"Thanks. XD After I read onwards I realized just how relevant it was. Callout culture is weird sometimes. I feel like it's always present whenever a character does something remotely wrong or less than 100% right even though it's completely out of place and unnecessary. But when a character IS a huge douchebag and does something that warrants a chewing out, callout culture is nowhere to be found!" Callout fans tend not to devour their own. Unfortunately. -_-;; (And Cori is the shining paragon of that tendency.)
"Oh God. D: People DO ship Gangrel/Emmeryn, but Cori would make it extra gross. Gangrel crying and Emm comforting him is canon in Hot Spring Scramble, so Cori would make it three times as long and ten times as weepy." Yeah, I honestly ship it a little after reading the barracks conversations on the Wiki, but a LOOOOONG way down the road. Like, after Emm regains herself and when Gangrel's fully repented. Cori... would make it look like her Jessie/James on STEROIDS. D8
"Can't have it both ways, Falls. And I say this as someone who HATES "can't have it both ways"." SAME HERE. I'm normally ADVOCATING more looseness in characterization and exploration of alternate routes (after going way too dogmatic in my early fandom days), but Cori takes it up to twenty-seven. (FORGET ELEVEN, we left eleven behind several fics ago and we're climbin' up the ladder with every other fic... D8)
"I think it did. D: Or at the time it was so boring I forgot it in favor of the more memorable crapfics." I take it you suppressed the FESTIVAL HELD SOLELY IN JESSIE AND JAMES'S HONOR? :P (Not ragging on you - that outburst in Part 4 was my ACTUAL reaction when I got to it. I think your brain just went NOPENOPENOPE and wiped the memory there.)
"Yeah, Giovanni used to be picked on as a mean boss, but even then I think Cori liked him well enough? To be fair that was from J&J's perspective and they didn't yet know that the boss had a soft spot for him." I really suspect it happened after the Jessie's-Mom Drama CD, because we all know her favoritism towards people with Unhappy Pasts. :S Plus, Giovanni's mom made a convenient scapegoat for Everything Wrong With TR at that point, if I recall her fics correctly.
I'd put it down to Jessie and James's POV if they weren't otherwise always right about everything. That indicates an actual authorial-viewpoint shift to me, and it's pretty jarring.
"True. WYDS was probably a better formula than WRH, cause at least she still followed canon and her stories were merely offscreen happenings." It gave her stories some semblance of structure, plot, and conflict that they just plain lacked in the WRH material. I hate to say it, but she seems to have not had ENOUGH 'creativity' without canon as her self-enforced restriction. There were never any setbacks, no long-lasting conflict, no true difficulties... It was just a self-indulgent lovefest.
:\ And I REALLY don't like saying that, because I tolerate slice-of-life and wish-fulfillment when fandom elitists whine about IT'S NOT GWIMDAWK SO IT SUUUUUUCKS. But it's really true of the WRH trilogy and associated fics. It is.
"I already do, but this just makes it worse. D:" XD Sorry! If it's any comfort, the characters are having it worse than you are...
"XD I honestly have nothing against furries, really. I'm not a fan but I know the furry fandom's not ALL whackjobs." I don't have anything against most of them either, really. Some of the art is cute. It's just the more bestiality-inclined section that grosses me out and the FUCK YOU I'M A DRAGON otherkins that make me want to cast Summon Fandom Wank, and that's the part with the accidental subtext and the part that Cori!James glomps during these fics, so... :P
"Yeah, in "Hard Night's Work" iirc. James was being all weepy and Meowth comforted him and gave him a kiss on the cheek." O__________O O...kay, that's... maybe just friendship, but with the amount of subtext floatin' around... D::::::::
Re: damn character limits
Callout fans tend not to devour their own. Unfortunately. -_-;; (And Cori is the shining paragon of that tendency.)
"Oh God. D: People DO ship Gangrel/Emmeryn, but Cori would make it extra gross. Gangrel crying and Emm comforting him is canon in Hot Spring Scramble, so Cori would make it three times as long and ten times as weepy."
Yeah, I honestly ship it a little after reading the barracks conversations on the Wiki, but a LOOOOONG way down the road. Like, after Emm regains herself and when Gangrel's fully repented. Cori... would make it look like her Jessie/James on STEROIDS. D8
"Can't have it both ways, Falls. And I say this as someone who HATES "can't have it both ways"."
SAME HERE. I'm normally ADVOCATING more looseness in characterization and exploration of alternate routes (after going way too dogmatic in my early fandom days), but Cori takes it up to twenty-seven. (FORGET ELEVEN, we left eleven behind several fics ago and we're climbin' up the ladder with every other fic... D8)
"I think it did. D: Or at the time it was so boring I forgot it in favor of the more memorable crapfics."
I take it you suppressed the FESTIVAL HELD SOLELY IN JESSIE AND JAMES'S HONOR? :P (Not ragging on you - that outburst in Part 4 was my ACTUAL reaction when I got to it. I think your brain just went NOPENOPENOPE and wiped the memory there.)
"Yeah, Giovanni used to be picked on as a mean boss, but even then I think Cori liked him well enough? To be fair that was from J&J's perspective and they didn't yet know that the boss had a soft spot for him."
I really suspect it happened after the Jessie's-Mom Drama CD, because we all know her favoritism towards people with Unhappy Pasts. :S Plus, Giovanni's mom made a convenient scapegoat for Everything Wrong With TR at that point, if I recall her fics correctly.
I'd put it down to Jessie and James's POV if they weren't otherwise always right about everything. That indicates an actual authorial-viewpoint shift to me, and it's pretty jarring.
"True. WYDS was probably a better formula than WRH, cause at least she still followed canon and her stories were merely offscreen happenings."
It gave her stories some semblance of structure, plot, and conflict that they just plain lacked in the WRH material. I hate to say it, but she seems to have not had ENOUGH 'creativity' without canon as her self-enforced restriction. There were never any setbacks, no long-lasting conflict, no true difficulties... It was just a self-indulgent lovefest.
:\ And I REALLY don't like saying that, because I tolerate slice-of-life and wish-fulfillment when fandom elitists whine about IT'S NOT GWIMDAWK SO IT SUUUUUUCKS. But it's really true of the WRH trilogy and associated fics. It is.
"I already do, but this just makes it worse. D:"
XD Sorry! If it's any comfort, the characters are having it worse than you are...
"XD I honestly have nothing against furries, really. I'm not a fan but I know the furry fandom's not ALL whackjobs."
I don't have anything against most of them either, really. Some of the art is cute. It's just the more bestiality-inclined section that grosses me out and the FUCK YOU I'M A DRAGON otherkins that make me want to cast Summon Fandom Wank, and that's the part with the accidental subtext and the part that Cori!James glomps during these fics, so... :P
"Yeah, in "Hard Night's Work" iirc. James was being all weepy and Meowth comforted him and gave him a kiss on the cheek."
O__________O O...kay, that's... maybe just friendship, but with the amount of subtext floatin' around... D::::::::