shares your views of the characters, or at least someone whose opinions of the characters you respect.

Because betaing is supposed to be about wanting that kind of criticism. However, I have seen people put themselves into situations for the purpose of getting critiqued, and then pouting when someone said something negative about their story (I'm thinking more of rl and original writing, now), but I'm not sure I would want to be friends with such people anyway.

So I guess I can point characterization errors out if I find them egregious enough.

Yeah, some people don't even seem to be aware of how completely OOC some things are! Or if they're aware they don't care. But the more subtle the characterization "error", the harder it is to identify. Because saying "Buffy wouldn't do such and such" is a huge generalization; she *might* if the circumstances were right. It has to be "Buffy wouldn't do such and such in these circumstance and with this history you've given her and in this state of mind, etc etc". And that can be very difficult to ponder sometimes! But it's stuff I like to think about.