Harley Quinn hyenaholic

Yes, I delete reviews if they are obviously flames. And having written one of the major accepted definitions for flames, I know what they are. I've been Flame Blitzed before, I'm not gonna let those hang around. Other obvious flames that have no review quality at all - just a load of "YOU'RE A GIANT TURD!" in them, are also removed. But if they're short and have at least a little review quality - even when packed with hatred (say, "THIS FIC IS A GIANT TURD!")- I'll leave ONE behind, just so that people can laugh at them.

Ever seen Silverbolt from Beast Wars? And there's other guys like him around other fandoms. His flaw is "Too noble". And he is too noble. It DOES get him into trouble. He can't hit Blackarachnia as she kicks his ass, screaming at him to fight back. Being too nice can be a serious flaw. Real people are sometimes too nice too. Provided you know how to use it. In fact, "Too nice" is my favorite kind of flaw, because it gets them into trouble and adds a real edge to your character. "Never Gives Up" is massively warped into "she's gonna get killed because she's so damn stubborn."

I'm a bad girl, I do like getting reviews... but I never hold people hostage for "At least 10 or I'll not put up a new chapter!" Number 2 is my most hated broken commandment though. I once read a story which went: "Shadow raised one studded eyebrow" AN: I love studding his eyebrows! Seriously. 1: I didn't need to know that you love studding his eyebrows. 2: You didn't need to anyway - Shadow the Hedgehog doesn't have a stud. 3: The story was bad enough without you telling me how much you love doing this or that. I'm serious, that did happen.

Of course I agree with that definition. I wrote it. Hell, I spent a long time writing it so that it would be accurate even without references.

That, bitBlackMage, is so true. Look at the Transformers Universe. Many a time, you'll find that one of the things on a Mary Sue test is "Has your character a name that is a word?" or something. Pretty much every Transformer you'll ever see has a name that means something else. Your OC is going to stand out more if they DON'T have a name that describes their personality, or their skills or something. Nicknames? Lots of people have nicknames. Maybe just their name shortened, or maybe they're like my merc character, who calls herself Breech Loader because she doesn't want other people knowing her real name. It's not that unusual. And being 13-21 years old - most human characters in teenage fiction are around this age. Why shouldn't your character be around this age to fit in with them? Hell, sometimes they NEED to be this age. As long as they're not doing things that 13-21 year olds can't do without the consequences, it's fine. But no, you just got another point. But if she's 22 (she's 25, actually), I'm fine. One of the problems many litmus tests have is that a character gets into trouble with authority. Now I have a character who's mentally unstable and dating a 'con. If that DIDN'T get her into trouble with the Autobots, I'd be MORE worried. Hell, sometimes having a 'con as a bf gets her into trouble with other 'cons. Conflict is what a story is all about. If there's no conflict, there's no story. Plot points are not what make a Mary Sue either. Also, there's way to much bitching about "Being part of the plot". First of all, if it's part of the plot it's LESS likely to make your character a Mary Sue. Secondly, if it DIDN'T help, how would NOT being part of the plot make a character's purple/green/blue/pink eyes any better? Warping canon may well make a bad story, as may clichés, but they don't make a Mary Sue. Warping canon FOR THE SAKE OF YOUR OC is what makes a Mary Sue. Remember, you don't need a Mary Sue in your fic to make it bad. Dreadful grammar or spelling, a terrible plot, nothing but clichés, all help. And if it's that bad, it doesn't need a Mary Sue to make me recoil. If you can't spell or write a plot, I'm not really going to notice that your character's also Harry Potter's lover.

More about Mary Sue. Don't EVER forget Vitamin Special. Now EVERYBODY has something that makes them special. Even human beings have something that makes them special. But it's not always a good thing. Me, I've got Epilepsy and Aspergers Syndrome and dislocatable thumbs. Your character will have things that make them stand out. Maybe they'll be 50/50 Autobot/Decepticon (with bad features from both sides). Maybe they'll be a stunningly amazing mercenary (in a world packed with skilled mercs). Maybe they'll be a woman in a job women don't usually go into. But the good things should always be balanced out with bad things. Likewise, if you like angst, sad things should be balanced out with happy things - SOMEWHERE. Hotwire may have a massive amount of emotional abuse in her past (at least, SHE thinks it's emotional abuse), but it's balanced out now by somebody who loves her. But YOU wanna know more about Vitamin Special. Vitamin Special isn't about good and bad. It's about "LOOK AT MY CHARACTER! SHE'S SO SPECIAL! She outshines everybody! She's [name's] daughter! Not for good plot reasons, but because that would be SO AWESOME! She's mating with [name!] Not like a normal relationship that will have arguments and them having to make up sometimes - but because I LOVE THAT GUY! She has an action sequence with [name!] Not for plot, and not so that she can get her awesomeness balanced with getting her ass kicked by somebody twice her size, but WOULDN'T IT BE GREAT TO KICK HIS ASS?! I HATE HIM! Oh, and she can use two swords, and two guns, and she's sexy, and she's got a cool but attactive scar, and every character I like likes her, and I think the villain's misunderstood, so she's going to make him into a cool badass anti-hero that she can sleep with! And look at her colour-changing eyes!" Vitamin Special means your OC can do things that other characters in this fandom can't do, or, if they can do, can't do it as well/as often/as fast (as in learning to use your powers) as that. And once again, I repeat that it's not for any good, well thought out reasons. Amazingness can make for a cool character in the right hands. It's because, and ONLY because it would be SO COOL SO I'VE GOT TO FIND A WAY TO DO IT. Now wanting to do something that's megacool isn't so bad. Wow, katanas are so cool! But you need to understand the right place to put this megacool thing. Oh, sure, you can have a pair of katanas in 200 years time. But will they stand up to those future laser weapons with range and status effects? THINK about it.

Reminds me of the time I had to delete an entire story because some dickwad had posted so many identical flames that I couldn't even get into the review section to delete them all. What pisses me off is not flaming a story because it's slash (because a lot of slash is repetitive suckage anyway), or AU, (because AU isn't an excuse to destroy worlds with Mary Sue) but revenge flaming. Flaming a story because somebody told you your fanfic didn't rock quite as much as you wanted me to say it did. I'm not CERTAIN it's happened to me before, but it may well have. And some people use it as a threat. "HOW DARE YOU SAY MY FANFIC ISN'T PERFECT IN EVERY WAY! OTHER PEOPLE SAY IT'S GREAT! DO IT AGAIN AND I SHALL PUT 200 COPY/PASTE FLAME REVIEWS ON YOUR STORY, EVEN IF OTHER PEOPLE LOVE IT!"

Now Scottish, don't be a git. I love anime. And Manga too. And I never said it wasn't anything special. I'm just saying that it's just a different style of drawing. And it's all cartoons. Anime is just JAPANESE cartoons. From Japan. You know. We had a style of animation in the 80s. We had a style of animation in the 90s. Now in the 00s we seem to be moving around to ripping off Japan's style of ten years ago. Anybody with a brain should know that Anime is the same thing as cartoons. I don't put cartoons from the USA in a different category to cartoons from the UK. I don't class computer animated cartoons in a different area to drawn cartoons. They may not be the same but why make things MORE difficult? Oh nos! I'm making the world EXPLODE!

I would like this option too. I bet I'd get more reviews if I replied to questions. I'm just concerned that we'll get run-off gits from FF.net replying with flames.

Having once been a forum admin, I know there's a lot of work involved, I'd just like to point out I'm aware of the work that must go into all the rearranging. The multiple similar posts had more to do with speaking to people who think (and say) "Hey, lots of categories! Cool!" rather than asking the same person the same request repeatedly. Just saying, DG. Now it's time to discuss... do we really need Anime AND Cartoons? Aren't they the same thing? Really Anime is just Japanese cartoons. And even then it doesn't have to be. Not that I have a big problem diferentiating, but they can be the same thing and it will confuse you guys as to where to put things.

Word count is all very well, but it's not vital. And a word count turns some people into real gits. Eother way, word count certainly doesn't improve quality - it just means some people pad their work with songfics, or add more to their intros. I think if we were to have one, something general like "<100" (it means less than 100) or something would be better than exact words.

Pah! You think you've problems? I think up a title for every chapter. Episodes of television series often have good ideas for titles of episodes. They often base them on songs, games, or sayings. Or even other episodes. You could always try working with one of those, and altering it as you wish. If your fic is set in an Asylum, you could try involving the words "Crasy" or "insane". Once when Fry was put in a Robot Asylum in Futurama, they called the episode "Insane In The Mainframe". Once I titled one of my chapters "The Crisis with Craziness."

I don't mind the crude words as long as they're being used as character references - some characters will think or say the word 'cunt'. Now I don't think that's sexy, but as long as I'm not EXPECTED to, I don't really mind. For some characters, it's IC to think/say those words. On the other hand, some writers will use it in their sex scene as a sexy turn on word and it doesn't work for me at all. There's only one word that really turns me right off - scat.

I forgot to mention that as well as spelling and grammar checks - I have the wriggly lines on in Word which makes names annoying sometimes - I also improve the way it reads. Another reason I enjoy it. And when I put it up, I read it through then too, although by that time, since I'm usually weeks ahead, there's not much wrong with it. Of course there are sometimes mistakes - extra lines, those spelling mistakes of to and too that the grammar thing doesn't always pick up despite being turned on, through and though, stuff like that. I hate mistakes.

Since Anime is really only a term for "Japanese style animation" that's another thing. Now Manga is something different; Manga is japanese comics. Sometimes they get animated and so they have that little Manga logo on them. The thing is, I also feel we don't really need Anime AND Cartoons. Sure, Anime sounds cooler and SO Japanese, but it does result in some doubling of categories and confusion. That's something to discuss sometime perhaps. A category titled "Animation" or somesuch would deal with both kinds. To be absolutely honest, Transformers originated as toys and the cartoon was just to advertise them. But that's all a bit besides the point. The POINT is that many of the doubled categories only have six or seven stories, while the most used topic may have 40 or more. I'm sure less bandwidth would be used if we used our space more wisely. I think the next thing to do is find topics that could be merged.

Maybe it is accurate, - yes, there is a cartoon, and there is an anime, and there is a movie, and there's a comic too, but the sections themselves are a mess. People don't know where to put their fics. And I'm sure readers don't know where to look for fics either. Transformers can't be the only category with such a problem either. It may be accurate but it sure as HELL ain't organised. One single Transformers section would sort it out, as it would sort outmany simialr problems.

Something I'm tired of is traipsing all over the place for the same topic. You've got three categories on Transformers, in three different areas. One's in Anime, one's in Movies and one's in Cartoons. That can't be right. You really ought to clean things like that up.

Editing? Work? It's a freaking JOY. I am a perfectionist with spelling and grammar - the correct term is ANAL 5. And if you could see the state my fics start in - most of them are written in IM and have a crapload of User tags.

Try watching a fighting movie like the Matrix, or even an action movie like Transformers. All those people going "HEYARGH!" and leaping about like idiots will give you good ideas. Or play a good fighting game. Once you've got the visuals in your head, it's time to write them down. I know that's how I do things like that.

When I'm writing fanfics, I like for chapters to be about 5 or 6 A4 pages long. Or longer. Of course they're double-spaced and so on. But when I was writing an Original Fiction, the chapter length varies a lot more. Varies from 3 or 4 pages to 12 pages. The length of a chapter is really how long it takes you to get to the climax. And number of chapters varies too. I've written one-shots, but I've written multi-chapter fics, and I've written sequels. Most of my multi-chapters range at about 20 to 30 chapters. I've got a set of five in a series. My latest multi-chapter is nothing special, it's basically about hammering on in the angst. It's just that there's so many ways to have angst. So there's so many chapters.

Ahem. First, I'll say I'm a Deist. That's somebody who believes that if there is a god, he doesn't have much to do with us. I'd just like to say, if there is a God, what makes you think that He created Man in His image? No. If anything, we created Him on our image. If God created Man in his image, why does God have a penis? Its only purpose is reproduction. Ergo there must be a Mrs God, and also, all the little gods. Godliness is relative. To Neathadrals (sp?) we would be like Gods. But when aliens come down from space, nobody calls them gods. People just scream and run. I know if I were a friendly alien, and I saw the planet Earth, I wouldn't feel too inclined to interact with this planet and its warmongering races of hateful, arrogant pricks. Religion is often used as an excuse to do terrible things, and control people.

No: Scat Watersports Necrophilia. Although Jason Voorhees doesn't count. He's not really dead. Is there anything else? F/F is just something I don't know about. It's a straight man thing. So I don't do it. M/M is hotter. I'm fine with Mpreg as long as it's tasteful (by which I mean it's birth by C-section, not ass-baby), and torture is my most favorite subject. I also love writing rape with bondage. Child abuse is also fine because it slots with torture. But I do like things to work out happy. Though this does kinda involve the jerkwad dying. M/M is great. Death is fine, and I've written original stories with death. Permanent death, not "Wow, I thought you were dead!" death.

My favorite part of slashiness is torture. Bring on the torture and rape! I love it! I'm also trying out my first Robot pregnancy.

The trouble is, there's so many kinds of Troll. There's the scummy, asshole Trolls, who annoy everybody and break rules. They don't last long. There's Flamebaiter Trolls, who aren't as loud but still get on people's nerves. And there's Attention Whore Trolls who put real effort into existing. The trouble with them is that you barely notice aanything wrong with them and not feeding an Attention Whore is a real job. In fact, Attention Whore Trolls are easier to feed than to actually ignore. Attention Whores put a great deal of effort into not only being loud and obvious, but also into NOT breaking rules. Sometimes Attention Whore Trolls take it professional.

Whenever I see a loophole, baby I just have to use it. Lately on FF.crap, there's been an awful lot of Barricade/Bumblebee. I really CANNOT stand it baby, when these things turn giant robots into humans - with bolts of lightning (geez that takes me back about 9 years) or just holograms. If you can't deal with them as robots what the hell are you doing turning them into humans? Anyway, I got to thinking "There's all this Barricade/Bumblebee, and it could have something to do with them being about the same size, but all the same, WHY would they shack up? Barricade wouldn't TRANSFORM into a NICE PERSON just because he's banging an Autobot. Nothing in the WORLD is going to prevent him from being an almighty Decepticon prat. On the other hand, if he doesn't have much CHOICE, something might end up happening. That's what happens with these Impossible Relationships. They're pretty much forced.