Aug
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Stop sucking at romance · 10:54pm Aug 21st, 2014
Advice for me as much as for the rest of the fandom. I rail again and again at how terrible shipfics in this fandom are. Thankfully, we have Chuckfinley here to explain one reason why this is.
Alien Shipping Syndrome Is a Terrible Thing
Also, I just hit 543 followers. :O Woot. There are lots of special follower levels in the 500s range. I should know, I keep a list.
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I have no idea why 543 is significant. But yay for being important or something.
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Sorry, I prefer to just not care about shipping. I don't read stories with romance in them for the romance. I read it for the story which the romance is a hopefully balanced part of.
To that extent, I agree with the sentiment in the blog you linked; but just like I choose not to buy in to shipping, I choose not to take the the advice of an author whose stories I dislike.
If ChuckFinley knows how to write fic better he should write better, I wish he would.
YOU stop sucking at romance!
I swear one day we'll have a proper conversation instead of me just hurling abusive comments at you.
EDIT: WAIT I HAVE YOU ON SKYPE
I swear Season 3 actually knocked all the ponyfun out of me
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I'm okay with taking his advice. I can't apply half the shit I point out in other people's fics either.
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Stop whining about S3. S2 had worse episodes, just less of them. Watch S4. S4 is where it's at.
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Oh I conceeded the advice. Pointing out a "bad" writing trope because it is a pet peeve is totally legit, if generic, advice.
Although alien shipping as he puts it is effective as a form of surrealism or comedy. It is just used seriously too often. Not that much well written shipping is very believable anyway.
I am sure if CF wrote a balanced story including shipping it would be well written.
I understand that just because an author writes for a niche does not mean they have no legitimate advice for other niches or general writing, but when I weigh what he is writing about against what he writes, it does not instill confidence.
Then again, if a story is so focused on shipping that it makes a huge difference, I am probably not reading it, so my opinion is even less relevant.
Then again, some of the most well recieved canon shipping is Aang and Kitara in AtLA. And that shipping was pretty much far simpler. People who are attracted to each other tend to realize this. But sometimes people don't consider each other valid interests until some circumstance causes them to change perspective and entertain the notion.
Those are the simplest ways to write shipping. Attraction and perspective circumstance.
Just because most people don't write shipping well does not mean they are writing it the wrong way. Just that they aren't very good writers.
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Actually, I like this.
Also, we don't have very good models for romance in the first place.
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True.
I generally find stylistic critique to be the least constructive criticism of all.
What someone write about and how well matter a great deal because these determine whether I enjoy a story and whether I enjoy the act of reading it.
Style is just diversity to me. Sometimes it's a hit, sometimes it's a miss.
Can we motion to keep that Alien Syndrom a thing in the fandom now? Because that drives me insane.
On a more serious and personal note, there's another piece of writing advice to keep in mind from your blog. So, I'mma go 'head and
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Much obliged. :D