Racefail: Now even more failier!
Jun. 15th, 2010 10:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thebratqueen(Props to merryish for pointing out the useful links.)
If you look at a catastrophic earthquake while it and recovery are still going on and think to yourself "Hey! That's a great setting for a fic!" there is something wrong with you.
Actual dying human beings should not be props for your romantic story. This is not a sentence that should ever have to be written or explained to someone. I would actually rank this advice above, say, "When possible, try not to set yourself on fire." because at least at some point in your life you need to be taught that fire hurts but you should not need to be taught that dying people do not make good backdrops period, let alone for for your J2 AU Big Bang fic. ("One's a doctor! One's a photojournalist! HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS have actually died! Together they fight crime!")
For the love of chocolate and tiny kittens, people! My brain simply cannot comprehend that somebody had this idea, didn't immediately stop herself, had friends and betas who went over the idea, didn't stop her or themselves, had artwork using actual pictures of Haitian survivors and nobody stopped that either I - I've got nothing. My brain doesn't work that way and I can't comprehend anyone else whose brain does work that way. I get to that point and all systems short out and I have to reboot.
Fortunately others have covered the other faily issues so that words aren't lacking here. Though I will say that upon reading quotes I apparently did have enough brainpower left to say "Oh no you did NOT call Creole a gibberish-sounding language." because dude, DUDE.
Racefail, brain fail, humanity fail.
merryish for pointing out the useful links.)If you look at a catastrophic earthquake while it and recovery are still going on and think to yourself "Hey! That's a great setting for a fic!" there is something wrong with you.
Actual dying human beings should not be props for your romantic story. This is not a sentence that should ever have to be written or explained to someone. I would actually rank this advice above, say, "When possible, try not to set yourself on fire." because at least at some point in your life you need to be taught that fire hurts but you should not need to be taught that dying people do not make good backdrops period, let alone for for your J2 AU Big Bang fic. ("One's a doctor! One's a photojournalist! HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS have actually died! Together they fight crime!")
For the love of chocolate and tiny kittens, people! My brain simply cannot comprehend that somebody had this idea, didn't immediately stop herself, had friends and betas who went over the idea, didn't stop her or themselves, had artwork using actual pictures of Haitian survivors and nobody stopped that either I - I've got nothing. My brain doesn't work that way and I can't comprehend anyone else whose brain does work that way. I get to that point and all systems short out and I have to reboot.
Fortunately others have covered the other faily issues so that words aren't lacking here. Though I will say that upon reading quotes I apparently did have enough brainpower left to say "Oh no you did NOT call Creole a gibberish-sounding language." because dude, DUDE.
Racefail, brain fail, humanity fail.
