Jump to content

Click Here!

Kagayaki

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    27

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Posts posted by Kagayaki

  8. Vocabulary Turn-offs

    in Writers' Corner

    Posted

    I've onece read an RP log--a rape scene, and one of the terms used was 'mangina'. Yes. For the exact body part that you're thinking of. It sounds so derogatory towards gay men. I can't stand 'man-meat', either. It just sounds well...rednecky and 5th-grader-ish. And while I realize that tone and POV is important, I hate words like 'pussy' and of course, everyone's favorite c-word for women. ...Okay, I'm actually guilty of using said words in my own vocabulary, but when written, it just sounds so coarse. Yeah, I know that 'cunt' actually once meant 'rabbit', just like how 'cock' meant 'rooster'. And I really dislike how characters have to announce their orgasms to the world! I'm like, okay, we KNOW you're cumming (and probably faking it like in the porn movies).

    I know I'm odd, but I like the term 'vulva'. It's the technical term for a woman's genitalia, and it just sounds pretty. Much prettier than 'vagina', which is just one ofrice. And 'flower'...ugh. That sounds too much like a ballerina or something. And I'm talking about female parts when I like to write yaoi. I agree that 'cock' can be used only so many times. I like 'length' and 'shaft' better. The readers know what you're talking about yet it doesn't sound like a high schooler wrote it.

    And funny story: I didn't know what a cock was until I was about 17 or 18, yet I've been reading yaoi fics since I was 15. Innocent or stupid...?

  9. Lack of reviews.

    in Reviews

    Posted

    Actually, the rate option bugs me a little because I never know if I should trust it. I'm pretty sure I have at least one person out there who stalks my stories and gives it really low ratings on purpose. Whenever I post a new story, within ten seconds of it being posted I always find it with a one star rating. It's really odd. I could be wrong and someone just doesn't like my story, but still, it's weird.

    And people could use it just to spite a writer and then other people won't read a story because it has a low rating so they think it's not very good. Yeah, I never really liked that little rating thing. I know when I see a two star story, I don't want to read it but it could have been a really good one.

    Yeah, I never really like that thing, either. The low ratings are actually worse than negative or non-constructive reviews, in my opinion. And if you see a one-star story getting great reviews, even constructive ones, you're gonna think, hm, something's not right here... Oh, and I'm sure we've all seen a five-star story with awesome reviews--eleventy billion of them but the story itself is absolute crap.

    Myself, I tend to get a little worried when people aren't reviewing my stories. It could mean that people are only looking at it because it somehow ended up on Godawful Fanfics or being MSTed or some shit. Or people just clicked on it because they liked the title and summary, but since I like uncommon pairings, they'll turn away, regardless of the content.

    But, I don't want to criticise too much on reviewers, since they could be shy, like me. Or maybe they feel too much pressure from the authors who bellow in their ANs that they only want constructive, page-long reviews, and well, we're busy people. This is only a hobby. I know we've got a lot of seasoned people here, but no one's getting paid for doing this stuff.

    So, yeah, this is a good way to console myself. I'm not getting paid (else I'd get the pants sued off me), so there's really no pressure. And if my story's in progress, I can understand that people will want to wait until it's finished so they can actually write their thought-out review, and maybe even recommend my story.

    Yeah, sorry this was so convoluted.

×
×
  • Create New...