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SPN fanfic writing, and Percy Jackson (your fanfic sucks)
Am trying to write Supernatural stuff, but it just all comes out wrong somehow. *sigh* I can't feel the flow, and that's so important to me as a writer.
A part of the reason, I think, is that I can’t get Dean down convincingly in a D/C relationship—or Dean by himself, period. He possesses a lot of the qualities which I lack, which is precisely why I like him as a character. Yet at the same time, it makes him hard to write for me.
In other news, went to see Percy Jackson & The Olympians today in Bayside (in my defense: The Guy wanted to see it, not me). Actually left the movie halfway through, which is possibly a first for me. This was basically a piece of very, very poorly written Greco-Roman mythology fanfic. Gary Stu fanfic, at that. I was somewhat hopeful because I wanted to see Uma Thurman and Rosario Dawson, but alas, I did not have the fortitude to suffer through the rest of it. I think I gave up when The Girl told The Hero she was “the (half-god, half-mortal) daughter of Athena”. No, really. Athena. The famous virgin goddess. (Who appears to have a horde of children in the book series, so uh yeah, WTF moment.)
*headdesk*
At the risk of sounding pompous, I really wanted to yell "hands off those gods" as I was sitting there in the theatre. (That, and OMG your fanfic sucks!!!!) I grew up with the Greco-Roman mythology as a very big part of my life (cough cough), and it's painful for me to see them portrayed in such an....astoundingly foolish manner. I'm not saying the Greco-Roman gods are nice—anybody with a rudimentary knowledge of the myths would tell you otherwise—but they aren't weak or stupid (well, most of them anyway, they are diverse like that).
A part of the reason, I think, is that I can’t get Dean down convincingly in a D/C relationship—or Dean by himself, period. He possesses a lot of the qualities which I lack, which is precisely why I like him as a character. Yet at the same time, it makes him hard to write for me.
In other news, went to see Percy Jackson & The Olympians today in Bayside (in my defense: The Guy wanted to see it, not me). Actually left the movie halfway through, which is possibly a first for me. This was basically a piece of very, very poorly written Greco-Roman mythology fanfic. Gary Stu fanfic, at that. I was somewhat hopeful because I wanted to see Uma Thurman and Rosario Dawson, but alas, I did not have the fortitude to suffer through the rest of it. I think I gave up when The Girl told The Hero she was “the (half-god, half-mortal) daughter of Athena”. No, really. Athena. The famous virgin goddess. (Who appears to have a horde of children in the book series, so uh yeah, WTF moment.)
*headdesk*
At the risk of sounding pompous, I really wanted to yell "hands off those gods" as I was sitting there in the theatre. (That, and OMG your fanfic sucks!!!!) I grew up with the Greco-Roman mythology as a very big part of my life (cough cough), and it's painful for me to see them portrayed in such an....astoundingly foolish manner. I'm not saying the Greco-Roman gods are nice—anybody with a rudimentary knowledge of the myths would tell you otherwise—but they aren't weak or stupid (well, most of them anyway, they are diverse like that).
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loves mythology and pjo, just gonna go corner nowno subject