AND WHILE I'M COMPLAINING

[pheonee]

So, I've been trawling through the Pit. And every time I visit it, it gets worse. IT'S LIKE A NEVERENDING CYCLE OF BADNESS THAT JUST GETS WORSE AND WORSE ALWAYS, AND NEVER ANY BETTER. I mean, I've read some truly amazing things on FF.net, so it's not that they don't exist; they just don't exist enough. And never in the places I want them to

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[schellibie]

....WOW, that is a lot of really obvious stuff to get wrong about Chinese culture.

I especially laughed at the heaven thing, because Christianity doesn't even exist in the FMA world AT ALL. #failure

[pheonee]

I am willing to forgive the fruit wine thing, since I can see how one would make that mistake and I've done it before myself; it's just really hilarious to me because I spent a fortnight in China at the beginning of this year and you couldn't have found a fruit wine if you hunted all over town. China is seriously not fond of fruity alchohols. xD

And yeah, the heaven thing = the worst. :|

[bookelfe]

. . . seriously? ANGELS fic? *dying*

[pheonee]

LAN FAN WAS AN ANGEL. WHO...GOT SENT BACK TO EARTH TO PROTECT LING AGAIN. IDEKKKKK.

[rosemusek]

Ugh. I was just thinking over something similar last night! It bothers me SO MUCH when fans will include holidays, religions, traditions, foods etc. in their art and fic that are non-existent in the world of the story! DX Ughhhh.
Seriously, it is sad that people can get so much of Chinese culture wrong, as well. ARghksdf RAAAAAAGE.

[2nutsforwords]

Well, not that I don't agree with you, but in some cases the creators do this too, this injection of holidays/religious stuff etc. that they don't have in the world of the story. Over the years, for example, there has been a lot of official artwork for FMA with the characters dressed as Santa, Reindeer, with christmas trees, etc. Here and here, and I also feel like there was at least one cover with this theme, and there are also the characters in halloween costumes, etc.

It is kinda dumb, but fandom is about ~imagination~. If a fan wants to draw all their favorite characters celebrating hir birthday, why should the fact that some of those characters don't celebrate birthdays stop them? Just saying that sometimes it *is* excusable imo. I agree about respecting the cultures that these things are based on in fanworks, but just because something doesn't exist in the world of the story doesn't mean it can't be involved in fanworks at all ._.

[2nutsforwords]

oh html derp. The second example was this.

[rosemusek]

Yes, I am well aware that the creators have also done some of this.
I... don't quite know. I suppose it's more of a personal thing - I'm just too much of a stickler for detail, sometimes. ^^;
I'm not saying it's bad for fans to celebrate, or include characters in said celebrations - it's just when it is meant to be taken in a serious context and it seems out of place?

[tomoyoichijouji]

Though I suppose I should be thankful no-one's tried to make Ling and Lan Fan have a full Western-style wedding with a white dress (hahaha uh WHITE IS ONLY WORN AT FUNERALS. #commonknowledge) and a "we are gathered here today" guy and "I do" and everything else.

*knocks on wood* 8D;;

If it helps your blood pressure, LOL over it instead! While I'm too nice to find much joy in hunting down badfic to spork, if you do find one you can revel its ludicrous MST3K style. =P

[pheonee]

Hey, I don't mind the existence of badfic. I'm just upset that I went hunting for goodfic and found only badfic. xD

By the way, your icon reminded me; how is the No Rest For The Wicked motion-manga coming along? Do you still need a second ear? o:

[tomoyoichijouji]

Yeaaaaah, that can be annoying if it happens every time XD;; Too bad it's not possible to have a "goodfic" and "badfic" section for obvious reasons XD;;;;

Well, I've got my cast down (may have to shuffle one or two around right now but for the vast majority of it everything is going swimmingly) -- I actually think I've gotten enough experience in mixing that I think I can look over my own stuff well enough now. =D

But, you can check out two things: 1) Production blog, you can see more in detail how it's going, and 2) these two promo clips; they're not the final product, just previews (voices and music are just placeholders for the actual thing), so you can give me your remarks on those if you want and I can take it into account for the final vids! =)

[pheonee]

Well, the first thing I can mention is that the pacing is MUCH better. Not nearly as sluggish as before. I also really like what you did with the speech bubbles. I don't have anything constructive to say, but I think you did very well! xD;