Pardon this:
I'm going to now utilize the bully-pulpit power of the forum to rant, and vent my spleen.
Feel free to add to this venting, with your own personal touch. You know you want to...
I HATE, HATE, HATE!!!! SHORT FANFIC'S!!!
It doesn't matter, what host-site, or fanfic category or theme, no.... not at all, but see, these puerile little twits come along and fill page after page of the crappiest ideas, all 500 words or less! You've seen them, sure you have! The whole "I suk at summaries! Plz R&R OMG LOL GDGDTHRHGDSFG!" Some of these things make me want to SCREAM!
Things like "THIS (from the random fanfic link-o-lator)!!!" ARG! It HURTS us! And YET! And yet... more fawning puerile twits give these crap-fests good reviews! IT BOGGLES THE MIND!
Seriously, at this rate, I'm going to blow, and end up like "Flame_Rising" on FF.net who does nothing but trolling and flaming out bad writers! And that's already looking very appealing...
Now I can't fault people wanting to write up a fanfic, surely not, but WHERE IS THE SENSE to these... these... I can't even call them drabbles... that are whipped up in 5 minutes without planning or forethought? I don't even consider something a chapter if it's under a thousand words, and so oft' a third of -THAT- is authors notes!
AND ANOTHER THING! English isn't my first language... heck, it's not even my 2nd or 3rd, it's my fourth! Now while I do manage to wield english with some measure of proficiency, reading things that aren't on-par with oh... I don't know... entry school reading level... are a PAIN IN THE ARSCHE to try and read! Gopfertöri!!! grrr...
Really, is it so hard to pull your fingers out from your bodily orifices and learn how to bloody spell in your own language! Hell! I'll not fault people for some bad grammar, as I really would be a hypocrite in that regard, but seriously, "THIS!!!!" is a travesty unto the english language!
Hopefully my multi-lingual polyglotal compatriots can agree with me on this, if nothing else.
That's enough for now, while I pause to coagulate my thought mass into something more coherent... and sane... but make no mistake... I'll be back.
/Share.
=Rant.
*Vent.
Have a cathartic moment, and just blow-up at the tiniest little infraction.