I've been circling around a lot of different fan communities recently and there's one debate I see cropping up over and over again about works that otherwise would have nothing in common - is the "lore" good? ("lore" in this case being a catch all term for historical events of the story's past...
To be fair, Freddy Krueger was technically a burn victim (after he escaped jail time the angry mob set him on fire and burned his house down and then he became a ghost/spirit/whatever), but the old version looked fine!
The problem with TV shows is that unless you're a big wig with multiple successful shows behind you, you don't know when starting a TV show if you're even going to get one full season, much less a series. TV shows more or less work on a variation of the Peter Principle - whereas the Peter...
I kinda got the sense that the fandom (at least here in the States) was 95% young women who just wanted to watch Benedict Cumberbatch and write fanfics where Sherlock and Watson made out with each other (or other hot dudes, remember the three-car pileup that was SuperWhoLock, which merged it...
Speaking of second person, just don't use it for prose, just don't. It's so cringy. I can't think of any single prose work in second person that wouldn't have been better served by first or third person (even you, Bright Lights Big City), and especially in shitty fanfic it either comes off like...
As much as I love this project, no one will ever be able to top the Pokedex Project that is the Pokemon Showdown April Fool's Sprites.
http://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/afd/
https://taffysannotatedsonichu.tumblr.com/post/647233220850679808/she-came-for-cwc
https://taffysannotatedsonichu.tumblr.com/post/647233504381452288/cwc-rockin-4-way
SPY ON ME BABY, YOU A SATELLITE
While we're on the topic of Legal Eagle, allow me to introduce his pet-project cringe factory breeding ground, Nebula:
https://watchnebula.com/
It seems to be a YouTube competitor destined to be crushed under their heel designed to promote up and coming talent... and by that we mean cringe...
So, I was thinking of starting another TAS side hustle: The Annotated Audiobook. I like TAS and all, but I feel like it can reach a much bigger audience if I made an audiobook version of it. My idea was more of a podcast than a video like Vivian's audiobooks, and I'd ultimately like to upload to...
It's kinda sad 'cause these guys (guy?) would be kinda interesting if only he stayed more unbiased and objective and didn't need to feel the need to insert his thoughts about every single thing into every video and make cringy jokes all the time. Like the name origins of all the Animal Crossing...
Hey Team Taffy, I'm doing an AMA on Reddit Tuesday evening 6PM Eastern 3PM Pacific. Trying to gather up some questions for the TAS finale Q&A.
... I am never going back there again.