You can't get 100% if you go one way on the split, but you can, if you go the other way.
I don't like X-2, but I respect that some folks have found Paine and various aspects of the game worth salvaging.
I'd be offended by your remarks above except that I find them fairly laughable.
I will tell you a secret. There's this thing called speculative fiction. You take a world, a myth, a premise, and then explore issues with it. You can use even a crappy premise like Pokeman for it (though you're liable to get a rather young caliber of readers). You may do it seriously, or for fun. You may do it for self-indulgence, or to ponder the social issues surrounding it in a classic Trek way: transplanting real world stuff to a fictional setting can let you get a grip on it from a different angle. In fact, Dagas made it quite clear that she wasn't interested in exploring the problem of homophobia, fand in fact is trying to create a fanfiction story with a plot that has nothing to do with that. However, if she puts Rikku and Paine together, something the game itself toyed with, she can't turn a blind eye to the fact that she'll have to figure out how homosexuality would exist in this world. She could, of course, write it the way she thinks it should be based on real-life experience, for titillation or self-reflection, but that was not her goal here --contrary to your ranting -- rather, she's trying to write a fanfiction story that takes into account the fictional world's culture, so she has to ponder it before she can write it.
It's really puzzling to me why some people see the word "homosexuality" like a red flag and feel they have to butt in and mock someone's sexuality and life. It's only fanfiction, it's only a hobby, and should not automatically qualify an author for personal attacks by strangers.
I was drawn here ONLY because I find dagas' writing unusual and better-crafted fanfic than a lot of the the illiterate crap I've seen out there. I recently discovered her writing, posted a rec in my journal, and friends laughed at me for "discovering" a well-known author and said, "oh yes, she's one of the good ones." So "Crappy ass fanfic" is in the eye of the beholder. Except, of course, when people pre-judge. It makes you look foolish.
But everyone has different tastes. If you don't happen to approve of one writer's method for making sure hers isn't crappy-ass fic, by thinking and planning before she begins writing, and would prefer people just blurt out half-assed stream-of-consciousness fanfic that doesn't require any effort or work on the part of reader or writer -- that's your opinion, all right? You don't have to read it. The rest of us will look forward to it.
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I don't like X-2, but I respect that some folks have found Paine and various aspects of the game worth salvaging.
I'd be offended by your remarks above except that I find them fairly laughable.
I will tell you a secret. There's this thing called speculative fiction. You take a world, a myth, a premise, and then explore issues with it. You can use even a crappy premise like Pokeman for it (though you're liable to get a rather young caliber of readers). You may do it seriously, or for fun. You may do it for self-indulgence, or to ponder the social issues surrounding it in a classic Trek way: transplanting real world stuff to a fictional setting can let you get a grip on it from a different angle. In fact, Dagas made it quite clear that she wasn't interested in exploring the problem of homophobia, fand in fact is trying to create a fanfiction story with a plot that has nothing to do with that. However, if she puts Rikku and Paine together, something the game itself toyed with, she can't turn a blind eye to the fact that she'll have to figure out how homosexuality would exist in this world. She could, of course, write it the way she thinks it should be based on real-life experience, for titillation or self-reflection, but that was not her goal here --contrary to your ranting -- rather, she's trying to write a fanfiction story that takes into account the fictional world's culture, so she has to ponder it before she can write it.
It's really puzzling to me why some people see the word "homosexuality" like a red flag and feel they have to butt in and mock someone's sexuality and life. It's only fanfiction, it's only a hobby, and should not automatically qualify an author for personal attacks by strangers.
I was drawn here ONLY because I find dagas' writing unusual and better-crafted fanfic than a lot of the the illiterate crap I've seen out there. I recently discovered her writing, posted a rec in my journal, and friends laughed at me for "discovering" a well-known author and said, "oh yes, she's one of the good ones." So "Crappy ass fanfic" is in the eye of the beholder. Except, of course, when people pre-judge. It makes you look foolish.
But everyone has different tastes. If you don't happen to approve of one writer's method for making sure hers isn't crappy-ass fic, by thinking and planning before she begins writing, and would prefer people just blurt out half-assed stream-of-consciousness fanfic that doesn't require any effort or work on the part of reader or writer -- that's your opinion, all right? You don't have to read it. The rest of us will look forward to it.