That’s it. I’ve had all I can stands, I can’t stands no more. I’m sick of these entitled crybabies whining about “The Last Jedi”. They’re making fan-edits to cater to their own “vision”, they’re making Change.org petitions to remove it from canon. And yet they can’t come up with one good objective reason for this hate. Complaining that’s not how the Force works? Go ahead, make that argument. You do realize that the Force does not exist, right? That it’s a construction of imagination and, therefore, it can do anything the writer wants? You’re all a bunch of fucking entitled, obsessive morons who had every opportunity to succeed in life…
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Analyzing the Disney Villains: Edgar (The Aristocats)
EDGAR The Aristocats (1970) Edgar Balthazar. I have not seen a worse Disney villain. I think he may be the worst. At least he won’t be making any AFI top ten lists. He’s pathetic, he’s incompetent, he’s dull. Someone like Maleficent or Ursula would have put a bullet in his head on day one. It doesn’t help that he’s in such a tedious movie, but part of the villain’s job is to spice things up. And is there anything more cliche than “the butler did it”? Motivation: A little part jealousy and a little part greed. There’s no originality in a guy seeking vengeance or reclamation because he got cut…
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Rhinos
Hey, all you rhino poachers. You know how you keep killing rhinos to get their horns so you can sell them on the black market? You know, you don’t have to actually kill any rhinos. Just fake some white powder and leave the rhinos alone. It’s not like your consumers are going to know — they didn’t actually see you kill the rhino. And it’s not like you believe that rhino horn is a real thing — you just want the money. And there’s no test to find out whether what you’ve got is pure unadulterated rhino horn. It’s not like you can test its pH balance with a little…
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Froggy’s Baby Sister Sucks
You know, I am really sick of men/boys/males condescending to girls for… really, no reason. The reason I’m cheesed off is that there’s this book I’m often reading to my two girls — Froggy’s Baby Sister by Jonathan London. You can hear the full-text read aloud here. It bothers me because its got some stereotypical lines where the male lead does not like his baby sister for the sole reason that she’s a girl. That wouldn’t be so bad if the story showed she was just as awesome because she’s a girl, but it never does. Even if it did redeem that, I’d still have a problem. I don’t know…
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Second Old Man Rant in a Row
I hate to make two crochety old man rants in a row, but half an hour of my life was taken away yesterday by an incompetent “customer service representative” who sounded all of a disaffected female teenager. Listen up all you big companies: we can tell when you’re not being sincere. All this, “I definitely understand your problem.” “I can totally sympathize with your problem.” “I understand your frustration.” We know you don’t give a rip about us. We’re just another customer to you. We know that because WE have jobs too and WE deal with faceless customer units all the time too. Customer aren’t people, they’re customers. They have…
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Another Crying Writer
Waah, waah What’s that sound? Waah, waah Why, it’s the sound of another writer that can’t take criticism. The vast majority of writers, ones who are serious about their craft never say boo anytime they receive a critique, no matter what sort of language is used. If every sentence comes with “I feel” or “Most sources say that you should…” it doesn’t matter. If they’re smart, and they are, they know not to look for how it’s phrased, but what was phrased. That’s why I do at least. I’m looking for the things that more than one persons says. But there are those trolls out there who believe that their…
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Code =/= A Story
Computer code is not a story. When it comes to written text in the King’s English (or other spoken language) there are certain rules about plagiarizing. These are set in place to make sure that creative works are not claimed by someone else or using them for some reason that was not given permission. But computer code is not a creative work. They are not the same thing. Sure, there are issues regarding copyright and piracy, but that’s really only for software packages. Generally, you pay for those, and by claiming them as your own or pirating them, you are depriving someone of funds they would have otherwise received for…
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Dumb Forum Posters
I’m just about done with this “I Should vs. I Want to” thread I’ve got going on SFFWorld.com. For one thing, it still seems the users are so steeped in their “How dare you insult the classics by implying it’s may not be necessary to read them if you’re a writer.” There’s only one guy that’s arguing with me, and he’s always misinterpreting my response. I’m now arguing things that have nothing to do with my point just so that I won’t be written off as some n00b that’s pissing in the wind compared to Mr. 1,000 Posts who has no idea what I’m or he’s talking about. He’s talking…
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So Much For Civility
The new results are in – 100% of dicks are dicks. And that’s counting the hanging chads. The one guy who actually apologized rescinded once he found all the new stuff on my blog to criticize and use as evidence to tell me I’m a bad person who eats gruel and sauerkraut juice. What is it with people needling and needling, trying to provoke a reaction. Does he think he’s actually going to change me? Does he think I’m going to lose my cool and get all flustered. What’s he trying to prove? What does he hope to accomplish? He’s not going to kick me off. If he even tries…
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There are some edits that are considered to be… unnatural
One more thing about yesterday’s topic. The editor/not-editor in question said at the end of his e-mail that writing means having to do homework every day for the rest of your life. Now this is a trend I’ve found in some advice-givers, that they try to discourage you for no apparent reason by preventing some bleak view of the task. In this case, he’s trying to discourage me from writing by saying that it involves doing a negative activity… FOR ALL ETERNITY (ominous thunder). Why would he say such a thing if he didn’t want to turn me away from the position? It’s reverse psychology, like army training. “If you…
