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So I'm not finished whining from yesterday's personal post. I should have held off until I felt really sad/pissed off and ranted all in one place I guess. Cross-posted from Tumblr where the gifs are

Me: *writes fanfic*
*some kudos, comments*
People: Ugh, fanfic is so derivative. If you're a serious writer you must write your own work.
Me: *writes original fic*
*crickets*
People: It's not about audience!!! Do it for fun!!!
Me: ...

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Can't tell if I'm an okay fanfic writer and a shitty original fic writer or if I'm a mediocre writer all around and fanfic readers are just more generous with praise.

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Current Mood: morose
Crossposts: http://meridian-rose.livejournal.com/522691.html

Recap/review/rant about S3e08 La Confessione Della Machina. SPOILERS.
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Current Mood: exhausted
Crossposts: http://meridian-rose.livejournal.com/504126.html

Season 3 Episode 7 Alis Volat Proplis
Spoilers. Recap and review in which I am angry at how heterocentrism rears its head. Also, how to get on my bad side: be mean to Vanessa. Lorenzo and Laura I am looking at you. With a side of screw the Crusade.
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Crossposts: http://meridian-rose.livejournal.com/499621.html

SPOILERS and excessive feelings and over analysis.
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Current Mood: exhausted
Crossposts: http://meridian-rose.livejournal.com/494409.html

DvD episode five: Anima Venator

Ramblings, asides, and SPOILERS.
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Current Mood: whelmed
Crossposts: http://meridian-rose.livejournal.com/489354.html

I'm going to follow the plot rather than grouping by characters this time. Plus there are some gifs and pics and my crack fanart. This is a recap/review with my side comments and fangirling.
SPOILERS abound.
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Crossposts: http://meridian-rose.livejournal.com/486064.html

Da Vinci's Demons S3e01 Semper Infidelis

An overview/review/my rambling thoughts
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Crossposts: http://meridian-rose.livejournal.com/482985.html

I did meet my NaNo wordcount today but I wanted to do something else for today, so have a meme and I'll talk more NaNo tomorrow. Found on Tumblr & I'll post there tomorrow but I'll need to add the gifs in manually and I don't have the energy tonight.
Meme: Choose 5 OTP’s without looking at the questions in the Read More. Answer the questions. (optionally) tag five people.
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Current Mood: exhausted
Crossposts: http://meridian-rose.livejournal.com/480852.html

I've said in the past that NaNoWriMo wouldn't work for me and at the time it was true. I'm going sum up those reasons and why I think I can now argue against them, or at least live with them, in order to try NaNo this year.
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Crossposts: http://meridian-rose.livejournal.com/475712.html

I received a review on an older fic - it's always nice to get comments on older fics, and fics in small fandoms, and this was both. However the writer was under the impression that there were "minor spelling and grammar" errors. Now this is a fic that I edited before posting to AO3, but which has never been beta read. So I copied and pasted the AO3 version into Word to have another look.

I found I'd used portacabin when I mean the propriety term Portakabin. Fair enough. Maybe it was because I used some non-standard words within the dialogue, "lemme see" rather than "let me see" as a nod to a character's speech patterns. I couldn't find any other errors. Then I thought, oh-oh.

Changing the text from UK to US in Word showed up a whole lot of "errors", eg favourite, neighbour. However these are not errors in my work. I try to have characters use the correct terms "elevator" rather than "lift", for example, if the character is American. But I'm British, and I write a variety of characters, fandoms, and original works, and I am not going to start spelling words without a u in them "Because America".