The Tale of the TMI Emo Ego (Or How Not to Review)

[misscam]

I have a special treat for you all today. A very special wank of TMI, emo, ego and ellipsis abuse.

It all starts when my friend teenwitch77, whose permission I have to point to all this fun, posts a House fic. Reviews are left. Thanks are offered. And then, then a review you certainly don't see every day is left.

Best House Cameron scene I have read on LJ and I am not even playing. Right now I wanna just cuss all over about how well written this was...it was original, spot on, and I am adding it to memories definitely. The only thing better is maybe my own fan fiction, which I'm very proud of...but wow. Please write more of this...if you have the time. And keep writing in general...you're very talented. [Bolding mine.]

I'm sure you're all very surprised - nay, shocked! - to hear people have a few reactions to this.


TMI Emo Ego can't really see what the trouble of loving her own writing:
Okay, so I'm supposed to always show humility even if its not honest? I honestly think the way I write my House fiction is the best way for things to occur in my imagination of the characters. That's me admitting I stand by my idea of the characters in the universe I see them in...I wouldn't expect anyone to think less of their own fan fiction. And so you are basically saying, everyone else on here when they post they don't feel their fan fic is the best idea they have to offer from their perspective. That's BS. People don't spend that kind of time on their work and not think highly of it, even if from a relative perspective its not perfect.

K the Anon tries for a simple analogy:
Have you ever watched the Tonys or the Academy Awards or the Grammys? Do you ever hear last year's winner hand out the trophy and say, "The Best Actress Award goes to Halle Berry, whose acting is almost as good as my own"? The answer, of course, is no, because those people have the grace to give someone else their moment.

TMI Emo Ego thinks this a splendid idea for next year's awards:
See...now that is what I like...someone was just honest about the lie. That made my day.

TMI Emo Ego gets TMI Emo and has interesting perspectives on jails:
Actually, in high school I was pretty alone. I'm still pretty alone even now since I have a need to always tell the truth about the situation...I know I'm supposed to never tell anyone what's on my mind...lie about how I really feel about my talents in relativity to others...I'm supposed to hide my pride...its unseemly for someone to believe they have something more to offer because no one is better than the next man or woman, which if that was really true, then why do we have prisons, why do we have correctional institutes? What's their to correct if we all believe we are completely equal?
I don't like lying and this is why I'm alone. I have tried to be the humble girl everyone walks all over and says nice things to me which don't comfort me and only make me feel colder, but not anymore. I didn't even feel entitled to write anything, that was how low I used to think of myself. I didn't feel entitled to anything. I thought it was okay when my father abused me and my boyfriend was mean to me. So don't tell me anything about what my opinion my myself should be...you don't know me and you don't know what I've been through.

Shoedog isn't quite feeling the sob in TMI Emo Ego's sob story:
The part that is depressing is you embracing victimhood and using it as an excuse for your bad manners.
How can you not see how tacky and inappropriate it is for you to bray about your fiction on the comments section for someone else's story? (...) I read some of your fiction, it isn't that good. It's nice to believe in yourself. But you don't. You think if you just bray enough that your work is good you are going to brainwash everyone else in to thinking it. Quit being an insecure, defensive mess and an embarrassment to your womanhood. Really be someone you can be proud to be.

TMI Emo Ego wonders why, why would someone not love her writing?:
So you think my fiction isn't that good. Hmmm.
That's a nice opinion. Can you tell me why?
Maybe its because it isn't melodramatic and pretentious.

A paragraph gets posted with a rather blunt assesment:
This crap speaks for itself.

TMI Emo Ego gets a tad upset someone critizises her writing:
And I'm sure your work as just as perfect and you wouldn't mind me hanging it dry in front of all others to see and laugh at. Nice.
Sleep well at night I hope.

TMI Emo Ego also gets upset someone is commenting anon. Those selfish mice!:
Anonymous...interesting...what is there to be afraid of? I'm not going to hunt you down and do stupid inconsiderate things...that would be mean.
But you are choosing to remain incognito because you know what you would do if somebody was talking to you the way you're talking to me.
Now who's selfish?

Which sparks immidiate response of Caps Lock propotion:
HE'S ANONYMOUS BECAUSE HE DOESN'T HAVE AN LJ JOURNAL, YOU MORON. (...) HE DOESN'T HAVE AN LJ AND HE READ ABOUT YOU ON A MESSAGE BOARD WHERE WE ARE DISCUSSING HOW OBTUSE YOU ARE AND HE DOESN'T HAVE AN LJ ACCOUNT

Which sparks the ever classic, no wank is complete without...:
Wow! You guys really need to get a life!

Might grow if our friend TMI Emo Ego returns for more commenting fun. Either way - MINI WANK GOLD. If you do poke over to teenwitch77's to see the fun, behave yourself, yes? Don't troll.

Thanks, teenwitch77. Free drinks in the wankshelter for you.

ETA: Our friend lists "dr who" as an interest. NOOOOOOOO.

Comments

[evilstorm.livejournal.com]

Bah, this is mild. Batshit, but...mild. And it makes a nice change from the ship wars, too.

...*can almost convince herself*

[misscam.livejournal.com]

:P House and its shipwars, sheesh.

Might be mild, but still funny.

[evilstorm.livejournal.com]

Yeah, our shipwars. I s'pose it's the same all fandoms over, but still. We have a unique style of wank, too. I'm not very sure how that works but it's true.

It is, it is.

[yattara.livejournal.com]

That is a rather big case of entitlement going on over there.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

LOVE ME WORLD

[cedara]

*peers over to Teenwitch's lj*

My my... I miss the best little wanks when not looking. *g*

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Yeah, me too - I didn't see it when it happened. So many wanks, so little time.

[lotus79.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. TMI Emo Ego is totally cringeworthy!

You are not on MSN, woman. Waaah.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

I am now :P

[lotus79.livejournal.com]

I know, silly, I am talking to you! :P

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Quack.

[lotus79.livejournal.com]

Moo.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Ribbit.

[lotus79.livejournal.com]

Cockadoodledoo.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Bææææ.

[lotus79.livejournal.com]

Neigh.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

We're being very silly.

[lotus79.livejournal.com]

Yup.

Sorry to bore you :P How about some eye candy?

Meow.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

I am bored because the football ain't on yet and people tease about wank that isn't delivered. Sniff.

Eyecandy is good.

Voff.

[ashiya.livejournal.com]

The fic was great! Man I miss teenwitch77 in the CSI fandom. You need to come back too, part-timer! :P

The wank was weak. -__-;; And I've read bits of the wanker's fic and it's not good at all. I'm fairly sure that I've seen better written by a trained monkey on a typewriter.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

I do?

I'm sure little wanker will try harder next time, just for you. And I had a poke at her fics myself. They weren't horrid, but the writing was a bit bland and laboured. IMO, of course.

[cbackson.livejournal.com]

Sigh. People are idiots. But the story was lovely!

[misscam.livejournal.com]

:) teenwitch77 is good, yes.

[lyricalviolet.livejournal.com]

It's a shame LJ doesn't have a "block user" feature like AIM or other messaging services do.

Also, my fic is better than yours, neener neener neener and don't you dare comment that I am wrong because woe, my life is so hard, and I need all the positive reinforcement I can get so that my sorry ass can feel better about myself.

Thank you. I appreciate it greatly when others indulge my delusions of grandeur.

=p

[kasuchi]

Ah, but LJ does. It involves the admin console and a little lj-working, but you can do it. If she really wanted to, all she has to do is type ban_set diagnosticmad into the Admin Console. Instant banning.

[lyricalviolet.livejournal.com]

Hurrah!

I did not know about this feature (obviously). I shall keep this handy. Does it ban people from reading, or just commenting?

[kasuchi]

According to LJ: Ban another user from posting in your journal. In the future, banning a user will also prevent them from text messaging you, adding you as a friend, etc... Basically, banning somebody restricts their interaction with you severely.

I know you can't be friended by them, they can't comment, and they can't contact you. But they can read your public entries. But that's something any moron can do.

[anitchka.livejournal.com]

What's stunning is how mind numbingly bad TMI Emo Ego's fic really is. I expected at least some pretentious, angsty semi-decent-if-only-she-wasn't-trying-so-hard-to-be-arty crap.

[wendymr.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah - I went over to her LJ and read the last fic post there. It was clichéd, wooden, error-ridden and boring as hell. Here's an extract:

“I want one, too!” Marcia cried. “Sorry about that. Just getting my bearings. Being a visitor is always so awkward. He got out another glass and killed the bottle. House saluted her with a dip of his glass. She twisted her lovely body around, grabbed the glass, and leaned on the desk sipping it.

Marcia cried? Why? Is being in a diagnosticmad fic so terrible? Looks like it; after all, being a visitor is so awful. Note the missing end quote.

She stood up and her voice dropped low as she tapped the rim of the glass. “I heard about Stacy through friends. I’m sorry.” House had a bemused look on his face. She was always keeping track of things on him even when he hadn’t heard from her in years. She was strange that way. House figured she comforted herself with the notion she was all-knowing to make up for the fact she was so unrelentingly unforgiving.

Am I imagining things, or is there a POV switch or two in that paragraph?

I don't know the characters, but nothing about this made me want to read on anyway, and I'm not sure it would have been any different even if I was familiar with the series.

Another Rose Pearce, hmm?

[marcasite.livejournal.com]

Um, why? Who does that? 'It's good, just not as good as mine?' Poor Em.The spam on her journal!!

And wendymr is right, the fics are cringeworthy. *sigh* Will we never learn?

[little-baldwin.livejournal.com]

*dies giggling*

I like how she ingnores every argument that makes sense. Every time someone says, "This is her time to shine, not yours," there's no response from her. Brilliance in wank. I love it. XD

[miss-andromache.livejournal.com]

Oh good God. Double vodka, please.

[siraj.livejournal.com]

that is amusing! Made my day!

[sc-angel72.livejournal.com]

*snickersnort* Puhlease. The good news? I'm a huge House fan, but never read any fanfic 'til now. Thanks to Emo Ego, I lost my House fanfic virginity to an awesome fic instead of a piece of self-important tripe. Long live good fanfic with non Emo Ego writers!!!

[fondued-jicama.livejournal.com]

Thanks to Emo Ego, I lost my House fanfic virginity to an awesome fic instead of a piece of self-important tripe.

Me, too. I love benefiting from the idiocy of others. =D

[oh-medicate-me.livejournal.com]

It's always the ones who write terribly who feel the need to boast about their writing skills like they're the next Tolstoy or something.

Even if it was just an illusion which would die slowly over time like the whining of the gushing saxophone.

Good Lord that's...awful.

[belegcuthalion.livejournal.com]

That girl is ridiculous. "My father abused me" (whatever made her post traumatic stuff like this in a fanfic comment), "my boyfriend was mean to me" and what comes next? "My teacher didn't give me the A I highly deserved"?

Sheesh.

But the fic was very good. Thanks for the link. I'm able to watch "House" in Germany now, and it is an amazing TV-show (aside from the fact that the phrase "Your Highness Your Highness" always rings through my head while watching Hugh Laurie play that wonderful doctor).

[chicklet73.livejournal.com]

What's their to correct

Um, spelling, perhaps?

[juliejordan.livejournal.com]

I hate people who play the victim. It's insulting to anyone who's suffered abuse, etc. I find such people so embarrasing. I only hope she doesn't behave as badly offline, but something tells me we're probably not so lucky...

But the wank did entertain, so thank you for sharing. I do need my daily dose.