Subject: I have an icon about that.
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Posted on: 2008-08-03 03:47:00 UTC
It says, "I am a teenager. I can spell. I love to read. YES, WE DO EXIST."
As a general rule, I don't friend people unless they can construct proper sentences.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4436287/1/Duty_Bound
Looking bad...
NOOOOOOOO! ANOTHER PERSON TO MASSACRE THE TOLKIEN LEGENDARIUM! MY PRECIOUSSSSSSS CANON!
Okay...why did they name a character after Agent Dafydd's ring? (And I suppose it's also Maglor's, but my Silm memories are rather rusty so tell me if I'm wrong.)
But it's not THAT bad, compared to other tripe I have seen. The author/ess knows little snippets of bookverse and Silmarillion knowledge. *peeks at review page* GO WANDERING CRITIC!!!
Not the worst, by far, but it's definitely sporking material. After the squeeing reviews already up there, the author may be badly traumatized by mine (and should be grateful that I'm quite busy and didn't have time to give her story a thorough going-over). Y'know, I really should write a blog post about the people who see the whole world through their teenage perspective and have no concept that there is anything else out there, and who turn everything into a bad teen romance novel. I miss the old days; now, when the overwhelming majority of fanfic is written by semi-literate teenage girls who have never read a book in their lives, this stuff is the rule rather than the exception.
People online have got the (mainly accurate, sadly) opinion that all teenagers hate reading, are addicted to textspeak and just want to get in to [lust object of choice here]'s pants. I get a lot of teasing from my peers when they read my social-network-thing page, simply because it is written in plain English. Admittedly, I did put a big notice reading 'If you're going to comment in chatspeak, don't comment at all' on my profile, but I feel that's justifiable. I could be wrong, however; I have a tendency to overreact.
It says, "I am a teenager. I can spell. I love to read. YES, WE DO EXIST."
As a general rule, I don't friend people unless they can construct proper sentences.
Having survived it myself, I can say that the one good thing about being a teenager is that you eventually grow out of it. As for the people who rag on you for writing correctly, remember that you can always write like an ignorant twit if you want to — but it's doubtful that they can write like anything but. Don't tell anyone you're 14 and they'll never know. :)
ne1 cn uz chatspeak but just u w8 til ur peerz try 2 get jobz :)