To Bashers, with love from Cam and Dalek-Pet

[misscam]

Dear fanfic author,

So, you don't like Sara Sidle/Boromir/Ron Weasley/Denethor/Catherine Willows/Gimli/Tonks/Arwen/Sofia/Mick*/Insert Name Here and think she/he is AntiChrist-y**/evil/stupid/evil and abusing/slutty/ugly/whiny/useless/Man Lurch/kissus interruptus/Insert Evil Here? Gee, I couldn't tell that from reading your fanfics at all. But here's a thought - how you feel about the character isn't always how the other fictional characters in the world you're writing feels. (Shock, horror!, I know.) In fact, it's kind of an important difference. And if you want to write fanfic and not just vessels for your dislikes that have utterly no connection to Canon, stick to how the characters feel about each other.

Thank ye kindly.

And if I see one more appaling bashing fic from you, I'm sending my pet Dalek. EX-TERM-INATE!

Cam

* Mick from Water Rats, included just for lotus79's reading pleasure

** Yes, according to some, Sara Sidle is apparently the Anti-Christ. I think Adam would have a few things to say about that (and those who get that reference are cool. And also a little nerdy).

Comments

[chem-nerd.livejournal.com]

Barney I can understand, but Teletubbies is cruel and unusual punishment. And Boohbah? That's just evil.
*remembers who we're dealing with* Y'know, I admire that.

[kahva.livejournal.com]

Barney I can understand, but Teletubbies is cruel and unusual punishment. And Boohbah? That's just evil.
*remembers who we're dealing with* Y'know, I admire that.

{Evil chuckle} I work for a PBS affiliate, I have so many episodes of these shows at my disposal. Why, I'm at work right now, and in less than twenty second I can be in our tape library - or better yet, in less than five seconds, I can call up our archive, only takes a few minutes really to call over a half hour show to the server...

{Puts on innocent kitten look} Me? Evil? Never! :)

Should I mention that Boohbah actually feeds in both standard definition, AND high definition? HD "fluttering powerhums", that sound like - I probably shouldn't say, somebody might be trying to eat right now.

Hi-Definition Boohbah?

[(Anonymous)]

There are so many other things I'd much rather see in HD. Sesame Street, Between the Lions, Magic Schoolbus...
Fluttering Powerhums? So that's what those things are called. That is the weirdest show I've ever seen, and I live on a college campus. I'm surprised Boohbah hasn't warped kids for life. And who came up with those names?

Re: Hi-Definition Boohbah?

[chem-nerd.livejournal.com]

Oops, that was me. Forgot to log in at work.

Re: Hi-Definition Boohbah?

[kahva.livejournal.com]

Fluttering Powerhums? So that's what those things are called.

Yup, the - yes, I'll go ahead and say it, apologies ahead of time! - the high-speed flying farts (best way I know how to describe them) are called "fluttering powerhums". That's how the closed captioning described them, and I think even the DVI (descriptive video) called them that too. You should've seen the reaction that description got out of me and my now supervisor one level up when we first starting recording the show for our air. We were wanting to know what crack those folks were on when they came up with the show, and we wanted that crack destroyed immediately, if not sooner. And then it's "Grandmamma! Grandpappa! Brother and Sister! Mrs. Lady! Mr. Man! Auntie! Little Dog Fido!" {SHUDDERS}

I'm just glad we don't run it anymore. Now if I could just convince somebody to let me kill the shows we do have off of the archive...