Things that confuse me:
-Food that advertises itself as being "real." Like... thank you very much, I wasn't questioning whether or not that ice cream was real BEFORE you told me it was "made from REAL ice cream" (as opposed to....???) This seems to be all the rage now and I have to say, an advertising campaign based on telling you the thing you're buying is actually the thing you're buying is sort of underwhelming. IS THIS "REAL" BREAD?? IS THIS "REAL" ONION? IS THIS "REAL" COFFEE CREAM? HOW WILL I KNOW UNLESS THE PACKAGE TELLS ME.
-Tumblr. I'm making a valiant attempt to be active on tumblr, but truth be told, I'm a little at a loss for how to use it. Mostly all I do is reblog stuff which is 1) surprisingly time consuming; 2) getting kind of boring? I've thought about trying to make my own original content, but I like words and meta and things and I'm still not sure how to make that work on tumblr.
I'm still on my post-finale Dan/Blair fic kick which means I've been spending an unusual amount of time on fanfiction.net (just leave me to drown in a pool of my shame, okay). It's very 2001 of me. Anyway, I am coming back with a few pet peeves:
1). There's this really off-putting culture of begging for reviews/feedback on fanfic.net. Pretty much every fic I read contains A/Ns ranging from "Leave a review if you want me to update!" to "Feedback makes me write faster!" to "I'm not sure if I should continue this, what do you guys think??" It seems like a prevalent thing over there that people do without thinking about it but UGH JUST WRITE YOUR GODDAMN FIC BECAUSE YOU LOVE THE CHARACTERS AND HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY. Normally all these things would be instant turn-offs/reasons to immediately hit the back button but like... I'm in a sad and desperate place.
2). This is more Gossip Girl related specifically, so I'll put it under a cut.
Blair randomly deciding to start wearing jeans and Dan finding it a huge turn-on seems to be a really popular trope in D/B fic (WHEN DID THIS START CLEARLY I WAS NOT INVOLVED IN THIS FANDOM YET BECAUSE I WOULD HAVE TRIED TO PUT A STOP TO IT) and just no, no, no, no YOU PEOPLE ARE DOING IT ALL WRONG. First, Blair would never wear jeans to impress her man, she has other ways:
Second, Blair just wouldn't wear jeans, period. DO YOU PEOPLE EVEN KNOW THIS CHARACTER. Blair called this "casual":
Thirdly, YOU PEOPLE ARE WRITING THIS PAIRING ALL WRONG. Part of the hilarity of Dan/Blair is 'spoiled Upper East Side princess falls for Brooklyn hipster writer.' Blair is not going to start wearing jeans and plaid and extol the virtues of Brooklyn okay. Instead she'd call Dan up a half hour before arriving so that he has time to change the sheets on his bed and put incense in the bathroom and maybe make sure there's a clean surface for Blair to sit on.
Fourthly, I sense elements of Dan Humphrey fangirls trying to mold Blair into someone more "worthy" of him because HAHAHA GET IT BLAIR USED TO MAKE FUN OF HIS CLOTHES ALL THE TIME BUT NOW SHE LOVES WEARING OFF THE RACK JEANS AND PLAID SHIRTS BECAUSE DAN DOES HAHAHA GET IT. And just no ugh get out, stop doing it all wrong and go ship Dan/Vanessa instead.
So anyway that's my life at the moment.
-Food that advertises itself as being "real." Like... thank you very much, I wasn't questioning whether or not that ice cream was real BEFORE you told me it was "made from REAL ice cream" (as opposed to....???) This seems to be all the rage now and I have to say, an advertising campaign based on telling you the thing you're buying is actually the thing you're buying is sort of underwhelming. IS THIS "REAL" BREAD?? IS THIS "REAL" ONION? IS THIS "REAL" COFFEE CREAM? HOW WILL I KNOW UNLESS THE PACKAGE TELLS ME.
-Tumblr. I'm making a valiant attempt to be active on tumblr, but truth be told, I'm a little at a loss for how to use it. Mostly all I do is reblog stuff which is 1) surprisingly time consuming; 2) getting kind of boring? I've thought about trying to make my own original content, but I like words and meta and things and I'm still not sure how to make that work on tumblr.
I'm still on my post-finale Dan/Blair fic kick which means I've been spending an unusual amount of time on fanfiction.net (just leave me to drown in a pool of my shame, okay). It's very 2001 of me. Anyway, I am coming back with a few pet peeves:
1). There's this really off-putting culture of begging for reviews/feedback on fanfic.net. Pretty much every fic I read contains A/Ns ranging from "Leave a review if you want me to update!" to "Feedback makes me write faster!" to "I'm not sure if I should continue this, what do you guys think??" It seems like a prevalent thing over there that people do without thinking about it but UGH JUST WRITE YOUR GODDAMN FIC BECAUSE YOU LOVE THE CHARACTERS AND HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY. Normally all these things would be instant turn-offs/reasons to immediately hit the back button but like... I'm in a sad and desperate place.
2). This is more Gossip Girl related specifically, so I'll put it under a cut.
Blair randomly deciding to start wearing jeans and Dan finding it a huge turn-on seems to be a really popular trope in D/B fic (WHEN DID THIS START CLEARLY I WAS NOT INVOLVED IN THIS FANDOM YET BECAUSE I WOULD HAVE TRIED TO PUT A STOP TO IT) and just no, no, no, no YOU PEOPLE ARE DOING IT ALL WRONG. First, Blair would never wear jeans to impress her man, she has other ways:
Second, Blair just wouldn't wear jeans, period. DO YOU PEOPLE EVEN KNOW THIS CHARACTER. Blair called this "casual":
Thirdly, YOU PEOPLE ARE WRITING THIS PAIRING ALL WRONG. Part of the hilarity of Dan/Blair is 'spoiled Upper East Side princess falls for Brooklyn hipster writer.' Blair is not going to start wearing jeans and plaid and extol the virtues of Brooklyn okay. Instead she'd call Dan up a half hour before arriving so that he has time to change the sheets on his bed and put incense in the bathroom and maybe make sure there's a clean surface for Blair to sit on.
Fourthly, I sense elements of Dan Humphrey fangirls trying to mold Blair into someone more "worthy" of him because HAHAHA GET IT BLAIR USED TO MAKE FUN OF HIS CLOTHES ALL THE TIME BUT NOW SHE LOVES WEARING OFF THE RACK JEANS AND PLAID SHIRTS BECAUSE DAN DOES HAHAHA GET IT. And just no ugh get out, stop doing it all wrong and go ship Dan/Vanessa instead.
So anyway that's my life at the moment.
