gelbes_gilatier: (Sprache an sich und ansonsten)
A few days ago, someone (no, you won't get names because I protect my sources) pointed me to a story where I still don't quite know if it's absolutely hilarious or horrific. It's Stargate, and it probably contains the worst Stargate Sue (or maybe even Sues) I ever came across. Okay, usually, I steer clear off Sues in general (with a very special exception... the person in question knows who I mean ;)), so that's probably not saying much but seriously... Worst. Sue. Ever.

However, I felt quite content with simply reading it and oscillating (isn't that a great word?) between laughing my ass off and visibly flinching in horror. But then I came across a detail that played into one of my areas of expertise (well, hobby expertise) and that's everything that has to do with characters with a military background. I tried to tell the perpetrator suethor aspiring author that if she includes characters with a military background she should damn well do her research right but she kept telling me stuff that didn't have anything to do with my observations and dared to tell me I didn't pay attention to her excuses explanations. And yes, I couldn't help getting a little bit acerbic in my last reply (yes, a little... when I flame, it looks totally different, believe me).

Today... I got called on by a mod that "everyone could write as they please and GOD FORBID SOMEONE CRITICISES SOMEONE ELSE INSTEAD OF FALLING ALL OVER THEMSELVES WITH PRAISE (okay, not in that exact wording but you get my meaning, right?). People... what happened to growth as an author? What happened to accepting someone's exhaustive advice and maybe even asking for more information on a matter I obviously am not quite as firm in as I thought (or simply abandoning a part of my characters' background that doesn't interest me instead of stubbornly going on as if I knew everything about it when I clearly don't)? And what happened to first go through your Sue phase and then start publishing?

Anyway, with that in mind... let's see what I can think up to the next "30 Days of Writing" question.

The first three were:

1. Tell us about your favorite writing project/universe that you’ve worked with and why.
2. How many characters do you have? Do you prefer males or females?
3. How do you come up with names, for characters (and for places if you’re writing about fictional places)?


And here we go with the new question:

4. Tell us about one of your first stories/characters!

"A Mary Sue (sometimes just Sue), in fanfiction, is a fictional character with overly idealized and hackneyed mannerisms, lacking noteworthy flaws, and primarily functioning as a wish-fulfillment fantasy for the author or reader." )
gelbes_gilatier: (argh)
I still have to write this. Following the wave of (justified) outrage over that Female Character Flowchart at overthinkingit (which I will not link to since that thing is a major fail and I don't link to fails), I got thinking on clichés and female characters and writing and categories again and... came to a few conclusions that might not make me popular but I've been feeling like the kid that points out to everyone that the Emperor isn't wearing any clothes for quite some time, anyway so...what the hell *shrugs

It wasn't intended to become so long again... )
gelbes_gilatier: (things that make me go BOOM)
Because I'm bored even though I should be doing other stuff...

Snagged from [livejournal.com profile] sangate



Top 10 Ships Overall
Top 5 Love Triangles/OT3s
Top 5 Canon Pairings
Top 5 "Not My Favorite, But They're Nice Alternate Choices" Ships
Top 5 "I Just Don't Feel What Everyone Else Is Feeling" Ships
Top 5 "Do Not Want" Ships
Top 5 Crossover Ships

Some of them are all-time favorites, some are current... and some I had to make up on the spot... guess which are which ;) )

Also, in light of the recent "OMGWTFDONTCROSSPOSTTOFACEBOOKANDTWITTERORWEREALLGONNADIE!" hysteria going on: I'm a little appaled at all those posts telling me what not to post and how not to post because I do feel insulted in my intelligence. Honestly, everyone with a basic level of brains and tech skills knows not to repost any comments or friendslocked content and how not to do that, and I consider myself to be a person with more than just a basic level of brains and tech skills.

Or, in simpler terms: no, I won't crosspost anything of you and I trust you to know when to crosspost something from me and when not to. Which is why you won't see any of those panicked posts on the subject by me... and which is why I wish everyone would come to their senses and stop the hysteria. You're smarter than that, people, or you wouldn't be on my flist ;)
gelbes_gilatier: (argh)
Because [livejournal.com profile] pingulotta pointed me to a great article about US-universalism and nationality as a privilege that a lot of Americans just refuse to see. A lot of people on my flist don't and you have no idea how grateful I am for that. But I just can't forget about how I ran into that roadblock a few months ago and had to discover that often enough all the big liberal talk about being so open to the world and being able to see behind "privileges" and "barriers" and blah is just one big blast of hot air when it's put to the test outside of the usual categories Americans put people in (race, gender, sexuality, religion).

So... let me please quote those things in the article I found most important (but I recommend you to read the whole article).

I wish I came across that article a LOT earlier. )

And now... I will finish watching that ep of Army Wives and then finally go and see a hairdresser about the mess my hair is. Whee.
gelbes_gilatier: (argh)
First, let me say something: I know I have slashers in my flist and before I get to the core of the issue here, I'd like to say that I respect you and your writing very much, mostly because you're awesome people and because you have a very deep and reflective stance towards writing slash and because, as far as I know, when you write boy slash you don't make the mistake of eliminating all and every female character from your stories (have I ever told you how much I love you for making Laura Cadman a very important person for your Lorne, [livejournal.com profile] bluflamingo or how much I love your writing because so many of your Newcomers are women, despite the series having heavy slashy under- and overtones, [livejournal.com profile] scherryzade? ;)). The following text is in no way meant to insult you or belittle your writing. Still... I had to write it.

Because, see, today I discovered a very long article (as in, a whole page) on slashers in the German major (left-leaning) newspaper Berliner Zeitung and because I was overjoyed to see that such an established and important newspaper took a look at fanfiction and even gave it a whole page, I started to read it... only to start frowning after about three phrases.

Oh Berliner Zeitung, why did you DO that? )
gelbes_gilatier: (things that make me go BOOM)
Yep, it's a collection of daily meaningless rambling...

  • 12:29 "Air Chief Marshal Sir Jock Stirrup" - seriously? SERIOUSLY? There is an "Air Chief Marshal Sir Jock Stirrup" in British Forces? Oh man. #
  • 20:27 OK, now, #ger vs. #aus. Oh, I can't wait for it to begin. Socceroos gonna be a tough opponent. Also... wow, stadium must be full of Aussies. #
  • 20:38 Apparently, I'm the only German in my timeline rooting for #ger. Go figure. (and no, I don't feel embarrassed by it, why should I?). #
  • 20:39 Podooooooolskiiiiiiiiiii! And immediately, fireworks all around :D Obviously, I don't need the tv to notice a German goal :D #worldcup #
  • 20:57 Miroooooooooooooo Klooooooooooose! That's soccer, baby! And Jogi freaking out! Go on like that, guys! Give us more of that! #worldcup #
  • 21:53 Dear, #aus team, if you want to get at least a tie... maybe stop fouling Schweinsteiger and everyone else in your path? That COULD help. #
  • 21:56 MÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜLLEEEEEEEEEER! Okay, you totally got me by surprise, guys. I NEVER thought you'd score so often w/o #aus scoring at least once. #
  • 21:56 CACAAAAAAAAAAAAAAOOOOOOO! HOLY FUCKING SHIT I DON'T BELIEVE THIS OH MY GOD THIS IS I DON'T EVEN JESUS FUCKING CHRIST! #
  • 22:10 Hey, look, you Aussie guys... this is soccer, not rugby. Try to score, not to tackle. Maybe there will be some goals then in the future #
  • 22:18 And 4 every German in the timeline who doesn't like Germans who are rooting 4 the #ger team: www.ichwerdeeinberliner.com/29-football #
  • 22:21 Oh, it's already over. Have to say good game, mostly on the #ger side. If #aus learn 2 play soccer instead of rugby they could have a chance #
  • 22:52 MEHEHEHEHE! bit.ly/as3wvG - so much LOVE for that song! :D #
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gelbes_gilatier: (Pissed.)
Yep, it's a collection of daily meaningless rambling...

  • 16:41 I would like to remind the universe that I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING TO YOU OKAY? I'm sick of this knee stuff and don't you DARE make it a rupture. #
  • 16:46 So, BTW, if this is some karmic thing, could s/o PLEASE tell me what I did to deserve this? Or does that mean s/t good will happen some day? #
  • 18:04 I can only express my current state of mind in German: ICH BIN MIT DER GESAMTSITUATION UNZUFRIEDEN! Like, very, very, VERY dissatisfied. #
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gelbes_gilatier: (Sprache an sich und ansonsten)
I can feel it in my bones. I mean... look at it:






  • first the earthquakes in Haiti and Chile
  • then The Volcano No One Can Pronounce (you know, the one that grounded practically all of Europe for at least four days and had people do such strange things as taking a cab from Oslo to Brussels for 3500€ (I ain't joking... that's what John Cleese did) or from Riga to Warsaw for 500€ (the boyfriend of one of my sister's co-workers did that) or journey through half of Europe in a rental car so you can get to Chile (36 hours nonstop from Basel to Madrid, one of my sister's co-workers did that)
  • also the Caribbean will probably be polluted for... oh... the next 1000 years (and my sincerest and deepest condolences and greatest hopes for all those on my flist that are direct or indirect victims of that)
  • Israel totally went off the rocker (seriously, just a few decades ago those actions would have provoked declarations of war from at least three countries... and supposing the whole thing did indeed happen in international waters, Israel committed an act of piracy... the same thing the US Navy and EUNAVFOR are fighting off the Somalian coast... also: Where are the German MPs, dear Israeli government?)
  • and, last but not least, as of today, Germany is without a head of state - that is to say: President Horst Köhler decided he felt offended by the criticism to his latest none-too-clever demands to use the Bundeswehr for unlawful actions (i.e. "protecting Germany's trading routes") and resigned from his office (like, you know, "OMG, someone criticised what I said! Did I miss something? Are we living in a democracy all of a sudden?")
So... see what I mean?

ETA: The Israel situation is getting better and better:

"Heute gegen 20:30 Uhr konnten Inge Höger und Annette Groth im Hafen von Aschdod das Gaza-Hilfsschiff Mavi Marmara verlassen. Beide sind unverletzt. Auch der ehemalige Abgeordnete Norman Paech hat den Angriff auf die Hilfsflotte unverletzt überstanden, er befindet sich noch auf dem Schiff in Gewahrsam des israelischen Militärs.

Annette Groth und Inge Höger konnten mit Vertretern der deutschen Botschaft in Israel telefonieren, wurden dann aber an einen unbekannten Ort verbracht, ein direkter Kontakt mit ihnen ist immer noch nicht möglich, auch die deutsche Botschaft hat keinen Zugang zu ihnen."*

Source
*Translation:

"Today, at around 2030, Inge Höger and Annette Groth (the two German MPs) could leave the Gaza solidarity ship Mavi Marmara. Both are unharmed. Also the former MP Norman Paech has survived the attack on the solidarity fleet and is unharmed; he is still in the custody of the IDF.

Annette Groth and Inge Höger could talk to the German embassy in Israel, but where then brought to an unknown location; direct contact is still not possible, the German embassy also does not have any contact to them."


Jesusfuckingchrist, this is a fucking hostage situation. The Israeli state has taken German MPs as their hostages. WTF. I don't even.
gelbes_gilatier: (WTH?)
Yep, it's a collection of daily meaningless rambling...

  • 12:56 RT @MediaOps 'Aren't all the baddies dead yet?': When daddy goes to war bit.ly/abZEpi #
  • 15:34 German internet broken? How can the internet be broken??? RT @ntvde: Viele Seiten nicht erreichbar: Deutsches Internet bit.ly/aJ9jEF #
  • 15:45 OK, apparently someone at DENIC made a big mistake (like the guy that almost crashed stock exchanges around the world with a little typo...) #
  • 15:50 Jesus... I still can't believe that you can actually break THE INTERNET. That was supposed to be a JOKE, people. Or an urban legend. #
  • 16:44 RT @BendlerBlogger: Offenbarungseid der Bundeswehr AIK in Strausberg bit.ly/ar2ZFy #
  • 16:50 RT @berlin_tourism: Glitch shuts down German internet: A major technical glitch shut down a wide swath of the German... bit.ly/aaSUaA #
  • 18:35 Uh. Apparently police in Berlin Tegel prevented plane abduction b/c a woman overheard the 2 perpetrators talking about their abduction plans #
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gelbes_gilatier: (Whee)
Because, see, a friend of mine from TTW is here to visit me at the moment because we wanted to see Brandi Carlile in concert on Friday. Unfortunately, I didn't exactly feel up to a concert that involved more than sitting around and listening since the knee still isn't back on par (and I still don't know what's actually going on with it...) and the throat wasn't only aching but I also was coughing my heart out in the morning and sounded like someone after a concert should sound and not before (seriously, Rod Stewart and Bonnie Tyler have nothing on my voice right now)... well, basically, I was feeling like crap.

So slide over and kiss me, I got more than whiskey... wait... that song has nothing to do with the cut. GET OUT OF MY HEAD! )

PS.: Yes, you can still unlurk here.
gelbes_gilatier: (sport)
Yep, it's a collection of daily meaningless rambling...

  • 11:57 Now I don't only have a busted knee but also a sore throat & am on antibiotics. "It has to get worse before it gets better" is NOT funny. #
  • 12:11 Ouch RT @BendlerBlogger Soldatenglück rühmt sich der Unterstützung der Pressefreiheit, zensiert aber Kommentare soldatenglueck.de/ #
  • 12:20 Sleep tight tonight, your Air Force is awake... RT @BendlerBlogger (bendler-blog.de/2010/05/03/jungs-konnen-tanzen/) #Bundeswehr #
  • 13:29 Watching my 1st ep of #WhiteCollar. What? I'm on sick leave with 2 health issues. If that's no reason to lounge around I don't know what is. #
  • 18:16 Interpol was once a Nazi organization. Who knew? (What?I watched #Leverage & am now watching #WhiteCollar. I HAD 2 look it up at some point) #
  • 18:39 You know what would be really cool? #Leverage Region 2 DVDs. B/c, hey, EUROPEANS ARE CUSTOMERS TOO DAMMIT. 'Globalization' ring any bells? #
  • 19:37 RT @thomas_wiegold: World Press Freedom Day: And how about (Western) Military Censorship? twurl.nl/c3qbvv #fb #
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gelbes_gilatier: (Sprache an sich und ansonsten)
Yep, it's a collection of daily meaningless rambling...

  • 11:52 I think I kinda failed How To Make New Friends 101 in conversation class last night and now teacher sent an e-mail. Don't want to open it :S #
  • 12:50 OK. WHY is dad following @rickcenteno on twitter (w/o actually BEING on twitter)? Srsly, sometimes dad creeps me out w/ his stalker skillz. #
  • 12:56 Ah, OK, I get it. Now I'm wondering... does dad stalk ME on twitter as well? I'd not put it beyond him. So... do you, dad? #
  • 15:06 Oops. Went on a little #Leverage fanvid spree. Been a while since I watched any & I'm kinda in love w/ this one: tinyurl.com/2wsk4ax #
  • 15:07 Followers, can anyone plz also point me in the direction of Christian Kane albums b/c I seem to be too dumb to FIND any *hangs head in shame #
  • 16:42 SO IF YOU'RE LOOONELY WHY D'YOU SAY YOU'RE NOT LOOONELY... crap. Now I can't get the song out of my head. Thanks #Leverage fanvid *rollseyes #
  • 17:05 Mh. MAYBE the song would get out of my head if I just stopped watching that §/§&ing video. But then again... nah, that would be too easy. #
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gelbes_gilatier: (Sprache an sich und ansonsten)
Yep, it's a collection of daily meaningless rambling...

  • 17:05 Just for the record: "Listen To The Rhythm Of The Falling Rain" sounds completely HILARIOUS in Dutch. However, I prefer the English version. #
  • 17:14 OK, followers, where's that song from: "Mariiiiiiia... I just kissed a girl named Mariaaaa" (first one to respond might even get a prize ;)) #
  • 17:23 Oooh, may get all 7 Seasons of #OneTreeHill after all. No, you don't want to know about the how. Also, will try #Leverage, I think. #
  • 19:46 RT @USMC: "Damn the torpedoes, Full tweet ahead!"- Admiral David Glasgow Farragut (@NAVFAC) #
  • 19:47 RT @USMC: "I have not yet begun to tweet!"- Captain John Paul Jones (@NAVFAC) #
  • 20:23 Alaska Nebraska! I love the #Simpsons! (okay, who doesn't? Seriously, WHO doesn't?) #
  • 22:18 IT'S A MUPPETS/SCRUBS EPISODE! OMG! *dies from teh awesome #
  • 23:06 Nerd humor! RT @swu_de: Katarn-Witz der Woche: Kyle Katarn hat den Korsalflug in weniger als 11 Parsecs gemacht. Zu Fuß! #
  • 23:46 I'm officially obsessed. I just realized that one of the guys on Lorne's team in The Lost Boys is the German soldier from Conversion. What? #
  • 23:48 Also, oh God, I have memorized at least two of German soldier's episodes. I.e. I remembered he was in them. Sometimes I really scare myself. #
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gelbes_gilatier: (Pissed.)
So Brad Wright chose to address the fans about their concerns and criticism about SGU... very noble and courageous indeed, since the concerns and criticism were manifold.

You are so vain... )

 

gelbes_gilatier: (Sprache an sich und ansonsten)
Yep, it's a collection of daily meaningless rambling...

  • 17:15 Eurgh. Cleaning out my parents' freezers. I discovered stuff that was due in fucking 2007. It's like an archaeological expedition. #
  • 17:37 Dude, I just spent the last 20 minutes literally hacking away ice from the last freezer compartment. What is that? Ice cave in Antarctica? #
  • 18:07 Can't believe the first thing I do after my parents leave me alone in their place for 10 days is starting to clean it up... #
  • 19:53 OMGWTFPARALLELUNIVERSE! RT @serienjunkies: RT @flogrs: Hertha versenkt Wolfsburg im Mittellandkanal! 5:1 Auswärtssieg!!! #
  • 20:49 RT @Soldatenglueck: Der Top Cop der Vereinten Nationen ist eine Frau (Video): Frauen-Power in New York bit.ly/bc3Q9U #
  • 23:49 Oh, hey, parents haven't been arrested yet. Just got e-mail from them, saying they arrived in Israel at Lake Tiberias. Very... informative. #
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gelbes_gilatier: (sports)
You get to meet Olympic champions during practice :D (in my case, it was Britta Heidemann, Olympic champion women's épeé 2008).

Äs läbe där Spocht... )

Also... go German Olympics team! Go ZDF mascot (ZDF is one of the two German national PBC stations broadcasting the Olympics)! Go Eurosport commenters (Eurosport is the only cable station that broadcasts the Olympics here... and I have the very strong suspicion that they usually start broadcasting an event with giving their two commenters a six pack of beer, tell them to have fun and then head off to the nearest pub...)! Olympics! YAY!
gelbes_gilatier: (Sprache an sich und ansonsten)
Yep, it's a collection of daily meaningless rambling...

  • 15:00 Hey, found my way through the jungle that's dad's computer! Have now successfully scanned stuff and can check off stuff on to-do-list. Yay! #
  • 16:07 Whywhywhy can't I access www.marines.mil? WHY? Honestly, I'm NOT a terrorist, I just want to read @MarineCorpsNews. GAH! #
  • 18:16 You know, usually I really like rbb. But Jeez, that feature about women in the #Bundeswehr they just showed was a big FAIL. #
  • 22:29 Hey, German followers: Who of you can access www.marines.mil and which provider are you using? #
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gelbes_gilatier: (Sprache an sich und ansonsten)
Yep, it's a collection of daily meaningless rambling...

  • 20:09 Starting to find #DADT discussion in the @USArmy really interesting, from outsider's POV. Also, nice link list re DADT: bit.ly/9TTxYD #
  • 20:12 Also find disappearing of German MilBloggers such as @thomas_wiegold & @Batteriechef disturbing. How else are we supposed to find that info? #
  • 20:19 And since I'm on a MilRant again... why the hell can't I access @MarineCorpsNews's homepage? Srsly, I'm NOT a terrorist! Let me view it! #
  • 20:20 EEEEP! Just almost had to watch #SG1's The Road Not Taken in German. Never, NEVER want to watch #KavanSmith w/ German voice again! #
  • 20:24 And Firefox... PLEASE STOP BEING A BITCH! How hard can it be NOT to crash multiple times during sessions? You used to be able to do that! #
  • 20:42 GAH! I want to see #KavanSmith on big TV screen w/ his OWN voice and dad can't find the means for it. Shouldn't have packed away #SGA DVDs:P #
  • 21:46 Hahahahaha, JESUS Christ, the guy who does Kavan Smith's German voice over happens to be Pinky's (as in Pinky & the Brain) German voice. #
  • 22:50 It works! IT WORKS! #SGA Search and Rescue now for me! IN ENGLISH! On the big tv screen! Lots of Lorne whump! VICTORY! YAY! #
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gelbes_gilatier: (Obsession of the Week)
Yep, it's a collection of daily meaningless rambling...

  • 19:23 US Armed Forces Snake Project: bit.ly/b2dUfg - You just gotta love its universality. (thanks to asugar for posting the link on LJ) #
  • 19:27 RT @SPIEGEL_English: The Gender Gap: 'Men Who Have Daughters Tend to See Better'... - tinyurl.com/ya7dg6s #
  • 20:13 BLERGH! #Avatar is nominated for NINE fucking Academy Awards, including Best Director and Best Picture. I need to go puke now. BLERGH²²³³²²³ #
  • 20:23 bit.ly/cg9ov3 - I feel so much safer now, knowing our navy patrolling the Lebanese coast know what they're doing... NOT! #navyfail #
  • 21:16 Ha! My mom just admitted that #Avatar DOES suck! I knew her usual good taste in movies would prevail in the end! I'm so proud of her :D #
  • 22:15 What happens it snows for weeks in Gemany: bit.ly/d7z8Eb (@SPIEGEL_English picture gallery, including pics from snowed in Hiddensee). #
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gelbes_gilatier: (things that make me go BOOM)
I finally survived moving house. Yay me. I managed to get through cleaning and rearranging the apartment that was supposed to serve as storage for my stuff, packing my stuff, painting the living room, packing more of my stuff, having a herd of shipping crew guys trample through my apartment, going up to Berlin, supervising guys unload my stuff, driving back to where I used to live, suffering through a migraine, suffering through several other migraines, having a nervous breakdown, trying to paint the bedroom, almost having another nervous breakdown, painting the bedroom, painting the kitchen and the corridor with the help of three really, really great friends, disposing of about a ton of trash (or at least it felt like that), getting snipped at by the neighbor one last time, cleaning up the apartment, waiting for the guy who agreed to drive me and the rest of my stuff to Berlin, seeing the landlord pick at things that were insignificant (and thanks for not giving me back all of my deposit money for the apartment not being "clean enough" after I cleaned for SIX FREAKING HOURS DAMMIT!) and miss things that were noteworthy (if your new tennant gripes about laminate and ugly scratches in it it's not my fault, you moron!), getting driven to Berlin and unloading the rest of my stuff.

Country roads... take me home... to the place... I belooooooong! )

Oh, and in writing news: I so want to post Chapter Eight of A Little Place Like Kokomo but §&$%&ing ff.net doesn't let me. I really, really want to see my readers' reaction to it but ff.net obviously decided to be a bitch again and show me why we have a love/hate relationship. I really didn't need that, thank you very much. Well... not. Anyway... bed now. Yeah *content sigh

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