Heros de los silencio

[scottishlass]

Had a Spanish night tonight ... Olly and I watched two Almodovar movies - unfortunately not my favourite one MATADOR with a very young Antonio Banderas but hey, we watched "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown" and "Atame".
And even after almost twenty years both movies are still hilarious and disturbing.

You know I feel just like a hypocrite. Last night I was browsing both a German and an international Bollywood forum and came across fanfiction. Now, I love fanfiction, I even wrote missing tag scenes for DDLJ but some of the stuff I read was really, well really BAD! Not only that but the real life stuff was appalling.
So where does the hypocritcal angle come in? I just HATE SRK fanfiction. I mean PUHLEEEAZE all that infantile gushing about him and Kajol. AND badly written to boot. I have yet to come across an SRK fanfic that is both well written, spelled correctly and doesn't feature him as a two-timing bastard who leaves his real-life wife for Kajol (and her leaving husband and child) and live happily ever after. *shudders*
And the original plot stuff ... I mean can't they just put new names to the protagonists? I feel really embarrassed about all this. Okay, so I write OB fanfiction, but this is just ... to me OB is not real. Of course there is this cute Brit with the same name and some of the same biography, but the OB I write has nothing to do with the real guy.
But these fics with SRK ... perhaps it is because I really fancy SRK (His Hubbiness™ even said: "Hmm he is your type") and I only think Orlando is just some adorable puppy (and way too young), but does it give me the right to feel embarrassed and downright angry about all those fics which have probably been written by hormone-driven teeny-boppers with bad school education and dandruff that are around but do the same thing to Orlando Bloom? Does it sound too self-righteous? Am I going insane? (okay don't answer that :))
My conscience tells me NO! because I do the same thing with OB, but my stubborn pride tells me YES! I mean if you write about a real life person than at least be a) original b) coherent and c) SPELL CHECK YOUR DAMN FICS!

Having said all that, I really am in a tangle here ... is it really okay to maintain m.i.t.m. when I feel embarrassed to read SRK fanfic and get angry at those writers who dare to write such stuff??!! It makes me such a hypocrite and I really hate that.

Comments

[thelana.livejournal.com]

I'm outing myself now. What's an inverted comma?

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

quotation marks .... Like this: "Namaste, mehre Una."

[thelana.livejournal.com]

Interesting. What do people do instead? Just singular ones or none at all?

I'm actually somebody who tends to put in too many quotations marks.

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

I don't care if the put in " ' or * as long as they do SOMETHING. But most don't use them at all, and it gets so annoying to figure out who says who in a dialogue.

[thelana.livejournal.com]

LOL. Too true.