I don't think Aon was calling you a xenophobe either. I think they were just expressing their general anger and frustration at the fact that written language has lots of rules. :::PPP
What the fuck? Hell no. I just hate fucking commas. Sure let's all just assume I think you're a xenophobe because I have a personal hatred of the things.
Lol never said that i thought that just that you upset me because I personally couldn't read shit w/o commas and of course you always say shit like your opinion is empirical fucking fact
re: spooning: personally, i love spooning, and cuddling of all sorts. fanfic does tend to gloss over the stage of cuddling where the people involved shift around to achieve maximum comfort, though. (my fics included. maybe i should include that detail next time?) i do occasionally see fanart featuring characters cuddling in a position that looks cute, but would get uncomfortable fairly quickly in practice. not really something that bugs me, just something i laugh about. re: commas: english dialogue punctuation rules are difficult enough for native-english-speakers to learn, let alone non-native-english-speakers. i definitely have sympathy for people trying to learn this shit. that said, incorrect dialogue punctuation is jarring enough / aggravating enough to me that i can barely read fics where the dialogue punctuation is consistently incorrect. usually i just nope out.
Same, if there isn't punctuation, everything completely changes for me. Tone shifts, I'm thrown out of EVERYTHING because that's Incorrect, and oh look now I'm thinking about how to write stories instead of about the story itself. Because everything with me is robots, I even have a specific example at hand :p Blurr is all about fast, fast everything, but especially talking. He's kind of a delight, because it's approximately how fast I talk irl if I don't deliberately slow down, and I love him. And there's this one author who writes him REALLY nicely. But they show that fast talking through... Complete lack of commas. It kills me. I can't get as much as I should be able to out of their fics, not just because the thing is Wrong, but because *I* have to slow down and reread it like three or four times to follow what's even being said (just write! fast words! with commas!!). That's good, make me slow down to read the fast character, this is the OPPOSITE of what you should want. I just genuinely 100% do not have the attention span to follow a sentence if there isn't punctuation to tell me where to go next. I abuse commas like whoa, but they... break thoughts up into manageable pieces. They're so nice, they give sentences rhythm and shape, they set the tone of the raw words, and I've got lots of sympathy for people learning the language, but as far as reading things goes, both the practicality and the aesthetics kill me when someone decides to ditch the basic building blocks.
Ok then my actual issue here is solved. So long as I'm not being accused of passive aggressively saying something I didn't mean I'm fine here. I'm still not changing how I word myself, though.
Hey, peeps. Got a report that there was snark, there is indeed snark, and I'm not planning to like do anything, but maybe could people turn the snark down a notch so we don't end up with a flame war?
Depends entirely on the sizes and bodyshapes of the people involved. I like spooning, but I am a heat leach that demands snuggles.
Characters who might believably play Truth Or Dare: - Middle schoolers Characters who cannot believably play Truth Or Dare: - A BUNCH OF GROWN-ASS MAFIOSI Seriously, I hate Truth Or Dare fics in general (it's a very lazy way to force your OTP to make out) but my god, at least when you're writing young teens or adolescents it's a thing they might do. When you're writing crime bosses, on the other hand, they should probably not be acting like preteens at a slumber party.
In fairness, the author disguised it as a drinking game, but it was STILL TRUTH OR DARE DAMMIT. Being played by dudes who canonically kill people on a regular basis. And yes, it was still just a very lazy way to force the author's OTP to make out. (eta: the saddest part? it was still the best of all maybe four fics I could find for that particular ship. my fannish life is so hard, y'all.)
...................... Someone escort me from this thread, bc i keep having these urges but now I absolutely need someone to play this straight with appropriate gravitas. Deadly game of turth or dare. the russian roulette of spin the bottle. No one in-universe is even questioning this why a bunch of mafiosi play something as infantile as truth or dare as a "trust game" to secure a deal, just that there's two guys who are smooching now while trying to keep eachother from injecting a lethal poison mid-kiss without anyone else noticing.
i'm pretty sure this doesn't mean that agent washington's ptsd kicked on at the same time as his dick or that his ptsd gave him a boner, but that's what this summary had me imagining and it really killed the mood that the author was trying to set
Completely nonsensical similes. I'm not sure I want to know what the author meant by claiming someone sucks dick "like a goat".
