quizz & poll

[salinea]

Your result for The Fan Fiction Personality Test...

The Mindgamer

Everything is possible, nothing is ever really over.

Fanfiction is a creative outlet for you. You don't intentionally write it, it just happens. You find inspiration in several fandoms, but are not obsessed with only one.

You like to explore "what if" situations. What if this character had never made this very choice? What if this event had taken place sooner, never, elsewhere? What if these people had never met?

You are likely to write Alternative Universes, fan seasons or sequels and just follow your (sometimes pretty strange) plot bunnies.

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Comments

[eefster.livejournal.com]

I'd retract it and apologise.

However, I would probably also open a different discussion (not in the same post, and not forcing the person to take part) about what an appropriate -- but still pithy -- substitute would be. I would just want to wait to be sure that the discussion didn't come across as pouty, or deliberately inflammatory.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

*nods* I like that option.

Mmm, I wonder what makes a good substitute? Canon fanatic? Canon faithful?

[eefster.livejournal.com]

Depends on what, precisely, the original poster meant. The idea of forcing conformity? That zie feels persecuted?

Wikipedia puts the slang definition as "A person considered unfairly oppressive or needlessly strict" - what other words fit that?

Sorry, that wasn't meant to put it all on you, or to imply I didn't think there were any. Despot, tyrant, fascist*, autocrat, authoritarian....


*could have its own problems.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

In this specific case, it was used by the person to refer to themselves (as I commented in answer to sistermagpie, in the way I most often see it used, with a sort of faux-self-depreciative pride, you know?)

aisimaiyat suggests "Canon Police" bellow, which IMHO works well.

oops... couldn't actually edit.

[eefster.livejournal.com]

ETA: I'd probably also prefer that the person commenting say "Please don't use this because I find it offensive" instead of "You shouldn't use that word." I know it treads toward the tone argument, and I would never say that someone should never say it the latter way, but I'll be honest and say which I'd prefer to hear.

Re: oops... couldn't actually edit.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

yeah, melusinahp also made that very good point above.

Re: oops... couldn't actually edit.

[eefster.livejournal.com]

Oops yes, I meant to give credit.