even with the risk of sounding elitist, I have to get this off my chest

My god. I wonder what's wrong with people these days. It seems like as long as a fic has a high word count it automatically means it's awesome. I just read a long piece of crap that could've been written by five different people and then meshed together into one fic and apparently it's supposed to be amazing. Or so the comments say.

And I do mean it when I say it's crap. You know I don't publically bash fics often, because I think it's usually a matter of taste. But this one, it's got characterisation inconsistencies, more than a handful of typos, skippy passages (which aren't stylish or clever), unexplained character traits that are really important... the whole lot.

But take santa_smex for example. I haven't read a lot of it yet, but almost every fic that's too long for LJ and therefore has to get a webpage? Gets lots of comments. Not saying that long = crap (I love a good, long story), but do people feel obliged to say nice things even when it's crap because it's long and therefore the author must have made huge effort? Or does longness drown minds out and make them not see that something sucks? I can verbal diahoerra, too, you know. Would fandom bow at my feet for it?

The sad thing is, a lot of those who commented positively are people who leave feedback to me, too. Some are even from my own flist. So probably the standards of my own writing are just about the same. Well, shit.

Shit, I'm supposed to be asleep since an hour ago. Maybe that's why I'm bitching. Haven't been having a very good night (thanks, Hana, for talking to me). Now I have 4 hours to sleep before work.

Unreliable

Sleep happened for about two hours, work is not happening today. It wouldn't happen tomorrow or Friday too if the project manager didn't want to send out something next Monday. Which I think is pretty unfair considering although we were given 4 weeks to do the work, they were a week late in sending payment so we only had 3 but the PM still wants to push the work out anyway. And I was being dragged away by the boss to do something else at the same time. And I only got to do some measurements for it about 4 days before Christmas break and nobody'd been available to draw it up. But, whatever. Like I can complain? At least I get today off. Super tired, but will try to stay awake so that I can get my sleep at proper hours.

After some discussions here and there, and reading a whole load of fics, I realise that I really, really hate fic endings where the author obviously just copped out. Cheap endings really can go to hell. What's the point of putting in the effort to write something if you're going to ruin it at the end? Urgh. Just urgh.

Losing steam for things. Starting to wonder if scanning + translating 40.5 is really a good idea. Starting to wonder if a lot of things I've been thinking about doing is a good idea.

Clearly I need more sleep.